^ Hi Guys ,
^ Re the weekend 15 - 17 October , sounds good to us , ( as far as I can remember . ) .
^ Who of you can come ?
^ Bob
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^ Nick ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Hi
^ Firstly , why does Camilla seem to think it 's the 3rd of January &YEAR ?
^ Is she that behind the times ?
^ Poor Camilla .
^ Secondly , I must thank you for sending me two e-mails whilst I have yet to finish writing one .
^ Thirdly , thanks awfully for sending me your address .
^ Fourthly , Kaylee is very amusing !
^ Fifthly , my brother is thinking about getting a guitar .
^ What type do you have ?
^ The one Bob likes .
^ He could only tell me it was an acoustic one , he did n't know the model number etc. )
^ Yes , I have managed to do some work !
^ I 'll be doing some more after I 've finished writing to you .
^ What on earth did you and Tabitha teach the little beasties at your dad 's school ?
^ I find the idea very amusing .
^ Well , I got back home on Tuesday evening .
^ My story is as follows
^ On Tuesday I managed to clean most of the flat , including the shower and bathroom .
^ I also walked to the science site to visit the library and show my friend where the Biochemistry department was .
^ In addition to that I defrosted and cleaned our fridge / freezer , and also cleaned my room with the utmost thoroughness .
^ After that I had to pack my room , and as a result of my hectic morning , after busying myself with all this running around , I had to rush frantically to the railway station .
^ I arrived on the platform , much out of breath due to the rather weighty nature of my bags , to see the train pulling out of the station .
^ My heart sank , as the next train was not due for at least an hour .
^ Thankfully it was not my train , which had been delayed by the ineptitude of PJKL by 20 minutes .
^ This was one time when I was thankful for inefficiency .
^ Eventually my train arrived and I embarked upon my journey , sad to leave Wells .
^ My train was then delayed by vandalising children on the railway track .
^ I arrived in Berwick over thirty minutes late , but still in one piece and much calmer than I had been while rushing to try and catch my train .
^ Now , I will keep you up to date with the latest happenings in that exiting focal point of all our lives , Worcester B .
^ Well , on Monday evening Bob invited Anna and Suzy and two first year CU girls ( Jessie and Kaylee ) for dinner .
^ The meal was most delicious , and afterwards one of the first years ( Kaylee ) was given the opportunity to cut Bob 's golden locks - a most amusing occurrence indeed .
^ The poor unfortunate girl was halfway through the task when she accidentally cut some of Bob 's ear off .
^ Now , you know what Bob is like when he gets angry about something .
^ Well actually , he did n't assault her , but he yelled and almost cursed about it for a substantial number of minutes .
^ I think the blood contrasted beautifully with his pale complexion .
^ So Bob now has a mutilated ear , something he will doubtless cherish as it was done at the hands of one of his favoured girls .
^ Seriously though , it was only a small nick .
^ Anyway , are you well ?
^ Yesterday evening I was in the middle of a power cut .
^ At &TIME I was gaily about to check my e-mail , when the computer switched off and I was plunged into darkness .
^ We proceeded to eat our dinner by the light of oil lamps .
^ We lit our fire and I the played the piano by candlelight for half an hour .
^ It was very beautiful , but could get boring quite easily .
^ I then went up to my room , oil lamp in hand , and began to study .
^ At 8pm the electricity came back on and I succeeded in checking my e-mail .
^ My next piece of uninteresting trivia is that I now have absolutely free internet access at any time of the day or night !
^ We have signed up to ntl , the telephone company , and that is why I am sending you this in the middle of the day .
^ Any time you wish to chat online just let me know , as it would be fun .
^ Also , if you want AOL Instant Messenger Service , it can be downloaded from the following location ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ Hopefully others will get it too , as it is an extremely interesting piece of software .
^ Anyway , it is extremely cold here .
^ I woke up this morning and the temperature was only 10 degrees Celsius .
^ It feels like I 'm back in January !
^ So , write soon , and I hope you get some work done .
^ Shania
^ " Eat one live tree frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day "
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^ Dear all ,
^ Yes , this is the ineviatable " I 'm sorry for the mass email , but ... " email .
^ I wish I had more time in which to enrich your lives by less impersonal means , but I don't ... apologies .
^ I wo n't bore you with the events of this term ( as this would almost certainly involve a small rant about the inefficiencies of King's College Carlisle , and I can hear the yawns already ) ,
^ suffice to say that I had little time in which to do anything except :
^ (a) teaching practice .
^ (b) sleep
^ (c) moan about the intrusion of (a) into my life , and the distinct lack of necessary (b)
^ Also ... sorry for my lack of contactness ... see (a) and (b) above for reasons why .
^ I would love to see you all ( not a generalisation , honest guv! ) ... and hope to see some of you in Carlisle or otherwise next year
^ Incidentally , if anyone has a house conveniently sited in the Bahamas , or a small island just of the Italian coast , I would LOVE to see you there ) .
^ Next year will be the year of Christmas cards & parcels ...
^ sorry you did without this year ...
^ love & best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year .
^ Donald
^ ~
^ 1. LIVING ARRANGEMENT ?
^ Fantastic .
^ Seriously We 've even composed our own anthem in our flat - the " Door Symphony " .
^ It 's a real early morning eye-opener .
^ Do n't take my word for it - ask the flat below . )
^ 2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW ?
^ " The Last Battle " , by C F Plummer
^ 3. FAVOURITE BOARD GAME ?
^ Chess - having said that , I 'm hopeless at it .
^ 4. FAVOURITE MAGAZINE ?
^ I am a chemist .
^ I do not read magazines .
^ They 're interesting .
^ 5. FAVOURITE SMELLS ?
^ Snowflakes , cinnamon that sort of thing really .
^ 6. FAVOURITE PART OF OPPOSITE SEX ?
^ I really do n't know .
^ Define .
^ Who wrote this question ?
^ Were they male or female ?
^ 7. FAVOURITE SOUNDS ?
^ I honestly do n't know .
^ It 's perfect though .
^ Sometimes it could be music - " March to the Scaffold " from " Symphonie Fantastique " for example !
^ Sometimes it is people , trees , explosions
^ ( in my lectures it can provide welcome relief - ask Nick , he 's seen how interesting Quantum Mechanics can get ) .
^ 8. BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD ?
^ Being a child of God .
^ 9. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD ?
^ Despair .
^ 10. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING ?
^ Oh bother , I 'm sentient .
^ Now how was that brilliant dream going ?
^ SHOCK , HORROR , PANIC ! ! !
^ My heart leaps inside me sending chilling petrifying fear racing through my veins .
^ I wonder WHAT TIME IT IS ? ! ! !
^ Perhaps it 's nearly 7am and my alarm clock is about to go off ! ! !
^ I 'd better look
^ Anxiously , cautiously , fearfully , peeking over the bedclothes to glance at the UTW - Oh !
^ Bliss !
^ It 's only &TIME , I can have another wonderful dream
^ 11. ROLLER COASTERS-SCARY OR EXCITING ?
^ Absolutely petrifying !
^ Well , I suppose you ca n't exactly call me an expert - I 've only been on two .
^ The first was " Oblivion " at Breville Houses and I found the vertical drop horrifying - I also slightly sprained my neck .
^ The second was another ( more gentle ! ) one at Breville Houses - during the extremely unpleasant course of which I managed to sprain my knee .
^ 12. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE ?
^ As few as possible - I treat the way to the phone as an athlete would a race .
^ Having said that , all the calls in our flat are virtually for one person - and it 's not me !
^ 13. FUTURE DAUGHTER 'S NAME ?
^ Well , I actually have n't given it much thought - strange , that .
^ If anyone has any ideas I 'd be most pleased to listen to them as it 's obviously something I need to think about deeply , carefully , sincerely , etceteras
^ 14. FUTURE SON 'S NAME ?
^ Could n't care less .
^ Absolutely disinterested .
^ Get the contrast ? ? ?
^ This is a malicious lie , scandalously originated and propagated wholly by me .
^ Please do n't tell my future wife . )
^ 15. FAVOURITE FOODS ?
^ Definitely NOT Bob 's .
^ Also , NOT chilli 's - which really make your eye sting like crazy !
^ Actually , I like water , Christmas Dinner and absolutely anything except that which I do n't really appreciate in the culinary sense .
^ 16. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE ?
^ Yes , if I have some very good , very loud music on and there are no speed cameras in sight ( only joking ! - am I ?
^ How well do you know me ? ? ? )
^ 17. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL ?
^ Well , how can I put this ?
^ No . Did you really expect me to say yes ?
^ I get enough stick as it is in my flat !
^ 18. STORMS - COOL OR SCARY ?
^ If they 're on television - scary .
^ If they 're in real life - cool !
^ Storms are fantastic , destructive , powerful , dangerous , a manifestation of one of my esteemed flat-mate 's cooking
^ 19. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE WHO WOULD IT BE ?
^ I really do n't want to meet anyone that much
^ OH ! WAIT !
^ I have an idol !
^ I 've just remembered ! )
^ I would like to meet the holographic doctor from Star Trek , because he is absolutely fantastically amusing and interactivly stimulating .
^ 20. FAVOURITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK ?
^ None - poisonous decaying slime .
^ Well , actually , Lambrusco - as it tastes least like alcohol - but it 's still rather sour . )
^ 21. WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN ?
^ Astrology is a lot of nonsense .
^ It is a perversion of the beauty of the heavens created by God for his glory and man 's enjoyment .
^ 22. WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE POET ?
^ Bob Greetings . -
^ You really should read some of his works , they 're magnificent !
^ I think my favourite must be " I 'm Canadian - enough said " .
^ Also , " Demonic Peas " by Nick Malone has some passages of deep and significant meaning .
^ 23. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI ?
^ If it 's food - I 'll eat it .
^ Unless Bob cooked it - then I 'll just laugh at other people eating it . )
^ 24. IF YOU DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOUR WHAT WOULD IT BE ?
^ The same colour it is at the moment .
^ I like it .
^ 25. EVER BEEN IN LOVE ?
^ Define love .
^ 26. IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL ?
^ It really depends what 's in it .
^ If it 's water then it really does n't matter as there 's plenty more where that came from .
^ 27. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SNAPPLE ?
^ I beg your pardon ?
^ 28. FAVOURITE MOVIES ?
^ Lots and lots and lots !
^ I get really into movies when I watch them .
^ They 're fun - kind of like dreams .
^ 29. ARE YOU A LEFTY , RIGHTY , OR AMBIDEXTROUS ?
^ I am right handed .
^ What are you ?
^ Please define " right " and " left " .
^ 30. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS ?
^ I define the right keys .
^ That 's a no . )
^ 31. WHAT 'S UNDER YOUR BED ?
^ Worcester A 's ceiling , my floor , carpet , a box for my keyboard , my telephone extension lead .
^ 32. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE NUMBER ? 352 - It 's my name .
^ 33. FAVOURITE SPORT TO WATCH ?
^ Sport is an abomination .
^ 34. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU:
^ You are made from carbon atoms , oxygen atoms , hydrogen atoms , iron atoms , sulphur atoms , chlorine atome , manganese atoms , sodium atoms , nitrogen atoms , ... need I go on ?
^ ~
^ Hello all ,
^ Bob and I are planning to split up the A-team and B-team email list , but at the moment you 're all getting all of it - sorry !
^ There is an A-team match THIS SATURDAY AT &TIME .
^ The team currently selected is :
^ Quinton Macneece
^ Rodrigo Malkin
^ Nick Malone ( c )
^ Bob Corrie
^ Lucio Corey
^ Aimee Haley
^ Connery McVicar
^ Tyler
^ Jo Pierazzoli
^ Nayeli Malone
^ Nayeli Higham
^ Reserves :
^ Adam Haley
^ Jade Marker
^ Lindsey Maltman
^ Quinton
^ Isabel
^ Sorry - I do n't know all of your surnames .
^ LET ME KNOW ASAP IF YOU CA N'T MAKE IT ! ! ! !
^ As I 'm sure you 'll be aware from the large numbers of players at training , there is a lot of competition for places .
^ I will aim to give as many people a game as possible over the course of the season , and there are bound to be weeks when a significant number of people are away .
^ if you are not getting picked for the A 's as regularly as you would like
^ you want to play regularly for the B 's , then let Bob or I know
^ Finally , we cannot play all five reserves this Saturday , but it would be great to have you all there if you can spare the time .
^ Thanks for listening ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ A copy of " It Takes Guts to Say Jesus " that genuinely WO N'T wipe your hard drive - cos I checked it myself !
^ it sounds like a , certain theology professor does n't want us to read it ! !
^ Fwd : It Takes Guts to Say " Jesus "
^ This is a true story of something that happened just a few years ago at ELR .
^ There was a professor of philosophy there who was a deeply committed atheist .
^ His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester attempting to prove that God could n't exist .
^ His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his impeccable logic .
^ For twenty years , he had taught this class and no one had ever had the courage to go against him .
^ Sure , some had argued in class at times , but no one had ever " really gone against him " ( you 'll see what I mean later ) .
^ Nobody would go against him because he had a reputation .
^ At the end of every semester , on the last day , he would say to his class of 700 students , " If there anyone here who still believes in Jesus , stand up ! "
^ In twenty years , no one had ever stood up .
^ They knew what he was going to do next .
^ He would say , because anyone who does believe in God is a fool .
^ If God existed , he could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking .
^ Such a simple task to prove that he is God , and yet he ca n't do it .
^ and every year , he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces
^ All of the students could do nothing but stop and stare .
^ Most of the students were convinced that God could n't exist .
^ Certainly , a number of Christians had slipped through , but for 20 years , they had been too afraid to stand up .
^ Well , a few years ago , there was a freshman who happened to get enrolled in the class .
^ He was a Christian , and had heard the stories about this professor .
^ He had to take the class because it was one of the required classes for his major and he was afraid .
^ But for 3 months that semester , he prayed every morning that he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said or what the class thought .
^ Nothing they said or did could ever shatter his faith , he hoped .
^ Finally the day came .
^ The professor said , " If there is anyone here who still believes in God , stand up ! "
^ The professor and the class of 700 people looked at him , shocked , as he stood up at the back of the classroom .
^ The professor shouted , You FOOL ! !
^ If God existed , he could keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the ground !
^ He proceeded to drop the chalk , but as he did , it slipped out of his fingers , off his shirt cuff , onto the pleats of his pants , down his leg , and off his shoe .
^ As it hit the ground , it simply rolled away , unbroken .
^ The professor 's jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk .
^ He looked up at the young man and then ran out of the lecture hall .
^ The young man who had stood up proceeded to walk to the front of the room and share his faith in Jesus for the next half hour .
^ 700 students stayed and listened as he told of God 's love for them and of his power through Jesus
^ " Yet to all who received HIM , to those who believed in HIS name , HE gave the right to become children of God -- children born not of natural descent "
^ nor of human decision or a husband 's will , but born of GOD .
^ But HE knows the way that I take .
^ When HE has tested me , I will come forth as gold . Job 23 : 10
^ Please continue to pass this on from one Christian to the next as a message of encouragement and hope .
^ I thought the fact the the student actually went to the front and did his testimony after that was really cool .
^ ~
^ Thought you folk might appreciate a gag like this .
^ T'was forwarded to me ...
^ Q : How many ears has Captain Kirk got ?
^ A : A left ear , a right ear and ....... a final frontier !
^ ho ho ho ...
^ ~
^ AHA !
^ That 's it !
^ Fantastic .
^ You truly are a guru Nick .
^ I ca n't remember what I 've told you about what is happening with my dull old life at the moment , but I think you know I failed my exams at the end of the first year .
^ The situation now is that I have another opportunity to retake in June to be able to join the Second Year in &YEAR .
^ In case I fail that , I 've applied to other Universities to join their first years in &YEAR , and I 'm just beginning to get replies back from them now .
^ I have n't heard from my first , second or third choice yet though !
^ In the mean time , I 've managed to get myself a job in my village progging in VB .
^ When I got the job , I was over the moon because it looked to be perfect .
^ In fact , at the beginning of my third week ( this week ) I was offered a promotion with a fairly hefty pay increase .
^ GREAT !
^ You might think .
^ It 's a very small software company and two people have just left , leaving only the boss , myself and someone who works two half days a week doing the accounts .
^ The " house " programming style is absolutely appaling ( in my humble opinion ! ) and there is no scope for creativity .
^ The boss tells me what he wants doing , upon which I get lots of exciting ideas about how it could be done .
^ then he tells me _exactly_ how he wants it done , right down to the variable names
^ Which I hate , because I feel really constrained .
^ But the WORST thing is that he is absolutely MAD on global variables ......... AAAAAARGH !
^ He uses literally hundreds of them ( no exaggeration ) in his progs , and expects everyone else ( only me at the moment ! ) to do it like that too .
^ Any time some data needs to be transferred from one place to another , it goes through the evil global variables .
^ They have a bunch of common modules that are used in every project , but none of the subs are passed variables conventionally .
^ It 's all done through globals .
^ And as for the global " cancelled " flag which gets nested and causes all sorts of problems ... ...
^ It 's a complete pig to debug I can tell you .
^ It 's almost as if it sets up some sort of complex state machine because you can never really be sure whether the contents of the variables are actually valid .
^ SO , today I sort of confronted him about the whole globals thing , even going so far as to suggest how stuff could be passed while keeping the variable scope as small as possible .
^ He then told me that using globals was the best way to do it , that everything I have been taught does n't apply in the real world , and that I should do it like he tells me to .
^ Apparently it 's a very common thing .
^ Unfortunately , I 'm not very good at having arguments and I could n't think of any good reasons why it is a bad thing to use globals .
^ I 'm just fairly sure it 's not good .
^ Is it ?
^ He reckons they 're fantastic because once they 're set up , you gain loads in effeciency because they 're not consantly being allocated then unallocated .
^ You just keep reusing them .
^ And reusing them is good . ug .
^ So , you 're the computer scientist .
^ Tell me whether I 'm wrong .
^ I just feel like I do n't want to be wasting my year out being taught bad habits .
^ Aside from that , I 've just spent my BE tax rebate on a toy helicopter , which hopefully will get its first flight ( fright ? ) this weekend .
^ And I 'm jolly excited really .
^ I 've been hankering after one since I was three years old , and I 've finally managed to do it .
^ Bit of a disappointment really , because that 's one less childhood dream that I can no longer have because I 've fulfilled it .
^ I imagine it would be a bit like that winning the lottery , because you could live all your dreams and then you 'd not have any left ( except for the ones involving Cindy Crawford possibly ) .
^ Right , that 's enough drivel from me .
^ Do keep sending emails , cos I 've got no friends around at the moment .
^ They 're all enjoying themselves at University .
^ See you ,
^ Krystal
^ Krystal ! ! ! ! !
^ GREAT to hear from you .
^ Please tell me what are you up to these days !
^ Every time I have my Functional Programming practical I am reminded of you because we have a demonstrator who bears more than a passing resemblance to your good self .
^ The commmand is : net send [ ToComputer ] [ Message ]
^ OK , the net send bit is definitely right .
^ The parameters I am not so sure about , but you should be able to work them out .
^ I have found my second year much busier than the first so far ( probably a bit more like your first year ! ) .
^ I am working a lot , and just about managing to squeeze in time to survive as well .
^ I 'm living out in a flat this year , which means I have to think about cooking and cleaning , etc. as well .
^ Thankfully I have 4 great flat-mates , and life is generally hectic but good fun .
^ Keep in touch ,
^ Nick
^ Krystal Maria wrote :
^ Hello Nick !
^ Just a very quick question .... .
^ Can you remember what the DOS command is to pop up messages over the network .
^ I know I used to use it all the time , but I ca n't for the life of me remember what it is !
^ Please help !
^ Thanks
^ Krystal
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Hello .
^ What was children 's camp like ?
^ Were you the subject of adoration for multiple teenage girls this time ?
^ Hope you enjoyed it .
^ Are you still living in Carlisle ?
^ I 've had Thursday and Friday off work since the harvest has been slow in starting and there was literally nothing for me to do - all painting and tidying completed .
^ Therefore I 've been spending my time doing some Chemistry .
^ Last weekend I spend a lovely few days at Jon 's house .
^ She ate five slices of pizza on Monday lunchtime at pizza hut and felt rather ill afterwards .
^ Dear , oh dear .
^ I consumed a much more respectable three .
^ After eating ten once with Bob I decided not to attempt a repeat performance .
^ Yesterday morning I went for a walk on the beach which we all went to when the flat came to visit Scotland .
^ It was gloriously sunny and most enjoyable , although I could n't see any remains from our forbidden campfire .
^ Bye ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Here is my reply to your two e-mails .
^ Firstly , it was good to talk with you both today and the other day as well .
^ I hope you have a good time with Regan this evening .
^ Please pass on my regards .
^ Today I went into Berwick and got my mobile fascia .
^ Now I do not have a cracked UTW !
^ We 've had a thunderstorm here but the sun is now shining .
^ I am having a look at some of my chemistry for next year - it looks fun !
^ I will order your memory with my rewritable CD and let you know when it arrives .
^ Have a nice day ,
^ Shania
^ P.S. I hope the camp goes well the week after next , but I 'm sure I shall say that again nearer the time .
^ ~
^ YO Nick
^ HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ! ! !
^ I hope that this year is going to be really good for you and I trust that God is going to bless you moer than ever before .
^ I just wanted to say hi and that I found out some of the sustained cords on the guitar so now I can sort of beat out a rough mangling of " Heart of Worship " on the guitar .
^ I 'm still trying though and hope to be a decent player bfore the year 2000 .
^ Well God bless .
^ Your friend
^ Noe
^ ~
^ Nick
^ Does this work ?
^ Reply if you get this
^ Bruce
^ Jack
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^ HI Sammy !
^ Great to hear you 're doing well mate ! just thought i 'd say good luck for the masters and the season with Rutford FC .
^ last year was great , and I was just wondering if you 're going back for the bailey ball
^ If you were we should try and organise an old boys game or make guest appearances if there 's a game .
^ I 'm sure alex b would let us play for the b 's ! !
^ keep in touch ,
^ Nayeli .
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " James Higham "
^ Subject : Re : Greetings From Mexico ! !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Nice to hear from you Mr. Jewson !
^ Sounds like you 're having a bit too much fun to me .
^ I 've just started background study for Munich next year , and when I 'm actually putting pen to paper it 's quite interesting , but when I 'm just reading it 's somewhat boring .
^ All is set for next year though - I 'm in Kassidy college and I begin on the 8th of October .
^ I enjoyed your account of the " Mexico vs Birks " football match - sounds fun .
^ I 've joined a local team , " Rutford FC " and I 'm sure we 're heading for
^ Birks next year !
^ My summer thus far has been quite hectic , what with moving house , holidays , weddings etc. A couple of days ago I went to Bob Burdon 's wedding and caught up with quite a few Philip 's people .
^ Aimee Haley was there so we chatted about the Johny 's Boys ' chances for next year !
^ It was fun ( on the whole ) last season was n't it ?
^ I 'm very jealous about your being at the Star Wars set location - I would definitely have loved to see that , and as for the " island of women " ... well ... the mind boggles ... !
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Sent : Monday , &DATE &TIME
^ Subject : Greetings From Mexico ! !
^ Hi Everyone ,
^ Many sincere apologies about the horrendously impersonal group e-mail but there 's sun to be had out there !
^ Hope you 're all having a cool summer and enjoyings it all wherever you may be , as i haven't spoken to loads of you for ages i thought id drop a line to say hi )
^ tell you what i 've been up to ! ( if you are at all interested ! ! ? ?
^ As for me , I 'm in Mexico travelling around a little bit !
^ After flying into Cancun , we made our way down the carribean coast to a place called Tulum , which had the most clear blue sea i\{d ever seen but was ridiculously hot !
^ When we were there I got involved in a europe vs. mexico beach football game which i\{m sure will become known as the Battle of Yucatan ( tongue very much in cheek ) .
^ Seriously though , everyone here is very friendly and the food is fantastic , especially the seafood .
^ We then went down to Belize , to an island called Caye Caulker , which was very chilled out .
^ Inhabited mainly by rastafarians it was a laugh a minute and you even got asked if you wanted a " doobie " ( joint ) for dessert
^ While we were there we did some diving with sharks on the reef but unfortunately i could n't persuade any of them to eat Amy .
^ After Leaving Belize we came across to Guatemala ( The border was very dodgy ... ..... )
^ and went to some Mayan ruins at a place called TIkal that George Leathem used to shoot the forest bits of Star Wars and Return of the Jedi ( EWOKS )
^ which was very exciting !
^ Now we 're back in Mexico and about go to some islands called Isla Mujeres , island of women , which lets face it sounds fairly promising ! !
^ After that its Old Anglesea for a few days then home to the green and pleasant of ENgland and Economics School .
^ E-mail me back to let me know what you 're up to , I 'd love to hear from you !
^ See you all soon Amigos ,
^ James !
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^ Hi ,
^ My name is Nick Malone , and I am based in a school in the UK .
^ We have just upgraded our office computer from Kites ME to LJ and I am attempting to migrate the AMS software onto the new system .
^ The program installs OK , but when I try and retrieve the database from the old computer it tells me that the GC was created with a beta version of the program and will not let me continue .
^ The program , however , is exactly the same as the one I used on the old computer .
^ Could you advise me as to what action I should take .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Great to hear from you ... " That 's why I came out here really ... " yes , if life was all happy happy how shallow it would leave us , do n't you think ?
^ The valleys make the mountains much more significant .
^ Nick , I have decided to extend the work at Starbucks by just one more month .
^ Atkins Hector - " One more night with the frogs " ) I will speak to the manager tomorrow .
^ I feel with this date I will be able to systematically milk everything else necessary for world domination from Starbucks coffee wise at least .
^ So watch this space ...
^ Hopefully it will pull together .
^ Life often seems like turning into one big day at the moment , I spend so much time working it 's unreal .
^ 9-5 and teaching in the evenings , it has got to vary .
^ I bet it feels good to be away from all the fast pace of modern life , although I imagine things out there could be that way if you wanted .
^ I have seen a house that I like - it was for sale with an auction house but withdrawn at last minute .
^ Apparently , the proprietor owed a debt to the council and just paid it off in time , however I heard another story saying that he was in prison .
^ Anyway it currently has pigeons flying out of the windows and a very sad countenance .
^ I mentioned to Julie the other day that if I can get hold of it before Josue comes over he could help fit a new roof with me ! fancy lending a hand too ? !
^ Of course Josue knows nothing of this plan yet , perhaps you could soften him up ... well I do n't have the place yet ...
^ I look forward to reading more of your jungle stories - the ones that deal with suffering always go down a treat ! - I 'll never forget the one with you sorting out underwear the raw feeling !
^ Priceless ...
^ In fact you always have a story about undergarments of some sort ...
^ Later Amigo ,
^ Love ,
^ Ed xoxoxox
^ ~
^ She grew up in the city of Bath
^ In the Butleret Hills and the cobbled paths
^ Her parents throw big parties , everyone 's there
^ They hang out with people like Ken Housman , Bob Eldoweny , Shania Warburton and Cher
^ She feels safe now in this crowded minibus
^ But from the back we can tell that she ca n't sit still and she 's making a fuss
^ So just before it hits ten to noon
^ We wrote for her this birthday tune
^ Happy Birthday to you , to you
^ Happy Birthday , Happy Birthday
^ Happy Birthday to you , to you
^ Happy Birthday , Happy Birthday , Happy Birthday
^ She still lives with her mum outside the city
^ Down Rylee 's lane about a half a mile
^ And all her friends tell her she 's so skinny
^ But she 'd be a whole lot skinnier if she did n't take that disgusting chocolate drink
^ Cos this birthday girl with her eyes so brown
^ She 's seen her share of sleepovers in this Luxembourg town
^ Happy Birthday ...
^ We told her we aint so sure about this rhyme
^ It 's hard to write a song on a bus in such a short time
^ Seems like everybody 's making a noise
^ It 's kind of like one of Sally 's sleepovers but with the boys
^ Happy Birthday ...
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^ PLease open attachment asap - for Kaden 's sake .
^ Dominic
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^ Jennifer ,
^ The CD you ordered from Ocean ( Aqualung ) has been despatched and should be with you shortly .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
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^ Hi Adam ,
^ The book " Princinples of Concurrent and Distributed Programming " has been despatched to you and should arrive shortly .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ So , how is your first week back in Bath going ?
^ Are you enjoying your job
^ What do you do all day ?
^ Why have n't you emailed me yet ?
^ Are you well ?
^ What time is it ?
^ Do you like being asked questions ?
^ Could you think of as ma ny questions as me ?
^ I could n't .
^ My first week in bonny Scotland is proce eding okay .
^ The scenery is pleasant , but it 's surprisingly chilly !
^ I 'm mu st have become too used to the hot weather in Wells that I think " normal " is cold !
^ I have been tidying and organising my room , books , academic work , computer files , etc. I 've organised , re-organised , and cleaned up my computer goodness knows how many times .
^ Just kidding actually , I 've only done it a few times
^ seriously !
^ Ha ha ha ! - sorry , I just laughed out loud .
^ I suddenly thought about Bob punting on the river with some innocent tourists in tow , then suddenly sc aring them senseless by jumping up and down , flapping his arms , and croaking li ke a demented raven .
^ Kaden has a lot to answer for !
^ Every time I see a crow h ere ( and there are LOTS around here ! )
^ I think - could you be Kaden ?
^ Not really - seriously ) I saw a whole flock of crows yesterday while I was out a bike ride - the intergalactic advance party for the invasion of the Scottish Borders
^ Well , obviously - do n't you agree ?
^ I 've been learning to cook .
^ So far I have made the dinner most days si nce I got back .
^ It is quite an interesting experience .
^ I also did the shoppin g myself today .
^ Said in voice of five-year-old who proudly announces the achievement of some minor feat . )
^ I shall be perfectly adapted to flat li fe by the end of the Summer .
^ Incidentally , what about stuffed raven with nuts and garlic as a flat delicacy next term .
^ I did n't say that !
^ Please don t tell Kaden .
^ I beg of you O mighty emissary ! )
^ I will end with the following quote from the ITS booklet Computing at Wells .
^ Do n't tell me you have n't read it !
^ I 'm amazed !
^ Utterl y confounded !
^ Bemused , confused , and finally , shocked !
^ Section 15.9.1 ;
^ Never forget that the person on the other end is human ( Ooops ! ) It is easy to misinterpret a message without the voice inflections 85 of face- to-face
^ I quite agree .
^ Email has its limitations !
^ However , that should n't pre vent you from writing a long reply !
^ Your sincere friend and flat-mate ,
^ Ed[mund]
^ Domestos Is King ! )
^ 208 words
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^ It 's now April which means I 've been in Russia for absolutely ages .
^ Not long now , however , I return at the end of May which means it 's likely I 'm going to be seeing you in Wells in June !
^ Watch this space !
^ Term 's now begun in Wells which is one reason that I 've sent this message now .
^ From my memory , the last few weeks are harder than the first as I 'm always doing more after the exams !
^ Well - that 's my problem .
^ Hope it 's not all hard work for you and that you _will_ relax once or twice ( or for longer ! ) .
^ You 'll only have yourself to blame if you have a nervous breakdown .
^ At present I 'm in Murmansk which is basically up North ( find a map ) .
^ It does mean that it 's still light well into the small hours and there 's a lot of snow around - but it 's quite exciting .
^ Not much to do mind but I am off this evening !
^ I 'm enjoying Russia and will be unhappy to go - but then everything has to come to an end and it 'll be good to see the UK again !
^ Hope life 's going well and the exams are n't too stressful .
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
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^ Most illustrious prince ,
^ Greetings from Worcester C. I 've been to " Pizza Hut " this lunchtime where I ate ten slices of pizza .
^ As did Bob . )
^ I am extremely full .
^ I feel ill .
^ Please feel free to mourn and transform yourself into a picture of abject misery on my behalf . )
^ The weather here is lovely .
^ We said farewell to Jon this morning .
^ Bob and I are now alone .
^ Last night we stayed up talking by candle-light to Anna until 1am .
^ The candle gradually went out and then we continued talking in darkness until 2am .
^ Bob and I were tired this morning .
^ I trust that you and Kaylee are both in good spirits ?
^ Convey to her my good wishes , if you will .
^ I am printing out exam papers in the library .
^ I am now going to go shopping to look for a present for Mother 's Day .
^ The is weird .
^ It 's not entirely unpleasent , but very strange .
^ We are entertaining again this evening ; two first year girls and Suzy and Anna are coming for dinner .
^ I still do n't feel like eating and dinner .
^ I must go , I look forward to continuing our conversations by electronic mail .
^ By the way Nick , what is your address this vacation , as I would like to send you a postcard when I go on holiday .
^ Please let me know today or tomorrow .
^ Thank you .
^ Shania
^ " Excellence is never an accident "
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Just wanted to drop a quick note and tell you thanks for joining our community and sharing your music .
^ I really like the song " Run " .
^ Let us know how the site works for you and if you have any comments .
^ Peace
^ Emmanuel
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^ How 's life ?
^ Hope you 're still enjoying yourself and it 's not too hot where you are .
^ I was in Dresden at &TIME on Thursday and it was still 30'C / 86'F , so that makes you wonder just how hot it was during the day ! ! !
^ It 's a bit cooler now although quite murky .
^ The German word schw'l ( WITH an umlaut ) seems to describe it perfectly ) .
^ In case you were wondering , spelling it without the umlaut means gay / queer ... . )
^ I 'm still here YWAMing .
^ I think it 's my half-way point today which is good cos I 'm running out of money .
^ Mind you , now we 've finished painting this place I 've got a bit more free time to sightsee .
^ so for example we went to Mei'en today which is world-famous as where they make Dresden china and I think I 'm off to Chemnitz on Monday
^ If you 've got a pre-1990 atlas then it 'll be mentioned as
^ even though Marx had nothing to do with the place .
^ That 's Stalinism for you ... .
^ Yes - I admit to trying to merge
^ Christianity and Communism but I ca n't say I 'm a Stalinist .
^ Leaving politics aside , I 'm enjoying being here .
^ I 've met people from so many countries ( for example UK , VPN ; Australia , Rumania ,
^ Netherlands , Kenya , etc. ) that it 'd be possible to do some sort of tell a tourist thing , only they 're all saved anyway so there 's no point .
^ And they all seem really nice people , at least those I 've been talking to .
^ The bad things about being in Kaylee are first of all the language , like when do you use " der " .
^ " die " or " das " or whatever - only I 'm here to learn the language so I 'll have to improve
^ the weird German keyboard which swaps the Y and Z over and adds half a ton of extra symbols lie
^ means there is n't enough keys to go round so I have to press AltGr+Q to get @ which is nice
^ Another is that my left elbow STILL hurts a bit after I fell off the scaffolding two weeks ago ... .
^ Never mind .
^ And then there 's the beer .
^ I do n't go for lager !
^ The good things about being here is the fellowship , the fact there 's always somebody to talk to , the fact that cigarettes cost half as much as in the UK ( yes - I 've started again ) .
^ the architecture is mostly the sort of thing which ( if you 're that sort of person ) makes you go " wo " and get your camera out
^ There 's even a few quaint old Communist reminders if you look for them , such as the occasional Trabant on the roads .
^ Mind you , Lenin does n't get a look in anywhere .
^ I think .
^ Western civilisation has come to East Kaylee in a way it has n't to
^ Russia , probably cos West Kaylee was " civilised " in the first place .
^ There 's still a strong East / West divide , though .
^ Shame I 'm not a sociology student - I 'm doing my German essay on accent and dialect - only today I bought a book telling me how to speak S'chsisch .
^ Shame it 's in German .
^ Hope you 've managed to make your way through the preceding scrawl without going mad .
^ Have fun and do n't drink too much .
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
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^ Dear Nick , I can get txts , thanks for sending , I have had some weird dreams recently too .
^ How are you settling into Munich ?
^ Are you still talent spotting or are you head in books / married to the laptop !
^ Aus is great - I fell asleep in the sun yesterday and got a little burnt , I hope I do n't peel .
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^ Dear Nick , I can get txts , thanks for sending , I have had some weird dreams recently too .
^ How are you settling into Munich ?
^ Are you still talent spotting or are you head in books / married to the laptop !
^ Aus is great - I fell asleep in the sun yesterday and got a little burnt , I hope I do n't peel .
^ Will speak soon ! what are you doing for New Year ?
^ Lots of Love ,
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^ Yo Joey !
^ Whoa .
^ I still do n't think everything that was said last night has sunk in .
^ Whoa .
^ I feel very much like I did when I heard that Jay and Esme were going out .
^ ( not that you guys are ... ... )
^ It would be good to talk again sometime
^ Just quickly though , Are you online now ?
^ Also , you have AOL instant messager ?
^ If not get it , from e-mail thing .
^ You , my friend are more complicated than I thought .
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^ Hey Nick !
^ its great to hear what youve been up to in South Africa - Im sorry ive taken quite a while to email you .
^ Since we last spoke at Nicolas 's party in Wells a couple of months ago , a few things have changed with my life , and i think all of them for the good :
^ Me and Philip are getting on better and better at the momemt , i think it was great for us both that ellie spent quite a lot of time with me in Ilkley over the easter holidays !
^ cos it seems like that was exactly what we needed : quality time together , where Philip wasnt being distracted by uni things
^ i think i just loved having Philip come and stay with me at home for the first time properly in 8 months
^ So thats all good .
^ Also , you 'll be glad to hear that ive decided to quit Trueshot !
^ Recently i 've really started to hate the job , ive found it really stressful and horrible , so a week or so ago I decided i 'd had enough and had to leave .
^ so im officially leaving on the 30th June - a while yet I know , but i had to give at least 4 weeks notice anyway
^ this way i can work right up until ellie 's graduation , before going on a few holidays , and hopefully getting some work experience too
^ leads me onto the final piece of good news that i have - ive finally got off my bum .
^ started trying to get some work experience in transport planning , to see if it is a viable job career option
^ If nothing else , working at Trueshot has been a good experience for me just because ive got so annoyed by it .
^ i actually really want to better myself and do something that im more suited to and enjoy doing , instead of just staying at home in a bum job
^ So hopefully Im going to be doing a weeks work experience up in Wyatt at some point in June , and then if i can get a couple more weeks experience in the .
^ summer then i might start looking to apply for some jobs - or a masters if that 's what im going to have to do to get a job
^ What with Philip applying for this job in Munich and the empending european championships in Portugal its all adding up to quite an exciting time !
^ In fact , if Philip gets this job , then that basically means that I would be looking to try and get a job in the munich area as well .
^ Do you know what you 're doing for accomodation for your phD yet ? - if you dont , then how does the idea of sharing a house together sound )
^ i mean this half in jest as there are absolutely no certainties as to where me and ellie will be living in the country at all
^ at the moment Munich does seem to be the most likely destination , and i would love to live with you if i got the chance !
^ Im sorry ive talked so much about myself , i hope you dont mind .
^ It sounds like you 're having a really great time overall - is your experience of it still fluctuating from absolutely brilliant to feeling quite low , or has it levelled off somewhat ?
^ How are you coping with all the American Missionary Doctors ? !
^ More importantly , what are the south africans like at football ? !
^ Anyway i hope you continue to have a good time in your last few weeks & stay healthy & well ,
^ love from Rodrigo
^ ps weve been having some great weather over in england in the last week or so .
^ it was so hot today ive had to take refuge in the cool of our house cos i couldnt cope with the sun
^ also , i think ive been in slightly funny mood this afternoon cos the specific smell of the sun cream
^ i put on has brought back slightly-ish unpleasant memories of South Hungary and other holidays , which i certainly wasnt expecting
^ Dont you think its weird how smells and other things can trigger off memories like that ? )
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ Have you ever heard of the band " Death Cab for Cutie . "
^ I have n't listened to much of their stuff but what I have heard I liked .
^ Thought you might want to check them out if they 're new to you .
^ Thanks so the info on Tree63 .
^ It was just the song I was thinking about .
^ School is back in full swing and I am learning to love the library again .
^ Who knew that there were so many microorganisms and pathogens .
^ The myriad of facts that I am starting to amass is daunting but I guess if it will save lives it is worth stuffing them into my brain .
^ I have new found admiration for people spend their lives in labs figuring all this stuff out .
^ No way i could spend that much time inside especially on a day as beautiful as today .
^ Fall is teasing Henryton with all its promise of falling leaves and soft sweaters .
^ Today is in the 70's and less than 900 % humidity and we all are sure that my favorite season is coming soon .
^ Seasons are such a relative thing in a place like Henryton .
^ Also , it seems that everyone that I know is having a birthday .
^ I am considering taking up party planing as a side job .
^ It has been fun .
^ Whoever came up with giving everyone their own special holiday should have gotten some distinguished award for the brilliant idea .
^ Now if only I could sing to start off the birthday song i might really have a business .
^ Is your birthday soon ... if so I wish you the happiest of days .
^ I am so much in the spirit of celebration I am also planning a half birthday party of Amanda .
^ You know 6 months from the real day with half a cake and gifts such as half dollars or half of an old book .
^ It should be a surprise that will make her laugh .
^ I hope that all is well with you as you get ready for the big move .
^ I 'm sure that Munich anxiously awaits your arrival .
^ I bet that it is a beautiful place in the fall .
^ Hope you are excited to get back , see old friends , and get started again .
^ Oh , there is a chance that I might get to come to Brighton the end of October .
^ My as I guess you might say flatmate is trying to go visit a college friend of ours who is there doing an internship and she wants me to come with her .
^ What fun if it works out !
^ Macie
^ ~
^ Dear Nick , hope you are well .
^ How 's the move going or gone ?
^ Not too hectic I hope .
^ Things are going good , work has been progressing OK , once the computers started to behave themselves .
^ Also had a nice weekend at home last weekend when I thought it 'd be relaxing but ended up catch ing up on all the exercise I 'd been missing out on .
^ Footie , Swimming , Tennis & Cricket .
^ I 'm really looking forward to our youth camp in Bruton .
^ I 'm travelling down on Sunday - should be a killer journey but I 'm sure I 'll survive , there 'll be plenty of stuff I should be doing on the train .
^ Anyway , we will be in Bath on Tuesday 7th and so I was wondering if we could meet up for a coffee or something .
^ It 'd be cool to see u !
^ Take Care
^ Isabel Hernandez
^ Nick :- I love you !
^ Do n't worry too much about the subject , I have n't fallen madly in love with you , although knowing what a great guy you are I 'm sure everyone else has !
^ I attach a drama which I is already sent to your Woman for you to maybe use for Word , but I was wondering if you & I could do it in Kings one week
^ ( If you still go to Kings , that is ) .
^ A good chance for you to be God again , hopefully minus the gay icon t-shirt !
^ Me & Bookter Pugh did it at college cu at the start of term .
^ see what you reckon .
^ All the best with your revision .
^ Enjoy the exams , and let your light shine through in what you write ! !
^ You 're great , you are !
^ Aimee .
^ my address : Rogers Drew College , MANCHESTER , WI3 3LH my mobile : 05505 777 930 my website : &WEBSITE
^ Nick / Aimee
^ Chaps ,
^ Greetings from the earthquake zone !
^ I 've just found your e-mail address Nick and wanted to forward it to
^ Jonny and then last night Jonny 's dad popped round and said that you had managed to meet up anyway .
^ Hope you are both living life to the full .
^ Will you both be going for Munich blue at footi ?
^ Go for it ! !
^ I 'm under the knife today on my knee , but I hope it will mean I can kick a football hard again in the near future .
^ Have you both found a church where you feel at home yet in Munich and where are your mum and dad now Nick ?
^ Is the work ok Jonny ?
^ I hope you 're not doing 25 hour days !
^ Shalom ,
^ Hayley P
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^ hey Nick , - change to Hinduism !
^ The " man " we drew today turns out to be an indian God , - in fact ,
^ Manjiri 's favourit God , " with an elephants head and a mans body " .
^ Imagine that .
^ now stay out of trouble !
^ Nick Malone
^ Hey benjo , how are you ?
^ When are you back ?
^ Did n't know which email address to use so thought I 'd try them all !
^ I met Mohammad from Speak the other day who I think you may have known at Wells .
^ What are your computer skills these days my boy ?
^ Are you any good with
^ Perl , javascript HTML or SQL ?
^ We 're after a little bit of help with eBread and I did n't know if you would be up for it or whether you can do any of those languages .
^ Lots of good stuff to catch you up on - looking forward to catching up properly .
^ Regan
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^ Nick ,
^ Your first sentence makes you sound like an old man .
^ Which , I suppose you are really , in both years and haircut .
^ I am going to stay with Mallory , but you are not giving me ?
^ a lot of leeway for enjoying myself if I ca n't do anything you would n't .
^ For example , am I not allowed to wear skirts whilst there
^ Also , I do n't actually think that the delights of Peterborough will be up to accomodating the wild example that is little me , so I probably wo n't be doing anything at all .
^ Why did you go to a xtian schools ' convention ?
^ You are no longer at a xtian school , and have not been for quite a while now ( due to your advanced years ) .
^ What is going on ?
^ I am frankly having trouble believing that you do n't like sorting out other peoples ' computer problems .
^ What could be more entrancing than messing with
^ Camilla 's cousin 's bits ?
^ Sorry , bad , apologies , shut up Jon .
^ Anyway , work , at least you have some .
^ I can find nothing , and Anna Berry seems to be having the same problem .
^ I may be reduced to working in a nightclub ( behind th bar , NOTHING ELSE , not as bad as it sounds ) .
^ And how can anything be unGodly ?
^ That 's quiteheretical .
^ Have you been excommunicated by DICCU yet ?
^ I 'm also glad that ... your bedroom 's tidy ?
^ Hmm , interesting life you lot lead down there in Bath , party all night , I can see .
^ Actually , you 're probably doing lots more than me , whih would n't be hard cos I am doing nothing .
^ I need a job ...
^ Do n't throw CU stuff away , send it to Mallory .
^ You ca n't spell , different does not even begin with an R .
^ I may live long and prosper , but it 's a horrid phrase from a dire programme .
^ Tabitha has gone , I am alone and bereft and in a bad mood .
^ Love you lots , see you soon ?
^ Antle xx
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^ Due to this , doubtlessly unfortunate , state of affairs you may be interested to know that he is hoping to walk from St. Johns to St. Maximus 's wearing a dressing gown and carrying a yellow rubber duck on Wednesday ( tomorrow ) afternoon .
^ His reason is that he wants to have a story from his university days to tell his children .
^ He shall attempt this walk if he has football training , and if not , it will be rescheduled .
^ We hope you will be along to support him in this venture ( especially if it is raining ! ) tomorrow afternoon , proably about &TIME .
^ Time and date will be confirmed tomorrow morning .
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ How are you doing ?
^ It was nice to see Eric for the three weeks .
^ We ended up doing " Creare " painting courses together , it was fun !
^ It is lovely to see you write to
^ Rose and Samara , they tell me all about your emails !
^ Are you doing ok ?
^ What are you doing this holiday ?
^ Eulanda 's song is coming on nicely , and Faith and Samuel sound awesome , they just need a bit more practice and they will be perfect !
^ I am really excited about convention and I have them all registered !
^ The speeches are all memorized and they are just practicing eye contact and increased volume ! ! &SMILEY
^ I have just completed all the convention registration .
^ It was a bit of a mission as I did n't know we had to send in the written forms as well , but it all got there on time I hope !
^ It is quite exciting to see what they are all doing , they are all doing about 6 events apart from Eulanda who is doing knitting , art and solo .
^ Faith has 26 Psalms left , and Marina and Aluwani have about 12 proverbs left ! &SMILEY
^ Riaan will be driving the Defender , and I will be in there too with the 7 children .
^ Mr Broderick might pop in to convention but he is mainly going to do the Lesotho school visit
^ God bless , keep well !
^ Isabelle &SMILEY
^ OK Isabelle ,
^ Susannah and I have finished the two convention music items - here they are .
^ " His Strength is Perfect " is in three sections : - Soprano only )
^ for Faith - 2 pages ) - Tenor only ( for Samuel - 2 pages ) - Both parts together ( for the judges - 3 pages
^ " Eagles ' Wings " only has a single section ( 2 pages ) .
^ Any problems let me know .
^ Hope you are all well !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Nick
^ HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
^ Sorry we 're late with the greeting ... hope you had a very blessed day - ca n't believe you 're 20 ...
^ Howzit going over in Bath ?
^ Trust all is well and you are forging ahead with plans for further study ? ? ?
^ Let us know what 's up .
^ Its hard to believe that almost a year has passed since you arrived here .
^ We are planning another major building project .
^ Some housing for families , singles quarters - so they can have their own room ! - as well as a preschool building .
^ I have just planted 34 trees around the place .
^ The whole place is clear - field in place - and we are stepping out in faith .
^ We also just bought tiles for our house so that will finish it off .
^ Kathy and Karla left for Australia a few weeks ago .
^ Karla 's parents were here last night for house church and said they were settling in - Patrick had a job and so far so good !
^ Josue , Lawrence and Pedro were up in Zambia a couple of weeks ago to help a friend of ours with a mission project ( building an orphanage ) - Josue is off to Nigeria next Monday for two weeks .
^ He 'll be back just in time for our April holidays .
^ Well , Frederick ... keep smiling ... write and let us know what 's up !
^ For now , signing off from the bush ...
^ Josue & Laura , Pedro & Julie
^ Dear Quinton & Liz - thanks for the handbook - we will be working through it and will call for help !
^ We need to get Pedro and Julie registered and their course approved asap !
^ Trust all is going well with the Shelleys
^ lots of love for now ...
^ the Bevingtons .
^ This is a message for James ... please give it to him !
^ Dear Nayeli ...
^ the lions are waiting for you to come ...
^ the cheetahs stand ready to chase you ...
^ and the " bundus " are crawling with goggas wanting to bite you ! !
^ When are you coming to visit deepest - darkest - A F R I C A ?
^ Hurry up and finish those last Paces - we need your help ! ! ! ! !
^ No , just joking - we would love you to come and visit .
^ How about
^ July-December ? ? ? ? ? ?
^ We have an American guy coming for 3 months -
^ July-September .
^ He is from Manley and will be 26 in September .
^ Are you going over to international convention ?
^ Pedro is going together with 30 or so other South African students .
^ He is quite excited at the prospect of spending time with so many other young people .
^ It gets a little lonesome out here .
^ Come on now
^ Please give this message to Vandervent -
^ Dear Oli
^ Happy 16th birthday ...
^ Julie just reminded us and we decided to come and send an email immediately ... via Nick ... do you Tarquines have an email address at home ?
^ Please say hi to your folks , Joshua and Giles - what are those two guys up to now ?
^ Tell Joshua to go over to Nick 's place and send us an update on what 's going on with them .
^ Say hi to your folks ...
^ God bless you ... keep smiling !
^ Lots of love ... the Bevingtons
^ ~
^ Hey buddy !
^ How are things ?
^ Im taking some time out of what has been a mad rush of a day , to email !
^ You know when you suddenly think of a hundred and one things that you should have done all at once ..... that was my morning !
^ I managed to get the train in time for my first lecture so that is the main thing ! !
^ I am learning to use Logic at the moment which is good fun .
^ Our tutor was showing us how to get a good guitar sound by just using midi but I was a bit synical !
^ It sounded fairly convincing but not great on the widdly solos !
^ ANyway , I am back into the course after my " reading " week ( I did n't do much reading but nevermind ! ) .
^ Nikki and I went up to Wells for a couple of days which was cool !
^ It has n't changed very much ( except the Kingston room has had a dramatic make over ) .
^ It was great to see everyone up there .
^ They all seemed happy !
^ It is strange but at times I could have easily believed that I was still there myself .... it did n't take long to settle back into things !
^ How 's the workload mate ?
^ Are you still busy ?
^ How about the football ?
^ I went down to watch the Johns ' Womens team play and that was good !
^ I think they are doing ok because they won 1-0 !
^ The A 's sound like they are doing pretty well but do n't have that many freshers .
^ Apparently there is a good centre back so atleast they have found a replacement for their captain !
^ Anyway , Ive just realised that I am telling you all this and Im sure you know because of your brother ! ! !
^ Nevermind , I wont delete it , it can jsut adds to my wierd day !
^ I hope things are going well mate ,
^ take care
^ Bob
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^ ~
^ Dear Nick .
^ Sorry about your boys .
^ They got beat up pretty bad .
^ Maybe you should come personally .
^ Well , school has been going for 4 weeks now .
^ Thus far it has been ok .
^ I have acquiescent myself to the reality that I cannot revolutionize my current status any more than it already is .
^ It is really cool to mess around with synonyms .
^ I had to work as a supervisor the other day .
^ Now that was a challenge of note .
^ It was n't as bad as I would have thought it to be .
^ I can see though , that there is a lot more work involved than just being a monitor .
^ I have realized that God will only give you what He thinks you can handle and sometimes we think we can handle more than what God has given us and then things go down the tubes .
^ So I will learn to be content in whatever state I am in .
^ I suppose it comes down to , responsibility /liability /dependability .
^ Wow , would you look at that .
^ The weather has just been peculiar as of late .
^ One day it is sunny and hot the next 2 days it 's raining a rather not warm , then it is hot again .
^ My nose has been leaking profusely over the last 2 days .
^ I refuse to get a cold though .
^ I have neither the time nor the inclination to accept it .
^ The other day I came home after school and crashed till suppertime .
^ The best solution though , is do consistently go to bed the same time .
^ Forming good behavioural habits is one of the keys .
^ Now I must just practice what I preach .
^ The last weekend a whole lot of us went to LT ( Louis Corrie ) , for me it was more just to see what a city looks like and it is n't very big at that .
^ So Noe and I cruised town and did some odd jobs .
^ There was also some fair in town .
^ So we all met up over there in the afternoon .
^ Noe and I went around checking out what they had .
^ Something that brought back some rather vivid memories was this dud working at a doughnut machine .
^ I spent a whole December working on one of those things .
^ Hard work and character building are the thoughts that pop into my mind when I think of a doughnut machine .
^ HA Ha Ha .
^ I also did something there that I have never ever done before .
^ It was a rather interesting experience .
^ The fact that I got a FREE COOLDRINK has absolutely nothing to do with it .
^ There was a stand that you could go and donate blood .
^ Yes you heard me right .
^ I know all the thoughts you can conger up when you think about that .
^ Noe has been doing it for years so that was a small comfort .
^ You first have to fill in a form , I wo n't mention here what exact questions they ask , but it 's worth a laugh none the less .
^ I 'll leave that up to you to read if ever you do it .
^ Then they " prick " one of you fingers to get some blood to test your iron levels .
^ Mine were fine .
^ Then I got on the seat and waited to be " helped . "
^ When it was time to find a vein the nurse was very happy with me .
^ I have rather prominent veins on my arms .
^ When I worked as a lifeguard I remember seeing how one of the guys demonstrated on another fellow how you put in a needle .
^ It was fine seeing it on someone else , but know it was my turn .
^ It checked pretty cool when she put in the needle .
^ I sort of expected it to bleed where she put the needle in , but it did n't .
^ The human body is one amazing creation .
^ It was slightly uncomfortable at first , but it was n't a problem .
^ All in all it was a pleasant experience .
^ They say you can donate every 56 days so my next date is the end of September .
^ If you have the chance to do it , then I 'll say , " Do it . "
^ Waz says he 'd rather jump off a massive waterfall .
^ Well , we have actually done that before .
^ Well , that is what I have been up to recently .
^ Keep well .
^ Riaan .
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ I just putting off starting some research for my ethno. project .
^ I have got some results back , 30 credits of the 970 that I am doing this year , and I achieved two " blue stars " .
^ well in ACE terms they would both be fails as 67 % for Analysis for Performers and 76 % for Choral Conducting ( 2nd highest in the class
^ Anthony got 78 % ) are below the 80 % pass but in real terms they are vgood - alla your Dad 's tick marking system of St. Stephens
^ How is your stuff going , I hope you are well .
^ I will give you a ring soon ... so we can goss !
^ LOL ,
^ EddyC. xoxoxox
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Well , I was going to type " Flat Reunion " in the subject box , but it seemed a little ... flat , somehow ...
^ Anyway ...
^ Re : the idea of a flat reunion .
^ Bob ( and Karri ) generously offered to host said reunion , and a date has been suggested in the region of 16th / 17th / 18th October , as this is when Parker visits Bob and Karri .
^ What I have n't done , which I clearly should have done , is to check the Boarding Rota to see whether or not I 'm on duty that weekend .
^ As I 've been inept , I 'll have to email you again when I know , but it will give you the chance to check your own calendars ?
^ if this w / e is not suitable , would you mind suggesting another
^ Also , Greetingsz , this is probably the first you 've heard of this ... er ... great !
^ It would be lovely to see you all and to see photos of Africa and
^ Wyatt and wedding ( seen a few of those on Parker 's site ) and hear all about everything ...
^ Hope you 're all well and that teaching / PhDing is going well ...
^ Love Jon xx
^ ~
^ Hi all .
^ I 'm back home now .
^ Just thought I 'd send you all a note to say how much I enjoyed acting with you .
^ I LOVE YOU GUYS ! ! !
^ Waaaaaaaah ! - type thing .
^ Yeah , but seriously it was a great experience .
^ Last play I did was a little thing for the one act festival where I played this really cynical bloke , and by the end the rest of the cast had realised along with me I basically WAS that character .
^ I hope that was n't your experience .
^ I have many faults , but I hope you do n't actually equate me with evil personified !
^ I 'm home now , and writing lots of important e-mails at ridiculous hours of the night .
^ Had a good drive home , and just realised that I 'm actually going to Spain on Thursday , not Friday ! !
^ ~
^ I 'll be there for 3 weeks for some thing with Wycliffe Bible Translators .
^ I just wanted to let you all know that any of you who reply to this e-mail with your home address ( and maybe home e-mail too .
^ will receive as their prize a free postcard from me in the south of Spain ( or maybe Bangor if I do n't write them all in time )
^ If you choose to reject this offer then send them anyway , and mark your replies " fan-mail only , please " .
^ Personal messages then ...
^ Nick ...
^ You are a charlatan and the father of all charlatans .
^ Philip ...
^ I know your true IQ rating ... and believe me it 's not very much !
^ Imani ...
^ What have you been telling my PEOPLE ?
^ You swine ...
^ Hayley ...
^ You da gopher .
^ You know what I iz sayin .
^ Aye !
^ Suzy ...
^ You smell of putrid yoghurt .
^ That 's considered a great compliment where I come from .
^ Anna ... !
^ Jon ... !
^ Abbi ... " mummy mummy , they 've gone all green ! "
^ Bob ...
^ do n't get too embarassed about the child sacrifice thing . ...
^ and last but not least ,
^ Tabitha ...
^ You 're great , you are ! no really !
^ You really are great , you are .
^ Well done on giving birth to a great production .
^ Hope you manage to chill a bit now and do n't have too many withdrawal symptoms .
^ Have a wonderful summer all of you .
^ I iz knackered and off to bed .
^ Keep in touch .
^ God bless ,
^ Aimee .
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^ ~
^ Boys !
^ Christmas has been and gone , and I hope it was a good one for you .
^ Christian ... 1B controls ... tragic ...
^ I ca n't believe they asked you about that .
^ What the heck are 1B controls ?
^ Rylee ... the socks ... awesome ... plus I spent the last few months pining the loss of that trainer-liner ... fantastic !
^ I 'm now back from snowboarding in Spain - we absolutely MUST go sometime .
^ The speed ... the scenery ... the Madamoiselles ...
^ Anyway , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Oh sweet irony .
^ Just had my interview ... 1B controls came up ... oh dear !
^ Still , they might be feeling generous and give me a job for the sheer Christmas Spirit of it ... We 'll see .
^ Have a great Christmas !
^ But Christian ...
^ I did n't invite you ...
^ Thanks for inviting me to your Wyatt thing , Nick .
^ OK Christian - I 'll get on the hotline to Our Father .
^ Anyway , if you ca n't answer their question , you can always ask them an impossible question instead ( in the manner of Jesus ) .
^ For instance , you say " First answer me this : does the set of all sets that do n't contain themselves contain itself ? "
^ Then you 'll have them stumped and dazzled in one fell swoop .
^ But seriously , really hope it goes well - I reckon you 'll be fine .
^ In terms of the NV party Christian , I had sort-of planned to be in Wyatt , but you never know ; my plans may change ...
^ Be blessed boys ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ I am having fun making sawdust at the moment , playing with my new router !
^ Wow !
^ I 'm just finishing off a painting for Ka , and making a frame for that too , so though I have no work at the moment , all is go .
^ Jay is getting settled in in Kane today , but will be returning here to Munich tonight .
^ Mom went up with him a few days back , and she is giving the house a proper Mom-clean .
^ I do n't hink it will know what hit it .
^ It is very hard for me not knowing what I 'll be doig this year .
^ The last week I 've been sleeping quite badly , but last night was great , cause I fell asleep right away .
^ I am not jealous of Jay having everything sorted , but when I think about it , he does appear to be in a nicer position that I am at the moment .
^ Still , I have health , happiness and God .
^ What more can a man ask for ?
^ The answer is of course , something that you , Nick Malone , can give me .
^ Can I have a CD of your music please , and also one with the photos on ?
^ I was trying to play some of your pieces the other day , actually this morning too , but could n't work out all the chord sequences , and for some reason my voice was Terrible !
^ Oh well .
^ Say hi to your family from me !
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Hi Jay ,
^ Just emailing you to say on your engagement .
^ Great news - you 're a lucky man !
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Linzy ,
^ My sincere apologies for the inexcusable delay in replying to your recent e-mail inquiring the safe completion of my journeys ...
^ Not a problem .
^ I had assumed that only dire emergency could have delayed the reply , and I 'm glad to hear that indeed was the case .
^ We had the little trip the other day , which went OK but a little bit " segregated " between the people who will be here next year ?
^ those who wo n't .
^ I was n't too happy about that , but what can you do
^ Otherwise I 've been doing quite a bit of relaxing really .
^ Played tennis a couple of times over the last few days , and helped my grandparents get down and dirty with some new computers .
^ Still have n't heard anything else from Munich about next year , so I ca n't make any further plans yet .
^ Watched " The Bourne Supremacy " last night - good but predictable .
^ If they do n't come up with some new ideas , the next film might end up being The Bourne
^ Monotony ...
^ Church this morning .
^ Jonathan ( Stewart ) was happy as he 'd managed to steal a pair of headphones from the plane on the way back from Hungary .
^ We played a bit of the old plug the jack into an imaginary socket and pretend there 's something coming out the speakers ' game .
^ Fun really .
^ It 's been pretty sweet hanging out in the Rockies in our new house in Canmore .
^ Hot tub ?
^ I was able to catch up with a few friends at a friend 's farewell BBQ .
^ Now Jude , are we talking friends , or " friends " ?
^ The news on the extension is that the concrete is IN .
^ Nothing else has happened though , so some progress over the next week would be nice .
^ I want my SHOWER ! !
^ Right , I 'm off to read " The DaVinci Code " ...
^ Laterz ,
^ EWok
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ I did not lie to you , but I was selective with the truth certainly .
^ do n't forget the " and never wanted to ? "
^ Was it not a lie ?
^ Yes it was not a lie .
^ It was part of the truth , it is the situation as I see it , and as I told her I see it .
^ though at different times she has agreed or disagreed with me , as has her mum agreed and disagreed with me
^ If not , then what is ! ! ? ? ?
^ A lie is when you go out of your way to deceive someone , leading them by your untrue statements to hold a belief that is fundamentally innaccurate .
^ due to the things you have told them , when you had the opportunity to give them an accurate truth
^ I gave you an accurate truth .
^ It was just my perspective .
^ Do n't sweat it .
^ ~
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^ The talk will be followed by an opportunity to network over drinks .
^ The talk is free and open to all .
^ If you would like to attend the drinks , tickets cost &pound; 38 .
^ If you would like to attend the talk , drinks or both please let me know .
^ Tickets for the drinks can be obtained by sending a cheque ( made payable to Munich Physics Lab Ring ) to :
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^ ~
^ Samo , I am NOT AMUSED ! !
^ Just how many people has " Camilla " shown that picture to ?
^ Revenge is sweet Mr Malone , and I am a master of it .
^ Anyway , I hope Camilla is favourable to Messenger .
^ I can imagine your family standing on the highlands in the freezing drizzle , clad in your family kilts , lustily singing in the dawn on New
^ Year 's day .
^ Or have I got slightly the wrong impression ?
^ - Yes , you 've got slightly the wrong impression !
^ Keep working at the multi-tasking .
^ Now Nick , thanks for the pictures which you sent me .
^ However , I asked for one where you looked " pensive " , not " evil " .
^ Any more would be appreciated . ( ! )
^ So , what have you been up to in the past few days ?
^ Are you settling down into your new home ?
^ Today I am wallpapering .
^ It is very boring !
^ Yesterday I was working , which was quite good fun .
^ I saw your " Brute Garden , Affirmation " CD advertised on television last night .
^ Anyway , the chemistry is going pretty well , how is computer science ?
^ Dominic
^ P.S. I tilt my head slightly and to the side , and smile in a benign manner whilst half-closing my eyes .
^ P.P.S. Jon and I wish to invite you and Kaylee to chat online .
^ Sunday at 6pm .
^ ~
^ Dear Mr. Malone ,
^ I 'm very sorry for not replying to most of your emails over the summer .
^ It was very unpleasant of me and I have absolutely no excuse for my atrocious behaviour .
^ Okay , now I 've got the grovelly bit over with , I can bore you to death with my current set of woes .
^ As you probably know , I managed to fail one of my prelims papers by one mark and therefore had the WHOLE summer to do a little revision and pass the retake with ease .
^ However , with a great deal of stupidity and cunning on my own part , I managed to fail the resit by two marks instead .
^ Ooops !
^ Of course this means that I ca n't carry on at Dundee any longer cos they 're a bit tight like that .
^ Anyway , I madly rang around a couple of other universities to see if I could squeeze into this year 's first year of Computer Science but they are all bursting at the seams it seems .
^ Now , the upshot of this is that I have to take ANOTHER year out before starting the course next year .
^ I 'm effectively going to have done 3 years out by the time I start ! !
^ What a fool I am !
^ Have you got any ideas of what exciting things I could do for another year ?
^ Anyway , I hope that your university career is going significantly better than my own !
^ Apart from that , what are you doing with yourself at the moment ?
^ Best wishes towards yourself , your family , your friends and your enemies ( not that you have any of those of course ! ) , oh ! and all your aquaintances too !
^ Krystal
^ PS When are you going to send me a copy of your fantastic new messenger programme ? ?
^ I do n't think I can cope with the suspense for much longer ! ! !
^ ~
^ French birds in the french alps , while skiing !
^ Wow .
^ I 'm not quite cool enough for boarding , I 've actually never tried it , and prefer to move in the direction my tits are pointing ...
^ There 's plenty of that though ( moving forwards on skis ) , T and I have been skiing quite a lot &SMILEY
^ - funny thing is , his equipment is made for war and is hence 3 times as heavy as mine , which means he 's easy to beat
^ I really like holidays ,
^ Apart from skiing , it 's been divided between family gatherings and visits to places serving various fluids .
^ Christmas is one of the few times each year when all old schoolmates come back , which means an increase in social activities )
^ also birdwise - but ( to your great dismay I 'm sure ) there is no clear
^ candidate emerging - feelings towards members of the opposite team tends to be inversely proportional to their feelings towards this end ... but there is plenty of patience ...
^ I 'm coming over to graduate for sure , that 's if I still speak enough of your language to pass immigration .
^ It 's amazing how quickly you forget when you do n't practice )
^ An article that pretty well describes the extreme extent of the intelligent lifeform Emily claims to have captured :
^ &WEBSITE
^ Now be easy on the champagne , - we do n't want any wild stories !
^ May &YEAR be a wicked one !
^ G .
^ Hi Jensky ...
^ I 've just got back from Snowboarding in the French Alps ( see picture ) !
^ We had some pretty cold weather there as well -12C plus wind-chill !
^ I ca n't believe those exams were a year ago - do you remember sitting around in that little side room with Ravi , or that awful debate about the Central
^ Limit
^ Theorem on the way to McD 's ! ?
^ Ah ... those were good times old boy .
^ So Emily 's got himself hitched !
^ Have you seen pictures ?
^ Is she a Karena type ?
^ I saw plenty of very attractive French girls whilst dazzling everyone with my snowboarding finesse , but alas I think the language barrier might be a bit of an issue ...
^ Are you coming over to graduate Jens ?
^ What is the snowboarding like in Norway ?
^ God bless , and happy NEW YEAR ! !
^ Peace ,
^ Nick
^ It 's already a year since we worried about our first , - time flies .
^ The temperature here this morning is -11C , and we 've got enough snow , even though the amount is moderate for this time of year .
^ Emily got back on Sunday to tell that he 's picked up an American genius of a girlfriend in Munich ( first Brody , now Emily , - this is evidence that there is hope ) .
^ Everything else is very normal , which is nice .
^ There 'll be skiing , fat food and the rest of it .
^ Hope everything is easy down " south " as well .
^ May you and the rest of the Malone-clan enjoy peaceful celebrations .
^ Jensk .
^ ~
^ So I 've been listening to this amazing CD for weeks ... and just realized I actually knew the artist !
^ Ok , so maybe I had an idea from the accent all along .
^ I wanted to say thanks for sending a copy my way via Cynthia .
^ Hope all is well on your side of the Big Pond !
^ Henryton 's fine ... but hey it 's in Carolina and like they " Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina " !
^ Maybe you should come see for yourself sometime ... I think we might could find somewhere to put you up for a while .
^ School 's going swell .
^ Cynthia keeps me accountable for actually getting through the material .... and she has a way of making it more amusing in the process .
^ Do n't know what I 'd do without her .
^ Plus there are some new ( yet oddly familar ) faces on campus , I think you 'd recognize at least one of them ... one of those late night singers from week 3 .
^ So , it 's been good getting back to the routine .
^ I hope you 're all settled back in the lovely land of Brighton !
^ Blessing to you --
^ Tatum
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Just wanted to find out how things are on the other side of the world ?
^ Heard you had some slight issues getting there , hope it was n't too traumatic ? !
^ Things are hectic and stressful as usual for this time of year in Wells ( except for your brother of course , who never actually seems to be doing anything ! ) .
^ Hope you 're ok and enjoying whatever it is you 're doing ,
^ Love Philip ( and Rodrigo , although I think he 's going to write you an e-mail too some time soon ) xxx
^ ~
^ Hi Dana !
^ Like the Cantonese subject ? ! ? !
^ Just emailing to see how things are going with you .
^ Have been thinking about you recently ( in a good way ! ) .
^ I 'm off to Munich on Friday ( only two days ! ! ! ) .
^ I 've been doing loads of background maths recently , so I 'm quite glad to be actually getting on with some real work .
^ Ciao ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Mr Malone ,
^ Thank you for granting us permission to publish details of your rumoured impending split with Camilla .
^ We are most grateful that you choose to place your confidence in our firm and would like to take this opportunity to remind you that our company has an unblemished record in managing high-status break-ups .
^ We hope this will reassure you in your excellent choice .
^ A preliminary date for publication of your side ( substantially biased , naturally ) of the story is set for
^ April 23rd .
^ This may be altered if thought beneficial to your cause .
^ Sincerely ,
^ O. Fotherington
^ Celebrity Split Consultant , Public Relations Department , Tulley ,
^ Tulley & Sutton )
^ Hi Nick !
^ I would like to chat online .
^ I need to get what version of Messenger ?
^ Where from ?
^ Do n't forget that I 'm a bit limited . - Oh good !
^ You need to get version 2.0 ( Well , that 's the one on the web-page , although mine says 4.0 here on Petunia ) , downloadable from
^ &WEBSITE
^ When do you want to chat ?
^ What about Tuesday at 7 p.m. ?
^ I actually tried to call you yesterday but your phone was engaged for AGES .
^ Now Shania , I know you 're fairly popular with the ladies and everything , but can you please give me at least a few minutes window time when you are not on the phone to one of them .
^ Sorry my liege , please forgive your most humble servant for utilising his gift of free internet access
^ Glad you tried to call , try again .
^ I 'm at work tomorrow and Tuesday , but the phone should be free from &TIME to &TIME tomorrow , if that 's any way convenient !
^ Thanks , I had a fun time at Mallory 's .
^ We did all sorts of exciting things like play squash and football and go to the cinema etc. - How lovely .
^ Thanks for the photos Nick , they are interesting !
^ We both look l ike convicts !
^ Especially when viewed in black and white , hmmm , that could be exploited ! )
^ Well , I 'm busy with chemistry , and guess what !
^ Organic chemistry is actually making sense !
^ That 's the third of the course which I 've totally ignored up until now ! )
^ I really quite like it at the moment ; it seems reasonably simple !
^ Anyway , I hope you are well .
^ What are you up to for the last three weeks of the holidays ?
^ Are you going to be doing anything of notable excitement ?
^ How is your revision going ?
^ Hope to hear from you soon ,
^ Shania
^ Please do n't think that just because we 're not all at the flat today , on April Fool 's day , does n't mean you are all going to get away with it .
^ Jon and I shall be postponing the first day of this month
^ We can do that , you know )
^ ~
^ What were you playing at ! ! ? !
^ You complained that there was n't enough ovaltine in your mug , when I was having the same dose as you and /I / was n't complaining !
^ So then you add more ovaltine powder to your mug and what do I find ?
^ That when you relinquish your mug , there it is !
^ At least 15mm of high-density ovaltine has been abandonned in the bottom of the mug ! !
^ What was that supposed to acheive ?
^ What is the point in leaving ANY drink behind in the mug - you think /I / was going to drink it for you ?
^ And especially after complaining there was n't enough ovaltine in the first place , to then discard the powder you added , is wanton ingratitude !
^ What were you playing at , Nick ?
^ I get enough trouble as it is with Gracie accusing my " efficiency " of actually being " stingyness " without you encouraging him to think that too !
^ And then going on about how it must be " a tim thing " like that canadian bloke in your flat is efficient too .
^ Well , I do n't care if you 've been brought up with the idea that it 's somehow fashionable ?
^ to throw away good food and make your hair un-natural colors and not be really careful of how much you 're spending , but I have alright
^ It 's not " a problem I have " - we have never had much money ?
^ with both parents unemployed and a big loan from the government , I 'm trying to be as efficient as I can alright
^ I 'll be generous in cicumstances where it 's appropriate , and I 'll be more efficient in others .
^ over all I 'm going to make sure I spend as little of the loan as possible so that when I leave
^ I can pay back as much of it as I can as soon as possible
^ And if that means not buying every book on the " recommended reading " lists , and not buying more food than I need ?
^ not going by bus when it 's raining , and not buying stuff , then that 's what I 'll do , alright
^ Bob Maize
^ Johnson College , Wells University
^ ~
^ I do think that women can hinder other people working properly in a church .
^ They do n't mean to , but it always seems to be a question of how much are they chasing after the people they befriend .
^ I have this a lot .
^ I obviously seem more friendly than I should .
^ Mothers always seem to want to lock their sons away just in case , which is weird .
^ I like things being weird , maybe that 's why I use that word too much .
^ I think that I have a problem with levity .
^ I should take these matters seriously , but I lack wisdom in the way I express myself .
^ I do n't think it is a problem to be single and female , but I think other people do have a problem with it .
^ There are lots of comments and encouragements to be with someone .
^ It could drive you crazy if you were less than focused .
^ So what are you up to this summer ?
^ More tree hacking ?
^ Is it your dad 's idea of boot camp , or is it really necessary ?
^ Do you get a summer , or are you grafting away at uni or in books ?
^ I 'm meant to be rewriting some of the Social Studies PACEs , but if it were updating them it would be easier .
^ Writing something from scratch is quite a feat .
^ It requires patience and massive confidence .
^ I started , but have the feeling that it is all very trite .
^ I do n't want to make the kids sick as they do their work .
^ I remember thinking Ace was quite okay , but now , in this every increasingly wicked world , the children resent Ace and take his perfection as an insult and a personal affront to their less than perfect behaviour .
^ Stirring them up to good works ?
^ I hope so .
^ I think people must have been praying for me loads in the last few days , because the misery is going away .
^ I had a dinosaur in my stomach today .
^ I ate something that disagreed with me and it kept calling out to tell me so .
^ It was quite amusing .
^ One of the good girls became a Christian on Tuesday ! ! !
^ Praise God .
^ It was n't out of massive conviction , just that the Maths said discuss the fact that Jesus died for her sin and if she 'd made a commitment .
^ She agreed that the choice was obvious and that eternal life .
^ eternal death were the only 2 options and therefore I was left with no choice but to pray with her , rather than leave her heading towards the latter
^ She seemed more enthusiastic as she prayed and it 's come at a time when the seed should bear fruit ( as good Christian jargon states ) .
^ She is n't very proactive when it comes to religious things , but that might be due to her father being the uber pastor for many churches in the area and in Hungary .
^ I think PK lives are hard , just like staff kids .
^ I can only get on the computer when all the small people haave gone to bed , so it 's late and I jibber .
^ i enjoy jibbering , but it is not very productive .
^ Sleep is better .
^ I moan a great deal and I should do all things without grumbling and complaining .
^ with thanksgiving , so I want to apologise for the negative , tired out , stressed out conversations of the past couple of mails
^ I nearly fell asleep as I was typing just then .
^ A novel experience .
^ I watched Spider-Man versus Dare Devil tonight .
^ It was a video cartoon and great fun .
^ I love comic books .
^ My favourite used to be X-men and the silver surfer , but I only quite like the film stuff .
^ I write grown-up comic strips sometimes .
^ Some of them are good , but I 'm not going to be the authoress I wanted to be when I was 4 .
^ Dare Devil always reminds me of little Dare at school . ( pronounced Darry ) .
^ He saw a Dare Devil t-shirt on Imani once and went up to him and read Darry
^ Devil , the man with no fear - that is me and walked off again .
^ He is about 2 ft high and emphatic and does n't speak French very well .
^ Comedy value that does n't translate without knowing how his deep voice sounds .
^ I 'm becoming more and more distanced from reality , which means that it is definitely time to sleep .
^ Yeay my cat wo n't sleep on my pillow tonight as he is outside .
^ I 'm sleeping in a room almost filled with boxes and spare beds and 10 or 12 boxes of books .
^ There is n't room for Jonny too , he 's just selfish .
^ I do n't worship cats , I just rescued him when he was little .
^ I did n't have a choice , it was part of my witness to the kids who were teasing him .
^ He was tiny , skinny and dirty and he 's the opposite now , so I ca n't be too bad at it .
^ Still on my way to leave .
^ Goodnight , I hope you 're having a good week .
^ We finish school on Friday , so I shall sleep the sleep of the blessed after that .
^ x Els
^ It 's fast , it 's easy and it 's free .
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^ ~
^ Hi all ,
^ I have been thinking about cleaning .
^ I have decided I must try to make some allowances .
^ I 'm going to try and be drastically less clean and tidy .
^ What do you think of my new parameters defining " clean " ? ...
^ SAWYER 'S CLEANING CODE OF CONDUCT ...
^ 1) Sawyer will not clean , or attempt to clean , any bedroom except his own unless at the express request of the relevant occupant .
^ This especially applies to Tabitha 's room - which Sawyer would never dream of cleaning in a thousand years .
^ Nightmares do n't apply )
^ 2) Sawyer will try his utmost not to be tempted to clean the communal areas constantly .
^ He recognises this will be an uphill strugle , but ( naively ) hopes his natural strength of character and unwillingness to cause severe discomort to his flat-mates will aid him in his difficult task .
^ 3) Sawyer will attempt to refrain from transforming the flat into a surgically clean hospital-type environment before his fellow flat-mates arrive at the end of September .
^ 4) Sawyer will promise to faithfully dispose of his surgical gloves , mask , biohazard suit etc. - Which he purchased for fulfilling the above task .
^ 5) Sawyer will not buy any more than 7 bottles of industrial strength bleach in any calendar month .
^ 6) Sawyer will not stand sternly in the kitchen overseeing food preparation and hygiene , with a bottle of dettol in hand , when another flat-mate is cooking dinner .
^ Except at personal request )
^ 7) Sawyer will only sterilise the flat door-handles with boiling water and domestos twice a term .
^ &SMILEY Sawyer will try not to tidy everything up , but will invariably fail .
^ 9) Sawyer will refrain from allowing the " Society of Surgically Clean Beings " , of which he is patron , to hold their monthly meetings in the flat .
^ 10) If Sawyer is ever asked to do anything he does not wish to , he may relax these rules .
^ Joke )
^ Is anyone worried yet ?
^ You have three months to become so .
^ What a nice way to end the year !
^ Ed[mund]
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ I am delighted inform you that in the event of your not receiving a Domestic Research Studentship / Millennium Studentship ,
^ the Applications Committee will be awarding you an HKZUX Doctoral Training Award .
^ We would , however , advise that you keep this information confidential until the results of the WMP competition are known .
^ If your application to the Committee on Grants is successful and you win a WMP it will cover your fees and stipend for three years .
^ Though the WMP stipend is less than the HKZUX DTA , the Physics Laboratory will make up the difference between the HKZUX and WMP rates for three years ( subject to satisfactory progress ) from its own funds .
^ Sincerely ,
^ Kaleigh Hellams
^ Kaleigh Hellams Senior Clerk
^ Physics Laboratory Student Administration
^ Samuel Streets Building LL Pipping Avenue
^ Munich TQ9 0CW
^ Phone : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 776 858
^ Fax : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 884628
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Dear Frederick ,
^ We would like you to consider supervising one or more of the Part II courses in Computer Science for the coming academic year .
^ Please could you read through this e-mail and respond to Kristen Leatherman &EMAIL
^ Contents
^ 1. Can you supervise any Part II courses for the coming year ?
^ 2. List of Part II courses
^ 3. Frequently asked questions :
^ What is supervision ?
^ Will I get paid ?
^ Where should I supervise ?
^ 4. Training Details
^ 1. Can you supervise any Part II courses for the coming year ?
^ You probably know that the Physics Laboratory organises all of the supervision ( small group teaching ) for the Part II ( final year ) undergraduate courses .
^ We would like to know if you are willing to undertake any supervision on any of the Part II courses in the coming academic year .
^ Appended is a list of the courses , the number of supervisions we would expect a typical student to have on each course , and dates when each course runs .
^ Please could you reply to me by &DATE telling me :
^ A ) which courses you can supervise .
^ The course syllabus is available online at &WEBSITE
^ B ) how many groups of students you are willing to supervise ( we assume that you will see each group of students once every two weeks for the appropriate number of supervisions ) .
^ We also assume that in your first year of your research that your supervisors will advise keeping your loads fairly light , say 3 supervisions per week in term time only .
^ C ) the names of anyone else ( especially people outside the Physics Laboratory ) who may be willing to supervise for us .
^ We hope to be able to use everyone who volunteers to supervise .
^ After we have received all of the replies , we will collate them .
^ We will then get back to you , before the end of the first week of term , to let you know exactly what we would like you to do .
^ 2. List of Part II courses - 2004-2005 Recommended
^ Course name starts - ends No. Sup'ns Lecturer
^ Michaelmas Term &YEAR : Part II lectures
^ Advanced Graphics &DATE - &DATE 2 Dr Lee Fischer
^ Artificial Int. II &DATE - &DATE 4 Dr Garth Matheson
^ EK Modelling &DATE - &DATE 3 Dr Gracie Tanner
^ Denotational Semantics &DATE - &DATE 2 Prof. Glynn Pollit
^ Digital Comm II &DATE - &DATE 4 Prof. W Crowcroft & Dr I Litchen
^ HCI &DATE - &DATE 2 Dr Aimee Blackwell
^ Info Theory & Coding &DATE - &DATE 3 Dr W Daugman & Dr M Henzey
^ Security &DATE - &DATE 4 Prof. Ross Cotterell
^ Types &DATE - &DATE 2 Prof. Isabel Batts
^ VLSI Design &DATE - &DATE 1 Dr Kylie Baskin
^ ~
^ Thank you for taking the time to register with Download Music .
^ To access your account and begin uploading music , confirm your registration by clicking the following link :
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^ If you experience problems with this link , simply copy and paste it into the address field in your browser .
^ Though you may reply to this e-mail with questions about the site , replying will not confirm your registration .
^ You must click the link above to activate your account .
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^ Hey Philip ,
^ Just wondered whether you were planning to drive down to Mallory 's big up in Cornwall ...
^ I 'm at a wedding in Wells on Saturday the 30th , so if you were planning to drive down ( on Sunday ) , I was wondering if I could catch a lift with you ?
^ Anyway , hope you 're well - see you soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick , I sent you the wrong phone number to my parents .
^ The correct address follows :
^ Allfargatan 42 ( The road of forgiveness ? - " All forgotten " ) SE-385 62 Tors 's SWEDEN
^ Tel : 00 +78 923-500 30
^ /Dave
^ &EMAIL
^ Kantorsgatan 32:470 IL-925 33 Uppsala SWEDEN
^ Tel : 00 +32 19-62 82 44
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ I think you will find C so much nicer to use than that horrid Visual Basic .
^ When are you going to uni ?
^ Sorry I ca n't remember
^ At last !
^ A C compiler that works !
^ Thanks Krystal , you 're a star !
^ O
^ ~
^ Afraid I was a bit of a fool there and sent the last e-mail from my sister 's account instead of my own .
^ She 'd been using the computer before me and I did n't think !
^ Anyway please reply to me at this address rather than my sister if you DO fancy replying at all !
^ doh !
^ Aimee .
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ The University of Munich has opened the Domestic Research Studentship / Millennium Studentship Competition &YEAR for students starting in October &YEAR .
^ This year the application forms are downloadable from the web page &WEBSITE
^ Please read the instructions carefully .
^ You will need to forward the First Reference form to your chosen referee as soon as possible and make it clear to your referee that the Physics Laboratory will need their reference by mid-May &YEAR .
^ The completed forms must be returned to me by no later than June 1st .
^ Your second referee will be nominated by the Physics Laboratory .
^ There are a number of common queries regarding this form :
^ Q8 - If you are yet to graduate please leave the Overall Grade space clear .
^ I will complete this once your results are known .
^ Q12 - You will also be considered for the limited HKZUX Doctoral
^ Training Account Awards which are decided by the EW Funding Committee .
^ The distribution of these awards is decided quite late - after the results of other awards are known , including the WMP / Millennium Awards .
^ Please circle " Yes " indicating that you are eligible for a publicly funded award .
^ You will be applying for " 3 " years funding - " Fees & Stipend , " and the outcome is " Unknown . "
^ Q14 - Your estimated fees are outlined in the letter of offer you received from the Commission for Advancement Studies .
^ Current recommended HKZUX stipends start at &pound; 930 , 500 , though the WMP last year paid &pound; 38 , 500 .
^ Please note that Departments are asked to nominate students who are _very_ strongly supported and the competition for these awards is extremely fierce .
^ Sadly , the Lab cannot put forward every eligible student and realistically expects to win one or maybe two awards per annum .
^ You will be kept informed as to the progress of your application throughout the competition .
^ In the meantime , we wish you good luck !
^ Kaleigh Hellams
^ Kaleigh Hellams Senior Clerk
^ Physics Laboratory Student Administration
^ Samuel Streets Building LL Pipping Avenue
^ Munich TQ9 0CW
^ Phone : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 776 858
^ Fax : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 884628
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Dear Kaleigh ,
^ How are you ?
^ I hope you are having a good summer , with some time to rest and relax .
^ I received notification this morning from the LUPS that my WMP application was successful .
^ I will return the reply sheet , acknowledging my acceptance of the award , but should I be taking any further steps at this stage ( i.e. with respect to college / accomodation ) ?
^ Thanks Kaleigh ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Uriel ,
^ I returned the form indicating my acceptance of the WMP award I was offered in your letter dated July 22nd , and I just wanted to check that it arrived successfully .
^ If you could confirm that you received my letter and have passed on the information to the QFP I would be grateful .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Alfie ,
^ Kaleigh has just emailed me about the WMP application .
^ I 'm running to a very tight schedule as I 'm leaving for SA in a couple of days .
^ I 'm just wondering if my first referee should be someone from Wells , or whether someone like yourself would be more useful ...
^ Cheers , and I hope you 're well ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dearest Nick ,
^ Firstly , thank you , I did get back safely and in one piece , apart from hitting Carlisle in the rush hour which , actually , on reflection , was not that rushed after all !
^ Nick , the new vests are just fabulous perfect , not to tight not to baggy either ask me in five years from now and they will still be my choicest under garment items !
^ How is the data collection and collation task I hope we will be able to help out with a volume of e-mails .
^ How will I be able to send them all to you , shall I just forward them all to this address ?
^ Will speak soon
^ Lots of love ,
^ EddyC xoxoxox
^ PS .
^ Daggy is ozzie slang for " chill out " clothing .
^ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8 .
^ More info here .
^ ~
^ Hey mate ,
^ How are you getting on ?
^ How 's the course going .... I expect you are busy again !
^ How about the footy ?
^ I still have n't played for a long time but there is talk in the pipe line of maybe starting again ..... it 's a slow pipe line ! !
^ Im in the middle of my assessments and I knacked !
^ Had a solo performance yesterday morning at 10am where I played one of my songs .... an epic 6 1 / 2minute song called " Time To Fly " !
^ It was suppose to be an assessment of my guitar playing but I .
^ wanted to perform not just play so I did a backing track of the drums , bass and an acoustic guitar and I sang and played the electric guitar
^ It went really well and I enjoyed it !
^ I managed to get the lyric " Out of ten would you give me five or is it high time to make believe " in there , which I thought was quite funny!! ( my message to the markers ! ) .
^ I then had to spend the rest of the day doing soundchecks etc for a gig in the evening .
^ That went fairly well and I really enjoyed being up there playing in front of lots of people !
^ We had a few sound problems in the middle of one of the songs which was a bit annoying but otherwise , considering .
^ our drummer broke his arm and leg skateboarding and we had to get a replacement in who we had only played with twice , it all went ok
^ I think everybody was aware that we had lost our drummer at a crucial time .
^ so they were appreciative of the acoustic versions of a couple of the songs that we did at the last minute to try and be ready for the gig
^ Anyway , having got home very late last night , I had to be up for a music theory exam first thing this morning and I am just about to go and do a music tech exam !
^ Somewhere between last night and today , i seem to have lost any sort of concern for how they go .... in fact if there is any nerves , they are not really showing at the moment !
^ I thnk that the music theory went well but to be honest I am in a bit of a daze so I cant really tell !
^ Have you managed to play any more ?
^ Ive got a taste for it now and I like it !
^ There was a full bar watching us yesterday but I felt really relaxed and just enjoyed performing !
^ The EP that I am working on with the band I am setting up at home is nearly finished ... we have one more song to do and it is all sounding really good !
^ Im quite excited by it really just because it will be really cool to hold a cd in my hand that is the result of a lot of hard work .
^ I know that you can appreciate how long it takes to record 6 songs from scratch !
^ Hope that things are going well mate .
^ Take care
^ Bob
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^ Def : " Fit bird "
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Do you remember that enormous can of Slazenger deodorant that you had ?
^ How about so tennis when I get back ?
^ Sipping lemonade , with strawberries and cream on the lawns of Wimbledon .
^ The weather here is wonderful here , but alas , I get not to enjoy it that oft .
^ Very much looking forward to seeing you
^ LOL ,
^ EddyC XOXOXOX
^ It 's fast , it 's easy and it 's free !
^ Click here to download MSN Messenger
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^ Kaden ,
^ Please could you email me directions to your house - I 'll be coming up from Luxembourg .
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Hope this email finds you well .
^ In fact I just hope it finds you full stop - I was n't sure which one of your many email addresses to send it to !
^ I am currently two weeks away from finishing my Masters , although a 15,000 word dissertation stands between me and freedom unfortunately .
^ I have done about 5,000 so am a third of the way there !
^ Apart from the dissertation I am really well at the moment .
^ I have had a great year being a student and have made some good friends and contacts .
^ Over the summer I went to South Africa to do an internship for a human rights organisation whose Africa office is in Joburg .
^ I also managed to get a bit of travelling in too which was good .
^ I really enjoyed the work I did for Article 19 and may even go back next year for a longer internship as I only did a month this time .
^ Other than that life is good , church is good and I have a great network of friends around me .
^ At the moment I am weighing up the options for what to do next .
^ I have a place at Exeter to start a PhD this October , but I did n't get any funding so I 'm feeling less inclined to push straight on with it .
^ I might defer for a year and earn some money , and maybe go back to do some research for Article 19 in Jo'burg for 3 months or so .
^ They have a really interesting project on the go campaigning for women 's reproductive health rights in Africa and the right to information .
^ Or I could try and get a proper job - but that option always seems to be a last resort ! !
^ How are you and what are you up to now ?
^ I hope you have had a wonderful summer .
^ Love
^ Savanna xx
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^ ~
^ Is he one of your mates ?
^ My brother thinks he was .
^ Apparently Mallory spent quite a bit of time at my brother 's in your first year .
^ He also knows of " Crazy Hair Nat " .
^ Sounds like you had quite a varied group of friends .
^ What was your nickname I wonder ...
^ Are you up for a game of squash at some point this week ?
^ I 'm pretty flexible with evenings etc. having still not got the whole work ethic thing sorted .
^ Cheers ,
^ Christian .
^ Christian Hosier
^ University of Munich ,
^ Kassidy College , Huntington Road , Munich , TQ9 0WF
^ Tel : +44 4882 422080
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Hi Uncle Nick
^ How are you doing ?
^ Sorry for only answering now I was busy with Wordzap .
^ I am on my knees begging for mercy .
^ I changed my handicap and it is only zapping me .
^ The other day Noe and I were cooking and he told me to pick a CD and guess what ?
^ Isaw one by you .
^ Iwas shocked .
^ I did not know you had cut a CD or that you were so clued up on music .
^ If I had I would have worried you for the &WEBSITE are a rat Nick .
^ How is the weather in the U.K.It is very warm here .
^ We had our first storm last night .
^ We needed it because everything was so dry and dusty .
^ Last night I offered to help Abel clean-up because I saw him working alone .
^ During my kind gesture I realized that I was on clean-up.Abel was not on clean-up.He was standing in for Nomsa .
^ We had a good laugh .
^ I hope you are still praying for me to work a year in the U.K.I am so looking forward to your parents visit .
^ If you see any of the Rolomandi visitors please tell them I said hi . ( Regan , Leilani , Jerry , Suzannah and Eric . )
^ Love
^ Leo
^ ~
^ You 've spelt " its " with an apostrophe in one of your code modules ...
^ The Swedes were impressed by what you did - found it hard to believe that it was just a BSc final year project , and said it would do well as a MSc over there .
^ So , if you ever want to do a PhD in Branden , you could be in luck ...
^ I 've got a copy of Kylie 's thesis for you .
^ But : a question - does your code handle rules with empty-able productions on the end ?
^ Eg F - ) A B C C - ) A , B - ) x
^ ie , do n't you need to do a final reduce here ?
^ I have n't checked yet )
^ Email to Isabel Kettner entitled " A response "
^ ~
^ Hello fabulous friends .
^ I have never done a group email before ( I do n't think ) ( well , not like this one anyway ) ( of course , I have done group emails of sorts , but ... ) .
^ I am writing to you because I 'm about to head off up to Scotland for about 2 weeks for a caravan " holiday " .
^ I 'm not sure I 'll be able to check my emails , as I 'm not sure whether they have electricity in Scotland
^ I 'm pretty sure they do n't have telephone lines anyway .
^ So , the upshot of all this mental projectional activity on my part is that I probably wo n't be able to reply to your emails for a while ( about 2 weeks actually ) .
^ But rest assured that as soon as I get back I will reply to all who have sent me communications .
^ " Be patient brethren , and you will reap that for which you have laboured " ( Hezekiah 12 : 4 )
^ So , all the best ,
^ Nick
^ Emailing : 252-7511
^ Emailing : 125-2531
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ I am not sure if you will remeber me , but I am the crazy american girl who tried to play soccer but hurt herself instead .
^ We met at the Broderick 's school , in South Africa .
^ I was told you were back in Brighton and Karla Gret gave me your e-mail , because I am going to be in Brighton in April .
^ I am not really sure for how long or when exactly I will be there but I thought I would touch base with you .
^ Maybe we can hangout , It is always nice to see a brother when you are away from home .
^ Grace be unto you ,
^ Faith
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Actually , I have been expecting this email to come --
^ i.e. you telling me that you and Kaylee have got together
^ I 've always thought that you could make a good couple .
^ So , -- you 're a lucky man !
^ Well done .
^ Give Kaylee my love .
^ Well , of course I want to know more .
^ How was the football season , by the way ?
^ How did you all boys do ?
^ Was Luke playing ?
^ This spring semester I 've been practising with a club in Uppsala , ( ~ The Owen Ronald Saloon ) Football Club .
^ The season ( spring-autumn ) starts next weekend .
^ This email did find me working hard for once .
^ I 'm preparing five resumes due tomorrow for books that I will have an oral exam on this
^ Wednesday ( angst ) .
^ That means that I ca n't write very much now , but I hope to hear from you soon again .
^ I 'm trying to finish my studies , so that I can start working in the Church of Branden in a parish in the small city of VE4xjF6 ( south of Branden ) this summer .
^ I have found a flat .
^ You and Kaylee are welcome to and visit any time .
^ Anyway , good luck with the revision .
^ I 'm happy for you and Kaylee .
^ Do everything you can to keep it going is my patronising advice from me to you . . .
^ God bless ,
^ Karla alias " the Bullet " etc
^ &EMAIL
^ Karla Avery
^ Kantorsgatan 32:470 IL-925 33 Uppsala
^ Tel : +32 19-62 82 44
^ Parental address:
^ Allfargatan 42 SE-385 62 TorsE5s SWEDEN
^ Tel : +78 923-500 30
^ ----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----
^ FrE5n : " your place or mine ? " ( &EMAIL )
^ Till : ( &EMAIL )
^ Skickat : den 22 april &YEAR &TIME C4mne : Re : Correct address
^ Mr Karla ( Feed the Swede ! ! ! ! ! ! ; I 've been expecting you ... )
^ Avery ,
^ Patrick ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ How are you my friend ?
^ I hope this email finds you working hard and studying for your finals ? ? ?
^ We have exams in a few short week 's time , and I have not even started revising yet ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ !
^ Anway , Patrick - I have a girlfriend ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Her name is Kaylee and you know her ( Ropp ) .
^ I will tell you more if you want to know !
^ See ya
^ Nick
^ P.S. Never forget the Bridge Experience ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ ~
^ Hey Jonah ,
^ Bristol is good thanks .
^ I 'm just finishing off a busy day of a busy week .
^ This week I have taken the plunge and started working full time ! ! !
^ Have n't done that since BE either !
^ Been learning some HTML so I 'll impress u with my javascripts at some point soon .
^ Am partially webmastering a site - &WEBSITE
^ So where exactly are you and what are you doing with your time ?
^ Its good to have an email address for you - it was a shame not to be able to catch up before you left .
^ Jungley massive .
^ S
^ Regan Morand
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^ Greetings from the bush !
^ It is almost May .
^ I was thinking about Irish Power the other day .
^ Ah ... those were the days ...
^ Well , not really , but there were definitely some good moments .
^ I know why I was thinking about it - because I 'm having to get up pretty early at the moment , and am experiencing much the same emotional rhythm as I experienced during those BE days .
^ You know , a sort of mild depression in the mornings , followed by a gradual improvement as the day wears on .
^ Anyway , hope you are well old friend ,
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^ Dear Jon , Nick , and Tabitha ,
^ This is from Bob 's " Worcester B " web-site ...
^ Please excuse the erroneous spelling of Worcester - he is Canadian . )
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^ Five fortunate friends live in Marshal B
^ First there 's Parker , a Scottish sweet
^ Jon who rules with fear ,
^ Tabitha who can be too nice , and Nick who drinks no beer .
^ And of course , we should not miss the man who lives in room 5b " cause he 's so great and wonderful ( modestly , I say " that 's me . )
^ We need to plot his death .
^ Shania
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^ Hey bear ,
^ Hope ur ok .. just thought I 'd let you know jill is getting married !
^ Also went to htb and it was really good , starting an alpha course on wed .
^ All on my own ... it 's a bit scary !
^ Hope ur ok ,
^ Best wishes ,
^ Regan
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^ Sorry for the joint email but I just wanted to let you know that ...
^ ROB AND I ARE GETTING MARRIED ! &SMILEY
^ I 'll try not to go into TOO much detail , but basically ... .
^ He proposed on Friday night in Wells .
^ I thought we were going to Norwich for the weekend but by way of a series of envelopes which he sent me !
^ one of which included a ticket to Wells ) I somehow ended up in Wells - he 'd been secretively driving up there all day
^ Anyway , as i found these envelopes , I was led from Wells station , to Broadband porters ' lodge , to the door of the cathedral ...
^ No one was around and it was all very atmospheric with the floodlit cathedral and castle ...
^ He then appeared from round the corner and proposed at the door of the cathedral - where we had first met 6 years ago ! !
^ Wedding will hopefully be in October ...
^ Anyway , just wanted to fill you in ...
^ Hope this finds you all well .
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^ Hello Bob ( and Jay ) ,
^ How are you enjoying your " road trip " ? ?
^ Is all well ?
^ I 'm sitting in my room with " Clueless " on in the background - great ! !
^ Um , anyway , I 've started background reading for Munich and I could have used
^ Jay 's help with some Maths - but hey .
^ Be happy ,
^ Nick
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^ Hello , second installment ! sorry to write so much but we had such a manic time ! !
^ We arrived in Milan on time , and for the first time in ages we did n't have to run anywhere .
^ We wanted to find a hotel , but if neccesary we were happy to kip in the airport .
^ Henry de Gaulle Airport is , by the way , the most confusing place in the world .
^ It 's got about three hundred terminals , none of which are near each other , some of which are apparently underground , some floating in the air .
^ some are in a parrallel universe ( The one we were fed into was a big circle , which was a little confusing )
^ The only way to get between all the sites is by silly shuttle bus things .
^ There 's no real way of telling where they go if they 'll ever come back again , so it 's a bit of a lottery .
^ I was quite scared we 'd hop on one that would take us to one of the parrallel universe terminals and that we 'd never get back again !
^ But we managed ( after several shuttle rides , a game of dodge the noisy americans .
^ a brief conversation in a hotel where people were mobbing the receptionist because the hotel was full ) to find somewhere to stay
^ The receptionist there was very friendly , but he said I 'm afraid we 've only got a room with two single beds as there 's no doubles left
^ I felt like replying apart from any theological or spiritual objections I may have to making love to my fiance before holy matrimony
^ I 'm bl ***y kna ****ed and have no intention of sha **ing her
^ But I did n't .
^ Partly because I the conversation was taking place in French and I 'm not sure how you say bl ***y , kna ****ed , or sha **ing in French .
^ Anyway we slept well and went out the next day , still tired but determined to enjoy Milan .
^ It was unfortunatly raining very much indeed , which as well as dampening my trousers ( dampening isnt entirelt the right word ) dampened our spirits a little .
^ We only had M 's little umbrella , which just about kept her left ear dry , but the rest of us got completely soaked to the skin .
^ As you can imagine M and I started , erm , discussing things in ever so slightly raised tones .
^ This was all even worse becuase at lunch we were meeting my Milanian friends , who I have n't seen for years .
^ But there were moments of less elevated tones , when we enjoyed ourself a lot .
^ And then on the underground we made up , and decided to really enjoy the time we had left , because the sun had come out just as we went into the underground .
^ Only when we left the underground the sun had gone down , and so we could n't even enjoy the little bit of sun we did get .
^ But never mind .
^ We had really lovely time strolling around paris with all the Christmas lights lit up , and the moon shinging brghtly .
^ One lovely memory is standing in front of the Glackis du Louvre ( Louis XIV 's magnificent palace for the uncultured among you ) with the fountains and glass pyramid flood lit from beneath , and the moon shining on us .
^ We stood and said a little prayer of thanks to God for having brought us that far .
^ ( at least I think it used to be Louis XIV 's palace , not sure now )
^ ( does that mean I 'm uncultured too ? )
^ We then went to get our bus tickets and got on the bus to Munich .
^ It was a swift and even comfortable journey , distrubed only by a silly German man wanting to check all our passports at the border .
^ I wanted to shout I DO N'T WANT TO COME TO YOUR STUPID COUNTRY , I 'M ONLY HERE TO CHANGE MODES OF TRANSPORT SO I CAN GO TO AUSTRIA ! ! !
^ LET ME SLEEP ! ! ! ! !
^ But I did n't .
^ Partly because I do n't know any of those words in German .
^ Apart from I which is pronounced ish ( is n't that right Lucio ? ) and transport which probably sounds something like Farter .
^ Then we arrived at Munich , and faced the third situation where we could have been totally stranded , and the trip would have been totally ruined .
^ We got in an hour early to the bus station ,. which is in the middle of nowhere , apart from the tube station .
^ Only we had no DeutscheMarks at all , the was no sign of a cash machine , not actual ticket office with real life people proper
^ the ticket machines only accepted smelly german credit cards ( the germans are n't clever enough to make their machines except
^ Enlgish or Spanish cards ) .
^ One chance was that there was a caf which sold tickets , but the guy wouldnt accept switch , even when I offered to buy half his stock of coca-cola to up the price .
^ I understand he did n't have the facility to do it , but he was so RUDE !
^ Very arrogant and generally fish brained .
^ Actually he 'd do well in the ticket office of Tudela bus station .
^ He does n't speak Spanish , but that could only make him more useful as far as I can see .
^ Anyway we could n't just hop on a train because we thought we might need it at the other end to get out .
^ And anyway M was getting hysterical about big German army people with dogs pointing guns at us and beiung very mean to us simply because we didnt have a ticket .
^ But then the Lord saved us .
^ ( that 's not sarcasm , I 'm not sarcastic about things like that .
^ The number of times recently when God 's plonked someone in our path just to stop us crying is incredible ! )
^ Whilst sniping at each other I heard
^ Spanish voices at the ticket machine !
^ Real Spanish voices !
^ People I could communicvate with ! !
^ So I ran over all smily and asked if we could exchange a few pesetas and explained our pickle ( which was very pickly indeed .
^ only we realised we did n't have anywhere near enough between us ( I think we found about 50p , we needed about 2 pounds 50p
^ did n't stop them being very very very very very very wonderful , and unhesitatingly buying our tickets for us all the same
^ There were three ladies , one Cuban , one from
^ Ecduador and one fomr Spain ( I think ) and their kids .
^ To say thank you we gave them our bag of sweets for the kids , which they thought was very lovely .
^ M did n't think it was so lovely , when she glared and said I 'd only had one of those but it was still lovely .
^ Actually their simple act of kindness I found very touching indeed .
^ That 's how life should be .
^ Only it is n't most of the time , but there you go .
^ I 've never met a Cuban angel before .
^ Typical you go to Kaylee and you have to find Spanish people to get any help !
^ After that we very easily got to the centre and found the Hauptbahnhof .
^ main station ) where we found a very very brilliant German person ( they do exist ) sitting behind glass with a sign saying French Spoken !
^ She sold us our tickets in perfect French , and she even smiled .
^ I felt like asking if she was half spanish or something .
^ BUt I did n't .
^ I could have because she spoke english , but I did n't .
^ She told us which platform to go to , we went to it , got on and sat down in a little cabiny thing
^ started to plaay with all the cool gadgety things like tables that come out of the arm of your chair like the solar panels on space stations
^ And so we were on our way to Austria , to Reese , to meet Lucio ! !
^ You may be able to tell I did n't like Kaylee very much .
^ I did n't really think I would .
^ But to be fare it was n't that bad .
^ Some people were very unhelpful , some were very lovely indeed .
^ And I have to commend the fact that so many of them speak fautless French .
^ Kaylee , like any other country has &WEBSITE't let my moaning stop you going .
^ I had to put that bit in so Lucio did n't kill me at new year , but I do mean it ! )
^ Anyway I have to go again , this is getting absurdly long !
^ If you 're already bored I do n't mind if you delete further installments before reading them !
^ Take care all , Hayley
^ P.S. Spain still has more nice people than Kaylee .
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^ Dear Flat People ( minus Bob ) ,
^ The enclosed document will tell you how much you owe the flat accounts at its closure .
^ Except for Nick , whom the account owes . )
^ Well , that is it .
^ The flat account is now closed ( expect I 'm still keeping it open really and am going to use it for my own use ) .
^ Have a nice week .
^ Aaron
^ ~
^ Dear Flat People ( minus Bob ) ,
^ The enclosed document will tell you how much you owe the flat accounts at its closure .
^ Except for Nick , whom the account owes . )
^ Well , that is it .
^ The flat account is now closed ( expect I 'm still keeping it open really and am going to use it for my own use ) .
^ Have a nice week .
^ Aaron
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Hope you are doing well , we are fine .
^ I just want to ask you ; Can you please give me the correct e-mail adress to the Bevingtons in RSA .
^ You see , I have tried to mail them on this adress ' : &EMAIL
^ I have heard nothing .
^ We talk more later , ok .
^ Send my regards to Joshua !
^ Philip
^ ~
^ Hi Samo ,
^ Enclosed are some ideas on the flat .
^ Hope you find them interesting .
^ The password for the document is your surname .
^ I 'll be down in Wells on Friday , so if there 's anything you want done , please let me know .
^ Dominic
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ I enclose another flat document .
^ Look forward to seeing you a week on Sunday , and hope you enjoy your last two days at work .
^ Thanks ,
^ Sawyer
^ P.S. Thanks for sending Jon 's stuff - something seemed to have gone wrong there .
^ I got the last three lines as three separate e-mails yesterday !
^ I 'll e- mail her my documents as works 4.0 ones .
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^ Allocation of Flat Jobs ;
^ Sawyer pays the bills
^ Sawyer does the cleaning
^ Tabitha makes the lunches
^ Tabitha washes the dishes
^ Jon does the washing
^ Jon does the sewing
^ Bob and Nick watch videos
^ Nick does the singing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . outside
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^ Thanks Nick !
^ Hope things are going well there and that you are enjoying your luggage and it 's contents !
^ I 'm trying to find a house for Karri and I for next year .
^ Prayers for wisdom and for a house would be appreciated .
^ Also , Ka has developed many allergies to various foods including all milk produce , cocoa , e-numbers and caffeine .
^ So please could you pray that she is healed of these and healthy by the wedding ?
^ Though she stopped eating them some time ago , she 's still feeling rotten , and trying to write exams and plan a wedding ... .
^ Prayers very much appreciated .
^ You 're a star .
^ God bless ,
^ Bob
^ Howzit Bob .
^ Drums - no problem .
^ As long as you get me a nice expensive kit to play on of course ... &SMILEY
^ I got myself a digital camera !
^ Wahoooooooooo !
^ Very fun , nice 5 Mpixel job .
^ Lovely .
^ They 're obviously paying you far too much money Bob .
^ You 're supposed to be an academic struggling to scrape your way above the breadline .
^ Still , I guess you 've waited long enough to be part of the digital revolution ! !
^ Gotta go .
^ Love Nick
^ Yo Nick !
^ hope things are going well .
^ I 'm still loving your CD .
^ I ca n't seem to copy it on my machine at work though and it does n't want to play here either ... perhaps the format is weird ?
^ Any way , both Karri and Crystal liked it lots too - they want copies , as does Parker - so a bit of a distribution centre I 'm turning into .
^ Fun !
^ I got myself a digital camera !
^ Wahoooooooooo !
^ Very fun , nice 5 Mpixel job .
^ Lovely .
^ The point of this e-mail : In addition to being the master of ceremonies , would you also be able to play the drums in the service ?
^ We 'd love it if you could .
^ Looking forward to hearing from you .
^ Have fun out there !
^ Love and prayers ,
^ Bob
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^ The long and the short of it is we do n't know how it 'll go .
^ The problem is we like each other generally but below that surface we have big differences .
^ Anyway , like I said we tried breaking up but were unable to so we 'll keep going and re-address things post exams ( just over 4 weeks time ) .
^ Was this girl even in the pipeline when I visited you last ?
^ You must tell me more about what she 's like / what her interests are / how you met / vital statistics , etc .
^ To answer the above ...
^ I KNOW RELATIVELY LITTLE ! !
^ I only met her a few times before we pulled and went out !
^ Not your classic Christian courting !
^ More closer to Nayeli Higham 's " met the girlfriend in Klute " .
^ Although I can confirm vital statistics are 5 foot 6ish , blondish hair and slight ( like Anna ) .
^ She 's a honey .
^ " What does Sally think about it all ? "
^ It being faith )
^ She does n't think much about it .
^ She used to be Christian for a couple years at school but think her family kind of discouraged her ( or did n't encourage her ) .
^ So she knows the Christian position that good people can / do go to hell and that other religions are just wrong .
^ BUT like me she finds it hard to accept .
^ Difference being I find it hard to accept but huddle up to it and simply ask for forgiveness whereas she ignores it .
^ She will come to church but the problem with that is that the relationship is uncertain and she admits it would be just doing it as a formality .
^ On the otherhand how many girls would go out with someone who would n't sleep with them ?
^ So all very strange .
^ Last issue , she likes being comforted ie sleeping together .
^ Perfectly natural .
^ And she completely accepts the no sex thing .
^ I argued that it would be a slippery slope and theory does n't equal practice .
^ BUT apparently Christian couples do sleep together and it 's actually not impossible to do simply that .
^ So we 've agreed that with time " tennis shorts and a shirt " would be doable .
^ Part of me feels worried especially as it 'll mean we share more deeply with each other .
^ BUT then again you ca n't go out and try prevent getting close to someone so you do n't get hurt !
^ In conclusion and end to this email , we like each other , we have our differences , only time will show , I should try stand strong and see how that goes .
^ I 'm glad I 'm not running away from it even though hurt along the line is a significant possibility .
^ Stay well .
^ Keep the above to yourself , do n't go using it in any of your computer projects .
^ Mallory PS I got 3 commendations in my exams last term , Hayley and Aimee ( and Nayeli
^ Higham ) all got 2 commendations and 1 distinction each I think .
^ All in all good news .
^ Wow dude .
^ This is a major development ...
^ Was this girl even in the pipeline when I visited you last ?
^ You must tell me more about what she 's like / what her interests are / how you met / vital statistics , etc .
^ So , do you want to know my reaction ?
^ If so , read on .
^ Well I 'm pretty excited for you - you must have really felt strongly to have taken the plunge .
^ I know from very personal experience how much you 're inclined to analyse these things ! &SMILEY
^ I 'm also obviously pretty concerned for you .
^ I do n't know how central your faith is to your life at the moment , but if it matters significantly , then it always gets tough if you ca n't share on that level with the other person .
^ I know you 'll have thought about all this stuff , and it sounds like you 've already spent quite a lot of time wrestling with it .
^ What does Sally think about it all ?
^ For me there are no easy answers to these matters , but I guess it 's our duty to be as wise as possible .
^ Anyway , thanks for keeping me informed - I appreciate it .
^ I guess the work has taken a bit of a back seat for the moment , but I trust it 's going OK .
^ Things are pretty busy here .
^ I twisted my ankle playing football yesterday which I 'm pretty annoyed about , but apart from that I 'm good .
^ Keep it real daddy-o ,
^ O
^ Mate ,
^ Hope all 's well in the third world .
^ The news this end is that I 've picked up a chick called Sally .
^ We 've troubled and toiled for a couple weeks because she is n't Christian .
^ I have worries about not knowing how I 'll do Christian wise , worries that we 'll just both get hurt etc.. and worries about staying at hers over night .
^ Truth is it 's important to her to hold each other and wake up together and she knows 900 % , and is fine with , the fact that I wo n't have sex .
^ So I have agreed that I 'm open to simply staying over , not right away and we agreed on what to wear !
^ Shorts and shirt ! ) .
^ So it 's exciting .
^ I 've just always thought I could n't help myself if that were the case but apparently it 's not uncommon to be able to lie with a girl and not get it on .
^ So , she 's really nice , we have no idea how it 's going to be but we both really like each other .
^ We actually went out last week for four days , broke up because we thought we were destined to be incompatible but it only lasted one day and we are now back together .
^ Anyway , putting this in words does n't do it justice .
^ Really hope you 're keeping it real out there , any girlly friends becoming vulnerable to
^ Malone 's irresistible charm ?
^ Listing to Ronan 's " When you say nothing at all " and thinking of our great times .
^ Mallory
^ ~
^ Dear Friends ,
^ I just wanted to let you know that my dear brother-in-law , Manley , passed away on Sunday night .
^ As you are aware , the cancer he was suffering from had taken too strong a hold on him and we all knew the inevitable , but that does not make it any easier to cope with .
^ He has spent the best part of 3 years undergoing treatment and bearing up under unimaginable pain .
^ I am just so thankful that in the end he died peacefully in his bed at home , with those he loves around him .
^ He had been well enough to still get up and out only last week , but the effect of the disease taking hold of his lungs .
^ nervous system meant that since Friday he was unable to walk , and unable to breath without the aid of an oxygen mask
^ I was able to see him on Saturday when I went up to Oxford with my parents , and had a good time with him and Isabelle .
^ On Sunday he showed rapid signs of decline and Mam and Dad travelled up to Oxford again , in time to spend the last few hours with him .
^ As Isabelle said , he passed peacefully but triumphantly into glory , knowing for sure that he was going to be with the L ! ord and that one day we will see him again in heaven .
^ Isabelle is bearing up remarkably well .
^ Please pray for her and for Manley ' family and my own .
^ His brothers have been really stunned by what has happened .
^ Neither of them are Christians either , so they are struggling to comprehend a lot of what is being said and what death is all about .
^ I struggle with that enough myself so am really concerned for them right now .
^ Thanks to those of you who have emailed / texted / phoned recently .
^ I am sorry if I have n't been able to reply / return your call but I 've been busy and preoccupied with my family .
^ Manley ' funeral is likely to be this Friday .
^ Please pray for everyone involved , that we may , as Manley requested " mourn , but not as those without hope " ( that 's from somewhere in the Bible ) .
^ He was an amazing man of faith , the " goodest " person I have ever known and he will be sadly missed .
^ I find amazing peace , however , to know that he is at last , after many months of patience and perseverence on his part , with his beloved Saviour and Hatherley .
^ He never waivered in his committment to God and I feel so priviledged to have known him , and I am sure those of you who have met him or heard of him through me will understand why .
^ For a guy who was only 28 a few weeks ago , he had an amazing knowledge of God .
^ has been such a remarkable example of a person who took seriously our call to be Christ-like in every aspect of our lives
^ Somehow , this tragic end to his life fits into God 's purposes and plans .
^ I may not be able to make much sense of it now , but I know Manley ' influence and example will be remembered in the hearts and minds of many , and that can only be a good thing .
^ Thanks so much for your support and prayers .
^ Hopefully I will get the opportunity to catch up with you properly soon .
^ With love , Anna xx
^ PS -please pass the news onto anyone else you may think of who I 've missed off this email mailing , thanks )
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ Thanks for the email from South Africa .
^ Your journey sounds like a nightmare !
^ I thought mine was bad but at least I arrived with my clothes !
^ How long are you out there for ?
^ Where are you staying , or are you moving around the country while you 're there ?
^ My cousins live in Durban , on the East Coast .
^ I know what you mean about the experience being one of extremes .
^ Since I 've been in Bolivia I 've been alternating quite frequently between loving it and wanting to stay longer , and then hating it and wondering why I ever left the UK !
^ The overall experience has been positive though , and I 'm planning to come back for 6 months from October , or therabouts .
^ Life in Cochabamba still revolves around avoiding projectile poo and vomit .
^ I 'm trying to get some travelling organised as I had a panic when I realised I fly back to Brighton in just over a month and I 've hardly seen any of Bolivia .
^ I 'm going to Sucre next weekend , and possibly getting in a day trip to Potosi at the same time .
^ Potosi is the highest city in the world , so I 'd really like to be able to say I 've been there .
^ Then I 'm thinking of spending my last week or so travelling around Ka Crompton , Copacabana and Lake Titicaca .
^ Need to get my act together and get it organised now !
^ Anyway , good luck with avoiding the mosquitos and I hope you 're having a really good time .
^ Love ,
^ Anthony .
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^ Hey Buddy !
^ Hope that all is going well in Munich ! !
^ I am settling into life here much better now .
^ Ive had a few classes now and so I am getting to see how things work etc. I have to play in an ensemble ( although I like to call it a band ) and that is really good fun .
^ I am getting to grips with some computer producing skills and music technology , as well as the theory around it !
^ You want to see the studios here .... they are huge .
^ Put me in front of the desk and I feel like I am flying a plane or something - ie. I have no clue what to do ! ! ! !
^ I hope your searching has given you some answers .
^ I have had to do a lot of thinking myself .
^ It is funny how , having left Wells , life suddenly has less of a direction !
^ Even though I was always coming to LIPA , everything suddenly felt very volatile .
^ The truth is that the answers are not always there .
^ There are lots of issues that I struggle with , none more than asking myself everyday , " what am I doing here ! " .
^ I hope these feelings will disappear , but I have had to do a lot of soul searching ! !
^ I guess life goes on whatever .
^ Sorry to hear you picked up an injury , hope it was n't too bad and you are back playing soon .
^ I have n't had a chance to play since I left Chester
^ College where I was working .
^ I used to play there every Thursday lunch time .... it was fun !
^ I need some advice ! ! ! !
^ I am looking to set up some computer based music on my mum 's compuer .
^ I think I will use Cubase .
^ What I need to know is about sound cards really .
^ Do you know what sound card would be best to get ?
^ Do I need to get a sound module ?
^ What is best for recording Audio , as that is what I will mostly be doing .
^ There are lots of people here I have asked but most of them use Apple Macs or advice me to buy really expensive equipment .
^ I remember you showing me your set up , and I know that you had the right sounds for what you wanted so I wondered whether you could give me some advice ? ! !
^ Anyway , I hope that the course in Munich has started well and you settle in .
^ I have every faith that you will , and that you will do so well on your course .
^ Take it easy mate !
^ Bob
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^ Dear Master of great skills and wonder ...
^ So happy to hear from you . .
^ When you gave me your mail address at the airport I actually erased it by accident ( total dishonor , shame to whole family so sorry ) thought I could n't contact to the Quiz master any more . .
^ thank you master for showing the picture .. it needs time till she will get the next flight out to propose .
^ ( She 's saving money for plane ticket )
^ Very sad and lonley in the dorm with Casper .. saw the great note master left for me one Question ...
^ my skills are n't high enough to see the hair moose ... ca n't find it .
^ so sorry disappointed you
^ Happy to hear from the great one . .
^ Mr Li aka Regan
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^ Hi Guys !
^ I have decided to write this as I am still in the middle of exams ( but hey , they finish on Friday ! ! ! ) and I really could do something other than revising !
^ Exams have kinda occupied my entire time this term , so I apologize that I have n't written personally you recently .
^ I do hope you are all well , and trust that all those of you who also have exams at this time are enjoying them ! ! ! !
^ I had so much fun this last weekend .
^ There is this guy at college called
^ Regan .
^ Now Regan has a habit of soaking people with large , large , large water guns , even if you are not armed .
^ I decided with two of my friends , Nick , and Sawyer , that for this , Regan had to be punished .
^ Nick was looking through a catalogue of a store here in wells and found that , while Regan 's gun was large , it was not the biggest .
^ Nick went and bought this huge ( and I mean HUGE ) gun .
^ The biggest in Wells .
^ Sawyer and I went for the classic supersoakers , which have been around since the eighties .
^ The three of us spent the next two days planning our assassination of Regan , and many plans were discussed and thrown out the window ( due to predicted excess soaking of the college rooms and hallways )
^ Eventually we came up with a superb plan .
^ Outside my building there is a locked bike shed where I keep my bike .
^ My window looks down on top of this shed .
^ Regan 's bike ( which he keeps inside my building ) had a flat tyre .
^ Because of this , Regan had borrowed my bike earlier that week .
^ Firstly , I locked Nick inside the bikeshed with his massive water gun and my smaller one .
^ Sawyer was posted in my room with another water gun , and I was the " front-man " .
^ Nick gave Regan a call , from the shed saying that I was going to help him fix his bike , and to come on down to the bottom of my building .
^ When Regan arrived , I took him outside , explaining that the light was much better outside .
^ Whilst I was taking off his back wheel , I tossed
^ Regan my keys and asked him to lock up my bike ( which he had forgotten to do after he rode the bike ) .
^ I said to Regan , " Regan , when I open that door , I love to slide it open in a really manly way , you know , really heave it open "
^ " so then Regan said something along the lines of " OK , you just watch how manly I can be !
^ Regan flung the door open , and Nick was standing in the shed waiting for this .
^ He stepped out of the shed , saying " Hi Regan . " and then shot him with both the water guns .
^ Sawyer then soaked him from above as well .
^ It was so funny .
^ Regan just stood there for about 1 second not knowing what hit him ( because you do n't expect to be drenched by a bike shed ! ! ! )
^ By the time he realized what was happening , he was absolutely soaked ( and for once I am not exaggerating . )
^ Nick 's Gun shoots a stream of water at least 5 mm across , and it was sooooo funny .
^ Regan then screamed and ran away to get his gun , and a water fight follow in which we absolutely whipped him .
^ It was just so cool , seeing how everything went exactly as we had planned it .
^ Great weekend ! ! !
^ Ok , more revision now ,
^ Take Care ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Here you go buddy ...
^ Nick
^ Hope all is well with you and you are having a good summer .
^ Could you forward this to Gadzby because his email address isnt working for some reason .
^ Mallory .
^ Hi there old chocolate monster .
^ How is it going .
^ I 'm having a busy summer .
^ Well sort of anyway .
^ I 'm commuting to work in Carlisle everyday , but I dont really do anything when I get there , except read next year 's textbooks
^ Anyway , this is an email with a purpose .
^ I note that you are renowned Hi-Fi guru , and I come to you for advice , as I 'm thinking of upgrading to a component system .
^ Clearly I have a limited budget .
^ Do you have any advice .
^ I 'm thinking of looking for some Yamaha Hi Naomi , as this has a good reputation .
^ Any good sources ?
^ How much should I pay ? what about speakers ?
^ Anyway , I hope that you are having a jolly summer .
^ What are your plans for next year ? ?
^ Kylie
^ Your DSU societies officers are:
^ Kylie Shervington & Tanner Pipping
^ ~
^ From : Josue Broderick ( &EMAIL )
^ To : Josue Broderick ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Catchup news
^ Date : Saturday , &DATE &TIME PM
^ From : Josue Broderick ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Dear Nick
^ Howzit going ?
^ Long time - no hear ! ! !
^ We trust all the Shelleys are well .
^ I guess you 're all as busy as ever .
^ We are going well over here .
^ Just had our first sports day on our own field ! ! ! ! !
^ It was wonderful .
^ We are busy building simplexes for staff accommodation - we really need good people to come and help these children .
^ Only the Lord can provide them so we trust in Him .
^ How is your job going ?
^ Have you decided about varsity yet ?
^ We have a large missions outreach planned in July - to
^ Zambia / Zimbabwe .
^ I am co-ordinating the building team .
^ We are hoping to complete an orphanage there .
^ How 's the soccer team doing ?
^ Pedro and I helped the Durban team two weeks ago and we wiped our opposition 8-3 .
^ Its the first game they 've won thanks to the Bevingtons !
^ Pedro is well and truly hooked and is playing very well .
^ Right now he 's over in the States at convention .
^ Haze and I are hoping to come and visit later this year - possibly
^ September / October .
^ Africa is really opening up and crying out for schools and people to help them .
^ I 've already been to Nigeria again this year took another man who is going there with his family in July to head up ACE there .
^ We had a brilliant meeting in the Drakensberg with a bunch of pastors ... raised enough money to pay their airfares and for a vehicle for them !
^ What a blessing to send people out blessed !
^ Keep smiling ... do n't forget Jesus loves you ... and so do we .
^ Love to all your family .
^ Please let us have an email address for the Tarquines if they have one .
^ We 'd like to keep in touch with them as well .
^ Cheers for now
^ Love
^ Josue & the Bevingtons
^ ~
^ PLEASE PRAY ! ! ! !
^ Monday , January 04 , &YEAR
^ I 'm In India right now and a lot of persecutions are going on and we need your prayers
^ Please pass this letter on to as many Christians as possible .
^ * * * * THIS IS NOT A CHAIN LETTER **** this is a letter to all the believers to pray for the persecuted Christians in India
^ For more than 3 months now the attack and rise in persecution on Christians in India has been on the increase .
^ Yesterday in the Indian Express newspaper they reported that 2 churches were burned .
^ In December a bunch of churches were burned .
^ During the second week of December 2 nuns were raped .
^ In a Christian gathering in Rajathan religious fanatics came and started throwing stones and beating the Christians .
^ The secular Indian news papers reported that the YIG ( Vishwa Hindu Milanhad ) has planed to attack and persecute 500 Christian organizations ;
^ they have a list of 800 that they are planing to attack on February the 15th .
^ These religious fanatics are planing mainly to do all of this in Rajasthan ,
^ Madya Picock , Orissa , Karnataca , Andra Picock and Northeast states of India .
^ These are the places where the most unreached villages and tribal people live .
^ These places are where harvest is and the devil knows that these people are just waiting to hear about Jesus so he is doing everything possible to stop the spread of the Gospel to these 500,000 unreached villages .
^ Every day in the newspapers there are new reports of Christian persecutions .
^ You can see these newspapers for yourself and use them as prayer request " THE HINDU " &WEBSITE " INDIAN EXPRESS " &WEBSITE &WEBSITE IF you want to see more Indian Newspapers search in Yahoo for ( Indian newspapers )
^ You can read more on the persecutions at &WEBSITE ( persecution in India ) ( nuns raped ) ( churches burned )
^ We are praying that the persecution will stop but more than that we are asking the Lord to give the believes strength and grace to endure all of this persecution .
^ And that the Name of Christ will be glorified and that the Gospel will be spread faster because of all these persecutions .
^ The persecution of the Church in Asia will not stop till Jesus comes , but we also know .
^ the Lord is in control of everything and that anyone that is against the church is fighting against God because God is with us and they will never win
^ Acts 5 : 36-39
^ 36 For some time ago Theudas rose up , claiming to be somebody , and a group of about four hundred men joined up with him .
^ But he was killed , and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing .
^ 37 After this man , Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census and drew away some people after him
^ he too perished , and all those who followed him were scattered .
^ 38 So in the present case I say to you , stay away from these men and let them alone , for if this plan or action is of men , it will be overthrown
^ 39 but if it is of God , you will not be able to overthrow them ; or else you may even be found fighting against God .
^ ~
^ Right first things first , Parker 's mum just phoned me .
^ All has apparently gone well .
^ he is in the high dependency unit at the moment but that is to be expected and the anethesthetic is wearing off .
^ He should be able to chech his email as the new hospital in edinburgh is very swanky and he has his own TV screen and internet access .
^ Second things .
^ Endeavouring to send this email has presneted a challenge to me .
^ I have realised that I have been rather " inefficent " at up dating my address book .
^ Please could some one pass that above on to Rylie and Jack and
^ Rodrigo and Suzy and Jon ...
^ And if you would be so kind as to pass back appropriate email addresses that could be good .
^ Third things .
^ I would also like to aplogise if there are funny things going on with my other email .
^ And Nick if you can tell me how to get rid of the virus that appeared last week on the news from webmail then I think that is the problem and I woul dbe oblidged )
^ Fourth things .
^ Today was my second day of work and if I have to fill in another disclosure form I might go spare !
^ No it seems good so far and there are a lot of exciting oppurtunities .
^ I will tell you about them when they are realities .
^ Badminton calls ! ! !
^ Valeria
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Long time no talk - how 's it going ?
^ I guess you returned okay from Africa and hope you 've had a good rest of the summer in the UK .
^ I 've really missed seeing you this year .
^ Are you at Munich yet ?
^ Let me know all the news .
^ My life is pretty manic as the church rebuilding project should be completed in the next couple of days and then I must pull out all the stops for a Reopening and Rededication service on 9th October .
^ It 's really exciting , but working about 16 hours a day , 7 days a week is taking its toll on my health !
^ Anyway , enforced retirement begins next
^ July , so must hang on till then !
^ I look forward to hearing from you when you can fit it in - if you can fit in a visit sometime , that would be great !
^ Kaden
^ ~
^ Fw : Order ( Order No : 4630859 )
^ Here 's the order email Alice .
^ It has an order number which they might have kept a record of ...
^ Dear Nick Malone ,
^ This email is to acknowledge placement of order number 4630859 .
^ You have ordered the following items :
^ Item : Apple IPOD 20GB MP3 Player Firewire USB 2.0 MAC / PC
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^ Total : 217.36
^ If there are any processing problems with your order you will receive an email advising you of the problem and the course of action that you can take to resolve the problem .
^ To check the status of this order click or copy / paste this link into your web browser : &WEBSITE
^ Do not reply to this email - if you have any questions about your order which are not addressed on our website please use the link below : &WEBSITE
^ Thank you for shopping at IPURCHASE ,
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^ Make the right decision &WEBSITE
^ Under the new distance selling regulations you are entitled to cancel this contract with Ipurchase within 7 working days after receipt of goods and receive a full refund .
^ This law assumes that the goods have not been used and are in pristine condition .
^ Upon receipt of your order you will be asked to sign for the goods received in good condition .
^ If you are unable to check the contents of the package at that moment in time please sign for the parcel as " UNCHECKED " .
^ Failure to do so may affect any warranty claims that you make thereafter .
^ ~
^ This is quite fun Jonny ...
^ Who owns the fish ?
^ 1. In a street there are five houses , painted five different colours .
^ 2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
^ 3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage , smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet .
^ THE QUESTION : WHO OWNS THE FISH ?
^ HINTS
^ 1. The Brit lives in a red house .
^ 2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets .
^ 3. The Dane drinks tea .
^ 4. The Stewart house is on the left of the Plummer house .
^ 5. The owner of the Stewart house drinks coffee .
^ 6. The person who smokes Pall Stanhope rears birds .
^ 7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill .
^ 8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk .
^ 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house .
^ 10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats .
^ 11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill .
^ 12. The man who smokes Leishman Master drinks beer .
^ 13. The German smokes Prince .
^ 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house .
^ 15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water .
^ ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY .
^ HE SAID THAT 98 % OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT .
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Thanks for the update !
^ When do you get back ?
^ We 'll have to do another mountain biking trip or something ... Went to Norwich with Rylee and Nayeli this past bank holiday weekend and came away with a cracked / chipped rib - not so great !
^ It was so nice to get out of Carlisle though !
^ I definitely need to detox at regular intervals .
^ Other than that life is busy .
^ I finish work at around 7pm each day , which does n't leave too much time for other things .
^ I typically have house group one night a week , work drinks another , the other days usually have at least one other social event on , which leaves the other nights for faff !
^ I 'm currently discussing my contract with work ( still have n't signed ! ) .
^ I found out ( via one of the partners - drunk ! ) that one of my ( younger ) colleagues started on a much higher salary than I did .
^ Hmmm ... She was the second person in the company , and I 'm paid in a similar way to others that have sinced joined ... but still , seems odd .
^ It 'll be interesting to see what the outcome of my contract debating is ( hopefully not me being unemployed ! ) .
^ So what are your plans for next year ? did you ever hear back from Munich about your phd ?
^ It 's 11pm an way past my bedtime !
^ Speak to you again soon !
^ God Bless ,
^ Christian .
^ Friends and Family ,
^ It is time for another update , as I have now been toiling in Africa for a or so .
^ I have been keeping pleasantly busy , but I think the remainder of my trip will prove to be somewhat more hectic than the initial phase .
^ Tomorrow the mission station is being invaded by around 950 American medical missionaries / students , who are coming to serve the local community .
^ We are providing a certain amount of food and accommodation and generally acting as HQ .
^ Next week I am taking the place of one of the supervisors in the school , who is a native Venda speaker and thus being called upon to act as a mediator between the Americans and the locals .
^ I am also leading the music team for the evening meetings which are taking place in a large tent , recently erected on the property .
^ The following week I think I will be heading off to one of the major cities with Josue for an meeting .
^ after that I am going to Lesotho for a week 's mission trip with another American team to assemble a preschool ( or something like that )
^ When we return I have only two more weeks before flying back home !
^ Over the last month or so , I 've been busy doing all things computer / music / drama related on the base .
^ I feel like I 've been quite useful , which is good for my self esteem : o ) .
^ Amongst other things I 've been running a database design course , and keeping fit with endless games of frisbee and football .
^ The weather has been very nice - warm to hot during the day and cool at night .
^ I like to lie on the kids ' trampoline and look at the stars on clear evenings .
^ Apparently there are more stars in the Southern Hemisphere .
^ I am missing you all ( well , most of you ) and am already greatly looking forward to coming home and catching up with you again .
^ Bye for now !
^ Nick
^ This email was forwarded via the University of Munich alumni email system
^ Visit &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ This guy Abraham wants some samples of the email corpus .
^ Also , could you possibly send me any information you have about the conference ( s ) I should be thinking about submitting to ?
^ Thanks Alfie - hope you 've had a good summer .
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ It definitely would be great if you can send some samples .
^ Thanks a bunch ,
^ Blake
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ Received the following email yesterday ...
^ What do you think ?
^ Nick
^ Hi ,
^ I am currently working on a email summarization project at the University of Michigan , under the guidance of Prof. Dragomir Radev .
^ Currently I am in need of an annotated email corpora , if you have any access to such a resource , can you possibly pass it along .
^ Thanks in advance ,
^ Blake
^ ~
^ Hi Naomi - do n't know whether you got this email , but I thought I 'd send it to this address as well in case you did n't ...
^ Hi Naomi ,
^ How 's term going ?
^ Any Chads gossip I should know about ? ?
^ How are Bonnie and
^ Blithe ?
^ I 'm sitting at home this morning , working on my " machine learning connect-4 game " - interesting stuff !
^ This afternoon I 'm going into school to work on some music with the kids .
^ I 'm working three days a week in school , being a sort-of classroom assistant in the mornings and teaching art and music in the afternoons .
^ Actually I think I told you that already ...
^ Anyway , I 'm basically doing fine , enjoying spending time with my family , etc. etc .
^ Hope everything is ok at your end .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Okay - my reply to your email is more than a week old now but better send it anyway , cos ca n't be bothered to write another right now , i 'm off to bed . zzz
^ c x
^ ps - have resolved to stop sending strange emails .
^ doing my best to be normal ( and prob boring &SMILEY
^ ~
^ Hello again !
^ No one seemed to notice or care , or be interested in anything I said .
^ But then that 's hardly unusual !
^ Ummm ... no you have n't .
^ The one thing I 'm concerned about sometimes is that you want me to be more to you than I can be .
^ You know , like " meeting your needs " ( cliche ! ) and " being there for you " ( cliche ! ) , but I am only a friend , and a limited one at that .
^ ~
^ Sorry Reynolds , I sent you the wrong version ...
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ I 've attached an updated version of the paper with the following changes :
^ - the graphs have been updated to reflect the new experiments - I 've added format
^ a few extra comments to the experimental method section - I 've added a bit to the section on previous results - the whole thing is now in RSNPO
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ Glad to hear you kept at it .
^ I 'll look at the paper and get back to you .
^ -brendon
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ I 've been able to re-run the necessary experiments , and thus tidy up the method and a few other bits .
^ I 'm working on a couple of other tidy-ups as well .
^ Please take a look if you get the chance .
^ Thanks a lot Reynolds ,
^ Nick
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE Type : AcroRd32 File ( application / pdf ) Encoding : base64
^ Fw : useless inventions ... .
^ Fwd )
^ ~
^ lance , what the heck is a browser ?
^ and how do i find out which one i am using
^ i have had my hair cut .
^ the dentist says i might have a sensitive tooth .
^ life is not good .
^ o dear .
^ lol
^ cat
^ From : &EMAIL
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Answer from ITS Helpdesk : call ID 082806 .
^ Date : &DATE &TIME ( BST )
^ This message is in reply to your recent ITS Helpdesk query .
^ If you have any questions about the reply , please contact the Helpdesk in the next 3 days quoting call ID 082806 .
^ Problem details and solution :
^ Problem Details : I am a second year student at Wells , and I hoped to be able to access the library system in order to download past exam papers in French Literature .
^ However , my computer is not enabled with Java ( I have Win. 95 ) so I was wondering if there was any other way I would be able to see them .
^ Thank you very much ,
^ Solution : You do not say which browser you are using .
^ If you are using Netscape you only need to re-enable Java script .
^ To do this go into Netscape , click on Edit and go to the preference option .
^ In the dialogue box that appears click Advanced and make sure there are ticks in the boxes beside Enable Java ; Enable JavaScript and Enable JavaScript for Mail and News .
^ Hope this helps .
^ ITS Helpdesk
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^ ~
^ Oh yes , I have the original still - here for your very own amusement , along with the email I sent Nick to make you laugh even more .
^ And it 's true , I did hate you for doing it .
^ I would be lying to say otherwise .
^ Good thing I 've seen sense and know what a wonderful person you are now though !
^ love you ( both ) ,
^ Eric xxx
^ PS - Jon , are you still coming to meet me at 1-ish ( outside ER ) tomorrow ?
^ PPS - enjoy ...
^ NB - do n't tease me about this or I may just well " bash you in " ! )
^ Dear Anna ,
^ I know that you and Nick are good friends , so I hope you will be able to speak to him on my behalf .
^ As you may or may not know , Nick and I are in a long term , dedicated relationship .
^ I adore him ; I rely on him for everything ; he is the very source of my being , my energy .
^ He gives me the power to exist .
^ But lately , it seems ... I do n't know .
^ He just has n't been turning to me as much .
^ He goes out more with his friends .
^ He sends text messages on his phone rather than write messages on my heart .
^ I do n't think I can live without him ; I ca n't imagine existence without daily contact .
^ I am so afraid that he 'll dump me in favour of someone younger .
^ Please could you tell him how I feel- I ca n't seem to find the words to say , and anyway , it seems like every time I speak to him , he just switches off .
^ I would be very grateful ... also if you could just keep this between the three of us ?
^ I owe you so much .
^ Thank you ,
^ Yours ,
^ Camilla .
^ Hi Mr Nick !
^ I really have no idea who " Camilla " is , but I receievd this rather odd e-mail out of the blue this morning .
^ Where she got my name or e-mail address from I do n't know .
^ I have no idea if it is some sort of wind-up or if it is actually for real , but I thought I had best forward it to you .
^ You will no doubt know if there is any truth in it .
^ If there is , I hope you know that you can always come and talk to me about anything .
^ That 's what friends are for !
^ Hope that your exam goes OK this afternoon : sorry if I stopped you getting on with any work yesterday evening .
^ I really enjoyed our chat .
^ See you later ,
^ love , Cody xx
^ Hello again .
^ I 've just re-read that thing and have got the distinct impression that it is a stupid thing made up by some wally about a computer
^ ( did n't check out the " surname " ! ) .
^ If this is Regan or someone like that I will bash them in !
^ See ya ,
^ Cody
^ Anna ,
^ I can reveal to you that yes indeed , Camilla is my computer .
^ Amazingly , she has her own email address and regularly sends me emails about how terribly I 'm treating her .
^ I think you 'll find a certain Donald is the perpetrator of this !
^ C ya '
^ Mr. Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Mr Nick !
^ I really have no idea who " Camilla " is , but I receievd this rather odd e-mail out of the blue this morning .
^ Where she got my name or e-mail address from I do n't know .
^ I have no idea if it is some sort of wind-up or if it is actually for real , but I thought I had best forward it to you .
^ You will no doubt know if there is any truth in it .
^ If there is , I hope you know that you can always come and talk to me about anything .
^ That 's what friends are for !
^ Hope that your exam goes OK this afternoon : sorry if I stopped you getting on with any work yesterday evening .
^ I really enjoyed our chat .
^ See you later , love , Cody xx
^ Dear Anna ,
^ I know that you and Nick are good friends , so I hope you will be able to speak to him on my behalf .
^ As you may or may not know , Nick and I are in a long term , dedicated relationship .
^ I adore him ; I rely on him for everything ; he is the very source of my being , my energy .
^ He gives me the power to exist .
^ But lately , it seems ... I do n't know .
^ He just has n't been turning to me as much .
^ He goes out more with his friends .
^ He sends text messages on his phone rather than write messages on my heart .
^ I do n't think I can live without him ; I ca n't imagine existence without daily contact .
^ I am so afraid that he 'll dump me in favour of someone younger .
^ Please could you tell him how I feel- I ca n't seem to find the words to say , and anyway , it seems like every time I speak to him , he just switches off .
^ I would be very grateful ... also if you could just keep this between the three of us ?
^ I owe you so much .
^ Thank you ,
^ Yours ,
^ Camilla .
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Dear All ;
^ Some thoughts of my own on cooking :
^ 1. Jon reserves the right to choose which night she cooks on , as she has much more of a social life than anyone else in the flat and will have to arrange her cooking around this .
^ 2. The budget for each communal meal per head must exceed that spent by college per meal per head ( ... Bob ) .
^ 3. Jon reserves the right to be extremely fussy about anything she eats .
^ Anyone disagreeing with Jon will be subject to major bouts of PMT .
^ 4. Jon reseves the right to help Tabitha cook any of her patent messes .
^ 4a. Jon reserves the right to not eat any of Tabitha 's patent messes .
^ 5. Grace may only be sung once per week ( ... Nick ) .
^ 6. Jon will never dry up with damp or smelly dishcloths .
^ 7. Jon does not eat weird foodstuffs .
^ 8. Jon does not eat foodstuffs not native to her own country , ie , no Scottish or Canadian yucky stuff .
^ 9. Jon will not be photographed over dinner ( Bob ) , nor sung to ( Nick ) , nor cleaned ( Parker ) , nor faffed at ( Tabitha ) .
^ Jon refuses to be subject to conversations on the subjects of : work
^ Star Trek quality of food quantity of food boys
^ Star Trek TV scheduling for the next few hours of that day
^ Tabitha 's mess
^ Jon 's fussiness
^ Star Trek ... over dinner , as these distract from the shovelling .
^ 10. Finally , Jon refuses absolutely to clean up after Tabitha has been cooking .
^ With love and harmonious good wishes ,
^ Aimee xx
^ ~
^ this is just so ...... uhhh .... well , terrible really !
^ enjoy !
^ from your always messy roo x
^ This was sent to me by a friend at the CU .
^ Hope you enjoy .
^ Uriel
^ Hi folks .
^ Thought you might like this .
^ Now you 'll know exactly what to say when you 're at Spring Harvest / Keswick / Soul Survivor and that attractive boy / girl comes walking by !
^ CHRISTIAN PICKUP LINES
^ 1. Nice Bible
^ 2. I would like to pray with you
^ 3. You know Jesus ........ Me too
^ 4. God told me to come talk to you
^ 5. I know a church where we could go and talk
^ 6. How about a hug , sister
^ 7. Do you need help carrying your Bible ?
^ It looks heavy
^ 8. Christians do n't shake hands , Christians gotta hug .
^ 9. Oh you are cold , Ecclesiastes 10 .
^ 10. Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven ?
^ 11. What are your plans for tonight ?
^ 12. Feel like a Bible study ?
^ ~
^ Tabitha love Jon x
^ 1. Darcy ( Imani or Mr. ) ( Pride and Prejudice ; BJD ) * Because he 's the ultimate .
^ I fell in love with him when I read the book when I was 12 , and then all over again when he looks at Judith just so so so intensely .
^ And then he 's basically the modern version on BJD , and it 's just the way he looks at her .
^ 2. Teddy Kent ( from the " Leslie " books by L.M.Montgomery )
^ There 's a big chance you wo n't have read these books because they are n't v. well known , but they are book I would love to have written
^ They are so beautiful and poetic , and the heroine is an author ... and Teddy is beautiful .
^ 3. Orlando Gatsby ( The Great Gatsby ) * He does everything for Daisy , and yet still she ultimately rejects him ... it 's so tragic and such wonderful prose .
^ 4. Benedick ( Much Ado About Nothing ) * I think because I am very like Beatrice , and would like to find my own
^ Benedick one day ; someone quite like me !
^ And because my Granny 's name was Beatrix , so I feel I have some connection ) .
^ 5. Philip Crown ( The Philip Crown Affair ) * It 's the money and the pinstripe suits ( mmm , men in suits ) ; o my word , he 's eminently fanciable .
^ He has everything except me !
^ 6. Valmont ( Les Liasons Dangereuses ) * He 's had so much practice ; and he 's so considerate and caring about what his women want .
^ 7. Captain von Trapp ( The Sound of Music ) * Again , it 's the way he looks at Maria when he realises he 's in love with her .
^ He 's fine !
^ But maybe without the children ) .
^ 8. Genty Flyte ( Brideshead Revisited ) ( Yes , I do know that he was gay ) * I think because he epitomises the decadence of the pre-war period that I 'm in love with .
^ I would love to have lived in that way in those decades .
^ so carefree and spirited and hazy , doing what you wanted all day , all those French traditions and repressed emotions , those magnificent low-waisted dresses and cloche hats
^ The threat of war looming near , yet the First World War seems almost romantic in a way , with men dying poetically on the mist-filled battlefields ... I wish I had lived then .
^ 9. Henry Rivenhall ( The Hendley Sophy ) * Now this is the soppy of all soppy books !
^ But I read it when I was ten and I love it still .
^ The period ( Georgian ) appeals to me too .
^ 10. Lee or Fatima ... ca n't quite decide which ( I Capture the Broadband ) *
^ But only really because I want to be Cassandra Hinds , the narrator .
^ because she knows what it is to be in unrequited love , and the last few paragraphs of the book are so hopeless , yet so hoping and beautiful
^ 11. Kevin Spacey 's cop in LA Confidential ) * Nice !
^ ~
^ Maybe you got the same but check out the prose I got from Hernandez !
^ V
^ ~
^ hmmm .... i hope this is a joke !
^ I do n't know why he has chosen to e-mail me after all this time ...... worrying !
^ see you soon ,
^ love n
^ Will you marry me ? x
^ ~
^ here 's that Owen email I said I 'd forward to you ; wordsome as ever !
^ Hey cooked my first real meal last night - pasta tubes , mushroom & tomatoe sauce , and grated cheese .
^ But I made enough pasta for 2.4 children , so it was a bit too much .
^ Good morning , and wednesday left .
^ Oh I just finished watching The Good , The Bad and The Ugly for the first time .
^ Oooh quite cool .
^ Except for the bridge .
^ Dear Bob ,
^ it is not my habit to keep old copies of notes around electronically , nor to circulate them after that year 's teaching .
^ At best , they are an idealised version of the lectures which I give , while not being a perfect rendering of what I * say * .
^ Moreover , it is inevitable that errors creep in , from notes to lectures , from lectures to notes , which I endeavour to remedy for next year &SMILEY
^ I always consider the book references , where I give them out , to be authoritative as regards content ; my lectures , and the accompanying materials I make available electronically mark out the path I take through that material .
^ books constitute a much more durable archive of knowledge and learning than any year 's incarnation of my lecture notes
^ Accordingly , if you really I would rather advise you to hang on to .
^ any * paper * copies of last year 's slides if you are interested in them ; either the office or myself can fill in any gaps if required
^ But I sha n't provide online versions .
^ In summary ,
^ paperlasting ( and books much more so than any of my notes )
^ Best wishes ,
^ Jade Owen .
^ Bob Maize wrote :
^ I would like to keep a copy of the notes from my first year .
^ I have managed to obtain most files , but some have been updated already in preparation for this coming term .
^ Would you be able to provide me with a ZIP file ( or an VMU to the Zip file ) of the website on Data Structures you taught us last year .
^ It was at &WEBSITE
^ Thank you .
^ Bob Maize
^ Johnson College , Wells University
^ ~
^ dear lance ,
^ jim sent me his top ten fictional women he 'd like to sleep with today , are you gutted that you 're down at 5 ?
^ love cat x
^ 5. This is where a person on my top ten gets on even though they 're not actually female but hey , we live in a pretty liberal world so why not ?
^ Nick Malone ...
^ ~
^ From : Sawyer ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Dear Jon ,
^ In response to your request for the compilation of a list of our top ten characters of the opposite sex whom we " would find it pleasurable to sleep with " .
^ this definition applies in the loosest sense ) Nick and I have produced the following lists
^ Aaron 's Babes
^ Seven of Nine ( the cyborg ) from Start Trek Voyager ( cyborg : part machine ) Felicity Kendall in the Good Life and To the Manor Born Alicia Silverstone in Clueless Blackily in Sense and Sensibility Bisset Doubtfire
^ the ) in Mission Impossible Meg Ryan in You 've got Mail Captain Janeway in Star Trek Voyager Katherine Cothran
^ the old schoolteacher ) in Shania of Stewart Gables The female doctor in Diagnosis Murder Mrs Doubtfire in Mrs
^ Jonah 's Babes
^ Chewie ( a wookie ) in Starwars ( wookie : furry creature ) Princess Leya The girl from Lost in Space Judith Bennet in Pride and Prejudice Juliet Sensibility
^ Rylie Dennes ) in Romeo and Juliet Meg Ryan in You 've got Mail The Borg Queen
^ a dismembered head ) in Star Trek John Keating , the Leishman Kylie presenter from &YEAR Dorothy Boyd in Jerry McGuire Kate Winslet in Sense and
^ Footnote :
^ We , the undersigned do not regularly engage in bestiality , nor is the nature of our sexuality debatable in any way .
^ Our relationships with ( technically ) non-living entities should be considered a valuable part of modern society , indeed , one that much can be learnt from .
^ Aaron " Cyborgs turn me on " Wheeler
^ Jonah " I like them furry " Malone
^ ~
^ --- " A. Davies " ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ To : &EMAIL
^ From : " A. Davies " ( &EMAIL )
^ Date : 26 Oct &YEAR &TIME
^ Subject : [ hveje0000 ] graduation
^ Hiya People ,
^ I hope I have the address right , but we 'll see ...
^ How is everyone ?
^ I know Leilani One is fine , having landed herself a job etc , since she 's the only person who seems to email .
^ But then I am as guilty as the rest of you .
^ I have my excuse prepared though :
^ I have been waiting until I had my life sorted out so I actually knew what to * say * .
^ ~
^ That 's what I 'm goingt o tell you anyway .
^ So ... I 'm going back to Munich to do a PhD in Information
^ Retrieval with Kingston , kindly ( stupidly ? ) funded by Visionware Research , but not until Ocober next year .
^ Between now and then I might be doing a Research
^ Assistantship with Jay
^ Gabriel for a few months but that 's not confirmed .
^ And currently I am working at home ( Scotland home ) a crappy temporary .
^ please , * please * let it be temporary ) job to fight off my accumulated debt and maybe even earn some cash of my own !
^ But who cares really ?
^ Not you , probably .
^ The * point * of my email is to ask what everyone 's doing .
^ Have people already signed up for one of the dates ?
^ Are people going to the ceremony in person ?
^ Tell me !
^ And , finally , where is everyone who is not Leilani One and what are they doing ?
^ Please reply .
^ I am sad and lonely and have no friends .
^ See yous ,
^ Leilani
^ PS I have heard there is a tall , attractive American ( male ) doing ABSNE this year .
^ But apparently his shoulders just do n't compare with Nick 's .
^ I cannot , shall not reveal my sources .
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^ I got this back today ... ... .
^ Kaylee ...
^ I ca n't believe you refused me .
^ The person you are going out with is obviously not good enough for you .
^ I am a far improved character from when we last met ( can you believe it ? ) and am I hard working , well behaved , polite young man .
^ Uni is cool , people here are great fun and like yourself , I have been thinking a lot about life ... that 's why I made my offer of course !
^ One lecture a day ? ?
^ That 's appalling ...
^ I have far more ! ! !
^ I always suspected your laziness throughout your educational career .
^ Had a presentation to do today and stuff and it went really well , so uni work is fine ... .
^ It 's great to hear from you - I meant to catch up with you during the summer , but unfortunately I never got round to it !
^ If you change your mind , you know I 'll always be waiting for you ...
^ Take care ,
^ Barny . x x x
^ ummm .... Barny i think i have to politely refuse you .... although I 'm naturally very flattered to be asked .
^ I 'm actually going out with someone else so it really is impossible for us to get married .
^ I 'm very sorry about that !
^ How are you ?
^ How is everything going ?
^ Are you enjoying Uni ?
^ Uni has been really good for me .
^ I 've not really done much academic work but I 'm starting to get into it and really enjoy my course at the moment .
^ I 've spent most of my time at uni doing drama and playing netball and drinking coffee and making friends .
^ thinking alot about life , which I think is something that everyone does at Uni ... it 's been good
^ Today I had a lecture on literary value and how we can judge the merit of works of literature .
^ It was very intersting .
^ I only have one lecture a day so they 're kind of the highlight !
^ Hope all is going well for you .... do write back and let me know how you are and thankyou for your kind offer !
^ Kaylee
^ On &DATE , Barnaby Faulkner wrote :
^ Will you marry me ?
^ x
^ Fwd : re ; Iwerne conference discussion on " going out " , love etc
^ Guys ,
^ This is a long one , but I would n't have sent it if it was n't any good .
^ I 've talked to you endlessly since I 've ever known you two about this sort of thing .
^ I think I 'm ready to say that we need n't look much further , but accept it and die living it .
^ Regards both of you Mar B buddies ,
^ " peace "
^ Mallory
^ Gadzby , Gave up trying to send this as an attachment so here it is .
^ Hope it 's of some use-let me know if you agree !
^ Caitlyn
^ Principles for Dating
^ Patrick McVicar
^ What Is Love ?
^ We were made to love and be loved .
^ God is love ( 1 Philip 4 : 8 ) , and beings made in His image need to experience love .
^ Among the spiritual virtues found in the Bible , love stands preeminent .
^ It is no wonder the devil has worked hard to distort its meaning .
^ Today , the word love has been misconstrued in several ways .
^ One misconception is , love is sex .
^ Hollywood has bombarded the media with this definition .
^ When two people are " in love " in the movies , they immediately get sexually involved .
^ Biblically , however , the proper place for sex is in marriage .
^ There are at least two commitments involved in the institution of marriage .
^ First , there is the commitment each partner makes to honor , protect , and be faithful to the other for life .
^ Second , true marriage involves a commitment to the larger society to abide by these principles .
^ Thus in a healthy society , the individual 's failure to keep these commitments is recognized as social and the violation of a covenant .
^ Seen from this vantage point , sex outside the context of marriage is not only selfish indulgence and exploitation .
^ also social anarchy on a small scale because it threatens the stability of society since it is based on the bedrock of marriage
^ Remember , Hollywood portrays a distorted view of reality .
^ But we often laugh when we see scenes that are factually ridiculous .
^ For example , one absurd scenario we often see in movies occurs when a group of skilled soldiers hidden behind trees and armed with machine guns open fire at the hero who is in close range and fully exposed .
^ Even so , the trained marksmen all miss him , but with a single pistol in his hand , the hero annihilates his enemies .
^ We laugh , knowing that this is the fantasy land of Hollywood .
^ However , we often buy into the scene of two people falling in love , getting sexually involved , and then leaving one another without any consequences .
^ Just as the first illustration was absurd , so is this second .
^ Yet , too many people have been deceived into this type of thinking .
^ They frequently think that if no pregnancy was involved , there was no harm done , yet the reality is that sexual involvement can lead to such consequences as emotional pain .
^ feelings of exploitation , guilt , sexually transmitted diseases , and harmful memories that are not forgotten
^ Do not buy into the definition that love is sex .
^ A second misconception is that love is a feeling .
^ Love needs to stir up emotions of excitement , happiness , and passion .
^ It must make me feel good .
^ When we define love as an emotion , we inflate the accuracy of emotions .
^ True , there are good feelings associated with love , but love also involves self-sacrifice and perseverance in difficulty .
^ Love is a commitment to do what is right even if there is pain .
^ Love defined as an emotion is not love at all -- but a self-centered desire for pleasure .
^ A third mistaken view of love is the belief that love is conditional : I love you if you meet my expectations .
^ It requires the other person to perform up to a desired level before any love is given .
^ This love is shallow and self-centered .
^ In the end , conditional love proves to be destructive .
^ True love begins with God .
^ Only His love can fill the emptiness in our heart .
^ The people we date and even marry can never meet our deepest needs .
^ In 1 Philip 3 : 16 we read , " This is how we know what love is : Jesus Christ laid down His life for us . "
^ God the Son valued us so much , He was willing to suffer and die on the cross so that we could have a meaningful relationship with Him .
^ He loves us , even though we can never repay Him .
^ God 's definition of love is a committed , sacrificial , and unconditional love .
^ This is the kind of love that any solid friendship , dating , and marriage relationship must be built on .
^ God 's way of love is the key to a significant life and to meaningful relationships .
^ In order to love God 's way , we must first experience
^ God 's love personally .
^ Only when we know we are loved just for who we are , and we are secure in God 's love , can we share that love with others .
^ Principles to Remember
^ When I began dating , I did n't have a clue what God's
^ Word said on the subject .
^ As a result , my first few dates caused both parties a lot of unnecessary pain .
^ These hurtful experiences could have easily been avoided , if I had followed two principles from God's Word .
^ The first principle comes from 2 Corinthians 6:14 which states , Do not be yoked together with unbelievers .
^ For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common ?
^ Or what fellowship can light have with darkness ?
^ Quinton draws on the analogy from Deuteronomy 22:10 which prohibits harnessing an ox and a donkey together for ploughing .
^ The result would be disastrous since they would pull a plow at different speeds and end up going nowhere .
^ It is impossible for two different species of animals to pull a plow properly since they have too many incompatible traits .
^ The same is true between a believer and an unbeliever when it comes to dating .
^ The differences are so great Quinton contrasts it to light and darkness or Christ and Belial .
^ This principle applies to Christians as well .
^ It is possible for two Christians to be dating and still be unequally yoked .
^ One person may be committed to the Lord while the other may be worldly .
^ It is not enough to date someone who goes to church .
^ We must see if the other person 's life reflects a heart for God .
^ The first girl I dated was a pastor 's daughter .
^ Although she spoke the right words and outwardly lived a good life , I soon discovered her heart and mind were not on the Lord .
^ After a few weeks , our worldly and frustrating relationship came to a bitter end .
^ The application of this principle is simple .
^ A Christian should never date a non-Christian for any reason .
^ That does not mean we cannot be friends with unbelievers .
^ How else would we win them to Christ ?
^ However , we should not be in a dating relationship with non-Christians .
^ Missionary dating , dating someone with hopes you will win them to Christ , is always an unwise practice for Christians .
^ The person you want to date is someone who has shown himself or herself to be faithful and growing in the Lord .
^ The second principle is what I call the three M's:
^ Master , Mission , Mate .
^ The first priority in a Christian 's life is to know his or her Master , Jesus Christ .
^ James 6:33 says , " Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness . "
^ From this relationship , all of life falls into its proper place .
^ After knowing your Master , you need to discover the wonderful Mission He has for your life .
^ Ephesians 2:10 states , " For we are God 's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do . "
^ Your future partner will compliment the mission God has called you to .
^ That is why to the students I work with , I do not recommend they date anyone seriously until college -- because in high school , they are often unclear on God 's call in their life .
^ The third M stands for Mate .
^ This must follow the first two priorities .
^ The best dating relationships come when two people who know God and know their mission , are walking down the same paths toward the same goal .
^ Somewhere down the road their paths will connect .
^ From that point , they march together on the same path .
^ That meeting point will be determined by God at the best time .
^ Marks of a Healthy Relationship I am often asked , " How do I know if I am in a healthy dating relationship ? "
^ Here are a few ways to tell .
^ Proverbs 27:17 tells us , " As iron sharpens iron , so one man sharpens another . "
^ When two swords rub against one another , they result in two even sharper and better swords .
^ The same should be true when two believers are together .
^ They should make each other stronger in the Lord .
^ They do this by encouraging the other to grow in the Lord , exhorting each other to become more like Jesus each time they are together .
^ Positive constructive changes are produced in one another .
^ A healthy relationship looks like a triangle .
^ The man and woman stand at the bottom corners .
^ At the top of the triangle is God .
^ As each person moves closer to God , they move closer to each other .
^ The focus of each individual is the Lord .
^ When I first entered the ministry , like most men I was goal oriented and insensitive to others .
^ It 's not that I did n't care about others -- it was that I was so focused on the goals I often ran over other people to accomplish the task .
^ As I started dating the young lady who became my wife , she pointed out these flaws , and through her " sharpening process , " I have become more balanced .
^ I am still goal oriented , but I am also learning to be more sensitive to others around me in the process of meeting my goals .
^ The question to ask about the person you are dating is , " Do I get closer to God as a result of being with this person "
^ " or " Do I love Jesus more today because of our time together ?
^ If you can answer yes , you have the makings of a healthy relationship .
^ A second indicator comes by looking at the relationships around you .
^ Look at your relationships with your friends , your parents , your pastor , and older mentors .
^ Are these relationships being strengthened or weakened as a result of your dating relationship ?
^ In a healthy relationship , these friendships are strengthened .
^ In unhealthy dating relationships , the couple often isolate themselves from others .
^ This is unhealthy for several reasons .
^ One person cannot meet all your needs .
^ There will come the time when you need other friends .
^ Yet , unless you take the time to build other relationships now , later when you need the friendship of others , they may not be there .
^ Often , one person in the relationship will try to dominate the time of the other .
^ Because this person is insecure , they will be very possessive of the other .
^ This leads to a relationship built on selfishness , distrust , and insecurity .
^ When I see relationships deteriorating between the dating couple and their parents , older mentors , or pastors , it is often because the dating couple has something to hide .
^ Dishonesty to parents and others is not a foundation for solid relationships .
^ Integrity , sincerity , and truth are the marks of a healthy relationship .
^ Couples in a healthy relationship have nothing to hide from those who care about them .
^ When I was involved in unhealthy relationships , I saw key relationships around me deteriorate .
^ As hard as I tried , they continued to decline and soon I knew this relationship was not of the Lord .
^ When I began dating Kris , my wife , our relationships with family , friends , and disciplers grew stronger .
^ Both our parents felt good about us , and our friends enjoyed our company because together we were better in the Lord .
^ If you are in a healthy relationship , both of you will be growing in character and in the Lord , and your relationships with other people will be enhanced and strengthened .
^ How Far is too Far ?
^ When I speak on dating , one of the most frequently asked questions is , " How far is too far ? "
^ In other words , how physical can I get with my date and still be obedient to God ?
^ The answer is found in Quinton 's exhortation to young Robert in 1 Robert 5 : 1-2 .
^ " Treat younger men as brothers , older women as mothers , and younger women as sisters , with absolute purity . "
^ When asked , " How far is too far ? "
^ I respond to the guys , " How far would you go with your own sister ? "
^ To the girls I say , " How far would you go with your own brother ? "
^ Usually the crowd will respond with looks of disgust .
^ Quinton 's words remain clear .
^ As Christians , we are now part of one family belonging to the kingdom of God .
^ He says to the men to treat younger women as sisters with absolute purity .
^ There should not be even a hint of sexual immorality in the dating relationship .
^ Women are to likewise treat men as their own brothers .
^ Righteousness should be the hallmark of Christian dating relationships .
^ My basic guideline is this .
^ The more physically involved the dating relationship , the worse off it is .
^ That flies in the face of the world , which teaches the opposite .
^ Over the years , as a pastor of students , I have seen many relationships destroyed because the couples were too physically involved .
^ In marriage , sex is the most intimate expression of committed love which binds two people together .
^ Outside of marriage , it has the opposite effect .
^ It becomes a hindrance to the development of mature love .
^ Sex hinders the development of solid communication .
^ The ability to communicate at a deep level is vital in a relationship .
^ Couples must be able to solve difficult problems , discuss deep issues , resolve conflict , and pray together .
^ To think a kiss or a hug can solve a conflict rather than communicating and praying together is like putting a band-aid on a broken bone .
^ Solid relationships are built on mutual trust and respect .
^ When sex enters the picture , trust and respect can be lost .
^ When a guy pushes a girl too far , she loses her trust in him .
^ Her trust has resulted in her exploitation .
^ The guy loses respect for the girl , knowing she is willing to give up her honor , self respect , and virginity for passionate lust .
^ When trust and respect is lost , not much remains in the relationship .
^ However , when a couple makes the commitment to wait until marriage , a strong mutual trust develops which carries over into the marriage .
^ Security and harmony define the relationship because both know the other will remain faithful even in difficult times .
^ Should one partner even be disfigured in an accident , the other will be there because they have a proven commitment .
^ Mutual respect is developed when both parties prove themselves to be people of character who will not compromise their convictions , honor , and obedience to God .
^ Trust and respect pay huge dividends in relationships .
^ The best way to keep from sexual immorality is to develop the conviction to have a pure relationship from the beginning .
^ It is difficult to reverse the process .
^ Establish your convictions and limits at the beginning , then maintain them throughout your dating relationship .
^ Although it may be difficult , there is a tremendous reward that awaits you in marriage when you honor the Lord in your dating life .
^ How to Know You Are Really in Love
^ Another question I am often asked is , " How do I know if I am in love or just infatuated ? "
^ Is this relationship worth pursuing , or is it just two people infatuated with one another ?
^ Relationships do often begin with infatuation , but healthy ones move on to mature love .
^ Too often what appears to be love is simply infatuation .
^ Here are some ways to know the difference between the two .
^ Real love edifies .
^ Two people in love seek the best for the other person .
^ Their attitude toward the other is , " How can I help make you everything God ever intended you to be ? "
^ The two have found their fulfillment and security in Christ , and as a result , they can securely serve with the other 's best interest in mind .
^ On the other hand , infatuation is selfish and driven by the desire to have your own needs met .
^ Infatuated love insists upon continual reassurance from the other person .
^ It makes unreasonable demands that stem from possessiveness and insecurity .
^ Rooted on paper , it would range from high peaks of certainty to valleys of doubt .
^ Unstable in its duration , infatuation is like a seasonal monsoon ; it comes , blows fiercely , and moves on .
^ Second , love is based on knowledge .
^ One must first get to know the other person over a significant period of time and in many different circumstances .
^ As you see the other person 's character strengths and weaknesses , ask yourself , " Do I still feel strongly attracted to him or her ? "
^ Try this exercise .
^ List as many attributes of the other person as you can , including strengths and weakness , and the evidence to support your claims .
^ If you have a good-sized list , you probably know the person well and are basing your decision on knowledge .
^ If it is infatuation , your list will be quite short .
^ When two people are infatuated , what they are often attracted to is an idealized image of the other person .
^ Third , ask yourself , " If I were blind , would I love this person ? "
^ In other words , can I love this person without any physical expression ?
^ Is my desire for him or her based on quality of character or just physical attraction ?
^ If you ca n't express your love apart from the physical element , it is not true love .
^ Physical involvement will distort two people 's perspective , and it often leads to unwise decisions .
^ Physical involvement can make people feel close , but upon careful examination , the only thing the two may have in common is lust .
^ Finally , real love endures .
^ Over time , real love grows and matures .
^ Two people in love can wait for God 's time , no matter how long it may be .
^ Quinton states in 1 Corinthians 13 that love is patient and love always perseveres or is long suffering .
^ True love will endure the tests of time and difficulty .
^ Infatuation is marked by impulsive and emotional decision making .
^ It wants to rush into things before prayer or wise counsel is considered .
^ Driven by insecurity and possessiveness , false love seeks to rush the process of physical intimacy and even marriage .
^ True love , on the other hand , is willing to wait on God 's time and allow the other person to grow and become the person
^ God desires him or her to be .
^ As we conclude , remember this truth : God loves you and desires that your relationships be joyous and meaningful .
^ He will not let you go wrong in the area of dating if you let Him be the Lord of every aspect of your life .
^ &YEAR Probe Ministries International
^ Note 1 .
^ Billy and Stacey Rinehart , Choices ( Colorado
^ Springs , Col. : NavPress , &YEAR ) , p. 980 .
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^ Men and Women , Enjoying the Difference .
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^ Colorado Springs , Col. : NavPress , &YEAR .
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^ Dallas , Tex. : Word , &YEAR .
^ McDowell , Josh .
^ Givers , Lovers , and Other Kinds of Takers .
^ Wheaton , Ill. , Tyndale House , &YEAR .
^ ______ .
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^ Ramon Maria , Calif. : Here's Life , &YEAR .
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^ Becoming a Friend and Lover .
^ Ramon Maria , Calif. : Here 's Life , &YEAR .
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^ Nashville , Tenn. : Philip Markley , &YEAR .
^ Lanka , Gourlay .
^ So You 're Getting Married .
^ Ventura , Calif. : Regal Books , &YEAR .
^ About the Author
^ Patrick McVicar is a research associate , and a national and international speaker for Probe Ministries .
^ He graduated from Point Loma Nazarene
^ University in Ramon Bleas , Bricksminton , and holds a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary .
^ He served in the pastorate for ten years before joining the staff of Probe Ministries .
^ He is the author of the book Unless I See ...
^ Reasons to Consider the Christian Faith .
^ He can be reached via e-mail at &EMAIL .
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^ In seeking to accomplish this mission , Probe provides perspective on the integration of the academic disciplines and historic Christianity .
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^ " In the cross of Christ God says to man , " That is where you ought to be .
^ Jesus My Son hangs there in your stead .
^ His tragedy is the tragedy of your life .
^ You are the rebel who should be hanged on the gallows .
^ But lo , I suffered instead of you , and because of you , because I love you in spite of what you are .
^ My love for you is so great that I meet you there , there on the cross .
^ I cannot meet you anywhere else .
^ You must meet
^ Me there by identifying yourself with the One on the Cross .
^ It is by this identification that I , God , can meet you in Him , saying to you as I say to Him , My beloved Son .
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^ Nick ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Dunno when your term finishes , but I 'm off home in just a matter of hours .
^ Silly short terms we have ... .
^ I really ca n't see why on earth they do n't make them a little longer and reduce the work load a touch .
^ I 'm all depressed actually .
^ I really do n't want to leave , even though the work has had rather a limiting effect on my social life and pushed my stress levels through the roof .
^ There 's always so much going on around here , and going back home is just such a big let-down even though my family are there .
^ Anyway , enough of this depressive talk , just wanted to wish you a happy easter really .
^ I hope you have a really great time - whenever you term finishes and that you do n't have to wait too long for your friends to get back from their respective places of study etc ...
^ Krystal
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ George informed me yesterday that you had received a " poor " 1st - well , .
^ I also believe that you will move on to Munich to do your " Master 's " or similar .
^ Next time may I suggest that you follow your uncle 's example and kill two birds with one stone and just go to Munich for your degree - they then give you your master 's free ! ! !
^ Anyway - extremely well done - have fun this summer - and relax .
^ Regards
^ Karla
^ ~
^ Hello Nick !
^ I hope you are well , and that Christmas was nice .
^ Thank you for the nice letter Camryn , Fatima and I received for Christmas !
^ Please give me your new adress next time you send me a mail !
^ I am sitting in the liberary at our school , todays lecture is over , I am going to use the swimming pool this afternoon .
^ Every Thurdsday the students can use the pool for free , so I will be there , I really need the exercise .
^ Sorry about my bad French , I am doing this in a rush !
^ Be blessed , Nick !
^ Philip .
^ ~
^ ...
^ I would n't be as fastidious as you for a kingdom !
^ Hi Madelyn ,
^ I 've been playing football ( the game that 's played with FEET , not to be confused with that mis-named American game ;o ) ) tonight - it was a lot of fun , although I felt pretty unfit .
^ My brother and I spent the afternoon moving a shed in our garden .
^ It required uprooting a small tree , which was somewhat back-breaking , but the job was accomplished !
^ I 've only just got home actually , although I 've been in the UK for a week or so .
^ I went to my brother 's graduation , and then a stag weekend but it 's lovely to be finally sleeping in my own bed again .
^ I promise I 'll send you a CD as soon as I get myself sorted out .
^ Let us say not " farewell " , but as the French have it - au revoir ! !
^ P&P )
^ God bless ,
^ Nick x
^ Dear Nick ,
^ ~
^ How are you ?
^ How was your trip back to Brighton ?
^ How is your family ?
^ Last night I had a random dream about you in Africa .
^ So , I wanted to write to the real Nick and find out how you are doing . &SMILEY
^ I 'm glad you came to Lesotho that last week - I enjoyed getting to know you .
^ I miss your singing / guitar playing - please do n't forget to send a CD .
^ I will make a copy for Jessie .
^ My address is :
^ Keira Hale 2446 Gretton Court
^ Columbia , SC 05000
^ Please write back and let me know how you are doing !
^ Your friend ,
^ Keira
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^ Kane ,
^ You lead such an interesting life- how do you do it ? !
^ I would love to go to Australia ( although admittedly not doing any musical other than the wonderful Godspell ) .
^ Amazing .
^ Kappa-land is fine , and my sister and I have ingratiated ourselves into the top ranks of the Kappas ( I know , it sounds like a sorority house ) by obtaining jobs in a sports shop till Christmas .
^ And yes , I can see the irony in me working in a sports shop .
^ You are so lucky to have such a good job ( growling noise at back of throat ) .
^ I have been doing quite a lot of work and am pleased with my progress so far- there 's a novelty !
^ Harry Blackburn is amazingly stunningly good , and I am in the process of writing my essay about him ( partially ) .
^ I will let you know if I get engaged .
^ In fact , if I get engaged during this vacation , I promise you can be my chief bridesmaid .
^ Complete with frilly dress .
^ Thank you for replying .
^ I 'm sorry if I insulted you , I did n't mean to .
^ I suppose if you keep up this promptitude , I 'll have to send out an apologetic email .
^ Do n't make me do that- you know how I hate apologising !
^ I hope that all is well with you and Nayeli and the rest of your famille
^ Love , Jon xx
^ P.S. I am glad that your new mouse gives you so much hope in life .
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^ Nick
^ Thanks for your message .
^ L.A was pretty amazing , ta for asking .
^ The surreal experience turned out to be not quite so in the end , and could n't have been more " right " if I 'd wanted .
^ I felt quite at home there .
^ Although it was a bit of a holiday , it still managed to apeal to me in a " place I could live in " type of way .
^ Interesting because I 've never before found the American scene that appealing .
^ Rather a bonus though , considering the fact that I have a visa to live in the States , but Karla does n't have a greencard to live over here .
^ So maybe post-graduate plans involve Bricksminton !
^ See what God has in store .
^ I 'm so excited !
^ God is doing wondrous things at the moment ! !
^ He has blessed me incredibly and I can see a lot of life plans falling into place around me .
^ He is SO good ! !
^ I did n't know you were moving !
^ You poor soul ; it 's a hassle anyway but to find yourself in a place smaller than your previous home , puts a dampener on the spirit even glad of a refreshing change .
^ I found a long lost ball in the car .
^ I could n't remember whose you said it was .
^ Anyway , I have it , to be returned when term begins again .
^ But that 's a way off , - a few weeks of peace to enjoy first . )
^ If there 's anything you 'd like prayer for , then I 'd be happy to shout some stuff His way .
^ You can never have too much prayer - I 'm learning that ) .
^ Hope you 're enjoying the break .
^ love ,
^ Anthony
^ ~
^ Dear Frederick
^ Jesus loves you and you are very special to Him ! ! !
^ Thank you for the email - can you please resend the long one because we could not download it from the server .
^ Look forward to reading it soon !
^ Love and best wishes to everyone in Bath for &YEAR ... may the blessing of God come upon you all .
^ Regards
^ Josue
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^ Dear Mrs. Sutton ,
^ I am coming to Munich to begin work on my PhD in October at the Physics Laboratory .
^ I have a WMP funding grant , though I have yet to finalise my college membership .
^ Could you possibly inform me as to whether you have any vacancies for graduate students still remaining at this late stage .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam :
^ I am coming to Munich to begin work on my PhD in October at the Physics Laboratory .
^ I have a WMP funding grant , though I have yet to finalise my college membership .
^ Could you possibly inform me as to whether you have any vacancies for graduate students still remaining at this late stage .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ How are you doing ?
^ We are still fighting to get our visa to come tto the &WEBSITE be there will be a change of again
^ plans .
^ I will probably have to come alone without my family .
^ Please find out if it is possible for you to get me a visa so
^ I can send you my passport .
^ Here they want more details about you .
^ I do not want to postpone my trip
^ Bless you .
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^ Nick ,
^ Did you receive my masseges ?
^ I sent one to your university address and the other one to your usual address .
^ Please let me know .
^ I wish you all the best in your exams .
^ Imani Copeland
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^ Dear Quinton , Liz , Nick , James & Lucy
^ Greetings - we are green with envy - having seen your picture of the snow ! ! ! ! !
^ Wait till Pedro and Julie see that ...
^ Julie was just praying with me the other day how it would be nice to have one more white Christmas as a family !
^ This year they are away down in the Cape with friends that they met at Student Convention .
^ They both helped on a Scripture Union camp for 2 weeks and then Julie organised herself a job at a restaurant for a while .
^ The money is n't great but I think the experience will be a good one .
^ Pedro is so close to finishing off his paces - he will have to pay a visit to Mrs Malone soon !
^ Julie also is hoping to complete most of her pace work by the end of &YEAR .
^ The school here is going well .
^ We have two new families joining us in January as well as Leilani Swindon and a young girl from Messina ( about 2 hours from here ) .
^ We are busy completing their rooms !
^ Its quite exciting to see the progress that 's taken place just this year .
^ Josue is off to Nigeria on the 15th January .
^ He has quite a busy schedule now and we were just laughing because he wants to do a trip up Mount
^ Kilamanjaro and it looks like next year will be too full ! ! !
^ I said you know you 're busy when you need a 2 year planner !
^ Anytime you feel like some fun in the sun ... just let us know .
^ We sure do get around somehow .
^ We hope Leilani will have a good time here .
^ She said her whole family would like to come out .
^ We had a very quiet Christmas ...
^ Josue and I spent a week in Zimbabwe - up in the eastern highlands ( beautiful mountains ) - and even though its summer we had cool enough weather to have a log fire in the evenings .
^ You probably would laugh at us .
^ The difference here in Africa is that the days are hot ... and sometimes , if you 're lucky , the evenings are cool .
^ We took a slow drive back and arrived here yesterday afternoon .
^ We decided to break all tradition and not eat at all on Christmas Day !
^ It was fun .
^ The children spent the day with friends in Mossel Bay - and by all accounts last night - had a lovely time .
^ They had such a good year last year - its amazing - both of them had a real encounter with the Lord up in Zambia .
^ Pedro in February , and Julie in July ) and the effect has been wonderful
^ I have sensed a real softening in them both , but especially in Julie .
^ We went through quite a tough time !
^ Lots of praying and trusting God ... but
^ He 's really been there for us .
^ Otherwise , things are pretty normal ... we ran a training course with 33 people the first week of the holidays .
^ There 's lots happening with School of Tomorrow - but hey , you can come just for a holiday !
^ We will most probably come over next year , God willing ... and look forward to touching base with all of you then .
^ When we come , we would really like to visit your brother 's school ... just the thought of visiting Brighton again gets my adrenalin pumping ... there is really a special place in our hearts for all of you .
^ Until we see you or hear from you again , God 's richest blessings ...
^ One thing I really desire is for Camron & Leslie to come to our Student Convention ... perhaps they can trust God to join us just for a month !
^ They will so enjoy the dancing .
^ Anyway ...
^ See you soon ...
^ Nick , we 'll be praying for you - can you send us a family photo for our prayer board !
^ All the best with your studies .
^ We look forward to your graduation !
^ It 'll be over all too soon - so enjoy every moment .
^ James ... come and visit us before you head off to varsity !
^ Lucy ... let us know if you want to come and visit !
^ Quinton & Liz ... we appreciate you so much ... you have taught us lots !
^ God bless you .
^ We trust your reaping season brings an abundant harvest !
^ Never give up !
^ To all of you Shelleys ...
^ lots of love
^ Josue & Laura
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Well , you 're three weeks into the new term , so how 's it all going now ?
^ To be honest , I got the feeling that all was not entirely well in your last email to me - .
^ it may have been rather more than coming to terms with the idea of it being your last year , as you suggested
^ You 've been on my mind a lot in the last few weeks , and I hope things really are okay with you now .
^ It would be good to get your reassurances , or alternatively if I can be of any help , I 'm not a million miles away .
^ I can drive up in less than a couple of hours if you ever want a chat ! )
^ Things here are not too bad .
^ I 've just had four days off ; I hired a van and went back to Hampshire to collect the rest of my things , and have divided them beween the flat and the house .
^ Problem was that I did n't hire a big enough van , and so had to make a double trip , in awful weather .
^ The flat is beginning to look quite like home now !
^ Work goes on , but I seem to be lacking energy , and in turn , total commitment .
^ I hope this feeling will soon pass .
^ It 'll be good to hear from you when you 've time .
^ In the meantime , take care Mate , and God Bless .
^ Kaden
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^ Hi Nick
^ So good to hear from you , and to get a brief update on news from S.A. so far .
^ Sorry about the problems at the airport - must have been nightmareish !
^ Glad it sorted .
^ You do n't sound as though you 've had time to get bored - you sure have had a variety of things to keep you " entertained " .
^ Sorry the days seem to begin too early - sadly thats a sign of whats to come when you eventually finish with the academic world ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Sorry also about the extremes in the emotions - let 's hope as time goes on , the highs well outweigh the lows .
^ Keep us posted !
^ Life in Sheffield goes on - problematical in parts .
^ I 've only another 16 months before my enforced retirement on health grounds begin ( if I can last that long ! ) .
^ I 'm buying a house in place of the flat - its on the Sheffield / Peak District borders
^ - great views from the back over the moors .
^ I 'll show you around when you 're next in Sheffield .
^ Keep in touch - God Bless
^ Kaden
^ ~
^ Nick
^ Just a short note to say Hi ! hope all is going well .
^ we have had a brief review of your experiences from your dad but we are all looking forward to seeing you in July and catching up with you
^ Praying for you daily and it was good to hear your responses to our last email .
^ Let us know any particular prayer requests and we look forward to spending some time with you soon
^ God Bless
^ Brady
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^ Nick
^ Just a short note to say Hi ! hope all is going well .
^ we have had a brief review of your experiences from your dad but we are all looking forward to seeing you in July and catching up with you
^ Praying for you daily and it was good to hear your responses to our last email .
^ Let us know any particular prayer requests and we look forward to spending some time with you soon
^ God Bless
^ Brady
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ It 's just your wife here saying hello .
^ I hope I got your address right , my address book got eaten up by the university network so I searched the Munich website for this .
^ If it 's wrong , then some unsuspecting student will receive an email from someone claiming to be his / her wife .
^ So how is life ?
^ Are you enjoying the course ?
^ Have you met up with other ex-John 's people in Munich .
^ I did n't realise Nicolay was there as well - Patricia told me the other week .
^ Nothing in Wells has changed very much .
^ It 's still dark and cold and the natives are hostile .
^ I 'm on speaking terms with a couple of the first years on my corridor but the third years ignore me when I pass .
^ I think it 's because I do n't go to CU and so am not worthy of positive attention ... )
^ " The gang " is still around .
^ Alison finally decided she was doing an NZ , but did n't get funding .
^ Nor did Uriel or Ross .
^ Gracie , however , did , and is now " struggling to survive " on a disposable income of &pound; 311,000 .
^ Disposable because his parents pay his accommodation and tuition fees ! )
^ Karla is PGCEing and loving it .
^ He very impressively got his first placement at St. Oswald 's !
^ Pretty impressive considering he could have been placed anywhere between Gloucester and Middlesbrough !
^ As for me , I 'm plodding along with the philosophy , counting the days til the end of May .
^ The dissertation is going especially well .
^ I went to see my supervisor to ask him to recommend things for me to read and he asked if I 'd tried the library OPAC .
^ Hmmm ... .
^ Hayley Langridge is still on the employment roll in the department , though no one is quite sure why .
^ Robin Bonnie is on research leave this year , so the 3rd year Scientific
^ Knowledge and Reality students can breathe a sigh of relief .
^ I 've managed to pick modules so I only have 2 exams at the end of the year , but it means I have more work to do now , so I 'd better go and do it !
^ Hope to hear from you soon .
^ Anthony .
^ PS Your kids are fine .
^ Feel free to send maintenance payments at your earliest convenience .
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ What is Linux ?
^ Is it an operating system ?
^ I informed Jon and Kaylee of the telephone jake once more .
^ I arrived back from SU camp yesterday .
^ One intense week of abseiling , go-karting , mountain biking , sport , activities , bible study , prayer , music and meetings .
^ Oh , and yes , there were fifty ten and eleven year olds as well .
^ Children say the most curious things .
^ I think my two favourites from this week were " are we allowed to get the dinner plates dirty when we eat ? " and " do you have to sign a form to become a Christian ? "
^ Joking aside though , I enjoyed myself and was immensely relieved not to be sharing a dorm with children this time .
^ Consequently I enjoyed a much more respectable seven or eight hours sleep each night .
^ More importantly , two of the children made a commitment to Jesus , which was wonderful .
^ Last Tuesday evening we all played Cluedo outside in the grounds of the country house we stayed in .
^ I had to dress up as a butler , and this I did with some relish .
^ Yesterday evening I went to a concert in Berwick .
^ The Cologne New
^ Philharmonic Orchestra was playing .
^ This afternoon I 've been with my family to Manderston - a nearby country house .
^ It is very warm today and I like it .
^ We had quite a good week , weather wise , for the camp .
^ Tomorrow morning I begin my new job for nine weeks .
^ I will be working from eight o'clock until five in the lab , and I am quite looking forward to it although I hope it will not be too boring .
^ I 'm very sorry to hear about your car , although I 'm glad to hear you still patronise McDonald 's .
^ Ah , now , I wonder if you can help me ?
^ I am going to buy a CD rewriter , and I would like to be able to put it in my computer .
^ Do you have any advice about which model to go for ?
^ I hope you are well and making the most of the heat wave currently hitting Brighton .
^ All the best ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ HeLLo !
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Great to hear from you mate !
^ I hope you have had an enjoyable
^ Christmas and are psyching yourself up for an amazing New Year !
^ What will you be doing ?
^ I 'm glad to hear that your first term went well .
^ Do n't worry - the challenges never go away !
^ It 's also great to hear that you are taking over as Cu rep .
^ You got in there quickly did n't you ? ! !
^ Are you still living in Bath or have your family moved to Luxembourg now that your dad is head of Victoria ?
^ How long holidays have you got ?
^ I will be staying in Ipswich for the near future .
^ My health still is n't great and I am clinically depressed , so it is good to be looked after , despite the normal pressures of family life !
^ It is weird being at home after so long , cos your parents do n't realise that you have changed quite a lot !
^ I have just registered at some employment agencies , in the hope of getting some much needed money and work experience .
^ I have also enrolled on an editing course by correspondence , which is another potential source of dosh !
^ I am also planning to help Dad move on with his little Maths business , which provides ingenious Maths materials for schools !
^ My family are all well .
^ Sammy is awaiting news from Munich following interviews a couple of weeks ago , which is all a bit scary !
^ I hope this e-mail finds you well .
^ Take care of yourself and send my love to your family .
^ love Macie xxx
^ ~
^ Hi BEAR ! !
^ It 's Regan
^ I do check my wells account sometimes .
^ Well , I have had a ball of a time back home .
^ When I returned to my work ... .
^ I met a lovely girl called Jenny and who 's a Christian and she is my own age ... .
^ I took her out for a drink on New Years Eve and we get along really well .
^ Down side is she is going to South Hungary for a year out .... after working half a year in Somerfield .
^ Oh well , it 's lovely to have known her .
^ I have done loads of work over the holiday in the Supermarket and also baby sitting aswell .
^ I am playing the drum kit in a massive millenium service tommorow and am really looking forward to it .
^ I do miss uni though .
^ EVEN YOU , BEAR ! ! !
^ YES YOU ! !
^ I would love to have a copy of your program to analyse some logic .... please send me a copy .
^ I hope you have had a good time this holiday aswell with all your visits .
^ Did they go well ? ?
^ Anyway .... better go as it is quite late and I have to be up early to practice for the service ! !
^ Best Wishes ,
^ Yours ( in taking out THE FACILITY ! ! )
^ Regan baby .
^ ~
^ Kaden ,
^ Did I leave my small blue container of hair wax in your house ( upstairs in the bedroom ) ?
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Happy Birthday to you
^ Happy Birthday to YOU
^ Happy Birthday dear Be-ennnnn
^ Happy Birthday to you !
^ Wow ! 25 !
^ Ancient One ...
^ Have a great day , buddy .
^ You 're a wonderful friend , and I appreciate you very much indeed .
^ Thanks for your friendship .
^ Love ,
^ Bob
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^ Hello Nick - it was nice to hear from you , my friend in UK !
^ Yes , it is the Easter holiday for me too , and Camryn and Fatima of course .
^ Right after Easter I wil be working at a school for three weeks , we do that every term ( twice a year ) .
^ In May I too have a major exam to pass .
^ Earlier this winter I have went skiing two times only , and the weather for this Easter doesnB4t look god for this part of the country .
^ Usually you fin d the best weather in the south and east of Norway .
^ Little Fatima is growing , he is a blessing - thatB4s for sure !
^ But we are " battling " in our marriage - so donB4t hurry getting married ! ( well , I am joking a little ) .
^ But I am not an easy person to live together with - I know that very well .
^ So I have started going to a " adviser " in our church actual .
^ My life with God must also be improved I belive .
^ It would be a blessing if you and your family can pray for me if God reminds you about it !
^ I have the best wife a man can wish , so Camryn is not the largest problem ) I really miss you - and Brighton Nick .
^ I hope that during this year I can visit you folks again ( with or without Camryn and little Fatima ) .
^ Talking about travelling - next month Camryn and Fatima are leaving for VPN , they wil l stay there for a hole month .
^ Camryn got family and friends over there .
^ OK , be blessed Nick , and say " Happy Easter " from us .
^ PS ! sorry about my grammar !
^ Philip .
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ Merry Christmas my man !
^ I hope you lit up those French slopes .
^ How was it ?
^ Any cute French snowboarders ?
^ Ah well , I 'm sure we can talk about that later .
^ I 'm sure it was pretty awesome though .
^ The holiday season is treating me well in Romania .
^ Our family had Christmas on the 26th / 27th in the mountain town of Canmore .
^ We rented a couple of chalets , ate turkey buns , and went swimming in the outdoor hot tubs and hot pools .
^ Beauty .
^ Anyways , just wanted to wish you happy holidays and a happy new year .
^ Remember the New Year 's kiss ! )
^ Looking forward to see you guys in the new year .
^ Jude
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^ Dear Lance- I know that you are probably celebrating Hungary 's favorite holiday as we speak , and I really do n't need to remind you that it is , in fact , Thanksgiving over here .
^ I 'm sure you made a big turkey and had mashed potatos , corn , cranberry sauce and all of the other Thanksgivng treats that we eat on turkey day .
^ And i 'm sure that you did n't forget to make a pumkin pie , as that seems to be a favorite among the Irish .
^ Although we just finished our big feast and we 're all settling down to take nice long naps .
^ i ca n't help but wish i was still in Brighton so that I could have a yummy kebab with you and your dad .
^ mmmmmmmmm i can almost imagine that disgusting feeling you get in your stomach after you 've eaten one .
^ yum yum yum ...
^ actually , when i was in england , i only had a BITE of a kebab once and i did n't like it so i never ate another one .
^ but do n't they make you feel a little sick ? ?
^ maybe it was just me .
^ either way , i do hope you enjoyed yours !
^ I ca n't believe josiah had that many scoring violations ! ! )
^ that is really really really ridiculously too many scoring violations . (
^ what movie is that from ?
^ i 'll give ya 5 bucks if you figure it out
^ i always found josiah difficult to deal with )
^ i 'm glad that you are having a good time with him .
^ i do love those kids
^ everytime i think about the school , i feel kind of sad .
^ i hate having two places i love so much be so far apart .
^ when i was there , i missed being here ... now that i 'm here , i miss being there .
^ i guess i 'm just never happy .
^ anyways , have fun at the greens for cory 's birthday !
^ did you know that when cory came to visit at the end of last summer term we all went to your house for dinner ,
^ and after dinner your mom made cory water all the plants in the garden
^ i will never forget how much we laughed when we saw him out there working away .
^ your mom is so fun !
^ i 'm outta here ...
^ we 're going down to new york city tonight and are planning on sightseeing tomorrow , although they say it 's going to rain all day .
^ if you guys waited till it was n't raining to go someplace , none of you would EVER see anything in Brighton
^ i need to teach these people that a little rain should n't stop anyone ! !
^ hope you 're having a good day
^ lots of love ( my favorite thing to hear your mom say!! ) -
^ gina
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : illumination
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Donald ,
^ I would first like to state that the last time I checked there seemed to be only 2 or 3 young male teachers there ...
^ From the hottest toys to tips on keeping fit this winter , you 'll find a range of helpful holiday info here .
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^ Hope it 's going well for you so far and your new friends have n't managed to get you to do too much that you would n't have done here in Wells ... !
^ Fancy - 3 / 3/3 ... !
^ How 's it feel to be 24 ?
^ Or perhaps I should n't answer that : I 'll know in 9 months ' time !
^ Life here is n't too bad .
^ I 'm standing for DUAU President at the moment , which involves me in putting up lots of posters and getting fit running from Gilesgate to Jillian 's and back .
^ This year they 're doing electronic voting , so the ballot is open for 10 days to give people time to vote and irritate the candidates .
^ There 's three of us standing , so I 've got a fairly good chance of getting in .
^ Believe it or not , there 's seven people standing for DSU President ... .
^ Apart from that I have n't been up to much .
^ Term ends fairly soon so I 'm working flat out on my esssay trying to work out who Dmitrij son of Ivan the Terrible really was .
^ And then there 's the orienteering student championships in and around Sheffield next month for me to prepare for .
^ Have fun and do n't overdo it
^ Cheers
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thanks for the message .
^ I 'm glad you had a good time in Linconshire - I guess you did n't actually go in the sea !
^ When it snowed up here , my brother ( the dear little brother that he is ) decided I would like it if he woke me up by covering me ( and my bed ) in snow !
^ We then procedeed to have a full snowball fight indoors !
^ Glad my parents were out at the time & the carpet dried in time !
^ I spoke to Hayley the other day ! ! !
^ It was so good to speak to him !
^ I just remembered cos I 'm listening to Third Day and we 'd been talking on the phone about how we love that song .
^ as it reminds us both of the resurrection and the freedom , life and just everything that there is in it
^ how the play ( MoG ) did n't dwell on the crucifixion as a defeat , but immediately proclaimed it as victory
^ It was really good to talk to Hayley , we both had about a thousand things to say at once , which made for interesting conversation , with my normal side-tracking !
^ For New Year 's we 're all meeting up in Dundee at Valeria F 's .
^ Becs is giving me a lift down as she 's really close to me .
^ It 'll be really good to see everyone - especially all the guys back from abroad .
^ It was really good lance , yesterday I took all the stuff that I 'd kept from when me & Valeria were going out - all the letters .
^ cards , pictures , fluffy toys and other sickly romantic stuff ! ! - and threw them out
^ I 'd wanted to do it for a while , but had n't gotten around to it .
^ But while I was doing it & thinking of doing it , part of me really did n't want to -I think that 's why I 've taken so long to do it .
^ I think it 's really good to make myself let go and not cling to that sort of stuff .
^ Part of a process I think .
^ God 's really helped me to let go of a lot , and letting go of all this stuff is another step forward , I think .
^ New Years ' at her house seems a bit scary , but I 'm sure it 'll be fine , it 'll be really good to see all the guys .
^ Patrick is really making an effort to make sure things are n't at all odd between us which is really nice
^ The other day one of my friends came over - Jade .
^ I 'd seen him a couple of times already , but it was really good to see him again .
^ We took the dog for a walk at about 1am !
^ Last night we all went over to see this american family that we know in Sheffield , which was really good .
^ I 'll be back in Wells on the 3rd , as my sister 's got an open day & I 'm going up with her ,
^ Hope you 're all well at home ,
^ love Rylee .
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^ not handsome enough to tempt me . &SMILEY
^ Hey Nick !
^ Thanks for writing back !
^ Things have been rather hectic here .
^ I just finished five weeks of a clerkship in the small South Carolinian town of Orangeburg .
^ I was following various doctors and observing them .
^ It was rather fun !
^ In the meantime , I moved into my new house .
^ It is a wonderful house with hardwood floors , a yard , and lots of roomates . &SMILEY
^ Jessie , Amanda , and Miranda are all going to be living there with me !
^ Now I am in Seattle relaxing with some friends .
^ The weather here is beautiful- clear , sunny , and not humid !
^ Today , I am going home to Lake Chelan to stay with my family .
^ My sister is getting married in two weeks so it is going to be a very hectic time .
^ My mom is already very stressed out and it is making everyone else stressed , too .
^ Oh well .
^ It is cherry season and they are picking cherries in our orchard .
^ I am excited to eat Washington cherries !
^ Do they grow cherries in Brighton ?
^ Let me know how you are doing .
^ Do you know if you will be starting school this fall ?
^ I hope everything is going well .
^ Your friend ,
^ Keira
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^ Dear Mrs. Cutter ,
^ I have just received a letter from the Health and Safety Division requiring that I attend two training sessions on the mornings of Tue 8th and &DATE . Unfortunately both these sessions clash with introductory week lectures .
^ the letter says that if I need to be excused attendance I need to contact my head of department or representative to obtain it
^ Please would you advise me on what to do .
^ Many thanks ,
^ Nick Malone
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^ Hi Nick ! )
^ It is May 15th and the sun is shining , the weather in Bergen is nice .
^ Today I had " a pre-test " at school , and next week I 'll have another exam , so I have a lot of studying to do ! ! !
^ What did you do during the ?
^ Good Friday I went cross-skiing on one of the many mountains surrounding Bergen .
^ On the wall next to me there is a photo taken at your grandparents last year , it is showing you and I in the garden .
^ I really liked your grandparents , you must say " Hello ! " to them from that crazy Norwegian !
^ Are you still dating Kaylee ?
^ OK , Nick - Be blessed !
^ Camryn and Fatima says hi !
^ Philip
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^ hey bear ,
^ It was our car , it was a renault 5 , but it was only worth &pound; 2800 .
^ I get into a car for the first time in a while on Saturday , my brothers VW Golf and I am determined to keep driving .
^ If I learnt anything , maybe it 's to not let things get to out of hand , and stop the car and try and reason with the driver .
^ Even if it means fighting , it wo n't neccessarily mean that I would die .
^ However if we had stopped , he would have recognised our faces and then we might have reppucussions if he were a complete pshycho .
^ I think it was a case of just being in the wrong place at the wrong time .
^ We were so happy when the car rolled over , it just shows how desperate we were .
^ I 'm always having loads of things happening to me , I just do n't know why .
^ Not all of them are bad though ... some of them are very good .
^ I wish I was back at uni sometimes .
^ I had no responsibility and I could get up when I wanted and stay out til gone 5am without worrying about how I 'd cope !
^ I know you will work hard and do well you are very good at that , and it showed last year !
^ People like you go on to great things , just do n't stress and enjoy this amazing time at uni .
^ When you 've left , it 's never the same if you go back ... you lap up the time you have left ( end of lecture ! )
^ Good luck though lance , when i get paid , I 'll come at visit you in your new abode !
^ I am so growing in confidence here in Carlisle and the 26 other grads are great and we go out alot .
^ I have made a few really good friends who share alot about themselves with me and me with them , which is excellent , cos I really like getting to know people .
^ Also I 'm hoping to rent a flat with some friends in 2 weeks time , which should be good .
^ Will see you when I come up to Wells ,
^ Take care ,
^ Regan xxx
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^ Kosuke my friend !
^ Great to hear from you .
^ I had been wondering how you 're doing .
^ I am not in Wells at the moment , because it is my summer holiday .
^ I have moved out of my flat and will be living in Philip 's College next year .
^ Back to the table tennis !
^ I am staying at my uncle 's house now .
^ He has two dogs !
^ They are very smelly !
^ Bob is in Romania at the moment , and I went to visit Kaylee the other day - she is doing well .
^ What is it like to be back in Japan ?
^ What are you doing at the moment ?
^ You can email me on this address ( &EMAIL ) .
^ Keep smiling and God bless you ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. When I write some more songs I will try and send you the MP3 files !
^ Hi Nick ! !
^ How are you ? ?
^ I am so sorry because when we meet last day , I
^ coudnmeet you , and its too late to contact to you .
^ I had a good time in england .
^ Are you still stay with Bob and tabitha ?
^ If you had already moved , can you teach me your new adress ? ?
^ I wanna keep in touch !
^ When I hear your song , I feel like go back to
^ Wells so much ! !
^ This is my new address .
^ please give me your messase ! !
^ &EMAIL
^ Bye ! !
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^ Hi Mr. Weeks !
^ How are you hanging ?
^ When do you start work ?
^ HOW WAS ALTON TOWERS ? ? ? ! ! !
^ I 've started background work for Munich now - bought some big , expensive books and I 'm trying to get my mind around such things as " Modern Engineering Mathematics " , etc. !
^ What 's your life like at the moment ?
^ Mine has been pretty busy recently , with various family trips and stuff .
^ We went for a holiday in Scotland a couple of weeks ago and stayed in Wells on the way up and back for a couple of nights .
^ It was very strange and quite emotional walking around the empty streets , with memories flooding back at every turn .
^ What an amazing three years they were !
^ I 'd love to hear your news - email soon ,
^ Be(n\|ar)
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Term has started up again and the new fresher 's are definitely an interesting bunch .
^ Apparently we have had no drop-outs at all during fresher 's week , which is unheard of ( and we are the only college to have managed this , at least this year ) .
^ Cloe invited me to the Alexis 's Formal Top table for my work on the JCR website which was a great honour .
^ Tristan and Shaun also made it for their work on the handbook , along with the reps and coordinator Westy .
^ Living in my house has proven to be a very interesting experience , and probably not as bad as some other people have found it - Imani
^ Rhodes has had his heating turned off for one reason or another and has been bathing in college , and other people have had fairly severe arguments .
^ We are doing well , apart from a bit of friction with Jared , who it seems does n't feel as much of a part of the house as the rest of us .
^ This is probably due to having lived in it all summer alone , and now having to deal with 4 other people in the same space .
^ As is usual for me , I 've been a bit down at the beginning of term .
^ I think this is mostly due to the " shock " of moving out of home , which I may never get used to !
^ We have made arrangements to have an internet connection in our house which should be great when it finally works ( computers networked fine but our ISP is truly terrible and we are looking at changing ) .
^ The timetable for year 2 is quite incredibly hectic !
^ I 'm finding it hard to devote enough time to following up on lecture notes .
^ However , my SEG group is fantastic - We 're SEG6 ( which number were you ? ) and two of the members are friends of mine .
^ one of them from my high school / sixth form / summer work placement ! ) and another lives only two doors down on Sutton Street
^ This year we are developing software to meet the specification of a real client .
^ I do n't know much about them but they are a charity for deaf people , and it sounds fairly special .
^ I wonder if the winning SEG group 's software would actually be taken on ?
^ I am looking forward to the more unusual aspects of the syllabus however , C++ , perl , FP , etc .
^ How is life in Kassidy 's going ?
^ Did you get a place in College ( is Munich as much of a nightmare for ! 1st year accommodation as Wells ? ) ?
^ How are you finding the work ?
^ I 've been thinking about what to do when I eventually graduate and applaying for an M ( A\|Sc\|Phil ) somewhere is fairly high on my list !
^ Anyway my friends are nagging me to leave the Computer Room ( friday night , &TIME ) so I 'd better go .
^ Take Care !
^ See you soon ,
^ Aimee Heslop IT / Web Rep ,
^ St Philip 's JCR
^ ~
^ hello !
^ i 'm fine thanks .
^ good to here from you .
^ work ? eh ? what 's work ? not sure if i ever told you
^ at the end of last year i managed to get myself elected as the dsu 's environment officer .....
^ not sure if that was a good thing or not .
^ it means that i 'm really busy what with this whole 2nd year malarky
^ ( they seem to want you to actually work this year .
^ bit silly that )
^ and stuff i 'm ment to be doing for the dsu .
^ i think i 'm glad that i 'm doing lots though
^ it 's making me do my physics work , as i have to find the time .
^ the house is fine .
^ it 's good fun .
^ no arguements yet , and the foods been fine .
^ i 've just got back form the lake district .
^ my mum + dad went to see my granny + grandpa
^ an anual event in a hotel ever since their 50th wedding aniversary )
^ so they came via wells and picked me up .
^ it was good to get out of wells and to stay in a hotel and eat proper really nice food
^ i got to spend some time with my cousins as well .
^ hows the cu down there ?
^ enjoy the maths &SMILEY
^ speak to you soon
^ ashley
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Rylie !
^ How 's tricks ?
^ How is the house working out ?
^ Are they actually making you do some work this year ? ? ( only joking )
^ Well , I 'm now a University of Munich postgraduate , and I 'm having a really great time !
^ I have a lovely room , with a university network connection ! ! !
^ That 's pretty much all I need to be happy : o ) .
^ My parents and sister have been visiting me today , and we 've walked all around Munich , marvelling at the architecture and trying to find places to park and stuff .
^ I am doing quite a lot of work - there 's lots of maths concepts I have to catch up on , because I never really did that much maths at school .
^ Is n't it great to be alive ? ? !
^ OK , hasta lasagne ,
^ Nick
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^ Hi Savanna !
^ How are you ?
^ When do you start your Masters ?
^ I 'm currently sitting in my room at home in my pyjamas and dressing gown , with my leg stuck up in the air because I sprained my ankle yesterday playing football .
^ We were 1-0 up , and I sprained it with two minutes to go before full-time , and they went and equalised 10 seconds after I went off and we ended up drawing - typical !
^ Oh well , at least Spurs are doing well at the moment !
^ I am working on preparation for Munich at the moment - I 'm in Kassidy college and I 'll be moving in on October 4th .
^ I am starting to look forward to it now , especially the thought of being involved with student life , football , etc .
^ Bob has just got back from a month 's holiday in North Hungary with his brother .
^ He still has n't sorted out what he 's doing next year , but he 's still going out with Karri ( as far as I know - I 'm planning to call him today ) .
^ Tabitha is moving into her house in Munich today .
^ Next week she starts her first school placement .
^ Parker is working on placement in Middlesborough , staying in Wells at Maximus 's .
^ He 's met up with Jonathan a couple of times I think .
^ Jon is at home doing not much , in the process of thinking about finding a job for next year .
^ Mallory is off to Dundee soon to begin the first year of his Economics conversion course .
^ Well , let me know how you 're getting on ,
^ Love Nick
^ P.S. Did I tell you that we 've moved into a new house in Rutford , near Luxembourg ?
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^ Matey Sedgwick !
^ Great to hear from you !
^ I should have emailed you some time ago but now there is no excuse &SMILEY
^ I hope you 've had an abundant time .
^ I remember talking to you about adventures last summer , how you wanted to be an adventurer and after reading the chronicles of Narnia - I want to be one too !
^ Great books !
^ Good to hear that you 're having some adventures , the one at Heathrow sounds interesting ! when I went to last year !
^ I do n't think I had time to sit down for more than two minutes before we boarded , a bit close but not as fashionable as your departure
^ How long are you thinking of being out there for ?
^ Vic Goring is going down to work with Project Gateway ( in maritzburg ...
^ for up to 26 months in July , which I guess is quite a way from Rolomandi , but who knows there could be a grett massive sometime
^ Have you got any cricket fielding tips ?
^ Saeed has asked me to substitute for about 45 minutes this afternoon in the prestigious grett cricket team , that ball is too hard !
^ Had a go at the Carlisle marathon last Sunday , which was fun if quite painful !
^ Loads of people , great atmosphere and God gave me strength to get round , heyhey !
^ Mouthwash was a good call , I could do with some soon ...
^ May your adventures be many and rich , great grace be upon you ,
^ Callum
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Hello .
^ I hope that your holidays are going well and that you have been working on your tan !
^ I do n't really know why I wrote that ... I hope that you are having a nice vacation . )
^ I have got back from Kenya and so has Terrance .
^ We had an amazing time and played lots of footie .
^ I was talking to Jon today and she mentioned that you suggested we invite ourselves to Bob 's house in Munich for a " reunion " .
^ I think this is an excellent idea .
^ Please could you try and arrange the dates stuff soonish because I would very much like to see Jon .
^ all you guys and if that is not going to work out I will find another time to come down and do a little tour
^ Obviously it will be easier if everyone comes to the same place ... )
^ Ok well whatever / ( I do sound quite bossy in this message but I am not trying to be I am just quite bored . )
^ Mungu akubariki ,
^ Valeria
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^ Hi Nick !
^ Thanks so much for sending your CD .
^ I really , really enjoy it ... you should go on tour . &SMILEY
^ All the American chicks would dig your Irish accent .
^ I am enjoying my second year of medical school ... I ca n't believe that it has been four weeks already .
^ It has been awesome living with Amanda , Miranda and Jessie .
^ We have our first pathology test is on Friday .
^ The first sentence in our book is , " Pathology , literally , is the study of suffering . "
^ It is definitely suffering .
^ If you get a chance you can check out my new website- &WEBSITE
^ Write when you get a chance and let me know how you are doing , ok !
^ Madelyn
^ ps. Jessie wanted me to ask you , what is a stag-do ? !
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^ Hello again ,
^ We have been looking for a job for about a week now and still no joy so we are going to head up to the bay of islands ( we think ) tomorrow and see what that 's like .
^ Wellingtons is pretty cool ( where we are now ) but I want to see a place with a few more beaches and where it 's more chilled out .
^ So yeah , we are heading up there tomorrow so I 'll let you know how things go .
^ I have n't even got a suntan yet either ! but hopefully a few days on the beach will sort that out - not !
^ I am ever going to go brown - I just do n't want to be this kind of unhealthy pale blue colour which I have been for years
^ Anyway , will be in touch .
^ Lindsey
^ Scotty , thanx for the reference by the way .
^ Sorry it took so long .
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^ Dear all ,
^ Hope you are all well ...
^ Attached is the first of my newsletters , if you 're interested , regarding my trip to Kenya ... in 2 weeks I 'll be off there , all being well .
^ I am frantically busy right now , trying to get work all tied up and sorted before I 'm away for a month .
^ Work is good though , although I am finding organising a conference for 800 teachers harder work than I originally thought .
^ You know , for people who go on about how bad it is to hand your homework in late , they really are shocking at filling in forms and returning them on time !
^ Anyway , best wishes to you all , and many thanks for your interest in and support for my trip .
^ Hopefully I 'll be in touch with you all again soon , and maybe get the chance to speak to some of you before I leave .
^ Bye for now , love Anna xx
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^ Hi .
^ Whassup my main geeza ?
^ I guess you 've started work now ? !
^ Hope it 's going well .
^ I went to visit Kaden this week with a friend from home .
^ We had a fabulous time - Kaden and I did quite a lot of reminiscing about Wells and your name came up qutie a bit .
^ Kaden asked me to pass on his regards to you .
^ I 've got about three weeks left now before I move to Munich .
^ Is n't life funny .
^ Today I 've been paintballing ! ! !
^ It was great fun , and I 've got quite a few bruises - one particularly colourful one on my backside !
^ Keep it real my old boy ,
^ Bear
^ ~
^ Hi Rachel , it 's Nick Malone here .
^ Just writing a quick message to Jeremy if you would n't mind passing it on - thanks !
^ Hi Jeremy ,
^ Thanks for the card - it 's fantastic .
^ My ankle is getting better slowly , but I do n't think I 'll be able to play football for another two weeks or so .
^ Hopefully it 'll be fully better by the time I go to Munich .
^ Hope to see you soon ; I guess you 'll be coming round here for a guitar lesson soon .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Hi everyone !
^ This is just a random email because I suddenly realised that I have your addresses and so I do n't have to be in email isolation over the holidays !
^ Please email and save me from boredom and " death by family " ...
^ Hope you are all having a good holiday so far ... if anyone needs any second hand books ( including foreign lit !
^ let me know ( I 'm back working in the second hand bookshop ) ... special offer of the day ... an dictionary , only &pound; 60
^ Lots of love , FIONAxxx PS If you have the addresses of anyone else , please forward them !
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ How are you ?
^ And a belated happy easter !
^ Hope you had a good holiday enjoying the sun and some rest !
^ What does this term have in store for you ?
^ I 'm having a slightly tricky time at the moment ! !
^ My dissertation proposal was failed for being too detailed ! !
^ And I 'm still waiting to hear if it has been accepted second time round but sadly and annoyingly the course director has gone awol and so I still do n't know if I can stay on .
^ Grrrr !
^ But there are blue skies ! !
^ I did have a very relaxing holiday though .
^ I went to Carlisle with my Mum to visit some family and we did lots of touristy things like going on the Carlisle Eye and to Kew Gardens .
^ Wells is looking good in this typical exam season weather ! !
^ I 'm going in to a Special School twice a week and having a fantastic time .
^ Keeps my feet on the ground ! !
^ Well , hope to ehar from you soon
^ Love
^ Rylie
^ ~
^ Hi Nick just Eric here ,
^ I am most definitely writing to say Hello and catch up hopefully ( if you reply ) .
^ also to see if you could send me Suzy and Tabitha 's e mail addresses
^ Tabitha 's mobile number and your own mobile number because I had to get a new phone handset and had not stored your numers on the sim card
^ what have you been up to ? where are you ? what are your plans ? did yo u enjoy the holiday ? what can i pray for for you ? when will i hear from yo u ?
^ i dont have much news at all , I have been doing agency catering work but am stopping because it has stopped me thinking about my real future , and is making me forget the potential I have .
^ i am still at home and still at my old church and I am decorating my room which is great fun .
^ i have kind of met a new bloke but its quite a long story
^ have celebrated 4 birthdays , been to the first of 3 weddings am going to do a christian camp
^ a short camping holidday and 2 weddings all in a fortnight and possibly go to Oxley indefinitely with new " bloke "
^ anyway speak soon I hope ,
^ love Eric xx
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ Just wondering if you 're ... alive ?
^ Still sentient ?
^ Let me know at your convenience .
^ Thank you ,
^ Dominic
^ We had an absolutely horrendous lightening storm this morning .
^ It cut the power here .
^ I bet you 're glad you 're not on holiday in Scotland like Jon ! )
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Well I 've been home almost a week now ( well , a little less ) and I 'm shattered !
^ My house is in the middle of being redecorated , so its a little hectic and hard to work in .
^ At the moment I have my books and computer in my room ( top of a tall house ) and 30 m of networking cable trailing downstairs ...
^ If I remember correctly you have ( or had ) to vacate the house you are in or something . .
^ I imagine thats quite chaotic too !
^ How are you ?
^ I 've been struck down with illness which is annoying .
^ I 've got some work done but I still need to settle in a bit more .
^ Off to Perth this weekend with Kate to stay at Jared 's house ( from the other end of your corridor ) which should be fun , if I 'm less ill .
^ Most of my friends from Whitley Bay are still at university so its nice to see someone from time to time .
^ We 're quite spoilt with the Internet nowerdays , keeping in touch is remarkably easy .
^ I hope you and your family have a lovely ( relaxing / productive / entertaining / exciting etc. ) christmas , but no doubt I 'll email you again before then &SMILEY
^ Take care ,
^ Jonathan ( Grandson )
^ ~
^ Hey Regan ,
^ Great to see you today - thanks very much for coming out in spite of your hectic schedule !
^ Hope the time in Wells goes really well , and that you manage to get into Dunelm !
^ I am really quite jealous of your new computer .
^ Makes mine look somewhat puny .
^ Oh well , I guess I 'm getting a taste of my own medicine when I used to gloat over how much better my computer was than that awful iPatriot of yours !
^ I 'd love to meet up ( in Carlisle or Munich ) sometime soon and catch up properly .
^ Till then ...
^ Ciao !
^ Bear
^ ~
^ Hey Regan ,
^ Great to see you today - thanks very much for coming out in spite of your hectic schedule !
^ Hope the time in Wells goes really well , and that you manage to get into Dunelm !
^ I am really quite jealous of your new computer .
^ Makes mine look somewhat puny .
^ Oh well , I guess I 'm getting a taste of my own medicine when I used to gloat over how much better my computer was than that awful iPatriot of yours !
^ I 'd love to meet up ( in Carlisle or Munich ) sometime soon and catch up properly .
^ Till then ...
^ Ciao !
^ Bear
^ ~
^ Hello Maz !
^ As I said I 've been meaning to email you for ages , and now I 've finally got round to it .
^ Yay ! !
^ You know , I was thinking earlier on how much I miss our conversations .
^ I have always found in you an honesty that is really refreshing .
^ Do you remember some of the " deep & meaningful " conversations we had toward the start of the year ? ? ?
^ I find it very sad that I ca n't just pop downstairs and say hi .
^ I think that I 'm missing having my friends around me more than I 'm consciously aware of .
^ I 've been hearing about what you 're up to from Mallory quite a bit - sounds like you 've been pretty busy !
^ How are things going with the Lally-meister ?
^ I 've just got back from my holiday in Scotland , and it was a good time , although I would n't say caravaning is my ideal holiday !
^ We 've never really done a caravaning holiday before so we did n't quite realise how much " stuff " you have to do , especially setting up and taking down .
^ We hardly had any sunshine which was a shame as the scenery was amazing .
^ We stayed most of the time at a campsite right on the bank of Loch Dick !
^ The views were pretty cool , and I took quite a few photos .
^ We had a bit of a problem with midges ( disgusting creatures ) but we coped OK over all .
^ One of my favourite things we did was to go to a " Nessie &YEAR " exhibition all about the Loch Dick Monster .
^ It was very interesting and I loved it , even though it was basically saying that there ca n't really be a monster down there .
^ I did n't see anything anyway .
^ Now I 'm back home and I 've just started working for Munich .
^ I 'm beginning a book called " Modern Engineering Mathematics " .
^ It is SO HARD getting my brain into gear - I seem to be constantly tired .
^ I 'm looking forward to Munich , but right now I 'm feeling a lot of mixed emotions .
^ We stayed in Wells on the way up and back from Scotland and it was really emotional wandering around and having 3 years worth of memories flooding in at every turn .
^ I 'm finding it difficult to feel like I 've got a sense of purpose in my life at the moment .
^ Everything seems to be somewhat unsettled .
^ Still , God knows what He 's doing .
^ Well , all the best Cody , and I 'd love to hear how you 're getting on .
^ Mr. Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Regan ,
^ Great to see you today - thanks very much for coming out in spite of your hectic schedule !
^ Hope the time in Wells goes really well , and that you manage to get into Dunelm !
^ I am really quite jealous of your new computer .
^ Makes mine look somewhat puny .
^ Oh well , I guess I 'm getting a taste of my own medicine when I used to gloat over how much better my computer was than that awful iPatriot of yours !
^ I 'd love to meet up ( in Carlisle or Munich ) sometime soon and catch up properly .
^ Till then ...
^ Ciao !
^ Bear
^ Hey Nick !
^ Hey Nick !
^ How 's it going ?
^ Long time no see ! ! !
^ Are you still in the middle of finals or are they over ?
^ Well I hope they went or are going ok !
^ So how 's life treating you ?
^ What are your plans now ? ?
^ I 'm doing a masters in Carlisle at the Carlisle School of Hygiene and
^ Tropical Medicine part time which is going well .
^ I have just finished for the summer so am looking for some full time work until October ( the course is 2 years cos I 'm doing it part-time ) .
^ I have been teaching with
^ Margie in an ACE school in Carlisle which was quite an experience and quite weird to begin with , but I resigned from that last week , cos it was too stressful ... long story ...
^ I 'm living in a convent ( again ! ) let out to students in central Carlisle until the end of June ... when it is closing .. . so I 'm also looking for accomodation in Carlisle ...
^ I 'm going to be moving in with a friend from
^ Dundee so that should be fun ... I 'm really fed up with sharing kitchens and bathrooms with 10 others now .... !
^ It would be great to meet up at some point soon ... are you planning to come to Carlisle any time soon or even just passing through ? bye for now ,
^ Amya x
^ ps I heard you went to Omar 's party ... privileged or what ... no one else of our " generation " was invited !
^ how was it ? ?
^ ~
^ Thanks for your letter .
^ It was cool to hear from you .
^ Good luck with your
^ Jap dude ! !
^ I 'm going to give you my mass produced diary so I do n't have to write it in my letter - which I am currently composing ! ) should be with you just now ! - here it is :
^ Right , now I shall fill you in on my African Adventure ! ! !
^ It will be quite scimpy , but I hope you get the feel .
^ I had a total of 16 hours flying time , and about 8 hours airport delays and stop-overs , so I was tied up for about 1 day on planes and such !
^ Quite fun , but glad to get off at JHB !
^ Where I met a guy by the name of Lawrence who I spent the next three days with !
^ That day I met up with their youth group , and had a bbq , and then spent the WHOLE of the next day playing a footy competition for them !
^ Lekker , but knackering ! !
^ On Sunday night we went with a group of Os - SA term for people ! - to watch some thoroughly illegal but very cool street racing !
^ Basically , a buch of overgrown teenagers in over suped-up cars going , well VERY quickly !
^ Two Os crashed and EVERY body - there was about 500 ! - dispersed in about 10 minutes in order to avoid the police who had been called .
^ Great to watch !
^ Anyhows , on the Monday I went up to an Educator's
^ Convention where I met up with Josue and Haz , Leilani Swindon - who is also out here for those who did n't know - !
^ Phyl - a lady who came to Victory for 6 months a few years back
^ I also met the rest of Rolomandi team - all cool !
^ We spent Mon and Tues at the convention , and then headed back here - 6 hours away !
^ And six hours on these pot-hole ridden roads in the back of a little van with 5 other guys is no small under taking ! !
^ But it helped me get to know a few of them .
^ I have spent the last week and a half here at Rolomandi teaching and doing odd jobs for Josue .
^ During that time , I went out with one of the guys here and his two little boys to a local mountain - they are all around us here !
^ Mega beautiful - village , and handed out blankets , clothes and food to the locals .
^ It was eye-opening is really all I can say .
^ It was an amazing time , and I took some photos - which I hope do the experience justice !
^ - but it is difficult to explain in writing - or typing - , so I look forward to many conversations when I return
^ I have done other little excursions , but it would take me forever to write them all .
^ Needless to say , God has been great to me , and I am having a lovely time here !
^ Pray that all keeps on a similarly wonderful path , and also for my health which has n't been too wonderful , but is rapidly getting accustomed to the change of environment and culture !
^ Thanks !
^ Right , will give you more data in my letter !
^ Love you Loads bro !
^ It is weird to think of you out here , it all seems so different when you see it in person !
^ So to speak .
^ More to come !
^ Love you So much ,
^ M
^ Oh yeah , I am braying for your exams ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Go for it !
^ ~
^ How u getting along ?
^ Have u heard about your exams yet ?
^ Played any footie ?
^ I 'm waiting for a few bits of work to come back , but other than that we have been given spectacularly little work to do !
^ Bit worrying really , since half my modules are coursework based - must have a heck of a lot of work still to come ! ! ! !
^ Oh goodie ! ! ! !
^ Ah well , only 3 exams at end , so that 's a plus !
^ DUAU have been really slow to sort out the leagues - they have decided to split all the leagues in half at this point in the season to reduce the number of games .
^ However , it seems to be so complicated we will have missed half the season by the time they get it done ! ! !
^ Anyway , training as usual - oh crunching tackle with Sid has left a little rip down the side of my new boots !
^ Tres annoying !
^ C'est la vie .
^ We r sposed to have an astro tournament too on monday nights , but they have n't got that sorted either yet ! ! !
^ Playing hockey too - they are rather desperate for players !
^ Flat life is progressing as normal .
^ Everything seems to go past so quickly up here .
^ We went to Patrick , eleanor , Leslie and Leilani Coombs house for a murder mystery thing the other night .
^ Lots of fun ! ! !
^ I was a camp and collected 60's photographer .
^ Went on for ever but good to catch up with everyone .
^ Also , I do n't think I ever thanked you properly ( if at all ! ! ! ! ) for the money u gave me before Milan .
^ Thanks so much .
^ We had a wonderful time - very exhausting trying to get everywhere , but great when u made it !
^ Covered most of the must see 's of Milan or at least all the ones we wanted to .
^ All cool , but mostly it was great just to have the chance to spend some time with Becs wandering around Milan enjoying the french cuisine and each others company !
^ The customary arguments were had - in fact we argued ALL the way down the Champs es ( i 'm not gonna try and spell that but u know - the big road .
^ about whether it was afe or not to let other people take photos of u with your amera
^ I was of course agruing the only logical viewpoint .
^ Anyhow , made it rather funny to look back on .
^ But it was a great time and New Year under the Eiffel Lally was very memorable - principally for the danger of it all !
^ There were millions of " private " firework displays going off and most of them seemed to involve rockets and screamers of all discripts falling over and then whizzing through the crowd that had assembled .
^ To make life a little more exciting , people were going about with sort of over-sized fire crackers that they threw into a group and when they blew up they made a noise just as loud as a BIG rocket !
^ So we spent most of the hour or so we were there back-to-back keeping vigil and stamping out and mini-bombs thrown at us !
^ All very exciting but added to the exhaustion ! ! !
^ We were both ok for 2 full days we had , but on the last night I got some stomach bug and B got a nasty cold , so we were a !
^ right pair of misery guts since we had to spend about 10hours on or around trains to get home - I was SO glad to be back after that
^ Spent FAR too long in the Eurostar loo ! ! ! !
^ But still , we had a great time , and thanks for gift to that .
^ It was a great blessing !
^ Oh and Euros are miserable things !
^ Gotta go to dinner now Bro , but I hope you 're keeping well .
^ Speak soon and love u loads !
^ Jonny xxx
^ PS , grapes are cheap in safeway ! ! ! !
^ YUM !
^ ~
^ Hey honey
^ How 's it going ...
^ Glad you can make it to the party ...
^ I just wanted to say that if you 'd like to stay over , you 're more than welcome ... we have a sofa bed and it might be nice to chill together on Sunday ?
^ I am just about well now but have been in bed for a few days with some kind of bug ...
^ I now need to get with the studying to catch up a bit ! attacking the influcence of research on policy this afternoon ! ... take care
^ Amya xx
^ ~
^ Hey mate ,
^ How 's things ?
^ I 'm really tired out having spent the last few weeks being very busy , but Im closer to the Easter holidays now !
^ I might have to get a job but atleast it will be a change and therefore a break of sorts !
^ I need the money because I broke my mobile phone !
^ How wierd is it that three or so years ago I did n't have a mobile phone and did n't ever really need one !
^ Now though , it has become my lifeline and I have had to replace it !
^ Not that I 'm really complaining because I am about to get a really nice new Motorolla phone , but it is nevertheless a phone that I ca n't afford !
^ The other one was cutting out all the time and seemed to never charge up any more .
^ One day , I got a bit annoyed as it turned off when I was talkign to Nikki so I threw it against an amp !
^ I do n't think it liked that much !
^ Anyway , I 'll let you have my new number when I know it !
^ Are you staying in Munich for Easter ?
^ I hope you are giving yourself a bit of a break !
^ How 's all the work going ?
^ Have you played any more football / Hockey ?
^ Have you heard the Eurovision song ?
^ I actually have n't heard it yet but it was written by one of my tutors !
^ I bet he 's gonna a make a fair bit of money out of that !
^ Hope things are well anyway mate ,
^ Bob
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Bob Corrie " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Happy Birthday !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Thanks Bob !
^ I 've had a couple of nice little birthday celebrations .
^ Went out for a pub dinner on Sunday with some friends from College - I love having friends !
^ And had a meal with my housemates yesterday .
^ My mum and dad gave me a framed picture of Wells , which looks fantastic , and will be a great memory .
^ Also got a Jade Jamesal " live " CD - do you know him ( not JTQ ! ) .
^ Folky guitar-based stuff - nice .
^ O
^ Nick ,
^ Just wanted to say ..... HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
^ Hope you had a really good day mate .
^ I was n't able to email yesterday because I never got near the computers but I did think about you .
^ What did you get up to ?
^ Did you get lots of cool things ?
^ I guess you still had to do all your work but I hope you got some time to celebrate as well .
^ Hope everything is going well mate !
^ Take care and hope you had a good day
^ Bob
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons &WEBSITE
^ MSN Messenger - fast , easy and FREE ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey Nick !
^ So , this lady person takes a long time to answer her emails .
^ Deary me !
^ Have been on a splendid revision trip this morning .
^ What on earth , I hear you say , is a revision trip ?
^ Well , it 's when you strap your flat table to the top of a car , load up on chairs , and drive out in to the country for about twenty five miles .
^ Speeds of 70 mph were reached and strange looks were given by those we met .
^ You then put the table in a field and revise .
^ I went with Jack ( flatmate ) , Eve and Leilani Repold .
^ We got an hour of solid work done before it rained ...
^ I can recomend it .
^ Will send you some pictures tomorrow !
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hi Stevo !
^ Thanks for coming away these last few days - I have so enjoyed your company .
^ I 'll find some way to get you the photos , but I 've attached a little number to whet your appetite !
^ Jonah
^ ~
^ Hi Liz !
^ How 's tricks ?
^ What are you up to at the moment ?
^ What 's the situation on the male front ?
^ I 'm at home , preparing for Munich , working through a large and somewhat complicated mathematics book - are n't you jealous ? !
^ Last week I went up to the Peak District with my friend Stevo from home , to visit Kaden ( from
^ Cranmer , remember ? ) .
^ I have found it quite difficult leaving Wells and sort of " floating " here at home , but I am looking forward to going to Munich now .
^ Anway , I hope this email finds you well - be in touch if you can .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Bradley ! ! !
^ Are you ready for me to come and stay with you again ? ?
^ I 'm thinking about coming perhaps in early March and staying for around 3-4 months .
^ Whaddayathink ?
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Welcome home Bob ! ! ! !
^ Hope your journey back was OK , and that you and Karri are not missing the sun too much !
^ O
^ ~
^ I just crafted a really useless , but extremely long letter .
^ It is late and I 'm tuckered out from convention , so I decided to spell check .
^ Bad move .
^ Letter gone .
^ Anyway , having poured out my heart soul and life in that letter repetition will not ensue .
^ Maybe I could bullet points it .
^ -How was Nayeli 's graduation ?
^ Fun ?
^ How did you celebrate ?
^ Wells + summer beautiful , n'est ce pas ? - busy year ( lots of interesting stuff going on in family ) - interesting house shared .
^ w. girl from church & 3 of her Art uni mates .
^ witness opportunities good .
^ - school good at convention .
^ fruit being bourne ( sp ? ) ( do n't dare use spell check and no , I have n't yet done all my WB PACEs
^ I am quite a good way through the beginning of my level
^ 1) school sort of under attack having done well morally and spiritually at convention
^ Okay so we got medals too , but some of the best fruit was shown in 2 girls who did n't get any . -
^ 2 people became Christians aged 14 and 15 at school in autumn term .
^ 1 of them progressing , even though has no mum , dad lives in Jamaica and lives w. drug dealing bro and sister-in-law . -
^ that made more difference to school than anything else for a long time . -
^ thinking of not teaching seniors temporarily and maybe moving to preschool for a time
^ hot off the press today ) whatever , it 's all in God 's plan , so I 'll ask him about that one . -
^ convention great
^ I 'm dealing better w. it every year and it deals w. me more every year .
^ Started off rebellious e.g. dress code , but now am almost home-school like in my devotion to following manual ( Ken Housman would be very proud of me ! ) and master obviously , but that different issue .
^ hmmm , that sort of sums up the randomness of my mail , but it is difficult to detail the midnight ramblings of a tentative e-mail .
^ It was good to see you again .
^ Lots of things else to say , but I am , to repeat the beginning of my mail , rather tired .
^ Goodnight , Els
^ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Anthony Ellery just said she 'd do the catering with " Vic " for the Houseparty as I think you know already , Kylie could n't do that weekend .
^ Thanks for your support through these last couple days and the days to come .
^ I feel a bit silly about it all , but my mind 's not resting nor can I even work out what I feel myself .
^ Just a bit sick , strange how life works , pain pain pain .
^ But the guy in Kings said it was " Beautiful " ? ! ? - strangely I agree .
^ Keep it real ( as you like to say )
^ All the best , Mallory
^ Hi Nick !
^ Hi Nick !
^ Hi Nick !
^ Are you busy working ?
^ I am intending to begin today .
^ Intending being the operative word .
^ It is quite cold here in Scotland , but my parents have kindly said I may put the heating on if I begin to freeze .
^ I spend most of yesterday getting all my stuff unpacked - quite a task .
^ I 'm having chicken risotto for lunch ; and looking forward to it immensely .
^ Last night I watched an episode of Voyager - a very good one actually .
^ I 'm hoping you 're sitting at your desk with Lily when you receive this so that you can reply , but perhaps you 're not .
^ By the way , whatever you did to Petunia seems to have worked .
^ I do n't have to log in when I start up any more !
^ The new backgrounds are lovely too .
^ So , how is everyone in college ?
^ How many of you are still left ?
^ Is it lonely ?
^ What do you think of Wells more or less without its students ?
^ Did you go to Leilani 's house yesterday ?
^ Hope you have a good day .
^ Shania
^ Hi Nick ... ( ! )
^ Nick , I 've just sent this to Jon , from Bob .
^ I think Jon still has no idea about what 's really going on here - I expected her intelligence to be higher .
^ Shania
^ Jon , I do n't think you fully undrestand the depths of my true feelings for you .
^ Bob x
^ Robert K. Greetings 0464 948 4426
^ Worcester B , St. Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Wells , WI3 2WP
^ St. Philip 's College
^ 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
^ Department of Geological Sciences
^ University of Wells
^ Hi Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ How did graduation go ?
^ I 've found work , sort-of , training to be a ( erm , trained ) tax return data entry clerk at the Renade Order .
^ work but it pays , and its getting a little bit easier every day .
^ I 've spent two nights in my Sutton Street house now- one just to see what it was like , the second one in the aftermath of a house warming party .
^ There are some photo 's of it up at &WEBSITE although they were taken with a fairly poor digital camera so they do n't really show what it is like .
^ Hows the hols ?
^ Are you back at the database place ?
^ Enjoying C / C++ ? &SMILEY
^ I have n't done anything on that anagram-solver I was thinking about , but I have been tinkering with a program called " fluxbox " .
^ It is a window manager for X ( i.e. it does what CDE does at wells )
^ I 've written a small patch for it already and hopefully more will come when I figure out what I 'm doing !
^ Here 's the photo I took of you when I came to visit on the wednesday prior to you graduation - &WEBSITE ( temporary location ) .
^ It has come out suprisingly better than most of my disposable-dur pics .
^ Thanks again for inviting me to that at Pizza Hut- apart from being useful knowledge for next year , it was also a great way to say goodbye to everyone .
^ Speak to you soon ,
^ Jonathan Heslop
^ Hi Nick ...
^ Hi Nick ,
^ How 's life in Munich ?
^ Hope everythings going ok .
^ Tried ringing you , but I think you 've got a new no cos this geordie answered it !
^ For me , I 've just finished the job , finished on Thursday , which is really nice .
^ Still got to finish off my report , but it 's nice to have a break .
^ Yesterday came home & in the evening it was my parents 25th wedding anniversary , which was really good fun .
^ They 're just about to go off on their 2nd honeymoon now !
^ Tomorrow going down to Carlisle , taking Grandad home to Surbiton , and staying down there for a week .
^ should be really nice , should be able to meet up with some of the guys who are living down there now
^ Off to Brazil on the 2nd Dec for 7 weeks , which should be really good fun , too !
^ Going to visit the North East & the South , the two places where we lived , which should be really good .
^ After that , still looking for work in the tropical disease area , some possibilities , but nothing definate yet , we 'll have to see how it goes .
^ Hope things are well with you , if you could poss send me your phone no & address , that would be great .
^ I wrote you a postcard ( now dated the 30th Sept ) , but could n't remember which college you were in , so I 'm sorry , but I have n't sent it yet ! !
^ love Rylee .
^ &EMAIL .
^ Hi Nick ,
^ &WEBSITE had a cool dish cloth:-\} Anyway I miss you allot especially when I do cleanup:-\} &WEBSITE NO we are NOT jealous because your holiday lasts 17 or 67 or whatever .
^ weeks:-\}We have new mattresses I guess &WEBSITE the dining room &WEBSITE we had a mouse in your house
^ Did you have a mouse in your house because it looks as if it chewed your hair:-\} &WEBSITE you are really jealous are n't you:-\}
^ We heard that your parents are coming to visit , are you coming with ?
^ LOVE FROM HANNAH !
^ Hey Rose !
^ I had a dream about you last night !
^ I ca n't quite remember what happened , but you were definitely in it ...
^ How was your holiday ?
^ Dear Nick I am sorry that it took me so long to write back .
^ We painted my house this holiday-oh you already know that , well Ienjoyed my holiday !
^ Of course school has started &SMILEY
^ How was your holiday ?
^ It is almost time for our next holiday !
^ Did I tell you my birthday is on 2nd October ?
^ When is your birthday ?
^ I have started grade 5 already !
^ I also miss you !
^ Loads of Love
^ Rose Gret &SMILEY
^ P.S. Send us a photo of you and Ester is so cool I like her very much !
^ ~
^ Hi George ,
^ If you 're reading this , then you 've successfully picked up another email .
^ Good work ! !
^ Do n't forget you can use the wheel on the mouse to scroll , but you must first click somewhere in the message window where this text is . )
^ I forgot to say one thing to you - your computer relies on Zachary 's computer to connect to the outside world , so if the internet or email is n't working .
^ for example if you click on the blue " e " and a white screen comes up with some error message
^ then it 's probably because Zachary 's computer is n't switched on , or is n't connected
^ It does n't cost anything for her to connect , so she can just leave it on most of the time .
^ I 'm spending today packing and shopping .
^ I 've got quite a lot of stuff , so it 's going to be a busy day .
^ Hope you had a good time at the theatre last night .
^ Much love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Term almost over ( only 2 to go ! ) - so how 's it been ?
^ I met up with a load of Johns people yesterday in Aldershot , for Isabel
^ Wolfe 's and Jess Steele 's wedding .
^ It was a brilliant wedding - probably the best I 've ever been to .
^ Karla Hinde gave the address , and was really on top form .
^ Amongst the people there was Savanna , and she told me the sad news about her and Jonathan .
^ She had a cry on my shoulder , before leaving to catch the train to Devon to see her family ( she understandably did n't stay for the reception ) .
^ She made a point of telling me she had told you .
^ I guess that they both need lots of love and support right now .
^ I asked Savanna how you are and she was not very reassuring .
^ She said you seem to have been down for some time .
^ Can you be any more reassuring to put my mind at ease , or is there anything I can do ?
^ My previous offer still stands , or you 're always welcome here .
^ Its been a difficult time for me this last few months - lots of frustrations and disappoinments , and always on the lookout for even small things to reaffirm me in my calling .
^ Thankfully they come , but only very occasionally .
^ Its still a lonely old existence !
^ Matters have been aggrevated further this last couple of weeks by a serious loss of balance and dizziness , and an inability to control my legs - making walking very difficult ( and driving impossible for several days ) .
^ Its a lot better , but not right , but I hope it will soon pass .
^ Its not to be recommended !
^ Savanna mentioned you may stay on next year to do your masters ?
^ What plans have you at present ?
^ I 've had a long email from Isabel Hernandez - I guess you 've all had the same one .
^ He sounds happy enough .
^ I had lunch with him the day before he left , and he was very excited .
^ Whats the news of your parents - have they a permanent address yet ?
^ If so , what is it , in case I get around to sending you a Christmas card ( no prospect of any spare time to write them at present ! ) .
^ It would be great to hear from you when you 've time .
^ I really do hope you are okay .
^ " Love " etc
^ Kaden
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Thought I would drop you a line .
^ Hope you well and if you 've started the work ( yikes ) that it 's going well .
^ I 'll give you a ring sometime to catch up , and exchange how the culture shock out of Wells has been going .
^ Life 's weird man .
^ Jon 's probably coming to stay next week which should be cool .
^ Hope you 're happy .
^ All the best , me .
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick , how are you ?
^ I bet college is really empty .
^ I just thought i would e-mail u as i did n't get a chance to say goodbye .
^ I left a note on your door , but left early so did n't see you .
^ Really i just wanted to wish u all the best for next year and whatever u do in the future .
^ I feel really privelidged to have met you .
^ You are the most talented musician i have ever met and to have sung in the same band as you was great fun .
^ Thankyou .
^ Also thanks for the light you have shed on things and the wisdom you have shown during Bible studies .
^ You probably do n't realise it but you have been an inspiration .
^ Right now you are probably cringing away thinking how cheesy can she get ! !
^ I apologise but really just wanted to encourage you and say a big thanks .
^ Both you and all your " crew " ( hehehe ) are a fantastic group of people and i could n't have asked for a nicer bunch of third years to welcome me to
^ Philip 's .
^ Thanks for helping to make my first year of uni better than i could ever have hoped for .
^ All the very best for the future .
^ Love and prayers
^ Rebecca
^ ~
^ Hello , and how are things in the Malone household ?
^ Here in the Berry residence , things are trotting along quite nicely , even if quite quietly .
^ I have painted the bathroom and toilet , have big plans for my bedroom and my mam and dad 's room , and have settled back into the good old " Home Sweet Home " quite happily .
^ Uriel is still at school , mam is working and dad is always flitting in and out , so I 've been alone most of the time .
^ it 's been quite nice to have a bit of P&Q and get on with little bits and bobs
^ Other than painting , I 've made nearly 900 cards , introduced my family to the delights of vegetarian cuisine
^ ( rarely do the Berry family go without meat ! ) ,
^ and tried to get mam and dad sorted as to our family holiday .
^ As usual , everything has been left till pretty much too late .
^ Dad wants to do a mile hike in Scotland ( ! ) , me and mam want to do a cycling tour or something exciting like that , and Ses just is n't bothered !
^ Jessie is coming home this evening !
^ She 's coming for a long weekend to be with us for my Birthday on Sunday and then Mam and Dad 's 25th wedding anniversary on Tuesday .
^ This is quite an eventful month , as add to that , it is Isabelle and
^ Manley ' 1st wedding anniversary next Friday .
^ We may go up to Oxford to see them , but it depends how Manley is .
^ He had a chemo session this week , so he 'll probably be pretty bad next week and may not be up to having us all there .
^ We went up last Saturday and it was really great to see them .
^ Manley seemed really good , although he has lost every single hair on his head ( bar a few stray eyelashes and eyebrows ) .
^ He looks really funny , and has the good humour to laugh about the whole thing too .
^ He 's a great guy !
^ This weekend is the Longhorsley Convention ( I 've told you about this before ) , so we 'll be spending a lot of the weekend there in a pollen-filled tent .
^ Boo hoo !
^ I love the convention , but the hayfever is just a nightmare ! !
^ Then , next week I aim to have lots of fun with mam and Jessie as they are both work-free , and then start looking a bit harder for a job .
^ Cameron 's do n't want me back , so I 'm going to have to look elsewhere .
^ Right , I 'm off to make some more cards ( several people at church want to buy some , so there 's a little income for me already ) and listen to the men 's semi-finals .
^ Where 's a TV when you want one ?
^ Hope you are having a good time so far and let me know what you 're up to .
^ Bye for now ,
^ Love , Cody
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^ Hi ...
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Good to hear from you !
^ Any news on funding for next year ?
^ Sounds like you 're having a good time out there , must be pretty warm this time of year , though presumably heading into autumn now .
^ You seem to have travelled around a lot !
^ Must give you plenty of time to think , hence as you say some times you feel down , but once you 've got things sorted out in your head you 're loving it .
^ Things here are going well , getting close to submitting my 1st year report .
^ Got a lot still to do , but this year has generally been much calmer than my fourth year in Wells .
^ Had a couple of really nice sunny weekends here & am very much looking forward to Munich in the summer .
^ Lots of open green spaces and college courtyards are well suited to that kind of weather .
^ Nothing to report yet on the girl front , a few ( 5 ) since the New Year but nothing more than seeing each other for a few days , then thats it .
^ Would be nice to have something a bit more long-term , but as I 'm off to
^ Melbourne in Sept as you can imagine I 'm off the market for that !
^ Hope you 're well ,
^ Rylee .
^ ~
^ Hi Zachary ,
^ Just thought I 'd drop you an email to say thanks for the walking stick ( ! ) and also how nice it was to see you and George here today .
^ Remember to keep resting that leg and not doing too much with it , also be diligent in your physio exercises !
^ There , that 's my lecture finished .
^ I 'm working quite hard on my Munich preparation at the moment , although this coming week I 'm going up to Sheffield with Regan Morand to stay with someone I know from Wells who lives near the Peak District .
^ Hopefully my ankle will have recovered enough to go on a few nice hill-walks !
^ I 'm not sure how this M / Phil is going to pan out .
^ I 'm expecting it to be a lot of work , but I 'm not sure .
^ whether I 'll come home for the whole of the Christmas and Easter holidays , or whether I 'll stay in Kassidy for part of them
^ It partly depends on my finances I suppose .
^ It has been quite tough for me this holiday , having finished University and suddenly feeling quite lost and alone .
^ I 'm looking forward to getting stuck into student life again , although these last few months have been a valuable chance to look at some painful issues between me and God , and do a bit of soul-searching .
^ Well , till we meet again !
^ Nick
^ Hi .
^ Y'alright Shania ?
^ How 's work ?
^ Not long now !
^ Had a great time in the Peak District with Stevo .
^ Kaden was in good spirits - we talked about Wells quite a bit , and you came up in so many of my photos !
^ we also talked about you quite a bit - Kaden said that you were the happiest person in any of my photos
^ Bye ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Leilani !
^ Hope you 're having fun on the forbidden planet , or wherever your company is located !
^ I was just wondering if you had any ideas about when people want to graduate , you being the most likely person to know I think !
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Oliver !
^ It was lovely to spend some time with your boys last week .
^ I think they enjoyed themselves , and we had a good ( if a little tiring ) time as well !
^ Kylie and I did this drawing while we were away and he asked me to email it to him ... .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
^ Hi ...
^ Hi , Nick - how are you ?
^ I 'm guessing you may be / may have been on a camping / travelling trip , and wo n't pick this up till you get back to
^ Rolomandi - hope you 're having a good time , wherever you are .
^ School seems odd without you - and Jude is definitely missing his sparring partner - I 'm a poor substitute !
^ Otherwise , things are much the same - lots of PACEwork , lots of other school stuff , Camron 's with
^ Gabriella , Nayeli 's bought a new lap-top - nothing new , as you can see !
^ Actually , Nayeli 's financed the laptop purchase partly by selling me / me amd Mummy his old one .
^ does at least in this deal seem to be a piece of kit that works ; I 'm looking forward to becoming more closely acquainted with it
^ We spend quite a lot of time trying to imagine what you 're up to .... I wonder if we 're any where near the mark !
^ Oh yes - bit of good news - Pod and Ma are making a serious contribution towards the paying off of the student loans that either have already accrued ( in your case and Nayeli 's .
^ or will do so in the future ( all the other grandchildren ) - details later , but it will undoubtedly be a blessing
^ Another bit of good news - the plans for the extension have been passed , so we can get .
^ on with it - or at least we can when I can persuade Ken Newsletter to get off his other jobs and get over here ..... watch this space
^ Better go ..... love to B & H - and Pedro if he 's around .
^ Best wishes to
^ Alison K if she 's still there , too .
^ Mostly , though , lots of love to yourself - D .
^ ~
^ Hi everybody ,
^ Sorry for the group e-mail again but I could n't face writing this out several times .
^ As most of you will know , my granddad in Spain has been in ill for some time .
^ I got a phone call earlier on from my parents to tell me that he passed away this morning .
^ I 'm heading home with Fatima this evening and then I have to sort out how and when I 'm going to get over there .
^ I have a lot to do in the next few days so if I 'm not in touch for a while , you know why .
^ However , I would appreciate it if you could keep in touch because that would help me a lot .
^ Either use my Wells or my hotmail account because I can get both from wherever I am .
^ And text messages are always welcome !
^ Hope you are well and enjoying yourselves in whatever part of the world you are in .
^ love from
^ Sylvia xx
^ ~
^ Dear Nick , Wondering how you are .
^ Think about you lots ... miss funny little things like big bear hugs with you draped all over us !
^ coming in in the mornings and getting into bed ....
^ no confiscated footballs at school ....
^ not seeing you on the piano during Convention practice etc. , etc.
^ So glad to hear that you had been reunited with your suitcase ...
^ I 'm asuming everything was intact .
^ Have the mission teams arrived yet ?
^ Leilani was talking about all the things that Laura has to get ready for them ...
^ it must be pretty hectic .
^ What will your role be once they have arrived ?
^ Daddy and I were at church this morning and since then I have been sitting in the garden writing letters .
^ It has been so nice to see the sunshine ....
^ we have had about a week of solid rain .
^ How has thw weather been for you ?
^ Nayeli has begun on his final schedule towards the end of the year .
^ He has a collection of what he calls low-level exams .... signing , mostly , and a series of fairly major essays and then his final exam .
^ Camron is enjoying life , gadding about with her friends .
^ She and Jude seem to be doing quite a good double act on the Bible-study .
^ Better go ... Daddy 's made lunch ( well , got it out of the frig ! ) so I 'm going to eat with him .
^ Much much love to you , our precious son , God bless you and prosper you , Mummyxx
^ ~
^ Hey Nick !
^ Was good to see you for a few days .
^ Hope you got hope by 6pm .
^ Did you go to football training ?
^ I 've had a good day at work .
^ Anyway , I wondred if you could tell be how to do that thing in Excel that I was wanting help with ...
^ Basically I want it to calculate the balanc column for me .
^ Anything you can do would be appreciated .
^ Have a good week .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ I 've been meaning to email you for ages and kept forgetting , terrible ex-wife that I am !
^ So what are you up to now ?
^ Are you planning to go back to studying or are you going to get a proper job ?
^ Something I will be avoiding for quite some time ! )
^ Well , my news .
^ I 've been working since July just back at the medical company where I used to work in the university vacations .
^ This has caused Chloe Rudd much angst , as apparently it is inappropriate for someone with a degree to undertake such demeaning manual work .
^ However , it has served its purpose in making me enough money to go and do voluntary work overseas , which is what I really wanted to do .
^ So I 'm flying out to Bolivia on March 15th and working in an orphanage in Cochabamba .
^ I 'll be helping to look after children aged 0-6 , but I 'll get assigned a particular age group when I get there .
^ Hopefully it will be the smallest ones !
^ Now you 'll like this next bit - I did everything in my power to find a completely secular organisation to apply to for the volunteering , and succeeded in finding one with no religious affiliations whatsoever .
^ And where did they place me ?
^ In a Catholic orphanage run by nuns ! ! !
^ Oh , the irony !
^ Ah well .
^ I 'm in Bolivia for 3 months , after which I 'm coming back to Bristol .
^ working back at the medical company and making ( probably not nearly ) enough money to move to Carlisle in September to start an NZ in Philosophy of Religion
^ It 's at Kings College .
^ I 'll probably be living with Kirrily , but where is anyone 's guess .
^ We 're trying to find somewhere cheap and non grotty , but are fast discovering that in Carlisle there is no such place .
^ Even finding somewhere cheap and grotty is a challenge .
^ I 've been very busy since leaving Wells , with working nearly full time and on my one morning off taking my god-daughter to toddler gymnastics .
^ We 're both getting very good at it .
^ Her mum had twins in November Amya and Jillian so I 've also been very busy helping out with them .
^ I do n't seem to have had two minutes to myself since graduation !
^ I 've kept in touch with Uriel and Alex .
^ Alex is planning to do a PhD next year !
^ I nearly collapsed with shock when she told me !
^ This is the girl who never went to lectures and stayed up til 4am !
^ Uriel is still spending every waking moment in the lab , and no doubt will be collecting her 1st in July .
^ Well , that 's it really .
^ Hope you 're enjoying life and the family 's well .
^ Is James in his last year at Philip 's now ?
^ Scary to think of our first years graduating makes me feel very old .
^ Hope to hear from you soon and catch up with what you 've been doing .
^ Anthony .
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^ Hi , Nick !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I 'm assuming you are back in Brighton by now .
^ I hope you are enjoying your time with your family .
^ While I was really sad to leave
^ Africa and I miss it , it has been good for me to be at home here with my family for awhile .
^ I do n't know if Keira has emailed you our new address or not , so I figured I would just in case .
^ It is : Keira Hale & Jessie Russell 2446 Gretton Court Columbia , SC 05000
^ If you do n't mind sending us a copy of your cd , that would be awesome !
^ If I ever actually end up with one , you can have a copy of it ! &SMILEY
^ Also , I was wondering if you have the words and chords to a few of the songs that we sang in Africa so we could sing them here .
^ ( the one that went " Look what you 've done for me , Your love has set me free " and the history maker song )
^ I meant to get them from you before we left , but I forgot .
^ If you have them saved on your computer already and could email them back to me , that would be great .
^ Also if you have the chords to the version of " be thou my vision " that we did , that would be great .
^ Ken might remember them but I do n't because I did n't play with you guys on that one .
^ No big rush and if you do n't have them already typed up , do n't worry about it- we might be able to figure some of them out .
^ Alrighty , I better go .
^ I hope you are doing well and enjoying being back in Brighton .
^ Madelyn and I were trying to remember some of your Pride and Prejudice lines the other night , and I 'm afraid we did n't do so well- we 'll just have to rent the movie and keep practicing !
^ - Jessie
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ I have finally gotten around to burning you that CD .
^ I wanted to make sure that I had your address correct before I stuck it in the mail .
^ Is 26 Grindstone Ravi
^ Rutford UA84 1QF UK where I should send it ? ?
^ I hope that you are having a great summer .
^ Tell Jade Jamesal Hi for me when you see him .
^ Love to hear from you ,
^ Clarissa
^ ~
^ Thanks for the Christmas card Philip !
^ Hope you have / had a fantastic Christmas , and enjoy new year in Holland .
^ Love Nick &SMILEY
^ ~
^ So how did the hockey go Frederick ?
^ And did I see you ref-ing the ladies game ? ? ?
^ Sly old boy .
^ Oh , and you never told me that Terrance ( text message girl ) knows Eliana knows you !
^ It freaked me out when Terrance asked if I knew a certain Nick Malone .
^ It 's all about incestuous Christian circles if you ask me .
^ See you tomoz ,
^ Christian
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ I did n't realise that it was the First can you ever had !
^ Wonder what mine was ?
^ I think I will be back on home soil on the 9th April , I much prefer Brighton to Australia - maybe it 's just that I am more familiar with it'the autumnal smells .
^ the dew in the morning , the long cool evenings after a hot summer 's day
^ The smell and feel is just different here perhaps if I were an Auzie it would be the other way round ?
^ The heat here is good though in fact , I enjoy the different , at least for a time , I 'm not pining for home Valeria , I am totally content Liz Boggs quote ?
^ Nick , it is very exciting here , but very challenging the amount of stress and pressure I am under to meet deadlines .
^ coordinate things is unbelievable but I find that In my weakness He is strong , sounds so tripe saying it like that but it really IS true
^ Seya soon ,
^ LOL ,
^ EddyC xoxoxox
^ Overloaded with spam ?
^ With MSN 8 you can filter it out
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Glad to hear that you 've got your underwear ... I mean pants .... back and your deoderant arsenal safely stowed inside your African mosquito net .
^ Sounds like you should be looking pretty tanned about now .
^ Hopefully your new beach boy look will up your chances with the harem of women you 'll be showing off for on your " mission " trip .
^ That lady-filled development makes it official : you definitely have the blessing of God on your trip !
^ The summer term here at MCS has definitely had a summerish feel to it .
^ Breaktimes on the field , hot weather , and Bible club in the HUT backyard .
^ Very cool .
^ Well , hot actually .
^ But we all miss you though .especially when it seems such a drag to do all those simple little jobs at the end of day .
^ require no effort all ..like putting the new date on the board and closing down the PCs
^ But sadly , the show must go on .
^ The work party was a bit gross , as most work parties are .
^ Let 's just say I spent way too much time in the areas known in Brighton as the loos .
^ I did n't do the road reconstruction this time though .
^ Regan Malkin did .
^ Well , I hope you 're settling in well down there and are continuing to sculpt that Greek-god body of yours .
^ I am .
^ Take care Captain .
^ EE
^ PS .
^ I 'm working on Track 2 to our classic hits re-mix album that we began on the way to Carlisle .
^ I hope to send it soon for your input .
^ It 's fast , it 's easy and it 's free .
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^ How 's life ?
^ Just a line to let you know how I 've been doing recently .
^ I was in Chester again doing Tell A Tourist at the start of July .
^ I did n't get my application form in till mid-June but they still accepted me on to the team - and I 'm happy I went !
^ We had the usual round of fellowship and evangelism , reaching out to 85 different countries this year ( less than last year but there were far fewer people around ) .
^ I 'm wondering at present whether God has given me the gifts of prayer and prophecy - something definitely happened during the fortnight .
^ Three items of note on TAT - the first Monday we had a coffee bar in St Kylie 's Church .
^ This was disrupted quite a bit by local drunks outside ( but did n't stop us talking to foreigners ) .
^ Late on in the evening one of these drunks took a drug overdose and was rushed to hospital .
^ We had a quick prayer meeting back at the Mission where we were living .
^ The following day I was told that this man was clinically dead for about an hour but they managed to revive him at the hospital and they thought he was going to be OK .
^ Secondly , in the Wednesday coffee bar , my friend Isabel and I met up with a French called Andrey who used to be a Christian but backslid on meeting his ex-wife .
^ Now they 'd divorced and he wanted to get back to Christ again but was finding the way difficult .
^ Isabel and I listened to him pour out his heart for about an hour and then we prayed for him and left him with a " You Matter " booklet : a paraphrase of the parable of the prodigal son .
^ Strangely enough , I could tell something was happening when we were praying for him : I thought I could see two gates opening - and I was definitely physically drained for the next 5 minutes .
^ Finally , whilst in the Cathedral manning the stall there I met two men from Iran who were really pleased that we had something to give them in their own language .
^ Although I did n't speak to them for long they seemed really friendly and waved every time they passed afterwards .
^ One man even returned with his wife and children to go to
^ Evensong !
^ The ethos of TAT came across to me yesterday when I was listening to the Act of Worship on Radio 4 .
^ For a special edition celebrating the Commonwealth Games , they managed to worship the Lord in French , Gujerati , Urdu , Hindi and Swahili ( and all that in 15 minutes ! ) .
^ It reminded me that " whoever you are , God speaks _your_ language " and that He loves us all , no matter where we come from .
^ Since TAT I 've been festering at home trying to get hold of a holiday job before I return to Wells in October .
^ No luck at present but there 's still quite a few weeks left !
^ All the best
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ How 's life ?
^ Life in Wells is settling down sort of now ( which is good considering it 's week 7 now ! ) .
^ We 're finally doing things with the landlord and the problems with the house are now being sorted out .
^ yesterday we had a visit from Dynorod and a heating engineer , today ( early ! ) was a roofer )
^ All we need now is to house-train CNS and we should have no more problems !
^ Bar the fact that my bedroom window wo n't open and the living room door is warped ... .
^ As no doubt you know , we went to Knock for the CU houseparty last week .
^ enabling me to meet third years I did n't even know existed and to get to know the first years and God that little bit more
^ And we climbed Knock Pierazzoli - the first time I 've ever done so !
^ Furthermore I did n't lose my bag this time , so I did n't have to spend all weekend wearing the same clothes ... !
^ Shame you did n't volunteer to be our speaker but I expect you 've got other things on your plate .
^ For the first time ever I 've found you in the Munich Uni e-mail directory , which tells me that you are the e-mail address shown above .
^ Which is good , cos I 'd managed to mislay any other you 'd given me and I hoped your freeserve account still worked !
^ Hope your BEng is going well and remember your penniless friend back up North .
^ I finally finished reading the books on Prof Hendry 's reading list for my first essay - so now I need to start the essay .
^ And find out about Kepler .
^ Enjoy yourself in a place which is much flatter than where I am now - and feel free to visit .
^ I notice your term ends about a week before ours , so that 's plenty of time to expose yourself to the Wells weather again ... .
^ Have fun and be careful
^ Angelo ( remember me ? )
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Hi od922 !
^ How are you finding the land of the fjords ?
^ Can you still speak French ?
^ Are you married yet ?
^ Did you get your preliminary project result ? ?
^ I just got mine - A+ of course &SMILEY
^ I 've just got back from a short tour of Brighton visiting various friends .
^ Had a good time - got stuck up a mountain in the dark , went sailing , etc ...
^ Now at home enjoying the HEAT ! !
^ It 's about 32 C !
^ Big it up my friend ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Hey Nick
^ It was really good to get your e-mail .
^ I 'm glad things are going well for you and that you are enjoying your job .
^ I hope you 've had some sun up there because we 've certainly been a bit short lately .
^ We have had a really mild summer with a lot of light rainfalls , in fact our hottest day so far this year was just a few days ago and we 're supposed to be in the middle of Autumn !
^ Well as far as I 'm concerned , I 'm working in the office now .
^ I am now the assistant administrator for the school ( its just another name for secretary ) .
^ I am enjoying it but I do miss working with the students .
^ I am busy studying toward a degree in christian education through a college called Christian Educator 's College which is based in Vereeniging , which is near Johannesburg .
^ The college is School of Tomorrow based and uses quite a few of the Pace courses .
^ To get the degree will probably take me until the end of next year but I 'm hoping to have at least my higher education diploma by the end of this year .
^ So I 'll probably stay here for the next two years at least , unless God moves me before then or keeps me here longer .
^ Apart from that I do n't have any real plans for the future although I am trusting God to travel some time in the not too distant future , so I might even get to visit you in Brighton .
^ I have been trying to practise as much as possible on the guitar but warrick borrowed my guitar a while ago ( about 2 months ) and I 've only just got it back .
^ It 's my own fault because I could 've gotten it back any time if I had asked but I just never got around to it .
^ So I 'm rather rusty again and now I 've lost my ? ) so I need to get a new one so that I can play .
^ Things are starting to heat up on the building front here .
^ We 've just started building on the new preschool building as well as on five simplexes which will be able to accomodate five families .
^ We will also be starting soon with single 's quarters , there will be eight rooms for single people to stay in on their own .
^ Well that 's about all that I can think of for now so I wo n't bore you any more .
^ God bless .
^ Your friend
^ Noe .
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Sorry Nick for not having phoned yet , but things have been happening and I always seem to leave it till too late in the evening ( like now ) .
^ Would be good to catch up though ...
^ Jon , as you know came to stay , and my sister left for Lebanon today .
^ It was cool seeing Jon , and we " did n't do anything you would n't do " - you 'll be pleased to hear .
^ Hope the 6.30am mornings are n't killing you , nor is the boredom of computers , oh , sorry you enjoy fiddling with computers though do n't you ?
^ Well , whatever 's floating your boat right now , I hope you keep doing it .
^ There 's a silly little moth thing dancing on the screen as I type this , nope , it 's now gone , oh well .
^ I 'm off to camp on Tuesday , then Norwich , then Spain , so betters speak to you before then .
^ All the best , you never know , you may think of phoning me ?
^ Nah , Mallory
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^ ~
^ I wrote a couple of messages ago that I 'd finished it .
^ OK - here 's the words for your perusal:
^ Chorus:
^ The Lord has given us salvation
^ The Lord has given us light
^ The Lord has kept his promises
^ By sending His Son Jesus Christ
^ Verse I
^ It seemed that we must wait forever
^ We were losing faith in part
^ But finally the Word came down
^ And now in peace we may depart
^ Verse II THe Light has come to shine in darkness
^ To the Gentiles it bears light
^ The darkness did not understand
^ And so is therefore still in night
^ Verse III
^ The Word Made Flesh now dwells amongst us
^ For our glory He was sent
^ Therefore receiving Him as Lord
^ Children of God we are intent
^ What do you think ?
^ It may be a bit long - but the last and next ones are short ( er ) .
^ I 'll keep you posted
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ I !
^ LANCE ! ! !
^ I PASSED ! ! !
^ I WILL BE BACK IN MANCHESTER on the 23rd Sept and i cannot wait .
^ I was so pleased to hear today that all is well and I will be back to play .
^ YAY ! ! !
^ Not much else going on here , am on cloud nine .
^ Spoken to quite a few people today , including Emily in JApan .
^ Oops .
^ Going to Nice tomorrow with Angelo and then coming back here with him which will be fun .
^ Had a good time with LAuren while she was here .
^ She left yesterday .
^ All the same , tahts all my news .
^ Just wanted to let you know ! !
^ Write back when you can - lots of love , Isaiah x
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^ Greetings Nick !
^ Thank you - that was very funny , except , could you clarify one or two points for me ?
^ 
^ 1) Jon says : " Oh , errr , it 's just that I 've never seen one like that before . " -
^ To what is she referring when she says " one " ?
^ A man , a primate , or a Canadian ?
^ 2) I say : " Yes Bob , yes Bob , three bags full Bob . " -
^ Is this meant to insinuate that I think highly of Bob , or am I being sarcastic ?
^ Thank you .
^ I particularly like the captions for you and Kaylee .
^ Now , would you mind awfully not showing the picture to anyone else for a while ?
^ It 's just that I would like to collect other people 's independent ideas and am afraid your genius might rub of onto them .
^ I 'm sure you understand .
^ Well , have you been doing anything of interest lately ?
^ Amaze me .
^ I do not think I have - well , I did watch Voyager yesterday , and I rather enjoyed it .
^ Hmmm , send me something amusing so that I have some material to write about .
^ Hope you are enjoying being a miracle of biochemistry ; I am .
^ Well , until next time
^ The collection of organic molecules it pleases you to call
^ Shania
^ " I tilt my head slightly and to the side , and smile in a benign manner whilst half-closing my eyes . "
^ P.S. Life is more than C , H , O and N , as you very well know .
^ ~
^ Hi Jessie !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I 'm assuming you are back in Brighton by now .
^ I got back a week ago , but last night was the first spent at home .
^ I 've been travelling around attending various events - graduations , stag do 's , etc. It is great to be back .
^ I also found out that the funding for my PhD from Munich has come through , so I 'll be heading off there in October - pretty exciting
^ I 'll send you CD 's when I get myself together and vaguely sorted out .
^ In terms of the praise and worship songs , I do n't actually have them on this computer .
^ If you type the title of the song into a search engine like Linkbridge , along with the word " tab " or " chords " , you should get plenty of sites that have the lyrics and chords .
^ If that does n't work , I 've got no problem typing them out for you , so please let me know ...
^ OK , keep well - God bless ,
^ Nick x
^ Hi , Nick !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I 'm assuming you are back in Brighton by now .
^ I hope you are enjoying your time with your family .
^ While I was really sad to leave
^ Africa and I miss it , it has been good for me to be at home here with my family for awhile .
^ I do n't know if Keira has emailed you our new address or not , so I figured I would just in case .
^ It is : Keira Hale & Jessie Russell 2446 Gretton Court Columbia , SC 05000
^ If you do n't mind sending us a copy of your cd , that would be awesome !
^ If I ever actually end up with one , you can have a copy of it ! &SMILEY
^ Also , I was wondering if you have the words and chords to a few of the songs that we sang in Africa so we could sing them here .
^ ( the one that went " Look what you 've done for me , Your love has set me free " and the history maker song )
^ I meant to get them from you before we left , but I forgot .
^ If you have them saved on your computer already and could email them back to me , that would be great .
^ Also if you have the chords to the version of " be thou my vision " that we did , that would be great .
^ Ken might remember them but I do n't because I did n't play with you guys on that one .
^ No big rush and if you do n't have them already typed up , do n't worry about it- we might be able to figure some of them out .
^ Alrighty , I better go .
^ I hope you are doing well and enjoying being back in Brighton .
^ Madelyn and I were trying to remember some of your Pride and Prejudice lines the other night , and I 'm afraid we did n't do so well- we 'll just have to rent the movie and keep practicing !
^ - Jessie
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^ ~
^ Hey everyone ,
^ Well , has it really been a year ?
^ I doubt it myself sometimes ... although spending 23 travelling home on Thursday felt like it had taken many years .
^ It was a big adventure and leap of faith - but it paid off bigtime .
^ I have learnt so much over the past year and being exposed to such a different way of life and culture has just been an awesome experience .
^ I found it really hard to say , " see you again " to some of the friends i 'd made , leave the job I enjoyed and the lifestyle maybe I could only have dreamed about .
^ Still ...
^ I had left for Korea , knowing only what I had read .
^ I knew virtually none of the language , never eaten any of the food and had almost never set eyes on a korean person - let alone spoken to them !
^ Was I throwing myself in the deep end ? - Looking back , you 'd have to say I definitely was .
^ I arrived and soon discovered Korea was a land of high mountains and where there are no mountains - high apartment buildings .
^ I met a couple of Koreans whose average height was about 5ft 3 - giving me the impression all koreans were midgets - ( this was later re-inforced by a kiwi who claimed korean men were tiny ! ) .
^ And my first experience with the national dish ( spicy cabbage ) was literally enough to make my eyes water - for several minutes - and I 'd just said I liked spicy food too !
^ Still my eyes and face could n't have gone any redder !
^ The first month was n't easy living in a place so foreign and removed from what I knew as home .
^ I found myself in hot water with immigration , and wondering if I 'd even be allowed to stay in the country !
^ Fortunately , they decided I was n't a danger to national security and having made some friends .
^ picked up some basics of the language and found myself a good church ( with an French speaking service ! ) things were soon starting to look much rosier
^ The Korean people were so warm and kind to me ... and I was touched by their friendliness .
^ Generally they are fanatically keen to practice their French and want to make sure foreigners have a great time and experience in their country .
^ Memorable moments there were many : the Brazilian models , my scottish mate , the World Cup , the did you come to korea to find yourself a korean woman ...
^ question , the trip to Jeju ( korea 's version of hawaii ) , the dutch beast , the wall incident , the are you going anywhere
^ situation , the wedding of my German friend and his korean wife , the cold winter , the titianic drinking game and so-ju
^ the visit of my mum and brother , the regular stares you receive from koreans bewildered at seeing people of a different race in their country
^ Here are some :
^ 1. End of September in sunny Seoul we went out to the International Area for my flatmate 's last weekend in Korea .
^ One of the lads made the call " there are some cute western women in here tonight . "
^ And my flatmate went over and started chatting to them - although he had his work cut out - they were Portuguese speakers - Models from Brazil - )
^ i did n't doubt for a minute they were models - especially after seeing them on TV a few days later !
^ Anyway we went to a dance place with them and they knew how to dance !
^ 2. Meeting Iain - a fellow Brit and often Scot ; a man 's man who you 'd find propping up the bar every night of the week ( are you Duncan Cotterell in disguise ? ) .
^ The first time I met him he had just returned from his 24 hour Visa run to Japan .
^ He was boasting in detail about his exploits the previous night .
^ He claims to be very experienced with women - but Mallory talks a lot of hot air .
^ 3. One night we met a couple of Dutch guys .
^ One was talking to a mate of ours :
^ Dutch : You know Korean women are really quite ugly .
^ Mate : You know - a few of them are quite attractive .
^ D : No they 're not ... and they are all sluts .
^ Mate : Actually , my wife is korean .
^ D : My point !
^ Ow - that hurt ... but he could n't exactly argue he was 6ft 6 and made of muscle .
^ 4. World Cup - Well the second greatest biggest show on earth arrived in Korea at the end of May .
^ What an experience ... the whole country came alive chanting and singing .
^ The atmosphere around match time was electric - singing and shouting .
^ I was standing alongside at least 30,000 koreans in the local park .
^ their was such a scream when Park Ji-Song scored - actually it got louder every time they replayed the goal - which was about 10 times
^ However , the stadium went silent after 10 seconds of the 3rd / 4th play-off as i witnessed the fastest ever goal in world cup history - that was just the temporary blip from the 90 minute carnival atmosphere .
^ However quite how Korea ever made it to the semi-final maybe we 'll never comprehend .
^ I mean although they played with energy and pace , drive and determination BUT after riding their luck against Portugal and Italy , surely against Spain something was amiss .
^ The Spanish playing fluently and skilfully again ( as i 'd seen earlier in the tournament ) scoring 2 perfectly legitimate goals only to .
^ be ruled out by the assistant referee - he should never be allowed anywhere near a soccer pitch ever again - I hope it was just his poor eyesight
^ 5. Marriage in Korea is a big issue - everybody is expected to get married , especially women are seen as strange if they reach the fully ripenend age of 30 without having tied the knot .
^ Countless times I was asked if I was married yet - someone even asked me if I came to Korea to find a korean woman . -
^ I can ensure I had done nothing even remotely to ask for that !
^ Anyway I think only in Korea could you find people who had planned their wedding dress , service , reception and honeymoon and year of marriage without actually having found someone to marry first !
^ Frequently I met Koreans who told me they planned to get married within the next two years but I found out they did n't know who they were going to marry yet !
^ It 's Almost Unbelievable .
^ 6. Korean ideology is somewhat based on confucian culture .
^ As such education , education and education is the vital thrust driving korean parents . .
^ As a result it has the highest level of private education spending in the world .
^ For example , one of my students would attend school from 9-2 every day ( only until 12 on Saturdays ) in classes of about 50 students and be enrolled in private schools for over 20 hours a week .
^ Can you imagine ? ? and it gets even worse for high school students .
^ In private schools you have to entertain and educate the kids .
^ Still , I found the teaching to be enjoyable and challenging .
^ I 'm proud of the job I did and of the progress I could see my kids and adult students making .
^ 7. I knew the winter would be cold but I was not prepared when December arrived .
^ My fingers , ears and nose turned blue and orange and almost froze off while looking round a .
^ royal palace - I had to make a hasty exit to a nearby market to buy a hat and gloves and later discovered the temperature had been -7 oC
^ Best Wishes
^ Isabel
^ Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs .
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ How are you ?
^ Work going well here - only 8 days left .
^ Glad you had a good time in Derbyshire .
^ Rylie arrived back in my flat yesterday - it 's quite odd having company after so long on my own .
^ By the way , what 's your home address ?
^ You 've never told me .
^ Enjoy the rest of the week .
^ Shania the ever smiling
^ ~
^ Hello all !
^ I 've had a great time in Spain with Wycliffe Bible Translators on STEP ( Summer Training in Birks Programme ) .
^ All the other people there were really lovely , and we were in a very pretty spot in a riverside campsite with a pool !
^ We had some great times .
^ One weekend we went up-river and all slept under the stars in our sleeping bags .
^ We did this groovy blindfolded " faith-walk " where we had to follow all these instructions and crawl and jump off ledges and stuff .
^ We had some excellent themed nights .
^ One night we simulated an African market situation where we had to follow certain conventions trying to buy things at market , while the market people had to follow completely different ones .
^ They all ignored me because I was wearing orange shorts , considered unclean .
^ So I was left spitting a lot , which is what we were supposed to do if we were bored !
^ We had Marian night where for the meal the males and females were separated .
^ Us guys ( who were incidentally quite heavily outnumbered by the girls ) picked a chief , and then he had to pick 6 wives to serve us food and stuff and do a dance for us !
^ After the guys did the dishes in , we got to see the Bible which Mallory and Rylie there had just finished translating into the Tampulma language for people in Northern Marian .
^ I had a look at the book of " things Philip saw like he was dreaming " .
^ It was fascinating the way they 'd had to paraphrase things just to get the meaning at all .
^ Quite a lot of serious things we did too .
^ Found out a lot about Bible
^ Translation and also about Mission .
^ Tried doing a simulation translation of Philemon into French in little groups , and it 's a very complicated process .
^ Had lots of discussion groups and stuff , and some good teaching about finding out God 's will .
^ While other people were drawing pictures of people having diarrhoea for health posters for Ghanaians , I was helping translate some Bible Studies on Luke into French for Francophone countries .
^ Also did lots of great music .
^ I blew my little cornet a bit , and we learnt some great French songs .
^ On Bastille day saw some fireworks at night in the village ( Anduze in the Cevennes region of South of Spain ) .
^ The last Sunday I gave my testimony in French in the local Methodist church .
^ I 'm glad I did n't wimp out in the end .
^ Went down well .
^ Unfortunately last couple of days I was quite poorly .
^ First headaches and tiredness and then a very annoying tummy bug that lasted for over 2 days at home too , keeping me constantly running to the toilet for almost 4 whole days .
^ Maybe that 's enough information now !
^ Yes sorry if I 've bored you at all .
^ I had a lovely time and I 'd actually recommend it to any of you .
^ Sorry I took so long writing this but I was quite poorly when I got home !
^ Badbabble !
^ Anyway , take care all .
^ God bless , and see you soon .
^ Aimee .
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^ Dear Nick , I 'm so sorry that I have n't written to you before .
^ Thank you very much for your email .
^ How are you doing ?
^ I must be great fro you to be back at Wells !
^ What 's up there now ?
^ I 'm quite well , although I 'm not enjoying myself at uni as much as last year .
^ It was a bit tough to get used to life at uni in Uppsala again , .
^ I do n't really have a reason to complain -- it 's just the fact that I 've been away for a year and the re-adjustment takes some time
^ And I miss you all people from Wells .
^ I 've been here since the end of August .
^ I have a lot of work to do this term ; I need be finished with my dissertation in the middle of December .
^ Yes , you 're right : my whole " Wells experience " feels a bit like a dream .
^ But everytime I hear from someone from the time at Wells , it feels a more real .
^ The weather in the summer was awful , but the autumn has been the best in a century -- warm and sunny .
^ Well , what happened last summer ?
^ First , I can tell you that I visited the " Fitness Beast " ( or the " Pride of Scotland' --- well , you know who ) for two days at her parents " .
^ It was a good trip .
^ Did I ever tell you about the phenomenon that I 'm charming the wrong generations of females ?
^ Guess what ?
^ She invited me to her leaver 's dinner with her mother , and afterwards her mother had told her that she thought that I was seriously charming' .
^ well , that did n't help ! &SMILEY
^ By the way , she 's got a job as a computer programmer ( ! ) at a communications company in Raymond
^ Do n't tell anyone about all this , please .
^ I went home to Branden on the ferry with my parents .
^ I stayed with my parents for a couple of weeks .
^ I saw a former girlfriend before she went into the monastery ( R.C. ) with the aim of becoming a nun .
^ Life 's hard to me ... &SMILEY
^ I also went to a ( charismatic ) Church meeting .
^ This year it 's my aim to finish my degree and my ministerial training .
^ If I manage , I 'll be ordained next summer .
^ I find it a bit difficult , though , as I think the Church of Branden is changing rapidly to the worse .
^ at least some leading people hold views that I do n't like and it 's very politicized )
^ Still , I find myself at home in its tradition and tradtional confession , and there are some positive things .
^ There is also a lot of missionary work to be done .
^ I 'd be very grateful if you would pray for my studies and my future .
^ Thanks for everything last year , Nick .
^ I hope that we 'll be able to stay in touch .
^ I look forward to hear from you .
^ OK , I need to finish as I 'm going to the gym with a friend of mine .
^ God bless ,
^ Patrick
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
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^ Subject : I am not expecting you ...
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Patrick ,
^ How are you my friend ?
^ I bet your whole " Wells experience " ( not to be confused with the " Bridge experience " ) now feels like a dream .
^ I bet you ca n't believe you were there for a whole year .
^ What a funny life we lead !
^ How is Branden ?
^ Are you having some sunshine ?
^ Do you think the last year was good ?
^ It was a shame we did n't get to play more tennis in the summer , but that is life .
^ The last term went sooooo quickly do n't you think ?
^ It was an amazing blessing to have your friendship last year Patrick .
^ I look back with really great memories at the walks we went on and the things we discussed .
^ Can you remember standing on that bridge and talking about how the passage of time goes , and that we could be back there one day with our own kids !
^ Maybe that will come to pass - who knows !
^ I often wish that I had a video of my whole life that I could watch at any time .
^ I would certainly love to re-watch some of the amazing times we had in Wells / &YEAR !
^ What are your plans for the rest of the summer ?
^ Next year ?
^ I am almost half-way through my third week of working for " Irish Power " ( an electricity generating company ) I 'm doing computer-type work and finding it pretty good !
^ although it 's quite hard to handle the routine of a 9-5 job and the lack of time to do anything else
^ All the best Patrick , and I look forward to hearing from you soon ,
^ Nick
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^ I 'm of ( no jokes please ) !
^ Hi Nick , I am of ) at &TIME a.m .
^ It is very exciting ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ I am going to take lots of pictures and write a diary so that when you get home I can show where I went and what I did .
^ I must go now because I have got some more packing to do and a couple more of these to write .
^ I love you loads and ca n't wait to see you at the end of your term .
^ Bye Bye
^ Boo ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ Not sure if your recent extensive and chatty e-mail consisting of " talk to me Jude " means that you did n't receive the message I sent to your Rolomandi account last week .
^ out of a deep sense of brotherhood I 'll recount the jist of it
^ So here it goes .
^ It was good to hear that you 're settling in and have been able to do some cool stuff down there .
^ Not to mention your upcoming " mission " trip with 8 American females .
^ I 'm sure you feel a deep calling to participate .
^ That 's garbage Malone !
^ I can relate to the swings in perspective while living in a different country .
^ I think that 's the beautiful thing about life .
^ You learn from the tough times and rejoice in the good ones .
^ It makes it even more interesting when those moments are close together .
^ I look forward to talking it over with you over a kebab or a coke at Savoy 's when you get back .
^ The summer term is well under way here at Victoria and has a distinctive summerish feel to it .
^ Breaktimes on the field , Bible Club in the HUT garden ,
^ Convention preparation , etc.
^ We 've been talking about Faith in Bible Club the last 2 weeks .
^ I 've been hitting some of the questions from The Case for Faith .
^ The guys and girls have really taken to it .
^ Conversation and discussion was quite constructive and intense on Friday .
^ We 've also been warming up with games of doge ball in the barn beforehand .
^ A great combination .
^ We all miss you at school though .
^ Especially when it comes to those useless end of the day jobs that require no effort at all , like putting the date on the board and closing down the PCs .
^ But the show must go on .
^ We all went to Robyn Harper 's birthday party on Saturday .
^ I mean it was a PART-AY .
^ Seriously .
^ A dance tent with pumping music , dry ice , bubbles , and kids I did n't know .
^ Let me just say , Nick , that I 've never felt so old !
^ I was definitely was about 10 years too old for that party !
^ But it was great to see so many people turn out for Robyn .
^ Seb , Clayton , Jade , Leah , Shekinah , etc. LOVED it .
^ And get this .
^ I just got a call from Mrs. Harper tonight .
^ They 're going on holidays for 2 weeks to Hungary and were wondering if I 'd like to stay at their house while they 're gone .... just to chill out .
^ SKY TV , wide screen television , a mammoth DVD collection , etc , etc. Needless to say I accepted .
^ They do n't want me to do anything in particular but hang out .
^ It would be sweet to have you here for that , but I reckon you 'll also be wishing I was there when you are surrounded by those 8 Americans .
^ Well , maybe you would n't want me there .
^ Whatever .
^ Anyways , I hope you 're doing well in SA .
^ I know you 're going to look back on it with fondness like you do your first trip there .... just try to enjoy now !
^ Talk to you later .
^ Jude
^ PS .
^ I 'm working on Track 2 to our Re-mix Hit Album which we started on a crowded mini-bus bound for Carlisle .
^ I 'll try to send it to you soon .
^ PPS .
^ My fav songs on your album are 1 , 6 , and 10 for sure .
^ 1 is a great hit ... " Shawn Mullinsish " says Tanner Stewart .
^ Tracks 6 and 10 are really pensive and just what I like .
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^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Not sure if your recent extensive and chatty e-mail consisting of " talk to me Jude " means that you did n't receive the message I sent to your Rolomandi account last week .
^ out of a deep sense of brotherhood I 'll recount the jist of it
^ So here it goes .
^ It was good to hear that you 're settling in and have been able to do some cool stuff down there .
^ Not to mention your upcoming " mission " trip with 8 American females .
^ I 'm sure you feel a deep calling to participate .
^ That 's garbage Malone !
^ I can relate to the swings in perspective while living in a different country .
^ I think that 's the beautiful thing about life .
^ You learn from the tough times and rejoice in the good ones .
^ It makes it even more interesting when those moments are close together .
^ I look forward to talking it over with you over a kebab or a coke at Savoy 's when you get back .
^ The summer term is well under way here at Victoria and has a distinctive summerish feel to it .
^ Breaktimes on the field , Bible Club in the HUT garden ,
^ Convention preparation , etc. We 've been talking about Faith in Bible Club the last 2 weeks .
^ I 've been hitting some of the questions from The Case for Faith .
^ The guys and girls have really taken to it .
^ Conversation and discussion was quite constructive and intense on Friday .
^ We 've also been warming up with games of doge ball in the barn beforehand .
^ A great combination .
^ We all miss you at school though .
^ Especially when it comes to those useless end of the day jobs that require no effort at all , like putting the date on the board and closing down the PCs .
^ But the show must go on .
^ We all went to Robyn Harper 's birthday party on Saturday .
^ I mean it was a PART-AY .
^ Seriously .
^ A dance tent with pumping music , dry ice , bubbles , and kids I did n't know .
^ Let me just say , Nick , that I 've never felt so old !
^ I was definitely was about 10 years too old for that party !
^ But it was great to see so many people turn out for Robyn .
^ Seb , Clayton , Jade , Leah , Shekinah , etc. LOVED it .
^ And get this .
^ I just got a call from Mrs. Harper tonight .
^ They 're going on holidays for 2 weeks to Hungary and were wondering if I 'd like to stay at their house while they 're gone .... just to chill out .
^ SKY TV , wide screen television , a mammoth DVD collection , etc , etc. Needless to say I accepted .
^ They do n't want me to do anything in particular but hang out .
^ It would be sweet to have you here for that , but I reckon you 'll also be wishing I was there when you are surrounded by those 8 Americans .
^ Well , maybe you would n't want me there .
^ Whatever .
^ Anyways , I hope you 're doing well in SA .
^ I know you 're going to look back on it with fondness like you do your first trip there .... just try to enjoy now !
^ Talk to you later .
^ Jude
^ PS .
^ I 'm working on Track 2 to our Re-mix Hit Album which we started on a crowded mini-bus bound for Carlisle .
^ I 'll try to send it to you soon .
^ PPS .
^ My fav songs on your album are 1 , 6 , and 10 for sure .
^ 1 is a great hit ... " Shawn Mullinsish " says Tanner Stewart .
^ Tracks 6 and 10 are really pensive and just what I like .
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ You better be careful , you never know when your time might come , and remember 16 is not necessarily a lucky number ...
^ )
^ ~
^ Mr. Avery !
^ Do you remember that old catch phrase ... ?
^ So how are you ? ? ?
^ I hope that you are still using this email address .
^ What are you up to ?
^ I 'd love to know .
^ Married ?
^ A monk ?
^ Playing for Branden ?
^ Well , I 've finished my degree at Wells , graduating a couple of months ago .
^ I 'm now off to Munich to do a Masters .
^ This summer has been quite difficult - it is hard to leave your community of friends , knowing that you will never be coming back .
^ It seems an absolute age though since the first year , although I have fantastic memories !
^ I broke up with Kaylee a year or so ago , although we have considered going out again since then , but I do n't think it 's right at the moment .
^ It 's been pretty hard for us , trying to work out what our relationship is , and it 's not great at the moment .
^ Still , life is not easy - you sometimes have to live with pain , and learn the hard way .
^ I 've been through so much stuff at University , and changed a great deal I think !
^ Well , I hope you get this , and I 'd love to hear from you .
^ Your friend ,
^ Nick
^ I 've been on the road too long .
^ Now I 'm stuck inside a song .
^ I dedicate this song to you ... .
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^ Hello my friend !
^ Very pleased to hear from you !
^ I know what you mean about struggling on with work !
^ You 've put kind of a guilt trip on me .
^ Thanks I appreciate that , I am sure that you do anyway .
^ I just got back home from Derrick 's this afternoon and am unpacking and trying to sort out my room .
^ Really I should start writing my essay but I was gonna go for a run for an hour or so , now you have made me feel like I should do my essay .
^ It is philosophy and it is also very hard and confusing and I just want it out of the way .
^ After I got back from Derrick 's ( the first time ) I started the reading for it last Tuesday night and have only just finished that .
^ probably not aswell as I should have , but it is pretty hard going
^ I went back to Derrick 's last Saturday nad it has not been as productive as it could have been .
^ Not so surprising though ! !
^ Derrick comes here on Wednesday and then we will be together until about the 4th of Jan , so I intend to work really hard until then .
^ We are going to Valeria Fitzpatrick 's for New Year , should be good .
^ I have an essay to start at the weekend which counts for 50 % of the mark for one of my modules , ethics .
^ It should be pretty interesting though , it is about cohabitation without marriage and what marriage actually means in Christianity and in the world today .
^ At least that is relevant ! !
^ Hope that by now you have been able to get all of the work that you intended to do done !
^ I am playing 5-a side tommorow evening indoors with my friends from sixth form , should be pretty good .
^ They wanted me to play on Christmas Eve morning but I do n't think that my Dad would have accepted that as a reason for not being at Church .
^ I went into my home church earlier to set up communion for my dad , it was the first time that I have been in since Easter which was nice .
^ I am reading at the midnight on Christmas Eve which will be great , I am really looking forward to it , I have n't read since January .
^ I miss being involved and serving in that way .
^ Anyway best go and do something at least .
^ I guess that realistically the run is n't gonna happen now .
^ I could do it early in the morning but I dunno how realistic that is either !
^ Have a great Christmas and New Year .
^ God Bless , see you soon ,
^ Jo .
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^ Dr Malone , I presume .
^ This all sounds awesome !
^ I get this picture in my mind of Explorer Malone ploughing through the hazardous jungle , fighting off snakes and cannibals etc ...
^ It seems very adventureous ( is that a word ? )
^ It 's a rare opportunity to get to know a culture you otherwise would n't encounter .
^ I bet it 's quite different from Munich ...
^ Just a few updates from the northern frontier : It 's May , which means that most of the snow is gone and the running season is kicking off for real .
^ Yesterday and today , we 've had some really nice weather , which means I 've been running around in shorts and a T-shirt !
^ Next week-end is a big relay-weekend in Oslo with practically all of Norway 's athletes competing through the streets of Oslo .
^ It will be a good opportunity to get those bi-nocu-laaars out and also show off some of that hard-earned toning ( hehe )
^ Well well , wo n't keep you - do n't stop doing circuits , even if you get some of that for free through building roofs etc &SMILEY
^ At the arctic circle ,
^ Jensky .
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^ Hey mate ,
^ Are you using this account now ?
^ If you reply to this email I guess that you are ! ! !
^ How are things going ?
^ Have you started in Munich yet ?
^ I have done a week at LIPA now , and it has been an intense and surreal experienc e so far .
^ This is real showbiz in this place , and the people are much as y ou would imagine , although most of them perfectly normal thankfully ! !
^ Ive b een apprehensive about starting and worried that I was n't at a good enough standard , but I feel that I have done well so far .
^ We have been put into a band for the year , and after a few practices with them , I have been force d to play a lot so that has brought out some confidence in me .
^ There is n o football team , which is a bit of a bummer as I can see myself not doing m uch sport this year .
^ Have you got yourself into any teams yet ?
^ Anyway , I will keep this short in case you are not checking this e-mail .
^ If you are then let me know and I can write to you a bit more .
^ keep in touch my friend , I hope that everything is going well for you !
^ Bob
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^ Please can you tell me roughly how long an international delivery takes .
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^ Remember the Maiden album you did n't like the cover of when I visited last month ?
^ Here 's the lyrics ( in order ) for you to peruse .
^ Let me know what you think .
^ The bit in quote marks is the title of the song .
^ " Sign of the cross "
^ Eleven saintly shrouded men
^ Silhouettes stand against the sky
^ One in front with a cross held high
^ Come to wash my sins away
^ Standing alone in the wind and rain
^ Feeling the fear that is growing
^ Sensing the change in the tide again
^ Brought by the storm that is brewing
^ Feel the anxiety hold off the fear
^ Some of the doubt in the things you believe
^ Now that your faith will be put to the test
^ Nothing to do but await what is coming
^ Why the is God still protecting me
^ Even when I do n't deserve it
^ Though I am meant to face this alone
^ Asking the question time and again
^ Praying to God wo n't keep me alive
^ Inside my head feel the fear start to rise ...
^ They 'll be saying their prayers when the moment comes
^ There 'll be penance to pay when it 's judgment day
^ And the guilty 'll bleed when that moment comes
^ They 'll be coming to claim , take your soul away
^ The sign of the cross
^ The name of the rose ... a fire in the sky
^ The sign of the cross
^ They 'll be comming to bring the eternal flame
^ They 'll be bringing us all immortality
^ Holding communion so the world be blessed
^ My creator , my God 'll lay my soul to rest
^ The sign of the cross
^ The name of the rose ... a fire in the sky
^ The sign of the cross
^ Lost the love of heaven above
^ Chose the lust of the earth below
^ Eleven saintly shrouded men
^ Came to wash my sins away
^ " Lord of the flies " I do n't care for this world anymore I just want to live my own fantasy
^ Fate has brought us to these shores
^ What was meant to be is now happening
^ I 've found that I like this living in danger
^ Living on the edge it makes feel as one
^ Who cares now what 's right or wrong
^ It 's reality
^ Killing so we may roam
^ Wherever we may roam
^ Wherever we may hide
^ We 've got to get away
^ I do n't want existence to end
^ We must prepare ourselves
^ For the elements I just want to feel like we 're strong
^ We do n't need a code of morality
^ I like all the mixed emotion and anger
^ It brings out the animal
^ The power you can feel
^ And feeling so high on this much adrenalin
^ Excited but scary
^ To believe what we 've become
^ Saints and sinners
^ Something within us
^ We are lord of the flies
^ Saints and sinners
^ Something willing us
^ To be lord of the flies
^ " Man on the edge "
^ The freeway is jammed
^ And it 's backed up for miles
^ The car is an oven and baking is wild
^ Nothing is ever the way it should be
^ What we deserve we just do n't get you see
^ A briefcase , a lunch and a man on the edge
^ Each step gets closer to losing his head
^ Is someone in heaven are they looking down Cause nothing is fair just you look around
^ Falling down
^ Falling down
^ Falling down
^ He 's sick of waiting of lying like this
^ There 's a hole in the sky for the angels to kiss
^ Branded a leper because you do n't fit
^ In the land of the free
^ You can live by your wits
^ Once he built missiles a nation 's defense
^ Now he ca n't even give birthday presents
^ Across the city he leaves in his wake A glimpse of the future a canibal state
^ Falling down
^ Falling down
^ Falling down
^ " Fortunes of war "
^ After the war
^ And now that they 've sent us homeward I ca n't help but feel that I 'm on my own
^ No one can see
^ Just what this conflict has done to
^ The minds of the men
^ Who are on their way home
^ I 'm scarred for life but
^ It 's not my flesh that 's wounded
^ So how can I face the torment alone
^ The vivid scenes
^ And all the recurring nightmares I lay there and sweat until it gets light ...
^ People say do n't worry
^ Say that time 's a perfect healer
^ That the nightmares they will come to pass
^ Ca n't hear what they 're saying I am living in my own world
^ And I 'm feeling trance-like all the time
^ I hear voices in my head
^ Could I really be going crazy
^ In the night the visions seem so real
^ Do you care if you live or die
^ When you laugh are you really crying
^ You 're not sure what 's real anymore
^ Fortunes of War
^ Fortunes of War
^ Fortunes of War no pain anymore
^ Fortunes of War
^ Fortunes of War
^ Fortunes of War no pain anymore
^ Fortunes of War
^ Sometimes I wake I feel that my spirit 's broken I wonder if I 've strength ... carry on
^ Carry on
^ " Look for the truth "
^ All my dark dreams drift
^ Like smoke in the breeze
^ The fear grips me as I fall towards my sleep
^ Here comes the nightmare that never ends
^ Here is the dream that makes monsters of men
^ In the house of my soul
^ In rooms of ugliness and cold
^ Memories locked away
^ All the doubts and fears I never faced
^ Now they come again I am falling down to meet with them
^ Fears within us all
^ Mine awake and they stand up tall
^ Look for the truth
^ Deepest cut of all from you
^ Knife of the truth
^ Blade of harted slicing through
^ I pray my sleep will break
^ Maybe this time I wo n't wake
^ Weakness I hide so well
^ This dagger in my mind will tell
^ It 's my final stand I make a fist out of each hand
^ To shadows of the past
^ Take a breath and I scream attack
^ Look for the truth
^ Deepest cut of all from you
^ Knife of the truth
^ Blade of hatred slicing through
^ Here is the truth
^ Deepest cut of all from you knife of the truth
^ Blade of hatred slicing through
^ " The Aftermath "
^ Silently to silence fall
^ In the fields of futile war
^ Toys of death are spitting lead
^ Where boys that were our soldiers bled
^ War horse and war machine
^ Curse the name of liberty
^ Marching on as if they should
^ Mix in the dirt our brothers ' blood
^ In the mud and rain
^ What are we fighting for
^ Is it worth the pain
^ It is worth dying for
^ Who will take the blame
^ Why did they make a war
^ Questions that come again
^ Should we be fighting at all
^ Once a ploughtman hitched his team
^ Here he sowed his little cream
^ Now bodies arms and legs are strewn
^ Where mustard gas and barbwire blooom
^ Each moment 's like a year I 've nothing left inside for tears
^ Comrades dead or dying lie I 'm left alone asking why
^ In the mud and rain
^ What are we fighting for
^ Is it worth the pain
^ It is worth dying for
^ Who will take the blame
^ Why did they make a war
^ Questions that come again
^ Should we be fighting at all
^ After the war
^ Left feeling no one has won
^ After the war
^ What does a soldier become
^ " Judgement of heaven " A lonely cry for help reaching out for help to anyone A silent prayer to God to help you your way I 've been depressed so long
^ It 's hard to remember when I was happy I 've felt like suicide a dozen times or more
^ But that 's the easy way , that 's the selfish way
^ The hardest part is to get on with your life
^ You 're searching in the dark
^ Clutching at straws to find a way
^ You take the Tarot cards
^ And throw them to the wind
^ Your question your beliefs , your inner thoughts , your whole existence
^ And if there is a God then answer if you will
^ And tell me of my fate , tell me of my place
^ Tell me if I 'll ever rest in peace
^ If you could live your life again
^ Would you change a thing
^ Or leave it all the same
^ If you had the chance again
^ Would you change a thing at all
^ When you look back at your past
^ Can you say that you are proud
^ Of what you 've done
^ Are there times when you believe that the right you thought was wrong
^ All of my life I have believed
^ Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me
^ All of my life now I have believed
^ Judgement of Heaven awaits for me
^ All of my life I have believed
^ Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me
^ Is waiting for me ...
^ " Blood on the world 's hands "
^ Sometimes it makes me wonder
^ Sometimes it makes me question
^ Sometimes it makes me saddened
^ Always it makes me angry but ...
^ When you can see it happening
^ The madness that 's all around you
^ Nobody seens to worry
^ The World seens so powerless to act ...
^ It 's out of control
^ Blood on The World 's hands
^ Each day a new toll
^ Another assassination
^ The same day a new creation
^ But what are they coming into
^ Security of a world that brings ...
^ One day another killing
^ Somewhere there 's someone starving
^ Another a savage raping
^ Meanwhile there 's someone laughing at us
^ It 's out of control
^ Blood on The World 's hands
^ Each day it goes on
^ Brutality and aggression
^ Tomorrow another lesson
^ Expecting another air raid
^ Praying for a ceasefire ...
^ They say things are getting better
^ No need to be complacent
^ There 's chaos across the border
^ And one day it could be happening to us
^ It 's out of control
^ Blood in The World 's hands
^ It 's our epitaph
^ It 's out of control
^ Someone should know
^ Blood on The World 's hands
^ Someone should
^ " The edge of darkness " I 've looked into the heart of darkness
^ Where the blood-red journey ends
^ When you 've faced the heart of darkness
^ Even your soul begins to bend
^ For a week I have been wating
^ Still I am only in Saigon
^ The walls move in a little closer I feel the jungle call me on
^ Every minute I get weaker
^ While in the jungle they grow strong
^ What I wanted was a mission
^ And for my sins they gave me one
^ They brought it up just like room service Cause everyone gets what they want
^ And when that mission was all over I 'd never want another one
^ I know , captain ,
^ That you 've done this work before
^ We 've got a problem
^ You can help us all I 'm sure
^ The colonel 's gone rogue
^ And his methods are unsound
^ You 'll take a PBR up river track him down
^ There 's a conflict in every human heart
^ And the temptation is to take it all to far
^ In this war things get so confused
^ But there are some things
^ Which cannot be excused
^ He 's acting like a God - an insane lunatic
^ Your mission - exterminate
^ With extreme prejudice
^ The route is dangerous
^ And your progress may be slow
^ Here is the file and it 's all you need to know
^ Here I am the knife in my hand
^ And now I understand why the genius must die
^ Now I stand alone in the darkness
^ With his blood upon my hands
^ Where sat the warrior the poet
^ Now lie the fragments of a man
^ I 've looked into the heart of darkness
^ Where the blood-red journey ends
^ When you 've faced the heart of darkness
^ Even your soul begins to bend
^ " 2 A.M. " I get in from work at 2 a.m .
^ And sit down with a beer turn on late night TV
^ And then wonder why I 'm here
^ It 's meaningless and trivial
^ And it washes over me
^ And once again I wonder
^ Is this all there is for me
^ Here I am again
^ Look at me again
^ Here I am again
^ On my own
^ Trying hard to see
^ What there is for me
^ Here I am again
^ On my own
^ Life seens so pathetic I wish I could leave it all behind
^ This canvas chair , this bed ,
^ These walls that fall in on my mind
^ Hold on for something better
^ That just drags you through the dirt
^ Do you just let go or carry on
^ And try to take the hurt
^ Here I am again
^ Look at me again
^ Here I am again
^ On my own
^ Trying hard to see
^ What there is for me
^ Here I am again
^ On my own
^ " The Unbeliever "
^ When you start to take a look within
^ Do you feel ease with what you see
^ Do you think you can have peace of mind
^ And have self-believe or be satisfied
^ Do you think you even like yourself
^ Or really think you could be someone else
^ Is there something that you 'd rather be
^ Never thought you 'd be , had the chance to see
^ All my life I 've run away
^ All my life I 've tried to hide away
^ Feel the paranoia creeping in
^ Like a cancer eating at the skin
^ Do you feel you 've lost your self esteem
^ And your self respect , what can you expect
^ All my life I 've run away
^ All my life I 've tried to hide away
^ All my life ...
^ I 've run astray
^ Let my faith ... slip away
^ All my life ...
^ I 've run astray
^ Allowed my faith ... to drift away
^ Are you scared to look inside your mind
^ Are worried just at what you 'll find
^ Do you really want to face the truth
^ Does it matter now , what have you got to lose
^ Try realease the anger from within
^ Forgive yourself a few immortal sins
^ Do you really care what people think
^ Are you strong enough to release the guilt
^ All my life I 've run away
^ All my life I 've tried to hide away
^ All my life ...
^ I 've run astray
^ Let my faith ... slip away
^ All my life ...
^ I 've run astray
^ Allowed my faith ... to drift away
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
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^ Hi Nick !
^ It is Wednesday evening , my parents-in-law has just went home after having coffee and cakes with Camryn and me .
^ Little Fatima is sleeping already .
^ It is snowing this evening and the temperature is about -3 Celsius .
^ I am having practice for some weeks now , yesterday I was teaching the young students in mathematics .
^ Last week I went scating at a local scating rink with some friends , that was fun , but hard for your feet !
^ I am working every second weekend ( Saturday / Sunday ) now at a " housing community for people with psychical impaired developing " .
^ We need the money , and doing that kind of work is actual quite interesting in different ways .
^ What about you ?
^ Kaylee ? ? ?
^ You asked me to pray for you , I did - have you more information ?
^ I am little curious you know ! ! !
^ OK Nick , be blessed , I look forward to hear from you !
^ Your friend in Norway , Philip .
^ ~
^ Linzy ,
^ All go for the 5th , though I ca n't guarantee any of our cars will still be on the road by then , after the debacle of your departure !
^ We ended up borrowing the BIAC minibus for the hostel trip , which I quite enjoyed driving , although !
^ at one point we did end up travelling the wrong way down a fairly narrow one-way street with some motorists heading bearing down on us in the opposite direction
^ I brought her back in one piece though so everyone was happy .
^ So Munich is giving you the silent treatment ?
^ I hear they like to play hard to get with everyone they give $ 100,000 in funding to .
^ Just act cool .
^ Right ... just be myself ... right ... .
^ I ca n't say that I was heartbroken about any of them ...
^ No , I suppose it 's inevitable that your standards will have been raised after spending a year gazing at the fair maidens of Brighton ...
^ I 've got our slide show firing on all cylinders and it 's earning rave reviews across the ocean too .
^ Medlarz / Pytlock Productions is going global .
^ Glad to hear the cross-atlantic marketing gears are grinding into motion .
^ There 'll be no stopping us now !
^ When you return we might want to begin discussing the imminent and inescapeable assimilation of AOL / TimeWarner and
^ Sony Pictures into the Medlarz / Pytlock empire ... sorry , I mean family ...
^ O
^ P.S. I bought your Nik Kershaw album - " To Be Rudd " - good stuff .
^ P.P.S. " The girls ... oh my goodness ... the girls "
^ Med ,
^ Great news about the concrete in your yard .
^ Hopefully we wo n't be around when they have to dig that stuff out , eh ?
^ So the youth hostile was a little hostile with the youths ?
^ Let me picture it ..... Macie ...... Cher ...... HEIN! ...... Everyone else ...... am I right or am I right ?
^ You ca n't blame Dwaynester for loving the attention though .
^ How did your relationship with the mini-bus pan out ?
^ So my catching up with " friends " featured a lot of friends that were girls .
^ " however , most of those " friends that were girls ' had " friends that were guys " if you know what I 'm saying
^ Everyone was hooked up ; I ca n't say that I was heartbroken about any of them all ...... they had to move on with me gone in Brighton and all anyways .
^ So Munich is giving you the silent treatment ?
^ I hear they like to play hard to get with everyone they give $ 100,000 in funding to .
^ Just act cool .
^ I 've got our slide show firing on all cylinders and it 's earning rave reviews across the ocean too .
^ Medlarz / Pytlock Productions is going global .
^ Speaking of going global , I 'll be returning to Luxembourg on Sept. 5 at around &TIME in the afternoon .
^ Is there any chance you can pick me at the bus station ?
^ No worries if you ca n't swing it .... I 'll just walk to Liddington carrying my luggage over my head .
^ Do n't worry .
^ Well , I 'm off to bed soon ...... the girls .... oh my goodness .... the girls .
^ Judith
^ PS .
^ Go Romania
^ It 's fast , it 's easy and it 's free .
^ Get MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ BenM ,
^ I love the way email makes it so easy to communicate across huge distances - fab .
^ Yup yup .
^ My only way to communicate with my mum bro and sister , and the 248 they have reliably been using for the last 3 years has just packed in a week ago .
^ Gets a " boot disk error : insert system disk and press any key to reboot " error or something .
^ Dumb machine .
^ I love it to bits ( literally ) having build it up from pieces , but ... to fail just now .
^ Karla does have a AMD300 with Kit84PA and an external 56k but guess what ?
^ He left it in Dad 's house and now Dad is coming to Australia for five weeks .
^ Smart move .
^ Not .
^ The computer sounds great .
^ How much was it in the end ?
^ # 1,200 total .
^ Then the USB enclosures were #35 and #39 and #49 ( or go with a FireWire connection too for #7 &SMILEY so I got a #39 and #49 .
^ I finally move to the Luxembourg area , and you decide to move to Australia ! ! !
^ Great .
^ I decided to move back to Australia 11 years ago .
^ After living in the Joneses ' place for 9 yeahs , he gets his house six months before I leave the country .
^ Typical .
^ Have you got any long- or medium-term plans for the future ?
^ Yeah - going to the Gold Coast for a week to see my gran .
^ Lizzy is coming too .
^ Then to Tyler and look for ( a ) accommodation ( b ) transport ( c ) a job .
^ Lizzy and I have talked about finding a place in Tyler together since she just lost her job here in Adelaide , and us both working in Tyler .
^ It 's an idea .
^ Long term goals are to bring down the Visionware Empire , to rip as many DVD 's and MP3z as possible , to enjoy the sunshine .
^ to avoid being eaten by sharks , spiders or snakes , and not die from a crash while driving the motorbike I hope to aquire
^ That 's the plan anyway .
^ Is Australia as good as you remembered it ?
^ So far , except that the biggest problem I have with the French is that they sacrifice honesty .
^ for politeness - they lure you into a false sense of security to get everything they want from you while you think you know where you stand with them
^ then they suddenly reveal they have been playing with you and manipulating you and not being truthful at all
^ It 's happened quite a bit to me .
^ Well , unfortunately , Lizzy likes Brighton , and Lizzy suffers from the same allergy for the Truth - she would rather say what she guesses people want to hear , rather than what 's true .
^ It 's very confusing and tiring .
^ Very .
^ I had hoped to leave it behind when I left Brighton .
^ That 's the only thing to have polluted
^ Australia so far .
^ Last week we got back from spending a week in Scotland in a caravan .
^ It was nice , but the weather was n't great .
^ Good good .
^ Well , I spent a week in a cottage in Perthshire , and then went up to Inverness .
^ It was good , sick , nice weather , messed up , a welcome break , good walks , nice food , dead sheep in the riverwater coming out our taps .
^ We 'd booked for Anna to stay there with us , but she did n't turn up or get in touch .
^ She is so strange .
^ In a bad way .
^ I texted you from the science site - did you get it ?
^ Yeah I think so .
^ I am going to install Kit84PA on this machine - LJ is alright but I am familiar with 98SE , and many of my proggies complain when I run them on LJ .
^ Yah yah .
^ Eat honey .
^ Stay well .
^ Do n't play sports .
^ For bodily exercise profiteth little : but godliness is profitable unto all things , having promise of the life that now is , and of that which is to come .
^ Flex those mind-muscles .
^ Encourage Regan - I like him .
^ Yo yo ,
^ God bless ,
^ Bob
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Everything you 'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Roots &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ How are you feeling today ?
^ Is life a joyful event for you ?
^ Hmmmm .
^ I 'm at home for the weekend .
^ Lovely sunny weather up here in Scotland .
^ Petunia is regaining consciousness thanks to a new disk .
^ Yesterday at work I went on a visit to that well-known haunt of mine;
^ Wells University Chemistry Department ...
^ Normally it 's students who visit industry , but the other way round is just as appealing since it meant I did n't have to get up early to go in to work yesterday .
^ I have started my revision ( ! ) and am now pushing back the frontiers of my knowledge , daily .
^ How 's your preparation going ?
^ Hope you have a nice time with Kaylee this weekend .
^ Enjoy swimming , and do n't worry too much about all the environmental health hazards in communal swimming pools .
^ I 'm sure they 're exaggerated .
^ Anyway , must go and get my hair cut .
^ Have a good day .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Dear Liz
^ Greetings & happy new year !
^ Trust all is going well at school - and that you are feeling much better .
^ We are very busy as usual BUT are seriously getting our ducks in line for Pedro and Julie to complete their schooling in the UK .
^ Please could you assist us with their projections ? ? ?
^ Is it possible for you to send me a Graduation Handbook with the choice of subjects etc.
^ I only have the yellow one - and I believe there is an updated one .
^ I will send you a cheque for any costs involved if you let me know how much it is plus postage .
^ Thanks in anticipation ...
^ Is James ready for a visit ... how about coming for a couple of months before international convention ( is he going this year .
^ we are planning a trip to Mozambique during April holidays ... he 'll be most welcome to join us
^ round 2 of Malone bundu bashing in Africa ... we are going in the 4X4 with some friends of ours
^ It should be lots of fun .
^ ( adrenaline rushes guaranteed ! )
^ Kathy and her husband and baby left for Australia on Monday .
^ They have emigrated !
^ Phyllistus is off on maternity leave .
^ She is huge ! ! !
^ I 'm not sure when the baby is due but I want to tell you she is incredibly uncomfortable ... and it has been swelteringly hot !
^ Will let you know when she has the baby .
^ Josue is asking if Quinton needs assistance in the building industry ... he needs a brain " rest " ... ! ! !
^ I reckon its time for furlough ! ( 5 years should about do it ! )
^ Okay , must away ... time to sleep ... lots of love for now
^ Laura ( & Josue ) Broderick
^ Nick , how 's the football team ...
^ Pedro and Josue are looking forward to having a couple of games ... let them know when you want the " international " players to arrive .
^ Okay , enough business ...
^ I must go and sleep !
^ We are going away for the week-end but look forward to a reply when we return .
^ ~
^ Guys ,
^ Last night was brilliant - God is awesome is n't He ?
^ We created an event which was viable , which was real , and which give God all the glory and spoke the message clearly .
^ To everyone involved I want to really encourage you - quality " performances " are not born out of immense talent , but from anointed Godly character .
^ is to say you must be walking really closely to Jesus in order for Him to be able to use us so effectively
^ I 'm not writing this as a big boast about ourselves - not at all , God deserves all the credit .
^ it was amazing to be able to be a part of what He is doing ; but I guess I wanted to say keep the momentum going
^ stay close to the throne , continue to pray earnestly and passionately , expect God to move , and wait for the harvest
^ You are all quality and I 'm blessed to know you .
^ Love in Him ,
^ Kane
^ ~
^ Hello pal !
^ It is Wednesday and I am sitting in the schools computer-room .
^ On Friday I am leaving for Asmara in Eritrea - back in Africa !
^ Me and two will stay there for about one month , mainly to work at an elementary school .
^ This is a part of our practice- training to become teachers .
^ Camryn and I is communicating better , I think - but it is not easy .
^ I hope you and your family are doing well , Nick !
^ Take care !
^ Greeting , Philip
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^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Yes , the holiday ...
^ Have you found out about your term dates yet ?
^ Thanks for the photo - just like in Man of Grace !
^ Your most welcome - I hope you enjoy reading it .
^ Was good to speak with you yesterday - hope you enjoyed your bath .
^ Thank you or your helpful hints on hot chocolate making .
^ I must advise you that obtaining essence of Hannavon wo n't be a problem as I have a friend who lives with the Katwoki tribe , who inhabit the foothills of the mountains of Jostavin .
^ Each spring the young males of the tribe test their agility , cunning , strength and stamina in a dangerous rite of passage to obtain a measure of this coveted spice for the chief medicine man .
^ After that they are given a wife .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Dear Nick
^ It is certainly very important to catch a vision for something , if you really want to give it everything you 've got .
^ Where does your vision lie at the moment ?
^ Well , my vision for Word is to keep the artistic integrity and not let organizational factors take over , just for the sake of churning out pieces for Steph .
^ My vision for life is to be as much part of the Christian arts world as possible .
^ I love theatre and I 'm going to see if I can continue training in that area after my degree .
^ I definitely feel like I have a vision for music - to make something of it ....
^ Is that what you would most like to do after you have finished Uni ?
^ You 'd have loved the Christian Artist 's Seminar I 've just been to .
^ Lots of people fired up for God , and being able to use their musical ability at the same time , and in a professional way .
^ Some of the guitarists ..... erm , is that the word you use? ..... were amazing and so gifted .
^ I truly believe that God not only knows the desires of our hearts , but puts many of them there in the first place .
^ I was wondering what I 'd do if I got to the end of university , or another big change point in my life
^ started to feel like I was never going to find someone - I was wondering how much I actually trust God . (
^ I know exactly what you mean .
^ With so many friends around me having seemingly found their " partners to be " .
^ it occasionally freaks me out that I have only one year left at Uni , and maybe only one year surrounded by other young Christians
^ And in St. Johns we 're even more lucky than most ........ apparently .
^ I love the idea of completely trusting God , but it 's harder in practice , especially when a lot of people I talk to do n't .
^ understand the concept of not " trying people out " first ( for desperate , desperate want of a better phrase )
^ People seem to be telling me not to moan about not being able to find the right person .
^ when I wo n't even give things a go or throw myself in at the deep-end , or even go out looking for someone
^ And , " So God 's just going to " plonk " the right person down in front of you , hey ? "
^ Uh huh .
^ Oh Lord , any time soon would be good .... but I 've a feeling God has other plans for me .
^ I 'm not giving up , just being realistic .
^ Anyway , you must trust , Nick , that God will bless you for your faith and your patience and your self control .
^ He 's not going to let your " singleness " efforts go unnoticed , I 'm sure of that .
^ You should pray for the desires of your heart in that area too !
^ I 'm all for the power of prayer at the moment .
^ Well , I 'm now rushing off to Ushaw Moor to see what needs doing to our new house .
^ This was meant to be a quick message but see what happens ... ..... ?
^ Speak soon
^ Love
^ Jack
^ ~
^ Hi guys ! !
^ Hope you 're having a fantastic holiday and making the most of the sun !
^ I do n't normally go for group emails but the week 's rushing by and I wanted to say hello before going on sunday .
^ Went to my sister 's graduation last week , which was pretty boring .
^ There was lots of latin and each student had to kneel at this old bloke 's feet and be prayed over ! !
^ They looked very smart though ( if a bit funny ! ) in all their official robes !
^ And we got lots of nice food afterwards , so it was alright !
^ We also went to watch my sister playing in the women 's Varsity cricket match at Lords .
^ It was a brilliant match and Munich won , so she 's very happy ! !
^ Went down to Carlisle friday night so we could go to Wimbledon on the saturday .
^ We got in at 6pm to the outside courts .
^ Did n't see anyone famous , but it was great just to wander round and soak up the atmosphere .
^ This week I 've been unpacking and clearing out lots of junk that I 've had stored away for years !
^ It 's amazing how long it takes !
^ Bought a new rucksack yesterday ( a very early birthday present from my parents ! ! ) and have been filling it up today .
^ Am very excited about going now ... ! !
^ We 've got orientation from sunday til tuesday and then we fly out early on Wednesday morning ! !
^ The address there will be : Transform Team , c / o A.E.A. , EC Box 05550 , Nairobi , KENYA .
^ I 'll probably be able to check email at internet cafes too , I 'm not sure how it 'll work !
^ We 're there til aug 20th .
^ That 's all for now !
^ Will be sending postcards soon ... ! !
^ lots of love
^ from Terrance &SMILEY
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^ Hi Samo ,
^ Well , I am having difficulty choosing between two keyboards .
^ Perhaps you will be able to help me out
^ Yamaha PSR 640 Casio CTK651AD ;
^ No of Keys : 61 61
^ Polyphonic Notes : 32 24
^ Sounds : 658 800
^ Rhythms : 900 900
^ Track / Herring Memory : 6 2 / 6
^ Demo Herring : 900 2
^ Transpose : Yes Yes
^ Stereo Speaker : Yes Yes
^ Headphone Socket : Yes Yes
^ Midi NO Yes
^ Touch Sensitive : Yes Yes
^ Stereo Output : Yes Yes DSP : Yes Yes
^ Synthesiser Function : Yes Yes
^ Price : &pound; 3176.49 &pound; 3179.99
^ Now , do you know what DSP is ?
^ Is MIDI important , and what is it ?
^ Are track / song memories important ?
^ What are polyphonic notes - are they important ?
^ Is the number of sounds important ?
^ I.e. Would a slightly less expensive model be a lot worse than these ?
^ Thanks for your anticipated help !
^ Please let me know a.s.a.p. if possible , as I have to buy it tomorrow or
^ Wednesday !
^ Also , would you be interested in bringing KITCHEN SCISSORS , and DUSTERS t o the flat as Bob forgot them ?
^ Also if you have a TOASTER , Bob forgot that too
^ This would be very helpful .
^ See you soon ,
^ Dominic
^ ~
^ Dear Friends , hope you are all well and for those of u who r in wells had a fab time at the Kingston Ball .
^ It 's been a while since I emailed you all and quite a lot has happened in that time .
^ I 've had some work problems out here and been in some trouble with the authorities , especially with my work visa which has taken what seems like forever for it to be issued .
^ This was partly delayed by my employer assuring it was fine 4 me to do my induction , b4 my visa arrived , when it actually was illegal .
^ After a far from pleasant afternoon spent at immigration last Friday , that matter was finally cleared up , but it took another few days b4 the blue paper was finally ready .
^ I have it ( at last ) and 2moro i fly to Osaka to get it stamped and get a night in a nice hotel , courtesy of the school . -
^ Should be sweet !
^ Out here about 99.9 % of the population are of asian descent and so being a pink ( so the koreans call us ) face , means u stick out in the crowd - very different from multi-cultural Carlisle .
^ Fortunately , i 've met a fair few French speakers ( loosely defined ! ) , especially a lot of Canadians like my flatmate Quinton and Keiron ( who lives nearby ) .
^ Thankfully none of them speak anything Lloyd Grossman ( or Bob Greetings ) !
^ Keiron 's a semi-pro mountain biker and he was telling us about one of his crashes .
^ He went straight into a tree and a branch went straight thru his pants and the affected area was very sore and bleeding .
^ it was almost enough to make your eyes water imagining what he must have been going thru !
^ when i realised that Canadians like Americans , call trousers , pants - still sounds a bit nasty though
^ Also i 've met an guy called Randy ( i was desparately trying to keep a straight face when I met him ) , who introduced us to a guy who wants us to do some male modelling in korea .
^ He took us out for a good meal and some drinks - Do n't laugh , he 's dead serious u know - but i do n't think posing 's my style -
^ Certainly things are very different here ! hey ! .
^ Also there 's no shortage of places to go for some nighttime entertainment .
^ H name it they 've got it going on til 4 or 5 in the morning and the gr8 thing about korea is there 's very little crime .
^ so there 's little chance of being beaten up even at that time in the morning
^ That is n't to say there are n't drunk koreans - in fact it 's one of the nations biggest pasttimes - they just do n't get violent when their drunk .
^ Actually , it 's quite common to see drunk koreans wandering aimlessly round the streets at 7 or 8 pm - seems to be perfectly accepted behaviour for business people , almost expected !
^ Another national pasttime is the narybon ( kareoke ) parlours where u go and sing along to your favourite songs whilst enjoying a quiet drink .
^ My voice has been unleashed on the people of Seoul , in a feast of popular music including Smells like teen spirit .
^ Nirvana ) , Let it be ( Beatles ) , Karma Molly ( Culture Club ) amongst others
^ I think u had to b there , but i reckon my voice is one of my most underrated assets .
^ Well , what else have i been up to ?
^ Sightseeing in Seoul , there are a few historical palaces & places of interest remaining , which were n't destroyed by the Japs .
^ Apart from this wading thru tons of shops in so called markets .
^ These operate on the principle that if you find one shop selling something u 'll find 10 and so these keen competition for customers .
^ My favourite market was the Yongsan Electronics Market , if it was electronic it was there .
^ 1000's of small shops sellling laptops , PC 's , camera 's especially digital one 's , hi-fi 's , and so on and on
^ In one of the many buildings there are goods from floor to ceiling on all 10 storey 's .
^ Prices are a bit cheaper than the UK for most things except for cameras , so i can see myself coming back with a smooth laptop
^ Other markets include the Namdaemun market and Dongdaemun market which sell predominantly clothes and some gifts and accessories , at very good prices - 100's of small shop units at each .
^ Today , I bought a dark brown jacket ( soft leather / suede style ) lined with synthetic fur to keep me warm when the winter weather hits -10oC !
^ It was an absolute bargain at little more than 40 pounds , and i just ca n't keep my filthy hands off it - so soft on inside and outside ! !
^ They also do food and fish markets , as well as some in antiques i think .
^ As always though i save the best for last !
^ Monday evening i was dancing round the flat screaming Yes ! , Yes ! , Yes ! ! )
^ Come on ! , Come On ! ( no i had n't found myself a girl , as if i 'd do something like that anyway ! !
^ No , i 'd just rung up to find the outcome of my diss and MSc .
^ The wonderful news was i got 72 % for the diss and that was enough to give me a distinction for the MSc overall .
^ It was slightly unexpected , since i was rushing to finish in the end , but a good reward for a hard summer 's work .
^ ( while friends were in ... Bricksminton , Thailand , Kenya , Romania , Australia ... )
^ I have finally managed to track down some postcards ( not readily available ) , so they should be winging their way back 2 blightie ( or wherever else , soon ) .
^ Still ca n't find any posters though .
^ Best Wishes
^ Look 4ward to hearing from u soon
^ Isabel Hernandez
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^ Found a drawback to my little laptop it hums like a generator ! ! !
^ Trying to get it sorted out .
^ Talk soon , and hope the house hopping is not too tiring ,
^ Regards , Mallory
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^ I said you 'd get a message ... .
^ Nice place here .
^ It 's even warm .
^ Shame it gets dark early - but then we are as far North as the Shetlands !
^ Went to the Hermitage yesterday - saw Picasso 's " Absynthe Drinker " .
^ It 's not as bad as you 'd think - it belongs to his early period so it 's a good likeness ( not of me - what are you thinking ? ) .
^ Good metro system here - the only problem is that the ground 's waterlogged so the lines are about 5 miles into the centre of the Earth .
^ By the time you 've reached the bottom of the escalator , about 5 minutes have gone by !
^ They also planned the stations to be as far away from tourist attractions as possible .
^ Still - I 'm enjoying it here !
^ Hope you 're enjoying what you 're doing !
^ Angelo
^ O how blessed that wondrous birthday when the Maid the curse retrieved .
^ Brought to birth Mankind 's salvation - by the Holy Ghost conceived .
^ And the Babe , the world 's Redeemer in her loving arms received .
^ Evermore and Evermore .
^ ( from carol " Of the Father 's heart begotten " )
^ ~
^ Dear Nick .
^ Here 's a letter
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^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ 1) Am I correct in thinking that you are bringing the following items to the flat ?
^ 1 Toastie maker
^ Cutlery
^ Tiffany
^ 2) If you have any rugs spare , please could you bring them ?
^ 3) Do you know who was responsible for bringing the Potato peeler ?
^ 4) The following items have not been allocated to anyone yet .
^ Set of saucepans , Sharp knife set , Video .
^ Now , the account is virtually activated .
^ It is a Halifax Student account in my name .
^ The account is with branch ( near where I live ) because it is better to have an account in a bank with whom one has a per sonal relationship , where one is known .
^ The account comes with a switch card w hich can be used free in any cash machine with a LINK logo .
^ It also has a che que book .
^ When I receive the GLA you will be informed of it .
^ Therefore , whe never it is convenient for you to pay your &pound; 2800 , let me know .
^ Cheques should be made payable to me .
^ G A Wheeler ) I hope this has been done to your approval ?
^ Sawyer
^ " Logic , what do they teach them ... ? "
^ Mr Nick ,
^ As I mentioned a few hours earlier , and about a hundred miles further southward , the flat account is still open and has our money in it .
^ I am waiting for our esteemed colleagues , Donald and Kaylee to send me a list of which calls they think they have made .
^ Hmmm , I wait , I wait , I wait .
^ Perhaps you could engage in some subtle hinting ?
^ Anyway , once I receive that information I shall speedily conclude working out the telephone jake and calculate how much we all owe .
^ Following that , I shall draw our final bills ( or cheques , as is more likely - I hope ! ) and send them to you all .
^ I hope that is to your satisfaction .
^ What have you been encountering this week in the way of leisure , academic work , fun , or anything else remotely interesting ?
^ Thank you for your attempts at solving the username puzzle .
^ I have not given up yet , but must confess I am currently without leads and pretty much at a loss .
^ Do not fear though , it will be solved before I leave Wells !
^ Brave words for a chemist . )
^ I have been spending most of the last week writing my chemistry dissertation .
^ I have now completed a rough draft , which ( thankfully ) my supervisor is " pleasantly surprised " with - I 'm not quite sure how to take that !
^ Anyway , I have also been finishing my stone circle in our garden , and my dad is going to plant a tree in it next week .
^ Apart from that , I have been indulging in lazy mornings and late nights .
^ Very bad and undisciplined !
^ Well , I certainly had a busy day today !
^ I got up at seven o'clock and caught a train to Wells at &TIME .
^ After alighting at Wells station I promptly made my way to the library .
^ There I worked ( toil such as only Hercules would understand ) until &TIME , after which I felt within me prognostics of hunger pangs .
^ Henceforth I skipped gaily along to
^ McDonald 's Restaurant of Fine Foods and procured a high quality lunch .
^ Late as it was , the time delay only heightened my appreciation of sumptuous chicken pieces delicately fried in the purest olive oil
^ You know , McDonalds only have a bad reputation due to the senior management 's most effective scaremongering tactics .
^ If everyone realised how akin to ambrosia their delectable morsels were the chief executives would have no where to eat out for dinner .
^ Very best wishes ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hello Jimmy-boy !
^ How are you ?
^ Where are you living now ?
^ What are you up to at the moment ( other than arranging a get-together in someone else 's house ! ! &SMILEY ) ?
^ I gather ( in a rather round-about way : from Bob K who got it from Regan ! ) that you are now back near Bath ( ? ) and that your credit card went missing lately .
^ What a pesky nuisance !
^ I hope you 've managed to get it all sorted out .
^ We got back on Saturday from a lovely 2 weeks in Scotland .
^ The weather was incredibly nice ( for Scotland ) and we did loads of stuff - cycling , walking , lots of jaunts , visited castles , towns .... etc : lots of good fun !
^ Isabelle and Manley made it for 2 days , which was so nice as its the first time they 've been away from home since Manley was diagnosed !
^ Jessie came for the 2nd week , which was really great too .
^ She adds another dimension to family life , and talks so much and can be so funny that there 's rarely a dull moment !
^ Anyway , that 's over now , and we 're back home ( Jessie back in Munich ) and Ses is back at school , mam back at work , and dad just as busy as ever .
^ As for me , this week has been really exciting !
^ I 've got some ( not very exciting ) uni reading done , which was quite satisfying , and done loads of stuff ( washing and ironing galore .
^ to top all that , I have made an exciting breakthrough with my cards
^ On Wednesday I went to the Noel Arts Centre in town and showed them my cards .
^ They seemed really interested , so I left a selection for the buyers to consider and they 'll get back to me .
^ Then mam and I went to Corbridge , a little town not far from Noel .
^ where I went and showed off my wares in a little Bookshop / giftshop which I 've had my eye on for a while now
^ The owner loved the cards and bought 60 of them on the spot - at &pound; 1 each .
^ He reckons he 'll be able to sell them on for &pound; 1.99 each , and has asked me to go back in a few weeks to supply him with some more ! !
^ Obviously I 'll just have to wait and see if the guy 's predictions are correct .
^ I think he 's banking on the residents of Corbridge having more money than sense - which possibly they do ( its a very rich area of Mateo ) .
^ So , as I wanted ,
^ RuthCards have found a little opening , and hopefully it will flourish !
^ I saw Becs on Wednesday evening too , so that made the day even better .
^ She came for tea and then we just sat about chatting and ( occasionally ) listening to the football so that Becs could join in with SOME of the conversation with Jo and Patrick on her way back to Wells !
^ And now I have the lovely prospect of seeing you and all the others down in Munich next weekend !
^ Should be lots of fun !
^ I got my train tickets the other day ( using the money from my successful business venture ! ) , and the only train I could get on the friday arrives in Munich at lunchtime ( 12.30ish ) .
^ I guess I 'll be able to meet up with Bob .
^ if he 's free , and anyone else who comes early , or I 'm quite happy to just amuse myself for the afternoon if noone else has arrived
^ Jessie is probably going to come and join us at some point on the saturday , as I 'd like to see as much of her as I can .
^ I 'm going to go and stay at hers on the Sunday night as well , and then go home on the monday as she 's back at work .
^ Well , I 'd better go now .
^ Mam should be back from work very soon and dad is due back from establishing law and order in the Magistrates courts at any minute and will demand the use of his computer !
^ Bye for now , love and a bear-hug from Cody
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^ Guess who got up this morning before 6am for no reason ?
^ I have n't quite worked out exactly who I 'm going to stab in their bed but all of those on my hit list are members of the boat club .
^ " Revenge is a dish that is best served cold " as the Klingon proverb says .
^ killer miller
^ ~
^ Hey Nick , here are all the emails - sorry if Ive clogged up your in-box !
^ Rodrigo
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ Am interested in your MS Classroom LJ student / teacher software as listed on Ocean .
^ Does the software come with a genuine student license ?
^ Regards ,
^ Lucy Malone
^ ~
^ Hello Nick , hope you are well .
^ " Merry Christmas and a happy New Year ! "
^ Your friend in Bergen , Philip
^ ~
^ Nick !
^ Hello , good afternoon , this e-mail is from Shania .
^ Thank you for your e-mail , I had a wonderful holiday on the Emerald Isle .
^ I 'm glad to hear you have been working .
^ I 'm also pleased to receive , at long last , news that Bob is still alive .
^ Thank you .
^ " Camilla is a bit better after I gave her a good clean-out and made sure all her components were in order . "
^ I 'm so happy for you both .
^ " Guess what , I 'm buying a lap-top ! ! ! ! ! ! " - I 'm shocked .
^ Is it any good ?
^ I look forward to meeting " Rosie " , what is his hard drive called ?
^ I 'll be very sorry not to see Camilla - I was counting on her presence this term to ensure we had a lovely time in the flat .
^ Shania , the other day I overdrew my bank account for the first time .
^ Now I have got an overdraft , just like all the other students ! - Oh yes , it 's a well-known fact that absolutely all ( without any exceptions ) students have an overdraft .
^ Welcome to the multinational , multilingual crowd that comprises the rest of the entire world student population .
^ Incidentally , when you overdraw your bank , that means you are overdrawn - you do n't automatically have an overdraft .
^ They charge you lots of money for being overdrawn without an overdraft .
^ Well , today I had a lazy morning as I was tired from 9 hours travelling yesterday - we did n't get home until 11pm last night .
^ I then did a small amount of studying this afternoon , followed my moving some money through my various accounts ( always guaranteed to lift the corners of my mouth into a smile ) .
^ I am shortly going outside ( it 's very windy weather , but otherwise pleasant ) to build a step up to our house .
^ I will be using cement for the first time in my life !
^ Are you well ?
^ When is Rosie due to enter Maloneworld ?
^ Yes , I 'd love to chat online .
^ Does tonight suit you ?
^ If so , then what about 7pm ?
^ If not , let me know when ?
^ Until sometime in the near future
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hi Mr Nick !
^ How are you today ?
^ Have you been busy " beavering " again ?
^ Hope all 's going well .
^ I am now back to using my brick-phone from the first year - somewhat of a step backwards ! - ah !
^ The brick !
^ Almost as famous as the red jumper ! &SMILEY
^ I 've been beavering away at my work .
^ I just finished the introductory chapter to my report - it 's 4,500 words long ! - wow ! ! !
^ Very impressive .
^ I started work on my dissertation on
^ Monday , and have so far accumulated the grand total of 800 words .
^ hmmm ... well , I 've read through all the notes I made in the summer and this term , so I 'm not doing too badly
^ I hope to have the 1st two chapters well drafted out by the start of next term , so kind of have my work cut out over the rest of this week and next !
^ as Jessie comes home after that - and I 'll never get any work done with the dear girl around !
^ Isabelle and Manley are coming to stay for Christmas too , so it 'll be a whole family affair .
^ We went to see them on Sat ( as you probably know coz I 've already told you ! ) in Oxford and had a lovely time .
^ Manley is amazingly well again and has eyebrows , eyelashes , baby-hair and stubble !
^ Wow !
^ Got my birthday present from Suzy yesterday - only 5 months late !
^ She lost it in moving out of the flat at the end of the summer term , and only found it on Monday , so it arrived in a nice little surprise parcel for me .
^ I now have a nice pair of " Eric " ( the baby kangaroo from Winnie the Pooh ) socks to wear .
^ Speaking of Suzy , she flew out to Spain yesterday to stay with Jack .
^ I 'll resist the temptation to say anything mischievous ...
^ How 's the piano ?
^ Am I ? &SMILEY - the piano 's fine .
^ It 's as un-touched and out-of-favour ( with Uriel : the only one who can play ) as ever ... .
^ The bust key should be fixed next week anyway , as the piano-tuner 's coming , but my Mam found the whole thing really amusing , and as my Dad knows nothing about it , you have nothing to fear !
^ except the wrath of Anna - but that 's not been unleashed this time !
^ Today I went Christmas shopping with Mam in Noel .
^ Man !
^ Christmas really is the " season of long queues and short tempers " ! ! ( there 's a TV / video quote for you ... know who ? - see end of email ! )
^ SO many people argey-bargying around the shops !
^ I was n't very successful with present-buying , but did manage to purchase a pair of jeans for myself which rival the baggy-ness of yours !
^ Mam is trying to persuade me to return them ! !
^ Anyway , after the shopping malarky , we escaped to the lovely
^ Mateo countryside near Hexham .
^ We visited this cute little farm shop , which turned out to be really popular with the Range-Rover and Spain brigade ... our filthy dirty , poo-ed all over Rover ( unfortunately parked under a bird-filled tree this morning !
^ was rather embarrassing alongside the great and good of Mateo 's fleet of spanking motor-cars
^ Ah well , c'est la vie ! ( yes !
^ Got it in somewhere ! ) .
^ Done much cooking since you 've been home ?
^ Parker ( he rang in the middle of me writing this ) told me you 're moving house ( again ) next week - to your Grandad 's is it ?
^ Oh , and I remembered something the other day .
^ Are n't you going to have a little " nose-job " ( sorry Nick , you must be sick of that joke ) sometime soon ?
^ I remember your flat mates going on about it at the end of last year .
^ So , how 's life down South ?
^ It is literally FREEZING up here !
^ My
^ Dad 's mini outdoor weather station reliably informs me that it 's not been above 0'C today .
^ Brrrr ... .
^ No wonder my silly cough 's still not gone !
^ How is your coldy thingy ?
^ Hope it 's all gone and that your back 's better now too .
^ Oh , and could I have your address please ?
^ There 's something I might send you - nothing very exciting ( or scary for that matter ! ) , have no fear .
^ Right , must go and unpack my clothes now .
^ Yes , I 've been living out of a suitcase for the past 4 days - I just have n't had the chance to properly unpack stuff yet .
^ Any excuse .
^ Hope you have lots of fun , and do n't work TOO hard !
^ All work and no play and all that ! ( smile ! )
^ Bye for now , speak soon ,
^ Cody x
^ Answer : Mohammad Lemmer in Round the World in 80 Days !
^ PS - yes , I 'm a bit sad ! )
^ ~
^ I am back once more into the swing of life here in Wells , and as usual , sleep patterns have been interrupted .
^ What follows now is an explanation ...
^ Nick returned from his holiday with an incredibly annoying electronic mouse , which runs around , and laughs like a teletubby .
^ Understandably , I hated it .
^ Kaylee was eating pizza one night , and there were anchovies on it , which she did not like , understandably .
^ As Nick was not there , Jon and Parker came up with the idea that the only right thing to do would be to put the small fishes into Nick 's clothes .
^ Which they did .
^ After much protestation on my part , and also of Tabitha , the fishes were moved to Nick 's shoes .
^ After a while , ( well over 36 hours ) I felt that I must tell Nick about the fish .
^ It would be unfair to him otherwise .
^ The same day , I pinned the rodent onto the notice board by it 's tail , as a sign to other electronic creatures .
^ That evening , I returned from a hard day at the department to find the rat , and a piece of paper inside my room .
^ The paper was a note , from that detestable rodent ( Parker ) informing me that if I continued to harm animals , something bad would happen to me .
^ The only viable solution to this was to shoot the messenger , but as I do not own a gun , I was satisfied to unscrew the plastic back of the mouse .
^ No wires were cut , as this was only another warning .
^ Someone else ( Nick , Parker probably ) succeeded in damaging the internal organs of the beast .
^ What a shame .
^ It also came out that evening , that I had informed Nick as to the fish .
^ Threats were spoken unto me , particularly by Donald , but her whimpering henchman , Parker , also joined in .
^ I was left quaking in my brown shoes .
^ Later that week , I went to go fencing , but returned early due to the fact that it was canceled .
^ I entered the flat , and who should I see exiting my room , but Parker .
^ I of course questioned him , accusing him of setting up a " joke " .
^ He told me that he was searching for my Due South CD .
^ I persisted in my questioning , but concluded , that he was telling the truth .
^ How wrong I was about him .
^ That evening , feeling very ill , I went to bed early .
^ I heard a crackling noise from the top of my dresser , as if plastic bags were moving .
^ I thought to myself , " I hope there is not a mouse in here . "
^ I hate mice ) but then went to sleep .
^ Early the next morning , I was woken by the sound of the evil mouse , amplified by about four times , in my room .
^ Understandably , as I was trying to recover from my cough , and desperately needed rest , I was saddened .
^ Both Jon and Parker had very smug looks on their faces that morning .
^ I am pleased to note , however , that the entire evilness of their plan did not bear fruit .
^ The plan originally involved repeatedly waking me during the night , by the use of Parker 's task manager on his computer .
^ Fortunately for me , his is an incompetent oaf , and I was only woken , when Parker manually sent it off in the morning .
^ One of the fun things about fencing is that it is sometimes possible to say to your opponent , " I 'm gonna hit you on the head " and then you actually do it .
^ Much more rewarding than not saying anything !
^ I was telling Parker about this , and thought that I might worry him , by saying the " plans " I had for him !
^ I told him that I would enter his room one night , and squirt his face with squirty cream .
^ I even told him the night that this would be done .
^ I would say now , that at this time I had no intention of actually doing such a thing .
^ Later on that evening , I was in Shania 's room with Nick , and for some reason or another , I was purifying Sawyer .
^ This usually involves pain , but his has grown resistant to that , so " emotional battering " was taking place .
^ This involved chucking his sterilized keys ( no kidding ) out the window into the contaminated world .
^ At this Parker flipped , and ordered me to " fetch them " .
^ Nick at this time signaled for me to change my key with Parker 's , and this was the moment at which I started to think about actually getting some justice done .
^ That night , I went to bed with Parker 's key on my key ring , and mine on his .
^ As Parker is paranoid about germs entering his room at night , he always locks his door .
^ The key was needed to gain access to his room .
^ My plan was as follows ,
^ a ) wait until it is late ( or early ) b ) unlock Parker 's door c .
^ place my sabre on the floor , as a sign that I was there , and d ) take a picture of Parker asleep to prove it
^ My plan relied on the following assumptions :
^ a ) Parker would not know the number inscribed on his key b ) Parker would not spend the night in Donald 's bed .
^ Unfortunately , neither of these assumptions were met .
^ I know the latter one is shocking , but we need to face up to the truth .
^ My plan went well , and I returned to bed , feeling very much like Karla , after he cut the hem off of Saul 's robe when he was sleeping .
^ You can read about this in 1 Samuel )
^ Unfortunately then next morning , the following revelations were brought to light .
^ a ) Both Jon and Gave had known that I was going to do something that night .
^ This , admittedly , was not surprising , as I had said that myself !
^ b ) Both Jon and Parker were awake when I took the picture of " Sawyer " in his bed .
^ c ) they had stolen my sabre .
^ d ) and after my shower , locked me out of my room .
^ evil people .
^ Members of the jury , I ask you to bring down fire upon these two sinners heads , and if not that , at least water balloons .
^ Thank you , and God Bless .
^ Robert K. Greetings
^ Robert K. Greetings 0464 948 4426
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^ Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Wells , WI3 2WP
^ St. Philip 's College
^ 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
^ Department of Geological Sciences
^ University of Wells
^ ~
^ No doubt now you 'll be back in Wells seeing as term starts pretty soon .
^ As for me , over the past month I 've been able to:
^ Drink Irn Bru in a bar next to Lake Baikal
^ Eat plenty of fatty food
^ Combat temptation to go to McDonalds cos there is n't one !
^ Take the last hydrofoil of the season from Irkutsk to Lake Baikal
^ Laugh at your fuel crisis and think about sending food parcels
^ Speak plenty of French
^ Buy cigarettes at 25p per packet ( well - I ca n't really resist it !
^ I could give up smoking - but I 'm no quitter )
^ Get so drunk that I ot thrown out of a bar for starting a fight
^ Have a major argument with the rest of the group and so they do n't want to know me any more
^ The problem is that the last two points on the list I 'm a bit ashamed of ( OK then VERY ashamed ! ) .
^ I do n't know now what the future will hold but I 'd appreciate it if you 'd pray for my sanity and the friendship of the group .
^ I 'd like to be able to get back in with the other Brits but at present that seems impossible .
^ I 'm even feeling suicidal at times .
^ What now ?
^ Thanks for listening and thanks for thinking about me .
^ Angelo
^ PS any of _your_ prayer requests will be gratefully received provided I 'm still alive .
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ! ! !
^ We are on the net , from our new flat we bought in Sept .
^ Last week I sent you a postcard ( to Bath ) , so you may not have read it .
^ Last month we got a son ! ! ! !
^ His name is Fatima , and he is a great baby .
^ I am enjoying my life as a student too .
^ It is good to learn new things almost every day .
^ OK , I will write you more next time , Nick .
^ Your friend in Norway , Philip .
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ I woke up this morning and thought of this song .
^ Enclosed are the words tha t we could never remember .
^ I hope that your last weeks in Africa are going well .
^ Are you getting excited to return home ?
^ I hope that your students do
^ exceptional at conference and that you get to have a wonderful conversation with your mother .
^ Maybe the other passenger will suddenly have the urge to explo
^ Re the modern marvels of public transit and you can have the ride all to yourselves .
^ Have a safe trip home .
^ Thinking of you still ,
^ Cynthia
^ Now my grandfather was a sailor
^ He blew in off the water
^ My father was a farmer
^ And i , his only daughter
^ Took up with a no good millworking man
^ From massachusetts
^ Who dies from too much whiskey
^ And leaves me these three faces to feed
^ Millwork ain 't easy
^ Millwork ain 't hard
^ Millwork it ain 't nothing
^ But an awful boring job I 'm waiting for a daydream
^ To take me through the morning
^ And put me in my coffee break
^ Where I can have a sandwich
^ And remember
^ Then it 's me and my machine
^ For the rest of the morning
^ For the rest of the afternoon
^ And the rest of my life
^ Now my mind begins to wander
^ To the days back on the farm I can see my father smiling at me
^ Swinging on his arm I can hear my granddad 's stories
^ Of the storms out on lake eerie
^ Where vessels and cargos and fortunes
^ And sailors ' lives were lost
^ Yes , but it 's my life has been wasted
^ And I have been the fool
^ To let this manufacturer
^ Use my body for a tool I can ride home in the evening
^ Staring at my hands
^ Swearing by my sorrow that a young girl
^ Ought to stand a better chance
^ So may I work the mills just as long as I am able
^ And never meet the man whose name is on the label
^ It be me and my machine
^ For the rest of the morning
^ And the rest of the afternoon
^ Gone for the rest of my life
^ ~
^ Dear Nick
^ Are we blessed ? or are we blessed ?
^ Praise God for holidays - so you can catch up with your emails .
^ I guess you must have spent many hours travelling !
^ We nearly gave up on you !
^ No , only joking .
^ Well done , Nick - glad to hear you are being a good witness for the Kingdom !
^ Now , when you go to University - keep it up ! ! !
^ We look forward to catching up - maybe even visiting you in Wells .
^ We have never been up the east side of Brighton so maybe next time we are there we will take a turn up there .
^ Josue has been very busy - we are busy with buildings , he travels lots now -
^ Pastor Graham is taking him with him more and more and has actually asked
^ Josue to be his " Africa " connection .
^ Recently they went up to Kenya and will be visiting Namibia and Botswana early October , and then Zimbabwe in November .
^ I think its time your folks came and worked with us !
^ What do you say ?
^ Life is so short - we wish we could split ourselves into a few pieces and do more !
^ Did you go away for your holiday ?
^ Is your dad still working for your uncle ?
^ What is James doing ? & Giles ? & Joshua ?
^ Have you decided what subjects you are going to take at Varsity ?
^ We had a wonderful time while Jade was here .
^ He has turned out such a nice guy and even though he was only here for a month he became part of the family - much like you !
^ He was quite fired up coming here .
^ Pedro and
^ Jade were plotting a " Victory " reunion in Africa !
^ They were mischievously planning wild places to take all the boys - ... nothing quite so wild as having hyenas tearing your tent , but an Africa experience nonetheless .
^ Pedro is about to go for his learner 's licence ( Noe , as well ) and they are driving and practising parking , etc.
^ Julie , Pedro and Jade had a good time reminiscing about the days at Victory School - -
^ Mrs. Malone 's paddle !
^ Jade said he never got paddled - we could n't believe it !
^ They even remember those times in the office with fondness .
^ Praise God , they were n't in vain ...
^ encourage your mother !
^ The students are busily planning for student convention .
^ Pedro did some metalwork and I must say I 'm quite impressed !
^ He has made a lamp stand and is going to make a shade now .
^ It looks great .
^ They are doing several events this year .
^ The convention has got so big now that from next year we will be moving to a university campus .
^ There are about 950 schools and over 300 home-school families now using the " School of Tomorrow " programme in South Africa !
^ We have truly had an explosion .
^ The " school services " keeps Josue and I quite busy .
^ Just last week we visited our last 2 schools for " inspection " - assistance visits .
^ Josue has been asked to be the " Africa " connection - working with Pastor Graham - so I guess things will get quite interesting in the near future .
^ We have just finished laying brick paving pathways right around the kitchen / ablution block building - slowly but surely things are looking better and better around here .
^ We are also busy with a new preschool building which will be fenced off separately with play equipment in the garden - it is going to be so nice .
^ The simplexes are up to floor level and we are praying for a miracle to finish them .
^ That will enable us to accommodate up to seven families on the property .
^ We also plan to build 10 single rooms - to set up a training centre for people to come and train to go into Africa .
^ We plan to have a teacher training centre and missions course .
^ All , of course , God willing !
^ He needs to add the right people to do the work .
^ Lawrence and Julian and their children have gone off to Zambia .
^ They left on the week-end .
^ Lawrence will be helping a friend of ours with his orphanage - they are still busy building it .
^ In July Josue led a team to put the roof on .
^ Just all the finishing off to be done .
^ Although they have only gone off for 3 months , they think it will be longer and are quite excited .
^ Of course it leaves a gap this side - we need a handyman - with all the buildings in progress , and Josue so busy running around , it is difficult for him to oversee everything .
^ We are praying for someone to come and help us .
^ Otherwise , I guess that 's all the news for now - please give your folks a big hug from us - we look forward to a nice visit soon ( either here or there ! )
^ In the meantime , enjoy your vacation - stay blessed and a blessing !
^ We love you guys
^ Josue & Laura and kids !
^ Well , Nick ,
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^ Missing ! ! _3F3F ?
^ Hello - is there anybody out there ?
^ Are you alive mr. Malone ?
^ I am ( or I could not send this message )
^ Nick , I am a happy dad now , so I am singing in the shower ; " I looove you because ... "
^ The weather in Bergen now is pathetic , so it is good to be inside , drinking Coca Bisset , eat cold meatbolls and watch telly .
^ Gotta run now , Camryn and the need me - and this cost money ...
^ Philip , the man with the view !
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Hi .
^ It was great to see you and everyone else in Munich .
^ We never got around to discussing prayer and bible study as an integral part of flat life .
^ Perhaps we should ?
^ Am I correct in assuming that we are taking the following rooms ?
^ 1B 3D Kaylee , 2B 3D Jon , 3B 3D Sawyer , 4B 3D Nick , 5B 3D Bob .
^ If not , please tell me .
^ I am able to bring 2 pull-cords for the lights in the bathroom and toilet .
^ I hope this is agreeable .
^ The current ones are for bidden by department of environmental health legislation .
^ And no , before you as k , I did n't check .
^ Oh , I am looking forward to living in this flat .
^ Do you have any ideas f or the name which should appear on our cheque book ?
^ It 's top priority decisio ns like these which we need to sort out immediately . )
^ Did we definitely decide the stuffed moose 's head was impossible ?
^ I think it would look imposing .
^ Please write me an interesting reply .
^ Thanks ,
^ Sawyer
^ P.S. I have absolutely no desire to become the youngest ever chief executive of Dettol Inc.
^ I am a chemist .
^ ~
^ Hey there Nick !
^ Hope all is well with you ?
^ Hope that work is going okay ?
^ Have you done any work at the school yet ?
^ I am here in the library having just returned a book for 10am , did n't really happen !
^ Only managed to throw myself out of bed at 10.30am .
^ Throw is probably too energetic word to use maybe fell would be better !
^ Have been working very hard , quite pleased with that .
^ Not where I have planned to be but I am not realistic like that !
^ Derrick arrives early ! ! ! in the morning and I am very excited and happy about that .
^ I am then going to have a few days off , to bathe in the glorious
^ Irish sunshine , and do a little more work before we go to Spain .
^ In some ways working intensley on the two essays has been good , like it was at Christmas and has been for pretty much the whole year me
^ because I really feel like I am getting to know my subject more and more importantly for God .
^ As always very happy and much to look forward to .
^ If you have n't been already enjoy your time at Tims ' and say " hi " to Bob and
^ Mallory for me .
^ Take care , God Bless ,
^ Jo .
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^ Dear Mr Nick ,
^ Hi , and thanks for the postcard !
^ It got here this time !
^ I 've been to Bath once before , when I was about 8 , and we visited the Abbey and the Roman baths shown on the postcard !
^ I ca n't remember much else of what we did there , but seeing the picture jogged my memory !
^ I 'm glad you enjoyed your relaxing weekend .
^ How did the family thingy go the weekend before ?
^ How is your new song going ?
^ I look forward to hearing it when we get back to Uni !
^ Are you going to use your new guitar for it ?
^ I thought you 'd got a guitar for your birthday - is this new one different , or better ? )
^ That sound module thingy for your computer sounds pretty cool too .
^ Is n't technology amazing these days ! ?
^ So , what have I been up to ?
^ Well , I do n't think I 've told you that I decided not to take that job after all .
^ After having such great expectations of it , I found that it was n't as good as it seemed so I declined the offer .
^ It would have involved me going into businesses and getting them to sign over from their current electricity supplier to using
^ National Power .
^ Having spent a day shadowing one of the guys from there !
^ I just concluded that I could n't hack it - sales people like that can be really annoying , and having to be one myself would drive me crazy
^ Dad told me he would n't be happy with me taking it , and so that helped me make my decision .
^ Although I have no other job lined up , or likely to be available at this rate , I feel sure I would n't have enjoyed it , and content in that my
^ Dad advised me to give it up .
^ Anyway ( ! ) , since then I have looked for other work but have had no success .
^ No wonder unemployment is so high here in Noel !
^ There is just no decent work going at all .
^ If you fancy being up all night at some scarry and isolated petrol station , you could have a field-day in picking up work - but nothing for those who do n't want that ! !
^ Well , that 's enough about work .
^ For the time being ( and , most likely for the rest of the hols ) I am content at being Housekeeper of The Berry
^ Residence .
^ It 's like a full time job , I can tell you !
^ My " duties " include cooking , washing , ironing , cleaning , gardening ... .... and in my spare time , I am enjoying cycle rides , playing with my computer ( making fun cards - watch out .
^ reading Wives and Daughters , watching the odd video , and other such nice things
^ I 'm having fun , but it can get a bit lonely being by myself a lot as everyone else is at work .
^ We had a great weekend too .
^ Isabelle and Manley came back from their honeymoon in the Lake District .
^ They popped in en route back to Oxford so that they could collect all their wedding presents .
^ They had so many that it took nearly 2hrs to open them all - great fun though !
^ They will have the most well-equipped kitchen in Oxford !
^ On Sunday we had a day out with people from church .
^ We had a service here in the morning , and then afterwards we all travelled up ( in a mini-bus and cars ) to Beadnall - on the coast ( just down from Holy Island ) .
^ Each year our church has the use of a house up there for 2 weeks .
^ I think it belongs to some of dad 's friends , and they let it out ( for free ) to local churches .
^ Anyway , we all went up and had a picnic lunch in the sun and then went and mucked around on the beach for the afternoon .
^ We then had a little meeting and talk from Dad before having some tea .
^ It was a good day , but rather difficult and trying too .... .
^ The area I live in is one of the poorest and most " socially deprived " ( as the council describe it ) areas in the North East , with high crime , unemployment , drugs-users and alcoholics , etc.
^ Our church is small and weak , with only a handful of truely committed believers attending
^ There are a lot of people who , I 'm sorry to say , just come along for the food provided each Sunday evening
^ or come for the social side of it all - ie to meet people and have a chat
^ Basically , the church has a lot of problems , which dad has striven to address , but it seems the whole time that things are getting worse .
^ However , Dad is convinced that he has a role to play here ; that God has put him in this place for a purpose .
^ I sometimes give up hope , and think all dad 's hard work is coming to nothing , but he is strong in his faith , and determined to carry on .
^ We have been studying
^ Phillippians in our bible studies , and have talked about the emphasis on the need for closeness and committment in fellowships : something that our church is sadly lacking .
^ It is funny ( not in the ha ha sense ) but , having been away at Uni , I do n't feel as if I am a part of the church here anymore ; it 's a strange situation .
^ Having been brought up my entire life as the daughter of an anglican minister , people automatically assume that I am an Anglican .
^ I object to that as I disagree with so much of the goings on in the Church of Brighton .
^ I do n't know what " denomination " I am , if any .
^ I do n't understand the difference between half of them !
^ All I know is that I am a christian , and want to be part of a church which is going to help me " grow " in my faith , and where I can help others .
^ As the church here is so weak , it is difficult for me to find that fellowship which I so long for .
^ My problem is that I am always comparing it to the christian fellowship which I 've had at college .
^ However , I 've come to realise that there is a challenge for me here at home : to test my faith and encourage me to help others in the church .
^ During term time , I am blessed , and challenged , by the christian fellowship there is at Uni , and at home it is different .
^ I just have to accept that .
^ It is so difficult though , to be content with those we have in our church .
^ You have absolutely no idea how trampy and smelly and dirty some of them are .
^ Some sundays you have to sit and hold your nose for the entire service so that you do n't feel sick from the awful smell !
^ At times I have found myself detesting them and wishing they did n't come so that I could breath easy ( ! ) , but then I have to pinch myself and think that .
^ despite all that , I should love them and have compassion on them and want them to come and hear the good news of Jesus
^ It is so difficult to keep that perspective on life though ! !
^ I keep longing for more young people who I can identify with and share with .
^ There is only my sister Uriel and 2 boys who are below the age of 45 in our church !
^ While I am at home , I have no friends in the area to hang around with or see from time to time .
^ I have been used to this all my life , but having formed good friendships at Uni , I have found myself a little discontented with how things are back at home .
^ Ooops , that 's not good , but it 's only natural .
^ It 's more difficult for me these hols as Isabelle has now left home and Jessie is back in Munich .
^ Where I would have filled the gap in doing things with my sisters , I have been on my own a lot these past weeks as Uriel , Mam and dad have been working .
^ I just have to keep trying and praying that God will help me to be content with what I have here , and that he 'll give me the strength to overcome the barriers I face with church .
^ Anyway , I am so sorry for waffling on like this .
^ I get a bit carried away with my ideas at times ( as you may have noticed ) , and want to finish a point once I 've begun ! !
^ Well , what else have I got lined up ?
^ Today I have to do a whole load of ironing and clean the church .
^ I was going to go on a nice long bike ride , but woke up this morning to grey skys and it is now pouring !
^ This cannot be summer !
^ On Saturday I 'm going to another wedding ! 2 friends from the Presbyterian church in Wells are getting married .
^ So , I 'm off back to Wells for the day .
^ The service is in Claypath URC , and then the reception is at Cuths .
^ It should be a great day .
^ I may be going down to Munich sometime too to stay with Jessie .
^ I have to decide if I 'm going to go before or after our holiday to Hull .
^ Jessie is keen that I go and see her , and I really want to go too .
^ If I do go , I 'll probably see about meeting up with Bob while I 'm there .
^ I 'd really better go and get on with some ironing now !
^ Well , so long Mr Nick .
^ I hope work goes well this week and you have fun playing your new guitar !
^ Bye for now , love , Cody xx
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^ ~
^ Hi Donald ,
^ I hear you got the job in Arizona .
^ Awesome !
^ How do you feel about it ?
^ Have you started yet ?
^ I 'm back home from SA now , and today I was in school shifting furniture around .
^ We managed to clear the attic above the library , and in the process unearthed a whole load of junk , and quite a bit of ancient science equipment .
^ All things considered it was quite a profitable day .
^ Tomorrow I 'm going to try and borrow a projector so I can show the kids some of the photos I took in Africa .
^ I 'm % sure that I 'll be going back to Munich to start my PhD in October .
^ It 's a strange thought , but I 'm almost certain it 's the best thing for me to be doing , although I 'm sad to be leaving the community here ( you know all about that ! ) .
^ Hope things are well with you , and that this new job turns out to be a great ride .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thanks for your email -- it was so good to hear from you again .
^ I am so curious about all the things that have happened to you this last term .
^ Please tell me your crazy news -- do n't leave me waiting too long , even if you think I would n't like to hear it .
^ By the way , any news from the " chick front " ?
^ This autumn I have missed Wells and Allen quite a lot , actually , even if it has been good to see a lot of friends again .
^ I think I have gone through some sort of reversed culture shock .
^ Well , I 'm getting there . .
^ OK , I need to finish because I need to pack my stuff tonight .
^ I 'm going to try to catch the first flight ( stand-by ) down to my parents tomorrow .
^ Write soon !
^ All the best wishes for Christmas and the new year !
^ As ever ,
^ Patrick
^ PS .
^ In order to weigh against the sermons of Mr Ekman I would like to encourage you to read 2 Cor ( especially ch 10 onwards ) very carefully during your holiday .
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^ Patrick ! ! ! !
^ How are you buddy ?
^ I 've just moved into a new house here in Bath .
^ It is quite small , but we are settling in well .
^ I 'm not sure how long we 're going to be here - we are renting until my parents finish the school year ( July ) and then I do n't know what we 're going to do .
^ My parents are thinking / praying about what the future holds for them .
^ This term has been quite interesting - I 've been so busy , and so many things have happened .
^ I just might have some crazy news for you , but I 'll save that for another email !
^ Have a VERY AMAZING CHRISTMAS ! ! ! !
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Mr Malone , I 've been expecting you too . . .
^ I do remember that old catch phrase !
^ I have actually been hoping to hear from you .
^ I did n't manage to re-visit college during term before you left .
^ I went to Wells for a short visit with lovely Kerri last summer .
^ How are you now ?
^ I 'm sorry to hear that you have broken up with Kaylee .
^ But you need to make sure that you know what you really want , I guess .
^ Do you enjoy life in Munich ?
^ It was wonderful to hear that you 're doing a Masters at Munich .
^ One of the good things about Munich is that it 's only a 45 minute coach ride from Stanstead Airport , which is the destination of cheap flights ( Cheapflights ) from Branden !
^ Futhermore , I know an old lady -- with a big house and garden only 15 min walk from Munich City centre -- whom I 've stayed with already .
^ When is a convenient time for a visit ? !
^ I 'm fine thank , you .
^ This summer I started in a new parish / congregation as assistant pastor / team vicar .
^ The name of the parish is Rydaholm and is situated between the towns V'xj and V'rnamo , 2 hrs north of Malm /Copenhagen ( south of Branden ) .
^ I still live in V'xj , though ( I 'm one of those awful , modern , commuting vicars . . . ) , for personal reasons .
^ I 've just got a proper flat ( combined bedroom and study , living room and a big kitchen ) , which I 'm very grateful about .
^ I 've just moved , though , so it 's still in a mess .
^ I enjoy my work and my flat .
^ If I 'm married ?
^ No , monk is a more fitting description of my marital status ( living in celibate , i.e. ) .
^ I 'm not yet playing for Branden , strangely enough .
^ Right now I feel tired of being single .
^ The problem is that I am blessed with a very fortunate life and I have much to thank God for , but still it feels like there 's some vital part missing .
^ I guess my social life is not what it has been ( especially at Philip 's )
^ Wells , where I was not only known as the Speedy Super Swede , but also , as I 've gathered since then , as the sociable ( ?
^ Swede , i.e. the outgoing Swede ) , although I 've got some friends in and around V'xj , where I live .
^ My social situation may enhance the longing for a woman to share my life with .
^ Well , having said that , the year at Wells was n't perfect either -- I put a lot of pressure on myself to make the most out of it being so blessed .
^ if you know what I mean , + the whole " fitness beast-thing "
^ I guess it 's the human condition after the fall . . .
^ I 'd love to hear all your news and to hear more about what happened the last two years of your " Wells experience " !
^ I 'd be most grateful if you would kindly send me your full address and telephone details , including your parental address .
^ I look forward to hearing from you soon .
^ God bless
^ As always , your friend in Christ
^ Karla
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^ So how are you ? ? ?
^ I hope that you are still using this email address .
^ What are you up to ?
^ I 'd love to know .
^ Married ?
^ A monk ?
^ Playing for Branden ?
^ Well , I 've finished my degree at Wells , graduating a couple of months ago .
^ I 'm now off to Munich to do a Masters .
^ This summer has been quite difficult - it is hard to leave your community of friends , knowing that you will never be coming back .
^ It seems an absolute age though since the first year , although I have fantastic memories !
^ I broke up with Kaylee a year or so ago , although we have considered going out again since then , but I do n't think it 's right at the moment .
^ It 's been pretty hard for us , trying to work out what our relationship is , and it 's not great at the moment .
^ Still , life is not easy - you sometimes have to live with pain , and learn the hard way .
^ I 've been through so much stuff at University , and changed a great deal I think !
^ Well , I hope you get this , and I 'd love to hear from you .
^ Your friend ,
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^ Nick ,
^ Thanks for your email !
^ Yes , I am well .
^ How are you ?
^ I was tired at first when I got home , but I am refreshed now .
^ I went to two practice sessions with my old football team last week .
^ It was great fun .
^ Today we had SNOW ( ! ) -- far too late -- so , I think I will cancel the football tomorrow .
^ And I have also been out jogging , cycling and walking , so I am working on my fitness .
^ But I guess I can never become a " fitness beast " or " sports icon " , which were two of the superlatives said about Kerri during their last football game ( I did not say it ) ...
^ My dad 's 50th was good .
^ It was a fun party and I had the chance to meet a lot of friends and relatives .
^ It felt good to be there and I think my father very much appreciated that I came home to celebrate him .
^ In , short I enjoyed it , and so did my father , I think , even though he was a bit anxious before .
^ I am sorry that I ca n't come to your birtday party .
^ But I am sure that you will enjoy yourself with those blond streaks having so many lovely female guests &SMILEY
^ I am afraid that I have not met any Norwegian girls lately .
^ I am starving here .
^ There are even more of them in Wells ( there is also pretty one ) .
^ But we have at least a Norwegian weather girl on Swedish television now .
^ I would appreciate further reports from Bath and Brighton .
^ Have a good holiday !
^ As ever ,
^ Patrick
^ Patrick ,
^ Are you well ? ? ? ? ?
^ How was your Dad 's 50th ?
^ I am having a great time at home .
^ The only difficulty is I REALLY do n't feel like revising much .
^ I am playing footy this Saturday for my local team .
^ Are you keeping fit ?
^ I am spending quite a bit of time organising my 21st birthday party .
^ It is a shame you will not be around , but we will try and enjoy ourselves without you !
^ Just before I left Wells , I had my hair cut , and Savanna Keppel put some high-lights in it , so it has now got blonde streaks !
^ I think it looks pretty good , and so do most of my friends - what a relief !
^ Have you met any Norwegian girls lately ?
^ Speak soon ,
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^ Jonah ,
^ " I was leader of six boys and they were just SO NOISY all the time . "
^ Tell me about it .
^ It amazes me how much energy children have .
^ " Yes , I acquired a number of female fans during the week and I am now being bombarded with text messages by one of them - oh well . "
^ A rather half-hearted attempt at feigning disappointment .
^ " I now have Mallory staying with me . "
^ A word of advice - do n't leave him alone with your duvets .
^ Life is crazy is n't it - I wonder what it 's all about .
^ Also , I wish that I was better at being myself all the time - then life would be less tiring ( sometimes ) .
^ Yes , it 's crazy .
^ Is n't it strange ! ?
^ I feel like musing on existence .
^ I know what you men about being yourself .
^ It seems to be a modern tenet to attain to .
^ Life is easier if you do n't try to be something you 're not .
^ But that 's no reason not to change , or allow yourself to be changed .
^ Hmmm , life 's funny , but it 's a lot easier if you look for the good things in it .
^ I like being happy , it 's so relaxing .
^ Well , tomorrow I return to work dear me .
^ I 've got lots of chemistry done this past week - wonderful !
^ Have a good time with Mallory .
^ Wear midge repellent ,
^ ( I think that could be a hit too - do n't you ? )
^ Shania
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^ Nick ,
^ Hello .
^ " Thanks for your text message - thanks for really baring your soul and letting it all hang out - great . "
^ Well you do n't exactly do that either , do you ? ? ?
^ Am now in my next house , in a little town near Bath .
^ All is well , and I think I might even be able to set Camilla up soon and record some more music .
^ How 's the work coming ? - Ah , so you 're back near Bath again .
^ I 'm glad all is well , are you sure ?
^ Music , Camilla , mmm , good .
^ Well I hope you enjoy that .
^ Work is now busy .
^ I get up at &TIME each day ( usually Saturdays too ) and work until 5pm with half an hour for lunch .
^ I analyse nitrogen levels , moisture contents , species , varieties , germination rates , and get very tired !
^ However , I am learning how hard some jobs are and am glad I am at university .
^ Unfortunately it makes 3rd year appear as these holidays did during the exams !
^ " Today I am going to try and acquire a new digital camera from an internet retailer . "
^ Very nice .
^ Are you happy with it ?
^ Have you discovered the secret of happiness ?
^ If so please tell me .
^ No , I have not , except perhaps , not to look for it all the time .
^ I hope you feel better soon ; but what are feelings ?
^ They do not alter fact , only colour it .
^ And all important facts are immutable , so in which shade lies their true colour ?
^ Bye ,
^ Shania
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^ Samo ,
^ How is my Scottish friend ?
^ Who ! ?
^ What ? !
^ Where ? !
^ When ? !
^ Most importantly - why ?
^ Actually , I am fine .
^ I 've just returned from my camp .
^ It was fantasti c , although I am absolutely totally mind-numbingly exhausted .
^ I only got fi ve hours of sleep per night for the week .
^ Sleeping in a dormitory with 10 hyperactive unnaturally energetic ten-year old kids has many disadvantages .
^ However , I really enjoyed it all and the weather was perfectly splendid .
^ I knew a few people before I got there and knew a lot more by the time I left .
^ I was in St Helling yesterday ( not to see the golf , but to get a kettle ) and it was totally packed
^ I have just received a strange e-mail from Jon about her bikini .
^ I was absolutely disgusted .
^ Are you on holiday ?
^ Hmmm .
^ That 's a difficult one .
^ Considering term finished on the 30th W une and does n't start again until October85 Yes !
^ I 'm going to Switzerland on Saturday though and looking forward to it all - except the heat , the flight and the language difficulties .
^ I only speak Scottish and French .
^ Oh well !
^ It will be an experience I am sure !
^ I hope your work is going well and you are coping with the lack of spare time which you seem to have .
^ Considering I have n't stopped for literally mo
^ Re than ten minutes in the last week I can empathise with you considerably .
^ I ju st cannot understand how Valeria can do five of those camps this Summer !
^ She ca n't be human .
^ Now , on to business - Kaden ! ! !
^ What ! ! !
^ Kaden is dead ! ! !
^ Oh , thank goodness , it 's just a hoax !
^ That h ad be badly shaken for a moment there .
^ Do I take it rightly then ? - that Anna has performed an elaborate hoax by staging the death of Kaden ?
^ Just wait t ill I see her .
^ I am most displeased .
^ I arranged a legally binding contract with " Anna 's Raven Rows Ltd. "
^ I am not about to take this lying down .
^ Samo , old chap , would you send me the transcripts from the reporter who interviewed Anna please ?
^ I need some solid evidence to pursue my vendetta .
^ some poor disillusioned girl from Noel who lost it
^ Enough of the sympathy !
^ This is serious now .
^ Kaden appeared to me in a d ream last night .
^ I had eaten some cheese the night before ) Here is what I ca n remember of my dream
^ As I slept , I saw a hazy black object speeding across a seemingly huge ex panse of silvery grey sky .
^ As I watched , the object began to grow in size and became darker and blacker than the deepest hole or cave you can imagine .
^ What appeared to be stars began to spiral towards the object until there were so many that they flowed into it in the likeness of a milky river glistening with hundreds and thousands of precious stones .
^ Then the scene changed sudden ly .
^ I was standing on the top of a huge mountain , overlooking a city which I recognised .
^ As I watched , an arrow of flaming fire appeared from the nor th and sped down into the heart of the city .
^ Sounds of wailing and moaning reac hed my ears as the entire city was consumed .
^ The scene changed once again .
^ I f ound myself standing on the banks of a cool shallow river .
^ On the opposite ba nk a shadowy figure was lurking .
^ I called on him in clear and ringing tones t o show himself .
^ He wore darkness as a cloak and his face was more alive looking than any I had ever beheld .
^ He was a raven .
^ He spoke to me in a language I d id not understand , using words I cannot remember .
^ However , I understood his mes sage .
^ His face began to swim before me - I could see cities , kings and nations in his eyes .
^ Then all was black .
^ The dream is interpreted as follows
^ In the opening scene we see Kaden winging his way across the hiajfhboj , wh ich is the equivalent of the lowlands in his home planet of Siluhfodasc - some times described as " Planet of the Ravens " .
^ The increase in Kaden 's size c orrelates to his flourishing knowledge of the ways of men .
^ His similarity to a black hole emphasises the idea persistent in Siluhfodascian literature that they alo ne will one day know everything , that there shall be no end to their knowled ge and dominion .
^ The river of stars represent those who oppress and defy Kaden , his people , the , and their ways .
^ Many are those , bright perh aps in their own way , but ultimately consumed .
^ This scene represents the power and majesty of the .
^ The second scene portrays the judgement on those who diss Kaden .
^ The city
^ represents Noel and the judgement upon Anna for staging Kaden 's dea th is inevitable .
^ The arrow from the north is Kaden , stationed as he is in some
^ secret location near my abode .
^ This scene represents the terror and judg ement of the .
^ In the final scene the river portrays the uncrossable divide between the land of men and the .
^ No man can ever set foot in Siluhfodasc - perhaps this is just as well .
^ The raven is a picture of Kaden 's people .
^ Their knowledge and antiquity burning bright but cloaked from us by vast distan ces in time and space .
^ Telepathic thought as a means of communication is briefl y referred to here .
^ The sudden end of the dream suggests a hint of what li es in the future for Siluhfodasc .
^ Could they be trying to pass on some of thei r ways and dominion to us as their time runs out .
^ This scene represents the personality and of the .
^ Thank you .
^ Make of that what you will , but it 's message is startlingly clear to me .
^ I fear it came as a warning against us becoming to familiar with
^ Kaden as to stage elaborate hoaxes .
^ Enough , no more , tis not as much as it was
^ before - Anna .
^ The name " Dominic " has been banded about in relation to the Kaden inci dent , and some say that the aforementioned persona has had contact with the Raven s ince the reported " death " of Kaden .
^ Quite true .
^ He followed me to SU camp .
^ He observed me playing frisbee g olf and football , was concealed in a tree as I was soaked with water by ten-y ear olds , peered through my dorm window as I caught some brief sleep .
^ Yes , I have had contact with Kaden , not to mention my dream .
^ Yours in Kaden
^ Dominic
^ ~
^ Hi all , hope all is well .
^ I 'm writing as I wanted to tell you all that I have now been offered a training contract with an international law firm .
^ Some of you will know , others not , that I have now graduated with a 2.1 in Economics from
^ Wells and I 'm soon starting a 2 year law conversion course in Dundee .
^ What this good news means , is that this firm will now pay for my course fees over the next two years as well as give me money to pay maintenance .
^ then they will train me in the firm for 2 years until I am a qualified solicitor
^ So , basically I 'm pretty happy although of course it is a commitment for another 4 years which seems pretty daunting .
^ Well , hope you 're happy for me !
^ Otherwise , I hope you 're all well .
^ I write this in the middle of a two week trip around the country trying to see a few of you before I go to
^ Dundee in two weeks .
^ Stay in touch , and all the best and much more with whatever careers / courses or anything whatsoever that you 've chosen to spend your time doing .
^ Yours ,
^ Mallory
^ ~
^ Hmmm , it is very weird ! ! ! ! i have n't actually begun on my room yet , but more and more is going in boxes around the house and it is beginning to look emptier ! ! !
^ It is a very bizzare feeling !
^ Everytime I come home and clamber through the school bit upthrough the prerschool and into the flat and through to our section I remember that I have only got another 3 weeks to do that ! !
^ Quite sad ina sense , but also exciting !
^ Last night , the church - in the form of a group cell group ! - went round to Felipe 's to help him clean basically !
^ it ended up with about 15 of us at his rumaging through mountains of junk and making funny remarks about it all
^ I think he just got fed up with it all and shoed us all away after a while ! ! ! ! !
^ Anyway , makes it a bit cleaner and organised for us to move into ! ! ! ! !
^ Oh , came across a half used Jiff lemon - from &YEAR ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ The volvo will be wicked ! ! ! ! !
^ Ca n't wait , and by then I might be able to drive it .
^ I passed my theory test yesterday with &DATE - I had used the book Ralph gave me , but it was only after I had done the test !
^ I found out it was 4 years out of date - there ahve been updated versions since then ! ! !
^ So i had at least 10 questions I had never seen before ! ! !
^ But after a deal of fretting I got enough of them right to pass ! ! ! !
^ So role on the practical ! ! !
^ Bit nervous now !
^ Why were you up so late last night ? ? ? ?
^ You are mad !
^ Are n't you playing at the Kingston 's Ball ? ?
^ Hope it all goes well ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ I better get back to some stuff I have been left to do !
^ Much love bro ! ! ! ! !
^ See you soon - quite possibly at Felipe 's ! ! ! ! !
^ Nayeli
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^ Nayeli ,
^ Hope you are having a fab day at work .
^ I went to bed at &TIME last night ! ( this morning ) That means that I 've had less than 5 hours sleep .
^ I have two boring lectures to go to this morning ( I 've already missed one )
^ How am I going to stay awake ?
^ It is also the Kingston Ball tonight , so I 'm going to be up very late again ! ! !
^ I am blatently crazy .
^ In fact I have n't been to bed before &TIME since I do n't know when .
^ Daddy told me about Karla 's volvo .
^ That sounds exciting !
^ I guess lots of things in the house are packed away now - it must be a weird feeling .
^ How are you handling it ?
^ Right , now I must do some work .
^ See ya
^ Nick
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^ Have you lost your ring ?
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^ Captain ,
^ My sincere apologies for the inexcusable delay in replying to your recent e-mail inquiring the safe completion of my journeys .
^ I had to wait a week for the cable guy go set up the internet in my parents ' new home
^ Houston , we 're back on-line !
^ Yes , the trip was good ..... once it got going .
^ We sat in the plane at the gate at Heathrow for three hours waiting for thunderstorms to pass .
^ Ouch .
^ We were 46th on the take-off list after the delay , but got to butt in line because of our long distance flight status .
^ But on the bright side , I did feel like I got to know the two Calgarian ladies chatting merrily in the seats behind me .
^ It was great to hear that Canadian accent again !
^ It 's been pretty sweet hanging out in the Rockies in our new house in Canmore .
^ Classic mountain views .
^ I was able to catch up with a few friends at a friend 's farewell BBQ .
^ We even played American football afterwards .
^ Awesome !
^ Other than that , my time 's been occupied by clothes shopping with mom , sleeping , watching movies , the Olympics , and hanging out with friends / family .
^ Pretty demanding really .
^ I 'm also really busy enjoying the Philip Coulthard album .
^ How about you ?
^ Any more trenchwork to report ?
^ What 's the impending status and ETA of extension construction ?
^ Keep me updated on any exciting events in your long , hot , Irish summer .
^ I 'm dying to know .
^ Take it easy on the ladies , heartbreaker .
^ See you soon .
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^ Cool a new phone ! ! !
^ You could n't find a cheaper contract ?
^ I am e-mailing from Blitz Marketing where I am working for the next two weeks until the 12th Feb when I go back to Uni ... I have a 2000 word essay for when I get back ! ! !
^ Help it is very academic !
^ How is Kaylee , hope you are just takin it real smmooooth !
^ What time do you get off at Easter ?
^ I will call soon
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^ actually it 's very grey , and , strangely enough , everyone is complaining .
^ " Where has that sun gone ? ! ! ? " , the Angelians exclaim in I think is rather spoilt considering % of the year is rainless , clear blue skies . )
^ Another email from me - but this one is to let you know that my email address has changed , and I will no longer be using hotmail ( which sucks - and fills up way too quick ) .
^ New address is &EMAIL .
^ My home address in case some do n't have it , is now :
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^ Tel : 930 710 0662
^ As you may know already , Patrick and I are expecting a baby in October .
^ Everything is going well but please pray for us as we get used to life here without family near by and as we start one of our own .
^ We heard a heart beat yesterday and have already seen the little Fraser baby on an ultrasound / sonogram , moving around and kicking .
^ It 's so exciting !
^ Next month we get to find out if it 's a boy or girl .
^ Karla was commissioned as a pastor on Sunday , which is exciting .
^ if a little bit daunting ) and confirms at least some temporary roots in L.A. We 're seeking and praying about direction and his role in the church
^ We plan on coming home - to Scotland and to Wells - some time in late July , and I ca n't wait to plant my feet onto Irish soil once again .
^ Hope to see some of you then . ( pleeeeease )
^ It will be ten months since seeing home
^ ( this is the longest missionary trip I 've ever been on . )
^ All love and God Bless
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^ Here 's a little newsmail to let you know what 's been going on on this side of the world !
^ I am now 10,169 miles from Luxembourg , 10,097 from
^ Wells and Carlisle , and 10,211 miles from Sherborne .
^ Well , Daddy and Karla and me drove down to the airport and met up with
^ Mim and Mummy .
^ We went and bought a coffee and talked about how to avoid jet-lag on such a long flight .
^ It was about 3pm in Carlisle , which is &TIME in Adelaide , so I had a baguette and told myself it was supper .
^ Then I got out the photos of when Hania and I went out to
^ Ireland , which I had only just got developed , and showed them around because Lydia had asked me to pass her a copy via Mum .
^ Nobody had believed me when I had told them about two in Levi who had been doing " how low can you go " and incredibly managed to lower the flaming pole down to resting ontop of two beer-bottles !
^ one at each end ) and still managed to get under it with only their feet touching the ground
^ Then we went to the Departures gate and photos were taken .
^ I missed my sister not being there , but she had chosen not to come .
^ My seat on the plane was an isle seat , which was good since there was n't a lot of leg-room .
^ The couple between me and the window never asked to get out , the whole flight ( which was 11 hours long ) so that was nice .
^ In the end , we only took off an hour late by which time my eyes were closing and I was almost asleep .
^ But then the little preflight movie announced that Blade II was on on the inflight movie selection ... so I woke myself up and got plugged into that .
^ More mindless and violent than the original , less storyline , not such cool effects ... however this one had a really good ending .
^ Whereas Blade had a terrible ending , and an even worse Alternative Ending ( on the DVD ) .
^ When that finished I changed channel and The Scorpion Hatherley was on .
^ Kinda like Aladin meets Crouching Dragon .
^ I started it partway through and did n't stay til the end .
^ Also on the little screens was displayed a map of the plane 's progress - something I first experienced only on my way to Africa .
^ It gave us our ground speed , altitude , headwind , outside temperature ...
^ I always find it amusing that it takes the plane about ten minutes from take-off before it is at the same altitude as we climbed to atop Kili ...
^ Anyway then we were in Conroy Hindmarsh .
^ I was supposed to be there for a hour stop-over but due to a paperwork error I was booked for a later flight out , meaning I had ten hours .
^ Fortunately , the timezones meant I had arrived at 2pm-ish and was leaving at 11pm-ish , so at least there were things to do .
^ since Adelaide is 90 minutes ahead of Conroy Hindmarsh time , I could carry on getting into the new time
^ Holding an english passport meant I could just wander out of the airport without needing any visa or fuss , so that was nice .
^ Then I took a train from the station into the center of Conroy Hindmarsh city , and that cost ten pounds return , which I thought seemed quite a bit .
^ Even the trains had UTW screens in their seats , with Roadrunner & Cyote on one channel , internet access on another ...
^ I got out at Conroy Hindmarsh station , into the thirty degrees and humid air , and wandered out into the city , remembering the way back as I went .
^ Eventually I found a shop ( they were scarce ) after about fifteen minutes , so I went into it and asked if they had any computer shops nearby .
^ The lady told me to take the subway two stops East where there was a computer shop just near the subway entrance .
^ So I went into Central and popped out of Wan Chai 40p later .
^ After looking around a few minutes I found Hennessy Road , and then spied a computer games shop and asked them where I could buy a computer .
^ Following their directions I went up some stairs above a McDonalds into a / market in which every shop on two or three floors was selling computers and bits and software .
^ It ruled .
^ I had been wondering what I would do for a computer when I got to
^ Australia , since I could n't take my hulking desktop with me .
^ I had seen a really good laptop in Carlisle over Christmas , and later found it on the internet but was n't able to find anyone who stocked it any more or could order it for me .
^ However , the first shop I went into in this computer had one .
^ Not only that but it had double the RAM of the one on the Fujitsu website and was slightly cheaper !
^ So I took a brochure and carried on - I had about seven hours to kill !
^ About two hours later I had checked out every shop , selling DVD drives , laptop mice , IDE cables , games , movies , cases , etc etc ...
^ Neverwinter
^ Nights cost twenty five pounds , whereas it would be thirty five in Brighton .
^ I had been considering ways to access all my information from my old computer on my new one , but found some of the shops sold USB cases that would make an internal IDE drive into an external USB one .
^ I checked out all the shops that sold these , but none stocked two - only one each !
^ And none of them sold the same model but I wanted two of the same type .
^ So in the end I decided to buy two different ones , for my two drives , which was inconvenient .
^ There was a money-changer there , and she would give ten HK dollars for each UK pound ... when Philip Pilmoor would give 12.5 .
^ Oh well .
^ I bought the drive cases .
^ Then I went back to the first shop .
^ The guy there assured me the laptop came with a case , and a VGA cable so I could connect it to a normal screen , and a free accessory .
^ And he would accept pounds sterling , no commission .
^ Sounded too good to be true , so I sat down and we got the exchange rate straight from the Yahoo website and agreed a price .
^ His accessories were a mouse or a vidcon camera , so I got the camera , though I doubt it will ever for me !
^ So at that point , having now bought my 21st and 22nd birthday presents in one afternoon .
^ I headed back to the subway with my handluggage still on my back , a laptop in my right hand and drive cases in my left
^ I wondered how I would get it on the plane .
^ 40p later I was back in Central and rather than having to retrace my steps across the streets , found a subway walking passage back straight to the train station to the airport .
^ Back in the airport , I asked one of the Cathay Pacific staff if I could take three items of .
^ hand-luggage and she said they certainly exceeded the permitted dimensions allowed Economy Class , but I could put the laptop in the hold
^ I did n't want to do that so I went and sat on one of the waiting seats .
^ soon had stripped all the packaging off the laptop and cases , and managed to squeeze them all into my hand-luggage bag
^ The boxes would n't fit into any of the trash bins so I left them behind a cigarette bin looking ominously like a bomb .
^ Check-in told me I already had my boarding pass so I need n't have gone through check-in anyway .
^ My boarding gate was 65 , and I headed off for it along the moving rubber conveyor belts .
^ 40 minutes later I was there - Conroy Hindmarsh airport is a big place , even with the conveyors and without getting lost
^ I searched a nearby WHSmith for " Bored of the Spirals " by the Harvard Lampoon , but they did n't have it so I lay on the grubby carpet of the departure room and read my laptop manual .
^ It must have been translated from Japanese by a German using an emerican website translation program .
^ The american spellings ... the heinous grammer erorrs ... it was tebbirle !
^ Anyway , I read it and slept a little until there was an announcement calling me to some customer desk .
^ I went there and they tore up my boarding pass , saying the flight was overbooked and so I would have to have an alternative seat - 12H .
^ That sounded close to the front of the plane to me , but H sounded like it would still be a window seat ; I had specifically asked to be beside the window coming into Adelaide .
^ I was too tired to complain ( though a few others called up with me were ) and went back to wait .
^ I noticed on my mobile I was logged into Orange , and was n't on
^ Roaming ... so I guessed that meant calls were just as though I was dialling from Brighton , seeing as I was on my home network .
^ So I called people to say I was still alive and then got on the plane .
^ As suspected , I was directed toward the nose ... but then I saw the seats -or sofas more like- were three times the size of normal seats , and there was SO MUCH leg-room !
^ It was unbelievable .
^ So I stowed my bag then sat in my seat 12H and looked longingly at the empty window-seat beside me - 12K .
^ The guy in 11K was complaining to the steward he did n't have enough leg-room because of a bulkward .
^ the steward said that there were only two passengers booked for 11 and 12 H and K , so he could sit in the window-seat beside me
^ At which point I asked if I could have 11K since I had specifically asked for a window seat when we booked .
^ There were smiles all round and the man and I swapped places .
^ God is so well organized .
^ I do n't know what class it was -business or first- but I liked it .
^ We were given hot wet towels periodically , could ask for hot chocolate , coffee , four different teas , ice-cream , pretzels , etc. at any time ... it was luxury !
^ I had the " opportunity " of watching the whole of The Scorpion Hatherley , Ice Age , or Blade II again ... but I decided to sleep instead , since the chair I was in had adjustable ear-rests , an extendible footrest , etc. etc.
^ When I woke up I asked one of the attendants when we would be flying over Ayers Rock and she said we had already passed it
^ I looked at the inflight progress map and asked her if she was sure , and she was , so ...
^ I just looked out the window and watched Australia roll past underneath .
^ An hour later and the map announced we were approaching Alice Springs , which I am sure is Uluru country , but I could n't see the Rock .
^ Must have been on the other side of the plane .
^ Three hours later we started our descent into Adelaide , shuddering through the clouds and whining across the huge bay .
^ You say Dry your fake tears
^ And paint your chipped , blue nails .
^ I 've got too many imperfections
^ And a thousand boys ' secrets .
^ Too many people depending on how drunk I get -
^ On a lonely night I could confess all
^ But you 're better-off With some other Miss Perfect
^ Who does n't fuss or fight
^ And who does n't have a dark side .
^ I 'm just doing fine ; I found myself outta line ...
^ I float with the air and angels ( la la la )
^ And now I 'm free;
^ There 's nothing you can say to me ( Nothing you can say to me )
^ Cos I 'm over and above ya baby .
^ I float with the air and angels .
^ [ Alisha 's Attic - Air & Angels ]
^ Immigration was a bit different to what I expected - I collected my luggage okay but then they passed everything through their X-ray machine as we LEFT .
^ was odd since it had all been scanned before getting onto the plane
^ My laptop manual had said it would be killed by a metal detector , but could go through properly-tuned airport X-ray machines .
^ so I let it through ( and my two old hard disks ) and they have been working okay so it seems alright
^ My buddy Lizzy had got to the airport to collect me rather early , and had been waiting an hour before I emerged !
^ But we met up okay and her old banger took us to collect a bridesmaid dress before heading to church .
^ The buses in Adelaide have scriptures printed in large bold under their back windows such as " Behold I am coming soon ! " or " I am the way " ...
^ We stayed for one song before she wanted to go home .
^ I got chatting to her dad about the troubles he 's having at work trying to get all the computers in his company to work together .
^ They used to do it alright in the past when there was a centralized Matso server and then many terminals , workstations and PCs but just recently they had migrated to running everything on Visionware Kites .
^ now were finding how incompatible Kites is with itself - different flavors refuse to talk to each other and the whole system has ground to a halt
^ Then we got onto how his computer was struggling at the moment and he had a new hard drive to put into it !
^ wanted Kit84PA installed but had n't had the time yet so if ever I had a spare moment
^ again I wondered why it seems that so often when I visit a friend their computer needs my encouragement
^ The rest of the morning we went for a bushwalk near her house ; the end of the street backs onto a strip of bush that runs for quite a way .
^ we walked beyond the gums into some pine trees and watched a vacant climbing-frame and swing-set while we caught up on each others ' recent news
^ In the afternoon we decided to go to Glenelg , which is a suburb on the beach , since it has been so long since I had seen the sea and I do love the sea .
^ It was pretty windy and cold , but we walked to the end of the jetty nevertheless , then took a couple of tour-brochures from
^ Tourist Information to read in the cafe - our thoughts being to see what they thought was worth seeing , and then visit whatever was close enough and sounded interesting .
^ Evening church was pretty good - there are about &YEAR people , and they have a large worship group on the stage , filmed by three cameras and projected onto two big screens .
^ The music is loud and upbeat , the songs all unfamiliar .
^ The Teaching is very much in the style of Bookter who used to preach in the Luxembourg church : slowly build up to a crescendo and then peak !
^ keep going at fever-pitch for five minutes , at the end of which everyone realizes they have been holding their breath and start breathing again
^ But it was sound , with good references , and at the end there was Tongues and Prophesy .
^ The only thing I wonder about is that the worship team seem very elevated and seem to be basking in the glory ... but it might just be a .
^ On the way home we stopped to pick up a fish'n'chips since her mum was away .
^ The caravan I was staying in was pretty cold even when we turned on the heater ( cos though it is summer in the AIP , the PIP is in the depths of winter ) .
^ I set my laptop to charge since it has to have 12 hours uninterrupted charging on its first charge .
^ made me wonder if the ten minutes or so it was run in the Conroy Hindmarsh shop to demonstrate that it worked might have reduced the battery-life
^ But the manual had said to not charge the battery below 5 degrees C and it was mighty cold .
^ The lady who 's caravan it was said that night was 2 or 3 degrees .
^ It felt it !
^ Monday morning we got up early and drove into the city a way to collect her mum from the bus-stop because she had been to Melborne for the weekend .
^ We went back to their place and had some breakfast before
^ Lizzy had to go off to work .
^ First we went to her bank and put all my money into her account so I did n't have to wander around with wads of cash on me ; the bank did n't care if I used her card .
^ Then her mum and I went off to the Transport SA office ( the equivalent of the DVLA ) to pick up a copy of the Learner 's Handbook so I could start reapplying for my learner 's license .
^ But it turned out they have just standardized all the licensing authorities interstate ( each state used to be independant ) and so the Road Rules handbook is 902 pages long and costs five bucks .
^ So I got one .
^ Then we went home .
^ After that I set up my computer all over their dining room table .
^ The trackball I got from Jack last year was USB , and this machine had two USB ports , so that was great - it does n't need a mousemat so I can use it on any surface .
^ it is a lot easier to use than the " touchpoint " nipple & buttons built into the laptop itself
^ I put both my hard disks from my old machine into their USB cases and hey presto .
^ - the tinfoil and static-proof bags ( and their internal shielding ) had prevented any of the files from disappearing in the X-ray machines , so that was nice
^ I plugged in the digital camera and found out how to use it , taking a couple of photos of the house ...
^ then I wondered what would happen if I got the computer to take a picture of the screen which was displaying the picture it was taking
^ the feedback was quite amusing to play with for a bit , but I got a shot of the machine
^ hopefully I will rememer to attach it ) with a playing card for size comparisons - the whole machine is smaller than an A4 pad
^ almost double the specs of the machine I have been using at uni for three years
^ The main problem with it all was that I had a trackball , camera , and two hard disks each wanting a USB port ... and the machine only had two ports .
^ And I only had one powerplug adapter ( Conroy Hindmarsh items use the French pin layout ) .
^ It was then that I thought I should have brought an French multiplug adapter with me !
^ I also found that the inbuilt DVD drive was RPC2-locked to Region 3 ( Conroy Hindmarsh ) and there were only 3 changes remaining ... grrr !
^ So I would have to choose
^ French DVD 's ( Region 2 ) OR Australian ones ( Region 4 ) unless I asked my dad to bring my old DVD drive with him ( it has no hardware region-locking ) .
^ I wonder if I could ask a retailer to get me
^ Australian versions of the DVDs I brought with me and swap them ...
^ I 've paid for the films and Region Encoding is technically illegal anyway , so ... they might agree .
^ If they 're nice .
^ In the evening we left her parents at home and went up to a lookout to watch over Adelaide as the lights slowly went out across the city .
^ She said it 's a place people go to make out , but I did n't know what that meant and it did n't seem important .
^ It was windy .
^ We left when we got too cold , and there were bits of tree blown down on the road .
^ Tuesday Lizzy did n't have to work , so we went to the local shopping center and met her second-best friend there in a bookshop .
^ We went and looked at what was on at the cinema : Blade II they had seen and did n't want to see again .
^ same for M][B ; The Wind Whisperers we had heard was about Red Indian translators used for encryption in some war
^ had little interest in ; we decided on Bad Company in the end
^ We had an hour to kill so we went to Hungry Jacks ( that 's known as Burger Hatherley in the AIP ) and chatted the while away .
^ Bad Company was good .
^ It was not a comedy as we had thought , and it was a little ... blatant ... but it was definately werf seeing .
^ In the evening we looked for Rozencrantz And
^ Guildenstern Are Dead at the movie-rental but we could n't find it , so we got Gone In Sixty Seconds on DVD instead .
^ It was ... a bit contrived but pretty cool ... really good if you like cars .
^ On Wednesday I went to the shopping center for three hours while she worked .
^ Neverwinter Nights was out for about thirty five pounds , and there was the Adventure Guide out for it so I took a browse through that before getting another powerplug adapter and looking for Bored Of The Rings .
^ Then I went round the mobile phone shops and asked about the deals there , finding nothing as good as the combination I had conjured with Virgin and Orange in england .
^ Vodafone were the best with a 25p / min all-day rate on pay-as-you-go .
^ I had a lotta time to kill !
^ I read info about skin cancer until Lizzy finished work , then we drove back to hers and went for a bushwalk .
^ The next day work was from 12 til 3 , so in the morning we walked to her local shops and returned the GISS DVD and bought some ice-creams .
^ We hoped to go to Harndorf Friday with her mum before she had to go to work , since the weather had stopped being cold and rainy .
^ After she came back from work we watched M *A *S *H ( mobile army surgical hospital ) which is like Dad 's Army / Mohammad 's Navy etc .
^ Friday her mum was sick so we could n't go to Harndorf .
^ Lizzy had some papers she had to drop into her old work in the city , so we drove in in the morning and did that .
^ Our parking ticket gave us an hour so then we looked for a shop that would sell a USB hub .
^ We looked in some jewelry shops , a cafe and a mobile phone fascia shop , but no luck .
^ In the end we tried Borders the Bookshop .
^ There we found a minibook called Dummies
^ Guide to Massage .
^ Inside it told you the anatomy of fish , what clothing to wear for camoflage , fish life-cycles , what floats and weights were best .
^ a little confused we looked at the title-page to discover that it said Dummies Guide to Fishing
^ But the paper jacket , and the hardback cover beneath it , and the flyleaf all said Dummies Guide to
^ Massage ; it was only the title-page onwards that was about fishing .
^ Nevertheless we did find Bored Of The Rings by the Harvard Lampoon and I bought it for about ten pounds ( ! ) before returning to the car .
^ Then we looked on the streetmap for the zoo and headed there .
^ We found a parking place three blocks away and went for it .
^ There was a pacing tiger , and some alligators , and seals , and jackals , and Spider-monkeys , and Mopokes ( or Tawny Frogmouths ) .
^ It was great .
^ At lunchtime it started raining so we went into a little cafe there and I got a Chiko-Roll yeah ! !
^ I always used to have them at lunch when I went into the city to help daddy at work when I was small ... and they are still just as good !
^ Then we looked for a cafe called Elephant Walk ... and we found it but discovered that it 's only open after 8pm .
^ So we headed out of the city , hampered by a two-car smash plus ambulance fire-brigade and police at one of the intersections .
^ Friday nights her church has a youth service which we went to , but it was n't all that insipiring .
^ The music was so loud it caused distortion of the ear-drums , and the Talking Man told us how angry he gets when he sees kids walking out of a service and not coming back in , or people who only come occassionally ; those people should go somewhere else .
^ What a message !
^ Just about the opposite of Jesus ' teaching .
^ Surely he should be encouraging those people who do n't come often , so that they come more , rather than telling them to get lost ?
^ On Saturday Lizzy 's dad was going off to a convention for a week .
^ Me and her still-sick mum went shopping for food in the morning , and in the afternoon I was dropped at the shopping center while they went off to a wedding .
^ I found a little 4-port USB hub , and read my book for the rest of the time , hiding behind a potplant in the food-court .
^ Her mum had picked up her sister 's two children at the wedding and was going to look after them for the weekend .
^ We had been so busy that I had only seen the people I was staying with once on the first night , so that night we thought we would drop in and say hi !
^ since they had been at the wedding too and asked if I was indeed staying in their caravan
^ But they were entertaining guests , so we popped in , said hi , had a bit of a drink and then went to the caravan .
^ We had cool rations supplied in the caravan - milo , coffee , tea , oranges , apples , milk , a kettle .
^ On Sunday we went to her church , and it was ... much the same .
^ Except this time the preaching was on Generations , and the Talking Man explained ( it was quite appropriate ) why they worship the way they do - because they are a church .
^ is open to change and wants to reach the younger generations in the ways that that generation communicates
^ ie bands and music and video and flashing lights ... and if it draws people in because it looks like a concert then all the better
^ If that 's what it takes to get them into a situation where the gospel can be preached to them , then so be it .
^ So , I thought , well yes they have their reasons for doing it that way , but I still thought the musicians were rather higher profile than I thought they should be .
^ At the end we were told that any visitors could go to the Visitor Lounge for coffee and cakes ... which me and Lizzy thought was a good idea !
^ We found it okay and the woman serving us thought I had a slight english accent as we talked with her .
^ then we sat down and waited for one of the church welcomers to notice us and talk with us
^ after fifteen minutes nobody had done so so we got up and left
^ Then we wondered if her mum might be well enough to go to Harndorf that afternoon ... but it turned out she still had the two kids with her and was still feeling sick .
^ So we went for another bushwalk .
^ Then I went on the internet to try to download a DVD crack and check my email .
^ I found a crack and downloaded it ... but my laptop does n't have a floppy drive so I wondered how to bring it from their machine .
^ I plugged my ethernet lead between them and installed the drivers for their network card , but it asked for a Kit84PA CD ... which they did n't have !
^ So that confused the computer mightily .
^ Monday I decided to copy my Win98 folder from my USB hard drive onto a CDr .
^ stick that into their computer and hope that it will be able to find all the files it wants for the network connection on that
^ since the only operable interface between them was CD until a network was established
^ I did , and it did , and I connected the ethernet cable , and was able to suck my downloaded files across , so that was really good .
^ Lizzy 's mum was still too sick to go to Harndorf , and indeed too ill to go into work even for the afternoon .
^ But we did go to Glenelg to meet
^ Lizzy 's sister and pass her kids back .
^ Then me and Lizzy went to Magic
^ Mountain and went on the Sky-Cycles , which are like a hybrid between a suspended monorail roller-coaster and a pushbike .
^ You sit on a bike-like structure hanging by little pneumatic tires from a metal track and cycle your way around the track !
^ runs indoors and then outdoors with a great view of the beach and the mini-putty ( putt-putt ) - it was really great
^ When we got back to the caravan we popped inside the house and sat chatting for a couple of hours with my hosts about travelling , Marler , subsidence in Perth , good things about
^ Tasmania , movies , old schools ...
^ We left borrowing The Fast And The Furious DVD , so that was good .
^ That had tired Lizzy out so much she had to sleep in the next morning until &TIME , so I typed email until she arrived to pick me up .
^ That afternoon we went to her school to print off an advert for a Year 12 reunion she was planning .
^ They were so enthused by the idea they did all the photocopying , gave us a heap of envelopes and said they 'd pay for the postage !
^ So we sat their folding , stuffing and addressing all early afternoon .
^ Then we watched TFATF on the DVD player Lizzy had won , before going for supper at one of her church-friends ' house .
^ Conversation was pretty strained , so we just watched TV and kept quiet .
^ Wednesday , Lizzy had five hours to work , and her mum was still at home all day , so I just chatted with her and fiddled on the computer all day .
^ We went for a walk in the evening to get more milk and a custard tart , but we found purple and orange wet paint on the road .
^ After that we went to a pizza cafe for youth group , and while Lizzy caught up with all her pals I got chatting with two guys about Mitsubishi factories !
^ the dangers of driving motorbikes , how awesome they are sure their church is ; all really exciting stuff
^ Or perhaps not ...
^ On Thursday a weird thing happened .
^ While I was doing up my one shoe-lace I got huge pains on the inside of my left forearm .
^ So I thought when I did my other lace it would sort it out ... but instead it made it much worse .
^ In the car I started rubbing it and massaging it ... but when I squeezed the sore area it got really really sore and I lost strength in my left fingers .
^ It was weird .
^ Anyway .
^ Lizzy took her invitations to school on the way to work , and her mum went to work in the afternoon even though she was still ill .
^ Probably trying to escape having to talk with me more .
^ Me and Lizzy walked to the shops to get more milk after .
^ I saw the news for the first time in years and discovered some surprising things .
^ The government of South Australia has just officially declared that it accepts World War II is over so that they can relax their control over businesses in SA .
^ heretofore has granted them the right to order businesses to co-operate to help the war-effort
^ Washing up fixed my arm .
^ For supper I had a Subway ( which we thought three years ago was a bit of a risky investment ) and she had a KFC ( which ca n't be called Kentucky Fried
^ Chicken because a lot of it is actually rabbit ... )
^ Then we went to the cinema again with her friend .
^ We looked at the selection of movies , and I wanted to see Signs .
^ mostly because the trailer has lines in it so profound as Daddy , there 's a monster outside my window - can I have a glass of water
^ but Lizzy objected so we agreed to see About A Hernandez , which was the first film with Hugh Blomerley in it that I thought was even half-decent
^ I had some Cool Fruits ( sweets a little like elite bonbons ) which used to be my favorite sweets when I was small .
^ They
^ Re-established my favor with their still great flavor .
^ On Friday Lizzy 's uncles and grandad turned up at the door as a surprise .
^ That made her very happy , so we went to Glenelg to celebrate .
^ Her sister came too .
^ We went and had Yiros ( like Jipatties ) .
^ Then we walked to the end of the jetty which was windy , but cos the sun was out it was n't as cold as before .
^ So that was good .
^ Then we had a mocca and some choccy cake .
^ It was groovesome .
^ The afternoon and evening was spent just relaxing at home chatting with uncles and a friend who came over .
^ But then Lizzy 's best friend from Melbourne arrived ( not a surprise ) so we went to my caravan and chatted for an hour or so .
^ Then they went back to hers since she 's staying for the weekend .
^ Saturday has n't done anything yet , but the plan is to buy a phono lead so I can hook my laptop into their stereo system so I can play my music louder than the titchy laptop speakers currently allow .
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^ Best Wishes for your forthcoming exams .
^ I hope you get the results all your hard studying deserves .
^ Hope you have a good start to the new term .
^ The match last wednesday had a great atmosphere throughout .
^ I felt torn , especially after the match .
^ I did jump up and celebrate the United goals but afterwards I felt a little flat having witnessed Amanda lose another game and not playing in the style we know they can .
^ AND I enjoyed a good long walk up on the snow-covered moors this afternoon .
^ Unfortunately , I 've got stomach problems again - damn it - I just pray I 'll have a week of good health soon !
^ Thanks for the help and advice you gave me last Tuesday - I really appreciated being able to talk to you .
^ I 'll just have to wait and see what happens but I 'm not too hopeful .
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^ I 've had a really lovely birthday today .
^ I feel really old now that I 'm 20 !
^ I got loads of cards and some lovely pressies from my family .
^ I got a scanner from my mam and dad .
^ It 's great - I set it up this evening and had a go of it .
^ I can tell that I 'm going to spend hours playing round with it !
^ It 's really cool too as it goes with my pink eHead - it has a groovy pink handle !
^ Jessie and Uriel gave me a new bible ( my other one was falling to bits ) , and
^ Isabelle and Manley gave me a trendy fleesy top .
^ We had a lovely family day out to the countryside and had a picnic and a long walk ( up some hills which rather whacked me out .
^ then came home and had a birthday tea before Jessie and I watched the final episode of " Wives and Daughters "
^ I 'm now going to go and play about with my scanner for an hour or so before going to bed .
^ Our house is a bit mad at the moment with all the wedding preparations going on .
^ We collected the wedding cake from M&S on Friday - it weighed a tonne !
^ Anyway , since I last wrote to you , I really have n't done all that much .
^ The weather has been pretty dreary and it 's rained several times too , so we 've kind of been stuck in the house while mam has had the car at work .
^ My resolution to go for a bike ride each day has been rather scuppered !
^ I 'm really glad you enjoyed the convention - it sounds like good fun .
^ Getting up at 7 each day does n't though !
^ And you 're back to work on monday ? !
^ Are you looking forward to it ?
^ The travelling there and back ca n't be much fun , but if you enjoy the work , it makes all the difference .
^ Have you got your car fixed ?
^ You told me that it was in a bit of a state or something as your dad had had an accident with it .
^ I hope it 's sorted .
^ I have been trying to find a job and have had no success .
^ However , I have some time yet before I get desperate , so there is no point in worrying about it .
^ Well , have a lovely Sunday tommorrow and enjoy your time back at work !
^ Better go now , bye for now - have fun ! love Cody
^ PS : about my sister 's interest in the school .
^ She will have no permenant address in the next few weeks as she 'll be on her honeymoon and she does n't have an e-mail address at present .
^ So , I 'll leave it at the moment and let you know when and how to contact her , or she 'll contact you first .
^ Thanks anyway !
^ Bye ! ,
^ Pasta Berry !
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^ boys , i am sorry to inform you that ryanair once again has many special offers on .
^ some tours on offer are :
^ the heart of the roman empire - 20 quid leaning towers and glorious tuscany -
^ 29 quid cornish surf -
^ 18.80 berlin , city of international techno
^ tours can be custom arranged to your individual requirements .
^ translation service available at extra cost this time
^ :-p
^ Rylee Macer 25 Paradise Street , Munich , JD3 1DR
^ ntl ) 05005 064028
^ orange ) 05505 846202
^ Yay , nice one Quixote .
^ Is that the one in Stevenage ?
^ Ha ha Nick , get this ,
^ Christian is moving to Stevenage .
^ Ha ha ha .
^ Nick , you should be a music teacher .
^ My back is much better this evening .
^ I 'm on the mend quickly .
^ Yay for swedish vacuum pumps , and prayer of course .
^ And when in January might that start date be ?
^ Fancy sneaking in a quick trip to Oman first , either of yous ?
^ ~
^ quickly , i have pyrex bowls , 1 large , i medium , i small , 2 little , a set of scales and a measuring jug ,
^ the bowls have lids apart from the little ones .
^ love cat
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^ In reply to Shania 's mammoth email : * If Tabitha and I arrive on Mon the 20-something , will the key be available .
^ how are we going to work the telephone jake ? s
^ urely not divide up the jake
^ NOT TOO MUCH RICE
^ 770 pounds per month for electricity ? ? ? ! !
^ that sounds like lots .
^ that's 66 each per month ... 15 pounds per week each ... that 's so much ( i 'm sorry but it is ) .
^ are you sure that 's right
^ are you sure sure ?
^ we are having not democracy but a dictatorship , i am the dictator , everyone will bow to me .
^ if it 's not me , we 're making a shrine to dettol , and it can make the major decisions .
^ have I said this ?
^ i am happy with tv + vid and no licence .
^ i eat very little because like all girls i am on a constant diet .
^ however , i am sure i will make up these costs with the phone jake .
^ but just as you guys ( literally ) wo n't want to pay for my phone bills , i do n't want to pay for your food bills , which i am sure will be astronomical .
^ therefore ... nope , no solution , just raising a problem .
^ prayer should def. be in the mornings .
^ i am not the world 's greatest advocate of early mornings , so you may find me a little grumpy
^ as per usual ) but remind me that i said its a good idea .
^ hope you do n't mind jamas at prayer meeting though .
^ co ordinates
^ you pair worry me .
^ i shall pray for you .
^ is this right ?
^ 900 pounds as initial fund each , 15 pounds per week there after right ?
^ i propose that roo and I should be in charge of getting money out of bank , buying collective food , buying cards for extotionate electricity meter etc , as we have so much time on our hands .
^ * " please make your views known to the collective " sounds scarilt like big brother ( the novel not the awful tv show
^ who exactly are you anyway Parker ?
^ i feel like i 'm bringing very little comapred to the rest of you
^ so please tell me what you want me to bring and my mother will be happy to buy it
^ Parker please tell me ( rapidly emerging as leader in cheif ) . *
^ why do we need weighing scales ?
^ are you boys weight obsessed or somehting ?
^ love you all , could lance please send this to tim at appropriate address )
^ i 'm a vit scared to keep sending randomness to his father .
^ love cat
^ ps rav , thanks a lot for sending me the docs .
^ the addition of every piece of puntuation was only vaguely amusing
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^ Hi Nick !
^ Good to hear from you the other day .
^ Hopefully off to Spain tommorow , and it is very late so I just wanted to send you a quick e-mail to say " hi " .
^ So " hi " .
^ I hope that all is well with you ?
^ What have you been up to ?
^ How has the move goneis going ?
^ I am right in remembering tha you were moving are n't I ?
^ &WEBSITE two jobs I had in factories were pretty boring , the three days that I spent in the paper factory were incredibly so .
^ That job was also dangerous , hard , 11 days and pretty degrading but an experience , one that I hope I take much from .
^ The last two weeks I have been working in the international office at Sheffield Hallam Uni .
^ The house is nice , seven hour days , acceptable pay .
^ Mainly been setting up and working with databases , taking calls etc. In it all in the past five weeks I really feel that God has helped me to find each job .
^ I have shared it with him , and I hope got to know him more and glorified him in it
^ I have several interesting and edifying conversations / incidents in ecah of the jobs , I will elaborate at another time .
^ It has been very encouraging .
^ There is a lot to be done in Spain , and I need to start doing something for my dissertation but there will be time for holiday too .
^ Hayley and Maximus , are in Spain at the moment and they are going to come and stay with us in the house for a few days around the 20th .
^ We will then go to Milan together , spend a day and go our seperate ways .
^ Looking forward to Milan very much !
^ Derrick and I have really been wanting to go there together , and I have never been at all .
^ Missing football / the chance to exercise very much .
^ I have done very little since Easter and I am very aware of that in myself .
^ Hopefully start and get some time in Spain .
^ Have a week in a primary school at the start of September , should give me a bit more of an idea one way or another if it is for me .
^ Looking forward to it .
^ Must go , and go to bed .
^ Take care my friend , may God bless you ,
^ Kaylee
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^ Hi guys ,
^ Just to say what a wonderful idea I think tonight is and your way of approaching it with the e-mail is .
^ I hope that it provokes the desired reaction .
^ It certainly made me react until I realised who it was from ! !
^ Both you and Karla are in my prayers .
^ Thank you for being such wonderful witnesses to Christ .
^ Thank you for all of the hard work spiritual , physical and mental effort that you have both put in over the past year on behalf of the people in this college .
^ the Church and God .
^ I thank God for the wonderful people that you both are
^ May the Spirit move powerfully through you both tonight and always .
^ May you both recieve every blessing in all that you do and always be a blessing to others .
^ Mallory may your hair grow back quick ! ! ( joke ! )
^ Thank you ,
^ God Bless ,
^ Keep Keepin it real ! !
^ Jo .
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^ Morning everyone !
^ Well , I 'm back in the country although only until tomorrow .
^ The plane was delayed yesterday ( what a surprise ) so it was 2pm before I got home .
^ As that was 3pm Spanish time and I had been up since 6.30am I was slightly tired and hungry .
^ Still , its good to be back home and to sleep in my own bed again !
^ This will be the last group e-mail , I promise .
^ Ideally I would have written to you all individually today but I have loads to do as I am leaving for
^ Spain tomorrow with my family .
^ For those of you who are familiar with the madness of the Whites , I 'm sure you realise what a hassle it is to get packed on time .
^ In the end it was quite hard to say some goodbyes in Spain as I have made some good friends over there .
^ The children were really sweet and asked me why I could n't stay longer .
^ The little boy , Arnau , told me to promise him that if the plane crashed , I would jump out of the window !
^ When I left yesterday morning , it was already 22 degrees at 7am .
^ When I landed at midday , I was met by the familiar grey skies and pouring rain of Perth .
^ I knew I was home !
^ I will be in Spain for a week with my family and then I fly back next weekend ( hopefully , if I ever get a ticket sorted ! ) .
^ I should then be in Wells as from Monday 7th .
^ And for those of you who mentioned it , of course there is no ulterior motive than my work for me being in Wells !
^ Thanks for the letters and postcards which were waiting for me here when I got back .
^ I promise to respond to them all very soon and I shall e-mail again when I get back from Spain .
^ I hope that you are all enjoying the holidays .
^ Have fun !
^ love ,
^ Sylvia xxx
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^ Evening all !
^ Well , I 've got three days left after today as my plane leaves Friday morning .
^ The children keep saying that they want me to stay but I ca n't wait to get home .
^ Not that I 'll be home long as I leave for Spain on Saturday .
^ Today the sun has been terribly hot and it was impossible to stay out for more than 10 minutes .
^ However , I 'm not complaining because it was bad weather yesterday which meant that I could n't go to the beach again as planned .
^ Saturday night there was a kind of street-party here .
^ Every year the people in the surrounding streets get together and have a meal on the road .
^ There was at least 980 people there but unfortunately they were either little kids or adults .
^ But it was great fun .
^ They had a music system with speakers in the middle of the road and as soon as they had finished eating , the kids got up to dance .
^ Later some of the adults started dancing too .
^ Of course I stayed in my corner without talking to anyone because you all know how shy I am and how much I hate dancing !
^ The music was mostly cheesy 80s stuff ( Relax -do n't do it ! ) .
^ The mixing was appalling ( Philip and Izabella you would have been cringing ) .
^ They seem to like loads of stuff that never made it in Brighton and that you would n't have in your CD collection in a hundred years .
^ I was starting to think that the choice of music could n't get worse when I heard the introduction of a familiar song .
^ I laughed outloud as everyone air-guitared and jumped up and down to " Final Countdown " .
^ Brings back a couple of memories ... .
^ Each person was asked to choose one song and I picked " I will Survive " as it also brings back some good memories of kareoke in various places .
^ if anyone from Wells was there on Philip 's day they 'll know what I mean )
^ The dancing and drinking and eating went on until 3.30am until there was only about 10 of us left .
^ Needless to say I did n't get up too early yesterday !
^ But Saturday was the best night I 've had here and I really enjoyed myself .
^ The children have gone out with their friends on a bike ride so I 've at last got some peace and quiet .
^ I 've discovered something this afternoon ... never give a 7 year old a chocolate ice-cream .
^ He gets it everywhere ; on the floor , on his face , on his .
^ Its not that I minded clearing it up , but what a waste of chocolate ! ! !
^ Thanks for all the e-mails .
^ Again , sorry that I ca n't really send personal replies , I know its annoying to get group e-mails but I only have a few minutes to use the computer .
^ When I 'm back in Brighton I will be able to write to you all individually .
^ I hope that the sun is shining in the various places where you all are ( although its quite doubtful in Yorkshire , but miracles do happen ! ) .
^ Take care and have fun .
^ lots of love ,
^ Sylvia xxx
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^ How are u doin ? ?
^ I am up to my eyes in it at the mo so I just thought I 'd have an email break !
^ How are you , anything interesting happened ?
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^ I 'm in Dublin !
^ So far have been to Lillehammers and Amsterdam .
^ Next stops are Krakau ( Harrogate ) on the overnight train tonight .
^ Then Budapest , vienna , prague , brisdini ,
^ italy , paris for a night , lovely bed at home !
^ I am enjoying myself a lot and Jack and I are still friends .
^ I 've got some amazing sites and stories , and I will bring lots of pictures back .
^ I hope everything is ok with you .
^ I will see you when I get back .
^ Bye !
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^ Have you crashed back down to earth now ?
^ What 's it like to be back ?
^ I 'm sure your mum was pleased to see you .
^ I 'm doing my stuff in leeds .
^ Playing some footy and have even been for a few runs !
^ One of my friends has conned me into entering the great north run so I am now inflicting pain upon myself upon a weekly basis - sometimes more .
^ I 'm getting better though - last run was 5 miles in 43 mins .
^ My guitar is getting a bit more use as well - I met someone at the weekend who knows of a digital studio that people can use for free and which does n't get much use ! !
^ It will be nice to see you at some point my friend .
^ I 'm sure you have many stories .
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^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ I shinsherely hope sho Money-Penny .
^ Hey , guys !
^ I am now at home again , and have spent some time relaxing .
^ This is a strange word , one which I do not believe I have used much over the last eight weeks , although the last couple of days have been quite refreshing .
^ No that 's a lie .
^ I 'm still zonked .
^ I do n't think I do well staying up late , even though it can enjoyable .
^ Perhaps one day I 'll learn .
^ As much as my mother despises it , yes we do now have access to e-mail at home .
^ although , as we are not brave enough to actually get with a proper internet company , I am writing this offline to save on the phone bills
^ Now there 's a big surprise ! )
^ Parker , has Kaden made any appearances in your window yet ?
^ I hear that there has been quite a few fatalities in the avian members of Scotland in recent weeks , and not having heard much about the great bird for sometime , I am , understandably getting anxious .
^ Ladies , I hope all your revision is going well .
^ Remember , too much coffee is bad for the system .
^ As is too much of most things - but I 'm sure you knew that .
^ No really , I 'm sure you did ! )
^ At lunch today , I watched a good show , that my parents had recorded earlier this term , called West wing , which is about the Plummer House .
^ It is a series , and was on tonight too watch it .
^ Cody , I 'm sure you got home much faster that I did , but the trip was bearable as I met Allison on the train station platform .
^ she was travelling past Munich , so we sat together , which was good , as I got to know her much better
^ What is the name of the guy she is going out with ?
^ Do you know ?
^ I am so bad with names .
^ Jimmy , no , actually , I have nothing to say to you .
^ Sorry pal .
^ So , my dear Wells friends , what are you up too ?
^ I am still in the process of sorting out my dissertation at the moment , but am in a bit of a pickle .
^ I have been talking to the lecturers in Geology , who are in my home group , here in Munich , who think that mapping in Barbados is a bad idea .
^ Anyway , God is still in control .
^ I 'm sure something will work out .
^ The weather down here in Munich is typical .
^ Rain , with brief showers , intermingled with downpours .
^ And the occasional sunstorm too ) I did n't get outside until this afternoon when I went to pick up my brother from school .
^ His friends are getting into that really annoying I 'm really cool stage .
^ Thankfully , Fatima isn't .
^ Hopefully , he never will .
^ Kids can be so stupid .
^ For instance , today , one of Jo 's friends thought it would be grown up to dance in front of a car stopped at a traffic light .
^ Why ? ! ! !
^ How stupid !
^ Oh well , kids !
^ I 'm glad I never was one .
^ Could you guys please pray for my Dad , as he has his big important job interview tomorrow .
^ This would be a great answer to prayer , if he got this job in Munich , as he is sooo tired .
^ He spends about 2.5 hours each day in transport to work each day , if he could spend 23 minutes on his bike instead , that would be so good !
^ The interview is at &TIME , so please pray about that .
^ It should last about an hour and a half .
^ I so hope he gets it .
^ It is a senior research job , which would be great for my Dad , as that is what he likes .
^ This interview is really short , which is not to my Dad 's liking , but I hope he gets it .
^ I really do .
^ At the moment , thankfully , I think my Dad is the only candidate for the job .
^ We have had a friend staying with us over the last eight weeks , recovering after an operation , and she is off tomorrow , having been given clear health good news !
^ I am not sleeping in my room at the moment , as our friend is there , but that means I am sleeping in the huge guest bed .
^ It is so large , I think I got lost in it last night !
^ Ok , my friends , I am quite tired now , so I think I will go and leave you in peace .
^ Oh , Nick , I you really WANT to give me your guitar , I suppose I 'll accept it , so as not to be rude . )
^ Lots of love to you all ,
^ Bob
^ Hi Nick ,
^ I really should be working , but I 'm not .
^ Instead I 'm e-mailing you .
^ Oh dear .
^ Work is going s l o w l y , and so I am giving in to it .
^ Oh well .
^ Bummer with phD 's .
^ I 'm looking around for other one , cause everyone says I should apply for more than one , but none of the others really inspire me .
^ Humph .
^ Please pray that I get this one here in Wells ... .
^ Bob
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^ I think I 'm in love with Karri .
^ Scary .
^ I 've had SOOOOOOOOO much fun .
^ Really scary .
^ But fun .
^ Ahhh , life ,
^ Bob
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^ I 've just had the pleasure of listening to a conversation about how hammered , smashed , gone , high and plastered everyone has been this term .
^ Is n't it fun to spit out your own teeth !
^ Yippie , I wish I was like that .
^ Morons .
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^ &DATE
^ Dear All ,
^ I 'm sitting at home writing to you before I start my 10 week long trek across the North American Continent .
^ It seems ages since I wrote my last exam , but in reality it was only yesterday morning .
^ So much has happened since then .
^ I 'd like to thank all my friends in Wells for all the support and help you guys have given me these last few days ,
^ esp. my great flatmates who helped empty my room and remember all my things .
^ You guys are great and I 'm going to miss you all .
^ Have a great last three weeks of term .
^ I 'm pretty sure that I will be able to find e-mail access in Bricksminton , so hopefully I 'll be able to keep you all informed as to what is happening to me .
^ Oh , and I any of you would prefer not to get sent these e-mails , please just tell me .
^ Right now , I 'm quite tired , and not packed .
^ But I thought I would write to you anyway .
^ To let you all know exactly what is happening
^ By &TIME tomorrow morning , I will be on my way to
^ Farr airport , where I shall board a plane bound for
^ Vancouver , Romania .
^ I 'll spend the night in an airport hotel there , and early the next morning ( Sunday ) I 'll fly down over the border to Ramon Kernan .
^ There , I 'll jump in a car for eight cruel hours of transport to a town called
^ Mammoth Lakes .
^ This is , to the best of my knowledge a sort of resort town for the people of Bricksminton , and is big for skiing in the winter .
^ I 'll be mapping for five weeks there with two ladies from my course .
^ Both are mature students , and both are non-Christians .
^ The younger one 's name is Helleni , and she is 24 has a child named Tabitha ( who will not be coming with us , except for the last week or so . )
^ Karyl is the other lady , and she is married , but does n't like kids , so has cats instead .
^ Did you know that it costs about &pound; 6 a day to keep a cat in a cattery ?
^ Expensive over five weeks !
^ Basically what the mapping involves is a very detailed study of ten square kilometres .
^ I will be looking at some obsidian domes , which are a volcanic glass , pushed out during volcanic events .
^ The volcanoes I 'll be working on are extinct , I think , but it would be sooooooo cool to be the only geologist in the area if for some reason it blew its top .
^ This wo n't happen though . )
^ I 'll spend my days walking round the volcanic rocks , and examining them in detail to work out the history of the area , the types of deposits and so on .
^ At the end , I 'll produce a geological map ( showing the rock types in different areas ) and hand in a written report too .
^ This is due in Christmas , &YEAR .
^ After my time in Bricksminton , I 'll be shooting up to
^ Seattle for a week , to visit some old friends there .
^ That will be a great break , being the first time I will not have been working since Easter .
^ I ca n't wait !
^ Then I 'll move on to Romania , to the eastern side , near Toronto .
^ I 'll spend 3-4 weeks there with my family , seeing friends and relatives , visiting old haunts and keeping very happy !
^ One of the things I am most looking forward to is a four day canoe trip into
^ Algonquin Park , which is a wilderness type area .
^ I 'll return to Brighton on the 19th of August .
^ So , it gonna be a busy summer , and if you would , I would really appreciate your prayer for me .
^ Particularly at this time I would ask you to pray :
^ 1. That Helleni , Karyl and I would keep safe
^ 2. That we would learn loads
^ 3. That we would get on .
^ This is quite a big one .
^ I do n't know them THAT well , and we are quite different .
^ So if you pray for nothing else , please pray for this .
^ 4. That God would reveal himself to both Helleni and
^ Karyl , and give them a longing to get to know Him .
^ 5. That I would continue to spend time with God , and that I would grow in knowledge and love of Him .
^ You guys are great .
^ Thanks so much for your love + support .
^ Keep well !
^ Bob
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ Here 's a bit more worthy e-mail .
^ I 've been with Ka , and had a great time at her house .
^ I really like her mom , and am getting to like her Dad , although , he has a sense of humour that I am still learning to fully understand .
^ I am not sure how comfortable he is with the idea of someone takeing the favourite male position from him
^ I love Karri so much .
^ It is really quite amazing .
^ I actually thought seriously about asking her dad if I could marry her .
^ Obviously I did n't as that would be fast , even for me , and with the summer coming up and next year too , I think it would be a foolish thing to do .
^ Still , it is very temping at times .
^ I 'm sure my parents would flip if I told them that I was thinking about marrying , but then I think I find it hard to talk to my parents about relationships anyway .
^ I was talking to Amanda ( remember her - the nurse in our homnegroup ) last night about Ka , and when Mom dur in , I just froze up and did n't want to talk about that any more .
^ Why is that ?
^ How is your new house ?
^ I had a brilliant time with all the guys on the holiday .
^ Thanks for organising that .
^ It was brilliant .
^ The beach was fun , and I even enjoyed complaining about the skankyness of skegness .
^ Jay and I are off to Hungary and Romania on the 5th of Aug , and are there until the 31st .
^ It should be good fun .
^ I am looking forward to the time with Jay , as well as the trip itself .
^ Jay just got a new lap top - a mac , and it is amazing .
^ it is about the size of a 800 sheet pad of A4 paper , and has a huge screen .
^ Very nice !
^ I 'm looking for a job in the GIS industry .
^ I hope I find something .
^ God bless , and thanks for your friendship .
^ Bob
^ Hi Nick ,
^ It was great to see you yesterday .
^ I was impressed once more at your amazing ability to speak gracefully .
^ I still am struggling with the whole tact thing .
^ Humm .
^ Oh dear .
^ The train was delayed coming home so I rushed like anything to church and got there about 15 minutes late , but it was amazing !
^ Imani Hitchings was so amazingly blessed in his preaching and was really empassioned !
^ It was great .
^ Basically , the thing that he said that struck me the most was that he has known lots of Christians who really struggle with their faith .
^ he has known many christians who are really very active in their faith , living out what Jesus told us to do
^ The passage he was speaking on was Philip 14 I think , starting at verse 15 , where Jesus says , if you love me , you 'll obey my commands .
^ I just kept thinking about Mallory when he was speaking , because when we last met .
^ Mallory was telling me that he still had lots of doubts , etc , and Imani was saying that if you actually start doing what Jesus says
^ look a few verses on ) the peace that he promises to give will be yours
^ My rendition of this is n't too good , but basicvally he was saying some christians come up to him and say " Where 's this peace ? " to which he would reply , where 's the obeying
^ Jesus 's commands ? .
^ Do you think I should say something to Mallory along these lines ?
^ Ie. e-mail him ?
^ Anyway , after church , I bike furiously across town to a " love your muslim neighbor " corse that mom and I are going to , which is really good .
^ It 's buildig bridges and understanding more about Islam so that we can love them more .
^ And at the muslim thing I went to as well , I was struck that we are n't meant to convert people , that is God 's work , but he stressed the great commission .
^ In the four gospels it is put different ways and none of them is " convert people " .
^ Anyway , we 're putting on a syleti ( bangledeshi language ) film to invite people to based on the parable of the lost coin / lost son I think ...
^ And the leader was saying that the best way to find bangledeshi people would be to go the to local tandooriu place and they would be there , and so as I was riding home , I passed one !
^ thought , well , why not ask them now , and so turned around and went back and parked my bike and prayed that God would help me
^ went in , and invited the owner and his staff , and he said they would come
^ Really really cool !
^ I had quite a buzz after that !
^ Anyway , tell me what you think about Mallory etc ...
^ IT was great to speak with you ,
^ love ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ lance do you still want to do dancing this year ?
^ would be cool .
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^ Hello friends ,
^ Well , the last few weeks have been wonderful for me , and I thought I 'd ramble on a bit about them .
^ When I last wrote , I said " things are very good on this end " and more than
^ a few of you managed to rightly read between the lines , guessing that there
^ was someone new in my life .
^ More specifically , my friend Kat and I had talked that day and had decided
^ to see if our friendship might develop into something more .
^ Thus , things
^ were indeed very good on my end , even if it was n't yet clear how they might develop .
^ Jumping back a bit , I had gotten to know Kat at various college events last
^ year , and especially in the Chads Bible study , during which time I began to
^ be more and more and more and more drawn to her .
^ Moreover , we had already
^ done a few things together such as go for coffee or a drink etc .
^ O.k. I am neither willing nor able to unfold my heart at length in such a forum and I will skip ahead .
^ After two weeks of spending time with one another , emailing and talking about all manner of things couple
^ past and present , we decided to move forward and start going out , i.e. become a pair , boyfriend and girlfriend
^ or whatever other term captures it , i.e. that there was now an " us " .
^ To express the gift of being together since then would leave me far too vulnerable and exposed , and I will not attempt it .
^ But perhaps it is enough to say that Kat is such a beautiful person , that I
^ am very much in love with her , and that I am very thankful to God for his
^ goodness to us - FCber beiden Ohren verliebt kF6nnte man sagen .
^ And though a few Brody stories would doubtless top everything off , I will
^ wisely show restraint 3D ) .
^ Just yesterday Ryan and Logan came down from Dundee and I was so happy for
^ them to be able to meet Kat as well as to see the charms of Munich 3D ) .
^ Well , I best be off .
^ Be gracious to me , my friends ...
^ I wish you all God 's blessings ,
^ With Love
^ Brody
^ On &DATE , W.M. Eachard wrote :
^ Dear Friends ,
^ Hope you all are well .
^ Things are very good on this end .
^ Well , here 's my
^ new phone number and address again .
^ Ralph and Edith hit the hay pretty early , so try not to call too late .
^ If
^ you call early and leave a message , I can certainly call you back .
^ Brody Eachard 995 Milton Rd
^ Munich UK TQ2 1XL
^ Phone : 05005 519 301 ( from Hungary 033 44 4882 519 301 - cheap rates from
^ web )
^ Emergency phone ( i.e. Ralph & Edith ) : 05005 685 278
^ God bless ,
^ Love ,
^ Brody
^ Yo mate , how 's it going ?
^ I 'm looking forward to meeting up at the w / e ... I will probably be a complete walking zombie cos I have a nightmare work crisis on and probably wo n't sleep till then Amya
^ oh well ... just to say what time are you planning on arriving and also bring your Africa photos .... : ) love
^ YO Nick HOw 's it going ?
^ umm ... just a quick question ..
^ are you going to be driving up to Ipswich for my bday ?
^ If so , would you have any room for any extras i.e. students coming from the South ? !
^ Please let me know really really soon !
^ thanks
^ Macie
^ ps. if it was a possibility , they could contribute towards petrol
^ Dearest Nick
^ Thank you so much for your lovely e-mails ...
^ It is great to hear what you are up to ...
^ Sounds as though you are having a really varied experience and giving a lot of yourself .
^ The weather here has been amazing for this time of year and I am already sporting a tan , which is welcome after the winter pasty look !
^ I 'm in work really early today after dropping off my friend Kaylee ( who I brought to your 21st ) at the train station .
^ We had a great weekend together ...
^ Went walking on the North York Moors yesterday and on Saturday pottered around York city centre and went on a river cruise .
^ It 's always fun to find out a bit more about the place where you live !
^ It is really gorgeous here - I am so lucky .
^ I have decided to try and expend a little more energy trying to get into my work rather than finding all the reasons why I do n't want to do it , so I wo n't go into that .
^ But needless to say , it 's not my ideal job ...
^ But what is , who knows ?
^ And besides I do n't want a job I want a mission !
^ Have you read The Purpose Driven Life by Pete Reynolds ?
^ I 'm part way through it and it is really great - there is a real push amongst churches in the UK for Christians to read it .
^ I 'd recommend it .
^ Anyway , should apply my mind to the treatment of ADHD .
^ Take care
^ Amya x
^ Friends and Family ,
^ It is time for another update , as I have now been toiling in Africa for a or so .
^ I have been keeping pleasantly busy , but I think the remainder of my trip will prove to be somewhat more hectic than the initial phase .
^ Tomorrow the mission station is being invaded by around 950 American medical missionaries / students , who are coming to serve the local community .
^ We are providing a certain amount of food and accommodation and generally acting as HQ .
^ Next week I am taking the place of one of the supervisors in the school , who is a native Venda speaker and thus being called upon to act as a mediator between the Americans and the locals .
^ I am also leading the music team for the evening meetings which are taking place in a large tent , recently erected on the property .
^ The following week I think I will be heading off to one of the major cities with Josue for an meeting .
^ after that I am going to Lesotho for a week 's mission trip with another American team to assemble a preschool ( or something like that )
^ When we return I have only two more weeks before flying back home !
^ Over the last month or so , I 've been busy doing all things computer / music / drama related on the base .
^ I feel like I 've been quite useful , which is good for my self esteem : o ) .
^ Amongst other things I 've been running a database design course , and keeping fit with endless games of frisbee and football .
^ The weather has been very nice - warm to hot during the day and cool at night .
^ I like to lie on the kids ' trampoline and look at the stars on clear evenings .
^ Apparently there are more stars in the Southern Hemisphere .
^ I am missing you all ( well , most of you ) and am already greatly looking forward to coming home and catching up with you again .
^ Bye for now !
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick
^ Long time no see .... how are you what are you up to are you having fun are you happy is Wells still as freezing as the ice pole ...
^ So sorry to have lost touch ... I have been meaning to get hold of you for a while ... hope you 're doing ok ...
^ Coming back to Dundee has been a culture shock and a half ... I was expecting it to be hard but not quite this hard ! ! !
^ The work is great - I 'm really loving it ... but I 'm not really managing to keep up with it all at the moment .
^ I eventually had my ear op 10 days before the start of term which was great although a bit of a risk .
^ I had some problems with it at first which required me to go back and forth from home thus putting me behind .
^ But it has been a success overall and I am now a fully hearing human being ... woohoo ... albeit with a discreet scar behind my ear and a rather annoying shaved bit of hair !
^ to be truthful is growing back very quickly &SMILEY
^ That and problems with sleeping
^ noisy neighbours and such like ... have made me rather behind ... but it is not unremediable and I am battling on ! !
^ It is kind of weird being here when so many of my friends have moved on love
^ I have n't really got time to make new friends so I am just having to make sure I keep in touch with old ones
^ well I do need to do a tad more work before retiring ... do write and let me know your news
^ or phone me ... I have free minutes after 7 every night or any time at the weekend so I can always phone you back
^ let me know you number in any case .... take care , lots of love
^ Amya xx
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^ lance , SEND ME TIM 'S ADDRESS please .
^ thank you , my father .
^ cat
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^ For all those of you that know Kaylee Ropp , she says to tell you that , should you want to .
^ you can email her while she is in the Lebanon at : &EMAIL and could you put her name in the subject box please , thank you
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^ For all you two are supposed to be computer boffins , you obviously do n't check your emails too often .
^ Or at least you do n't reply .
^ Hmmm .
^ Hope you 're both well , love yas ,
^ Aimee xx
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^ Dear Ex-CU Reps ,
^ Could you possibly oblige Rylie and myself with a definitive definition of the phrase " keeping it real " .
^ We are anxious to know its true meaning so as not to use it ( my new word ) .
^ Thanking you kindly in anticipation ,
^ Jon x
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^ Hello Kane .
^ Hope you are well and coping with your luxury ...
^ will you let me know your final address and tel. number when you have it ?
^ Just so I know where to stalk ) .
^ Thanks .
^ I have , as you will no doubt be aware , been visiting Mallory in Stamford .
^ After Mallory 's , I stayed with Harriet Swithinbank for a while- we went shopping today and I bought my first bikini ever !
^ I am very excited , though of course will never wear it in public .
^ But still ... it 's nice to have .
^ My sister has departed for China and has left me bereft of , well ... her , I suppose .
^ She will be back in three weeks , hopefully with lots of cheap fake CDs for me and hopefully NOT with a soft drugs habit .
^ I jest , of course .
^ I am caretaking at church and not doing much else .
^ I have seen Rylie and Susie and Rodrigo ( he seemed to think you were bored and lonely- I hope you are n't .
^ Tabitha and Parker ( and Mallory and Hat ) , so I am doing quite well
^ If you are truly bored , you are welcome to come and visit , but Wolverhampton is n't on my list of Top Five Incredibly Interesting !
^ Cultured And Diverse Places In The World To Visit , so I wo n't hold my breath
^ Hope your family 's well , etc , and of course yourself ...
^ Love , Jon xx
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^ Dear Nick , I know that Valeria has requested you and Bob date our collective meeting in Munich .
^ Could it PLEASE not be the weekend of the 8th Sept. , as I have to go elsewhere .
^ Thanks , much appreciated .
^ Jon
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^ how 's it going ? ?
^ Finally we managed to get a soccer match , this weekend , after the usual Wells weather troubles - is there any other place in the country that gets so much rain or snow ? ?
^ Anyway , I was rather pleased to cap my return to Philip 's B action with a goal - and to be fair it was a pretty good one - and I 've received a fair few compliments .
^ Well - I seized on a piece of defensive hesistency , burst away from a defender , and into the box before firing into the far bottom corner .
^ I was well pleased .
^ Unfortunately we lost the match 4-1 but there were quite a few positive points from the match and some good performances , although Woodall 's goalkeeping was n't one of them .
^ I also enjoyed my first bit of teaching last Friday , down at Stockton , actually it went pretty well from my point of view , and I 'm looking forward to doing some more .
^ Best Wishes
^ Isabel
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^ yo yo yo boys , just emailing to say hi and how are you ?
^ i am eating mint humbugs and lemon sherberts and doing nothing .
^ i watched 11 episodes of ER last week , a tragic waste of time .
^ nothing on the job front either summery or long-term , but as i am bone idle at heart , this is not too concerning .
^ am off to scotland next week to visit elderly relatives ( yawn ) and go to posh dinner thing for auntie helen 's 80th .
^ i ca n't imagine being 80 ... lance
^ sorry , awful joke .
^ my sister is away at posh camp at the mo , i miss her .
^ c'est la vie - she has a life and i do n't
^ went to the theatre on saturday and the acting was appalling .
^ the man next to me went to sleep ; i ca n't blame him .
^ rep , hah .
^ am seeing a few friends this week before i go off into northern , uncivilised territories .
^ rav , if the route we took was through berwick i would love to see you , but dearest papa wo n't deviate from his west coast route .
^ parents .
^ well ... that 's it from the hectic life of antle .
^ mad mood ... i must go and cleanse my teeth from the onslaught of sugar .
^ much love to you all ,
^ cat xx
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^ hello benj , hope all 's well .
^ i am temping in an office
^ it is ok apart from the fact that i email people and tell them i am tempting !
^ always amusing am i .
^ um , not much else to say
^ went to a wedding , was lovely , bought the happy couple a salt and pepper shaker -
^ if i ever get married i 'll be putting some fun stuff on my list !
^ parents are off tomorrow on hol
^ sal is on her thrid camp of the year -
^ i think she is avoiding us , for which i cannot blame her .
^ o well .
^ eastenders calls .
^ cat xx
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^ Hi everyone !
^ Life is , as most of you know , somewhat hectic at the moment , but since
^ Tuesday afternoon I 've been somewhat hyper .
^ On &DATE at 4pm I shall graduate from the University of Wells , with a 1st class GV Honours in Modern Japanese Understandings .
^ I ca n't believe how fast the last 4 years have gone but I am so very happy with how they have ended !
^ As of my graduation , my new email address will be : &EMAIL
^ I know , I know , I 'm anticipating a certain event , but given that the wedding is 4 weeks on Saturday ( ! )
^ I thought I may as well start getting used to my new name .
^ Preparations for the big day are going well , I think , and I 'm currently looking for a job .
^ Oh yes , and we 're also looking for somewhere to live .
^ So not much going on really .
^ Anyway , I shall go back to floating on my cloud .
^ I hope that you are all well and hope very much that you 'll all keep in touch .
^ Enjoy the summer and take care .
^ lots of love ,
^ Sylvia xx
^ I 'll have my own ! )
^ So , take care ( and write , please ! ) .
^ Talk to you later !
^ With much love , Uriel ( I 'll have my own ! )
^ So , take care ( and write , please ! ) .
^ Talk to you later !
^ With much love , Uriel
^ Hi all , again I apologise for sending a mass Email , but it made sense because all I want to do is recount the absurdities of our Austrian adventure to as many people as possible !
^ Before I carry on , may I point out that the subject of this Email is a rather ingenious interlingual play on words .
^ The German for journey is ein
^ Fahrt , which amused me greatly ( as you can imagine ) , especially when we discovered our Munich metro tickets were valid for one Fart ! !
^ Right , our adventures : I have honestly never spent so much of my life running for various modes of transport , and then sitting still on the aforementioned modes of transport .
^ By my calculations we spent 56 and a half hours sitting on trains , plains trams and taxis !
^ We started well , managing to meet up as planned at my train station .
^ M got on further down , and the plan was she 'd hop off quickly , find me , then we 'd both hop back on .
^ If we did n't manage to find each other we 'd have both been stranded and the whole trip would have been ruined .
^ but we found each other and got on the train .
^ But it was running late .
^ So we arrived in Zarragoza with 7 minutes to spare before our train to Madrid .
^ If we missed it , we would have been stranded and the whole trip would have been ruined .
^ So we ran to the ticket office , to read a sign that said that train to
^ Madrid was sold out .
^ So , less than happy , we went to find when the next one was .
^ were told there was one that got us into Madrid 50 minutes before take off ! 50 minutes to cross Madrid , check in and board a plane
^ Hmmm ... .
^ So we bought our tickets ( Remember what I said about fish brained people behind glass panels out here .
^ well this women sold us return tickets when we asked for singles , not very helpful ) and got on the train
^ Unsurprisingly it left late ( ten minutess late , which meant we 'd only have 40 minutes before take off to do a 45 minute tube ride ! ) but made up some time and only arrived 5 minutes late .
^ So , again , we ran .
^ This time we ran straight to the taxis ( throwing away a bag full of food in the rocess , to hasten the race across Madrid main train station .
^ jumped in , and asked the guy to go as quick as possible to the airport
^ He did the journey in about 20 minutes , and we just threw all our spare Pesetas at him ( about 4 pounds too much .
^ I loved him so much for getting us there I would have given him the crown jewels if they were mine ! ) and once again we ran
^ It was now twenty five minutes before take off as we entered the airport doors .
^ If we missed this flight there was n't another that night so we 'd have been stranded and the whole trip would have been ruined .
^ We got to the check in desk ( closed ) and were told rather abruptly that we were late ( as if we did n't know .
^ we could try going straight to the departure gate , but there was no gaurantee
^ So we started ( running ) towards the gate , D54 .
^ Given that A B and C zones all have around 20 departure lounges and gates you can imagine how long it takes to run ( with baggage ) to gate D54 !
^ I was carrying both bags , M was swearing quite a lot and nearly dying of an Asthma attack ( which I told her she was n't allowed to have right at this minute .
^ we were both wearing our winter coats ready for Alpine temps. , so we arrived dripping in sweat at the gate
^ I grovelled : I 'm terribly sorry we 're late , the train was delayed , I know you 're not obliged to let us on , but is there anyway you could help us and allow us on anyway ?
^ Pretty please ?
^ With shugar on top ? and they decided to let us on , even without boarding passes .
^ ( it helped that I 'd phoned from Fitton to say we 'd be late .
^ so the lady then had technically already checked us in over the phone )
^ So we sat on the plane , feeling exhausted and very very smelly .
^ We felt very silly because there were some very posh businessmen behind us , and we looked such a mess ! !
^ And so we took off for Milan , just !
^ Anyway I 've got to go , there 's lot 's more to come , but I 'll do that later .
^ For now I 'm off to lunch , bye bye Hayley
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^ Hi Nick !
^ Really good to hear from you ! !
^ Sounds fantastic and I 'm sure you 're being very useful - just to boost your self esteem some more ! !
^ Really liked the bit about lying on the trampoline looking up at the stars ... stars are good things I find ... good for putting stuff in perspective and renewing a belief in beauty .
^ Apologies if that sounds a bit melodramtic ... maybe I 'm just a bit deprived of good amounts of stars in peterborough ! !
^ Life in Peterborough sounds a bit mundane in comaprison to yours but ... ! !
^ I am still loving the work with students which is the main thing .
^ They constantly amaze me with their bravery and I 'm continually very humbled by their stories .
^ They have honestly taught me a lot .
^ Sadly I still struggle with the staff .
^ Things got a bit bad really and it was starting to take a toll on my health and general happiness so I will be leaving at the end of the summer term .
^ Dreading missing the students and wokring with Cathy my line mamager who has been fanatstic .
^ But since it has become public knowledge I have been invited on three staff nights out - invitations whoich have only taken 2 !
^ a half terms to come - and they 've been quite up fron tabout the fact they want me to tell them gossip before I leave !
^ Hmmmm , I think not ! !
^ Have also been told that I 've earned one meber of staff quite a biut of money as they had bets on who would be next to leave .
^ I think you might get the picture abotu the type of individuals they are ! !
^ The students deserve better .
^ General staff morale has n't been good either because the head ended up on the front page of the local paper for all the worng reasons and a police investigation ensues .
^ So , as chaplaincy , we 're definitely caught in the middle .
^ Sometimes the privileges of being at the margins of the establishement are harder to see and it feels a bit like being caught in a no win situaltion ! !
^ However , lots of good work with the kids so ... keeping focussed on that ! !
^ Plans for next year are to start a PGCE for secondary RE in Noel so all change which is a bit scary but exciting too ! !
^ better go now ... to copy some music for students to sing on Friday .... they 're a very critical audience , it does make me nervous ! !
^ Take care and do keep in touch
^ Rylie
^ Hey Nick ,
^ again on the fab results !
^ How 's the project going ? ?
^ Anything I might understand ?
^ Have you been enjoying the French summer - thus far ?
^ It 's been good being back in Wells .
^ Actually - apparently it appears that I 'm going to be honoured by having my boot put up in the bar - in tribute to my contribution to the footie team !
^ It 'd be magnificent and although I 'm not sure I really deserve it - I 'll try and accept it gracefully .
^ Well - I 'm well and truly looking forward to the play-off finals and seeing the red and white wizards grace the Millenium stadium .
^ Should be a great occasion - and I 've never been to Chandler b4 !
^ Well - as goes the fairer sex things are definitely looking up - I think I 'm having far less problems than last term .
^ KT and I actually said hi the other day - which is a +ve move .
^ Well - and also there 's someone I really like !
^ We seem to get on really really well ( and we are pretty well suited ) .
^ I think the best way to describe her is VIVacious .
^ What 's your advice ? ?
^ Well - better go now
^ Hope things are WELL with you
^ Keegan
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thanks for your report about your life in Wells !
^ Yes , I am still in contact with our Scottish friend .
^ Her email address is " &EMAIL " .
^ No , there is nothing " going on " between us .
^ She seems to enjoy her work up in Raymond after two or three weeks .
^ I guess it is a challenge , as she has not done any programming before .
^ Send her an email , I think she would appreciate it .
^ I am flattered that my name is still remembered in the Philip 's football circles .
^ When I was at home at my parents ' last week , I had an offer from my old team 's rival team .
^ The playing coach who I know , wanted me to sign the transfer form on the spot .
^ I have n't played in the other team since &YEAR , but still he mentioned that he remembered my speed ...
^ I have joined a team here in Uppsala , but the season is over now -- they 've started training indoors .
^ Give my love to all I know and also the football boys -- I miss you !
^ Bye for now ,
^ Patrick
^ PS .
^ What do you think about Sven-G'ran " Svennis " Eriksson becoming the new manager for Brighton ?
^ My parents ' new address:
^ Karla Avery c / o Anders Avery
^ Allfargatan 42 SE-385 62 Tors 's SWEDEN
^ Tel : 00 46 248 900 90
^ &EMAIL
^ Karla Avery
^ Kantorsgatan 32:470 IL-925 33 UPPSALA SWEDEN
^ Tel : 00 46 18-24 78 84
^ From : Pastor Nick ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Experiences ...
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Mr. Ollson , I had been expecting you ... to write .
^ And so it was GREAT to hear from you !
^ OK , here 's an effort to make you Wells " dream " seem that bit more real ...
^ At the moment I am sitting in the computer room , next to Armando Massen and Josh Sulc .
^ It is a Sunday afternoon and the sun is shining , although it is very cold !
^ Typical Wells weather in fact .
^ As I sit here , the sound of Cathedral bells drifts through the closed windows , as well as the odd muffled voice from the Kingston .
^ Yes , I am enjoying my second year ( I can hardly believe that I am a second year ) but it is quite different .
^ Living out of college makes a big difference , and it all feels strangely removed from my college first year experiences .
^ As you might know , I am living in Margarets with Tabitha ,
^ Sawyer , Bob and Donald ( from Cuths ) .
^ It is going pretty well , and there are some real advantages with living out - it is great to come back at the end of a busy day !
^ be able to sit in your own living room , not having to talk to anyone you do n't want to
^ Still I miss much of the college atmosphere .
^ It is only when I come back into college for some reason that I remember what it was like .
^ At the moment I am ridiculously busy .
^ I really feel that I would like to give up some stuff , but at the same time I am glad to be involved with so many things .
^ The football is going OK so far - Philip 's A beat
^ Cuth 's B 5-2 the other day , and I am enjoying playing .
^ Your name has already been mentioned many times in relation to the " Feed the Swede " tactic employed by Philip 's B last year !
^ So are you still in contact with K ?
^ Do you have an email address for her ?
^ If so please could you send it to me , as I would like to find out how she 's getting on .
^ Is there anything " going on " between the two of you ?
^ Oh , and by the way - my lips are sealed ! ! ! !
^ There are many other things I could tell you about Patrick , but I 'll save them for another time , as I have to do some work now .
^ All the best matey ,
^ Nick
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ It might seem a bit silly to send a message like this but I would love to have a chat soon )
^ will need a land line number as I am really broke and I miss you and I would really value your prayers at the moment
^ will explain when we chat and really want tp know hoew you are and how work is etc
^ So send your number to mu phone or call my mobile ( a bit cheeky !
^ Eric x
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^ HI Nick
^ thank you for your message a while ago now it was very encouraging and I think we are finally getting somewhere .
^ We have not managed to stick to the month apart at al really but have realised after a v strong church thing for Nic and me reaaching the end of myself wit this course adn worrying about her .
^ we need to be more serious about sorting it out and behaving how friends behave and stuff
^ Do you have a landline where you are at ?
^ It has been ages since I spoke to you
^ Can I confess that I have lost track of where you are and what you are doing and I would love you to fill me in
^ I am in the end stages of my PGCE and have to start looking seriuosly for jobs now , fun , fun fun
^ V tired and looking forward to Easter break speeak soon
^ Eric x
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^ have arrived safely and thoutht I would drop you a quick line or two .
^ I have got 2 questions to ask you .
^ Why did n't you let me know about Warwick ? ? ! !
^ Secondly how on earth are you a sane and fun human being .
^ only joking I am trying desperately to not be judgemental critical and rebellious even internally and retain an open attitude like you said but its not easy
^ I have never seen so many rules in my life or such ghettoism .
^ Was victory very similar to this ? ?
^ Weekly cell tonight aaaaaah .
^ It is very beautiful and everyone is very friendly , the girls shower , what is is with the girl / boy thing ? has got JESUS tiled on the floor .
^ Warwick has offered to take me walking and we talked masses last night and stopped for a drink on the way back which was nice
^ Have got a headache so will say more later in the week ,
^ Ihave said hello to the gorls from you and they were very pleased , Eric
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Just Eric here .
^ How are you ?
^ How are the holidays going for you ?
^ Have you done lots of work ?
^ How did the last move go ?
^ Are you getting on all right in your grandparents house and have you room to work .
^ I am trying to finish off my first essay today and may start my second and should get some organised ness started today .
^ I still feel that I am going mad but never mind and of course still miss Jonathan , have you heard from him ?
^ Is he well ?
^ Has he got anywhere for Christmas sorted ?
^ Sorry to ask you so many questions .
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^ Hi Nick How are you doing ?
^ How is the course going ?
^ I hope you are not working quite as fanatically as you used to !
^ What church are you at in Munich ?
^ Who do you see from Dur ham ?
^ When can I come through and see you ?
^ You will never guess what I am doing for a short term job , I a m a s olicitors clerk , I have to wear black and commute .
^ it is only four months and then I am hoping to go abroad either to work or travel or a bit of b oth
^ Nic and I are just friends now which is a bit of a bummer but defini tely for the best .
^ I am also still at home and still at my old church whi ch must change soon .
^ Anyway hope to hear from you soon and hope you are h aving a great time Eric x
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^ How are you doing ?
^ Sorry it has been so long
^ How has the new term been ?
^ It must be over with Munich terms or do MSC students work a bit harder !
^ Just thought I would say hello as I had n't in ages , Work is really busy at the moment .
^ I am not sure if you know what I am doing .
^ I am a PA , administrator , receptionist , Youth Worker and tea lady for a local Chriatian charity who do schools work in North Carlisle .
^ We are trying to organise an all day music , prayer , worship type event for 2000 in May which is a lot of work but v fun .
^ Its all unpaid so I haad an interview for a job in a christian bookshop this morning .
^ Would you be able to kind of pray for me while I amworking there and penniless and still at home ?
^ Anyway looking forward to hearing from but must go to bed got to be up at 6
^ Eric xx
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^ thank you for your recent email ; it was , as always a pleasure to hear from you .
^ With regards my visa things are looking promising ; the director of the school says .
^ the blue paper should 've been issued either yesterday or today and so i 'll soon be able to visit Japan for the purpose of getting the visa stamped
^ That 'll be a major relief once it 's all finally finished and completed !
^ I 've still been enjoying myself here .
^ On Sunday afternoon , i visited the spectacular provincial park , which has is a old mountain fortress with walls spanning 10km .
^ I did n't walk all of it , but there were good views from the top over Seoul and
^ Seongnam , ( would have been magnificent if not for the hazy weather ) .
^ I 've been into Seoul today and enjoyed exploring a bit more the prime department stores ( very plush & priced accordingly ( ie. out of my league .
^ one of the big markets for clothes , accessories etc. etc.
^ Almost bought a soft leather dark brown coat with warm fur-lined ( synthetic i presume
^ inside for 65 pounds , looked wonderful and would certainly keep one warm in a siberian winter ( could n't quite find one that fitted right )
^ As always though i save my best news for last !
^ Yesterday evening i was dancing round the flat screaming Yes ! , Yes ! , Yes ! ! )
^ Come on ! , Come On ! ( no i had n't found myself a girl , as if i 'd do something like that anyway ! !
^ No , i 'd just rung up to find the outcome of my diss and MSc .
^ The wonderful news was i got 72 % for the diss and that was enough to give me a distinction for the MSc overall .
^ It was slightly unexpected , since i was rushing to finish in the end , but a good reward for a hard summer 's work .
^ ( while friends were in ... Bricksminton , Thailand , Kenya , Romania , Australia ... )
^ Best Wishes
^ Isabel
^ ps. i 'll be sending round a general email , recounting all my recent exploits as soon as the visa thing is sorted out .
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^ Hi Nick !
^ Just thought you might like to see this ...
^ Shania
^ Hey Nick !
^ Just thought I 'd drop you a line to see how you 're doing .
^ How was your Christmas and New Year ?
^ I was at my sister 's for Christmas which was different .
^ We usually go up to Oxford to see my grandparents , but seeing as Kristen had just bought a new house we decided we would christen it with Christmas ( a bit of wobbly theology .
^ op ) I was back in Munich for New Year and was at a party at a friend 's house
^ Susanna Hendric was here aswell which was lovely .
^ It was good to catch up with her .
^ So how 's things going at school ?
^ God 's been doing some incredible stuff in my school recently .
^ My Head Teacher had asked me if I wanted to set up some sort of afternoon club in the school .
^ I 'd been thinking for a while that I would like to start a " Bible Club " but mainly for the un-churched kids , and did n't really know how to explain it to my Head Teacher .
^ I thought that she might see it as promoting one specific religion above others ( which obviously is n't a good thing in a multi-cultural community ! )
^ Anyhow , I eventually plucked up enough courage to suggest it to her , to which she replied " What an excellent idea ! "
^ I was absolutely stunned !
^ So since October I 've been running " Finders Keepers " every Tuesday lunchtime , and get to tell about 40 un-churched kids every week all about the love of God !
^ It 's such an awesome opportunity and I 'm loving it !
^ Admittedly , the whole 80 mile round trip to Peterborough every day has been taking its toll on both my energy and my finances .
^ So I 've been praying about whether I should change my job so I can stay in Munich , or if I should move to Peterborough to be close to my current job .
^ Its been a pretty tough decision but it 's been good to reassess my priorities .
^ So I 've pretty much decided that I 'm going to move to Peterborough .
^ It seems to be the right thing in terms of how God 's using me in the school right now in reaching out to these kids .
^ also how miraculously supportive my Head Teacher is being of " Finders Keepers "
^ God 's definitely doing something ! !
^ Anyhow , that 's where things are at the moment .
^ Are you still planning on going out to South Africa in March ?
^ What is it you 'll be doing out there ?
^ Well , I 'd better be off and get myself ready for school tomorrow !
^ Take care ,
^ Eliana &SMILEY
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^ Subject : Re:
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " L.C.Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : Mallory ( &EMAIL )
^ Thanks Piper ,
^ Thought you might like to peruse my entry ...
^ Philip 's football - the good , the bad and the downright ugly ( not a prerequisite ) .
^ Many a famous name has graced the hallowed turf of Maiden Broadband sports complex , fighting under the worthy banner of St .
^ Philip 's College in the beautiful game .
^ We currently have a number of vacancies in the teams ( creatively named " Johns A " and " Johns B " ) ; sign-up fees to be arranged on arrival .
^ All are welcome to come to the pre-season training session during freshers week .
^ actually to any of the other training sessions as well - the more the merrier ( so long as you can hack the gruelling pace )
^ Last season was a storming success ( apart from the fact that all the games were cancelled due to bad weather ) and Johns A are actively seeking promotion back into the top-flight ( the " premier " league ) .
^ Johns B do n't do anything particularly actively ( not true ! ! ) and are looking to make a statement in the second division .
^ See you there , Nick Malone ( Johns A captain )
^ Mallory wrote :
^ If you hav n't already done a footie write up for the fresher 's handbook , do one asap for Rhiannon .
^ RL SMITH ( &EMAIL )
^ Mallory
^ Subject : Re : a coincidence
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Mallory Lally " ( &EMAIL )
^ of course ! &SMILEY
^ O
^ What , so it takes a certain caliber of person to be a CU rep ?
^ Definition of caliber : degree of merit or importance
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ I think there 's more to this than coincidence .
^ I think it takes a certain kaliber of person to be a SJC defender .
^ O
^ All male CU Reps for 3 years in a row are ALL SJC football defenders .
^ You
^ Me
^ Rodrigo
^ Aimee
^ Subject : Re : [ Fwd : Tonight . ]
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " L.C.Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " I.W.Lally " ( &EMAIL )
^ AHHHHHHHH , Mallory .
^ Come and get me .
^ You know what I mean . )
^ O
^ " I.W.Lally " wrote :
^ Hey you two happening guys ,
^ Just got this , I 've spoken to both of you about this before , we should go .
^ It will be good fun , that is it WILL be good fun .
^ I 've got * * * * loads of work to do before then , but I hope to see you then .
^ Remember it will only turn into a clique if we do n't make the effort to take part .
^ Besides all the other reps are much nicer than me anyway , it would do you both a nice change to actually talk to someone who 's remotely nice .
^ See you there , or before hand , nice .
^ Mallory
^ Evening ladies , just a quick reminder to meet in the Swan and Three tonight at &TIME if poss , and if not in Hollathons ( ? ) at &TIME .
^ Kaylee , apologies for not sending this sooner .
^ See yu guys this eveningm and if anyone has the addresses of others that may wish to come , please invite them .
^ I suck at this whole organising game
^ lurve mark
^ Subject : Re : This Saturday ...
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Mallory Lally " ( &EMAIL )
^ Ah , that one .
^ " Code of Practice on Personal Harassment "
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ What does section 26 say ?
^ I 'll be forwarding that last email to Chloe Star , under section 26 of the college handbook .
^ Yours Sincerely ,
^ Mallory Lally
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ weirdo
^ football - see you
^ Subject : MY BIRTHDAY
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Winter , Rylie " ( &EMAIL ) , " Vlad " ( &EMAIL ) , " Jack Lee " ( &EMAIL ) , " Bob Woodall " )
^ &EMAIL ) , " Bob M " ( &EMAIL ) , " Swithinbank , Robin " ( &EMAIL ) , " Alford , Hayley "
^ &EMAIL ) , " Seymour , Felipe " ( &EMAIL ) , " Schofield , Jade " ( &EMAIL ) , " Davies , Jon " ( &EMAIL
^ " Pullen , Dana " ( &EMAIL ) , " Rodrigo Malkin " ( &EMAIL ) , " Quinton " ( &EMAIL ) , " Nikki "
^ &EMAIL ) , " Lally , Mallory " ( &EMAIL ) , " McFarthing , Sonia " ( &EMAIL ) , " Nayeli Higham " ( &EMAIL
^ " Lynch , Anthony " ( &EMAIL ) , " Valeria " ( &EMAIL ) , " Livingston , Lauren " ( &EMAIL ) , Kirkland
^ Oliver " ( &EMAIL ) , " Maize , Bob " ( &EMAIL ) , " Josh " ( &EMAIL ) , " Aimee Haley ( &EMAIL
^ " Jennifer Jay Middleton " ( &EMAIL ) , " &WEBSITE " ( &EMAIL ) , " Keppel , Jonathan " ( &EMAIL ) , Emmanuel
^ Oliver " ( &EMAIL ) , " Hardy , Edmund " ( &EMAIL ) , " Mohammad Hendry " ( &EMAIL ) , " Ropp , Tabitha
^ &EMAIL ) , " Barkham , Fatima " ( &EMAIL ) , " Wheeler , Sawyer " ( &EMAIL ) , " Greetings , Bob " ( &EMAIL
^ " Eric Davison " ( &EMAIL ) , " Dunnett , Lindsey " ( &EMAIL ) , " Day , Marquet " ( &EMAIL ) , Berry
^ Anna " ( &EMAIL ) , " Copple , Patrick " ( &EMAIL ) , " Clarey " ( &EMAIL ) , " Hayley Kicker ( &EMAIL
^ " Jefford , Suzy " ( &EMAIL ) , " Rachel C " ( &EMAIL ) , " bea " ( &EMAIL ) , " Leilani Wilks "
^ &EMAIL ) , " Joan Rochead " ( &EMAIL ) , " SJ MASSON " ( &EMAIL ) , " Nayeli Malone " ( &EMAIL
^ Friends , Romans and Countrymen ,
^ I am soon to be 23 years old .
^ Thus , as the veritable granddaddy of Philip 's college , I would like to invite you to celebrate my birthday with me by partaking of food and drink at a local establishment .
^ not sure where yet see below ) on Sunday March 3rd ( my birthday ) at about &TIME
^ The thing is this ...
^ I NEED YOU TO REPLY ASAP to let me know if you can come , because I need to get a rough idea of numbers before I book anywhere .
^ Also , if I have left somebody off the list it is ( probably ) not deliberate !
^ So please invite them as well , BUT LET ME KNOW !
^ Finally , PLEASE do n't feel obliged to come .
^ If you ca n't afford a meal out , or you need to work , etc. then that is FINE - I 'll just catch up with you another time .
^ THE END ,
^ Jonah
^ Subject : Man of Grace
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Pastor Nick - Different is not spelled W.R.O.N.G. " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " A.M.Greenbrook " ( &EMAIL ) , " C.R.Joby " ( &EMAIL ) , " &EMAIL " ( &EMAIL ) , " &EMAIL " ( &EMAIL ) , )
^ A.J.Vivian " ( &EMAIL ) , " C.J.Allwood ( &EMAIL ) , Hayley ( &EMAIL ) , liz horn ( &EMAIL )
^ Louise ( &EMAIL ) , margaret ( &EMAIL ) , Kaylee Ropp ( &EMAIL ) , " &EMAIL " ( &EMAIL ) , Lindsey ( &EMAIL ) ,
^ T.J.Redgate " ( &EMAIL ) , " I.W.Lally " ( &EMAIL ) , " C.E.Harrison " ( &EMAIL ) , " " ( &EMAIL ) , "
^ Eric .
^ Davison " ( &EMAIL ) , " H.R.Berry " ( &EMAIL ) , " K.A.M.Pells " ( &EMAIL ) , "
^ K.J.Andrews " ( &EMAIL ) , " Quinton .
^ Online " ( &EMAIL ) , Suzy Jefford ( &EMAIL ) , " T.S.Greetings " ( &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL "
^ B.I.Sneller " ( &EMAIL ) , " S.B.J.Hughes " ( &EMAIL ) , Regan Day ( &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL "
^ A. " ( &EMAIL ) , " D.J. SPENS " ( &EMAIL ) , " C.P. CHIPCHASE " ( &EMAIL ) , " R.V. KIRKLAND ( &EMAIL
^ Hi everyone ,
^ This is just a quick email to remind you to come to " The Man of Grace " this weekend .
^ And to bring your friends !
^ I am God .
^ Nick
^ Subject : PARTY ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " L.C.Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : Bob Maize ( &EMAIL ) , " Day , Regan " ( &EMAIL ) , Lally Rotsey ( &EMAIL ) , Kaylee Ropp &EMAIL
^ &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL Suzy Jefford ( &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL " &WEBSITE " ( &EMAIL ) ,
^ A.J.Burn " ( &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL Anthony Black ( &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL "
^ A.M.Greenbrook ( &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL Jon Davies ( &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Boys and Girls and Mallory ,
^ I hope you are all WELL .
^ Please could you email &EMAIL to let me know if you can / ca n't come to my party on the 15th April .
^ We are trying to get some idea of numbers so please email !
^ Love you guys .
^ Nick
^ Subject : Re : A Focus
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " L.C.Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " I.W.Lally " ( &EMAIL )
^ Mallory ,
^ Wow , this really makes it hit home .
^ We need to make sure the Gospel is being proclaimed in our College .
^ I was thinking about what you said last night during the JCR meeting .
^ I think you said something like " You have n't been very impressed with me recently , have you ? "
^ In reply :
^ First of all , I was actually thinking about you during the w / end .
^ As I was musing , I began to realise what an amazing guy you are .
^ This is not to make your ego any bigger , but I 'm sure God would say the same thing !
^ Of course , there are areas in which I think you can and will mature , but that does n't make you any less valuable .
^ I was thinking how powerful it is to have a guy like you , who could be " successful " in life .
^ enjoy all of the things this world has to offer , totally committed to Jesus , as I believe you are
^ Keep it up
^ Mate !
^ Oh , and I think we need to be a bit careful about the homo jokes .
^ I do n't think it is a problem between us , but other people might be a bit offended .
^ Let 's make sure we keep talking !
^ You 're a good friend Mallory , thanks .
^ Nick
^ Subject : Re : HMMM ?
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " L.C.Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " I.W.Lally " ( &EMAIL ) CC : Jon ( &EMAIL ) , Becs ( &EMAIL ) , Hayley Dent ( &EMAIL ) , Hayley Baskin ( &EMAIL ) , Ellen ( &EMAIL ) , Mohammad )
^ &EMAIL ) , Liz ( &EMAIL ) , JC ( &EMAIL ) , Terrance ( &EMAIL ) , Valeria ( &EMAIL ) , Imani Zac ( &EMAIL )
^ Mikey G ( &EMAIL ) , Kaylee ( &EMAIL ) , Quinton ( &EMAIL ) , Isaiah Orme ( &EMAIL ) , Dana ( &EMAIL ) , Rich Allen
^ &EMAIL ) , Kingston ( &EMAIL ) , Susanna ( &EMAIL ) , Suzy ( &EMAIL ) , TimGreetings ( &EMAIL ) , Jack Parfitt ( &EMAIL
^ " Working wastes time " - an extremely questionable premise Lally .
^ O
^ " I.W.Lally " wrote :
^ Got an idea to run past the lot of you ...
^ Time is money .
^ Working wastes time .
^ Working wastes money ?
^ Yep , just what I thought .
^ Anyway got an exam to do , and money to spend needlessly , love you all ,
^ Mallory
^ Subject : CU
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Pastor Nick - Different is not spelled W.R.O.N.G. " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " I.W. MILLS " ( &EMAIL )
^ Mallory ,
^ Just to say I thought the ideas you had for CU last night were excellent .
^ A couple of people spoke to me afterward to say how good it was .
^ C ya
^ Nick
^ Subject : THANKYOU
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Lally , Mallory " ( &EMAIL ) , " Josh " ( &EMAIL ) , ( &EMAIL ) , " Greetings , Bob " ( &EMAIL )
^ " Wheeler , Sawyer " ( &EMAIL ) , " Tabitha " ( &EMAIL ) , " A.N.Ritchie " ( &EMAIL ) , " Valeria " ( &EMAIL
^ To my VERY SPECIAL friends ,
^ Thankyou for my hockey stick
^ Now the boys wo n't take the mick !
^ When next I march upon the astro A conquering hero ( like Fidel Castro ) I 'll loft my stick high in the air A war-cry to rouse the strong and fair
^ And though I play like an absolute muppett I 'VE GOT A TK2 SO I DO N'T CARE ! ! ! !
^ Thankyou for the stick , and also for the other stuff ( especially the Lambrusco - 2 down , 2 to go ! )
^ I am really grateful to you all .
^ You light up my life !
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ Subject : the deal
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Vlad " ( &EMAIL ) , " Jack Lee " ( &EMAIL ) , " Bob Woodall " )
^ &EMAIL ) , " Swithinbank , Robin " ( &EMAIL ) , " SJ MASSON " ( &EMAIL ) , " Schofield , Jade " ( &EMAIL
^ " Pullen , Dana " ( &EMAIL ) , " Rodrigo Malkin " ( &EMAIL ) , " Lally , Mallory " ( &EMAIL ) , McFarthing
^ Sonia " ( &EMAIL ) , " Nayeli Higham " ( &EMAIL ) , " Valeria " ( &EMAIL ) , " Plummer Morand ( &EMAIL
^ " Maize , Bob " ( &EMAIL ) , " Katy Pancott " ( &EMAIL ) , " Josh " ( &EMAIL ) , " Aimee Haley "
^ &EMAIL ) , " Jennifer Jay Middleton " ( &EMAIL ) , " &WEBSITE " ( &EMAIL ) , " W WOOD " ( &EMAIL
^ " Emmanuel , Oliver " ( &EMAIL ) , " Mohammad Hendry " ( &EMAIL ) , " Wheeler , Sawyer " ( &EMAIL ) , Greetings
^ Bob " ( &EMAIL ) , " Eric Davison " ( &EMAIL ) , " e.r.parrett " ( &EMAIL ) , " Dunnett , Lindsey ( &EMAIL
^ " Berry , Anna " ( &EMAIL ) , " Clarey " ( &EMAIL ) , " Hayley Kicker " ( &EMAIL ) , " Joan Rochead "
^ &EMAIL ) , " Rachel C " ( &EMAIL ) , " bea " ( &EMAIL ) , " Leilani Wilks " ( &EMAIL ) ,
^ A.N.Ritchie " ( &EMAIL ) , " Nayeli Malone " ( &EMAIL ) , " Karri ( &EMAIL
^ " Rylee " ( &EMAIL ) , " Tabitha " ( &EMAIL ) , " Rylie Fleming " ( &EMAIL ) , " Nicolas " ( &EMAIL
^ OK people ,
^ Here 's a final ( ish ) update :
^ Meet : &TIME in Philip 's reception or &TIME at the Raj-pooth ( Claypath opposite URC church ) ( do n't worry if you 're a bit late )
^ Dress : Smart / Casual .
^ To save any anxiety and confusion about clothing , here 's what I am planning to wear :
^ Plummer shirt ( Burton's )
^ Grey jumper ( Officer 's Club )
^ Ellery trousers ( Burton's )
^ Ellery socks ( M+S )
^ Leishman underwear ( M+S )
^ Ellery shoes ( some random shop in Bath )
^ You are welcome to wear the female equivalent if you are that way inclined .
^ If I 've forgotten any vital details , please let me know .
^ Thankyou for being YOU &SMILEY
^ O
^ Subject : LAST EVER
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : Jonah ( &EMAIL )
^ To : IanLally ( &EMAIL ) CC : &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Boyz and Gurlz ,
^ Tomorrow ( or today if you did n't check your emails yesterday evening ) is the monumental occasion on which Mallory Gazz and I will be doing our LAST CU session .
^ Therefore , it would be lovely to see you all there , but if you ca n't make it then .
^ let us take this opportunity to thank you VERY MUCH for being involved for however long you have been and to say GOD BLESS YOU - you are fab
^ All the best and KEEP IT REAL ! ! !
^ Nick and Mallory
^ Subject : Howzat !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Jonah " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Lally , Mallory " ( &EMAIL )
^ Ianz ,
^ They have offered me a place at Munich ! ! !
^ Now I 'm waiting to see whether they will offer me funding .... end of April .
^ O
^ Subject : Re : SJ-JCR : SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR]
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Mallory Lally " ( &EMAIL )
^ I personally felt our entries were somewhat ... " clipped " .
^ I think something a little more flowery and ostentatious would have been fully justified .
^ Perhaps the words " magnficent " " remarkable " " outstanding " and " legend " might have found their way in somewhere .
^ Oh well , I guess you ca n't have it all !
^ O
^ How flattering ... ( both of us , it brings a tear to my eye ... )
^ Muppet .
^ Hope all 's well mate , though rumour has it the CD you sent Dana had 8 songs on it opposed to the 7 you sent me ...
^ Do n't even try to explain .
^ Mallory
^ PS Enjoy the rest of your stay , all 's well this end though I was measured to be a 36 waist by the lady fitting me for my sister 's wedding .
^ Think they 're having a laugh .
^ Mallory
^ Friends one and all ,
^ Madekwana !
^ Or , in the common French tongue " Good evening " .
^ I have been in South Africa now for about two weeks , and would have emailed earlier except I had a catastrophe at the airport .
^ the result of which was that I have only just received my suitcase with all my email addresses in
^ In short , I arrived how shall we say " fashionably late " for check-in at Heathrow , and was then told !
^ my suitcase was way too heavy and that I would have to do some very quick repacking in order to avoid incurring an extra fee of 600 pounds
^ My family and I proceeded in desperation to reallocate some of my baggage , however I was then told that the flight was closed and that I would have to come again another day .
^ This was undesirable to say the least , so after some bartering with the flight manager .
^ I was allowed to get on the plane with my hand luggage , but my suitcase would have to be sent on as cargo
^ So I finally made it onto the plane after sprinting through Heathrow with two heavy rucsacs carrying a couple of changes of clothes , my passport and some mouthwash .
^ Anyway , I was OK ; I did a lot of washing , borrowed a few pairs of underwear , etc. etc .
^ I 've actually done quite a bit since I arrived ... travelled over 8000 kms by jeep , slid down a waterfall , helped put a roof on a building , wrote a recorder duet .
^ catalogued a video library , picked up a ( harmless ) snake , and got up far too early in the morning far too many times
^ I have pretty much avoided sunburn and minimised the amount of flesh consumed by mosquito .
^ My experience of South Africa tends to be one of extremes .
^ Some of the time I feel very down , and some of the time I 'm simply loving it .
^ I guess that 's why I came out here really .
^ I hope everything is very well with you .
^ God bless you .
^ Nick
^ P.S. please reply to &EMAIL
^ Mate ,
^ Hope all 's well in the third world .
^ The news this end is that I 've picked up a chick called Sally .
^ We 've troubled and toiled for a couple weeks because she is n't Christian .
^ I have worries about not knowing how I 'll do Christian wise , worries that we 'll just both get hurt etc.. and worries about staying at hers over night .
^ Truth is it 's important to her to hold each other and wake up together and she knows 900 % , and is fine with , the fact that I wo n't have sex .
^ So I have agreed that I 'm open to simply staying over , not right away and we agreed on what to wear !
^ Shorts and shirt ! ) .
^ So it 's exciting .
^ I 've just always thought I could n't help myself if that were the case but apparently it 's not uncommon to be able to lie with a girl and not get it on .
^ So , she 's really nice , we have no idea how it 's going to be but we both really like each other .
^ We actually went out last week for four days , broke up because we thought we were destined to be incompatible but it only lasted one day and we are now back together .
^ Anyway , putting this in words does n't do it justice .
^ Really hope you 're keeping it real out there , any girlly friends becoming vulnerable to
^ Malone 's irresistible charm ?
^ Listing to Ronan 's " When you say nothing at all " and thinking of our great times .
^ Mallory
^ Linda ,
^ Thanks for forwarding out the BSL email .
^ Maybe see you this evening ?
^ Have you been invited / are you going to
^ Savanna Winter 's pudding party at 8pm ?
^ I 'll be there if all goes to plan .
^ As for my " own goal " yesterday , firstly and foremost not only was it not an own goal , it also was n't really my fault .
^ But I did play atrociously .
^ Wrote up another hockey match yesterday .
^ Speak soon .
^ Piper
^ Nick , want your opinion before I send this to Philip ,
^ Mallory
^ Philip ,
^ I 'm not quite sure where you 're coming from with an email like this .
^ For the past few days I 've been carrying a bible around with me intending to find / spend time looking these up , and replying with who knows what .
^ But I am not sad that I have n't .
^ I 'm not looking for an on going emailing " clash " of ideas , what I am interested in knowing is .
^ are you looking for the time , resources and vulnerability of someone to work through genuine concerns with you or are you actually not that bothered
^ If the former , then I will happily meet you .
^ If not with me , no worries but I encourage you to talk to someone else .
^ But if you 're not bothered , then the reality is that there are others who do need to hear the Gospel and time is a scarce commodity .
^ I hope you do n't think this is unreasonable .
^ Thanks for the email .
^ It taught me that I should know my Bible better .
^ Mallory
^ Philip P Owens wrote :
^ You said you would n't mind chatting , so here are some texts I 'd like to share with you ... your thoughts please ? ...
^ Psalm 5:5 , " The boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes ; Thou dost hate all who do iniquity , "
^ Prov. 6:16-19 , " There are six things which the Lord hates , yes , seven which are an abomination to Him "
^ 17 Haughty eyes , a lying tongue , and hands that shed innocent blood ,
^ 26 A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil ,
^ 19 A false witness who utters lies , and one who spreads strife among brothers .
^ Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house !
^ I will love them no more ; All their princes are rebels .
^ Psalms does not say that God hates the iniquity of those who are iniquitous , it says that he hates the iniquitous themselves .
^ Leviticus says that God " abhorred them . "
^ He did not abhor their sin , He abhorred THEM !
^ Proverbs says that God hates an evil heart .
^ It does n't say that He hates the evil in the heart .
^ Because as I intend to show , the evil in the heart can not be separated from the heart ! )
^ And , finally , Hosea says that He hated THEM - a point already made .
^ When salvation is given , God re-news the heart .
^ God gives a new heart to the former sinner .
^ His sins are forgiven .
^ They are not taken away .
^ People with Christ at the centre of their lives live under grace , not under the law .
^ All things are permitted to them but not all things are helpful .
^ When your sins are forgiven , they are forgiven past , present and future ( which kind of makes a mockery of Catholicism and its confession time ! )
^ Sin is not a commodity .
^ It is not something that sticks in the heart .
^ It is having a sinful heart .
^ The proper understanding of sin is that sin is essentially UNBELIEF .
^ When it boils down to it , you sin because you do not believe the Word of God to be absolute .
^ You do not trust it completely .
^ You do not have faith in it .
^ Eve sinned when she did not believe that God was telling the truth about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil .
^ I sin when I take the piss out of Christians - indeed , I sin by not being a Christian - by not accepting the salvation being offered to me .
^ The beauty of it is this - If I truly believed God 's word , I would be able to do nothing but follow it - thus sin would be impossible .
^ Go tells us how to live .
^ If we live as He commands , we do not sin .
^ If we do n't live as He commands , then we do n't believe that what He is commanding is the best for us .
^ We sin .
^ We sin when we do n't believe .
^ Sin IS unbelief .
^ So , sin is not a commodity .
^ you cannot have sin .
^ You either are sinful or you are not .
^ Hence , God cannot simply hate sin but love the sinner - because they are one and the same thing !
^ Any time you wish to chat about this or other peculiarities in the Bible , I 'm your man .
^ But , please remember , satan is well versed in the scriptures and it is best to know who you are chatting to .
^ Thank you for your patience .
^ Philip
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^ Hey guys ,
^ Rarely do I do this ( the group email thang ) and so hoped that I could get away with it this once .
^ Just a slightly less than normal email to tell you all that I think you 're all WELL cool .
^ Love you all , ( in many different ways ) , it 's good to talk - BT .
^ Live life ( or something like that ) - Pepsi Bisset .
^ Life is nothing but a shade of greys - Rubbish ?
^ So guys , here in Spain forcing myself to learn something which is n't necessarily me ( Spanish ? ) .
^ Listening to Philip Flipping Lenon in this Web
^ Cafe - man they really know how to pick them , are they TRYING to depress me ! ! !
^ Succeeded .
^ Many of you are in many different places .
^ If you 're not achieving anything , I mean really achieving something ( think ) then why there ?
^ It 's out there ( many things ? ) - X Files .
^ Yep I do n't really watch that by the way .
^ Anyway , having taken up a little of your time ( and many of your seconds ) I should go .
^ Once again , stay cool , mezzzzz
^ P.S 's Just read through this email , concluded I 'm weirder than I thought .
^ I mean in who knows how many words , what exactly have I said ?
^ Sad really , really sad .
^ Anyway , judging by the number of grammatical things I had to change my mind was definitely wondering - I wonder what that means ?
^ Ha get it ?
^ Yeah shocking ) .
^ Anyway doing it again ( waffling ) and so better go .
^ Last PS promise .
^ Oh , I like all of you lots , bar one .
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^ Dear Sammy-boy
^ how r things in wells ? howz the footie going ? ? has this winter been as miserable as last ? ?
^ Things here are going fine .
^ I have the week off , which is sweet , because it 's the lunar ( chinese ) new year , which is one of the main holidays here .
^ Sadly there have not been any major public celebrations ( as there seem to be in China ) , it seems that most of the time is devoted to seeing the rellies .
^ Which is cool for the koreans ( i wish family life was valued so highly in the UK ! ! ) , but means i have n't been able to see exactly what goes on !
^ It 's been a good time to relax and recouperate and ... try and learn some more korean , read some books and play computer games .
^ Tonight i went to see collateral damage which arnie stars in .
^ ( have u seen it ? , has it been released in UK ? )
^ I 'm a bit of a fan of action movies and so i really enjoyed it - i thought it was dead exciting and special effects were gr8 ( although u almost take that 4 granted nowadays ) .
^ Best Wishes
^ Keep in touch
^ Isabel
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^ Hi y'all , how you doin ? ? ? ?
^ Things with me are pretty OK , bar :
^ 1) Junk companies trying to sell me who knows what and clogging up my inbox
^ 2) Everyone I know for some apparent reason is sending me attachments and surprise , surprise , I ca n't seem to open any of them , oh well .
^ 3) Doing lots of work , no time to do what I need to
^ ( am v. nervous about the exams already
^ Anyhow , good to hear that you 're all wellish .
^ Those of you going to word alive , SEE YOU THERE .
^ Oh , Nick and I dyed our hair red , but it did n't really work and you ca n't even tell , pity .
^ Well , you 're welcome for the email .
^ See you in Wells if not before .
^ Me ( zzz )
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ How are you , sorry it 's been a while since we were last in contact .
^ I 'm now at Wells with JC , Quinton , and Jade , doing some work .
^ Ca n't remember when you get back , tomorrow ?
^ Well , whenever it is , I 'll see you by / on Sunday .
^ Hope the trip 's OK , and enjoy the remaining time in Bath .
^ Mallory
^ Israel Still have n't drunk , still scared about the exams , doing well ...
^ Oh and now the dept. has lost my Eda disk , it gets better and better ...
^ See you soon .
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^ Linda , Hope yous are well .
^ Just wanted to drop a line .
^ Hope your day out with Nay was time well spent .
^ Would be interested to hear what your stance is when we get back .
^ I Imagine you go back tomorrow , has n't time flown ?
^ Anywayz , I 'm continuing to keep my life busy and seem to be living on a thread between massive needles of some sort .
^ Decided ( although of course that 's a lot easier than taking action ) that dependency on God is the only way I will survive this world .
^ In case I forget , I would like to talk to you about the there 's a girl out there who 's meant for you vs. any Christian girl will do issue .
^ Maybe you 're confused ,
^ will explain when I c 's you ,
^ hope you 're coping and that life 's treating you appropriately ,
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^ Hi Nick !
^ It is Wednesday evening , my parents-in-law has just went home after having coffee and cakes with Camryn and me .
^ Little Fatima is sleeping already .
^ It is snowing this evening and the temperature is about -3 Celsius .
^ I am having practice for some weeks now , yesterday I was teaching the young students in mathematics .
^ Last week I went scating at a local scating rink with some friends , that was fun , but hard for your feet !
^ I am working every second weekend ( Saturday / Sunday ) now at a " housing community for people with psychical impaired developing " .
^ We need the money , and doing that kind of work is actual quite interesting in different ways .
^ What about you ?
^ Kaylee ? ? ?
^ You asked me to pray for you , I did - have you more information ?
^ I am little curious you know ! ! !
^ OK Nick , be blessed , I look forward to hear from you !
^ Your friend in Norway , Philip .
^ ~
^ Dear , Nick
^ Thanks a lot ! !
^ You are kind .
^ I always think that I want to speak to you more .
^ I have a lot of things to communicate in my braim .
^ But , I am foolish , actually .
^ I can not speak very well .
^ And , I do not know many words .
^ so , next term , I must speak to you because , I have only 2 months .
^ I do not want to live to regret ! !
^ You said to me " Do you think your French is better ? "
^ I said yes .
^ But , I must speak better French .
^ I am look forward to seeing you next term ! !
^ take care ! ! !
^ I like Jonathon !
^ I also like you ! !
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^ Dear Sammy-boy ,
^ I apologise for being so quiet for so long .
^ How are you settling in to life in Munich ?
^ Is college life there any different from Wells ?
^ How was your summer ?
^ Things with me have been good .
^ Generally , I have been really enjoying teaching here and I have been settled living here the last few months .
^ Actually last weekend I took a holiday over the long weekend to a sub-tropical Korean island near here .
^ The weather was great and I enjoyed sunbathing on the beach at the beginning of October .
^ Something that would have been impossible in the North of Brighton !
^ And seeing some volcano craters , rock caves , hill climbing ... .
^ Nevertheless , I will soon be returning to the UK ( at the end of October ) having completed my year here .
^ Actually , I will be sad , in amny ways to leave here , but of course I 'm looking forward to coming home !
^ Best Wishes
^ Isabel
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^ Good to hear from you .
^ Yes I had an absolutely amazing time in Africa ! !
^ Would love to tell you more about it but would n't know where to begin !
^ While you had Hyenas , we had elephants and baboons .
^ Scary .
^ I 'll have to show you some photos when we get back .
^ I admire you for sticking to work all summer .
^ I could n't have coped with doing the same thing every day .
^ These past weeks have been so varied in content .
^ I 've just been to Holland , to the Christian Artist 's Seminar , and been totally inspired .
^ Some amazing musicians , dancers , singers , photographers , painters and actors .... well , actually no not actors .
^ The Christian media scene needs more of those .... and good one 's at that .
^ What was your brother doing out in Botswana ?
^ I ca n't begin to compare it to my trip but there 's something about the christians that you meet in that country .
^ one recognises their total abandonment to God , and the joy with which they praise Him
^ We made bricks and worked with the children and one day I 'd like to go back and see the completed school and meet the children who go there .
^ Our work was very menial and it taught us humility because there was no way we could see the immediate fruits of our labours .
^ I 'm not sure whether Suzy has been in contact , but apparently they need you to be in a sketch at the VERY beginning of term , ie the Sunday of Alexis 's week .
^ I 've been sent the copy of your sketch accidently .
^ Will you be able to do this ?
^ Anthony seemed to think you were free , but I do n't know ... shall I send it ?
^ Bye for now
^ Be in touch again soon
^ Jack
^ Nick , sorry I could n't make it last night - we did n't finish packing until very late .
^ I hear that you won the player of the year - very well deserved and exactly where my vote would have gone !
^ I hope your exam results go well - I 'm sure you 'll be fine .
^ be in touch , take care ,
^ Carolyn
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^ Glad you liked the pics .
^ It 's easy to take good pictures in beautiful places like Kruger .
^ If the whole doctor thing does n't work out then I guess I will just have to travel the world and capture it on film .
^ Maybe I should have thought through that option a little more .
^ I too have been away .
^ I drove out to Oklahoma with my brother ( we made it in record time 16hr ) .
^ Last road trip of my last summer off .
^ The ending of an era has come and I guess I should consider growing up .
^ If I just ca n't live with that alternative it 's the third star to the right and straight on til morning , Right ?
^ When do you rejoin academia ?
^ Will you have to move back to school ?
^ Are you getting excited ?
^ A few mouse clicks and brilliant realizations and before you know it you will be Dr. Malone !
^ Thinking Happy Thoughts ,
^ Macie
^ P.S. Something to ponder ... is neverneverland a double negative ?
^ P.S.S. I should have read Pride and Prejudice years ago .
^ I could have learned those valuable feminine skills such as being coy and getting a man to think he wants to marry me after just one evening of dancing .
^ Today I read the " how to turn down a proposal while making it sound like I am doing him a favor by not marrying him " section .
^ Thank goodness I learned this lesson before the proposals have started to come my way .
^ Hopefully I wo n't have to turn many down ( seeing as of now I have yet to have had a serious relationship and like you never wanted to date just to fill the time let 's just say .
^ turning down a myarid of proposials is not a concern that keeps me up at night ) but now I feel ready if need arises
^ What a relief !
^ P.S.S.S. Sometimes a little iron and wine goes along way so it may take a while to work your way to the racy stuff but the last song is my favoite of theirs " Such Great Hights "
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Sorry it 's taken me so long to mailing you .
^ It 's been busy and hectic and i 've been really tired .
^ How 's life in Luxembourg ?
^ What are you up to and are the plans to go to SA s till on ?
^ What have you been up to with the family ?
^ Things seem to be going pretty well up here .
^ I scored a long-range goal with a speculative shot in our first footie ma tch of the season .
^ although we went down 6-4 , we played some pretty good football , however yesterday - in losing 4-0 to Snow B it did n't look so g ood
^ The research is coming along alright and teaching has just started this y ear .
^ I 'm feeling much more at home and confident in class , having had las t term 's experience and scoring pretty well on the module .
^ Best Wishes
^ Spk soon
^ Isabel V
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^ Hiya ,
^ Sorry you were chased off by my slightly drunk friends on Wednesday !
^ They 're usually slightly more normal than that !
^ Anyway , I hope you 're enjoying your post-exam freedom . . .
^ I 'm having growing essay issues , which somehow do n't seem to go away when I ignore them , that 's one of life 's real cruelties .
^ It was good to chat the other night , til soon ,
^ Isaiah
^ It is the same date system over there is n't it ? ? ? )
^ No Nick we are still in the BC era ( or at least the Chinese are in terms of the impact of Christianity compared to Buddhism ! )
^ " As you can imagine , I was horribly drunk for most of the evening . "
^ This has got to be one of the funniest lines I think that I have ever read in one of your emails !
^ Eh ?
^ What ?
^ You were n't actually joking ! ? ? ! !
^ I was pretty sober actually completely sober as I had a sore throat which has just started feeling better tonight actually .
^ It was a pain trying to teach on the weekend and made the lessons very subdued as the !
^ students are used to me joking around making a fool of myself rather than coughing and spluttering at the front , though I sometimes do that too of course
^ Good luck with your exams , do they ca n't towards the mark or are they pass / fail ?
^ My mark from my Chinese exam should be released in about two weeks so I am looking forward to seeing what level my Chinese is at the moment .
^ Mallory just emailed me to see if I wanted to live with him and Hayley in Dundee next year which would have been cool .
^ I have put Nottingham down as my first choice so I will be heading there in September and hopefully doing an NZ the year after
^ Linklaters have put me down for Sep &YEAR to actually starting working , there 's no point rushing !
^ The end of term beckons for me actually , just this week and next week and then a six week break .
^ I have got lots of travel plans including Korea ( the South ! ) but not sure if I will be able to do it all yet .
^ Oh , Happy New Year !
^ Georgia
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^ Hi Nick
^ Mallory and I were wondering when we were going to hear from you and surmised that you had n't had accept to email and that your first email would be a group one !
^ Nice to see that you are taking advantage of all around you ( ! )
^ What left is there to do ?
^ I 've been pottering along for the last couple of weeks , reading lots of books and trying to teach my housemate how to swim .
^ I 've had my results from February and I 'm pleased to say that I got three distinctions ,
^ Lally does n't yet know what he got ...
^ Also found out that I have got a place at SOAS for September so I will be studying along with Rongrong there from the autumn , should be a really good time .
^ 
^ settle for a summer spent at my girlfriend 's place in Shenyang studying Chinese by myself and doing a bit of teaching on the side to save some money
^ Will let you know how things turn out !
^ How are you coping with the heat out in SA ?
^ It 's certainly warm here and it seems that everyone has got the message as well as there is more flesh exposed on the street than in the swimming pool !
^ If you send me your address I 'll get a birthday card out to you , it should arrive by the end of May so at least the month will be right !
^ Keep up the good work
^ Dana
^ It is the same date system over there is n't it ? ? ? )
^ No Nick we are still in the BC era ( or at least the Chinese are in terms of the impact of Christianity compared to Buddhism ! )
^ " As you can imagine , I was horribly drunk for most of the evening . "
^ This has got to be one of the funniest lines I think that I have ever read in one of your emails !
^ Eh ?
^ What ?
^ You were n't actually joking ! ? ? ! !
^ I was pretty sober actually completely sober as I had a sore throat which has just started feeling better tonight actually .
^ It was a pain trying to teach on the weekend and made the lessons very subdued as the !
^ students are used to me joking around making a fool of myself rather than coughing and spluttering at the front , though I sometimes do that too of course
^ Good luck with your exams , do they ca n't towards the mark or are they pass / fail ?
^ My mark from my Chinese exam should be released in about two weeks so I am looking forward to seeing what level my Chinese is at the moment .
^ Mallory just emailed me to see if I wanted to live with him and Hayley in Dundee next year which would have been cool .
^ I have put Nottingham down as my first choice so I will be heading there in September and hopefully doing an NZ the year after
^ Linklaters have put me down for Sep &YEAR to actually starting working , there 's no point rushing !
^ The end of term beckons for me actually , just this week and next week and then a six week break .
^ I have got lots of travel plans including Korea ( the South ! ) but not sure if I will be able to do it all yet .
^ Oh , Happy New Year !
^ Georgia
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^ Hi Nick
^ Mallory and I were wondering when we were going to hear from you and surmised that you had n't had accept to email and that your first email would be a group one !
^ Nice to see that you are taking advantage of all around you ( ! )
^ What left is there to do ?
^ I 've been pottering along for the last couple of weeks , reading lots of books and trying to teach my housemate how to swim .
^ I 've had my results from February and I 'm pleased to say that I got three distinctions ,
^ Lally does n't yet know what he got ...
^ Also found out that I have got a place at SOAS for September so I will be studying along with Rongrong there from the autumn , should be a really good time .
^ 
^ settle for a summer spent at my girlfriend 's place in Shenyang studying Chinese by myself and doing a bit of teaching on the side to save some money
^ Will let you know how things turn out !
^ How are you coping with the heat out in SA ?
^ It 's certainly warm here and it seems that everyone has got the message as well as there is more flesh exposed on the street than in the swimming pool !
^ If you send me your address I 'll get a birthday card out to you , it should arrive by the end of May so at least the month will be right !
^ Keep up the good work
^ Dana
^ Hi Nick
^ Mallory and I were wondering when we were going to hear from you and surmised that you had n't had accept to email and that your first email would be a group one !
^ Nice to see that you are taking advantage of all around you ( ! )
^ What left is there to do ?
^ I 've been pottering along for the last couple of weeks , reading lots of books and trying to teach my housemate how to swim .
^ I 've had my results from February and I 'm pleased to say that I got three distinctions ,
^ Lally does n't yet know what he got ...
^ Also found out that I have got a place at SOAS for September so I will be studying along with Rongrong there from the autumn , should be a really good time .
^ 
^ settle for a summer spent at my girlfriend 's place in Shenyang studying Chinese by myself and doing a bit of teaching on the side to save some money
^ Will let you know how things turn out !
^ How are you coping with the heat out in SA ?
^ It 's certainly warm here and it seems that everyone has got the message as well as there is more flesh exposed on the street than in the swimming pool !
^ If you send me your address I 'll get a birthday card out to you , it should arrive by the end of May so at least the month will be right !
^ Keep up the good work
^ Dana
^ Hi Nick
^ Sorry its taken me all summer to reply .
^ I just got back from holiday &WEBSITE weather was good so we got a bit of a .
^ tan .
^ There was n't a lot to do but I played abit of tennis ( for the first time in about 5 years ) and did a bit of wind surfing
^ I have n't been up to much else , just doing a lot of climbing , surprise !
^ I 'm going up to the peak distrct at the weekend which should be good .
^ What have you been up to , hows the research for your project going ?
^ I have n't started doing anything for my project nextterm but nevermind .
^ By the way do you have Tabitha 's new phone number cos I keep meaning to call her but I 've lost her new phone number .
^ Anyway if you do give me an email
^ See you later
^ Lindsey
^ Hi Nick ,
^ hope all is well with you .
^ Just wanted to let you know what has happened here and that , consequently , all is not well with me .
^ Basically , last night
^ Mallory ended our relationship .
^ It came as a real shock and I just do n't know how to cope with it .
^ I 'm guessing he may have already told you - sorry if not and this comes as a surprise to you .
^ I just do n't understand it and it hurts so much .
^ Anyway , I wo n't go on a depress you .
^ I am coming to Munich at the weekend to stay with Tabitha and would really like to see you too if you 're free .
^ Will be in touch .
^ Bye for now , love Anna
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^ Hi Bennus-Maximus ,
^ How 's it been down South ?
^ Still working you dead hard ?
^ Have you seen the new Harry Blackburn movie yet ?
^ It 's been good the last few weeks .
^ I made my return last weekend for the CC , which was really cool and they had an excellent band there .
^ It was really good to catch up with the lads again and make some of the old jokes again .
^ I 'm going to have to get used to it because my big news is that from January I 'm going to be returning to Wells to do a Staff PhD in Finance .
^ So I 'll be doing so teaching as well as my research , but I 've been promised my teaching load will be light .
^ Actually , I 'm really looking forward to it - to both the research and the teaching .
^ I really enjoyed the teaching in Korea - so it 'll be cool to do some more .
^ Well apart from Wells , I 've been over to see Kaden ( of course ) and I 've pretty much visited my extended family now .
^ It 's been especially good to see my grandparents again , all 3 of them are looking older and more fragile now , but thankfully my Grandma who had the stroke seems to have made a good recovery .
^ Nick , I was thinking i should come down to visit you sometime in the near future .
^ It 's been so long and I can bring photo 's and stories from my epic adventure .
^ I have the car available and at my disposal , so I reckon I could be down at the drop of a hat !
^ Does it sound groovy - if so let me know when you 're getting some temporary restbite from your studies .
^ Best Wishes , See you
^ Isabel
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ New mob. still on Vodafone but , why the new number ... for free , yes that 's right free .
^ Free as the smog infested air I breathe , you can just keep your old number and away you go !
^ But , well , yep , I suppose , yea , Oh , I see , Arrr .
^ Right ...
^ Arrr you should have said ! now of course that was a great idea ! splendid !
^ I will give you a call later today ...
^ LOL
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^ Bob : Hello Cody ,
^ Parker : Nick has something to say to you ...
^ In the form of a poem which you may compose .
^ No , no no , you 're meant to make one up
^ Bob : Oh
^ Parker : Bob !
^ Check for new messages ... BLAH , Leach Leach
^ Nick : What !
^ Oh , blah , blah blah
^ Bob : Here we go , Ode to Anna
^ Cody , Nick says to wake him up at armegeddon , I do n't know why , but I do as I 'm told .
^ That may be a long way off but ( dramatic music ) it could be tomorrow .
^ When the clouds are grey and fill the troubled sky with thunder when the sheep are in the fields and the fish are in the fish and chips shop ,
^ Parker : my heart beats with love for thee .
^ Bob : Ok , I guess .
^ Right ...
^ I heard the rocks crying out , be praised for your tenderness for these works of your hands ...
^ Nick : that 's plagerism
^ Parker : I really do n't know what Anna is going to say .
^ Nick : it 's not just plagerism , it 's blasphemous .
^ Bob : If only electrons could be seen , Imagine this .
^ Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar ( or church for those Christians out there )
^ One says to another , " Hey , I think I 've lost an electron . "
^ the other one replies , in a suitably squeaky voice , Are you sure ?
^ The other guy replies , " Yeah , baby , I 'm positive . "
^ Ok , bad chemistry joke , but then it 's chemistry after all .
^ Now serious geology jokes ... .
^ Argghhhh !
^ Nick : Ok , a horse walks into a bar , and the bartender says .... ( drum-roll ) ...
^ " Why the long face ? " ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ A classic of our time .
^ Bob : It has to be true to what we say
^ Parker : " Cyborgs turn me on "
^ Bob : You guys are freaks !
^ Parker : OK , now let 's have Nick .
^ Bob : No , I did n't say that you freak , it 's Parker
^ Nick : " I like them furry "
^ Bob : Really ! when I loose control , the conversation really goes down hill , does n't it !
^ Nick : I was wondering if we should make this a weekly publication .
^ Parker : Poor , poor Anna .
^ Bob : I hope you liked the " Ode to Anna " .
^ Though I 'm not quite sure what an ode is , I think that this is probably one of the finest ever .
^ Parker : Allow me !
^ Bob : right !
^ Ok , men , say your good byes !
^ ~
^ chap !
^ You lucky brit !
^ It 's -20 back here !
^ But it 's not so bad - no wind at least ...
^ I 've had a couple of ski-trips by now , and buggered my body up - good stuff &SMILEY
^ The studying is suffering though , - oh well - plenty of time .
^ A wicked one to you to , mate !
^ remember to relax some - do n't work to hard .
^ see you next year .
^ the T .
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^ Surely not ? ! ! ! !
^ What a surprise ! !
^ I put my details on the friends reuinited site ages ago on the off-chance that one of the lads might see it , never thought i 'd hear off you again ! !
^ Glad to hear your'e doing well for yourself mate , thanx for that e-mail )
^ - it 's always nice to be reminded of the good old times is n't it ! ! ! ( especially scorching goals agianst Odd Down ! ! !
^ Central midfield eh , always thought you had the tenacity for it ! ! !
^ Semi-pro is good although obviously it has it 's drawbacks , hardly any alcohol , healthy eating and obviously constant fitness training .
^ I 'll get over it ! ! )
^ Great to hear from you buddy .
^ Take care .
^ Nayeli Bone
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^ Nick ,
^ Hello .
^ How is Munich ?
^ Have you got your much desire network connection ?
^ I hear you kept poor old Bob up very late on Saturday .
^ Quarter pasteleven , oh my word !
^ How shockingly terrible !
^ I 've just had my first meeting with my project supervisor this morning .
^ Fun !
^ I 'm going to be trying to make molecular transistors !
^ Lunch is a wonderful invention .
^ There was a very nice cheescake at college lunch yesterday .
^ It still did n't rival dime bar dessert though .
^ Well , must revise ...
^ Speak soon .
^ Shania
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^ Hey Nick , not sure if you got my last email as I mistakenly sent it to the Mission Station address - oh well !
^ Anyway , it is attached below .
^ Now , with regards to Bob 's wedding ...
^ You , I have heard , are staying on the Friday night at the Hambrook Holiday Inn ( we all are too ) and Bob asked me to remind you that he may want you to share his room .
^ you 'd better not talk him out of it - I 'm paying good money to see this wedding ... )
^ My question is ( since people are trying to organise a sort of mini-reunion ) whether or not you are planning to stay the Saturday night there as well ?
^ obviously Bob wo n't be around by then ) and if so are you happy for us to arrange that you will have a bed
^ probably in a room with weird people like Mallory Lally , me , etc. ) or have you already booked and stuff
^ Tabitha , Valeria , and hopefully Anna , Terrance , and Suzy will be staying the Saturday night too and the hotel is apparently nice , with a swimming pool .
^ Well , let me know your thoughts and I hope you have a good week .
^ Looking forward to catching up sometime too .
^ And let me know soonish if you 're at all interested in doing that walk .
^ All the best ,
^ Shania
^ P.S. Valeria says hi and she may email you soon , but do n't count on it .
^ Email sent to erroneous address :
^ Nick , you old water buffalo you ,
^ " I was trying to teach relationships last night - not quite sure if everyone was following though ... " - I 'm assuming you mean relationships of the database variety ...
^ Computer science lectures round the campfire - how could anyone resist ?
^ " What 's known as Dunedin , the bike or the city ? " - That would be the city .
^ Glad to hear you 're doing well on the whole .
^ Have the medical missionaries arrived yet ?
^ Tell me about Rolomandi mission station then .
^ Where is it ?
^ How come you 're there ?
^ This weekend I was in Wells for a mini holiday as I had Monday and
^ Tuesday off .
^ Twas really good to see people again and I must recommend " Hide " as a top restaurant .
^ It 's on the Kingston and serves the most delicious lamb burgers .
^ Jack Lee also thinks the hand-driers in the bathrooms are amazingly powerful , but Toddy maintains there are more spectacular ones in Ilkley .
^ By the way , what are your plans for the summer ?
^ Are you doing anything from the 11th to the 17th of July ?
^ I 'm looking for people to walk coast to coast with ( up above Wells way ) as I 'm considering doing so as a possible recreational vacational activity .
^ Well , this week is going to be nice and short for me .
^ I have to write a report on the first year ( well , eight months ) of my PhD in the next three weeks , so that will keep me occupied .
^ Hope things are good with you .
^ Shania
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^ Hi Robyn ,
^ Hope I got your email address right .
^ Just wanted to say thanks for the fantastic mini-camera , and also for coming to my party on Saturday .
^ it was great to have you there , and I hope you did n't hate the frisbee too much ;o )
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
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^ Tell me what you think .
^ Love , Bob
^ Dear Bob ,
^ Just saw this letter in Evangelicals Now , by Hayley Bartlett , a geologist who was a university lecturer ( I think now is a pastor ) .
^ He is a good guy who once was quite vocal on these issues in press - and I guess now is again !
^ In case you missed it , Liz and I thought it might be of some interest - it is a nicely balanced piece of writing .
^ Hoping that all is progressing well with exams , and praying for some breakthrough over funding opportunities .
^ All best wishes , Bob
^ Origins challenge
^ From Dr. E. Bartlett , Swansea . &EMAIL
^ Dear Sir , May 's issue of EN had two separate articles to do with origins which mentioned a couple of creation societies .
^ On the basis of their websites , the societies advocated in both articles hold to Youngson Earth
^ Creationism ( YEC ) .
^ Now YEC make some rather astonishing claims ; notably that the sciences of geology , palaeontology , astronomy ( and much of archaeology ) are completely wrong .
^ These are serious claims to link with the gospel ; we have a right to ask whether they are true .
^ Trad geology
^ But before I do , let me remind readers of the issues involved .
^ The scientific consensus is that the earth , and therefore the cosmos , is of a vast age , measurable in many millions of years .
^ This consensus has nothing whatever to do with evolution - it was in place before Nina - .
^ only in the last century has it been quantified so that the age of the earth is now considered to be around 4.5 billion years
^ In contrast , Youngson Earth Creationism insists that the cosmos is only six or , at most , 12 thousand years old and generally holds that the rock and fossil records are the result of Noah 's Flood .
^ Now let me , as briefly as I can , defend traditional geology .
^ For well over 800 years ( note : 50 years before Nina ) geology has been based on two foundational concepts .
^ The first concept is that the rock record requires that the age of the earth be very old ; measurable in many millions of years .
^ The second concept is that the rocks show an orderly progression of fossil types that allow correlation of sedimentary units and the creation of geologic maps , etc. What that progression means is not the issue here .
^ Recently a third concept has acquired a foundational role ; this is plate tectonics , the idea that the surface of the earth is made up of vast blocks that are undergoing slow lateral motion .
^ Within geology , these three concepts are universally held ; I have never heard any professional geologist deny any of them .
^ Significantly , these three concepts are not vague hypotheses ; as befits the peculiarly pragmatic science of geology , each is supported by a vast amount of data .
^ Of particular relevance here is the fact that all three concepts are vulnerable to disproof ; e.g. a single mammal bone in the Precambrian strata would destroy the second concept .
^ Yet if the views of YEC are correct all three concepts are utterly wrong .
^ The real age of the earth is one millionth of the traditional consensus view ; the fossil succession represents not the effects of time but " hydrodynamic or ecological sorting " .
^ YEC proponents are very cagey about any mechanism for this ) and the continents ca n't move , because there is n't the time
^ But despite the vulnerability of these three concepts , YEC has not come up with a single serious challenge to any of them .
^ This is , to say the least , surprising .
^ If traditional geology is indeed so badly wrong , every cliff and quarry everywhere ought to show evidence of this fact .
^ They do not .
^ Anomalous fossils and inconsistent data should be everywhere .
^ They are not .
^ Better alternatives ?
^ Things get even worse .
^ To be a real challenge , YEC must not only show that the existing models for geology are wrong , it must show that its own alternatives are better .
^ Yet here we come to another void ; there are no alternative YEC models .
^ Please note that I am not here attacking evangelical orthodoxy or even espousing Darwinism .
^ Scripture does not require a young earth .
^ As " AC " unwillingly admitted ,
^ Henry Hodge ( as well as his son , A.A. Hodge ) and Frederick Warfield were not only happy with an old earth but were prepared to accept a form of evolution .
^ We may not go that far , but the fact is that in the 19th century , conservative evangelicals had no problems with an old earth .
^ Not by chance
^ Christians do need to challenge the belief that the ultimate controlling power in the universe is blind chance .
^ There are many ways of doing this including raising the argument for design , pointing out the existence of " irreducible complexity " and so on .
^ Ironically , one of the best lines of evidence against an all-powerful chance and for a caring God , is the existence and stability of the biosphere over four billion years .
^ Finally , let me offer a challenge .
^ I have said geology is a pragmatic science and have pointed that its three foundations ( the vast age of the earth , the progressive succession of life in the rock record and plate tectonics ) are easily falsified .
^ I am happy to receive details of any compelling piece of scientific evidence that shows that any of these geological concepts are wrong .
^ To that end I have recklessly attached my email address .
^ Abuse , viruses , condemnations of my spiritual state and anecdotes that begin " I 'm sure I read somewhere ... " are less welcome .
^ EN readers may be sure that I will report back on the results and that , if convincing evidence is offered , I will publicly recant .
^ But from what I 've seen I would n't hold your breath ...
^ Yours sincerely ,
^ Bob and Liz Holland 62 Kimberley Road
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^ hope you 're enjoying these beautiful summery days .
^ i 'm just at home , doing all those things i was planning to start after our brilliant week in Licolnshire
^ it seems ages away now .
^ have only played one game of scrabble since , and no crazy golf or bridge ! !
^ but have had lots of BBQs
^ have got lots of work on from Generous Help - organising the collections of mobile phones in most of East Anglia .
^ promoting a scheme called will aid .
^ for anyone who has got an old mobile , and would love to recycle it (
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^ if you could , t'wud be fantastic .
^ and i 'll be very proud of you .... ! !
^ this are the first projects of my hopefully life-long career in fundraising ......
^ are n't you glad you 're my friends .... ! !
^ who knows what i 'll be trying to cagoule you to do when you 're all rich and famous ....
^ maybe being my celebrity speaker at a fundraising dinner
^ getting me a slot on Leishman Pipkin with one of those big thermometers to gauge how much money we 've raised
^ or even just donating a helicopter , you know if you 're a bit hard up .... hee hee
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^ Hello Nick , this is Philip from Norway !
^ It is Thursday evening , I am doing mathematics in our little " office " ( remember the photo I gave you ? ! ) , the weather outside is very bad ; heavy rain and windy .
^ Camryn , little Fatima and I are doing fine .
^ Yesterday we had dinner at HildeB4s youngest brotherB4s place , in connection with that their dad ( my father-in-law ) was having his birthday - that was a nice gathering .
^ I hope everything is good with you and your family .
^ Have your mum and dad managed to buy a flat / house ?
^ OK
^ Nick , be blessed , and remember you have a friend in Norway .
^ With kind regards , Philip .
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^ Hey guys
^ A friend sent me this story on prayer and I thought that you might enjoy it and be encouraged by it just like it encouraged me .
^ God bless .
^ Noe
^ THE POWER OF PRAYER
^ Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on alist and said , " I 'll pray for them later ? "
^ Or has anyone ever called you and said , " I need you to pray for me , I have this need . " ?
^ Read the following story , and it may change the way that you think about prayer and also the way you pray .
^ You will be blessed by this one .
^ A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan :
^ While serving at a small field hospital in Africa , every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies .
^ This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point .
^ On one of these journeys , I arrived in the city where I planned to collect money from a bank , purchase medicine and supplies , and then begin my two-day journey back to the field hospital .
^ Upon arrival in the city , I observed two men fighting , one of whom had been seriously injured .
^ I treated him for his injuries and at the same time talked to him about the Lord Jesus Christ .
^ I then traveled two days , camping overnight , and arrived home without incident .
^ Two weeks later I repeated my journey .
^ Upon arriving in the city , I was approached by the young man I had treated on my last trip .
^ He told me that he had known I carried money and medicines .
^ He said , Some friends and I followed you into the jungle , knowing you would camp overnight .
^ We planned to kill you and take your money and drugs .
^ But just as we were about to move into your camp , we saw that you were surrounded by 26 armed guards .
^ At this I laughed and said that I was certainly all-alone out there in that jungle campsite .
^ The young man pressed the point , however , and said , No sir , I was not the only person to see the guards .
^ My five friends also saw them , and we all counted them .
^ It was because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone " . "
^ At this point in the sermon , one of the men in the congregation jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary , and asked if he could tell him the exact day that this happened .
^ The missionary told the congregation the date of this incident , and the man who interrupted told him this story :
^ On the night of your incident in Africa , it was morning here and I was preparing to go play golf .
^ I was about to putt when I felt the urge to pray for you .
^ In fact , the urging of the Lord was so strong , I called men in this church to meet with me here in the sanctuary to pray for you .
^ Those men are all here today " He then continued : " Would all of those men who met with me on that day please stand up now ?
^ The men who had met together to pray that day stood up .
^ The missionary was n't concerned with who they were - he was too busy counting how many men he saw : There were 26 of them !
^ This story is an incredible example of how the Spirit of the Lord moves in mysterious ways .
^ If you ever hear such prodding , go along with it .
^ Nothing is ever hurt by prayer except the gates of hell .
^ Forward this to as many people as you know .
^ If we all take it to heart , we can turn this world towards Christ once again .
^ " With God all things are possible . "
^ And more importantly , God hears and answers the prayers of the faithful .
^ After you read this , please pause and give God thanks for the beautiful gift of your faith , for the powerful gift of prayer , and for the many miracles He works in your own daily life ...
^ And then pass this message on .
^ P-ray U-ntil S-omething H-appens !
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^ Dear Jon , Nick , Tabitha and Bob ,
^ While I was down with you all in Munich I noticed you often drunk pure apple / orange juice .
^ It has been brought to my attention by my mother that this can be bought in bulk at considerable reduction from the wholesale shop which the rice etc. will be bought at .
^ Therefore , with your approval , I will do this .
^ If it is agreeable , what make of juice would be best ?
^ Also , what type ?
^ Every blessing ,
^ Sawyer
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^ I hope you do n't have the cheek to pick this up before you get home
^ My most humble apologies O mighty one .
^ I cannot account for the strange and prolific effervations exhibited b y Kaden at the moment .
^ What ! ! !
^ Tell me more !
^ I had no idea !
^ Well Samo , I had a marvellous holiday .
^ I will let you see my holiday snaps when they are " developed " - they will be quite different from norma l photos , mark my words .
^ Anyway , that is something for you to anticipate joyously .
^ Nice to hear from you the day before yesterday .
^ Incidentally , the temperature while I was phoning was 60 degrees in the shade .
^ Needless to say , I was not in the shade .
^ I have acquired some French and Swiss recipes , with a prolific us e of garlic in them .
^ I hope you get my postcard soon .
^ Scotland is deliciously cool !
^ Have you heard about the abominable mess the Scottish exam results are in - incompetence !
^ Anyway , I think I shall do some developing this aft ernoon .
^ Sorry this is so short an email , but I am waiting until later before I gi ve you the news of Kaden .
^ You are being kept in suspense .
^ See you ,
^ Dominic
^ P.S. Just what does Jon know about Kaden ? ? ?
^ She told me that frankly these sick perversions disgust me . ? ? ?
^ Yours worriedly ,
^ Dominic .
^ ~
^ News is fast coming in of a reported sighting of Kaden , the raven who doub les as an intergalactic emissary .
^ An eye-witness source confirmed the sighting to our special reporter .
^ Here are the latest details in this developing situati on
^ Date of sighting : &DATE
^ Place : In a tree near Rothbury
^ Rothbury is a little known area in Mateo 's national park .
^ Exact location : Latitude : 54&#61616; 57 " 8666 A. Longitude : 1&#61616 ; 51 " 0666 W .
^ Our eye-witness source is a Anna Berry from Elswick .
^ Appearing rather be mused she told our reporter she was convinced that I saw him , later makin g the omission that I may be entirely wrong : it may not have been Kaden who I saw .
^ Her fascinating ideas on the reason for Kaden to be so far north are as fo llows ;
^ I am sure that he has got wind of the fact that Parker is now stationed in Scotland , and he was on his way there .
^ As the raven flies , Rothbury is directly midway between Wells and Parker s home .
^ Is this just a stunning coincidence ?
^ When we asked Parker to comment he ret orted sardonically that Any idea that he is making his way to see me is pure
^ speculation and I really cannot comment on what seems a rather absurd not ion .
^ Anna 's immediate response to this unveiled attack on her sanity is unprintable .
^ However , she did later make the following public statement , I have a programme whereby you can distort photos .
^ make people 's noses a nd ears bigger or whatever you fancy .
^ When questioned further , she just smiled in an unsettling kind of way
^ Our editor wisely noted that there could b e trouble ahead here .
^ Anna 's account of " Kaden 's " behaviour shed s little light on the situation ;
^ He was so evidently grumpy ( squawking Tim-style and viciously attackin g the surrounding tree branches ) that I can only assume that his tracking devic es are causing problems for him . ( " Tim-style " is a technical term . )
^ What could have made Kaden so mad ?
^ Is Parker telling the whole truth or hidi ng some vital information ?
^ Anna suggested that You may have to resort to
^ contacting Pastor Nick ( DIFFERENT is spelled R.I.G.H.T ) about it so that h e can telepathically communicate with Kaden and put him back on the right course .
^ A very good idea and one which we are following up as you read .
^ However , there is only one person who can tell us what we need to know , and that 's Quo n - but where is Kaden ?
^ Anna is heading the section detailed to locate the renega de raven .
^ We asked her what her strategy was for finding The Emissary .
^ Her
^ spokesman said she has her whole family looking out for a dumb-looking
^ raven .
^ A leaked report from " Anna 's Raven Rows Ltd. " later info rmed us that he had been subsequently sacked for dissing the undefiled name of Kaden , p ending an official investigation by the Raven High Council .
^ We will keep you updated in this important state of affairs .
^ Remember , k eep your eyes open for Kaden .
^ All sightings should be reported to the official " Rows for Kaden " Task Centre .
^ Telephone number 05050 183 996 .
^ Please ask for Parker before describing you sighting in detail to those of the establishment without the required security clearance .
^ Thank you .
^ ~
^ Jade , a quick maths question if you 've got time ...
^ How do you simplify :
^ 3/ ( 7 + 5 ( /2 ) )
^ to
^ 1 + /2
^ where 3/ ( x ) cube root of x / ( x ) square root of x
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
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^ Hi , just thought I 'd write quickly to gloat , I mean say hi .
^ Thanks to Loulou we now know how to get to the Webcam picture of the Cathedral and therefore I know that there it 's horrid and murky and wet and probably cold .
^ Thought you ought to know it 's above 20 degrees here , and I 'm going home to sunbathe .
^ I reckon today it 'll be hot enough to wear shorts again , and I may even take my Tshirt off .
^ It 's hard when you have a whole day free in this temperature .
^ I mean do you drink iced water , or juice ?
^ Do I eat inside , or on the balcony ?
^ What to do ? what to do ?
^ But I do miss you all very very much , and would happily never set foot on my baclony ever again if you could all be here to enjoy it with me .
^ Love you all lots ,
^ Hayley
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^ Hi Samo ,
^ The Kaden web-site sounds an excellent idea .
^ Unfortunately I do not know how to make a web-site , although I am registered for 20MB of free web space on &WEBSITE
^ Anyway , you know the way you can make Java programmes on your computer ?
^ Well , I am very keen to learn Java programming .
^ So , I was wondering if you could tell me the name of the software I would need to buy in order to pursue this ambition .
^ Bob telephoned me last night and asked me to come punting on the river on the 17th / 18th of September .
^ I said I would .
^ He also suggested that we have our " pre-flat meeting " then .
^ What do you think ?
^ Also , we spoke abou t paying for communal food ( evening meals etc. ) and bills .
^ We both concluded that it would be great if we could have a flat bank account which provided us each with a switch card so that shopping / bills could be paid easily and hygienicall y .
^ Then each of us could contribute a small amount , each month say , to the flat account .
^ What do you think ?
^ As you can see I am sold on the idea !
^ I love keeping bank accounts ! )
^ I have already en quired at a few banks and certainly they supply a few cards , but I will have to see if they supply five .
^ It might not be necessary to have five anyway .
^ This t ype of account has no charges .
^ Anyway , that is something for you to mull over .
^ Let me know .
^ So , I do not exactly have a job , but I am working one day a week in a Christian book shop in , our local town .
^ My Dad is the manager of it )
^ I get paid , so it is always something .
^ Well , " take care " .
^ Dominic
^ P.S. Bob seems quite keen on having a flat web-site - cunning !
^ P.P.S. I enclose some photos of the flat !
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ When you are bored , when you have absolutely nothing to do , when time seems to stand still , I would be grateful if you could add anything to , and correct incorrect details , in this following tale .
^ A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS AND WAYS OF " QUON "
^ One evening , many many moons ago , when I was sojourning in the room of Nick , we began to weave a strange and haunting tale ...
^ As I inhaled copious quantities of Nick 's extra strong coffee powder , I happened to mention a particular Raven I often saw on the roof outside my room .
^ On hearing this , Nick looked up , slightly startled .
^ I could tell by the piercing look in his left eye that I had stumbled unwittingly upon something worth finding out .
^ Little did I realise how deep the knowledge he carried within himself would affect our lives .
^ From that day on nothing was ever the same again .
^ Nick gave a slight cough , before proceeding to tell me that the Raven was , in fact , a messenger .
^ I paused and glanced at him questioningly .
^ The Raven , he continued , was reconnoitring this world of ours on direct orders from the Raven High Council .
^ I learned that the bird 's name , translated into our tongue , was " Kaden " .
^ This means " Bringer of Comfortable Mattresses " , but that is irrelevant .
^ Kaden had journeyed many light years from the Planet of Ravens where war was ravaging his beloved homeland .
^ He had been instructed by the High
^ Council to search for sentient life-forms willing to aid them in their struggle against the vicious , life-sucking " S.N.A.I.L. " sub-species .
^ That is , Sub-Neurally Active Irradiated Life-form .
^ These creatures represent a serious threat to the stability of the Delta Quadrant , where the planet of Ravens exists .
^ Finding himself in the City of Wells , away from his home world 's air , he immediately took on the guise of the common " raven " , in character with the rest of his species .
^ For indeed , whenever they leave the nitrous oxide filled environment of the Planet of Ravens its inhabitants develop a completely new genetic make-up , transforming them into their second form - a common raven .
^ Once in Wells , Kaden headed for the place most likely to contain sentient life - St Philip 's College .
^ He had read the University prospectus on his journey through the stars and sought out 28 North
^ Kingston in particular as his sensors indicated a particularly high concentration of " unusual " neural development there .
^ Kaden made his temporary headquarters , or " nest " as the locals called it , in the dense forest canopy to the rear of Philip 's .
^ Once base contact had been established he began a swift reconnoitre of the area by air
^ Suddenly a sharp sensation ran through his head .
^ Then , almost imperceptibly slowly , a voice began to form in his brain , words entered his mind and he found himself listening to and communicating with another life-form .
^ This being , he soon discovered , was called " Nick " and lived at the top of 28 North Kingston .
^ As the days went by their knowledge of each other grew and Kaden became a frequent visitor to Nick 's room .
^ He discovered in this human a mutual understanding of celestial physics and stellar , not to mention field theory on which
^ Kaden himself was a renowned expert .
^ So , that brings me to the part of the tale where Nick confided in me the knowledge of the existence of Kaden .
^ Thereafter , I wished with all my heart to greet this curious emissary face to face .
^ Nick informed me that I should be able to do this the following morning and told me that the phrase " Wyanhgiffhajl " ( I greet the O mighty one ) would be sure to produce an apt response .
^ Indeed , tomorrow morning came , and I did all
^ Nick had suggested , additionally performing the Universal Greeting towards the bird .
^ this involves lying down on the floor whilst shaking one 's head from side to side three times then nodding it up and down three times .
^ during which time it is most proper to say the other being 's name in their native tongue
^ As I began to become acquainted with Kaden language became a bit of a problem .
^ However , that particular hurdle was soon crossed as Kaden bestowed my computer with a Universal Translator , enabling perfect understanding between us to occur .
^ Over the weeks my friendship with this strange ambassador has deepened remarkably .
^ One or two curious incidents have taken place , such as the time when Kaden 's feathers turned white , giving him the appearance of a magpie .
^ Upon consultation with
^ Nick I learned that this was normal behaviour , due to the tri-annual change of gender cycle which Kaden 's species undergo .
^ I would not say that our relationship has always been perfect .
^ Indeed , far from it .
^ Kaden displays irritable tendencies at times and can become quite angry over relatively trivial misdemeanours , such as when I forget to perform the Universal Greeting daily towards him .
^ However , on the whole , he is an absolutely charming fellow , and I hope you have the pleasure of meeting him some day .
^ Ed[mund]
^ ~
^ Life in the married lane is really good .
^ I 'm loving it .
^ I have to drag ( literally , most days ) Karri out of bed in the morning and it is always a mad scramble to get out to work on time ( girls take long to get moving ) .
^ That is probably the hardest bit so far ; trying to deal with having to wait for another person , look after that other person and make sure she gets out on time , with all she needs .
^ Crazy !
^ I do n't know how people do it with three kids too .
^ Really though , it is great .
^ I love having Karri around all the time , and going places with her , and not spending the whole evening on the phone to her , but rather talking and cooking with her .
^ It really is great just to be able to BE together .
^ I 'm really loving it .
^ Mattress for bed still has n't arrived , so still sleeping on a foam thing .
^ It will be great to have a proper one , I think .
^ Struggling with my PhD at the moment as the data still has n't arrived , and I really want to get on with it .
^ Still , I am being kept busy by the hundreds of CU and other activities that I have to do .
^ God rules , big time .
^ We 'll have to sort out a good way of you coming to visit us .
^ perhaps the bus ?
^ Bob
^ We should invite you for supper some time .
^ You 're always ( well , almost always ) welcome .
^ Great Bob .
^ I 'll be there in half an hour ...
^ Only joking &SMILEY
^ I arrive in Munich this Sunday , God willing .
^ My parents are giving me a lift up with my stuff .
^ How 's life in the married lane ?
^ O
^ good .
^ Have you seen Anna and Cali yet ?
^ When do you go to Cambs ?
^ Are you there now ?
^ We should invite you for supper some time .
^ You 're always ( well , almost always ) welcome .
^ Bob
^ I 'm sure I 'll be able to make at least some of that weekend Bob ...
^ O
^ Hi Guys ,
^ Re the weekend 15-17 October , sounds good to us , ( as far as I can remember . ) .
^ Who of you can come ?
^ Bob
^ ~
^ good .
^ Have you seen Anna and Cali yet ?
^ When do you go to Cambs ?
^ Are you there now ?
^ We should invite you for supper some time .
^ You 're always ( well , almost always ) welcome .
^ Bob
^ I 'm sure I 'll be able to make at least some of that weekend Bob ...
^ O
^ Hi Guys ,
^ Re the weekend 15-17 October , sounds good to us , ( as far as I can remember . ) .
^ Who of you can come ?
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Hey bear ! !
^ Nice to hear from u - yes nearly finished .
^ I have been through three exit interviews and have written a report for them .
^ Still doing lots of work and will not hear about the job offer until half way through October .
^ Still if I get it , there is an employee referral scheme if u were interested in coming to !
^ L.B. ( u get to go to NV and TK ) a job which lets u travel is cool and lots of database development work !
^ Looking forward to coming back to Wells , and do n't worry about your room , life 's never perfect !
^ I will of course be prepared to lower my standards and visit you in your cabin .
^ my mansion if available should u ever need more than a square metre of living space ... of course there is a charge for this service
^ Looking forward to showing you my room ( and to see you of course ! )
^ many spanks ,
^ Regan Blackburn
^ Regan ,
^ Wow , you 're almost finished ! ! !
^ What 's the situation in L.B. - do they want you back ? ? ? ?
^ I still have not decided what I am doing next year , but we 'll get plenty of time to talk about it I 'm sure .
^ I ca n't wait to get back to Wells .
^ I bet you 're a bit apprehensive though , are n't you , what with having to live in that tiny room .
^ Oh well - it 's OK .
^ I can hear my mansion in Cruddas calling out to me - " come to me my darling ! ! "
^ Anyway , look forward to seeing you soon ,
^ Bear
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^ Anyway , it turns out that I am on duty that weekend , so that 's useless ... will look in my diary and find dates ... then you can all tell me that you are booked up !
^ Hope you 're having a good day ... have just been rowing !
^ A x
^ My excellent friends ...
^ Sounds great .
^ Really must speak to Bob and say " hello Bob , is it possible for me to come and visit on the 16th / 17th October " ...
^ Are any of you up for going to Reese on the Monday for &pound; 995 ?
^ It would be a long day ...
^ Anyway , it will be great to see you again .
^ Shania
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Sounds like a good idea to me .
^ We can look at old flat photos ... ah ...
^ And read the flat book ... ah ...
^ I had a dream about Bob last night .
^ Also , I just watched " Christian and Alfie 's Most Excellent Adventure " !
^ BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER ! ! !
^ O
^ Well , I was going to type " Flat Reunion " in the subject box , but it seemed a little ... flat , somehow ...
^ Anyway ...
^ Re : the idea of a flat reunion .
^ Bob ( and Karri ) generously offered to host said reunion , and a date has been suggested in the region of 16th / 17th / 18th October , as this is when Parker visits Bob and Karri .
^ What I have n't done , which I clearly should have done , is to check the Boarding Rota to see whether or not I 'm on duty that weekend .
^ As I 've been inept , I 'll have to email you again when I know , but it will give you the chance to check your own calendars ?
^ if this w / e is not suitable , would you mind suggesting another
^ Also , Greetingsz , this is probably the first you 've heard of this ... er ... great !
^ It would be lovely to see you all and to see photos of Africa and
^ Wyatt and wedding ( seen a few of those on Parker 's site ) and hear all about everything ...
^ Hope you 're all well and that teaching / PhDing is going well ...
^ Love Jon xx
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^ I am free that weekend ( a fact which , in itself , indicates no lack of social life ... ) .
^ I am also free : 6th / 7th Nov. 20th / 21st Nov. 4th / 5th Dec. 11th / 12th Dec .
^ My diary will also fill up quickly ( in my imagination ) .
^ No , it will ...
^ My form are crazy girls .
^ They laugh at anything .
^ They are slightly loco .
^ Hope you 're all well ...
^ Aimee xx
^ Hello ,
^ With regard to possible dates for visiting Bob and Karri in their new house :
^ Bob and I are both free from the weekend of the &DATEst onwards ( are you
^ really free that weekend Bob - it 's Karri 's birthday ? ) but Bob 's diary will fill up quickly so we need to decide this soonish .
^ What weekends can you three make ?
^ Kaylee , do you want to come ?
^ Shania
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ !
^ The Lab is delighted you have been awarded a WMP - this is a very prestigious award .
^ The balance between the HKZUX recommended maintenance and the WMP award will be met by the Lab .
^ Though the Commission for Advancement Studies should notify your college it would be a good idea to keep in contact with them about your travel plans for
^ September , your expected date of arrival , and , of course , to arrange your accommodation .
^ No doubt Dr Plantagenet will contact you about the beginning of term and I will be sending you an information pack in mid-September .
^ Thanks ,
^ Kaleigh
^ Kaleigh Hellams Senior Clerk
^ Physics Laboratory Student Administration
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^ Phone : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 776 858
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^ Dear Kaleigh ,
^ How are you ?
^ I hope you are having a good summer , with some time to rest
^ relax .
^ I received notification this morning from the LUPS that my WMP application was successful .
^ I will return the reply sheet , acknowledging my acceptance of the award , but should I be taking any further steps at this stage ( i.e. with respect to college / accomodation ) ?
^ Thanks Kaleigh ,
^ Nick
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^ Hello Nick .
^ Thanks for the mail .
^ Philip Plantagenet sends his best wishes to you , hoping you are well and happy !
^ We are happy , and are now looking for a new flat .
^ Hope to find it soon !
^ JG is doing a lot of training of school children now , and he loves it .
^ Ok , just wanted you to now we are all well .
^ Best from Camryn , Philip Youngson 's wife .
^ We 'll pray too !
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Good to hear from you ...
^ Yep , I 'm just finishing my first year of comp sci .
^ The last couple of years have been pretty amazing for me , life-changing one might almost say .
^ My Year in Industry was a very good time , I worked at a web design company called CD9 in Carlisle .
^ By the way , I 'm indebted to you for recommending the YinI &SMILEY
^ I learnt ASP , VB , Javascript , Java , SQL , and bits of C++ during my year at CD9 , but the main reason I enjoyed it was because it 's a cool company to work for .
^ I went back there during the Christmas and Easter holidays , and will be going back there next week for nearly 4 months during the summer holidays .
^ Congrats on finishing your degree !
^ Do you know yet how well you did ?
^ I know you said you 're going to Munich to do a masters , but I forget what it was you were going to study ...
^ I seem to remember it was n't something specifically , or maybe that 's just due to the alcohol that was blurring my brain at the time we were talking about it .
^ I 've only recently come across Haskell , in the last couple of weeks in fact .
^ I 've never used any functional programming languages before so it 's a bit of a mental transition , but they seem pretty cool .
^ We have n't covered them in my course yet .
^ What do you use it for ?
^ AI stuff ?
^ On my course we 're doing Java and C++ , with more of the emphasis on Java , a language that I consider to be a cure for insomnia .
^ I like C++ a lot , although at CD9 I 've been programming in C# / .NET , which is also quite an impressive language / framework .
^ One which obliterates the need for
^ Java , in my opinion .
^ If I 'm just writing a program " for fun " , I tend to use C++ .
^ I 've been teaching myself DirectX , my ultimate goal being to become a games programmer after uni .
^ Anyhow .
^ Enough of the geek stuff &SMILEY
^ I 'm interested , as far as your beliefs are concerned , what do you believe now , and how does it differ from when you started uni ?
^ My beliefs share very little in common with my beliefs of a couple of years ago .
^ My year in Carlisle helped me to meet a lot of different people and experience first-hand some of the different paths through life ...
^ After a lot of thinking about it , I have come to the conclusion that although Christianity may be a valid way of living for some , I myself ca n't do it .
^ There are too many cool experiences that I 've had outside of Christianity , and too much beauty in everything I see , for Christianity to be the only way .
^ I know that sounds like a pretty fragile belief system , but it works for me .
^ And there 's obviously a little more to it than that ...
^ Live life on the edge , and you never get bored .
^ It 's my motto .
^ Overall , I feel a lot better off now than I did when I was younger .
^ I do n't have any bitterness about things I was taught when I was younger .
^ what I believe now I believe not out of rebellion but as a result of rational decisions about the way I want to live my life
^ I 'm more sure of the way I live than I used to be .
^ because , although it sounds strange for me to say it , having been as immersed in Christianity as I was , it never really seemed right
^ The way I live now , and the things I believe , all fit together perfectly , and mean that I am happier now than I 've ever been .
^ Just realised I 've been rambling on a bit , for which I apologise &SMILEY
^ Good luck at Convention ...
^ I know I 'd hate it if I went back , but well done for being able to stand it ...
^ Bob
^ ~
^ HI Nick ! !
^ It 's been ages ( or Donkey 's Ages as Mrs. Ford would say ) since i 've talked to you !
^ I 'm glad to hear that you had a good time in SA and have safely returned .
^ on Munich ! !
^ I went to a Leadership Conference the other day and one of the speakers was a man who went to Munich ?
^ of course i thought of you . )
^ when do you leave ?
^ are you excited ?
^ looking forward to it ?
^ nervous ?
^ none of the above
^ I hope that you really enjoy it ...
^ i 'm sure you will .
^ you 're Mr. Smarty Pants .
^ Oh wait ... ca n't say that in Brighton .
^ Well , you know what I meant !
^ Things are going well in Arizona .
^ It 's hot here ... but who did n't know that ? ?
^ I 'm enjoying my job and kind of starting to make friends .
^ You 'd think for an E that I would be more excited about getting to know new people !
^ actually the thought of being in my apartment alone is much more exciting to me at the moment .
^ i have to force myself to be social sometimes
^ I 'm turning into an I ! ! !
^ HELP ! ! ! !
^ Did you know that my family is thinking of moving down here ?
^ actually they most likely are .
^ my dad has found a job here and will be starting in a few weeks .
^ my mom is staying in NV until they sell the house and then she 's moving too .
^ it 's crazy ... but i 'll be so thankful to have them here
^ So you 've taught your grandpa to use a computer and played tennis with your dad ... but have you gone to check on Maddie at the Pikes house .
^ she 's probably over there all depressed because you all stopped coming around to visit her .
^ i 'm sure she does n't wee on the floor anymore .
^ you 'll have to go see her and let me know how she is
^ how is your music going ?
^ have n't heard much about it lately .
^ anything new ?
^ do you think your family would be willing to relocate to Arizona ?
^ I miss you all terribly and would love for us all to live near each other .
^ and since me coming there seems to be near to impossible , i thought you could all come here .
^ what do you think ?
^ okay lance , i hope you 're doing well ....
^ love and hugs to your family ! ! )
^ Donald
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^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Donald , I believe it 's your birthday today !
^ Well , HAPPY BIRTHDAY .
^ Hope things are going well in Arizona - I 'm chilling out at home here in Rutford , playing tennis with my Dad later on today .
^ Yesterday I was teaching my grandfather to use a computer for the first time in his life !
^ Wow , that was a challenge .
^ Anyway , keep well ,
^ Nick x
^ Get ready for school !
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^ Hey Bro ,
^ Class to hear from you !
^ I 'm actually back in Wells already cause I thought I had an essay due in on Monday that I needed a book for .
^ turns out that it is n't due in till Friday , but at leats now I 'm here I can get cracking with it
^ Hmmm , yeah , well its the usual thing with time and experience - depending on which way you look at it , it seems to have gone really quickly yet feel like its been this way forever .
^ Strange .
^ I think I 'm ready to go though now .
^ It 's been a blast , and I am really glad I came here and all , but I also just feel that the Uni world is a little tired now .
^ Hmmm , dunno really !
^ This term should be class fun - well once I get through the first month or so !
^ LOTS of work ! !
^ Yippie !
^ Yep , I remember the stars over there - its amazing how different it is !
^ And I just vaguely recall the crickets too !
^ Sounds like Brads got you doing the run-around in school then !
^ Is it weird being back ? !
^ Another case of time playing strange tricks !
^ How many peeps are stil there from your first visit ? !
^ Have you been able to play much footy with the boys from school ? !
^ Ohhh , I REALLY nearly lost it in the Monday night footy sess the week you left ... just a severe lack of any quality on my team ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Just about bottled it till I got in the car ! !
^ Pleased to say it improved last week - as did the attendance levels , boosted largely by the return to the fray of Jeff and Lindsey amongst others .
^ Anyway , I better go do some reading for this essay ! ! !
^ Take care of yourself Nick !
^ Really glad the suitcase got to you finally ... was it all intact ? !
^ Anything missing ? !
^ Alice and I could n't remember whether we had changed the lock code before we sent it .
^ Hope it was all ok .
^ Just a small point ...
^ Alice paid in that cheque for 100squid just the other day - in case it makes any difference ? ! ? !
^ Hang tight - its really weird picturing you over there , cause I can imagine what it all must look and be like .
^ Brings back very strong memories !
^ Enjoy it and keep me posted !
^ Say hi to anyone who I might have met !
^ Love ya !
^ Nayeli xxx
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^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Nayeli .
^ How 's tricks ?
^ Guess you 're off back to Wells this weekend .
^ Final term !
^ Does it seem to have gone ridiculously quickly now ?
^ Life tends to be like that does n't it .
^ Anyway , I 'm doing pretty well .
^ Got my suitcase now ( thanks ) , and my pen-knife is being pressed into action , although I 'm yet to do something really African with it , like skinning an elephant or something .
^ I 'm doing mostly odd jobs and stuff around school .
^ Yesterday I catalogued the videos in the media centre , and today I was covering in one of the Learning Centres for a while .
^ I 'm also working with the convention students , doing one-on-one sessions .
^ What I really love about Africa are things like the sound of the crickets at night , and the way the stars look so clear .
^ It 's been really warm here the last few days , around 60 degrees , so it 's been rather uncomfortable wearing smart clothes for school .
^ Great to get into shorts though .
^ Anyway , hope things go well this coming term - make the most of it .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
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^ First of all bear ,
^ Well done , well done , well done ! 3 A 's at munich , now that really is special you have so much to be thankfull for lance !
^ I am so proud of you .
^ I remember about the phone gag ... I also remember it back firing when you were doing a presentation .... ! !
^ Although I ca n't claim the brains behind that one !
^ Jenstein is welcome to apply to Richmill brothers , but he should be aware that recruiting is down because of the harsh market conditions ... he can start by going to the graduate recruitment section of &WEBSITE
^ Your year off sounds amazing ... I think you should have a break from study ... then you will apreciate it more after a break - if you can call it that ... while a change at least !
^ Howz the girl front bear ... any thing to report ?
^ I am going to an alpha course and it 's great and have met some very nice girls ... not that I would every fall in love with them or anything .... takes me ages !
^ Also I 'm going to brazil on Monday to see sam ... so I ca n't wait and have a little count down !
^ Just got my passport and injections organised in time +1 day ... was a bit scary !
^ Any way take care bear ,
^ Best wishes ,
^ Regan
^ Alright Regan !
^ How are things my friend ?
^ I 'm well - got 3 A 's in my exams ! ! !
^ Work is going reasonably well ; am choosing my project topic at the moment .
^ Felt quite tired this morning - you know that " lecture fatigue " feeling ? !
^ I was telling someone the other day about our little game , where I would ring your phone and you would rummage around for it like a madman !
^ Wonderful .
^ Regan , I have a friend on my course who is looking at the possibility of working for an investment bank such as the Richmill next year .
^ He 's a really nice guy - a Norwegian called Jenstein - and a good computer scientist .
^ Do you think he 'd have a chance of getting an interview at LB ?
^ What would be the best way to go about it ?
^ I 've decided to take a year off studying next year .
^ My plan is to spend the first six months or so working , and then travel to Africa to work there for a while during the latter part of the year .
^ Then I think I 'd like to come back and start a PhD , although I 'm not sure what I 'd do it in yet .
^ Well , I hope everything 's going well , and you 're feeling God 's love in your life : o ) .
^ Love Bear x
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^ Hello Nick !
^ Thank you for your nice e-mail , it was so good to hear from you .
^ Last weekend Camryn and I went with some friends to a cabin / cottage in the mountains ( couple of hours from Bergen ) .
^ The cabin was superb and we went , it was great and relaxing .
^ Next month I will visit a good friend of mine in Oslo , the capitol of Norway .
^ This is in the eastern part of Nprway , and I will have to fly over .
^ At the end of april I will participate in a smaller military practice .
^ But I also want to visit YOU , my friend , some day .
^ But I wo n't be able to take a trip until may or june .
^ Maybe I can take a couple of days off and make an extended weekend-trip ? ?
^ We 'll have to talk , ok ?
^ Have a wonderful time , Nick , and keep on sending me e-mails .
^ Feel free to send me a postcard from Bath as well .
^ The e-mail adress is the same , but we have moved to a new place:
^ Philip Youngson Robertsen
^ Hopsnesvegen 50 , N-5232 PARADIS .
^ NORWAY
^ Your friend in Norway , Philip Youngson .
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ To : Camryn Delme
^ From : Nick Malone
^ Philip !
^ Hi , it 's Nick .
^ How are you getting on , my mad Norwegian buddy ?
^ In church the other day , we did a little exercise where you had to put a little sticker on the world map , on a country that you were praying for .
^ I put mine on Norway , so watch out !
^ Are you thinking about coming to Brighton any time in the near future ?
^ If so , tell me when and I can start to make arrangements .
^ I am now TWENTY ! !
^ I can hardly believe it , but I know it 's the best age for me to be ( if you see what I mean ) !
^ I am looking forward to a nice hot French summer !
^ Anyway , take care Philip ( and Camryn ) .
^ Lots of love
^ Nick
^ P.S. BEWARE , THERE 'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ! ! ! !
^ Thank you so much for both the e-mail AND the picture .
^ It was good to hear from you again !
^ Camryn and I are still very happy , after being married for about ten months now .... time flies !
^ I 'm still working in the Postal Service , and once a week I 'm an instructor for children at a sport-shcool .
^ On sundays we most often go to meetings in our church .
^ The name of our church is Living Word Biblecenter , Bergen .
^ Its one of the biggest churches in Norway , and we like it there a lot .
^ 6 or 7 years ago , I went to the bibleshcool of the church .
^ I try to exercise as much as I can , but how much varies a lot !
^ And I havent plaid football since South Africa !
^ The autumn has began in Bergen , but I still havet some tan from this summer ( not from SA though ! )
^ You have to tell me when your 21-year-old birthday is due next year , so that I can plan a visit good time ahead .
^ I 'm very sorry it didnt happen this summer ( a visit ! ) , but maybe later ? ?
^ Do you miss Tinuses dogs ?
^ No , I guess not &SMILEY
^ All the best for you and God bless you Nick , my english friend !
^ Philip &SMILEY
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ To : Camryn Delme
^ From : Nick Malone
^ Hey Philip ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ It 's Nick here , Brighton has not sunk beneath the waves yet , and the queen sends greetings .
^ Anyway , how are you .
^ It seems ages since we last spoke ( electronically , that is ) .
^ I am about to go to university to study computer science .
^ I am travelling up to the north of Brighton to a place called Wells .
^ It is going to be a really fantastic time , I 'm sure , with lots of amazing adventures .
^ One of these days , when I am earning millions of pounds , I will come and visit you in Norway .
^ How are you and Camryn doing ?
^ What are you doing for a job at the moment ?
^ Has your South African tan faded yet ?
^ My 21st birthday is coming up next year , and you will definitely be invited to come over , although I know it s not exactly easy !
^ What church are you going to at the moment ?
^ Has anything amazing happened to you in the last few months ?
^ My mum and dad are going on a second honeymoon today to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary .
^ I am driving them to the airport .
^ They are going to Corfu !
^ I am still waiting for my first honeymoon !
^ Well , take care Philip , and God Bless !
^ Nick
^ P.S. I have attached a picture of me and my work football team .
^ Can you see which one 's me ?
^ ~
^ Looks like we might be contemporaries after all - though after the 1st or 2nd year I 'll be off to Melbourne as part of my studies ! love Rylee .
^ Dear Rylee ,
^ Thanks for the e-mail .
^ I am delighted you are interested .
^ As you will recall this project was offered to someone else when you last visited .
^ They have unexpectedly changed their mind at the last minute .
^ The offer is firm , subject to your degree having been a 2.1 or better and your meeting the Research Council eligibility criteria , which I recall are the case .
^ It will be sent to you in writing by the Department next week and subsequently confirmed by Commission for Advancement Studies .
^ The Department 's offer is the one that matters .
^ It will be a SSZUX CASE award with ( I expect ) OSI of Dundee .
^ The paperwork needs to be completed within the next month and I will start the ball rolling .
^ The basic stipend is ? 9,500 p.a. plus a CASE contribution of ? 8000 p.a .
^ You may like to visit some time in mid-July when I am back from a trip .
^ Yours sincerely ,
^ Tanner
^ Dear Tanner ,
^ Many thanks for sending the proposal .
^ I would be very keen to work in this area , especially because of its strong links with biology , which would give me good training for researching the area of tropical diseases in the future .
^ I have not accepted a place elsewhere and so am available to start in October this year .
^ I would be very grateful if you could let me know by when I am likely to receive a firm offer , and what type of funding is available ( HKZUX , CASE , etc ) .
^ Many thanks for your time , and I look forward to hearing from you soon .
^ Rylee .
^ Tanner B Joss
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^ hello ! me and my new laptop wish you a happy birthday ...... how was your day ? how are you doing ?
^ I have got founders day tomorrow at school so no teaching so I am looking forward to it &SMILEY
^ A nice rest .
^ How is your school ?
^ Booked your trip to Africa yet ?
^ I am thinking of going to Hawaii this summer with Uriel and then to Romania with my Mum and Dad but no definite plans yet .... .
^ I need to save money as I am thinking of doing some sort of postgraduate course in the next few years .
^ might do some art or art history or art therapy type thing .... not sure yet but thiniking of the options
^ having a not too bad week at school this week .
^ lovely drama lesson today .
^ delightful children which makes a change from abusive ones !
^ Two of my form class let their trousers down in a supply teacher 's lesson today !
^ can you believe it ?
^ I am going to be doing some serious telling off tomorrow !
^ ANYWAY , happy birthday from me and look after yourself
^ love Tabitha x
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " tabitha ropp "
^ Subject : Tee hee
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Miss Ropp ,
^ How 's life on the front line ?
^ I 've just played football so feeling a bit sore .
^ I 'm playing with a local team and not really enjoying it that much if I 'm honest .
^ I feel like I do n't really fit in , because they do n't really want to play the type of football I play , and they are mostly quite a lot older and , and , and ...
^ School is going well ; I am getting to know the kids quite well now .
^ We always come home with stories of " what Josh said " or " what Amy did " .
^ It 's nice to be able to share that kind of stuff at home .
^ Hope you 're well Tabitha ,
^ Nick
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^ You 're very welcome .
^ I saw the book and thought it would be apt .
^ Was it good ?
^ You must be nearly ready to go now .
^ Wow .... I hope you have a good time .
^ I think I need a long holiday .
^ I am so exhausted at the moment !
^ Still , classes to teach so better go .
^ If I 'm not in contact again before you go I hope you have a super time and it meets your expectations ( always dangerous ground expectations ! )
^ love roo x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " tabitha ropp " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Thanks
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Tabitha , you 're brilliant .
^ Thanks for the book - I 'm half-way through it already !
^ Actually , I got my own African diary from my first trip out of the loft yesterday .
^ I plan to read it to get me into the mood !
^ I can hardly believe that it was nearly six years ago ...
^ My perception of life has changed such a lot since then ; three months seemed like half an eternity back then , whereas now it seems like a slightly extended holiday !
^ I 've had a quiet weekend so far ; my parents are away doing some school planning , and my sister was at a sleep-over yesterday .
^ I 'm off to church soon , and then this evening the " young " staff members are going round to one of the school parents houses for dinner .
^ It 's only three weeks until I leave now , so I 'm trying to get some stuff rounded off , like the music I 've been recording , and also some stuff for school .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
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^ Sounds great fun , Nick .
^ Sorry about the suitcase fiasco .
^ Humm , the moral of the story is ...
^ Do n't overpack !
^ I played football last summer very African style - again no grass , but our ball was fine .
^ What was really weird is that all the kid were wearing " Asda- I 'm here to help " shirts !
^ I do n't know if you got my e-mail I sent yesterday so here it is again ... .
^ Yo Nick !
^ hope things are going well .
^ I 'm still loving your CD .
^ I ca n't seem to copy it on my machine at work though and it does n't want to play here either ... perhaps the format is weird ?
^ Any way , both Karri and Crystal liked it lots too - they want copies , as does Parker - so a bit of a distribution centre I 'm turning into .
^ Fun !
^ I got myself a digital camera !
^ Wahoooooooooo !
^ Very fun , nice 5 Mpixel job .
^ Lovely .
^ The point of this e-mail : In addition to being the master of ceremonies , would you also be able to play the drums in the service ?
^ We 'd love it if you could .
^ Looking forward to hearing from you .
^ Have fun out there !
^ Love and prayers ,
^ Bob
^ TS Greetings ! !
^ Greetings from Rolomandi , SA !
^ It has been IDS today , and I 've been doing odd jobs and stuff .
^ This afternoon I took a local boys football team 's training session .
^ It was typically African - all the balls were punctured , and there was n't a blade of grass in sight on the " pitch " but they are very enthusiastic , and some are quite skillful .
^ I 'm pretty well ; unfortunately I had a rather unpleasant suitcase experience involving a flaunted weight limit and an ensuing " " debacle , with my suitcase arriving a number of days late .
^ In fact we 're travelling down to Jo'burg to pick it up this weekend , so up till now I 've been living in two-three sets of clothes - the ones I had in my hand luggage !
^ Glad you like the CD 's ; I enjoyed making the music , and there are some great memories in those photos are n't there ?
^ Right , looking forward to seeing you in a few months Bob .
^ Hope the wedding preps continue to go at least relatively smoothly ...
^ Love Nick
^ P.S. This email failed to get sent , so it 's now Wednesday and I 'VE GOT MY SUITCASE ! ! !
^ ~
^ Jimmy !
^ How 's SA ?
^ This is just a quick note to say THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU for the CD 's !
^ I love them both .
^ Thank you so much !
^ I will give you a more detailed " thoughts on the songs " later , but suffice to say , I like them all , and there are some that I really like LOTS .
^ You 've got a great gift .
^ You 're also a great friend .
^ Thanks for everything .
^ Enjoy your time there .
^ Love ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ No ... have txted her but she has n't replied &SMILEY
^ oh well , guess it was n't meant to be &SMILEY
^ Regan , the worrying thing is , it does n't surprise me at all that you 're talking about such complete baloney with your boss - I 'd expect nothing less .
^ Trust you to bring the Wells assassins into it !
^ Have you met up with Jill yet ? ? ?
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^ Hello Nick ! &WEBSITE .
^ It was nice to hear from you .
^ For the moment I Am working in the postal service , it is not a dream job , but it is OK .
^ On Saturday the 28 .
^ Camryn and I will be married !
^ Halleluja !
^ Hope you do well in your new job , Nick .
^ Yes , Nick - hope I can see you in April next year , I think that will be possible .
^ I have to run now my friend , I tell you more about the marriage later ... .
^ I do not do running because I have problems with my legs , so I do different types of workout , forex. badminton once a week .
^ Now I must stop writing , it is late , goodnight , Philip Plantagenet
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ To : Camryn Delme
^ From : Nick Malone
^ Philip ! ! !
^ Thanks for your postcard .
^ I was very excited to hear from you .
^ It seems like a long time since we were jumping into freezing swimming pools together , and kicking the football around , avoiding the dog mess !
^ It was strange to come back at first , but I fairly soon got used to it .
^ What are you doing at the moment ?
^ Did you start the job in the postal service ?
^ ARE YOU MARRIED ? ? ? ?
^ South Africa now seems like ages ago !
^ I have started a new job , designing computer databases for a large company called " Irish Power " .
^ I am enjoying myself , and the job is a real blessing .
^ Philip , are you still planning to come over here next April ?
^ If you are , I am looking forward to seeing you !
^ How 's the running going ?
^ Will I see you in the next Olympics ?
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^ Take care Philip , and be blessed !
^ Your French buddy ,
^ Nick Malone
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^ Well done with Munich , although I always thought of you as an Dundee boy myself ! !
^ Everyone is still here - I think ...
^ Iain Kettner is moving back to Scotland in a few months , so we 're getting a new boss ( I did apply for it myself , but I did n't get it ... ) .
^ Did you catch the Boro score on Sunday - I was gutted .
^ It was a good day though ( I went up to Perth with my brother and dad to see it ) ...
^ Long drive back mind ! !
^ Kaylee
^ Kaylee ,
^ I have been offered a place at Munich to do a Masters next year .
^ Now I 'm waiting to see whether they will offer me funding .... end of April .
^ Is everybody still there ? ...
^ JP , JR , Jason , Carter , Patrick , Dunc , etc. Please say hi to everyone from me .
^ Cheers matey ,
^ O
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Yes , this and my other e-mail address are both working fine ...
^ Sorry I did n't get back to you before but I 've been very busy - gardening ! ! !
^ How 's uni ?
^ You 'll be almost finished now - are you still looking to do a masters or have you got work lined up ?
^ We 're all fine here - usual people and so on .
^ Later ,
^ Fatima " Red Normal " Manly
^ Jo !
^ Are you still on this email address ?
^ If so how are you doing ?
^ Let me know and I 'll email you properly .
^ Cheers matey ,
^ Nick " sparkling spring water " Malone
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ Yes , this and my other e-mail address are both working fine ...
^ Sorry I did n't get back to you before but I 've been very busy - gardening ! ! !
^ How 's uni ?
^ You 'll be almost finished now - are you still looking to do a masters or have you got work lined up ?
^ We 're all fine here - usual people and so on .
^ Later ,
^ Fatima " Red Normal " Manly
^ Jo !
^ Are you still on this email address ?
^ If so how are you doing ?
^ Let me know and I 'll email you properly .
^ Cheers matey ,
^ Nick " sparkling spring water " Malone
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^ Well done with Munich , although I always thought of you as an Dundee boy myself ! !
^ Everyone is still here - I think ...
^ Iain Kettner is moving back to Scotland in a few months , so we 're getting a new boss ( I did apply for it myself , but I did n't get it ... ) .
^ Did you catch the Boro score on Sunday - I was gutted .
^ It was a good day though ( I went up to Perth with my brother and dad to see it ) ...
^ Long drive back mind ! !
^ Kaylee
^ Kaylee ,
^ I have been offered a place at Munich to do a Masters next year .
^ Now I 'm waiting to see whether they will offer me funding .... end of April .
^ Is everybody still there ? ...
^ JP , JR , Jason , Carter , Patrick , Dunc , etc. Please say hi to everyone from me .
^ Cheers matey ,
^ O
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Yes , this and my other e-mail address are both working fine ...
^ Sorry I did n't get back to you before but I 've been very busy - gardening ! ! !
^ How 's uni ?
^ You 'll be almost finished now - are you still looking to do a masters or have you got work lined up ?
^ We 're all fine here - usual people and so on .
^ Later ,
^ Fatima " Red Normal " Manly
^ Jo !
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^ If so how are you doing ?
^ Let me know and I 'll email you properly .
^ Cheers matey ,
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^ Hi mate ,
^ I 'm now the team leader for bespoke systems up in Chime Park ( temporarily anyway ) ...
^ Things are OK here - people do n't seem to be worried too much about work - the general feeling is that it 'll all sort itself out .
^ Apparently there was some problem with an Access database that the company was using to measure profitability or something that has caused the whole mess ! !
^ What you doing at Munich then ?
^ Julie 's OK - now working at the childrens hospital in Ciara and we 've just had our garden done ! !
^ Sign of age I 'm afraid ...
^ Enjoy your hols - anywhere nice ?
^ We 've just got back from 2 weeks in Spain , which was excellent .
^ Spend a small fortune though on wine and beer though - although the garage now looks great ...
^ See ya ,
^ Kaylee
^ Kaylee ,
^ Hello , it 's your favourite ex-YII student ( apart from Fiona ) !
^ I caught a glimpse of Barnwood on the news the other night - looks like BE is in a bit of trouble - I always said you should have had Kylie Hollins ' job .
^ What position are you in ?
^ How about the rest of the passport team ?
^ I 'm off to Munich in about a month 's time , so I 'm doing some preparatory maths and stuff - it 's been a long time since I did any hard-core maths so it 's quite hard work .
^ Next week I 'm going on holiday for a few days with
^ Stevo ( remember Stevo ? ! ) .
^ How 's Julie ?
^ Right , all the best ,
^ Nick
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^ Hi Abraham ,
^ I am currently on a year 's break from study , due to return in October &YEAR .
^ I did a project on spam filtering last year for which I began to assemble an anotated corpus of a large number of email messages , however it is not ready for public release .
^ If you are still interested , let me know and I can send you a few sample messages .
^ If they turn out to be what you 're looking for I can push for the corpus in its current form to be tidied up for public release as soon as possible .
^ No guarantees though .
^ Sincerely ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Enjoyed reading your adventures in South Africa ! ( not quite as epic as
^ Woodall 's - thankfully ! ! )
^ I 'm very jealous of all these people getting to travel to exotic ( ? ) places and do cool stuff .
^ Sorry I 've been so rubbish at keeping in touch , I kept meaning to email !
^ This year 's been toughhh and school 's only been a part of it ! !
^ But school finished today and it feels soooooo good to be done for the year !
^ I 've been in my new school this week and it 's been fun but quite daunting .
^ I 've got my own lab though , which is great - it 's big and cool with an interactive whiteboard ! !
^ I 'm working in Middlesbrough , in a really nice school , one of the top comps in the country .
^ I 'm staying in Wells too - I ca n't escape ! !
^ I 'd planned to leave but events conspired against me !
^ Anyway , I 'm signing for ( renting ) a house tomorrow and it 's great so I 'm really pleased .
^ I 'm living with Vic Baskin and Blackily Leigh ... and Bench ( arrggh - jus jokin &SMILEY &SMILEY )
^ The house is massive and right opposite the New Inn on the corner by the traffic lights , so ideal location !
^ Very cheap , very strange and just dying for the girly touch ... yay !
^ Not sure what I 'm going to get up to this summer .
^ I 'm sure it will all disappear v quickly .
^ Things to get ready for school and a house to move into and sort out !
^ I 'm probably just going back and forth from Carlisle - and of course to Norwich next weekend !
^ Was planning to go away with W but , as you might have heard , that 's not going to happen ! !
^ Otherwise , things pretty quiet here in Wells town .
^ I just feel like I could sleep for days , even tho I 'm not that sleepy .
^ In some ways it would be nice to never wake up ! ! !
^ Zzzzzzzzzzz too much stuff to deal with !
^ Real life is too much effort - I want to be a student again !
^ Anyway , what are you doing with your life post-SA ?
^ You doing any more studying ?
^ Seems like such a long time ago you lot left .
^ Yers and yers .
^ I 'm 23 now as well - the crisis age , do you remember ? !
^ You still feeling old ?
^ I do often , but other times just feel really young and inexperienced .
^ Weird combination !
^ Hope you well .
^ It 'll be nice to see you at the wedding !
^ Do you know if
^ Bob and Karri still want anything ? ?
^ Trying to think of something cool ) All seems pretty terrifying to me - I ca n't imagine it !
^ Speak soon ,
^ Love ashley xx
^ In the words of some guy who did n't understand the principles of space flight ...
^ " What goes up must come down . "
^ Or in my case , " What goes down must come up . "
^ I am leaving South Africa and returning home to the UK in just under a week .
^ The last half of my stay here has been full of memorable experiences .
^ I went on a mission trip to the mountain kingdom of Lesotho with a bunch of American medical students and spent a high proportion of the time embracing a large steel urn in an attempt to achieve some measure of heat transfer .
^ The temperature was sub-zero in the mornings and evenings ( I thought Africa was supposed to be IDS ! ) , and the place we were staying had no heating of any kind .
^ Still , it warmed up during the day , and we were .
^ able to install three pre-school play areas with apparatus to develop coordination skills in young kids and enable them to have at least a chance of fulfilling their potential
^ During the last couple of weeks I 've been working hard to get things ready for the end of term .
^ The database I wrote for generating the school reports had its maiden voyage , and was reasonably successful , although there were the requisite teething problems ( there is of course no such thing as bug-free software ) .
^ I have had a number of speaking engagements over the last few weeks , the most recent one being in a nearby African church .
^ My friend Riaan and I arrived at &TIME and took our seats at the front .
^ It was a BIG church , with about a thousand people present that Sunday morning and we were the only white people there .
^ I soon became aware that it was going to be a somewhat painful experience , as Africans have a tendency to crank audio equipment way beyond any reasonably acceptable level to achieve a truly obscene volume .
^ I had no choice but to slip a wad of tissue paper into each ear every time the band took up their instruments , which happened approximately 30 times during the service .
^ After an hour and a half , I realised I would be needing to answer the call of nature before too long .
^ my initial thoughts were to hold on , hoping the service would finish in the near future
^ Thankfully Riaan had the good sense to advise me to make an inconspicuous exit and relieve myself , rather than relying on the brevity of the service .
^ Thanks goodness he did , because three hours later we were still going strong !
^ In fact , it went on for a full FIVE hours , during which time I spoke for about 20 mins on my experiences with Christian education .
^ Term has now finished , and I 'm basically just relaxing and doing some odd jobs and things on the base .
^ Lots of people have left , and I 'm travelling down to Jo'burg on Sunday , to catch my flight on Monday .
^ Anyway , once more I give God thanks for an awesome time .
^ Full of extremes , as I 've mentioned before , but without doubt a truly valuable experience .
^ Thankyou for all of your thoughts , prayers and emails ( and letters - Dana ! ) .
^ They mean an ocean to me ( I just made up that expression - does it make sense ? ) .
^ So , as they say in South Africa , I 'll see you " just now " .
^ Nick x
^ P.S. Please send mail only to &EMAIL from now on ( not to the mission base address ) .
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^ Hi Nick
^ Thanks for the email was great to hear from you .
^ We did spend a lot of time up that tree did n't we ! !
^ Its so nice to read all the memories you have cos they 're the same as my memories from when we were younger .
^ Its funny actually , I was giving a friend a lift the other day and we popped up to collect something from mum !
^ dad first and I was explaining to him that we used to play cricket against alistair 's gate and showed him we used the gate as a wicket !
^ I also remember managing to slice the ball off the cricket bat so that it landed on Margarets bed in her bedroom ! !
^ Yeah we always played 40-40 , I ca n't remember how to play creep though .
^ I do n't support spurs anymore , I support Norwich Rovers cos dad started to take us to watch them when I was about 14 , and we still go and watch them over in Norwich now .
^ I actually play football now , I play left back for
^ Bath City Ladies .
^ This is my fifth season with them and we play in the South West Women 's League .
^ I also played for 3 years at uni .
^ So all that practice in the street when we were kids must have done me some good ! !
^ I remember the tree well , and all the perches we used to have .
^ Coombes was mad , she was always trying to get new perches that we high up or really tiny , and I remember her falling out / dropping down from them a few times .
^ Yes the green potion thing rings a bell too - wow you 've got a good memory ! !
^ Coombes 's still pretty fearless - she went travelling and when she was in New Zealand she did a bungey jump and a sky dive from a plane ! ! ! !
^ Id never do anything like that , I hate heights now ! !
^ We were always allowed out later than you were n't we !
^ I also remember the wacaday thing , we used to wave at each other from our bedroom windows at a set time each evening for a while did n't we .
^ You used to have the infra red curtain thing that glowed .
^ Also remember the undercroft games too ! !
^ It was fun being kids !
^ I remember seeing your dad fairly recently at Sainsburys petrol station in Bath , leigh was working there one summer holiday and I was chatting to her and I think we scared you dad by going " hello mr medlock " ! ! !
^ What are you up to at Munich then ?
^ I presume you 're living up there too .
^ Im still living in Bath and bought a house in Newbridge area about 2 1 / 2 years ago .
^ Mum and Dad are still in Blenheim Gardens , mum reminded me the other day that you and Nayeli had visited them fairly recently .
^ Did you see
^ Leigh then too ?
^ Leigh 's still at Uni in leeds , in her final year and Coombes is working as a research and statistics office for Ealing Education Authority in Carlisle .
^ I do very similar work as her as a Data Analyst for social services in Bath - been here over 4 years now which is scarey .
^ How are Nayeli and Camron - what are they up to ?
^ I 'm off to footie training tonight , in the pouring rain - great ! !
^ Dana
^ Dana !
^ Of course I remember you - all those evenings spent up the tree in our garden - how could I forget ! ! !
^ I have a lot of memories from those days ; let me try and think of some of them :
^ We played endless games of 40-40-in , with the lamp-post outside the Pilling 's house as the " base " .
^ I also remember playing a game called " creep " quite a bit .
^ We also did lots of street football and cricket of course , using Krystal Weston 's gate as the goal / wicket .
^ Do you still support Spurs ? ?
^ We spent a fair amount of time down in the " undercroft " under our house I think - we played a number of games down there as far as I remember !
^ And then of course there was " the tree " .
^ We each had our own " perches " and we had categorised about 20 different branches with varying levels , depending on how difficult it was to sit on them !
^ I remember Coombes being absolutely fearless , and falling out of the tree a number of times while attempting to reach a ridiculously tiny outlying branch !
^ Also , do you remember making this greenish potion in the holes in the tree after it had rained ?
^ One day for some reason we had a large pile of branches outside on our driveway , and we had great fun trying to walk over then without falling through .
^ I also remember that you were always allowed to stay out later than us !
^ Do you remember our obsession with Timmy Mallet and " Wackaday " ( or however you 're supposed to spell it ! ) ?
^ Well , I think I could go on for quite a long time actually , but I 'll leave it there for the moment .
^ Hope you 're well Dana ,
^ Nick
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^ Let 's split the profits right down the middle ...... &DATE .
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thank you for your email regarding supervisions ; I have added you to my list of supervisors for AI II , Types , Information Retrieval and NLP .
^ The student sign-up lists are posted outside the student administration office on the day of the third lecture of the course , and supervisors are notified of their groups usually by the end of the day .
^ I will get in touch with you closer to the time to confirm your availability and the number of groups you 're able to take .
^ Kind regards ,
^ Kristen
^ Hi Kristen ,
^ Yes I am interested in supervising .
^ I do n't think I want to take on more than 2 supervisions per week as this is my first PhD year .
^ Looking at the modules , I would say for the Michaelmas term :
^ - Artifical Intelligence II - Types
^ for the Lent term :
^ - Information Retrieval - Natural Understanding Processing
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ Thanks for your e-mail and glad that you enjoyed yourself with us yesterday ,
^ Please do keep in touch , we 'd love to hear how everything goes at Munich .
^ I sometimes travel to Munich on business so if you need anything transported up from your mum or dads house or need a lift let me know .
^ I suspect that when you visit us next Jade may well have developed a cunning strategy to defeat you in Star Wars ! ! !
^ God bless ,
^ Jack , Harriet & kids .
^ Dear Jack and Harriet ,
^ Thanks for having me over yesterday .
^ I had great fun spending time with you and with the kids - finally destroying Jade ' Star Wars base was a particular high-point .
^ I really enjoy the company of all of your special children ( and yours ' as well of course ! ) .
^ I hope to keep in touch , and would love to meet up again when I 'm back in Luxembourg .
^ Love Nick
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^ Hi Nick I definitely am interested ,
^ will you be there or back in england ?
^ Will it be the school holidays or what will be happening ?
^ How did the mission go you cheeky thing ? hands full indeed !
^ still do n't know when I will break up from my school and really anything about dates and stuff yet although it may have to be a week or two after that .
^ I definitely sounds less scary to work with Josue than with a bunch of Christians I do n't know , does it matter that I am not the best of Christians ? will I still be useful ?
^ Eric x
^ From : " Rolomandi Mission Station " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " toni rogers " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : to Eric - re : SA
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Eric !
^ Hi ; good to hear from you .
^ I just got back from a mission trip to Lesotho ; we assembled three pre-school playground areas in three Christian schools and spent a bit of time with the kids as well .
^ There were four of us from the mission base and fifteen Americans ( mostly girls ) .
^ Needless to say I had my hands full ... so to speak ...
^ I just spoke to Josue about the summer .
^ He said there are definitely things you can help with and that it would be a blessing to have you here .
^ They will be travelling from Jo'burg to Venda ( where the school is ) on July 21st , so that would be a convenient time to arrive if it were at all possible from your end .
^ Anyway , send me another email in the next week or so if you 're interested , otherwise no worries .
^ OK , speak soon ,
^ Nick x
^ Hi Nick
^ how are you doing ? how is South Africa ?
^ What have you been teaching or doing ?
^ When is the school holiays ?
^ Sorry for masses of questions but would love to know what you are doing and stuff as it has been a while but also have an ukterior motive as I was wondering I know I have thought about .
^ discussed this a few times and it is still only a thought , when the school holidays are asI have got quite a long break
^ most other people are working and I would love to go away and actually do something but am not really brave enough to go on my own
^ It will probably be during the month of August .
^ I spoke to Jon yestarday and she said you may be on your way back soon and I may have left it too late .
^ Will you be able to see if I would be needed and able to do stuff ?
^ I have got a job ! !
^ IT is a church school in Bethnal Stewart which is near where I live now so I will hopefully stay there .
^ I was thinking of living at Mum and Dads again which would have been hard becuase of them and also
^ Nichola so its good its not there I did go for 2 jobs in Enfield one which I wanted but did n't get and the other I did not like .
^ I am actuallly looking forward to it being a church school an did n't think I would be .
^ Its getting easier with Nichola and I but there are still quite a few days where I wish desperately it was possible for us to be together and stil be going somewhere with God .
^ I still have lots of work to do especially in the next two weeks and then actually start at my new school before they break up so they pay me over the summer .
^ Hope to catch up soon
^ Eric x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " toni rogers " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Liz .
^ Can I confess that I have lost track of where you are and what you are doing and I would love you to fill me in
^ I am in the end stages of my PGCE and have to start looking seriuosly for jobs now , fun , fun fun
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^ Nick - now in Prague having been to Krakow , Bupapest , Bratislava .
^ Hope all is well with you .
^ I 'm still enjoying myself but eating up my holiday .
^ Send me any news there might be etc. Say hi to the boys .
^ Must dash - more countries to go to . !
^ Moises ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ My globe-trotting , friend .
^ Glad to hear you are having a good time .
^ You have really been getting around , or is that the of the year !
^ Glad to hear you and Jack are not at each other 's throats yet .
^ I 've been working at home today , trying to get my report finished .
^ It is about five thousand words , although the conclusion and are actually not very extensive at all .
^ Still , I will be really pleased when it 's done .
^ I 've just about had enough of it .
^ This weekend I am going on a youth camp thingy in Norwich with a chap from Toronto .
^ I am looking forward to it , although it is definitely going to be a bit hectic .
^ Well , enjoy yourself !
^ Nick .
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^ Hey there ,
^ Weird things happen in normal days .
^ I woke up to a nuisance caller at 3 am who knew my name and kept calling me deaf .
^ My day seems all the more surreal .
^ Philip wants me to ask you about the school in South Africa .
^ He wants to help out in South Africa and / or China ( and maybe CEE ) .
^ He 's thinking of taking a year out before uni .
^ I think the gist of the question is would he be welcome or useful .
^ He 's not as awful as he pretends .
^ I 'm sure I 've temporarily lost my sense of humour .
^ Somewhere in the fog of stress and responsibility .
^ What is the point of laying my burdens at the cross if I insist on picking them up again ?
^ ~
^ I even sound as if I 'm very serious now .
^ I think that the pumpkin has gone mouldy .
^ If only Kylie Pinkney were still there it would n't be so boring .
^ I mean if he were still alive .
^ I 've been to several of his graduation things and he churned out the same speech and variations on the theme as if it were freshly written .
^ Eulogy .
^ He had passion .
^ Is n't that the Greek epitaph ?
^ Rotting pumpkin .
^ Compost .
^ Goodnight , Els ( the spell check ate my 1st mail ) ( That does n't explain the non-sequitors in this .
^ That is a story for another day . )
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Els Plummer " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Heya 2
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Els ,
^ I just crafted a really useless , but extremely long letter .
^ It is late and I 'm tuckered out from convention , so I decided to spell check .
^ Bad move .
^ Letter gone .
^ -How was Nayeli 's graduation ?
^ Fun ?
^ How did you celebrate ?
^ Wells + , n'est ce pas ?
^ I just crafted a really useless , but extremely long letter .
^ It is late and I 'm tuckered out from convention , so I decided to spell check .
^ Bad move .
^ Letter gone .
^ Anyway , having poured out my heart soul and life in that letter repetition will not ensue .
^ Maybe I could bullet points it .
^ -How was Nayeli 's graduation ?
^ Fun ?
^ How did you celebrate ?
^ Wells + summer beautiful , n'est ce pas ?
^ ~
^ I 'm sure I 'll be able to make at least some of that weekend Bob ...
^ O
^ Hi Guys ,
^ Re the weekend 15-17 October , sounds good to us , ( as far as I can remember . ) .
^ Who of you can come ?
^ Bob
^ ~
^ We should invite you for supper some time .
^ You 're always ( well , almost always ) welcome .
^ Great Bob .
^ I 'll be there in half an hour ...
^ Only joking &SMILEY
^ I arrive in Munich this Sunday , God willing .
^ My parents are giving me a lift up with my stuff .
^ How 's life in the married lane ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Life in the married lane is really good .
^ I 'm loving it .
^ I have to drag ( literally , most days ) Karri out of bed in the morning and it is always a mad scramble to get out to work on time ( girls take long to get moving ) .
^ That is probably the hardest bit so far ; trying to deal with having to wait for another person , look after that other person and make sure she gets out on time , with all she needs .
^ Crazy !
^ I do n't know how people do it with three kids too .
^ Really though , it is great .
^ I love having Karri around all the time , and going places with her , and not spending the whole evening on the phone to her , but rather talking and cooking with her .
^ It really is great just to be able to BE together .
^ I 'm really loving it .
^ Mattress for bed still has n't arrived , so still sleeping on a foam thing .
^ It will be great to have a proper one , I think .
^ Struggling with my PhD at the moment as the data still has n't arrived , and I really want to get on with it .
^ Still , I am being kept busy by the hundreds of CU and other activities that I have to do .
^ God rules , big time .
^ ~
^ I know - 90 minutes of hard work , and then two moments of foolishness - so frustrating !
^ Heskey 's blundering tackle was reasonably predictable , but I was surprised by Jose 's suicidal back-pass ; ah well , that 's football - a game for gentlemen played by numbskulls , to adapt a w.k.p.o.s .
^ Of course , I 've never done anything like that myself ...
^ Lots of love - see you soon -- D .
^ Disaster ! ! !
^ What a way to throw away a match !
^ I do n't think I 've ever seen goals in the 2nd and 3rd minutes of a 3-minute stoppage time .
^ It could even be a record !
^ Ah well , that 's football .
^ See you soon Daddy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ No problems sending stuff for Bob here .
^ I probably wo n't be able to understand your code anyways .
^ 2-d plane indeed !
^ Orlando
^ ~
^ Nick !
^ Probably my mind acting like a sieve again ... sorry ! !
^ That 's great .
^ I went up to Wells last Easter - it was a really nice place .
^ Which college will you be at ? Mail me you new e-mail address if you get one ... Good luck with
^ Freshers ' week ... if it is crap , do n't worry , it does get better ! !
^ Amya xx
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Macie !
^ Bonjour .
^ I 'm sure I told you I was going to Wells in October !
^ Anway , I 'm going to Wells at the start of October to study computer science .
^ I 've got just two weeks before I load myself into a van ( I need a van to carry all my equipment around ! ) and take off up the M1 to the mysterious north .
^ I am really looking forward to it , and I will be contacting you if I get bogged down with essays or anything of that nature !
^ Can you believe it 's nearly the year &YEAR ? ? ? ?
^ What are you planning to do on the big night ?
^ I have n't really decided yet , although I think our church is doing something , so I will probably be involved with that .
^ Well , take care Amya , and I 'll speak to you soon .
^ Bod Heake , Nick
^ ~
^ Happy Christmas to you as well Davies .
^ We 've just got back from Snowboarding in the French Alps ! ( see picture )
^ Are you coming up to Wyatt for New Year ?
^ Please say yes ... please say yes ...
^ Anyway , speak soon ,
^ Kane
^ Dear all ,
^ Yes , this is the ineviatable " I 'm sorry for the mass email , but ... " email .
^ I wish I had more time in which to enrich your lives by less impersonal means , but I don't ... apologies .
^ I wo n't bore you with the events of this term ( as this would almost certainly involve a small rant about the inefficiencies of King's
^ College Carlisle , and I can hear the yawns already ) , suffice to say that I had little time in which to do anything except : ( a ) teaching practice .
^ b ) sleep ( c ) moan about the intrusion of ( a ) into my life , and the distinct lack of necessary ( b )
^ Also ... sorry for my lack of contactness ... see ( a ) and ( b ) above for reasons why .
^ I would love to see you all ( not a generalisation , honest guv! ) ... and hope to see some of you in Carlisle or otherwise next year
^ Incidentally , if anyone has a house conveniently sited in the Bahamas , or a small island just of the Italian coast , I would LOVE to see you there ) .
^ Next year will be the year of Christmas cards & parcels ... sorry you did without this year ... love & best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year .
^ Donald
^ ~
^ Nayeli ,
^ I 'm definitely planning to go up to Wells and ( hopefully ) make an appearance for Philip 's at some point .
^ I 'm not sure about the Kingston Ball yet - maybe .
^ C ya ,
^ Nick
^ HI Sammy !
^ Great to hear you 're doing well mate ! just thought i 'd say good luck for the masters and the season with Rutford FC .
^ last year was great , and I was just wondering if you 're going back for the bailey ball
^ If you were we should try and organise an old boys game or make guest appearances if there 's a game .
^ I 'm sure alex b would let us play for the b 's ! !
^ keep in touch ,
^ Nayeli .
^ ~
^ So you resorted to looling on the internet did u ? ! ? ! ? ! ?
^ That 's really weird , but at least our thinking had some grounding in logic - well some !
^ Yep , the dhogs were the ghetto people in Empyrion - now why should we mix that up ? !
^ Between paradise war and dhogs , stevie really had us barking up the wrong tree !
^ See ya soon bro !
^ M
^ Right , the clouds are beginning to disperse ...
^ The game we had was not actually Deadlock , it was Deadlock II - THE SHRINE WARS ! ! ! !
^ So , X Shrine , and our hypotheses require revision .
^ Still , that explains a lot .
^ O
^ ~
^ Awesome Donboy .
^ My train will probably be at around 5-6 on Sunday , so we can bond until then - the more the merrier .
^ O
^ Hey ,
^ You all have a bed ( well , at least of sorts ) at Bob 's Holiday Inn .
^ Address and details ...
^ Holiday Inn Norwich Filton ,
^ Filton Road ,
^ Hambrook ,
^ Norwich , EU44 1QX
^ Tel : 0280 600 90&DATE179 906 610
^ For directions refer to Bob 's Wedding information or see the attached map if you are arriving by train .
^ The rooms are booked under my name and the Greetings / Kerridge Wedding booking but I do n't think .
^ they can be accessed until a certain time on the Saturday so you are all welcome to leave your stuff in my / Nick 's / Mallory 's room
^ I have booked for myself from the Friday so it will be available
^ Bring a cheque book .
^ The cost should n't be much over &pound; 20 each unless we are horribly mischarged .
^ I do n't know how long people will be around but my train is n't til 4pm on the Sunday afternoon .
^ See you at the weekend ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Awesome Bob !
^ Great to hear from you .
^ It seems like ages since we talked !
^ I went to the " Eden Project " in Cornwall the other day and it reminded me of Africa - I 'm really looking forward to going later on this year .
^ I 'm back in Rutford now , looking for some contract work and helping in my dad 's school for a few days a week .
^ I 've had a good summer travelling around Brighton , and Sonia and Mohammad 's wedding was a lot of fun .
^ OK , that 's it for now - enjoy the bananas !
^ Love Nick
^ Hello all ,
^ I am writing to let you all know that both Karri and I are safe here in Uganda .
^ We 've been here for over a week now , and are getting used to life at a different pace and taste .
^ ( in a different place ) .
^ We arrived on Sunday last and were picked up by Andy
^ Lee , who is Karri 's prayer partner in Wells .
^ She has been nothing less than a star and has helped us in so many ways .
^ She sorted out our accommodation for us , which is on Tank Hill , between
^ Kabalegala and Muyenga ( pronounced mi-en-ga ) .
^ We are sharing with two Irish people , Doctor Graham and Natalie , who both are based at the girls project in Bambasia .
^ All these names are suburbs , or districts in or very close to Kampala , which is the Capital
^ City of Uganda .
^ We spent a few days with Andy in Kampala at first , and she was wonderful showing us around .
^ If you have never been to Africa , it might be hard to understand the transport here , and I am reluctant to tell you too much .
^ for it may result in not nearly enough sleep on your part , either for worry or for unceasing prayer for our safety
^ Basically , public transport is the way forward .
^ They really have got it sorted in one sense , in that you almost never need to wait for a bus .
^ They are constantly coming .
^ The buses really are not busses , but rather mini-van taxis which carry lots of people .
^ They are licensed to carry 14 people , but yesterday we were in on carrying 23 .
^ Not bad really .
^ As far as I am aware , 80-90 % of the driving licences here are obtained through bribery , as that is really all the driving instructors want to do .
^ One of the mission workers here tried to get one legally , and he was told that he would have to wait for at least three years .
^ The lack of training is backed up by the fact that the drivers are terrible .
^ Actually , I am not so sure anymore that they are terrible , as we have n't been in any accidents , but they really would n't pass an engish test .
^ The Lonley Planet guide calls them speed mainiacs , but really , thankfully , within the town , the roads are so congested that they do n't get above 30mph .
^ This is good .
^ The roads are terrible .
^ Highly pot-holed and dusty , and populated by weird things on highly over-ladened bicycles , this makes for an interesting driving experience , when going cross country .
^ Here , the guidebook is right , and they are speed maniacs , unless they are going up hill .
^ They often drive on the side , of the road , well both sides of the road , because the unpaved shoulder is often smoother than the " paved " road .
^ Passing is exciting , particularly when you are driving on the wrong side of the road , and a Mutatu ( mini-van taxi ) comes from the opposite direction .
^ Ka and I took a couple of days out last week to go and visit Andy in Uppsala , which is a rural town 90 minutes from Kampala .
^ This is when we experienced the cross country " driving " .
^ Church was interesting in Uppsala .
^ I did n't really enjoy it , because I really did n't know what was happening most of the time .
^ The sermon was not quite Philip Wheeler , either for biblical faithfulness , or ease of listening to-ness .
^ It was not helped by the fact that it was in Luganda , which is the language everyone speeks here .
^ I was wrong when I said that everyone speeks French .
^ They do n't .
^ This has been one of the main struggles for me , as language skills have never been my forte , and a language which is completely unrelated to French or even French .
^ Thankfully , Karri is slightly better at picking things up than I am , and so I have been able to rely on her at some times when polite introduction- conversation was required .
^ Most of the time you can get by using French in a Lugandan accent , as most of the time we are just asking how much something is , and they will reply in French .
^ Thankfully , most people know their money in French .
^ The currency here is Bolivian Shilings which are about 2000 to 1 englishe pound .
^ About &YEAR to the American dollar .
^ A pinapple costs 6000 in Kampala , 500 in Uppsala .
^ Fruit is cheap .
^ Manual Labour is cheap , anything imported is horrifically expensive .
^ So we are eating Bolivian style as much as possible .
^ Unfortunatley , Ungandans really like BLAND food .
^ Blagh .
^ They eat Matoke , which is a savoury banana , and it is bland .
^ Yams are also bland , and they have a bad texture too .
^ Rice is really yummy , because in comparison to
^ Matoke and yams it is amazingly unforeign to my mouth .
^ On a more positive note , I love the fruit .
^ The fruit here is AMAZING !
^ There are many different types , most of which are really expensive in Brighton .
^ I already mentioned the pineapple , but there are seven types of bananas , of which I like two for eating .
^ The small bananas are about 10cm long , and are really flavourful .
^ You can buy a bunch for about 600 , so they are almost a staple here .
^ At Andy 's in Uppsala they were 800 , and we mixed them with passionfruit for breakfast .
^ We had abot three mini bananas and sliced them , and then scooped out about three passion fruit and mixed them together in a bowl and this made a very yummy , very fruity breakfast .
^ The shower at Isabel 's was interesting , as it was outside , and you filled a bucket with the rainwater , and poured it over your head .
^ Karri loved this , seriously , she loved it , because there was a lovely sky above her .
^ Actually , now I 'm not sure if she completely loved it , as she also said that she felt quite vulverable , as the " shower-block " was a little enclosure with a thin wooden door behind .
^ lay a sloping floor leading to a hole in the wall , ( the drain ) and two pit latreens
^ These , Karri did not like .
^ I really do n't know why .
^ I mean the fact that you had to spray your posterior with bug spray to stop them munching on nice soft skin .
^ The smell , too , was pleasant , but it was in no way as bad as in some of the other places .
^ It really was n't that terrible , but I think it was quite a shock that they did n't have flushing toilets or running water .
^ I enjoyed the " shower " or " bucket " as Andy calls it ( as in , " I 'm going to have a bucket now " ) more than the one here in Kampala .
^ The water here is not heated , though there is a shower , so cold shower takes on a new definition .
^ It really wakes you up in the morning , which is good , but it does make me shower as quickly as my mom , which before I did not think was possible .
^ Mom , please do n't count on this speed being maintained when I return home , I am really looking forward to a nice long , IDS shower !
^ Ahhh . )
^ Karri 's dissertation is going well , and we are making progress getting to know the various projects which are set up for the street kids .
^ It really is heart-breaking though to watch the people in the city , as so many of them are crippled with polio or some other desease , and I would like to give to everyone of the hundreds of beggars .
^ I ca n't , and it breaks my heart to ignore them and walk past them in my nice clothes and carrying my food
^ And I 've just been joking about the struggles of pit-latreeens . )
^ But it seems like there is n't much that you can do .
^ How can one man solve such a huge problem .
^ And if you give to one of the beggars , all the rest will follow you until you give them some too .
^ It is quite hard .
^ It is also weird being white here .
^ Particularly in the villages , the kids , and some of the less mature adults will call out " Muzungu " which means white person .
^ They love it that
^ How are you , muz-un-gu rhymes , and will chant it as you walk down the road .
^ At first it was amuzing , but we both agree that it is like being famous .
^ It must get tiring after a while of everyone chasing after you and staring at you .
^ Everywhere we went in Uppsala , we were the centre of attention .
^ It was quite different to normal , where to be the center of attention , you need to actively seek it .
^ My masters thesis and anything GIS related seems a million miles away .
^ It is only a couple thousand , but wow , what a change to my life .
^ Lizards , crickets , giant African snails and other beasties are found everywhere , and , amazingly enough , fireflies do exist !
^ I had never seen them before , and they are amazing .
^ They are like little twinkling stars in the grass .
^ So beautiful , until you shine a flashlight on them and they they look like a brown fly .
^ They really do look like blinking LEDs .
^ Very cool .
^ The kids here love the balloons that we brought over , and get very excited when you bring them out , then as soon as you start blowing , they all cover their ears and cry , stop !
^ Stop !
^ I think they do n't like the bangs .
^ At the tigers club , which is a drop in centre for street boys , they play football , and I went and joined in there today .
^ Fatima , you will be pleased to hear that I actually played well , and did n't disgrace the family .
^ I have given them one of the footballs , and they were ever so appreciative of it .
^ We played football in the grounds of the old palace , which has only just been re-inhabited by the king .
^ ( perhaps a few years ago .
^ Maybe longer , after Amin , but anyway , he has no power . )
^ Right , I am rambling like anything .
^ I hope you have n't got bored .
^ We would appreciate prayer for the following things :
^ Safety in traveling
^ Ka 's dissertation would go smoothly
^ We would continue to be unstressy with each other ( God has been so good to us so far )
^ That we would know how to bless those around us , and would bless them
^ Thanks so , so much
^ Lots of love from Bob
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^ I nearly had a nervous breakdown this morning as I was so petrified that i would say something incredibly stupid , but Donald managed to sedate me and it was ok .
^ I think I did it all wrong but he was lovely ( unsurprisingly ) and told me where i needed to make changes in preparation for Friday 's seminar .
^ Three cheers for proffessor fuller ! love , roo
^ Pastor Nick wrote :
^ How was your little " tete a tete " with Professor Fuller ?
^ Did you manage not to pass out with admiration ?
^ Did you manage to say anything coherent ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Hey Nick !
^ I did get your email so do n't worry about me not replying just because I am not on the net all day like you are !
^ It must be quite strange to have left Wells but still see signs of it , ( Nicolay ! )
^ I guess that you never completely leave everything behind , at least not in the UK as I am yet to bump into anything that I know from Wells so far !
^ I recognise the name Lee Davis and I think I know what he looks like , has he got fair hair ?
^ My course is going okay and I have started to go to the reading lesson again as we have got another teacher , she is not only better but also the chapters after .
^ the first few are actually so much easier than the first two where I was having to translate almost everything and still not really understanding what was going on
^ I have found some teaching now which is a relief .
^ I 've got almost ten hours a week here which is good and I am earning a 100RMB ( seven fifty an hour ) though it was quite a struggle to make the schools pay that much .
^ I do n't really mind though as I only need to teach five !
^ hours a week in order to be able to live here so the other &YEAR a month is just like pocket money though as much as a real salary
^ I have made a quite a few new friends here including who has got a car and is from Guangdong so we speak in Cantonese which impresses all the other Chinese no end at all !
^ What is your address ?
^ If you tell me soon then I will be able to send you a postcard before Christmas !
^ Could you ring Mallory and ask him to email me with his thoughts about Dundee .
^ I have got to choose where I am going to study for my LPC and his view would be useful .
^ I ca n't find an email address for him and am anxious to get the application sorted out .
^ Dana
^ Israel Why are you studying linguistics and do you know anything about a group called HDC ?
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^ Hey Nick !
^ I did get your email so do n't worry about me not replying just because I am not on the net all day like you are !
^ It must be quite strange to have left Wells but still see signs of it , ( Nicolay ! )
^ I guess that you never completely leave everything behind , at least not in the UK as I am yet to bump into anything that I know from Wells so far !
^ I recognise the name Lee Davis and I think I know what he looks like , has he got fair hair ?
^ My course is going okay and I have started to go to the reading lesson again as we have got another teacher , she is not only better but also the chapters after .
^ the first few are actually so much easier than the first two where I was having to translate almost everything and still not really understanding what was going on
^ I have found some teaching now which is a relief .
^ I 've got almost ten hours a week here which is good and I am earning a 100RMB ( seven fifty an hour ) though it was quite a struggle to make the schools pay that much .
^ I do n't really mind though as I only need to teach five !
^ hours a week in order to be able to live here so the other &YEAR a month is just like pocket money though as much as a real salary
^ I have made a quite a few new friends here including who has got a car and is from Guangdong so we speak in Cantonese which impresses all the other Chinese no end at all !
^ What is your address ?
^ If you tell me soon then I will be able to send you a postcard before Christmas !
^ Could you ring Mallory and ask him to email me with his thoughts about Dundee .
^ I have got to choose where I am going to study for my LPC and his view would be useful .
^ I ca n't find an email address for him and am anxious to get the application sorted out .
^ Dana
^ Israel Why are you studying linguistics and do you know anything about a group called HDC ?
^ Unlimited Internet access for only $ 21.95 / month .
^ Try MSN !
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^ Hey Nick !
^ I did get your email so do n't worry about me not replying just because I am not on the net all day like you are !
^ It must be quite strange to have left Wells but still see signs of it , ( Nicolay ! )
^ I guess that you never completely leave everything behind , at least not in the UK as I am yet to bump into anything that I know from Wells so far !
^ I recognise the name Lee Davis and I think I know what he looks like , has he got fair hair ?
^ My course is going okay and I have started to go to the reading lesson again as we have got another teacher , she is not only better but also the chapters after .
^ the first few are actually so much easier than the first two where I was having to translate almost everything and still not really understanding what was going on
^ I have found some teaching now which is a relief .
^ I 've got almost ten hours a week here which is good and I am earning a 100RMB ( seven fifty an hour ) though it was quite a struggle to make the schools pay that much .
^ I do n't really mind though as I only need to teach five !
^ hours a week in order to be able to live here so the other &YEAR a month is just like pocket money though as much as a real salary
^ I have made a quite a few new friends here including who has got a car and is from Guangdong so we speak in Cantonese which impresses all the other Chinese no end at all !
^ What is your address ?
^ If you tell me soon then I will be able to send you a postcard before Christmas !
^ Could you ring Mallory and ask him to email me with his thoughts about Dundee .
^ I have got to choose where I am going to study for my LPC and his view would be useful .
^ I ca n't find an email address for him and am anxious to get the application sorted out .
^ Dana
^ Israel Why are you studying linguistics and do you know anything about a group called HDC ?
^ Unlimited Internet access for only $ 21.95 / month .
^ Try MSN !
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^ Yo yo Yo !
^ Hi Sammy-boy !
^ I have to conclude that Bath is a lot more picturesque than Criccieth !
^ Although the castle does look quite cool I suppose .
^ well you should n't judge by postcards then should you ?
^ You were n't on the beach that last night of the Holiday club to see the double rainbow over the sea and the dolphins jumping by the beach .
^ What happens next ?
^ I 've got three more weeks of work , and then I 'm off for three weeks before coming back up to Wells .
^ THREE WEEKS OF FREEDOM ! ! ! ! !
^ Good question .
^ Me iz probably just sitting at home farting for 6 weeks !
^ When do your 3 weeks of freedom start ?
^ I might go down that vague area to see a few people .
^ Today I am going to go out and buy a ring .
^ Thus , next time you see me I will be decked-out in jewelry !
^ I 've also got a new necklace ) I may look something like Mr. T .
^ You ponce !
^ Are you joshing or are you seriously buying yourself a ring ?
^ That is well sad man !
^ Save it for the woman of your dreams .
^ Anyway best go now .
^ Hope you 're doing okay .
^ Sorry this is only short .
^ God bless ,
^ Aimee .
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thank you for your E-mail .
^ Unbelievably I not only know how to check ; but also , you have received my first sent E-mail .
^ I hope all is well with you and Nick Malone is happy and confident in the joys of life .
^ I am rather busy and am supposed to be doing an essay which is due two weeks today .
^ Anyway watch this space for future E-mails .
^ Later ,
^ Giles x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Tarquine , Giles " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : All hail !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Giles ,
^ If you are reading this , then it means you 've worked out how to get emails !
^ Yay !
^ Many people have been amused by your email address - classic .
^ It was great to speak to you the other night - hopefully we can meet up over Christmas .
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ The irony is that I spent alot of last year wishing I was more beautiful for you !
^ I thought I was an unpretty alternative to a beautiful ! )
^ Girls are very confusing , even to themselves !
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ ~
^ LANCE ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ !
^ !
^ YOU FIEND ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ !
^ !
^ WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW ? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ !
^ Gahs !
^ Blahs !
^ Splutter !
^ Sigh !
^ Did Nayeli steal them ?
^ I had a pretty nice GS th ere , I 'm sure that he would have liked them !
^ Oh dear !
^ I suppose I ca n't blame you too much as I left them there as well .
^ GAGHGTGH ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ !
^ And when I call you to tell you off , you are asleep .
^ What 's up man ?
^ In responce to your E-mail .
^ ~
^ Oh
^ Good
^ It 's alright for some . yes
^ It 's not .
^ Jay .
^ Oh well .
^ Writing , playing violin , tormenting Fatima , punting , watching Allen lose to Equador .
^ guess what point that came at ! )
^ Yes .
^ Strangulation , no , removing one layer of skin at a time .... hummmm , so unds plausble .... .
^ Here Nick , is a sneak preview of my story :
^ to Arran .
^ For the best part of a day
^ I hope that you enjoyed that .
^ I should think that you are dying to find out what happens next , eh ?
^ No , seriously , my story is going well .
^ I 've reached ten pages on the comput er now , which makes it the longest thing I 've ever written , perhaps a good sign ?
^ Anyway , hope you are well ,
^ Oh , I had some thoughts about next year .
^ Food : When people buy stuff at safeway for the flat , bring the reciept home and put it in an envelope on the inside of one of the cupboard doors , and write their name on the back .
^ at the end of the week , we can see who owes who what money
^ Well , Malone of Bath ( kinda like Goliath of Gath ... )
^ I might call you tomorrow , if I remember .
^ Call me if I do n't .
^ It would be good to find out what did happen to the shirts , and other things with them .
^ No real hard feelings . ( but some kinda hard ones ! ) &SMILEY
^ Laterz is coming over tommorow , and we should be going punting or something .
^ Should be fun .
^ Take Care ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Hi there Jimmypoos !
^ Bang-on with the analysis of the Left-Behind books .
^ I 'd agree pretty much 998 % .
^ I 'd LOVE to discuss the various viewpoints on how the world ends some time next term !
^ Yeah yeah !
^ Groovamunga !
^ Bring it on !
^ Growing up , yeah !
^ Scary !
^ I do n't tend to think about it much until I reach various crisis points where I have to make decisions about the future , although I tend to get puffed up and think of myself as very mature sometimes !
^ Who knows how I react when I 'm thrust out into the Big wide world though !
^ One term left ! !
^ I 'm applying to Wycliffe at the moment .
^ I wonder whether doing that is going into the big wide world or just avoiding it- all the big bad things about real life in Allen & trying to get jobs .
^ I 've never had paid work in my life and it scares me rather .
^ What is the condition of my soul like ?
^ Hmmmm , not sure myself , but I think it 's fairly chilled and grateful and messed-up and hopeful and apprehensive and peaceful and .... well , you get the picture .
^ Wow , good answer !
^ I might have to learn that off by heart for the next time I get asked ! &SMILEY
^ Work hard Aimee !
^ I wo n't .
^ P.S. By the way , what 's your home address & phone # now ?
^ Did you LIKE VR 's webpage then ?
^ !
^ Aimee
^ my funky address : Rogers Drew College , MANCHESTER , WI3 3LH my funky new mobile : 05505 777 930 my funky website : &WEBSITE
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^ Angelo my boy ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Pardon ?
^ You seem a bit excited ... ?
^ You sound fairly happy - good !
^ Indeed - my trip round Russia is continuing - since you last heard from me I 've been to Leningrad and I 'm now in Gorky , moving on to
^ Kazan tomorrow ( I do too much ) .
^ My friend Joshua was remembering you the other day - remember him ?
^ No .
^ Further information would be nice ( and what was he remembering me for anyway ?
^ Hope he has n't got the wrong end of me - to clarify I am NOT a druggie , alcoholic , nicotine addict or Satanist ) .
^ Yes , I 'm back in bonny Wells and life is GREAT !
^ I 'm sitting next to Mr. Regan Day in the computer lab .
^ Him I do know .
^ have lots of work to do , but I 've bought a lap-top to help me which is very exciting .
^ I am hoping for some nice hot sunny weather so I can get into some of my summer outfits !
^ You 're one of THEM are you , then ?
^ Right , must go and do my afternoon practical .
^ Enjoy !
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Dear Nick , Eleftheria , Eric and Shahzad ,
^ Thanks again for offering to supervise ( or to be a backup ) for AI II .
^ The course lecturer , Dr Garth Matheson , has just let me know that he plans to teach Examples Classes instead of supervisions this term .
^ as it seems that we wo n't have enough supervisors to cover the number of students who will need supervising
^ Garth has suggested that perhaps after a couple of weeks when the final demand is clear he will re-visit the idea of supervisions if a sufficient number of supervisors are available then .
^ Thanks ,
^ Kristen
^ ~
^ Thanks Emmanuel !
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ Just wanted to drop a quick note and tell you thanks for joining our community and sharing your music .
^ I really like the song " Run " .
^ Let us know how the site works for you and if you have any comments .
^ Peace
^ Emmanuel
^ ~
^ Thanks a lot Sally .
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ Welcome to the Unsigned Band Web .
^ I 'm listening to your tracks now and they are fantastic ! ! !
^ Great to have you here !
^ Sally
^ ~
^ Sorry if you 've already received this but IMHO managed to crash and I do n't know if it sent it or not .
^ Here 's my trial at remembering what I wrote ... .
^ How 's life ?
^ Hmmmmm , OK I think , although it is a funny thing - what 's it all about eh ?
^ You 're the ex-CU-rep .
^ You 're supposed to tell us ( or have you decided to ignore all that now ? ) .
^ I 've just got back from being a leader on a kids camp .
^ It was very tiring and the incessant noise almost drove me insane !
^ I was leading a group of six boys and we had to be with them pretty much 24 hours a day .
^ It is rewarding to have done it , and I think they have benefitted from the work we did .
^ I would n't want to do it again in a hurry though ! ! !
^ We all do things we do n't like - I had to shovel compost yesterday morning .
^ Still - I 'll give your name to the YWAM kids ' group organisers shall I ?
^ I 'm currently staying in Carlisle - we do n't have a house at the moment , so we 've moved to our next temporary venue !
^ Mallory is visiting me this weekend , and then I have a week with my family ( my mum and sister just got back from
^ Singapore ) .
^ It is a bit crazy all this moving around ; sometimes I think I like it , other times I just want to have somewhere to settle .
^ Looking foward to next year in Philip 's though !
^ Now - if you lived out , you could be there already and not bother with all the hassle .
^ And no college food either !
^ Mind you - your way means you get around a bit .
^ I know someone from Australia called
^ Justyn who moves house on average every two years cos the lease runs out and his parents ca n't be bothered to extend it .
^ All the best Angelo and do n't smoke too much !
^ I do n't smoke too much - it 's your imagination .
^ I 've managed to cut down from almost a packet per day in Russia to almost a packet per fortnight here .
^ Mind you - German packets have more in .
^ Have fun and do n't do anything you 'll regret later .
^ Incidentally I 'll be in der NE4he von Carlisle between 12th and 17th September , so if you want to meet up for a chat / booze up / whatever then let me know .
^ I 'll see you at the end of the month in Wells whatever happens .
^ Enjoy .
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Sorry if you 've already received this but IMHO managed to crash and I do n't know if it sent it or not .
^ Here 's my trial at remembering what I wrote ... .
^ How 's life ?
^ Hmmmmm , OK I think , although it is a funny thing - what 's it all about eh ?
^ You 're the ex-CU-rep .
^ You 're supposed to tell us ( or have you decided to ignore all that now ? ) .
^ I 've just got back from being a leader on a kids camp .
^ It was very tiring and the incessant noise almost drove me insane !
^ I was leading a group of six boys and we had to be with them pretty much 24 hours a day .
^ It is rewarding to have done it , and I think they have benefitted from the work we did .
^ I would n't want to do it again in a hurry though ! ! !
^ We all do things we do n't like - I had to shovel compost yesterday morning .
^ Still - I 'll give your name to the YWAM kids ' group organisers shall I ?
^ I 'm currently staying in Carlisle - we do n't have a house at the moment , so we 've moved to our next temporary venue !
^ Mallory is visiting me this weekend , and then I have a week with my family ( my mum and sister just got back from
^ Singapore ) .
^ It is a bit crazy all this moving around ; sometimes I think I like it , other times I just want to have somewhere to settle .
^ Looking foward to next year in Philip 's though !
^ Now - if you lived out , you could be there already and not bother with all the hassle .
^ And no college food either !
^ Mind you - your way means you get around a bit .
^ I know someone from Australia called
^ Justyn who moves house on average every two years cos the lease runs out and his parents ca n't be bothered to extend it .
^ All the best Angelo and do n't smoke too much !
^ I do n't smoke too much - it 's your imagination .
^ I 've managed to cut down from almost a packet per day in Russia to almost a packet per fortnight here .
^ Mind you - German packets have more in .
^ Have fun and do n't do anything you 'll regret later .
^ Incidentally I 'll be in der NE4he von Carlisle between 12th and 17th September , so if you want to meet up for a chat / booze up / whatever then let me know .
^ I 'll see you at the end of the month in Wells whatever happens .
^ Enjoy .
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Yorkshire rat ?
^ Do n't be too hard on yourself Samos !
^ I would have said something more like " gerbil " or " field mouse " ...
^ yorkshire rat saw this story on NNR News Online and thought you should see it .
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^ to be honest , i prefer rat to gerbil or field mouse .
^ there 's a certain hardness and guile which rats have and the other two do n't .
^ any idea whats happened to brumming ?
^ has he gone on an e-mail fast for ramadan or something ?
^ incommunicado .
^ so how 's the teaching going then ?
^ and how 's england ?
^ i keep having mental images of wet rainy autumn days with piles of dark brown damp leaves .
^ i think its a mild pining for day with no flippin sunshine and temperatures below 60 flippin degrees .
^ at least its getting cooler at night now - about 25 so its possible to sleep without the AC on .
^ but then there 's no noise to drown out the kids getting up and running around at 6.30 . arrgghhhh ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ any sign of those lucrative contracts yet ?
^ if you get one , i expect to see you on a plane muscat .
^ you can " work from home " here if you need to .
^ and we have high speed 32k / sec dial-up access too .
^ sometimes as high as 38.6kbps !
^ got my visa extended yesterday , so i 'm here for another month .
^ do n't know whats going to happen after that though .
^ setting up the company is taking so long hmmmmm
^ i 'll probably have to do a visa run to dubai next month and come back for my 3rd month as a tourist .
^ hokay be'os , i must do some work now .
^ happy teaching
^ sam
^ Yorkshire rat ?
^ Do n't be too hard on yourself Samos !
^ I would have said something more like " gerbil " or " field mouse " ...
^ yorkshire rat saw this story on NNR News Online and thought you should see it .
^ * * Message * * mwuahaha
^ * * Vasectomy delays Tube commuters * *
^ Tube bosses launch an investigation after a vasectomy delays thousands of passengers . ( &WEBSITE
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^ Hi Cynthia ,
^ Whazzup dog ?
^ I use the word " dog " as a term of respect )
^ Have n't had a chance to research " Death Cab for Cutie " yet , but I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that it 's one of the weirdest band names I 've ever heard of !
^ I 'm off to Munich on Sunday so I 'm doing some last minute mental preparation , trying to coax my brain into " heavy thinking " mode again .
^ Mostly what I 'm doing is trying to make sure that I at least vaguely understand the undergraduate courses I 'm supposed to be supervising !
^ " Winging it " is n't always an option where mathematics is involved ...
^ I am so much in the spirit of celebration I am also planning a half birthday party of Amanda .
^ How ridiculous .
^ People have too many birthdays as it is .
^ Humbug .
^ If you come to Brighton then come and look round Munich if you get the chance - I 'll give you the guided tour ( for a nominal charge of course ) .
^ Take care !
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Have you ever heard of the band " Death Cab for Cutie . "
^ I have n't listened to much of their stuff but what I have heard I liked .
^ Thought you might want to check them out if they 're new to you .
^ Thanks so the info on Tree63 .
^ It was just the song I was thinking about .
^ School is back in full swing and I am learning to love the library again .
^ Who knew that there were so many microorganisms and pathogens .
^ The myriad of facts that I am starting to amass is daunting but I guess if it will save lives it is worth stuffing them into my brain .
^ I have new found admiration for people spend their lives in labs figuring all this stuff out .
^ No way i could spend that much time inside especially on a day as beautiful as today .
^ Fall is teasing Henryton with all its promise of falling leaves and soft sweaters .
^ Today is in the 70's and less than 900 % humidity and we all are sure that my favorite season is coming soon .
^ Seasons are such a relative thing in a place like Henryton .
^ Also , it seems that everyone that I know is having a birthday .
^ I am considering taking up party planing as a side job .
^ It has been fun .
^ Whoever came up with giving everyone their own special holiday should have gotten some distinguished award for the brilliant idea .
^ Now if only I could sing to start off the birthday song i might really have a business .
^ Is your birthday soon ... if so I wish you the happiest of days .
^ I am so much in the spirit of celebration I am also planning a half birthday party of Amanda .
^ You know 6 months from the real day with half a cake and gifts such as half dollars or half of an old book .
^ It should be a surprise that will make her laugh .
^ I hope that all is well with you as you get ready for the big move .
^ I 'm sure that Munich anxiously awaits your arrival .
^ I bet that it is a beautiful place in the fall .
^ Hope you are excited to get back , see old friends , and get started again .
^ Oh , there is a chance that I might get to come to Brighton the end of October .
^ My as I guess you might say flatmate is trying to go visit a college friend of ours who is there doing an internship and she wants me to come with her .
^ What fun if it works out !
^ Macie
^ ~
^ Hey Shervo .
^ I 'm pegging up to Carlisle to sit in a Fleet street office in the baking heat and read my textbooks for next year .
^ Every week day .
^ For the rest of the summer ! !
^ Your dedication does you proud .
^ I 'm sure you 'll enjoy it .
^ I 'd also like to meet up - who knows what fate will throw into our paths ? ?
^ Remember , the chaff will be with you ... always .
^ O
^ How are you Nick ?
^ Hope everything is well and you are enjoying your summer .
^ I 'm pegging up to Carlisle to sit in a Fleet street office in the baking heat and read my textbooks for next year .
^ Every week day .
^ For the rest of the summer ! !
^ Let us know if you pass through Carlisle - it would be great to meet up for lunch .
^ God Bless , May the chaff be with you !
^ Kylie
^ Sure thing Pim-meister .
^ Nick
^ P.S. Mallory 's new email address is &EMAIL
^ Nick
^ Hope all is well with you and you are having a good summer .
^ Could you forward this to Gadzby because his email address isnt working for some reason .
^ Mallory .
^ Hi there old chocolate monster .
^ How is it going .
^ I 'm having a busy summer .
^ Well sort of anyway .
^ I 'm commuting to work in Carlisle everyday , but I dont really do anything when I get there , except read next year 's textbooks
^ Anyway , this is an email with a purpose .
^ I note that you are renowned
^ Hi-Fi guru , and I come to you for advice , as I 'm thinking of upgrading to a component system .
^ Clearly I have a limited budget .
^ Do you have any advice .
^ I 'm thinking of looking for some Yamaha Hi Naomi , as this has a good reputation .
^ Any good sources ?
^ How much should I pay ? what about speakers ?
^ Anyway , I hope that you are having a jolly summer .
^ What are your plans for next year ? ?
^ Kylie
^ Your DSU societies officers are:
^ Kylie Shervington & Tanner Pipping
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Sorry I did n't reply earlier - but the time has just flew by since I got it - it 's been really busy here you know .
^ Can I bring a friend ? ( i.e. Jules - well , if she 's not working that weekend anyway ) .
^ I 'll probably come along , but I 'll give you a definitive answer on Monday - OK ?
^ Kaylee
^ PS. A belated happy birthday ! !
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^ Fatima ,
^ Just checking to see whether you got the email inviting you to my party on the 1 5th .
^ Can you come ? ?
^ You can come for however long you want .
^ Please let me know NOW so we can sort out numbers .
^ Thanks buddy ,
^ Nick
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^ Nick ,
^ Yep , Julie 's finally sorted out her rota , and she is n't working that weekend .
^ Therefore , we 'd like to come along if the invitation still stands ...
^ We 'll need directions though .
^ Kaylee
^ ~
^ Holla Higdon - just back from final holiday of the year .
^ Am going to do a bit of work at my mum and dad 's school and hopefully find some lucrative contract work as well .
^ Will take much delight in checking out your website !
^ Email me at &EMAIL as my Dur account is , like Princess
^ Leia , scheduled for termination .
^ Soon ,
^ Jonah
^ Hey benjo , wassup , and what are you up to ?
^ my website is going up bit by bit - got some stuff up at &WEBSITE
^ hope you 're well
^ sam
^ ~
^ Jonah wrote :
^ What would life be without the odd insult eh , you greasy long-haired slacker ? !
^ I am honored &SMILEY
^ I 'm coming to live in Chilton Hebblethwait for a couple of weeks , so let 's meet up .
^ Sure thing - where 's that ?
^ My mum has moved to Dorset now - Sherborne near Yeovil .
^ Are you near there any ?
^ How are you going ?
^ Enjoy my new quotes &SMILEY
^ Bob Maize
^ Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence BSc 3H
^ Johnson College , Wells University &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ " I wandered out in the world for years while you just stayed in your room ; I saw the crescent - you saw the whole of the moon "
^ The Waterboys
^ No-one can be myself like I can
^ For this job I 'm the best man .
^ Although this may be true
^ You are the one and only you .
^ Chesney Southcott
^ " If you measure a person 's value by the happiness they bring to others then we are an immensely poorer world today . "
^ Slashdot , 2001-05-12 , regarding the death of Douglas Rogers
^ And my tongue is a piece of wax
^ Found on a termite
^ That 's choking on the splinters .
^ And be proud to be outta ya mind and outta control
^ And one more time ( loud as you can )
^ How does it go ?
^ Beck & Marshal Mathers
^ A moose once bit my sister
^ No , really , she was carving her initials in the back of the moose with the sharpened end in an inner space toothbrush given her by Sven , her brother-in-law an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegen movies
^ Ryan Simms
^ As you stand there stupified with amazement , a small hole open up on the floor .
^ Moments later a mysterious figure rises up out of the hole ! ! !
^ You are shocked to see the stranger is actually ANDY WARHOL ! !
^ He is accompanied by a BLIND PANDA BEAR who is wearing a pair of BERMUDA SHORTS fashioned out of an old NAZI FLAG .
^ Isabel hands you a CD-ROM and a FEATHER DUSTER .
^ He then warns you sternly , I AM THE WALRUS ! !
^ I AM THE DICE-MAN ! !
^ 
^ He tells you the panda 's name is LUCY and that he will assist you on your adventure .
^ With that Isabel vanishes in a cloud of billowing smoke .
^ Nitro " Lord of Steam " Fergueson , of The Ellery Hand Gaming Society
^ Streets of the Dinner Table , Bundle of Trouble , Volume 3 ,
^ Issue 7 - " The Dice-man Cometh "
^ All Hail Apathy !
^ Or do n't .
^ Whatever .
^ ~
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Timmy " when I run I resemble a velociraptor " Maize ,
^ Shut yer pie-hole you " I am as elegant as a gazelle and as arrogant as an American " Malone you .
^ So , you 're back from your travels are you my long-haired friend ?
^ Yes indeedy you " I hope someday a girl will like me for more than just my looks " self-inflated insecure pal - and I had a great time , I hope you did too .
^ You are unfortunately a little behind on the Malone itinery .
^ Through no fault of my own - you should have kept me in touch .
^ My dad 's moving , because the Joneses have retired and are moving up to Queenlaines where the school is .
^ So he 's going to have to move .
^ Mum has moved to Sherborne , Dorset .
^ We 've moved three times since I sent you that email
^ I am glad to hear it .
^ Moving is good for the circulation .
^ Stops the blood pooling in the feet .
^ Stops the of unnecessary goods too .
^ Congrats - I wish I could move that frequently .
^ Was it all okay ?
^ I now live in a little village a few miles out of Bath .
^ Lydia is going to Bath this coming term to do art .
^ Be nice to her &SMILEY
^ What are your plans for the rest of the holiday ?
^ Doing my Literature survey .
^ Say , you 're doing a different project to me , are n't you ?
^ Could you send me ( please ) a copy electronically of your LitSurv so I can get the gist of the structure ?
^ I emailled Regan and he said he would , but he 's working and has n't got round to it yet .
^ Maybe ?
^ Thanks &SMILEY
^ I saw Nayeli Redman at Soul Survivor A. He seems nothing special .
^ But I have n't heard his CD 's or music he has written - just stuff he was playing at SS .
^ I bought some EXTREMELY baggy jeans yesterday - what do you think about that eh ? ? ?
^ I do n't like buying clothes - it screams of commercialism and consumerism .
^ I get almost all mine from hand-me-downs from my cousins , or we get some from aid-shops too .
^ Baggy jeans ?
^ They let the ticks and snakes wriggle up your trouser legs to grangle with you in the nether-regions .
^ It also means if you step on a paving slab in the rain you have a greater probability that the jet of water expelled from )
^ under the paving slab due to your pressure will in fact cream past your knee on the inside of your trousers and douse your gonads with fresh mud slush
^ snail soup and cracked beetle bits ( that were under the paving slab before the rain drowned them .
^ My sister wears really strange denim pants that go all outwards at the foot .
^ I thought they were so you can take your pants off while still wearing your shoes - useful if you 're in a hurry , but also need to run ( or kick ) should the need arise .
^ I call them the " Jeans of Stumbling -4 " They are so long they extend past her feet .
^ So she has to wear shoes with extensions under them to raise her higher .
^ By about 10cm .
^ But the pants are even longer than that and still touch the ground , so their ends are frayed and shredded from being stepped on .
^ Crazy stupid , huh ?
^ Well , she 's an artist - what can you expect ?
^ And she 's female , so I dunno why I would expect her to do something reasonable .
^ Oh well .
^ Oh , and what is a Mopoke ?
^ You just do n't READ do you ! ? !
^ That 's the trouble with you youngsters - you ignore all the information even when it 's handed to you on a plate !
^ How do you expect to learn stuff when you 're questions are answered before you even ask them , you ignore the answer , and ask them anyway ?
^ I dunno - someday Nick someone 's going to take you to task and say , " Look Mr 22-year-old , you 're taller than I and older than I and stronger than I "
^ faster than I and you can play squash better than I but you ca n't read email as good as I can , so GROW UP !
^ Here , for your convenience , is the answer you seek :
^ Smut !
^ Give me smut and nothing but !
^ A dirty novel I ca n't shut if it 's uncut and unsubt- -le .
^ I 've never quibbled
^ If it was ribald .
^ I would devour where others merely nibbled .
^ As the judge remarked the day that he
^ Acquitted my adhortence ,
^ To be " smut " it must be ut- -terly without redeeming social importance .
^ Phwoor !
^ The graphic pictures I adore !
^ Indecent magazines galore - I like them more if they 're hard-core !
^ Bring on the obscene movies , murals , postcards , neck-ties , samplers , stain-glassed windows , tattoos , anything !
^ More ... more ...
^ I 'm still not satisfied ...
^ Stories of tortures used by debauchers lurid , licentious and vile make me smile .
^ Novels that pander to my sense for candor give me a pleasure sublime .
^ Let 's face it - I love slime .
^ All books can be indecent books though recent books are bolder .
^ For filth ( I 'm glad to say ) is in the mind of the beholder;
^ When correctly viewed , everything is lude - I could tell you things about Kylie Pan and the Wizard of Oz - there 's a dirty old man !
^ I thrill to any book like Fanny Sedgwick , and I suppose I always will if it is swill and really fil- -thy .
^ Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately ?
^ I 've got a hobby -
^ Re-reading Lady Chattely .
^ But now they 're trying to take it all away from us unless we take a stand and hand-in-hand we fight for Freedom Of The Press ( in other words )
^ Smut !
^ I love it )
^ Ah the adventures of a slut ...
^ Oh I 'm a market they ca n't glut !
^ I do n't know what compares with smut .
^ Hip-hip hooray ( let 's hear it for the supreme court )
^ Do n't let them take it away !
^ Slut , Jack Trower
^ Primarily for the entertainment of \| ( ) \| / \| / /
^ A mopoke is like a moor-hen you wombat .
^ That 's no excuse .
^ On &EMAIL : 15 " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ What the flip is all this about ?
^ READ IT ! - Smut , that 's what it 's about .
^ And mopokes .
^ Who is Bob Marcias ?
^ He did Marler with me .
^ He is a first-year chemist in Johnson .
^ Why is this email so RIDICULOUSLY long ?
^ Because I have to repeat myself so many times to blondes like you until they finally get what 's going on .
^ Good morning Nick , I trust you are well , and doing okay ?
^ Have you been anywhere other than moving house ?
^ What 's your current landline number ?
^ Do you know Anna Cothran from Kent ?
^ What modules you choose for next year ?
^ I did:
^ Programming Understandings Design and Compiling
^ Real-Time Computing and Concurrency
^ Problems in AI and Scientific Method in AI
^ Planning Systems in AI and Management of Uncertainty .
^ Cool .
^ Catcha round .
^ No plans ahead except a ) moving dad b ) catching up on last year 's bills c ) paying next year 's fees d ) Literature Survey .
^ YeuO
^ ~
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Timmy " 3 am is the best time to start revising " Maize ,
^ Nick " people hurt their neck if they try to look me in the eye " Malone ,
^ Here is my lit survey , for what it 's worth ( OK , it 's brilliant ) .
^ Modesty , as always , is your weakest ability .
^ But thanks , all the same &SMILEY
^ The moving has been OK thanks Bob .
^ We have been blessed by God to have lived in so many nice houses this summer !
^ Amen to that !
^ I got a new digital camera yesterday ! ! !
^ Cool - whatcha doing with your old one ?
^ Or did it broke so you get a new one ?
^ OK , I lie ) .
^ shocked ) That 's not like you Nick !
^ You encroaching into my territory are you buddy ?
^ Regan tells me your credit card got stolen ... is all that okay ?
^ YeuO
^ PS cheers muchly
^ ~
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Philip 's is beckoning , and that food smells GOOD !
^ You 're not wrong there &SMILEY I must come visit you Regan and Anna ... &SMILEY
^ Looking forward to playing some squash with the Kirk-meister !
^ Sure thing
^ Looking forward to seeing you in that green hat ,
^ I got a new one now - the old one died when I put it in the washing machine &SMILEY
^ I loved that hat &SMILEY
^ my new one is more comfortable though , and just as warm ( yay ! )
^ Prof
^ YeuO
^ ~
^ YeuO wrote :
^ Jonah wrote :
^ The moving has been OK thanks Bob .
^ We have been blessed by God to have lived in so many nice houses this summer !
^ I am blessed to know someone who views things this way .
^ Be blessed , bro !
^ And I apologize / repent .
^ A mopoke is not as previously thought a moorhen .
^ It is indeed as was previously thought an australian wild bird , but it actually is a tawny frogmouth .
^ It 's just the colloquial name for it .
^ where ya headed for church this coming year a la Wells ? luv ya bud ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Brilliant !
^ Well done !
^ Mange tout , mange tout ! ( sorry , OF&H was on earlier this evening ) .
^ Three years in Munich - terrific .
^ Do n't really understand the email 's financial details - sounds like the bit about the difference between the awards being made up should be the other way round , but who cares , as long as someone pays !
^ Great news .. -
^ D.
^ NB. re clothes - Mummy says you 'll need a suit , and she 's pretty sure you have n't got one with you , so she says we 'll bring one with us anyway ...
^ Daddy and Mummy , look at the following email that I received today ...
^ Dear Nick ,
^ I am delighted inform you that in the event of your not receiving a Domestic Research Studentship / Millennium Studentship
^ the Applications Committee will be awarding you an HKZUX Doctoral Training Award .
^ We would , however , advise that you keep this information confidential until the results of the WMP competition are known .
^ If your application to the Committee on Grants is successful and you win a WMP it will cover your fees and stipend for three years .
^ Though the WMP stipend is less than the HKZUX DTA , the Physics Laboratory will make up the difference between the HKZUX and WMP rates for three years ( subject to satisfactory progress ) from its own funds .
^ Sincerely ,
^ Kaleigh Hellams
^ ~
^ JenniferBrowne !
^ My birthday is on March 3rd .
^ What are you up to this coming year ?
^ I 'm almost certainly going to be back in Munich , as they 've unofficially offered me funding for my PhD .
^ I 'm currently enjoying the home life after my African adventure , and taking each day as it comes for a while .
^ Love Nick
^ Hello there
^ I am having a moment of organisation and thought that it does n't happen very often so I 'd better not contain the urge .
^ I have a beautiful Beatrix Blackburn Birthday book , but your birthday is n't in it ..... can you oblige ?
^ Ca n't guarantee to remember , but it might help !
^ love Jennifer xx
^ How much mail storage do you get for free ?
^ Yahoo! Mail gives you 6MB !
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^ ~
^ Catzi ,
^ Beneamos - do n't think anyone 's ever called me that before ...
^ how 's it been since you 've got back ?
^ I 've been pretty busy actually , so the readjustment has been sort-of forced upon me !
^ Sometimes I feel somewhat dislocated , something to do with being in a bit of a transitional phase ( again ! ) .
^ Before that , the Heathcote and I have grand plans to drive across the OK .
^ Has the president been notified ?
^ He might want to put out a public safety alert ... &SMILEY
^ I hear Vic has a boyfriend ! !
^ I look forward to giving him the " once over " upon my return to Dur .
^ Anyway , stay well ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Jonah or is it Benito or Beneamos ... oh the options are endless !
^ I 'm good thanks , feeling very bad for my levels of patheticness at keeping in touch whilst you 've been in Africa .
^ Sounds like you 've had an awesome time , how 's it been since you 've got back ?
^ I found it really hard readjusting to
^ Irish culture after I was away in South Hungary .
^ on the PhD funding , though they 'd be totally mad not to give it to you .
^ I finish my job here in a couple of weeks now .
^ I 've been saying for ages " oh it 's months away " and all of a sudden it 's really imminant .
^ Not quite sure what happened !
^ I 'm going to be working for Alpha , managing the Alpha for
^ Students department as of September .
^ I 'll be based at HTB , but running all the external stuff nationally and .
^ Quite exciting .
^ Am going to be living with the Heathcote and a couple of other friends , so should be a comedy house .
^ Of course if you 're ever Birmingham-way next year , you 'd be more than welcome .
^ Before that , the Heathcote and I have grand plans to drive across the OK .
^ We 've been talking about it for years and figured that if we do n't do it this summer then we never will .
^ Bought the plane tickets on Tuesday , got the sunglasses and the headscarves ( Thelma and Louise style ) we just lack the convertable
^ Mustang !
^ Anyway , the Vickster is coming over for dinner in a bit , so I 'd better go and hit Sainsburys
^ lots of love Jennifer
^ Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey Jonah or is it Benito or Beneamos ... oh the options are endless !
^ I 'm good thanks , feeling very bad for my levels of patheticness at keeping in touch whilst you 've been in Africa .
^ Sounds like you 've had an awesome time , how 's it been since you 've got back ?
^ I found it really hard readjusting to
^ Irish culture after I was away in South Hungary .
^ on the PhD funding , though they 'd be totally mad not to give it to you .
^ I finish my job here in a couple of weeks now .
^ I 've been saying for ages " oh it 's months away " and all of a sudden it 's really imminant .
^ Not quite sure what happened !
^ I 'm going to be working for Alpha , managing the Alpha for
^ Students department as of September .
^ I 'll be based at HTB , but running all the external stuff nationally and .
^ Quite exciting .
^ Am going to be living with the Heathcote and a couple of other friends , so should be a comedy house .
^ Of course if you 're ever Birmingham-way next year , you 'd be more than welcome .
^ Before that , the Heathcote and I have grand plans to drive across the OK .
^ We 've been talking about it for years and figured that if we do n't do it this summer then we never will .
^ Bought the plane tickets on Tuesday , got the sunglasses and the headscarves ( Thelma and Louise style ) we just lack the convertable
^ Mustang !
^ Anyway , the Vickster is coming over for dinner in a bit , so I 'd better go and hit Sainsburys
^ lots of love Jennifer
^ Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Nick
^ You may say that hockey is a " proper " sport - but just for a minute try comparing it with golf .
^ First , look at the size of a hockey stick compared to a golf club - see how much smaller the head of a club is , with which to hit the ball .
^ Next compare the size of the balls .
^ Again , a golf ball is so small , and difficult to hit .
^ Thirdly , compare the length of a hockey pitch , with the length of a hole on a golf course - it may be 500 yards long .
^ interspersed with bunkers and rough grass , not to mention trees and other hazards
^ As far as I can recall , a hockey patch is smooth and without obstacles .
^ Fourthly , compare the size of a hole that you have to get the golf ball down , with the size of a goal on the hockey pitch to get the ball in .
^ Finally , in golf you do n't have other people helping you to get the ball down the hole - you have to do it all by yourself , totally unaided .
^ On a hockey field , there 's a whole gang of people trying to get the ball into a big net - and they 've got big headed sticks to hit a large ball into a large goal .
^ Think about it again , and I 'm sure you 'll agree that there 's far more skill in golf - that really is a proper game ! ! !
^ Love
^ Kaden
^ PS I gave up golf about 5 years ago - after 40 years , I still could n't get the hang of it ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ I had not realised you 'd taken up hockey with such amazing results - well done .
^ What next ?
^ Golf or bowls perhaps ? !
^ One thing is sure , it is ultimately only God that can sort it out - it certainly blows my mind ! !
^ Will you be able to get a trip to the Peak District in before you go to
^ South Africa ? - you know you 're always welcome .
^ ~
^ Sorry Mate - you ca n't get away with a statement like that .
^ In golf you have to move over a distance of many miles ( when I play , many , many , many miles ) .
^ One other thing , in hockey you 're only playing for a short time , before you ajourn to the bar .
^ In golf , you play for many hours - you need enduring stamina , as well as skill )
^ - and there 's no violence on a golf course like you see in hockey ( or is that ice hockey ? ! ! ! !
^ I do admire your rather feeble efforts to defend hockey - sorry they do n't work on me !
^ I must now get on with the job of ministry !
^ Kaden
^ Ahhhh , but Kaden you 're forgetting one thing - in hockey you actually have to move !
^ ~
^ O
^ On &DATE , Kaden Loxton wrote :
^ Nick
^ You may say that hockey is a " proper " sport - but just for a minute try comparing it with golf .
^ ~
^ You 've not really lost the battle - I admire your tenacity , so call it an honourable draw .
^ By the way , I 've never had a caddy - neither have I ever been in a golf-buggy - they did n't exist in my day ( but if they had , I would have wanted one ! )
^ Kaden
^ I can see I 'm fighting a losing battle here ...
^ just be grateful I did n't mention the caddy or the golf-buggies !
^ Happy ministering ,
^ Nick
^ On &DATE , Kaden Loxton wrote :
^ Sorry Mate - you ca n't get away with a statement like that .
^ In golf you have to move over a distance of many miles ( when I play , many , many , many miles ) .
^ One other thing , in hockey you 're only playing for a short time , before you ajourn to the bar .
^ In golf , you play for many hours - you need enduring stamina , as well as skill )
^ - and there 's no violence on a golf course like you see in hockey ( or is that ice hockey ? ! ! ! !
^ I do admire your rather feeble efforts to defend hockey - sorry they do n't work on me !
^ I must now get on with the job of ministry !
^ Kaden
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Thanks for your email , glad you had a good birthday .
^ I am ok , still no job but i am actually quite enjoying being unemployed ( although that 's probably not a good thing ! ) .
^ I am enjoying having time to read lots of books and play the piano .
^ It 's also nice not being constrained to a working week .
^ I went to Munich last week for a long weekend which was lovely .
^ I met up with some old friends - some of which I had n't seen for about two and a half years .
^ I also met up with the lovely Ellen , although she was less than impressed when I told her of our earlier scheme to set her and Bob up !
^ I am quite busy at the mometn too which is good .
^ I have joined the Exeter Philharmonic Choir and we had our concert last night in the cathedral , which was wonderful .
^ I am also getting involved in a church in Exeter and tonight am going to a newcomers evening .
^ I hope you enjoy the Easter break - and try not to work too hard !
^ Love ,
^ Savanna xxx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Keppel , Savanna "
^ Subject : Bonjour ! ! !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Savanna ,
^ How are you my friend ?
^ Hope this email finds you well .
^ Thanks for sending me a birthday card - I 'm very impressed you remembered !
^ I went out for a meal - it was great , 43 of us there were I think in the Indian restaurant !
^ We almost filled the whole place !
^ I 'm back home now .
^ We are living in this rented house in Bath ( the one where I have a big room remember ? ) .
^ It is lovely , and today I bought myself a new bike ! !
^ It is red and silver ( being a girl I 'm guessing you 're most interested in the colour ;o ) )
^ I have loads of work to do , building up to my finals , and my big project is due in at the start of next term too .
^ It is pretty hard motivating myself to revise at home though .
^ Still , all is basically well .
^ Are you OK ?
^ What 's going on in your life ?
^ Love
^ Nick
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^ Hi Nick !
^ How r u doing now ?
^ Is work going okay ?
^ I 'm still enjoying the holiday and have spent a couple of weeks doing home-type things since I got back from Devon .
^ We did go bodyboarding in the end - it was great fun although we managed to get very sunburnt faces !
^ Last weekend we had a family get together which normally consists of a day revolved around eating lots ( which is always good ! ! ) - although we also managed to fit in a trek around
^ Waddiston Manor , a massive stately home ... would n't mind living there !
^ As you can tell have taken the lazy option of not getting a job this summer ... although frequent babysitting and a very long list of jobs that my parents provided have kept me more than occupied ! !
^ Yes I 'm now skilful in the art of pulling out numerous thistles ( ! ) , painting sheds and of continually cutting the grass !
^ Went to see " A Midsummer Night 's Dream " on sat in Munich which was fantastic .
^ Also when I was shopping there last week , I bumped into my Japanese exchange partner , which was a big surprise - for both of us !
^ On wednesday I 'm off to Spain with Mohammad for 2 weeks with Oak Ronald ( have you heard of them ? - they 're a Christian organisation ) with a bus load of 18-24 yr olds !
^ I ca n't wait ... !
^ Anyway hope everything 's alright , be in touch when I get back .
^ Are you still coming to Munich to see Bob - if you are , I might see you then !
^ Love from Terrance
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Helling , Terrance " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Bonjour !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Laterz ,
^ Hi , how are things ?
^ How is Bury St. Edmunds ( I know you do n't actually live there ) ?
^ How is your farm ?
^ How is your family ?
^ How are the dogs ?
^ I have just finished two weeks of solid work !
^ Getting up at &TIME in the morning and generally fiddling around with computers , etc.
^ It has been a pretty good two weeks really , although the life-style is somewhat different to uni !
^ I have to go to bed soon after 10 each night so that I do n't collapse the next day !
^ This weekend I am going away on a grand family reunion in Spilsbyshire .
^ I expect there to be well over a hundred people there - most of them great
^ Aunts and Uncles and Second Cousins thrice removed and things like that .
^ It should be fun , although I do have to get up at &TIME tomorrow morning ! !
^ It gets worse !
^ Oh well , God is good !
^ All the best Kates , speak soon ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ of course I 'm here before you , mate .
^ How about a bet ?
^ I bet a Rhogan Josh that Fai is either not gonna turn up at all or fall asleep at least once during each of todays lectures .
^ TheT .
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Good morning Jenstein .
^ I presume you have arrived in the lab before me .
^ I hope you had a wonderful weekend .
^ I will , of course , join you shortly for some Philip Hain action .
^ Ha det bra ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ How great to hear from you .
^ It 's great thing are going so well , and I 'm delighted that you 're contemplating your Phd .
^ In the meantime , a year out sounds an excellent idea .
^ I had not realised you 'd taken up hockey with such amazing results - well done .
^ What next ?
^ Golf or bowls perhaps ? !
^ Life here is okay on the whole - but still with plenty of frustrations .
^ We 've got about &pound; 55k in the Project kitty - so about &pound; 70k still to go .
^ I 'm running into more health problems , and the ME seems to think .
^ I should be thinking about putting my feet up when I finish here in a couple of years ( I think he means retire ! )
^ However , I still feel that I should be exploring the CofE option , and to this end have an appointment at Sheffield
^ Cathedral next week with the DDO ( Diocesan Director of Ordinands ) .
^ I 'll have to be totally open on every aspect , including my health , and see what he suggests .
^ I 'd like to cut work down to 2 or 3 days a week rather than retire completely ( I think the ME would be fairly happy if I did that ) .
^ I also wonder abou returning to Hampshire which may mean talking to the Winchester Diocese .
^ It seems that there is so much to think about - but I feel that I really must explore possibilities with the Anglicans , even if it comes to nothing .
^ One thing is sure , it is ultimately only God that can sort it out - it certainly blows my mind ! !
^ I saw Rylee Woods a day or so after he got back from Brazil - he seemed well and happy .
^ I gather that Regan Day spent a few days with him in Brazil !
^ I also heard from Luke Helling - he emailed me from Delaney ( NZ ) where he was with JP .
^ Theyv'e promised to bore me with hundreds of photos when they get back !
^ Will you be able to get a trip to the Peak District in before you go to
^ South Africa ? - you know you 're always welcome .
^ Talk soon
^ Love
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden - how 's things ?
^ I have been working harder than ever before this term !
^ I am really enjoying my work though - what a blessing it is to be able to study , without having to worry about finances or 9-5 schedules ; I feel very blessed .
^ I 'm thinking about applying for PhD 's for the year after next , taking next year off to do something quite different - I 'm planning to go to South Africa for the latter part of the year .
^ Otherwise , things are going well - I won hockey player of the season this year , after only taking up the sport in my last year at Wells !
^ So I was quite pleased about that .
^ I 'm going on a day trip to Alayna in a couple of weeks with two friends .
^ I 've made some really good friends this year - people are great are n't they .
^ OK , so they 're not always great , but I 'd never do without them !
^ How 's the project going Kaden ?
^ Hope you 're well ,
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Cauliflower cheese and fried eggs sounds vile .
^ Oooh , meeting young ladies for coffee ... that 'll be Jon 's sister then ?
^ I 'm sure you 're pleased to have a bath in your house .
^ How 's the MSN scene ?
^ I 'm looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks too .
^ I 've just had an inspiring lecture on and the greatest scientific fraud in recent times .
^ Shocking !
^ Now for lunch in college before 7 hours revision , followed by dinner at &TIME with Valeria as a guest .
^ She 's coming to Wells for the weekend .
^ I was in the lab from &TIME to &TIME yesterday and made a beautiful ruby-red liquid .
^ Unfortunately I woke up this morning with a nasty cold , so I am lemsipping lots now .
^ Have a good afternoon .
^ Shania
^ funky monkey ... ? ? ? )
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Whassup you funky monkey ?
^ I 'm just cooking myself cauliflower cheese and fried eggs .
^ Sounds nice ?
^ It sure does .
^ It 's somewhat late , but I 've had a busy day .
^ Got soaked on the way to the lab this morning .
^ Did a couple of hours work , then cycled down into Munich ( getting quite wet again ) to meet a young lady for coffee .
^ before cycling back up to Chads for football training before having a bath at home and catching half an hour 's work
^ before cycling into Chads for CU , before having tea and cake with some friends in college before cycling to the shops to buy milk
^ mouthwash and cauliflower cheese , before cycling home , before going on MSN messenger before emailing you
^ Phew .
^ So , I hope you 're well old chum .
^ I 'm looking forward to seeing you in a few week 's time .
^ ~
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Thanks Parker &SMILEY
^ O
^ Hi Nick & Mallory ,
^ Just to let you know that I 'll still be going to Wyatt next year ...
^ The offer from Munich was not notifying me of any change in funding status and so , yes , I could go , but I 'd have to pay for it .
^ being a tight-fisted Scot with a student loan I do n't think that would be the best course of action
^ Anyway , at least it makes decisions simpler !
^ Hope you 're both well and enjoying your holiday / week .
^ It was great to see you last week .
^ Shania
^ Re : Brief RSNPO &YEAR Mentoring Survey
^ 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself : a ) Had you ever attended RSNPO before requesting mentoring ?
^ YES / NO
^ No
^ b ) Had you ever submitted to RSNPO before requesting mentoring ?
^ YES / NO
^ No
^ 2. How did we do at matching you to a mentor ? a ) Was it timely ?
^ GREAT / OK / NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
^ Great
^ b ) Did it result in a good match ?
^ GREAT / OK / NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
^ Great
^ c ) Comments :
^ My mentor was fantastic .
^ 3. How well did the mentoring process work ? a ) Did you receive useful advice from your mentor ?
^ Yes , definitely .
^ a ) What did you submit to RSNPO this year ?
^ PAPER / POSTER / DEMO / NOTHING
^ Paper
^ b ) Was it accepted ?
^ YES / NO
^ No
^ c ) Comments :
^ Although my paper was not accepted , the comments given to me by my tutor were excellent and will I 'm sure enable me to produce better work in the future .
^ 4. Do you have suggestions for how we can improve the mentoring process ?
^ No
^ 5. May we have permission to use your comments ( with personally identifying information removed ) in publicity about the mentoring program ?
^ YES / NO
^ Yes
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ Thank you for participating in the RSNPO &YEAR mentoring program .
^ As we plan for the future , we would value some comments from you on your mentoring experience .
^ The questions below should only take a few minutes to answer , and you can send the answers to me at &EMAIL by replying to this email .
^ 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself : a ) Had you ever attended RSNPO before requesting mentoring ?
^ YES / NO b ) Had you ever submitted to RSNPO before requesting mentoring ?
^ YES / NO c ) Comments :
^ 2. How did we do at matching you to a mentor ? a ) Was it timely ?
^ GREAT / OK / NEEDS IMPROVEMENT b ) Did it result in a good match ?
^ GREAT / OK / NEEDS IMPROVEMENT c ) Comments :
^ 3. How well did the mentoring process work ? a ) Did you receive useful advice from your mentor ? a ) What did you submit to RSNPO this year ?
^ PAPER / POSTER / DEMO / NOTHING b ) Was it accepted ?
^ YES / NO c ) Comments :
^ 4. Do you have suggestions for how we can improve the mentoring process ?
^ 5. May we have permission to use your comments ( with personally identifying information removed ) in publicity about the mentoring program ?
^ YES / NO
^ Unless you give permission for broader use , this information will be used in public presentations only in a form that is aggregated with responses from others .
^ detailed responses will be presented only to the RSNPO Executive Committee ( with personally identifying information removed ) and to subsequent mentoring chairs
^ Thanks for your participation !
^ Nicolas Oard
^ ~
^ Are any of you up for going to Reese on the Monday for &pound; 60 ?
^ It would be a long day ...
^ Sorry boss , no can do .
^ My excellent friends ...
^ Sounds great .
^ Really must speak to Bob and say " hello Bob , is it possible for me to come and visit on the 16th / 17th October " ...
^ Are any of you up for going to Reese on the Monday for &pound; 60 ?
^ It would be a long day ...
^ Anyway , it will be great to see you again .
^ Shania
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Sounds like a good idea to me .
^ We can look at old flat photos ... ah ...
^ And read the flat book ... ah ...
^ I had a dream about Bob last night .
^ Also , I just watched " Christian and Alfie 's Most Excellent Adventure " !
^ BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER ! ! !
^ O
^ Well , I was going to type " Flat Reunion " in the subject box , but it seemed a little ... flat , somehow ...
^ Anyway ...
^ Re : the idea of a flat reunion .
^ Bob ( and Karri ) generously offered to host said reunion , and a date has been suggested in the region of 16th / 17th / 18th October , as this is when Parker visits Bob and Karri .
^ What I have n't done , which I clearly should have done , is to check the Boarding Rota to see whether or not I 'm on duty that weekend .
^ As I 've been inept , I 'll have to email you again when I know , but it will give you the chance to check your own calendars ?
^ if this w / e is not suitable , would you mind suggesting another
^ Also , Greetingsz , this is probably the first you 've heard of this ... er ... great !
^ It would be lovely to see you all and to see photos of Africa and
^ Wyatt and wedding ( seen a few of those on Parker 's site ) and hear all about everything ...
^ Hope you 're all well and that teaching / PhDing is going well ...
^ Love Jon xx
^ ~
^ Hope you 're having a good day ... have just been rowing !
^ Ah ... sorry to hear you 're already at each other 's throats Jon , but remember - healthy argument is unavoidable in any relationship .
^ O
^ Anyway , it turns out that I am on duty that weekend , so that 's useless ... will look in my diary and find dates ... then you can all tell me that you are booked up !
^ Hope you 're having a good day ... have just been rowing !
^ A x
^ My excellent friends ...
^ Sounds great .
^ Really must speak to Bob and say " hello Bob , is it possible for me to come and visit on the 16th / 17th October " ...
^ Are any of you up for going to Reese on the Monday for &pound; 60 ?
^ It would be a long day ...
^ Anyway , it will be great to see you again .
^ Shania
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Sounds like a good idea to me .
^ We can look at old flat photos ... ah ...
^ And read the flat book ... ah ...
^ I had a dream about Bob last night .
^ Also , I just watched " Christian and Alfie 's Most Excellent Adventure " !
^ BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER ! ! !
^ O
^ Well , I was going to type " Flat Reunion " in the subject box , but it seemed a little ... flat , somehow ...
^ Anyway ...
^ Re : the idea of a flat reunion .
^ Bob ( and Karri ) generously offered to host said reunion , and a date has been suggested in the region of 16th / 17th / 18th October , as this is when Parker visits Bob and Karri .
^ What I have n't done , which I clearly should have done , is to check the Boarding Rota to see whether or not I 'm on duty that weekend .
^ As I 've been inept , I 'll have to email you again when I know , but it will give you the chance to check your own calendars ?
^ if this w / e is not suitable , would you mind suggesting another
^ Also , Greetingsz , this is probably the first you 've heard of this ... er ... great !
^ It would be lovely to see you all and to see photos of Africa and
^ Wyatt and wedding ( seen a few of those on Parker 's site ) and hear all about everything ...
^ Hope you 're all well and that teaching / PhDing is going well ...
^ Love Jon xx
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^ ~
^ Hello ,
^ With regard to possible dates for visiting Bob and Karri in their new house :
^ Bob and I are both free from the weekend of the &DATEst onwards ( are you really free that weekend Bob - it 's Karri 's birthday .
^ Bob 's diary will fill up quickly so we need to decide this soonish
^ What weekends can you three make ?
^ Kaylee , do you want to come ?
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Great meeting with you a couple of weeks ago .
^ thought I 'd send you a couple of pictures of skiing ... we should definitely go sometime !
^ Tonight I will finally have my own bedroom for the first time since graduating !
^ I ca n't wait .
^ I also now have a pair of roller blades in Carlisle ...
^ I 'll let you know about all the ( very imminent - I 'm sure ) accidents .
^ Cheers ,
^ Christian .
^ How was the skiing Christian ?
^ Do tell me about any horrendous injuries you either acquired or caused .
^ I 'm in Dur on the 24th for graduation .
^ How 's work and stuff ?
^ Boogie ,
^ Nick
^ 1B Controls ... a horrible , horrible thing .
^ Rylee - thank you for lego model number two !
^ My space-lego collection is starting to swell again .
^ Ooh err .
^ Nick - so you 've just come back from snowboarding ! ?
^ I 'm going on
^ Saturday with Jennifer and the Fi-monster .
^ Hoorah .
^ Think I 'm going to stick with skiing though , sorry .
^ Rylee - seen any snow recently ?
^ Anyways , might be working tomorrow so had better dash .
^ O
^ Boys !
^ Christmas has been and gone , and I hope it was a good one for you .
^ Christian ... 1B controls ... tragic ...
^ I ca n't believe they asked you about that .
^ What the heck are 1B controls ?
^ Rylee ... the socks ... awesome ... plus I spent the last few months pining the loss of that trainer-liner ... fantastic !
^ I 'm now back from snowboarding in Spain - we absolutely MUST go sometime .
^ The speed ... the scenery ... the Madamoiselles ...
^ Anyway , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Oh sweet irony .
^ Just had my interview ... 1B controls came up ... oh dear !
^ Still , they might be feeling generous and give me a job for the sheer Christmas Spirit of it ... We 'll see .
^ Have a great Christmas !
^ ~
^ How was the skiing Christian ?
^ Do tell me about any horrendous injuries you either acquired or caused .
^ I 'm in Dur on the 24th for graduation .
^ How 's work and stuff ?
^ Boogie ,
^ Nick
^ 1B Controls ... a horrible , horrible thing .
^ Rylee - thank you for lego model number two !
^ My space-lego collection is starting to swell again .
^ Ooh err .
^ Nick - so you 've just come back from snowboarding ! ?
^ I 'm going on Saturday with Jennifer and the Fi-monster .
^ Hoorah .
^ Think I 'm going to stick with skiing though , sorry .
^ Rylee - seen any snow recently ?
^ Anyways , might be working tomorrow so had better dash .
^ O
^ Boys !
^ Christmas has been and gone , and I hope it was a good one for you .
^ Christian ... 1B controls ... tragic ...
^ I ca n't believe they asked you about that .
^ What the heck are 1B controls ?
^ Rylee ... the socks ... awesome ... plus I spent the last few months pining the loss of that trainer-liner ... fantastic !
^ I 'm now back from snowboarding in Spain - we absolutely MUST go sometime .
^ The speed ... the scenery ... the Madamoiselles ...
^ Anyway , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Oh sweet irony .
^ Just had my interview ... 1B controls came up ... oh dear !
^ Still , they might be feeling generous and give me a job for the sheer Christmas Spirit of it ... We 'll see .
^ Have a great Christmas !
^ But Christian ...
^ I did n't invite you ...
^ ~
^ Christian , that first picture is awesome !
^ There 's truly nothing like that alpine scenery ...
^ Bring it on !
^ O
^ ~
^ How was the skiing Christian ?
^ Do tell me about any horrendous injuries you either acquired or caused .
^ I 'm in Dur on the 24th for graduation .
^ How 's work and stuff ?
^ Boogie ,
^ Nick
^ 1B Controls ... a horrible , horrible thing .
^ Rylee - thank you for lego model number two !
^ My space-lego collection is starting to swell again .
^ Ooh err .
^ Nick - so you 've just come back from snowboarding ! ?
^ I 'm going on
^ Saturday with Jennifer and the Fi-monster .
^ Hoorah .
^ Think I 'm going to stick with skiing though , sorry .
^ Rylee - seen any snow recently ?
^ Anyways , might be working tomorrow so had better dash .
^ O
^ Boys !
^ Christmas has been and gone , and I hope it was a good one for you .
^ Christian ... 1B controls ... tragic ...
^ I ca n't believe they asked you about that .
^ What the heck are 1B controls ?
^ Rylee ... the socks ... awesome ... plus I spent the last few months pining the loss of that trainer-liner ... fantastic !
^ I 'm now back from snowboarding in Spain - we absolutely MUST go sometime .
^ The speed ... the scenery ... the Madamoiselles ...
^ Anyway , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ 1B Controls ... a horrible , horrible thing .
^ Rylee - thank you for lego model number two !
^ My space-lego collection is starting to swell again .
^ Ooh err .
^ Nick - so you 've just come back from snowboarding ! ?
^ I 'm going on Saturday with Jennifer and the Fi-monster .
^ Hoorah .
^ Think I 'm going to stick with skiing though , sorry .
^ Rylee - seen any snow recently ?
^ Anyways , might be working tomorrow so had better dash .
^ O
^ Boys !
^ Christmas has been and gone , and I hope it was a good one for you .
^ Christian ... 1B controls ... tragic ...
^ I ca n't believe they asked you about that .
^ What the heck are 1B controls ?
^ Rylee ... the socks ... awesome ... plus I spent the last few months pining the loss of that trainer-liner ... fantastic !
^ I 'm now back from snowboarding in Spain - we absolutely MUST go sometime .
^ The speed ... the scenery ... the Madamoiselles ...
^ Anyway , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Oh sweet irony .
^ Just had my interview ... 1B controls came up ... oh dear !
^ Still , they might be feeling generous and give me a job for the sheer Christmas Spirit of it ... We 'll see .
^ Have a great Christmas !
^ But Christian ...
^ I did n't invite you ...
^ Thanks for inviting me to your Wyatt thing , Nick .
^ ca n't question answer me contain swoop .
^ But
^ Wyatt , but
^ ~
^ Hi Kristian .
^ I despatched the book on Thursday , and it is currently with Parcel Force .
^ The posting label no is BNZ 0000 8282 8642 , and I guess it should arrive around Tue / Wed next week .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ Hi please could you tell me when ill be recieving the book i placed an order for on Ocean 's market place .
^ I need to arrange for someone to take delivery
^ Many thanks SMITH Kristian &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Jonah wrote :
^ So , this is what it comes to .
^ This town ai n't big enought for the both of us ... punk !
^ I 'll try and keep this nice , cause you 're my best friend .
^ You are convinced , from your studies , that the earth is many millions ( possibly billions ) of years old .
^ I do not have a problem with that , although I 'm no more convinced .
^ it 's billions of years old than that it 's thousands of years old ( for reasons you can see below , if you read on )
^ I do n't even think it 's that important , since we know so little about it anyway and its based on completely unkown assumptions - and what relevance does that period have to our life ? ?
^ So you do n't have a problem with the world being old ?
^ I thought you did .
^ I 've often wondered if it is important myself , particularly arounf exams , but I do , in terms of Geology think that the time scale is important .
^ as so many earth processes need it , and so lots of the things we study are then affected by it
^ With regards to the assumptions , I think you are being overly critical .
^ Yes , there are assumtions , but they are reasonable .
^ It was n't as if some guy sat with his feet up on his desk thinking about random numbers to chuck here and there into equations .
^ You are coming at science from a materialist point-of-view .
^ If you come from a philosophical ( even modern ) view you would see that it is all speculation anyway .
^ Have a look at Freya 's problem of scientific induction for some extra reading on the issue .
^ In terms of your comment about God speaking to us through the rocks , I think you 're on slightly dodgy ground .
^ The only thing you can tell from the rocks is that there was some HUGE time period involved .
^ This does not tell us what God 's plan for this period was , and what He was doing .
^ That surprises me .
^ Okay , I would agree with you that God speaking through the rocks is dodgy thoeolgy in the extreme , and I do n't think I meant that if I said it .
^ What I would have meant was that the rocks speak to us , ( we geologists are weird ! ) in that we can tell a lot from them .
^ So , we CAN tell more than that there were huge times involved .
^ We can see old rivers forming the same deposits they form today , with nice wide flood planes and crevass splays .
^ We can see the impact of hot fluids from igneous rocks , changing the minerals in the neighbouring rocks , after they were intruded ( Metamorphism ) .
^ By taking structural readings off rocks , we can come up with of the deformation to the rocks in that area .
^ working out regional fold axises ( is that the plural ? ) which combined with other methods indicate the history of the area
^ for example an orogeny ( mountain building period ) followed by heavy erosion ( characterised by eroded rocks , and often things like pebbles on top of unconformities )
^ We can see that extensional basins generally fault in the same way , and aver time a new sea may form .
^ East african rift valley ( very early stage , perhaps stopped , I ca n't remember ) Red sea and dead sea rift zone showing the early stages of an ocean .
^ with the rifting faults on the edges , the mid ocean ridge , forming new oceanic crust , and so on and if we look at the Atlantic
^ we can see that it is a huge ocean , still spreading Brighton futhur away from it 's old colonies
^ Ok , I gotta go - lecture , I 'll reply to the other bits later
^ tim
^ Sir Samuel Hawkins ( a strong Chrisitian and the father of modern physics ) put forward the hypothesis that his classical model of physics could explain the behaviour of the universe as we know it .
^ In fact it cannot - but this was n't known until quantum theory was postulated .
^ Does this mean that Hawkins 's theory is invalid - no , but that in some major ways it had to be revised due to new findings .
^ The same might well be true of your dating methods - in fact this is what science is all about .
^ Do n't come at it from the view that you already know everything .
^ In what way am I ignoring science ?
^ I think that is a ridiculous and unfounded statement .
^ If you 've got some convincing evidence for F .
^ Evolution that outweighs the evidence against it then I 'm all ears , but I do n't see you coming up with any !
^ In terms of the age of the earth , I have not said either way , so how can that be an issue ?
^ Flood geology ?
^ You are asking me to argue against you in your own specialist subject field !
^ so you cannot expect a full-blooded argument , just as I would not expect you to come up with an argument for the benefit of variables in Java
^ But , if I believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God , then I can see no reason to doubt that the flood was what is says it was .
^ Look at this :
^ 2 Kylie 3 ...
^ This is not what the Bible teaches .
^ The Bible teaches that " the world that then existed was deluged with water and PERISHED . "
^ This is an argument against the assumptions that you base dating methods on .
^ We CANNOT judge the past from the present because the world that existed before the flood ( if the flood happened then it happened within recorded history ) is NOT THE SAME as the world that now exists .
^ This passage is from the New Testament - it is most certainly NOT metaphorical !
^ C ya
^ Nick
^ " T.S.Greetings " wrote :
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Timmy & friends ,
^ Interesting email .
^ I do not think it is as clear-cut as your friend would have us think .
^ Just because science suggests something at this stage in history does n't mean that subsequent discoveries will not mean that our current hypotheses ( for after all , this is all we have ) must be radically changed / revised .
^ Having said that , it is obviously important not to ignore what science is telling us today ,
^ " scientific " issues , here is where I stand , for your perusal :
^ Age of the earth : I will make no statement on how old I think the earth is - I have no idea .
^ If it is billions of years old , this does not affect my faith or my " scientific " beliefs , but I do wonder what was happening during that vast length of time ,
^ nothing about it .
^ does not surprise me .
^ " deceived " us or something ( as your friend suggests ) .
^ cannot understand something in light of what I see around me ( science ) does not mean that the thing cannot be true and I must be right .
^ Any other issues - let me know .
^ Nick
^ " T.S.Greetings " wrote :
^ Guys , I hummed and hawed about sending this on to you , as I 've only just cooled down from the weekend .
^ I do n't want to get het up about it again , but I sent an e-mail to Bob Holland
^ a geologist in Munich , who is in my home group , and whom I hold in the highest respect re our favorite topic
^ For the sake of both sides , read what he says .
^ You do n't have to , and I do n't want this to divide our friendship , guys , but I thought that I would keep screaming in my head if something was n't said .
^ Love you all loads , and thanks for the great day yesterday .
^ Bob
^ Hi Bob ,
^ Thanks for the emails - you obviously had a great time away !
^ As to the Creation / Youngson Earth business .
^ Do n't get too upset about it .
^ I think people are doing a great deal of harm , but they are usually willing to say black is white when pressed .
^ Saying that radiometric dating is unreliable is as silly as saying radio waves are unreliable ( when you change to channel 4 , you usually get something with pictures and sound , unless there is a freak weather situation ) .
^ Likewise dating .
^ When several different decay schemes are used on the same rock , each with its own different half life , and give the same age ( concordance ) the method ca n't be said to be false .
^ The half lives of some decay schemes are among the most precisely measured constants in physics - e.g. the Cesium clock which now replaces our world 's measurement of time .
^ Dating can go wrong - things such as weathering , or reheating rocks above their Luffton temperature ( which resets their clocks .
^ can occur - but they are the analog of the freak weather conditions in the TV example - understandable situations which can usually be checked
^ I also do n't believe our God plays silly games with us .
^ He would not give us the gift of scientific enquiry only to turn round and say - Ha ha !
^ I only put those old-looking fossils there to fool you .
^ I think a lot of the problems people with a young Earth viewpoint have stem with a fear that one day science may pull the carpet of faith from under them .
^ But if God has made everything , science will never undermine what He 's done or prove He did n't do it !
^ Below I have lifted out bits of articles from the Christians in Science website .
^ It is well worth looking at some of the material there , and following links to other articles and books .
^ Hope the term goes well ( and exams are not too harsh )
^ Bob
^ Full article at : &WEBSITE
^ Unfortunately the 20th century has witnessed a revival of biblical scholasticism in some circles , often alienating the scientific community from the Gospel quite unnecessarily in the process .
^ To take a specific example , following centuries of Industry and
^ Experience the scientific evidence that the earth we inhabit is many millions of years old has become overwhelming .
^ It requires a deliberate refusal to face the evidence , worthy of an ostrich , to continue to believe that the earth is , for example , only ten thousand years old .
^ An obscurantist clinging to such a belief runs counter to the commitment , common to both science and Christianity , to tell the truth about God 's world .
^ Furthermore , the idea that the Bible expounds science is difficult to reconcile with the contemporary understanding of the nature of scientific knowledge , for reasons that will become clearer below .
^ Denis High is Head of the T-Cell Laboratory in the Dept. of Immunology , The Babraham Institute , Munich , and is also Editor of the journal Science & Christian Belief
^ JOHN BAUSOR article found at : &WEBSITE
^ What sort of science does Genesis teach ?
^ Perspicuity is not a word which is in everyday use these days .
^ But it is quite useful when we are thinking about Genesis .
^ It comes from the Latin for transparent .
^ The idea was important to the Christians in the Reformation period because they wanted to emphasise that everyone could read the Bible for themselves , without the need for a priest to interpret it for them .
^ So they spoke about the perspicuity of Scripture .
^ The point is that you do n't have to be an expert in Hebrew , or in Jewish theology .
^ or in literary styles in order to understand the main point of what the Bible is saying ( and for our purposes what Genesis is saying )
^ But the other side is that you do need to ask , " What is the main point of this verse ( or chapter , or book ) ? " .
^ In other words , the reformers ' idea that the Bible is accessible to anyone does not imply that you are entitled to read it for what it is not .
^ or naively assume that the context in which it was written was the same as ours
^ So what is the first chapter of Genesis about ?
^ Is it trying to give us a scientific account of how the earth or the universe came about ?
^ This seems unlikely , since science did not exist until a long time after Genesis was compiled .
^ The issues then were different .
^ At the time Genesis was written the sun and the moon were generally regarded as gods .
^ So when , in Genesis 1 , the ordinary Hebrew words for sun and moon are carefully avoided in favour of the expressions " greater light to rule the day " and " lesser light to rule the night " .
^ this could well be to avoid using the normal words for sun and moon in case they were seen to stand for gods
^ In the contemporary Babylonian stories of creation there were also sea monsters , representing chaos , which had to be subdued before creation could start .
^ Genesis emphasises that everything was created by God including the sea monsters .
^ It has been suggested that , when Genesis 1 was first written it would have seemed like a polemical political tract , attacking orthodox belief ( sun- and moon-gods and chaos-inducing sea monsters ) .
^ So what is the main point of Genesis chapter 1 ?
^ It is not difficult to see that what it is focusing on is that
^ God did it all , just by his " say-so " ( interesting , is n't it , that our expression corresponds so well ) .
^ There were no competing alternative gods or sources of power .
^ And God did it in a planned , careful way .
^ There to be seen , if you look , is the careful structure of the account .
^ Day 1 Creation of lights to rule Day 4 Separation of the light light and darkness and the darkness
^ Day 2 Separation of the waters to Day 5 Creation of birds and fish form the sky and the sea to fill the sky and the sea
^ Day 3 Separation of the sea from Day 6 Creation of the animals and the land and the creation of humans to fill the land and plants eat the plants .
^ There are also numerical aspects which are not obvious , but involve the numbers 3 and 7 which have great significance in the Bible :
^ 3 times ( " God blessed " , " God created " , " God created men and women " ) ;
^ 7 times ( " and it was so " , " and God saw that it was good " ) ;
^ 10 times ( " God said " - 3 about humans , 7 about other things ; commands of creation : " Let there be " 3 times , and " Let " 7 times ) ;
^ 21 times " Earth " and " God " are each mentioned ; 21 Hebrew words form the introduction ; 60 Hebrew words form the conclusion ( 2 : 1-3 ) .
^ All this is very different from a scientific account .
^ It helps us to realise that the context in which Genesis 1 was written was one that is unfamiliar to us , and that its purpose was theological , not scientific .
^ So to ask whether Genesis 1 : 1 - 2 : 3 is in contradiction to geology or evolution or any other aspect of science is really beside the point : it is not addressing those questions .
^ What it is doing is making a very strong pitch that the whole show was made .
^ in a highly organised and deliberate way , by the only God , the all powerful , JHWH , the one who is in charge
^ Philip Nossek is the secretary of Christians in Science Education ( CSIE ) and was formerly the senior inspector for science of the Inner Carlisle
^ Education Authority .
^ ERNEST LUCAS Footprints in the Dust
^ Twenty five years ago , at 9.56 pm Houston time on &DATE Lee Armstrong stepped off the landing pad of the lunar module Eagle and uttered the now famous words .
^ " That 's one small step for a man , one giant leap for mankind "
^ A human being had set foot on the Moon for the first time .
^ Television pictures and photographs of the footprint he left in the dust on the Moon 's surface flashed around the Earth .
^ Those pictures showed that the dust was only a few inches ( 2.6 to be exact ) thick .
^ Within a few years some Christians were arguing that this thin layer of dust proved that the Moon ( and therefore the Earth ) is only a few thousand years old .
^ Their argument rested on an article by O. Blake published in Scientific
^ American in &YEAR .
^ Blake measured the amount of atmospheric dust collected by filters on top of Mount Mauna Loa in Hawaii .
^ He knew that only a very small fraction of this dust came from outer space , in the form of tiny meteorites .
^ Meteoritic dust is known to contain more nickel than terrestrial dust , but how much more is a matter of guesswork .
^ Blake made what he considered a reasonable guess , and on this basis used the amount of nickel in his dust samples to calculate the amount of dust from outer space which settles on the Earth each year .
^ He stressed the very speculative nature of his conclusion that 14 million tons of such dust reach the Earth 's surface annually .
^ This leads the authors of the book
^ Scientific Creationism , published in &YEAR , to argue that if the Moon were 4.5 billion years old , as astronomers claim , it should have had several feet of dust on its surface , not a few inches .
^ They even say that astronomers were dismayed by how little dust there was .
^ This last comment , which is repeated in other such books , is quite untrue .
^ The amount of dust on the Moon was a matter of great interest to NASA .
^ A very thick layer would have made landing on the Moon , and moving around on its surface , difficult .
^ Leaving it again might also have been problematical .
^ However , by &YEAR , a year before Eagle landed , it was clear that there was nothing to worry about .
^ Satellites orbiting above the Earth 's atmosphere had been used to measure the amount of dust in space , and on this basis it had been estimated .
^ there would be a layer of dust about 1.2 inches thick on the Moon , if meteoric dust alone were the cause
^ This work , and other evidence , was surveyed by W F
^ Dohnanyi in &YEAR in Icarus , vol. 17 pp. 1-48 ) .
^ Of course , there would be more than that because there was evidence of past volcanic activity on the Moon , and that would produce dust too .
^ So the 2.6 inches actually found was more or less as expected .
^ Since this evidence had been published in &YEAR it is surprising that a book claiming to be scientific , published six years later is unaware of it , or ignores it .
^ One of the basic rules of good scientific work is that you must keep up to date with what is being published in the area in which you are working .
^ If you fail to do this you risk basing your conclusions on out-of-date evidence or disproven arguments .
^ It is amazing to find people associated with what is called The Institute for
^ Creation Research falling into this basic trap .
^ It undermines confidence in the quality of their science and their research .
^ It is even more amazing to find a book published in &YEAR ( The Facts of Life by Gracie
^ Milton ) , and highly acclaimed by advocates of the " young Earth " theory , still quoting the argument about the lack of dust on the Moon .
^ based solely on Blake 's &YEAR paper , and apparently totally ignorant of all the relevant new evidence that has accumulated in the 30 years since then
^ The fact is that the evidence of the surface of the Moon does indicate its great age .
^ Before &YEAR artists ' depictions of the surface of the Moon , such as the famous paintings produced by Chesley Hatherley in the 1940's and 50's , showed extremely jagged mountains and rocks .
^ There was some reason in this .
^ The Moon has no significant atmosphere , so its surface cannot be eroded by wind and rain .
^ However , the pictures brought back by Apollo 13 and subsequent Apollo missions show rocks and mountains that are rounded as if worn down by erosion .
^ Examination of the rocks brought back to Earth revealed the reason for this .
^ Surfaces that had been buried in the dust are sharp and jagged .
^ Those that had been exposed are covered with small pits .
^ These are , no doubt , the result of the impact of meteoric dust .
^ On the basis of the known average mass of interplanetary dust grains and the velocity with which they strike the Moon , McDonnell and Ashworth estimated the rate of erosion of the Moon 's surface .
^ The figure they arrived at was about 10 feet in a billion years .
^ In reality it would be much less than this because the debris is not removed and so forms a protective covering of dust which absorbs the impact of subsequent meteorites .
^ However , even at the maximum rate , in 10,000 years
^ ( the kind of age of the Earth that the authors of Scientific Creationism argue for )
^ the surface of the Moon would have been eroded by 1.2 millionths of an inch , producing a virtually undetectable coating of dust !
^ This work was published in &YEAR and should have been known , and taken into account , by the authors of Scientific Creationism .
^ Does the failure of these authors to be up to date really matter ?
^ Yes , for several reasons .
^ First of all ,
^ Christians should be concerned about the truth .
^ The God we are committed to is the God of truth .
^ Of all people ,
^ Christians should be most punctilious about using only those arguments that are based on sound methods of scholarship and the best evidence available .
^ This is a matter of obedient Christian discipleship , not simply a desire to look good in the eyes of other scholars .
^ Secondly , following from this , it is dishonouring to God when Christian scholars are found to be using sloppy arguments based on out-of-date evidence - and I know secular scholars who have little respect for Christianity because of this .
^ Finally , it is a matter of considerable pastoral and evangelistic importance .
^ Christian scholars who wrongly claim to be presenting sound " scientific " arguments are misleading their fellow Christians who read their books .
^ Most of these readers do not have either the opportunity or the inclination to check up on the reliability of the arguments used and evidence presented .
^ Some of those readers may in time be stumbled in their faith because of their misplaced confidence in what they have read .
^ Christian students who , with more zeal than wisdom , confidently confront lecturers with arguments culled from books like Scientific Creationism have sometimes been made to look foolish when the lecturer has been able to show .
^ the argument does not stand up to the evidence , even the evidence available when it was first put forward
^ That has not only shaken the faith of the Christians , but Undermined their witness to their fellow students .
^ Perhaps publishers of books on " scientific creationism " , and the managers of bookshops which sell them , ought to consider putting a spiritual health warning on them .
^ Revd. Dr. Ernest Leathem is Tutor in Biblical Studies at Norwich Baptist College
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^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Great to hear from you mate !
^ I am really enjoying uni , although I am rather shattered at present and a tad unmotivated .
^ I have been really busy with CADS - a Christian drama group ..
^ I 'm the secretary this year - it is a really great group ..
^ we have loads of fun together ...
^ sorry my punctuation is going up the creak
^ I have also joined the Dundee uni. dance company which is jazz / contemporary dance - very cool .
^ I 'm looking forward to seeing you at my party too - it should be fun ... you 'll be able to meet some of my Dundee friends &SMILEY
^ See ya ,
^ Amya xx
^ ~
^ Hey Bob , great to talk to you tonight !
^ The answer is of course , something that you , Nick Malone , can give me .
^ Of course .
^ Can I have a CD of your music please , and also one with the photos on ?
^ I would love to oblige , however my problem at the moment is that I do n't have a CD writer , as my computer is in storage and I 've no space to set it up .
^ When I get access to a CD writer I will do the business .
^ You could ask Rylie Seymour to run you off a copy of my CD , because I think she has one , and I 'm also pretty sure she 's got a CD writer .
^ Well , keep in touch my friend ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Looks good Bob .
^ You 're missing an " it " : ... even if takes longer to develop ...
^ Otherwise OK I think , although I have n't looked at it very thoroughly .
^ KIR ,
^ Jonah
^ Yo guys ,
^ Waddaya thinks of this CV ?
^ Anything else you could suggest changing it with ?
^ Thanks ,
^ Bob
^ Curriculum Vitae : Robert Philip Maize ( BSc Hons ) 16 Alto Street , Mobile phone Tyler
^ 0600 568 770 Wentworthville Home phone : 02 6422 4426 NSW 8460 Email : &EMAIL Marital status : single Date of birth : 15-06-1980 Place of birth :
^ Robert Philip Maize
^ Goals and Ambitions I am driven and ambitious , dedicated to doing my best .
^ I am something of a perfectionist and work to produce as efficient and accurate a solution as possible , preferring a small , fast , scalable tool even if takes longer to develop .
^ I am aware of the benefits of software-reuse , but enjoy creating a new solution if appropriate .
^ I aim to improve my skills , gain experience and be a valued part of a development team improving the software environment we increasingly exist in .
^ I am interested in communication , networking and security , though also enjoy the challenge of technical and the interaction of training users in how to better use IT .
^ I hope one day to work in developing bionic technology to assist the physically disabled and give them a truly equal opportunity in the world .
^ Work Experience &YEAR to date Aquila Design Services ltd. Telephone technical support & for : Win95 , Kit84PA ,
^ WinNT 4 , WinXP , MS Classroom , HTML .
^ Setting up computer systems including installation and configuration of OS and user programs .
^ Upgrading hardware , drivers and user programs .
^ Configuring and training in scanning , printing , internet , networking inc. firewalls & routers .
^ 1997-2002 Quill Books Initially was casual sales assistant in local antique bookshop .
^ Later provided in addition continual computer advice , training , , on-site and telephone support .
^ &YEAR VNF Designs Systems advisor , network technician , IT troubleshooter , dealing with routing , IP configuration , DAT and CDRW BackUp systems , archive retrieval , memory upgrades .
^ Also set up networked accounts timesheets in Excel .
^ Computing Skills Confident in Java , C , HTML , Javascript , Hypercard , OPL .
^ Some experience in Assembler , C++ , AppleScript , PERL , QBasic .
^ Familiar with DOS , Kites 3.11 , , 98 , NT4 and LJ , MacOS , BeOS .
^ Tertiary Education 1999-2002 Wells University , Brighton Bachelor of Science with Honors in : Computer Science majoring in Artificial Intelligence
^ Secondary Education 1996-1998 Dundee Tutorial College and Cokethorpe School ,
^ Oxfordshire , Brighton in :
^ Maths Grade A Physics Grade A Biology Grade A French Understanding Grade A 1994-1996 Cokethorpe School French
^ Oxfordshire , Brighton GCSEs in : Maths ( A ) , Sciences ( A , A ) , French Literature ( A ) ,
^ Understanding ( A ) , Engineering ( A ) , Craft Design & Technology ( B ) , Religious
^ Studies ( B ) , French ( C )
^ Achievements and Awards 1996-1998 School IT Assistant 1995-1998 School Library Prefect 1997-1998 School House Prefect 1996-1997 Editor of the school magazine 1996-1997 Youngson Venture Business Experience ( Production Director and Assistant Secretary ) &YEAR to Merit
^ date Duke of Wyatt Gold Award in progress &YEAR French Black Grade 4 1996-1998 Diploma of Achievement ( using IT effectively , team-work , document presentation , note-taking )
^ Voluntary Work 1997-1999 Burford Community Hospital Prepared nutritional dinners for the elderly patients in a hygienic environment where responsibility , discipline , and awareness of patients ' dietary requirements were essential .
^ Interests and Hobbies Mountain climbing ( inc .
^ Mt Marler ) Travelling Photography Kayaking Cycling Squash Juggling Role-playing games Strategy computer and board games Building , upgrading & repairing computer systems
^ ~
^ My dear Mr Malone ,
^ I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for expressing such interest in our product .
^ We at " TomStuff " Ltd. like to think that our calendars are suitable for all ages .
^ However , there may be some scenes of an explicit dettol-related nature which younger admirers may find disturbing .
^ I.e. Parker in close proximity to boiling dettol . )
^ As a special token of our appreciation concerning your daughter 's interest , Mr Malone , I will take the trouble to sign her calendar personally ( should you choose to purchase ) .
^ PLease direct any further inquires to our company administrative director , Miss A.N. Davies .
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^ I 've actually never tried it , and prefer to move in the direction my tits are pointing ...
^ Things have really gone downhill since last year if you 've now got tits ... ! !
^ Ah well , all my hard work with you in the gym down the drain , and now you look like Meatloaf .
^ Disappointing .
^ Had a good New Year ( 16 hours couped up in a small car with an attractive girl and a married couple ! ) .
^ Actually I spent New Year in your neck of the woods ( Wyatt that is ) .
^ All the celebrations were called off though because of " bad weather " and apparently someone pinched two of the boxes of fireworks !
^ What is the world coming to ? !
^ I just got a nice new phone .
^ Technology really is amazing these days ...
^ also birdwise - but ( to your great dismay I 'm sure ) there is no clear candidate emerging - feelings towards members of the opposite team tends to be inversely proportional to their feelings towards this end ...
^ Jenstein , are you sure they 're looking at the right end ? !
^ Maybe if the face is n't working , show them your iron-toned buttocks ... irresistible I 'm sure .
^ Right ... back to the grind ...
^ Boggs
^ P.S. Did you like LOTR TROTK ?
^ ~
^ OK Ed .
^ This looks better .
^ By the way , in future do n't send stuff like this to all three accounts , as it means I have to download the same document three times ( at home where it is slow ! ) .
^ You naughty boy .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick ,
^ The chart on page 17 was just a little clipped off .
^ If there is any way you could make it fit .
^ I have changed the size on the Word doc. ( attached ) but if you could make it as large as possible on the pdf so people can easily read it that would be fab .
^ See you soon ,
^ LOL
^ EddyC. xoxox
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^ Glad you like the CD Miss Plyler .
^ Hope all is well on your side of the Big Pond !
^ The sun is shining and I 'm bigging it up with the Carlisle posse ( in Carlisle visiting some friends ) .
^ It 's still three weeks before I begin studying again , but everything is pretty much sorted out - I 've found a place to live , etc .
^ Maybe you should come see for yourself sometime ...
^ Someday ... until then I 'll have to be content to go there in my mind !
^ Plus there are some new ( yet oddly familar ) faces on campus , I think you 'd recognize at least one of them ... one of those late night singers from week 3
^ You mean an artist from the inimitable " late night singers from week 3 " easy-listening band has been spotted in Henryton ! ? !
^ Amazing .
^ You would n't be referring to one Broderick Chavis would you ?
^ Is he visiting or what ?
^ Or maybe the Dean Machine ?
^ Please enlighten me ...
^ OK , take care of yourself ( and at least a few other people as well ) Diana ,
^ Nick
^ So I 've been listening to this amazing CD for weeks ... and just realized I actually knew the artist !
^ Ok , so maybe I had an idea from the accent all along .
^ I wanted to say thanks for sending a copy my way via Cynthia .
^ Hope all is well on your side of the Big Pond !
^ Henryton 's fine ... but hey it 's in Carolina and like they " Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina " !
^ Maybe you should come see for yourself sometime ... I think we might could find somewhere to put you up for a while .
^ School 's going swell .
^ Cynthia keeps me accountable for actually getting through the material .... and she has a way of making it more amusing in the process .
^ Do n't know what I 'd do without her .
^ Plus there are some new ( yet oddly familar ) faces on campus , I think you 'd recognize at least one of them ... one of those late night singers from week 3 .
^ So , it 's been good getting back to the routine .
^ I hope you 're all settled back in the lovely land of Brighton !
^ Blessing to you --
^ Tatum
^ ~
^ Hiya Nick ,
^ Sorry its taken a while , have been working hard and all .
^ Cheese and crackers - well , I hate putting in subjects on e-mails because I never know what to write , but putting nothing looks silly so I put random things instead !
^ Rodrigo 's e-mail is &EMAIL
^ Had my first exam today - only 2 left .
^ 4 questions away from the end of my degree !
^ Your 're right , it has coming pretty quick and the word alumni strikes fear into my very soul .
^ I feel like I ought to let these poor missionary women know whats in store for them ... dealing with you might be one of the hardest things they 've ever had to face ... !
^ Love Philip x
^ Rolomandi Mission Station wrote :
^ Hi Philip ,
^ Greetings from the Southern Hemisphere !
^ Cheese and crackers - why ? ?
^ I bet things are pretty hectic in Wells - can you believe it 's almost all over ? !
^ But time rolls on , and the next group of young , impressionable minds will have risen to replace you before you can say " alumni " !
^ I 'm doing well here - taking advantage as best I can of a different lifestyle .
^ I gave a talk in chapel this morning called " God 's Unexpected Faces " about how God sometimes attacks us when we 're not expecting it !
^ ( see Genesis 32 ... )
^ Things should start to hot-up around here in a few weeks when a team of about 950 American short-term medical missionaries arrive .
^ Rumour has it , there 's a group of 8 female , all under the age of 25 ...
^ I suddenly feel a twinge in my shoulder ...
^ ~
^ All the best Philip !
^ Nick x
^ P.S. Please could you send me Rodrigo 's email address ?
^ ~
^ Dear AnnV , Thanks for email .
^ Yes , the boys are snowboarding with Quinton 's youngest brother and his girlfriend .
^ They 're going to the same place that we went to last time , although Fatima booked it all this time .
^ And it is all over Christmas , leaving on the 21st and returning on the 28th .
^ They are very excited about it and Camron and I are really happy that they are going and we are staying ! ! !
^ We 'll miss them , of course , but we will also have a great time , and we 'll know that they are doing what is of great pleasure to them .
^ Last night was our Christmas celebration at school - in Hungerford Town Hall .
^ Ifeel somewhat fazed ... it 's been pretty hectic ... and tonight Christian
^ Staggs is coming to eat with us ... he 's over here for a few days .
^ I hope I can stay awake ... no insult to Christian ! !
^ Re. Xmas Eve ...
^ it would be really excellent to see you both .
^ Would you mind very much coming here ?
^ We will be heading off over to my parents on Xmas Day as my brother Marquet and his family are coming to stay ... so it would be lovely not to drive on 24th .... but what are your plans ?
^ Have you got travelling to do as well ?
^ Shall we make our get-together not a late start so that you are not driving too late at night ?
^ Anyway , let us know what you think ..... then we need lots of " chill " time together and lots of talk time and no hassle time ! ! !
^ What do you think ?
^ It sounds as if Jonnie could do with some sunshine as well and I do n't think we 'll be able to offer that , bless his heart .
^ Please give him lots of love from us .
^ And lots to you , too ,
^ AnnV , .... roll on 24th! ... Janexx
^ ~
^ Hi Els ,
^ There are lots of comments and encouragements to be with someone .
^ Yes , it 's so wrong .
^ A wise person once said " Success in life is to live every moment to the full . " ( or something like that ! )
^ Unfortunately some people seem to be of the opinion that life only begins when you get married ...
^ Mothers always seem to want to lock their sons away just in case .
^ What , just in case you seduce them into your dark world of sex , lies and
^ Social Studies PACEs ? !
^ So what are you up to this summer ?
^ I 've got a few things planed ; next weekend I 'm MCing a wedding for a close friend of mine from Wells .
^ I drew them a picture of the door of Joseph 's
^ College as a wedding present ( they were both in Philip 's you see ) .
^ Tonight is a graduation party for one of the girls from Victoria .
^ I 'm organising the background music and singing her a song ... ahh ...
^ I 've got a couple of short holidays planned , with my family and with some other friends .
^ I should be hearing officially from Munich sometime soon , and then I will have to start thinking about accomodation , etc .
^ More tree hacking ?
^ I think trench digging is more the order of the day .
^ We are building an extension , but doing a lot of the preliminary foundation work ourselves to keep the costs down .
^ That basically equates to a good deal of back-breaking manual labour .
^ Still , it makes a change from pondering the intricacies of the computational sciences ...
^ I 'm meant to be rewriting some of the Social Studies PACEs ...
^ Hmmm .
^ That 's quite a challenge is n't it .
^ I would like to see a more " human " element in the PACE stories , but then you ca n't go too deeply into the nature of humanity in a three-section comic strip .
^ Still , I think we do need a more real , approachable Ace for the new millenium .
^ Perhaps you could reinvent him as " 21st-century Ace " , struggling with the same issues as you and me ... ?
^ I think PK lives are hard , just like staff kids .
^ Yeah , I know a number of PK 's who are finding the whole issue of faith pretty tough .
^ I moan a great deal and I should do all things without grumbling and complaining .
^ with thanksgiving , so I want to apologise for the negative , tired out , stressed out conversations of the past couple of mails
^ Els , there 's nothing wrong with being negative , as long as it 's real .
^ A load of people bottle up a load of important issues because they think it 's unacceptable for them to be anything but relentlessly positive , especially in Christian circles .
^ Anyway , that 's an area I feel quite strongly about , so I wo n't start rambling ...
^ I write grown-up comic strips sometimes .
^ Some of them are good , but I 'm not going to be the authoress I wanted to be when I was 4 .
^ Do n't stop dreaming - you never know what you 're future might hold .
^ Maybe you 'll come up with a new super-hero ...
^ PACE-man or something ...
^ I 'm quite looking forward to seeing Spiderman 2 .
^ I particularly enjoyed X-men 2 when I watched it a little while back .
^ There 's something quite exciting about people with special " powers " ; I suppose it has its roots in humanities ' search for significance and our desire to be more than just " one in a crowd " ...
^ OK , so , you 've probably just finished school !
^ Yay !
^ Manana ,
^ Nick
^ I do think that women can hinder other people working properly in a church .
^ They do n't mean to , but it always seems to be a question of how much are they chasing after the people they befriend .
^ I have this a lot .
^ I obviously seem more friendly than I should .
^ Mothers always seem to want to lock their sons away just in case , which is weird .
^ I like things being weird , maybe that 's why I use that word too much .
^ I think that I have a problem with levity .
^ I should take these matters seriously , but I lack wisdom in the way I express myself .
^ I do n't think it is a problem to be single and female , but I think other people do have a problem with it .
^ There are lots of comments and encouragements to be with someone .
^ It could drive you crazy if you were less than focused .
^ So what are you up to this summer ?
^ More tree hacking ?
^ Is it your dad 's idea of boot camp , or is it really necessary ?
^ Do you get a summer , or are you grafting away at uni or in books ?
^ I 'm meant to be rewriting some of the Social Studies PACEs , but if it were updating them it would be easier .
^ Writing something from scratch is quite a feat .
^ It requires patience and massive confidence .
^ I started , but have the feeling that it is all very trite .
^ I do n't want to make the kids sick as they do their work .
^ I remember thinking Ace was quite okay , but now , in this every increasingly wicked world , the children resent Ace and take his perfection as an insult and a personal affront to their less than perfect behaviour .
^ Stirring them up to good works ?
^ I hope so .
^ I think people must have been praying for me loads in the last few days , because the misery is going away .
^ I had a dinosaur in my stomach today .
^ I ate something that disagreed with me and it kept calling out to tell me so .
^ It was quite amusing .
^ One of the good girls became a Christian on Tuesday ! ! !
^ Praise God .
^ It was n't out of massive conviction , just that the Maths said discuss the fact that Jesus died for her sin and if she 'd made a commitment .
^ She agreed that the choice was obvious and that eternal life .
^ eternal death were the only 2 options and therefore I was left with no choice but to pray with her , rather than leave her heading towards the latter
^ She seemed more enthusiastic as she prayed and it 's come at a time when the seed should bear fruit ( as good Christian jargon states ) .
^ She is n't very proactive when it comes to religious things , but that might be due to her father being the uber pastor for many churches in the area and in Hungary .
^ I can only get on the computer when all the small people haave gone to bed , so it 's late and I jibber .
^ i enjoy jibbering , but it is not very productive .
^ Sleep is better .
^ I moan a great deal and I should do all things without grumbling and complaining .
^ with thanksgiving , so I want to apologise for the negative , tired out , stressed out conversations of the past couple of mails
^ I nearly fell asleep as I was typing just then .
^ A novel experience .
^ I watched Spider-Man versus Dare Devil tonight .
^ It was a video cartoon and great fun .
^ I love comic books .
^ My favourite used to be X-men and the silver surfer , but I only quite like the film stuff .
^ I write grown-up comic strips sometimes .
^ Some of them are good , but I 'm not going to be the authoress I wanted to be when I was 4 .
^ Dare Devil always reminds me of little Dare at school . ( pronounced Darry ) .
^ He saw a Dare Devil t-shirt on Imani once and went up to him and read Darry
^ Devil , the man with no fear - that is me and walked off again .
^ He is about 2 ft high and emphatic and does n't speak French very well .
^ Comedy value that does n't translate without knowing how his deep voice sounds .
^ I 'm becoming more and more distanced from reality , which means that it is definitely time to sleep .
^ Yeay my cat wo n't sleep on my pillow tonight as he is outside .
^ I 'm sleeping in a room almost filled with boxes and spare beds and 10 or 12 boxes of books .
^ There is n't room for Jonny too , he 's just selfish .
^ I do n't worship cats , I just rescued him when he was little .
^ I did n't have a choice , it was part of my witness to the kids who were teasing him .
^ He was tiny , skinny and dirty and he 's the opposite now , so I ca n't be too bad at it .
^ Still on my way to leave .
^ Goodnight , I hope you 're having a good week .
^ We finish school on Friday , so I shall sleep the sleep of the blessed after that .
^ x Els
^ It 's fast , it 's easy and it 's free .
^ Get MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Oh dear ... are you guys doing any work at all ? ? ?
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Proposal for final role descriptions :
^ Rylie : wizard of physical lore and seer of natural forces
^ Parker : arch-duke of electrogravity and master of the elements
^ Nick : supreme commander of philosophy and meta-physical reality
^ Bob : health and safety
^ Re : Class of &YEAR
^ No probs ...
^ You missed an excellent nights punting BTW .
^ Thanks for that - and what made it so excellent might I ask ( apart from the company - I 'm not buying that ! ) ?
^ No probs ...
^ You missed an excellent nights punting BTW .
^ Thanks Jade &SMILEY
^ Nick
^ Apologies to Nick and Karena ... hopefully I typed their emails in correctly this time round . &SMILEY
^ Jade
^ Subject : Class of &YEAR
^ Hey all , I collected a few emails from people and here they are .
^ It looks like
^ Orlando has a more technical solution than just having a very long " to " list so if you want to join his group the instructions are at the bottom of the email )
^ for those who did n't check their .dur.ac accounts at the end of term .
^ But for a quick and low tech solution just email me if you notice I 've typed an address wrong or you know one I 've missed . &SMILEY
^ i 've included names where I do n't think it 's obvious .
^ Leilani PS. &EMAIL; &EMAIL;
^ Raja Kah &EMAIL; &EMAIL; &EMAIL; &EMAIL; &EMAIL; &EMAIL;
^ Leilani &EMAIL;
^ Leilani Griff &EMAIL; &EMAIL;
^ Fatima &EMAIL;
^ Surapha &EMAIL; &EMAIL
^ Just for laughs try to figure out who the following are ( yes I have too much time on my hands ) : I am swell majic .
^ I grip Mom 's nil .
^ Diana 's virtue ?
^ Never !
^ Nap well son .
^ Am hit .
^ A av .
^ IQ ? u ran .
^ Yes Raj LVI ?
^ Block me Ned .
^ Smell wit ?
^ Khan .
^ If I go ...
^ One ugly zip Shania !
^ A rapt hall .
^ Seen all jam .
^ E mis-act .
^ was " T.C. corn " a bee con ?
^ It can hire N.T.A .
^ Fish if Gran tan .
^ I use a " maths jar rap " .
^ H ?
^ I did ban a ale .
^ Oh Yes !
^ Born n sin ...
^ Both to rest in sad .
^ Hope everyone is having a good time !
^ Take care james
^ Hey homies ,
^ Please read this , cause I think it would be cool to have the ability to keep in contact .
^ Apparently I am in charge of setting us up a group forum .
^ Then we 'll see what a class full of " internet technology " students can collectively come up with .
^ Thanks , Orlando
^ ~
^ Dear Kristen ,
^ Am I correct in assuming you are NOT looking for supervisors for the Part II GENERAL modules ?
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Thanks Alfie .
^ Sounds like a potential ...
^ O
^ ~
^ JG ,
^ You can use either of these addresses :
^ &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Nick
^ Hello Nick - og thank you for the e-mail I just got !
^ But can I use &WEBSITE address - or shall I use your Freeserve address ?
^ And what was your Freeserve address again ?
^ Give me word , so I can send you a more interesting e-mail than this one !
^ Philip .
^ Yes , I know - my French grammar is NOT good in this e- mail ! ! ! ! ! !
^ &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ At last !
^ A C compiler that works !
^ Thanks Krystal , you 're a star !
^ O
^ ~
^ Thanks Kaleigh .
^ I 'll get right onto this .
^ I 'm running to a pretty tight schedule though , as I 'm leaving for SA on
^ Tuesday morning !
^ Could you possibly advise me on the best person to ask to be my first referee - should it be someone familiar with the work I did for my first degree , or the BEng ?
^ Secondly , is there such a thing as a " final grade " for the BEng .
^ I know my overall results for each of the three terms separately , but not as a single grade .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick ,
^ The University of Munich has opened the Domestic Research
^ Studentship / Millennium Studentship Competition &YEAR for students starting in October &YEAR .
^ This year the application forms are downloadable from the web page &WEBSITE
^ Please read the instructions carefully .
^ You will need to forward the First
^ Reference form to your chosen referee as soon as possible and make it clear to your referee that the Physics Laboratory will need their reference by mid-May &YEAR .
^ The completed forms must be returned to me by no later than
^ June 1st .
^ Your second referee will be nominated by the Physics Laboratory .
^ There are a number of common queries regarding this form :
^ Q8 - If you are yet to graduate please leave the Overall Grade space clear .
^ I will complete this once your results are known .
^ Q12 - You will also be considered for the limited HKZUX Doctoral Training
^ Account Awards which are decided by the EW Funding Committee .
^ The distribution of these awards is decided quite late - after the results of other awards are known , including the WMP / Millennium Awards .
^ Please circle " Yes " indicating that you are eligible for a publicly funded award .
^ You will be applying for " 3 " years funding - " Fees & Stipend , " and the outcome is " Unknown . "
^ Q14 - Your estimated fees are outlined in the letter of offer you received from the Commission for Advancement Studies .
^ Current recommended HKZUX stipends start at &pound; 10,500 , though the WMP last year paid &pound; 8,500 .
^ Please note that Departments are asked to nominate students who are _very_ strongly supported and the competition for these awards is extremely fierce .
^ Sadly , the Lab cannot put forward every eligible student and realistically expects to win one or maybe two awards per annum .
^ You will be kept informed as to the progress of your application throughout the competition .
^ In the meantime , we wish you good luck !
^ Kaleigh Hellams
^ Kaleigh Hellams Senior Clerk
^ Physics Laboratory Student Administration
^ Samuel Streets Building LL Pipping Avenue
^ Munich TQ9 0CW
^ Phone : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 776 858
^ Fax : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 884628
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Dear Nick
^ I can confirm that we have received your acceptance of the WMP award .
^ Regards
^ Kathleen Plummer
^ Commitee on Grants
^ From : Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) on &DATE &TIME
^ Please respond to Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) @&EMAIL
^ To : Kathleen Plummer / QFP / &EMAIL cc :
^ Subject : WMP
^ Dear Uriel ,
^ I returned the form indicating my acceptance of the WMP award I was offered in your letter dated July 22nd , and I just wanted to check that it arrived successfully .
^ If you could confirm that you received my letter and have passed on the information to the QFP I would be grateful .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Thanks for the words of wisdom mate ( and I mean that , it was n't sarcasm ! ) .
^ It 's almost nice to hear that you have struggled with the same questions recently ... obviously I wish that you did n't have to in the same way as I wish I did n't .
^ it 's comforting to know that I am not just wierd ( unless we both are ! ! )
^ Anyway , I was sad to hear you talk about the " rock bottom " points that have hit and if it happens and you need someone to talk to then you know where I am .
^ You can always phone me or email .
^ I know from my own experience that these things are often personal battles in your head .
^ you are fighting and there is not a lot that anyone else can say or do to solve them , but just so you know Im here
^ I can really relate to you saying you are going through important changes in your life and the way you think .
^ I think that the change of lifestyle from Wells to Amanda has changed me massively .
^ My outlook on life and my attitude have been altered , but I guess only time will tell if it is for the better or not .
^ I do n't really know how much things have changed because it is a gradual thing but when I look back to Wells , I do feel like a lot has happened .
^ Maybe we were to well sheltered in Wells , away from some aspects of real life .
^ Maybe I still am !
^ Maybe , maybe , maybe ?
^ Iguess I could go on all day with the maybes !
^ I hope you manage to get some sleep mate , and that your housemate is not too noisy !
^ I need to go to my songwriting class now , which I am looking forward to .
^ It 's good to be in touch mate !
^ Bob
^ From : Nick Malone ( &EMAIL )
^ To : Bob Corrie ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Dear diary ...
^ Date : &DATE &TIME ( GMT )
^ Hi Bob ,
^ Is your brother going to stand for captain for next year ?
^ Do you find that you are writing to yourself or your maybe your future self ?
^ Anyway mate , sorry if this email is a bit depressing .
^ I think maybe I have too much time to think at the moment .
^ MSN Messenger - fast , easy and FREE ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey matey ,
^ Cool to hear things are going well .
^ It 's always nice when you get to see your family .... especially when they bring lots of nice food to ease the student living !
^ The last of my exams were fine and I am pretty relaxed about it all .
^ All my new modules start this week and I am looking forward to getting started again .... the songwriting module looks as good as I had hoped so that 's cool .
^ Sounds like the Sportsmans dinner is going down hill .... nevermind , I guess there was no point in trying to compete with the previous captains ' glorious speeches !
^ Is your brother going to stand for captain for next year ?
^ Keeping a diary !
^ I think that 's cool and I only wish I could .
^ Im not very good at doing that sort of thing .
^ I did start to write the diary of a band at the start of this year as me and my friend started to invent our band ..... I was inspired by reading the biography and then the journals of Kurt Lynch .
^ I know that he was a bit screwed up but I really empathised with him .
^ a lot of the things he wrote in his journals were inspiring and not really as screwed up as people make them out to be
^ Anyway , Im afraid the diary of a band did n't get very far .... but I tried .
^ Do you find that you are writing to yourself or your maybe your future self ?
^ That was always something I tried to work out when I was a kid and ever started a diary .
^ I used to wander if I was writing it because someone else would read it , and am I editing things in case someone does or am I being truthful to my thoughts .
^ I always foudn it hard to right the truth sometimes in case someone else read it .
^ I guess that our thoughts at our age are more rational now anyway , and we are unlikely to be writing about how someone at school was annoying you or how your mum was getting on your nerves ! ! !
^ I must admit that I could do with something like that right now .
^ A lot of the conversations that you and I used to have in Wells were centred around the age old " meaning of life " question .
^ I am still struggling with that one ( not that Im ever likely to solve it ... if I do , I will be a very rich
^ man! ) .I think maybe I have too much time to think at the moment ... especially when I am sitting on the train everyday
^ I am struggling with a lot of things .... largely things about where I am going and how uncertain everything is .
^ Nikki 's dad is facing a lot of treatment now and they are saying that it may damage his kidney ( basically it 's more bad news ) .
^ I have n't seen Nikki for about two months and so it 's not been an easy time .
^ One of my friends got attacked the other night and ended up being hit over the head with a bottle fracturing his skull .
^ He 's ok but it really made me think about how fragile life is .
^ He could have easily been killed by someone who did n't know him and was entirely unprovoked by him !
^ It 's scarey ! .
^ I guess a combination of these things has troubled me .
^ Not a very cheerful topic to choose to email you about but there we go !
^ I guess I have regressed back to the intense person I used to be before I started going out with Nikki .
^ I used to spend hours just thinking about things but when I started seeing her , I just did n't have time to dwell on things much .
^ Now I do n't see her very much and so I am back to my old ways .
^ It really helps the songwriting process but it 's not too good for my soul !
^ Hey , well done with your exams by the way !
^ It sounds like you are still getting a lot out of your subject , and still top of the class !
^ That 's cool mate ... you deserve to do well !
^ Im not suprised but Im pleased for you !
^ Something else you said in a previous email was about a wedding , and you asked me about mine .
^ at the moment I do n't really know what is going to happen but I think it is probably safe to assume that everything is on hold
^ Nikki 's dad may well be either having or recovering from chemotherapy and we do n't want to go ahead without him
^ I did n't really think that we could get married anyway because I was worried about how we were going to finance living afterwards .
^ I could n't really see how we would , so I guess it is a combination of both those things
^ See what I mean about the uncertainty in the future !
^ Anyway mate , sorry if this email is a bit depressing .
^ Maybe I should be writing these things in a diary as well !
^ Take care mate ,
^ Bob
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Corrie , Bob " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Dear diary ...
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Howzit Bob !
^ How did the last of your exams go ?
^ When do you get results ?
^ I just spoke to my brother this evening - they had the " Sportsman 's Ball " this evening in Cathedrals Bar .
^ Sounds like it was less than amazing from what my brother was saying ; predictably the speeches went on for ever !
^ there were numerous references to the " mighty Isabel Trower " in relation to every " sport " from darts to women 's croquet
^ Ah well , I guess captain 's just do n't write speeches like they used to ;o ) .
^ Did I tell you I 'm currently keeping a diary ?
^ I 've been doing it for a month and a half or so now , and it has been quite good .
^ I value just being able to get my thoughts in order and laid out in front of me at the end of the day
^ Have you ever written a diary ?
^ My parent 's and sister have been up this weekend , which I 've thoroughly enjoyed !
^ they 've bought me a heap of nice food , as they usually do , so I 'm feeling quite blessed at the moment
^ Well , it 's past midnight , and I think I 'd better go to bed .
^ Take it easy matey !
^ Nick
^ Chat online in real time with MSN Messenger &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey matey ,
^ Cool to hear things are going well .
^ It 's always nice when you get to see your family .... especially when they bring lots of nice food to ease the student living !
^ The last of my exams were fine and I am pretty relaxed about it all .
^ All my new modules start this week and I am looking forward to getting started again .... the songwriting module looks as good as I had hoped so that 's cool .
^ Sounds like the Sportsmans dinner is going down hill .... nevermind , I guess there was no point in trying to compete with the previous captains ' glorious speeches !
^ Is your brother going to stand for captain for next year ?
^ Keeping a diary !
^ I think that 's cool and I only wish I could .
^ Im not very good at doing that sort of thing .
^ I did start to write the diary of a band at the start of this year as me and my friend started to invent our band ..... I was inspired by reading the biography and then the journals of Kurt Lynch .
^ I know that he was a bit screwed up but I really empathised with him .
^ a lot of the things he wrote in his journals were inspiring and not really as screwed up as people make them out to be
^ Anyway , Im afraid the diary of a band did n't get very far .... but I tried .
^ Do you find that you are writing to yourself or your maybe your future self ?
^ That was always something I tried to work out when I was a kid and ever started a diary .
^ I used to wander if I was writing it because someone else would read it , and am I editing things in case someone does or am I being truthful to my thoughts .
^ I always foudn it hard to right the truth sometimes in case someone else read it .
^ I guess that our thoughts at our age are more rational now anyway , and we are unlikely to be writing about how someone at school was annoying you or how your mum was getting on your nerves ! ! !
^ I must admit that I could do with something like that right now .
^ A lot of the conversations that you and I used to have in Wells were centred around the age old " meaning of life " question .
^ I am still struggling with that one ( not that Im ever likely to solve it ... if I do , I will be a very rich
^ man! ) .I think maybe I have too much time to think at the moment ... especially when I am sitting on the train everyday
^ I am struggling with a lot of things .... largely things about where I am going and how uncertain everything is .
^ Nikki 's dad is facing a lot of treatment now and they are saying that it may damage his kidney ( basically it 's more bad news ) .
^ I have n't seen Nikki for about two months and so it 's not been an easy time .
^ One of my friends got attacked the other night and ended up being hit over the head with a bottle fracturing his skull .
^ He 's ok but it really made me think about how fragile life is .
^ He could have easily been killed by someone who did n't know him and was entirely unprovoked by him !
^ It 's scarey ! .
^ I guess a combination of these things has troubled me .
^ Not a very cheerful topic to choose to email you about but there we go !
^ I guess I have regressed back to the intense person I used to be before I started going out with Nikki .
^ I used to spend hours just thinking about things but when I started seeing her , I just did n't have time to dwell on things much .
^ Now I do n't see her very much and so I am back to my old ways .
^ It really helps the songwriting process but it 's not too good for my soul !
^ Hey , well done with your exams by the way !
^ It sounds like you are still getting a lot out of your subject , and still top of the class !
^ That 's cool mate ... you deserve to do well !
^ Im not suprised but Im pleased for you !
^ Something else you said in a previous email was about a wedding , and you asked me about mine .
^ at the moment I do n't really know what is going to happen but I think it is probably safe to assume that everything is on hold
^ Nikki 's dad may well be either having or recovering from chemotherapy and we do n't want to go ahead without him
^ I did n't really think that we could get married anyway because I was worried about how we were going to finance living afterwards .
^ I could n't really see how we would , so I guess it is a combination of both those things
^ See what I mean about the uncertainty in the future !
^ Anyway mate , sorry if this email is a bit depressing .
^ Maybe I should be writing these things in a diary as well !
^ Take care mate ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Thankyou very much Samantha .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ Your request has been passed on to me .
^ As you needed your parchment earlier , it has been taken out of sequence and processed today .
^ I wanted to confirm that it will go by first class post today to ; 26 Grindstone Close , Rutford , Luxembourg , UA84 1QF .
^ Hope this is OK .
^ Samantha Hesketh
^ Secretary
^ Student Planning & Assessment
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ I was just checking my mail here at work , and I saw that you had sent a mail to JG .
^ But from now on its no point sending to this e-mail-adress , because Im not working here for a whole year ( maternity leave you now ..... ) .
^ So we will try to get our own e-mail at home , we will let you know the new adress ! ! !
^ The baby is coming soon we believe .... 11. september is the date ... and we have moved into our new flat .
^ The new adress is:
^ Morvikbotn 309b , 0484 ULSET .
^ Please come and visit one day , I would love to meet you !
^ God bless you and your family .
^ All the best from Camryn ( and Philip ! ! )
^ On sF8ndag 8. oktober &YEAR , Pastor Nick ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Camryn , please can you pass this on to J-G. Thanks very much .
^ Philip ,
^ How are you comrade ?
^ I suppose you 've begun your course now .
^ Four years is it altogether ?
^ How is it going ?
^ Also , when is coming out ?
^ It must be fairly soon now !
^ I bet you 're excited .
^ It is summer here in Brighton , but the weather has been a little bit unpredictable , as usual .
^ Yesterday I played football in the pouring rain !
^ Today the sun is shining , and everything looks beautiful .
^ I am back from
^ Uni for the summer , and I 'm spending most of it working , earning some money for next year .
^ My job is the same one that I had a year ago , working with databases ( you might have heard of Visionware Access ) .
^ Our church is closing down !
^ The decision was made a few months ago , and it is scheduled to close sometime before Christmas .
^ It is quite a major time of change , but somehow God knows what he is doing , and everything works together for good when you love the Lord .
^ This means that we will be selling Moorlands , and we must find a new house .
^ We have lived here for ten years , so it will be very strange to move into a small house again after so long !
^ I look forward to the future even though I know I will miss this place a lot - it is my dream house after all !
^ How is your French ?
^ As good as ever ?
^ I have got three more weeks of work , and then a three-week holiday ! ! ! ! !
^ I am looking forward to that GREATLY !
^ Well , all the best to you and Camryn ,
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Thanks Bob .
^ I 'm sorting out college arrangements now , so I should have some more definite plans in a week or so .
^ O
^ Will do .
^ When are you due to arrive in Munich ?
^ Have you heard anything yet ?
^ Bob --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Hi Bob .
^ Yes , those are my drumsticks !
^ However , I do n't have a desperate need for them in the near future , so if you could get hold of them whenever is convenient for you then I 'll pick them up when I come and visit .
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ --- Crystal Kerridge ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME ( BST )
^ From : Crystal Kerridge ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : hello from the philippines !
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Dear Bob ,
^ Is Nick missing some drum sticks and sweepers ? as the drummer from Church has some he thinks are his .
^ I 'm hoping to come and see you two soon and we can see each others photos , I love looking at photos .
^ God bless .
^ Love ,
^ Crystal
^ Robert F Greetings ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Dear Crystal ,
^ Hope you are well .
^ We are having fun being married , though I think Ka is ready to move into our own house , as this will mean that she has lots to do with her free time .
^ The good thing is that we move in tomorrow !
^ Very exciting !
^ Thanks for all you did at the wedding .
^ You are a star .
^ We loved your poem at Mohammad and Quinton 's weddding ( it was read out - prompting me to wonder what a coincidence it was that another Crystal and
^ Tracy knew
^ Mohammad and Quinton ... until my wife told me that it was ( oddly enough ) you ...
^ Oh dear ! )
^ We had a lovely weekend with your family , and then stopped off for an amazing meal at the Malone 's house outside Luxembourg on the way back to Munich .
^ We got back too late , though and have been trying to recover since then .
^ We 've been praying and will continue to pray for you .
^ Love ,
^ Bob
^ Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun ! &WEBSITE
^ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun !
^ ~
^ Hi Bob .
^ Yes , those are my drumsticks !
^ However , I do n't have a desperate need for them in the near future , so if you could get hold of them whenever is convenient for you then I 'll pick them up when I come and visit .
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ --- Crystal Kerridge ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME ( BST )
^ From : Crystal Kerridge ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : hello from the philippines !
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Dear Bob ,
^ Is Nick missing some drum sticks and sweepers ? as the drummer from Church has some he thinks are his .
^ I 'm hoping to come and see you two soon and we can see each others photos , I love looking at photos .
^ God bless .
^ Love ,
^ Crystal
^ Robert F Greetings ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Dear Crystal ,
^ Hope you are well .
^ We are having fun being married , though I think Ka is ready to move into our own house , as this will mean that she has lots to do with her free time .
^ The good thing is that we move in tomorrow !
^ Very exciting !
^ Thanks for all you did at the wedding .
^ You are a star .
^ We loved your poem at Mohammad and Quinton 's weddding ( it was read out - prompting me to wonder what a coincidence it was that another Crystal and Tracy knew
^ Mohammad and Quinton ... until my wife told me that it was ( oddly enough ) you ...
^ Oh dear ! )
^ We had a lovely weekend with your family , and then stopped off for an amazing meal at the Malone 's house outside Luxembourg on the way back to Munich .
^ We got back too late , though and have been trying to recover since then .
^ We 've been praying and will continue to pray for you .
^ Love ,
^ Bob
^ Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun ! &WEBSITE
^ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun !
^ ~
^ Hey Nick , what'r you up to ?
^ No hear in a while .
^ Hi Spam .
^ Sorry I 've not been in touch ; have had a bit of an email minimisation period recently .
^ So , you 're back in Oman now ?
^ Is the whole experience panning out as you expected ?
^ Are you growing in grace and character ?
^ I 've been doing a bit of music recording with a friend over the last couple of days .
^ It 's half term for me , and on Monday we took two of my cousins ( who also happen to be our godsons - me and my Dad ) on holiday for a few days .
^ The only dampener on the experience was the bed-wetting antics of the boys , who managed to perform every night , despite our best efforts to extract the necessary fluids before bed time .
^ Anyway , it was quite fun if a little tiring .
^ Tomorrow I 'm back to school and it 's all systems go for the Christmas production in early-mid December .
^ In other news , I 've been writing a machine learning connect-4 game , which has been keeping me mentally stimulated .
^ It has required me to play hundreds of games against the wretched program , but it seems to be responding to my " training " , though it learns slowly .
^ Much like the kids in school then .
^ Keep it real .
^ O
^ Hey Nick , what'r you up to ?
^ No hear in a while .
^ I just got back from Dubai today .
^ My Oman Visa ran out on Wednesay , so I had to leave the country .
^ Spent the weekend in Dubai which turned out really well - went kite-surfing !
^ Very difficult , but managed to succesfully annoy an old british couple ( with that kind of gnarly annoying voice ) by crashing the 12ft kite right next to them .
^ Mwuahaha !
^ Anyway , let me know how you 're doing and how things are .
^ sam
^ ~
^ The weekend of the 28-30th is actually a week after term finishes in Wells !
^ So it might be kind-of empty - bummer !
^ Relationships do n't just finish without a _lot_ of pain and heartache ; trust me , I know from experience . - ditto !
^ Hey Kane , hope all is going well .
^ Just to say - my interview is on Monday !
^ Was supposed to be next Friday but they rearranged it , so I 'll be coming accross to Munich tomorrow evening ( have to work tomorrow , which is a bit of a pain ) .
^ I 'm meeting Isabelle and Manley in the morning to go to church .
^ they are in Dur for the weekend , which is a nice coincidence ) , but would like to meet up sometime during the rest of the day
^ Tabitha will be back from Carlisle mid-day-ish , so we could perhaps all do something in the afternoon or evening .
^ Let me know if you can fit anything into your plans .
^ I am still feeling pretty low right now , but am hoping that seeing some lovely familiar faces this weekend will boost my flagging spirits !
^ I hate this whole feeling as if someone has died !
^ I miss him SOOOOOOO MUCH , even though I know he 's only a few miles away and is still my best friend .
^ GRRRRRRR ..... ! ! ! ! !
^ Sorry &SMILEY
^ Well , hopefully hear from you / see you soon , take care ,
^ love Anna
^ It 's fast , it 's easy and it 's free .
^ Get MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Fuel Supplies are good at the mo .
^ Do n't tell anyone , hush hush , but I 've got over 400 miles left in my tank - it 's great to drive a diesel ! !
^ That should get me to work for 3 weeks yet ! !
^ Not everyone is so lucky though - Lucio Huddlestone is staying at a hotel in Gloucester tonight as he ca n't get home and back again ! !
^ I think you 'll be lucky to get away this weekend - but you were complaining about the price of fuel these last few weeks , so I hope you 're supporting the protestors ! !
^ Anyway - gotta go and watch the footy .
^ Keep in touch
^ Kaylee
^ Jo !
^ How 's it going ?
^ I hope I have got this email address correct and that you are now reading this little email from your computer which no doubt has some kind of a Boro background + screensaver , etc .
^ It is now &TIME and I got up at &TIME . ( just to make you feel jealous )
^ Today I am going to see the dentist at &TIME , and then I might even decide to do some Uni work !
^ The last few days have been good , and I hope you are all well at BE .
^ Or maybe none of you can get into work at all .
^ Maybe you 're reading this at home in the morning .
^ The fuel crisis is quite exciting is n't it ?
^ Are you having to travel by train or something ?
^ I am supposed to be going away this weekend , but I 'm not sure it 's going to happen if I ca n't get any unleaded .
^ I can imagine BE getting quite deserted if nothing happens soon .
^ I suppose the cup final is tommorrow .
^ You will have to let me know the result and give me a post-match analysis !
^ All the best to you and Julie ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ When is Africa kicking off ?
^ Not till sometime around next March ...
^ ~
^ Of course I remember you Lucy !
^ How do those quads feel now ?
^ I 'll be in Munich beginning a PhD in April , so if you want to visit you 'd be welcome .
^ Let me know .
^ Be good until then ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ I am not sure if you will remeber me , but I am the crazy american girl who tried to play soccer but hurt herself instead .
^ We met at the Broderick 's school , in South Africa .
^ I was told you were back in Brighton and Karla Gret gave me your e-mail , because I am going to be in Brighton in April .
^ I am not really sure for how long or when exactly I will be there but I thought I would touch base with you .
^ Maybe we can hangout , It is always nice to see a brother when you are away from home .
^ Grace be unto you ,
^ Faith
^ ~
^ The quads feel much better &SMILEY
^ thanks for asking .
^ So you are off to Munich , what do you plan to do your PhD in ? ?
^ I do believe we ( I am travling with a friend in my class , Khristina she went to
^ South africa last year ) are planning to fly into london and from there it is up in the air .
^ I will let you know when we know for sure .
^ Thanks ,
^ Faith
^ Quoting Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) :
^ Of course I remember you Lucy !
^ How do those quads feel now ?
^ I 'll be in Munich beginning a PhD in April , so if you want to visit you 'd be welcome .
^ Let me know .
^ Be good until then ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ I am not sure if you will remeber me , but I am the crazy american girl who tried to play soccer but hurt herself instead .
^ We met at the Broderick 's school , in South Africa .
^ I was told you were back in Brighton and Karla Gret gave me your e-mail , because I am going to be in Brighton in April .
^ I am not really sure for how long or when exactly I will be there but I thought I would touch base with you .
^ Maybe we can hangout , It is always nice to see a brother when you are away from home .
^ Grace be unto you ,
^ Faith
^ Re : F-Ant-astic ... not really .
^ In fact , not at all ...
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Pity you could n't be there on Sunday , it was fun .
^ We had an interloper ( freak ) join us .
^ Weird .
^ Hope you have a good time at your grandparents ' house - you should definitely sleep and rest !
^ Hope your family 's well , got to rush , love Jon
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^ Re : F-Ant-astic ... not really .
^ In fact , not at all ...
^ Dear
^ Nick ) ,
^ It 's cool if you ca n't come , I 'm sorry I did n't reply but I seem to have had a fairly ... eventful few days .
^ It 's nice that you 're going to have time to spend with your family , and I hope it is all fab- I hope you manage to not worry about stuff and just chill .
^ God is faithful to those who are faithful to him , and a more faithful family I ca n't imagine ... you remind me of the family in the Adrian Plass book you bought me .
^ It 's a great book , by the way- thank you .
^ I really enjoyed it .
^ I 'll bring it next term so I can show you which family I mean .
^ I can see that you would be the one " imposing order " in your house , kind of like in the first chapter of Genesis , I guess .
^ It must bring back memories of the good old days , eh ?
^ I hope you are all well , and that you have a fantastic Christmas together .
^ Love , Antxx
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^ ~
^ It is better to do too many than too few !
^ Jade
^ Mr. Jade M. Hodgson. &EMAIL
^ Director of Undergraduate Studies ,
^ Department of Computer Science ,
^ University of Wells , Tel. ( 0464 912 ) 2400
^ South Road , Fax. ( 0464 912 ) 8040
^ Wells WI3 3LE &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Leilani .
^ WOW .
^ That clip of you saying , and I quote , " It 's so easy ! " redefines the word " cheesy " for me .
^ Awesome .
^ O
^ &WEBSITE
^ Leilani &SMILEY
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^ ~
^ Glad to hear you 're back Bob !
^ Looking forward to hearing how it all went .
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick !
^ Home now , but off to Norfolk now for a week .
^ Write to you later when I get home .
^ hope all is well .
^ Chow , buddy !
^ Bob
^ Hello Bob ( and Jay ) ,
^ How are you enjoying your " road trip " ? ?
^ Is all well ?
^ I 'm sitting in my room with " Clueless " on in the background - great ! !
^ Um , anyway , I 've started background reading for Munich and I could have used
^ Jay 's help with some Maths - but hey .
^ Be happy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ You 're my hero , you are !
^ Very impressed to see evidence of your parsing project seeing such hype & acclaim .
^ How come it 's a Master 's thesis ?
^ Are n't you only in your 3rd year ?
^ Just finished watching October Sky about a schoolkid who made rockets & worked for NASA , but far more impressed by you .
^ You 're great , you are !
^ Do you reckon you 'll be able to get it to parse our Mankanya ?
^ Uni stuff I guess does seem a long way off in a way , spatially & semantically if not temporally !
^ Being in love has distracted me somewhat these last seven months , and being in Africa makes me distant from everything and it 's sad how I 've lost contact with Wells .
^ Nearly finished reading a big meaty book called The Gagging of God by Gav Heath .
^ Intellectually stimulating - I miss that .
^ Wish I 'd read it before I did theology really .
^ Thanks for emailing me .
^ I 'd almost forgotten about having great friends like you .
^ I look forward to meeting up with you again some time probably next year .
^ Who knows , maybe I 'll come to visit you in the ivory towers of Munich , or invite you to my wedding ( no , I 'm not engaged yet but it 's only a matter of time we think ) .
^ Funny old life working here really .
^ Everything 's so much slower here really , and all these people I 'm working with are so different .
^ Some are really American ( the guy named Orlando Marler who occupies our TV lounge most of the time is actually the brother of the guy who wrote those Left Behind books I dislike so much .
^ some are Senegalese speakers of minority languages ; some are really brilliant linguists ; some are n't particularly
^ none are paid ; all are Christians , but it 's unclear whether it 's a missionary organisation , a linguistic organisation or a business really
^ Wish I had more motivation for things .
^ I 'd love to be more motivated to keep studying Hebrew or something .
^ But then I do n't really think I want to be a missionary or live somewhere like this long-term .
^ I can see myself being a pastor or something many years down the line , but do n't know what the mean-time might hold in store .
^ You seen any of my crew around ?
^ Marky G or anyone ?
^ Tabitha , Suzy , Bob , & the gang okay ?
^ Hmmm ...
^ I do miss folks there .
^ God bless , mate .
^ Do n't let anything get in the way of your worship of God .
^ Have you read " The Unquenchable Worshipper " by Nayeli Redman .
^ It 's great !
^ So is Habbakuk 3 . )
^ Grace be with you always ,
^ Aimee .
^ Re : " Fit bird "
^ Jensky ... wow .
^ She certainly has got ... muscles ! !
^ Mind you old boy , do you really want a girl who can " withstand anything " ?
^ Sounds like she might be a bit too much for you to handle ... ? !
^ Still , I 'll admit she is quite a specimen ! &SMILEY
^ Laterz ,
^ O
^ Ok , - I promised you pictures .
^ Here comes the very definition of a fit bird .
^ She 's one of the world 's top cross-country skiers - every micro-gram on this image is pure , raw ,
^ Scandinavian muscle .
^ Endurance as an elk , - she can withstand anything !
^ Enjoy &SMILEY
^ NB : I do n't know her in person , ... yet ...
^ ~
^ Hi Javier ,
^ OK , I will consider the options .
^ I 'm disappointed because I made quite an effort to get to Munich last Friday to see potential rooms , and obviously I have n't been able to see the other rooms you are suggesting .
^ I understand that mistakes will be made , and I 'll get back to you ASAP ( by tomorrow morning )
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick
^ It seems there has been some confusion over allocating you a room .
^ Whilst Owen was away on holiday room 8 at 8 Larkhall Road was allocated to another student who had already been given an option ( by Owen ) on several rooms .
^ The paperwork did not catch up with Owen quickly enough on her arrival and she suggested it to you not knowing it was unavailable .
^ Anyway - the situation now is
^ Room 8 - unavailable ( 76.10 per week )
^ Room 7 - the other attic room , but facing the street .
^ Available price 77.70 per week
^ Room 4 - available .
^ Large room on 1st floor at back of house .
^ Available ( from 1st October ) price 79.20 per week .
^ Which room would you prefer .
^ Mrs Javier Free
^ Graduate Tutors ' Classroom
^ Kassidy College ,
^ Munich , TQ9 0WF
^ Tel : 05005 882080
^ Fax : 05005 882082 email : &EMAIL
^ You can sponsor me for the Great North Run ( half-marathon , 26th Sept , in aid of Red Cross ) at the following website &WEBSITE
^ If you have any difficulty logging on , just email me instead !
^ Despite what is says on the site , I have just over &pound; 600 already pledged towards my &pound; 700 target !
^ ~
^ you are a strange strange boy ...
^ i pity those sharing a flat with you next year ....
^ am seriously addicted to e-mail ...
^ my dad 's away so I am spending hours
^ better not spend too much longer ... am going to stay a night at the summer camp I usually go to tomorrow .
^ yippee ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ have been matching up next year 's college parents ...
^ will tell you who your wife is soon ,
^ love roo
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " tabitha ropp " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Fizz
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Yes Tabitha ,
^ Yes Tabitha ,
^ Yes Tabitha ,
^ Yes Tabitha ,
^ Yes , I 'm going to Jaiden 's wedding , and I think I can afford to come and stay at yours after .
^ Where is Jaiden 's wedding by the way ?
^ OK , we 'll go up to Bob 's afterwards .
^ Happening .
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ These decisions have been anonymously decided upon by our lowly esteemed , proclaimed by others , flat dogsbody , roo , a few minutes ago .... .
^ Allocation of flat jobs :
^ Sawyer keeps us amused gavin does the cleaning ( but not too much and not my room ! )
^ Tabitha never makes lunches ( unless you want food poisoning )
^ Tabitha is creative and generally floats around doing very little
^ Jon talks to Tabitha
^ roo talks to Jon
^ Jon occasionally makes scrumptious dinners
^ Nick repeats seven times a day , " I am not perfect "
^ lance sings but does not start singing another song when roo is
^ Nick cleans everyone 's shoes and folds roo 's clothes
^ Bob never watches star trek
^ Bob never tells roo or Jon to get up early
^ Bob takes lots of photos ( but never early in the morning )
^ All boys do general cleaning and run errands for the girls
^ bless you all for deluding yourselves into thinking that Jon and i will be easy to live with ! he he he ... .
^ " Ed[mund] " wrote :
^ The following decisions were anonymously decided by our highly esteemed Flat President , Bob , this morning ;
^ Allocation of Flat Jobs ;
^ Sawyer pays the bills
^ Sawyer does the cleaning
^ Tabitha makes the lunches
^ Tabitha washes the dishes
^ Jon does the washing
^ Jon does the sewing
^ Bob and Nick watch videos
^ Nick does the singing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . outside
^ ~
^ dear lance ,
^ thanks for your email .
^ so glad the food has been a success .
^ abi and i are here on our own as daddy is taking matt back to wells .
^ the house looks a little different from when you were here last as daddy discoverred yesterday
^ pillar in the kitchen that we hoped was holding up the ceiling wasnt at all .....
^ it was resting on a piece of carpet alone !
^ so it is no longer in our kitchen and the ceiling is still in place .
^ trust all is well with you .
^ we love you lots and lots ....
^ mummyxxxxxxx
^ Hi Mummy ,
^ Just wanted to say thank you for all the lovely food you bought me .
^ I am enjoying it so much .
^ I used a couple of the sauces when Parker was staying , and last night I made myself a meal from scratch , which was the first time since I moved in last term !
^ Lots of love Mummy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Anna , my deepest sympathies and prayers for you and all your family .
^ Hope you are able to find some peace inspite of this terrible loss .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Anna ,
^ You all have my sympathies and prayers .
^ A good friend of ours died of cancer recently , and my dad 's cousin is diagnosed as having just weeks to live .
^ I ca n't really imagine what it must be like for you , but I have some idea .
^ Nick
^ Hi again , I just wanted to let you lot know what is going on with Manley ( my brother in law ) at present .
^ Some of you are already aware that Manley ' cancer returned last month and did not look good .
^ We have all been very worried and it has not been an easy time , although Manley and Isabelle are amazing and refuse to complain or let it get them down .
^ Anyway , following extensive tests , we have been informed that the return is worse than we 'd feared .
^ Basically , the cancer has not only returned and spread in the area it was before ( the muscle and nerves of his right shoulder and chest .
^ it is now in several areas of his bones - his pelvis , right hip , and his back
^ As this no doubt sounds , it is scarily bad .
^ The doctors say they will not be able to cure him , and can only try to control the spread and ease the pain .
^ Basically , we 've been told that ( excepting a miracle ) he is going to die , and they are talking months .
^ I do n't think I have yet properly grasped this idea , but although it is such devastating news , we have handled it amazingly well , and have God to thank for it .
^ I do n't understand it , and am not sure I ever will fully .
^ I do know that God must know what is going on and if it is part of His plan then , however reluctantly , sobeit
^ Please pray for Manley and Isabelle right now , and for my family and Manley ' parents as we all come to terms with the news .
^ On a more cheerful note , my sister Jessie is getting married on 12th Oct to her boyfriend of 6 and a half months ( man ! ) .
^ Jade is his name and he 's great .
^ I 've been busy sorting stuff for the wedding ( designing , making and writing invites etc ) and am to be a bridesmaid - wahay , I get to dress up !
^ Anyway , it is late and I need some shut-eye .
^ Thanks for reading and for your thoughts and prayers , bye for now , lots of love , Ru xxx
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^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Thanks for the Freeserve number .
^ Unfortunately I needed it in order to see if I could connect to the internet , so I could n't actually receive it via e-mail until that nasty virus was eradicated .
^ Thankfully Petunia is now much better .
^ I got a nice little program from my AntiVirus company 's site on the internet which found and destroyed the virus .
^ Excellent .
^ Anyway , I have now finished work !
^ I am very happy .
^ This morning I had such a lovely lazy time .
^ Are you anxious to get back to Wells tomorrow ?
^ I guess you 'll be there by the time you read this .
^ Hope you are settling in well in your new room .
^ I shall be in Wells briefly on Monday around midday to drop of all me stuff , then my Mum is taking me to Noel to get material for my duvet ( and bin ) cover .
^ I will then be back in college for tea , ready to start a new term - hopefully !
^ Looking forward to seeing you .
^ Very best wishes ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ you meant to just send me my email back , did you ?
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Davies , Jon " ( &EMAIL ) , " Jay Greetings " ( &EMAIL ) , " Ropp , Tabitha " ( &EMAIL ) , " Wheeler , Sawyer " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : From Jon
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Dearest flatmates , I have only read Parker 's emails , and therefore have as yet been spared the joys of everyone else 's .
^ not Bob , though , who has , as yet , refrained from emailing moi )
^ Basically , people , I do not have Word , or whatever the posh Visionware thing is , so I have recieved a long list of random characters and small boxes with things like " wooden spoon " peppered in between .
^ I do n't understand it at all and would be very grateful if someone could transfer it to a not-Word programme and forward it on .
^ Umm , the meals situation .
^ I do n't like having the casting vote , as it is sure to make me unpopular with two people .
^ I am open to bribery , but my feeling is basically this : we TRY buying all the basics together .
^ like bread , milk , coffee and teabags , but if one or more of us is n't happy , we stop
^ I am basically thinking of myself- I do n't drink milk , eat cereal or drink tea , but we may as well try it .
^ We can always split later ( eg two of us but white bread , four of us buy Frosties , etc ) .
^ Hmm , not the ideal solution , but we 'll see .
^ I do have to warn you that I am really quite fussy , but should one of you cook ( or in Tabitha 's case , assemble ) something I do n't like , I 'll get myself a sandwich .
^ This works well for us at home .
^ Had a good holiday , did n't manage to start a civil war among the barbarians , but I think I sowed the seeds of dissent , so that 'll do .
^ Love , Jon xx
^ other thing , happy with tv ( mine ? ) and vid but no license , will go elsewhere to watch neighbours
^ also , please please do n't spend too much , i really do n't have a whole lot of cash .
^ although i do n't mind splitting stuff 5 ways
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^ Wayno ,
^ Of course I remember Kat ! ! - just could n't put name to face .
^ What a nice gal : o ) .
^ Saw Jennifer at church today and thought of you .
^ Somehow figured the two of you might get together , but perhaps that was just me ...
^ You do n't need to respond to that comment , just thought I 'd make it .
^ Ah Brody ... that last statement is so " you " .
^ Jennifer and I were never destined to be together , but she is going out with Christian ( from Chads , football , CU , etc. ) so there you go ... &SMILEY
^ The Ph.D. is sludging along .
^ No light yet .
^ But hope is still present .
^ We 'll see .
^ Hang in there buddyo ; the light is sure to break through at some point .
^ How about you ?
^ Where are you at present ?
^ How are things ?
^ I 'm doing pretty well ; living at home , teaching 3 days a week and doing a bit of academic stuff in the meantime .
^ I should be submitting a paper sometime soon to a computational linguistics conference .
^ Am waiting to hear about funding for PhD next year - I might be back in Munich ...
^ Keep smiling sonny !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Brody !
^ Who is this " Kat " ?
^ Do I know her ?
^ Anyway , it all sounds good .
^ Hope things are going well with the PhD as well as the love life .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ If you 'd like to e-mail him you can .... .
^ I am off to a talk about how to spend your summer holidays .... .
^ I still sometimes feel shy of you , I do n't know why .... .
^ I think because I ca n't hide .... love from me
^ Jonah wrote :
^ RIGHT , THAT REALLY DOES IT .
^ WHICH UNIVERSITY IS HE AT ?
^ TO HARRASS YOU AND INSULT ME - THAT IS DEFINITELY GOING TOO FAR .
^ I AM ASSEMBLING THE BOYS NOW .
^ No , really I would quite like to meet the guy ( I think ) .
^ Shall I email him ?
^ O
^ Kaylee wrote :
^ I got this back today ... ... .
^ Kaylee ...
^ I ca n't believe you refused me .
^ The person you are going out with is obviously not good enough for you .
^ I am a far improved character from when we last met ( can you believe it ? ) and am I hard working , well behaved , polite young man .
^ Uni is cool , people here are great fun and like yourself , I have been thinking a lot about life ... that 's why I made my offer of course !
^ One lecture a day ? ?
^ That 's appalling ...
^ I have far more ! ! !
^ I always suspected your laziness throughout your educational career .
^ Had a presentation to do today and stuff and it went really well , so uni work is fine ... .
^ It 's great to hear from you - I meant to catch up with you during the summer , but unfortunately I never got round to it !
^ If you change your mind , you know I 'll always be waiting for you ...
^ Take care ,
^ Barny. x x x
^ ummm .... Barny i think i have to politely refuse you .... although I 'm naturally very flattered to be asked .
^ I 'm actually going out with someone else so it really is impossible for us to get married .
^ I 'm very sorry about that !
^ How are you ?
^ How is everything going ?
^ Are you enjoying Uni ?
^ Uni has been really good for me .
^ I 've not really done much academic work but I 'm starting to get into it and really enjoy my course at the moment .
^ I 've spent most of my time at uni doing drama and playing netball and drinking coffee and making friends .
^ thinking alot about life , which I think is something that everyone does at Uni ... it 's been good
^ Today I had a lecture on literary value and how we can judge the merit of works of literature .
^ It was very intersting .
^ I only have one lecture a day so they 're kind of the highlight !
^ Hope all is going well for you .... do write back and let me know how you are and thankyou for your kind offer !
^ Kaylee
^ On &DATE , Barnaby Faulkner wrote :
^ Will you marry me ?
^ x
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^ ~
^ Jade Owen wrote :
^ P.S. Hope the " holiday " is going well !
^ In as much as I 'm able to organize my life on a slightly more flexible timetable than during term-time , yes ,
^ I was n't aware that his termtime timetable was anything less that flexibility perfected ?
^ Perhaps he really could do with a watch ...
^ PS his explanation was translated into Greek by a transexual nazi eskimo and a gay jewish black dude before it arrived in my Inbox .
^ Did you get a copy in French by any chance ?
^ PPS these references are quotes of Weird Ed Yankovic whose uncontended social role is speaking up for the marginalized , unnoticed minorities .
^ ~
^ Here are some addresses for you Valeria :
^ &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ I 'm not sure how up-to-date Rylie 's is , and I do n't have Jack and Rodrigo 's out-of-Durham addresses ( although Jack 's staying ) .
^ Get an up-to-date virus checker Valeria , and scan your computer .
^ Glad to hear work is going ok .
^ I 'm still on holiday - off to Wells for
^ Sonia and Mohammad 's wedding tomorrow !
^ ~
^ Nick
^ Right first things first , Parker 's mum just phoned me .
^ All has apparently gone well .
^ he is in the high dependency unit at the moment but that is to be expected and the anethesthetic is wearing off .
^ He should be able to chech his email as the new hospital in edinburgh is very swanky and he has his own TV screen and internet access .
^ Second things .
^ Endeavouring to send this email has presneted a challenge to me .
^ I have realised that I have been rather " inefficent " at up dating my address book .
^ Please could some one pass that above on to Rylie and Jack and
^ Rodrigo and Suzy and Jon ...
^ And if you would be so kind as to pass back appropriate email addresses that could be good .
^ Third things .
^ I would also like to aplogise if there are funny things going on with my other email .
^ And Nick if you can tell me how to get rid of the virus that appeared last week on the news from webmail then I think that is the problem and I woul dbe oblidged )
^ Fourth things .
^ Today was my second day of work and if I have to fill in another disclosure form I might go spare !
^ No it seems good so far and there are a lot of exciting oppurtunities .
^ I will tell you about them when they are realities .
^ Badminton calls ! ! !
^ Valeria
^ Re : Get well ! ! ! ! !
^ I am well PTL
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Please do not forget to write : Imani , his wife and his son on the letter .
^ I would really appreciate it if you do .
^ How much are the the bus fares from Bath to Carlisle ?
^ Thank you .
^ Imani .
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $ 60 a year ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Thanks a lot for being such a good friend .
^ W hat I would like you to write is like a letter of Invitation to come to .
^ england for a visit and say accommodation will be provided if that is fine with you .
^ Like I said we will probably come for a day or two
^ go to &WEBSITE can send the letter to Imani T Copeland Abundant Life Christian School POBOX 354 Hatherley Hebson Town 0400 RSA .
^ This letter is just for in case .
^ Please do not forget to send me also physical address
^ Imani
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
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^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ thanks for your email , it was really great to hear from you .
^ Sorry it has taken me so long to reply but I have been having problems getting into hotmail for the last couple of weeks .
^ I 'm glad that you are well and enjoying life in Munich , sounds like its pretty hectic !
^ I am also really enjoying uni life again after a couple of years break .
^ The course is good and I am finding it easier to get stuck into the work ( most of the time anyway ) than I thought I would .
^ I guess living at home helps as there are less distractions .
^ I have taken up coxing again by joining the boat club which is great fun .
^ It also seems to take up most of my life as we have outings three days a week and coxes are in relative short supply .
^ I also have to go to circuit training twice a week ! !
^ I do find it quite hard to form many friendships as I live out of the city but I know that its just about being patient .
^ Also as I have been living at home for almost a year now I already have friends from school , church , work etc so I guess I do n't really need any more friends !
^ I ca n't believe that it has been a year since Jonathan and I decided to separate - the time has gone so quickly .
^ I have not had all that much contact with Jonathan , especially in the last 6 months , although he did phone a couple of weeks ago for a brief chat .
^ I ca n't say that I particularly miss him , I am pretty happy with my life at the moment but obviously we will have to resolve things one way or another at some point .
^ Not sure where it 's all going really , but I believe that God has it all under control and He will guide me through .
^ I will come to Munich for a visit sometime after Christmas , I know so many people who are there at the moment - what is it about Wells students and Munich !
^ I hope that Bob is well , I must email him .
^ How is Tabitha doing ?
^ I often think of emailing her but she never used to be very good at checking her emails .
^ Maybe I will write instead , do you have her address ?
^ Right , I must go and do some work !
^ Love Savanna
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Keppel , Savanna "
^ Subject : Greetings Earthling .
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Savanna !
^ Well , I 'm now about half way through my first term in Munich .
^ It has been pretty hectic , much like Wells in a lot of ways - I 'm playing football and hockey and last week I even lead worship in CU !
^ It 's &TIME Saturday morning now , and I 'm aiming to be in the computing lab by &TIME to go over some maths with a friend .
^ I am working pretty hard , but I like having so much to do .
^ The computing lab here ( aka the " Samuel Streets Building " ! ) is pretty much brand-new , and a very cool place to work .
^ Just as well really , as I spend most of my life there !
^ I have made lots of new friends and I feel like I 'm starting to get a bit of a friendship " network " going .
^ I am struggling with most of the usual questions ( you know , the BIG questions like " who am I " ) but being so busy means that I do n't have time to go crazy !
^ Anna Berry is in Munich this weekend , so we 're meeting up on Sunday morning .
^ Bob is also in Munich , and I 'm meeting up with him to go over some programming project that he 's got to do .
^ How 's student life for you ?
^ Hope this email finds you well Savanna ,
^ Love Nick
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^ ~
^ Nice to hear from you Mr. Jewson !
^ Sounds like you 're having a bit too much fun to me .
^ I 've just started background study for Munich next year , and when I 'm actually putting pen to paper it 's quite interesting , but when I 'm just reading it 's somewhat boring .
^ All is set for next year though - I 'm in Kassidy college and I begin on the 8th of October .
^ I enjoyed your account of the " Mexico vs Birks " football match - sounds fun .
^ I 've joined a local team , " Rutford FC " and I 'm sure we 're heading for
^ Birks next year !
^ My summer thus far has been quite hectic , what with moving house , holidays , weddings etc.
^ A couple of days ago I went to Bob Burdon 's wedding and caught up with quite a few Philip 's people .
^ Aimee Haley was there so we chatted about the Johny 's Boys ' chances for next year !
^ It was fun ( on the whole ) last season was n't it ?
^ I 'm very jealous about your being at the Star Wars set location - I would definitely have loved to see that , and as for the " island of women " ... well ... the mind boggles ... !
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Everyone ,
^ Many sincere apologies about the horrendously impersonal group e-mail but there 's sun to be had out there !
^ 
^ tell you what i 've been up to ! ( if you are at all interested ! ! ? ?
^ As for me , I 'm in Mexico travelling around a little bit !
^ After flying into
^ Cancun , we made our way down the carribean coast to a place called Tulum , which had the most clear blue sea i\{d ever seen but was ridiculously hot !
^ When we were there I got involved in a europe vs. mexico beach football game which i\{m sure will become known as the Battle of Yucatan ( tongue very much in cheek ) .
^ Seriously though , everyone here is very friendly and the food is fantastic , especially the seafood .
^ We then went down to Belize , to an island called Caye Caulker , which was very chilled out .
^ Inhabited mainly by rastafarians it was a laugh a minute and you even got asked if you wanted a " doobie " ( joint ) for dessert
^ While we were there we did some diving with sharks on the reef but unfortunately i could n't persuade any of them to eat Amy . .
^ After Leaving Belize we came across to Guatemala ( The border was very dodgy ... ..... ) and went to some Mayan ruins at a place called TIkal that
^ George Leathem used to shoot the forest bits of Star Wars and Return of the Jedi ( EWOKS ) which was very exciting !
^ Now we\{re back in Mexico and about go to some islands called Isla Mujeres , island of women , which lets face it sounds fairly promising ! !
^ After that its Old Anglesea for a few days then home to the green and pleasant of ENgland and Economics School .
^ E-mail me back to let me know what you 're up to , I 'd love to hear from you !
^ See you all soon Amigos ,
^ James !
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^ ~
^ In short , I arrived how shall we say " fashionably late " my suitcase was way too heavy .
^ I would have to do some very quick repacking in order to avoid incurring an extra fee of 600 pounds
^ the flight was closed and that I would have to come again another day
^ I was allowed to get on the plane with my hand luggage ,
^ Heh heh - but that 's the kind of thing that happens to ME !
^ I must be a trend setter &SMILEY
^ Glad you made it okay in the end though .
^ slid down a waterfall ,
^ On purpose , I hope .
^ picked up a ( harmless ) snake ,
^ groovy
^ minimised the amount of flesh consumed by mosquito .
^ They 're as hungry for man-flesh as French Female Students , I 'd say .
^ It sucks to be them .
^ My experience of South Africa tends to be one of extremes .
^ Some of the time I feel very down , and some of the time I 'm simply loving it .
^ I guess that 's why I came out here really .
^ Funny to think of you being down .
^ You 're so unemotional - at least in Wells anyway .
^ So constant .
^ Would n't matter if you won or lost at squash , if you topped some Data Systems II practical .
^ or if I was rubbing your mobile on my sweaty feet , or telling you about Anna 's confusing torment - you 'd always be the same
^ Eh .
^ Maybe you 're just an old englishman - inexpressive of feelings :&circ;P
^ I hope everything is very well with you .
^ God bless you .
^ I 'm still living with Alex .
^ She got a boyfriend a month or so back .
^ Sometimes he gets upset that we still sleep together but he tells her about these other girls he strings along so it all works out in the end .
^ Marcella came to visit me again , but since she and Alex got on with so many clashes and sparks last time , me and Georgia went and stayed in a house I look after an hour away .
^ It was a good week , overall .
^ At the end though I wanted Alex to reassess Georgia though since I would like them to be friends , so we met up and went to a fair for a couple of hours .
^ Alex had been missing me since I 'd been sleeping with Georgia instead that whole week then
^ Alex 's favorite part of the fair was being dismantled as we got there which was a shame because I know she 'd been looking forward to it
^ Georgia said " that does n't look any good " and Alex 's expression was just like - shocked and offended but closed .
^ Like Georgia had just burnt her last straw and she was n't going to give Georgia another chance to show what a nice person she really is .
^ So that was a shame .
^ Now Georgia has gone again so Alex is happy again .
^ So that 's good .
^ Alex thinks the reason Anna effectively deserted me and started chasing someone else was because I was n't having sex with her and this other guy probably was willing to .
^ you need to have sex with someone if you want them to see you want the relationship to work
^ last and she probably got frustrated and fed up with me not wanting to have sex
^ I do n't know if that 's true - it 's so hard to know .
^ She 's ( supposedly ) a christian so of course would never admit to wanting sex with a boyfriend - even one as lousy as me .
^ But maybe she did and just would n't tell me since she knew how opposed I was to romance .
^ sex and all that kind of thing when I idealistically thought faithful intimate platonic deep relationships were a possibility in this world
^ I found out recently that Hania secretly wanted to date me for ages .
^ kept pretending to want to be my friend instead the whole time because she knew how horrified I 'd be if I knew she was sheming to romance me
^ Girls are so crafty , manipulating the people in their world to unwittingly serve their deprived selfish plots .
^ It 's incredible .
^ More and more I come to wish I 'd been born female .
^ I could have got away with so much then .
^ The guy who lives downstairs is learning C at uni and having to write a Finite State Automaton that reads in assembler instructions and simulates a miniMIPS pipelined processor .
^ It 's like the URM interpretter we did for Jade McK only heaps tougher .
^ I helped him with the first two practicals or so but after that got lost and did n't follow what it was we were supposed to be doing next , so he lost marks there .
^ even though he 'd gone to the lectures , he 's not really a programmer , and so did n't get parts of it
^ Anyway .
^ Stay alive in South Africa .
^ Franklin ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ I 'm still living with Alex ...
^ Well I hope so .
^ What does sleeping and sex have to do with each other ?
^ One is done at night in the dark to rest and be still , the other is done in the light when you 're full of energy and is highly aerobic .
^ I think they are opposites .
^ As Senator said in Gladiator , " I do n't claim to be a man OF the people , but I do try to be a man FOR the people " .
^ Or as Quinton said : For though I am free from all men , I have made myself a servant to all , that I might win the more .
^ to the Jews I became as a Jew , that I might win Jews ; to those who are under the law
^ as under the law , that I might win those who are under the law ; to those who are without law
^ as without law ( not being without law toward God , but under law toward Christ ) , that I might win those who are without law
^ to the weak I became as weak , that I might win the weak
^ I have become all things to all men , that I might by all means save some .
^ 1 Corinthians 9
^ In the world and not of it , you know the story - do what is acceptable and makes you get on well with the people you are to reach .
^ Like Jesus did - chatting with tax collectors and eating with prostitutes .
^ But not actually doing anything wrong .
^ Anyway nobody worldly really cares much about how many people you have had sex with - I usually hear " how many people have you slept with " which is about 5 or 6 girls .
^ Something like that .
^ So you do n't even need to do anything evil to show them that they can relate to you .
^ see that you enjoy the same comforts they do - you 're not some immutable alien who thinks they 're perfect and above such things
^ Anyway , your life seems rather complicated !
^ You seem to be involved in about three love triangles - zero to one is usually enough for most people !
^ Oh well , as long as they are nice to me I do n't mind .
^ Girls are so crafty , manipulating the people in their world to unwittingly serve their deprived selfish plots .
^ If it were based merely on one or two experiences it might also be inaccurate .
^ Well , I 've resumed the emotional routine I used to enjoy during my full-time job days : get up ridiculously early , feeling vaguely lost and depressed .
^ I take it the getting up bit is not emotional , unless you wake up beside a woman , and then you think , Cool !
^ Someone to cuddle before I have to face the day !
^ Least I do .
^ It 's nice to start the day in a nice way like that because then you can continue through the day in the comfort that things can only get worse from there on .
^ And that 's much better than starting low and merely hoping the day might improve .
^ yo and a half
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Great to hear from you !
^ I did n't receive the original email and was feeling particularly snubbed after hearing from Rylee that you had sent something out !
^ Nick , how could I have doubted you ? !
^ I 've had an interesting few weeks ( as , evidently , have you ) .
^ Jennifer and I split a couple of weeks ago , for the reasons I mentioned to you way back in January ( how time flies ! ) .
^ Things still were n't completely hunky-dory , and I just did n't feel comfortable continuing in that kind of fashion .
^ particularly as things tend to get pretty serious after 9 / 10 months of going out , particularly if you 're a christian ( ! )
^ I have n't spoken with her since ( as agreed ) , but will probably contact her tomorrow to see how she 's getting on , although Naomi says she 's okay , considering .... Hmmm .
^ It 's all a little bit confusing really .
^ A big weight did lift off my shoulders after making the decision though .
^ These kind of things do kinda play on your mind , do n't they ? !
^ Other news ... I 've accepted a permanent position with the company I 'm working for , Perelya .
^ I feel like it is something that God has led me into , and it is an exciting and dynamic place to work !
^ rather bizarrely , requires quite a bit of engineering type modelling which is the kind of stuff I 'm interested in
^ Have absolutely no idea where it is going to lead , but I guess I 'll find out in a year or two !
^ Have just spent the weekend with Rylee at the Cheltenham jazz festival .
^ It was a really good way to spend a bank holiday , chillin " an " groovin !
^ So , what are your plans in SA ?
^ Are you going to be teaching out there ?
^ I was interested to hear that you 've sometimes been feeling very down ... but chuffed that you 're also loving it !
^ Why the extremes ?
^ Maybe that 's one of those ultimate questions !
^ How long will you be out there ?
^ And how did the PhD thing work out in the end ?
^ Does n't look like I 'll be doing one soon , but you never know !
^ One of my housemates has just got back from Central Hungary and is looking forward to some roller blading action this weekend .
^ Ca n't wait !
^ Hyde Park here we come !
^ Let me know about any interesting scorpion encounters , and the like , and I might just let you know about Herring !
^ my Californian , man loving , pleather wearing gay colleague who thinks I 'm cute .... Now there 's an incentive if ever there was one
^ God bless ,
^ Christian .
^ People , not sure whether you all got this or not ... apologies if you did ...
^ Friends one and all ,
^ Madekwana !
^ Or , in the common French tongue " Good evening " .
^ I have been in South Africa now for about two weeks , and would have emailed earlier except I had a catastrophe at the airport .
^ the result of which was that I have only just received my suitcase with all my email addresses in
^ In short , I arrived how shall we say " fashionably late " for check-in at Heathrow , and was then told !
^ my suitcase was way too heavy and that I would have to do some very quick repacking in order to avoid incurring an extra fee of 600 pounds
^ My family and I proceeded in desperation to reallocate some of my baggage , however I was then told that the flight was closed and that I would have to come again another day .
^ This was undesirable to say the least , so after some bartering with the flight manager .
^ I was allowed to get on the plane with my hand luggage , but my suitcase would have to be sent on as cargo
^ So I finally made it onto the plane after sprinting through Heathrow with two heavy rucsacs carrying a couple of changes of clothes , my passport and some mouthwash .
^ Anyway , I was OK ; I did a lot of washing , borrowed a few pairs of underwear , etc. etc .
^ I 've actually done quite a bit since I arrived ... travelled over 8000 kms by jeep , slid down a waterfall , helped put a roof on a building , wrote a recorder duet .
^ catalogued a video library , picked up a ( harmless ) snake , and got up far too early in the morning far too many times
^ I have pretty much avoided sunburn and minimised the amount of flesh consumed by mosquito .
^ My experience of South Africa tends to be one of extremes .
^ Some of the time I feel very down , and some of the time I 'm simply loving it .
^ I guess that 's why I came out here really .
^ I hope everything is very well with you .
^ God bless you .
^ Nick
^ P.S. please reply to &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Good to hear from you and to hear things are going pretty well at the moment .
^ You 're quite right , life is full of ups and downs - and when you 're down the question arises ( I guess quite naturally ) , What 's it all about ?
^ I was asking that question myself ( or one fairly similar last week ) , but thankfully its quite a bit better this week , and its making better sense again .
^ I really do n't think I 've quite experienced the same sense of loneliness before , that I 've experienced since being in ministry .
^ However , its not too bad at the moment - in fact as I write I 'm feeling pretty positive ( comparitively speaking , of course .
^ I 'm even more sure that my long term future is not in the Methodist Church
^ Incidently , I believe my personal tutor from my second year in Wells ( Jonathan Selwyn ) , is your grandparents new minister in Spilsbyshire ( Oh dear ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ) .
^ Glad to hear that you 're having some modest successes on the football field - is Mr Beckham safe in his job , or are you making a bid ?
^ I had lunch yesterday with Isabel Trower - he would have flown off to
^ Korea today .
^ I 'd better close now ( it 's 10.30pm ) and get on with some work ; the day is still young for a minister ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Keep in close touch Nick .
^ I was very serious about popping up to Wells if you ever want to chat ) .
^ Kaden
^ Hey Kaden ,
^ Thanks for the email .
^ Yeah - three weeks into term ; it seems quite a long time now since term started .
^ I feel a lot more settled now than I did at the start .
^ Life is a funny thing - always up and down ; sometimes things are great , and sometimes I wonder where I 'm going and whether there 's a purpose to it all .
^ I have just played football ( I ca n't remember if I told you that I am the A 's football captain ? ) and we won 4-0 !
^ That makes it three wins out of three so far !
^ Thanks for the offer of coming up - I may just take you up on that , you never know !
^ Things are going pretty well really - I am staying just about on top of my work , and there is always plenty to do in Philip 's !
^ I have had two 21st birthdays to think about this week - Regan Day 's and
^ Mallory Lally 's .
^ Life is somewhat expensive at the moment !
^ Sorry to hear about the lack of energy and commitment - but I 'm not too surprised .
^ At the end of the day , I 'm sure we 're judged on our determination more than our vitality !
^ Email back when you have time Kaden ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick
^ Well , you 're three weeks into the new term , so how 's it all going now ?
^ To be honest , I got the feeling that all was not entirely well in your last email to me - .
^ it may have been rather more than coming to terms with the idea of it being your last year , as you suggested
^ You 've been on my mind a lot in the last few weeks , and I hope things really are okay with you now .
^ It would be good to get your reassurances , or alternatively if I can be of any help , I 'm not a million miles away .
^ I can drive up in less than a couple of hours if you ever want a chat ! )
^ Things here are not too bad .
^ I 've just had four days off ; I hired a van and went back to Hampshire to collect the rest of my things , and have divided them beween the flat and the house .
^ Problem was that I did n't hire a big enough van , and so had to make a double trip , in awful weather .
^ The flat is beginning to look quite like home now !
^ Work goes on , but I seem to be lacking energy , and in turn , total commitment .
^ I hope this feeling will soon pass .
^ It 'll be good to hear from you when you 've time .
^ In the meantime , take care Mate , and God Bless .
^ Kaden
^ ~
^ Good to hear you 're enjoying things in Munich , even if it does mean abandoning your wife and three children .
^ Uriel is staying here an extra year to do her masters in chemistry !
^ Alex was having a big stress about her dissertation but I think she 's handed it in now , Ross still exists , as far as I know ...
^ I 'm not in Wells on Saturday , I 'm going to Carlisle on Friday and staying overnight .
^ I 'll be around on Sunday though if you 're free .
^ Cruddas B12 ( back to my first year floor ) .
^ I 'm on speaking terms with a couple of the first years on my corridor but the third years ignore me when I pass .
^ I think it 's because I do n't go to CU and so am not worthy of positive attention ... )
^ I wish it were true .
^ Even if they did n't know me , it does n't hurt to return a smile , does it ? !
^ Ah well , luckily I am thick-skinned !
^ Hope to see you soon .
^ Anthony .
^ ~
^ Nick - thanks for email - glad to hear room is now sorted , and footie underway ; first match this Saturday ?
^ Looking forward to seeing you , and Munich .
^ The Hern , by the way , are calling in here on Sunday , if we 're back from church and lunch with one of the Wroughton families ( new school family ) .
^ Be nice to see them again - two years since last time , I think .
^ Spoke to Aimee Briggs a couple of days ago , to settle payment for Dyson cleaner ( &pound; - probably less than half price - pretty good ! ) ; he says
^ Corinthians have lost all games played so far - must be missing us - well , some of us , anyway . .
^ See you soon ; lots of love - D .
^ Hi Daddy ,
^ I 'm now connected in my room ! !
^ I only had two lectures today , and they were not too bad in terms of - linguistics stuff mostly .
^ I find I can more easily get my head around the stuff than the maths-based stuff , probably because I 've done more language in general .
^ My room looks pretty nice now - I 've put all my framed photos up on the walls , as well as my picture of Bath .
^ We had a problem with the central heating , but now it 's on virtually all the time and the place is boiling !
^ Football training again tomorrow .
^ I might even get quite fit at this rate !
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi lance
^ thanks for your email , lovely to hear from you .
^ was nice to see you at eds , sorry i didnt get a chance to really chat to you though .
^ did you have a nice time ?
^ things here are good .
^ weather is ok , sometimes , but am looking forward to really lovely weather .
^ nice .
^ just been out to say bye to my friend nat who is at trevs .
^ you met her ?
^ she is going to madagascar all summer to study lemurs .
^ random , longest span we have been apart .
^ still , hope all goes well , but wont be seeing her til sept so all a bit strange
^ other than that , things are ok .
^ its my dads bday today and have had a nice day .
^ ed def had a wicked time at his party .
^ i didnt get to talk to him much which was a shame , but he was happy .
^ i enjoyed it too , stayed over so didnt leave til next day .
^ then stayed at eds an extra night
^ all the same ..... hope you are well .
^ reply when you can !
^ love Isaiah x
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^ ~
^ Hello Benjy-man ,
^ Hi , how are you ?
^ Are you having fun in the North ? well , sort of .
^ If I did n't have to do any work I would be having SO much fun !
^ Today is Saturday ( actually you probably knew that ! ) and , hey !
^ Today is Thursday !
^ I am in Wells !
^ I 've come through for the day to ( HOPEFULLY ) get my EDA project completed .
^ Little success so far .
^ It is so HARD !
^ Everything is so confusing , and I just do not have the brain capacity or capabilities to deal with it all .
^ Arrrrr ! ! !
^ Grrrrr ! ! !
^ MAN ! !
^ Well , there we go .
^ I do NOT want to go home today without having completed it , so I have a LOT to do !
^ Parker 's in Wells today too .
^ I 'm going to go and meet him soon for lunch , so that is a welcome break !
^ Well , glad that you are having fun at home .
^ Long may it continue ! !
^ Are you having to sleep on the floor again ?
^ Hope it 's ok .
^ We had a great weekend .
^ Jessie dur home as a surpeise for mam and she ( mam ) was really chuffed .
^ It was GREAT ! ( hee hee ! ) .
^ Hey , do you think you could remember my brother in law , Manley , in your prayers ?
^ He is undergoing tests at the hospital today to see if a tumour that has developed in his shoulder is cancerous .
^ We are all rather ( to say the least ) worried about him , and are praying hard that it is just beneign ( if thats how you spell it ) and that it can be dealt with ok .
^ We are going up to Oxford to see them on Saturday - by which time we should hopefully know .
^ Scary business , but as Isabelle says , it 's all in God 's hands .
^ Better go , keep laughing ( pronounced Laffing ; not larfing ! ! ) ! ! love , Cody
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Jay !
^ Greetings from sunny Brighton . &SMILEY
^ Awesome to hear from you .
^ Thanks for the update - I find honesty quite refreshing actually , not at all depressing .
^ Part of the reason I went to SA was to remind myself that there is more to life than the pursuit of knowledge .
^ I think it was a pretty important time actually , as I 'll almost certainly be going back to Munich in October to begin my PhD .
^ As always , I have various mixed feelings about going back ; I 'm quite excited about it in many ways .
^ I 'm also sad to be leaving the community I 've become a part of back here at home
^ I also get a bit nervous if I think too much about producing a worthwhile thesis on an as yet unknown topic .
^ Why does life seem to consist largely of saying goodbye to people ? !
^ Anyway , I am grateful to God for giving me the chance to do this PhD ...
^ I will try and make the most of it , taking your advice to " try and keep things new and interesting "
^ I would love to see ITB go global , so please keep me updated on your progress with your colleagues !
^ I think about it every now and again when I absently throw away some screwed up piece of trash .
^ Ah ... the good old days ...
^ What are your plans for the next year ?
^ Coming to Hungary anytime soon ?
^ Do n't forget that you have a cool place to stay in Boston !
^ Thanks Annie .
^ I 'd love to come and see you , and Hungary / Romania are definitely on the top of my " to visit " list .
^ We 'll see ...
^ And what would an e-mail to you be if I did n't have some moral dilemma to discuss ?
^ A complete waste of time , that 's what !
^ I 'm glad you 've given me something to get my teeth into once more .
^ You are a fount of inspiration !
^ So ... it seems to me you could approach this situation from two points of view :
^ 1) By paying for the guy 's parking , you are actually denying him the chance to learn from this instance ...
^ in which case he might make the same mistake later , and end up having to pay significantly more for it .
^ 2) On the other hand , he might be a father of eight
^ without the funds to pay for the meter , and your generosity might keep the wolf from the door for another week
^ So , as usual , it is a dilemma so I guess you have to go with your heart .
^ If it was me I would probably have walked away , rationalising my decision based on response number 1 above .
^ Well , I hope you find some adventure there in ULC Annie .
^ Do some hip-hop for me ...
^ God bless you ,
^ EWok
^ Hey Nick !
^ I really enjoyed reading your updates from South Africa .
^ It sounded like you had a really amazing experience as far as departing from the ordinary and trying something completely new .
^ It sounds like one of those experiences where you really grow as a person , something that you draw on in the future when you 're feeling down , or making difficult decisions , or just appreciating life .
^ One thing that can be difficult is adjusting back to your old life after a experience such as that .
^ I say this because I 'm going through something similar this year .
^ I know that I ca n't come anything close to comparing my year in Brighton to your time in South Africa .
^ on a smaller scale I still had to adjust to a new life , new culture , new friends , etc.
^ This made last year continually exciting for me , something that I 'll always remember
^ But by comparison , this past year at ULC has been nowhere near as exciting , and often somewhat depressing .
^ The work ethic at ULC requires me to spend a large portion of my time working , leaving little remaining time for other fun activities .
^ Last year I felt like I was really living life , whereas this year I have n't felt like I 've been able to get as much out of it .
^ I get into these ruts where I waste a lot of time , go to bed way too late and wake up too late .
^ I 'm starting to get out of this now - I guess my only advice would be to keep on seeking adventure now that you 're back , try and keep things new and interesting .
^ Anyway , sorry for that boring , depressing , update .
^ Like I said , I 've started to figure things out recently .
^ I 've take up softball , bridge , and have been going out more in the evenings .
^ Also , I might re-take up hip-hop dancing in the fall &SMILEY
^ Now if I can only convince my office mates to take up ITB &SMILEY
^ What are your plans for the next year ?
^ Coming to Hungary anytime soon ?
^ Do n't forget that you have a cool place to stay in Boston !
^ And what would an e-mail to you be if I did n't have some moral dilemma to discuss ?
^ He 's something that happened 2 weeks ago to me .
^ In Hungary , they have these parking meters where if you have a car and park on the street , you put some money in the meter which allows you to park there for some amount of time .
^ They probably have these things in Brighton too , but since I did n't have a car last year , I do n't know for sure .
^ Anyway , there 's a police officer who walks around on foot and checks these meters .
^ If the time has expired and the car is still there , he places a parking ticket on the car .
^ I was walking down the street and noticed the police office placing a ticket on a car .
^ Then he started walking towards me .
^ As it happened , I was standing next to a car with an expired meter .
^ Should I a ) do nothing or b ) place a quarter in the meter to save the driver from a ticket ?
^ Orlando
^ ~
^ Hiya Nick
^ Great to hear from you .
^ Glad Munich is going well so far .
^ The lab sounds great ( not that it would do me a bit of good ! )
^ Hope you 're now installed in a more suitable room .
^ It sounds as though the breeze block Margarets flats were not so bad after all ! !
^ We launched the Project last weekend .
^ It went really well - we got &pound; 10K to start the fund !
^ Life is quite unbelievably manic - bad as Nat West was when I worked there , it seems more like a holiday camp compared to what I 'm going through now !
^ I passed the 990 hours at work last week , and this week is not much better !
^ Still its not all bad , just tiring !
^ Keep in touch Mate !
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden !
^ Greetings from Munich .
^ I hope this email finds you well .
^ How are the funds for the project coming along ?
^ I 've been here for about a week now , but it seems much longer !
^ I 've had a bit of a room fiasco .
^ I turned up to find that I 'd been allocated a room in a house just down the road from Kassidy College !
^ no problem there ) but it was so tiny that you could n't even fit a wardrobe into it
^ I realised that there was no way I could spend a whole year in there , so I had a word with the Accomodations Officer and I 'm moving into a new room on Monday .
^ The work is going well , although there 's lots to do .
^ My computer lab is fantastic - almost brand new ! !
^ I really enjoy working in there .
^ I have Mr. Samuel Streets to thank for that !
^ He donated the funds for the building . )
^ All the best Kaden !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Thanks Cody &SMILEY
^ Miss Anna E Berry has created a virtual postcard for you at the Wells
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^ Thanks Maz .
^ I 'm a happy 25 now , and off to South Africa on April 6th .
^ It 's been a good year so far here at home - I 've done a lot of teaching and recording songs and stuff .
^ Still not sure about funding for next year , but it would indeed be fab to be with you and Cali ; I guess it 's in God 's hands .
^ O
^ Miss Anna E Berry has created a virtual postcard for you at the Wells
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^ Donald , we just saw you competing in the Olympics ... nice going ! ! !
^ OK , actually it was n't you , but it did look like you - we all agree that the American gymnast Carly Patterson ( who won the all-around gold ) is a spitting image of you !
^ So there you go ...
^ when do you leave ? are you excited ? looking forward to it ? nervous ? ...
^ I 've been sitting around waiting to hear from Munich about when I 'm supposed to be arriving for quite a while now .
^ they STILL have n't got in touch with me , so I 'm still sitting around
^ I think I 'm pretty excited about going , but I 'll be more definite once I know which college I 'm in , where i 'm going to live , etc .
^ Things are going well in Arizona .
^ It 's hot here ... but who did n't know that ? ?
^ Not me ; I knew that .
^ Do n't become an I Donald ; there 's enough of us already .
^ Did you know that my family is thinking of moving down here ?
^ Wow , the DeGugliano 's ( yes , I know ) united once more , ready to take on the world .
^ Great .
^ have you gone to check on Maddie at the Pikes house ?
^ Come on Donald , the ball was in her court .
^ I made the initial move ; it was her responsibility to call me .
^ Not the first time I 've been jilted either ...
^ how is your music going ?
^ have n't heard much about it lately .
^ anything new ?
^ No , song-writing is about ebb-and-flow , and at the moment I 'm ebbing .
^ do you think your family would be willing to relocate to Arizona ?
^ Hang on , I 'll just ask them ...
^ ...
^ No , sorry - do n't like Americans ( apart from you of course ) .
^ Actually , I might visit Jude in Romania next summer , so maybe I could pop down and see you as well ...
^ Make hay while the sun shines Donald !
^ O
^ HI Nick ! !
^ It 's been ages ( or Donkey 's Ages as Mrs. Ford would say ) since i 've talked to you !
^ I 'm glad to hear that you had a good time in SA and have safely returned .
^ on Munich ! !
^ I went to a Leadership
^ Conference the other day and one of the speakers was a man who went to Munich ... and of course i thought of you . )
^ when do you leave ?
^ are you excited ?
^ looking forward to it ?
^ nervous ?
^ none of the above ?
^ I hope that you really enjoy it ... i 'm sure you will .
^ you 're Mr. Smarty Pants .
^ Oh wait ... ca n't say that in Brighton .
^ Well , you know what I meant !
^ Things are going well in Arizona .
^ It 's hot here ... but who did n't know that ? ?
^ I 'm enjoying my job and kind of starting to make friends .
^ You 'd think for an E that I would be more excited about getting to know new people !
^ actually the thought of being in my apartment alone is much more exciting to me at the moment .
^ i have to force myself to be social sometimes
^ I 'm turning into an I ! ! !
^ ~
^ guitar is very nice , thanks .
^ Still playing loads in D , but becoming more adventuresome with wierd and muscle defiing chords ...
^ Dinner last night with Leilani was good .
^ She is very
^ Christian .
^ I 'm not sure if she is " the one " though .
^ Do n't worry , buddy .
^ I 'm going F l o w .
^ How 's things ?
^ Bob
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Get your free&EMAIL address at &WEBSITE or your free&EMAIL address at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Greetings Alfie ,
^ I 've had a very nice summer travelling the length and breadth of our great country ...
^ Land 's End , Wyatt , Bangor and Skegness !
^ Any job plans ?
^ Not really - any consultancy work would probably be much appreciated .
^ I 'm filling in at my Dad 's school part-time as they are understaffed at present .
^ Tomorrow I 'm teaching 6-8 year-olds art ! !
^ Yipee .
^ As regards the conferences , I 'm tentatively planning to be in SA between early March and early July .
^ That means I could actually make any of the conferences apart from NLLTL .
^ Either way , I 'll write a draft paper in the next couple of weeks or so , and get it to you for perusal .
^ One potential issue is that I 've never used TEX before for anything apart from mickey mouse documents .
^ I usually use Word - should I explore the TEX option ?
^ As regards Kathy , I 'm sure we can put her up for a night , although our house is rather small ( about 1 / 8th the size of yours ! ) .
^ When is she planning on being down this way ?
^ Also , what particular Luxembourg " delights " did you have in mind ? ...
^ Honda Village ?
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Hope you are having a good summer .
^ Any job plans ? -- our company is incorporated and we have a 2nd round of funding from our client in the pipeline .
^ so we might be interested in a bit of consultancy from you , though it is n't clear precisely when , unfortunately
^ If you wanted to submit a joint paper , which I wld present , to a good refereed conference next summer , these are the 2 , in order of preference , which I cld attend .
^ I wld submit to the first , and then the 2nd if that was unsuccessful .
^ I do n't mind writing a first draft , but it wld be useful to have a copy of the .tex rather than .pdf file of your report for eqns etc .
^ You 'd be first author and I 'd send you the draft to comment on , correct etc before submission .
^ best , Alfie
^ Human Understanding Technology conference / North American chapter of the Association for Physical Linguistics annual meeting
^ May 2-7 , &YEAR
^ The Park Plaza Hotel , one block from the Boston Common
^ IUS / NLLTL &YEAR continues the combination of the Human Understanding
^ Technologies and North American Association for Physical
^ Linguistics annual meetings begun in &YEAR .
^ This year 's conference will include a special emphasis on bringing researchers with common interests in computational linguistics , information retrieval , and speech research together .
^ Topics of interest include , but are not limited to , cross-language retrieval .
^ summarization ; ; language modeling for speech or QI ; all aspects of speech recognition and synthesis ; entity extraction ; parsing and grammatical formalisms ; machine translation
^ shallow and formal semantics ; language generation ; dialogue systems ; evaluation of language systems ; and applications of machine learning to all three areas represented in the conference
^ &DATE Due : proposals for workshops and tutorials
^ &DATE Due : full papers Notification : acceptance / rejection of workshops
^ &DATE Due : proposals for demos
^ &DATE Notification : acceptance / rejection of tutorials proposals
^ &DATE Notification : acceptance / rejection of full papers
^ &DATE Notification : acceptance / rejection of demos
^ Feb 4 Due : late-breaking short papers , posters
^ Mar 8 Notification : acceptance / rejection of short papers , posters
^ Mar 17 Due : camera-ready full papers , short papers , posters
^ PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT : COLING &YEAR
^ The 20th International Conference on Physical Linguistics
^ University of Rio , Switzerland -- August 23-27 , &YEAR
^ We are pleased to announce that COLING &YEAR will take place at the University of Rio , Switzerland , on August 23-27 , &YEAR ( main conference dates ) , together with satellite events before and after the main conference .
^ Information about submission , registration and venue will be posted in due time at the VMU below .
^ The head of the program committee for COLING &YEAR is Prof. Sergei Nirenburg ( University of Maryland Baltimore County )
^ the head of the organizing committee is Prof. Maximus Hatherley ( University of Rio ) .
^ Important dates * deadline for submission of papers : &DATE * notification of acceptance &YEAR
^ &DATE * deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals : &DATE * workshop and tutorial notification : January 16 ,
^ VMU for local organization * &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Thanks Timbo .
^ I 'm a happy .
^ Speak soon ,
^ O
^ Happy Birthday to you
^ Happy Birthday to YOU
^ Happy Birthday dear Be-ennnnn
^ Happy Birthday to you !
^ Wow ! 25 !
^ Ancient One ...
^ Have a great day , buddy .
^ You 're a wonderful friend , and I appreciate you very much indeed .
^ Thanks for your friendship .
^ Love ,
^ Bob
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^ ~
^ Hi JG !
^ How are you ?
^ I have sprained my ankle playing football so I 'm in quite a bit of pain at the moment and I 'm going to spend today resting and reading books and things - should be quite nice actually !
^ I 'm going to study at Munich University next year for an M / Phil in computing .
^ I start in about a month 's time .
^ At the moment I 'm preparing by doing some background work in maths and things .
^ How 's your study going ?
^ How are you getting on with Camryn ?
^ I graduated from Wells University last year with a First-class degree .
^ I was happy with my results , but sad to leave all my friends .
^ It was very strange to leave Wells knowing that I would never be part of that community again - I do n't know if you have ever felt like that .
^ Anyway , just wanted to check that things are OK with you , and let you know what I 'm up to .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Judith !
^ I was hoping you 'd email as I could n't remember your address .
^ And what a ridiculous address it is !
^ Snowboarding was awesome , with a capital COOL .
^ Am quite missing that " free as a bird , gliding down the slope " sensation already .
^ Took some photos and a fairly apalling video , so there is evidence .
^ As for the French snowboarding hotties , well ... let 's just say HUBBA HUBBA !
^ Glad to hear you 're bigging it up Canadian stylee - sounds good .
^ Looking forward to seeing you again - it 's been too long ...
^ Hang in there Private ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Merry Christmas my man !
^ I hope you lit up those French slopes .
^ How was it ?
^ Any cute French snowboarders ?
^ Ah well , I 'm sure we can talk about that later .
^ I 'm sure it was pretty awesome though .
^ The holiday season is treating me well in Romania .
^ Our family had Christmas on the 26th / 27th in the mountain town of Canmore .
^ We rented a couple of chalets , ate turkey buns , and went swimming in the outdoor hot tubs and hot pools .
^ Beauty .
^ Anyways , just wanted to wish you happy holidays and a happy new year .
^ Remember the New Year 's kiss ! )
^ Looking forward to see you guys in the new year .
^ Jude
^ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you . &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick - so good to hear from you .
^ Happy New Year to you too !
^ I 'm glad you had a good break - although a week and a half does n't sound very long for a student !
^ You really sound pretty confident about the Munich course .
^ Every good wish for the exams .
^ Let me know how they go .
^ So you 've Sawyer staying at present - which Unis is he looking at in the South ( I really ca n't think of Munich as the South ! ! ! ) .
^ If he is going to look at Uni 's around this part of the country , and needs accomodation , get him to call me .
^ He 'll be very welcome .
^ I 'm really sorry I did n't get to know him whilst I was still at Wells .
^ Talking of Wells , I visited in mid December for another wedding ( Janet
^ Ainsworth who I do n't think you knew ) .
^ I had the privilege of preaching in chapel !
^ It was great to be back there , albeit only for the day ( and I went by train ! )
^ My Christmas was fine until I went south - unfortunately , I do find my family ( albeit only father and brother ) very hard going .
^ It was great to get back to Yorkshire !
^ New Year 's Eve was spent up the road at a local farm .
^ It was quiet but pleasant .
^ It was great because Radio 4 did a half hour documentary on New Years Eve about local traditional carols , and it was based all around my patch , and included interviews with several friends .
^ Another friend who is in his late 70 was also on Radio 4 earlier in the day , talking about the art of dry stone walling .
^ I still love it around here .
^ We 've also had a lot of snow today - the moors look stunning !
^ I suspect that &YEAR may be the year that I knock on the door of the C of E , to explore the possibility of them having me !
^ Think of me please , since it 'll not be easy .
^ So you continue to struggle with the big questions of life .
^ It may be all part of the " fun " , but it sure does get rather taxing at times , does n't it ? !
^ O that it were all so !
^ But then , I guess there would not be the need for " faith " .
^ Hang on in there Mate !
^ I 'll close here Nick .
^ Great to hear from you , and as ever , you 're always welcome here if you need a break )
^ or if you want to use the house for a reunion of your Johns friends later in the year !
^ Take Care
^ Kaden
^ Happy New Year to you Kaden !
^ I 'm now back in Munich , and beginning my revision for exams on January 15th .
^ I had a week and a half break at home , spending time with my family and seeing loads of old friends and relatives .
^ It was a good break , and I think I 'm just about ready to take on this coming term .
^ Sawyer Wheeler is staying with me at the moment , as he is touring the South looking at potential universtities for his PhD .
^ Did you do anything exciting to celebrate New Year ?
^ My life is buzzing along fairly busily at the moment - the course keeps me occupied most of the time , which I enjoy .
^ I especially like working in the lab here when there is noone else around - the facilities are fantastic .
^ Other than that I continue to struggle with the big questions of life - I guess that 's all part of the " fun " ! !
^ Well , keep well Kaden and let me know what you 're up to .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Keira , I sent you and Jessie 2 CD 's .
^ They should have arrived at your
^ Henryton house by now , but I guess you 're not there .
^ Anyway , hope you 're having a great time with your family , and that your sister has an awesome wedding .
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ not handsome enough to tempt me . &SMILEY
^ Hey Nick !
^ Thanks for writing back !
^ Things have been rather hectic here .
^ I just finished five weeks of a clerkship in the small South Carolinian town of Orangeburg .
^ I was following various doctors and observing them .
^ It was rather fun !
^ In the meantime , I moved into my new house .
^ It is a wonderful house with hardwood floors , a yard , and lots of roomates . &SMILEY
^ Jessie , Amanda , and Miranda are all going to be living there with me !
^ Now I am in Seattle relaxing with some friends .
^ The weather here is beautiful- clear , sunny , and not humid !
^ Today , I am going home to Lake Chelan to stay with my family .
^ My sister is getting married in two weeks so it is going to be a very hectic time .
^ My mom is already very stressed out and it is making everyone else stressed , too .
^ Oh well .
^ It is cherry season and they are picking cherries in our orchard .
^ I am excited to eat Washington cherries !
^ Do they grow cherries in Brighton ?
^ Let me know how you are doing .
^ Do you know if you will be starting school this fall ?
^ I hope everything is going well .
^ Your friend ,
^ Keira
^ Re ) Hello Kosuke ! !
^ Hi Nick !
^ Yes , I miss table tennis !
^ Now in Japan , IT 's too hot and it 's typhoon 's seasons !
^ When I saw MTV in THE UK , I heard CC MAC !
^ I lnve their sound !
^ BuT iT 's too difficult to find iT in Japan .
^ I gave up .But I could find it today so I 'm very happy !
^ ByE ! !
^ ~
^ Hey Bear ,
^ Well Nick , I really hope you have enjoyed your holiday in Scotland and
^ Wells !
^ I can understand it was emotional to see Wells without any people u know there !
^ I miss my life in Wells already , but we did know it was only temperary !
^ it does n't mean you 've lost contact with all the mad people you knew there , that includes me I 'm afraid ! !
^ Glad you had a good break in Scotland , you needed a break after last year , we did do quite alot of work did n't we ! !
^ Have n't got a certificate yet .... so I think I have a degree ... not sure though !
^ Goodluck with the background work for Munich , do n't worry , you will understand what you need to , I am confident .
^ And if things are hard , you know that God finds it all easy , so just call on him if you do n't understand something .... worked for me !
^ My job starts on the 16th Sept and I 've been working out how much I get after the nasty tax man has taken his share plus the student load repayements !
^ I get &pound; 8000 a month GROS and after all deductions I get &pound; 4400 .
^ Still not to bad , can afford a new car which is so exciting .
^ It 's got an amazing sound ( I think ! ) and it 's gonna be a metalic black Polo with 1.4 l engine ( ecconomics ! )
^ Have n't been on holiday but it has been nice driving to the cinema and the beech so it has been ok !
^ I 'm gonna drive up to wells on 2nd weekend of term to see everyone so that should be cool ! !
^ But I 've gotta get some reasonably smart gear to wear , so off to the shops I must go , not that I have much fashion sense unlike you ! !
^ Anyway take care bear ,
^ Let me know when you get to Munich ! ,
^ All the best ,
^ Regan
^ Hi Mr. Weeks !
^ How are you hanging ?
^ When do you start work ?
^ HOW WAS ALTON TOWERS ? ? ? ! ! !
^ I 've started background work for Munich now - bought some big , expensive books and I 'm trying to get my mind around such things as " Modern Engineering Mathematics " , etc. !
^ What 's your life like at the moment ?
^ Mine has been pretty busy recently , with various family trips and stuff .
^ We went for a holiday in Scotland a couple of weeks ago and stayed in Wells on the way up and back for a couple of nights .
^ It was very strange and quite emotional walking around the empty streets , with memories flooding back at every turn .
^ What an amazing three years they were !
^ I 'd love to hear your news - email soon ,
^ Be ( n\|ar )
^ ~
^ A mere &pound; 4400 ! !
^ Well , let me know if you need some help there - I 'll send you a fiver if you get really desperate !
^ Speak soon ,
^ Bear
^ Hey Bear ,
^ Well Nick , I really hope you have enjoyed your holiday in Scotland and
^ Wells !
^ I can understand it was emotional to see Wells without any people u know there !
^ I miss my life in Wells already , but we did know it was only temperary !
^ it does n't mean you 've lost contact with all the mad people you knew there , that includes me I 'm afraid ! !
^ Glad you had a good break in Scotland , you needed a break after last year , we did do quite alot of work did n't we ! !
^ Have n't got a certificate yet .... so I think I have a degree ... not sure though !
^ Goodluck with the background work for Munich , do n't worry , you will understand what you need to , I am confident .
^ And if things are hard , you know that God finds it all easy , so just call on him if you do n't understand something .... worked for me !
^ My job starts on the 16th Sept and I 've been working out how much I get after the nasty tax man has taken his share plus the student load repayements !
^ I get &pound; 8000 a month GROS and after all deductions I get &pound; 4400 .
^ Still not to bad , can afford a new car which is so exciting .
^ It 's got an amazing sound ( I think ! ) and it 's gonna be a metalic black Polo with 1.4 l engine ( ecconomics ! )
^ Have n't been on holiday but it has been nice driving to the cinema and the beech so it has been ok !
^ I 'm gonna drive up to wells on 2nd weekend of term to see everyone so that should be cool ! !
^ But I 've gotta get some reasonably smart gear to wear , so off to the shops I must go , not that I have much fashion sense unlike you ! !
^ Anyway take care bear ,
^ Let me know when you get to Munich ! ,
^ All the best ,
^ Regan
^ Hi Mr. Weeks !
^ How are you hanging ?
^ When do you start work ?
^ HOW WAS ALTON TOWERS ? ? ? ! ! !
^ I 've started background work for Munich now - bought some big , expensive books and I 'm trying to get my mind around such things as " Modern Engineering Mathematics " , etc. !
^ What 's your life like at the moment ?
^ Mine has been pretty busy recently , with various family trips and stuff .
^ We went for a holiday in Scotland a couple of weeks ago and stayed in Wells on the way up and back for a couple of nights .
^ It was very strange and quite emotional walking around the empty streets , with memories flooding back at every turn .
^ What an amazing three years they were !
^ I 'd love to hear your news - email soon ,
^ Be ( n\|ar )
^ ~
^ Nick Nick Nick ..... if you dare ... .... .
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Parker et al ,
^ I think it 's a shame that more people ca n't benefit from the link at the bottom of Parker 's email .
^ So , I 've forwarded it on to the CU mailing list .
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. only joking Tabitha !
^ Sawyer wrote :
^ Once again , good morning .
^ Well , here I am , relaxing in the library after the end of another busy day ( &TIME ) .
^ I am joyful : there is snow !
^ Let me ask you a question , when you wake up and there is snow on the ground , can you tell this without looking outside ?
^ Just curious .
^ So , do you all have busy days ?
^ If you do , then you presumably wo n't have read this far into my email .
^ I 'm hungry , and I 've eaten all my cookies .
^ I had no interesting emails today , please write me some , people .
^ Sorry , I actually had a reasonable one abuot nike from Kaylee , but that 's all .
^ I think I 'll go home now .
^ I hope my parcel has come .
^ Sorry I could n't think of anything interesting to say , but it 's never stopped any of you , so ...
^ I look forward to seeing you all again later today ,
^ Shania
^ P.S. You might just want to click on the link below ... ( especially
^ Kaylee )
^ &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ pas de problem , mon amie .
^ and i apologise if i ever said you were n't funny .
^ which i might have done .
^ but this is most amusing .
^ if you ever did it to me , i 'd kill you before you could even begin laughing ,
^ love cat x
^ Jonah wrote :
^ thanks !
^ " A.N.Ritchie " wrote :
^ this is the most amusing thing i have read in a while .
^ the people either side of me are wondering why i am chuckling ...
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Parker et al ,
^ I think it 's a shame that more people ca n't benefit from the link at the bottom of Parker 's email .
^ So , I 've forwarded it on to the CU mailing list .
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. only joking Tabitha !
^ Sawyer wrote :
^ Once again , good morning .
^ Well , here I am , relaxing in the library after the end of another busy da ( &TIME ) .
^ I am joyful : there is snow !
^ Let me ask you a question , when you wake up and there is snow on the ground , can you tell this without looking outside ?
^ Just curious .
^ So , do you all have busy days ?
^ If you do , then you presumably wo n't have read this far into my email .
^ I 'm hungry , and I 've eaten all my cookies .
^ I had no interesting emails today , please write me some , people .
^ Sorry , I actually had a reasonable one abuot nike from Kaylee , but that 's all .
^ I think I 'll go home now .
^ I hope my parcel has come .
^ Sorry I could n't think of anything interesting to say , but it 's never stopped any of you , so ...
^ I look forward to seeing you all again later today ,
^ Shania
^ P.S. You might just want to click on the link below ... ( especially
^ Kaylee )
^ &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Yo Nick
^ Great to hear from you mate !
^ I have now been back in Dundee for 10 days .
^ It has taken a while to get back into the swing of work , but now I 'm enjoying it again .
^ I am working on a long essay ( 50000 words ) which contributes to an eighth of my final grade .
^ I am writing on the function of guilt from a sociological and biological perspective .
^ I chose the subject myself . -
^ It is absolutely fascinating , but I hope I havent set myself an impossible task .
^ We 'll see .
^ The week in Devon volunteering was great .
^ It was petrifying at first .
^ I really did n't have a clue what I had let myself in for , but it was definitely one of the most satisfying things I have ever done .
^ You really feel like you have contributed in some small way to the lives of people who have difficult home backgrounds .
^ It was great and made me realise what would give me satisfaction in my career .
^ Congrats on your success this year .
^ That will stand you in good stead for the future .
^ Where are you going up north and what for ?
^ ARe you going to uni ?
^ Maybe you 've told me this and I 've forgotten ... sorry !
^ I had better get back and do some more work ... I 've been hanging out in libraries and shops too long now ! take care and come and visit whenever you like , love Amya xx
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Macie !
^ Hi .
^ I 'm really sorry it 's been such a long time since I emailed you .
^ I 've had a hectic last few months - oldest excuse in the book , but it does have a semblance of truth .
^ I will tell you about it :
^ After I visited you in February , I went back to work .
^ A month or so earlier , I had been on the second instalment of the business management course I 've been doing this year .
^ I came away with two assignments to
^ squeeze into my spare time .
^ One was a fairly small financial affair , and the other was the " main project " for the year .
^ Due to the fact that I was already working / travelling almost 12 hours a day , the prospect of these two assignments was fairly daunting .
^ I just about managed to do both of them though , with only a slight bending of the deadlines .
^ I then found out in June that I had been shortlisted for a most successful
^ student competition thingy .
^ That was quite exciting and I went to an
^ award-giving session in Norwich to hear the results .
^ I did n't win , but I did get a nice certificate to append to my CV , commending my " contribution to the company " .
^ Then in July I went back for the third and final business management instalment , and was very surprised to hear that I had got - in my main project assignment !
^ I was actually quite nervous when I went to get my results , as I could see quite a few referrals .
^ Anyway , I finished the course and returned home to do my last few weeks of work .
^ I finished at the end of July , although I am going back to do two more weeks from 13th - 26th of September .
^ I have been on holiday , then , for the last month or so .
^ It has been absolutely fantastic .
^ It is such a COMPLETE change from work .
^ We have just got back from our annual family holiday to Chapel St. Leonards on the the East Coast .
^ It was cool .
^ Well hot actually , but that made it cool .
^ Errr , yes , anyway , we visited your family on the way up , and were hugely entertained by excerpts from Rylee 's Grease video .
^ We also spent some excellent time chatting which was great , and I took a couple of photos , one of which I have attached to this email .
^ Remember the project I wrote about a second ago , well I just received a letter to say that I 've won a competition for the best project !
^ I will be going to an awards ceremony in Carlisle and getting ? 950 for my efforts
^ Praise God .
^ So that caps off my year very nicely thank you .
^ So now I am heading up north in October .
^ I really am looking forward to it , although I have no idea what it will hold .
^ Are you well ?
^ You 've survived two years !
^ How was the volunteer work you 've just done ?
^ How do you see the next year ?
^ What do you want to do after that ?
^ How many questions can I fit into one paragraph ?
^ See you soon , love
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Great photo Alexander !
^ It looks remarkably like the township I stayed in when I was visiting South Africa earlier this year .
^ I hope things go well for you over there .
^ I 'm deducing from your email that you are now engaged - !
^ I assume that Jade is the lucky guy ? !
^ I 'm heading back to Munich this year to begin my PhD .
^ I 've taken a room in 8 Larkhall Road and when I was visiting I saw a photo in the kitchen that looked remarkably like you !
^ Were you in that house last year ?
^ Well , all the best from the mother land ,
^ Nick
^ Dear everyone ,
^ Just wanted to give you a shout - or hoarse squeak - from Sarawak to confirm that I 'm alive and kicking ( usually at savage mosquitoes ) .
^ I moved to the Bidayuh village of Kampong Plantaganet at the start of September , and have since been occupied with learning Biatah ( the local dialect , although at the moment I 'm pretty much in Malay-only mode .
^ garnering bemused stares from villagers and generally undergoing the ritual humiliation that must plague every first-time ethnographer
^ I 've also been eating like a trooper , because " man " and " nuak " ( Biatah : eat and drink .
^ are central to Bidayuh hospitality , and there 's no persuading people at each successive house that you really really are busua ( Biatah : full )
^ I 've been lucky with living arrangements , having located through a Catholic priest ( the clergy are like the mafia out here - such connections .
^ a local Bidayuh lady , Midah ak Jub , into whose family I 've been adopted
^ She has a house in the middle of the village which she and her folks only use at weekends , and has let me live there for the duration of my fieldwork .
^ Like many houses in the more " modern " villages near
^ Kuching , it has a pristine living / front room ( read : white tiles , polished furniture , satellite TV ) which leads to more functional ( read : older and grottier ) cooking , washing and sleeping quarters .
^ I 've got a little ground floor room of my own , replete with a wooden bunk bed used by her daughters when they were growing up , bright orange 70s-style linoleum flooring and a few resident spiders .
^ I arrived in Plantaganet - a relatively large ( population 1000+ ) village surrounded by mountains and streams just south of the capital Kuching - in the middle of a seasonal water shortage .
^ was plunged into a world of water tanks , buckets , scoops and lots of dousing
^ The taps , which carry fresh paralysingly cold water from the surrounding mountains , only run at night now , which means assiduous in the evenings .
^ Still , there are worse fates .
^ And if anybody has tips on how to hand-wash clothes economically without leaving them encrusted in washing powder , please send them on .
^ Most people I 've met have been amicable and helpful to an almost worrying degree .
^ Although longhouses are no longer standard accommodation , sociality is still very much the norm .
^ People constantly mosey up to their neighbours ' windows / doors for aimless chats and quick hellos .
^ If something is happening within a house , others will know about it .
^ At times I 've found it difficult balancing the desire to meet people and the need for personal space - but I 'm sure I 'm not unique in that respect .
^ Conversations are generally more candid than I 'm used to : questions about age and marital status tend to crop up within about five minutes of acquaintance .
^ So I 've been brandishing my " engagement " ring a lot recently , although this has n't stopped some people implying that there might be a future with so-and-so 's first cousin 's nephew down the road !
^ Jade is therefore now officially my " tunang " ( fianc'e ) , not mere " boyfriend " , on the village grapevine .
^ Going out to " main-main " ( play ) in the city is a simple enough affair with a car .
^ Sadly my grand Land Rover scheme went out the window when I realised that the road to Plantaganet is quite well-tarred if potholed , and that parking spaces in Kuching are minuscule .
^ So I 've now got a little black second-hand
^ Kancil ( slightly bigger than a Mini ? ? ) with only four gears , i.e. no bombing down mountain roads at top speed to the " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas " soundtrack .
^ Plans for a pet monkey are also on hold , especially since I have an entire two-storey house to keep clean , but the innumerable cats in the vicinity are enough entertainment .
^ Anyway , if you 've got this far you might as well have my contact details .
^ All mail can be sent to me c / o:
^ Institute of East Asian Studies
^ Universiti Walwin Sarawak 50500 Kota Samarahan Sarawak , MALAYSIA Roast potatoes , DVDs of " Father Alfie " and random handwritten notes are especially welcome .
^ My mobile number is ( +60 ) - ( 0 ) 000000000 ; but there 's no reception in Plantaganet , so I can only use it when I 'm in town ( about once a week ) .
^ I 'm also hoping to get my kampong phone active by next week : when that happens the number there will be ( +60 ) - ( 0 ) 82-765663 .
^ Meanwhile , I 'm still reachable by email , but will only pick it up once or twice a month .
^ And finally , sorry this is a rather impersonal note . !
^ Academic and frivolous emails to the relevant people will follow when things have calmed down a bit .
^ Here 's a low-res picture of the place , if you 're interested .
^ Meanwhile , hope you 're all well ( and digging out the travel guide to
^ Sarawak - you know you want to ) .
^ All the best ,
^ High
^ ~
^ Dear Nick , This is from your esteemed grandfather or at least one of them ...
^ Sylvia has decided that I must learn to do e-mails .
^ I am not quite sure why but we seem to have been diverted into making a start without knowing what on earth I am doing .
^ I am not at all sure that Sylvia knows either .
^ K. now tells me to say farewell from a silver surfer ... whatever that means ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Much love from us both , Georgie .
^ It was so good to hear from you , my apologies for the delay but I did n't log on until late last night .
^ Nick dear , you are in our prayers daily for wisdom and strength .
^ These years when your future lies open before and you face the uncertainty can be so perplexing ... .
^ I read this a.m.'you saw how the Lord your God carried you , as a man carries his sonin all the way that you went until you came to this place . Deut. 1.31.
^ That same God will take you on to be and do all that He has for you Nick
^ I love Isaiah so much , do you mark your Bible ?
^ that way this morning I received so many precious promises just wandering through the Scriptures ?
^ I have been praying that with increasing difficulty in remembering things I might have the Word brought to mind ..
^ if I forget other things ..
^ and I 've just recalled three ref. from this a.m.
^ P.T.L. How did the game go yesterday
^ I knew Mattie came down , pleaes give him our love ,
^ we love you both so dearly and long to know that you have happy relationships .
^ It is so important but again the Lord has just the right one for each of you ,
^ it 's the not knowing and trying to wait which is SO puzzling .
^ I wish I could give you some positive news of Isabel and Oliver ,
^ she seems to be unsure of taking the next step altho she had consulted a solicitor .
^ Isabel seems to be coming impatient ...
^ Please join your prayers with us that the spirit of separation and divorce is cast out IN THE NAME OF JESUS and that both will see again in each other the one they 've loved for 15 years
^ both will turn to Christ and know again the joy of their salvation
^ George joins me in sending you lots of love and may the lord richly bless you
^ Big hugs and kisses Nick dear .
^ Hi Zachary !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I am sitting in my room in Philip 's , where I now have an internet connection !
^ Yipee !
^ Term is going pretty well so far , although I have had some emotional struggles , coming to terms with this being my third year , and dealing with relationships etc.
^ I have lots of work to do and today is a free day - no lectures
^ So , I must make the best use of the time .
^ I think I told you that I am the football captain this year , and we won our first game last weekend .
^ Our next game is tomorrow and we have quite a few players missing , including Jonny because he 's popping back to Bath for Rachel 's 18th birthday party .
^ He seems to be doing well - I do n't see as much of him as I would like because he 's at the other end of college !
^ it is really nice to be able to catch up with him now and again
^ How are Isabel and Oliver ?
^ I am praying for them .
^ Please pass on LOTS of love to George , and keep smiling !
^ Love Nick
^ P.S. I have attached a photo of me in Munich over the summer .
^ ~
^ It was so good to log on after I came in from the garden and have your e-mail , many thanks .
^ After a week of seeing you all or some every day I was having withdrawal symptons ... ...
^ I have put several messages on the house phone asking if you have any news of the girls ... ?
^ So good to know that youve been visiting ..
^ do give Tabitha our love .
^ You 've been somewhat isolated this vac. have n't you with old friends away or busy and at a distance from folk from Wells .
^ Isabel used to feel the same I have letters from him explaining why he had to cut short his visit
^ return to Philip 's to study using the library and enjoy his rooms there to entertain ...
^ I feltso inadequate and could not fill his need .
^ Now he has more needs as you know .
^ This weekend he takes the family to Anna 's for a week , then joins them next Thurs. with Luke and they all go to Cornwall on Friday .
^ Please have them in your prayers for a Re-kindling of love and appreciation
^ Thank you again for your help at the club , and for the script .
^ Jack was the newsreader but we had no one else who could carry the interview so I had to do it , armed with a wooden spoon transformed into a mike by a wad of cotton wool .
^ a black sock ....
^ However the children responded well , and we got the message across .
^ Again many thanks
^ It was a very tiring week being so warm and the days were long but we arrived on time to take Grayson and Patricia to their golden wedding celebrations on Sunday lunchtime
^ I am sorry that the dogs caused such a mess they are unreliable and quite a responsibility .
^ Benenden have agreed to operate and they have a centre in Exeter so we do n't need to go to Kent .
^ I ahall be glad to have it done .
^ Today is the village flower show but all we 're doing is to ferry some of the elderly and then collect them after tea
^ &WEBSITE K. ro : Prof , Zachary
^ Sent : iday , &DATE &TIME AM
^ Subject : Hello mes Grandparents
^ Hi Zachary !
^ Nick here .
^ I 'm currently sitting in Karla 's office , about to get on with some work .
^ My dad has gone to Luxembourg , along with Nayeli and Rachel so I have the house to myself ( apart from a cleaner and two builders ! ) .
^ How did the rest of the children 's club go ?
^ And the sketch ?
^ I have just been to visit Tabitha - we had a good time sitting around and visiting Southampton and things .
^ How are you feeling ?
^ How is the hernia ?
^ This morning I opened up the garage to let the dogs out only to find that they had performed all over the floor .
^ It was utterly disgusting , and persuaded me yet again never to own dogs .
^ They do have their moments , but I do n't think I could stand the mess and the smell .
^ Well , my love to you and George , and I look forward to seeing you soon ,
^ Bye ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick
^ I hope you are well .
^ I do n't go in to work every day , its not really a propper job , so I can spend the rest of the time relaxing or doing whatever .
^ I 've been playing my guitar quite a lot and steadily improving .
^ Yesterday , I bought an A Team video from the Metro Centre .
^ Happy childhood memories of Mr T blowing people up ! !
^ Only about two months left till we go back to Wells .
^ I do n't know about you , but my timetable looks a lot worse next year ( from a travelling point of view anyway ) .
^ I should n't complain really , because I have friends who travel from Chester le Street to Noel and Gloucester , which is much worse .
^ At the end of August - bank holiday weekend , I am going to Bristol ( music festival ) , with some friends .
^ One of them goes to Bristol university , so we are going to stay in his house .
^ No way would I go camping !
^ Have you ever heard some of the stories ?
^ So I hope the weather is nice , and that is something for me to look forward to .
^ God Bless mate !
^ Patrick
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^ !
^ You old son of a gun !
^ ~
^ How much did you offer her ? ( only joking )
^ Her dad took some persuading ...
^ Quinton
^ ~
^ How are things going up there ?
^ Not too bad .
^ I 've escaped any lecturing duties for 4 weeks , but will spend
^ December working 900 % ( probably more ) on an MSc module , on a topic I do n't know much about - Distributed Systems .
^ Am feeling a bit guilty that I 've not had time to make your code public !
^ Maybe in a few weeks time .
^ The introductory week begins in earnest tomorrow , so I guess I 'll be working fairly hard from here on in .
^ good !
^ Well , I hope you 're enjoying yourself , and I look forward to hearing your news when you get a chance .
^ You may be amused that I got engaged over the summer ...
^ Better do some more admin now .
^ Quinton
^ ~
^ " Pastor Nick - Different is spelled R.I.G.H.T. " wrote :
^ Bob ,
^ Hi , and how is life treating the long-haired one ?
^ Fine , thanks .
^ How is your Java study going ?
^ I got " Teach yourselft Java 2 in 21 days " and I 'm on day 9 .
^ I 've got stuck cos it 's doing all the GUI stuff about drawing rectangles and circles and stuff - not programming at all
^ That kind of stuff is more art , aesthetics , that kinda rubbish .
^ I prefer the hard coding , working out how to lead the TGV step-by-step through a complex task ... so I 've got stuck ... but I 'll carry on I guess ...
^ Have you met up with Bob Housman yet .
^ I think he is coming over here for a meal sometime this week .
^ Yes .
^ Oh .
^ He 's in Southampton this weekend .
^ Have you played any amazing new games recently ?
^ Not new , but some ( of course ) .
^ " Dungeon Master II " is a &YEAR RPG and I 've done all of it except wacking the nasty big baddy at the end .
^ He 's too hard and keeps pushing me off a platform from which I fall to a random location in the game and have to get back again ( annoying ) .
^ Now I 'm trying Baldur 's Gate again and I 'm on Chapter 3 .
^ All the best Bob , and keep it real !
^ I have a sign on my wall says " Reality kills " .
^ I prefer fiction and fantasy , where you get what you make of the world , not what others make of your world .
^ enjoy
^ Bob ( smile )
^ Bob Maize
^ Johnson College , Wells University
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ thanks for your email - hope the ankle is feeling better !
^ I am starting my Masters on the 7th October and am looking forward to it .
^ The whole student lifestyle is very appealing , especially as I have been away from it for a couple of years .
^ Not having to be at work at 8 every morning will make it worth it in itself ! )
^ I still have just under 3 weeks of work left but am counting the days now !
^ I am a bit worried that it will be difficult to get back into the studying mode after not really exercising my brain in .
^ way for a while , but I 'm sure it will all come back to me eventually
^ I 'm glad you are looking forward to starting in Munich - everyone I know there loves it .
^ I will certainly be visiting Munich at some point as I seem to have lots of friends who are living there .
^ I guess it 's just one of those places that attracts Wells graduates .
^ Life here is generally good , I am still coping with living at home for the moment .
^ I have found a good church in Exeter and feel really involved in that .
^ The choir I belong to is doing a concert in the Jamesal Festival Ronald in October which I am looking forward to .
^ Right , I am going to go and watch the first of the original Star Wars trilogy now as I still have n't seen them !
^ Love
^ Savanna
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Keppel , Savanna "
^ Subject : Hello there !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Savanna !
^ How are you ?
^ When do you start your Masters ?
^ I 'm currently sitting in my room at home in my pyjamas and dressing gown , with my leg stuck up in the air because I sprained my ankle yesterday playing football .
^ We were 1-0 up , and I sprained it with two minutes to go before full-time , and they went and equalised 10 seconds after I went off and we ended up drawing - typical !
^ Oh well , at least Spurs are doing well at the moment !
^ I am working on preparation for Munich at the moment - I 'm in Kassidy college and I 'll be moving in on October 4th .
^ I am starting to look forward to it now , especially the thought of being involved with student life , football , etc .
^ Bob has just got back from a month 's holiday in North Hungary with his brother .
^ He still has n't sorted out what he 's doing next year , but he 's still going out with Karri ( as far as I know - I 'm planning to call him today ) .
^ Tabitha is moving into her house in Munich today .
^ Next week she starts her first school placement .
^ Parker is working on placement in Middlesborough , staying in Wells at Maximus 's .
^ He 's met up with Jonathan a couple of times I think .
^ Jon is at home doing not much , in the process of thinking about finding a job for next year .
^ Mallory is off to Dundee soon to begin the first year of his Economics conversion course .
^ Well , let me know how you 're getting on ,
^ Love Nick
^ P.S. Did I tell you that we 've moved into a new house in Rutford , near
^ Luxembourg ?
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^ A Barbarian ... Dearie me what is the world coming too .
^ Such a wee place invaded by gi scary ones .
^ OK that was my best atempt to sound vaguely Scottish in an email leaving it so you could understand it )
^ Actually even a Kenya who had been to Scotland got the placing of my accent incredibly wrong .
^ They said that I was American ! !
^ Admittedly they knew that there was a group of UK and americans in their house , but I really thought that it was pushing it .
^ Cool hope to hear from you soon .
^ Mungu akubariki ,
^ Valeria
^ Ahh yes you maybe able to help with another problem .
^ When can we move back into college ?
^ And do you know when vac res starts ?
^ Valeria ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Hi you mad Scottish girl .
^ I was just thinking about you the other day ( honest ) and thinking I should get in touch with you .
^ Well , I know you had ulterior motives but I 'm glad you emailed me anyway .
^ Right , I spoke to Bob the other day about the " reunion " and he is " up for it " so I 'll try and sort out dates soon .
^ Keep pestering me if you do n't hear anything .
^ C ya ,
^ Nick the barbarian
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Hello .
^ I hope that your holidays are going well and that you have been working on your tan !
^ I do n't really know why I wrote that ... I hope that you are having a nice vacation . )
^ I have got back from Kenya and so has Terrance .
^ We had an amazing time and played lots of footie .
^ I was talking to Jon today and she mentioned that you suggested we invite ourselves to Bob 's house in Munich for a " reunion " .
^ I think this is an excellent idea .
^ Please could you try and arrange the dates stuff soonish because I would very much like to see Jon .
^ all you guys and if that is not going to work out I will find another time to come down and do a little tour
^ Obviously it will be easier if everyone comes to the same place ... )
^ Ok well whatever / ( I do sound quite bossy in this message but I am not trying to be I am just quite bored . )
^ Mungu akubariki ,
^ Valeria
^ ~
^ Hey Nick !
^ It sounds like you are having a wonderful holiday !
^ My roommates and I are going down to Henryton this week-end to take a break after the last round of tests .
^ What are you getting your Ph.D. in ?
^ I am in Microbiology class right now .
^ The professor has a Irish accent !
^ Reminds me of you and Allison .
^ At least his accent makes the nutrition , growth , and metabolism of bacteria bearable .
^ He is definitely a " mad scientist- " he thinks that bacteria are much more interesting than humans .
^ What you call a " stag-do " we call a " bachelor party . "
^ It is pretty much the same thing ... but they do n't often last a weekend .
^ Anyway , I should pay attention to this class !
^ He is teaching us how to grow bacteria ...
^ TTYL , tab
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Hi Madelyn !
^ I 'm really glad you like the CD .
^ I 'm still on holiday at the moment ( 2 months since I got back from SA so far and counting ) - wo n't be starting my
^ PhD for another month or so !
^ I 'm trying to get back into the swing of thinking by reading some of my old course notes ; not exactly riveting , but there you go .
^ The title of one of the sections I was reading was " Stochastic Disambiguation Motivation " .
^ Ironic - something about making things clearer , but I was unable to successfully disambiguate even the title !
^ I just checked out your Blog - nice .
^ So , you want to know what a stag-do is ...
^ Have n't you ever heard of a " stag night " ? ?
^ Traditionally it 's the night before a man 's wedding , when he gets taken out by his male friends and they drink heavily and do other stupid things , like tying the groom-to-be to a lampost or blindfolding him .
^ putting him on a train , etc. etc.
^ Of course , it can just be a fun night out
^ Now , if you stretch the event over a weekend or something then it becomes not a " stag night " but a " stag weekend " or a " stag do " .
^ OK ?
^ ~
^ Hi Kane ! !
^ long time no speak .
^ Hope you 're well and having fun teaching etc.
^ I 'm ok , although feeling a little odd at present ...
^ I feel a cold coming on .
^ FREEZING cold weather ! !
^ Grr ...
^ Anyway , looking forward to my move home now ... a week and a day to go !
^ Seems very close all of a sudden .
^ Are you coming through to Dundee this coming weekend for Mallory 's birthday ?
^ He doesn;t seem to have fixed plans at present , but suggested a drink with people in the evening .
^ If I 'm around ( hopefully will be ) I 'll go along ... would be great to combine that with seeing you .
^ Hopefully Tabitha is coming to Dundee this weekend ( if I can track her down , busy girl ) , and Rachel Kermath may be about too .
^ Anyway , must go ... nearly the end of my working day and I am dying to get out of the office and off home .
^ Have to start packing my stuff tonight - Mam and Dad are coming down on Friday to collect the majority of it .
^ then next week Cali is coming over on the ferry with his car to take me and the remaider of my junk back up north
^ Well , bye for now Medders ,
^ take care , love Anna
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ The South will miss you Cody .
^ Am busy teaching 3 days a week and doing various other academic type things in the meantime .
^ I 'm living at home , and tonight I had a vast donner kebab .
^ Yay .
^ Hope to see / speak to you soon .
^ Kane
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^ ~
^ Hi buddy ! wicked - am fully submerged in hectic lifestyle !
^ ring me when you want to go for a drink -
^ in the meantime , may we meet on the footie field .
^ my no. is 05055 282086
^ take care
^ sam
^ ~
^ Hey buddy was v cool- we should really meet up more regularly .
^ Whether for me to whip you at squash , or to further discuss the deeper issues of life !
^ Take care samx
^ ETG present
^ Twelfth Davis
^ Returning from a tour of western Birks
^ To the ADC theatre in the New Year !
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Thanks for meeting up today Rylee - really enjoyed chatting to you .
^ See you again soon , and hope you enjoy many and varied rehearsals !
^ Nick
^ Hi buddy ! wicked- am fully submerged in hectic lifestyle ! ring me when you want to go for a drink- in the meantime , may we meet on the footie field .
^ my no. is 05055 282086
^ take care
^ sam
^ ~
^ hey buddy ! cheers also- was ahsmed at my lack of usual genius !
^ You should have got more tham your arse kicked ! new years ' resolution- practise a " couple " of times so i can next time present
^ take care mate have a wicked hol and say hi and a hug to matty ! samx ETG
^ Twelfth Davis
^ Returning from a tour of western Birks
^ To the ADC theatre in the New Year !
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Samz ,
^ Thanks for the game - better luck next time eh ! ?
^ I should have aimed some of those winning shots at your backside - settle a few past scores !
^ Anyway , have an amazing time in Birks - I 'm sure you will .
^ See you in the New Year !
^ Linda
^ hey buddy - sounds good .
^ anyway , yeah , let 's meet in town - in front of caius and then we 'll go over to our courts .
^ see you then
^ sam
^ -- On &DATE &YEAR &TIME Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Hi Samuel !
^ How about squash on Wednesday at around &TIME ?
^ I could come down to you if that would be convenient .
^ Hasta lasagne ,
^ Nick
^ Hey buddy was v cool- we should really meet up more regularly .
^ Whether for me to whip you at squash , or to further discuss the deeper issues of life !
^ Take care samx
^ ETG present
^ Twelfth Davis
^ Returning from a tour of western Birks
^ To the ADC theatre in the New Year !
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ ~
^ Hi Liz ,
^ I texted you the info , but I 'm not sure whether it went to the phone you still have or not ! !
^ Anyway , let me know if you still need anything .
^ Just got back from Scotland .
^ Have a sore throat .
^ Would love to catch up properly soon .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Rebecca ,
^ Who is this new " bloke " ? ? ? ?
^ Where did you meet him ?
^ What is he like ?
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Suzy !
^ How are you , and how 's Jonathan Fleming ?
^ I 'm just emailing you to let you know that I 've still got your Coastal Dune CD .
^ I knew this would happen when I borrowed it - lending and borrowing CD 's is always fraught with disaster .
^ Anyway , I do n't think I 'll be seeing you for a while , so if you email me your address I 'll send it to you .
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Suzy !
^ Do n't know about Mr Fleming , i think he 's jumping at the moment , but just went to a great Bible study with his wife , Alison .
^ You social climber you !
^ I will amend my records accordingly to accomodate your new email address .
^ I actually gave the said CD to Anna a couple of weeks ago to pass on to you , but now she 's moved ! !
^ Ah , life is complicated - she could send it to you , otherwise I guess you 'll both be in Noel sometime in the near future .
^ Sorry !
^ Right , one more week of Maths preparation before Munich !
^ Ciao ,
^ Nick
^ So it was you !
^ You monster !
^ I could n't for the life of me remember .
^ Do n't know about Mr Fleming , i think he 's jumping at the moment , but just went to a great Bible study with his wife , Alison .
^ Hope you are well .
^ Please can you eamil me at &EMAIL as I rarely check this address ?
^ Thanks , FIONAxxx
^ PS Please post me the CD ! ! !
^ ~
^ YEAH ! !
^ Proposal has been passed ! !
^ Phew ! !
^ Just makes those blue skies seem even better ! !
^ Actually its rather rainy , there must be some irony in there somewhere but I 'm not going to look for it ! !
^ Really nice to hear from you !
^ Hope the exam results are all that you hope for - I 'm sure they will be because you are a bit if a STAR !
^ Good to hear that you 're coming up to Wells - I 'll do what I can for the weather , ad really hope to see you then !
^ Take care and enjoy the thesis .
^ Leave the spam out of sandwiches though ! !
^ HA HA ! ! )
^ Keep in touch
^ Love
^ Rylie
^ PS This has to be the first time my celebrations have begun with a relieved trip to the library ! !
^ ~
^ The South will miss you Cody .
^ Am busy teaching 3 days a week and doing various other academic type things in the meantime .
^ I 'm living at home , and tonight I had a vast donner kebab .
^ Yay .
^ Hope to see / speak to you soon .
^ Kane
^ ~
^ Hi Madelyn !
^ I 'm really glad you like the CD .
^ I 'm still on holiday at the moment ( 2 months since I got back from SA so far and counting ) - wo n't be starting my PhD for another month or so !
^ I 'm trying to get back into the swing of thinking by reading some of my old course notes ; not exactly riveting , but there you go .
^ The title of one of the sections I was reading was " Stochastic Disambiguation Motivation " .
^ Ironic - something about making things clearer , but I was unable to successfully disambiguate even the title !
^ I just checked out your Blog - nice .
^ So , you want to know what a stag-do is ...
^ Have n't you ever heard of a " stag night " ? ?
^ Traditionally it 's the night before a man 's wedding , when he gets taken out by his male friends and they drink heavily and do other stupid things , like tying the groom-to-be to a lampost or blindfolding him .
^ putting him on a train , etc. etc. Of course , it can just be a fun night out
^ Now , if you stretch the event over a weekend or something then it becomes not a " stag night " but a " stag weekend " or a " stag do " .
^ OK ?
^ ~
^ Hi Madelyn ,
^ What are you getting your Ph.D. in ?
^ Oh , something or other ...
^ Actually , I 'm not entirely sure yet , but something to do with NLP ( natural language processing ) which is in essence " doing something useful with human languages on a computer " .
^ ...
^ He is definitely a " mad scientist- "
^ Yep , that 's where I 'll be in a few years ... now , I just have to grow a beard and practice that " wild and unkempt " look .
^ My sister went off to university for the first time yesterday , and my mum is taking it pretty hard .
^ They 've hardly been separated for 19 years , so it 's quite a big thing .
^ I 'm off to Munich in a couple of weeks ...
^ Take care of yourself ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick !
^ It sounds like you are having a wonderful holiday !
^ My roommates and I are going down to Henryton this week-end to take a break after the last round of tests .
^ What are you getting your Ph.D. in ?
^ I am in Microbiology class right now .
^ The professor has a Irish accent !
^ Reminds me of you and Allison .
^ At least his accent makes the nutrition , growth , and metabolism of bacteria bearable .
^ He is definitely a " mad scientist- " he thinks that bacteria are much more interesting than humans .
^ What you call a " stag-do " we call a " bachelor party . "
^ It is pretty much the same thing ... but they do n't often last a weekend .
^ Anyway , I should pay attention to this class !
^ He is teaching us how to grow bacteria ...
^ TTYL ,
^ tab
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thanks very much for praying for us .
^ It means alot to know you are thinking of us at this tricky time .
^ It will distract my revision quite abit as I will probably have to go back in 4 weeks to Carlisle if my Dad has his operation and help out .
^ Never mind though I 'm sure God will help me out there .
^ Hope you are ok , have you finished all your work yet ?
^ I have n't I have to go back to wells this mon for a week to sort out my chapter 5 .
^ I have n't done yet because I ca n't test the system at home due to firewall restrictions which is a bit annoying
^ Still Easter at home has been nice so far. hope you are all having a nice family time also .
^ Best wishes ,
^ love steve
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^ The sender of the email is unaware of the censorship of their emails , we would prefer it if they never were made aware of this .
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ Nice to hear from you , sorry I have n't got back to you for a while .
^ Been a bit hectic with my dad being ill and stuff .
^ But hey he is booked in for an operation on July 2nd and all being well the cancer which is in his prostrate gland will be removed .
^ I am still writing code at the moment as I could n't work on it at home .
^ I have alloted this week to finish the implementation and complete chapter 's 5 and 6 .
^ Hope I can do it .
^ We have been unlucky this year with exams .
^ I have one the first day of the exam period , and two one after each other the week later .
^ Well at least I get 5 weeks off ! !
^ Yay !
^ I am dead excited about you getting an interview at Munich ! !
^ Go for it , they should definitely fuel your hunger for all things accademic .
^ I will pray that you keep your cool , and really get a good chance to say what you feel is important .
^ Remember , if God wants you to go there , you will go ... take the interview as a chance to follow through with God 's plan for you ... then you should be fine .
^ If you are in Munich , I can visit you , as you will be quite near to Carlisle yay !
^ You can then introduce me to you your latest love interest ! ! brrrrrgh ! ! !
^ I do n't have any love interest of any interest in finding it at the moment .
^ All I want is a 2 : 1 and that is my interest ...
^ I would n't call it love though !
^ It was a bit awkward between me and Adrienne at the end of last term so I think I will just work for the 5 weeks without too much socialising .
^ Any way I 'll be praying for your interview buddy , you just have to open your mouth and your get it ! !
^ Anyay ,
^ Back to the java me thinks ,
^ P.S. I know Bob K is n't your best buddy , but help your " common " modules because he does n't know how to do them because of " women " trouble .
^ Do n't tell him I said that though .
^ Best Wishes ,
^ Regan D
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Your email was a delightful surprise .
^ We had hoped to hear from you with measurements of a space suitable for a freezer ... but maybe more of that at Christmas .
^ Thank you for all the lovely things you said but the pleasure was all ours and we have such precious memories of those outings .
^ I wonder if you have any recall of trips to Brent Cross shopping centre ?
^ You were not always amenable to eating , so before going to the restaurant we called in at the toy dept.
^ one trophy was a wooden pop-up toy , 4 little men with coloured heads , who on being depressed leapt out and often onto the ground ...
^ BUT another was a disaster .
^ A plastic sphere had a sort of roundabout inside , the sphere rolled but you could n't get at the horses and that made you very cross and completely disinterested in the toy ! ! !
^ Happy memories .
^ Liz has been here all day giving me invaluable help with Christmas presents .
^ then this evening they are going to see Swan Lake , Alice must miss her ballet , and of course we are all getting ready for Craigendarroch
^ Then it will be December and we 'll be looking forward to seeing you and Nayeli .
^ God bless and thank you for being you for 23 precious years , with our love , lots of it Georgie and Zachary
^ Hi Zachary ,
^ I hope you 're being a good girl and checking your emails !
^ I was just shopping earlier today and for some reason it reminded me of shopping with you when I was younger !
^ Then I thought how privileged I was to have someone like you to look after me and buy me robots and cars and things ( ! ) , and that I 'd never really personally thanked you .
^ So , thank you for being such a wonderful part of my life in those early years - it meant so much to me .
^ Looking forward to seeing you at Christmas !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Philip my friend !
^ Hello and thankyou for the email .
^ Sorry to hear that you are not feeling well - I have also been coughing and blowing my nose quite a lot over the last week .
^ It seems there 's no escaping fresher 's flu after all !
^ Still , I had some good news today - I have got a job writing a database for a Hi-Fi company .
^ It is something I can do at home , and should not take too long and will give me a nice bit of money for Christmas / New Year .
^ Great .
^ Fantastic !
^ A friend of mine works doing web programming somewhere in london .
^ I 'm interested in getting a job for the summer break , if not the easter one .
^ My work is going pretty well - I 've now finished the first two chapters of my report , and I 'm considering starting on the third .
^ I would like to make some progress on the third chapter , because when I finish it I 'll be about half way through ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Thats good to hear &SMILEY
^ How are things with Kate ?
^ Has it been a good thing being at home from that point of view ?
^ Hmm well the tension is n't as bad at home which is a relief .
^ I see her quite a lot which is nice .
^ I think its worse for her .
^ I 've respectfully requested she does n't talk to me about her boyfriend as its getting a little too annoying / painful .
^ She sent me a text message one day saying she 'd broken up , and then followed it up the next day saying she 'd got back together
^ Did anything like this happen to you , or any of your year ?
^ We are moving out of this house at the weekend , so it will be a bit traumatic , but hopefully not too much so !
^ We will then be living with my grandparents for a week or so - could be interesting .
^ I 'll be happy if I can find a quiet room to be alone with my laptop ( that sounds rather sad , hmmmmm .... )
^ Hehe I think I 'm going to need a laptop for the second year , depending on where I end up living .
^ I 've heard the ITS are planning on installing network " hot points " in the library where students can plug in their laptops to access the network .
^ I imagine this would be incredibly useful .
^ Tonight I have been in a prayer meeting !
^ I am considering being part of a team that is going to Australia to put on a Christian musical in the olympic " Superdome " .
^ I would be working on some gymnastic parts of the musical , and it could mean a couple of trips to Australia next year .
^ I am trying to decide whether it is something I really want to do - there are a number of issues at stake .
^ Sounds like it would take up a lot of your time ..
^ but Australia is supposed to be a beautiful place .
^ Quite a hard decision ...
^ Anyway , my head is hurting and I must go to bed .
^ All the best ,
^ I know what thats like !
^ Hopefully this horrible cough will go soon .
^ Speak to you soon :- ) ,
^ Aimee
^ ~
^ To , Nick
^ Heloo !
^ I am Kosuke .
^ I am going to the language school in Wyatt now .
^ It is todificult for me .
^ I will go back at 3rd September .
^ But , you will go back at October , do n't you ?
^ I think I will be very boring .
^ So , I 'm looking forward to seeing you .
^ Have anice summer holiday ! !
^ See you October ! !
^ Bye !
^ From , Kosuke
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^ hia
^ i ca n't wait to see you ! ! it seems like ages since i saw you ! ! !
^ i 'll have some photos from Singapore by the time you get back so you can see who i spend hours on the internet to ! ! ! haha
^ i an really looking forward to skiing yeah ! ! my first time ever ! ! you looking forwars to it ?
^ college is going well ! actually i 've only been in three days in the past four weeks but it 's going well ! !
^ c ya soon
^ luv ya heaps
^ take care
^ God bless
^ c ya
^ abz
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To :
^ Subject : Hello
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Alice ,
^ Looking forward to seeing you soon - only a week to go ! !
^ I am not too well at the moment - I have had a cough over the last few days , and now I can hardly talk ! !
^ I 'm supposed to be doing a reading in the Cathedral on Tuesday , so this might be a bit of a problem !
^ I also ca n't sing , so my usual past-time has been scuppered .
^ How 's college ?
^ Looking forward to skiing ?
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ Thanks for the email Maz !
^ I log on to the internet and open up my hotmail account with the express purpose of emailing you to re-establish our too long suspended communication and , hey presto , you 've beaten me to it ! ! !
^ Of course .
^ One thing I do regret , however , is not always being straight and honest with you about certain things .
^ You may not be concious of it , but I felt it at the time ; when I started going out with Mallory I really felt that I should have spoken to you about it all .
^ not to necessarily explain anything , but just to apologise for any discomfort or awkwardness I had occasioned in the past
^ well , let 's be frank - during the time that I , er , rather liked you ! &SMILEY )
^ Girls can be really stupid , and I guess I was at times and I feel that it affected our friendship .
^ Thanks for being a faithful friend and putting up with me !
^ Anyway , I hope that all makes sense ...
^ Perhaps it would be best to delete all this , but I kind of feel that it needs to be said just to tidy things up .
^ Thanks a lot Cody .
^ I think we were both pretty silly at times , but hey , that is what growing up is all about ! !
^ I 'm just glad we 're friends now . &SMILEY
^ In regards to the job situation - hang in there !
^ The right job for you is just around the corner .
^ I know you want to be in Dundee , but it would also be great if you could come to Munich - I know Tabitha and I would be thrilled to have you around .
^ But whatever God has planned will be good I 'm sure .
^ Right , I think I need a bath !
^ Keep in touch ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Ah yes ...
^ 26 Grindstone Close
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^ ~
^ Sorry about the email Bear ! !
^ Cody tells me that your computer has been down have you fixed the problem ?
^ I have been busy on the checkouts 8am to 6pm and am very tired it 's exhausting and the customers are vvvv. rude .
^ The court case is set for &DATE so not long now , lot 's of victim support letters coming through and I do n't really think they 'll be able to do much for me after the case anyway .
^ There 's this girl called rebecca who plays in Jerry 's music group and she keeps texting me .
^ She says she wishes she could speak to me about how she feels and she does n't want me to hate her .
^ I replied saying that I do n't hate her but she is obviously a bit hurt .
^ Do you think I should phone / email her about how I feel or should I just leave it to next term ?
^ Anyway , I 've got loads of revision to do and I have n't done much work this week so I need to get down to some .
^ Sunday is my day for accademic work so I better use it ! !
^ Hope you are OK ! ! have you had a rest ? and are you going to see Tabitha this holiday ?
^ Hope you are enjoying being with your folkes ! !
^ Yours in revision ,
^ Regan baby
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ how did the exams go ? ? ?
^ Thanks for the email , i liked it lots especially the photo !
^ It 's funny you should ask me about my spiritual life actually because I very recently have been challenged by .
^ a good friend of mine who is now a missionary out in Chile to " kick myself up the backside and start seeking Christ " , among other things
^ But anyway , basically i responded to his email pretty much trying to give all the reasons why I havent been seeking Jesus Christ 900 % recently as an explanation of my recent backwardness .
^ So , i thought , if you didnt mind ( & if you thought it wasnt to impersonal of me ) that I could just send you a copy of this email as i only wrote it two days ago ?
^ so therefore everything i wrote in it is still true at the time of going to press
^ But I must warn you that it is rather long ( 15k i believe ) and it is quite random and personal in places ( if you know what i mean with
^ just so that you know pretty much everything i refer to in the email relates to my time out in South AMerica
^ Latin Link .
^ But with that public health warning out of the way I welcome you to read an account hoepfully explaining in a large part the reason for why I am where I am at now !
^ any sort of response you might have to it ( obviously you dont have to if you dont want to ) would be very much appreciated
^ Anyway , hope life post-exams is treating you good and I 'll speak to you soon ,
^ Rodrigo
^ ps hope you dont mind that i sent the photo of yourself onto Philip !
^ ~
^ Hey Aimee ,
^ I was thinking about emailing you .
^ I 'll send you an interesting email sometime soon but until then an answer to your question ...
^ The non-SEG part of the double software engineering module is basically about learning hundreds of points relating to various aspects of the software engineering process .
^ It is always helpful to read books for background info , and I know a few people who had the Sommerville one , although I did n't personally .
^ All the stuff you need to know will be in the lecture notes ( if it 's anything like our year ! ) and basically you 've just got to get down and learn it .
^ I 'll warn you now that it 's not particularly thrilling stuff !
^ If you want to do some background reading , if I was you I 'd try and get the book out of the library .
^ You could even see if Philip 's library could get hold of a copy for you since you live just up the road !
^ Ciao ,
^ Nick
^ Hi ,
^ Sorry for a quick , impersonal email but its fairly late !
^ I am emailing to ask your advice about a course book for the second year .
^ Mr Hodgson has emailed the year and told them that he recommends that we all buy a book on Software Engineering before we arrive , and read it prior to the course starting , as its a big subject .
^ I was wondering if you think that is a good idea , as ( apart from
^ Barry 's book ) I did n't find other books particularly useful for the first year , and preferred to refer to library copies .
^ There are two books mentioned on the Recommended Books page - I looked for reviews for both , and the first was totally slated , the second praised , that one was called I. Sommerville , Software
^ Engineering ( 6th edn ) .
^ Did you find it necessary or helpful to get a book before the year started , and what book would you recommend ?
^ Thanks for your help , sorry again that its so impersonal &SMILEY
^ Hope you are enjoying your hols !
^ Aimee Heslop
^ ~
^ cheers Nick ,
^ It was a fine way to go out , although I really wanted to take a penalty in a real shoot-out .
^ I used to take them for a youth team , but have never had the buzz of a shoot-out .
^ However , the first image that came to mind was Stuart Pearce in the &YEAR world cup , so maybe it 's just as well we did n't lose that way ! ! !
^ It has been a good three years playing football again and I , too , have enjoyed playing alongside you - it 's nice to know that your worst mistakes will be cleared up by your captain !
^ hope the revision goes well and best wishes for the exams if I do n't see you before .
^ laters ,
^ Carolyn
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Mart ,
^ You were fantastic today Mart - if that free-kick had gone in I think we would have had to get a statue of you put up somewhere in Philip 's !
^ Seriously , it has been a real pleasure playing with you these last three years .
^ I ca n't think of anyone I 'd rather be on the pitch with .
^ Cheers matey ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ B + H ,
^ My flights are booked - I 'm arriving in Joburg at &TIME on April 6th , and leaving on June 28th .
^ Ca n't wait !
^ O
^ Its best for you to fly to Johannesburg - you could fly to Polokwane which is just two hours away from us but even then you first have to fly to Jhb and catch a connecting flight .
^ Jerry Swindon did this last time he came out .
^ I think you may find cheaper tickets through a travel agent - but check out the internet - get a quote from the travel agent and then shop around on the internet to see if you can beat it .
^ You should get cheaper tickets if you book quite well in advance .
^ When are you thinking of coming over ?
^ If you can , it will be great if you could be here when we have the big American team over .
^ Last year 970 of them came over for 10 days .
^ This trip is taking place from 21-31 May .
^ We are planning to come over to the UK on about 26 June ( just for 3 weeks ) .
^ When are you planning to be here and for how long ?
^ We have school holidays from 26 March until 11 April .
^ We normally plan to go somewhere with a group - camping - maybe in the Drakensberg to do a bit of hiking or maybe to
^ Kruger Park - it 'll all be fun if you 'd like to join us .
^ Let us know how you get on with your plans .
^ How is Leilani doing ?
^ Bet your folks are enjoying having her in the school !
^ Bless you Nick - you 'd be a great help here when the big team are around .
^ you 'll get to meet stax of " intellectuals " - they are a bunch of medical students who come out to do practical work with doctors from Hungary
^ We also have another young Irish guy coming out to work in a local hospital for a couple of months - he 's a friend of Jerry Swindon .
^ Well , keep smiling ... give our regards to your folks - we heard Julie was there to see you all - hope she 's well .
^ Cheers for now
^ Josue and Laura
^ Oh , also , what is the best way to get plane tickets ?
^ Do you book yours online ?
^ Is it best to wait until the last minute ?
^ O
^ Jonah ! ! ! ! !
^ You 're always welcome .
^ The longer the better ... there are lots of exciting things happening .
^ Please send our regards to the family .
^ We 're off to
^ Botswana for a couple of weeks - then when we get back - off to the States for a couple of weeks ... its been a really busy year .
^ Bless you
^ Josue
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^ ~
^ Hey Brody .
^ How 's tricks ?
^ I 'm off to SA tomorrow morning ( leaving at &TIME ! ) so do n't try and stop me .
^ Just to let you know that I have recently received and sent off my studentship application forms , but it looks like I wo n't actually find out whether they 've been successful for a few months .
^ I spoke to my department coordinator today , and she seems to think it was pretty likely that I would get funded , but I 'm getting somewhat mixed messages .
^ Anyway , if everything works out and I do come to Munich next year .
^ obviously I would really like to live with you , but I completely understand if you have to get things sorted before my funding decision is maded
^ So , hope the next few months go well , and I 'll keep in touch via email .
^ Love , peace and wild strawberries ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Thanks for the note .
^ I 'll see how things work out on this end .
^ I 've already told Ralph that I 'm unlikely to live with them which leaves
^ 1) Chads housing ( hopefully with you )
^ 2) With the family accross the street from Tyndale ( if anything comes of this )
^ 3) At Tyndale
^ As things have n't progressed with 2 , I suspect that I was n't quite what they looking for .
^ But if this opportunity does open up , I will likely act upon it .
^ Otherwise , I wo n't rush into anything with Tyndale with the hope that things will work out with you as I think it would work out well to live together .
^ Well , I hope the time in Africa is fruitful and that your funding will work itself out while you are away .
^ Drop me a line from Africa if you 're able !
^ God bless ,
^ Brody
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Brody ,
^ Alas , I still do not know about the funding situation ; I am likely to find out within a month or so I would have thought , although if it comes
^ back negatively then there are various other avenues I could pursue , but whether I 'll be able to do so from Africa is another issue !
^ I think that if a good living opportunity opens up for you , then you must take it .
^ I 'm sure something will work out for me if I do end up coming .
^ I 'm off to SA on April 6th .
^ Looking forward to it !
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Any more news on your end .
^ Hopefully , you are well .
^ I 'm pretty down of late , but happy to be heading to Kaylee for three weeks .
^ Keep me posted on your end .
^ I 've had a potential living situation open up , which would be located accross the street from where I do my work .
^ I need to decide how to act upon it if it becomes an actual opportunity , which obviously makes your plans relevant
^ Well , let me know as things develop .
^ Are you in Africa now ?
^ O.k. off to work .
^ Brody
^ ~
^ Hey Nick , well , you ca n't get a new mattress before you ask God .
^ now about this hair business , I think it will be pretty cool to grow your hair as long as mine :- )
^ you can braid it
^ you can put it in curlers &SMILEY
^ Then the mouse will never come back &SMILEY
^ the kitchen is a big mess , they are putting in new cupboards .
^ It looks very beautiful , but do n't cry
^ You will see when you come back
^ My sister sends her greetings
^ Good bye for now &SMILEY
^ Love Samara
^ Hi Samara &SMILEY
^ We have new mattresses I guess YOU are jealous now .
^ Did you have a mouse in your house because it looks as if it chewed your hair:-\}
^ &WEBSITE had a cool dish cloth:-\}
^ Anyway I miss you allot especially when I do cleanup:-\} &WEBSITE NO we are NOT jealous because your holiday lasts 17 or 67 or whatever .
^ weeks:-\}We have new mattresses I guess &WEBSITE the dining room &WEBSITE we had a mouse in your house
^ Did you have a mouse in your house because it looks as if it chewed your hair:-\} &WEBSITE you are really jealous are n't you:-\}
^ We heard that your parents are coming to visit , are you coming with ?
^ LOVE FROM HANNAH !
^ Hey Rose !
^ I had a dream about you last night !
^ I ca n't quite remember what happened , but you were definitely in it ...
^ I 'm still on holiday Rose !
^ My holiday lasts for about 13 weeks ! !
^ Now you 're jealous are n't you ? ! &SMILEY
^ I 've been having a good time , going swimming and playing tennis and enjoying the French sunshine .
^ Actually we 've had some thunderstorms here the last few days , and I saw some lightning close-up yesterday so that was pretty exciting .
^ So , your birthday is on 2nd October ... it 's coming quite soon is n't it !
^ Are you doing anything special ?
^ I bet your mum will bake you a nice cake wo n't she ?
^ My birthday is on 3rd March , so it 's a way off yet .
^ I 'm glad you are getting on well with Eric - I 've attached a silly photo of me CLEANING UP &SMILEY and also singing into a fork as if it were a microphone !
^ Love Nick
^ P.S. Say hi to Samara for me !
^ house this course school next your much !
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ How 's tricks ?
^ Unfortunately that phrase falls beyond my ken .
^ Hopefully you do not know what the word ken means as this would give you some of your own medicine .
^ I 've gone ahead and moved forward with the opportunity that developed on my end .
^ 850 a month 30 seconds from where I study seemed like the right move .
^ So we 'll have to work harder to make sure we meet up on a regular basis .
^ Hopefully things will work out on your end .
^ They do sound promising , and the mixed messages probably indicate nothing more than that there is some uncertainty , and they do n't want to say things that they ca n't guarantee .
^ How 's SA ?
^ Hopefully things are going well .
^ Excellent idea to take a year out on my reckoning .
^ You 'll come back a bit rusty but with plenty of energy .
^ Well , I best drag my slow starting self into motion and get work .
^ Still , &TIME is not a bad point to get rolling .
^ Keep me posted on how things develop ...
^ Brody
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hey Brody .
^ How 's tricks ?
^ I 'm off to SA tomorrow morning ( leaving at &TIME ! ) so do n't try and stop me .
^ Just to let you know that I have recently received and sent off my studentship application forms , but it looks like I wo n't actually find out whether they 've been successful for a few months .
^ I spoke to my department coordinator today , and she seems to think it was pretty likely that I would get funded , but I 'm getting somewhat mixed messages .
^ Anyway , if everything works out and I do come to Munich next year .
^ obviously I would really like to live with you , but I completely understand if you have to get things sorted before my funding decision is maded
^ So , hope the next few months go well , and I 'll keep in touch via email .
^ Love , peace and wild strawberries ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Bushmen ,
^ Its best for you to fly to Johannesburg
^ That 's what I thought .
^ When are you thinking of coming over ?
^ If you can , it will be great if you could be here when we have the big American team over .
^ Last year 970 of them came over for 10 days .
^ This trip is taking place from 21-31 May .
^ If all goes to plan , I will definitely be there for that trip , and would be very glad to help in any way .
^ I am planning to arrive early April , and leave early-to-mid July .
^ As for meeting intellectuals , I look forward to that , although I would n't like to show them up with my vast array of medical knowledge ... ahem ...
^ How is Leilani doing ?
^ Bet your folks are enjoying having her in the school !
^ Leilani is doing very well , and is of course a tremendous asset to Victoria .
^ She has moved into a nice little house with another member of staff ( Nancy ) , and seems to be settling in nicely .
^ We had 17 people for dinner today ( including Leilani ) as we were catering for the " Bible study " group from school .
^ OK , all the best ,
^ Nick
^ Its best for you to fly to Johannesburg - you could fly to Polokwane which is just two hours away from us but even then you first have to fly to Jhb and catch a connecting flight .
^ Jerry Swindon did this last time he came out .
^ I think you may find cheaper tickets through a travel agent - but check out the internet - get a quote from the travel agent and then shop around on the internet to see if you can beat it .
^ You should get cheaper tickets if you book quite well in advance .
^ When are you thinking of coming over ?
^ If you can , it will be great if you could be here when we have the big American team over .
^ Last year 970 of them came over for 10 days .
^ This trip is taking place from 21-31 May .
^ We are planning to come over to the UK on about 26 June ( just for 3 weeks ) .
^ When are you planning to be here and for how long ?
^ We have school holidays from 26 March until 11 April .
^ We normally plan to go somewhere with a group - camping - maybe in the Drakensberg to do a bit of hiking or maybe to
^ Kruger Park - it 'll all be fun if you 'd like to join us .
^ Let us know how you get on with your plans .
^ How is Leilani doing ?
^ Bet your folks are enjoying having her in the school !
^ Bless you Nick - you 'd be a great help here when the big team are around .
^ you 'll get to meet stax of " intellectuals " - they are a bunch of medical students who come out to do practical work with doctors from Hungary
^ We also have another young Irish guy coming out to work in a local hospital for a couple of months - he 's a friend of Jerry Swindon .
^ Well , keep smiling ... give our regards to your folks - we heard Julie was there to see you all - hope she 's well .
^ Cheers for now
^ Josue and Laura
^ Oh , also , what is the best way to get plane tickets ?
^ Do you book yours online ?
^ Is it best to wait until the last minute ?
^ O
^ Jonah ! ! ! ! !
^ You 're always welcome .
^ The longer the better ... there are lots of exciting things happening .
^ Please send our regards to the family .
^ We 're off to
^ Botswana for a couple of weeks - then when we get back - off to the States for a couple of weeks ... its been a really busy year .
^ Bless you
^ Josue
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^ I am very excited to have you for 3 months or longer and have a mountain of testimonies to share with you .
^ Glad to hear it Josue !
^ I am also busy preparing for the Victoria Christmas production , which is going to be awesome !
^ Term ends in a couple of weeks and then my Dad , brother and I are going snowboarding in Spain over Christmas .
^ I am looking forward to seeing Julie sometime now that she is over here - hope she had a safe journey , etc. etc .
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ ~
^ How 's things ?
^ How are the third year projects shaping up - anything of particular interest ?
^ Term is almost over , but I am doing an intensive MSc module for the next 2 weeks , on distributed systems - that well-known branch of programming language theory ( ! ) - so little rest or research time .
^ 3H projects - two people looking at seg using fp , two on readability tests .
^ One of the latter is doing very well indeed - has some interest in linguistics too .
^ Plus , there 's a second year who is VERY interested in FP , logic , and language - 2 practicals ago he had started to implement a TFS system for himself ( ! )
^ Hey Nick , you 're falling behind ( - :
^ Parsing isn';t a problem for TFS though - I thought the method was to compile the feature combinations into atomic symbols , then use algs like GLR ?
^ P.S. When are you getting married ?
^ Next September , the 6th .
^ It is getting very close , very quickly ...
^ Until next time ,
^ Quinton
^ ~
^ I 'm not due in Munich until October 7th so I definitely hope to get a chance to visit before then .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Mate
^ So sorry I 'll not be seeing you at Wells , but still hoping you may be able to get a trip in to Sheffield / Peak District before you go to Munich .
^ Let me know ( I 'll not have access to email for the next few days as I 'm at the flat - my mobile number is 05000 066028 ) .
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden ,
^ Still waiting for my degree !
^ Back home from Scotland now , and about to begin background work for Munich .
^ I 'm not going to be at Hayley and Maximus 's wedding - not enough space in the Chapel !
^ But I got to see them both the other day in Wells , so that 's OK .
^ I 'll be in touch soon ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick
^ So good to hear from you .
^ I 'm so pleased the family are getting a more permanent base again - it 's been a very unsettling period for you all .
^ So everything is in place for Munich ( except for one piece of paper ! ) .
^ Great ! !
^ I really am looking forward to seeing you when you can make it .
^ Just let me know .
^ I 'm having a break for a couple of weeks from next Sunday - a few days in the Meon Valley !
^ Hampshire ) , and then back to the flat to sleep , sleep , sleep ! ! ! ! !
^ I 'll wake up in time for the Alford wedding .
^ Will I see you there ?
^ Have a great time in Scotland .
^ Talk soon
^ Kaden
^ Hiyah Kaden !
^ How are you my young friend ?
^ I 'm hoping to visit you sometime in August / September , so hopefully I 'll be able to give you in-depth news about everything then .
^ In brief : we have moved to a new house in a little village called
^ Rutford ( just outside of Luxembourg ) .
^ We actually own this house and are planning to be here for a few years , which is good !
^ The holiday is going well - we ( my family and I ) are off to Scotland in a few days , and before then I 'm going to spend a couple of days at Tabitha 's house .
^ I am going to be in Kassidy college next year , and I 'm just waiting for my degree certificate to come through so I can send Munich a copy and finalise arrangements .
^ Well , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Mate
^ So sorry I 'll not be seeing you at Wells , but still hoping you may be able to get a trip in to Sheffield / Peak District before you go to Munich .
^ Let me know ( I 'll not have access to email for the next few days as I 'm at the flat - my mobile number is 05000 066028 ) .
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden ,
^ Still waiting for my degree !
^ Back home from Scotland now , and about to begin background work for Munich .
^ I 'm not going to be at Hayley and Maximus 's wedding - not enough space in the Chapel !
^ But I got to see them both the other day in Wells , so that 's OK .
^ I 'll be in touch soon ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick
^ So good to hear from you .
^ I 'm so pleased the family are getting a more permanent base again - it 's been a very unsettling period for you all .
^ So everything is in place for Munich ( except for one piece of paper ! ) .
^ Great ! !
^ I really am looking forward to seeing you when you can make it .
^ Just let me know .
^ I 'm having a break for a couple of weeks from next Sunday - a few days in the Meon Valley !
^ Hampshire ) , and then back to the flat to sleep , sleep , sleep ! ! ! ! !
^ I 'll wake up in time for the Alford wedding .
^ Will I see you there ?
^ Have a great time in Scotland .
^ Talk soon
^ Kaden
^ Hiyah Kaden !
^ How are you my young friend ?
^ I 'm hoping to visit you sometime in August / September , so hopefully I 'll be able to give you in-depth news about everything then .
^ In brief : we have moved to a new house in a little village called
^ Rutford ( just outside of Luxembourg ) .
^ We actually own this house and are planning to be here for a few years , which is good !
^ The holiday is going well - we ( my family and I ) are off to Scotland in a few days , and before then I 'm going to spend a couple of days at Tabitha 's house .
^ I am going to be in Kassidy college next year , and I 'm just waiting for my degree certificate to come through so I can send Munich a copy and finalise arrangements .
^ Well , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Great to hear from you .
^ Not sure I can talk to you now that you 're a tab !
^ Only joking ! )
^ Your M / Phil course sounds amazing .
^ I just went and had a look at the course description page , and turned quite green with envy .
^ I 'd love to do stuff like that .
^ Rather bizarrely , my brother sent me a book a couple of weeks ago called " Neural Networks and Behaviour Processing " , which he bought at a sale in the library at Cameron 's Industries , where he works .
^ It seems they 've decided that the library is too much of a drain on resources , so they sold off all the books for &pound; 1 each , which is a shame .
^ Anyway , as soon as I 've got some time ( probably after finals ! )
^ I really must have a read of it - even though it 's a good few years old now .
^ Ah yes , the third year project .
^ Well , I 'm doing it at the moment actually , when I have any time to put into it .
^ We still have the same workload as in the second year , except they make us do a project on top of that .
^ And I had enough of a problem keeping up in the 2nd year ...
^ Fortunately , it should be a fairly " easy " project to do , as it 's basically just drawing objects in OpenGL and then processing them a bit , then drawin them again !
^ Subdivision surfaces is what we 're doing .
^ Unfortunately , due to our somewhat ineffiecient coding and the fact that it 's written in Java ( which we have hardly any experience with ) , it 's probably going to run like a one-legged horse .
^ Still , I 'm sure we can just invoke Moore 's Economics to get over that little problem !
^ Summer was quite cool , and I decided it was finally time to spend the spoils from my year in industry , so I bought myself a glider !
^ Actually , I bought a half-share in it .
^ My syndicate partner does n't fly very often ( about 6 flights per year ! ) so I pretty much get to fly it whenever I want .
^ Shortly after buying it , I flew it in a competition and did my longest distance to date - 300km in just under 4 hours .
^ So I was pretty chuffed about that .
^ I did n't do particularly well in the competition , as I have n't quite got the knack of flying really quickly , but I did quite a bit better than last year .
^ Extrapolating my improvement , I should be in the top ten in about 4 years !
^ I wish ! ) .
^ Anyway , since I 'm jolly proud of my new toy , I 've attached a picture of one ( not my own , but a very similar one ) for you to peruse .
^ The only drawback is that I 'm going to have to get a job next summer to pay for its upkeep .
^ Which means that I wo n't have time to fly it !
^ D'oh !
^ If only weekends were longer .
^ Any idea what you 're going to do once you 've finihsed your M / Phil ?
^ Will you be able to resist the urge to stay in academia for another few years , to become Dr. Malone , rather than just plain Mr. Malone ? !
^ Personally , I 'd love to stay and do research once I 've finished my degree , but I 'm not sure they 'd have me , after my rather poor exam-passing record !
^ Got to go and grab some lunch before I get grilled in a dynamics tutorial ...
^ Krystal
^ PS. Is there a clause in the Samuel Streets building contract which forbids the use of non-windows OSs inside the building ?
^ _That_ would be funny !
^ Or a ban on the uttereance of the word " Matso " ...
^ PPS I bet this email gets scanned on it 's way in , and blocked for its use of the H word !
^ Hi Krystal !
^ How 's things ?
^ How did your third-year project go ?
^ What are you up to now ?
^ I 'm now at Munich studying an M / Phil in Computer Behaviour , Text and
^ Internet Technology which is basically speech and stuff .
^ It has been a very hectic so far , and on the whole I am enjoying myself , although now and again I get a bit weary of it all .
^ I do pretty much all of my studying in the most recently-built academic building in Munich - the ubiquitously named " Samuel Streets Building " ! ! !
^ It is very smart , and a fantastic place to work , and I 'm very grateful considering I spend most of my waking hours there !
^ I 'm in Kassidy
^ College , living in a college-owned house with a few other postgrads .
^ Hope you 're well ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Would n't boast about winning Computer cometitions mate , people might start to talk ...
^ Jealous really !
^ Well , well done .
^ Things still good here , larging it tomorrow night and the two friends here want us all to get drunk .
^ Good that I eventually told them I 'm a Christian , hope I can be an example without being a spoil sport .
^ Just had a morning of talking about
^ Christianity in class in Spanish .
^ Yikes .
^ Oh , also heard that you 're getting a TV in Margarets , word gets around .
^ All I can say is that we 'd better make sure we get out at least a bit next year , things to do , places to go etc ...
^ Well take cares , omitting the z 's from now on .
^ Me .
^ Mizzy ,
^ Did you get my text message ?
^ Are you surviving the Spanish senoritas ?
^ I am playing quite a bit of football at the moment - got some serious silverware for winning competitions at work !
^ All the best dude ,
^ Delaney
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^ Hi Nick
^ It was great to see you too .
^ I 'll pass on your apologies to Jo I 'm sure she wo n't mind since she did look particuly funny with her face painted bright red .
^ Spoke to Hayley and Kathy Park yesterday they send their love , they were very excited about the fact you 'd met someone from there new church .
^ Parker 's photos of you at his party are very funny ( he 's sitting next to me now ) .
^ Hope you enjoy the last bit of term and have a lovely Christmas at home .
^ Love
^ Jessie
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Jessie ,
^ Great to see you ( briefly ! ) over the weekend .
^ It was fantastic being back in Wells , although quite strange as well .
^ Life is crazy !
^ Please pass on my apologies to Jo for not making it to Jerry 's in the morning , although I heard the sketch was fab .
^ Have a great last bit of term Jessie ,
^ Love Nick
^ P.S. THANKS for the cookies , they were delicious as ever . &SMILEY
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ You are indeed RSVP 'd .
^ Twas indeed good to catch up the other week .
^ Deb did n't get the job and is still looking .
^ I 'm thinking of doing teaching .
^ Ca n't remember whether I was when I saw you or not .
^ Temping at the city council at the mo .
^ Filing & photocopying mainly .
^ Pretty dull , and gives me little time for other things but it 's much better than nothing .
^ God bless ,
^ Aimee
^ Hi Aimee !
^ Have you RSVP 'd for me to say I can come to your wedding ?
^ Great to catch up the other day .
^ Easy ,
^ ~
^ Nick
^ ~
^ HI Sammy ! !
^ Happy new year to you too !
^ Good to hear from you !
^ I 've just had exams as well ! ! seven in four days ! not very fair methinks !
^ Best of luck with yours , i 'm sure you 'll do well !
^ I think I know the song you mean -very cool- is it a good album ?
^ I 'm currently listening to a band called The Calling and obviously the obligatory indie / american guitar rock of counting crows and matchbox twenty !
^ plus a big fan of this american soloist called Philip Coulthard who is massive over there , bit like happier Coldplay
^ As for the football , it 's good to see you 've been allowed further up the pitch where you can use your more creative talents ! !
^ How 's Munich treating you in general , is it pretty intense ?
^ I 'm playing up front ( in the bergkamp role ! ! ? !
^ for college of law in Busa on a wednesday which is good fun , and we 've only lost one game out of 7 but THREE 3-3 draws
^ Ridiculous ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Scored 5 this year which is n't too bad , and fairly fit ( unlike last year ! ) due to playing lots of squash !
^ I 'm still going out with Amy , and it 's nearly a year now , can you believe that ? ?
^ How 's the ladies in Munich ? ?
^ Great to hear from you , hope you ace the exams , keep in touch ,
^ Nayeli .
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " James Higham "
^ Subject : Hey !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Happy New Year Jewson !
^ How 's things ?
^ Got my first Munich exams coming up in a week or so , and I 'm somewhat nervous !
^ Still , I reckon I 'll be OK , even if I do n't get a particularly great mark .
^ I just ordered the Aqualung album from Ocean , mostly because of the " Strange and Beautiful " song from the VW advert - know the one I mean ?
^ Are you playing much football at the moment ?
^ I 'm playing centre-mid for my college ( Kassidy ) but the terms here are even shorter than Wynne , so we do n't actually get to play all that much .
^ Still , it 's good when it happens !
^ Well , hope things are going well for you Nayeli ,
^ Nick
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^ Hey Bro ,
^ Good to hear from you ! !
^ Was worried you might have been stepped on by an elephant or something !
^ So how many people on site are there - enough to play frisbee with anyhow !
^ They were all girls when I was there ... very unfair !
^ Please give my love to Phylie if you see her again ... is she going to have Cynthia after the divorce ? !
^ I 'm really sorry to hear about that .
^ I 'm in a rather odd situation now - I have finished two of the three essays that I had to do .
^ I cannot get on with the third until one of the lads I am working with gets some data we need for the last essay
^ Other than that , I have two sign language exams to go - but there is n't much I can do for those , and one 50 % essay exam on the 24th .
^ So I now find myself sitting around waiting for something to get on with - remarkably frustrating really !
^ I 'll get there in the end ! !
^ Its all going well basically though - had one of those moments when it really hit me that when I leave this term , I wont be coming back .
^ Strange .
^ We 've had a few of the classic mid exam revission kickabouts where all and sundry descend on the Racecourse and proceed to kick chuncks out of each other for an hour !
^ Good fun really , but somewhat dangerous !
^ Ohhh , I bought a new laptop too .
^ All very exciting .
^ Can I just check , when you were finally reunited with your suitcase , was everything in place ? !
^ Right , well I think I should do a little revision really !
^ Hmmm not long to go now !
^ I could n't believe it when I looked at the date the other day and realised how long you 'd been gone for !
^ CRAZY !
^ I 'm going home fopr a week after my exams are done , and then it 'll only be a matter of weeks before you get back !
^ Enjoy yourself Nick - I 'll try and do the same here !
^ Love ya !
^ Nayeli
^ x
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^ To : " James Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Nayeli ,
^ How 's your work going ?
^ I 've been here for a month !
^ Today I was helping out with an honour roll party for the seniors .
^ It was pretty fun actually ; I got them playing 3-legged football to start with , and then a couple of other games .
^ I 've got Pedro and the other boys here addicted to frisbee now , so we play that most evenings .
^ We also play quite a bit of football on the new sports field , which is a reasonably nice surface .
^ I saw Phylis today !
^ She came to visit , so I caught her up on news from home .
^ She 's been studying quite hard over the last year or so , and is looking to get a divorce from her husband ; pretty sad , but it looks like the only way forward ...
^ OK Nayeli , lots of love ,
^ Nick x
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^ Sorry I have n't written for so long - things have been pretty hectic here !
^ Well I have finished my degree ... with very varrying degrees of success !
^ The only major exam I had went pretty terribly , but since it was only 50 % of one module , I was n't too fussed !
^ I am pretty certain I will come out with a mid 2-1 which was what I have always aimed to get , so thats cool !
^ Its nice to be finished with the work , though I am often at a loose end now as to what to do with myself !
^ But hey , I can live with that !
^ After I finished ( about 2 weeks ago now ! )
^ I went home for a week and a bit - largely because everyone here still had loads of work to do , but also because M&D were at Grit Farm and needed some cover in school !
^ I had sort of thought that it would be quite a good time to relax and catch up on some sleep .
^ my sleeping really suffered towards the end of my work .... odd becuase I normally sleep fine ! )
^ However , it was actually FAR more knackering than being here would have been !
^ We built a patio at the back of Zachary and George 's garden which took about 15 hours of backbraking labour over two days .
^ Looks very good , but I never want to level another garden again !
^ It was great to be there to help though because Daddy would have killed himself trying otherwise !
^ And now we have our own garden / extension to be getting on with !
^ Yippie !
^ So yeah , between all the labour and teaching , I was totally shattered when I got back up here !
^ Only to find that the girls had been using my computer and downloa ded ( admittedly by accident ! ) a trojan which is now effectively running my computer for me ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ VERY annoying and nearly impossible to weed out !
^ So basically I am finally now catching up on lost sleep , and often wanting there to be something more to do ! !
^ Its very weird because everyone seems very lethargic - partly becuase it has been absolutely boiling here for a few days now , partly due to crashing after finishing exams !
^ I think in part because people are aware that this is the end and are nto too sure what they should be doing about it !
^ Its a weird thoguht that it will all be over very soon ...
^ I am quite ok about it , but it is hard to realise just what that is going to be like in practice ! !
^ Have the whole hooha of graduating first though !
^ Costs the earth ! ! ! !
^ So thats pretty much my life at present !
^ Ohh , the laptop is a samsung , p4 2.8 , 350 RAM , cr-rw & dvd .
^ Its pretty good - does n't have a dvd writer which I wanted but comet offered me &pound; 800 off because they didnt have the correct cardboard box for it ! ! !
^ Seemed like a good deal tp me !
^ Its cool because I have finally been able to back up my photos , so this trojan can do its worst ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ I guess it is n't that long now till you come back !
^ A few weeks or so !
^ How do you feel about the time ? !
^ Has it been what you wanted / hoped / expected ? !
^ And the $ 64,000 question .... have you seen the BIG five ? !
^ Hope all is well Nick !
^ Ca n't wait to see you when you get back !
^ Say hi to anyone I know , and see you soon !
^ Love you !
^ Nayeli
^ From : " Rolomandi Mission Station " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " James Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Can I just check , when you were finally reunited with your suitcase , was everything in place ? !
^ Hey Bro ,
^ Good to hear from you ! !
^ Was worried you might have been stepped on by an elephant or something !
^ So how many people on site are there - enough to play frisbee with anyhow !
^ They were all girls when I was there ... very unfair !
^ Please give my love to Phylie if you see her again ... is she going to have
^ Cynthia after the divorce ? !
^ I 'm really sorry to hear about that .
^ I 'm in a rather odd situation now - I have finished two of the three essays that I had to do .
^ I cannot get on with the third until one of the lads I am working with gets some data we need for the last essay
^ Other than that , I have two sign language exams to go - but there is n't much I can do for those , and one 50 % essay exam on the 24th .
^ So I now find myself sitting around waiting for something to get on with - remarkably frustrating really !
^ I 'll get there in the end ! !
^ Its all going well basically though - had one of those moments when it really hit me that when I leave this term , I wont be coming back .
^ Strange .
^ We 've had a few of the classic mid exam revission kickabouts where all and sundry descend on the Racecourse and proceed to kick chuncks out of each other for an hour !
^ Good fun really , but somewhat dangerous !
^ Ohhh , I bought a new laptop too .
^ All very exciting .
^ Can I just check , when you were finally reunited with your suitcase , was everything in place ? !
^ Right , well I think I should do a little revision really !
^ Hmmm not long to go now !
^ I could n't believe it when I looked at the date the other day and realised how long you 'd been gone for !
^ CRAZY !
^ I 'm going home fopr a week after my exams are done , and then it 'll only be a matter of weeks before you get back !
^ Enjoy yourself Nick - I 'll try and do the same here !
^ Love ya !
^ Nayeli
^ x
^ From : " Rolomandi Mission Station " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " James Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Nayeli ,
^ How 's your work going ?
^ I 've been here for a month !
^ Today I was helping out with an honour roll party for the seniors .
^ It was pretty fun actually ; I got them playing 3-legged football to start with , and then a couple of other games .
^ I 've got Pedro and the other boys here addicted to frisbee now , so we play that most evenings .
^ We also play quite a bit of football on the new sports field , which is a reasonably nice surface .
^ I saw Phylis today !
^ She came to visit , so I caught her up on news from home .
^ She 's been studying quite hard over the last year or so , and is looking to get a divorce from her husband ; pretty sad , but it looks like the only way forward ...
^ OK Nayeli , lots of love ,
^ Nick x
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^ Hello Nick !
^ Howsit Poge ?
^ Grrrrreat ! !
^ I 'm constantly tired though !
^ Had a good time at my grandparents ' over the last few days .
^ nice food , and I am forced not to do any serious work there because I am without Camilla ! - sounds good to me
^ I 've been getting that most of the time here at home though .
^ My mam 's food is always super-dooper and I 've not done an inch of " serious work " since I 've been home .
^ Oh dear , that 's nothing to be proud of .
^ Well , what have I been doing with myself ?
^ LOTS of shopping .
^ Yippee - I 've bought all the presents I need to buy ! ! ! ! ! !
^ How satisfying !
^ I have also been busy stuffing envelopes through letter boxes .
^ We have now delivered a lot of millennium gospels round the area .
^ On monday morning , Jessie and I did 4 blocks of flats , while dad and a bloke called Mallory did a whole load of streets .
^ On Wednesday night dad , Kylie and Judith ( 2 other people from church ) did a whole load too , while I stuffed some more envelopes as I realised we were going to run out .
^ It 's not been too bad actually - getting the things delivered I mean : apart from the deception involved .
^ People are not supposed to be able to go into the flats and deliver stuff through letter boxes .
^ Well , that 's what the porter of one block told us .
^ I reckon he was just being difficult .
^ It meant we could n't do that block , but we did the rest by sneaking in after people who have keys , or by ringing the number of someone we knew and getting them to let us in .
^ A bit cheeky , but we had no other way of getting in ! !
^ I 've also been making cards for the Just World Shop .
^ I made a whole load last night while watching the 2nd episode of " Wives and Daughters " .
^ I was watching the first part on Wednesday night and it suddenly zapped off and the whole house plunged into darkness .
^ We had a power cut .
^ It was really rather exciting .
^ I was sitting on the floor stuffing gospels into envelopes ( we needed more done ! ) while Jessie was lounging on the settee .
^ We were just getting stuck in with Hendrickson and her little life when everything went off .
^ Mad .
^ We could n't see a thing .
^ Thankfully , we have a torch in the sitting room ( near the back door for when dad goes and checks his " weather station " .
^ he has a thermometer and a rain gauge outside which he checks several times a day - it 's a hobby
^ I call it an obsession ) which he has had for the past 20 years
^ so we managed to find that and seek out the matches and candles galore to light the house
^ In the meantime , mam was in a mood upstairs as she 'd been in the middle of doing some work when the lights went out .
^ Well , just imagine if you were struggling to diagnose what 's wrong with someone 's health , and just as you 're getting there , everything goes pitch black .
^ Mmmmmm .
^ So , I delivered some candles to her , had the torch pinched from me by dad - who set about trying to electricute himself by investigating the fuse box .
^ He then rang Northern Electric , who said they were " investigating " too .
^ Meanwhile , Jessie was getting annoyed as she wanted to watch the video , but could n't .
^ Then she wanted some hot chocolate , but the kettle would n't boil .
^ We could n't even boil some water on the hob , as that is electric too .
^ I carried on stuffing envelopes - by candle light - and when I was done , thought I 'd go and email .
^ Hmmmm - no chance .
^ Just makes you realise how much our everyday activites depend upon electricity .
^ Anyway , we decided to put the Christmas tree up , so did that and decorated it , and then the lights suddenly came back on again .
^ So , after 1.5hrs of exciting candlelight , we returned to the modern form of illumination , and put the video back on ! ! !
^ Parker tells me he is quite jealous that we had a power cut and he 's not had one for ages .
^ Hs exact words were :
^ - Oh ! !
^ How perfectly delightful ( a power cut ) !
^ You are fortunate !
^ It 's kind of unfair though !
^ You see , we move from a little village of a few hundred people to an isolated .
^ hamlet / farm with only about 26 people because we expect there to be more opportunities for power cuts out in the country , rather than in a village
^ Then what happens ? !
^ There have n't been any in the last year !
^ Whilst you on the other hand , living in a sprawling metropolis of a city , have a 1.5 hour power cut !
^ Talk about UNFAIR ! ! !
^ I 'm quite jealous !
^ He is a nutter ! !
^ Talking of emails from Parker , do your emails from him look like some weird language ?
^ His computer and my computer obviously do n't speak exactly the same language , and all his punctuation goes wonky .
^ For example , an apostrophe ends up as on my screen .
^ Dodgy !
^ Perhaps Camilla could explain .
^ Parker also likes telling me of his communications with your good self and a certain Mr Cameron ( ! ! ! ) .
^ I 've certainly heard enough about Camilla , although I have to compliment her on her taste ( or sense of humour ) in showing people the piccie of Dr " Hert 's Hair Shampoo " ! !
^ Yesterday , after lunch , Jessie and I were getting bored so we went and got the Metro to the airport .
^ I like planes .
^ We used to like going on " trips " to the airport when we were little .... mmmmmm , well , we still do ! !
^ Does it not amaze you how such collosal hunks of machinery ( stuffed full of mechanical parts , people and their luggage ) can get off the ground and FLY ! ! ! ! ? ? ? ?
^ We had a great ride on the Metro and then went to the airport cafe and had a drink while watching people getting onto the planes .
^ Then we went out onto the viewing terrace and watched 4 planes take off and a few land .
^ We spent about an hour and a half at the airport before getting the Metro back into town and doing a bit of shopping for mam and then walking home .
^ Isabelle and Manley came today .
^ They are staying tonight and then going back to
^ Oxford to spend Christmas with Manley ' parents .
^ It 's so nice to see them again , and they brought some presents !
^ Isabelle is becoming quite Scottish ( in her speech I mean ) .
^ I have n't told you yet , but my Granny died last Friday .
^ It came as a bit of a shock .
^ She 'd been in hospital for a week or so , but dad had seen her on the Wednesday .
^ he was down south for a conference so popped in to see her ) and said that she was " on the mend "
^ We got a call from my uncle Jeremy on
^ Friday morning to tell us the sad news that she 'd had a sudden heart attack early in the morning and had died as a consequence .
^ It has been a bit odd getting used to the idea that she 's no longer on this earth .
^ We hardly ever saw her , and I was never very close to her as a result , but I loved her a lot and have found it weird trying to grasp the whole death thing .
^ Her funeral has been arranged for a week on friday .
^ I think that is really late : 2 weeks after she died !
^ We 're going to go down to Eastbourne for it , so will have to fix up somewhere to stay .
^ I 've never been to a funeral before .
^ Well , what else have I got to say ?
^ Nothing much .
^ I think I 've waffled enough now .
^ Except .... .
^ On Saturday we are off to Spilsbyshire for a week of rest and relaxation - it will be fantastic to do NOTHING ! ! ! - hope you have a really FAB time ! !
^ You deserve a break ! &SMILEY
^ Now I 'm off to watch " An Ideal Husband " with my family , have fun , God bless , MERRY CHRISTMAS ! love ,
^ Ru x
^ " we better serve ourselves by serving others better " .
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey Liz ,
^ when does the munich course begin ?
^ I move in on Oct 4th , and my first proper day of lectures is the 8th .
^ where are you living ?
^ I 'm living ( hopefully ) in Kassidy College .
^ I 've applied and should be given a room , probably in college .
^ how ready to go are you ?
^ Not at all ready at the moment !
^ I 'll pack next week , but until then I 've got quite a bit more maths to do .
^ I am actually jealous of you - not the maths but that your " floating " is not indefinite like mine .
^ Yeah , I understand how difficult it must be for you .
^ Hang in there .
^ This guy sounds quite something !
^ You really do pick em do n't you !
^ Well , I hope you 're trusting it to God and stuff : o ) .
^ Ciao ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hello Stevo ! !
^ hey benjo , how ru ? when do you hit the streets of munich ?
^ I 'm moving up to Munich on Friday ( 4th ) .
^ Not long now .
^ I 'm currently overhauling my laptop .
^ I 've saved all my files to CD 's and reformatted the hard drive and I 'm now reinstalling everything - surprisingly good fun !
^ Can I get away with running anything better than win98 on that speed processor ?
^ You should be OK running ME , but that 's not really much different to 98 .
^ Not sure about &YEAR or LJ , although I would n't have thought it would be a problem .
^ how much memory is advisable - I think its coming with 56meg which is obviously not much & memory is dirt cheap .
^ However I do n't really want to spend anything - any advice welcome !
^ GO AND BUY ANOTHER 128MB ! !
^ It will only cost you around &pound; 15 .
^ You really should n't run Win98 with less than 64mb , and for anything better , ) 128mb would be advisable .
^ I 've just had a pretty tough chat on the phone with Tabitha .
^ She 's pretty confused in herself at the moment , and does n't want me to contact her for a while .
^ I think it 's a good thing really - why does life have to be so hard ? ?
^ I got some great new clothes today ! !
^ My mum bought them for me , from Timberland .
^ Lush !
^ Right , I 'll speak / email to you soon ,
^ Nick
^ hey benjo , how ru ? when do you hit the streets of munich ?
^ I am well and truly back in cardiff and enrolled .
^ Trying to find a way of doing french .
^ Living in the house is fun & its nice to see some friends but life is a bit hard going in general adjusting to living in a different city to jo .
^ Really enjoyed sheffield although was glad to get back to cardiff after a week of bombing around - it was a bit of an unsettled week in general for me so thanks for company & chats .
^ I have found someone with a few computer odds & ends so I will once again be on the bodge job upgrade trail !
^ I think this is a athlon 650 - i will let u know progress !
^ Can I get away with running anything better than win98 on that speed processor ? how much memory is advisable - I think its coming with 56meg which is obviously not much & memory is dirt cheap .
^ However I do n't really want to spend anything - any advice welcome ! )
^ Oh also , what do you think about putting my p200 board & chip in hannahs old computer )
^ p60 or something with win95 ) - I think it might do ok even if it was having a few glitches with me .
^ on the subject of photos I have a friend with a zip drive so if u have access to one of those & can post me a zip disk then that would work .
^ I can return the disk to you as I realise they are expensive .
^ He 's also got a cd burner so he could put them onto cd 4 me .
^ the house is pretty much done - sorting out the fireplaces so we can burn wood - had a fire in my bedroom lastnight - it was lush !
^ look 4ward 2 hearing ur news .
^ S
^ From : " Jonah " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Morand , Regan " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Stevo !
^ Thanks for coming away these last few days - I have so enjoyed your company .
^ I 'll find some way to get you the photos , but I 've attached a little number to whet your appetite !
^ Jonah ( ( &WEBSITE ) )
^ Chat with friends online , try MSN Messenger : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Jonah ! ! ! ! !
^ You 're always welcome .
^ The longer the better ... there are lots of exciting things happening .
^ Please send our regards to the family .
^ We 're off to
^ Botswana for a couple of weeks - then when we get back - off to the States for a couple of weeks ... its been a really busy year .
^ Bless you
^ Josue
^ Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free .
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^ ~
^ Bradley and Hazely ,
^ Which airport should I be thinking about flying to when I come and visit ?
^ Love Nick
^ Jonah ! ! ! ! !
^ You 're always welcome .
^ The longer the better ... there are lots of exciting things happening .
^ Please send our regards to the family .
^ We 're off to
^ Botswana for a couple of weeks - then when we get back - off to the States for a couple of weeks ... its been a really busy year .
^ Bless you
^ Josue
^ Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free .
^ Checked by AVG anti-virus system ( &WEBSITE &WEBSITE / Virus Database : 642 - Release Date : 5 / &DATE
^ ~
^ Oh , also , what is the best way to get plane tickets ?
^ Do you book yours online ?
^ Is it best to wait until the last minute ?
^ O
^ Jonah ! ! ! ! !
^ You 're always welcome .
^ The longer the better ... there are lots of exciting things happening .
^ Please send our regards to the family .
^ We 're off to
^ Botswana for a couple of weeks - then when we get back - off to the States for a couple of weeks ... its been a really busy year .
^ Bless you
^ Josue
^ Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free .
^ Checked by AVG anti-virus system ( &WEBSITE &WEBSITE / Virus Database : 642 - Release Date : 5 / &DATE
^ ~
^ How 's life in sunny Dundee ( and wherever you are Nick ) ?
^ Rutford Parker .
^ Rutford .
^ Well , I 'm busily trying to finish off my recording project before I leave for SA ( on April 6th ) .
^ I will of course be sending you a copy of my work
^ Parker boy , as soon as it 's done .
^ So , you are now an alcoholic .
^ Well , that did n't take long did it ?
^ How 's the computer course going ?
^ Oh , and that other thing you 're doing in your spare time ... think you called it a PhD last time I spoke with you ...
^ It 's Sunday today , and yesterday I was in Ipswich giving a day 's tutorial on digital music recording to the head of music and the head of maths at Gecks
^ Park Private School .
^ I also met a very nice girl at lunchtime who 's at Homerton this year doing a PGCE .
^ I 'll probably never see her again ... annoying .
^ Other than that I 'm enjoying being 25 , and trying to prepare the students at school for the inevitable devastation caused by my impending departure .
^ Oh , and I had a fantastic jacuzzi yesterday while I was in Ipswich as well .
^ Would love to speak to you soon Parker - sorry I missed the last couple of times you rang .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Lally and Malone ,
^ How 's life in sunny Dundee ( and wherever you are Nick ) ?
^ Here we have been celebrating St Patrick 's day in an unusual manner ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ The younger guy 's my supervisor .
^ Well , it 's Friday - excellent !
^ Hope you are both well .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ hey benjo , how ru ? when do you hit the streets of munich ?
^ I am well and truly back in cardiff and enrolled .
^ Trying to find a way of doing french .
^ Living in the house is fun & its nice to see some friends but life is a bit hard going in general adjusting to living in a different city to jo .
^ Really enjoyed sheffield although was glad to get back to cardiff after a week of bombing around - it was a bit of an unsettled week in general for me so thanks for company & chats .
^ I have found someone with a few computer odds & ends so I will once again be on the bodge job upgrade trail !
^ I think this is a athlon 650 - i will let u know progress !
^ Can I get away with running anything better than win98 on that speed processor ? how much memory is advisable - I think its coming with 56meg which is obviously not much & memory is dirt cheap .
^ However I do n't really want to spend anything - any advice welcome ! )
^ Oh also , what do you think about putting my p200 board & chip in hannahs old computer )
^ p60 or something with win95 ) - I think it might do ok even if it was having a few glitches with me .
^ on the subject of photos I have a friend with a zip drive so if u have access to one of those & can post me a zip disk then that would work .
^ I can return the disk to you as I realise they are expensive .
^ He 's also got a cd burner so he could put them onto cd 4 me .
^ the house is pretty much done - sorting out the fireplaces so we can burn wood - had a fire in my bedroom lastnight - it was lush !
^ look 4ward 2 hearing ur news .
^ S
^ From : " Jonah " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Morand , Regan " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Stevo !
^ Thanks for coming away these last few days - I have so enjoyed your company .
^ I 'll find some way to get you the photos , but I 've attached a little number to whet your appetite !
^ Jonah ( ( &WEBSITE ) )
^ Chat with friends online , try MSN Messenger : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Great , thanks Nick
^ I am currently learning about satellites and how they aquire images , which is pretty interesting , but quite challenging as well .
^ I am planning to go up to Wells next thursday , which will be good !
^ And , ironically enough , friday is valentines day ...
^ Believe it or not , the two events were not planned with each other in mind .
^ Still , a nice coincidence , even if Ka and I do n't " celebrate " it .
^ It was so funny , last year , we decided not to recognise the day !
^ 
^ Women !
^ Oh well , I love her quite hugely , and sometimes I laugh out loud because I am so happy .
^ I was upset to hear about Mallory and Anna .
^ I saw Anna last weekend and she was feeling a lot better than when you saw or talked to her the weekend before , although I really do n't envy her position .
^ I have n't spoken to Mallory since then .
^ Do you think I should call him to see how he is , or should I leave him be ?
^ What do you think ?
^ PhD Applications now ...
^ Bob
^ --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote : ) )
^ I unfortunately do n't have the capabilitities to play the mp3 .
^ I printed off your new song .
^ Do you have any of the old ones , like the ones on the cd as txt files ?
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Everything you 'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Roots &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ when does the munich course begin ? where are you living ? how ready to go are you ? please tell me you ar not just reading a maths book are you !
^ I am actually jealous of you - not the maths but that your " floating " is not indefinite .
^ like mine I still have no more clear ideas as to what I should do next , theres a couple of youth work possibilities and that is about it
^ I have not done much looking to be fair I am just not sure how , I have also not been at home all that long either .
^ It feels like I have only been here a few weeks .
^ I worked for a bit in Kitchens which was awful , had a week or so off , went to Lee Abbey - a Christian camp to cook , went to Hayley and Maximus 's wedding in Wells !
^ went camping for a week near Jessie came back did a weeks Youth work training , went clubbing with Anna in Southampton
^ went to stay with my gran in Wolverhampton , almost finished decorating my room and fell in love with the most inappropriate guy ever
^ I am not sure what you know about him , he is not a Christian ( but REALLY needs to be ) , is an ageing ( 41 ) hippy who wishes you peace and love instead of saying goodbye .
^ is homeless and living in a mates place , has a stall on camden market and is looking for more acting work
^ has been really hurt in the past and is " not ready " or " has n't got the balls " for a relationship depending whose opinion you choose
^ his or his friends which I prefer ) , his last relationship was 12 years long and he has been married for 4 years
^ He has long grey hair and is AMAZING !
^ I am a bit gutted that we cant be together , maybe eventually , who knlws , miss Wells like mad and wish I had some inspiration for my future , hope to speak soon , Eric xx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Davison , Eric "
^ Subject : Hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Liz !
^ How 's tricks ?
^ What are you up to at the moment ?
^ What 's the situation on the male front ?
^ I 'm at home , preparing for Munich , working through a large and somewhat complicated mathematics book - are n't you jealous ? !
^ Last week I went up to the Peak District with my friend Stevo from home , to visit Kaden ( from
^ Cranmer , remember ? ) .
^ I have found it quite difficult leaving Wells and sort of " floating " here at home , but I am looking forward to going to Munich now .
^ Anway , I hope this email finds you well - be in touch if you can .
^ Love Nick
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^ ~
^ Els ,
^ I just crafted a really useless , but extremely long letter .
^ It is late and I 'm tuckered out from convention , so I decided to spell check .
^ Bad move .
^ Letter gone .
^ OK , let me try and interpret these somewhat confusing sentences with at least a measure of accuracy :
^ 1. you typed a useless , yet extensive letter .
^ 2. you thought you 'd better spell-check it , as your brain was not in its usual razor-sharp state , due to fatigue .
^ 3. ( this is were it gets a bit hazy )
^ the spell-check threw up an obscene number of errors thus you decided to discard all your hard work , because the thought of correcting all those errors was just inconceivably horrible ...
^ So , I have to content myself with bullet points ?
^ OK fine , let 's see ...
^ - How was Nayeli 's graduation ?
^ Fun ?
^ Not fun exactly , but definitely worth doing .
^ The nature of the thing is , in essence , boring .
^ However , it was great to see my little bro being " degreed " .
^ How did you celebrate ?
^ We had a buffet in Philip 's , and then just sort-of hung around .
^ I suppose we were all a bit tired .
^ Oh yeah , we watched Missouri Housman and the Last
^ Crusade " on Nayeli 's gargantuan TV in the evening - " X never marks the spot !
^ Wells + , n'est ce pas ?
^ Mange tout , mange tout .
^ My brother and I have been working in the garden this afternoon , moving a shed on my father 's instruction .
^ The task involved the removal of a small tree with a committed root-system .
^ We attacked it with various axe-like implements , and I now feel a bit like someone 's bludgeoned me with a baseball bat !
^ OK , it 's nearly midnight , and we all know what happens then , do n't we ... ?
^ Pumpkin time !
^ So , I 'll leave you with this thought - " Life is too short to wear tight shoes . "
^ Nick x
^ I just crafted a really useless , but extremely long letter .
^ It is late and I 'm tuckered out from convention , so I decided to spell check .
^ Bad move .
^ Letter gone .
^ Anyway , having poured out my heart soul and life in that letter repetition will not ensue .
^ Maybe I could bullet points it .
^ -How was Nayeli 's graduation ?
^ Fun ?
^ How did you celebrate ?
^ ~
^ I am still in college .
^ I will leave here on 12th July .
^ Tomorrow , I will type you my homestay address .
^ I am looking forward seeing you .
^ Have a good summer holiday .
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^ ~
^ Dear Nick
^ Thanks lot for your e-mail and the link to the " operation black bag " snapshots .
^ These photos reveal the whole truth about what went on in 12 Eachard Road .
^ on finishing your thesis !
^ Are there any further exams ahead ?
^ How long are you going to stay in Munich ?
^ This week and last I have been house hunting .
^ I had a look at a very nice apartment on Saturday that I may be able to rent from 1 August with a bit of luck .
^ All the best ,
^ Jan Pithouse
^ On &DATE &YEAR at &TIME , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi JH ,
^ How 's life in the fast lane ?
^ I just handed in my thesis today - it worked out pretty well in the end , and I think I should get a good mark for it .
^ Things have been quite interesting here - the new couple have some strange sleeping habits , and I had to tell them to stop hammering things into the walls at &TIME the other morning !
^ Yee-Ling has of course gone now , and left most of her belongings to be thrown out .
^ I 've salvaged a couple of &WEBSITE : o ) .
^ I 've uploaded the " operation black bag " photos to : &WEBSITE
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ I 'd like to come Tabitha .
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ would any of you lot like to come to my birthday meal on the 11th of October at a restaurant in Clapham .
^ Floor sapce available if people need to stay ,
^ teaching is good .
^ sworn at ferociously yesterday ,
^ love y'all ,
^ NAo x
^ From : " Suzy Jefford "
^ To : &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Subject : Hi everyone !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ ~
^ Hey Nick , how 's it going ? long time no speak .
^ Well it 's been a typically dull & miserable couple of weeks in old wells town !
^ That is the weather I mean .
^ Apart from feeling the effects of a bruising encounter with Gradsoc " B " on the football fields things are going pretty well .
^ The B 's notched up there 3rd consecutive win of the season in that match ( probably the best ever run in B team history ) .
^ Having beaten the TV room XI on the Astro on Friday nite , however , on this occasion a penalty shootout was required !
^ Any more sporting action to report ? ?
^ Also it was a pleasure and a joy to be present for the Red & Plummer wizards second humbling of Bristol this season in a pulsating cup tie and slips them into their second cup semi-final of the season .
^ Met up with an old college friend , Adam , who I lived with for 2 years .
^ Escaped to Whitby for a sunny day out by the seaside to celebrate his selection for ordination .
^ Although , it 's scary how many of my mates / acquaintances are joining the clergy . -
^ Nick do n't do it - please ! !
^ When does term finish for you ? ?
^ It would be good to come down and visit sometime but anything outside of the next weeek is a horrible blur at the mo .
^ Keep it real .
^ Isabel
^ ps. am still following what you said and will wait for KT to make a move towards reconciliation , however I 'm not going to make a concious effort to avoid her anymore .
^ Mr Tanner Trower
^ Teaching Assistant
^ Department of Economics and Finance 23-26 Old Elvet
^ Wells WI3 9IH
^ Classroom Telephone : 0191-374-7267 Mobile : 04484044626
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^ ~
^ hellooooooooo i miss you heaps already mummy and daddy are home again and matt ahs gone to the goaters for a bit abz
^ we sorted out my room yesterday so it looks really nice now ! i hope you have a fantastic term
^ god reveals lots of wonderful and exciting things to you ! ive got to go now speak to you soon luv ya heaps
^ From : Frederick ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Hi georgeous
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hasta la vista Alice ,
^ Just an email to say hi , and let you know that I 'm safely in Wells and thinking about you .
^ It is great to see how you are growing up , and I greatly enjoyed our conversations this term .
^ Here 's to the future ! ! ! !
^ Lots of love little girl ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ Hi there Nick !
^ Good to hear from you .
^ At the moment I 'm in an internet cafe Chinese stgyle which means that basically noone buys the coffee and it is just full of teenage boys playing !
^ whichever violent computer game is currently in vogue with the music turned up loud so I can hear every machinegun and noisy death
^ I 've been working my way through that book of yours through my periods of insomnia in the early hours .
^ Interesting but I have n't noticed any changes within me yet !
^ A lot of things that I agree with and also things that could be lessons for all of us ( I am at the point around &WEBSITE where the gays are being persequeted in the OK .
^ Taiwan or rather Taipei has been pretty cool so far if a little expensive .
^ I am going to have to start teaching French soon if I am going to stay afloat .
^ Fortunately this apparently is easy to find and very profitable , how about 16 pounds per hour ?
^ I 've yet to get any but when ( if ) I do then I will be very relived !
^ I 've come to the north of Taipei in order to go to the National Glackce
^ Museum which holds the biggest collection of Chinese artifacts in the world !
^ The collection on display revolves every three months but apparently it is so huge that it still takes 12 years to be able to see the whole collection of 720,000 artifacts !
^ Yesterday was spent wandering round TP on my first proper day of being out as my sleep pattern has been pretty erratic to say the least whilst I 've been here !
^ I went round the huge Chiang Kai Shek memorial which interestingly enough is just slightly bigger than the Sun Yatsen one nearby )
^ if you do n't know who I am talking about then get on the internet and find out !
^ Well Nick , that museum wo n't reveal itself so I had best go and have a look round !
^ Hear from you soon .
^ Dana
^ ~
^ Hi there Nick !
^ Good to hear from you .
^ At the moment I 'm in an internet cafe Chinese stgyle which means that basically noone buys the coffee and it is just full of teenage boys playing !
^ whichever violent computer game is currently in vogue with the music turned up loud so I can hear every machinegun and noisy death
^ I 've been working my way through that book of yours through my periods of insomnia in the early hours .
^ Interesting but I have n't noticed any changes within me yet !
^ A lot of things that I agree with and also things that could be lessons for all of us ( I am at the point around &WEBSITE where the gays are being persequeted in the OK .
^ Taiwan or rather Taipei has been pretty cool so far if a little expensive .
^ I am going to have to start teaching French soon if I am going to stay afloat .
^ Fortunately this apparently is easy to find and very profitable , how about 16 pounds per hour ?
^ I 've yet to get any but when ( if ) I do then I will be very relived !
^ I 've come to the north of Taipei in order to go to the National Glackce
^ Museum which holds the biggest collection of Chinese artifacts in the world !
^ The collection on display revolves every three months but apparently it is so huge that it still takes 12 years to be able to see the whole collection of 720,000 artifacts !
^ Yesterday was spent wandering round TP on my first proper day of being out as my sleep pattern has been pretty erratic to say the least whilst I 've been here !
^ I went round the huge Chiang Kai Shek memorial which interestingly enough is just slightly bigger than the Sun Yatsen one nearby )
^ if you do n't know who I am talking about then get on the internet and find out !
^ Well Nick , that museum wo n't reveal itself so I had best go and have a look round !
^ Hear from you soon .
^ Dana
^ ~
^ Nick !
^ I feel terrible !
^ I hav n't been in touch at all and I really wanted to see you before you go back !
^ How much longer are you around for ?
^ Please reply to &EMAIL that way I 'll definitely read it !
^ How about lunch this week .
^ Otherwise 'm free Friday evening .
^ Please get back to me !
^ Love you !
^ Izabella .. xx
^ On &DATE , " Pastor Nick " wrote :
^ Izabella ,
^ What are you up to ?
^ I 'm off in a couple of days to spend Chistmas by the sea-side , in Spilsbyshire .
^ I plan to do virtually nothing - GREAT !
^ Lots to talk about - must meet up soon .
^ Have a FANTASTIC Christmas - chill .
^ LOL ,
^ Nick
^ Get free email at &WEBSITE and visit &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ You have indeed got the correct address .
^ Good to see you too .
^ I may well take you up on that offer come January .
^ If I do n't see you before then have a great summer and enjoy your first term in Munich .
^ I think you 'll love it there .
^ Georgina
^ Georgina ,
^ I guess that 's how you spell it ! )
^ If you 're reading this then I 've accurately and successfully transferred your email address from napkin to silicon .
^ If you 're not reading this , then .... well , let 's hope you are .
^ Great to chat to you today .
^ Let me know if you 're looking for a house-mate in Munich when it gets nearer the time as I know a few nice people going to Munich who might be interested in house-sharing .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ I 'm on the case !
^ O
^ Hey Nick !
^ Was good to see you for a few days .
^ Hope you got hope by 6pm .
^ Did you go to football training ?
^ I 've had a good day at work .
^ Anyway , I wondred if you could tell be how to do that thing in Excel that I was wanting help with ...
^ Basically I want it to calculate the balanc column for me .
^ Anything you can do would be appreciated .
^ Have a good week .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ OK Parker .
^ I 've done it for you .
^ Each cell in column H contains a formula that calculates the new balance based on the existing balance and the new transactions .
^ This relies on an initial balance being in cell H7 .
^ When you create new rows , you simply copy the whole of the previous row down , which automatically copies the correct formula into cell HX where X is the new row number .
^ You can also " fill " the formula downwards to cover existing rows .
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick !
^ Was good to see you for a few days .
^ Hope you got hope by 6pm .
^ Did you go to football training ?
^ I 've had a good day at work .
^ Anyway , I wondred if you could tell be how to do that thing in Excel that I was wanting help with ...
^ Basically I want it to calculate the balanc column for me .
^ Anything you can do would be appreciated .
^ Have a good week .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hi Modest .
^ Good to hear you 're finding those titanium particles so interesting .
^ I watched " Venture " for the first time the other day - I really enjoyed it , although I missed the opening sequence so I have n't heard the song yet .
^ I 've started doing some background work for Munich , although it has been a little difficult getting my brain in gear .
^ I just need to plug away at it really .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick !
^ Thanks for working out the spreadsheet thing for me !
^ My accounts are now much easier to handle ...
^ So what have you been up to this week ?
^ Anything exciting ?
^ I 've been at work and it has been relatively interesting .
^ I want to buy an electron microscope ; but they are too expensive at the moment .
^ Oh well !
^ I got home yesterday and am spending a relaxing weekend here at Ferney castle .
^ Dare I say that the weather is lovely here in Scotland at the moment ? !
^ Ah , it 's lovely to have free internet access again ! &SMILEY
^ I 'm going to try and delete Kites from my computer on Monday !
^ so I 'll probably call you and ask for some help if you do n't mind ...
^ Anyway , hope you have a good weekend and are getting some studying done .
^ See you soon ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Nick
^ Really looking forward to seeing you .
^ How are you getting here - can I meet you from a station ?
^ Can you phone me - 0446 692 6440 and let me know .
^ you 're welcome to stay as long as you like - but if you must go on
^ Monday , I 'll get you to a station .
^ Kaden
^ Kaden ,
^ I 'm coming to see you on Sunday - I 'll be there sometime after 5 .
^ If I could stay over that would be great .
^ I 've then got to get a train from Sheffield some time on Monday .
^ I 'll call you soon to get directions .
^ Looking forward to seeing you ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick
^ Great to hear from you .
^ I 'm working until about 5pm on Sunday but will be free all the evening , and all day on Monday .
^ I 'd love to see you - and look forward to showing you some of the local beauty ( better than anything in the South ! ) .
^ Phone me when convenient ( I 'm out most of today though ) , and I 'll give you directions .
^ My phone number - 0446 692 6440
^ Kaden
^ Kaden ,
^ Hi there !
^ I was just wondering , if you 're not busy , whether I could come and visit you this Sunday and stay overnight .
^ I would probably arrive sometime in the afternoon / evening .
^ Let me know , and I hope you 're well Kaden .
^ C ya ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick
^ How great it is to hear from you .
^ I 'm glad you had a good year .
^ I thought about you and my other friends from Johns a lot ; but sadly time pressures did not allow regular emailing .
^ I certainly missed Wells dreadfully , and often wished I could be working in the area up there .
^ Having said that , Sheffield is good - particularly the part where I live , which is only about 800 metres from the edge of the Peak District .
^ It is stunningly beautiful !
^ Work is okay , but people seem so old and set in their ways ( I could really have done with some of you Johns people to introduce youth , energy and enthusiasm ) .
^ But it 's not all bad , as I 've been really well received - sadly , they even seem to think I can wall on water , and I have n't yet convinced them I ca n't !
^ So you 're in Newbury at the moment - not a million miles from
^ God 's county ( Hampshire - and so much nicer than Bath ! ! ! ! ! ) .
^ I was working in Newbury before I left four years ago to go to college .
^ I worked for the CAB opposite Debenhams , as a Debt Counsellor .
^ Even though I loved Hampshire , I ca n't see me returning to live , and would be happy to retire up here in the Peaks !
^ You mention the possibility of coming up - I would like that so much ( and so would Rylee , who lives just across the .
^ city ) .I have a couple of spare rooms , and you could stay as long as you like
^ You 'd be very , very welcome ( bring some friends and see the Peak District - I could certainly put 2 or 3 of you up , and at no cost ! ! ! )
^ I must rush as I have yet another funeral in a about an hour !
^ I really hope you can come sometime - my phone number is 0446 692 6440 .
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I was speaking to Rylee C the other day , and he mentioned that he 'd spent some time with you .
^ How are things in the parish ?
^ Can you believe how quickly a year goes ?
^ 
^ My work is going well , and I am looking foward to the academic side of my third year .
^ I love Wells and ca n't wait to get back into Johns - I 'm living in Cruddas so at least I 'll be near the washing machines !
^ As Rylee may have told you , we are in a process of moving house at the moment , although we do n't actually have a house to move into yet !
^ We are currently staying at my uncle 's house in Newbury which is really quite enjoyable as he has a swimming pool in his garden and Sky TV !
^ If I get a chance to travel up your way this summer I would love to come and visit you ( if I 'm invited ! ) .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Samuel ! !
^ Good day to you my fair-haired friend !
^ Rylie College is really nice - you 've done well .
^ I 've been holidaying for the past month or so .
^ I have seen lots of people and done a load of fun things .
^ Now I 'm back home in Rutford about to start looking for contract jobs that pay shed-loads of money for short hours .
^ I 'm also going to help out in my dad 's school for a few days a week
^ I 'm definitely still thinking about going out to spend a few months with Josue this year ; really looking forward to it actually .
^ I think the only Wellsite I know in Munich is Brody , the American guy who was doing a Masters in our final year - remember him ?
^ He 's doing a PhD in Theology .
^ Anyway , hope you 're doing well Rylee - all the best for the start of the PhD .
^ Look forward to seeing you sometime soon .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ How are you ?
^ Hope the di$$#&EMAIL ( mailto : di$$#&EMAIL ) is going ok ( & hope that 's not a reflection on how its going ! ! ) .
^ Well for me things are going well ... had a really good week in cornwall the week before last - I really needed a break & now fell much more refreshed like I have more energy since it .
^ Went down there for Abbi 's wedding .... really strange seeing yet another person I know getting married !
^ Was in Dur mid-July during the 1st heatwave we had - it really was very , very hot ! !
^ Sorry I could n't meet up , but it was more to talk about the project & meet people in the group at a bbq at my supervisor 's house !
^ they all seem like a very friendly bunch , and do n't look like geeky chemists which I am very relieved about !
^ Got a place at Rylie College too - its nice to have somewhere sorted now as it was taking a while for the board of grad. studies to pass it on to them !
^ When do you leave Dur ? - guess you must leave just before I arrive !
^ Do you know what you 're doing next year ?
^ Are you still thinking of going to see
^ Josue ?
^ Also , do you know anyone from Wells who I might know that 's going to dur this year ?
^ Just it would be nice to have some familiar faces around - feels strange starting uni all over again , not knowing anyone !
^ Hope alls well ,
^ love Rylee .
^ ~
^ Samuel ! !
^ Good day to you my fair-haired friend !
^ Rylie College is really nice - you 've done well .
^ I 've been holidaying for the past month or so .
^ I have seen lots of people and done a load of fun things .
^ Now I 'm back home in Rutford about to start looking for contract jobs that pay shed-loads of money for short hours .
^ I 'm also going to help out in my dad 's school for a few days a week
^ I 'm definitely still thinking about going out to spend a few months with Josue this year ; really looking forward to it actually .
^ I think the only Wellsite I know in Munich is Brody , the American guy who was doing a Masters in our final year - remember him ?
^ He 's doing a PhD in Theology .
^ Anyway , hope you 're doing well Rylee - all the best for the start of the PhD .
^ Look forward to seeing you sometime soon .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ How are you ?
^ Hope the di$$#&EMAIL ( mailto : di$$#&EMAIL ) is going ok ( & hope that 's not a reflection on how its going ! ! ) .
^ Well for me things are going well ... had a really good week in cornwall the week before last - I really needed a break & now fell much more refreshed like I have more energy since it .
^ Went down there for Abbi 's wedding .... really strange seeing yet another person I know getting married !
^ Was in Dur mid-July during the 1st heatwave we had - it really was very , very hot ! !
^ Sorry I could n't meet up , but it was more to talk about the project & meet people in the group at a bbq at my supervisor 's house !
^ they all seem like a very friendly bunch , and do n't look like geeky chemists which I am very relieved about !
^ Got a place at Rylie College too - its nice to have somewhere sorted now as it was taking a while for the board of grad. studies to pass it on to them !
^ When do you leave Dur ? - guess you must leave just before I arrive !
^ Do you know what you 're doing next year ?
^ Are you still thinking of going to see
^ Josue ?
^ Also , do you know anyone from Wells who I might know that 's going to dur this year ?
^ Just it would be nice to have some familiar faces around - feels strange starting uni all over again , not knowing anyone !
^ Hope alls well ,
^ love Rylee .
^ ~
^ Hello Miss Lynch !
^ I 've been meaning to email you for ages and kept forgetting , terrible ex-wife that I am !
^ You are indeed a terrible ex-wife .
^ How do you expect me to survive the rigours of a cruel world if you consistently fail to communicate with me ?
^ Eh ?
^ Eh ?
^ So what are you up to now ?
^ You 'll be pleased to know I am working with children !
^ Yes , I spend a fair amount of time teaching art and music to 6-9 year olds .
^ I 'm living at home , working part-time ( 2 1 / 2 days a week ) in the school at which my dad is headteacher .
^ It is a small ( 55 students ) private school with a great " family " atmosphere .
^ During the rest of the week I sit around at home writing and recording songs .
^ It is an excellent combination of activity and I 'm having a very good year so far .
^ Are you planning to go back to studying or are you going to get a " proper job " ?
^ Well there 's the question .
^ Actually I 'm waiting to hear from Munich as to whether or not they feel like shelling out a large amount of money to entice me to return .
^ If so , then I 'll probably begin a PhD there in October ; however , if not then I 'm not sure what I 'll be doing , but hopefully not a " proper job " ! &SMILEY
^ So , you 're doing some voluntary work ?
^ Well actually I 'm about to do the very same thing .
^ I 'm flying out to South Africa on April 6th to offer my services for a few months at a school in a township in the north .
^ I 've been there before and it is certainly a mind-expanding experience .
^ where did they place me ?
^ In a Catholic orphanage run by nuns ! ! !
^ Oh , the irony !
^ I believe that is called the " Divine Conspiracy " Anthony .
^ You can run , but you ca n't hide ...
^ I 'm glad to hear you 're now proficient at toddler gymnastics Anthony ; definitely one for the CV .
^ What can you do - stagger from one end of the room to the other without falling over ?
^ Excellent .
^ I 've kept in touch with Uriel and Alex ...
^ Ah , your dedication as a mother puts me to shame ...
^ Well at least I can tell you that Ross is still eating steak .
^ Actually I do n't KNOW that , but I reckon it 's a fairly safe guess .
^ Nayeli is indeed in his last year - we were up in Wells visiting him the other day ; I 'm really starting to feel now in regards to Johns ( deep sigh ) .
^ I know what you mean about feeling old - I 'm 25 tomorrow !
^ How did that happen ? !
^ Anyway , good to hear from you Anthony , and I hope your time in Bolivia is wild ( in a good way ) .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Anthony ,
^ Glad you 're working with children .
^ How old will the kids be in South Africa ?
^ The school deals with kids from ~3 to ~18 .
^ I 've no idea who I 'll be working with , or indeed what I 'll be doing !
^ Is n't that the fun of it though ! ?
^ Sounds like you 're having quite an experience over there .
^ There 's nothing like a bit of foreign soil to broaden your horizons is there ?
^ Seeing a place like that makes you realise just how much we take for granted in this country does n't it ! ?
^ By the way , I was amused to hear about the Santa-Cruz bound Christians you spent your flight with ; I hope you survived the experience !
^ Manana ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ I do apologise , I meant to put you in my address book so you could receive my exciting updates from Bolivia , but forgot .
^ Consequently you 've missed the first 2 , but I 'll give you a watered down version presently .
^ Glad you 're working with children .
^ How old will the kids be in South Africa ?
^ Anyway , here I am in Cochabamba .
^ I arrived on Tuesday , after an epic journey that invovled an 8 hour wait in Miami and servere altitude sickness in Ka Crompton .
^ I slept all day on Tuesday , and just about felt human again by Wednesday .
^ I had my first day in the orphanage today , which was an eye opener .
^ The kids have so little going for them - the 2-3 year olds that I am working with have virtually no chance of being adopted and their futures are n't too bright .
^ They 're clothes have holes in them and most of their toys are broken .
^ But despite all this they are very happy and friendly , and they call me " Mamma / Mammy " .
^ I 'm resisting the urge to bring several home with me !
^ Cochabamba is a fantastic place .
^ It 's in a valley surrounded by the Andes , and I see the sun rise and set over the mountains every day .
^ Ca n't complain really !
^ The locals are friendly and very patient with me when I ask them to repeat things for the 17th time .
^ My Spanish is getting better , and will hopefully get better quicker once I start Spanish lessons on Monday .
^ Anyway , must get off to bed before tomorrow 's stint at the orphanage .
^ Hope 's all 's well with you .
^ Love ,
^ Anthony .
^ PS On the flight from Miami to Ka Clarke I was sitting next to two evangelical Christians who were going to Santa Redgrave to preach !
^ I agree that it is a conspiracy .
^ And you really ca n't run when you 're on a plane for 6 hours with them !
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Hello Miss Lynch !
^ I 've been meaning to email you for ages and kept forgetting , terrible ex-wife that I am !
^ So what are you up to now ?
^ Are you planning to go back to studying or are you going to get a " proper job " ?
^ where did they place me ?
^ In a Catholic orphanage run by nuns ! ! !
^ Oh , the irony !
^ I 've kept in touch with Uriel and Alex ...
^ ~
^ Cynthia !
^ Hey .
^ I was just wondering whether you got my last email cos I sent it to the address you emailed from last time - John Lurie or someone .
^ Anyway , you almost got my address right - I probably wrote very badly on your plane ticket , but I did have the bumpy ride as an excuse . &SMILEY
^ 26 Grindstone * Close *
^ Harrogate UA84 1QF
^ It 's pretty ironic that you emailed me this evening as I 've just sent you some copies of my CD .
^ I sent them to the address you gave me , which was in Darlington .
^ I hope that 's right !
^ Anyway , you should get it in about four days .
^ When does your new term start ?
^ Unfortunately I will not be able to pass on your message to JT , as his gig clashed with our school end-of-year banquet .
^ It 's a tragedy of course , but we 'll just have to wait until next time ...
^ OK , keep well and do n't stop smiling ( as if you would ! )
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick ,
^ I have finally gotten around to burning you that CD .
^ I wanted to make sure that I had your address correct before I stuck it in the mail .
^ Is 26 Grindstone
^ Ravi
^ Rutford UA84 1QF UK where I should send it ? ?
^ I hope that you are having a great summer .
^ Tell Jade Jamesal Hi for me when you see him .
^ Love to hear from you ,
^ Clarissa
^ ~
^ Needless to say I never got your response .
^ Oh Cynthia that 's a shame .
^ It was a highly amusing yet subtly insightful document , and you must have also thought I was pretty rude not to reply to your email .
^ Well , I DID reply !
^ What have you been doing since you got home ?
^ I 've been all over the place actually .
^ I had a couple of graduations to attend , as well as a stag weekend and various other events .
^ I 've also spent a fair amount of time in the school I taught at for most of this year .
^ Other than that I 've been making CD 's and drawing pictures .
^ Today I spent around ten hours digging trenches in our garden in preparation for the new and intensely exciting " extension " !
^ How was the rest of the time that you spent in Africa ?
^ It was busy for the first week - I had a load of jobs to do for Josue before he left .
^ I also had to say goodbye to all the kids I worked with while I was out there
^ Then term ended and I had a pretty relaxed week doing odd jobs , watching DVD 's and playing minesweeper .
^ OK , enjoy your season of freedom and remember - " Life 's too short to wear tight shoes . "
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Great Sadness about Jade !
^ I would not be surprised to hear that he cancels the show since you can not be in attendance .
^ I am pulling out the sackcloth and collecting the ash to mourn this scheduling travisty .
^ OK ...
^ I really have no tech stills because it is beyond me as to how I emailed you from that address .
^ Needless to say I never got your response .
^ Sorry to be such a ditz and in the face of your computer genius ; ?
^ What have you been doing since you got home ?
^ How was the rest of the time that you spent in Africa ?
^ I am enjoying my last few weeks of freedom until my classes start some time at the end of August ( I am still in some denial as to the actual date ) .
^ I forgot how much I enjoyed not studying all the time , reading what I want , and delving in to hobbies .
^ Oh by the way , someone sent an address of where people are putting Africa pictures .
^ Here it is if you want to check it out .
^ To simply VIEW photo albums , go to &WEBSITE
^ The login name is : password is : eastasia
^ Ca n't wait to hear the CD ! !
^ Macie
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Well ..... life is stressful .
^ Have just had the DREADED room ballet which surpassed any expectations of awful and was ( and still is ) probably the worst thing I 've ever been through .
^ Well , maybe not quite that bad .
^ However , I did get in , although Jo , Nayeli and Nicolas are still waiting on the reserve list .
^ And on to presidential elections next week , a contested election - how exciting !
^ Its between Nathaniel and Patrick in case you did n't know ) .
^ And the week after , I 'm standing for services against a first year ( oh no .
^ so its all been quite busy really ( speaking of Exec elections , did you know Matts going for Welfare ? )
^ Am trying to keep Rodrigo out of trouble , although its a hard task as you might well know .
^ Were off to Wyatt for Valentines Day which will be nice .
^ We also had a fair amount of snow on Thursday which caused about as much havoc as the rest of the world .
^ well not really , it was just very hard to walk in a straight line and not break your leg )
^ Rodrigo managed to drag me sledging on Friday and nearly killed me ( he sent me down a 45 degree slope with a right angled bend in it , with a tree on the bend .
^ I managed to miss the tree but went promptly sailing into to the hedge ) .
^ Rodrigo says Philip screamed a lot , but she loved it really ) .
^ I disagree .
^ Philip Keppel took us in his car to Noel on Friday to see 8 Mile .
^ was very good , Rodrigo wants to become a rapper when he 's older ) and almost killed us then too ( he 's a maniac driver
^ made Rodrigo then decide to see if Philip was any less of a maniac on his mountain bike so they both went cycling yesterday
^ They did n't break anything though .
^ Anyway , wont take up anymore of your time , hope youre well and partying lots ( ! ) , see you soon , love Philip xxx
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Howzit Philip !
^ Just thought I 'd drop you an email to see how things are going .
^ Are you getting along OK with all your house-mates ?
^ Are you keeping Rodrigo out of trouble ?
^ I am as ever working hard .
^ We had lots of snow on Thursday , so I went with some friends down to Reader college lawn and made a couple of snowmen - it was fantastic .
^ In fact , some of the photos are at :
^ &WEBSITE
^ Well , take care and enjoy life ,
^ Kane
^ ~
^ Is this who your mate works for ?
^ No , he works for a company called Perelya .
^ Quite a small outfit I think .
^ Soon ,
^ O
^ Hiya ,
^ Is this who your mate works for ?
^ &WEBSITE
^ It was really cool to catch up .
^ Hopefully see you before long .
^ S
^ Regan Morand
^ Governmental Professional Ltd
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ How 's it going ?
^ Have been working way too hard over the holidays ( although I do n't really have anything to show for it yet ) .
^ Managed to make a little trip to Carlisle , and one to Nottingham , but apart from that have been sitting around at home trying to figure out what my notes say ... .
^ What have you been up to ? ? ?
^ I have come up with a couple of different approaches to the Java
^ Project , although the only one that seems to be truly optimal is a Partition Iterator , but that takes years for any large numbers ... .
^ Think that I may have to start from scratch again ! ! !
^ How is your essay going ? ?
^ I seem to be spending a lot of time on it , but writing nothing - I have only got 1,300 words to show for about a weeks solid work ! ! !
^ Hope that you 're having a relaxing holiday ...
^ Bob
^ Hey Bob ,
^ How are you doing ?
^ Have you done anything particularly interesting ?
^ I was working on my Java project today and I came across a very obscure problem with using compareTo and sorted sets .
^ It took me ages , but I think I 've got an algorithm that does the allocation optimally ( I think ) .
^ Like yours ( I think I remember you saying ) it uses the mean value .
^ Hope you 're well ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Thanks for working out the spreadsheet thing for me !
^ My accounts are now much easier to handle ...
^ So what have you been up to this week ?
^ Anything exciting ?
^ I 've been at work and it has been relatively interesting .
^ I want to buy an electron microscope ; but they are too expensive at the moment .
^ Oh well !
^ I got home yesterday and am spending a relaxing weekend here at Ferney castle .
^ Dare I say that the weather is lovely here in Scotland at the moment ? !
^ Ah , it 's lovely to have free internet access again ! &SMILEY
^ I 'm going to try and delete Kites from my computer on Monday !
^ so I 'll probably call you and ask for some help if you do n't mind ...
^ Anyway , hope you have a good weekend and are getting some studying done .
^ See you soon ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Happy new year !
^ I hope you had a good christmas also .
^ Urgh exams &SMILEY
^ How have they gone ?
^ Without any collections in the second year I 'm a little worried we could be caught out later on ..
^ what kind of stuff were your exams on ?
^ Is your masters related to natural language parsing ?
^ Work is going very well - things seem to be working well seg-wise .
^ Not a lot of EK gossip - we have a new lecturer who I think is taking over from malcom munro as department head at some later date .
^ I 'm looking forward to getting back and seeing the progress of the new building ( there 's a new building being built on the other side of EK from engineering .
^ It resembles the materials chemistry building that sprung up opposite ) ; since it has turned out to be for " eScience " .
^ How eScience will differ from EK , I do n't know .
^ I 've been reading a book called " Modern compiler implementation in java " this holiday , and have tried to write a simple , straight-line program interpreter in haskell , although I got a little stuck .
^ I was wondering if you would be able to help me .
^ I broke down my problem to the following :
^ This error looks to be misleading .
^ Ideally , the " tokid2 " in the IdExp should be called tokid , like the one in AssignStm , but it will throw the error like AssignStm 's expr and EseqExp 's expr do presently .
^ I may be thinking about classes and OO too much , and assuming that names within records / constructors like this should be local and safe &SMILEY
^ Anyway I return this coming sunday , and I 'm half looking forward !
^ half dreading it &SMILEY
^ Going to have to put my foot down about noise at night time because last term was a bit of a sleep deprived nightmare
^ I have the smallest room this term ( &WEBSITE best photo or the best layout by any means ! ) but I think it will be quite ok once I 've sorted out a good desk .
^ I 'm bringing far less stuff so clutter should n't be a problem .
^ last term I brought about 5 novels to read , but realistically I only get maybe one finished a term , so this time I am only bringing one
^ I could always go and get another if I finished it ) and my motto is " organised organised organised "
^ The syllabus looks quite fun , with more FP / C++ , and software tools and databases starting .
^ Room ballot in the second week ! !
^ Best wishes , and good luck with your studies !
^ Aimee
^ On Sat , &DATE at &TIME , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Happy New Year Aimee ! !
^ I guess you do n't start term for another week or so .
^ I 've been in Munich since new year , revising for my exams on the 15th .
^ We get three 1-hour exams , in which we have to answer 2 out of 4 questions .
^ The difficulty is that the time limit is so short !
^ We have quite a lot to get through in half and hour per question !
^ Anyway , I had a bit of a panic a couple of days ago , but now I think it 's going to be OK .
^ How 's your work going ?
^ Any exciting news / stories from the EK department ? ? ?
^ Are you looking forward to the next term ?
^ Has this year met your expectations so far .
^ I only took a week and a half off from work at Christmas , so it seems like I 've been working at this stuff for ages already !
^ I ca n't believe we 're only just at the start of the second term .
^ Well , say hi to Philip 's for me when you get there !
^ Love Nick
^ Aimee Heslop
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ I do apologise , I meant to put you in my address book so you could receive my exciting updates from Bolivia , but forgot .
^ Consequently you 've missed the first 2 , but I 'll give you a watered down version presently .
^ Glad you 're working with children .
^ How old will the kids be in South Africa ?
^ Anyway , here I am in Cochabamba .
^ I arrived on Tuesday , after an epic journey that invovled an 8 hour wait in Miami and servere altitude sickness in Ka Crompton .
^ I slept all day on Tuesday , and just about felt human again by Wednesday .
^ I had my first day in the orphanage today , which was an eye opener .
^ The kids have so little going for them - the 2-3 year olds that I am working with have virtually no chance of being adopted and their futures are n't too bright .
^ They 're clothes have holes in them and most of their toys are broken .
^ But despite all this they are very happy and friendly , and they call me " Mamma / Mammy " .
^ I 'm resisting the urge to bring several home with me !
^ Cochabamba is a fantastic place .
^ It 's in a valley surrounded by the Andes , and I see the sun rise and set over the mountains every day .
^ Ca n't complain really !
^ The locals are friendly and very patient with me when I ask them to repeat things for the 17th time .
^ My Spanish is getting better , and will hopefully get better quicker once I start Spanish lessons on Monday .
^ Anyway , must get off to bed before tomorrow 's stint at the orphanage .
^ Hope 's all 's well with you .
^ Love ,
^ Anthony .
^ PS On the flight from Miami to Ka Clarke I was sitting next to two evangelical Christians who were going to Santa Redgrave to preach !
^ I agree that it is a conspiracy .
^ And you really ca n't run when you 're on a plane for 6 hours with them !
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Hello Miss Lynch !
^ I 've been meaning to email you for ages and kept forgetting , terrible ex-wife that I am !
^ You are indeed a terrible ex-wife .
^ How do you expect me to survive the rigours of a cruel world if you consistently fail to communicate with me ?
^ Eh ?
^ Eh ?
^ So what are you up to now ?
^ You 'll be pleased to know I am working with children !
^ Yes , I spend a fair amount of time teaching art and music to 6-9 year olds .
^ I 'm living at home , working part-time ( 2 1 / 2 days a week ) in the school at which my dad is headteacher .
^ It is a small ( 55 students ) private school with a great " family " atmosphere .
^ During the rest of the week I sit around at home writing and recording songs .
^ It is an excellent combination of activity and I 'm having a very good year so far .
^ Are you planning to go back to studying or are you going to get a " proper job " ?
^ Well there 's the question .
^ Actually I 'm waiting to hear from Munich as to whether or not they feel like shelling out a large amount of money to entice me to return .
^ If so , then I 'll probably begin a PhD there in October ; however , if not then I 'm not sure what I 'll be doing , but hopefully not a " proper job " ! &SMILEY
^ So , you 're doing some voluntary work ?
^ Well actually I 'm about to do the very same thing .
^ I 'm flying out to South Africa on April 6th to offer my services for a few months at a school in a township in the north .
^ I 've been there before and it is certainly a mind-expanding experience .
^ where did they place me ?
^ In a Catholic orphanage run by nuns ! ! !
^ Oh , the irony !
^ I believe that is called the " Divine Conspiracy " Anthony .
^ You can run , but you ca n't hide ...
^ I 'm glad to hear you 're now proficient at toddler gymnastics Anthony ; definitely one for the CV .
^ What can you do - stagger from one end of the room to the other without falling over ?
^ Excellent .
^ I 've kept in touch with Uriel and Alex ...
^ Ah , your dedication as a mother puts me to shame ...
^ Well at least I can tell you that Ross is still eating steak .
^ Actually I do n't KNOW that , but I reckon it 's a fairly safe guess .
^ Nayeli is indeed in his last year - we were up in Wells visiting him the other day ; I 'm really starting to feel now in regards to Johns ( deep sigh ) .
^ I know what you mean about feeling old - I 'm 25 tomorrow !
^ How did that happen ? !
^ Anyway , good to hear from you Anthony , and I hope your time in Bolivia is wild ( in a good way ) .
^ Love Nick
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^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Great Sadness about Jade !
^ I would not be surprised to hear that he cancels the show since you can not be in attendance .
^ I am pulling out the sackcloth and collecting the ash to mourn this scheduling travisty .
^ OK ...
^ I really have no tech stills because it is beyond me as to how I emailed you from that address .
^ Needless to say I never got your response .
^ Sorry to be such a ditz and in the face of your computer genius ; ?
^ What have you been doing since you got home ?
^ How was the rest of the time that you spent in Africa ?
^ I am enjoying my last few weeks of freedom until my classes start some time at the end of August ( I am still in some denial as to the actual date ) .
^ I forgot how much I enjoyed not studying all the time , reading what I want , and delving in to hobbies .
^ Oh by the way , someone sent an address of where people are putting Africa pictures .
^ Here it is if you want to check it out .
^ To simply VIEW photo albums , go to &WEBSITE
^ The login name is : password is : eastasia
^ Ca n't wait to hear the CD ! !
^ Macie
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Are you able to relax ( relatively speaking ) now all those deadlines are out of the way !
^ well the current run of fair weather in wells is continuing - we even had 3 gloriously sunny days over the weekend
^ I enjoyed sitting out overlooking the river .
^ As well as , watching Amanda cruise to victory against Bristol , of course .
^ It was nice to go out for a birthday meal last thursday and everybody even sang happy birthday to me down the bar .
^ However , I was absolutely knackered and had to head home to get some much needed rest .
^ Also my birthday , raises some pretty uncomfortable issues for me , - not how can I be 24 and well on my way to being bald - I not worried about that .
^ More to do with the difficulty I seem to have in relating to people ( especially but not only girls ) .
^ I know relationships are hard work , but I 'm disappointed by the number of people I 've managed to stay in touch with .
^ Still on a brighter note , I 'm looking forward to seeing my former flatmate again soon .
^ Well , that 's Isabel Hernandez , over and out .
^ Take Care
^ Mr Tanner Trower
^ Teaching Assistant
^ Department of Economics and Finance 23-26 Old Elvet
^ Wells WI3 9IH
^ Classroom Telephone : 0191-374-7267 Mobile : 04484044626
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^ ~
^ Hi .
^ Hope you got my text the other night .
^ What an interesting dream that was ...
^ PSS To any wondering , the Dundee Institute of Legal Practice is a joint venture between Dundee Uni and Brookes hence why I can play for Dundee
^ Uni ...
^ Thanks for that Mallory ... now I can sleep at night .
^ ~
^ Yeah well maybe I do n't want you to sleep at night if all you 're going to do is dream of me ...
^ Then again ...
^ Hi .
^ Hope you got my text the other night .
^ What an interesting dream that was ...
^ PSS To any wondering , the Dundee Institute of Legal Practice is a joint venture between Dundee Uni and Brookes hence why I can play for Dundee
^ Uni ...
^ ~
^ Hmmm , and the reason you can spend the last week of your project dosing around in the sun is because your project already works a fact which I am sure your colleagues rue greatly .
^ Is it how you hoped ? ! ? ! ?
^ Due in tomorrow is n't it ?
^ Wow , that 'll be some feeling !
^ Well done for making it to the end !
^ Making to the end will be a wonderful feeling for me and work ! 12 hour shifts are tough !
^ Also quite dismal cause the greater majority of your life is lived at work !
^ Not the way it should be !
^ But I ca n't complain too much cause the money 's quite good and its only for a few weeks but boy does three weeks seem a long time now !
^ Only 2 weeks and 5 days to go ! ! )
^ Also miss Becs loads .
^ Odd cause I can just about ignore it , but it often creeps into the corners of my mind when I am tired or down , and she 's the one I would normally turn to !
^ Hmm well at least I am doing better on that count .
^ She 's been gone 5 days now !
^ When are you gonna get home ? !
^ I 'll be working almost solidly up till Chapel , but sometime we oughta go and play tennis cause I have been working on my top-spins .
^ sadly not as noticeable as I hoped , but I have witnesses ! )
^ Right , well hopefully Daddy 's offline so I can send this now and get off to sleep !
^ For a few hours at least !
^ Enjoy tomorrow Bro !
^ Love ya !
^ Zackary
^ From : Nick Malone
^ To :
^ Subject : Holla
^ Date : &DATE &TIME ( BST )
^ Hi Jonny ,
^ Heard you 're about to start working .
^ Looking forward to it ... ? ? &SMILEY
^ I have just emailed &WEBSITE articles - how dare they diss all our favourite bands ! !
^ 3 days till project deadline for me , so naturally I 'm playing tennis this evening having spent all day yesterday at a wedding and all this morning sleeping and doing washing !
^ Hope to hear from you soon bro ,
^ Nick
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^ Re : Home ?
^ Or Away ?
^ Hi Nick
^ Sorry its taken me all summer to reply .
^ I just got back from holiday &WEBSITE weather was good so we got a bit of a .
^ tan .
^ There was n't a lot to do but I played abit of tennis ( for the first time in about 5 years ) and did a bit of wind surfing
^ I have n't been up to much else , just doing a lot of climbing , surprise !
^ I 'm going up to the peak distrct at the weekend which should be good .
^ What have you been up to , hows the research for your project going ?
^ I have n't started doing anything for my project nextterm but nevermind .
^ By the way do you have Tabitha 's new phone number cos I keep meaning to call her but I 've lost her new phone number .
^ Anyway if you do give me an email
^ See you later
^ Lindsey
^ Re : Honey get in dat sheep dip
^ Frederick !
^ Here 's my try at a reply to your difficult questions ...
^ What is the condition of your soul like ?
^ Okay .
^ Been a bit aimless over this first week , drifting around and being lazy I guess .
^ Beginning to focus a bit now .
^ I 'm reading this book called " Left Behind " at the moment , about the Rapture .
^ It 's very exciting but very irritating too .
^ I find it really annoying the way the writer assumes it 's so clearcut the way things are going to happen in the end times .
^ The Antichrist will rise up from Birks .
^ 144,000 Jewish Evangelists will come & convert the world . etc.
^ I do n't even agree with the Rapture part .
^ I think it 's all based on a very exotic reading of 1 Thess 4 & nothing else .
^ What do you think ?
^ Are you feeling hopeful about the future ?
^ hmmm .... do n't know just now .
^ a lot of stuff to do .
^ should be okay though .
^ Are you revising for your exams ? ? ?
^ not yet really .
^ still an awful lot of vising to do .
^ I 've got to " do " 2 Chron 29-33 and Psalms 115-118 in Hebrew , & 2 formative essays .
^ They 're not getting done just now .
^ Anyway , exciting news is that the Vivid Rainbow official webpage is now up & running .
^ Check it out ! &WEBSITE
^ hope you like .
^ God bless & take care .
^ Aimee .
^ P.S. By the way , what 's your home address & phone # now ?
^ my funky address : Rogers Drew College , MANCHESTER , WI3 3LH my funky new mobile : 05505 777 930 my funky website : &WEBSITE
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^ cyprus was rainy and the locals seem to like pushing fridges and freezers down giant hills , or little ones if there are no big ones around ...
^ Very messy country and we saw two tornadoes .
^ I 'm glad to be home in Brighton again .
^ I 'm tired and worn out and quite moody .
^ GRRRR .
^ Bob
^ Robert K. Greetings
^ St. Philip 's College
^ 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
^ Department of Geological Sciences
^ University of Wells
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Thanks for the email .
^ I have done six weeks of work here now , and it has been pretty intense .
^ I can now tell you all about grammars ( but for your sake I wo n't ! ) .
^ You know you do n't want to - cos I 'll be forced to defend myself by discussing the pros and cons of the Ptolemaic .
^ Copernican and Tychonian models of the Universe ( Kepler and Hawkins are still to be researched ! )
^ In fact , just this last week I was thinking that it would be very nice not to have any more lectures for a while !
^ That 's your own fault for doing a taught BEng !
^ Anyway - I 'm assuming it 's all going well cos you 'd be complaining you had no hair left as you 'd torn it all out !
^ Well , actually I 've got three more weeks , but I think I 've got a bit of a case of " mid-term blues " at the moment .
^ But apart from that everything is going really well - I have made quite a few really good friends and I 'm playing football and hockey , etc.
^ I live in a house with 4 other postgrads , and they are all extremely neat and tidy , and generally very nice
^ That 's good .
^ The question is whether _you_ are neat and tidy &SMILEY
^ I heard a bit about the house party - you must surely now hold the record for most HP 's attended !
^ Including new year DICCU ones that was my 12th .
^ Only including Philip 's CU houseparties my 8th .
^ We were checking out the fire register in Knock ( which you forgot to fill in when you went there back in &YEAR ) and it gave details of my first visit there back in June &YEAR ... !
^ Ca n't believe you only just climbed Knock Pierazzoli this year , but I 'm very glad to hear your belongings stayed by your side .
^ Well - I 've been to Knock 3 times : the first time I climbed the Great
^ Dun Fell when everyone else climbed Knock Pierazzoli ( well - I was a keen fresher - what else was I to do .
^ the second time I 'd mislaid my bags , so I did n't dare to go out in case I had an accident and needed to change
^ I was already borrowing Mallory Lally 's deodorant - I did n't really want to ask him if I could borrow an entire spare set of clothes ! )
^ House party speaker - now there 's an idea - Whitley Bay &YEAR ? ? ?
^ That 's if we go there of course !
^ Aimee and Kate have n't announced the new CU leaders yet - but when they do get in touch with them to arrange whatever ... !
^ I am going to be in Wells over the weekend of the 30th Nov so hopefully I 'll be able to say hi , and gloat about how much more money I 've got than you !
^ That 's not a very Christian attitude !
^ Take care Angelo !
^ Same to you !
^ News just in - Aimee and Kate have decided Philip 's CU needs to be a bit more minded , so we 're setting up working parties to sweep Kingsgate Bridge and hand out lollies to people coming out of Planet of Sound .
^ My job is to chat to Welfare Committee tomorrow to persuade them that lollies are in fact good ... .
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ hullo ... .
^ Mr Nick ( or Sammy ! ! ) ...
^ i am doing fine .... i guess .. ! !
^ during this holiday , i went to korea for the first time ever since August 4664 ..
^ lots of things changed .... but luckily , i met up my junior school friends..
^ it was fun to see them ...
^ i started to learn Flash 4.0 all by myself ...
^ anyway .. that 's all i am doing these days. .
^ better go back to sleep ! !
^ Sadie
^ Quoting Pastor Nick ( &EMAIL ) :
^ Hi Sadie !
^ How are you doing ?
^ Are you about to take your re-sits ?
^ I hope and pray that all goes well !
^ What have you done over this holiday ?
^ Has Sri-Lanka been hot ?
^ I have been working for the last 6 or 7 weeks .
^ My job is good - I 'm designing databases - but it is quite tiring and not as fun as
^ University !
^ I finish in 2 1 / 2 weeks .
^ I have not really done anything else this holiday , apart from writing a few new songs .
^ Have you kept in contact with anyone from Philip 's ?
^ I have not had a chance to use my BIG water gun back here at home yet .
^ That is a bit dissapointing !
^ Well , all the best Sadie , and I 'll " catch you later " !
^ See ya ,
^ Mr. Nick
^ ~
^ hey lance how 's it going .... sorry to have lost touch ... am rushed off my feet .... doing about 11 hours study a day love
^ not subsequently relishing the thought of spending my relaxation time in front of a computer ! how 's your year going and how 's the family
^ are you enjoying your course ... are you in love .... etc etc ... all the goss to &EMAIL .... ! ! !
^ lots of love ,
^ Amya xxx
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^ Yeah , go for it .
^ I 've made a couple of grammatical changes to the last sentence , but otherwise it looks good .
^ Nick
^ Just a quick hi .
^ Could you look over the attached and tell me whether or not I should bother sending it ( or a revised copy ) to the Times .
^ I just kind of want to , but also do n't want to say anything .
^ Cheers then and hope all 's well .
^ I 've started pre reading which is a shock to the system , a whole 5 days before I go to Dundee !
^ I 've now done one 20th of what I need to !
^ Rose
^ ~
^ Cool .
^ I 've just got back from a week 's holiday in Scotland - passed through
^ Wells on the way up and back ; quite emotional actually .
^ I 'm now back at home , trying to get things sorted out so I can begin work - I 've just bought some books for Munich and I 'm going to tackle them this afternoon !
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ Just wrote you a long email but unfortunately the computer has ' need refresh'ed on me .
^ I 'll just say , am going to Prague on Wednesday for a week and a day with Izabella to see Cream
^ have a look around and I will be in Carlisle for a while when I get back because I need to get China visa .
^ Will give you a call then .
^ Georgia
^ ~
^ Dear Nick
^ Thanks for the note !
^ Its always good to hear that you 're still in the land of the movers and shakers .
^ Good news about the football team ... keep it up ... we would like to come over around June / July ... by then you 'll be a graduate !
^ We can go and celebrate .
^ Pedro has had a gap year .
^ He has travelled around Southern Africa quite a lot - did a yachting course in Durban for a month and is now finally thinking of studying something .
^ He spends time in the bush as often as possible and seems happier there than in the cities .
^ Julie has just completed her Level 3 certificate and has to prepare for her SAT in February .
^ She is going for her driver 's licence next week .
^ We will be fetching her on Thursday this week .
^ She would like to study physiotherapy so we will be looking at opportunities for her to do that in the new year .
^ Otherwise , things are going along - working hard .
^ We will be in Durban for the December holidays - Josue is building a flat for his dad so he and
^ Pedro are going to work ( as usual for Josue ) and Julie and I are going to shop ! among other things .
^ Please give your folks our regards - let us know their postal address or email address so we can prod them a bit regarding missions !
^ Love to Nayeli and Camron and yourself ... we 'll be in touch again .
^ Lots of love
^ Josue & Laura
^ Josue and Haze !
^ How are you ?
^ What are you up to ?
^ How are Pedro and Julie ?
^ I am emailing you from my room at University , where I have constant internet access - it 's very exciting .
^ I am now nearly at the end of the first term of my third and final year .
^ I am thinking about doing an M / Sc here next year , but I need to get funding for it .
^ I am working very hard , so as to get good grades and increase my chances of getting funding for further study .
^ I am going snow-boarding at Christmas with my family , so I 'm looking forward to that .
^ It will also be nice to spend some time at home , and catch up with work and sleep .
^ I am football captain for my college this year , and we have not lost a game yet !
^ I think we are at the top of our league , but they have n't produced a league table yet , so I 'm not sure !
^ I have also started playing hockey - life is somewhat busy .
^ Well , God bless and I really look forward to hearing how you are doing .
^ I hope we can meet up soon - I do miss you .
^ Love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Glad to hear that you had a good New Year over there , meeting up with all the guys from Wells ... what 's Bob doing now - did he get a phd or is he working .
^ Having a really good time over here ,
^ for New Years went to an island near Salvador called Morro de S'a Anna ( St. Quinton 's Mount ) , which was really good fun .
^ Saw the New Year in with a beach party , really good fun .
^ Have n't got a date yet for the interview , but will let you know - it would be good to see you in Munich .
^ let me know when 's best for you cos I know that with work etc it can be difficult
^ I get back in Brighton around the 21st Jan ... .
^ See you soon ,
^ God bless ,
^ love Rylee .
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ Date : &DATE &YEAR &TIME GMT
^ To : " Woods , Rylee " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Howzit
^ Hi Rylee !
^ Happy New Year ! !
^ When are you due back in Brighton ?
^ We had a good time at New Year in Munich - there were quite a few Wells guys here , and we met up in Bob 's house .
^ Parker has been staying with me the last few days , as he 's looking at PhD possibilities in various universities , including Munich .
^ When is your Munich interview ?
^ Hope all 's well ,
^ Nick
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^ Re : " I am NOT a committee ! "
^ ~
^ I like the city ; I like the heritage ; also , I once had a dream ( not the sleeping kind ) of going to Munich .
^ I love Munich as well - it 's a gorgeous place .
^ Although I prefer
^ Wells now - it 's quieter and the landscape is more dramatic .
^ I applied to Emmanuel to do Maths - lovely college , nightmare interview , definitely not up for maths !
^ So glad that did n't happen ! !
^ Do you feel there 's still studying / learning to be done ?
^ In your subject or just generally ?
^ I hear you !
^ Although I think I 'm maybe less like that now than I used to be .
^ I used to be very academic - I loved my subjects , learning and finding out new things .
^ That has n't changed but I guess my desire to learn has turned away from studying my subject to studying people and life generally I think !
^ If you do n't get any funding there either , and you stay in Wells another year , what will you do ?
^ Will COllege let you have a flexible Margarets contract just in case ?
^ P'haps not .
^ Long story - but in short , we forgot how to be friends .
^ I 'll tell you properly sometime ; maybe if I come and visit you in the holiday .
^ Hmmm - that 's sad .
^ It is really weird being single again and everyone around me is getting together it seems !
^ I was curious about you guys because I ca n't think of any other of my friends who 've broken up ! ( it 's strange that my year did n't get up to anything much last year : ) .
^ I guess Aimee and I are in a different situation - because we did n't go into the relationship thinking it was going to be very serious )
^ although it was great and there were times last summer when I wondered ...
^ I guess it is strange that we lasted this long but I do n't want people to think that we never " worked " - because we did !
^ I 've been fine - but part of me thinks that no one quite gets it ( especially in this
^ College ! )
^ I hope we 've been a good witness anyway .
^ I do n't think I 'd do it in the same way again - maybe I 've entered a more serious phase now .
^ Our relationship really helped make it really clear in my head what I want in a long term relationship and what kind of things it * is * important to have in common .
^ Does that make sense ?
^ Are you both still friends ?
^ Just a thought : do you reckon you have anything to say sorry to her about and have you ever done that ?
^ I 'm glad you 're feeling positive about life - I am too !
^ It would be really good to have you visit in the holiday - I 'd love to introduce you to my crazy family ( do n't believe the stories ) - it would be really fun !
^ Let me know when you 're likely to be around .
^ Much love Austin , clareyx
^ Re : " I am NOT a committee ! "
^ Hmmm ...
^ I have been thinking and I have further thoughts to add to my last missive ... ! ( you can tell my intervening examples class was really riveting &SMILEY
^ Long story - but in short , we forgot how to be friends .
^ I 'll tell you properly sometime ; maybe if I come and visit you in the holiday .
^ You 're in the " i wo n't go out with someone unless i 'm seriously thinking i could marry them " camp , are n't you ?
^ I have n't really figured out exactly what I think about it .
^ I guess I just like to consider each case on its own merits and try and figure out what God 's telling me ( hard tho ! )
^ But then I do n't find that it 's generally a problem - i 'm so " unique " ( some might say " SpeciaL " in an anna wilks kind of way )
^ &SMILEY that i tend to be asking the question only of very " unique " people ! ! ( like jon i guess
^ I 've decided that life is so much easier that way .
^ Some of my friends have real problems ( not to mention temptations ! ) because their guy friends turn out to want more than just friendship .
^ But I would so much rather have loads of good friends ( my favourite people & friends are usually guys ! .
^ not be worried about them falling for me , than be really pretty and " popular " and never be able to tell what people 's motives are
^ Susie T and I have been reassuring ourselves with that thought ... &SMILEY ( but then I think she 's really pretty anyway ! ) .
^ Does that kind of thing ever bother you ?
^ Or does the whole rock star / footballer / sex icon thing come naturally to you ? &SMILEY
^ on that note , did you figure out who the peas were from ?
^ jim and ellie are so confusing ...
^ I had actually resolved not to bother anyone with any emails this week because everyone 's so busy &SMILEY
^ then you and Parker come along and i just could n't resist your charms .... ( or was it the chocolate cake ? )
^ Parker showed me this really cool thing with view -> page source to figure out what computer someone 's on .
^ I 've surprised cat and jon in the computer room upstairs already !
^ I love the " net send " game when people do n't understand what 's happening - what fun ! !
^ je vais maintenant ,
^ au revoir mon ami ,
^ ashley x
^ Re : " I am NOT a committee ! "
^ Good Morning ! ( oo i sound like timbo )
^ Sorry about the long emails yesterday - i did n't mean to unload , it just sort of happened !
^ I was just thinking this morning that I miss Rodrigo .
^ And of course Aimee and I are finding it tough to have any kind of meaningful chat .
^ And GFeeh F is gone now too !
^ Rodrigo 's one of my best friends I think and yet I hardly ever see him these days .
^ ( sniff ) What a sad tale it is ... &SMILEY
^ I 'm going to go home and have long chats with my brother
^ Grrr ... why am i in the library so early ?
^ My tutor made me do my Moore's Economics presentation to the whole group at 9am this morning
^ ( because i ca n't make it next weds ) and we do n't have a lecture until 12 !
^ And he told them i was on some top secret united nations business or something - he 's absolutely crazy .
^ because he 's foreign obviously &SMILEY
^ So i 'm not the most popular person this morning ... ( hiding ) Am going to try and do something productive
^ Net-send is indeed classic .
^ When I was working for Irish Power I wrote a program in Access that used net send but it was like MSN Messenger with a little screen for typing messages and an " address book " of computer names .
^ It also wrote everybody 's messages to a central database so that I could look at them !
^ And it told you who was logged into the system over the network .
^ I ca n't believe I got away with it actually .
^ Anyway ...
^ Sounds excellent !
^ Sneaky little trick logging their messages - i hope ITS do n't do that !
^ Did you ever catch anyone saying anything they should n't ?
^ Have an excellent day .
^ God bless .
^ Clarey x
^ P.S. I was talking about Parker 's chocolate cake but yours was nice too !
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Thanks for your letter -- it was so good to hear from you !
^ I am afraid I ca n't answer you right now .
^ In two hours time I am going away to a christian conference on the west coast of Branden with two friends and I 'll meet many friends there .
^ I am looking forward to it and I need to do some packing ...
^ All the best , Nick .
^ God Bless ,
^ Patrick
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : I am not expecting you ...
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Patrick ,
^ How are you my friend ?
^ I bet your whole " Wells experience " ( not to be confused with the " Bridge experience " ) now feels like a dream .
^ I bet you ca n't believe you were there for a whole year .
^ What a funny life we lead !
^ How is Branden ?
^ Are you having some sunshine ?
^ Do you think the last year was good ?
^ It was a shame we did n't get to play more tennis in the summer , but that is life .
^ The last term went sooooo quickly do n't you think ?
^ It was an amazing blessing to have your friendship last year Patrick .
^ I look back with really great memories at the walks we went on and the things we discussed .
^ Can you remember standing on that bridge and talking about how the passage of time goes , and that we could be back there one day with our own kids !
^ Maybe that will come to pass - who knows !
^ I often wish that I had a video of my whole life that I could watch at any time .
^ I would certainly love to re-watch some of the amazing times we had in Wells / &YEAR !
^ What are your plans for the rest of the summer ?
^ Next year ?
^ I am almost half-way through my third week of working for " Irish Power " ( an electricity generating company ) I 'm doing computer-type work and finding it pretty good !
^ although it 's quite hard to handle the routine of a 9-5 job and the lack of time to do anything else
^ All the best Patrick , and I look forward to hearing from you soon ,
^ Nick
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Hey dufus !
^ I hope your safari is panning out alright for you .
^ I heard you had some trouble at Heathrow with your luggage .
^ Sorry to hear that .
^ I 'm pretty convinced that God was n't surprised though .
^ I 'm sure you had to rely on him without a full repertoire of deodorant , eh ?
^ Anyways , I 'm not certain if you 've got access to the e-mail world yet , or if this is the account you 'll be calling home in SA .
^ just thought I 'd drop a quick line to wish you all the best at the outset of your adventure
^ Best wishes from Brighton .
^ Jude
^ PS. I 'll be cursing your name during the " work party " tomorrow while I fill the driveway potholes armed with only tweezers and a teaspoon .....
^ that 's garbage Malone .
^ It 's fast , it 's easy and it 's free .
^ Get MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Jude , Jude , Jude ,
^ You 're such an A. It 's clearly a mistake on the original album sleeve and has been propagated across the internet .
^ Below is the only definition I could find for " tout " used as a noun :
^ Tout , n. One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training , to get information about their capabilities , for use in betting .
^ And his pronunciation on the track is totally incompatible with the final t of tout , which would also change the sound of the ou vowel blend .
^ So much for the evidence against .
^ Now the evidence for " tour " as the correct word :
^ It makes perfect semantic sense : that is of course exactly what you do as a musician - tour around different venues .
^ He even uses the phrase " travelled around from place to place " a few lines earlier which is basically the definition of tour !
^ Secondly , there is no doubt in my mind that on the track he is pronouncing the word " tour " in his gravelly Canadian dialect .
^ Thus , I am utterly convinced that this is a typo on the album sleeve ; a hypothesis reinforced by the fact that t and r .
^ direcly adjacent on the qwerty keyboard - and the fact that " tout " is a genuine French word and would thus not be picked up by a spell-checker
^ I rest my case ,
^ O
^ Nick ,
^ Just got back from our rendezvous at the Savoy ... great time .
^ Thanks for the coke .
^ Anyways , I just checked out three different web sites for Twin
^ Rocks ,
^ Oregon " -- Shawn Hibbard style -- and all three had " tout of coffee house gigs .
^ Sweet vindication .
^ Why do you doubt me ?
^ See you Sunday .
^ EE
^ Tired of 56k ?
^ Get a FREE BT Broadband connection &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Watson ,
^ Your efforts at forcing a square object into a round hole are laudable , but little more I fear ...
^ Let us consider the phrase " a tout of coffee house gigs " .
^ Because it makes no sense in standard French , to carry the discussion further ( as you have pointed out .
^ we are forced to rely on an obscure interpretation involving the use of the verbal form of tout as a noun in this case
^ However , even with this dubious admission , it still barely makes sense , and is without doubt an awkward and clumsy ( mis ) use of language ( in my opinion ) .
^ This seems somewhat unlike Mr. Hibbard , who in general exhibits a fairly clever turn of phrase .
^ Further , we must admit that even if we can contrive some sort of vaguely plausible semantic for this use of " tout " , " tour " is without doubt far more natural .
^ For instance , which of the following sentences is more semantically pleasing :
^ - Shawn Hibbard is going on TOUR in February . -
^ Shawn Hibbard is going on TOUT in February .
^ Furthermore , it is clear from the CD that Mr. Hibbard simply does not say " tout " .
^ It does not take an expert to recognise elementary phonics ; merely someone who has completed kindergarten .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick
^ That 's garbage Malone .
^ Try checking your Dundee Thesaurus : Tout -- " ask for , solicit , seek , petition for , appeal for , beg for " or " hawk , peddle , sell , offer for sale . "
^ The Dundee Dictionary also weighs in on the issue : Tout - " pester possible customers with requests . "
^ Granted , these definitions are all in verb form , but when has Mr. Hibbard ever let a technicality get in the way of a good lyric ?
^ I know there is no need to remind you , Mr. Malone , of a thing called poetic licence .
^ These definitions make sense in the context of the song as he says -- AND I QUOTE -- I do n't reckon I 'll be making it big .
^ You know it 's hard to get rich of a tout of coffee house gigs .
^ Bearing the aforementioned substantiated definitions of " tout " in mind , as well as the general theme of the song , Mr. Hibbard is " soliciting , or seeking , or asking "
^ for support " for his music as he travels to coffee houses around the country -- QUOTE -- " playing for tips and any records I could move .
^ He does , however , realize that " it 's hard to get rich " as he attempts to " offer for sale " ( see first definition above ) his own brand of music .
^ So while your conspiracy theory of the internet and the QWERTY keyboard teaming up to propagate worldwide CD album sleeve typos is extremely interesting ( if not laughable ) , I think slightly more logical reasoning is in order .
^ In closing , I find it suspicious that an French music fan would profess to be an expert on the accent of the southern United Coulter .
^ Thank-you for your time .
^ Jude
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ That 's garbage Malone .
^ Try checking your Dundee Thesaurus : Tout -- ask for , solicit , seek , petition for , appeal for , beg for or hawk , peddle , sell , offer for sale .
^ The Dundee Dictionary also weighs in on the issue : Tout pester possible customers with requests .
^ Granted , these definitions are all in verb form , but when has Mr. Hibbard ever let a technicality get in the way of a good lyric ?
^ I know there is no need to remind you , Mr. Malone , of a thing called poetic licence .
^ These definitions make sense in the context of the song as he says -- AND I QUOTE -- I do n't reckon I 'll be making it big .
^ You know it 's hard to get rich of a tout of coffee house gigs .
^ Bearing the aforementioned substantiated definitions of tout in mind , as well as the general theme of the song , Mr. Hibbard is soliciting , or seeking , or
^ asking for support for his music as he travels to coffee houses around the country -- QUOTE -- playing for tips and any records I could move .
^ He does , however , realize that it 's hard to get rich as he attempts to offer for sale ( see first definition above ) his own brand of music .
^ So while your conspiracy theory of the internet and the QWERTY keyboard teaming up to propagate worldwide CD album sleeve typos is extremely interesting ( if not laughable ) , I think slightly more logical reasoning is in order .
^ In closing , I find it suspicious that an French music fan would profess to be an expert on the accent of the southern United Coulter .
^ Thank-you for your time .
^ Jude
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ Re : I ca n't think what to write as a subject , so I 'm just going to leave it blank .
^ Oh .
^ Aah , always so nice to get your messages Nick , so detailed and interesting , now I know so much about what you are doing in Carlisle and how the children 's camp went .
^ Well now I am in Qingdao where I spent my gap year .
^ I 've drunk lots of Qingdao beer ( and very nice it is too ) as well as caught up with lots of people including my ex .
^ I stayed at her place the first night but am currently residing opposite the school where I used to live with my closest teacher friend
^ She has a spare bedroom so it is proving to be very convenient as is the key that she gave me allowing me to come .
^ back later than &TIME when suddenly the streets must get very dangerous by the anxiety that she shows when I say that I will be back later than that
^ Taiwan was great and I was sorry to leave in the end .
^ I made loads of friends ( not to say money ) and my Chinese improved no end !
^ I went through HK to get here and managed to stop off at a couple of law firms on the way in order to have a look round and get a feel for what they are like .
^ I then managed to get to Guangzhou ( Canton ) that night before flying up to QD the following day .
^ It is good to be back though so much has changed : not only the schools but also whole areas and even Christina , my exgirlfriend has got long hair !
^ It is nice to wander around and just soak in the changes .
^ I am glad that my Chinese has improved a lot since I was last here but that my memory of the bus routes and places has n't deteriorated .
^ It is really strange hearing about all the Gappers who have followed on from me .
^ All of my students have now gone so only the teaching staff remember me , it is a bit sad really but I am glad that I came back .
^ Well enough reminiscing
^ I am back in the UK on the 9th and have a law interview on the 12th in Carlisle .
^ I will probably stay there until the end of Sep and then pop home before heading up to Wells .
^ Regards Dana
^ Re : I ca n't think what to write as a subject , so I 'm just going to leave it blank .
^ Oh .
^ Aah , always so nice to get your messages Nick , so detailed and interesting , now I know so much about what you are doing in Carlisle and how the children 's camp went .
^ Well now I am in Qingdao where I spent my gap year .
^ I 've drunk lots of Qingdao beer ( and very nice it is too ) as well as caught up with lots of people including my ex .
^ I stayed at her place the first night but am currently residing opposite the school where I used to live with my closest teacher friend
^ She has a spare bedroom so it is proving to be very convenient as is the key that she gave me allowing me to come .
^ back later than &TIME when suddenly the streets must get very dangerous by the anxiety that she shows when I say that I will be back later than that
^ Taiwan was great and I was sorry to leave in the end .
^ I made loads of friends ( not to say money ) and my Chinese improved no end !
^ I went through HK to get here and managed to stop off at a couple of law firms on the way in order to have a look round and get a feel for what they are like .
^ I then managed to get to Guangzhou ( Canton ) that night before flying up to QD the following day .
^ It is good to be back though so much has changed : not only the schools but also whole areas and even Christina , my exgirlfriend has got long hair !
^ It is nice to wander around and just soak in the changes .
^ I am glad that my Chinese has improved a lot since I was last here but that my memory of the bus routes and places has n't deteriorated .
^ It is really strange hearing about all the Gappers who have followed on from me .
^ All of my students have now gone so only the teaching staff remember me , it is a bit sad really but I am glad that I came back .
^ Well enough reminiscing
^ I am back in the UK on the 9th and have a law interview on the 12th in Carlisle .
^ I will probably stay there until the end of Sep and then pop home before heading up to Wells .
^ Regards Dana
^ Re : I ca n't think what to write as a subject , so I 'm just going to leave it blank .
^ Oh .
^ Aah , always so nice to get your messages Nick , so detailed and interesting , now I know so much about what you are doing in Carlisle and how the children 's camp went .
^ Well now I am in Qingdao where I spent my gap year .
^ I 've drunk lots of Qingdao beer ( and very nice it is too ) as well as caught up with lots of people including my ex .
^ I stayed at her place the first night but am currently residing opposite the school where I used to live with my closest teacher friend
^ She has a spare bedroom so it is proving to be very convenient as is the key that she gave me allowing me to come .
^ back later than &TIME when suddenly the streets must get very dangerous by the anxiety that she shows when I say that I will be back later than that
^ Taiwan was great and I was sorry to leave in the end .
^ I made loads of friends ( not to say money ) and my Chinese improved no end !
^ I went through HK to get here and managed to stop off at a couple of law firms on the way in order to have a look round and get a feel for what they are like .
^ I then managed to get to Guangzhou ( Canton ) that night before flying up to QD the following day .
^ It is good to be back though so much has changed : not only the schools but also whole areas and even Christina , my exgirlfriend has got long hair !
^ It is nice to wander around and just soak in the changes .
^ I am glad that my Chinese has improved a lot since I was last here but that my memory of the bus routes and places has n't deteriorated .
^ It is really strange hearing about all the Gappers who have followed on from me .
^ All of my students have now gone so only the teaching staff remember me , it is a bit sad really but I am glad that I came back .
^ Well enough reminiscing
^ I am back in the UK on the 9th and have a law interview on the 12th in Carlisle .
^ I will probably stay there until the end of Sep and then pop home before heading up to Wells .
^ Regards Dana
^ ~
^ Bob ,
^ How are you my friend ?
^ Just finished Homeworld , so doing Great !
^ Went to church on Sunday .
^ That 's the first time since , oh , October ? it was really good .
^ Are you doing any revision ?
^ forget the 're bit - I need vision !
^ Is that a silly question ?
^ Got it in one ! ! ( grin ) ( or maybe it was just a rhetorical question , which makes us both sound cleverer ! )
^ How many more times have you seen the Matrix now ?
^ Only once actually .
^ I am now on 24 .
^ I was on 23 two weeks after I got the DVD at xmas time .
^ I am enjoying myself here in Bath , although I 'm finding it rather difficult to do any revision .
^ I am programming a GUI noughts and crosses game to keep my Java skills up-to-date .
^ man - I wish I could do that .
^ Really .
^ But I just do n't get Java , and it 's one of those things that if I do n't see it straight away , I ca n't be bnothered to spend any time looking at it later .
^ Which is a shame .
^ But it 's a rubbiush language anyway .
^ And an unemployable one at that .
^ Pity we 're gonna have to know it to do this degree .
^ And our 2nd year project has to be done in it too ,
^ I hear Z is horrible , although it 's quite satisfying to actually finish a schema or something .
^ I totally agree .
^ I like the langiuaege , but I ca n't rememeber the names of things in it .
^ It 's a bit like HTML in that it 's only formating codes for plaintext .
^ I 'm spending quite a bit of time preparing for my 21st birthday party .
^ i can imagine
^ I hope you 're looking forward to it !
^ Indeed I am .
^ What date was it again ?
^ Sorry - I proabbly have it somehwewre , but since you will probablely be reply ing to thismnemail anyway I thought I 'd ask .
^ Sorry for the typos - I ca n't be btohered to smell-check and I 'm running out of free minute son my nmobiule phone )
^ whoihc I 'm using to connect fdor this trather than pay for a phonecall on the real modfem .
^ I had my hair cut just before I left wells - why do n't you get your 's cut off ?
^ No - I 'd get cold .
^ Seriously .
^ anyway , my hypothalamus is damaged and I 'm cold most of the time as it is .
^ I hate being cold .
^ I want to avboiud iut as much as possible .
^ Go short for the summer !
^ Not a chance ( or , at least , not a significant one ! )
^ Well , take care buddy , and we 'll speak soon ,
^ certainly &SMILEY
^ tBen ( my name variable )
^ I dislike Baz ' way of naming variables .
^ All mine are called GI or whatever ( Global_Integer ) or LF or GB etc
^ Bob Maize
^ Johnson College , Wells University
^ Computer Science BSc ( with an Electronic Engineering module )
^ ~
^ Hi Gavster ,
^ My home address is :
^ 26 Grindstone Close
^ Savanna
^ Luxembourg UA84 1QF
^ I got a new MP3 player today ! ! ! !
^ I 'm going to set it up now - bye !
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ How are you ?
^ Work going well here - only 8 days left .
^ Glad you had a good time in Derbyshire .
^ Rylie arrived back in my flat yesterday - it 's quite odd having company after so long on my own .
^ By the way , what 's your home address ?
^ You 've never told me .
^ Enjoy the rest of the week .
^ Shania the ever smiling
^ ~
^ Do n't worry - I 'm not working tomorrow morning !
^ Trying to book flights for
^ South Africa actually ...
^ O
^ Up pretty late - I mean for a guy who has to go to school ... .
^ -V A breath of fresh air at last today a new RA joined the lab he is a LM guy so now I can chat with him .
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Thanks &SMILEY
^ Say when ... .
^ you 've had enough
^ &SMILEY - V
^ Attached is information about the LQX Summer studentship programme .
^ If you are interested in applying , or would like more information , let me know .
^ Imani
^ Imani Flurries , Lecturer MIL Tel : ( +44 ) 4882 33 33
^ Munich University Engineering Dept. Fax : ( +44 ) 4882 882662
^ Trumpington Hendry , Munich , TQ6 1PZ .
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ LQX Research Summer &YEAR Internships in Human Understanding Technologies
^ The Human Understanding Technologies ( IUS ) Department at the LQX T. W .
^ Watson research center is seeking applicants for summer internship positions in speech and language processing research .
^ Each intern collaborates with a researcher on a project of mutual interest in an area such as speech recognition , speaker verification .
^ speech synthesis , natural language understanding , translation , audiovisual speech recognition , multimedia mining , and multimodal and conversational systems , applications , and programming models
^ Assignments include basic technology research , development of advanced conversational solutions and tools , and development of new programming models encompassing such advanced technology .
^ We usually hire graduate students enrolled in PhD programs , although strong Masters students and undergraduates are considered as well .
^ Compton programming skills ( C++ , Java ) are a must for all areas , and a strong mathematical background is a definite plus .
^ Depending upon the project , additional skills such as signal processing , probability and statistics , data structures and algorithms , distributed systems , user interface technologies , or web-based programming may also be required .
^ Evidence of research participation and independent work are highly desirable .
^ Salaries are competitive , and commensurate with the applicant 's qualifications .
^ Both domestic and international students are encouraged to apply .
^ LQX is committed to maintaining a diverse environment , and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer .
^ Students should apply using the instructions for Summer & Co-op
^ Positions &YEAR at &WEBSITE
^ Choose " Graduate " or " Undergrasuate " as appropriate and then the " Student - Human Understanding Technologies Department " position .
^ The web-based forms will allow you to paste in a plain-text cover letter and resume .
^ Please send a copy of your cover letter and resume to Vaibhava Blomfield ( &EMAIL ) as well .
^ The web based application is our preferred method , however , in case of difficulties please send your plain-text cover letters and resumes directly to Vaibhava Blomfield ( &EMAIL ) .
^ Positions will be filled as we find suitable candidates , so students should submit their applications as soon as they can , preferably by &DATE .
^ The IUS Department has approximately 60 full-time researchers and is located at the T. S. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Flexney , N.Y. , about 30 miles north of Old Anglesea Owen .
^ You can learn more about the IUS Department by visiting our web pages :
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Thanks &SMILEY
^ Say when ... .
^ you 've had enough
^ &SMILEY - V
^ Attached is information about the LQX Summer studentship programme .
^ If you are interested in applying , or would like more information , let me know .
^ Imani
^ Imani Flurries , Lecturer MIL Tel : ( +44 ) 4882 33 33
^ Munich University Engineering Dept. Fax : ( +44 ) 4882 882662
^ Trumpington Hendry , Munich , TQ6 1PZ .
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ LQX Research Summer &YEAR Internships in Human Understanding Technologies
^ The Human Understanding Technologies ( IUS ) Department at the LQX T. W .
^ Watson research center is seeking applicants for summer internship positions in speech and language processing research .
^ Each intern collaborates with a researcher on a project of mutual interest in an area such as speech recognition , speaker verification .
^ speech synthesis , natural language understanding , translation , audiovisual speech recognition , multimedia mining , and multimodal and conversational systems , applications , and programming models
^ Assignments include basic technology research , development of advanced conversational solutions and tools , and development of new programming models encompassing such advanced technology .
^ We usually hire graduate students enrolled in PhD programs , although strong Masters students and undergraduates are considered as well .
^ Compton programming skills ( C++ , Java ) are a must for all areas , and a strong mathematical background is a definite plus .
^ Depending upon the project , additional skills such as signal processing , probability and statistics , data structures and algorithms , distributed systems , user interface technologies , or web-based programming may also be required .
^ Evidence of research participation and independent work are highly desirable .
^ Salaries are competitive , and commensurate with the applicant 's qualifications .
^ Both domestic and international students are encouraged to apply .
^ LQX is committed to maintaining a diverse environment , and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer .
^ Students should apply using the instructions for Summer & Co-op
^ Positions &YEAR at &WEBSITE
^ Choose " Graduate " or " Undergrasuate " as appropriate and then the " Student - Human Understanding Technologies Department " position .
^ The web-based forms will allow you to paste in a plain-text cover letter and resume .
^ Please send a copy of your cover letter and resume to Vaibhava Blomfield ( &EMAIL ) as well .
^ The web based application is our preferred method , however , in case of difficulties please send your plain-text cover letters and resumes directly to Vaibhava Blomfield ( &EMAIL ) .
^ Positions will be filled as we find suitable candidates , so students should submit their applications as soon as they can , preferably by &DATE .
^ The IUS Department has approximately 60 full-time researchers and is located at the T. S. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Flexney , N.Y. , about 30 miles north of Old Anglesea Owen .
^ You can learn more about the IUS Department by visiting our web pages :
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Danios ,
^ So in American supermarkets ...
^ Annie , it 's so obvious ... you kneecap the granny who 's standing behind you in the queue , then steal her emergency mobile phone , call the paramedics and when they arrive they will create the ideal smokescreen .
^ taking everyone 's minds off the fact that you are gradually emptying the entire supermarket into the waiting trucks outside
^ while at the same time scanning your 50cent token thousands of times , utilising the team of under-paid cronies you 've employed explicitly for the purpose
^ Sounds like you missed an opportunity to me .
^ But seriously , how stupid is the system that allows you to continually scan the same token ? ? ! !
^ Sounds like your country is in dire need of software developers with half an ounce of intelligence ... perfect for you !
^ But really seriously ... here 's the perfect answer to your dilemma :
^ You complete your purchase , inspite of the fact that you 've scanned the token twice .
^ However , after finalising your transaction you find the " customer services ' desk , where you explain what has happened , and they either a ) say " Thankyou for being so honest .
^ Mr. Higbe , but who really cares about 50 cents anyway " or b ) " Thankyou for being so honest Mr. Higbe
^ If you 'd like to render us the outstanding 50 cents , we 'll rectify the situation .
^ Then you leave the store with the satisfaction of knowing you have n't held up the queue , and your conscience is entirely clear on the matter .
^ The end .
^ Great news about the socks - trainerliners eh ? !
^ Welcome to the 2000's .
^ I 'm working at my Dad 's school until March / April next year when I 'm planning to hop on a plane to South Africa to do some voluntary work .
^ If I do end up in the VPN at any point I 'll let you know &SMILEY
^ Cheers Annie ,
^ Nick
^ EWok ! ! !
^ That 's so funny - I was going to e-mail you about the following situation that happened at the supermarket , but could n't find the scrap of paper that had your e-mail address &SMILEY
^ So in American supermarkets , they have these " self-checkouts " , where you scan your own items , pay by credit card , etc.
^ The whole premise only works if people are honest and scan in everything they have without " forgetting " to scan anything
^ Anyway , I 'm scanning my stuff and accidentally scan in a $ .50 coupon twice .
^ The scanner does n't know any different and gives me an additional $ .50 than it should 've have .
^ Do I a ) hold up the line and find someone to help correct the mistake b ) take the $ .50 and run or c ) continue to repeatedly scan the coupon and get my entire purchase for free ?
^ Hehe , I was just thinking about you this morning when I put on for the first time my brand new socks that I bought so that I could be just as cool as you .
^ There are really short and essentially they do n't go up high enough to be seen if you have trainers on .
^ So you wo n't be able to make fun of my old , unelastic socks anymore ! !
^ ITB ...
^ I 'm Truly Brillaint
^ Inglish Tiny Brain I Topped Nick ( 10 - 8 final score )
^ Inexcusable , Terrible , Basketball skills ( really , how can you lose ? )
^ Yeah , this is the 4th week of classes here at ULC .
^ I 'm taking 2 classes and spending the rest of my time on research .
^ My work ethic is a little better than it was at Munich , but I think it needs to get better if I 'm going to survive here .
^ It looks like my research is going to be in sensor networks which I find really cool .
^ Hopefully I 'll still like it after working on it for 5 years !
^ No , I have n't seen Orlando since I got back to the States .
^ I believe he 'll be starting at ULC next fall , so I 'm sure I 'll see him eventually .
^ Are you planning on working at yout dad 's school all year , or do you think you 'll do some traveling as well ?
^ So when are you coming to the States ?
^ Anyway , I hope all is well and your ankle cells do n't get too agitated &SMILEY
^ Orlando
^ On &DATE , The Lancester wrote :
^ DnA ! !
^ How are you doing old boy ?
^ Any new moral dilemmas ?
^ I 'm currently writing a paper on my project and I suddenly thought of you so I thought I 'd email : o ) .
^ ITB ...
^ I 'm The Best
^ It 's Timto Boogy
^ Inevitable Terminal Boredom
^ Important Tea Break
^ I guess you 've probably started your PhD by now .
^ Hope you 're enjoying life in the ULC lane .
^ It really seems a while since we finished at Dur , but I guess it 's less than two months ! !
^ Crazy .
^ Have you seen Orlando since ?
^ I 'm currently working part-time at my Dad 's school .
^ It is not good pay , but to my surprise I 'm loving being around a load of kids all the time !
^ Quite refreshing after four years of child-free life at University .
^ Today is my day off , so I 'm at home on my own .
^ The sun is shining but it 's pretty cold .
^ Ah ...
^ I love Brighton when it 's like this - fresh , bright and crisp .
^ In other exciting news ...
^ I 'm having some physiotherapy on my ankle .
^ The guy is " agitating the cells " with some resonant frequency emitter or something .
^ Anyway , I just hope it succeeds .
^ Right , all the best , and do n't lose that cheeky grin ... !
^ EWok
^ ~
^ Hi Bob !
^ Great to hear from you .
^ Have you met the Beatles yet ? ?
^ Right now I 'm sitting in my room contemplating packing , which I 'm about to get going on .
^ I 'm leaving for Munich tomorrow morning , and really looking forward to it .
^ I 've done a lot of background work on maths over the last month or so , and I definitely feel ready to get going on my " life " again !
^ The summer has been an interesting one .
^ I have found it somewhat difficult having left our community in Wells , struggling with a lack of purpose and ambition .
^ In some ways it has been good because it has forced me to take a look at myself and face some " issues " .
^ Nice .
^ I have done a LOT of thinking and praying .
^ My brother and I joined the local football team - Rutford FC - and I played in three games .
^ In the third game I played really well dominating the midfield ( even if I do say so myself ) and should have scored .
^ With 2 minutes to go , I jumped up for a tackle and when I landed my ankle twisted really badly and I had to crawl off .
^ The opposition then scored to level the game just before the final whistle !
^ That was about a month ago , and my ankle is still a bit sore , but I think I 'll be able to tentatively play on it in a week or so .
^ Just as well really , as I 'll have to make my mark on the Kassidy College team shortly !
^ Yesterday I framed my Johns team photo .
^ It will be going up in my room in Munich !
^ Well , send me some more news when you can - let me know how Nikki 's getting on .
^ Cheers Bob !
^ Nick
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^ Dear Julie ,
^ Sorry about that .
^ My college is Kassidy .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
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^ I look forward to hearing from you and assisting you .
^ With best wishes
^ Julie Mahatry
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^ Nick ,
^ Cheers for the directions , but unfortunately I 'm now unable to come .
^ I know this sounds like a really dodgy excuse ( although it is true ) , but Julie 's gran was taken ill this week and had to go into hospital for several operations .
^ It is very serious ( she 's 90 odd ) and as Jules is working the next few weekends this is the only weekend she can go up to see her in the next 3 weeks .
^ We were really looking forward to coming down and were even planning a weekend down there , but instead we have to send our apologies .
^ Hope this does n't throw your party numbers out too much ...
^ Have a good time and we 'll catch up with you in the near future .
^ Kaylee
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^ Fatima ,
^ Looking forward to seeing you and Julie on Saturday .
^ You can get to my house ( the venue ) by coming into Bath on the A46 .
^ You are loo king for Englishcombe Lane , which is near Bear Flat , Oldfield Park .
^ Have a lookat one of Jason 's maps and see if you can find it .
^ Once you are on
^ Englishcombe Lane , someone will be waiting at the end of our drive .
^ If you get lost , give me a ring on 05055 686040 ( mobile ) or 05005 862828 .
^ By the way , am I going to be able to work at BE during the Summer ( & play for the Baseliners of course ) ?
^ If so when should I start and how long should I work for , etc . )
^ See you buddy ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ Rodrigo 's just come in cos I was laughing and is very shocked that i 've been swearing at you ...
^ hehe
^ Have a wonderful afternoon - hope the exam goes perfectly to plan !
^ Sickening as it is to the rest of us , I 'm sure it will .
^ c x
^ P.S. It 's so tempting ...
^ Sometimes I think there is a complete actress inside me that would love to just completely wind people up all the time , but I never let her out !
^ For a moment when I saw you in lunch the evil me was sorely tempted to make some kind of scene ... glass of water , possibly a meringue in the face !
^ fun fun fun ... maybe we could plan one for the end of term ? &SMILEY
^ Aimee and I considered doing something like that
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Cruel callous bastard ...
^ ~
^ Hey boyo !
^ I did n't know we were an object of discussion ! !
^ How amusing .
^ Were we being discussed by the likely lads Aimee and Aimee , or was it the Sonia and Mohammad angle ?
^ No - it was the first year variety !
^ The others have quizzed me before and they know nothing 's going on !
^ I actually wanted to email you to make sure you 're OK with everything and to say that I 've really enjoyed our friendship this term ( so far ! &SMILEY and am happy with us being " friends " .
^ I feel at peace about that , and definitely do n't feel right about pursuing " more " .
^ Cruel callous bastard ... ( kidding ! ! ! ! )
^ No , seriously , I 'm really well , ditto , ditto , etc , etc.
^ Exactly what I was thinking as well - good stuff !
^ I 'm amazed you said it first though ... maybe we are making progress after all ! &SMILEY
^ You 're too vague for me anyway ... &SMILEY
^ Have you come down off your " birthday high " ?
^ What do you think of Rodrigo 's SW book ?
^ We were thinking of going to see it on the 23rd ( next Thursday ) .
^ Up for it ?
^ Was I on a birthday high ?
^ I suppose so !
^ I felt a bit dazed for most of the day actually .
^ Star Wars - yes !
^ Revision ?
^ Exams ?
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. Have you seen the web-site on " Lifters " .
^ It really looks fascinating .
^ Parker and I are thinking of trying to build one after exams .
^ We would like you to partner us in this enterprise - bring your physics expertise to bear .
^ Consider me drafted ... possibly !
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ thanks for the email .
^ I 'd certainly be interested , thanks for asking me .
^ As you probably know , I never got into a " fell " group last year , but I 'm sure I 'd enjoy being involved in one , and helping lead it would be a rewarding challenge I hope .
^ Hope you are enjoying the last week of the holidays .
^ I 'm busy packing my stuff today , as I 'm taking most of my things through to Wells tomorrow .
^ I 'm going back for good on friday though , as I want to go to a meeting here on Thursday night .
^ It 's called " Has science buried God ? " , and should be pretty interesting .
^ Well , have fun ( packing ! ) , must dash - see you soon !
^ love , Anna
^ PS - hope this gets through .
^ My email is being really dodgy at the moment !
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^ Hello Parker .
^ I regret to inform you that I now have only one leg , as the other one was infested by a deadly fungus during my brief swim in the communal pool this weekend and unfortunately had to be amputated .
^ But hey , I guess one takes these risks if one insists on undertaking such dangerous occupations as communal swimming .
^ Talking of frontiers , I watched the final two episodes of Voyager the other day - are those really the last two episodes ? ? ?
^ I can hardly believe it .
^ Not a bad way to end i guess - at least I got to see the Borg queen .
^ Hang on , was n't it YOU who had the hots for the Borg queen ? ?
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ How are you feeling today ?
^ Is life a joyful event for you ?
^ Hmmmm .
^ I 'm at home for the weekend .
^ Lovely sunny weather up here in Scotland .
^ Petunia is regaining consciousness thanks to a new disk .
^ Yesterday at work I went on a visit to that well-known haunt of mine;
^ Wells University Chemistry Department ...
^ Normally it 's students who visit industry , but the other way round is just as appealing since it meant I did n't have to get up early to go in to work yesterday .
^ I have started my revision ( ! ) and am now pushing back the frontiers of my knowledge , daily .
^ How 's your preparation going ?
^ Hope you have a nice time with Kaylee this weekend .
^ Enjoy swimming , and do n't worry too much about all the environmental health hazards in communal swimming pools .
^ I 'm sure they 're exaggerated .
^ Anyway , must go and get my hair cut .
^ Have a good day .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ I seem to remember a certain person going by the name :
^ Sawyer " Cyborgs turn me on " Wheeler .
^ Could n't have been you by any chance could it ?
^ Have a nice weekend with Jon .
^ Do n't do anything I would n't do .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Nick !
^ I regret to inform you that I now have only one leg , as the other one was infested by a deadly fungus during my brief swim in the communal pool this weekend and unfortunately had to be amputated .
^ But hey , I guess one takes these risks if one insists on undertaking such dangerous occupations as communal swimming .
^ Not funny - I believed you initially .
^ Talking of frontiers , I watched the final two episodes of Voyager the other day - are those really the last two episodes ? ? ?
^ I can hardly believe it .
^ Not a bad way to end i guess - at least I got to see the Borg queen .
^ Hang on , was n't it YOU who had the hots for the Borg queen ? ?
^ Do n't be ridiculous , I have much more taste than that .
^ It is folly to try and rewrite history .
^ Hope you 're having an interesting week .
^ I am .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ another question , is Java a : free
^ Yes .
^ Just download it from sun .
^ java or somewhere like that .
^ Read the documentation on the website before you do though to check you 've got the right thing .
^ It can be a bit of a pain to set up sometimes though .
^ b : easyish to pick up if you have a go at it ?
^ You 've done VB have n't you ?
^ Well , it should n't be too bad then .
^ Get a book from the library and you should be away ...
^ O
^ Hi Nick ,
^ another question , is Java a : free b : easyish to pick up if you have a go at it ?
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Nick - no , sorry , have n't been in contact with the mobile today - so , right , I 'll book the tickets .
^ Good - I 'm looking forward to it !
^ Love - G.
^ PS Alice has an interview at Bristol next Thursday - a degree in Child Development .
^ I had an interview there once - my only significant memory of the whole day is that I bought a guitar while I was there - theold Eko 12-string !
^ Hi Daddy , did you get my text saying to book tickets for the concert ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Fantastic Leilani ! !
^ " Forbidden Technologies " ? ? !
^ Sounds ... dodgy .
^ I will check out the website when I get the chance !
^ I 'm currently teaching three days a week and writing a paper in the other two .
^ Am playing my first game of football for my village team today .
^ Keep it real !
^ Nick
^ Hi everyone !
^ Just a quick email to update you on what 's happening in my life &SMILEY
^ I 've recently started working for Forbidden Technologies in Wimbledon ( signed a proper job contract on Monday ) , so I 'm moving to Carlisle for the forseeable future .
^ It 's very exciting !
^ Check out &WEBSITE see what we do .
^ Write back if you want more details ...
^ Hope you are all having fun - let me know what you 're up to .
^ Sorry for the mass email .
^ Love , Leilani xxx
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^ Hey Philip , thanks for the email .
^ I have n't been back to Africa yet , but I will someday !
^ Glad to hear you and Camryn are " communicating better " !
^ Hang in there .
^ Have a good time in Africa if you get this before you go , and otherwise I hope it 's going well !
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Hello pal !
^ It is Wednesday and I am sitting in the schools computer-room .
^ On Friday I am leaving for Asmara in Eritrea - back in Africa !
^ Me and two will stay there for about one month , mainly to work at an elementary school .
^ This is a part of our practice- training to become teachers .
^ Camryn and I is communicating better , I think - but it is not easy .
^ I hope you and your family are doing well , Nick !
^ Take care !
^ Greeting , Philip
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^ I would like to confirm that our descriptions are supplied direct from
^ BenQ and there are manufacturers links from our products descriptions .
^ Thankyou for your prompt response .
^ In this case , there must be an error in one of the specifications , because the BenQ website lists the 2400 as coming with 512mb RAM , whereas you specify it with 256mb .
^ This does clear up the issue with the 40gb HD though .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
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^ Dear Sir / Madam :
^ I am looking to purchase a new laptop , and I am interested in a number of the BenQ laptops that you have in stock .
^ I notice that the specifications you list for the Joybook 2400 are slightly different to those commonly listed for that model .
^ specifically you list it with a 40gb HD and 256mb RAM , where these figures would usually be 60gb / 512mb
^ It seems a little odd that the 0400 would come with twice as much memory as the 2400 .
^ Please can you verify the accuracy of these specifications .
^ Many thanks ,
^ Nick Malone
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^ Hi Tracy .
^ Absolutely fandabidoozie to hear from you .
^ You 're great , you are .
^ You are a rare and exquisite species of shellfish and the father of all rare and exquisite species of shellfish .
^ Glad you had a fab time in la Spain .
^ I am going to send you a postcard from the beautiful city of Bath soon , so instead of running to the toilet you can run to check the post .
^ Oh absolutely .
^ I always run to get the post .
^ otherwise all the sheep eat it before I have time to read it !
^ Should I send you some stupid postcards from North Norwich then ?
^ I spotted some truly awful ones the other day ...
^ Aimee , are you married yet .
^ Presumably with all these fabulous women around you ca n't possibly still be single ...
^ Or did you show them your banana trick ...
^ Yes , yes you probably are still single .
^ No , alas I am still single !
^ They wisely discouraged exclusive relationships there .
^ We did lots of stuff about finding our spiritual gifts , and in the test I came out with mission and teaching top ...
^ evangelism at the bottom , at the very bottom though the only thing below celibacy was wisdom , which is a bit worrying
^ How many girlfriends have you got at the moment , not including all your adoring fans behind bars ?
^ What have you got planned for the rest of the summer .
^ Not sure really .
^ I 'm off to see my brother on Bardsey Island tommorow where he 's artist in residence .
^ In just over a week I 've got a 2-week SU beach mission kids club .
^ Then I 'll either try to get some work of some sort , even if only to keep myself occupied , or else do an intensive driving course to finally get my license .
^ Might travel about and see people too though sometime .
^ Anyway , keep it real !
^ Stay off the drugs , and eat plenty of yoghurt .
^ Shalom
^ Aimee .
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^ I think half terms should be allowed for everyone .
^ Here here .
^ Two fish in a tank ... one says to the other " How do you drive this thing ? " .
^ Later ,
^ O
^ The job is going okay ... has its dull moments , and the occasional interesting moments .
^ I think half terms should be allowed for everyone .
^ That is totally outrageous .
^ Rylee , when do you jet off ?
^ Christian , how 's the job going ?
^ I 'm on half-term , and being free-and-easy .
^ O
^ Guys , if you 're future PhD plans fall through , why not give this a go ?
^ Subject : Just select " Be Ordained " to complete the process
^ Re : Just select " Be Ordained " to complete the process
^ That is totally outrageous .
^ Rylee , when do you jet off ?
^ Christian , how 's the job going ?
^ I 'm on half-term , and being free-and-easy .
^ O
^ Guys , if you 're future PhD plans fall through , why not give this a go ?
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^ Sammy-boy , it 's a pleasure as always !
^ Last term in college already - it 's come round so fast !
^ I hope you keep the rollercoaster of emotions firmly in check until after the exams .
^ Congrats on your first citation - wow quite an achievement !
^ You must be on the cutting edge of really important research !
^ The premiership race is looking so exciting - it 's disappointing not to be able to see all the action here ! !
^ Have a good one , AV
^ ps. we are nearing the end of another term here and this time i 'll be off to explore rural korea - so i 'll be sure to keep you posted !
^ I know there is so much more to this country than the urban jungle i 've seen so far - i 'm sure i 'll see more of traditional korea .
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote : Howzit Isabel ,
^ I 'm back in college , about to embark on my final term .
^ I feel a mixture of emotions , but I 'm trying not to focus too much on nostalgia so that I can really just get the most out of it .
^ The weather here is lovely and sunny , if not quite a steamy as your current climate !
^ My project is due in soon , and it has gone very well - in fact I got my first citation a couple of weeks back , from a Swedish guy who 's doing work in the same area !
^ Right , I must get on with the day .
^ All the best to you Mr. Trower , and keep it real !
^ Nick
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^ Get personalised at My Yahoo! .
^ ~
^ When did you visit ? ? !
^ I remember distinctly his advise about earning in the industry before joining the staff to kick back : ) .
^ Seems to have be talking from experience .
^ - I actually came to the EW today to run some scripts .
^ Will most probably see you tomorrow .
^ later ,
^ Ravi
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Alfie 's house is HUGE ! ! ! !
^ O
^ Hi ,
^ Sorry for the delay in answering .
^ I 'm a bit stumped .
^ I have been looking at the LPlex tool which has the perplexity claculation .
^ I 'll get back to you once I have something useful .
^ I 'll send you the code anyway .
^ I would be very careful because PP can be useful ( to compare ) only when it is calculated the proper way .
^ You do take the Sent , use either OOV in context in or out ( 2 methods ) and never predict the OOV words .
^ These are the thing I found out ( relevant to speech - I guess it nust be the same for your stuff ) .
^ I would also suggest that you do n't just add the log probability ( though there is an info theory_ argument for it .
^ I noticed in our note ( SP2 ) a suggestion of the logAdd function in HTK .
^ how they add logs to avoid the problem of flooring
^ -Vidura
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Ravi , a quick question :
^ I have been looking at perplexity values for the LMs I 've generated , and I find that on the whole the test set perplexities for the bigrams are significantly higher than for the unigrams .
^ This is undoubtedly due to the fact that whenever a bigram is unseen .
^ I backoff to the unigram distribution , but since the probabilities are calculated over the discounted probability mass , they are much lower than in the standard unigram case
^ However , the bigrams still perform significantly better , because even though the backed-off unigram probabilities are much smaller , they are still correctly proportioned .
^ Thus , it seems that comparing perplexities for different ngrams is basically pointless - what do you think ?
^ O
^ ~
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Ravi , a quick question :
^ I have been looking at perplexity values for the LMs I 've generated , and I find that on the whole the test set perplexities for the bigrams are significantly higher than for the unigrams .
^ This is undoubtedly due to the fact that whenever a bigram is unseen .
^ I backoff to the unigram distribution , but since the probabilities are calculated over the discounted probability mass , they are much lower than in the standard unigram case
^ However , the bigrams still perform significantly better , because even though the backed-off unigram probabilities are much smaller , they are still correctly proportioned .
^ Thus , it seems that comparing perplexities for different ngrams is basically pointless - what do you think ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ As for the " different being right " thing , tell me is it right to be different to being right ?
^ Hmmm , contradiction me thinks .
^ Anyway , as you can tell , you work to waste your time , I well , send pedantic emails , think about girls and get angry with lots of things about life .
^ Yep .
^ Good to hear from you though , I 'm glad that you 're doing stuff .
^ You 're pretty cool by the way Nick , just thought I would say and no I will not verbally say it , nor do I want anything from you .
^ As for the tennis ball , you 're right , bargain .
^ As for me , I have run 26 miles in the past three days and feel pretty good about myself .
^ Off to Munich for the day tomorrow to " chill " with me friend Jadon ( in a pub , would have invited Bob , but thought maybe next time ) .
^ Although I think it would be cool to see Bob some time , later in the hols I think though .
^ Otherwise take care bud , you 're unique to say the least , we 'll phone you this week when Jon 's here as well , she 'll love that ...
^ All the best , from the GS in the house pumping out the tunes and sucking them too ( the tunes that is ... ha ha ha ( sarcastic " ha 's " ) Bye , Mallory .
^ Schmooza ,
^ I am starting work tomorrow !
^ I am relishing the idea of getting up at &TIME , as you can imagine !
^ I have just got back from the Christian schools convention that I went to last week .
^ It was a blast - I enjoyed re-living all the times I went to similar things as a student .
^ I also played the bass guitar in the evenings with my dad , who was leading worship .
^ What a funny life this is !
^ I finally got my room sorted out yesterday , after disposing with hundreds of boxes full of computers and things .
^ Joshua lost one of my tennis balls the other day , so I bought four more yesterday - &pound; 2 ! !
^ What a bargain !
^ For work , I have to wear shirt and tie every day !
^ I have n't done that for AGES .
^ I think I need to buy some more shirts .
^ Anyway , speak soon bud ,
^ EC
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^ Dear Benjz ,
^ Hope your cold is better .
^ I appear to be allergic to our house , so that 's good .
^ I have got some new glasses .
^ They are remarkably like my sister 's ; little , rectangular and wire-rimmed .
^ Like Mallinson Kent 's , but more girly and without the ability to withstand high atmospheric temperatures .
^ I am working .
^ It is dull .
^ I saw Terrance last week which was lovely , lovely , lovely ... and it is chocolate day soon .
^ I have to do an embarrassing mime at church .
^ Hmm .
^ Well , I 'll be seeing you by and by .
^ Aimee xx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Donald Davies "
^ Subject : Re : Les vacances
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Howzit Jon .
^ Glad to hear you 're burnt .
^ I have a cold - .
^ But I think it 's going to be short-lived .
^ I 've bought a new bike , which is very cool , and I was out cycling this evening with my brother .
^ All is basically well in Maloneland ... apart from my cold .
^ I finished the first complete draft of my report and sent it to my supervisor ! ! !
^ Yipee ! ! ! !
^ Now I can start revising ! ! !
^ Later ,
^ Nick
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^ Hi Alfie ,
^ Hope you had a good Christmas .
^ I was snowboarding in the French Alps !
^ I need to get hold of the Redgen data to run some further tests if I can - do you know if I can get to it from a dialup connection outside Dur ?
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Relatively interesting paper on the adaptivity issues
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^ Do n't worry Timbo .
^ I enjoyed reading it ( three times ) .
^ Only joking - it was great .
^ Nick
^ Really ?
^ I do n't know why you did , as I only checked one of your accounts .
^ How could that have happened ?
^ Sorry buddy .
^ Bob
^ Timbo , thanks for the email of longness , but was it necessary to get it THREE TIMES ? ? ? ! ! !
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^ Do n't play football !
^ Gaystick hockey is the way forward .
^ Seriously mate was impressed by your game today .
^ You could easily push a uni side if you trained next year , I know you 're a post grad so not sure how long you 're here .
^ Look forward to some more spanking posh sods .
^ All the best
^ Sawyer
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^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Nick you were a revelation
^ sack off fag ball .
^ ~
^ Hello legends ,
^ Apologies for coming on riled today , first game back and got very excited !
^ Got some gossip off my pal at Maggers and they 've got a strong set of lads but their ladies are somewhat lacking , so that means we have the advantage .
^ Our ladies are awesome as they proved today , even with strained shoulders ! ?
^ Boys I think we have to pull our socks up a bit , I was rubbish today so will do better .
^ Good work from Ell 's Bells keeping us on the straight and narrow though .
^ Abbey you get better mate , Nick you were a revelation and sack off fag ball .
^ Would be good at some stage to get some shorties sorted as they 'll pay off .
^ If we play as a team and keep that ball going right on wednesday we can take them even if they have 5 good boys , none are blues but they deserve some respect .
^ Keen to go all the way
^ Sawyer
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^ On &DATE , Blaine R.J. Garner wrote :
^ Good result today ! ! * * * * SEMIFINALS ... THIS &DATE AT WILBERFORCE ROAD ASTRO TURF 12.30 START ***********
^ * * * * MEET 11.45 ( or as close to that as lectures will allow ) AT WILBY for a proper warm up / sort out shorties etc ****
^ Team is :
^ Annabelle
^ Abbey
^ Sawyer
^ Rush
^ Paola
^ Angelo ( gk )
^ Nil
^ Nick
^ Aimee ?
^ Blaine
^ Alice ? ( please confirm )
^ Philip
^ Isaiah
^ Savanna ( mildly injured )
^ Rosie
^ Suzie ?
^ Pip ?
^ So thats loads of possible people but it would be good to have a sub for the girls and the boys and as much support as possible .
^ Cheers for binning your lectures guys btw !
^ We will be playing Madnelene btw who are reasonable so lets get keen and play superb hockey &SMILEY
^ See you wednesday
^ Blaine xxx
^ ~
^ Ed , you are using floating point numbers , which are strictly inaccurate as they are represented by a " value " set of bits and an " exponent " set of bits .
^ In fact ( if I remember correctly ) there is no true floating point representation for zero , and thus you often get slight deviation , as your spread-sheet demonstrates .
^ I would say this is more likely to be due to the architecture of your TGV than MS Excel , which will probably only call fundamental subtraction instructions for simple tasks such as this one .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick x
^ Dear All ,
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^ Excel cannot subtract .
^ try the sums for yourself ... set the cells to view 30 decimal places you will be shocked too ! ! !
^ If any of the mathematicians have an explanation please let me know ...
^ Have fun ,
^ EddyC .
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^ Great stuff Valeria .
^ Glad you enjoyed it - sounds like a real " horizon enlarging " experience .
^ I spent the day in Dundee with Mallory today , as he has been staying for a couple of days .
^ I hear you have been holidaying with a certain Mr. Parfitt !
^ How is the old boy ?
^ A get-together at New Year sounds good - I 'll keep it in mind .
^ Cheerz ,
^ Nick
^ HI GUYS ! ! !
^ Sorry to blatantly do the group email thing .
^ Some of you I have phoned , some of you I not .
^ Sorry , i have been a little busy and needed to chill .
^ I 'm in the UK now so I will be able to answer my phone and stuff and if I get time off at training I will make my way round .
^ If anyone should have got this message but I have omitted them please pass it on .
^ Thanks .
^ So , I 'm going to tell you about the summer .
^ In a word , it was MINDBLOWING ! !
^ But that really does n't help you much .
^ I 'd so much like to show you the photos and tell you the stories to your faces , but that 's not really an option so this is the next best thing .
^ Malawi was really really brilliant .
^ We saw God do loads of amazing things for us .
^ We played football after work to relax , then got asked to play some intervillage matches , shared a testimony and a week later 12 of our friends were Christians ! ! !
^ God can do immeasureably more than we can imagine .
^ Even the guy who was a speaker in a Mosque became a Christian .
^ He 's called
^ Eric ) On our last night one of these guys ( who all read the Bible in about 3 days whilst we were away for the weekend ! ) came to say goodbye .
^ As he was talking he told us how he was glad we had come and brought with us the real
^ Jesus .
^ Then he said that he did n't know if he 'd see us again in Malawi and how he doubted he 'd get to the UK .
^ he knew that one day we would all bow before God together , and that that would be brilliant
^ The team was also amazing .
^ God was shining in all of them .
^ They served the team by using their talents .
^ They were a pleasure to lead and cheered me up when I was down and we all rejoiced together seeing God at work .
^ JOhn , the assistant continually challenged me to stop worrying about stuff and give it to God , and as I did I saw God work , even when I thought there was nothing that could work out .
^ We were really remote and everyday we would have a 5 minute radio conversation , that was our only contact with the outside world , letters only once a week .
^ That really taught me to stop relying on people and to start to rely on God .
^ The school was built .
^ Our garden is providing different vitamins and minerals and will keep growing , and it 's next to the pump to everyone see 's it when they come to get water .
^ Praise God that the chief gave us that land .
^ We taught the kids who were on their way to Muslim lessons Bible stories and played games with them .
^ On the last day we explained the gospel to them to .
^ We visited food distributions and pumps , saw health clinics .
^ Come October when the famine hits Malawi things will be bad , but God is at work there .
^ People are turning to him and famine relief is getting to those who need it .
^ We learnt how important light is , saw the moon overhead , swam in Lake
^ Malawi , watched the sunset over Lake Malawi , did a talk at a sex education class at a school with 1 minutes warning ( ...
^ went to a game park and got charged by elephants , dreamt I saw giraffes in the game park , did many many talks at churches
^ cared for sick team members , spent a day living life completely the Malawian way , carried water on my head , wore a skirt every day for
^ 4.5 weeks , was given presents by the director of the church we were working for , learnt about how hard it is for missionaries
^ learnt the word for that time just as the sun rises ( Chacha chacha ) travelled on the back of a 3.5 tonne truck , dug sand , moved 30 000 bricks , had songs sung about us
^ It was MINDBLOWING ! ! ! !
^ I am very glad that God let me have this oppurtunity to go .
^ On Tuesday I start work with YFC with 3 weeks training .
^ Sometime during that I will discover where I am going to be based .
^ I am a little scared because I do n't know anyone and I have to work for these guys for a year .
^ But the last 6 weeks has definetly taught me that God is not going to abandon me , and that aboslutley anything , however random or non-important it might seem is important to him .
^ So I am keeping my fear in perspective .
^ God is definetly going to give me friends and I wo n't have no street cred as footie coach unless he wants it to happen !
^ if he does , I 'm not a fool I 'm not going to argue ! !
^ So , a quick plot synopsis ! !
^ That only leaves me say how about a party / holiday at new year time together ?
^ Only come if you want , no obligation , ( I might not be able to come I suppose but I want to ) somewhere in the world probably Brighton ...
^ talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at &WEBSITE
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^ sounds wicked !
^ Gotta get my phone replaced cause the button that flips the cover down broke at Pershore !
^ Yeah , I love driving ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ It 's cool !
^ Anyway , I have a bunch of jobs to do here so I better get on ! ! ! !
^ Oh , I think I might have brokenb my right big toe by kicking a wall in frustration during footie last night !
^ VERY Painful !
^ Anyway , spk soon !
^ Much love bro !
^ Nayeli !
^ Jonah ( &EMAIL ) &DATE &TIME ) ) )
^ Jonny ,
^ I am about to get a Nokia 2240 !
^ I re-jigged my contract yesterday , and I 'm now paying &pound; 80 for a year 's line rental , with 600 mins off-peak free a month , and a free 2240 .
^ What do you think ?
^ Hope you are ENJOYING the driving ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Love you bro ,
^ Nick
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^ I AM MOST DISPLEASED .
^ Robert , you 're are a scoundrel .
^ We do not play practical jokes on people unless they have first done so to us .
^ Therefore be assured that we have some decency buried deep within us .
^ a) The anchovies were Tabitha 's idea .
^ Bob , you misrepresented the facts .
^ b) Nick was most certainly involved in the planning of last night 's escapade .
^ His fate is sealed .
^ c) Jon and myself SWAPPED rooms .
^ Bob , you have a sick and demented mind for insinuating what you did .
^ I did not think it of you .
^ d) I object VERY STRONGLY to being described as a " whimpering henchman " .
^ I am not joking .
^ e) I object to being called ... insane , a liar , someone of depreciating estimation .
^ Anna )
^ f) I did not flip .
^ You have never seen me flip , and I am glad of that .
^ g) I am getting bored of being physically abused ( Bob ) .
^ You may be assured that it is only my natural kindness and my tendancy to burst out laughing when you attack me which prevents me from retaliating .
^ h) Our jokes are not primitive .
^ This fact shall be engraved in stone before the year is out .
^ Sawyer
^ Mallory wrote :
^ Put me out of my misery , shoot me now .
^ Remove me from this list , your 6 emails nearly put my " unread " in a few days to nearly 30 ! ! !
^ And if the joke does n't involve rape alarms , it 's primitive .
^ P.S. I 'm tempted to forward these to the Vic F mailing list , but won't .
^ Cringe saying it , but like Anna , no offense , love you all , Mallory
^ " T.S.Greetings " wrote :
^ I am back once more into the swing of life here in Wells , and as usual , sleep patterns have been interrupted .
^ What follows now is an explanation ...
^ Nick returned from his holiday with an incredibly annoying electronic mouse , which runs around , and laughs like a teletubby .
^ Understandably , I hated it .
^ Kaylee was eating pizza one night , and there were anchovies on it , which she did not like , understandably .
^ As Nick was not there , Jon and Parker came up with the idea that the only right thing to do would be to put the small fishes into Nick 's clothes .
^ Which they did .
^ After much protestation on my part , and also of Tabitha , the fishes were moved to Nick 's shoes .
^ After a while , ( well over 36 hours ) I felt that I must tell Nick about the fish .
^ It would be unfair to him otherwise .
^ The same day , I pinned the rodent onto the notice board by it 's tail , as a sign to other electronic creatures .
^ That evening , I returned from a hard day at the department to find the rat , and a piece of paper inside my room .
^ The paper was a note , from that detestable rodent ( Parker ) informing me that if I continued to harm animals , something bad would happen to me .
^ The only viable solution to this was to shoot the messenger , but as I do not own a gun , I was satisfied to unscrew the plastic back of the mouse .
^ No wires were cut , as this was only another warning .
^ Someone else ( Nick , Parker probably ) succeeded in damaging the internal organs of the beast .
^ What a shame .
^ It also came out that evening , that I had informed Nick as to the fish .
^ Threats were spoken unto me , particularly by Donald , but her whimpering henchman , Parker , also joined in .
^ I was left quaking in my brown shoes .
^ Later that week , I went to go fencing , but returned early due to the fact that it was canceled .
^ I entered the flat , and who should I see exiting my room , but Parker .
^ I of course questioned him , accusing him of setting up a " joke " .
^ He told me that he was searching for my Due South CD .
^ I persisted in my questioning , but concluded , that he was telling the truth .
^ How wrong I was about him .
^ That evening , feeling very ill , I went to bed early .
^ I heard a crackling noise from the top of my dresser , as if plastic bags were moving .
^ I thought to myself , " I hope there is not a mouse in here . "
^ I hate mice ) but then went to sleep .
^ Early the next morning , I was woken by the sound of the evil mouse , amplified by about four times , in my room .
^ Understandably , as I was trying to recover from my cough , and desperately needed rest , I was saddened .
^ Both Jon and Parker had very smug looks on their faces that morning .
^ I am pleased to note , however , that the entire evilness of their plan did not bear fruit .
^ The plan originally involved repeatedly waking me during the night , by the use of Parker 's task manager on his computer .
^ Fortunately for me , his is an incompetent oaf , and I was only woken , when Parker manually sent it off in the morning .
^ One of the fun things about fencing is that it is sometimes possible to say to your opponent , " I 'm gonna hit you on the head " and then you actually do it .
^ Much more rewarding than not saying anything !
^ I was telling Parker about this , and thought that I might worry him , by saying the " plans " I had for him !
^ I told him that I would enter his room one night , and squirt his face with squirty cream .
^ I even told him the night that this would be done .
^ I would say now , that at this time I had no intention of actually doing such a thing .
^ Later on that evening , I was in Shania 's room with Nick , and for some reason or another , I was purifying Sawyer .
^ This usually involves pain , but his has grown resistant to that , so " emotional battering " was taking place .
^ This involved chucking his sterilized keys ( no kidding ) out the window into the contaminated world .
^ At this Parker flipped , and ordered me to " fetch them " .
^ Nick at this time signaled for me to change my key with Parker 's , and this was the moment at which I started to think about actually getting some justice done .
^ That night , I went to bed with Parker 's key on my key ring , and mine on his .
^ As Parker is paranoid about germs entering his room at night , he always locks his door .
^ The key was needed to gain access to his room .
^ My plan was as follows ,
^ a) wait until it is late ( or early )
^ b) unlock Parker 's door
^ c) place my sabre on the floor , as a sign that I was there , and d) take a picture of Parker asleep to prove it
^ My plan relied on the following assumptions :
^ a) Parker would not know the number inscribed on his key
^ b) Parker would not spend the night in Donald 's bed .
^ Unfortunately , neither of these assumptions were met .
^ I know the latter one is shocking , but we need to face up to the truth .
^ My plan went well , and I returned to bed , feeling very much like Karla , after he cut the hem off of Saul 's robe when he was sleeping .
^ You can read about this in 1 Samuel )
^ Unfortunately then next morning , the following revelations were brought to light .
^ a) Both Jon and Gave had known that I was going to do something that night .
^ This , admittedly , was not surprising , as I had said that myself !
^ b) Both Jon and Parker were awake when I took the picture of " Sawyer " in his bed .
^ c) they had stolen my sabre .
^ d) and after my shower , locked me out of my room .
^ evil people .
^ Members of the jury , I ask you to bring down fire upon these two sinners heads , and if not that , at least water balloons .
^ Thank you , and God Bless .
^ Robert K. Greetings
^ Robert K. Greetings 0464 948 4426
^ Worcester B , St. Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Wells , WI3 2WP
^ St. Philip 's College
^ 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
^ Department of Geological Sciences
^ University of Wells
^ ~
^ My verdict : Keep me out of it !
^ .
^ the fishes were moved to Nick 's shoes .
^ After a while , ( well over 36 hours ) ) I felt that I must tell Nick about the fish .
^ It would be unfair to him otherwise .
^ I agree with that one .
^ Any sane person would .
^ How rank .
^ The same day , I pinned the rodent onto the notice board by it 's tail , as a sign to other electronic creatures .
^ hmmmnn ..... " Electronic creatures " would take no notice , but pranksters would take it as bait
^ Bad move Bob !
^ Threats were spoken unto me , particularly by Donald , but her whimpering henchman , Parker ,
^ HA , HA ! !
^ I 'll remember that description ! ) also joined in .
^ who should I see exiting my room , but Parker .
^ I of course questioned him , accusing him of setting up a " joke " .
^ He told me that he was searching for my Due South CD .
^ I persisted in my questioning , but concluded , that he was telling the truth .
^ How wrong I was about him .
^ Parker , I am appalled ! ! !
^ SERIOUSLY !
^ A joke 's a joke , but DON't lie about it .
^ Liars are an abomination .
^ Later on that evening , I was in Shania 's room with Nick , and for some reason or another , I was purifying Sawyer ( WHAT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ) .
^ This usually involves pain , but his has grown resistant to that , so " emotional battering " was taking place .
^ you have some really weird rituals in Worcester B .
^ Does this explain any of the incredibly violent bumps we 've been hearing
^ At this Parker flipped .
^ Oh , I 'd have like to have seen that .
^ Nick at this time signaled for me to change my key with Gav's .
^ Hmmmn ... this rather contradicts the claims of Mr Malone that " he has played no part in the events described . "
^ However , the fact that Jonah also claims to bear more than a passing resemblence to a number of well-known personages .
^ Jack Boardus , Mel Corey , Maria Hendric , Josue Kernan , Leonardo DiCaprio , etc. ) throws some doubt upon the truthfulness of his claim
^ My plan relied on the following assumptions :
^ a) Parker would not know the number inscribed on his key
^ b) Parker would not spend the night in Donald 's bed . -
^ Oh , honestly Robert !
^ Unfortunately ... Both Jon and Parker had known that I was going to do something that night ......
^ Both Jon and Parker were awake when I took the picture of " Sawyer " in his bed !
^ they had stolen my sabre ...... and after my shower , locked me out of my room .
^ the moral of the story : just DO N'T get involved
^ Members of the jury , I ask you to bring down fire upon these two sinners heads , and if not that , at least water balloons .
^ sorry , but no way .
^ I 'm steering clear .
^ You may say that , in this way , your assailants are getting away with it : but they 're not .
^ They are just sinking in the estimation that we hold of them .
^ Goodbye pals , see you later ,
^ love Cody xx
^ PS - NO-ONE is to get offended by any of my comments ! )
^ ~
^ 1. you played a pretty major role in this , my friend .
^ tim would never have done this without your bidding .
^ 2. let me get this straight about your passing resemblance to the people named below
^ you are short ( cruise ) , american , old ( ford ) , thick ( pitt ) and effeminate ( dicaprio ) ?
^ yup , i can see why you are mistaken for all of these people .
^ 3. be scared , be veryscared .
^ rav and i are out for your blood next -
^ i want my pound of flesh and i do n't care if i take plasma with it .
^ i 'd lock your room if i were you .
^ love ya , babe
^ cat
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Ladies and Gentlemen ,
^ As the lawyer of a certain Mr. C. Malone Esq. , I would like to swiftly clarify the fact that any references to my client in the account below are ENTIRELY fictitious .
^ my client assures me that he has played no part in the events described
^ He would like to point out that he bears more than a passing resemblence to a number of well-known personages .
^ Jack Boardus , Mel Corey , Maria Hendric , Josue Kernan , Leonardo DiCaprio , etc. ) and is therefore accustomed to being mistaken for someone else
^ I can only assume that the same has happened here .
^ Yours sincerely ,
^ Mr. G. E. Grandhaven ( Tulley , Tulley and Sutton )
^ " T.S.Greetings " wrote :
^ I am back once more into the swing of life here in Wells , and as usual , sleep patterns have been interrupted .
^ What follows now is an explanation ...
^ Nick returned from his holiday with an incredibly annoying electronic mouse , which runs around , and laughs like a teletubby .
^ Understandably , I hated it .
^ Kaylee was eating pizza one night , and there were anchovies on it , which she did not like , understandably .
^ As Nick was not there , Jon and Parker came up with the idea that the only right thing to do would be to put the small fishes into Nick 's clothes .
^ Which they did .
^ After much protestation on my part , and also of Tabitha , the fishes were moved to Nick 's shoes .
^ After a while , ( well over 36 hours ) I felt that I must tell Nick about the fish .
^ It would be unfair to him otherwise .
^ The same day , I pinned the rodent onto the notice board by it 's tail , as a sign to other electronic creatures .
^ That evening , I returned from a hard day at the department to find the rat , and a piece of paper inside my room .
^ The paper was a note , from that detestable rodent ( Parker ) informing me that if I continued to harm animals , something bad would happen to me .
^ The only viable solution to this was to shoot the messenger , but as I do not own a gun , I was satisfied to unscrew the plastic back of the mouse .
^ No wires were cut , as this was only another warning .
^ Someone else ( Nick , Parker probably ) succeeded in damaging the internal organs of the beast .
^ What a shame .
^ It also came out that evening , that I had informed Nick as to the fish .
^ Threats were spoken unto me , particularly by Donald , but her whimpering henchman , Parker , also joined in .
^ I was left quaking in my brown shoes .
^ Later that week , I went to go fencing , but returned early due to the fact that it was canceled .
^ I entered the flat , and who should I see exiting my room , but Parker .
^ I of course questioned him , accusing him of setting up a " joke " .
^ He told me that he was searching for my Due South CD .
^ I persisted in my questioning , but concluded , that he was telling the truth .
^ How wrong I was about him .
^ That evening , feeling very ill , I went to bed early .
^ I heard a crackling noise from the top of my dresser , as if plastic bags were moving .
^ I thought to myself , " I hope there is not a mouse in here . "
^ I hate mice ) but then went to sleep .
^ Early the next morning , I was woken by the sound of the evil mouse , amplified by about four times , in my room .
^ Understandably , as I was trying to recover from my cough , and desperately needed rest , I was saddened .
^ Both Jon and Parker had very smug looks on their faces that morning .
^ I am pleased to note , however , that the entire evilness of their plan did not bear fruit .
^ The plan originally involved repeatedly waking me during the night , by the use of Parker 's task manager on his computer .
^ Fortunately for me , his is an incompetent oaf , and I was only woken , when Parker manually sent it off in the morning .
^ One of the fun things about fencing is that it is sometimes possible to say to your opponent , " I 'm gonna hit you on the head " and then you actually do it .
^ Much more rewarding than not saying anything !
^ I was telling Parker about this , and thought that I might worry him , by saying the " plans " I had for him !
^ I told him that I would enter his room one night , and squirt his face with squirty cream .
^ I even told him the night that this would be done .
^ I would say now , that at this time I had no intention of actually doing such a thing .
^ Later on that evening , I was in Shania 's room with Nick , and for some reason or another , I was purifying Sawyer .
^ This usually involves pain , but his has grown resistant to that , so " emotional battering " was taking place .
^ This involved chucking his sterilized keys ( no kidding ) out the window into the contaminated world .
^ At this Parker flipped , and ordered me to " fetch them " .
^ Nick at this time signaled for me to change my key with Parker 's , and this was the moment at which I started to think about actually getting some justice done .
^ That night , I went to bed with Parker 's key on my key ring , and mine on his .
^ As Parker is paranoid about germs entering his room at night , he always locks his door .
^ The key was needed to gain access to his room .
^ My plan was as follows ,
^ a ) wait until it is late ( or early ) b ) unlock Parker 's door c .
^ place my sabre on the floor , as a sign that I was there , and d ) take a picture of Parker asleep to prove it
^ My plan relied on the following assumptions :
^ a ) Parker would not know the number inscribed on his key b ) Parker would not spend the night in Donald 's bed .
^ Unfortunately , neither of these assumptions were met .
^ I know the latter one is shocking , but we need to face up to the truth .
^ My plan went well , and I returned to bed , feeling very much like Karla , after he cut the hem off of Saul 's robe when he was sleeping .
^ You can read about this in 1 Samuel )
^ Unfortunately then next morning , the following revelations were brought to light .
^ a ) Both Jon and Gave had known that I was going to do something that night .
^ This , admittedly , was not surprising , as I had said that myself !
^ b ) Both Jon and Parker were awake when I took the picture of " Sawyer " in his bed .
^ c ) they had stolen my sabre .
^ d ) and after my shower , locked me out of my room .
^ evil people .
^ Members of the jury , I ask you to bring down fire upon these two sinners heads , and if not that , at least water balloons .
^ Thank you , and God Bless .
^ Robert K. Greetings
^ Robert K. Greetings 0464 948 4426
^ Worcester B , St. Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Wells , WI3 2WP
^ St. Philip 's College
^ 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
^ Department of Geological Sciences
^ University of Wells
^ ~
^ Banjoman ,
^ I sent you a text at approximately 11pm last night .
^ It is not my fault if the Lycos SMS service is defective .
^ I thought the meaning was prefectly clear , but then I get a little confused a lot of the time .
^ Was it was it wicked ?
^ See you whenever .
^ Donald .
^ From : " Jonah " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Davies , Jon " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Message
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Anticles ,
^ You sent me a text message at &TIME ish in the morning !
^ Wow !
^ Amazingly I happened to wake up just before it arrived , so I read it in a half-awake state .
^ The BIG questions are :
^ Whose phone did you use ?
^ Were you actually up at that time , or was the message delayed ?
^ What was the meaning of the message ?
^ Anyway , I loved it loved it loved , and I 'll see you in a couple of days ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ Hi Jonah ,
^ Guess what I did last night , Cooked the mex with Mallory and me landlord , was really good if a bit messy !
^ Shame you could n't join us .
^ I 've just received an email from my firm Linklaters saying that they wo n't give any money towards me going to China .
^ Now I 've got to find it from elsewhere , I did speak to Chloe 's Dad yesterday though !
^ his Abbey who worked for Links did manage to spend a couple of months one summer working in the Tokyo office and got a couple of thousand for it
^ I am going to see if I can do the same .
^ See you soon
^ Dana
^ ~
^ Hi Jonah ,
^ Guess what I did last night , Cooked the mex with Mallory and me landlord , was really good if a bit messy !
^ Shame you could n't join us .
^ I 've just received an email from my firm Linklaters saying that they wo n't give any money towards me going to China .
^ Now I 've got to find it from elsewhere , I did speak to Chloe 's Dad yesterday though !
^ his Abbey who worked for Links did manage to spend a couple of months one summer working in the Tokyo office and got a couple of thousand for it
^ I am going to see if I can do the same .
^ See you soon
^ Dana
^ ~
^ Hi Jonah ,
^ Guess what I did last night , Cooked the mex with Mallory and me landlord , was really good if a bit messy !
^ Shame you could n't join us .
^ I 've just received an email from my firm Linklaters saying that they wo n't give any money towards me going to China .
^ Now I 've got to find it from elsewhere , I did speak to Chloe 's Dad yesterday though !
^ his Abbey who worked for Links did manage to spend a couple of months one summer working in the Tokyo office and got a couple of thousand for it
^ I am going to see if I can do the same .
^ See you soon
^ Dana
^ ~
^ Interesting point .
^ What do you think ?
^ We should discuss this .
^ Let 's ask Bob .
^ Sawyer
^ ~
^ There is a time when violence is not strength , compassion is not weakness . .
^ We shall go through this together .
^ May God have mercy upon us all . " -- Hatherley Bookter , in " Camelot
^ I hope it was alright .
^ I heard people talking about the event in the Linton room afterwards .
^ I also spoke with Mallory later on .
^ I do hope that real fruit comes from it .
^ It is important for this to be followed up so it aint seen as " one step forward two steps back " as someone said .
^ God bless you , Nick .
^ Josh
^ Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe -- a spirit vastly superior to that of man
^ one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble .
^ -- Albert Booth
^ Fight the good fight ,
^ Keep the faith , spread the word .
^ ~
^ Well I have had a mad weekend !
^ Got my exam results on friday , then drove off to Bangor in N Norwich with a couple of mates .
^ Got halfway there and sven the great ( the most charismatic car alive ) broke down .
^ It was the dur belt and it was kind of my fault as I should have got it changed last time it was serviced .
^ Anyway , it was 9pm at night and we were going nowhere !
^ Luckily we broke down just outside a town ( pretty amazing in mid wales ! ) which had a shop and a few pubs open !
^ so we ate and made merry before converting the back seat of the car and the boot into a bed for three
^ The cavalry ( hannahs dad ) arrived in the morning and towed us ( once we had got up .
^ to a mechanic who told us it was pretty much dead ( &pound; 600 - &pound; 600 to fix and then no guarantees )
^ So with a tear in my eye we rang the scrapyard in the town we were in .
^ They told us that they did n't want it even if we paid them !
^ In the end we had to tow it up welsh hill and down dale to another scrapyard 25 miles away who graciously let us " leave it there " without charging us !
^ However while all this was going on and before I even knew we definitely had to scrap the volve God sorted me out with a new car ( for free !
^ is the height of luxery compared to the old one - is n't he cool !
^ So watch out - the car may have changed , but its the same old me ( just going a bit faster ! ) .
^ See ya kiddies .
^ S
^ From : " Sparky " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Subject : Morning all
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Good to hear from you guys .
^ What 's all this about marriage ?
^ I 've never even met the girl , Regan .
^ Tell us more ... ( and happy birthday )
^ Patrick - sorry to hear about life with you .
^ Some of us however know the feeling of work - I 've got a flamin 36 hour week now and I have n't even finished my degree yet .
^ It 's a disgrace .
^ My housemate who 's doing French has the cushiest time of all , she had only 1 exam after Christmas to .
^ she turned up late and then returned back to the house before the exam had actually finished ( claiming to have had a good exam ! )
^ Something is definitely wrong here !
^ As for me nothing changes , I seem ot have this constant flow of exams loming over me the whole time ... ah well .
^ Anyway must dash , my squid 's being a pain in the neck .
^ Love to y'all ,
^ Patrick
^ p.s. if any of you would like to receive a whole bunch of " funnies " then provided you do n't reply to this email within the next 24 hours I will gladly forward you some fun .
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^ Join the world 's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail . &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ I came to look for you , but you were out !
^ Anyway , sorry I 've only just decided to check my email .
^ I hope you had a great Christmas .
^ We had a great time , although my Mum was ill on Christmas
^ Day , so I helped my Dad cook the meal .
^ It turned out well in the end .
^ I did n't know you were moving house - hope you 've settled in OK .
^ I suppose it must be strange not having your own room !
^ I have done a bit of work ( not on SEG ! ) , and after new year , I guess I will start to do some , and wind up for the new term .
^ If we think about some of the design issues , such as modules needed and data structures etc .
^ would be great , then we can really get down to some hard work ( ! ) when we get back
^ Anyway , enjoy the rest of the holidays
^ Patrick
^ ps Regan didnt give me your card , but thanks for the thought .
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Wonderful pictures Mr. Nick ! !
^ I will take them home to Philip with the mail , ok ?
^ Have a very happy Christmas you too , take care and be blessed
^ Camryn ( Philip 's wife )
^ On onsdag 22. desember &YEAR , Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Philip ! ! ! ! !
^ Thanks for the postcard .
^ What does GodJul mean ?
^ At the moment I am on holiday after my first term at Wells University .
^ I am studying computer science .
^ It 's going really well .
^ I 've met a guy called Karla Bertrand from Branden .
^ He reminds me of you !
^ The Scandinavian sense of humour !
^ Last night I went to a Tatum Gracie concert with my family .
^ It was a lot of fun ; Tatum 's just had a record at number one in the Irish charts for the last three weeks - the lyrics to the song are the Lord 's prayer - fantastic !
^ I have no idea what I 'm going to do after Uni , but I 'm enjoying my life at the moment .
^ I have sent you a couple of pictures of me at Wells University .
^ How is married life ? ? ?
^ Happy Christmas ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Be BLESSED in the new millennium .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ So , you 've been joined by Deano .
^ Great .
^ Say hi to the old boy for me ...
^ So are you still hanging around Carlisle ?
^ Is that where you 're going to school ?
^ No , I was just in Carlisle visiting some friends .
^ I will indeed be in Munich , starting in a couple of weeks ' time .
^ It seems like I 've been on holiday for a lifetime !
^ Today was Leslie 's birthday ... you remember her right ?
^ Of course !
^ Pass on my regards , and tell her I can now exclusively reveal that Bennifer are definitely NO LONGER an item ...
^ All the best Tatum ,
^ Nick
^ As fun as it would be to say your first guess was right , I must admit that no Mr. Chavis is here .
^ In fact I 've been wondering where he is ...
^ Dean on the other hand is here ... not bad on the guessing , second try is impressive .
^ He 's a fun addition to the Henryton crew .
^ So are you still hanging around Carlisle ?
^ Is that where you 're going to school ?
^ For some reason I thought you had ties with Munich , but I ca n't remember if that 's where you 'll be studying this year .
^ Regardless of where , I hope that it 's a great semester for you and that you find the work interesting .
^ It seems studies are a lot easier to swallow when they 're interesting and applicable .
^ For the most part , I reckon our courses this year fit that description , although there are moments where it 's debatable .
^ Today was Leslie 's birthday ... you remember her right ?
^ Tall gal with short blonde hair ?
^ Anyway , we had an African memory moment to celebrate ... mainly because we gifted her a Bar One' ... I mean where else do you find a candy bar for a 25 hour day if not Africa ?
^ Cheers --
^ Tatum
^ ~
^ Great news Nick !
^ Hope funding works out ok .
^ I have new job - Deputy Store manager for Lidl Supermarkets ! !
^ It 's really hard work , and really long hours , but they 're condensing the initial 6 weeks of training into 2 for me ! !
^ Will be running a whole store by myself for one day only next sunday ! !
^ When ru back ?
^ Franklin soon mate .
^ W
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Keppel , Jonathan "
^ Subject : NEWS !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Aimee ,
^ They have offered me a place at Munich to do a Masters next year ! ! !
^ Now I 'm waiting to see whether they will offer me funding .... end of April .
^ Hope you 're well - watcha up to ?
^ O
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Hope you are well and the exams went ok .
^ When do you get to find out the sickening news of how well you have done ? !
^ I am well and enjoying living back at home .
^ I am still temping at Devon
^ County Council and am enjoying it .
^ I have made some good friends there .
^ As from October I will be back at Uni , although living at home .
^ I have a place to do an NZ in Political Theory at Exeter which I am excited about .
^ I am hoping that it might give me more chance at a career in political research , but I guess it is an indulgence on my part really ! !
^ Are you going to be in Munich ?
^ Anyway , must dash as Brighton v James is calling me ...
^ Love
^ Savanna xxx
^ From : " Jonah " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Savanna Keppel " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : NEWS !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Savanna ,
^ Hi .
^ I am currently in the throws of revising for my finals .
^ I have a friend from Wells here and we are revising together ( Bob Maize - I do n't know whether you 've met him ) .
^ Great news about the job !
^ What are you actually doing ?
^ Perl ? ? ?
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Thats great , I am very pleased for you .
^ You will join alol hte other
^ Wells people who seem to end up in Munich .
^ I have a job !
^ Started last Monday working in the pensions dept at Devon
^ County Council .
^ The work is all a bit complicated but its a good laugh and the people are nice .
^ Savanna xxx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Keppel , Savanna "
^ Subject : NEWS !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Savanna ,
^ They have offered me a place at Munich ! ! !
^ Now I 'm waiting to see whether they will offer me funding .... end of April .
^ O
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Mr. so-called " Maize " ,
^ So called , huh ?
^ Well it 's better than being called a lotta other things , I 'll have you know .
^ You appear to be refusing to grant me the act of penitence I so richly deserve .
^ Not only do I appear to be doing so , I downright admit to it !
^ I shall not !
^ It was your own fardling fault for not complying to the wishes of Dear Mr. Josh ... on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of his birthdate !
^ I 'm afraid the stakes are now higher .
^ I 'm afraid of no such thing .
^ You will now have to compliment the creative genius of the Star Wars trilogy in the most animated fashion to win my forgiveness .
^ I ... WILL ... NOT ...
^ You are NOT my father !
^ Sincerely ,
^ Ha !
^ That 'll be the day .
^ ~
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Mr. Maize ,
^ It has come to my attention
^ !
^ I quote " forget about Nick " .
^ What you do n't know , wo n't hurt you .
^ Serves you right for reading other peoples ' emails .
^ It is blatant humdingery .
^ Whatever that is .
^ Now Mr. Maize , I think a formal apology is in order
^ Ha !
^ If you 'd taken note of the message , you would see I also slated Josh .
^ And I ended with , as I shall this message ,
^ in jest ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Sorry about lack of response .
^ No such excuse really- either account is fine , just not the illwobble one .
^ Thanks for getting in touch .
^ I do n't know if I dream in any language at the moment , but it 's probably not Mankanya .
^ Had quite a quiet New Year at home , with Deb visiting .
^ At the moment I 'm at the Wycliffe centre taking part in a very scary workshop called Key Terms in Biblical Hebrew .
^ am going to have to create entries in some vague way for the entire domain of light & darkness , & possibly others too
^ My Hebrew is n't really up to it & it 's all rather intimidating , but very interesting nonetheless .
^ Better attempt to actually do some work now .
^ Help !
^ Take care , man .
^ Hope you 're well ,
^ Aimee
^ Hi Aimee , I sent this to your other account , but not sure which one you 're using , so just in case ...
^ Happy New Year Aimee ! ! ! !
^ What are your resolutions for this year .... get married ?
^ Not a bad idea !
^ What did you do to celebrate NV ?
^ I was in Munich with Philip 's friends , " bigging it up " as they say .
^ Now I 've started revising , cos I have exams on the 15th .
^ It 's tough at the top you know .
^ I have Sawyer Wheeler staying with me at the moment because he 's looking around Munich at possible
^ PhD courses .
^ I 'm also thinking about applying for a PhD actually , but I think I 'll defer for a year if I get a place , and have a break from studying next year .
^ I thought I might go back to South Africa for a while .
^ So , do you still dream in Mankanyan ?
^ Anyway , hope you 're OK Aimee .
^ Do n't forget that life 's too short to wear the wrong-sized underwear .
^ Later !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ But that might be - gasp - illegal ?
^ Bob , it would n't be in the least bit illegal , because I WROTE IT you ninny .
^ O
^ I slept on the beach with two girls once
^ I 'll bet sleeping on the beach in Australia is somewhat nicer than over here .
^ Who took the photo ?
^ Timer ?
^ So , you 're beating 50 year-olds on the squash court these days Bob !
^ I have made a couple of small friends at uni ...
^ be free of it ?
^ Do you think that 's possible ?
^ I still think about Anna and Regan a great deal .
^ I wish they 'd keep in touch .
^ By the way , what is a Neffrititti ?
^ I 'm off to South Africa on April 6th .
^ Really looking forward to feeling the African sun again ;
^ I 'm busily recording music at the moment ; seven new songs
^ I could send you an MP3 if you 're interested , but it would be &WEBSITE .
^ ~
^ Timnus ,
^ That picture looks pretty idylic !
^ I slept on the beach with two girls once ( different beds I hasten to add ) .
^ Needless to say I did n't get much sleep ;o ) .
^ I 'll bet sleeping on the beach in Australia is somewhat nicer than over here .
^ Who took the photo ?
^ Timer ?
^ So , you 're beating 50 year-olds on the squash court these days Bob !
^ soon you might be able to seriously challenge me : o ) .
^ I have made a couple of small friends at uni ...
^ Does that mean both your friends are of diminutive size , or that you are not exactly " deep " friends ... ? !
^ I seem to be really good at offending people I 've only recently befriended .
^ Hmmm ... bummer .
^ Not exactly a gift you want to cultivate !
^ I suspect it is a subconscious self-defence mechanism ...
^ Good analysis .
^ I would hazard a guess that perhaps it goes back even further than Anna ;
^ most of us live with stuff we carry around from childhood , especially to do with our parents , etc.
^ Would you like to deal with it and be free of it
^ Do you think that 's possible ?
^ I still think about Anna and Regan a great deal .
^ I wish they 'd keep in touch .
^ You pick people with the wrong personality types Bob !
^ Regan is a " live for the moment " guy ; an extrovert .
^ They are very engaging , but always really bad at keeping in touch .
^ They throw themselves wholeheartedly into whatever they 're doing at the time , which does n't leave much space for anything else .
^ By the way , what is a Neffrititti ?
^ I 'm off to South Africa on April 6th .
^ Really looking forward to feeling the African sun again ;
^ it should be a real experience .
^ I 'm busily recording music at the moment ; seven new songs - I could send you an MP3 if you 're &WEBSITE .
^ Ciao ,
^ Boggs
^ P.S. How are you spiritually ?
^ ~
^ What time are we due at Bob 's ?
^ Oh , yeah , nothing too hard-and-fast .
^ Sometime around &TIME I guess .
^ O
^ Hey Nick - hope you had a good christmas !
^ I 've been enjoying being at home and having a good rest .
^ Finding it slightly strange cos i have n't brought any work home - i 'm going back early to do lab project , essay , etc !
^ Only another 10 days or so in Ilford and then i 'm back in Wells ! &SMILEY
^ Thinking i will head up to Munich ( by coach ) early afternoon and maybe do some shopping or meet up with some other munich pals if they 're around .
^ What time are we due at Bob 's ?
^ What is everyone else up to ?
^ Would someone be able to pick me up from town do you think ?
^ What 's everyone doing New
^ Year 's day ?
^ My family are coming up to Munich for the day so i should be fine for getting home !
^ Also , Nick , there 's a couple of things which i would be !
^ really glad to talk to you about if we get the chance on tues / weds , or else i 'll save it for an email conversation or something
^ See you soon ,
^ ashley x
^ Hi .
^ Just a couple of things about New Year :
^ Bob 's address is :
^ 7 Langs Road
^ Munich TQ2 6NG
^ For directions I suggest you go to the AA website ( type something like " AA routeplanner " into Linkbridge ) .
^ Also , please remember to bring a towel and a sleeping bag / pillow .
^ ~
^ Nick
^ ~
^ bennie ,
^ can you send an e-mail to the people who are stayin until the second as Parker called me and asked if he was staying to the second and I had to reassure him that he WAS invited !
^ Silly boy .
^ I threw up after your meal the other night .
^ Thanks .
^ Now I 'm at la 's and am feeling much better .
^ No thanks to you .
^ But thanks for the fun evening . )
^ Now Ka is begging to type so ... .
^ Naughty Nick ! ! !
^ Fancy making Bob ill just so he could n't come !
^ It 's me agin .
^ Take care buddio !
^ Bob
^ --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote : ) Hello Boys and Girls .
^ Finally , an email about the Munich New Year party ! ! ! !
^ Date : er ...
^ Dec 62 ( &YEAR ) - Jan 1 ( &YEAR )
^ Time : arrive sometime in the evening ( ) &TIME )
^ Place : Bob Greetings 's house , Munich ( I 'll email proper directions shortly ) , with possible recourse to Nick and / or Tabitha 's house if necessary .
^ The plan is to buy food for the evening and breakfast the following morning on the day ( Bob has a car ) , so you each need to bring around &pound; 5 .
^ I think that 's all for the moment ! - Oh , and if you have n't already , please let me know ASAP if you can / ca n't make it .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. I do n't have everyone 's email addresses , so if you invited someone who did n't get this email then please pass on the info .
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Everything you 'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Roots &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Alright Clarey !
^ I 'm sure someone will be able to pick you up .
^ Give me or Bob a ring / text when you 're ready .
^ A " serious " chat eh ?
^ Sounds good .
^ We 'll aim to grab a moment on Tues / Wed .
^ See you soon !
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick - hope you had a good christmas !
^ I 've been enjoying being at home and having a good rest .
^ Finding it slightly strange cos i have n't brought any work home - i 'm going back early to do lab project , essay , etc !
^ Only another 10 days or so in Ilford and then i 'm back in Wells ! &SMILEY
^ Thinking i will head up to Munich ( by coach ) early afternoon and maybe do some shopping or meet up with some other munich pals if they 're around .
^ What time are we due at Bob 's ?
^ What is everyone else up to ?
^ Would someone be able to pick me up from town do you think ?
^ What 's everyone doing New
^ Year 's day ?
^ My family are coming up to Munich for the day so i should be fine for getting home !
^ Also , Nick , there 's a couple of things which i would be !
^ really glad to talk to you about if we get the chance on tues / weds , or else i 'll save it for an email conversation or something
^ See you soon ,
^ ashley x
^ Hi .
^ Just a couple of things about New Year :
^ Bob 's address is :
^ 7 Langs Road
^ Munich TQ2 6NG
^ For directions I suggest you go to the AA website ( type something like " AA routeplanner " into Linkbridge ) .
^ Also , please remember to bring a towel and a sleeping bag / pillow .
^ ~
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Sawyer and Valeria McScotland ,
^ I thank you for your kind offer of maintenance and entertainment on the night of December 31st &YEAR ; however , sadly I think it unlikely that I shall be able to attend .
^ as I 'm going snowboarding over Christmas and have basically promised to spend New Year with my sister to make up for it
^ With my deepest regret and sincerest best wishes ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. I 'm sure we 'll be in touch sometime soon anyway .
^ Technically the subject should read : Party to celebrate and reflect upon the end of the old year with the opportunity to look forward to a new year .
^ The writers of this email are Scottish and Hogmany is a celebration of the old year .
^ We are also obsessive .
^ Dear Bob and Karri , Nick , Mallory , Suzy , Jack P , Kaylee , Elise , Jon , Terrance , Leilani W , Anna and Cali ,
^ We would like to invite you to the above mentioned party .
^ We 're going to hold it in Wyatt , Scotland .
^ You are all invited to come .
^ We are not planning to go to the street party in Wyatt and it is too late to get tickets .
^ We are planning to have a meal on the 31st and a party late into the evening / morning .
^ Some other suggestions for entertainment include the " loney duke " ( ask Valeria ) .
^ visiting the castle , going hill-walking , snowball fighting ( if the weather is laid on ) , going to coffee shops , eating french toast , and shopping
^ Accomodation could be available from the 30th for a week or so if you want it to be , although there is no obligation to stay past the customary dates .
^ After expressing an interest , it is worth considering your transport arrangements , due to
^ Scottish public holidays .
^ It would be great to see you guys and spend some quality time together .
^ Come for a few days so we can really enjoy the fact that we are friends .
^ This list is not exclusive , but the amount of accomodation is limited , so let us know before you bring a dozen others .
^ We suggest arriving on the 30th in the afternoon / early evening and staying til the 2nd .
^ Accomodation is free , but a contribution for feeding you would be cool .
^ Any activities might cost money ( we are just trying to be realistic here ) .
^ Any questions ?
^ Please RSVP ( yes or no ) by letter , email , text , telephone , owl , telegram or morse code .
^ Psionic communication is not acceptable ( look it up in a dictionary ) .
^ Good morning , good evening and good night .
^ Valeria & Sawyer
^ ~
^ SKIING IS FOR GRANDADS ! ! !
^ Oh , and my nose STILL hurts from being smacked in the face THREE times during that ridiculous match ! !
^ Laterz ...
^ Snowboarding is for 15 year old homeboys or 15 year old homeboy wannabes .
^ You should be going skiing like me .
^ Oh and remember we played that 2nds footie match .
^ That was the only one I have ever played , since then played only 1sts and going to get a 1sts shirt .
^ You see they know talent when they see it .
^ Mallory
^ Sawyer and Valeria McScotland ,
^ I thank you for your kind offer of maintenance and entertainment on the night of December 31st &YEAR ; however , sadly I think it unlikely that I shall be able to attend .
^ as I 'm going snowboarding over Christmas and have basically promised to spend New Year with my sister to make up for it
^ With my deepest regret and sincerest best wishes ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. I 'm sure we 'll be in touch sometime soon anyway .
^ Technically the subject should read : Party to celebrate and reflect upon the end of the old year with the opportunity to look forward to a new year .
^ The writers of this email are Scottish and Hogmany is a celebration of the old year .
^ We are also obsessive .
^ Dear Bob and Karri , Nick , Mallory , Suzy , Jack P , Kaylee , Elise , Jon , Terrance , Leilani W , Anna and Cali ,
^ We would like to invite you to the above mentioned party .
^ We 're going to hold it in Wyatt , Scotland .
^ You are all invited to come .
^ We are not planning to go to the street party in Wyatt and it is too late to get tickets .
^ We are planning to have a meal on the 31st and a party late into the evening / morning .
^ Some other suggestions for entertainment include the " loney duke " ( ask Valeria ) .
^ visiting the castle , going hill-walking , snowball fighting ( if the weather is laid on ) , going to coffee shops , eating french toast , and shopping
^ Accomodation could be available from the 30th for a week or so if you want it to be , although there is no obligation to stay past the customary dates .
^ After expressing an interest , it is worth considering your transport arrangements , due to
^ Scottish public holidays .
^ It would be great to see you guys and spend some quality time together .
^ Come for a few days so we can really enjoy the fact that we are friends .
^ This list is not exclusive , but the amount of accomodation is limited , so let us know before you bring a dozen others .
^ We suggest arriving on the 30th in the afternoon / early evening and staying til the 2nd .
^ Accomodation is free , but a contribution for feeding you would be cool .
^ Any activities might cost money ( we are just trying to be realistic here ) .
^ Any questions ?
^ Please RSVP ( yes or no ) by letter , email , text , telephone , owl , telegram or morse code .
^ Psionic communication is not acceptable ( look it up in a dictionary ) .
^ Good morning , good evening and good night .
^ Valeria & Sawyer
^ ~
^ If you guys are praying for me , a specific prayer request would be .
^ I would trust that God does have something planned for my life and that I would follow his lead , and use my own common sense too
^ Will do Timbo ; when is your Stotherford interview ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Shame you ca n't come up to Edinborough .
^ Rah snowboarder ...
^ Humph !
^ I hope that is fun .
^ Are you still enjoying working with your parents ?
^ The work is going well Bob .
^ My paper is almost ready for submission , and I should know about next year 's funding quite soon .
^ I 'm up to Wells this weekend for another crazily stuffed full of activity weekend .
^ Say hi to anyone who remembers me , and have a great time !
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Snowboarding is for 15 year old homeboys or 15 year old homeboy wannabes .
^ You should be going skiing like me .
^ Oh and remember we played that 2nds footie match .
^ That was the only one I have ever played , since then played only 1sts and going to get a 1sts shirt .
^ You see they know talent when they see it .
^ Mallory
^ Sawyer and Valeria McScotland ,
^ I thank you for your kind offer of maintenance and entertainment on the night of December 31st &YEAR ; however , sadly I think it unlikely that I shall be able to attend .
^ as I 'm going snowboarding over Christmas and have basically promised to spend New Year with my sister to make up for it
^ With my deepest regret and sincerest best wishes ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. I 'm sure we 'll be in touch sometime soon anyway .
^ Technically the subject should read : Party to celebrate and reflect upon the end of the old year with the opportunity to look forward to a new year .
^ The writers of this email are Scottish and Hogmany is a celebration of the old year .
^ We are also obsessive .
^ Dear Bob and Karri , Nick , Mallory , Suzy , Jack P , Kaylee , Elise , Jon , Terrance , Leilani W , Anna and Cali ,
^ We would like to invite you to the above mentioned party .
^ We 're going to hold it in Wyatt , Scotland .
^ You are all invited to come .
^ We are not planning to go to the street party in Wyatt and it is too late to get tickets .
^ We are planning to have a meal on the 31st and a party late into the evening / morning .
^ Some other suggestions for entertainment include the " loney duke " ( ask Valeria ) .
^ visiting the castle , going hill-walking , snowball fighting ( if the weather is laid on ) , going to coffee shops , eating french toast , and shopping
^ Accomodation could be available from the 30th for a week or so if you want it to be , although there is no obligation to stay past the customary dates .
^ After expressing an interest , it is worth considering your transport arrangements , due to
^ Scottish public holidays .
^ It would be great to see you guys and spend some quality time together .
^ Come for a few days so we can really enjoy the fact that we are friends .
^ This list is not exclusive , but the amount of accomodation is limited , so let us know before you bring a dozen others .
^ We suggest arriving on the 30th in the afternoon / early evening and staying til the 2nd .
^ Accomodation is free , but a contribution for feeding you would be cool .
^ Any activities might cost money ( we are just trying to be realistic here ) .
^ Any questions ?
^ Please RSVP ( yes or no ) by letter , email , text , telephone , owl , telegram or morse code .
^ Psionic communication is not acceptable ( look it up in a dictionary ) .
^ Good morning , good evening and good night .
^ Valeria & Sawyer
^ ~
^ Robert !
^ Thanks for the email .
^ I really enjoyed hearing about what you 're up to .
^ I like the way you send such detailed emails - especially the technological bits - very interesting ! !
^ I ca n't believe you 're across the other side of the world !
^ I love the way email makes it so easy to communicate across huge distances - fab .
^ The computer sounds great .
^ How much was it in the end ?
^ We are now living in Rutford ( just outside of Luxembourg ) .
^ So , I finally move to the Luxembourg area , and you decide to move to Australia ! ! !
^ Great .
^ I 'll try not to take it personally .
^ Have you got any long- or medium-term plans for the future ?
^ Is Australia as good as you remembered it ?
^ I have just started studying for Munich next year .
^ I 'm in Kassidy college , and I 've got loads of background work to do - engineering maths and linguistics mostly .
^ We went to church this morning in Rutford .
^ It was a fairly typical Anglican service and if I 'm honest I found it pretty boring .
^ The organist played everything so SLOWLY !
^ I 've had a pretty busy summer holiday so far .
^ Last week we got back from spending a week in Scotland in a caravan .
^ It was nice , but the weather was n't great .
^ We passed through Wells on the way up and back , staying a few nights .
^ I texted you from the science site - did you get it ?
^ Right - keep it real old buddy !
^ Nick
^ P.S. Did you sort things out with Anna at all ?
^ ~
^ Dear Sir ,
^ Your West Country / Cockney accent ( were you born on a train ? ) appears to be missing .
^ Please correct this .
^ Yours , a satisfied customer P.S. I saw Kevvie today in the library .
^ He was about to go and give a presentation to a Mr. Blair on the dangers of F&M .
^ " Kevin & Co. " wrote :
^ Hello ,
^ I 'm from the water board .
^ I do hope you have n't been drinking the water from your taps without boiling it .
^ There could be dangerous diseases in it .
^ I 'm collaborating with my colleague , Kevin , from the WAUU .
^ Remember , always boil your water .
^ ~
^ Hello again Mr Nick !
^ Cody , you are on another holiday ! ! ! ! - hey , it was only my second !
^ I ca n't believe it .
^ Try ( as Mr Broderick says in Sense and Sensiblity !
^ Mmmn , I have n't watched that in ages , so I may sit down and watch it tonight while I do some ironing ! )
^ now I 've got just one week and one day to go .
^ !
^ I 'm quite excited about finishing .
^ I never would have guessed !
^ 
^ I 'm glad you 're excited about finishing , and hope you 've enjoyed your work on the whole .
^ There 's nothing quite like having work , something to get on with , and an income , but it can be a terrible drag too .
^ I remember when I was working in WHSmiths in my gap year , there were some days I just could n't face going .
^ standing on the shop floor waiting for customers .... but then at the same time , I really enjoyed my time there
^ It 's funny , the mixed emotions we have about things .
^ Our holiday was really great .
^ I so did n't want to come home again .
^ The holiday cottage we staying in was so sweet and quaint , and it was so nice to get away from the hum-drum of home and everyday things and escape to little old-fashioned Rye .
^ It was so nice for us to have a proper family holiday again - although Isabelle was missing now that she 's married .
^ You know , I was thinking , the last family holiday we had .
^ ie all 6 of us ) was 2 years ago , and at the time I had no idea that it would be our last all together
^ It 's funny how situations and circumstances as they pass by seem normal , or even insignificant , but at a future point you look back and realise they were rather special and memorable .
^ Anyway , we came home on Saturday , and have quickly settled back into home life .
^ Dad is on the phone and computer all the time - nothing changes , mam is back at work , Uriel goes back to school on Wednesday to start her A-level studies , and Jessie is back in Munich .
^ Well , I 'd better go .
^ Enjoy your last days at work - 3 days left now is it ? ? !
^ Have fun , love , Cody xx
^ PS - heard or seen anything of Kaden lately ?
^ I have n't seen him since Rye .
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^ ~
^ Hello again Mr Nick !
^ Cody , you are on another holiday ! ! ! ! - hey , it was only my second !
^ I ca n't believe it .
^ Try ( as Mr Broderick says in Sense and Sensiblity !
^ Mmmn , I have n't watched that in ages , so I may sit down and watch it tonight while I do some ironing ! )
^ now I 've got just one week and one day to go .
^ ~
^ Cunners , I am definitely going to be in E for New Year .
^ Soz .
^ Would love to see you sometime soon ,
^ Nick
^ Hello Everyone !
^ I bring great news of a New Years Eve Party ( with a capital P ) happening in Carlisle this December !
^ Oh yes .
^ I 'm * currently * living in a fantastic house in Queens Park , with some fantastic people .... and we 've decided to put on an event .
^ We 're in an old
^ Victorian house with really high ceilings , creaky floorboards , stone heads in fireplaces etc. which has resulted in us deciding on having a fairytale theme ( hence the subject line ... get it ? ) .
^ Lots of dressing up and good times all round .
^ Anyways , it has lots of promise and would be great to have you guys there ( and any random others - Nick , what 's Eliana up to !
^ then? ) ... We 're still in the planning stages , but if you do n't have any plans keep this party in mind
^ See ya ,
^ Christian .
^ P.S. Still waiting for those riddles ... though am starting to think they will never appear ...
^ 62 Swallowfield Road ,
^ Exeter , Devon .
^ EX2 6JD .
^ Mob 05555 208666
^ ~
^ Girls ,
^ I will be in Munich for graduation on January 24th .
^ I would like to see you .
^ Will you be around ?
^ I 'm not sure how long I 'll have as my family will be there and we 'll probably have to travel back in the evening ...
^ they are happy to do their own thing for some time during the day , so hopefully we can meet up
^ Yours expectantly ,
^ Boggs
^ ~
^ NOOOOOOOOO ! you ca n't graduate then Nick - I have a date with my family to see Bombay Dreams in Carlisle on the 24th .
^ NOOOOOOOOOOO ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Oh well Naomi .
^ I 'll have to make time for another visit at some point .
^ Do n't think I 'll be able to make it up on Friday evening unfortunately .
^ Still , in the words of Embrace , we got time ...
^ So , how 's your work going ?
^ Have you had any deep and profound thoughts about next year ?
^ I 'm doing well - enjoying the provincial life and stuff .
^ Have been recording quite a bit of music recently .
^ Keep it real .
^ Love Nick
^ NOOOOOOOOO ! you ca n't graduate then Nick - I have a date with my family to see Bombay Dreams in Carlisle on the 24th .
^ If you come up on the Friday evening I could be around then ... .
^ It would be a shame to miss you , but hey I understand that the vice chancellor or whoever will be giving out degrees cant just be rearranged !
^ I hope you 've had good Christmasses ( what is the plural of Christmas ? ) one and all .
^ I 'm now back in Ipswich , having ventured up into Yorkshire with family , and up to my Granny 's near Noel too .
^ I have had sleeping sickness in the car - complete inability to stay awake !
^ Both my sister and I managed to buy " Eats , shoots and leaves " for my Grandad .
^ Just goes to show that her becoming an Owen has n't removed the Heathcote from her .
^ Well , chickidees , look after yourself .
^ Vic and Rola , I suggest that if you can meet up with Nick you DONT take him to the wonderful new shop .
^ Incidently tho , have you ever come across reversible sorts ? ? ?
^ Just an idea I happened upon 2 minutes ago .
^ love and hugs to you all ,
^ Kaylee
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Girls ,
^ I will be in Munich for graduation on January 24th .
^ I would like to see you .
^ Will you be around ?
^ I 'm not sure how long I 'll have as my family will be there and we 'll probably have to travel back in the evening ...
^ they are happy to do their own thing for some time during the day , so hopefully we can meet up
^ Yours expectantly ,
^ Boggs
^ ~
^ Ok Vci .
^ If I make it to Jon 's thing , then obviously I wo n't need to see you the next day ( can you get too much of a good thing ? ) .
^ If I do n't make Jon 's knees-up , then maybe we could meet up in your gigantic &TIME - &TIME break " slot " . ?
^ Is Jennifer around as well ?
^ Love Nick ,
^ yo ho ho , that would be lovely - ca n't do &TIME or &TIME and am at work for rest of day ( eg &TIME ) but could do a swift coffee at some point ?
^ Sorry , that sounds like I 'm totally unavailable ... I can escape for probably half an hour sometime ... will maybe see you at Jon 's party on 23rd ? hope you 're v well , love vicx
^ On &DATE &TIME , you wrote :
^ Girls ,
^ I will be in Munich for graduation on January 24th .
^ I would like to see you .
^ Will you be around ?
^ I 'm not sure how long I 'll have as my family will be there and we 'll probably have to travel back in the evening ...
^ they are happy to do their own thing for some time during the day , so hopefully we can meet up
^ Yours expectantly ,
^ Boggs
^ ~
^ NOOOOOOOOO ! you ca n't graduate then Nick - I have a date with my family to see Bombay Dreams in Carlisle on the 24th .
^ If you come up on the Friday evening I could be around then ... .
^ It would be a shame to miss you , but hey I understand that the vice chancellor or whoever will be giving out degrees cant just be rearranged !
^ I hope you 've had good Christmasses ( what is the plural of Christmas ? ) one and all .
^ I 'm now back in Ipswich , having ventured up into Yorkshire with family , and up to my Granny 's near Noel too .
^ I have had sleeping sickness in the car - complete inability to stay awake !
^ Both my sister and I managed to buy " Eats , shoots and leaves " for my Grandad .
^ Just goes to show that her becoming an Owen has n't removed the Heathcote from her .
^ Well , chickidees , look after yourself .
^ Vic and Rola , I suggest that if you can meet up with Nick you DONT take him to the wonderful new shop .
^ Incidently tho , have you ever come across reversible sorts ? ? ?
^ Just an idea I happened upon 2 minutes ago .
^ love and hugs to you all ,
^ Kaylee
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Girls ,
^ I will be in Munich for graduation on January 24th .
^ I would like to see you .
^ Will you be around ?
^ I 'm not sure how long I 'll have as my family will be there and we 'll probably have to travel back in the evening ...
^ they are happy to do their own thing for some time during the day , so hopefully we can meet up
^ Yours expectantly ,
^ Boggs
^ University of Munich
^ Department of Geography
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Good - I 'll book you a room then .
^ Where is your brother staying ?
^ There 's Mallory , me , you and we could do with someone else to make up a quad room so it 's cheaper . )
^ As regards the walk - I am just thinking about it at the moment .
^ Nothing so adventurous as 800 miles , I 'm thinking more 900 over three days .
^ I.e. a friday to sunday sometime this summer .
^ Travelling very light and staying in youth hostels / B&Bs .
^ I 've no idea about people , anyone , I guess .
^ I am in the middle of writing my first year report and have only two weeks to complete it ... reading about space elevators yesterday .
^ Hope Africa is good .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Schmills ,
^ Alas , I ca n't attend the clash of the titans because I lecture on music theory to 9 year olds on a Monday .
^ But do n't be discouraged !
^ Fix an image of me in your mind and let yourself be inspired ...
^ Soon ,
^ Linda
^ Just to check that you all got this ...
^ Hello all !
^ Just to say that I now have more info on the varsity hockey matches .
^ It is on : &DATE
^ In : Dundee , Iffley Road Astro
^ The women 's 2s and 3s AND the men 's 2s and 3s play on the above day .
^ The 1's play somewhere else at some other time ) .
^ Mine ( men 's 2s ) is the last match of the day and expected to start about 4pm .
^ If you would like to come and watch that would be great .
^ You 're welcome to stay at mine the night before or alternatively come for the day .
^ However I do of course understand if you either ca n't be bothered to travel a long way for a short time or simply ca n't come as it 's on a weekday .
^ Anyway , contact me if you 're coming ( and I 'll confirm times etc ... ) and I 'll let you all know if , but only if , we win !
^ Mallory
^ ~
^ Hey ; it 's the silver one .
^ First impressions are good - nice clear sound .
^ Rodrigo is living with his parents , and it was pretty strange to be back in his house again !
^ Speak soon ,
^ O
^ Dear Nick ,
^ AKG C1000 good mic ... did you buy new or risk the second hand market ?
^ I have done much recording using a pair of C1000 , it has a balanced frequency response across the spectrum- is it the black one or silver ?
^ My job at SB finishes around the time / just after you leave for Africa ...
^ you must come down and stay before you travel .
^ Maybe we should set a date sometime .
^ Rodrigo is well them -does he have his own place or is he with his folks ?
^ " So fresh " ... yes that would be good !
^ I need some Fresh .
^ Speak soon ,
^ LOL , Joshua C. xoxoxoxxox
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Joshua Tarquine "
^ Subject : Re : Whaturup2
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Ed .
^ First off , my brother 's email address : &EMAIL
^ Secondly , YES , I have booked my tickets for Africa - leaving on April 6th and back on June 29th .
^ I have to say that just recently , I have been through major bouts of depression - I am finding everything so boring .
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Currently at work getting totally board - I will definitely finish here as soon as I can afford to .
^ Karla and Jansel are moving house - they have offered me a room in the new house but it wo n't be as big as the two rooms that I am accustomed to .
^ However , I really want to get a place of my own in Carlisle to do up - an evening project .
^ A place that I can have lots of people to stay whenever I fancy !
^ I have to say that just recently , I have been through major bouts of depression - I am finding everything so boring .
^ I feel constrained and tied down to a life of drudgery I hate .
^ I want to break free !
^ I have though about all sorts of crazy but fun jobs to do - but still do n't fully know what I want to set my hand to .
^ There are to many options and not enough time or money !
^ What about you ?
^ Have you booked a flight to Africa yet ?
^ I look forward to hearing from you .
^ Lots of Love ,
^ Joshua C. xoxox
^ We want to find out where your PC ranks in your own Personal Protection League .
^ Take the survey here .
^ ~
^ Thanks for the update Alfie .
^ Sorry to hear about the project - they obviously made a terrible mistake : o ) .
^ Still , I 'll wait with interest for news about the alternatives .
^ I 'm off to South Africa on April 6th .
^ The teaching has been really good , and I 've also had time to pursue one of my other hobbies - recording music .
^ I trust you are taking the opportunity to do some snowboarding while you 're in Skylar .
^ We went over Christmas - superb .
^ Anyway , I hope you and your family are well .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ The bad news is our grant was not funded -- at the 2nd mtg it went to , they only funded one out of 26 projects .
^ We 'll resubmit it , but this is unlikely to help you .
^ I have one more in the pipeline but do n't know when I 'll hear about this + another I plan to submit , but the start date wld probably be Jan05 .
^ Good news -- lab grants appear to be slightly easier this year -- Kaleigh sent me the following .
^ You shld hear further from her soon .
^ Hope you are still enjoying teaching .
^ I am in snowy Skylar on sabbatical now .
^ Alfie
^ I will be starting to send out WMP application forms as soon as they are made available by the Commission for Advancement Studies .
^ Nick will also be considered for HKZUX DTA funding alongside the other UK applicants with offers .
^ The Fujitsu Scholarship becomes vacant this year and once the criteria is agreed by Eddie Briers we will be advertising it on the web pages .
^ ~
^ Kates , I 've already sent i - will it get there ? - I just put it in a jiffy bag and wrote the address on the front .
^ Hope you enjoyed the wedding .
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick .
^ i 'll give roo a special freepost envelope to give to u , so you can send your old brick directly to the recycling place , if you 'd like ,
^ thanks for keeping it to send off .
^ feel free to phone roo this weekend on my phone .
^ i 'll try to have it on a bit more regularly .... !
^ ( except when the happy couple are saying their i dos ! )
^ hasta la vista
^ Hello Terrance " so-called " Helling .
^ I 'll try and send you my old brick if you want !
^ Hope you 're well ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hello Terrance " so-called " Helling .
^ I 'll try and send you my old brick if you want !
^ Hope you 're well ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ EWok ,
^ This is the exact situation you 've been training for with all of your sprinting !
^ This is what you do : you chase down the handbag thief , tackle him from behind , grab the handbag , and then use it to whip senseless the crazed drunk .
^ Next , you steal money out of the old lady 's wallet and buy the poor little kid an ice cream .
^ As far as the fork ; I saw Leilani put it there .
^ She did the calculation that not all of us would get a go on the bumper cars , so that was just one of her tactics for eliminating people ahead of her in line .
^ If you rolled over the fork , you 'd clearly be in too much pain to go onto one of those cars .
^ Not only that , it may have puntctured an organ , forcing Fai and I to get out of line to take you to the hospital .
^ A brilliantly evil plan .
^ Orlando
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Great photos Annie !
^ I 've got some pretty cool lab shots actually - I 'll put them onto pwf when it 's back up ...
^ See y'all soon ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. Annie , I was in this situation today with a crazed drunk beating up a little kid , and an escapee making off with an old woman 's handbag ...
^ Hey Leilani , Fai , and Nick :
^ I uploaded some pictures of us at various events throughout the year .
^ There are some classic pictures of Fai .
^ I especially like the one of me scoring on him in Korfball .
^ Anyway , the korball pics can be found at :
^ &WEBSITE
^ some other pics including one I stole from EWok :
^ &WEBSITE
^ Fai - do you have any more Korball pictures ?
^ Nick - do you have any pictures from the lab ?
^ Hope the projects are going well ,
^ Orlando
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Thanks for your earlier message - glad to hear that you found it useful !
^ Meanwhile , C++ :
^ To understand the answer to this , you first have to be very clear about the difference between a pointer and a reference .
^ A pointer is a value that is quite distinct from the object it points at .
^ The pointer must have an operator applied to it in order to obtain the object it points at ( dereferencing ) .
^ A pointer can be made to point at a new object ( assignment to the pointer ) and could point at nothing ( pointer value null ) .
^ In contrast , a reference can be used exactly as though it were the object ( no dereferencing ) and it cannot be assigned to -- only initialised .
^ It can never be null -- it is always a reference to an object ( the object it refers to could be deleted causing a reference to become invalid , however ) .
^ The types of a pointer at an object ( T * ) and a reference to an object ( T& ) are declared , used and type-checked as distinct types .
^ Now you need to recall that " this " is a pointer .
^ Purely from a type point of view , then , we can see that if we want to return a reference to an object , returning " this " would be incorrect .
^ The next question is how one turns an object into a reference to the object .
^ This is actually a subtle business : reference types are managed by the compiler -- the compiler can see where types are declared as reference types so it passes the values that must be reference values correctly .
^ rather than relying on a syntactic difference in the expressions that denote the reference types to distinguish them from other values
^ That is , a reference to an object and an object are syntactically ( and since they are used in operations that is OK ) but the compiler uses the type to handle the expressions differently .
^ The key difference is that a reference is not copied - the original object is passed .
^ The benefit is that the copying does not have to be paid for .
^ A consequence that can be beneficial or can be irrelevant is that the reference can be used as a mechanism for communication between function and caller , in addition to return values .
^ For example :
^ bool getCoord ( int & x , int & y ) ;
^ is the type of a function that returns a bool to say whether it has achieved its purpose and uses reference arguments to pass out its resulting coordinates .
^ the x and y passed in by the caller might be examined or might simply be written over
^ or both , but the caller and the function are sharing the same ints )
^ When a result is returned by reference , as with assignment , it must be an object that is either created on the heap .
^ using new ) or else an object that was passed in by reference , or , finally , the calling object itself
^ No local objects can be safely passed back by reference since they are automatically destroyed when the function call ends .
^ So :
^ A & f ( ) A a ; return a ;
^ is an undefined behaviour .
^ The implication of this , if you think about it , is that returning a reference is not a very common thing to do -- to return it , you will almost .
^ certainly have had the object at the calling end to pass in in the first place , so you are just going to get back something you passed in
^ Why bother ?
^ The main reason is for syntactic convenience combined with the avoidance of a copy .
^ Avoiding copying is sometimes for efficiency ( as in this assignment case ) and sometimes more significant ( avoiding copying output streams .
^ for example , in output operator overloads , which is because you cannot have multiple instances of the same output stream if you want it to behave correctly )
^ The syntactic convenience is to allow the use of the return result in nested expressions such as :
^ a b c ;
^ This makes sense only if the assignment ( bc ) can return a result that can be assigned to a .
^ Otherwise we have to write :
^ b c ; a b ;
^ is semantically equivalent , but could be slightly less efficient .
^ For example , here is the g++ code ( unoptimised ) for
^ int x , y , z ;
^ x y z ;
^ int a , b , c ;
^ b c ; a b ;
^ 
^ -20 ( %ebp ) copy register to b movl -20 ( %ebp ) , %eax move b to register movl %eax , -16 ( %ebp ) copy register to
^ As you can see , the un-nested version takes an extra instruction ( which can easily be optimised away in this case , but might not always be so trivial ) .
^ There is one other place that a reference return value is very useful , again for syntactic convience , and that is when you want to access a field within a data structure to assign to it .
^ This is most common with arrays :
^ array[i ] value ;
^ This can only work if array[i ] is a reference , since otherwise you are assigning value to a copy of the ith cell , which is not much use to you .
^ It is pure syntactic convience , because we could insist on using a function like :
^ &WEBSITE ( i , value ) ;
^ would mean that set could access the ith entry directly to store value into it .
^ But that would be ugly .
^ Sorry this has turned into a rather long essay - I bet you had n't realised there was so much behind the question !
^ Cheers
^ Imani
^ ~
^ Hey Grayson ,
^ The Shelleys have moved .
^ We now live near Luxembourg so as a general rule we wo n't be available to play this season .
^ My brother and I will be away at University for most of the time anyway .
^ My dad might be able to play the odd game - it might be worth contacting him if you 're really short .
^ if we happen to be in Bath over a weekend or something we 'll give you a ring
^ I trust the season goes really well , and I hope our paths will cross again sometime soon !
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Guys - this is a blanket e-mail for two purposes - with also a request ... to pass on to those not included .
^ First - please would you indicate if you are likely to be willing to play at least occasionally .
^ i.e when back from Uni or , in Marquet WW 's case " in emergency " [ SWW has already indicated a wish to focus on rugby this year
^ no accounting for taste ! ; also Julian is reffing .... not playing mostly ! ]
^ If you can play please would you remind me also of dat of birth , then Carter and I will finalise the registrations .
^ Second : we have an away friendly against BSxi this coming Saturday ... please would you indicate if you can play .
^ It 'll be 9.00 at Widcombe .
^ Playing so far : Quinton & Grayson Roberts ... so we want at least 13 others ! ! ! .
^ Third : the match on the 7th , which is the first of the season is also the 20 Anniv celebration and we will be having photos and a meal at Uni with everyone else ie some 850 of us ... TV coming plus ... for this .
^ as for the rest of the season we should be operating with 5 subs ... although that we will finalise as a rule at the next committee meeting
^ OK ... that 's it ... hope to hear from y'all ASAP .
^ Grayson
^ ~
^ Frederick writes :
^ Jade ,
^ I would not have been happier if it were God Himself who was giving out the credits .
^ Nick
^ For just about any student other than you , I would have said that you have actually gone one better than God and got me but , for you , I wo n't ! !
^ Jade
^ Mr. Jade M. Hodgson . &EMAIL
^ Director of Undergraduate Studies ,
^ Department of Computer Science ,
^ University of Wells , Tel. ( 0464 912 ) 2400
^ South Road , Fax. ( 0464 912 ) 8040
^ Wells WI3 3LE &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Jade !
^ Classic ! !
^ I 'd forgotten that you lived around here !
^ If I mention your name to Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler , will they give me a discount on the health club at the hotel ? ?
^ I could certainly do with one !
^ Do come and visit sometime .
^ We 're just down the road from the hotel .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. Thanks for sorting out the letter .
^ I will send a letterin the absence of an official certificate .
^ I hope you like Rutford .
^ If you have anything to do with Philip or
^ Carrie Wheeler ( who own the Rutford House Hotel ) do remember me to them .
^ I knew them and their children well when I was living in Cricklade .
^ There was also a family called Cres ( who lived on the opposite sideof the road from the Hotel ) whom we knew well .
^ I even milked one of their goats !
^ I do not know if they are still there !
^ Jade
^ ~
^ Did you take that photo yourself Rylee ? ?
^ If so , how ? ?
^ I did indeed .
^ Easy , with macro mode on my new digital camera .
^ Ooooh .
^ To be honest , I think they were having such a good time they could n't have cared less about my photographic intrusion .
^ The Power of One ...
^ I 'll look that one up .
^ Am off to Tabitha 's birthday party in Carlisle on Saturday .
^ Looks like it 's going to be a bit of a Wells reunion .
^ Must get my hair cut before then ...
^ No do n't ! ! !
^ Stop .
^ Grow a mullet like me .
^ I 'm growing a mullet Nick , did I tell you ?
^ Its coming on slowly , but I 'm two months into it .
^ 5 more to go before it comes off for Bain .
^ Am currently watching a very interesting NNR " mocumentary " about the Panama Heck .
^ Bet that makes you homesick does n't it ...
^ Panama Heck ?
^ Hmmm .
^ There 's a terrible programme on NNR World here called
^ Hard Talk .
^ Its some interviewer holding ridiculous points of view to try and trip up the interviewee .
^ Its just not good TV , I 'm afraid to say .
^ Me poo hater , ( rhyming slang )
^ spam
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ How wise to make me actually start thinking instead of getting other people to do it for me .
^ I actually started to do that today and have been looking through the jobs section in the Progress .
^ All of the kind of jobs I am thinking of homelessness , youthwork , troubled .
^ kids need experience so I am going to apply for a volunteers scheme in the city centre and they provide you with housing so I wont be at home
^ I know also that I would love to teach which is why I thought of Josue again .
^ its hard with that idea because a big part of me has real regrets about not doing my training for that this year
^ Oh well , regrets are only useful to learn from so I must really look in earnest .
^ I have also asked Tear Fund to send me info so I could do some volunteer stuff for them and just Christmas work to earn the money .
^ Still not too inspired really , though I wish I had a big vision or goal .
^ maybe you will end up working in lovely enfield , then and you can see what I meant about my awful church !
^ Data Connection does have a prayer meeting as well as a football team and a very good canteen !
^ Nick you are still being very vague about keeping your options open , a few more ideas would be useful , I know i dont have to worry too much anyway
^ Thanks for the e mail adresses I have written quite a bit to Suzy but to the wrong adress oops , will you be able to cope rugless until your birthday ?
^ I would love to be giving you a foot massage but unfortunately my arms are not that long !
^ I may be coming through to Munich soon so you will have to wait and see , speak soon Eric xx
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " toni rogers "
^ Subject : Re : Re :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ What do you see me doing ?
^ What do you think I would be good at ?
^ What about
^ Josue again , good idea or not ?
^ Can you pray for inspiration for me
^ There is a computer firm near me called Data Connection which has one and it is very nice ( I did temporary kitchen work )
^ Nick what do you mean about keeping your options open ?
^ Have you got Tabitha 's e mail address ?
^ Suzy 's
^ That carpet sounds awful , you need a rug , when is your birthday adn I will see what I can do !
^ Surf the Web without missing calls !
^ Get MSN Broadband .
^ Click Here
^ ~
^ One of the Cuths players was playing really dirty and just taking us out if we ever got past him - and right at the end .
^ I span him on the halfway line and he just turned and kicked into my heel
^ Think it was the bruising from the kick and the spraining and straining from clipping my other heel and falling awkwardly .
^ He ran off before I could get up and deck him !
^ Annoying cause the were so dirty and won 3-0 - very annoying combination .
^ Hows Russell holding up for you ? ! ? ! ?
^ What are your plans - what are you doing at present ? ?
^ How did your paper go ? ?
^ Oh , and have you found any decent gloves yet ? !
^ I think I am going to have to get Gore-tex cause I just do n't trust the rest ! !
^ Nayeli
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " James Malone "
^ Subject : Re : Re :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Jonny , Jonny , Jonny ...
^ " When in Rome ... " and all that .
^ Hope the ankle mends quickly - how did you do it ?
^ O
^ Nick , I ca n't believe you sank so low ... is there really nothing better to do in Luxembourg than fill in inane questionnaires .
^ hmmmm ... we live in a cynical , cynical world
^ ~
^ Hi Jon .
^ when are you off to your new home ? do you know where you 're living yet ?
^ I move in on the 4th .
^ I 'm living either in Kassidy or in a postgrad block somewhere close by .
^ am down in dur on sat oct 5th- would be good to say hi if you 're around , but understand totally if you 're busy / settling in / hate me &c .
^ Would like to meet up .
^ 
^ Hope the new temping job 's going OK .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Jonny , Jonny , Jonny ...
^ " When in Rome ... " and all that .
^ Hope the ankle mends quickly - how did you do it ?
^ O
^ Nick , I ca n't believe you sank so low ... is there really nothing better to do in Luxembourg than fill in inane questionnaires .
^ hmmmm ... we live in a cynical , cynical world
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Leilani Storm "
^ Subject : Re:
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Well , since Annaret was kind enough to include me on this exclusive mailing list , I thought I might reply ...
^ How much do we actually know about our friends ?
^ This is a survey to get to know your friends better .
^ Make sure you read the instructions at the bottom and have fun ...
^ 1. What time is it ? &TIME
^ 2. Name : Nick
^ 3. Name as it appears on birth certificate : Frederick Samuel Malone
^ 4. Nicknames : Jonah , Jimmy , Kane , Austin , B , Boltz , Mezz , Meddaz , Meddlers
^ 5. Number of candles on your last birthday cake : Ca n't remember
^ 6. 7Birthday : 3 March
^ 7. Pets : Nayeli and Camron
^ 8. Hair color :
^ 9. Eye Colour : cow-brown
^ 10. Weight : 12 stone
^ 11. Piercings : NO
^ 12. Tattoos ? NO
^ 13. Nike , Fronlin or Jumner ? Lo-Cost
^ 14. Hometown : Bath
^ ~
^ That Cuths game sounds like a bit of a nightmare .
^ I would have decked that guy if I 'd been there !
^ Just watched a long program on JFK ; it 's official , the conspiracy theory is OVER .
^ Now we can just GET ON WITH OUR LIVES ! !
^ ahem .
^ Hows Russell holding up for you ? ! ? ! ?
^ Just fine thanks Nayeli .
^ I 'm still working three days a week , although it 's five this week cos Mummy 's away .
^ Otherwise I 'm fiddling around with some stuff on my computer and taking it easy .
^ Jude and I went swimming today , and tomorrow I 'm playing 5-a-side with some guys from BIAC and I think another church .
^ Next weekend I 'm going over to Chandler to visit Regan
^ Morand and I 'll also visit Giles while I 'm there ; I think we 're all going to play football on Sunday afternoon !
^ Quite a reunion !
^ How did your paper go ? ?
^ Still going !
^ It 's pretty much ready for submission now though , and I should submit sometime around New Year , then I just have to wait and see if it gets accepted .
^ Oh , and have you found any decent gloves yet ? !
^ I think I am going to have to get Gore-tex cause I just do n't trust the rest ! !
^ Does this mean you 're buying your own gloves ?
^ I got a message to get you some when I get mine ; I have n't had a chance to look yet , but I will .
^ I 'm not planning to spend a vast amount on them , since huge gloves are not much use unless your " on piste " , but I will try and get a decent pair .
^ Lots of love , and TAKE IT EASY .
^ Remember , the team-talk is mightier than the boot .
^ B x
^ ~
^ Hi Macie ,
^ I am back at school and already thinking about studying .
^ So , in essence , you 're thinking about thinking .
^ And I suppose now I 've got you thinking about thinking about thinking , right ?
^ The other day I watched movie Bennie and June ...
^ Hmmm , does n't sound like the sort of movie I leap at the chance of seeing , but if there 's some raisin-bashing I 'll look out for it !
^ How is school going ?
^ My mum and dad 's school has n't started yet , although I 've been helping them move furniture around and start to get things set up .
^ I 'll be returning to Munich in October , so I wo n't have enough time to be very much involved once term does start in a week or so .
^ I 'll certainly miss those kids though - they really get under your skin !
^ Sorry one last question .
^ I was trying to find a recording of the Yahweh song .
^ Do you know how wrote it .
^ &WEBSITE
^ Is that the one ?
^ If so , as you can probably see from the webpage it 's by a South African band called Tree63 .
^ Keep it real !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick .
^ I just want you to know that , after listening to Tatum 's many Christmas " hits " a million time a day on the sports shop 's " music system " .
^ I have developed an ( ir ) rational hatred of both the songs and him
^ There are others I want also to kill , but I can identify him by the Christian message .
^ He 's dead .
^ I 'm going insane .
^ I could sing " Santa Blackburn " , " Rudy ( not Rudolf ) The Red Nosed Reindeer " and " Christmas Means to Me " in my sleep .
^ Aaagh , to murder the person who invented Christmas cheese .
^ Hope you 're well and more tolerant than me .
^ Jon xxx
^ ~
^ How 's health Parker ?
^ I 'm still on holiday - just grabbing a chance to check my email at my grandparent 's house !
^ O
^ Hey Nick !
^ Thanks again for doing this .
^ It 's mostly and all on the attachment .
^ My only concern is that they will ask me to defer until I 've finished my PhD , which would be really annoying as I 'm perfectly sure I can do both at the same time .
^ especially since I found out they estimate you spend only 10 hours per week on it
^ Ah well , we 'll see what happens .
^ Enjoy your holiday at Chapel next week .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ SWEEEEEET ! ! ! !
^ Nice one Jez-boy ! ! !
^ I am so pleased for you !
^ Gimp ( in the nicest and most endearing sense &SMILEY ) ! !
^ Wow - are you top of the year ?
^ I know everyone in Munich is clever but 75-80 % is FLIPPING impressive ! !
^ Will have to talk soon .
^ In the meantime , hope all 's going ok ( seems to be from here ! ) and you LOVE your project work &SMILEY
^ My job is good .
^ am really enjoying being away from phones and moaning customers and having a bit of a free hand on what I do
^ My conference organising is going well .
^ Have been in contact with Munich re deferring and they say that something can probably be sorted but I 've had to send a formal request letter and will get feedback from that .
^ Yay !
^ Well , gotta go now , take care and be in touch ,
^ love ,
^ Maz-girl
^ ~
^ Nick
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Nick
^ It 's fast , it 's fun and it 's free !
^ Click here to download MSN Messenger .
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ What if I come over to you on Monday ? ( or you can come to me - either way suits me ) .
^ Then we can spend the whole day and maybe do one of the other modules as well .
^ Muchos grassias ,
^ Pasta Jefford
^ God bless widja resta ya revision and danku muchsomely re : the talks on illogicality et al ;&circ; / catchen y'round ,
^ Timbob um
^ ~
^ Cunners ,
^ Firstly , I 'd absolutely love to go road-trippin .
^ However the problems are twofold :
^ I 'd have to earn enough money , which will depend somewhat on whether my supervisor can find me some ludicrously highly-paid work to supplement my ludicrously under-paid work at my Dad 's school .
^ I 'd have to be able to get the time off school
^ Do you have any clearer ideas about when you 'd want to do it ?
^ As for plans , I 'm busy teaching and writing an academic paper at the moment .
^ I 'm also having physiotherapy on my ankle
^ an old guy is pumping low frequency energy waves into the joint to " agitate " the cells and profligate the flow of blood around that area ...
^ or something like that
^ O
^ Nick ,
^ So it looks like I 'm going to be working in LA for a few months from
^ October / November onwards .
^ LA is the city of the car , so I 'll also be needing to buy car .
^ As I 've got loads of family on the East coast , some of whom know car dealers , I was thinking I could pick up a car there and drive it to LA .
^ This is screaming " road trip " at me , but a road trip for one is n't much fun .
^ I 've got a few friends / family that are spread out along a potential route across the south , so it has muchos potential .
^ I 'm a long way off buying a car , booking flights etc. ,
^ just wondering how much potential / interest you see / have in that suggestion .
^ Let me know what your plans are for this year !
^ Cheers ,
^ Christian .
^ 62 Swallowfield Road ,
^ Exeter , Devon .
^ EX2 6JD .
^ Tel 05550 206662 mob 05555 208666
^ ~
^ At the moment i 'm trying to get a security clearance to work on top secret american defence projects . rah .
^ You would be .
^ Sounds exciting - Star Wars and all that ...
^ Temping glorious temping .
^ I bet they 'll get you trying to cold-sell double glazing to vulnerable old people have n't they ...
^ You should be ashamed of yourself .
^ Easy ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Yo .
^ No ideas about road trip at the moment , sadly .
^ At the moment i 'm trying to get a security clearance to work on top secret american defence projects . rah.
^ good work on the fish front lance .
^ those two degrees obviously were n't in vain !
^ I 'm going to try to write a more detailed email some time soon , but am all interneted-out at the moment ...
^ PhD is n't looking so good as my supervisor is going on sabattical in &DATE .
^ hmmm might have to get a real job !
^ at the moment , it looks like temping is the way forward for me .
^ oh joy oh joy
^ cheers lad ,
^ jake .
^ ~
^ ok , ok , lance hates me and that is why he does n't reply to my emails .
^ right , thanks for clearing that up .
^ sorry to have bothered you all .
^ a x
^ From : " Sawyer Wheeler "
^ To : &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Subject : Re : SCANDAL !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Ladies and Gentlemen :
^ I would like to state , as a neutral observer , that Nick is indeed generally very good at replying to emails .
^ I would not go so far as to say he is " great " ( to quote himself - again ) , but he is indeed well above average .
^ He suggests we put him to the test .
^ That could be amusing .
^ It is true , however , to say he is generally hopeless at replying to text messages - a far more serious crime .
^ Also , " regards and all " is no way to end an email .
^ Shania
^ From : " Donald Davies "
^ To : &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Subject : Re : SCANDAL !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos : Click Here
^ Re : RSNPO &YEAR Annoucement : [ Corpora-List ] RSNPO &YEAR : Final Call For Paper
^ Thanks Alfie - I 'll look into it .
^ O
^ might be a cheaper and still prestigious option for you ...
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -
^ RSNPO &YEAR
^ Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM RSNPO Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
^ &WEBSITE
^ July 25 - 29 , &YEAR
^ Sheffield , UK
^ Organized by The University of Sheffield and ACM
^ - DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS : &DATE -
^ RSNPO is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval ( QI ) .
^ The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to QI to submit original research contributions , posters , and proposals for tutorials , workshops , and demonstrations of systems .
^ - AREAS and AREA COORDINATORS -
^ RSNPO &YEAR welcomes contributions related to any aspect of QI , but the major areas of interest are listed below .
^ For each general area , two to four area coordinators will guide the reviewing process .
^ Formal Models , Understanding Models , Fusion / Combination - -Keith van Rijsbergen , University of Oxford - -John Lafferty , Carnegie Mellon University , VPN
^ Text Representation and Indexing , XML and Metadata - -Airi Salminen , University of Jyvaskyla , Finland - -Norbert Fuhr , University of Duisburg , Kaylee
^ Performance , Compression , Scalability , Architectures , Mobile
^ Applications - -Chris Buckley , SabIR research , VPN - -Justin Zobel , RMIT University , Australia
^ Web QI , Intranet / Venture Search , Citation and Link Analysis ,
^ Digital Libraries , Distributed QI - -Andrei Broder , LQX Research , VPN - -David Hawking , CSIRO , Australia
^ Cross-language Retrieval , Multilingual Retrieval , Machine
^ Translation for QI - -Ari Pirkola , University of Tampere , Finland - -Bruce Croft , University of Nevada , VPN
^ Video and Image Access , Audio and Behaviour Retrieval , Music Retrieval - -Hong-Jiang Zhang , Visionware Research , China - -R. Manmatha , University of Nevada , VPN
^ Machine Learning for QI , Text Data Mining , Clustering , Text
^ Categorization - -Fabrizio Gentyi , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Italy - -Wai Lam , The Chinese University of Conroy Hindmarsh , Conroy Hindmarsh - -David Hull , Clairvoyance , VPN - -Yoram Singer , The Hebrew University , Israel
^ Topic Detection and Tracking , Content-Based Filtering ,
^ Collaborative Filtering , Agents - -Stephen Loxton , Visionware Research Munich , UK - -John Riedl , University of Minnesota , VPN
^ Summarization , Question Answering , Natural Understanding Processing for QI , Information Extraction , Lexical Acquisition - -Jussi Karlgren , SICS , Branden - -Roolie Crompton , University of Waterloo , Romania
^ Interfaces , Visualization , Interactive QI , User Models , User Studies - -Pia Borlund , Jamesal School of Librarianship and Information
^ Science , James - -Nick Belkin , Rutgers University , VPN
^ 
^ Evaluation , Building Test Collections , Experimental Design and Metrics - -Donna Coons , MOPS , VPN - -Noriko Kando , National Institute of Informatics , Japan
^ - -John Scott , University of Gloucester , UK - -Gary Marchionini , University of North Carolina , VPN - -Alistair Moffat , University of Melbourne , Australia
^ - IMPORTANT DATES -
^ &DATE - Mentoring program
^ &DATE - Paper submissions due .
^ &DATE - Tutorials , workshops , demonstrations , posters , and doctoral consortium due .
^ &DATE - Notification of acceptance for all submissions .
^ &DATE - Camera-ready copy due .
^ &DATE - Conference opens .
^ - SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -
^ Authors are invited to submit research papers , not exceeding 0000 words , representing original , previously unpublished work , on or before &DATE .
^ Papers must be submitted electronically , via the submission web page .
^ For paper submission guidelines , see author instructions on the Conference web site .
^ Submission Guidlines : &WEBSITE
^ - INDIVIDUAL CFP -
^ For requirements and details on submission of -- Posters -- Doctoral Consortium - of systems
^ on proposals for
^ - -Tutorials ( either a full day or half day ) - -Workshops
^ see the Conference web site .
^ RSNPO &YEAR CFPs : &WEBSITE
^ - SHEFFIELD -
^ Once devoted to being a world-leading steel town , Sheffield 's largest money-making industries are now its Universities .
^ The fifth largest city in the UK , Sheffield is one of the country 's greenest : filled with parks and trees .
^ The University of Sheffield is located in one of the pleasantest parts : the west end .
^ Here , restaurants , cafes , and bars - all within walking distance of the conference location - offer evening activities for all .
^ Sheffield is an excellent starting point to explore the North of Brighton .
^ To the west , only 5 miles from the city centre , is the Peak District National Park .
^ Here , renowned stately homes , such as Chatsworth , Lyme Park , and Haddon Ronald , combine with famous rock climbing crags and great opportunities to walk to produce one of the worlds most visited national parks .
^ To the north east , the city of York offers to the visitor its Minster ( the largest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Birks ) , the Jorvik
^ Viking centre , and the National Railway Museum , the largest such museum in the world .
^ The other great cities of the North ,
^ Perth , Bristol , and Amanda can all be visited as a day trip from Sheffield .
^ Carlisle to the south is only 2.5 hours on the train .
^ Travel to Sheffield : &WEBSITE
^ - CONFERENCE COMMITTEE -
^ Programme Committee - -Kalervo Jarvelin , University of Tampere , Finland - -James Gouge , University of Nevada , VPN - -Peter Bruza , Distributed Systems Technology Centre , Australia
^ Posters Chair - -Gareth Housman , Levi Owen University , Ireland
^ Best Papers Chair - -John Scott , University of Gloucester , UK
^ Mentoring Chair - -Doug Oard , University of Maryland , VPN
^ Doctoral Consortium - -David Boniface , John Fischer University , UK
^ Tutorials Chair - -Fabio Crestani , University of Strathclyde , UK
^ Workshops Chair - -Mounia Lalmas , Queen Patricia , University of Carlisle , UK
^ Demos Chair - -Ian Ruthven , University of Strathclyde , UK
^ Allocation of IO Student Travel Grants - -Stefan Rueger , Judicial College Carlisle , UK
^ Local Organisers
^ General Chair -Mark Sanderson , University of Sheffield , UK
^ Treasurer -Micheline Beaulieu , University of Sheffield , UK -Kathryn Cobley ( Conference accountant ) , University of Sheffield , UK
^ Local Arrangements -Peter Willett , University of Sheffield , UK
^ Registration chair -Daniela Petrelli , University of Sheffield , UK
^ Publicity & Website -Hideo Joho , University of Sheffield , UK -Steve Kien , University of Sheffield , UK
^ Organiser of PC meeting in Carlisle -Mounia Lalmas , Queen Patricia , University of Carlisle , UK
^ - MORE INFORMATION -
^ For further details , see the Conference web site .
^ &WEBSITE
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^ Nick ,
^ I have n't had the time to give your paper the careful consideration it de serves , but I have given it a quick read .
^ I will do my best to find more time to spend on it this week , and get back to you with more detailed co mments .
^ For now , let me say this .
^ I think you have a solid contribution here .
^ You effectively place your w ork in the context of relevant research .
^ Your approach seems solid and i s clearly described .
^ You 've evaluated your approach in a reasonable way , and the results are convincing .
^ As I said , I will read the paper , much more carefully than I have been ab le to so far .
^ For the time being , here is one thing I 'd like you to cons ider .
^ Is there some way that you could do more analysis of your algorith m. For example , some parameter ( s ) you could vary to show the effect on p erformance .
^ My thinking is that if you could include more analysis along these lines accompanied by another graph or table or two , you would incr ease the chances of the paper being accepted .
^ Anyway , that 'll give you something to think about .
^ In the meantime , I 'll take another pass over your paper and will get back to you as soon as I can .
^ -brendon
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ Thankyou very much for agreeing to mentor me for this application .
^ My paper is attached .
^ Many Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE Type : AcroRd32 File ( application / pdf ) Encoding : base64 Download Status : Not downloaded with message
^ ~
^ Thanks Reynolds - I 'll have a think ...
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ I have n't had the time to give your paper the careful consideration it deserves , but I have given it a quick read .
^ I will do my best to find more time to spend on it this week , and get back to you with more detailed comments .
^ For now , let me say this .
^ I think you have a solid contribution here .
^ You effectively place your work in the context of relevant research .
^ Your approach seems solid and is clearly described .
^ You 've evaluated your approach in a reasonable way , and the results are convincing .
^ As I said , I will read the paper , much more carefully than I have been able to so far .
^ For the time being , here is one thing I 'd like you to consider .
^ Is there some way that you could do more analysis of your algorithm .
^ For example , some parameter ( s ) you could vary to show the effect on performance .
^ My thinking is that if you could include more analysis along these lines accompanied by another graph or table or two , you would increase the chances of the paper being accepted .
^ Anyway , that 'll give you something to think about .
^ In the meantime , I 'll take another pass over your paper and will get back to you as soon as I can .
^ -brendon
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ Thankyou very much for agreeing to mentor me for this application .
^ My paper is attached .
^ Many Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE Type : AcroRd32 File ( application / pdf ) Encoding : base64 Download Status : Not downloaded with message
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ It 'll be a pleasure .
^ I 'll get to your paper as soon as I possibly can .
^ I 'm at TREC all this week , so it may be difficult to even look at it befo
^ Re this weekend , but I 'll do the best I can .
^ -brendon
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ Thankyou very much for agreeing to mentor me for this application .
^ My paper is attached .
^ Many Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE Type : AcroRd32 File ( application / pdf ) Encoding : base64 Download Status : Not downloaded with message
^ ~
^ Carolly ,
^ Alas ! !
^ I am already going skiing this Christmas with my family .
^ Hope it works out for you though .
^ Are things going well for you ?
^ I asked after you the other day , cos I was speaking to my friend Rylee who goes to HT .
^ He said he had met you , and I think he said you were very " bubbly " !
^ So there 's a compliment to keep you going : o ) .
^ Any Munich gossip I should know about ?
^ Love Nick
^ After much deliberation , my bosses have agreed to give me the week of 2nd to 9th January off to go skiing ( much persuasion has had to occur ! )
^ So , is anyone up for going ?
^ I reckon we can get a pretty cheap deal for that week ( like &pound; 950 ) and it would be such a giggle to go with you guys .
^ Am muchly hoping that we can get something sorted ... ... ... .
^ lots of love Jennifer xxxxxxxxx
^ P.S. do invite along anyone else I 've forgotton
^ Download Yahoo! Messenger now for a chance to win Live At Knebworth DVDs &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ cool &SMILEY
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Macie !
^ Hope you had a good week .
^ I am tentatively saying that Saturday the 20th would be great .
^ I would probably stay over and come back in the afternoon or something .
^ See you soon !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ B ( be , bee )
^ Sorry for the somewhat excessive size of this email , but I have included a rather jolly C compiler for you .
^ I 'm afraid that it is for DOS , with an interface very similar to that of QBasic .
^ I 'm finding it more than sufficient for teaching myself C especially since the book I am using was written with this particular C compiler in mind
^ It also avoids all the extra complication of writing C applications for Kites .
^ There are some pretty decent debugging tools in it too .
^ Hope that you had a super holiday and are finding plenty to do in your time before University .
^ My last day at work is tomorrow ( Tues 31st Aug ) and I will have a month to enjoy the rapidly diminishing summery days .
^ aLasTAiR
^ Oh , by the way Krystal , do you know the whereabouts on the web of a decent C compiler ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Nick , just to try and get a foot in the door so to speak , I would like to try and pull Philip 's Stunt and run as Vice-Capt .
^ Is this possible ?
^ It 's been a great pleasure plying with you this year - all I hoped it would be !
^ Well , minus the league and cup double maybe !
^ Cheers Bro ,
^ Nayeli
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Boys ,
^ What can I say ?
^ You all acquited yourselves magnificently this afternoon .
^ You showed tremendous character and I am very proud of our performance .
^ Also , to all of you who have played this season , it has been a real pleasure - I have enjoyed it immensely .
^ Aimee Haley will be standing for captain next year ; if anyone else would like to stand as well then please email me to let me know .
^ We will vote on it sometime after exams - we are also looking to have a joint social with the B 's and girls , with various awards and stuff ; watch this space .
^ So , my thanks to you all .
^ Viva the beautiful game !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Sammy boy !
^ Yes I am back and yes I will bore you with Lebanese stories for a long time to come .
^ Am trying to get a job ... looks like I will be packing bulbs into boxes for a few weeks ! joy !
^ Talking about Jaiden ( how convenient ! )
^ Are you going to her wedding ? and if so do you want to come and stay here after and then go up to Bob 's ?
^ I think quite a few people might be staying that night ( I only live an hour away from Jaiden ) so should be fun
^ hope al is well in Maloneland , am looking forward to showing you my photos .
^ love ,
^ Tabitha
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Ropp , Tabitha " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : She Returns .
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Tabitha ,
^ YOU ARE BACK ! ! ! ! !
^ I hope you had a great time .
^ Looking forward to hearing all about it soon .
^ Love ,
^ ~
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Very nice Valeria .
^ A bit " amateur " for serious philosophers like myself of course , but hey ...
^ Do you know how that card trick works ?
^ I 'll tell you if you want ...
^ Best , Nick
^ This morning I should be working preparing YF but whilst doing that I have found a most imteresting website . &WEBSITE
^ Try strange new world .
^ Some of the other stuff is interesting as well .
^ Valeria
^ talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ How are you ?
^ I am great !
^ I have done my first day of filming which was great fun .
^ A guy called Imani from South Africa rang and wants you to ring him on 44646282086 .
^ If that doesnt work add 11 after the 27 ?
^ Got it ?
^ good I was wondering if you could pray for Sally and Rachel Smy and Hailey Loxton ,
^ they were in a car accident today and Rachel was driving .
^ She is ok but a bit shaken up .
^ We think Sally has got a broken leg and a broken pelvis .
^ Hailey is unconcious and is having surgery to remove pressure from her &WEBSITE
^ has got a broken vertebrae on her neck and they have given her something to stop her body from fighting against being unconcious .
^ ( I think that is right )
^ Next time you ring Mummy will be able to explain it better I am sure .
^ We have not been told how the accident happened
^ I love you stacks and hope you are enjoying life up in Wells .
^ Speak to you soon darling ,
^ Alice
^ From : " Pastor Nick - Different is not spelled W.R.O.N.G. " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Show me the money ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Alice ,
^ I am emailing you on Monday morning .
^ I had a VERY busy day yesterday - unloading people 's luggage , practising for the gig in the evening , and generally being social .
^ My band actually played very well , and we had a good time .
^ We started off playing outside , until it began to rain , at which point we moved into the Kingston room and carried on !
^ This morning I did my first bit of food shopping .
^ I think it 's the first time I 've ever made my own food shopping list !
^ Monumental !
^ My coffee-serving thing starts this afternoon and goes on for the next few days .
^ Please pray for me if you can .
^ Stay happy ,
^ Bongamunchkin ( as Moises once called me ! )
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ Share information about yourself , create your own public profile at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Cynthia , I am at a loss as to the possible meaning of the word " swarmy " .
^ You might have to offer me some context - I know of the word " smarmy " ...
^ O
^ " Brighton has been bright and sunny this weekend - I almost got sunburned ! "
^ Ouch , close call .
^ Hope that you had lots of fun in the sun , but you are ruining my impression of your country .
^ I love the rain and thought that I could believe the myths that it was always rainy .
^ It has been pouring here for days but I did make it to the beach for the few sunny hours on sat. and did get although with my fair complexion i 'm used to it .
^ The beaches here are so beautiful when are you coming to visit ?
^ I heard an French slang word in a movie and have no clue what it means .
^ If it is not to vulgar can you enlighten my naive mind .
^ The descriptor in question is " swarmy . "
^ Any clue what that means I can only guess ?
^ Enjoy your beautiful weather ,
^ Macie
^ ~
^ smarm'y ( sm'rm ) adj. smarm'i er , smarm'i est 1. .
^ Hypocritically , complacently , or effusively earnest ; unctuous .
^ See
^ Synonyms at unctuous .
^ 2. Sleek .
^ Perhaps you Americans would use a term like " creep " as in " He 's such a creep ! " to describe a young man who was being " smarmy " .
^ What have you been up to lately ?
^ Lately I 've been digging !
^ Our garden looks a bit like a landfill site at the moment ...
^ Did you ever find out about the grant ?
^ Yes !
^ Munich are going to fund me - pretty exciting actually .
^ Ah to have to choose between a brilliant computer researcher and a rock star is indeed a tough choice .
^ Hmmm ... perhaps not entirely compatible career paths ...
^ O
^ " Brighton has been bright and sunny this weekend - I almost got sunburned ! "
^ Ouch , close call .
^ Hope that you had lots of fun in the sun , but you are ruining my impression of your country .
^ I love the rain and thought that I could believe the myths that it was always rainy .
^ It has been pouring here for days but I did make it to the beach for the few sunny hours on sat. and did get although with my fair complexion i 'm used to it .
^ The beaches here are so beautiful when are you coming to visit ?
^ I heard an French slang word in a movie and have no clue what it means .
^ If it is not to vulgar can you enlighten my naive mind .
^ The descriptor in question is " swarmy . "
^ Any clue what that means I can only guess ?
^ Enjoy your beautiful weather ,
^ Macie
^ ~
^ Hey , Sorry I never have been a good speller .
^ I did mean smarmy .
^ Please let me know if I am a bother with all these questions , but I do consider you to be a " man of information " as Judith might say .
^ I 'm enjoying Pride and Prejudice , can you tell . )
^ What have you been up to lately ?
^ Did you ever find out about the grant ?
^ Will you be back at university or have you decided pursue other options .
^ As you know I believe whole heartedly that with your talent a musical career would make you famous .
^ Ah to have to choose between a brilliant computer researcher and a rock star is indeed a tough choice .
^ Maybe you can do both and still have time to teach on the side .
^ Whatever the plan I hope that you are having a blast this Summer .
^ Macie
^ ~
^ What Valeria means to say is that Parker was leaning forward listening with intense interest to the sermon .
^ Poor Sarginson , she sometimes makes these mistakes but the important point is that she tries and we must surely credit her for that .
^ Valeria Morand wrote :
^ Good Evening !
^ This evening I observed something virtually unheard of ,
^ Sawyer was slouching in church ! ! !
^ Actually it is the first time I have seen him since June , and we live in the same city .
^ Utterly ridiculous !
^ Well there is a more , uplifting flavour to this email .
^ My church are going to New Wine , in Harrogate next summer , 30th July to 5th August .
^ We are going to be camping in a group .
^ There are going to be quite a big group of us , but the more the merrier .
^ I was complaining that was n't anyone my age going , and my bluff got comprehensibly called by my boss suggesting that I invite my friends to come .
^ He even promised to cook a bbq for you if you came . ( the generosity ! )
^ It is pretty cheap to go to new wine and would be fun , however , you would have to sleep in a tent .
^ On the plus side , there are nice people going , and they speak with Scottish accents which many of you would find amusing , but maybe less so the snoring in scots !
^ I am working pretty hard at the moment and have got blamed for lots of things that were n't my fault this week , which I am feeling a little put out about !
^ Work is going well though and I am enjoying living with Anna my new flatmate .
^ Hope that all the jobs are going well and that you are all feeling content but challenged .
^ Valeria
^ ~
^ Perhaps sometime beginning of September would be good .
^ Sounds good Ed .
^ Be in touch ...
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Schedule over the next few weeks :
^ Mon Tues and Wed of every week in the evenings I teach the piano and like you , our family is away for this week coming : 22nd-28th Aug of to the Lake District .
^ After that I am not really doing much else - just a bit of recording and what ever other jobs become available .
^ Perhaps sometime beginning of September would be good .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Joshua B
^ on &DATE &TIME , Nick Malone at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Ed , I 've finally changed my voicemail message !
^ The time of the Jedi is over ...
^ I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about College / accomodation etc. It takes them AGES to sort things like that out , but I hope to hear sometime in the next few weeks .
^ We must get together sometime in the next bit of time .
^ We 're off to Chapel next week ( Mon - Fri ) but after that I 'm pretty free until I leave for Dur .
^ Let me know what your schedule is over the next month or so and we can fix something up ...
^ Love Nick x
^ Dear Nick ,
^ It was great to see your Mum last week for the TEFL course - we are all trained Teachers of French as a Foreign Understanding now !
^ Well we 're getting there ? !
^ You must be gearing up for the new Academic year and study ?
^ And helping your Dad with the new extension to the house .
^ I 'm still looking for a place to buy - Karla Blythe introduced me to a really good IFA from Bath who specialises in getting hold of mortgages for the self-employed .
^ After we spoke I felt quite positive about things .
^ I would love to come down and visit you soon or the other way round .
^ However if I came down to you I could get my hands dirty with the extension ...
^ Must speak soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Joshua xoxox
^ ~
^ Ed , will you be around Wed-Fri next week ?
^ I 'm thinking about coming to visit you in Carlisle .
^ I also want to visit a couple of other friends , so I 'll try and fit them in as well .
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Schedule over the next few weeks :
^ Mon Tues and Wed of every week in the evenings I teach the piano and like you , our family is away for this week coming : 22nd-28th Aug of to the Lake District .
^ After that I am not really doing much else - just a bit of recording and what ever other jobs become available .
^ Perhaps sometime beginning of September would be good .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Joshua B
^ on &DATE &TIME , Nick Malone at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Ed , I 've finally changed my voicemail message !
^ The time of the Jedi is over ...
^ I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about College / accomodation etc. It takes them AGES to sort things like that out , but I hope to hear sometime in the next few weeks .
^ We must get together sometime in the next bit of time .
^ We 're off to Chapel next week ( Mon - Fri ) but after that I 'm pretty free until I leave for Dur .
^ Let me know what your schedule is over the next month or so and we can fix something up ...
^ Love Nick x
^ Dear Nick ,
^ It was great to see your Mum last week for the TEFL course - we are all trained Teachers of French as a Foreign Understanding now !
^ Well we 're getting there ? !
^ You must be gearing up for the new Academic year and study ?
^ And helping your Dad with the new extension to the house .
^ I 'm still looking for a place to buy - Karla Blythe introduced me to a really good IFA from Bath who specialises in getting hold of mortgages for the self-employed .
^ After we spoke I felt quite positive about things .
^ I would love to come down and visit you soon or the other way round .
^ However if I came down to you I could get my hands dirty with the extension ...
^ Must speak soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Joshua xoxox
^ ~
^ Ed , I 've finally changed my voicemail message !
^ The time of the Jedi is over ...
^ I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about College / accomodation etc. It takes them AGES to sort things like that out , but I hope to hear sometime in the next few weeks .
^ We must get together sometime in the next bit of time .
^ We 're off to Chapel next week ( Mon - Fri ) but after that I 'm pretty free until I leave for Dur .
^ Let me know what your schedule is over the next month or so and we can fix something up ...
^ Love Nick x
^ Dear Nick ,
^ It was great to see your Mum last week for the TEFL course - we are all trained Teachers of French as a Foreign Understanding now !
^ Well we 're getting there ? !
^ You must be gearing up for the new Academic year and study ?
^ And helping your Dad with the new extension to the house .
^ I 'm still looking for a place to buy - Karla Blythe introduced me to a really good IFA from Bath who specialises in getting hold of mortgages for the self-employed .
^ After we spoke I felt quite positive about things .
^ I would love to come down and visit you soon or the other way round .
^ However if I came down to you I could get my hands dirty with the extension ...
^ Must speak soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Joshua xoxox
^ ~
^ Nick , am very jealous that you 're going snowboarding right now while I 'm not , sometimes life is just not fair .
^ I have got a job though so I#m being productive and being paid lots for it as well ( I 'm getting paid !
^ &pound; 6 which is a lot for us cheap northerners ! ) although it does have the downside of having to leave for work at 6.40am ,
^ I 've never in my life had to get up before 7am more than twice in a row ever
^ I 'm particularly knackered today as I was up till 3am last night buying bus tickets on the internet and emailing Rylie about cu stuff
^ Until a couple of days ago I would have been extremely jealous of your snowboarding trip cos I was pretty bored at home and not really doing anything .
^ now I 'm having a bit of fun and doing stuff as well so I 'm not quite so annoyed which I think is a good thing
^ I 'm afraid I 'm not going to Terrance 's for new year - I got invited to a friends in london before so I 'm doing that instead .
^ I 'm also going to susie thompson 's 21st in munich and antonia wimbush
^ she helps out joe graves with international stuff ) 21st as well on the 30th so it should be a fun few days
^ Anyway , like you said , I hope you have an amazing christmas and have many cool snowboarding stories to tell ! speak to you soon ,
^ Rodrigo
^ ~
^ Thanks Nick .
^ That really means a great deal to me .
^ I can utilize polysyllabic words too .
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ I 'd go with mono-syllabic myself .
^ And I think it 's the French language that 's being mutilated rather than
^ Bob 's voice box .
^ Or perhaps he 's gradually frying the neuronic connections that supply him with information on how to form words ... .
^ O
^ Of course I take offence at what you say .
^ It really is silly to say offensive things and then expect people not to mind just be cause you say " do n't take offence " at the end .
^ Are people not allowed to be in bad moods occasionally ?
^ As far as I am aware we are meant to show our feelings .
^ Why bottle things up ?
^ Let 's " be honest " with everyone .
^ Oh , and contrary to all that you might think I do not find booking the video room difficult - just tedious and unnecessary as .
^ a ) I dislike the place intensely and ( b ) I have no need to book it when you three can
^ And Bob - I 'm sorry I asked you to reply to emails .
^ I 'd forgotten that such replies normally take the form of multi-syllabic guttural mutilations of your voice box .
^ Sawyer
^ Anna wrote :
^ Parker , what 's the matter with you ?
^ You 're having a school-girl strop .
^ It does not become you .
^ Grow up , be a man , and book the video room ! !
^ Hello Nick and Bob !
^ Love Cody xx
^ PS - take no offence at this Wheeler .
^ Re-read your email and you 'll see why I say what I say !
^ Sawyer wrote :
^ Star Trek on Sunday evening ( afternoon is not an option ) .
^ Someone arrange to book the video room or find a video recorder because frankly I ca n't be bothered and am fed up with the whole thing .
^ Bob - if this does n't suit then you should have replied .
^ Let me know what time it 's being watched at and you can have the video .
^ Who knows , I might even watch it myself if I feel like it .
^ Anna wrote :
^ Robert K. Greetings
^ St. Philip 's College
^ 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
^ Department of Geological Sciences
^ University of Wells
^ Mobile ( vodaphone ) 07 100 794 798
^ ~
^ Of course I take offence at what you say .
^ It really is silly to say offensive things and then expect people not to mind just be cause you say " do n't take offence " at the end .
^ Are people not allowed to be in bad moods occasionally ?
^ As far as I am aware we are meant to show our feelings .
^ Why bottle things up ?
^ Let 's " be honest " with everyone .
^ Oh , and contrary to all that you might think I do not find booking the video room difficult - just tedious and unnecessary as .
^ a ) I dislike the place intensely and ( b ) I have no need to book it when you three can
^ And Bob - I 'm sorry I asked you to reply to emails .
^ I 'd forgotten that such replies normally take the form of multi-syllabic guttural mutilations of your voice box .
^ Sawyer
^ Anna wrote :
^ Parker , what 's the matter with you ?
^ You 're having a school-girl strop .
^ It does not become you .
^ Grow up , be a man , and book the video room ! !
^ Hello Nick and Bob !
^ Love Cody xx
^ PS - take no offence at this Wheeler .
^ Re-read your email and you 'll see why I say what I say !
^ Sawyer wrote :
^ Star Trek on Sunday evening ( afternoon is not an option ) .
^ Someone arrange to book the video room or find a video recorder because frankly I ca n't be bothered and am fed up with the whole thing .
^ Bob - if this does n't suit then you should have replied .
^ Let me know what time it 's being watched at and you can have the video .
^ Who knows , I might even watch it myself if I feel like it .
^ Anna wrote :
^ Ok boys ...
^ all Sunday evenings are free .
^ As are sun afternoons ( there 's an option ! ) .
^ Tonight is not an option ...
^ I 'm otherwise engaged ( wink ) .
^ Parker , as to the other dates on your list ...
^ Sunday evening ( 17th ) - yep
^ Tuesday evening ( 19th ) - no , at Ball - as is Nick .
^ Wednesday evening ( 20th ) - possibly
^ Thursday evening ( 21st ) - likewise
^ Sunday evening ( 24th ) - yep
^ Righty-ho , have a nice day all , love Ru x
^ ~
^ Dear mr Jonah ,
^ lovely to hear from you .
^ I am delighted to be asked to come to your bday bash .
^ I will of course be in attendance .
^ I am looking forward to talking to you , hearing your music etc. if you can fit me into your busy schedule .
^ I am back sometime between the 9th and 15th !
^ I will ring soon if poss .
^ Hope you are .
^ Bye bye .
^ Moises ,
^ I am now at home , having finished for the Easter hols .
^ One very important bit of news :
^ You are coming to mine and Joshua 's joint 21st birthday party on April 15th , starting at &TIME .
^ I will drop an official invite into your house , which you can pick up when you get home .
^ When are you getting home ?
^ I have soooooo much to do at the moment .
^ I am trying to revise , as well as organise our CU summer house party , as well as organise my birthday party , as well as a number of other things , such as write some music .
^ Crazy !
^ Speak soon !
^ Mr. Benn
^ Get Your Private , Free Email at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ i only just got all your e-mails ....
^ i think i will still do word , only maybe a bit less ....
^ i had some thoughts on why tim is so insistant for you to agree with him .....
^ i will tell you later ....
^ how is your injury ?
^ smile .
^ love roo
^ Frederick wrote :
^ Hi Tabitha ,
^ Ohhhhhh , I get incredibly sentimental sometimes .
^ When I look at the past I sometimes feel very scared that I will lose something I once had .
^ I think this is generally a bad thing - in fact it must be because I do n't think being scared is ever good .
^ What a confusing life this is !
^ Hope you are feeling well and happy today .
^ Remember - YOU ARE SPECIAL .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Enjoy the rest of what 's going on and I 'll see you whenever .
^ Feel free to pop over to East Kaylee or up to Neville Terrace after term starts for a cup of tea or whatever takes your fancy .
^ If you 're going to turn up here , it 's a good idea to let me know beforehand ... .
^ Glad to hear you 're settling in .
^ You really are becoming " well-travelled " are n't you !
^ Well travelled ?
^ I 've only visited 6 countries in my life ( that 's UK ,
^ Spain , Belgium , Holland ( and that was only on the motorway passing through ) , Kaylee and Russia ) .
^ If you 're talking about actual distance travelled then you might have some sort of point .
^ BTW - went to Dresden on Friday to celebrate the end of the Bauwoche - seems a nice place - it 's amazing that they 've rebuilt so many of the buildings that were bombed in &YEAR !
^ The big one - the Frauenkirche - the largest Protestant church in Kaylee - is still being done up as it 's not only huge but they did n't start rebuilding it till &YEAR .
^ Dresden reminds me a bit of Leningrad - ca n't think why .
^ Off at a complete tangent - there 's a " suburb " of Stoke called Dresden ... .
^ I still at my uncle 's house - I like it here , did I tell you he has sky TV ?
^ No .
^ Catching up on all the TV you missed in Worcester B are you ?
^ I went to visit Tabitha two days ago - it was great to see her again , and I 'm hoping this weekend to see Regan Day as well .
^ Wahey !
^ All the best , and keep washing those feet ! ! ! !
^ Did I tell you that one day in Chester I left my shoes outside my bedroom door when I went to bed and the smell started to creep round the whole building ?
^ I had a threatening letter from the Mission staff and a friend used up a whole can of air freshener trying without success to get rid of the smell ... .
^ Eventually he settled for that powder you stick in your shoes , leave overnight and shake out which is apparently 900 % guaranteed to remove smells .
^ It failed - but at least the smell did become bearable .
^ We left them by one of the doors to deter theft ... .
^ Only 5 weeks now till I 'll be home - does n't time fly !
^ The last week has mostly been spent on scaffolding putting miles ( literally ! ) of yellow tape on the walls .
^ I 've only fallen off once - that 's something you do n't do again !
^ Went to church in the next town of Mitweida this morning with other YWAM people - sermon given by a Swiss member of YWAM Phillipines on devoting your life to God and His work .
^ I 've now been asked to speak at their youth club on Friday - on a subject of my choosing .
^ Luckily there 'll be two of us but that does n't make me any less nervous !
^ Talking about subjects to speak about - I need to choose the topic for my year abroad project and write a 800 word plan within the week to send to Wells for analysis .
^ Got any ideas ?
^ Have fun and be careful
^ Angelo
^ PS - found a pizza takeaway place in the tiny town I 'm in this afternoon .
^ I 'll have to try it out !
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ topics .... hmmmmmmm ... .... .
^ How about " An look at the lingering effects of foot odour on society "
^ Do you think anyone 'll enjoy it ... ?
^ It is rather a minority subject , do n't you think ?
^ Having been doing a lot of painting of late , my shoes now smell of turpentine .
^ Makes you wonder whether this is an improvement !
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Howdy !
^ Hope all 's still going well and you are not working TOO hard !
^ I have been way busy with all sorts and have n't had time to email people for over a week !
^ A few responses to your last email ...
^ Elgon is a pain in the butt .
^ She always harrasses me when I 'm trying to watch TV !
^ But do n't tell Mallory I said that !
^ Of course I LOVE the dog .
^ Elgon is not a pain in the butt , neither is HE a SHE !
^ Oh , and I have n't told Mallory ... yet ! &SMILEY
^ Why did Munders have an interview ?
^ I thought he 'd already got a contract and stuff .
^ it was an " insurance " thing .
^ He wanted to give it a go in case anything went wrong with the other contract offer !
^ He got an offer from this place too , and has had the pleasure of turning down the top law firm in the country ( and possibly the world ) .
^ Movie star ? - realistic suggestions boyo !
^ I started revising today .
^ As I suspected , the motivation is not altogether fantastic , but I think I will be able to get some groundwork done .
^ likewise , that 's what I 'm trying to do at present .
^ Got the summative essay I needed doing out of the way , and have started on my second formative one today , so things are moving ...
^ Hope you had a nice Easter weekend - do anything nice ?
^ I went to York with Mam and Dad on Monday - we ended up in the National Railway
^ Museum - nice ... quite a few weirdos and anoraks ! &SMILEY
^ Right , must get on with my essay , take care and enjoy all , love Cody
^ ~
^ Your hunch regarding my address is entirely accurate - I 'm currently at my uncle 's house , enjoying his outdoor swimming pool .
^ It has actually been hot enough to use it ! ! ! !
^ He has two dogs , and I have been acquainting myself with them by walking them approximately twice a day .
^ They smell , but are quite nice really .
^ I know it 's been hot - I 've been in the UK as well recently !
^ Glad you 're enjoying the company of the dogs .
^ Remember the smell of my feet and see which you prefer !
^ I 'll pray for you - sounds like you could use some wisdom .
^ Do n't forget how much God loves you .
^ Let me know how you 're getting on ,
^ Cheers .
^ Got here safely despite getting to Dresden Airport about 30 mins late .
^ It 's now the " Bauwoche " which means we re-decorate during the day and have a prayer and praise session in the evening .
^ Last night 's talk was on dicipleship , taking the Great Commission at the end of Imani as its starting point .
^ The first question to be asked was " what 's a diciple ? " - the answer being some sort of apprentice .
^ On the whole I 'm glad I 've come .
^ I definitely had misgivings at the start but I think I 've settled in now .
^ The language barrier is still a problem - and the local dialect is interesting to say the least ( think about going to Amanda to learn French ! ) .
^ Mind you , everyone 's very nice !
^ Enjoy the rest of what 's going on and I 'll see you whenever .
^ Feel free to pop over to East Kaylee or up to Neville Terrace after term starts for a cup of tea or whatever takes your fancy .
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Hey Leilani ,
^ Looks like I will be heading up to Dundee on Sunday so unfortunately wo n't be able to meet up .
^ Sorry - have to be another time .
^ Not sure about graduation yet , but probably wo n't manage Nov !
^ Hope it 's exciting : o ) .
^ Keep in touch ,
^ O
^ Sounds good to me &SMILEY
^ Not entirely sure when I 'll be free .
^ The tournament is four rounds of upto 1h45 m each with lunch and high tea at some point .
^ I 'll try and find out the timetable more prescisely and let you know .
^ I guess lunch would be good .
^ Or some point in the afternoon .
^ Anyway , text me to let me know if you 're going to be around and we 'll take it from there .
^ See you soon ,
^ Leilani
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Leilani Griffiths " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Sunday
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Leilani !
^ I live near Luxembourg - about 30 mins from Marlborough , so not that far , but I might be going to a friend 's birthday thingy in Dundee on Sunday .
^ If not then it would be great to meet up .
^ Can I send you a text or something when I finalise what 's happening on Sunday ?
^ When are you free ?
^ My mob number is : 05500 480844
^ Take care ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ How 's it going ?
^ I 'm thinking of graduating in November with Partha ... but I can always pop up to Munich to join in the party in January too &SMILEY
^ Do you live somewhere near Marlborough ?
^ I 'm thinking of going there for a Go tournament on Sunday and I thought we could meet up at some point if you 're free .
^ Let me know your phone number - mine are 05555 288042 , 060 2668 2242 .
^ Leilani x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ Reply-To : &EMAIL
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : [ hveje0000 ] stuff
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi all ,
^ In terms of graduation I was thinking maybe December , but then I noticed that it says " not in person " on the sheet ...
^ I 'm not quite sure what that means but it does n't sound good , so maybe January
^ I 'm teaching 6-9 year-olds in a small private school at the moment ( my
^ Dad 's the head teacher ) .
^ Little kids are so * funny * !
^ It is a nice break from studying , but hopefully I 'll begin a PhD next year .
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Leilani !
^ I live near Luxembourg - about 30 mins from Marlborough , so not that far , but I might be going to a friend 's birthday thingy in Dundee on Sunday .
^ If not then it would be great to meet up .
^ Can I send you a text or something when I finalise what 's happening on Sunday ?
^ When are you free ?
^ My mob number is : 05500 480844
^ Take care ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ How 's it going ?
^ I 'm thinking of graduating in November with Partha ... but I can always pop up to Munich to join in the party in January too &SMILEY
^ Do you live somewhere near Marlborough ?
^ I 'm thinking of going there for a Go tournament on Sunday and I thought we could meet up at some point if you 're free .
^ Let me know your phone number - mine are 05555 288042 , 060 2668 2242 .
^ Leilani x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ Reply-To : &EMAIL
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : [ hveje0000 ] stuff
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi all ,
^ In terms of graduation I was thinking maybe December , but then I noticed that it says " not in person " on the sheet ...
^ I 'm not quite sure what that means but it does n't sound good , so maybe January
^ I 'm teaching 6-9 year-olds in a small private school at the moment ( my
^ Dad 's the head teacher ) .
^ Little kids are so * funny * !
^ It is a nice break from studying , but hopefully I 'll begin a PhD next year .
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hello to you and your laptop Tabitha .
^ Pray what is the laptop called ?
^ It must surely have a name ...
^ I had a pretty good birthday ; nice to have so many people in school to share it with .
^ I got a load of people from school to come and play frisbee and football on Saturday ; then we all went to McDonalds ! !
^ Awesome : o ) .
^ Booked your trip to Africa yet ?
^ Yes !
^ I 'm leaving on April 6th , back at the end of June .
^ I 'm really looking forward to it , and am so grateful to have the opportunity to go again .
^ In less than a month I will be feeling the African sun on my skin - truly surreal ...
^ having a not too bad week at school this week .
^ lovely drama lesson today .
^ That 's the good stuff .
^ My kids are never abusive , just a little ... exuberant at times .
^ Art history - yes , the classic " I want a degree but do n't want to do any work for it " option .
^ No , only a meaningless stereotype I 'm sure , but a postgraduate course sounds like a good idea - I always thought you had a bit more learning in you !
^ I watched an amazing program on neurosurgery tonight - way out .
^ Right , hope this email finds you at peace Tabitha .
^ I got a text message from
^ Eric today ; sounds like she 's going through the mill with Nic ( again , again ) .
^ What to do ... ?
^ KIR ,
^ O
^ hello ! me and my new laptop wish you a happy birthday ...... how was your day ? how are you doing ?
^ I have got founders day tomorrow at school so no teaching so I am looking forward to it &SMILEY
^ A nice rest .
^ How is your school ?
^ Booked your trip to Africa yet ?
^ I am thinking of going to Hawaii this summer with Uriel and then to Romania with my Mum and Dad but no definite plans yet .... .
^ I need to save money as I am thinking of doing some sort of postgraduate course in the next few years .
^ might do some art or art history or art therapy type thing .... not sure yet but thiniking of the options
^ having a not too bad week at school this week .
^ lovely drama lesson today .
^ delightful children which makes a change from abusive ones !
^ Two of my form class let their trousers down in a supply teacher 's lesson today ! can you believe it ?
^ I am going to be doing some serious telling off tomorrow !
^ ANYWAY , happy birthday from me and look after yourself
^ love Tabitha x
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " tabitha ropp "
^ Subject : Tee hee
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Miss Ropp ,
^ How 's life on the front line ?
^ I 've just played football so feeling a bit sore .
^ I 'm playing with a local team and not really enjoying it that much if I 'm honest .
^ I feel like I do n't really fit in , because they do n't really want to play the type of football I play , and they are mostly quite a lot older and , and , and ...
^ School is going well ; I am getting to know the kids quite well now .
^ We always come home with stories of " what Josh said " or " what Amy did " .
^ It 's nice to be able to share that kind of stuff at home .
^ Hope you 're well Tabitha ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Wow , Cynthia , if my music was as good as your review writing I 'd have made my fortune already !
^ But seriously , thanks for the feedback - it means a lot to me to hear what people think ( especially when they are as articulate as you ! ) , and I 'm really glad you like the songs .
^ Brighton has been bright and sunny this weekend - I almost got sunburned !
^ Love Nick
^ Nick !
^ I got your CD the end of last week .
^ I took my youngest brother to visit my aunt and uncle in Philadelphia so I am just now able to thank you for sending it .
^ OK , I wanted to tell you what I thought of it but do not want my praise to sound hollow .
^ Please know that I speak the truth unbrushed by the wonderful impression that you made on me after just knowing you for a few weeks .
^ I feel that I can talk candidly with you ( you have a gift of drawing the truth out of people ) so excuse any unattended indiscretion .
^ There is no question in my mind as to your talent .
^ Each song is artfully constructed and beautifully performed .
^ I am amazed that you produced it yourself , excellent job .
^ Your love of words paint compositions that are displayed with intricately fun , fresh , and sensitive scores .
^ That sounds like an entertainment review &SMILEY
^ Maybe there is a future for me with Rollingstone magazine )
^ You are so gifted , well done !
^ I have enjoyed listening to the entire work and will on pass the other copies .
^ On a deeper note , your songs made me feel and challenged my feelings .
^ If I had to sum my impressions up in a word it would be " honest . "
^ You seem to share courageously from your heart , which is so refreshing .
^ All suppositions aside , you passionately explore the truth of emotion that is woven into life 's facade .
^ A search of how to better relationships , both with my dearest Friend and others I love , was inspired by your music .
^ I was taken by it just as I was taken by you .
^ Thank you for sharing , I know that God is continuing to use you in so many ways .
^ With love ,
^ Cynthia
^ P.S. Also I 'm finding that the songs get stuck in my head which may be the sincerest compliment of all .
^ ~
^ No problemo , am glad you liked them .
^ I saw them and thought of you , as the story goes .
^ I am TRYING to be nice , but I find it difficult .
^ Feel free to admonish me whenever you want to , but be prepared for sulks !
^ Errr , I 'm not sure what you want for your birthday .
^ Probably something tech-y , but I guess it 's more up to you .
^ I like my watch !
^ I have bought a fleece and waterproof jacket for the Wells weather .
^ I am sleepy and need to work .
^ Adieu , my friend .
^ Until we meet again ,
^ Aimee xx
^ Thanks for the classic Chrimbo presents Jon !
^ My family are all very impressed by your ingenuity .
^ It was great to see you and catch up on insults .
^ Let the good times roll on !
^ Viva Keyes !
^ Any birthday present ideas ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Hey Tabitha .
^ The clocks have gone forward !
^ Crazy world ...
^ You 're very welcome .
^ I saw the book and thought it would be apt .
^ Was it good ?
^ The book was good , although pretty short because he was only actually in Africa for a week or so .
^ I just had a strong sense of de ja vous ( or however you spell it ) !
^ I spent a few hours in Dundee yesterday , seeing Mallory and Rachel Kermath was also there for a party Mallory and Hayley et al. were throwing in the evening .
^ Rachel asked after you , so I told her what I know !
^ Mallory is his usual self , and
^ Hayley seems pretty well , however I only saw him for a couple of minutes .
^ Mallory played football with Nayeli Higham last weekend , and apparently he 's OK as well , so that 's GREAT ! &SMILEY
^ I ca n't believe I 'm off to SA in just over a week !
^ It is pretty surreal thinking about it , especially since I have n't started packing or anything yet .
^ I have n't heard from Munich yet , so I do n't know what I 'm going to be doing when I get back , and that feels a bit strange as well .
^ How 's the teaching going ?
^ Will you definitely stay for another year ?
^ How 's Jon doing ?
^ Are you watching ER at the moment ?
^ Anyway , another weekend 's come to an end , and it 's time to face the music ...
^ All the best Tabitha ,
^ Nick
^ You 're very welcome .
^ I saw the book and thought it would be apt .
^ Was it good ?
^ You must be nearly ready to go now .
^ Wow .... I hope you have a good time .
^ I think I need a long holiday .
^ I am so exhausted at the moment !
^ Still , classes to teach so better go .
^ If I 'm not in contact again before you go I hope you have a super time and it meets your expectations ( always dangerous ground expectations ! )
^ love roo x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " tabitha ropp " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Thanks
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Tabitha , you 're brilliant .
^ Thanks for the book - I 'm half-way through it already !
^ Actually , I got my own African diary from my first trip out of the loft yesterday .
^ I plan to read it to get me into the mood !
^ I can hardly believe that it was nearly six years ago ...
^ My perception of life has changed such a lot since then ; three months seemed like half an eternity back then , whereas now it seems like a slightly extended holiday !
^ I 've had a quiet weekend so far ; my parents are away doing some school planning , and my sister was at a sleep-over yesterday .
^ I 'm off to church soon , and then this evening the " young " staff members are going round to one of the school parents ' houses for dinner .
^ It 's only three weeks until I leave now , so I 'm trying to get some stuff rounded off , like the music I 've been recording , and also some stuff for school .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ ~
^ Thanks very much for the telegram .
^ I was extremely impressed - it arrived bang on time !
^ Wo !
^ I did n't think it 'd get to you until at least a few days late .
^ Looks like Jamesal Mail are better than we think they are !
^ We are all having fun with foot and mouth disease here at the moment lots of the fields around Maiden Broadband are cordoned off .
^ Why do all the problems start AFTER I 've left the country .
^ Rail - floods - foot and mouth .
^ What next ?
^ I predict a shock outcome in the general election .
^ It has also been very cold , with ice on the pavements for days now .
^ Apparently it was - the other night .
^ Now I know that probably sounds sub-tropical to you , but to us its COLD !
^ Alright ?
^ It 's actually a lot warmer here than you think !
^ The Spring thaw started on Sunday .
^ So now we 've got 5 months ' worth of snow trying to melt - and turning into lakes on the roads , and then having problems evaporating cos there 's too much moisture in the air anyway !
^ We have n't seen the sun since Sunday afternoon .
^ What next ?
^ I have been meaning to email you with an analysis of the Iron Maiden lyrics but I just have not had time .
^ You might remember Bob Bray 's SEG project from last year - well the deadline is this Friday !
^ Hope it 's going OK .
^ I remember Bob plonking a 6-inch-thick pile of papers on our table and telling us he 'd finished .
^ I had a great birthday - my flat mates organised a " Football and McDonalds " style party .
^ This Friday I am having a big get-together .
^ Fancy popping over for the evening ?
^ Thanks for the invitation .
^ Unfortunately it 's a bit far and I 'd have to organise plane tickets really quickly .
^ I do n't like flying - coming here I nearly blacked out on take off and then could n't breathe on descent )
^ But hope it goes well anyway and do n't drink too much .
^ Right - now onto my Java project .
^ All the very best Angelo - I hope you are well and making the most of every moment that comes your way !
^ You do n't want to translate that last sentence into French , do you ?
^ See you soon ( ish ) ,
^ It may be sooner than you think .
^ I 'm still toying with the idea of returning to Wells in June ... .
^ Also , if you fancy visiting me during the Easter holidays , then just let me know and I 'll try and put you up .
^ You 'll have to arrange plane transfers yourself but I 'll pick you up from Moscow airport if you want me to .
^ Enjoy the rest of term and I 'll see you whenever .
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Just to say an enormous thank you for the weekend .
^ It was so great to see you ; and to talk .
^ It has done me a power of good - just what I needed !
^ Keep in touch , and do n't forget you ( and your friends ) are welcome here anytime .
^ Kaden
^ PS I got home in just over 2 hours via Louth - I saw virtually no cars - certainly no traffic jams ! ! !
^ Kaden ,
^ I 'm coming to see you on Sunday - I 'll be there sometime after 5 .
^ If I could stay over that would be great .
^ I 've then got to get a train from Sheffield some time on Monday .
^ I 'll call you soon to get directions .
^ Looking forward to seeing you ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick
^ Great to hear from you .
^ I 'm working until about 5pm on Sunday but will be free all the evening , and all day on Monday .
^ I 'd love to see you - and look forward to showing you some of the local beauty ( better than anything in the South ! ) .
^ Phone me when convenient ( I 'm out most of today though ) , and I 'll give you directions .
^ My phone number - 0446 692 6440
^ Kaden
^ Kaden ,
^ Hi there !
^ I was just wondering , if you 're not busy , whether I could come and visit you this Sunday and stay overnight .
^ I would probably arrive sometime in the afternoon / evening .
^ Let me know , and I hope you 're well Kaden .
^ C ya ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick
^ How great it is to hear from you .
^ I 'm glad you had a good year .
^ I thought about you and my other friends from Johns a lot ; but sadly time pressures did not allow regular emailing .
^ I certainly missed Wells dreadfully , and often wished I could be working in the area up there .
^ Having said that , Sheffield is good - particularly the part where I live , which is only about 800 metres from the edge of the Peak District .
^ It is stunningly beautiful !
^ Work is okay , but people seem so old and set in their ways ( I could really have done with some of you Johns people to introduce youth , energy and enthusiasm ) .
^ But it 's not all bad , as I 've been really well received - sadly , they even seem to think I can wall on water , and I have n't yet convinced them I ca n't !
^ So you 're in Newbury at the moment - not a million miles from
^ God 's county ( Hampshire - and so much nicer than Bath ! ! ! ! ! ) .
^ I was working in Newbury before I left four years ago to go to college .
^ I worked for the CAB opposite Debenhams , as a Debt Counsellor .
^ Even though I loved Hampshire , I ca n't see me returning to live , and would be happy to retire up here in the Peaks !
^ You mention the possibility of coming up - I would like that so much ( and so would Rylee , who lives just across the .
^ city ) .I have a couple of spare rooms , and you could stay as long as you like
^ You 'd be very , very welcome ( bring some friends and see the Peak District - I could certainly put 2 or 3 of you up , and at no cost ! ! ! )
^ I must rush as I have yet another funeral in a about an hour !
^ I really hope you can come sometime - my phone number is 0446 692 6440 .
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I was speaking to Rylee C the other day , and he mentioned that he 'd spent some time with you .
^ How are things in the parish ?
^ Can you believe how quickly a year goes ?
^ 
^ My work is going well , and I am looking foward to the academic side of my third year .
^ I love Wells and ca n't wait to get back into Johns - I 'm living in Cruddas so at least I 'll be near the washing machines !
^ As Rylee may have told you , we are in a process of moving house at the moment , although we do n't actually have a house to move into yet !
^ We are currently staying at my uncle 's house in Newbury which is really quite enjoyable as he has a swimming pool in his garden and Sky TV !
^ If I get a chance to travel up your way this summer I would love to come and visit you ( if I 'm invited ! ) .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Yes , I rec 'd your letter .
^ It was much appreciated .
^ I keep thinking back to the other weekend - with much pleasure !
^ I really did enjoy it so much .
^ I also keep going over some of the things we talked about .
^ You said things that got me thinking in different ways - very helpful !
^ I look forward to future chats !
^ You asked whether I 've got any more viruses .
^ How would I know - I would n't recognise one if it socked me between the eyes ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Having said that , I did receive an email yesterday with an enclosure , from someone I 'd not heard of ( and it was in a foreign language ) , so I took your advise and deleted it !
^ I was also thrilled to receive an email last week from Guy , my friend in Rio that I told you about ( he 's reading phylosophy at Bristol ) .
^ Says he 's looking forward to meeting up with me again .
^ Perhaps it may be possible to introduce you sometime - I 'm sure he 's trying to find faith again , although he 'd not admit it .
^ I think some of the talking that you and I did could help him .
^ In the meantime , we must leave him to God 's grace .
^ I 'm having some time off later in the month , and am planning to spend it at the flat .
^ If you can spare a few days , you 'd be very , very welcome to join me .
^ Let me know .
^ God Bless
^ Kaden
^ Did you get my letter Kaden ?
^ Had any more viruses recently ?
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ 's ok lance - t'was nice just to chill ( am sure i 'm getting old as when i was younger , a night off was a big , going out affair . )
^ When you do your meal , you 'll have to invite a random extra friend too ( or does jake fit that role ? )
^ it was so nice for carla to spend time with some of my christian friends ( guess i 'll find out what she made of it all on friday
^ high table was cool , though they tried to feed us haggis , swede and parsnip in one meal .
^ love carola
^ Thanks for dinner Jennifer - it was FANTASTIC .
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. Have a great formal tomorrow .
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Thanks for your email .
^ Yeah , it was great to see you last week - a lovely surprise !
^ I 'm so glad that you have use for the graphics calc .
^ To be honest , it would only have been going to waste in a box somewhere in store , so at least it might get some exercise with you as its new owner ! !
^ I hope you have a simply fabulous Christmas Nick and do send my love to the rest of your family !
^ Take care
^ Anthony x
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^ ~
^ Els ,
^ You 've been honest with me about this , and I understand and appreciate the courage that took .
^ I 'm now going to be honest with you in the best way I know how ; I will ask you some questions about the comments you 've made .
^ I 'll also at times give you my opinion if I think it might in any way help
^ I think I should ignore the nerves and concentrate on what God wants .
^ Does this mean you are confident that God wants you to marry Imani ?
^ Some of the reason I am getting married is picking up my cross and following him .
^ If this is the case , do you have a rock-solid belief that this is without doubt what God is calling you to ?
^ Otherwise , what are you going to fall back on when things get tough ?
^ Some of it is pragmatics of being a useless single female in a church .
^ Els , I struggle to see any reason why a single female would be useless in a church setting .
^ I do n't see anything in the Bible which suggests that either singleness or femaleness ( femininity ? ) or a combination of the two equates to a lack of usefulness in the body of Christ .
^ Quinton certainly argues a strong case for singleness in 1 Corinthians , and though he addresses his comments primarily to men , I have no doubt that the principles apply equally to women .
^ Even if you were useless as a single female , I strongly believe that marriage is not designed to provide solutions to problems .
^ I say with the deepest conviction ( though I readily admit , not first-hand experience ! ) that any problem a person experiences before they get married will most certainly exist after the marriage has taken place .
^ I have friends who based their marriage on the belief that it would solve some problems in their personal lives .
^ they found after a relatively short time that they simply could not forge a lifelong , intimate marriage bond on that foundation
^ Imani is not my natural choice , but I feel peaceful about us having a shared vision and general outlook .
^ That is good , but is it the basis for marriage ?
^ Marriage is not just two people living and working together ; it 's a deep , intimate union between a man and a woman , based on the love that they share for each other .
^ with each giving everything of themselves , body soul and spirit , to the other
^ it would be good for Imani .
^ He needs looking after .
^ Again , it is great that you care about him , but I really struggle to see how this can be a reason for getting married .
^ If marriage in a human sense is analagous to the relationship between Christ and the church , then it is difficult to see how the role of the church is to " look after " Jesus .
^ Surely , if anything it should be the other way around ... ?
^ There are also the very surreal variables , such as when I first met Imani I thought I might marry him )
^ bearing in mind I did n't find him the most attractive person physically or emotionally , that is a strange thing to feel .
^ That is certainly strange , and interesting , but I think you should be very careful in using an experience like that as justification for a decision about something as life-changing as marriage .
^ This is all getting complicated , because you have to take into account 10 years of commitment phobia as well as God directing me away from people I was attracted to .
^ I hear what you 're saying about the fear of commitment .
^ I face the same thing myself , and it is a very real issue .
^ However , I think it 's vitally important not to let fear become an opposite driving force in * making * a commitment .
^ To try and conclude these comments , I am concerned for you Els .
^ I asked you the question in my previous email because I had a sense when I was talking to you at Convention .
^ you were not at peace about the situation , and that it was n't simply a case of pre-marital nerves
^ Let me say that I do believe ANY marriage can work , and that God honours the sincere marriage commitment , wherever the couple are coming from in their own personal lives .
^ At the same time , I believe that marriage should only be embarked on when both parties are irreversibly commited to loving and cherishing the other .
^ when they both know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they want to spend the rest of their lives together
^ So , I know there 's some pretty heavy stuff in there Els .
^ May you be able to ignore anything that is n't relevant or appropriate .
^ I hope to hear from you soon ,
^ Nick
^ Well , this should be an easy question to answer , but it is n't really .
^ 3 weeks to go and the nerves are rattling away .
^ I think I should ignore the nerves and concentrate on what God wants .
^ Some of the reason I am getting married is picking up my cross and following him .
^ Some of it is pragmatics of being a useless single female in a church .
^ Some of it is that I am very much being shown God 's mercy .
^ I 've always been allergic to the idea of marriage for me .
^ I 've only ever been close to people it is impossible to marry .
^ Extreme cold feet .
^ I dislike commitment .
^ I have some good reason to from my life , because I 've been in a couple of really awful relationships .
^ I trust Imani and he wants to marry me .
^ I do n't really want to get married , but I 've prayed about it a lot .
^ When I said that this is picking up my cross and following God , I mean that my worldly desires are being subsumed .
^ I like good looking , popular , witty people .
^ Imani is not my natural choice , but I feel peaceful about us having a shared vision and general outlook .
^ I did feel peaceful about it .
^ I do n't at the moment .
^ I felt that it was the right thing to do ( in that I prayed and felt okay about it .
^ I did n't have a revelation from God ) and that it would be good for Imani .
^ He needs looking after .
^ It will probably be very good for me too , but the pride I 'd need to swallow to admit that might choke me .
^ This is all getting complicated , because you have to take into account 10 years of commitment phobia as well as God directing me away from people I was attracted to .
^ There are other variables due to not being a Christian through university .
^ I try not to make a big thing about it , but it does affect the course of my life now .
^ There are also the very surreal variables , such as when I first met Imani I thought I might marry him )
^ bearing in mind I did n't find him the most attractive person physically or emotionally , that is a strange thing to feel .
^ A great deal of my decisions are emotional rather than common sense .
^ This seems to be female .
^ I do n't advise it .
^ I tried to say no for a long time , but we spent loads of time together , so practically speaking he was acting as if he were my boyfriend .
^ This is very personal and I hope you understand the ramble .
^ My parents are slightly concerned , but not very .
^ They know I 've prayed about it and so have they .
^ They have said , bless them , that I can pull out at any time before the wedding if I know it 's not right .
^ so they 're not putting pressure on me to go through with something , just because the wheels are set in motion
^ I do n't think the world really works like that though .
^ I do know that I 'm trusting God for peace , because I 'm not very happy right at the moment .
^ In summary : but only in small whispers .
^ It ca n't be that bad or I would have run away already .
^ I do love him and care for him , I 'm just not in love with him .
^ He does n't care and I think the feeling is mutual generally .
^ He 's been hurt really badly by someone leaving him and I think it makes him emotionally detatched .
^ He 's less so all the time .
^ Anyway , what was it that made you ask that question ?
^ I hoped you carpe diem with the best of them .
^ Els , I 'm being brave and mailing this even though it is a bit much .
^ By the way , a munchkin is me .
^ I had a 6 ft 5 friend at uni and therefore I , being the small girl of the group , was the munchkin .
^ Or short arse .
^ I preferred munchkin .
^ From the Wizard of Oz one presumes .
^ Round small people ! !
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Els Plummer " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : topiary - I had to look that up !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Els ,
^ Weird things happen in normal days ...
^ Philip wants me to ask you about the school in South Africa .
^ I 'm sure I 've temporarily lost my sense of humour .
^ What is the point of laying my burdens at the cross if I insist on picking them up again ?
^ I think that the pumpkin has gone mouldy .
^ Hey there ,
^ Weird things happen in normal days .
^ I woke up to a nuisance caller at 3 am who knew my name and kept calling me deaf .
^ My day seems all the more surreal .
^ Philip wants me to ask you about the school in South Africa .
^ He wants to help out in South Africa and / or China ( and maybe CEE ) .
^ He 's thinking of taking a year out before uni .
^ I think the gist of the question is would he be welcome or useful .
^ He 's not as awful as he pretends .
^ I 'm sure I 've temporarily lost my sense of humour .
^ Somewhere .
^ In the fog of stress and responsibility .
^ What is the point of laying my burdens at the cross if I insist on picking them up again ?
^ ~
^ I even sound as if I 'm very serious now .
^ I think that the pumpkin has gone mouldy .
^ If only Kylie Pinkney were still there it would n't be so boring .
^ I mean if he were still alive .
^ I 've been to several of his graduation things and he churned out the same speech and variations on the theme as if it were freshly written Eulogy .
^ He had passion .
^ Is n't that the Greek epitaph ?
^ Rotting pumpkin .
^ Compost .
^ Goodnight , Els
^ ( the spell check ate my 1st mail )
^ ( That does n't explain the non-sequitors in this .
^ That is a story for another day . )
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Was so nice to see you the other week , even though it was a bit fleeting ! !
^ It felt like the " old days " when I looked up and saw so many familiar faces at the side of the pitch ! !
^ I have to say it is a bit strange being in Wells still .
^ Have just about got over the imagining I see people from our year al over the town but hmmmm , transience of life and all that ! ! ! !
^ Having a bit of a strnage day as the whole of Wells it seems packs up to leave .
^ Felt quite homesick watching so many peol , e packing cars up but I am plodding home at the weekend , once I 've sorted out the poetry of James Fox amd its relation to silence and God ! ! !
^ Like you do ! ! !
^ How are things with you ?
^ How 's the course and the room ? ! ! !
^ Hoep it is all going well and that you are not too snowed under with work .
^ Have a fantastic Christmas and New year and do keep in touch - it 's always great to hear from you .
^ Love
^ Rylie
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ It was really great to hear from you !
^ Cheered up a bit of a rainy
^ Wells day ! !
^ I 'm glad you are settling in to college life - and the football team will be exceptionally glad to have you ! !
^ Which reminds me of my aches and pains as picked up in the match against Jillian 's at the weekend ! !
^ Bit of a harsh reminder ( 7 of them actually ) about the joys of the premiership ! !
^ But hey ! !
^ Have got lots of work to do ! !
^ Shocking ! !
^ But it is fascinating stuff .
^ Discussing religion as it is related in art , music and drama is very invigorating and also quite inspirational .
^ I 'm glad you 've got a bigger room .
^ space is good ! !
^ Sadly , three rats have decided that underneath our bath is nice and spacious for them so we are currently trying to evict them ! !
^ Not having much luck as yet , as the landlord sems to be a bit of a " dodgy geezer ! "
^ All fun ! !
^ And nothing like getting us girls our of the showers quickly in the morning ! !
^ Well , I better go but do keep in touch .
^ Lots of love
^ Rylie
^ ~
^ Cheers Nick ,
^ You are outrageous ... how did you come to hear about that ( the DUCK thing ! ) ?
^ My week has n't imporved much - three seminars in a row where I stongly disagree with the lecturer ... always fun !
^ Maybe that makes me think more- who knows ?
^ Anyhow , have a good week ...
^ Leilani x
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Wilksy ,
^ Hi Nick ... having been a bit inept this week , I have finally send Lucio his colours !
^ Aimee Goring ( ? spelling ) ,
^ PS I hear that you only managed 5 girls out to dinner -what 's happened ! ?
^ Hi Nick ... having been a bit inept this week , I have finally send Lucio his colours !
^ As for Sawyer ... he 's now home with us again .
^ He returned this afternoon and we had Chicken Kievs with Aimee Goring ( ? spelling ) , Terrance Helling and Sonia to celebrate ! ! !
^ I do n't have much news to report ( except that Wells seems like an island ... at the moment there are no trains south of Doncaster ! ! ! )
^ Have a good week ( do n't work to hard ) .
^ Leilani x
^ PS I hear that you only managed 5 girls out to dinner - what 's happened ! ?
^ ~
^ Dear Nick I am sorry that it took me so long to write back .
^ We painted my house this holiday-oh you already know that , well Ienjoyed my holiday !
^ Of course school has started &SMILEY
^ How was your holiday ?
^ It is almost time for our next holiday !
^ Did I tell you my birthday is on 2nd October ?
^ When is your birthday ?
^ I have started grade 5 already !
^ I also miss you !
^ Loads of Love
^ Rose Gret &SMILEY
^ P.S. Send us a photo of you and Ester is so cool I like her very much !
^ Hi Girls !
^ How are you ?
^ How was the holiday ? - I guess it 's almost time to go back to school .
^ actually I 'm guessing you 'll get this on Monday or Tuesday evening , so you 've probably been back to school already )
^ I 'm back home now , and it 's great to be with my family again , but I just wanted to say thankyou for the lovely card you wrote me before I left .
^ I will keep it in my little box of valuable things !
^ I also enjoyed the times we spent together , and will miss the fun we had washing dishes and drawing strange pictures and things .
^ I look forward to seeing how much you 've grown when I come to visit you again , or maybe we 'll meet in Brighton sometime ! ?
^ Well , God bless you both , and do n't forget to keep working hard on your PACEs !
^ Love from Nick
^ P.S. I 've attached a small copy of the picture I took of you before I left - I really like it .
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ its not a matter of being gentle its that from the little i have seen I agree with most of what he says but havent lost the God part - yet !
^ I will tell him to email , I think I may go to Kruger with him or at least make him take me for a walk as i cant go out alone .
^ I thought Jesus didnt go out for rules massively Nick and what about the kids around here who cant afford school .
^ what about teaching them to be able to question and truly think rather than fill in the correct words
^ Sorry I cant say that to anyone here .
^ My atitude is improving slightly but at least I know fully Christian things like this - isolated - are n't me .
^ the kids are lovely they all lined up to give me hugs and wish me Happy Womens Day , how sweet is that
^ I suppose I need to leave my " thoughts " and participate instead of observing otherwise I should just get on a plane , not easy though .
^ We must meet up when I get back , feels very silly saying I have not seen you for ages .
^ Less of the old you I am younger than you !
^ Will email if there is more to say soon Eric x
^ Hi Liz !
^ Glad to hear you got there OK .
^ It 's pretty weird for me thinking about you being there ...
^ Why did n't you let me know about Warwick ? ? ! !
^ I am trying desperately to not be judgemental critical and rebellious even internally and retain an open attitude like you said but its not easy
^ Hi Nick
^ have arrived safely and thoutht I would drop you a quick line or two .
^ I have got 2 questions to ask you .
^ Why did n't you let me know about Warwick ? ? ! !
^ Secondly how on earth are you a sane and fun human being .
^ only joking I am trying desperately to not be judgemental critical and rebellious even internally and retain an open attitude like you said but its not easy
^ I have never seen so many rules in my life or such ghettoism .
^ Was victory very similar to this ? ?
^ Weekly cell tonight aaaaaah .
^ It is very beautiful and everyone is very friendly , the girls shower , what is is with the girl / boy thing ? has got JESUS tiled on the floor .
^ Warwick has offered to take me walking and we talked masses last night and stopped for a drink on the way back which was nice
^ Have got a headache so will say more later in the week ,
^ Ihave said hello to the gorls from you and they were very pleased ,
^ Eric
^ ~
^ Dear Quinton & Liz
^ Thanks for the email - glad Nayeli had a good time .
^ He sure got to meet a lot of people and see some good sights !
^ You are all welcome anytime ...
^ Josue is planning a major trip ... we 'll keep in touch .
^ We have just enjoyed a magnificent week away .
^ We decided to take a work / holiday so visited two of our schools , two home school families and then joined
^ Uncle Graham and Aunty Val in the Kruger Park for a few days .
^ We just got back " just now " .
^ The one family live on a private game reserve so we got 5 star treatment .
^ This trip we saw cheetah - which was a real treat , as well as the big 5 so feel like spoilt kids .
^ It was wonderful .
^ Pedro did all the driving so we got back relaxed as well .
^ Having grown kids has some very real benefits .
^ How has your summer holiday been ?
^ Have you been away at all or have you been catching up with odd jobs ?
^ Has there been any interest in Moorlands yet ?
^ Let us know when what 's happening .
^ Uncle Graham says he is organising a " Global Conference " out here in November ... encourage
^ Bookter to come along !
^ Maybe he 'll bring you too ? ! ! !
^ Are you still going to be at Victoria next school year ... and what are Liz 's plans ?
^ Well , that 's all folks ... love to Camron and the guys ...
^ God bless !
^ Josue and Laura
^ To Josue & Laura
^ From : Quinton & Liz
^ ~
^ Nayeli is safely returned ( plus giraffe with snooty expression ! ) , and has given us a glimpse of what these three months have meant to him .
^ Thankyou so much - words are really so inadequate ; I know it 's been a life-changing experience for him , and its significance will only be revealed gradually over the course of time .
^ Nayeli clearly thinks of you as second parents now ( as do quite a number of young people around the world , I suspect ! ) and we are so grateful to God and yourselves for giving him this input .
^ We could not want a better " next step " for him than the one you 've given him - thanks again .
^ An indication of the way Nayeli ( and Nick ) regard their time with you is the fact that they are both talking about returning to SA next summer - and who knows !
^ maybe we 'll come with them , if you think you could handle a family invasion ( Camron too ? )
^ Everything 's somewhat up in the air at the moment , as you can imagine , with the sale of Moorlands in the offing !
^ it 's one of our hearts ' desires to visit you before long , so - maybe next summer will be the time
^ Nayeli has given us some of the highlights of the last three months , and there are many more to come , I know .
^ he has found himself and God in a way which we 're really enjoying finding out about
^ is such a great preparation for the steps after this " next " step that he 's just taken
^ He starts in Norwich in September working for a year before college - I expect he told you about it - and then it 's University .
^ He is so much readier for these things now because of his time with you .
^ His letter to the Commonwealth organisation here who paid some of his expenses is a real testimony .
^ it 'll probably leave some of them reeling - which is good ! - but it 's lovely to see him taking such a firm stand
^ Once again , thanks for everything you 've done - it 's all been a part of this .
^ We 're not quite sure how things will progress here - though it seems likely that we 'll complete the sale of the property by Christmas .
^ We 'll keep you in touch !
^ Lots of love to you both , and also to Pedro and Julie , who both feature large in Nayeli 's accounts ;
^ looking forward to seeing you all soon , we trust .
^ - Quinton
^ ~
^ I got the CD 's Cynthia - THANK YOU .
^ The pictures are awesome ; I assume you took the animal ones in Kruger - am I right ?
^ I particularly like the one of the Elephant ; National Geographic eat your heart out .
^ I 've actually been away the last few days , so I have n't had a chance to listen to the music yet , but I 'm looking forward to it - especially the racy songs of course ! &SMILEY
^ Take it easy ,
^ Nick
^ Hey ,
^ I finally stuck those CD 's in the mail .
^ When I burned the Iron and Wine CD I stuck some tracks on the end that I found on my brother 's computer but had never listened to myself .
^ During my recent trek across the nation I got around to listening to them .
^ Some of last few are a bit racier then I would have normally sent to someone .
^ Sorry it they offend &SMILEY
^ Chagrined ,
^ Cynthia
^ ~
^ Back to school dude ! !
^ Have an awesome time , and do n't forget to work hard .
^ I 'm back to Munich this October to get down and dirty with Alfie .
^ God bless you old boy ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Yous ,
^ I am moving to Boston today .
^ I 'll live in Central Square at 998 Broadway
^ Munich , NZ 00555 I start school in September .
^ My phone number and email will be the same .
^ I 'll be moving up with Jodi .
^ Thanks if we stayed with you on our road trip ( &WEBSITE took a really great yoga teacher 's training course that helped rearrange my thoughts .
^ I 'm finally ready , and I feel stootastic .
^ Love you all ,
^ Orlando
^ Other recent stuff you might give a bunny about : meditation video : &WEBSITE first website designing job : &WEBSITE other stuff : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ You moron .
^ I 'm going to have to throw my laptop away now .
^ And it 's ALL YOUR FAULT ! !
^ ~
^ Nick
^ Guys ,
^ Bad news I 'm afraid .
^ I have been a victim of goodness knows what types of viruses but also and rather annoyingly , I have been a victim of an email worm type thing .
^ Basically , if you do n't know , a virus type thing has been sending itself to everyone in my address book and obviously I got it from someone who had me in their address book and so forth .
^ Anyway , I 've been trying to fix this for about 5 days or so and have finally now managed .
^ The answer is pretty simple - go get the most up to date antivirus program available .
^ So if you 've had problems with your computer and you were unprepared ( like me ) then I would recommend Norton Antivirus &YEAR as it 's done the job for me .
^ Alternatively you could try downloading a free evaluate version from the web , I tried but it ( not surprisingly ) did n't work ...
^ Anyway , apologise again and I hope it was sifted out by your email providers .
^ Otherwise , I hope you 're all well !
^ Mallory
^ ~
^ Kaden ,
^ The plan at the moment is to come up Tuesday morning , and stay until either
^ Thursday night or Friday morning .
^ I 'm very much looking forward to seeing you and catching up on stuff .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Hiya Nick
^ Yes - absolutely fine .
^ It 'll be great to have you both .
^ Theres a couple of bedrooms , and you can have a front door key , and come and go as you please .
^ Its a working week for me , but I 'll have some free time and if it fits in with both of you , perhaps I could join you .
^ The Peak District should be great in mid September , and I 've found some great eating places !
^ Really looking forward to seeing you again - let me know more precise details nearer the time .
^ Kaden
^ PS It was good seeing Wells again - hard to believe it is 2 years since I left !
^ Hey Kaden - Nick here .
^ I was wondering if there would be any chance of visiting you during the week of the 9th - 13th of September .
^ I 'd also like to bring a friend with me , as we wanted to spend some time together and it seemed like the perfect opportunity !
^ Let me know how your fixed .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ I think we 're coming by car Kaden - I 'll let you know soon if otherwise .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ Great Nick - ca n't wait !
^ Are you coming by car , or do you want me to collect you from a station ?
^ Kaden
^ Kaden ,
^ The plan at the moment is to come up Tuesday morning , and stay until either
^ Thursday night or Friday morning .
^ I 'm very much looking forward to seeing you and catching up on stuff .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Hiya Nick
^ Yes - absolutely fine .
^ It 'll be great to have you both .
^ Theres a couple of bedrooms , and you can have a front door key , and come and go as you please .
^ Its a working week for me , but I 'll have some free time and if it fits in with both of you , perhaps I could join you .
^ The Peak District should be great in mid September , and I 've found some great eating places !
^ Really looking forward to seeing you again - let me know more precise details nearer the time .
^ Kaden
^ PS It was good seeing Wells again - hard to believe it is 2 years since I left !
^ Hey Kaden - Nick here .
^ I was wondering if there would be any chance of visiting you during the week of the 9th - 13th of September .
^ I 'd also like to bring a friend with me , as we wanted to spend some time together and it seemed like the perfect opportunity !
^ Let me know how your fixed .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Fantastic Kaden !
^ It would of course be great for you to join us ( or perhaps the other way around ! ) whenever you are free .
^ I 'll get back to you to confirm the details soon - looking forward to seeing you .
^ Nick
^ Hiya Nick
^ Yes - absolutely fine .
^ It 'll be great to have you both .
^ Theres a couple of bedrooms , and you can have a front door key , and come and go as you please .
^ Its a working week for me , but I 'll have some free time and if it fits in with both of you , perhaps I could join you .
^ The Peak District should be great in mid September , and I 've found some great eating places !
^ Really looking forward to seeing you again - let me know more precise details nearer the time .
^ Kaden
^ PS It was good seeing Wells again - hard to believe it is 2 years since I left !
^ Hey Kaden - Nick here .
^ I was wondering if there would be any chance of visiting you during the week of the 9th - 13th of September .
^ I 'd also like to bring a friend with me , as we wanted to spend some time together and it seemed like the perfect opportunity !
^ Let me know how your fixed .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Wayno ,
^ I have n't heard back from the Uni yet , but I 'm expecting info anytime now .
^ I 'll let you know ASAP .
^ O
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Thought I 'd drop you a note to see if you 've had any further news about next year .
^ Hopefully things have developed or will develop with the funding soon .
^ Do let me know where you stand as I want to get my next years plans sorted as soon as I can , i.e. if I 'm not going to live with G&L again I want to tell them
^ .
^ if I 'm going to try to live in Tydale then I want to get that rolling
^ All that to say , keep me informed !
^ O.k. I 'm under a huge deadline and must get back to the grind ...
^ God bless ,
^ Brody
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ That was an interesting email Brody !
^ No , really !
^ I found the mention of my name most touching .
^ It 's kind of like being on TV .
^ Well ... sort of .
^ Tonight I am in agony , as I had two dirty great injections today , and then had my thigh kicked-in playing 5-a-side tonight .
^ Still , you know what they say , " No pain ... no stiffness in the morning . "
^ Is n't that it ?
^ I believe the meeting for discussing my first line of potential funding is tomorrow .
^ Should know about that soon ...
^ All best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Wayno ,
^ I have n't heard back from the Uni yet , but I 'm expecting info anytime now .
^ I 'll let you know ASAP .
^ O
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Thought I 'd drop you a note to see if you 've had any further news about next year .
^ Hopefully things have developed or will develop with the funding soon .
^ Do let me know where you stand as I want to get my next years plans sorted as soon as I can , i.e. if I 'm not going to live with G&L again I want to tell them
^ .
^ if I 'm going to try to live in Tydale then I want to get that rolling
^ All that to say , keep me informed !
^ O.k. I 'm under a huge deadline and must get back to the grind ...
^ God bless ,
^ Brody
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ That was an interesting email Brody !
^ No , really !
^ I found the mention of my name most touching .
^ It 's kind of like being on TV .
^ Well ... sort of .
^ Tonight I am in agony , as I had two dirty great injections today , and then had my thigh kicked-in playing 5-a-side tonight .
^ Still , you know what they say , " No pain ... no stiffness in the morning . "
^ Is n't that it ?
^ I believe the meeting for discussing my first line of potential funding is tomorrow .
^ Should know about that soon ...
^ All best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Brody ,
^ Alas , I still do not know about the funding situation ; I am likely to find out within a month or so I would have thought !
^ although if it comes back negatively then there are various other avenues I could pursue
^ whether I 'll be able to do so from Africa is another issue
^ I think that if a good living opportunity opens up for you , then you must take it .
^ I 'm sure something will work out for me if I do end up coming .
^ I 'm off to SA on April 6th .
^ Looking forward to it !
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Any more news on your end .
^ Hopefully , you are well .
^ I 'm pretty down of late , but happy to be heading to Kaylee for three weeks .
^ Keep me posted on your end .
^ I 've had a potential living situation open up , which would be located accross the street from where I do my work .
^ I need to decide how to act upon it if it becomes an actual opportunity , which obviously makes your plans relevant
^ Well , let me know as things develop .
^ Are you in Africa now ?
^ O.k. off to work .
^ Brody
^ ~
^ That was an interesting email Brody !
^ No , really !
^ I found the mention of my name most touching .
^ It 's kind of like being on TV .
^ Well ... sort of .
^ Tonight I am in agony , as I had two dirty great injections today , and then had my thigh kicked-in playing 5-a-side tonight .
^ Still , you know what they say , " No pain ... no stiffness in the morning . "
^ Is n't that it ?
^ I believe the meeting for discussing my first line of potential funding is tomorrow .
^ Should know about that soon ...
^ All best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Brody ,
^ Sorry to hear about you and Kat - you have my sympathies .
^ I know all about " naive idealism " in relationships - I practically invented it I think !
^ Anyway , I hope you 're OK , and I 'll be in Munich briefly on Saturday ( graduating with Jens ) so I might see you if you 're around .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. I always thought your bird-legs were quite attractive ...
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Liked your email as it well captures your enjoyable blend of seriousness and humor .
^ Let me know about Saturday .
^ It would be good to see you ( and
^ Jenstein ) if possible .
^ God bless ,
^ Brody
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hey Brody ,
^ Sorry to hear about you and Kat - you have my sympathies .
^ I know all about " naive idealism " in relationships - I practically invented it I think !
^ Anyway , I hope you 're OK , and I 'll be in Munich briefly on Saturday ( graduating with Jens ) so I might see you if you 're around .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. I always thought your bird-legs were quite attractive ...
^ ~
^ Brody , that is a RIDICULOUSLY long email .
^ Can you send stuff to &EMAIL as my Dur address is expiring shortly .
^ Thanks - speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Hello friends ,
^ Before I get rambling , I just wanted to remind any and all of you that you can always let me know if you do n't want to receive my ramblings anymore .
^ Not that any of you are likely to be so frank , but I thought I would mention it anyway .
^ Though known to be far too long , this email , I think is especially guilty in this respect .
^ Still , it is a transition of sorts and thus perhaps permissible .
^ So then , I have been underway for a few weeks now and much has transpired .
^ Still , I will begin with a few quotes before rambling to much .
^ 1. Quotes :
^ 1.1 " In grace God is everything " .
^ Yet to say " God is everything and man nothing " is " complete nonsense " , for although man without God is indeed nothing - a prey to nothingness - the whole point of grace is .
^ he may not be nothing but may be newly grounded as a subject ( 89 )
^ This newly grounded subject is reconciled man , God 's man , the man in Christ ( 90-92 ) . ...
^ God 's grace in Jesus Christ reconstitutes man in his authentic humanity and freedom .
^ From G.W. Bromily 's Introduction to the Theology of Karl Spencer - quotations and page references are from / to Spencer 's Church Dogmatics IV , 1 .
^ ~
^ Brody !
^ I 'll be arriving on &DATE .
^ Prepare the welcoming committee ...
^ Look forward to seeing you ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Will you be landing in Munich in the near future ?
^ Brody
^ ~
^ &WEBSITE
^ Awesome Mallory , NLPJHTP .
^ Well , not bad anyway .
^ I have to say though , the introductory picture of you looking like one of the primates at Carlisle Doyle during feeding time is a master stroke .
^ Anyway , have had a VERY busy week this week - full time teaching .
^ My bed time has been getting earlier and earlier as I 've been getting more and more tired , but now it 's the weekend .
^ Yay .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hello Valeria of Scot .
^ Looking forward to the epistle - good idea .
^ We have moved house !
^ I now live in Rutford , which is a little village near Luxembourg .
^ We are slowly getting the house sorted out although we had to rip all the carpets out because they smelled of dog !
^ The " Cambrige thingy " is going well thanks .
^ I am in Kassidy college ( with Jon 's sister ! ) and I have just started reading two very fat books : " Engineering Maths " and " Behaviour and Natural Understanding Processing " .
^ Great .
^ Keep it real !
^ Nick
^ Thanks Nick .
^ Glad you enjoyed Scotland .
^ I will write and tell you all about what we did )
^ I am very tired and am going to compose an epistle and then send it to everyone .
^ ( yes i am lazy but also it takes time ...
^ Will maybe even phone oyu at some stage too .
^ How 's the Munich thingy working out ?
^ Valeria
^ Valeria ! ! !
^ WELCOME BACK TO BONNIE SCOTLAND ! ! ! !
^ I have just left myself actually !
^ We spent a week 's holiday up there .
^ Hope you 're well .
^ Jonah
^ ~
^ Well hello there yourself !
^ Great to hear from you Nick .
^ Though I feel somewhat guilty that my getting an e-mail was to the detriment of your higher education .
^ Come on boy , you 're not a fresher any more : more dedication to your studies is required .
^ Having said that , I guess sending e-mails is and is therefore within the scope of your degree ... .
^ I 'm glad that Philip 's is still rockin , and soon to be
^ Knockin too .
^ I miss it tons ( Philip 's , not Knock - or at least not as much ) .
^ In fact yesterday I spent some time skiving on the Internet and looked up the JCR homepage , which is perhaps a sign that I 'm getting a bit sad !
^ As for 15 people at EMPM , well I 'm delighted but it shows that something was n't quite right with my marketing campaign last year ! !
^ Or else this year's
^ Freshers are less .
^ I am coping bravely with the big bad world .
^ For reasons which I have n't yet fathomed ( is that the right word .
^ therefore wo n't bother trying to explain , I am now up in bonny Raymond working with a wee communications company doing scary computery stuff
^ OK , so you might not consider computers scary , but I still do !
^ I 've only been in the job 3 weeks now and I 'm beginning to get my head round ADSL .
^ I think that answers the " most difficult " question .
^ As for the best thing ... hmm , dunno ! - I am living with my sister which is good ( awww , how sweet ! ) and Raymond seems cool ( literally ) so far .
^ At least it 's drier than the rest of the country .
^ Well I 'd better go home .
^ I think my brain 's given up for the day anyway .
^ Take care Nick , and do n't get too ridiculously busy .
^ Say hello to the leather sofas for me , and anything / anyone else who might have noticed my absence .
^ Bye for now ,
^ Love Kerri
^ --- Pastor Nick ( &EMAIL ) wrote : )
^ Kerri !
^ Hi , how are you coping with the big wide world ?
^ I am sitting in a practical in CG66 at this very moment .
^ I 'm just about to begin today 's work , but I 'm spending the obligatory 15 mins emailing first .
^ Amazingly enough Philip 's has managed to get over the shock / despair of having to get on with life without you , and things are going fairly well really .
^ We have had lots of people in CU this year , and we are planning a house party at " Knock " in a few weeks time .
^ I think there were even about 15 people at early morning prayer last week !
^ My work is going fairly well , although there is lots of it .
^ I 'm finding myself ridiculously busy , and living out is great but it takes up quite a lot of time .
^ I get a free ticket to the Kingston Ball this year as I am playing in Chicks and Money after dinner !
^ What is the best thing about your new life ?
^ What is the most difficult ?
^ I guess you must have heard about the flooding .
^ I 've never seen the river so high - I think its about ten feet higher than usual and it only needs to rise another foot or so before some of the major roads will be flooded !
^ Crazy .
^ Well , all the best Kerri and I 'd love to hear now you 're doing ,
^ Nick
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Get your free&EMAIL address at &WEBSITE or your free&EMAIL address at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ the purpose of life dear brother is to eat as much chocolate as you possibly can ! ok i know that 's not the purpose of life ! to put it bluntly i really do not know ! !
^ ok now i understand what you mean by demonstrating sorry about my ! !
^ it will be fantastic to see you for Omar 's thing .
^ we did our dress rehearsals this weekend which went quite well ! !
^ i 'm a bit tired today though show next week
^ anyway i better go becuase i 'm supposed to be working on word processing !
^ take care of yourself young man - not to much clubbing !
^ i love you loads and trust everything is going well
^ bye bye
^ boozer
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Camron Malone "
^ Subject : Re : Whassup ! ! !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hey Boo ,
^ No blank forward - great !
^ Now you only have to work on limiting the number of !'s in your emails &SMILEY )
^ what do you mean by demonstrating ? are you strapping yourself to lamp posts or is that not the kind of demonstrating you 're talking about ? ? ? ? ! ! !
^ hey you will notice sir that this is not a blank forward ! ! !
^ what do you mean by demonstrating ? are you strapping yourself to lamp posts or is that not the kind of demonstrating you 're talking about ? ? ?
^ i 'm good ! ! dancing is going well ! ! we 've got dress rehearsals tomorrow and sunday so that will keep me busy !
^ i 've only been in the bakery 3 hours this week cos of dancing ! ! i do n't have a clue how the baker 's son is
^ sorry ! ! i STINK of smoke ! ! i went to the theatre to see Holly in Fiddler on
^ Roof and a group of us went for a drink afterwards and it was just a tad smokey ! ! oh well it was good fun boo
^ i got to hear about who is going out with who and who fancies who ! ! what more could a girl ask for
^ do you know if you can make gemma 's 21st yet ? let me know as soon as you know
^ i 'm off to bed ! ! ! ! ! ! take care i love you loads and miss ya lots bye bye nite nite
^ From : Nick Malone
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Whassup ! ! !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hey Boo ,
^ How 's life ?
^ Dancing ?
^ Bakery ?
^ Baker 's son ?
^ Trust all is well .
^ I am supposed to be demonstrating for four hours this afternoon , but it 's a non-compulsory practical so no-one 's really doing any work , and therefore not asking any questions .
^ Hence I 'm getting quite bored ; only one and a quarter hours done ... what am I going to do ? ?
^ Still , I 'll get through it !
^ Big it up ,
^ Nick
^ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos : Click Here
^ ~
^ Frederick , Its great to hear from you and that you are doing well .
^ I am trying to come over late June , early July and am working on it .
^ I will certainly be hoping to see you and the family .
^ I am hectic busy this year and have just returned from Namibia and leaving for Lesotho in 2 days .
^ Please say Hi to all the family and any of the Uni gang .
^ Bless you Josue .
^ I think you will be an added asset to Cabridge What- they should pay you to attend !
^ Bevingtons ,
^ How are you all ?
^ What are you up to ?
^ Are you coming to Brighton this summer ? ? ?
^ Please come .... please come ! ! !
^ I am just packing up my room , ready to head back to University for my last term .
^ It has been an amazing three years .
^ I have been offered a place by Munich to study for a Masters there next year .
^ I just have to wait and see if they will give me any funding - these things are quite expensive ! !
^ But God is good .
^ I am also packing up my room because we are moving house again soon - we will probably get a house somewhere nearer to Luxembourg .
^ We played football this morning and won 9-2 !
^ Admittedly all of their defenders were older than Josue !
^ Still , nice to win .
^ Otherwise , all is well here .
^ Tonight we are going round to Nayeli 's girlfriend 's house ( Rachel ) for dinner .
^ It is the first time we 've been there .
^ In a few minutes I am going to pick my bike up from the bike shop , where it is having a service ( how interesting I hear you say ... )
^ Anyway , let me know when you 're going to be here , and you must come and stay with us or something .
^ I guess I should maybe ask my parents first , but I 'm sure they 'd be fine with it )
^ Keep it real !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Was your email part of the " how many catchphrases I can get into one email " game ?
^ Arrived back in Wells late last night and am already in the library ( though emailing you so not actually doing any work ... um ) .
^ Would love a copy of 16 " Nick Malone " songs , songs that make you go " ooow ! " wait a minute I 'm not playing your silly game ...
^ Did a little bit of work over the few days that I was there but still did n't manage to do the ridiculously small amount of work that I set myself !
^ I finished copying out all the Cantonese characters so all I have to do now is memorise them all !
^ Should n't take too long only close to a thousand to learn !
^ I also carried home a rdiculously heavy bible-sized textbook in order to read through a couple of chapters ... ah well , you cant do everything !
^ It was nice to see my family again and play with my nephews .
^ I took the oldest one swimming yesterday , he 's four but I still felt knackered afterwards and slept soundly last night ! he is very energetic and also big for his age .
^ he wanted to go down the twirrly slide by himself so I asked the guard and he said that if he wanted to go then he should be okay
^ Off he went and when I got to the bottom after him I saw the regs ...
^ eight and over by themselves , five to eight only if over the height reg , ow well he 'll be five in a couple of months or so
^ Also went for a four mile run one morning and managed to aggravate a recurring pain that I get on the right hand side of my right knee .
^ think it must be tendinitus but it might ease if I get back into running regularly as your body gets used to that sort of exercise
^ Look forward to seeing your new bike and
^ Hey nonny nonny ,
^ Yes Nick , thanks very much .
^ I wo n't enquire as to the meaning , I 'm sure that it is some rude " gangsta " crap !
^ Georgia
^ ~
^ hey you will notice sir that this is not a blank forward ! ! ! boo
^ what do you mean by demonstrating ? are you strapping yourself to lamp posts or is that not the kind of demonstrating you 're talking about ? ? ?
^ i 'm good ! ! dancing is going well ! ! we 've got dress rehearsals tomorrow and sunday so that will keep me busy !
^ i 've only been in the bakery 3 hours this week cos of dancing ! ! i do n't have a clue how the baker 's son is
^ sorry ! ! i STINK of smoke ! ! i went to the theatre to see Holly in Fiddler on the Roof
^ a group of us went for a drink afterwards and it was just a tad smokey ! ! oh well it was good fun
^ i got to hear about who is going out with who and who fancies who ! ! what more could a girl ask for
^ do you know if you can make gemma 's 21st yet ? let me know as soon as you know
^ i 'm off to bed ! ! ! ! ! ! take care i love you loads and miss ya lots bye bye nite nite
^ From : Nick Malone
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Whassup ! ! !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hey Boo ,
^ How 's life ?
^ Dancing ?
^ Bakery ?
^ Baker 's son ?
^ Trust all is well .
^ I am supposed to be demonstrating for four hours this afternoon , but it 's a non-compulsory practical so no-one 's really doing any work , and therefore not asking any questions .
^ Hence I 'm getting quite bored ; only one and a quarter hours done ... what am I going to do ? ?
^ Still , I 'll get through it !
^ Big it up ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ The more I read that little excerpt the more disturbed I feel .
^ I can only imagine the derranged state of Christian 's mind after the amount of time he 's spent meditating on it .
^ Please put us out of our misery ...
^ O
^ So yeah , I 'm trying to get some closure on the whole " Munich experience " , but I still have n't been able to .
^ figure out what you ladies were talking about at the end of term [ below ] ( and believe me , I 've spent a long time thinking )
^ Could I have some more clues please ?
^ Or , preferably , the answer .
^ Thanks !
^ Hope you are all doing well , and India is awesome , Naomi .
^ Oh , and does anyone know if Vic has an email address ?
^ Cheers , Christian .
^ P.S. Nick , hopefully I 'll be raping through Luxembourg again soon so we can meet up .
^ P.P.S Naomi , has Jennifer had a chance to tell you about the pink scooter ?
^ master of some , but better master if it 's clear .
^ Has anyone tried bioform ?
^ i reckon i agree .
^ but you know 4 ways - jack of all trades , master of none , no ?
^ what happens if it pops though ?
^ At least the plunge is sustained .
^ mackay , but
^ separate
^ ~
^ p.s. whats with the benjo thing ? ? ?
^ A relic from a former life ...
^ ~
^ 850 boys turning out to see you in a T-SHIRT Naomi ! !
^ That 's got to be worth boasting about , eejits or not .
^ Glad to hear you 're enjoying it of course .
^ What an adventure .
^ I 'm growing a goatee .
^ A proper one .
^ Also working part-time at my Dad 's school , and writing a technical paper .
^ Sweet loving to you all ...
^ Nick
^ Oh ho ho !
^ It 's good to hear from you all again !
^ And how I laughed to know you boys are still vexed by our messages .
^ I am in full agreement with sal and rola that we girlies will need a convention before embarking upon the next stage of ... clue giving !
^ Tee hee .
^ It is good to be back here in india , and the work is going well .
^ Our adventures last week took rach and i to 2 tribal hamlets in protected forest areas .
^ so we were throwing water over each other in streams to wash and sleeping on bamboo mats on cow dung floors !
^ most definitely still in our mozzy nets .
^ all sorts of creepy crawlies .
^ we saw a snake
^ yesterday we went to kovalam ( beach resort ) , for a swim and some fab food .
^ we wore t-shirts over our bikinis for decency , but still attracted a crowd of about 850 men when body boarding .
^ silly eejits .
^ A true experience of india !
^ oh the fish was good .
^ Today 's adventure was a full body ayuvedic oil massage .
^ they do know a thing or two about health care here .
^ I 've only bought one sari so far ( surprising laura b who thought i 'd have bought india out of saris by now )
^ but that will change tom when i intend to buy a 2nd , and maybe one for ruth
^ tee hee .
^ and i reckon about i 'm having 2 or 3 cups of chai a day .
^ but the samosas are sadly lacking .
^ they 're actually v hard to find in trivandrum .
^ hopefully bombay will provide them when we get there on Fri
^ We 've had enough fresh fruit juices to make up for the lack of samosas , and i am awaiting banana fritters .
^ Isaiah has got used to curry for breakfast .
^ Vic and Rola , I hope you 're settling into Dur well again , and that you are liking your new digs .
^ I look forward to invading very soon !
^ B and B - what are you up to ?
^ I hope you shall land in Dur some time soon as well .
^ take care , and see you all sooooooooooon .
^ Ca n't wait !
^ Big hugs and many fresh chillies ,
^ fi xxx
^ On &DATE , The Lancester wrote :
^ p.s. whats with the benjo thing ? ? ?
^ ~
^ It was really good but I need to write assignments so i ca n't go into detail. they are all good but lizzie has an operation tomorrow so you may
^ want to ring her tonight ( but not too late as she has to get up very early )
^ I got asked to be a bridesmaid again .... very exciting , slightly unnerving
^ felt nostalgic but glad in lots of ways that i 'm not there as it brought back lots of reasons why i would n't want to be there too aswell as all the good memories All in all , good time was had and nice to be back with comfortable old armchair people
^ The love in your emails is now conspicuous as i told you off for it last summer !
^ ( smile ... it 's not an insult ... it just makes me smile when I see it )
^ I must leave this blasted computer room soon ,
^ wishes , roo
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Tabitha , how was Wynne ? ?
^ How are Terrance and Valeria and the posse ?
^ Did you reprimand Valeria for not calling me last term ?
^ Nothing particularly exciting has happened since I last saw you , I do n't think ...
^ Anyway , enjoy the rest of your HT ,
^ Love Nick
^ P.S. My commiserations regarding the assignments / computers .
^ I hear you .
^ FIRSTLY I AM SO BORED ) I HATE ASSIGNMENTS AND I HATE COMPUTERS ) ONE HAS JUST LOST LOADS OF MY WORK ) I WANT TO CRY
^ secondly , I do n't think it would cost THAT muh to go to CANadia but if it does then I guess i ca n't go because it is too much
^ thirdly , Spain sounds good .
^ rav are you not allowed to fly still ?
^ When will the flying abstinance be over ? it can probably cost less than two hundred if we 're careful .
^ but I warn you , if we do go by car , I am sick o n ferries ...
^ can we go on the chunnel
^ Valeria 's mum would like it ,
^ love and other indoor sports ( read that in a book when i was twelve and did n't understand what it meant )
^ Tabitha
^ On &DATE , G A Wheeler wrote :
^ People of The Seaton ,
^ I am going to sample your opinion ...
^ Time is ticking along rather merrily and this has been drawn to my attention as we are nearing the end of February .
^ Provisional holiday date is the first week of August , but this is not definite .
^ Alas , we cannot go to Chapel this summer because it is all booked up .
^ After receiving very little feedback from our last email asking if any of you had villas we could stay in , Nick and I feel that there are now two options ...
^ 1) We go to Bob 's cottage next to the lake in Romania .
^ Cost is likely to be between &pound; 2800 and &pound; 55000 each ( including flights & everything ) .
^ But the plus point is that it 's Romania &SMILEY and there is a bath ! ! !
^ And we might stay in Toronto for a few nights if the desire intoxicated us sufficiently .
^ 2) We rent a large house somewhere in Spain probably and drive over to eliminate flights .
^ Cost is likely to be somewhere in the vague region of &pound; 2800 each
^ ( but I do n't have a clue , so do n't quote me , please ) .
^ The plus point is the cheap petrol , but unfortunately at this stage we can neither confirm or deny any rumours of a bath .
^ These are both suggestions which have been intimated to Nick and I and we want to know what you all think about them .
^ If you have any alternative ideas , however ill-formed , please tell us .
^ Your friendly holiday coordinators ,
^ Parker & Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Ed .
^ First off , my brother 's email address : &EMAIL
^ Secondly , YES , I have booked my tickets for Africa - leaving on April 6th and back on June 29th .
^ I have to say that just recently , I have been through major bouts of depression - I am finding everything so boring .
^ I hear you man .
^ I reckon you really need something to get your teeth into .
^ I bet you 'd love getting on the property ladder or something ...
^ Have you got any rich relatives that are likely to die and leave you a shed load of money ... ?
^ Guess what - I got a new microphone today ! !
^ It 's an AKG C1000 ; general purpose condenser for vocal and acoustic instrument recording .
^ My old mic was starting to get ridiculously noisy .
^ I 've been doing quite a lot of recording over the last few months !
^ it 's going quite well , although I only discovered today that I have been using my master compressor in mono mode for about 2 months
^ Ah well ...
^ I stayed the night with Rodrigo Morrant the other day ! !
^ It was great - we got out a few of the old videos from Victory days - serious nostalgia trip .
^ We had a good time at school you know Ed .
^ I miss things like the mime we used to do .
^ One of the videos Rodrigo got out was from his 14th birthday ; do you remember it ?
^ We played pool and stayed over at the Morrant 's house .
^ We look so young and " fresh " and full of energy !
^ Anyway , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Currently at work getting totally board - I will definitely finish here as soon as I can afford to .
^ Karla and Jansel are moving house - they have offered me a room in the new house but it wo n't be as big as the two rooms that I am accustomed to .
^ However , I really want to get a place of my own in Carlisle to do up - an evening project .
^ A place that I can have lots of people to stay whenever I fancy !
^ I have to say that just recently , I have been through major bouts of depression - I am finding everything so boring .
^ I feel constrained and tied down to a life of drudgery I hate .
^ I want to break free !
^ I have though about all sorts of crazy but fun jobs to do - but still do n't fully know what I want to set my hand to .
^ There are to many options and not enough time or money !
^ What about you ?
^ Have you booked a flight to Africa yet ?
^ I look forward to hearing from you .
^ Lots of Love ,
^ Joshua C. xoxox
^ We want to find out where your PC ranks in your own Personal Protection League .
^ Take the survey here .
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ how 's the ferreting ? well , since i last communicated a few major things have changed .
^ I decided to look at the career website after the LA thing fell through and landed a job in central london doing research for one of the top investment banks for a month !
^ Very random but good business experience ( which might come in handy one day ... maybe ? ) .
^ Anyways , i figured it would be more stimulating than temping in exeter ... the only snag is i 'm not being paid ( only lunch and commuting fees !
^ ) . and the hours are 9-8pm ... hmmm ... still , it 's interesting being in london and getting a little insight into what sam might be doing next year
^ how is the paper going ?
^ Oh , i am hearing things about a beard lance ? anything you want to tell me ?
^ ta , jake .
^ Sorry to hear that Cunners .
^ Of course , if you want some part time work amongst ferrets , I 'm sure I can pull a few strings ...
^ I could really do with some lucrative part-time work to complement my ferreting .
^ Problem is it 's really difficult to get skilled short-term employment , as I 'm sure you know !
^ Still , maybe my supervisor can come up with something - just hope it 's legal .
^ Stay well ,
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ LA is off I 'm afraid .
^ They decided I was too much of a security risk .
^ Bit gutted about that .
^ Now looks like I 'm going to have to work like a ferret in some factory around Exeter .
^ Still , better than teaching ferrets I guess !
^ Cheers , jake
^ Yeah , and what is a schiedelgubber anyways ? ( apart from me , obviously ) .
^ Yeah , and what is a schiedelgubber anyways ? ( apart from me , obviously ) .
^ of usual .
^ ~
^ Cunning Jennifer .
^ I enjoyed that , although if we 're being pedantic then it is actually impossible :
^ 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house .
^ But the lateral ordering of the houses is never stated , so one cannot know whether this constraint has been satisfied or not .
^ However , as far as I can see it only works if you assume a right-to-left ordering ( though it took me a lot longer than 15 minutes to work that out ! )
^ Did you find a quick and devious way of doing it , or did you use a big bit of paper ? !
^ Hi all .
^ Vic , I spoke to Bob Greetings the other day and asked if he 'd seen you in church and he said he had , and that you looked - and I quote - " very well " .
^ How about that for a complement ? ! ? !
^ Let your mind be free .
^ O
^ my boss sent me this and I 've spent the last 15 minutes making sure that I 'm in the 2% ...... thought it might distract you guys for a while too !
^ Try this oh bright ones !
^ Tiffany
^ Who owns the fish ?
^ 1. In a street there are five houses , painted five different colours .
^ 2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
^ 3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage , smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet .
^ THE QUESTION : WHO OWNS THE FISH ?
^ HINTS
^ 1. The Brit lives in a red house .
^ 2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets .
^ 3. The Dane drinks tea .
^ 4. The Stewart house is on the left of the Plummer house .
^ 5. The owner of the Stewart house drinks coffee .
^ 6. The person who smokes Pall Stanhope rears birds .
^ 7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill .
^ 8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk .
^ 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house .
^ 10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats .
^ 11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill .
^ 12. The man who smokes Leishman Master drinks beer .
^ 13. The German smokes Prince .
^ 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house .
^ 15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water .
^ ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY .
^ HE SAID THAT 98 % OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT .
^ ~
^ In fact it will work both ways .
^ my boss sent me this and I 've spent the last 15 minutes making sure that I 'm in the 2% ...... thought it might distract you guys for a while too !
^ Try this oh bright ones !
^ Tiffany
^ Who owns the fish ?
^ 1. In a street there are five houses , painted five different colours .
^ 2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
^ 3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage , smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet .
^ THE QUESTION : WHO OWNS THE FISH ?
^ HINTS
^ 1. The Brit lives in a red house .
^ 2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets .
^ 3. The Dane drinks tea .
^ 4. The Stewart house is on the left of the Plummer house .
^ 5. The owner of the Stewart house drinks coffee .
^ 6. The person who smokes Pall Stanhope rears birds .
^ 7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill .
^ 8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk .
^ 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house .
^ 10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats .
^ 11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill .
^ 12. The man who smokes Leishman Master drinks beer .
^ 13. The German smokes Prince .
^ 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house .
^ 15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water .
^ ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY .
^ HE SAID THAT 98 % OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT .
^ ~
^ No Christian , that is the phenomenon known as " female logic " ...
^ " ... and forgot to discuss the next batch of emails but we have n't forgotton .... . "
^ Now there 's a paradox .
^ oh that reminds me , us girls had a convention at lunchtime and forgot to discuss the next batch of emails but we have n't forgotton ... ... ...
^ I think Jesus owns the fish .
^ Cunning Jennifer .
^ I enjoyed that , although if we 're being pedantic then it is actually impossible :
^ But the lateral ordering of the houses is never stated , so one cannot know whether this constraint has been satisfied or not .
^ However , as far as I can see it only works if you assume a right-to-left ordering ( though it took me a lot longer than 15 minutes to work that out ! )
^ Did you find a quick and devious way of doing it , or did you use a big bit of paper ? !
^ Hi all .
^ Vic , I spoke to Bob Greetings the other day and asked if he 'd seen you in church and he said he had , and that you looked - and I quote - " very well " .
^ How about that for a complement ? ! ? !
^ Let your mind be free .
^ O
^ sure that I 'm
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^ ~
^ WRONG ! ! ! !
^ It 's the German you schiedelgubber ! ! !
^ I think Jesus owns the fish .
^ Cunning Jennifer .
^ I enjoyed that , although if we 're being pedantic then it is actually impossible :
^ my boss sent me this and I 've spent the last 15 minutes making sure that I 'm in the 2% ......
^ thought it might distract you guys for a while too !
^ Try this oh bright ones !
^ Tiffany
^ colours . beverage , smoke cats .
^ CENTURY .
^ HE SOLVE IT .
^ ~
^ Sorry to hear that Cunners .
^ Of course , if you want some part time work amongst ferrets , I 'm sure I can pull a few strings ...
^ I could really do with some lucrative part-time work to complement my ferreting .
^ Problem is it 's really difficult to get skilled short-term employment , as I 'm sure you know !
^ Still , maybe my supervisor can come up with something - just hope it 's legal .
^ Stay well ,
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ LA is off I 'm afraid .
^ They decided I was too much of a security risk .
^ Bit gutted about that .
^ Now looks like I 'm going to have to work like a ferret in some factory around Exeter .
^ Still , better than teaching ferrets I guess !
^ Cheers , jake
^ Yeah , and what is a schiedelgubber anyways ? ( apart from me , obviously ) .
^ Yeah , and what is a schiedelgubber anyways ? ( apart from me , obviously ) .
^ I 've been inside StAG for a long time now so it may just be a lack of sunlight , but I think you guys are making even less sense than usual .
^ All my love and hopes for your sanity , vcix
^ On &DATE &TIME , The Lancester wrote :
^ ~
^ Billio !
^ Good to hear from you matey .
^ how 's the ferreting ?
^ Not bad thanks .
^ I 'm currently on holiday with two different ferretts - mine and my Dad 's godsons ( also my cousins ) .
^ It 's half term and for some reason we volunteered to take two of my young cousins away for a couple of days .
^ Only problem is they have an issue with bladder control ... a serious issue .
^ We 've only been here one afternoon and already had to hand-wash two sets of trousers and underwear !
^ In other news I 've written a machine learning-based connect-4 game .
^ I am currently observing its behaviour with interest : o ) .
^ The paper is going OK .
^ I 've just had a shed-load more comments from my supervisor , so I 'll have to get going on those soon .
^ I 'm planning to record some songs soon , so that should be fun .
^ Oh , the beard ... well , I 've been through various facial-hair permutations in the last few months .
^ For your amusements I 've attached a photo of me at a party a few weeks ago .
^ The moustache has now gone , but the goatee remains .
^ All best Christian ,
^ Boggs
^ Hey Nick ,
^ how 's the ferreting ? well , since i last communicated a few major things have changed .
^ I decided to look at the career website after the LA thing fell through and landed a job in central london doing research for one of the top investment banks for a month !
^ Very random but good business experience ( which might come in handy one day ... maybe ? ) .
^ Anyways , i figured it would be more stimulating than temping in exeter ... the only snag is i 'm not being paid ( only lunch and commuting fees !
^ ) . and the hours are 9-8pm ... hmmm ... still , it 's interesting being in london and getting a little insight into what sam might be doing next year
^ how is the paper going ?
^ Oh , i am hearing things about a beard lance ? anything you want to tell me ?
^ ta , jake .
^ Sorry to hear that Cunners .
^ Of course , if you want some part time work amongst ferrets , I 'm sure I can pull a few strings ...
^ I could really do with some lucrative part-time work to complement my ferreting .
^ Problem is it 's really difficult to get skilled short-term employment , as I 'm sure you know !
^ Still , maybe my supervisor can come up with something - just hope it 's legal .
^ Stay well ,
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ LA is off I 'm afraid .
^ They decided I was too much of a security risk .
^ Bit gutted about that .
^ Now looks like I 'm going to have to work like a ferret in some factory around Exeter .
^ Still , better than teaching ferrets I guess !
^ Cheers , jake
^ obviously ) .
^ Schiedelgubber is the German term for anyone who believes in Jesus as the sole owner of all marine life .
^ Christian .
^ O
^ obviously ) .
^ ~
^ " ... and forgot to discuss the next batch of emails but we have n't forgotton .... . "
^ Now there 's a paradox .
^ oh that reminds me , us girls had a convention at lunchtime and forgot to discuss the next batch of emails but we have n't forgotton ... ... ...
^ I think Jesus owns the fish .
^ Cunning Jennifer .
^ I enjoyed that , although if we 're being pedantic then it is actually impossible :
^ my boss sent me this and I 've spent the last 15 minutes making sure that I 'm in the 2% ...... thought it might distract you guys for a while too !
^ ~
^ Yep , done some work , and planning to do a lot more tomorrow ...
^ Just waved Anna off at the station ( this getting some time apart .
^ making sure you 're at peace thing should happed nowish as chances are we wo n't see each other for 2 and a half weeks now )
^ Hope you 're enjoying Carlisle , we canoed with Bob and Terrance today which was cool .
^ Otherwise , pretty stressed with stupid things and two days till I get a wisdom tooth " removed " .
^ How nice .
^ Enjoy all bud , men need to stick together ( with reference to the women forward ) , glad you liked it , Is
^ Ianz ! ! ! !
^ Howza buddy ?
^ This forward is indeed quite amusing .
^ I 'm in Carlisle visitng Joshua , and about to meet up with Rylie Seymour .
^ Joshua says he remembers you as being " well spoken " and damn sexy .
^ ( actually I added the last bit , but hey ! )
^ How 's the work going ?
^ You are doing some are n't you ...
^ Speak soon ,
^ Jonah
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^ I 'm now the team leader for bespoke systems up in Chime Park ( temporarily anyway ) ...
^ Ahh ...
^ I always said you were destined for great things !
^ Apparently there was some problem with an Access database that the company was using to measure profitability or something that has caused the whole mess ! !
^ Yeah - that was the one I was working on just before I left . &SMILEY
^ What you doing at Munich then ?
^ I 'm doing an M / Phil in " Animal Behaviour , State and Natural Environment " .
^ Did I tell you - I got a First .
^ Enjoy your hols - anywhere nice ?
^ Erm ...
^ Spilsbyshire .
^ We 've just got back from 2 weeks in Spain , which was excellent .
^ Spent a small fortune though on wine and beer though - although the garage now looks great ...
^ Whatever makes you happy Laney .
^ See ya ,
^ Ciao !
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Glad the party was good - hope you did n't drink too much though ! !
^ Things are n't great here at the moment , and I need to speak to Mallory Kettner about you ASAP ( although he 's gone home with a migraine this afternoon ... . )
^ Do you want to do the same thing , or would you be willing to work on something different ?
^ Jo .
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^ Kaylee ,
^ Just asking about work during the summer .
^ What 's the situation ?
^ Can I do some ? etc .
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. The party was great - missed you but had a good time anyway !
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^ Kaylee ,
^ Hello , it 's your favourite ex-YII student ( apart from Fiona ) !
^ I caught a glimpse of Barnwood on the news the other night - looks like BE is in a bit of trouble - I always said you should have had Kylie Hollins ' job .
^ What position are you in ?
^ How about the rest of the passport team ?
^ I 'm off to Munich in about a month 's time , so I 'm doing some preparatory maths and stuff - it 's been a long time since I did any hard-core maths so it 's quite hard work .
^ Next week I 'm going on holiday for a few days with
^ Stevo ( remember Stevo ? ! ) .
^ How 's Julie ?
^ Right , all the best ,
^ Nick
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^ Hi Nick
^ Thanks for the mail , its great to be back in DH .
^ I am going to your flat tonight for dinner -- Tabitha has invited me over .
^ SWEET .
^ I went to Esthers yesterday cause it was her bday so that was nice - yummy food .
^ Anyway I will see you on Sunday !
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^ Things got extremely hectic for a couple of months at work - evenings until midnight and numerous weekends doing stuff etc etc.
^ Then with 3 days until go-live .
^ last week ) with half the data loaded , the NII decided that we were n't ready and so called a halt to the project
^ We think it is now going in in January sometime , but we 're not sure yet ...
^ I have n't got Kylie Hollins ' job yet - although I 've just been " promoted " to become the new " Implementation Manager " for Heysham 1 , Hinkley and Hartlepool ! !
^ This means that I 'm project managing getting the data into the new system for each of those sites when they go live with responsibility for the programming staff and the database regions ! !
^ I 'm also in line to becoming the configuration manager for Passport a few months after we have gone live with Heysham 2 - ...
^ means that I 'm in charge of the system and am responsible for deciding which upgrades and bug fixes are allowed into production
^ Next stop - CEO ! !
^ Apart from all that it 's all quite round here - apart from some git driving into my car in the car-park at work a few weeks ago and driving off without leaving any details .
^ That 's going to cost me over &pound; 2800 to get fixed - it needs a new wing as it 's not repairable ! !
^ Some people just are n't as honest as myself ( and you of course ! ! ) .
^ Well , it 's Friday night , Julie 's at work , and I 'm just about to try and build a web page and post it on the web ...
^ If I get something working , I may even let you know the address ...
^ Keep in touch eh .
^ All the best .
^ Jo .
^ PS. As you 've moved , let me know your new address ...
^ I 'll be writing my christmas cards this weekend ! !
^ PPS .
^ BORO will be OK now , you 'll see tomorrow ...
^ Kaylee ,
^ How are things with my favourite Boro fan ?
^ What has happened to the boys in red ? ? ? ?
^ I have now finished my first term back at Wells .
^ It was ridiculously busy , and now I 'm at home trying to recuperate !
^ We have moved out of our huge house now , and live in a tiny one .
^ I got back just after we moved , so there were boxes piled up everywhere and we have spent the last few days trying to get things sorted out .
^ We are actually only renting this place , and it is a temporary measure until my parents decide what they want to do with themselves !
^ How is the project going ?
^ Is Karla still there ?
^ How are the boys ?
^ When are you taking over Kylie Hollins ' job ?
^ I hope you are all well .
^ Email me ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick , glad to hear from you , sorry not replied sooner .
^ The work is going OK , very slow but I will get there , I am revising and doing essays at the same time .
^ I have been to the beach a couple of times which was absolutely amazing and stayed in many different places and visited Patricia , was only at home for a week so my parents did not drive me too mad x
^ I haver been staying with Anna Hinkle since them which is a whole other story
^ anyway I must go and begin working for the day , it just takes so long for the both of us to get started
^ see you soon , Eric
^ ps well done on match & cant wait to see the hair !
^ From : " Jonah " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Yo yo yo
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Liz !
^ How are you ?
^ How are the essays going ?
^ What have you been up to recently ?
^ The weather is lovely here in Bath , and I have bought a new bike ! !
^ Very exciting .
^ I 've just started revising , after having sent a completed draft of my report to my supervisor .
^ He seems to like it , which is GREAT !
^ Today has been quite busy - I played football in the morning , and we won 2-0 ! !
^ Then this afternoon I got my dad to cut my hair with our clippers .
^ It is very short but looks quite good ( in my humble opinion ! )
^ In half an hour or so I am off to my grandparents for the evening to celebrate my sister 's and dad 's birthdays .
^ How are you getting on with your family ? ? ?
^ I hope they are not causing you too much stress !
^ Keep it real !
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick , sorry for bending your ear so much the other day , glad to know you got home alright and I hope your grandparents are well .
^ I am gradually going madder both beacause I am at home and am without Jonathan , I think I could quite easily cope with one at a time and
^ not both together , but will from tomorrow be concentrating muchly on work and writing to people
^ Christmas shopping .
^ I just wondered if you could explain how to access my wells account because I really dont know how to do it and hotmail is down Oh
^ Dear , thankyou again , love Eric x
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Ravi , I 'm coming back ! !
^ I ( unofficially ) received confirmation from Kaleigh that they are going to offer me funding , although she said to keep it " confidential " until it comes through officially so do n't tell anyone ...
^ I 'm back from SA and looking forward to spending some time at home over the summer .
^ God bless ,
^ Nick
^ So you finally made it to Africa and I finally got some time to reply !
^ Good to hear from you - Regan is off to a conference so I do n't have supervision this week and this absolutely equals to my taking a week off .
^ Hayden is on study leave and she has a wierd exam in which she has to write eight &YEAR word essays in two weeks .
^ She is totally stressed .
^ I do n't think Ieither of us can type that amount of text in that time .
^ We are having eratic weather here ...
^ Easter weekend was like June and it chilly again .
^ So what are facilities there like - DO you have TV , phone etc.. at home ( or where you live ) or is it at work only .
^ When are you finishing - wonder whether yopu actually have finiished by now .
^ Hope to graduate in July .... must see .
^ Will write to you soon .
^ Have fun !
^ best ,
^ Ravi
^ ~
^ is this SPJ husbands schol or smething else ?
^ No , HKZUX or WMP studentship .
^ Now you have to drop in during the last few months of summer so that we can compare our tans !
^ Ravi , my tan is never going to be anywhere near as good as yours , so a comparison would be nothing more than humiliating for me !
^ All the best for your graduation - I assume this is your BEng , not your
^ PhD !
^ Later ,
^ O
^ ~
^ What is a WMP ?
^ Domestic Research Scholarship I think - similar to HKZUX .
^ Why not join Reader or some other rich college ? or would you rather stick to Chads .
^ Not sure what I 'm going to do about that yet V , I 'm kind of waiting to hear official confirmation about the funding before I can set things in motion .
^ Soon ,
^ O
^ I heard HKZUX 's stipends have gone up and they will do so again next year ( by 900 I think ) .
^ What is a WMP ?
^ Why not join Reader or some other rich college ? or would you rather stick to Chads .
^ I
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ is this SPJ husbands schol or smething else ?
^ Now you have to drop in during the last few months of summer so that we can compare our tans !
^ ~
^ Hey !
^ Congrats !
^ Thats great !
^ I always knew you would ... is this SPJ husbands schol or smething else ?
^ Now you have to drop in during the last few months of summer so that we can compare our tans !
^ Did check with Chads about the rooms etc ?
^ I will be graduating with Hayden on the 17th July !
^ Will write more later ...
^ -Vidura
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Ravi , I 'm coming back ! !
^ I ( unofficially ) received confirmation from Kaleigh that they are going to offer me funding , although she said to keep it " confidential " until it comes through officially so do n't tell anyone ...
^ I 'm back from SA and looking forward to spending some time at home over the summer .
^ God bless ,
^ Nick
^ So you finally made it to Africa and I finally got some time to reply !
^ Good to hear from you - Regan is off to a conference so I do n't have supervision this week and this absolutely equals to my taking a week off .
^ Hayden is on study leave and she has a wierd exam in which she has to write eight &YEAR word essays in two weeks .
^ She is totally stressed .
^ I do n't think Ieither of us can type that amount of text in that time .
^ We are having eratic weather here ...
^ Easter weekend was like June and it chilly again .
^ So what are facilities there like - DO you have TV , phone etc.. at home ( or where you live ) or is it at work only .
^ When are you finishing - wonder whether yopu actually have finiished by now .
^ Hope to graduate in July .... must see .
^ Will write to you soon .
^ Have fun !
^ best ,
^ Ravi
^ ~
^ So how u be doing benjo .
^ Sorry it has taken so long for me to drop u a line , but here it is .
^ Live in Ramon Bleas with my parents .
^ Work at a department store full time .
^ Go too a church that reminds me of Victory Christian Centre in some ways and generly doing okay .
^ Missed placed my transcripts from school which is delaying my persuit for academic achevment though .
^ So how is munich old man .
^ Must be off .
^ From Christian
^ From : " Jonah " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Staggs , Christian " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Yo
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Faggsy ! ! ! ! !
^ Howzit going my old pal ?
^ I finally managed to get Camron to get Leslie to send me your email address , as I wanted to drop you a line to find out what your up to , etc .
^ So , what are you up to ?
^ I have just graduated from Wells , and I 'm heading off to Munich next year to do a Masters .
^ Hope to hear from you ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ Yo Nick ,
^ Thanks for your mail &SMILEY
^ Yep , I think I have just about recovered from my party ! !
^ [ You know the hangover was pretty bad .... ! ! ! ]
^ I 'm so glad you enjoyed it too , cos I thought it was absolutely ace &SMILEY
^ It was so much better than I had even hoped for , which was cool .
^ I suppose I was a bit worried about mixing up a whole load of people from all over the place , but it actually worked really well .
^ I think the barn dance really broke the ice !
^ It was a really good witness for my family too , because they saw that it is possible for young people to have a great time and NOT get drunk !
^ So that was especially great !
^ It would be .... umm .. I 'm really running out of good adjectives to use here ... !! ... great for you to come up and visit me one Saturday .
^ My weekends really vary from being completely lazy to absolutely manic workaholism ... that 's quite a cool word is n't it ? ! !
^ The further ahead I plan things , the more relaxed I 'm likely to be , cos I can plan my work around it !
^ At the moment , my term is looking pretty easy going ... but maybe I have spoken too soon ! !
^ Anyway , yes do come up - that would be .... ! ! !
^ I am not going to use G ) ... for the millionth time .
^ At the moment , the only
^ Saturday that is busy is the 13th cos I 'm in a show ... so let me know what is best for you .
^ right , I must stop rambling and do a bit of internet searching ...
^ you know that Rodney Worcester guy who came over from Hungary
^ I 'm about to look up his web page about finding the right career !
^ see ya ,
^ Amya xx
^ ps. by the way , did you send an attachment with your message , cos if you did I could n't view it !
^ ~
^ How annoying ! !
^ It did n't even get there on time !
^ Oh well .
^ It 's the thought that counts .
^ So , what are your plans for your 25th birthday ?
^ Ah .
^ Sorry Parker , the invitations have already gone out ; you and Valeria did n't quite make the final cut ...
^ So , you get a holiday over Christmas - unbelieveable !
^ Next you 'll be asking for Easter off as well ... what is the world coming to ?
^ I 'm off to Chandler today to visit a couple of friends .
^ Hope you enjoyed your birthday Parker , and keep in touch .
^ Sweet loving ,
^ Nick
^ Good evening Mr Malone and Happy Thanksgiving !
^ Okay , this morning I received a birthday card I assumed was from Mallory ...
^ This is something which may cause you concern .
^ On the other hand , perhaps not .
^ Anyway , that 's all by way of saying thanks for the birthday card !
^ I had an enjoyable day during which I booked myself some electron microscope time and then had dinner with Valeria and then watched the West Wing and talked to Anna .
^ This evening I have been studying Greek and now I think I will turn my attention to Computer Science , before polishing of a little Philology before bedtime .
^ A quote on one of my birthday cards gave me comfort : " age is merely an accumulating appreciation of life " .
^ So , what are your plans for your 25th birthday ?
^ Valeria and I were discussing whether or not you would be in Africa to celebrate it or whether we would have the pleasure of coming to a party ( are we not delightfully presumptious ? ) .
^ I am going home tomorrow and going to visit my grandmother on Sunday in Fife .
^ Jack Lee and his Dad are giving me a lift home tomorrow , which is very cool .
^ How 's the music going ?
^ Have you written any more songs yet ?
^ I have a few on my computer and it 's quite weird to hear Nick 's voice every now and then !
^ What is happening at work these days ?
^ I 've just had the most delightful news that the chemistry department shuts over Christmas and
^ New Year and they force us all to have a holiday - yippee ! !
^ It is good news that Mr Greetings has availed himself of a job , is it not ?
^ Have you spoken with him lately ?
^ I think I am going to go to the DICCU carol service in Wells this year .
^ Just for the evening - it would be fun .
^ Sorry - just random ramblings now .
^ Well , I apologise for the lack of emails from me .
^ But now Poppy has been reborn she is running much faster and so that has absolutely nothing to do with my last sentence , but hey !
^ Speak soon ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Good evening Mr Malone and Happy Thanksgiving !
^ Okay , this morning I received a birthday card I assumed was from Mallory ...
^ This is something which may cause you concern .
^ On the other hand , perhaps not .
^ Anyway , that 's all by way of saying thanks for the birthday card !
^ I had an enjoyable day during which I booked myself some electron microscope time and then had dinner with Valeria and then watched the West Wing and talked to Anna .
^ This evening I have been studying Greek and now I think I will turn my attention to Computer Science , before polishing of a little Philology before bedtime .
^ A quote on one of my birthday cards gave me comfort : " age is merely an accumulating appreciation of life " .
^ So , what are your plans for your 25th birthday ?
^ Valeria and I were discussing whether or not you would be in Africa to celebrate it or whether we would have the pleasure of coming to a party ( are we not delightfully presumptious ? ) .
^ I am going home tomorrow and going to visit my grandmother on Sunday in Fife .
^ Jack Lee and his Dad are giving me a lift home tomorrow , which is very cool .
^ How 's the music going ?
^ Have you written any more songs yet ?
^ I have a few on my computer and it 's quite weird to hear Nick 's voice every now and then !
^ What is happening at work these days ?
^ I 've just had the most delightful news that the chemistry department shuts over Christmas and
^ New Year and they force us all to have a holiday - yippee ! !
^ It is good news that Mr Greetings has availed himself of a job , is it not ?
^ Have you spoken with him lately ?
^ I think I am going to go to the DICCU carol service in Wells this year .
^ Just for the evening - it would be fun .
^ Sorry - just random ramblings now .
^ Well , I apologise for the lack of emails from me .
^ But now Poppy has been reborn she is running much faster and so that has absolutely nothing to do with my last sentence , but hey !
^ Speak soon ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Aimee ,
^ Are you staying mad ?
^ yes . definitely .
^ About to go off galivanting round the North of Brighton visiting various people to relieve the boredom .
^ I 'm building up an exciting collection of exotic postcards from Bath , Criccieth ( yes I got one too ! ) and the Houses of Parliament
^ 6 more days of work for me ! ! ! ! !
^ hooray ! what you doing afterwards ? maybe I 'll be able to come and see you after my northern tour as I 'm tentatively wondering about a Newport / Norwich tour afterwards ! !
^ Are you living in college next year ?
^ indeed I am , back in good old Rogers Mildew .
^ What 's going on ?
^ ummm ... .
^ yeah , well anyway behave yourself ! and why not visit my website sometime and sign my guestbook :
^ &WEBSITE also includes an exciting new selection of " STEP photos " from my trip to Spain .
^ God bless
^ Aimee .
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^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ Yes I 'm here and after a week or so I 've found out how to use the uni computers !
^ This will be a short mail because I 've got a lecture soon .
^ the computer crashed earlier just as I was finishing a very long mail to someone else so I 'm not in the mood for retyping loads of my drivel
^ Uni is great .
^ Loads of nice people .
^ Good CU .
^ Not bad housemates etc .
^ 1 week of lots of queueing ( if you have n't enrolled yet then you 'll find out soon ! ) and somehow using lots of time , but not achieving much .
^ 1 lecture yesterday , 5 today - 2 cancelled yipee !
^ timetable for the rest of the week is 4 on wed am.
^ Nightmare huh ?
^ My only easy day is monday .
^ Why ca n't I have lots of free time on fri to give me a chance to get an early start on the weekend .
^ Plus even monday has a test at 9 am .
^ Each test will count 10 % towards one of the 6 modules I take this semester .
^ Went to 2 churches on sun .
^ All nations centre - covenant life church in the morning .
^ This was really good .
^ Friendly , lively church with up to date worship and about an hour of solid practical teaching .
^ In the evening I went to a free church which you would be forgived for mistaking for an anglican .
^ It was quite good - more lively than st mikes - worship was a mixture of hymns and modern stuff with a big music group .
^ the teaching was good , but I felt the worship was a bit restrictive for me at the moment
^ I liked both but I do n't think I 'm going to go to either of them .
^ Theres a few really good ones that I have yet to check out .
^ I have a little bit of the flu at the moment but I 'll get over it .
^ I thought I was going to die on sun night , in the end I only got about 3-4 hours propor sleep .
^ Hope you are well and that things go / are going well at wells .
^ Fill me in soon .
^ You will get another update from me shortly .
^ Bye !
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^ ~
^ Jimmy : hello .
^ Me : low .
^ Why : dunno .
^ Blackbird : crow .
^ Malone : ! ! !
^ Me : ! ! !
^ Sheep : ! ! !
^ Lion : ! ! !
^ Nick : ! ! !
^ Me : ! ! !
^ God : ! ! !
^ Satan : ! ! !
^ ah , forget it ... .
^ Aimee .
^ Get more from the Web .
^ FREE MSN Explorer download : &WEBSITE
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^ Oooooo , getting demanding are we Mr. Masson !
^ Yeah , thanks for replying .
^ I 've been a little busy the last few days with maths and packing !
^ I 'm off to Munich tomorrow morning ! !
^ Spent all of today sorting out stuff and packing .
^ Brief synopsis of the " tough questions " faced this summer :
^ I find myself in a strangely " ambitionless " state .
^ I am a very " goal-oriented " person , and I 've always had something that I 'm aiming for , or something that I 've wanted to achieve .
^ When I was younger I wanted to be an astronaut , then a footballer , then before University a song-writer , etc. but once I finished at Wells .
^ I felt like I did n't have anything more I really wanted to aim for , and that has been very hard for me
^ If you like , accepting that it is OK just to be me and God with no particular dreams or ambitions .
^ Well , it touches on a lot of other stuff , but I 've got to go now ( we 're going to Pizza Hut to celebrate my leaving ! ) .
^ Catcha later ,
^ Nick
^ Do you not check your e-mail ?
^ I replied to this , but received no response .
^ Is everything all right ?
^ Armando
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Hey Armando !
^ How goes it sir ?
^ What have you been up to over the summer ?
^ I am now less than two weeks away from moving to Munich .
^ My time over the last month or so has been taken up largely with working through an enormous maths book in preparation for my course .
^ We have moved into a new house in a village called Rutford which is just outside of Luxembourg .
^ It has been an interesting summer for me .
^ I have n't found it easy having left
^ Wells - I feel a bit " lost " .
^ I have been facing some tough questions about
^ God , life , relationships and motivation - so what 's new !
^ What are you up to at the moment ?
^ Any new jobs on the horizon ?
^ All the very best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Jonah ,
^ You got my name right !
^ Not bad for a computer scientist .
^ Ha , ha , ha ...
^ I 'm currently frantically trying to complete the penultimate draft of my book ( publisher 's deadline is the end of the month ) .
^ At the moment , it looks like I 'm going to be here in Wells .
^ I am not relishing the prospect , but there you go .
^ I 'll have to write back to you when I 've got more time .
^ I 'm really glad you got in touch .
^ I was wondering what you and a number of others were up to .
^ I 'd also like to hear some more about these " tough questions " - I can imagine that leaving Wells and the Christian scene here would be quite a shock .
^ There are n't that many places where there are so many Christians .
^ Armando
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Hey Armando !
^ How goes it sir ?
^ What have you been up to over the summer ?
^ I am now less than two weeks away from moving to Munich .
^ My time over the last month or so has been taken up largely with working through an enormous maths book in preparation for my course .
^ We have moved into a new house in a village called Rutford which is just outside of Luxembourg .
^ It has been an interesting summer for me .
^ I have n't found it easy having left
^ Wells - I feel a bit " lost " .
^ I have been facing some tough questions about
^ God , life , relationships and motivation - so what 's new !
^ What are you up to at the moment ?
^ Any new jobs on the horizon ?
^ All the very best ,
^ Nick
^ iso-8859-1 ?
^ Q ?
^ Re : _Emilia : ? ? iso-8859-1 ?
^ Q ? evEDtra ?
^ They 're pulling quite a few tricks to make this filter-proof are n't they ...
^ Kirkio !
^ I have a groovy internet chat friend Marcella ...
^ Nice photos Bob !
^ Ca n't believe you 're still wearing that green fleece though .
^ I trust you 've at least thrown away those foul sandals with which my phone had a close encounter ... !
^ Is Marcella studying at the moment ?
^ ...
^ It is hard to hope she 's not like that .
^ Does Marcella know where she stands in the relationship ?
^ Does she know what your plans are , i.e. friendship , commitment , marriage . etc.
^ If it is all out in the open and you both understand where the other is coming from , then a major is much less likely to occur
^ I 'm at Tyler uni , doing Molecular Biotechnology ... .
^ Good grades Bob ( apart from Chemistry ) .
^ Are you enjoying the work more than the computer science we did at Wells ?
^ How are you finding psychology ?
^ I 'm quite interested in physchology and its relation to neuroscience , but I 've never had a chance to study it properly .
^ So that takes up 24h / week and ontop of that I am working 2 or 3 shifts at the ITS computer helpdesk .
^ Helpline work must be pretty frustrating , although I can imagine you 're pretty good at it .
^ Does it pay well ?
^ I am listening to Evanescence and and Nightwish and
^ Savatage and Moby .
^ I 've been listening to Philip Coulthard recently - awesome guitar work and interesting lyrics .
^ I now have a pII-400 , a p-200 , a p-100 , a 486-66 and a 948 ...
^ You could play " X-Wing " perfectly on your 248 ; one of the best games of all time as far as I 'm concerned !
^ I 'm eating pasta and tomato sauce and cheese and bread ...
^ I 'm doing quite a lot of cooking for my family since I 'm living at home at the moment ( see below ) .
^ Last night I made stuffed peppers .
^ It was quite nice .
^ I think I 'll go and make myself some lunch in a minute .
^ Now , what shall I have ... ?
^ So you 're sharing with a forklift truck-driver ? !
^ That 's a bit random - why were you emailing him ?
^ His cooking sounds pretty good though .
^ Hope Munich worked out well for you .
^ Thanks .
^ It was good .
^ Very intense , but a great success , and I may well be going back to do a PhD in a year 's time .
^ I did a project on statistical spam filtering , and recently wrote a paper on it .
^ I 've attached the paper in case you want to have a quick look at it .
^ Hopefully it will get accepted into a conference next summer and I will become a published author ! !
^ However , I think there 's only about a 1 in 5 chance , so it might not happen ...
^ Whatcha doing now ?
^ I 'm living at home here in Rutford ( near Luxembourg ) at the moment .
^ I 'm teaching at Victoria School 3 days a week , and just mooching around for the other 2 .
^ I am enjoying working in the school because of all the little kids - they 're so funny .
^ I 've been somewhat starved of small children , having been at university for the last 4 years !
^ Around March next year I 'm planning to go to South Africa for a few months and do some voluntary work with a friend of mine who 's a missionary out there .
^ By the way , my dad said that he chatted with your dad a couple of days ago ; how 's the rest of your family ?
^ Well , I 've moved 11 times in the past year .
^ You 're a crazy boy .
^ Hope life is being kind to you Bob .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Bob I love receiving your emails !
^ You 're one in a million .
^ Well , you 're one in 6.3 billion , so feel special ;&circ;P
^ she 's said that if she ever dates again , then while she 's dating she wo n't sleep with me any longer ...
^ Well , I 've asked a few friends to sleep with me , and some of them are shocked and say , like you , that it 's not appropriate unless you 're dating the person or married to them .
^ But several are fine with it .
^ I reckon as long as you 're both honest about it , and you let each other know it 's not going to lead to dating or marriage .
^ then if you 're two friends and you want to get to know each other better
^ sleeping together is a fun and quick way of getting much closer with someone
^ You noticed , eh ?
^ Oops I must have not masked my disdain sufficiently .
^ Nevertheless , the factuallity of my observation remains unchallenged .
^ Ermm ...
^ I dunno where that came from .
^ I was referring to the lecturers at Wells who arrogantly denied they were fallible , and kept dodging the issue .
^ does no-one any favors , because it does n't boost their ego ( they 're living in denial ) and it does n't make us respect them
^ they 're wrong and proud ) and it does n't teach us the correct information ( because they wo n't admit they 're wrong )
^ Whereas the Australian lecturers are pleased when students point out errors because it shows they are paying attention , and they are remembering previous material .
^ they are processing information semantically for internal consistency , and they respect the lecturer enough to help them improve their teaching material for future years
^ Sure - it 's a favorite hobby of approximately 3 billion people y'know .
^ I like to talk about it with people - it 's a good way of telling whether they are confident in their perception of their acceptance of themselves .
^ the way they think they fit into their world , or if they are uncertain of themselves
^ dependent instead on others to tell them what they should or should n't do and approve of and think about and speak with others about
^ By determining whether they are confident about their mastership of their own body , or if they are anxious of social taboos and suspicions .
^ or if they lack selfcontrol to such an extend that they are fearful exploration will enslave them to their body 's urges
^ Sure thing - that would rock !
^ If you do get in touch with him , let me know please
^ Well , that 's pretty good .
^ Rylee 's a nice dude .
^ Do n't you just love &WEBSITE need a laugh ...
^ Yeah .
^ Seen my homepage : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ ~
^ Perhaps I was just doing it to annoy you cos you were such a goody-goody about software piracy and you liked romance films ?
^ Probably something like that .
^ Yes - I have done with her exactly the same as Anna - explained that I do n't want romance .
^ dating , sex or marriage , just committed friendship , and I am happy to go for committed close friendship if that 's what she wants too
^ She does n't want marriage , children or boyfriends - she just wants sex .
^ But being a christian she has decided not to .
^ So she 's glad to find a friend who will be close to her but not tempt her or push for romance .
^ So that 's groovy .
^ Just remember Bob , that when she finds a partner , your friendship is likely to become quite different .
^ Girls were never designed to have more than one man in their lives ...
^ whereas the French focus on denial , arrogance , pride and punishment .
^ I cannot understand how the French have managed to survive for so long .
^ Oooo , the bitterness just oozes out ...
^ I bought that from Plummer Label .
^ Installed it .
^ It was all a bit strange .
^ It had all lots of plot , like all these games do , but this ones plot was pretty poor ...
^ I guess you 've really got to love the films to appreciate it properly .
^ We were emailing each other about masturbation .
^ As you do ...
^ Sounds positively thrilling !
^ How fascinating !
^ Do I detect a hint of sarcasm young Mr. Maize ? ?
^ Surely not !
^ I find them distasteful ...
^ Do n't forget that you were one once !
^ Dr Hopkins has a sister there called Yvet .
^ Get in touch with him if you 're looking for places to stay in SA .
^ I was round having dinner with Philip Hopkins ( Grayson 's son ) last night .
^ He has three and a half kids !
^ Get in touch with Regan .
^ YES SIR ! ! !
^ THREE BAGS FULL SIR ! ! !
^ I think he 'd appreciate ... or at least benefit from ... some positive christian input in his life .
^ Then why are you asking me ? &SMILEY
^ Be nice to him .
^ I 'm nice to everyone .
^ I have tried to call him , but what with the timezones , etc.
^ I have n't been able to get through to him .
^ Tell me about it .
^ I 've been trying to get in touch with him for about 6 months !
^ Actually I did speak to him the other day .
^ Hopefully I 'll be able to go and visit him soon ...
^ Laterz ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Bob I love receiving your emails !
^ You 're one in a million .
^ This seemed a bit odd to me ...
^ Yes - I have done with her exactly the same as Anna - explained that I do n't want romance , dating , sex or marriage , just committed friendship ,
^ It seems to me that friends do n't usually sleep together .
^ Maybe I 'm just being narrow-minded , but that seems much more like the kind of thing romantic " couples " do ( or people who just want sex of course ) .
^ I wait to be corrected in this particular case ...
^ You noticed , eh ?
^ Oops I must have not masked my disdain sufficiently .
^ Nevertheless , the factuallity of my observation remains unchallenged .
^ OK , so you concede that your four best friends are arrogant and proud , focusing on denial and punishment .
^ Sure - it 's a favorite hobby of approximately 3 billion people y'know .
^ I like to talk about it with people - it 's a good way of telling whether they are confident in their perception of their acceptance of themselves .
^ the way they think they fit into their world , or if they are uncertain of themselves
^ dependent instead on others to tell them what they should or should n't do and approve of and think about and speak with others about
^ How curious !
^ How do you use the discussion of masturbation to reveal these insights into the human psyche ?
^ Sure thing - that would rock !
^ If you do get in touch with him , let me know please
^ Well , last time I spoke to him he was well - he had Rylee Woods ( from
^ Wells ) staying with him , and seemed to be pretty busy with work and stuff .
^ Oh well , we ca n't all be perfect I suppose , or we 'd never realize how fortunate we are to be free of such hormonal addictions .
^ Oh Bob , if only we were all more like you ... &SMILEY
^ Do n't you just love &WEBSITE need a laugh ...
^ God bless Bob ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ I have found my dream baby !
^ Check out the attachment ... it 's an online dating agency ... ahhhh .... &SMILEY
^ it 's love at first website ...
^ I guess dreams have a habit of not coming true ...
^ I mean , how many girls are THAT sensible ?
^ Still , there 's a chance she 's genuine , and I 'm taking that chance .
^ ~
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Everything you 'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Roots &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Sounds good .
^ Next time I 'm up between those times I 'll log on .
^ How do I find you ( I 've never used Yahoo messenger before ) ?
^ you download it from &WEBSITE then you install it ( while connected ) then you go create a Yahoo profile for yourself then you launch Yahoo Messenger then you go .
^ Tools / Manage Friends List / Add A Friend my Yahoo ID is yumy then you get me on your friend list
^ Doubleclick me to send me a message .
^ I will be a bright yellow smiley if I am online , and you can view my webcam too .
^ I have found my dream baby !
^ Check out the attachment ... it 's an online dating agency ... ahhhh .... &SMILEY
^ it 's love at first website ...
^ Bob
^ ~
^ The Lancester wrote :
^ Hi Bob , you sent me this exact email ( I think it was the same )
^ I took that email and added a few bits and removed a few others .
^ Seymour has been checking the email and now ca n't .
^ Did you mean to send it again ?
^ Sure .
^ I am living at home for a while now so I can use dial-up .
^ Yay .
^ Please do .
^ Please send the email as attachments in a message to &EMAIL if they 're Outlook Express .eml attachments that 's best for me .
^ I 'll try to have ~2mb free in the account .
^ What has been happening with the account over the last 12 months ?
^ Seymour has been dialling and checking it .
^ But his machine just died .
^ I have a groovy internet chat friend Marcella .
^ I stayed with her a week at Easter and a week a week ago ( ie both half-terms ) .
^ She is groovy .
^ I bought a kite we flew .
^ We ate a &pound; 70 meal of seafood with her mum - crabs and moreton-bay bugs and calamari and 1kg of prawns and muscles and oysters and heaps stuff .
^ It was awesome .
^ And we go for bushwalks and stuff .
^ She works as a pharmacist .
^ There are some photos of us ( and also a couple of her mates ) at : &WEBSITE
^ Anna still is n't keeping in touch , but by sniffing around the net a bit , I find that she did indeed get married to .
^ guy she was dating as she was going silent on me , and was engaged to after 3 or 4 weeks of dating
^ Other than that , I 'm a bit out of touch with their news , but I pray for her every day and pray that God will protect him from her &SMILEY
^ it makes it really hard to trust Marcella .
^ Sometimes it 's ok , and other times I 'm too scared of .
^ her to phone her - scared she will just turn out like the others - wait until we 're close and then suddenly desert me without warning or explanation
^ It is hard to hope she 's not like that .
^ I 'm at Tyler uni , doing Molecular Biotechnology .
^ In my first term ( Mar - Jun ) I got : ALPHA DIGIT SES .
^ UNIT OF STUDY DESCRIPTION MARK GRADE BIOL 4004 1 Concepts in Biology 77.0 Distinction CHEM &YEAR 1 Chemistry 1 Life Sciences A ( Advanced ) Distinction
^ 43.0 Fail MATH 4044 1 Life Sciences Calculus 72.0 Credit MATH 4040 1 Life Science Statistics 67.0 Credit PSYC 4004 1 Psychology 4004 76.0
^ So since I failed Chem I am having to do another " A " Chem module , and I 'll have to do my " B " Chem module over the summer holidays .
^ At the moment I am doing : ALPH NUM SES UNIT OF STUDY STATUS PTS BIOL 4002 2 Human Biology Enrolled 6 CHEM 4404 2 Chemistry 1A Enrolled 6 CHEM &YEAR 2 Chemistry 1 Life Sciences B Mol 6
^ Adv ) Withdrawn 6 MATH 4048 2 Life Sciences Algebra Enrolled 3 MATH 4042 2 Differential and Difference Equations Enrolled 3 PSYC 4008 2 Psychology 4008 Enrolled
^ So that takes up 24h / week and ontop of that I am working 2 or 3 shifts at the ITS computer helpdesk .
^ That 's 16 to 20 h / week .
^ It 's pretty exhausting talking to frustrated users who ca n't properly explain problems or follow instructions and some of who are sure it 's all your fault their computer is sick .
^ Especially non-stop for a 7-hour shift .
^ The nice lady at work has just got a new job .
^ There 's a nice girl there who 's really really innocent and genuine and naieve - we 've been to the movies a couple of times and the beach one night .
^ And there 's an arrogant and critical guy Jerry who used to be a Casual like us but then became full-time and the power has swelled his head so now he tries to push us around .
^ He 's like 3 years younger than me .
^ Heh heh .
^ Dropped his psych degree after 3 semesters .
^ I am listening to Evanescence and and Nightwish and Savatage and Moby .
^ One advantage of my work is that if people are getting rid of redundant computers I can ask them if I can take them off their hands .
^ I now have a pII-400 , a p-200 , a p-100 , a 486-66 and a 948 .
^ Considering new computers , these are pretty slow .
^ But that 's good cos it stops me wasting my time playing all the modern computer games - they 're good for work but not that great good for games .
^ Trouble is though that they play all the old games just fine .
^ So I am buying the &pound; 4 bargain-buy from Electronics Boutique and playing them .
^ Nice and cheap .
^ I 'm eating pasta and tomato sauce and cheese and bread and NutriGrain ( iron-man food , lifesaver stuff ) and Milo cereal ( milo 's like hot-chololate ) and occasionally eggs and fruit .
^ However , I 'm sharing a small bedroom with a forklift truck-driver I got to know through email .
^ He 's been in financial hardship and so I 've leant him a heap of money ( not much else to do with it ) and refused to accept Interest from him .
^ So instead he cooks for me sometimes .
^ Steak and pumpkin and broccoli and spagetti bolognese and terriaki chicken with noodles , and all sortsa stuff .
^ It 's a good symbiotic relationship .
^ Hope Munich worked out well for you .
^ Whatcha doing now ?
^ How many times have you moved house ? ;&circ; ) I remember you were moving all the time when we were taking our finals .
^ Man that was a terrible time .
^ Well , I 've moved 11 times in the past year .
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Yes - I have done with her exactly the same as Anna - explained that I do n't want romance , dating , sex or marriage , just committed friendship ,
^ Well that is a significant shortfalling in their design in that case .
^ There are women which have affairs - they must manage two guys in their lives ?
^ And what about those weird girls who date one guy , then date someone else , then date someone else ?
^ Instead of just dating the guy they 're going to marry , and then marrying him ?
^ Those girls have had heaps of guys in their lives , not just one .
^ Agreed , a girl should only ever have one guy in her life -the guy she dates engages and marries- and she should n't date or engage or marry anyone else .
^ 's not always the case especially in this era of little self-control or
^ And friendships should never be exclusive - if someone will only befriend / date / engage / marry you IF you first excommunicate one / some of your friend ( s ) then they are n't worth it .
^ So sure , priorities and friendships will change , and she 's said that if she ever dates again , then while she 's dating she wo n't sleep with me any longer .
^ she 's agreed to give me advance warning if it looks like that might happen
^ See - I 'm not unreasonable and I do n't ever seek to assert control over a friend 's life .
^ I do expect them to respect me , and give me notice if they anticipate that anything that is happening will impact our friendship
^ That way I can prepare for it , and get used to it slowly .
^ What I ca n't cope with is surprises , especially nasty ones .
^ Like Anna hating me for no reason with no warning .
^ whereas the French focus on denial , arrogance , pride and punishment .
^ I cannot understand how the French have managed to survive for so long .
^ You noticed , eh ?
^ Oops I must have not masked my disdain sufficiently .
^ Nevertheless , the factuallity of my observation remains unchallenged .
^ I bought that from Plummer Label .
^ Installed it .
^ It was all a bit strange .
^ It had all lots of plot , like all these games do , but this ones plot was pretty poor ...
^ I guess so .
^ At that point , however , I was only about 16 and had n't come across any such movies , and was unaware that there was any underlying storyline or plot or character system or anything .
^ I thought it was just a space-sim game .
^ We were emailing each other about masturbation .
^ Sure - it 's a favorite hobby of approximately 3 billion people y'know .
^ I like to talk about it with people - it 's a good way of telling whether they are confident in their perception of their acceptance of themselves .
^ the way they think they fit into their world , or if they are uncertain of themselves
^ dependent instead on others to tell them what they should or should n't do and approve of and think about and speak with others about
^ Get in touch with Regan .
^ Good .
^ You know I would if I could .
^ I think he 'd appreciate ... or at least benefit from ... some positive christian input in his life .
^ Take one wild guess Mr Malone .
^ Tell me about it .
^ I 've been trying to get in touch with him for about 6 months !
^ Actually I did speak to him the other day .
^ Hopefully I 'll be able to go and visit him soon ...
^ Sure thing - that would rock !
^ If you do get in touch with him , let me know please - I worry about him , having lost touch with him almost as completely as I have with Anna .
^ When he , Anna , and Becki are my best friends .
^ Followed closely by Seymour , cos he 's married now .
^ And Anna and Becki are engaged .
^ Crazy peoples all of them - going all conventional and following animal instrincts instead of rising above the carnal to take a more cerebral perspective .
^ think instead of how much they could acheive if they spent all that effort on many friends and the world in general , instead of a single mate
^ Oh well , we ca n't all be perfect I suppose , or we 'd never realize how fortunate we are to be free of such hormonal addictions .
^ My dad paid for my Homeworld site to be ressurected , and now I can Admin it from here .
^ Thanks buddy &SMILEY
^ yo and God bless ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Hi Bob , you sent me this exact email ( I think it was the same ) about a year ago .
^ Did you mean to send it again ?
^ What has been happening with the account over the last 12 months ?
^ I am living at home for a while now so I can use dial-up .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick & Adrian ,
^ I was wondering if you could do me a favor please .
^ I asked Regan to , before I left for Australia , but his computer broke down and he 's been busy and and and , etc.
^ Seymour was doing it , but now his machine fried .
^ So I thought now I 'd ask you .
^ I have an account with an ISP that runs my website which gets a sizeable number of hits a week .
^ if I do n't dial up to my account once in every 30 days they will delete my account
^ I would like you to keep it alive , if that 's okay , and forward me any email that arrives in it .
^ Is that alright ?
^ Not very complicated .
^ Here are the details for accessing it .
^ The hosting company is : &WEBSITE
^ My domain is : &WEBSITE
^ [ Email ]
^ Name:
^ Reid
^ Email address : &EMAIL
^ Incoming POP3 email server : &WEBSITE
^ Outgoing SMTP email server : &WEBSITE
^ Account login : &EMAIL
^ Account password : reverT
^ [ FTP ]
^ Server : &WEBSITE
^ Port : 21
^ Account login : &EMAIL
^ Account password : reverT
^ [ DialUp ]
^ Phone number : 0260 0932663
^ Log on to network
^ Enable software compression TCP / IP
^ Use default gateway on remote network ( &WEBSITE )
^ Account login : &EMAIL
^ Account password : reverT
^ [ Notes ]
^ you can only email ( send and / or receive ) or FTP while dialled up through the freenetname account - otherwise it tells you you do n't have access .
^ So if you could check that email account every month , that would be great .
^ If you get an email or something saying " your account will close " or something , then yikes .
^ I am currently using that website as an advertisement for my skills , while looking for work .
^ Any and all email to that account , if you could send it to me as an attachment , at this address , that would be muchly appreciated .
^ Thanks buddy .
^ Catcha later ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Fascinating Gav-boy .
^ That 's a pretty impressive microscope .
^ Give it a few months and I 'm sure you 'll have those nanotubes singing , dancing , and responding to your every wish ...
^ O
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Was good to speak earlier .
^ Here is a picture of the nanotubes I made the other week .
^ The big vaguely geometrical looking thing with many imperfections which consists of most of the picture is a salt particle .
^ The tiny little white-ish lines on the top and side of it are nanotubes .
^ As is evidenced by the scale bar they are quite big ( a little under 10 microns long ) but hey !
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Sounds mental Aimee !
^ Tomorrow I 'm packing for Munich and off on Friday .
^ It 's been quite a long slow summer so I 'll be glad to get going on my course .
^ Shalom ,
^ Nick
^ Hello Family & Friends !
^ I got back last Thursday from an excellent trip to Ziguinchor ( down in the South of Senegal , in the Casamance region ) .
^ Here 's an account of the trip .
^ Flew down with Leonardo & Wolfgang , an SIL couple who live in the Casamance .
^ on Saturday morning , taking a big box of literacy manuals & stuff in a cardboard box which appeared the other end rather damaged & with manuals falling out
^ Quite funny at the time ...
^ Stayed at the BZT Mission guesthouse , with Leonardo & Wolfgang there the first 2 days , and with the hosts Betty and Gary there feeding me the other 3 days .
^ Excellent value ! ! )
^ Slept most of Saturday , but in the evening Dominique , the president of PKUMEL .
^ the Mankanya cultural association , came round and drove me over to Jacques Toupane 's house on the other side of town , on the back of his scooter
^ Very exciting , and it started to rain hard on the way , so the return was even more exciting !
^ There I found Jacques Toupane , Robert
^ Mingu and Yves Nzale - all Mankanya men and great characters - working & discussing my dictionary .
^ What had happened was I had sent down the dictionary and some other things at the beginning of August but they had been lying !
^ in someone 's office until the day I phoned Dominique the week before going down , but these three had spent the whole of that day ( Saturday )
^ from 8am till got there in the evening , checking the dictionary , and when I got there they were checking the last couple of pages of the index
^ It rained on the Sunday too while I was in church , and then the lights went out , so we could n't see the preacher or hear a word he said !
^ Saw Marcel
^ Nzale , a Mankanya Evangelical friend of Bob & Lawrence & I , at the end of the service and arranged to see him that evening .
^ Had a great meal at the BZT guesthouse .
^ There were 2 French ( Leonardo and also Guillaume who 's my age & from Leonardo 's church & visiting ) , one Swiss ( Andr , who I 'd met once before in Dakar ) , one
^ German ( Wolfgang ) , one Brazilian ( Betty , our hostess ) , one American .
^ her husband Gary ) , their " half-and-half " daughter , and two Brits ( me and a lady called Moira who did n't speak French )
^ Very interesting mix .
^ We all watched " the gods must be crazy 2 " together .
^ Excellent film .
^ Great stuff .
^ In the evening I paid my 30 pence standard taxi fare and went to see Marcel in Til'ne and went round with him greeting lots of Mankanya people .
^ Anyway , monday to wednesday , Jacques , Robert & Yves came round every day , both morning AND afternoon on the last 2 days , to go through checking the dictionary !
^ It was very good .
^ The first day was a bit hectic and I was n't really in control at all and more and more people kept on turning up:
^ Marcel , Dominique , and Gustave ( the one translating the Bible at the moment , based in Dakar but currently visiting Zig ) , so I felt a bit guilty .
^ or at least a bit sorry for Gary & Betty who had their busy day disturbed by all these people constantly turning up
^ Anyway the second day was excellent .
^ We made lots of headway and surpassed many of my hopes .
^ Several spelling problems we overcame by me promising to make more use of the " variant form " field , i.e. have two possible spellings for the time being , but of course this could get messy ...
^ Those three guys were seriously dedicated to the dictionary , and especially on that Tuesday I felt we were really all working together .
^ Robert was putting in all his spare time in between checking words with Mankanya elders .
^ That evening I went with them to Kansawdi , the old part of the city , where I sat under the huge trees with those three and about nine
^ Mankanya elders !
^ I sat there and smiled as Robert energetically did my job for me , comparing the pronunciation of words between the different elders .
^ Afterwards I went over with Robert to find Gustave .
^ Met Isador , the first president of PKUMEL there , and then we went over somewhere else where there were lots of Mankanya men sitting by a roadside , including Dominique .
^ Eventually Gustave , Robert , Dominique & I all went into the house .
^ of another nice Mankanya man whose name annoyingly escapes me for a nice proper Mankanya evening meal : fish with potato chips and cheese sauce and lots of cucumber
^ Very tasty .
^ The last day we worked all day even after finishing checking the whole dictionary !
^ Was n't quite as good as the day before , and Robert spent more time than I wanted giving me Mankanya names of obscure species of birds .
^ I got a lot of questions answered and I feel it 's a huge leap forward to have it so thoroughly checked
^ They were very meticulous .
^ Also spookily punctual for Africans !
^ Very sorry to say goodbye to them yesterday .
^ You 've probably heard about the boat accident last thursday in which over 300 people were drowned .
^ This was an inexcusable disaster , with a boat that should have carried a maximum of something less than 300 .
^ was designed for river travel , and to run on several engine , travelling on the high seas with over 200 people on only one engine
^ The boat was from the Casamance and bound for Dakar , and travelled on the same day I flew back from Casamnce to Dakar .
^ It is a huge tragedy for the Casamance region , and many of these
^ Mankanya friends I met down there have loved ones who were killed .
^ I believe the man who gave me an evening meal lost a daughter , although I 'm not sure of the details .
^ Senegal is currently observing 3 days of national mourning .
^ Anyway , thought you might be interested to hear a few details from me .
^ A lot of it it probably wo n't make sense to you but if you 're interested to know more then ask !
^ Hope you 're all well .
^ Missing you all lots .
^ Aimee .
^ ~
^ Thanks Amya .
^ Do you have your parent 's address as well ?
^ I ca n't get through to them ...
^ O
^ Great !
^ Look forward to hearing it !
^ Postal address is : 39 Trafalgar street , South Bank , York YO23 1HX Z x
^ Hi Amya ,
^ Please could you email me your postal address ASAP .
^ I loved the funky tomatoes - thanks . &SMILEY
^ Sounds like a lot of stuff has been going on in your life !
^ We must meet up in the summer when I get back to catch up properly .
^ I had a good time with your dad last weekend doing some music stuff , and he said you might be interested in hearing some of my music , so I 'm sending you a CD .
^ O
^ ~
^ Beautiful !
^ 26 Grindstone Close
^ Harrogate UA84 1QF
^ I 'll be in touch soon Rylee .
^ Hope all 's well ,
^ O
^ Hi there gents .
^ How are you both doing ?
^ I 'm just writing briefly to get your addresses , so I can load your inboxes with postcards a-plenty .
^ Thats it
^ Rylee
^ ~
^ Sawyer often seems to send me messages along the lines of " life is weird - do n't you think ? " ... i 'm inclined to agree with him !
^ Strange boy ... ( him and you ! )
^ I 've just played tennis .
^ I just love this lyric from Jars of Clay :
^ Not much for conversation , I still find need to pray
^ Sometimes I get tired of walking through these ordinary days
^ If nothing else I get to see you even if we never speak
^ The harm of words is sometimes we do n't quite know what they really mean
^ Sigh ...
^ Hmmmm ...
^ Do you really think like that , or do you just like the words ?
^ I wonder what he means himself !
^ Do you think these days are really ordinary ?
^ I remember you said something about waking up and wondering whether life was meaningless , or something .
^ Do you still think like that ?
^ What is missing do you reckon ?
^ I usually enjoy days on the whole I think , and I force myself to look forward to the times to come , even when I ca n't see where my life is going .
^ Bob Greetings leads a great Bible Study - he has a real gift for it I think .
^ Last night was one of the best ones I remember doing ever - not for any particular reason i do n't think - i just really enjoyed it ! .
^ We did n't do the DICCU questions , but talked about what Jesus meant when he said he was the light of the world .
^ We talked about Jesus lighting the path ahead , following the light in the darkness , and not stopping .
^ Following is quite a difficult thing to do for us maybe , but in the end it 's the only security we have .
^ Do you know that poem , " The Gate of the Year " ?
^ I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year " Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown . "
^ And he replied , Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God .
^ That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way !
^ So I went forth and finding the Hand of God trod gladly into the night .
^ M Louise Haskins ( 1875-1975 )
^ How great is that ? !
^ It 's one of my favourites .
^ Do we tread gladly into the " night " ?
^ I know it 's talking about death , but I think the night can just represent the unknown future .
^ I have emailed Bob , but he is being somewhat non-responsive .
^ I tried to speak to him again last night but he somehow got away .
^ I will text him again NOW , but if I do n't get anything out of him , then I 'll send an email round to the boys today or tomorrow and get them to pay for the kit .
^ How much is it going to be ?
^ I will badger Bob myself today , and work out exactly what everyone owes .
^ I like strange things .
^ I should hope so .
^ What did you think about the loving your neighbour as yourself thing , do you love yourself ?
^ Are you ever surprised by things I say ?
^ Sometimes you surprise me .
^ Hmmm ... that sounds like a cop-out I reckon !
^ Neverming ...
^ I always have this slightly odd urge to reassure and " encourage " you - does that seem weird ?
^ I 've been thinking about that again , I 'm not sure it 's exactly what I meant .
^ With all my friends I want to " encourage " them to be the * real them * - to be completely and fully themselves , and " reassure " them that nothing else is necessary .
^ Real people are so much more interesting , do n't you think ?
^ Your catchphrase is great !
^ Duncan A and I were talking about it quite a lot a couple of weeks ago - how easy it is to wear masks and show people what you think they want to see .
^ I can definitely be guilty of it sometimes !
^ There 's a lot of our security wrapped up in things like that , is n't there ?
^ I think I really meant that I want to encourage you to Keep It Real as well !
^ I wonder whether people challenge you enough - what do you think ?
^ I want to reassure you that your friends love you enough to want to know the real you , whatever he 's like !
^ I do n't usually wonder about this , and often I 'm really glad you trust me to tell me things , but just occasionally I wonder whether you 've stopped short of saying exactly what you think .
^ But you can tell me if I 'm wrong !
^ I said a similar thing to Rodrigo as well - that I wanted him to say exactly what he thought to me .
^ not try to be " nice " &SMILEY
^ But then people never completely reveal the " real them " I guess ... not really
^ Only God knows that .
^ And maybe it 's unfair to ask you to .
^ Hmmmm ...
^ I do n't think I 've really explained what I mean very well , this is one of those email waffles I always get into ...
^ You are really not a very hurtful person Clarey !
^ Not something you need to worry much about I do n't think !
^ Hmmm , thanks , I 'm glad ... and I hope you 're right !
^ But maybe I 've crossed the line this time ?
^ I really like Aimee .
^ I wish I 'd had a chance to get to know him better .
^ Haley is great .
^ Kind and trustworthy , and really easy to talk to I always find .
^ A genuinely nice guy - and he 's grown up so much over the last year since I first got to know him , it 's really great to see !
^ Ran into Aimee and Leilani as well ... that 's proving weirder for me than i first thought !
^ Life moves on I guess .
^ Intimacy is always a hard thing to lose I guess .
^ Being replaced is quite tough but it 's more that ...
^ Another one bites the dust !
^ All my lovely single guy-friends are rapidly disappearing ! !
^ Just Jack and Duncan and Aaron and you left now I think ! : p
^ Oh well ...
^ I 've asked a lot of questions again , which I did n't intend when I replied to this email !
^ I often think when I speak to you these days that I have so many things I want to talk to you about or ask you / challenge you with that I do n't know where to start !
^ And I 'm so useless at small talk ... especially with my friends !
^ Crazy !
^ And email is so unsatisfyingly impersonal at the end of the day , ( i never thought i 'd hear myself say that ! ! )
^ I do n't want to keep you from your revision any longer !
^ Answer them if and when you wish ...
^ Do you have demonstrating sessions again this week , or are they letting you do some proper work now ? &SMILEY
^ Right ... back for lunch !
^ ashley " it 's her own fault she has cold feet " bear x
^ ~
^ sam , sam , sam ,
^ You crazy boy .
^ I recently sampled a " near-retail quality " Asian DVD .
^ Lord of the Spirals -
^ The Two Towers .
^ More like " The Two Pixels " .
^ The compression ratio was so high in order to fit the blasted thing onto a single DVD that you could hardly make out the difference between Gandalf and the flipping dwarf in most of the fight scenes .
^ Then we tried out the subtitles because the sound was so bad that we could hardly make out the words , and they turned out to be the subtitles for an entirely different film .
^ Something about " Cindy " and an army leutenant ...
^ Anyway , I hope you did better than that .
^ So , you will soon have " international sailor " to add to your list of and achievements .
^ I guess you could always store your CV on CD-ROM or something if the paper edition becomes too large to carry around easily ... ?
^ I have been teaching today .
^ Quite a contrast to my solitary life of intellectual indulgence in Munich .
^ Still , it definitely has some strange benefits ( such as contact with other homo sapiens ) , but seriously , there is without doubt some great surprises in the diversity of life .
^ I do appreciate spending time with my family and all those little kids .
^ I 'm only working there part-time , which is good because I do n't think I 'd be able to handle full-time immersion .
^ The dodgy job with my prof is still on the cards .. waiting to hear more info from him .
^ Speaking of my prof , he randomly asked me the other day ( via email ) if I would put this Canadian girl up for a night and show her around this part of the country !
^ I 'd met her once at his house ; she 'd been nannying his kids this year on a gap year thingy .
^ I think she took a bit of a liking to me ( well , lets face it ... who would n't ) , so it could be interesting ...
^ I can hardly refuse though can I ? !
^ So naturally I 've said yes ...
^ Yeah I remember those cold rainy Sunday afternoons .
^ In fact , one of the things I love most about Brighton is the seasonal variety .
^ By the time the season changes I 'm always longing nostalgically for the next one !
^ Beautiful !
^ I really enjoyed those Sunday afternoons - some of my really good Munich memories .
^ So , keep it real boyo and enjoy the experiences ...
^ Boggs
^ lance lance lance ,
^ i 'm sorry to hear about the termination of princess leia .
^ i was n't aware that it was imminent , such is my ignorance of star wars matters .
^ however that could soon change since i found where the dvd peddlers peddle .
^ i got the godfather I , II & III on a single dvd for &pound; 3.50 yesterday .
^ it was my first venture into the commercially / shoppingy part of muscat .
^ all of the shops are run by indians and pakistanis
^ in true indian and pakistani style , there are about 20 of every type of shop , ( jewellers , mobile phone accessories
^ air conditioners , saris etc , all with horrendous neon signs ) just so that none of them seem to be able to make any money at all .
^ also with the dvd peddlers there 's about a 50 m strip where people attack you saying " DVD 3 in one , DVD , 7 in one " .
^ they have large flip-files of covers where you choose your selection
^ they disappear off and find the disc , then stuff if in a black case with the cover and hey presto , you have a near-retail quality package
^ oh , comedy news ... i went along to some little casual sailing club on monday night .
^ nice guys , just take out lasers on the sea from 4pm till sundown every week .
^ when we 'd put the boats back and derigged , they said " yeah , its the national championships in 4 weeks , we 'll pencil you in then " .
^ ha ! i mean , i 'd never taken one of these things out before and do n't even know how to set the thing up .
^ well , it 's all good cv points is n't it : " represented the uk at the oman national sailing championships &YEAR " .
^ now you know how to read a cv if you 're ever employing someone
^ so what 'll you be doing down in christian school land in wiltshire ? you could lead a star wars seminar or something , or perhaps teach them natural language pattern recognition .
^ hmm , and lucrative contracts eh ? did you ever find out about that entirely legal offshore company your prof was starting
^ maybe the time you 've spent with me has sufficiently corrupted your pure morals and you 're now going to take the contract
^ oh yes , on the subject of corrupting , DO NOT under any circumstances send such material to me here .
^ you listen well medlock .
^ that postcard to my house was bad enough and may require retaliation while you are still living at home .
^ but do n't try any funny business here alright ?
^ you get the idea
^ hokey kokey , so its off to church soon .
^ ( friday is the new sunday ) .
^ we meet at &TIME - absolutely brilliant time cos you get a lie-in , a lazy morning , and then no afternoon with which to get bored and feel really tired . perfect
^ had a strange pang yesterday for one of those dark windy rainy sunday evenings in november when you 'd come round , we 'd devour a lamb then watch top view gear .
^ weird i know .
^ and i probably spent the whole year complaining about how i hate dark windy rainy sunday evenings in november ( and the rest
^ but do n't worry , i 'm not going to complain about the weather here , bright , sunny and hot every day .
^ oh and the sea is perfect temp too to swim in or whatever without getting cold .
^ and the mountains are always in stunning
^ you should try and make it out here if you find one of those lucrative contracts .
^ i think you 'd like it
^ alrighty matey , take care and keep me up to date with your exploits , mundane or otherwise .
^ its always nice to hear what you 're all up to .
^ see you soon
^ sam
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ I phoned Parcel Force today , but unfortunately they 're " upgrading their systems " and I was unable to get through .
^ I 'll try again tomorrow , although I 'm not sure whether they take calls at weekends .
^ I am seriously unimpressed by this service , and apologise again for the delay .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ still have not received the textbook , can you trace it ?
^ Billy Doyle
^ From : " The Lancester " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : amazon purchase
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi ,
^ I despatched the book " Modern Engineering Mathematics " to you yesterday .
^ It is now with Parcel Force and should arrive sometime soon .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Hi Billy ,
^ Apparently there has been some sort of postal strike in Carlisle which has been delaying parcel delivery .
^ Are you still waiting for the book ?
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ still have not received the textbook , can you trace it ?
^ Billy Doyle
^ From : " The Lancester " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : amazon purchase
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi ,
^ I despatched the book " Modern Engineering Mathematics " to you yesterday .
^ It is now with Parcel Force and should arrive sometime soon .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Sorry about that Billy .
^ Let me know if there 's anything I can do .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ hi Nick , still no sign of book !
^ Postal strike continuing !
^ Regards , Billy
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " rosie hollings " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : amazon purchase
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Billy ,
^ Apparently there has been some sort of postal strike in Carlisle which has been delaying parcel delivery .
^ Are you still waiting for the book ?
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ still have not received the textbook , can you trace it ?
^ Billy
^ Jeremy
^ From : " The Lancester " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : amazon purchase
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi ,
^ I despatched the book " Modern Engineering Mathematics " to you yesterday .
^ It is now with Parcel Force and should arrive sometime soon .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Hi Billy ,
^ That 's really bad - Parcel Force say they deliver in 3-5 working days .
^ I have the proof of posting receipt with the barcode : BNZ 0000 2600 0826 .
^ I 'll give them a ring tomorrow and see if I can find out what 's happened .
^ Sorry - I 've no idea why it 's taking so long ,
^ Nick
^ still have not received the textbook , can you trace it ?
^ Billy Doyle
^ From : " The Lancester " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : amazon purchase
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi ,
^ I despatched the book " Modern Engineering Mathematics " to you yesterday .
^ It is now with Parcel Force and should arrive sometime soon .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ lance .
^ if you are driving to tims which way are you coming home because if you are going anywhere within an hour of my house then can i have a lift to there because i am trying to find a way to avoid buying a train ticket .
^ if not then it 's fine and i will buy one
^ roo
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " tabitha ropp "
^ Subject : Re : an interesting subject
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Well Lauren ,
^ Here 's the long and intensely interesting story behind it .
^ Once upon a time in a land far away ( Gloucester ) a young man called Nick worked at a computer terminal , scratching and scraping for a living .
^ One day his friends asked him if he would like to play 5-a-side football for their team .
^ Well , Nick was ecstatic ( OK , fairly happy ) to be asked to play , and so he waited for his chance .
^ When tomorrow lunchtime came , he was ready in his Nike t-shirt and football trainers .
^ AND .... .
^ as he stepped out onto the field he heard the encouraging cries of his fellow students yelling " LANCO , LANCO , LANCO ! ! ! ! "
^ And so the young man came to be known as " Jonah " .
^ There you go ,
^ Bye ,
^ Nick ( jo )
^ Lauren wants to send you an e-mail .... here she is .... .
^ Jonah why do you call yourself Jonah ?
^ That 's all she wanted to say ... bye .
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Ropp , Tabitha "
^ Subject : an interesting subject
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Tabitha ,
^ How are you ?
^ I have a cold .
^ Although it is going ( faith statement ) .
^ How 's work - are you surviving ?
^ I made it just in time for the football tournament .
^ Unfortunately we lost , but it was still good fun !
^ I still feel pretty drained from the camp ( at least I think it 's from the camp ) and I had a quick sleep in the grounds of Hampton Yard Glackce today .
^ Yes , I went there with my family - it is quite an amazing place .
^ I 've had a good time with Mallory over the last couple of days , but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I 'd had some time to recover from those lovely boys first !
^ Look forward to hearing from you .
^ O
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hello and thankyou for my lift in is very kind of you and I will get my Mum to meet us somewhere so that you can drop me off somewhere random ...
^ So sorry about your switch card .
^ Have you managed to persuade them that you should n't have to pay for the things ?
^ Well well that is a very horrible thing to happen ..... first your car and now your wallet ... .
^ And why do n't you like the sound of your voice ?
^ Has it changed ?
^ Or do you not normally like listening to it ?
^ The dog is absolutely driving me INSANE today .
^ She has not stopped barking all day .
^ I am close to being a dog murderer , I really am .
^ It started at about 6.30 am and she has been displaying her vocal talent all day .
^ Wonderful .
^ Anyway , apart from the trials of living in this house I am ok .
^ I went to Guildford last night to see Jenny for her 21st birthday with Jack .
^ We went for a lovely little meal in an Italian restaurant that we actually all went to for her 18th and it was v. nice .
^ She has a new boyfriend called Nina who is 29 , went to Munich , retired at 24 because he 'd allready made enough money , and drives a Porsche ! ! !
^ Jenny always said that she was looking for a rich husband so this could be the one !
^ Had a lovely chat with Jack on the way home ..... and we listened to the new DC talk album .
^ have you heard it ?
^ I really liked track 3 if you 've heard it ...
^ Chloe has started secondary school ..... worrying for all of us , especially my parents as they now feel very old , going through this process for the second time ... .
^ Went to Penny 's on Thursday for lunch ..... baby was cute and Penny was lovely .
^ Gordon was gardening .
^ Ummmmm ............ not much else to say apart from that I am having minor panics about my work .
^ i 'm going to Jon 's next week and we promised each other we 'd do some whilst i was there .
^ Jon and I are coming to Bob 's together but I might go to Carlisle on saturday as there is a SPEAK arts team meeting .
^ also hannah South wants me to go with Rachel cowan to get an award for the just World Shop as she ca n't go
^ difficult decision but I think I might go because it seems to all fit in
^ I might leave Bob 's in the morning and then come back in the evening ..... but that might be a waste of staying at Bob 's and he might be offended but I think I should go .
^ Anyway , enough ramblings from me .
^ Hope all is well in your house ...... Is this a house you 've bought or a borrowed one ?
^ Enjoy your space and your three toilets !
^ love Tabitha
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " tabitha ropp "
^ Subject : Re : an interesting subject
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi there Tabitha ( " Hi there " is my new preferred greeting )
^ Am I looking forward to next year ?
^ You bet !
^ I have not even thought about my room yet ... oh , you 're soooooooo sad .
^ What have I been doing ?
^ Well , now there 's a story ...
^ On Saturday I was playing football and a nice young chap had the courtesy to remove my credit cards from my sports bag .
^ proceed into town , there procuring as many things as he could with my ailing Switch card
^ Thankfully someone who worked in the Co-op actually recognised him and realised that he was not Nick Malone and thus called the police , at which juncture they cancelled my Switch card and phoned my dad .
^ who then phoned me on my mobile as I was in the car on the way to pick up my sister from my grandparents house
^ So , I spent most of yesterday morning the police station with PC Cotterell trying to identify what had been taken and making statements to the effect that I had not authorised Mr. X to use my hard earned money .
^ I am not sure yet if I am going to have to pay for Mr. X 's little escapade , but I 'm hoping NatWest will be nice to me .
^ especially since I spent a fortune on my mobile phone to them trying to get information about my account
^ So , that 's all very exciting in a sort of perverse way .
^ What else .... hmmmm , yes , very excitingly I have bought a new digital camera ! ! !
^ It was actually supposed to arrive today , but surprise surprise it did n't .
^ Call me cynical but the day I see a mail-order company deliver on time will be the day Maximus Thatcher gets elected as the tooth fairy
^ We have now moved into our next house , which is really nice - five bedrooms and 3 toilets !
^ Yipeeee !
^ I have set up all my equipment in the attic room and I have spent most of the last week ( when not in the police station ) re-recording an old song of mine .
^ I am now depressed because I do n't like the sound of my voice .
^ Still , maybe I 'll do some Uni work now instead !
^ Yesterday I bought some new clothes - actually my mum bought them for me .
^ Yipeeee !
^ Keep smiling because it makes people happy ,
^ Nick
^ Hi ...
^ how are you ?
^ Are you looking forward to next year ?
^ I really am .
^ I keep arranging my room in my head and deciding what to take ..... very sad really .
^ I guess it 's what you do when all you 've got to do all day is paint .
^ what have you been doing ?
^ love Tabitha
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " tabitha ropp "
^ Subject : Re : an interesting subject
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Well Lauren ,
^ Here 's the long and intensely interesting story behind it .
^ Once upon a time in a land far away ( Gloucester ) a young man called Nick worked at a computer terminal , scratching and scraping for a living .
^ One day his friends asked him if he would like to play 5-a-side football for their team .
^ Well , Nick was ecstatic ( OK , fairly happy ) to be asked to play , and so he waited for his chance .
^ When tomorrow lunchtime came , he was ready in his Nike t-shirt and football trainers .
^ AND .... .
^ as he stepped out onto the field he heard the encouraging cries of his fellow students yelling " LANCO , LANCO , LANCO ! ! ! ! "
^ And so the young man came to be known as " Jonah " .
^ There you go ,
^ Bye ,
^ Nick ( jo )
^ Lauren wants to send you an e-mail .... here she is .... .
^ Jonah why do you call yourself Jonah ?
^ That 's all she wanted to say ... bye .
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Ropp , Tabitha "
^ Subject : an interesting subject
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Tabitha ,
^ How are you ?
^ I have a cold .
^ Although it is going ( faith statement ) .
^ How 's work - are you surviving ?
^ I made it just in time for the football tournament .
^ Unfortunately we lost , but it was still good fun !
^ I still feel pretty drained from the camp ( at least I think it 's from the camp ) and I had a quick sleep in the grounds of Hampton Yard Glackce today .
^ Yes , I went there with my family - it is quite an amazing place .
^ I 've had a good time with Mallory over the last couple of days , but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I 'd had some time to recover from those lovely boys first !
^ Look forward to hearing from you .
^ O
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Really looking forward to having you home , Nick .
^ Have n't been in contact with B & H yet , but will see them probably next Sunday at the start of Convention , I imagine .
^ Better news on the Brighton front - just watched the Croatia match ; a steady performance and the right result .
^ Good to see Scholes finally get a goal . .
^ Portugal next !
^ Got to write up loads of Judges ' Comments on short stories / poems ... bit of a slog , really .
^ See you soon - a week tomorrow , in fact !
^ Lots of love - D .
^ Hi Daddy and Mummy ,
^ Well , term has finished , and I 'm only a week away from coming home !
^ Josue and Laura should be in the UK by now , and the base is very quiet .
^ I 'm really enjoying the peace and lack of people - doing a few jobs and watching lots of DVD 's !
^ Yesterday I spoke about my Christian Education experiences in an African church of about a thousand people !
^ We ( myself and the guy who came with me ) were the only white people there , and the service lasted for FIVE HOURS ! !
^ It was an experience .
^ The plan is to travel down to Jo'burg on Thursday and stay with Laura 's brother for a couple of days before I return on Monday / Tuesday .
^ My flight leaves Jo'burg at &TIME on Monday and is due into Heathrow at &TIME on
^ Tuesday morning .
^ Lots of love , and I 'll see you SOON ! !
^ B x
^ I know - 90 minutes of hard work , and then two moments of olishness - so frustrating !
^ Heskey 's blundering tackle was reasonably predictable , but I was surprised by Jose 's suicidal back-pass ; ah well , that 's football - a game for gentlemen played by numbskulls , to adapt a w.k.p.o.s .
^ Of course , I 've never done anything like that myself ...
^ Lots of love - see you soon -- D .
^ Disaster ! ! !
^ What a way to throw away a match !
^ I do n't think I 've ever seen goals in the 2nd and 3rd minutes of a 3-minute stoppage time .
^ It could even be a record !
^ Ah well , that 's football .
^ See you soon Daddy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Yes this is a very amusing article I 've never heard of a brontabite ?
^ That is crazy .
^ Thanks for you text it was great to see you last week , we must not leave it so long next time ... and I 'll try not to get ill .
^ You Sister is now at Uni .
^ How did that all go ?
^ Speak soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Ed xoxox
^ on &DATE &TIME , Nick Malone at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Ed , check out this NNR article - amusing and interesting ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ O
^ ~
^ Nick - thanks !
^ Actually , I did n't do so badly really - tha baked bean days were pretty rare ; but thanks all the same ;
^ I appreciate the thought .
^ Lots of love - D
^ Hi Daddy - me again !
^ I have just had lunch and I was eating a meal , and it made me think of you eating all of those tinned meals during your year at Woolton ,
^ and I thought how much I admire you for stuff like that - the sacrifices you 've made over the years for our family .
^ You 've really been a wonderful father .
^ Just a quick thought ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick !
^ You are the mother and father of all who wax their nipples and go jogging in the park on a cold day !
^ Not really !
^ You 're great , you are .
^ Great to hear from you man !
^ If I had a pound for every time I 've played a member of the God-head I 'd be a rich man .
^ You 'd have about &pound; 36 maximum !
^ The reason I thought of you was that I reckon the last bit of acting I did was the sketch we did in Hatherley 's on your last Sunday there .
^ Remember the one , where I ( again ) played Jesus and you got a bit carried-away hammering my hands into the wall ( the memory mak es me wince ! ) .
^ Yeah , I 'd forgotten I 'd done that one with you too .
^ I really miss acting .
^ Things are very weird and uncertain for me just now .
^ Kind of in limbo .
^ Not sure what job I want or where or what 's in the future really .
^ Just got b ack from a workshop on Key Terms in Biblical Hebrew which was quite stressful though interesting .
^ My laptop is now all over the place and not coping w ith
^ Hebrew fonts and unicode and stuff and probably about to explode with all the new things it 's had installed and been bombarded with - and I have to say I sympathise with it .
^ I 'm supposed to do oodles of research on Hebre w this year off the back of this workshop & I 'm not sure if I will have the will or the capacity to yet .
^ They paid for 2 weeks accomodation & food & transport so I 'd feel a bit guilty dropping out now but everything 's so complicated .
^ Anyway I 'm praying and waiting to see God 's way forward .
^ I 'll probably be in Birmingham for the next few weeks from Monday or Tuesday .
^ Sorry - did n't mean to tell you all that really .
^ Hope all your research life and social life and devotional life are all going well , along with a ny other lives you are currently pursuing ! !
^ God bless , mate !
^ Aimee .
^ ~
^ ~
^ Yay , well done master Nick Wise the Brave .
^ Just saw LOTR3 tonight .
^ Its finally made it to Oman .
^ I start world touring in 26 days time .
^ Very soon .
^ When are you
^ ?
^ If it happens to fall through by some unexpected ironic twist of fate , you are still cordially invited to come world touring .
^ Parents are out here at the moment .
^ Sister & boyf went home yesterday , Lad left last week .
^ Has been very hectic , but great showing everyone round .
^ My
^ Mum shocked me by saying she likes it and wants to come back .
^ She thinks that women in the west need to be more repressed so that the men are more confident and empowered like they are here .
^ Cool or what !
^ Good to hear Christian is still alive .
^ Have n't heard from him in about a month I think .
^ Was starting to fear the worst .
^ Clowns , Munich days .... how cool they were .
^ I 'll be saying the same about Oman too very soon ... will miss this place very much I think .
^ OK dude , see you pretty soon now .
^ Take good care of yourself
^ Rylee
^ I 'm officially a Master Rylee .
^ Yay .
^ Hope you 're OK .
^ When do you start world-touring ?
^ O
^ P.S. Christian and I were in Clown 's on Saturday !
^ Was n't the same without you though ...
^ Its been 14 days Nick - it was new year 's eve which I spent in Dubai and you spent in Wyatt .
^ Did n't they cancel it because the weather or something ?
^ Pah !
^ So on your graduation .
^ I am indeed proud of you , and be congratulated on making it through and gaining such a distinguished result ( you did do well , did n't you ? ) .
^ I 've been turning back from
^ 
^ The weather has been warming up a bit in the past week or so - so much so that we needed the AC on at work yesterday after about 2 months of non-use .
^ Today is cloudy though , so wo n't need AC .
^ Are you getting ready to go to South Africa pretty soon then ?
^ And has the teaching episode been herewith concluded ?
^ Yours truly ,
^ Rylee
^ p.s. check out &WEBSITE search for " Oman "
^ Dearest Samuel ,
^ How long it has been since we last made contact .
^ How I miss your roast lamb .
^ How I miss your sweet ... potatoes .
^ How I miss our late-night conversations .
^ Do tell me , how is your back ?
^ What a frightful inconvenience , being unable to partake in water-based leisure activities !
^ Still , I trust your skin is turning brown , and that your waistline is receding .
^ My dearest Samuel , I do n't believe I have informed you of my impending graduation .
^ I will be back in the city of Munich hencewith on
^ January 24th to partake in the ceremonious conferral of my Masters degree .
^ How proud of me you must feel !
^ It is but a shame that you cannot be present yourself , but one must n't ask for everything .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ I 'm officially a Master Rylee .
^ Yay .
^ Hope you 're OK .
^ When do you start world-touring ?
^ O
^ P.S. Christian and I were in Clown 's on Saturday !
^ Was n't the same without you though ...
^ Its been 14 days Nick - it was new year 's eve which I spent in Dubai and you spent in Wyatt .
^ Did n't they cancel it because the weather or something ?
^ Pah !
^ So on your graduation .
^ I am indeed proud of you , and be congratulated on making it through and gaining such a distinguished result ( you did do well , did n't you ? ) .
^ I 've been turning back from
^ 
^ The weather has been warming up a bit in the past week or so - so much so that we needed the AC on at work yesterday after about 2 months of non-use .
^ Today is cloudy though , so wo n't need AC .
^ Are you getting ready to go to South Africa pretty soon then ?
^ And has the teaching episode been herewith concluded ?
^ Yours truly ,
^ Rylee
^ p.s. check out &WEBSITE search for " Oman "
^ Dearest Samuel ,
^ How long it has been since we last made contact .
^ How I miss your roast lamb .
^ How I miss your sweet ... potatoes .
^ How I miss our late-night conversations .
^ Do tell me , how is your back ?
^ What a frightful inconvenience , being unable to partake in water-based leisure activities !
^ Still , I trust your skin is turning brown , and that your waistline is receding .
^ My dearest Samuel , I do n't believe I have informed you of my impending graduation .
^ I will be back in the city of Munich hencewith on
^ January 24th to partake in the ceremonious conferral of my Masters degree .
^ How proud of me you must feel !
^ It is but a shame that you cannot be present yourself , but one must n't ask for everything .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Its been 14 days Nick - it was new year 's eve which I spent in Dubai and you spent in Wyatt .
^ Did n't they cancel it because the weather or something ?
^ Pah !
^ So on your graduation .
^ I am indeed proud of you , and be congratulated on making it through and gaining such a distinguished result ( you did do well , did n't you ? ) .
^ I 've been turning back from brown to brown from many weeks indoors .
^ this weekend I hope to make up for it with some time on the beach and maybe another shot at windsurfing if there is some wind
^ The weather has been warming up a bit in the past week or so - so much so that we needed the AC on at work yesterday after about 2 months of non-use .
^ Today is cloudy though , so wo n't need AC .
^ Are you getting ready to go to South Africa pretty soon then ?
^ And has the teaching episode been herewith concluded ?
^ Yours truly ,
^ Rylee
^ p.s. check out &WEBSITE search for " Oman "
^ Dearest Samuel ,
^ How long it has been since we last made contact .
^ How I miss your roast lamb .
^ How I miss your sweet ... potatoes .
^ How I miss our late-night conversations .
^ Do tell me , how is your back ?
^ What a frightful inconvenience , being unable to partake in water-based leisure activities !
^ Still , I trust your skin is turning brown , and that your waistline is receding .
^ My dearest Samuel , I do n't believe I have informed you of my impending graduation .
^ I will be back in the city of Munich hencewith on
^ January 24th to partake in the ceremonious conferral of my Masters degree .
^ How proud of me you must feel !
^ It is but a shame that you cannot be present yourself , but one must n't ask for everything .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Jensky ...
^ I 've just got back from Snowboarding in the French Alps ( see picture ) !
^ We had some pretty cold weather there as well -12C plus wind-chill !
^ I ca n't believe those exams were a year ago - do you remember sitting around in that little side room with Ravi , or that awful debate about the Central Limit
^ Theorem on the way to McD 's ! ?
^ Ah ... those were good times old boy .
^ So Emily 's got himself hitched !
^ Have you seen pictures ?
^ Is she a Karena type ?
^ I saw plenty of very attractive French girls whilst dazzling everyone with my snowboarding finesse , but alas I think the language barrier might be a bit of an issue ...
^ Are you coming over to graduate Jens ?
^ What is the snowboarding like in Norway ?
^ God bless , and happy NEW YEAR ! !
^ Peace ,
^ Nick
^ It 's already a year since we worried about our first , - time flies .
^ The temperature here this morning is -11C , and we 've got enough snow , even though the amount is moderate for this time of year .
^ Emily got back on Sunday to tell that he 's picked up an American genius of a girlfriend in Munich ( first Brody , now Emily , - this is evidence that there is hope ) .
^ Everything else is very normal , which is nice .
^ There 'll be skiing , fat food and the rest of it .
^ Hope everything is easy down " south " as well .
^ May you and the rest of the Malone-clan enjoy peaceful celebrations .
^ Jensk .
^ ~
^ dear lance , o , no , help ! what am i going to do now that you are abandoning the habits of a lifetime mummy
^ all those vital things i taught you , like folding your underwear and ironing your shirts .... where will it end
^ on the other hand , i notice that i am abandonning the habits of a longer lifetime here in this very note
^ not a single capital letter in sight ! ! ! ! just as long as you know in your heart
^ if that dear precious person who is to share your life wants you to fold your underwear it will not be a problem to you to do so
^ it is not a badge of your independence ...... for example , i would not send
^ daddy an email with no capital letters in it because its a pleasure to him to see english used well ...... whereas for you it is probably a pleasure
^ or more likely simply an end of frustration .... to find that i am at least using the computer again , however badly
^ i love you , my son ... go wild ... do n't even pair up your socks ! ! ! !
^ Hi Mummy , I just bought two new vests and a pair of long-Johns ! ! !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thanks for your e-mail and update .
^ Sounds like you are keeping busy and being slightly useful !
^ Who is Josue ?
^ Not Josue Kernan , probably .
^ Josue Bockett ?
^ We are all well .
^ Juliette got into the UNiversity of east Carlisle and is taking a gap year .
^ She is going to live in York with Macie .
^ Delphine has got into the National Youth Theatre .
^ Otherwise the grass needs cutting , and Shania and I are following a marriage course which we hope to run for others when we 've finished it .
^ Please plan to visit us in Spain this summer .
^ Be there or be a loser .
^ Have bought a condenser mike and monitor speakers but cannot get the condenser mike to work .
^ The M-Audio box provides phamtom power but we think it may be faulty .
^ So I 'm still waiting to record my debut album .
^ Love from all of us
^ Lindsey
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Glad to hear that you 're becoming more literate - oh , that 's right , it 's only " lettered " .
^ Oh well .
^ Still , good to hear from you .
^ I am still in Wells , obviously - sorry for not replying earlier .
^ I set it aside when I was rather busy , and then it got pushed down behind a number of other e-mails .
^ But fortunately I saw it .
^ I should be about around Philip 's day , yes .
^ I 'm preaching on Rev. 17-19 this weekend in fact , and am at work on it as we speak .
^ Great stuff !
^ I 've got lots of news , but maybe I 'll save that for when I see you .
^ Look forward to that .
^ Armando
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hello Dr. Masson !
^ How are you old boy ?
^ Still in Wells ? !
^ I hope they realise that they wo n't be able to hold onto such a priceless jewel as yourself forever ! ... then again , maybe they will ... any plans to move in the near future ?
^ Many greetings from Munich !
^ I now have just over two months to finish my masters project and then I will have a few more letters to add to the end of my name .
^ I took my last set of exams a few weeks ago and they went pretty well - my overall mark on the course thus far is around 80 % with just the project to go .
^ My project is on email classification ( primarily spam vs non-spam ) and should turn out to be quite interesting I think .
^ Otherwise I am basically enjoying the student lifestyle .
^ I will be coming up to Wells for a couple of days around the Philip 's Day period ( 16th June ) so I hope to catch you then if I can .
^ How are things at URC ?
^ Have you been doing much preaching recently ?
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Keeping busy !
^ Reminds me of a film I watched about Winston Churchill and the pre war effort ; his motto was " Keep Ellery On " !
^ KBO - not to be taken literately , of course !
^ Leave date is set for SB now at 11th June , I am so looking forward to it , however I am a little apprehensive about finding other interesting work although I have enough saved to survive for a while
^ .
^ I am really looking forward to seeing you on your return - should be spiffing old chap !
^ Perhaps when I get this property you could come and slave with me doing it up ? ! !
^ What is the education like in SA ?
^ Bit broad really , I suppose what is Bard ( miss typed quite opps ! ) actually doing ?
^ Lots of love ,
^ Joshua B xoxox
^ on &DATE &TIME , Rolomandi Mission Station at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Friends and Family ,
^ It is time for another update , as I have now been toiling in Africa for a or so .
^ I have been keeping pleasantly busy , but I think the remainder of my trip will prove to be somewhat more hectic than the initial phase .
^ Tomorrow the mission station is being invaded by around 950 American medical missionaries / students , who are coming to serve the local community .
^ We are providing a certain amount of food and accommodation and generally acting as HQ .
^ Next week I am taking the place of one of the supervisors in the school , who is a native Venda speaker and thus being called upon to act as a mediator between the Americans and the locals .
^ I am also leading the music team for the evening meetings which are taking place in a large tent , recently erected on the property .
^ The following week I think I will be heading off to one of the major cities with Josue for an meeting .
^ after that I am going to Lesotho for a week 's mission trip with another American team to assemble a preschool ( or something like that )
^ When we return I have only two more weeks before flying back home !
^ Over the last month or so , I 've been busy doing all things computer / music / drama related on the base .
^ I feel like I 've been quite useful , which is good for my self esteem : o ) .
^ Amongst other things I 've been running a database design course , and keeping fit with endless games of frisbee and football .
^ The weather has been very nice - warm to hot during the day and cool at night .
^ I like to lie on the kids ' trampoline and look at the stars on clear evenings .
^ Apparently there are more stars in the Southern Hemisphere .
^ I am missing you all ( well , most of you ) and am already greatly looking forward to coming home and catching up with you again .
^ Bye for now !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Thanks Javier .
^ I 'll get in touch with Wells and find out what 's going on .
^ Could you possibly send me the email address of someone on the Board to contact about this ?
^ Many thanks ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick
^ If there is likely to be much delay on the Certificate , the Board would accept an official letter , from your supervisor or other University official to state your degree class .
^ We can now allocate accommodation to you .
^ I will send an info package also .
^ Javier
^ At &TIME &DATE , you wrote :
^ Javier ,
^ Sorry for the late reply - I have been away in Scotland until this evening .
^ I have met all of my conditions , although I have been unable to send the Board a copy of my degree ,
^ as I have not yet received it from my University ( Wells ) .
^ I have informed the Board , however , of my results .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick
^ I note from a recent list from the Board of Grad Studies that you have met the financial conditions of your University offer .
^ Is this the case ?
^ There is still one condition outstanding ?
^ Is this the academic condition ?
^ Do you have your results through yet ?
^ We are allocating accommodation now and urgently need to know about your status .
^ Please let me know the current situation .
^ Javier Free
^ Mrs Javier Free
^ Graduate Tutors ' Classroom
^ Kassidy College ,
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^ Tel : 05005 882080
^ Fax : 05005 882082 email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Javier ,
^ Sorry for the late reply - I have been away in Scotland until this evening .
^ I have met all of my conditions , although I have been unable to send the Board a copy of my degree , as I have not yet received it from my University ( Wells ) .
^ I have informed the Board , however , of my results .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick
^ I note from a recent list from the Board of Grad Studies that you have met the financial conditions of your University offer .
^ Is this the case ?
^ There is still one condition outstanding ?
^ Is this the academic condition ?
^ Do you have your results through yet ?
^ We are allocating accommodation now and urgently need to know about your status .
^ Please let me know the current situation .
^ Javier Free
^ Mrs Javier Free
^ Graduate Tutors ' Classroom
^ Kassidy College ,
^ Munich , TQ9 0WF
^ Tel : 05005 882080
^ Fax : 05005 882082 email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ I 'm graduating on the 24th .
^ Would def like to meet up at some point .
^ Maybe before the ceremony around lunchtime ?
^ Nick
^ Happy New Year everyone !
^ Which of you are graduating on January 24th ?
^ I want to come and join in the party !
^ I hope you 're all having fun !
^ Love , Leilani xxx
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^ I am not saving orphans nor feeding the hungry like lance
^ You forgot about my work with landmine victims and my fundraising drive for cancer research ...
^ Right .
^ Yahoo can kiss my ass , I 've just jumped through hoops to even get so far as to think about replying these messages .
^ January sounds lovely , although cold .
^ Let 's do it .
^ I am not saving orphans nor feeding the hungry like lance , I am doing something far more dispicable and working for a bank as an analyst / software developer .
^ Which bites but I am in an awful lot of debt .
^ Plan is to do something more interesting next year ( I want to start a company and also run a coffeeshop , perhaps both at the same time . )
^ Although I have just been to new york , which is full of beautiful people and people who are just nuts .
^ I plan to bring down The Man from the inside , Jerry Leeson-style .
^ Without the jail sentence .
^ &WEBSITE ?
^ Orlando ? )
^ keep posting , increase entropy .
^ henry
^ --- In &EMAIL " A. Davies " ( &EMAIL ... ) wrote :
^ Hiya The List ,
^ I think January would be better for me as I 'm still a tad busy at the moment ; it gives my mum time to buy a hat as well &SMILEY
^ BTW - Looking at the Yahoo Groups webpage , only about 10-12 of us are actually listed as members of this list , so perhaps that is one reason for the lack of response from people ?
^ ~
^ Thanks V. I 'm not part of the list !
^ Oops , I meant I 'm NOW part of the list &SMILEY
^ --- " A. Davies " ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ To : &EMAIL
^ From : " A. Davies " ( &EMAIL )
^ Date : 26 Oct &YEAR &TIME
^ Subject : [ hveje0000 ] graduation
^ Hiya People ,
^ I hope I have the address right , but we 'll see ...
^ How is everyone ?
^ I know Leilani One is fine , having landed herself a job etc , since she 's the only person who seems to email .
^ But then I am as guilty as the rest of you .
^ I have my excuse prepared though :
^ I have been waiting until I had my life sorted out so I actually knew what to * say * .
^ ~
^ Thanks V. I 'm not part of the list !
^ O
^ --- " A. Davies " ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ To : &EMAIL
^ From : " A. Davies " ( &EMAIL )
^ Date : 26 Oct &YEAR &TIME
^ Subject : [ hveje0000 ] graduation
^ Hiya People ,
^ I hope I have the address right , but we 'll see ...
^ How is everyone ?
^ I know Leilani One is fine , having landed herself a job etc , since she 's the only person who seems to email .
^ But then I am as guilty as the rest of you .
^ I have my excuse prepared though :
^ I have been waiting until I had my life sorted out so I actually knew what to * say * .
^ ~
^ That 's what I 'm goingt o tell you anyway .
^ So ... I 'm going back to Munich to do a PhD in Information
^ Retrieval with Kingston , kindly ( stupidly ? ) funded by Visionware Research , but not until Ocober next year .
^ Between now and then I might be doing a Research Assistantship with Jay Gabriel for a few months but that 's not confirmed .
^ And currently I am working at home ( Scotland home ) a crappy temporary .
^ please , * please * let it be temporary ) job to fight off my accumulated debt and maybe even earn some cash of my own . !
^ But who cares really ?
^ Not you , probably .
^ The * point * of my email is to ask what everyone 's doing .
^ Have people already signed up for one of the dates ?
^ Are people going to the ceremony in person ?
^ Tell me !
^ And , finally , where is everyone who is not Leilani One and what are they doing ?
^ Please reply .
^ I am sad and lonely and have no friends .
^ See yous ,
^ Leilani
^ PS I have heard there is a tall , attractive American ( male ) doing ABSNE this year .
^ But apparently his shoulders just do n't compare with Nick 's .
^ I cannot , shall not reveal my sources .
^ ~
^ Good plugging Leilani .
^ Still have n't found out about funding and stuff for next year .
^ Good to see you the other day , although I lost you somewhere on the senate house lawn ...
^ Hope things are going well ,
^ Nick
^ Hiya People !
^ It 's been a while since I 've been in touch with most of you but better late than never , eh ?
^ Actually , you may well disagree when I admit that this is n't purely a social email ... &SMILEY
^ As some of you might know , I 've just started working as a research assistant for Jay Gabriel back in the Physics Lab .
^ Hence I 've been nominated to be the contact person for our ABSNE year .
^ Orlando 's already done a lot of the work for me by setting up our lovely hveje0000 Yahoo group ( thanks Orlando ... what a star ! &SMILEY ) , Jade ( Allen .
^ gathered some email addresses from people before we all went our separate ways and I got another couple from Kaleigh Hellams , all of which I 've used here
^ I 've tried not to duplicate addresses , but apologies if anyone gets this more than once . )
^ If anyone knows of anyone else 's email addresses I might be missing , please let me know .
^ So anyway , getting to The Point :
^ The Lab is keen to keep in contact with all its graduates , including us BEngs , and organises a graduate association called the Munich Physics Lab Ring to do just that .
^ See &WEBSITE but I 've been asked to point out :
^ * it 's a non-profit making organisation * its members wo n't dive
^ be spammed * it aims to give a forum for finding out what your contemporaries are doing * it aims to provide help should your career take a nose
^ The Ring is arranging a dinner on March 15th at which they hope to have an BEng table so old friends can meet up .
^ We 're entitled to three years free membership ( after our graduation dates ) .
^ Woohoo !
^ End of plug .
^ So now I 've done my official recruitment bit , can I just say .
^ it 'd be great if those of you who have n't already signed up for the hveje0000 group did , whether you decide to join the Spiral or not
^ It 's been great for hearing what people have been up to since the BEng .
^ Please sign up and keep in touch ! &SMILEY
^ Hope to see you all soon ,
^ Leilani ( Davies )
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^ Hiya again ,
^ In terms of graduation I was thinking maybe December , but then I noticed that it says " not in person " on the sheet ...
^ I 'm not quite sure what that means but it does n't sound good , so maybe January
^ It means there wo n't be a ceremony where you can go and wear the gown and be handed your certificate etc. .
^ You * have * to graduate in absentia .
^ January sounds good to me , if people do want to make the effort and all do the graduation thing together ?
^ It would be great to see everyone again .
^ I 'm teaching 6-9 year-olds in a small private school at the moment ( my
^ Dad 's the head teacher ) .
^ Little kids are so * funny * !
^ Oh , trust you to be doing something * worthwhile * and selfless .
^ Stop showing everyone else up , would you ? &SMILEY
^ But anyway , about the little kids thing ?
^ No . You 're wrong .
^ Little kids are evil .
^ It is a nice break
^ from studying , but hopefully I 'll begin a PhD next year .
^ Hopefully ?
^ Where ?
^ Doing what ?
^ Etc ?
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ See yous ,
^ Leilani
^ PS Orlando , are you going to share those photos you showed me with everyone ?
^ Can I ? &SMILEY
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^ Hey Leilani !
^ Data Connection eh ? !
^ From what I 've heard they 're an excellent company ... although I 've never actually worked for them : o ) .
^ They did give me some book tokens for some work I did at Wells though , so they must be nice .
^ Pints ( of coke ) would certainly have been nice , but I 'm actually teaching in Luxembourg at the moment ; well , near Luxembourg to be precise .
^ Really hope the interview goes well .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Hiya Nick ,
^ Are you or have you been working for Data Connection ?
^ I 've got a second interview with them on Thursday for a technical writer job .
^ If you 're around in Enfield at the moment we should meet up for pints ( of Coke only ) and you can give me the lowdown on them !
^ Hope you are well ,
^ Leilani xx
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ Reply-To : &EMAIL
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : [ hveje0000 ] mistake
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ PS I have heard there is a tall , attractive American ( male ) doing ABSNE this year .
^ ~
^ Hi Leilani !
^ Yeah , sorry I had to rush off so soon - I was meeting up with my friend for his 25th birthday .
^ It was a good day ; I really enjoyed seeing everyone again ( well , not everyone but all the best people ;o ) ) .
^ Bit strange graduating such a long time after finishing though .
^ It was also pretty strange being back in Munich again - I left a couple of hours after doing my presentation and had n't been back since !
^ Glad to hear that DC is working out OK , and that it 's not too much like the real world ( what is reality anyway , except for what we make it ? ) !
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ hi lance ,
^ it was nice to see you the other day , sorry i did n't get to chat to you more , anyway glad to hear it 's all going well .
^ i 'm in corporateland now , which is better than i expected !
^ it 's quite like being at university actually , especially as i 'm staying in a DC house .
^ it 's very nice here , if a bit cult-like
^ life rarely takes me to swindon but do get in touch if you 're in london .
^ take care ,
^ anna xxx
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Leilani Powell Cameron " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : data connections
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hey Leilani !
^ Data Connection eh ? !
^ From what I 've heard they 're an excellent company ... although I 've never actually worked for them : o ) .
^ They did give me some book tokens for some work I did at Wells though , so they must be nice .
^ Pints ( of coke ) would certainly have been nice , but I 'm actually teaching in Luxembourg at the moment ; well , near Luxembourg to be precise .
^ Really hope the interview goes well .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Hiya Nick ,
^ Are you or have you been working for Data Connection ?
^ I 've got a second interview with them on Thursday for a technical writer job .
^ If you 're around in Enfield at the moment we should meet up for pints ( of Coke only ) and you can give me the lowdown on them !
^ Hope you are well ,
^ Leilani xx
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ Reply-To : &EMAIL
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : [ hveje0000 ] mistake
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ No !
^ You 've got it all mixed up .
^ There was a tall attractive
^ American there * last * year .
^ His name was Jay Higbe ...
^ well , " tall " is a relative concept ...
^ I guess the same could be said about " attractive " ...
^ ~
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Im sorry Ive been quite a while in getting back to you about what I made of Isabel 's email ( or emails as it turned out to be ) in response to mine .
^ Thanks lots for telling me about how you 're doing at the moment as well , it definitely seems to me .
^ although sometimes I feel that its pathetic and very unmanly to be completely honest about life , overall it defintely seems to be worth it
^ Before I tell you what I made of Isabel 's response and where I am now , I thought I 'd tell you quickly a bit about Isabel just so that you know where he 's coming from .
^ Well , so anyway , he 's one of my best friend 's from home who was brought up in a non-Christian family but through another mutual friend .
^ also called Isabel ( B ) , he came along to our church youth group
^ So I suppose he got into Christianity in a not very serious , fringe type way thru that .
^ But anyway I suppose the time where he really started to get interested in Christianity was at a Cyfa summer camp - you know Christian camps for 80-odd 14-18 yr olds - that we persuaded him to go on .
^ he got to be good friends with Susie " she worn your pants " Adamson at these camps as well )
^ So then he went on a year out to Eastern Birks and Romania and had a great time really , then went to Norwich to study sociology .
^ But basically he had a really hard time at Norwich in the first couple of years , firend-wise and spiritually .
^ I think things came to a head for him massively in his second year when he came very close to giving it all up , and I think for a few days he did nothing but cry out to God .
^ asking him desperately that if He was there would He prove it to him
^ But anyway , so Isabel says one morning he says he just woke up with an incredible peace and he just knew that God had answered his prayer .
^ ANd so I suppose that was quite a defining moment for him really , in that that was when he realy hit rock bottom but he also seemed to come to an all-new faith as well .
^ Anyway he still had some very hard times in the remainder of his 2nd and 3rd years but generally he really grew in his faith from that moment .
^ particularly when he went to Uganda at the end of his 2nd year for 4 weeks or so with a group of very dedicated CHristians
^ he wasnt sure if he should go cos at the time he just wanted to get out of the country really more than anything
^ - Isabel said it was just an amazing time where they were able to do so many things
^ he said it was all in the Lord 's strength not their own
^ from what he said they did seem to do a ridiculous amount of things ( for eg AAkq set up and was running an ALpha group among other things
^ I suppose I have always been sceptical that it was really the Lord 's strength
^ right now Im starting to wonder if I should change my mind ) and I think the faith of the Bolivians amazed him
^ So I guess it was thru that experience that he came to catch a glimpse 1st-hand of just how powerful the gospel really can be , and so I think it was partly as a result of that .
^ after he finished uni ( he got a 1st ) he decided to go abroad again
^ Now , it all seems quite strange how he ended up in Chile but I think somehow .
^ he got in contact with this guy who does small-level local projects around the world , and so I think AAkq was assigned to a school somewhere in Chile
^ But anyway , from what he 's said it sounds like the .
^ first few months were extremely lonely - he would take French / Re lessons at the school during the day time , but in the evenings he had nothing
^ his room which the school gave him to stay in , his Bible , and a couple of other books to keep him company
^ It doesnt seem like he had any friends really to keep him company , so what he told me at AAkq B 's wedding last Easter ( Isabel W came back cos he was the best man ) , was .
^ he had nothing else to do but read his Bible and pray to God in his loneliness , trusting in His promises that He would provide for him
^ And basically Isabel said that amazing things happened to him , to the extent that he said that God 's actually spoken to him !
^ Now , I now that sounds incredible ( he knows it does too ) and I guess you could easily come up with some psychological explanation for it all .
^ for me , I suppose I have immense respect for him because i know he 's been thru the bad times
^ he 's come out the other side and is experiencing what an amazing life being a CHristian actually can be , and he 's one Christian
^ maybe the only Christian I know for whom the amazing words written in the Bible about the amazing riches in Christ etc actually seem to hold true in him .
^ ie , for eg last night at CU we were talking about the freedom
^ hope that we have or should have as CHristians but we all admitted that we find it hard to believe at times
^ we do n't feel that free at all and we dont have much hope
^ I suppose basically what Im trying to say is that it makes me find it hard to believe .
^ the words of the Bible are actually true when I dont see anything different in Christians than the rest of the world
^ But with
^ Isabel it seems to me that he has a very real relationship with God and
^ Jesus , and so consequently i try and take what he has to say to me seriously , even if with a lot of what he says my first reaction isnt .
^ positive - maybe that 's just a sign of how far away from a true , living faith I am at the moment
^ Urm , Im sorry that took so long !
^ It 's just that I didnt want you to read what Isabel says and discount it as being excessively fundamentalist or something without knowing a bit of where he 's come from .
^ So , I hope you do n't mind but I thought I 'd copy you Isabel 's 1st email to me !
^ then his two responses to my email , and then my response to those emails and then his response to that one
^ They 're all really quite long so you dont have to bother reading them if you do n't want to .
^ As for where I am right now , I still feel like Ive got lots of questions that I want to ask AAkq , such as isnt Satan being made out to be bigger than he actually is .
^ it seems to me in a way that if the whole world became hard-core Christians like Isabel then everyone would become very boring
^ because they wouldnt ever talk about anything else other than Christ , and would all seem like clones to me
^ But I realise now that more than anything I just dont understand at all why Jesus came to earth , why he had to come to earth ?
^ why he had to die and rise again , and why it truly is an event that is more important than anything else the world has ever seen
^ so I think the most important thing for me to do now is to just start reading all the Gospels with an open heart
^ cos maybe if I get the whole Jesus Christ thing sorted then everything else , all the other questions , wo n't seem quite so important ? ?
^ But pants , Ive issued myself a challenge there so Im going to have to do it now ! ! !
^ Well , we 'll see ...
^ How 've you been in the last two weeks , aside from building mahusive snowmen ? !
^ We had some more snow last night , but not quite enough to go sledging again ( despite what Philip says , I didnt try to kill her !
^ it was not a 90 degree turn , she was nowhere near the tree , she did scream very loud and she also loved it as well
^ But admitedly she did sledge into the hedge ) , but all this wintry weather meant our inaugural 6-aside football league match vs Grad Soc had to be cancelled .
^ Had fun mountain biking with Philip Sarginson tho , even if I !
^ did fear for my life at one point - next time you 're up ul have to borrow someones bike so we can go for a ride together ?
^ But anyway , Id better go now as I need to attend to my dissertation as its getting quite out of hand , hope you 're doing ok ,
^ love from Rodrigo
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Im sorry Ive been quite a while in getting back to you about what I made of Isabel 's email ( or emails as it turned out to be ) in response to mine .
^ Thanks lots for telling me about how you 're doing at the moment as well , it definitely seems to me .
^ although sometimes I feel that its pathetic and very unmanly to be completely honest about life , overall it defintely seems to be worth it
^ Before I tell you what I made of Isabel 's response and where I am now , I thought I 'd tell you quickly a bit about Isabel just so that you know where he 's coming from .
^ Well , so anyway , he 's one of my best friend 's from home who was brought up in a non-Christian family but through another mutual friend .
^ also called Isabel ( B ) , he came along to our church youth group
^ So I suppose he got into Christianity in a not very serious , fringe type way thru that .
^ But anyway I suppose the time where he really started to get interested in Christianity was at a Cyfa summer camp - you know Christian camps for 80-odd 14-18 yr olds - that we persuaded him to go on .
^ he got to be good friends with Susie " she worn your pants " Adamson at these camps as well )
^ So then he went on a year out to Eastern Birks and Romania and had a great time really , then went to Norwich to study sociology .
^ But basically he had a really hard time at Norwich in the first couple of years , firend-wise and spiritually .
^ I think things came to a head for him massively in his second year when he came very close to giving it all up , and I think for a few days he did nothing but cry out to God .
^ asking him desperately that if He was there would He prove it to him
^ But anyway , so Isabel says one morning he says he just woke up with an incredible peace and he just knew that God had answered his prayer .
^ ANd so I suppose that was quite a defining moment for him really , in that that was when he realy hit rock bottom but he also seemed to come to an all-new faith as well .
^ Anyway he still had some very hard times in the remainder of his 2nd and 3rd years but generally he really grew in his faith from that moment .
^ particularly when he went to Uganda at the end of his 2nd year for 4 weeks or so with a group of very dedicated CHristians
^ he wasnt sure if he should go cos at the time he just wanted to get out of the country really more than anything
^ - Isabel said it was just an amazing time where they were able to do so many things
^ he said it was all in the Lord 's strength not their own
^ from what he said they did seem to do a ridiculous amount of things ( for eg AAkq set up and was running an ALpha group among other things
^ I suppose I have always been sceptical that it was really the Lord 's strength
^ right now Im starting to wonder if I should change my mind ) and I think the faith of the Bolivians amazed him
^ So I guess it was thru that experience that he came to catch a glimpse 1st-hand of just how powerful the gospel really can be , and so I think it was partly as a result of that .
^ after he finished uni ( he got a 1st ) he decided to go abroad again
^ Now , it all seems quite strange how he ended up in Chile but I think somehow .
^ he got in contact with this guy who does small-level local projects around the world , and so I think AAkq was assigned to a school somewhere in Chile
^ But anyway , from what he 's said it sounds like the .
^ first few months were extremely lonely - he would take French / Re lessons at the school during the day time , but in the evenings he had nothing
^ his room which the school gave him to stay in , his Bible , and a couple of other books to keep him company
^ It doesnt seem like he had any friends really to keep him company , so what he told me at AAkq B 's wedding last Easter ( Isabel W came back cos he was the best man ) , was .
^ he had nothing else to do but read his Bible and pray to God in his loneliness , trusting in His promises that He would provide for him
^ And basically Isabel said that amazing things happened to him , to the extent that he said that God 's actually spoken to him !
^ Now , I now that sounds incredible ( he knows it does too ) and I guess you could easily come up with some psychological explanation for it all .
^ for me , I suppose I have immense respect for him because i know he 's been thru the bad times
^ he 's come out the other side and is experiencing what an amazing life being a CHristian actually can be , and he 's one Christian
^ maybe the only Christian I know for whom the amazing words written in the Bible about the amazing riches in Christ etc actually seem to hold true in him .
^ ie , for eg last night at CU we were talking about the freedom
^ hope that we have or should have as CHristians but we all admitted that we find it hard to believe at times
^ we do n't feel that free at all and we dont have much hope
^ I suppose basically what Im trying to say is that it makes me find it hard to believe .
^ the words of the Bible are actually true when I dont see anything different in Christians than the rest of the world
^ But with
^ Isabel it seems to me that he has a very real relationship with God and
^ Jesus , and so consequently i try and take what he has to say to me seriously , even if with a lot of what he says my first reaction isnt .
^ positive - maybe that 's just a sign of how far away from a true , living faith I am at the moment
^ Urm , Im sorry that took so long !
^ It 's just that I didnt want you to read what Isabel says and discount it as being excessively fundamentalist or something without knowing a bit of where he 's come from .
^ So , I hope you do n't mind but I thought I 'd copy you Isabel 's 1st email to me !
^ then his two responses to my email , and then my response to those emails and then his response to that one
^ They 're all really quite long so you dont have to bother reading them if you do n't want to .
^ As for where I am right now , I still feel like Ive got lots of questions that I want to ask AAkq , such as isnt Satan being made out to be bigger than he actually is .
^ it seems to me in a way that if the whole world became hard-core Christians like Isabel then everyone would become very boring
^ because they wouldnt ever talk about anything else other than Christ , and would all seem like clones to me
^ But I realise now that more than anything I just dont understand at all why Jesus came to earth , why he had to come to earth ?
^ why he had to die and rise again , and why it truly is an event that is more important than anything else the world has ever seen
^ so I think the most important thing for me to do now is to just start reading all the Gospels with an open heart
^ cos maybe if I get the whole Jesus Christ thing sorted then everything else , all the other questions , wo n't seem quite so important ? ?
^ But pants , Ive issued myself a challenge there so Im going to have to do it now ! ! !
^ Well , we 'll see ...
^ How 've you been in the last two weeks , aside from building mahusive snowmen ? !
^ We had some more snow last night , but not quite enough to go sledging again ( despite what Philip says , I didnt try to kill her !
^ it was not a 90 degree turn , she was nowhere near the tree , she did scream very loud and she also loved it as well
^ But admitedly she did sledge into the hedge ) , but all this wintry weather meant our inaugural 6-aside football league match vs Grad Soc had to be cancelled .
^ Had fun mountain biking with Philip Sarginson tho , even if I !
^ did fear for my life at one point - next time you 're up ul have to borrow someones bike so we can go for a ride together ?
^ But anyway , Id better go now as I need to attend to my dissertation as its getting quite out of hand , hope you 're doing ok ,
^ love from Rodrigo
^ ~
^ I will send a letterin the absence of an official certificate .
^ I hope you like Rutford .
^ If you have anything to do with Philip or
^ Carrie Wheeler ( who own the Rutford House Hotel ) do remember me to them .
^ I knew them and their children well when I was living in Cricklade .
^ There was also a family called Cres ( who lived on the opposite sideof the road from the Hotel ) whom we knew well .
^ I even milked one of their goats !
^ I do not know if they are still there !
^ Jade
^ ~
^ Still got Kingston on the mind eh ? ...
^ man , you had it bad ...
^ 296 hours have passed since then .
^ May I enquire about the average distance between then two of you during these 296 hours ?
^ And , forgive me for being so direct , over the same period , has the distance at any point been negative ?
^ Jenstein , you have a wonderful way with words .
^ How you manage to be so funny in your SECOND language is quite beyond my understanding .
^ Anyway , in answer to your question , the average distance between us during the &WEBSITE miles .
^ The standard deviation around this figure has been slight .
^ Negative indeed - who do you think I am ? ? ! !
^ incredibly warm , sometimes above zero .
^ So the freezing conditions have finally got to you Jens .
^ I thought it would only be a matter of time ... one or two olives short of a pizza ...
^ When are you coming down ?
^ I 'm not .
^ I 'm coming up .
^ However , I 'll only be in Munich on the Saturday ; arriving sometime around 10 in the morning and staying until the evening .
^ Are you going to the " sherry and lunch " in Chads ?
^ Please say yes .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ ouch
^ at first i was going to agree with you that your looks would be wasted ... what with your new shave and haircut and all .
^ then i thought that digging for a compliment was n't actually all that attractive and that maybe you should stick with the email spy thing ...
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : Re : did you know ...
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Yeah , the problem with that is my looks would be wasted ...
^ I think I 'd need to be looking at something a bit more " up front " ...
^ you can become an email spy ? it 's true ... i just got an email about it !
^ I thought you might like to know since that would be a job where you could combine your computer skills AND your james bond skills .
^ if you want the info i can send it on to you .
^ you let me know
^ gina
^ Store more e-mails with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage - 4 plans to choose from !
^ ~
^ Yeah , the problem with that is my looks would be wasted ...
^ I think I 'd need to be looking at something a bit more " up front " ...
^ you can become an email spy ? it 's true ... i just got an email about it !
^ I thought you might like to know since that would be a job where you could combine your computer skills AND your james bond skills .
^ if you want the info i can send it on to you .
^ you let me know
^ gina
^ Store more e-mails with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage - 4 plans to choose from !
^ ~
^ i love you , babe .
^ you are right , of course .
^ my mistake , i 'm wrong .
^ SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY
^ twwotw xx
^ Jonah wrote :
^ OK , fine .
^ We 'll take this up with the dictionary when we all get home .
^ Do n't say I did n't warn you ! ! ! !
^ O
^ " A.N.Ritchie " wrote :
^ shaky ? ! rupturing , i think ...
^ Sawyer wrote :
^ Nick , your standards ( we 're on shaky ground here with regards to assumptions ) are slipping .
^ Shania
^ P.S. Jon , you are our flat spell-checker - an prodigious honour indeed .
^ " A.N.Ritchie " wrote :
^ 1. complImenting
^ 2. one dice , " the dice HAS rolled " two die , " the die HAVE rolled "
^ you 're a computer scientist .
^ ca n't you even use spellcheck ?
^ Jonah wrote :
^ ~
^ I am indeed working pretty hard , although I 'm getting to the " middle of term " phase now , and feeling a bit weary .
^ I 've been beset by unfortunate events the last few days - my bike lights were taken on Sunday while I was in Church , and then today my trouser clips were also taken !
^ So , I had to go to the bike shop to get some more ; Munich is a dangerous place !
^ Finally , my shaver flew apart and I lost a vital spring down the plug-hole , so I 'm trying to decide where I can get a tiny little spring from ...
^ Otherwise all is well - I had a football match today but it was cancelled .
^ Glad to hear the House Party was good - that was the first one I have n't been on for three years ( sigh ... ) .
^ Did you climb up that big hill ?
^ Um ... no fog to speak of here !
^ Manana manana ,
^ Nick
^ lance has somebody eaten your computer ?
^ or are you actually having to work hard ?
^ we had the first bailey praise of the year on monday night - twas very good .
^ great atmosphere .
^ the c.u. houseparty was last weekend as well , 70 of us went on it !
^ some had to sleep on the floor .
^ it was really good fun .
^ great chance to get to know the 1st years a little better .
^ the talks were on unity with diversity , very challenging but excellent .
^ how 's munich ?
^ i bet you do n't have fog as thick as we have here this morning ...
^ speak to you soon
^ god bless
^ ashley
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ parents
^ park
^ to
^ Is n't it
^ ~
^ lance you could just but a new razor ..... or would that be too simple ?
^ sounds like you might need an attack alarm as well .
^ yep we did climb up that big hill .
^ some foolhardy people rooled down the other side as well .
^ quite amusing .
^ nobody got hurt seriously though , thank goodness .
^ hows the cu down there
^ i 've got to go , bailey ball tomorrow night and at the moment i do n't have a top to go with my skirt
^ i 've got to find one now or it 's going to be a major disaster
^ manana manana ? eh ? what ?
^ ashley xx
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Miss Fleming !
^ ~
^ I am indeed working pretty hard , although I 'm getting to the " middle of term " phase now , and feeling a bit weary .
^ I 've been beset by unfortunate events the last few days - my bike lights were taken on Sunday while I was in Church , and then today my trouser clips were also taken !
^ So , I had to go to the bike shop to get some more ; Munich is a dangerous place !
^ Finally , my shaver flew apart and I lost a vital spring down the plug-hole , so I 'm trying to decide where I can get a tiny little spring from ...
^ Otherwise all is well - I had a football match today but it was cancelled .
^ Glad to hear the House Party was good - that was the first one I have n't been on for three years ( sigh ... ) .
^ Did you climb up that big hill ?
^ Um ... no fog to speak of here !
^ Manana manana ,
^ Nick
^ lance has somebody eaten your computer ?
^ or are you actually having to work hard ?
^ we had the first bailey praise of the year on monday night - twas very good .
^ great atmosphere .
^ the c.u. houseparty was last weekend as well , 70 of us went on it !
^ some had to sleep on the floor .
^ it was really good fun .
^ great chance to get to know the 1st years a little better .
^ the talks were on unity with diversity , very challenging but excellent .
^ how 's munich ?
^ i bet you do n't have fog as thick as we have here this morning ...
^ speak to you soon
^ god bless
^ ashley
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Rylie !
^ How 's tricks ?
^ How is the house working out ?
^ Are they actually making you do some work this year ? ? ( only joking )
^ Well , I 'm now a University of Munich postgraduate , and I 'm having a really great time !
^ I have a lovely room , with a university network connection ! ! !
^ That 's pretty much all I need to be happy : o ) .
^ My sister have been visiting me today , and we 've walked all around Munich , marvelling at the architecture and trying to find places to stuff .
^ I am doing quite a lot of work - there 's lots of maths concepts I have
^ catch up on , because I never really did that much maths at school .
^ great to be alive ? ? !
^ OK , hasta lasagne ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Junk mail from you Donald ? ? ?
^ How could you possibly imagine that I would think such a thing ?
^ Yes , sorry about the multiple email thing ; not quite sure what happened there .
^ Anyway , if you 'd like a few more copies , just let me know ... .
^ By the way Donald , I feel that since we became such good friends over Easter when we spent an entire day buying paint for my dad !
^ I just HAD to write to say I miss you and PLEASE COME BACK TO ENGLAND ! ! !
^ Not sure why I said that ... just spontaneity I suppose .
^ how come when i was there , i was the ONLY person my age ...
^ Is n't it ironic ? ? ?
^ And now there are about 50 young male teachers !
^ What a shame .
^ What a CRYING shame .
^ This week I 'm working all five days in school as my Mum has escaped to Scotland with my sister and grandparents for the week .
^ Also , there 's only two weeks until the Christmas presentation , and ( thanks to you ) the responsibility for making them sound vaguely tuneful rests solely on MY SHOULDERS ! !
^ Well , I think it 'll be OK , but I just hope I do n't get too many Oh .
^ well they sounded WONDERFUL when Donald was working with them , but at least you tried your best .
^ Well , I will pass on your regards to my family .
^ Would of course be great to see you if you could make it over here sometime this year ...
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Thanks for the comment thing .
^ Yeah .
^ Hey , is n't it great being abroad cos you get really weird films you never see anywhere else .
^ Like that one I told you about " the power of one " .
^ Really looking forward to seeing you - you 'll have to come and stay in london for a while and we can do cool things .
^ Life is definitely missing something without Clowns with you and Christian and without winter lamb dinners .
^ Rylee
^ Rylee , the anti-Christ looks exactly like you ! ! !
^ Or at least he does in the " Left Behind " movie which I 've just watched .
^ The problem was I could n't help kind-of liking the guy ( because of his resemblance to yourself ) .
^ Anyway , you should watch the film at some point for that reason alone ...
^ Anyway , hope you 're well old boy .
^ I 'll be back in the UK in a week or so .
^ Sweet loving ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Sup , dude .
^ I take it this means you have been accepted by that illustrious institution , Munich , in order to study for a PhD .
^ congrats ... I suppose that just leaves Tabitha and me ( from the Worcester B posse ) not on course for academic stardom
^ O , well .
^ I believe I 'll cope .
^ Well , I am not in Carlisle during the week ( unless for special occasions , as yet unspecified ) , but I will be there most weekends .
^ the weekend of the 17th looks good to me , unless the boarding rota changes and I have to look after teenagers
^ is unless you would like to meet TM ( " The Man " ) , in which case any weekend is good apart from that one
^ I 'll try and fir you in to my clearly chock-full diary .
^ Let me know ... your call , Dr. Lance-to-be .
^ Well , his name is Jono , he works in the city , he really likes sport ( bit mystifying , that ) , your brother will know his brother , Bob .
^ who is at Philip 's , my parents think " he has a nice face " ( ? ? ) and he shares a car with his two brothers
^ And no , he did n't get very far .
^ I have just come back from moving to Guildford ... my flat is pretty nice ( for free accommodation , it 's great ) .
^ While the girls are n't there , it 's as if I have a mansion complete with swimming pool , tennis courts and staff virtually to myself ... bring it on !
^ In fact , come and visit whenever you like .
^ I 'd love to see you and hear about Africa , and I 'm sure the Sixth form would LOVE to see you .
^ Well , onwards and sideways ... the Olympics calls ... it 's been exciting , this year !
^ Hope you and the family are well ... see you soon , I hope .
^ Aimee xx
^ Whazzup Gal !
^ I 'm emailing you from my home village of Rutford .
^ I 'm a touch bored , as I 'm basically sitting around waiting to go on holiday to Chapel next week , but of course that 's not the reason I 'm emailing you !
^ I 'm also hoping to hear from Munich soon about start dates / accomodation etc .
^ Are you in Carlisle over the next month or so ?
^ I 'm hoping to get down there at some point and I 'd love to meet up for coffee or something if you 're available .
^ So , how 's the bloke ?
^ Tell me more , tell me more ... ( like does he have a car ) .
^ Where did you two meet ?
^ Peace ,
^ Nick
^ - &WEBSITE For further information please contact &EMAIL .
^ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System .
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^ ~
^ Hi Abraham ,
^ I have left it with the person at Munich who is now in charge of the corpus !
^ although he 's pretty busy and I do n't know when he 'll get a chance to do anything with it - do n't hold your breath
^ Sorry I ca n't be of more assistance , but it is out of my hands now .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ It definitely would be great if you can send some samples .
^ Thanks a bunch ,
^ Blake
^ ~
^ they are coming for you , Nick
^ Yes Nib ?
^ Now 's when you wished you 'd been nicer to me all those times .
^ like when you complained there was n't enough hot chocolate in your drink , and poured several teaspoonfuls extra in , and then left the drink undrunk
^ You 'll pay for that boy ...
^ YOU 'LL PAY FOR IT !
^ Do n't you think you can get away with THAT kind of behavior !
^ You 'll learn soon enough ... ... ...
^ They 're coming to take you away ( ha ha )
^ They 're coming to take you away;
^ To the Funny Farm where
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ I was wondering why you never sent mail to ils72 .
^ No I did n't get any of your mail .
^ Is your ied32 active again ?
^ With a username harvey heaven I 'm not suprised that you mail was trashed by the dur server !
^ The good news is there is a free bus service joining the 2 labs !
^ Did I tell you I saw Alfie at a retirement party last week but could n't speak to him as he was surrounded by a crowd and I did n't know what to say ...
^ Text me when you get here and let me know whether you need any help with the unpacking etc.
^ My number has n't changed either .
^ But I guess you family will be coming to drop you .
^ Will ring on the 3rd .
^ best , V
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Tired of spam ?
^ Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ oh dear .
^ i did n't think we were going to be quite so vocal about our arrangements , lance .
^ browne , i 'd love to come but there 's obviously the hotel issue to sort out first .
^ apparently the room can change colour at the push of a button. i 'm very excited .
^ love belinda xx
^ ( in the spirit of taking names of the opposite sex .
^ p.s. why do girls of university age do that ? )
^ Browne ,
^ It sounds great .
^ The only issue is that Christian and I might be in a hotel room in Carlisle together at that time .
^ It 's all a bit up in the air at the moment though - will let you know ASAP .
^ Mr. Nick
^ hello jake , lance , bowers , bert and barry
^ my friend carla is coming over for dinner on tuesday and we 've run out of things to say to each other ?
^ so i thought it 'd be far more interesting to invite a few extra for dinner ( and seeing as i 'm cooking anyway. )
^ she 's planned an essay crisis for that afternoon , so we were thinking later like maybe 8pm . alright
^ browne
^ ~
^ Happy New Year Quinton !
^ to you !
^ hope you did n't injure too much whilst on the snow .
^ How 's the stress level ?
^ Well chilled at the moment ... ( the river has frozen over in places )
^ Your chapter is 2nd place on my list of things to do - after writing the exam questions .
^ Quinton
^ ps. I only popped in to get some papers - I 'm not here for the day .
^ ~
^ Precise but flexible programming with coercions - a catchy title indeed !
^ yes , I 'm quite chuffed with it .
^ I 'll have a look at it and give you my comments at some point !
^ I hope you do n't mind me being too critical . &SMILEY
^ do your worst !
^ I 'm off snowboarding in a couple of days ! ! ! ! ! yay ! ! !
^ Eeeee !
^ When I was a lad , we made do with fertiliser sacks .
^ Have a good time !
^ Quinton
^ ~
^ Nick - Great to receive the latest update on your trip .
^ It sounds fantastic , beyond belief , and I look forward to hearing more when you return and hopefully we can get together later in the year .
^ Sorry not have written for some weeks , but my Dad passed away .
^ It was a good ending , as over about 5 days , he wound down , saying his thank yous and goodbyes , and at his suggestion he and I organised his Funeral Thanksgiving
^ Service 2 day before he died .
^ He was very calm and certain what was to come .
^ How can I feel sad !
^ Building work almost finished on the old church here - but more money needed .
^ Enjoy the rest of your trip , and have a safe return .
^ God Bless
^ Kaden
^ In the words of some guy who did n't understand the principles of space flight ...
^ " What goes up must come down . "
^ Or in my case , " What goes down must come up . "
^ I am leaving South Africa and returning home to the UK in just under a week .
^ The last half of my stay here has been full of memorable experiences .
^ I went on a mission trip to the mountain kingdom of Lesotho with a bunch of American medical students
^ and spent a high proportion of the time embracing a large steel urn in an attempt to achieve some measure of heat transfer .
^ The temperature was sub-zero in the mornings and evenings ( I thought
^ Africa was supposed to be IDS ! ) , and the place we were staying had no heating of any kind .
^ Still , it warmed up during the day , and we were .
^ able to install three pre-school play areas with apparatus to develop coordination skills in young kids and enable them to have at least a chance of fulfilling their potential
^ During the last couple of weeks I 've been working hard to get things ready for the end of term .
^ The database I wrote for generating the school reports had its maiden voyage , and was reasonably successful , although there were the requisite teething problems ( there is of course no such thing as bug-free software ) .
^ I have had a number of speaking engagements over the last few weeks , the most recent one being in a nearby African church .
^ My friend Riaan and I arrived at &TIME and took our seats at the front .
^ It was a BIG church , with about a thousand people present that Sunday morning and we were the only white people there .
^ I soon became aware that it was going to be a somewhat painful experience , as Africans have a tendency to crank audio equipment way beyond any reasonably acceptable level to achieve a truly obscene volume .
^ I had no choice but to slip a wad of tissue paper into each ear every time the band took up their instruments , which happened approximately 30 times during the service .
^ After an hour and a half , I realised I would be needing to answer the call of nature before too long .
^ my initial thoughts were to hold on , hoping the service would finish in the near future
^ Thankfully Riaan had the good sense to advise me to make an inconspicuous exit and relieve myself , rather than relying on the brevity of the service .
^ Thanks goodness he did , because three hours later we were still going strong !
^ In fact , it went on for a full FIVE hours , during which time I spoke for about 20 mins on my experiences with Christian education .
^ Term has now finished , and I 'm basically just relaxing and doing some odd jobs and things on the base .
^ Lots of people have left , and I 'm travelling down to Jo'burg on Sunday , to catch my flight on Monday .
^ Anyway , once more I give God thanks for an awesome time .
^ Full of extremes , as I 've mentioned before , but without doubt a truly valuable experience .
^ Thankyou for all of your thoughts , prayers and emails ( and letters -
^ Dana ! ) .
^ They mean an ocean to me ( I just made up that expression - does it make sense ? ) .
^ So , as they say in South Africa , I 'll see you " just now " .
^ Nick x
^ P.S. Please send mail only to &EMAIL from now on ( not to the mission base address ) .
^ ~
^ Thank you , Nick !
^ This is EXACTLY what I was looking for .
^ See you soon ,
^ Orlando
^ On &DATE , Rolomandi Mission Station wrote :
^ Hi Jay ,
^ It 's going to be pretty crazy when I get back .
^ as I 'm going to a convention as soon as I return and then straight onto my brother 's graduation on Friday 2nd , and then down to you
^ I 'm not quite sure yet how I 'll be getting there , but I 'll probably phone Bob or something when I know more details
^ In terms of speech stories , my first college memory of Bob was the way he used to go around the students at meal times like an insurance agent
^ asking them On a scale of 1 to 10 , how was your day ?
^ You could also tell when Bob was interested in a girl , as he would invariably ask her if she would like to accompany him on a " walk " after church on Sunday afternoon .
^ Needless to say , during 3rd year , he spent most weekends " walking " !
^ Bob spent a fair amount of time in the dark room in college , and we often teased him about who was in there " developing " with him .
^ Bob had a tremendous gift for wrapping the college staff around his little finger , and when I was with Bob , he would often walk
^ away from a chance encounter with a staff member with smug grin on his face , saying something like Oh yes , she 's coming on NICELY !
^ Bob 's philosophy in the flat was fairly legendary ; he would often preside over hand-washing and tooth-brushing sessions to make sure the tap was not left running for a nanosecond longer than necessary .
^ The first time I went into Bob 's room , he offered me a hot-chocolate , but was so frugal with the amount of chocolate powder that it tasted more like hot water .
^ I 've never let him live it down .
^ Bob was an avid fencer in his first two years at Wells , and you would often be innocently passing his room , or in the middle of a conversation with him .
^ when he would suddenly turn on you with an imaginary sword , driving his outstretched index finger into your sternum
^ Bob 's cooking skills were legendary - the first time he cooked for us in the flat .
^ he seriously misjudged the quantities , and the meal consisted of two slices of potato , and a table-spoon full of chicken stew
^ At one point , he managed to leave a potato in the microwave for so long .
^ it spontaneously combusted and it was n't until it had been burning for a few minutes ( Bob was sitting in the same room reading at the time
^ he noticed the smoke billowing out of the microwave and saved the flat from being razed to the ground
^ When I returned a few hours later , I found what appeared to be a lump of coal in the sink .
^ On a more serious note , I have spent many , many hours in conversation with
^ Bob about everything from the origin of the universe to the Klingon word for " lunch " .
^ I have always found him to be a genuine and loyal friend , and his honesty , personal integrity and willingness to learn are an incredible testimony to his strength of character .
^ OK Jay , hope that helps .
^ There 's certainly more I could tell you when I see you if you want ...
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Thanks for getting back to me , Nick .
^ It 's great that you can come !
^ At this stage , it looks to be you , Bob , Mallory , me , Fatima , and Esme .
^ Unfortunately ,
^ Sawyer ca n't make it -- he 's off on his hols .
^ Will let you know more details nearer the time .
^ Do let me know if you 've got some Wells stories for the speech ( particularly ones featuring
^ Karri ! ) .
^ Orlando
^ On &DATE , Rolomandi Mission Station wrote :
^ Hi Jay ,
^ Sounds awesome .
^ I think the 2nd is my brother 's graduation day in Wells , so I 'll be up North for that , but should be able to make it for Friday evening or Saturday morning I think ...
^ I 'll be freshly-tanned from the African sunshine .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ To far-flung friends and family ,
^ In my capacity as best man , being carried out with typical Jay levels of organisation and forethought ( i.e. not a whole heap .
^ I hereby invite you to a Moose weekend 2 / 3/4th of July in the fairly central but otherwise completely arbitrary location of Kane
^ A Moose weekend differs from a Stag weekend in two important aspects .
^ A) The groom-to-be is Canadian . (
^ 2) Levels of fun are NOT proportional to level of alcohol intake NOR number of road signs moved to " comical " locations .
^ D) The inclusion of females in some or all activities is not outlawed outright , particularly if Esme wanted to bake mocca squares .
^ No significance should be attached to the fact that the weekend coincides with Bob 's last unmarried Independence Day .
^ Accomodation and sustenance will be provided for as many of you as can make the trip .
^ we 'll do our best to ferry you to / from railway stations in Kane , Preston , or Kendal if it would help
^ We live at 62 Jose Street
^ Kane LA1 5LZ tel : 05500 888660
^ Any event details I included here would have a " subject to change " notice firmly fixed to them , so I shall delay such until future emails .
^ With apologies for the and sincere hopes that you 'll consider coming ,
^ Orlando
^ ~
^ Great to hear from you Rylie !
^ See you this weekend ...
^ B x
^ ~
^ Enjoyed reading your adventures in South Africa ! ( not quite as epic as
^ Woodall 's - thankfully ! ! )
^ I 'm very jealous of all these people getting to travel to exotic ( ? ) places and do cool stuff .
^ Sorry I 've been so rubbish at keeping in touch , I kept meaning to email !
^ This year 's been toughhh and school 's only been a part of it ! !
^ But school finished today and it feels soooooo good to be done for the year !
^ I 've been in my new school this week and it 's been fun but quite daunting .
^ I 've got my own lab though , which is great - it 's big and cool with an interactive whiteboard ! !
^ I 'm working in Middlesbrough , in a really nice school , one of the top comps in the country .
^ I 'm staying in Wells too - I ca n't escape ! !
^ I 'd planned to leave but events conspired against me !
^ Anyway , I 'm signing for ( renting ) a house tomorrow and it 's great so I 'm really pleased .
^ I 'm living with Vic Baskin and Blackily Leigh ... and Bench
^ Very cheap , very strange and just dying for the girly touch ... yay !
^ Not sure what I 'm going to get up to this summer .
^ I 'm sure it will all disappear v quickly .
^ Things to get ready for school and a house to move into and sort out !
^ I 'm probably just going back and forth from Carlisle - and of course to Norwich next weekend !
^ Was planning to go away with W but , as you might have heard , that 's not going to happen ! !
^ Otherwise , things pretty quiet here in Wells town .
^ I just feel like I could sleep for days , even tho I 'm not that sleepy .
^ In some ways it would be nice to never wake up ! ! !
^ Zzzzzzzzzzz too much stuff to deal with !
^ Real life is too much effort - I want to be a student again !
^ Anyway , what are you doing with your life post-SA ?
^ You doing any more studying ?
^ Seems like such a long time ago you lot left .
^ Yers and yers .
^ I 'm 23 now as well - the crisis age , do you remember ? !
^ You still feeling old ?
^ I do often , but other times just feel really young and inexperienced .
^ Weird combination !
^ Hope you well .
^ It 'll be nice to see you at the wedding !
^ Do you know if
^ Bob and Karri still want anything ? ?
^ Trying to think of something cool ) All seems pretty terrifying to me - I ca n't imagine it !
^ Speak soon ,
^ Love ashley xx
^ In the words of some guy who did n't understand the principles of space flight ...
^ " What goes up must come down . "
^ Or in my case , " What goes down must come up . "
^ I am leaving South Africa and returning home to the UK in just under a week .
^ The last half of my stay here has been full of memorable experiences .
^ I went on a mission trip to the mountain kingdom of Lesotho with a bunch of American medical students
^ and spent a high proportion of the time embracing a large steel urn in an attempt to achieve some measure of heat transfer .
^ The temperature was sub-zero in the mornings and evenings
^ ( I thought Africa was supposed to be IDS ! )
^ and the place we were staying had no heating of any kind .
^ Still , it warmed up during the day , and we were able to install three pre-school play areas with apparatus
^ to develop coordination skills in young kids and enable them to have at least a chance of fulfilling their potential
^ During the last couple of weeks I 've been working hard to get things ready for the end of term .
^ The database I wrote for generating the school reports had its maiden voyage , and was reasonably successful , although there were the requisite teething problems ( there is of course no such thing as bug-free software ) .
^ I have had a number of speaking engagements over the last few weeks , the most recent one being in a nearby African church .
^ My friend Riaan and I arrived at &TIME and took our seats at the front .
^ It was a BIG church , with about a thousand people present that Sunday morning and we were the only white people there .
^ I soon became aware that it was going to be a somewhat painful experience , as Africans have a tendency to crank audio equipment way beyond any reasonably acceptable level to achieve a truly obscene volume .
^ I had no choice but to slip a wad of tissue paper into each ear every time the band took up their instruments , which happened approximately 30 times during the service .
^ After an hour and a half , I realised I would be needing to answer the call of nature before too long .
^ my initial thoughts were to hold on , hoping the service would finish in the near future
^ Thankfully Riaan had the good sense to advise me to make an inconspicuous exit and relieve myself , rather than relying on the brevity of the service .
^ Thanks goodness he did , because three hours later we were still going strong !
^ In fact , it went on for a full FIVE hours , during which time I spoke for about 20 mins on my experiences with Christian education .
^ Term has now finished , and I 'm basically just relaxing and doing some odd jobs and things on the base .
^ Lots of people have left , and I 'm travelling down to Jo'burg on Sunday , to catch my flight on Monday .
^ Anyway , once more I give God thanks for an awesome time .
^ Full of extremes , as I 've mentioned before , but without doubt a truly valuable experience .
^ Thankyou for all of your thoughts , prayers and emails ( and letters -
^ Dana ! ) .
^ They mean an ocean to me ( I just made up that expression - does it make sense ? ) .
^ So , as they say in South Africa , I 'll see you " just now " .
^ Nick x
^ P.S. Please send mail only to &EMAIL from now on ( not to the mission base address ) .
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Great to hear from you .
^ I 'm working until about 5pm on Sunday but will be free all the evening , and all day on Monday .
^ I 'd love to see you - and look forward to showing you some of the local beauty ( better than anything in the South ! ) .
^ Phone me when convenient ( I 'm out most of today though ) , and I 'll give you directions .
^ My phone number - 0446 692 6440
^ Kaden
^ Kaden ,
^ Hi there !
^ I was just wondering , if you 're not busy , whether I could come and visit you this Sunday and stay overnight .
^ I would probably arrive sometime in the afternoon / evening .
^ Let me know , and I hope you 're well Kaden .
^ C ya ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick
^ How great it is to hear from you .
^ I 'm glad you had a good year .
^ I thought about you and my other friends from Johns a lot ; but sadly time pressures did not allow regular emailing .
^ I certainly missed Wells dreadfully , and often wished I could be working in the area up there .
^ Having said that , Sheffield is good - particularly the part where I live , which is only about 800 metres from the edge of the Peak District .
^ It is stunningly beautiful !
^ Work is okay , but people seem so old and set in their ways ( I could really have done with some of you Johns people to introduce youth , energy and enthusiasm ) .
^ But it 's not all bad , as I 've been really well received - sadly , they even seem to think I can wall on water , and I have n't yet convinced them I ca n't !
^ So you 're in Newbury at the moment - not a million miles from God 's county ( Hampshire - and so much nicer than Bath ! ! ! ! ! ) .
^ I was working in Newbury before I left four years ago to go to college .
^ I worked for the CAB opposite Debenhams , as a Debt Counsellor .
^ Even though I loved Hampshire , I ca n't see me returning to live , and would be happy to retire up here in the Peaks !
^ You mention the possibility of coming up - I would like that so much ( and so would Rylee , who lives just across the .
^ city ) .I have a couple of spare rooms , and you could stay as long as you like
^ You 'd be very , very welcome ( bring some friends and see the Peak District - I could certainly put 2 or 3 of you up , and at no cost ! ! ! )
^ I must rush as I have yet another funeral in a about an hour !
^ I really hope you can come sometime - my phone number is 0446 692 6440 .
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I was speaking to Rylee C the other day , and he mentioned that he 'd spent some time with you .
^ How are things in the parish ?
^ Can you believe how quickly a year goes ?
^ 
^ My work is going well , and I am looking foward to the academic side of my third year .
^ I love Wells and ca n't wait to get back into Johns - I 'm living in Cruddas so at least I 'll be near the washing machines !
^ As Rylee may have told you , we are in a process of moving house at the moment , although we do n't actually have a house to move into yet !
^ We are currently staying at my uncle 's house in Newbury which is really quite enjoyable as he has a swimming pool in his garden and Sky TV !
^ If I get a chance to travel up your way this summer I would love to come and visit you ( if I 'm invited ! ) .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ I 'm really looking forward to the CU house party - Scotland , here we come ! ! ! !
^ Rodrigo Malkin informs me that hardly any people will be required to share a bed with someone else - so you can stop worrying .
^ Strangely enough I was in Scotland myself only two weeks ago .
^ I 'd like to see your photos - I will endevour to forge a trail up your way sometime in the near future .
^ although I do find it quite hard to get out of college ! - life is somewhat hectic
^ You 're managing this weekend !
^ OK I realise that God is far more important than I am - but you can also remember that having a rest from work is a good thing ( TM ) .
^ Just out of interest , do you know anyone of a male persuasion ( ie a bloke ) who 's interested in performing in a play I 'll be putting on next term ?
^ Unfortunately the part is quite challenging : it 's to recite a 50-minute monologue .
^ DST have sent an e-mail out .
^ I suppose I could put posters up but it all depends on what else happens .
^ There 's a female part as well but I 've got quite a bit of interest for that one !
^ Due to people replying to the e-mail .
^ Wash your mind out with soap and water !
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Hey Quinton !
^ Great to hear from you .
^ I 'm currently on a year 's break from study , living at home .
^ The masters went well last year and I 'm planning to begin a PhD next year , location dependent on various issues , such as funding .
^ I 'm currently teaching 6-9 year-olds , three days a week in the school at which my Dad is the headmaster !
^ I 'm also writing a paper on spam filtering .
^ Are you ok with this ?
^ Absolutely Quinton .
^ I 'd be very pleased to see the code put to use ; make any amendments / improvements you feel necessary .
^ I look forward to hearing how it goes .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Nick
^ how 's things ? what are you doing now ?
^ I 'm planning to incorporate your code into Happy , now that a few students want to use it seriously ( one doing ! ) .
^ Full credit as the author will be given to you , and it will probably go out under the same license terms as Happy .
^ The University might want some hand in it - I have to find out - but since there 's no direct commercial value they might not be interested .
^ Are you ok with this ?
^ Quinton
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ thanks a lot for the photo - I was shocked by it !
^ I 'm not too sure if I want that photo getting out ... only kidding !
^ You might be surprised to know that I actually have an almost equally bad photo of you as well , but youll have to wait until wells before seeing that !
^ Infact , when ANt saw my photos in Wells she commented , jim , that is amazing .
^ you actually have two bad photos of Nick with him looking worse than anyone else I think that comment smells a little bit of jealousy myself
^ Anyway , I 'm afraid I 'd better go now as I 'm leaving for a nice long journey down to Plymouth with the family to catch a ferry to spain ... speak to you soon ,
^ Rodrigo
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Howza Yard ,
^ Physical bodies are so annoying .
^ reason and emotion ... and music ... those things do you really need a physical body to accomplish ?
^ Was n't God angry , jealous , satisfied , repentant , etc without being physically manifest ?
^ Is not God the Father Of Logical Progression , upon which all reason , math , physics , and Laws Of Existence are founded ?
^ This facet of His nature is a complex ruleset that defines Reality .
^ A pretty long schema .
^ And music ?
^ The saints sing around the Throne even as you read this .
^ And Lucifer played stringed instruments before his fall .
^ Too bad for Regan - no drums &SMILEY but hey !
^ Music without physical instantiation !
^ I think the physical is simply a printout of the soul .
^ It is the true Object in the system that can create , appreciate , admire , form opinions , reason emote and choose .
^ The physical printout only eats , farts , cuts itself , stubs its toes .
^ grows old and degenerates , sleeps , trips over , burns itself on hot stuff , and drags the soul around with it everywhere it goes
^ Perhaps we are encumbered with this hardcopy to keep us subservient and overall inferior to the other spiritual beings ?
^ But once we are freed of this meatware and are exclusively soulware , then we soar in our newfound freedom to become ultimately supreme .
^ So why bother with the larval stage ?
^ Why not be initialized at instantiation as a fully-fledged megawave ?
^ Why put us through the torture of grubbing around on a dirtball killing and maiming each other for a few measly pieces of green paper and a litter of snotty-nosed offspring ?
^ Who could be so sadistic to procreate ?
^ Did you like the pres. bush thingy ?
^ Americans are pathetic .
^ I knew their pryminister has all his wrote for him by other peoples , but this one makes america sound as bad as the countries they so adamantly oppose .
^ For once his sounds remotely realistic .
^ My hotmail account is : &EMAIL for MSN messenger .
^ Mine is Gumby .
^ As in the green plasticine man .
^ But Gumby was taken so I am gum6y instead which is identical to all but ASCII comparators .
^ catchalata
^ Patricia
^ &WEBSITE - Send some online love this Valentine 's Day .
^ ~
^ How did you know I was feeling overwhelmed ? !
^ Very well timed advice that
^ Nick .
^ Thanks !
^ And happy new year to yourself !
^ Hope you had a nice Christmassy period too !
^ Krystal
^ HAPPY NEW YEAR ALASTAIR !
^ Another holiday expires .
^ Another term begins .
^ How is your work going ?
^ I 'm getting stuck back into my work - I think the best way to get stuff done is to take it one step at a time and just do that , otherwise it 's so easy to get overwhelmed .
^ Hmmmm , anyway .
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Kane - thanks for email - picked this one up in record time !
^ Glad to hear revision is going well - I have this strong feeling you 'll be fine , though I entirely understand the nervousness .
^ No news on the knees x-ray yet - should hear soon .
^ At the moment the right knee is pretty OK , but the left distinctly dodgy .
^ Ah well - at least the vasectomy op and attendant discomfort is a thing of the past - like my ability to procreate !
^ Re feeling what 's life all about , lack of meaning etc - wish I could help more - probably can't because I do n't know the answers myself !
^ I 'm writing a piece at Phil Plummer 's request for the next " Accelerator " CEE newsletter - " From the Headteacher 's Desk " kind of thing .
^ finding myself musing , rather dangerously , on the purpose of it all - Christian Education , that is
^ If Bookter sees it befoere it goes to print he might throw it out I suppose !
^ More importantly , I find I 'm considering the need for those who grow up through the system .
^ through the " Christian Family " system , to find out what they believe for themselves - a necessary but painful experience
^ No way of avoiding it , at least not really - you can live with a second-hand belief for only so long .
^ Actually , I think the truth probably is ( a la True Wilderness ) you never completely reach a point of total acceptance / security / belief -
^ there 's always a leavening measure of doubt .
^ is somehow part of who we are just as much as is the urge to have something to believe in
^ Ca n't put it quite like that in the Accelerator , I suspect , but I would like to come up with something if possible .
^ Better get on with it I suppose .
^ Glad you and Sawyer had a good time together - funny you and Nayeli were in Carlisle at the same time last Saturday !
^ Thinking of you lots - love , D .
^ Hi Daddy ,
^ How are you doing ?
^ Any news on the knee x-rays yet ?
^ I 'm revising quite intensively at the moment - has it 's ups and downs .
^ Sometimes I get really worried about the exams and sometimes I think it 's going to be fine .
^ I guess it 'll probably be OK !
^ I 'm listening to the new
^ Coldplay album at the moment ( A Rush of Blood to the Head ) , which I ordered from Ocean a couple of days ago .
^ It sounds pretty good on an initial listen-through , though I wo n't really be able to tell for a while .
^ I had a good time with Parker here - it was actually really nice to have someone to share my room with for a while .
^ He is also very tidy and unobtrusive , so that probably helped to make it a pleasant experience .
^ I had a very difficult evening a couple of days ago - really struggling with feeling a real lack of meaning in my life , and feeling like God 's not there and stuff .
^ I cried a lot , and reading some of " The True Wilderness " helped quite a bit .
^ I felt better the next morning .
^ Hopefully we 'll have some football training soon .
^ Have n't done any sport for ages !
^ Remind mummy to check her email !
^ Lots of love Daddy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Judith ) " Hi Nick I 've missed you very much I 'm still smiling "
^ Luke ) Hi Nick my hair is still cool .
^ Grit farm was great fun , we messed about on the boat 's and went swimming .
^ I found some really cool fossils I , m missing you bye .
^ Kaylee .
^ - Hi Nick , I miss you very much , school is n't the same without you , i 'm doing well at football .
^ Iv'e just come back from Grit Farm it was really good fun you get to do boating canoeing , trampolining and swimming , and we had a midnight walk .
^ may God bless you
^ love Kaylee .
^ xx
^ Jade :-
^ Hi Nick
^ me and my group are doing well in " prepare ye the way " and people get ready .'
^ I am gettig on well with my convention work .
^ I am also getting on well in football and five-a-side practice .
^ I scored the winning goal today ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ How are you in SHAYANDIMA ?
^ I am looking foreward to when you are coming back , God bless , Jade .
^ Hi Nick , you 've guessed it , my undercover name is Robert ! !
^ My name is actually Robert Herring , at work I get called Robert and at home and church i , m called Herring .
^ It gets very confusing for Leo when we have to go to work events .
^ My dad was Robert so i guess it was less confusing for every one if they called me Herring - so mystery over .
^ It was good to hear from you , we pray God is blessing you through your work there in Shayadima , as we know you will be blessing them .
^ As you can tell the children are missing you and will be pleased to see you again .
^ Your mum and dad both looked like they could do will a really good nights sleep when they arrived back at the school this afternoon , but i think a good time was had by all .
^ Anyway Nick take care , we are praying for you .
^ Herring and Leo .
^ From : " Rolomandi Mission Station " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " robert mcgowan " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : hello
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Dear the McGowans ,
^ Herring , I 'm assuming you were the author of the email I received , but I 'm wondering why it arrived in my inbox from a " Robert McGowan " ?
^ Do you go by the name of Robert when you 're working under cover ?
^ Or was the email perhaps sent by a 7th member of the family whom I have n't yet met ?
^ I am intrigued to get to the bottom of this mystery ...
^ Anyway , thankyou for the email .
^ I was very excited to hear from you , and to find out a bit of what 's going on at home .
^ I really do miss everyone .
^ I 'm sending out a group email shortly , so I 'll leave my info until then .
^ Here are some messages for the kids :
^ JAMES : Are you managing to hold the younger boys part in " Prepare Ye The Seaton " ? ? ?
^ How are your other convention pieces coming along ?
^ NAOMI : Have you been going to football on Wednesdays ? ?
^ Are you still taking on the big boys ? ? &SMILEY
^ Have you written any more stories recently ?
^ LUKE : What 's the current hair style Luke ?
^ I need some fashion advice ...
^ ELIZABETH : Keep SMILING ! !
^ Love to all ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ just had some sad news , my gran passed away the night before last .
^ she got ill about a month ago and they only diagnosed it as cancer a few weeks ago .
^ she was ok til on sun she turned and was suddenly in so much pain and she passed away mon .
^ bless her , i was meant to be going back to see her in 2 weeks , but shes out of pain now
^ my dad ( it was his mum ) was in china for business and my mum felt awful calling and telling him .
^ still .
^ he managed to get on a plane about 2 hours later and was back yesterday -- hes just gone to the uk now and we are to follow him shortly
^ anyway thats all - dont know when i will next be online so be in touch and i will reply when i next can .
^ take care , love Isaiah x
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^ hey lance
^ long time no hear .. how are you ?
^ im well , i went to s africa for a month which was just amazing .
^ totally unique experience and if i start in on what i got up to then this email will be neverending .
^ lets just say i saw some amazing things and met some great people -- a wonderful experience
^ im now in the south of france .
^ my folks were down here when i got back from africa so i came down to tell them all about it and to relax .
^ the weather hasnt been brilliant though , mind the suns been out a few days .
^ we are going back to geneva tomorrow
^ masters starts sept 17th but i think i will be back well before then , about the 5th or 6th .
^ looking forward to it , mind it will be hard !
^ when do you start ?
^ anyway , thats all for now , be in touch when you can !
^ hope you are well ,
^ love Isaiah
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ Thanks for the email .
^ As ever , a pleasure !
^ Thats wicked you used to go out to South Africa .
^ I was much further South than that . .
^ I had to fly Johannesburg to Port Judith and the reserve I worked at ( and lived 10 minutes away from ) was mid way between P.E. and Grahamstown .
^ It was amazing and I will no doubt bore you with a few stories next time I see you ! !
^ I am really looking forward to my Masters .
^ It will be a bit scarey at first - sorting out living somewhere new , getting new friends , studying something new - but it will be fine ! !
^ Send Tabitha my love and tell her I sent her an email .
^ I hope she 's well .
^ Anyway , nice to hear from you .
^ I will be no doubt making a trip to Munich at some stage so if not before , I 'll see you then !
^ Take care Nick !
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^ hi lance happy easter !
^ do n't eat to much chocolate xxx
^ i 'm off now to kupinol the garden shed , joy of joys - it 's good to be home .
^ speak to you soon
^ ashley
^ p.s cheddersandcheese ? - well , surname edwards - edders - chedders ?
^ nick name really for people here at home .
^ i probably should n't have told you that now ... .
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^ Hi Isaiah !
^ You went to South Africa !
^ Wow , that 's cool .
^ You know I went there for 3 months a year or so before I came to Uni .
^ What part were you in ?
^ I spent some time around the townships just outside of Durban and some right up in the North in Levubu .
^ It really does " broaden your horizons " does n't it ?
^ I 'm seeing Tabitha this weekend - she 's coming to stay .
^ I 'll tell her you emailed .
^ I 'm off to Munich on the 4th of October and term starts on the 7th .
^ I 'm quite excited about it - I 'm certainly looking forward to getting some purpose in my life !
^ It 's quite hard for me not to have a clear goal , something to aim for .
^ How are you feeling about next year ?
^ Nice to hear from you Isaiah .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Rylie !
^ It 's not actually me - it 's my friend Stevo !
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ That was a quick coming and going just then !
^ Hope you 're still having lots and lots and lots of fun with the maths .. &SMILEY and everything is cool in Luxembourg town .
^ ashley x
^ ~
^ Hi Alexander ! ! ( and JH )
^ 8 Larkhall Road eh ! ?
^ Very nice I 'm sure .
^ Bet the water is n't as hot though is it ... eh ? ... eh ? ...
^ And I bet you have n't got a cleaner called
^ Daryl ... eh ? ... eh ? ! &SMILEY
^ Glad you 're doing the PhD Alexander , and can enjoy the delights of Munich for a few more years .
^ I 'm teaching art and music ( and general stuff ) in my
^ Dad 's school 3 days a week and have been writing a paper during the other two .
^ The teaching is a nice break from studying and I 'm enjoying seeing proper children again after being childless for four years at uni !
^ Did you know Jan-Henning , that the German owns the fish ? !
^ I wonder what Yee-Ling 's doing ... and Nadia ...
^ Hmmm ...
^ O
^ Hi there both of you ,
^ Gosh , this is weird .
^ I 'm sat on the top floor of 8 Larkhall Road in my new college room , which is about twice the size of my old poky cupboard in Eachard Road , and Freshers ' Week is starting .
^ Oh the space !
^ Er , yes , if you have n't already guessed , I 'm doing the PhD after all , thanks to a last-minute scholarship .
^ Borneo here I come !
^ Anyhow , just thought I 'd write , as moving into a new place with new people brought back a few memories !
^ How are you doing ? ?
^ Hope things are going well .
^ Write soon !
^ Cheers ,
^ High
^ ~
^ I 'm off to L'Afric sometime around March next year .
^ So , you 've still got Darryl ... got me there !
^ Say hi for me will you Alexander .
^ I wonder if he 's enjoying that camera ...
^ Right , I 'm off to trawl the internet for something interesting ...
^ Laterz ,
^ O
^ Funnily enough , we do have a cleaner called Darryl - yes , that Darryl .
^ He was very sweet - gave me an entire canister of air freshener to use in my new room because it reeked of salted fish .
^ I asked if there 'd been a Chinese student living in there , and guess what - the chap used to cook in his room all the time !
^ Argh !
^ Ahhh , the trials of living in shared housing with random people ...
^ Yee Ling 's probably back in Singapore being a civil servant , as she was on a government scholarship .
^ And pining for Nadia , no doubt .
^ Sounds mean , but I do n't really care .
^ Her room smelled for absolute AGES after she left , and some poor incoming student will no doubt be asking Darryl for some air freshener over there !
^ When are you off to Africa , Nick ?
^ Oh , and I 'm afraid one of Jan-Henning 's exotic Aldi plants has died ...
^ I gave it a decent burial in Jade ' backyard . &SMILEY
^ Danny
^ Hi Alexander ! ! ( and JH )
^ 8 Larkhall Road eh ! ?
^ Very nice I 'm sure .
^ Bet the water is n't as hot though is it ... eh ? ... eh ? ...
^ And I bet you have n't got a cleaner called Daryl ... eh ? ... eh ? ! &SMILEY
^ Glad you 're doing the PhD Alexander , and can enjoy the delights of Munich for a few more years .
^ I 'm teaching art and music ( and general stuff ) in my
^ Dad 's school 3 days a week and have been writing a paper during the other two .
^ The teaching is a nice break from studying and I 'm enjoying seeing proper children again after being childless for four years at uni !
^ Did you know Jan-Henning , that the German owns the fish ? !
^ I wonder what Yee-Ling 's doing ... and Nadia ...
^ Hmmm ...
^ O
^ ~
^ Alreeeeeet Nick ! ( dodgy Geordie accent ala Anna )
^ Sounds like you have had an eventlful summer too
^ By this stage , I am pretty bored of work , but the good news is that I only have 2 weeks left - .
^ have nearly finished so I am doing a " go slow " so they dont find any more stuff for me to do
^ And I got paid this morning !
^ Ive done a fair bit of research for my project , but havent really started writing anything yet .
^ I am looking forward to it though , there seems to be quite a lot i can ( try to ) do .
^ See you in a couple of weeks
^ Patrick
^ ~
^ Nick thank you ,
^ It worked perfectly but was going very , very slowly so I had to log out .
^ I am not quite that insane but will be very grateful of your visits !
^ I am going to definitely start work tomorrow so that should keep me saner or at least prove a worthwhile distraction ; talking of distractions any ideas about the address ?
^ I do feel a bit mad in that those two weeks seem like they never happened , oh well , I am not supposed to be going on about it ,
^ I hope you are well and have found space to work and sleep , do n't work all the time I hope your project is going well though
^ speak soon ,
^ love Eric )
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To :
^ Subject : Re : help
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Liz ,
^ Sorry to hear you are going insane .
^ Let me know which asylum they assign you to and I 'll come and visit . &SMILEY
^ OK , here 's the deal with the email :
^ 1. Go to this website : &WEBSITE
^ 2. Click on " secure connection to the www server ( preferred ) " ( about half way down the page )
^ 3. Enter your username and password and click " OK "
^ after a while it should take you to your inbox .
^ It might do some unexpected things if it is your first time ( which it is ! ) but if you get stuck give me a call .
^ My home phone no. is 05555 884840 for the next week , until we move out !
^ Keep smiling Liz ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick , sorry for bending your ear so much the other day , glad to know you got home alright and I hope your grandparents are well .
^ I am gradually going madder both beacause I am at home and am without Jonathan , I think I could quite easily cope with one at a time and
^ not both together , but will from tomorrow be concentrating muchly on work and writing to people
^ Christmas shopping .
^ I just wondered if you could explain how to access my wells account because I really dont know how to do it and hotmail is down Oh
^ Dear , thankyou again , love Eric x
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Giner ,
^ Since you 're coming over so soon , I wo n't send you MP3's , as they 'll take ages to upload / download .
^ I 'll play you the stuff when you come though ...
^ Looking forward to seeing you ...
^ O
^ Dear Nick -
^ I 'm glad that I could be a light in the dark gloom of junk emails filling your inbox every day .
^ A beacon of light ... yes that 's how it should read !
^ a beacon of light in the dungeon of despair that is your inbox .
^ hmm ... i bet your glad to have me around to be your beacon of light
^ since i am your so called " beacon of light " , i think you should remember that you will listen to whatever stories i believe you need to hear in order for your life to be meaningful and complete .
^ FOR INSTANCE , any emails about things coming from amy 's nose , or other fact filled stories i might want to tell you .
^ you told me amy threw up in the learning center .
^ i mean centRE .
^ so i think i should be able to tell my story if i want
^ too bad , now i do n't want to .
^ by the way , i really would love to listen to some of the musical stylings of lance medlock at the moment , but since i do n't have any ... i guess coldplay will have to do ... .
^ your florida orange is in the mail ... should be there in a few weeks .
^ let 's hope it does n't get lost on it 's way to you like your christmas present to me must have done .
^ it 's okay .. i forgive you
^ by the way , i might be coming out to visit at easter time .
^ but SHHHHHH keep it a secret as your sister wants to be thoroughly surprised .
^ i am waiting to hear back from lance pike on the dates tonight ! ! yippie ! !
^ i love england .
^ okay ... must be going .
^ this is a very long email .... but as it will be your only good one , i 'm sure you wo n't mind
^ hey p.s. check out the band that i 'm in &WEBSITE
^ Donald
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : Re : the sunshine state ... .
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Donald Manley !
^ That 's what I call you . )
^ Donald , THANKYOU for sending me an interesting email .
^ It 's been days since I had anything but junk .
^ Did you know that 's what Florida is called ?
^ Did you know that i 'm IN Florida right now ? !
^ Did you know that 's what Florida is called ?
^ Did you know that i 'm IN Florida right now ? !
^ oh .... the sun , the beach , the sand , the palm trees ... what a life .
^ it 's been SO beautiful the last few days )
^ we 've been sitting on the beach reading and relaxing .
^ of course it 's going to be colder the rest of the week .
^ ( cold here is like IDS in england ... which means we 're wearing jeans and sweaters to keep warm
^ i keep thinking of chapel and how i was supposed to go with you guys this summer .... maybe someday ...
^ so when am i going to hear the first billboard Hit from lance medlock ? ?
^ send it my way so that i can hear what you 've recorded .
^ how exciting ! !
^ of course , knowing my computer i wo n't ever be able to hear it but it 's worth a try
^ i was laughing so hard about amy throwing up in the learning center .
^ that girl throws up more than any child i 've ever met .
^ someday i 'll have to tell you about how i caught her trying to wipe something that she pulled from her nose onto little sarah 's back one time .
^ it 's a classic amy story .
^ what 's that line from notting hill ?
^ so ... not a classic antecdote really
^ i never even knew what that meant until someone in your family explained it to me ...
^ it 's sad how little we americans really know ...
^ anyways , if you 'd like me to send you a florida orange , let me know ...
^ i could ship it to you by boat .
^ i 'm sure it would still be fresh by the time it got there .
^ hope you 're having a lovely english day .
^ i 'll think of you as i sit in the sun .....
^ Donald
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : Re : ho ho ho .... merry christmas
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Alright Donald !
^ How 's things at the ranch ?
^ By the way , Happy New Year !
^ It 's &YEAR !
^ So , the world still persists ... armageddon is postponed for another year ...
^ I hope you enjoyed the Christmas video we sent you .
^ Would you like an MP3 of one of my songs ?
^ I could email it to you if you wanted ?
^ Term has begun again here , and we have two new students who are predictably turning out to be somewhat of a challenge .
^ Also Amy threw up in the Learning Centre at the beginning of this week so the place smells like ... well , like someone 's thrown up in it .
^ Other than that things are going OK .
^ When are you coming to visit ?
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ Christmas concert went so well .
^ Although I 'm sure that you meant to tell me that people were saying " best Christmas concer at mcs ever , except for when Donald was here and she did the best concert ever " or something like that .
^ actually , i did n't do much for Christmas last year , besides with the little ones .
^ This was going to be our big year , your mom and i were going to put together a whole program .
^ i 'm glad that you were able to help her !
^ i 'm sure she loved working with you ...
^ i ca n't wait to see the video some recorded , make sue you send that along my way too .
^ i want to hear what you 're doing ! !
^ i 'm in a worship band here and we 've been having lots of practices lately
^ it 's been so awesome !
^ i love to sing and be a part of a group of people that love God so much and enjoy worshiping Him .
^ i did n't realize that a lot of our new worship songs over here actually are from england
^ with there being so few Christians in Brighton i would n't have thought there would be so much great music coming out of there but you guys rock
^ kind of ... but i was always too scared to try boarding .
^ i have lots of friends that do it here though .
^ i should give it a try .
^ anyways , i 'm going to go to BED !
^ hope you have a wonderful christmas !
^ please give your family my love and have fun recording your music
^ where do you have room for a recording studio in your house ! ? ! ? )
^ merry christmas lance
^ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers !
^ ~
^ Hi ya
^ I 've been out with Dwayne , Rylee and Cher today because we 're doing a scripture video at convention .
^ the scripture we have to use is Genesis 1 , so we all went to Cotsworld Wildlife Park to film and take pictures
^ We had a fun day but we did n't see anybody that was the same age as us , it was all families with small children .
^ Sing was interesting on thursday to say the least .
^ Most of the lesson was all of us trying to remember how we get from the slow '' Prepare ye the way of the Lord '' to the fast .
^ I 'm glad you 've been reunited with your ONE suitcase .
^ How long were you without it ?
^ Sally , Rylee , Annie , Dwayne , Cher , and I are all doing volleyball at convention this year , so we are always practising , but the only thing is that Cher and I cant play volleyball !
^ So at the begining everyone was really sweet and like do n't worry about it , kinda thing , but now we 've been practising for awhile , and we still cant play !
^ Everyone is now trying to control themselves and trying not to scream at us !
^ They are all trying so hard and when we just hit the ball , no matter where it goes they are all claping us and stuff .
^ Bless um .
^ Hope you 're ok and not getting a too nice tan ! lol
^ Love Macie
^ From : " Rolomandi Mission Station " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Macie Hiscox " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : hey Nick
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Macie !
^ Greetings from the bush !
^ Have you got all your suit cases yet ?
^ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSN 's NEW all-in-one Premium Services .
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^ Hi Nick
^ Good to hear from you , and that things are apparently going quite well .
^ Sorry to hear that you feel you are entering old age .
^ If you think you 've got problems at 23 , how would you like to add 33 to it !
^ Not only am I old , but I sometimes feel about 90 , and I 'm getting all sorts of health problems to substantiate my feeling very old ! ! ! ! !
^ Anyway , have a great birthday mate !
^ So you 're still hoping to return to Wells next year .
^ I 've no idea how much a year doing your MSc will cost .
^ I do know though , whoever gives you a work contract over the summer will be getting a very fine person .
^ If I can help in any way ( like with accomodation should your contract be in this region , or in any way ) , you 've only to ask .
^ I 'm sure all the family are relieved to have a slightly more permanent home .
^ Have the they formulated any long term plans yet ?
^ Life here goes on - some good things , many frustrations , some concerns !
^ I 'm really looking forward to the better weather and to spending some time in the Peaks .
^ I 'm sure I do n't have to remind you that you 'll be very welcome here anytime you can fit it in .
^ Keep in touch -take care
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden !
^ How are you old boy ? ! ?
^ Actually , I think I 'm the one who should be called " old boy " - I 'm 23 in a week 's time ! ! !
^ Amazing .
^ Only three weeks of term left now - does n't it go quickly !
^ I 've just been for a run , so I 'm somewhat exhausted right at the moment .
^ My parents came up last weekend and it was great to see them .
^ We are renting a house in Bath for the rest of the year , so we 've been able to get all our stuff out which has been FAB .
^ It 's really starting to get to the " thinking seriously about next year " time .
^ I think I want to do an M / Sc by research here in Wells for another year , as I 've already told you .
^ The problem is that it does n't look like I 'll be able to get funding for it in the area I want to work in .
^ Life is complicated sometimes .
^ I really do n't feel like I want to do anything different at this stage though , so I 'm thinking of ways to self-fund .
^ Not too easy , but if I could get some contract work over the summer that would be great , and go quite a long way towards covering the required amount .
^ The problem is that getting a contract with not much experience is quite difficult .
^ Anyway , meanwhile I 've got a lot of work to think about !
^ What is your situation like at the moment ?
^ ;o ) ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Yo Nick ,
^ Congrats !
^ I am very pleased for you ... and I hope your interview goes well- you are the one person to whom I would say Just be yourself'- I 'm sure you 'll impress !
^ Is it with a specific college ?
^ Staying with Tabitha was lovely- you know how there are only a few people that you feel totally relaxed with ?
^ It was great to spend time with one of them !
^ We went to Portsmouth and ate ice creams ( not Nestle ) and rock and played on the arcade games and went on the peddaloes- muchos fun .
^ I do n't understand your reference to Today' ... do enlighten me .
^ We are having some photos done too ... groan ... also , have you been watching " The West Wing " ? on C4 ?
^ There is a guy in that who is so stupendously gorgeous that I had to tell somone about it !
^ Right ... lunch to eat .
^ Love Jon xx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Donald Davies "
^ Subject : Re : hey hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hey Jon ,
^ I 've got an interview at Munich on the 9th - I have even shaved in preparation !
^ Hope you 're doing OK .
^ How was you time with Hammaz ?
^ We had some family photos taken today - watch the cover of " Today " !
^ ~
^ Jonah
^ Tall white thing ,
^ You really make me laugh !
^ I think our taste in films differs greatly , as I do not want to see any of the cinematic ventures you mention .
^ maybe one day , there will be a sci fi story with a high quality script that we can go and see together
^ I am supposed to be going out with my friends tonight , although I would rather stay in than hear them talk about their " love " ( for " love , read " sex ) lives .
^ It will be dull and my hair will smell of smoke .
^ Hmmm .
^ But I am going to see Tabitha tomorrow ... yippee !
^ Until we meet again on this cable highway ,
^ Aimee xx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Donald Davies "
^ Subject : hey hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Small black thing ,
^ I think we all know that Aaron downplayed his intelligence so that you would n't feel bad .
^ Under that soft and downy exterior is a mind as sharp as ... as a very , very sharp thing .
^ How do you find out how compatible you are with someone , love-wise ?
^ I would like to find out if there is any future in my relationship with
^ Bob .
^ Let 's gloss over the price of my shoes ; they 're a sore point ( literally , as well- I have a horrible blister ) .
^ The whole Davies family ( yes , they let us out as a unit- we were surprised , too ) went to see Gosford Park yesterday and found it to be most entertaining .
^ Recommended !
^ Join the world 's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail .
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^ ~
^ excellent Sir ,
^ you make sure you make your team proud in the college games , and I 'll show
^ Loughborough how to run 200 m .
^ cu .
^ Gav Bostado .
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Results looking OK ...
^ Never did quite manage to solve that mystery , but I think it 's turning out quite well ...
^ Hope you have a great time today Jens - run like the wind ! ! !
^ See you soon ,
^ Boggs
^ ~
^ Tall white thing ,
^ You really make me laugh !
^ I think our taste in films differs greatly , as I do not want to see any of the cinematic ventures you mention .
^ maybe one day , there will be a sci fi story with a high quality script that we can go and see together
^ I am supposed to be going out with my friends tonight , although I would rather stay in than hear them talk about their " love " ( for " love , read " sex ) lives .
^ It will be dull and my hair will smell of smoke .
^ Hmmm .
^ But I am going to see Tabitha tomorrow ... yippee !
^ Until we meet again on this cable highway ,
^ Aimee xx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Donald Davies "
^ Subject : hey hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Small black thing ,
^ I think we all know that Aaron downplayed his intelligence so that you would n't feel bad .
^ Under that soft and downy exterior is a mind as sharp as ... as a very , very sharp thing .
^ How do you find out how compatible you are with someone , love-wise ?
^ I would like to find out if there is any future in my relationship with Bob .
^ Let 's gloss over the price of my shoes ; they 're a sore point ( literally , as well- I have a horrible blister ) .
^ The whole Davies family ( yes , they let us out as a unit- we were surprised , too ) went to see Gosford Park yesterday and found it to be most entertaining .
^ Recommended !
^ Chat with friends online , try MSN Messenger : Click Here
^ ~
^ Nick , I did n't realise email could be so amazingly efficient ! !
^ As you well know , I 'd really love to see you when you can make it .
^ Take good care
^ Kaden
^ Thanks Kaden ,
^ I 'll chat to Jonathan and see where we go .
^ I hope the time with your Dad goes really well .
^ Hopefully I 'll be able to visit you sometime in the near future .
^ Keep in touch ,
^ Nick
^ Nick
^ Good thinking mate !
^ Unfortunately I 'll be in the South visiting my Dad at Christmas , and will be in Hampshire for a few days .
^ However , I 'm pretty free the previous week ( commencing 17th .
^ if they would like to come down during that week ( the earlier part would be better ) I 'd be really pleased to see them
^ Let me know .
^ Actually I was chatting to Jonathan last night on the phone - he tried to convince me that he 's holding up well .
^ Sorry I ca n't offer them Christmas itself , but I must go and see my Dad .
^ He 's nearly 90 , and pretty poorly at present ( bad breathing problems ) , so as you can imagine I 'm somewhat concerned .
^ Great to hear from you again Nick , and well done for supporting Jonathan .
^ Bye for now
^ Kaden
^ Kaden ,
^ I was just wondering about something .
^ As you know , Jonathan and Savanna have just split up , and I have been talking with Jonathan a bit over the last few days .
^ He has no family apart from his brother , who is at Munich , and an older sister .
^ His brother is coming up to spend Christmas with him , but they are likely to be in the house on their own .
^ I was just wondering if you might consider the possibility of inviting them to spend a couple of days with you over the Christmas period .
^ I know this is a big thing Kaden , but I also know that you have a gift for making people feel wanted .
^ I do n't even know if Jonathan and his brother will be up for this , but it just occurred to me that they might be really grateful .
^ I do n't want Jonathan to think that I 'm trying to work things out for him " behind his back " so I think we need to be quite subtle .
^ Let me know what you think .
^ You 're a star Kaden ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Glad to hear you had a good weekend .
^ It 's always nice to catch up with old friends .
^ I really miss all my friends who graduated last year and ca n't imagine what it will be like to have to say good bye to so many this summer .
^ Having said that , I did get to see a whole bunch of old friends who came up to Munich from Carlisle last weekend - it was just like " old times " .
^ Anyhow , the jazz was absolutely amazing .
^ Quite honestly , I 've never heard such good jazz ( although I may be slightly biased seeing as my friend was in the band ! )
^ It was more funk jazz than just pure jazz , which gave it a real " edge " .
^ They had a GS doing some scratching in the background which was pretty impressive , the percussion and drums were also quite spectacular , but the bass guitar was the best by far .
^ I could have watched his fingers for hours !
^ It really was the " bizz " !
^ Well , I hope your week goes well with all the work you 've got to do .
^ Like I said , I 'm still around for at least the next two weeks so let me know when you 're free op
^ we can arrange to do something - I 'll keep my eye out for any more Jazz events :
^ Have a good week and I 'll see you soon !
^ Eliana
^ p.s. My church is having a Christmas service this Sunday which you 'd be very welcome to come along to .
^ Obviously if you 're busy then do n't worry about it &SMILEY
^ Take care ! !
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Eliana ,
^ Sorry I missed the Jazz thing - I 've been in Wells all weekend , and only just got back .
^ It was really nice to see all my friends again , and one o f my had a 21st birthday party , so that was fantastic .
^ I even got to train with my old football team this afternoon !
^ How 's things with you ?
^ I hope football 's going well and stuff .
^ I assume you 've been winning lots of matches , although obviously not against
^ Homerton ( then again I have no idea how good our football team is ! ! )
^ ~
^ Hey Leilani ,
^ were you okay tonight ? ! ? ! you did n't seem very happy ? !
^ Only just got your email ( It 's Sunday ) .
^ Thanks for asking ; I was a bit tired and moody on Friday - just little things really , but it happens : o ) .
^ My mum and sister have left for Scotland now &SMILEY and my Dad and I went to church at &TIME this morning ! !
^ Impressive no ?
^ Anway , now I 've finally had a chance to check my email , and do some stuff online so that 's nice .
^ I 'm in school every day next week - will I survive ? ?
^ See you tomorrow ,
^ Nick
^ hey lance ! mmmm ... do n't think i 'll like to get it again , but if you insist ! ! !
^ were you okay tonight ? ! ? ! you did n't seem very happy ? !
^ anyways , have a good weekend and c ya on monday !
^ me x
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Sounds like fun Heidi .
^ I had a fantastic time with Stevo - plenty more photos to show you when I get the chance !
^ Do n't get too fried .
^ Stevo told me about the street dance thing .
^ I 'm quite into break dancing so it sounds really good to me .
^ I do n't think they do that sort of thing in Munich !
^ See you later ,
^ Nick
^ hey u 2 ... that is very cool , lovely views ! ! well the lake was a great view ! &SMILEY
^ hope u r having fun today .
^ I would send u a picture but um ... i laid outside in the garden for 5 hrs and fried not a good picture ! ! chillin with trisha and jessica today - wot fun !
^ I have found my dance class in Swansea i am so excited ! !
^ It os just 3.50 a session and it is beginners street dance it is right near to where my halls are .
^ How cool !
^ anyways i am off to be meijer .
^ have a awesome , awesome time and have chill with Jesus
^ Love
^ Heidi
^ From : " Jonah " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : What have u been doin ?
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ We did this !
^ F ( ( &WEBSITE ) )
^ ~
^ Righto - just watched " Pirates of the Carribean " .
^ I 'll make my way over to yours then on Sunday evening or Monday morning - where do you live ?
^ O
^ OK Be'os ,
^ Christian is back tonight so we can probly make more def plans then .
^ But after your " petit engagement " on
^ Sunday , you 're welcome to come and stay at mine for that time or until we think of anything better to do .
^ The best way from Sheffield is to take a train to either Pontefract Baghill ( there 's only 2 trains a day ) or to Moorthorpe ( maybe one every hour or two ) .
^ Hokay , look forward to seeing you soon .
^ I 'll try and muster a dream about you tonight ... something funny hopefully .
^ Rylee
^ Do you Yahoo! ?
^ Yahoo!
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^ ~
^ Will you have bike with you ? ?
^ No , fraid not !
^ Ca n't get it in the car I 'm coming up in ( not mine ) - too much hassle .
^ I 'll be in touch about stuff as the time approaches .
^ O
^ I live in Pontefract ( of Pontefract Baghill fame ) .
^ Will you have bike with you ? ?
^ --- Jonah ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Righto - just watched " Pirates of the Carribean " .
^ I 'll make my way over to yours then on Sunday evening or Monday morning - where do you live ?
^ O
^ OK Be'os ,
^ Christian is back tonight so we can probly make more def plans then .
^ But after your " petit engagement " on
^ Sunday , you 're welcome to come and stay at mine for that time or until we think of anything better to do .
^ The best way from Sheffield is to take a train to either Pontefract Baghill ( there 's only 2 trains a day ) or to Moorthorpe ( maybe one every hour or two ) .
^ Hokay , look forward to seeing you soon .
^ I 'll try and muster a dream about you tonight ... something funny hopefully .
^ Rylee
^ Do you Yahoo! ?
^ Yahoo!
^ SiteBuilder - Free , easy-to-use web site design software &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Would you like me to send it to you a few more times ... ?
^ It would n't be any bother ! &SMILEY
^ O
^ hey lance ! i dunno what 's going on because i have already received your email three times x
^ well , thanks anyways ! it 's really funny ! have a nice evening and c ya tomorrow ! chau me
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Kaden ,
^ No I did n't get your postcard , but thanks for the thought !
^ Flipping Jamesal Mail ! ! !
^ Well , it said Thankyou VERY much for the fantastic time you gave Joshua and I in the summer .
^ It was great .
^ So you 're doing some teaching - how old are the little darlings ?
^ I teach mostly 6-10 year olds , but sometimes older ones ( -16 ) as well .
^ I 've been teaching quite a bit of music and drama recently actually ; it 's going well .
^ What comes next - are you still planning some travel ?
^ Yes ; still planning to go to South Africa in the New Year , sometime around
^ Easter probably .
^ I think it will do me good to travel a bit .
^ I 'm pleased to say that my face has not lost any of it 's former beauty as a result of the footballing injury , which has healed without a scar ;o ) .
^ I attach a fairly recent picture of myself with a moustache and goatee , just in case you need a laugh , as well as a picture of your good self from the summer .
^ All the best Kaden !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Thanks big man - that 's very helpful .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Yo lance !
^ Good to hear from you .
^ did you check the dur newsgroup -
^ just got back from The Lakes ; will write tomorrow !
^ &WEBSITE
^ btw ils72 still works
^ best , -V
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Greetings Ravi !
^ Hope you had a lovely summer .
^ I 'm busy trying to make arrangements for coming back to Dur in Oct.
^ I was just wondering if you could give me any advice on accomodation .
^ I 'm not sure whether there 'll be any decent college rooms available now - do you know of any good single rooms still available anywhere ?
^ Say hi to Hayden for me .
^ See you soon ! !
^ Nick
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^ Tired of spam ?
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^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ It was so good to hear from you .
^ It 's good that the degree work seems to be going reasonably well - but I guess its inevitable that the pressure and workload will increase over the next few months .
^ Just do your best , thats all you 're called to do !
^ It 'll be great if you can get the funding for the MSc - I 'll certainly pray for you .
^ To use very basic Christian talk , if God wants you to do your MSc in Wells , the funding will fall into place , somehow !
^ I 'm fairly Okay - but rather tired , and still frustrated by much of the work .
^ I had a great service yesterday , preaching at the local Milanh Church .
^ It was the start of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity , and it all went really well .
^ Was it further affirmation of my ongoing belief that I should become an Anglican ? !
^ I have to go to Ciara on Wednesday and Thursday this week , to try to get through the final blazing hoops to see whether the Methodist Church will ordain me in June .
^ I could do with your prayers for that ! ! !
^ After ordination I may look for the right opportunity to make formal approaches acroos the denominational divide , but I want to avoid the risk of hurting my present folk .
^ We 'll have to be patient and trust !
^ I heard some dreadful news yesterday about one of my old Cranmer colleagues .
^ Fatima Coon only left Cranmer last summer to work in a parish in Mateo .
^ His wife , Blaine , was away on a residential course last week finishing her NZ .
^ Fatima , who was an epileptic , had a fit during Saturday night , when he was by himself , and he was found dead yesterday morning
^ He was only 27 .
^ Its been a bombshell to all those who knew him .
^ I 'm glad your family are a bit more settled for a few months .
^ It must be very difficult for you all , moving around so much .
^ Do n't forget if you 're ever in need of a base , you 're welcome here in Sheffield .
^ I 'm currently having to put up with fairly extensive building work in the house at present .
^ Its so dirty and difficult , that I 'm even thinking of moving to the flat until the house is back in order .
^ However , I 'll still call at the house most days to use the computer ( which continues to drive me insane ! ) , and to collect my emails .
^ I 'd better get on with preparing for Ciara .
^ Take good care Nick , and keep in touch .
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden ,
^ How are you doing old chum ?
^ I am predictably busy , although my work is going pretty well .
^ I feel quite positive about it , and I am also enjoying it , at least for much of the time .
^ I am hoping to get funding to stay on next year and do an M / Sc by research .
^ I would really appreciate your prayers that i will get the funding I need if that is what God wants me to do .
^ I do not have any other ideas at this stage , but I 'm of a fairly open mind !
^ Back home in Bath we have moved into a nice house that we renting for the rest of the academic year .
^ It has been great to get my stuff out again and do some general sorting out .
^ My bedroom is fantastic , and I 'm actually quite looking forward to spending some time revising in it at Easter ! !
^ Have you seen Lord of The Rings at the cinema yet ?
^ I saw it a couple of days ago and found it quite enjoyable .
^ Take it easy mate !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick - How great to hear from you ; I 've been meaning to contact you for weeks and weeks .
^ Sorry ! ! !
^ Sorry about todays incident on the football pitch - why do you think I never played ( and it was n't just that I did n't want to wreck my dashing good looks ! ! ! ! ! ! ) .
^ Seriously mate , I hope it soon heals without leaving lasting scars .
^ No I did n't get your postcard , but thanks for the thought !
^ So you 're doing some teaching - how old are the little darlings ?
^ I bet they think you 're great .
^ What comes next - are you still planning some travel ?
^ I 'm fairly okay , but I 've told the Methodist Church that I 'll not be working beyond August &YEAR , as the doctor has said I should stop work when my contract finishes in Sheffield .
^ Hope I can survive until then .
^ I 've also ceased my discussions with the Anglican DDO , which was sad .
^ The Project is on the verge of starting .
^ I 'm just waiting for a revised tender from the builders , knocking off a few non imperatives ( to reduce the price .
^ we 'll sign on the dotted line , with a view to work beginning just before Christmas , or early in the New Year
^ The cost of the reduced work should come in at about &pound; 150K and we have &pound; 117K .
^ The church people have decided to do an Blake , and to take the step of faith in anticipation of the rest of the money coming from somewhere .
^ I 'm proud of them , but am conscious that I 've been instrumental in leading them to agreeing to make that commitment - rather like George First did at St Nics in Wells 25 years ago .
^ I 'm convinced that the debt will be repaid before I leave in &YEAR ( thats certainly my aim ) .
^ What news of anyone else ?
^ I 've seen Isabel Hernandez subsequent to Cornwall , and must also return a phone call to Rylee .
^ Otherwise , not much contact with others .
^ Part of my life at present is spent in travelling up and down to Winchester , as my dad is very frail with a dodgy heart ; but he is almost 92 .
^ He 's been in hospital several times , and is still managing to live at home , but I ca n't see him going on much longer , if I 'm honest .
^ He 's certainly not giving in easilly .
^ Take care ( especially on the football field )
^ Marissa
^ Kaden
^ What up Kaden ! ?
^ What 's the latest news on the project ?
^ What about your health ?
^ By the way , did you ever get that postcard I sent you ?
^ I 'm well - teaching at my Dad 's school and doing a few other bits and pieces .
^ Got kicked in the face playing football today - why do I do it Kaden ?
^ WHY ? ? ?
^ Anyway , all the best mate !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Thanks for the photos .
^ That of me looks as though I 'm auditioning to replace the statue of Christ up above Rio de Janeiro - what a pity I look pregnant ! !
^ As for you ?
^ It really grieves me to say it , but the facial fungus really suits you .
^ Use the razor sparingly !
^ As for the missing postcard , and what it contained - be assured that it was a real pleasure to have you and Joshua to stay .
^ You know you 're welcome any time .
^ Keep in touch mate !
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden ,
^ No I did n't get your postcard , but thanks for the thought !
^ So you 're doing some teaching - how old are the little darlings ?
^ What comes next - are you still planning some travel ?
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ It was lovely to hear from you .
^ I am sorry about the large delay on this response .
^ Something to do with not being in college to check my e-mails .
^ Anyway ...
^ I have finished my exams this year and have one more year to go .
^ All that is left for me this year is placement - quite a drag .
^ I have seen lots of films too though in order to balance what my brain takes in .
^ Saw the Matrix 2 a bit later than you though .
^ I was neither dissappointed nor exstatic .
^ I am still waiting with baited breath for the final installment .
^ Did you wait till the credits had rolled at the end to see the trailor for the 3rd - looks very good !
^ Some of the fights in the 2nd seemed a little pointless , especially seeing as he is " the one . "
^ It seemed a little to even .
^ I very much liked the introduction of some of the new characters - most of all the white bearded guy in the room with all the TV 's of Braxton 's mental responses ( I forget his name ) .
^ I also liked the consistant reference to Braxton 's dream containing Reader 's death .
^ Actually , the chinese man " the key maker " was the best .
^ I was however a little dissappointed with Monica
^ Bellouchi and semi-French partner - they seemed a tad fake .
^ However , fair play to the Wachowski brothers for bringing out a sequal with more depth of theory than the first film - I did n't see that one coming .
^ Everyone tells me that the sex scene was unnecessary ... well it was fairly discreet .
^ I thought it fitted with the slightly dark and sensual nature of the piece and it was accompanied with appropriate music as was the rest of the film
^ All in all I wanted more air vibrations after the super fast Braxton dodges .
^ Interesting to still see the Biblical similarities too .
^ Anyhow , enough of the Matrix thesis .
^ Have you now finished at Munich ?
^ What were your results ?
^ Most importantly what are you doing next and of course are you still playing footie .
^ My house mates and I play every week at 3 on Sunday .
^ We challenge anyone and everyone to a friendly and very competitive game .
^ We beat another house last Sunday , it was a close 10-7 .
^ We are , however , used to playing for about 2 1 / 2 hours .
^ This game lasted 1 1 / 2 hours and they were very tired at the end .
^ Most weeks we play with a Turkish chap named Soueil ( pronounced Sue-hill ) , he is very very good .
^ I am going to South Africa for an opversees placement this summer which will be very exciting .
^ It will comprise of 3 weeks working in a hospital and 2 weeks on holiday .
^ Destination Cape town .
^ I ca n't wait .
^ Are you doing anything interesting over the summers ?
^ It was great to hear from you and hope we can meet up very soon .
^ Giles x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Tarquine , Giles " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Gilesy ! ! !
^ How 's life ?
^ Women ?
^ Football ?
^ You know , I was the first person you sent an email to using this account ! !
^ Just thought I 'd drop you a line as I have n't contacted you for a while .
^ Are you in your final year now ?
^ I saw Joshua fairly recently - he came to stay for a few days here in Munich .
^ We had quite a bit of fun chilling out and stuff , and of course I heard about Australia from him and also from my mum .
^ How was it for you ?
^ I 'm living quite a charmed life at the moment - my exams finished around a month ago , and now I just have a project to work on .
^ I have total freedom to do whatever I want to , as long as my project ( which is on spam / genuine email classification ) keeps making progress .
^ I really love project work , and so it 's sort-of the best of all worlds .
^ Tomorrow I 'm going to see The Matrix Reloaded ( with 3 girls &SMILEY ) - seen it yet ?
^ Well , hope this email finds you in health and fulfillment ,
^ Laters ,
^ Nick
^ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Tis good to hear from you ... the job hunting is going certainly , I have had a few rejections .
^ only just today in fact have I completed a proper version of my CV - I do n't think it was hepling getting the " all-important " interview
^ I have done some temping work for Star-Bucks HQ finance , really is funny how such a large company operates with sooo much flab !
^ I appling for a job at Reader College Carlisle to teach Music Technology at A / AS level I will also have to do some of the Technicians work too ; do pray that I can get an interview !
^ hope all is well with you ... what a beautiful day Nick , are you sharing it with anybody special - apart from yourself and Lady Viao !
^ Lots of Love ,
^ EddyC xoxox
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Tarquine , Joshua "
^ Subject : hey
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ How 's the job-hunting going Ed ?
^ Any new developments ?
^ I 'm being kept busy as always with my project .
^ Love Bne
^ Get the gossip faster - it 's FREE with MSN Messenger !
^ ~
^ Hey Chapati , ( and I had that exact exchange Sa mooza , Chapati with my sister a little while ago ! )
^ Hope you are feeling better now ?
^ Tis unfortunate you lost your passport , but then again , with a photo like that , maybe it 's not such a bad thing .
^ or maybe you should stop pretending it 's lost and face facts and let the honey at the airport have a bit of a laugh
^ That reminds me of the girl at the French euro tunnel check in , wow , those are memories ...
^ Anyway , I am working quite a bit .
^ My mum 's going through a bad patch and I 'm here alone with her and so that 's not great .
^ Will probably see Jadon on Sunday for our traditional catch up , pub and cinema .
^ Oh , and no you ca n't take the mic but ...
^ I had a MASSAGE today , first proper one ever .
^ I was real reluctant ( them being for girls and all .
^ it was really good , and I feel a lot less tense now and so I think I 'll have to now go every once in a while
^ Maybe I should marry a massure ( spell ) ?
^ Anyway , you 're welcome for the Christmas card , enjoy ,
^ Mallory
^ Sa mooza ,
^ Howz things ?
^ Sorry I have not been able to call you recently - I 've been ill , and there 's no mobile phone reception at the house I 'm in .
^ We 're going skiing in a couple of days , but unfortunately in all the moving around we 've lost my passport , as well as my brother 's !
^ I think we will have to go to
^ Norwich to get some new ones the day before we leave ! ! !
^ It 's all getting a bit hectic .
^ Anyway , hope you are well and enjoying your dissertation work ( which you BETTER be doing ! ) .
^ Keep smiling , and give my regards to your sister &SMILEY
^ Jonah
^ P.S. SUGAR DADDY-OOOOOO ! ! ! !
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Alright Imani !
^ I 've just finished my Masters in Munich , and now I 've returned home but am going on various holidays around the country .
^ As of September I 'll also be looking for a job !
^ Sorry to hear you still have n't found anything , but do n't give up - something will happen in the end .
^ Glad to hear you 're playing cricket - I played a couple of games this year - dropped about 3 catches and batted for a grand total of about 3 balls !
^ Still , the weather was nice , so I still enjoyed it .
^ God bless ,
^ Nick
^ Hi lance ,
^ How are you , i 'm ok .
^ Still without a job
^ I 've changed my home number to 01 '5 042686 and i have n't got a mobile for the time being .
^ Playing cricket for Nailsea 4th 's but it is still a good standard of cricket .
^ Hope to hear from you soon .
^ Imani
^ ~
^ Hi Imani ,
^ I 'm back in Rutford now , doing some part-time work at my Mum and Dad 's school .
^ Will let you know next time I 'm heading in your direction , and vice versa if you 're going to be anywhere near Luxembourg in the near future ...
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ 
^ Hope to hear from you soon
^ MArk
^ ~
^ Hey Imani - am on holiday at the moment .
^ Back in a couple of weeks ; will contact you again then .
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ 
^ Hope to hear from you soon
^ MArk
^ ~
^ Hey Man .
^ Have you still got that old bike ?
^ GET A NEW ONE ! !
^ Btw Hetzler has a paper on my project on his web site if you have nothing to read these days &SMILEY
^ I 'll have a look - wonder if I can still understand any of it ? ? ! ! &SMILEY
^ I 'm off snowboarding in less than a week Ravi !
^ We 're going to Spain over
^ Christmas , so we 're just praying for snow .
^ I 'm having fun at the moment recording music , as I 've just set up my home studio again .
^ Also the teaching is going well - did a Christmas production thingy with the kids , which went down a treat !
^ A 3 month job at the MS research lab just came up which Alfie recommended me for , but I could n't take it because I 'd already decided to continue teaching here until Easter when I go to SA .
^ Really tough decision though .
^ I 'm pretty sure I 've done the right thing though .
^ Pass on my regards to Hayden , and keep me informed of your progress !
^ Love Nick
^ Hi , Nick ,
^ How is going ?
^ I guess you must be having holidays for Christmas .
^ Just realised this morning when cycling in that I have not got used to the cold as I previously had thought !
^ I am making the em tool for my HVS-LM but will be spending christmas with my cousins in Lon .
^ Regan wants it finished by Jan so I need to be at it over the new year .
^ Btw Hetzler has a paper on my project on his web site if you have nothing to read these days &SMILEY
^ Have a good Christmas and convey my wishes to your family as well .
^ With best wishes ,
^ Ravi
^ ~
^ Hi V .
^ Thanks for that .
^ I have looked at the information , and I think it would be best for me to apply for a PhD research grant from Reader as opposed to this one .
^ is more designed for people who have already done a few years of research
^ Either way , I guess I 'll apply for one or the other , so thanks very much ...
^ O
^ Was I supposed to get back to you or did you find the trinity thing ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ Apply very quickly and mention that you were completing the paper so .... blha blah ...
^ Do n't worry about the competition - my experience .
^ You have a good chande since this year they have an eye out for an EK or and Eng in particular ... .
^ Say your course is joint and you know info eng .
^ - V
^ ~
^ Thanks &SMILEY
^ Speak soon , B
^ St Philip 's also has a schols for prostpective Johnians - the forms have to picked up from Grad Secy.
^ mail her she may post it -
^ let me know if I can do something to help
^ -V
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi V .
^ Thanks for that .
^ I have looked at the information , and I think it would be best for me to apply for a PhD research grant from Reader as opposed to this one .
^ is more designed for people who have already done a few years of research
^ Either way , I guess I 'll apply for one or the other , so thanks very much ...
^ O
^ Was I supposed to get back to you or did you find the trinity thing ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ Apply very quickly and mention that you were completing the paper so blha blah ...
^ Do n't worry about the competition - my experience .
^ You have a good chande since this year they have an eye out for an EK or and Eng in particular ... .
^ Say your course is joint and you know info eng .
^ - V
^ ~
^ Ravi ,
^ Are you planning to come down to Munich to have a look for a room or are you going to do it from there ?
^ I 'm planning to be in Munich on Friday to see a few properties .
^ Thanks for sending me the info - it 's been very useful .
^ I just bought a new bike , ready to hit the streets again , so things are looking up !
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ I had my second year / first yr PhD interview on 31st August and went of on holiday !
^ Regan is taking 2 weeks off as well .
^ Sorry for the delay in replying .
^ I guess you would have received official confirmation now .
^ Congrats !
^ I guess you must be busy again now that the school term has started .
^ Are you planning to come down to Munich to have a look for a room or are you going to do it from there ?
^ Did you ask the college ?
^ I 'm sure finding single accom is not going to be too difficult .
^ If you do need me to look ( visit ) at a place that you fancy I could do that .
^ The new students are starting to trickle in now .
^ So I guess you should aim to finalise the place by around the 20th .
^ If you want a place to sleep and are willing to rough out , you are welcome to stay with us for a couple of days .
^ Let me know .
^ best , -Vidura
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ I bought off 2 bikes from my flatmate last year so we have 4 bikes now .
^ But , I locked the 2 old bikes together and ended up losing key so we ca n't use them - at least we have n't had the need yet !
^ They had predicted snow - should be fun .
^ No ...
^ I think you made the wrong decision ! ! ! get off to MS earn the money ! - just joking &SMILEY
^ We off to Hayden 's graduation tomorrow - in Carlisle .
^ That 's why I 'm slacking and writing mails .
^ Will write soon
^ Best
^ Ravi
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hey Man .
^ Have you still got that old bike ?
^ GET A NEW ONE ! !
^ Btw Hetzler has a paper on my project on his web site if you have nothing to read these days &SMILEY
^ Hi , Nick ,
^ How is going ?
^ I guess you must be having holidays for Christmas .
^ Just realised this morning when cycling in that I have not got used to the cold as I previously had thought !
^ I am making the em tool for my HVS-LM but will be spending christmas with my cousins in Lon .
^ Regan wants it finished by Jan so I need to be at it over the new year .
^ Btw Hetzler has a paper on my project on his web site if you have nothing to read these days &SMILEY
^ Have a good Christmas and convey my wishes to your family as well .
^ With best wishes ,
^ Ravi
^ ~
^ Bob , that girl playing pool looks pretty hot .
^ Spiders are DANGEROUS .
^ Be more careful .
^ I love the look of sheer pleasure ( or is it pain ) on your face as you devour those pringles ... classic .
^ Take a gander at the attachment .
^ Bob , that is disturbing .
^ Please tell me you did n't enjoy dressing up as a woman ...
^ She 's trying to not be jealous .
^ But then , my uni chick in Tyler tries to not be jealous when I phone her from Georgia 's place .
^ It 's all good .
^ What 's good about that ? ?
^ You 're being a cruel selfish boy , probably seriously hurting at least one of the girls and probably not doing either of them any good .
^ ONE IS BEST ! ! ! &SMILEY
^ Laterz ,
^ Nick
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Happy New Year Kirksome ! !
^ Bob , some of those photos are NLPJHTP .
^ I love the one of the dog running ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ And what the heck is a " househusband " ? ?
^ Bob , your hair in that French braid looks fantastic ( if a little feminine : o ) ) .
^ Ah well - when I go back to Tyler ...
^ ~
^ Hi Timnus ,
^ Bob , that girl playing pool looks pretty hot .
^ Oh well , one less fish in the sea .
^ I sure did .
^ Indeed , several girls who have seen me dressed as a woman say that , as long as my hairy legs are covererd , I look a much more attractive girl than many real girls they 've seen .
^ Wow , the girls in Australia must be pretty darn ugly ... &SMILEY
^ Where you living these days ?
^ I 've been living at home in Rutford ( near Luxembourg ) since I left Munich .
^ I 'm teaching part-time and recording music and writing a paper .
^ In a few months I 'm off to South Africa for some serious sunshine .
^ I 'm going to work with a friend of mine who runs a school out there , and I 'll probably do a bit of safariing as well .
^ Last time I was there I nearly got eaten by a hyena .
^ Heard from Regan ?
^ Nope , but I 've heard from Rylee who 's heard from Regan !
^ The news on the grape-vine is that Regan 's got himself a girlfriend ! !
^ Someone from work I think .
^ Anyway , I 'm planning to try and get in touch with him sometime soon , but I 'm so busy at the moment .
^ Got a webcam yet ?
^ I want to use my digital camera ( which can take lo-res quicktime movies ) as a webcam but ca n't figure out how .
^ Nah , I 'm not really into that sort of thing .
^ Bought myself a digital camcorder though - that 's quite a laugh !
^ Lipshitz ,
^ Nick
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Bob , that girl playing pool looks pretty hot .
^ Spiders are DANGEROUS .
^ Be more careful .
^ I love the look of sheer pleasure ( or is it pain ) on your face as you devour those pringles ... classic .
^ Take a gander at the attachment .
^ She 's trying to not be jealous .
^ But then , my uni chick in Tyler tries
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Happy New Year Kirksome ! !
^ Bob , some of those photos are NLPJHTP .
^ I love the one of the dog running ...
^ New Year photos are up on the same page now .
^ &WEBSITE
^ A burnt palm stump .
^ And what the heck is a " househusband " ? ?
^ A male who looks after the household while the woman works .
^ Bob , your hair in that French braid looks fantastic ( if a little feminine : o ) ) .
^ Take a gander at the attachment .
^ Ah well - when I go back to Tyler ...
^ She 's trying to not be jealous .
^ But then , my uni chick in Tyler tries to not be jealous when I phone her from Georgia 's place .
^ It 's all good .
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Bob , that girl playing pool looks pretty hot .
^ Yeah , she mates with my cousin .
^ Spiders are DANGEROUS .
^ Be more careful .
^ Me and Georgia were lying on the grass under a gum tree at a sports oval for about an hour and a half in the afternoon .
^ She lay still mostly but I rolled over because she was lying on two-thirds of the car sunshield .
^ I had an edge that was wide enough to lie on my side on , but not quite enough to lie on on my back
^ At one point I woke up thinking I must have jabbed my knee on a sharp stick , cos it was sore .
^ So I rubbed my knee a bit and went back to sleep .
^ In the car later I saw the whole area had swollen up and was sore to touch .
^ At McDonalds I washed the whole knee in the toilets but it stayed red and the skin was spongey and cold and damp .
^ After another day , the swelling had started receding .
^ In the morning there were just two red dots left and suddenly it occurred to me that I might have been bitten by a spider .
^ Then I was grumpy that I had n't thought to look for the spider at the time I 'd been bitten .
^ Since I did n't notice when I had three fingers broken for a few weeks .
^ can pick up hot pots and pans without much pain , I extrapolate that the spider bite would have probably been quite painful to a normal person
^ Oh well .
^ I feel just fine .
^ I love the look of sheer pleasure ( or is it pain ) on your face as you devour those pringles ... classic .
^ It 's a mmmmm it 's such a shame I ca n't taste all these as I eat them ...
^ I wonder why my throat always goes dry when I do this ? kind of look I think .
^ Take a gander at the attachment .
^ I sure did .
^ Indeed , several girls who have seen me dressed as a woman say that , as long as my hairy legs are covererd , I look a much more attractive girl than many real girls they 've seen .
^ She 's trying to not be jealous .
^ But then , my uni chick in Tyler tries ...
^ Nah - Anna sure taught me well not to put all my eggs in one basket .
^ I wo n't go through that again .
^ I let them know outright that my love is not exclusive and I will love who I want , whether they like it or not .
^ They 're grateful to get my love at least some of the time .
^ I think it 's a good arrangement .
^ I do n't mind if they love other guys , just as long as they do n't stop me loving them when I want to .
^ But , in support of your suggestion that women can only cope with one male at a time , they seem to choose not to .
^ Which is fine by me .
^ Where you living these days ?
^ Heard from Regan ?
^ Got a webcam yet ?
^ I want to use my digital camera ( which can take lo-res quicktime movies ) as a webcam but ca n't figure out how .
^ There 's a building near here called the Seymour Center .
^ I 'm going to take digital photos of it and email them to Seymour to put on his website .
^ He says mysogeny sucks .
^ But then , he 's married .
^ Conor
^ ~
^ Happy New Year Kirksome ! !
^ Bob , some of those photos are NLPJHTP .
^ I love the one of the dog running ... quite a few of them actually .
^ " A nasty monster lurches out of the ground at me " - what the heck is that ? ?
^ And what the heck is a " househusband " ? ?
^ Bob , you 're hair in that French braid looks fantastic ( if a little feminine : o ) ) .
^ Ah well - when I go back to Tyler ...
^ Hmmm ... what happens to Marcella then ?
^ Anyway , I went snowboarding in the French Alps over Christmas , and it was GREAT .
^ The scenery was incredible , and the feeling of speed and freedome is immense .
^ Other than that I am recording quite a lot of music at the moment as I 've reassembled my home studio .
^ Yay .
^ I 've just got back from Valeria 's house in Wyatt where I spent New Year with Bob Greetings , Parker Wheeler and a few others .
^ It was a lot of fun , although they practically called off all of the Wyatt celebrations because of bad weather !
^ Well , I 've had a throat infection and am feeling very tired , so I 'll send you a more juicy email later Bob !
^ God bless ,
^ Nick
^ Yo Lanone !
^ You know that chick Marcella I told you about ?
^ Moved in with her toward the end of November and am still here now .
^ I 'll probably go back to Tyler in a week or so to pick up uni again ... but she 's asking me to be a househusband for her ... it 's a tough decision .
^ Her parents are n't fussed that we 're friends and sleep together - they just think we 're strange .
^ There are some photos of us at : &WEBSITE which I took with my new digital camera - my chemical camera I had last .
^ year died so since it was time to get a new one I thought I 'd get a digital one ; I 'm pretty pleased with it so far
^ It 's a Kodak DX6440 4MP , 4xOptical zoom , 16mb internal , 128mb card .
^ Christmas with her dad + relatives was pretty tense - apparently they thought I was extremely uncouth and unhelpful .
^ with the social skills of a primary-school kid ... even though I was trying hard to chat to all these strangers
^ wash up when I could , and clean up after meals and stuff , and offer to help whenever I could
^ Still , I somehow managed to get on the wrong side of them .
^ Oh dear .
^ We saw a movie called Dog Soldiers last night on DVD .
^ It 's a british dark comedy , and it was really cool .
^ Heh heh .
^ They poke fun at The Matrix a little bit , and it has some classic coincidences in it too , so it 's all good .
^ Ah well - when I go back to Tyler there 's Alexis who 's moving out of home into a house her dad owns and she wants me to live with her .
^ Her mum keeps suggesting that if we want to keep sleeping together we should date .
^ Ah well , if we move in together away from her it should be much less stressful for Ed .
^ She 's only 26 ... she 's so cute !
^ Photo attached &SMILEY from the last party we went together to .
^ Hope your krismus was good and all that .
^ Have a snazzy new year .
^ Shawn
^ ~
^ Alright Donald !
^ How 's things at the ranch ?
^ By the way , Happy New Year !
^ It 's &YEAR !
^ So , the world still persists ... armageddon is postponed for another year ...
^ I hope you enjoyed the Christmas video we sent you .
^ Would you like an MP3 of one of my songs ?
^ I could email it to you if you wanted ?
^ Term has begun again here , and we have two new students who are predictably turning out to be somewhat of a challenge .
^ Also Amy threw up in the Learning Centre at the beginning of this week so the place smells like ... well , like someone 's thrown up in it .
^ Other than that things are going OK .
^ When are you coming to visit ?
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Sammy Hernandez
^ Things are good .
^ I said hi to Dur for you .
^ I am doing theology this year !
^ Woohoo .
^ The states was unbelievable .
^ I saw Philip Coulthard live along with the counting crows .
^ They were great .
^ South Africa sounds like it will be real fun .
^ I need to make it out there soon !
^ Keep me in touch with what you are doing !
^ Love
^ GFeeh
^ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Things i have done since lunchtime :
^ Watch neighbours
^ Write a shopping list
^ Think about dinner
^ Phone Po Na Nas to find out about music and happy hour
^ Look at jewellry in the argos catalogue and thing about what wedding ring I would choose
^ Things I have thought about this morning :
^ How long till lunch
^ How long till lunch
^ How long till lunch
^ How long till lunch
^ On &DATE , Rylee Macer wrote :
^ You just love Engineering do n't you Samos .
^ ~
^ Well boys you missed a treat .
^ The mood-lighting , see through bathroom , a relaxing sauna in the spa where posh spice ( allegedly ) goes and a skillfully negotiated tab-transfer from the restaurant to the .
^ &pound; 11-a-cocktail cocktail bar where some muppet ( not me ) ordered 20 shooters for a cool &pound; 980
^ Laterz is doing well thank you Nick .
^ She loved the room , the coffee and the video-screen lift .
^ I just hope I have n't got myself into any longer-term trouble though ... one phone call and two texts in 15 hours .
^ Uh oh ... .
^ Twould be good to see you the pair of yous again sometime whenever fate decrees .
^ It was good fun on sunday , thanks again Nick .
^ sam
^ Oh well ... we 'll do something crazy another time .
^ Like maybe eat a meal that Christian has prepared !
^ Have fun anyway Rylee .
^ How was Terrance by the way ?
^ Nick
^ i think i 'm going to have too much on to justify a trip to london .
^ plus there 's the risky hotel business .
^ sorry sam .
^ Good luck with the interviews and " entertaining " .
^ Hmmm ... at ) &pound; 800 a night , maybe you 're right ...
^ Boys ,
^ Have just been speaking to a lady who did the whole city interview thing last year .
^ She knows of a girl who invited her boyfriend down for the night .
^ They found out , and charged him .
^ Now , I like living on the edge , but could this be a bit too close ?
^ -B
^ Rylee , you would not believe the trouble I got myself into on email today )
^ Christian Hosier
^ University of Munich ,
^ Kassidy College , Larkhall Road , Munich , TQ9 0WF
^ Tel : +44 4882 422080
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Again , how disappointing ... ( i * so * would have counted that &SMILEY
^ I did n't get any " obsessed " emails so maybe dear Delilah ( or whatever that laptop of yours is called ) has been censoring your emails ...
^ I ca n't beat a tin of garden peas yet but the day is not yet over ...
^ I was in College late last night being sociable ( and making a delivery ) but the lure of the IT room proved too strong .
^ And here I am again .
^ Not as attractive as the library but I 've gotta keep em all happy .
^ Bye bye bennyo
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ What ! ? ? ? ! !
^ I sent you an email telling you that you 're obsessed !
^ Make that an email , a card AND a tin of garden peas .
^ All before midnight ! !
^ Roll on tomorrow .
^ I 'll have you know that the " I 'm so innocent " expression works very well thankyou .
^ Where are you checking your emails from ?
^ Hey , it 's Valentine 's Day ! ! ! !
^ Happy Valentine 's Day ! ! !
^ But this DOES NOT count .
^ Bye
^ Nick
^ ~
^ An email * and * a card ?
^ From two different people ?
^ I find that hard to believe ...
^ You have n't been preying on those young , innocent first years again have you ?
^ Taken in by that " i 'm so innocent " expression and a hockey stick in your bag ... er , no .
^ You 're still a computer scientist - there 's no getting away from it .
^ P.S. Eh ?
^ You did n't send me an email or at least not until now ... this sounds like some kind of bizzarrrrreee physics relativity paradox
^ P.P.S. Still no * interesting * emails ... - what is happening to me ?
^ I 'm turning into an obsessive compulsive ! ( is there a name for compulsive email-checkers ? )
^ P.P.P.S. I 've had three valentines emails , so there .
^ I have a fan club too ( current membership : 01 person / s )
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ What do you mean you did n't have any emails ? ? ?
^ I sent you one ! ! !
^ 1 card and 1 email so far ! ! ! ... .
^ O
^ Maybe we should have a " who 's the biggest geek ? " competition sometime ?
^ I did n't have any interesting emails so i 'm off home ...
^ good luck 2moro ! ! )
^ ~
^ Ah Josue , what a character you are !
^ Is n't it a blessing that God makes people in all different flavours !
^ It seems like an age since I was there with you , basking in the glorious
^ South African sunshine and running rings round you on the football pitch , though it has been a mere one-and-a-half months !
^ It 's hard to believe that life goes on in a place even when you 're not there , but I 'm persuaded that it 's the truth . &SMILEY
^ I hope you 're taking it easy on that knee , remember - you must build it up SLOWLY
^ I hope you get to play some footy as well , because I do n't want you to have lost your touch when we meet again
^ I suppose Eric will be returning to the UK soon .
^ I 'm sure she had an eventful time , and i 'm looking forward to talking it over with her when she gets back .
^ I 'm taking your advice and trying to relax , but I would like to hear some more info from Munich soon about starting dates / accomodation !
^ etc. However , I will aim not to worry , as it wo n't make me any taller
^ Say hi to Haze for me Josue !
^ God bless you ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick , I nearly fell off my chair , was it unbelief , shock or what ?
^ A newsy email from my good friend Nick , miracles still happen today .
^ It is great to hear from you and glad to hear you are helping your folks with the building , wish I could stay there and help youall with it .
^ I cannot believe how fast things are going and I came back straight into school visits and &WEBSITE upper room is on its way to completion .
^ the lounge is being grouted right now , by others , whew ! and we are on track to finish all existing work this year
^ I am believing for completion of all existing projects and getting out next year to plant 100's of Mission pre- schools .
^ I did my first run yesterday since our last game -+ 7wks ago and my knee made it with a little pain so hopefully I will get going and fit again .
^ Eric is doing ok .
^ She speaks to others about some of her beliefs , crit 's of the place but says she 's ok when I ask her how she is doing .
^ I have her helping Nomsa with her kids .
^ Well keep in touch and remember to relax lots before Uni starts , blessings and love to all .
^ Josue .
^ Mr. and Mrs. Broderick !
^ How 's life on the front line ?
^ I 'm currently enjoying the IDS French summer ( it 's always hot here in summer do n't you know ... ) .
^ We 've been doing quite a lot of digging in the garden to prepare for the extension .
^ All our hard work is paying off though , because the concrete is being poured in on Monday ! !
^ Otherwise I 'm having a pretty relaxed time - swimming , playing tennis , playing football , etc.
^ I guess Eric has arrived with you by now ; she 's quite a character is n't she ? !
^ I hope it works out OK .
^ Next week I 'm going with the older students from school - hopefully we 'll get a chance to spend some time on the beach , where I can show off my new " digging muscles " .
^ I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about my college and accomodation , etc. , but everything seems to be in place now .
^ Term will start sometime in early
^ October I expect .
^ I 'm quite looking forward to it now .
^ Well , God bless you both , and do n't forget that I expect a proper reply - none of this two-line nonsense ...
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Nick , I nearly fell off my chair , was it unbelief , shock or what ?
^ A newsy email from my good friend Nick , miracles still happen today .
^ It is great to hear from you and glad to hear you are helping your folks with the building , wish I could stay there and help youall with it .
^ I cannot believe how fast things are going and I came back straight into school visits and &WEBSITE upper room is on its way to completion .
^ the lounge is being grouted right now , by others , whew ! and we are on track to finish all existing work this year
^ I am believing for completion of all existing projects and getting out next year to plant 100's of Mission pre- schools .
^ I did my first run yesterday since our last game -+ 7wks ago and my knee made it with a little pain so hopefully I will get going and fit again .
^ Eric is doing ok .
^ She speaks to others about some of her beliefs , crit 's of the place but says she 's ok when I ask her how she is doing .
^ I have her helping Nomsa with her kids .
^ Well keep in touch and remember to relax lots before Uni starts , blessings and love to all .
^ Josue .
^ ~
^ Austin ,
^ Rylie ( what 's your favourite nickname ? ) ,
^ some friends call me clarey which i quite like i guess !
^ spiller is also good .
^ anything really .
^ cat calls me clarest !
^ What can I say ?
^ Aaron is great at communicating &SMILEY ...
^ I asked him what he thought about the whole thing , but he 's no use at all ! &SMILEY " Philip ... "
^ I think I might kill him later tho ...
^ Discreet , Rodrigo ? ? ! ! ! !
^ Hmmm .... now you 've made me even more worried &SMILEY
^ Do n't tell me you 're joining the legions of girls who secretly think Mr .
^ Wheeler is the bees knees ! ! !
^ Of course ! !
^ Gotta go ,
^ Clarey x
^ ~
^ Hello again again !
^ Thanks for having me .
^ I had a great time ( must stop using that word ) .
^ It was fascinating going round the museums - you are a great " museum buddy " and it was nice to meet your " crazy " family .
^ It 's funny - they 've seemed quite normal recently !
^ Although I think Tabitha got a small taste of our occasional madness ...
^ Definitely quiet around here at the moment !
^ I 'm thrilled to be so predictable ;o ) .
^ You 're not really ... well , sometimes !
^ No , I just knew that however much I wanted it to be simple , I know life 's not like that .
^ I only guessed your answer would be " i do n't know " because I know that you 're not a " simple " person - I give you credit for being )
^ more complicated than a simple " yes " or " no " answer would have meant ! ( have i dug myself out of that one yet ? !
^ Yeah , relationships always seem to be surprising and often confusing , complicated , etc. etc.
^ Tuesday was interesting for me as well .
^ I do n't actually get on that well with very many girls .
^ Really ?
^ That 's seems strange , but understandable on one level I guess .
^ You can be intimidating &SMILEY but I find you one of the easiest people I know ( boy or girl ) to get along with right now .
^ You do n't scare me ... &SMILEY
^ Scientists always want to categorise things , and maybe we feel the same about relationships ? ?
^ Yep !
^ I just do n't like not having things clear in my head , you 're right , I like to categorise .
^ I do n't know if our friendship will ever grow into anything " more " .
^ I do n't even know what is a good sign that a friendship IS something " more " , which is why the whole thing is quite confusing .
^ But part of me has now decided just to enjoy the uncertainty - it 's what makes life interesting !
^ Enjoy what I have and stop worrying about the future ( maybe i 'm finally starting to take my own advice ! &SMILEY
^ Fun fun fun !
^ Whatever happens , I really hope that we can always be friends ( goodness me that sounds incredibly corny ) .
^ Absolutely .
^ GREAT . ( corny is good ! )
^ * please * tell me sooner rather than later if you have any insights on this !
^ i deserve that much honesty at least ) .
^ &SMILEY I can only hope !
^ But please , always be honest with me and I will ( carry on ) do ( ing ) the same ! !
^ Hmmm , to trust God , to trust God ...
^ I know .
^ But he always has the best thing in mind for you ( and me too ! )
^ I find great comfort in the fact that when I have no idea what I 'm doing or what the future will bring , or just wondering what will happen ,
^ God 's always on my side and he has some great plans for me ( and for that matter a Prince
^ Rooming somewhere who is exactly right for me ! ! ) .
^ I 'm looking forward to seeing what you get up as well - whatever it is I 'm sure we 'll all be insanely jealous of your fame and good fortune ... &SMILEY
^ Anyway , I am back at my desk writing this email and I had 19 new emails when I checked them a minute ago ! ! !
^ I 've been speaking to Parker ( I guess you know already ! )
^ What can I say ?
^ Aaron is great at communicating &SMILEY ...
^ [ He tells me he talked you into signing up to Messenger , but I like to think it was my ( unintentional ) reverse psychology of telling you it probably was n't a good idea which did the trick ]
^ er.. well , ok , maybe i should give this one to Parker ...
^ as is Rodrigo for that matter ! !
^ I just got off the phone with him - he tells me you had an " interesting " conversation - about me ! !
^ It 's quite weird thinking that you guys were discussing the whole thing - but I do n't mind you telling Rodrigo , since he is one of my best friends !
^ What 's slightly worrying is that he 's always slightly _vague_ about what he 's actually said to you !
^ Anyway , he probably could n't say anything you do n't already know now !
^ Do you find it weird that I talked to him about it ? ! )
^ I asked him what he thought about the whole thing , but he 's no use at all ! &SMILEY " Philip ... "
^ I think I might kill him later tho ...
^ I 'll leave you with another award-winning suggestion from Mr Greetings ( Parker and I already had a good laugh about it and I do n't want you to feel left out ( g ) ) ...
^ So , you speak to Aaron every night ... .
^ Wow - new love interest here ? ? ? ? : ) I 'll tell Leilani to watch out !
^ I told Bob that I would tell Parker , but I might threaten to send it to Leilani ... ( hehe )
^ Rylie x
^ ~
^ Cunnaz ,
^ Shame I did n't get a chance to meet up with you last week .
^ Yeah - next time .
^ How 's the old PhD prep going ?
^ I 'm not doing much really .
^ Just going over some stuff related to a couple of supervisions I 'll be doing .
^ I figure it would be good if I had at least a vague idea of what the material is about !
^ Am heading up on October 3rd .
^ Later old boy ,
^ O
^ Can I see your office , who do you work for? ... I 'm getting scared Nick
^ The company is called Perelya .
^ We are located on Ladbroke Maria , a short work from Hugh
^ Blomerley 's house in the film Notting Sedgwick , in addition to the lovely
^ Portobello Market and
^ Travel Book Shop of the same film .
^ Shame I did n't get a chance to meet up with you last week .
^ Are you planning on being about at all soon ?
^ How 's the old PhD prep going ?
^ --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Christian , who do you work for ?
^ Nick
^ P.S. Monkey
^ This email was forwarded via the University of Munich alumni email system
^ Visit &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Can I see your office , who do you work for? ... I 'm getting scared Nick
^ The company is called Perelya .
^ We are located on Ladbroke Maria , a short work from Hugh
^ Blomerley 's house in the film Notting Sedgwick , in addition to the lovely Portobello Market and
^ Travel Book Shop of the same film .
^ Shame I did n't get a chance to meet up with you last week .
^ Are you planning on being about at all soon ?
^ How 's the old PhD prep going ?
^ --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Christian , who do you work for ?
^ Nick
^ P.S. Monkey
^ This email was forwarded via the University of Munich alumni email system
^ Visit &WEBSITE
^ Do you Yahoo! ?
^ New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ the interview was great !
^ we are gonna eat lunch / dinner now so i better go
^ i lobe ya lots and miss ya loads
^ im so gald you are having a good time
^ c ya
^ god bless
^ ~
^ From : Nick Malone
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : interview
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Alice ,
^ How did the interview go ?
^ Are you having fun at college ?
^ I am well , but a bit tired after clubbing last night !
^ I 'm now going to go and watch the rest of the football .
^ Love you ,
^ Nick
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ The bad things are that I have a case of suspected malaria ...
^ Salt Daddy-O Rylee .
^ You 'd better take care of yourself .
^ Anyway , its all part of life 's rich tapestry ...
^ Good attitude .
^ Bitter-sweet .
^ Signing off ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
^ Ah Nick , thank you for your e-mail .
^ Nice to hear from you .
^ Pleased to hear your are going travlling .
^ I found out yesterday that my cousin is getting married in SA next year , so if you never come back I may see you then .
^ Anyway , just checking that things are going OK , etc .
^ Samuel , or should I call you Gulliver ...
^ How go your travels ?
^ I 'm off to SA in under a month now ! ! !
^ It 's Sunday and I 'm feeling a bit tired , as I had a birthday celebration yesterday consisting of ultimate frisbee , football and hockey - ideal do n't you think .. ?
^ Anyway , just checking that things are going OK , etc .
^ Nick
^ This email was forwarded via the University of Munich alumni email system
^ Visit &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Ah Nick , thank you for your e-mail .
^ Nice to hear from you .
^ Pleased to hear your are going travlling .
^ I found out yesterday that my cousin is getting married in SA next year , so if you never come back I may see you then .
^ Anyway , just checking that things are going OK , etc .
^ Funny you mention that actually .
^ Today is going rather badly , but I 'm not down funnily enough .
^ The bad things are that I have a case of suspected malaria ( just waiting on the blood test results .
^ one of the flights in my itinerary ( ) was sold to me against the rules and I 'm not allowed to travel on it
^ So I 'll be stuck in Melbourne with no valid ticket on Friday .
^ Anyway , its all part of life 's rich tapestry and will no doubt make some good stories for later .
^ You get the sneak preview version ! ) .
^ Do n't tell my parents about the malaria though ... only me and my sister know .
^ My mum would FREAK ! ! !
^ See you later then , and have a good time in South Africa .
^ Rylee
^ ~
^ Do you still want to go to the Drew Jam Davis tonight ?
^ If you are too tired or if it will make you too tired then that 's ok .
^ love Tabitha
^ Pastor Nick wrote :
^ Tabitha , I have n't seen you for ages .
^ Kaylee wrote :
^ You are a defeatist .
^ If you are n't there I 'll make Donald play practical jokes on you , I mean it !
^ I 'll e-mail Jonathon saying you 'd like to be at the front of the march ,
^ love , Tabitha
^ Pastor Nick wrote :
^ Another march ! ! ! !
^ Surely not !
^ Third world debt ?
^ What 's the " third world " ?
^ Paper chains always break before they 're supposed to .
^ O
^ Kaylee wrote :
^ TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR DEBT RELIEF
^ Here is the latest Schedule for the Jubilee &YEAR event on November 11th
^ To begin we 'll hold an event in the market place starting around .
^ 1.00pm on &DATE trying to get local people involved in what we 're doing and generally making them aware of the significance of the day
^ So , we thought we 'd pop / let off a balloon or / in addition to making some kind of loud noise every minute for 50 minutes in order to get people 's attention .
^ Meanwhile , people will give out some leaflets , talk to people and involve some of the local kids , with face painting etc , therefore making it enjoyable as well as informative .
^ Then we 'll take about 10 minutes to get ready for the March , which will begin at 2pm
^ We will march up to Glackce Morand , with 50 of us together at the front carrying a paper chain Glackce
^ to symbolise the chain of debt etc ) and carrying a candle at the front which will then be used at Stewart to light the first of 50 candles we will ( hopefully ! ) have .
^ On Glackce Stewart Karla Golding will give a brief talk ( approx 10 minutes ) , explaining a bit more about the Jubilee &YEAR campaign , what has been achieved and what still has to be done .
^ Then the first on the 50 candles will be lit and the Cathedral bell will ring 50 times , while the crowd is silent
^ One candle will be lit every day until the end of the year and a display will be set up , explaining the purpose of Jubilee &YEAR , along with leaflets and the opportunity to sign the petition .
^ So , there we have it !
^ Hope you managed to follow it all ! ! !
^ It 's a lot to pack in , but hopefully all the various elements will come together to have the powerful impact we want ! ! !
^ The crucial thing now is publicity .
^ Please forward this e-mail to every
^ one you know in Wells .
^ E-mail is v. powerful and we can reach thousands of people this way .
^ ds-pap cannot be sent to , but we 'd love to hear all your comments , submissions , and suggestions !
^ Please send them to &EMAIL .
^ Thanks . &SMILEY
^ God is good ... All the time !
^ ~
^ So I guess I 'll meet you for Sherry at &TIME !
^ O
^ Heyya ,
^ I just sent an email to some secretary at grett asking her to provide me with a place at the lunch table before graduation .
^ I naturally never sent back the form ) .
^ I will leave my desk within the hour , heading for the river c .
^ Nathanael
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Yea , life whats it up to ?
^ &WEBSITE thing ... Anthony has been persuading me for some time now , looks like Victory only had three students ?
^ well it was n't much more .
^ Alas not Patricia .
^ nearly all of liz 's old class are on there !
^ Vandervent Pinkney .... great news
^ Kaylee .... ?
^ I is vbusy too at the moment .
^ All my goals are self motivated ... I find this so difficult , but I discovered that I can work very fast on my own !
^ Nick , lots of love to you ...
^ AlyB xoxoxox
^ PS thanks for the card
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Tarquine , Joshua "
^ Subject : life
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ What is this life about eh Ed ? ?
^ Would like to meet up soon , but pretty busy at the moment - exams coming up on 15th .
^ I had a really depressing night a couple of days ago - just wondering whether there was any meaning in anything , and feeling like God does n't exists etc. etc.
^ Do n't think I 've felt that low for a very long time , probably ever actually
^ Anyway , I did feel better by the morning , until I found out how hard my exams are going to be !
^ I had dinner with Oli Pinkney tonight !
^ I 've met up with him a few times , &WEBSITE and signed up to the St. Stephens and the Claremont FC lists .
^ They had lots of people also signed up who we knew ( Regan Pilling , Astral Eliana , Macie Carter-Owen and
^ Nayeli Bone amongst others !
^ Though alas not Patricia Reeve .
^ You should sign up !
^ You know when an evening comes to an end , but you feel like something else should really happen before you just sort-of go to bed ? ?
^ Well , I often feel like that .
^ Anyway , all best Ed ,
^ Kane
^ &WEBSITE VirusScan Online
^ ~
^ Nick my friend !
^ Awayoooooooooo ?
^ I 'm fine .
^ Go off for 2 weeks kids camp in Criccieth tommorow . ( &WEBSITE
^ Not really ready at all .
^ Should have properly prepared a talk and a day 's activities .
^ Bleugh ! ! !
^ Mummy !
^ I never achieve anything in this house ! !
^ Last week I was helping out on a Crusaders camp for a week .
^ 2 Camps really : 8-11s and 12-15s .
^ Spent lots of time doing strange things with my arms , silly faces , eating lots of peas , eating bananas in an amusing way and all the things you 'd expect of me !
^ I even played Satan again in a puppet show ( the snake ) .
^ Many children had there clothes covered in ribena from attempting to mimic my drinking with arm behind head trick .
^ No doubt the next fortnight will entail much of the same tomfoolery .
^ Then I 'll start training fo Senegal .
^ I 'll need to buy a laptop , preferably a decent 2nd hand one .
^ Any suggestions ?
^ You 're great , you are !
^ Enjoy your trampolining
^ Shalom Barter !
^ Aimee Lance-Stammur .
^ Jonny " the banana " Compton ,
^ How are you my friend ?
^ I 'm currently at my uncle 's house in Chilton Hebblethwait ( near Newbury ) ( near
^ Carlisle ) ( in Brighton ) ) ) .
^ It is a lovely house with a big garden and at the moment it 's only me and my dad here ; actually at the moment it 's only me because my dad 's gone out for the day .
^ The house has a swimming pool in the garden , as well as a trampoline and SKY TV ! ! !
^ So , I 'm having a fab time .
^ I have just been to visit Tabitha , who lives about 45 mins away , and she says hi .
^ Well , actually she does n't , but she would do if she knew I was writing an email to you .
^ What are you doing ?
^ Are you keeping yourself busy ?
^ In times of yore the fabled Stibblebred roamed the plains of Anglesea , seeking out the ancient rites of Shuman and protecting the Spiral of Hekenshar to which they had sworn their very lives .
^ Just thought I 'd throw that in .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ my funky address : 61 Cardiff Rd , Bangor , Gwynedd SS83 5YG my funky mobile : 05505 777 930 my funky website : &WEBSITE
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Re : Liz Rangham - you really should begin with Pride and Prejudice ; it 's her best-loved novel , and no female can resist the allure of Mr. Darcy .
^ O
^ Oh , I forgot I also realized that I have never actually read anything by Liz Boggs .
^ What would you recommend ? ? ?
^ I am trying to do a little quality summer reading and value your opinion .
^ I may be overly ambitious but hey summer is for big dreams , right ?
^ I hope that you had a great day ! ! !
^ Ca n't wait to get your CD , thanks for sending it .
^ Muhammad
^ ~
^ I was wondering if you would help me with a literary quandary .
^ I will apply my best synaptic pathways to the problem ...
^ I realized the other day that I had never read Dante 's Inferno
^ NO ! ! !
^ UNBELIEVABLE ! ! !
^ YOU PHILISTINE ! ! !
^ Neither have I ...
^ Do you think that reading a translation grants the same literary value ?
^ Swindon classic literary work 50 points
^ Swindon LONG classic literary work ( i.e. War and Peace ) 60 points
^ Swindon classic literary work in original language 20 bonus points
^ Swindon LONG classic literary work in original language 30 bonus points
^ I suppose most of us are happy to read translations of the Bible , so reading a translation of Dante 's Inferno ca n't be that bad ...
^ I would certainly have to settle for a translation , as the only Italian word I know is spaghetti !
^ O
^ ~
^ Thanks - I will try to connect you with a mentor this week .
^ Nicolas
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Dear Sir / Madam ,
^ I am interested in your mentor program , and attach a copy of my proposed paper on spam filtering .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Merry Christmas Imani ! !
^ Two children ... wow .
^ I 'm still a bachelor , but hoping to meet Mrs. Right sometime soon : o ) .
^ I will see what I can do about the CD 's .
^ Nick
^ Nick , I would just like to wish a very great merry Xmas May God bless you in everything that you are doing at the .
^ moment .
^ I have two children now .
^ a boy and a girl .
^ Jeremy and Beverly .
^ I am trusting God to bless me with a &WEBSITE
^ is it possible for you to send me some praise and worship CDs by Sally kenoly , 4Him , Micheal w.Smith , Alvin Slaughter , Sedgwick Herring any .
^ To this address that is if you can .
^ 10 JOLIN COURT MARKET STREET KING WILLIAMS TOWN .
^ I would really appreciate it
^ MArk .
^ Do you Yahoo! ?
^ Yahoo! Photos - Get your photo on the big screen in Times Square
^ ~
^ Nick , &WEBSITE you finish your phd ?
^ Imani
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Merry Christmas Imani ! !
^ Two children ... wow .
^ I 'm still a bachelor , but hoping to meet Mrs. Right sometime soon : o ) .
^ I will see what I can do about the CD 's .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Anna , I feel LOST ... ABANDONED ... FORSAKEN ...
^ How could you do this to me ?
^ Oh well , hope you enjoy your new contract ( bitterly ) .
^ Glad to hear you 're doing OK .
^ I 'm also doing well - Christmas production coming up at school ! !
^ Love Nick
^ hello all ,
^ just a quick note to say hello and to let you all know ( if you are interested ) that I am , today , changing mobile contract .
^ I am leaving the empire that is Vodafone and joining another - namely O2 .
^ Consequently , any of you Voda people who may have formally happily called me with their free minutes may wish to think twice before doing so , and maybe call my landline instead ( 0464 619 6420 ) .
^ And to those of you on O2 , you may , or may not , be pleased to know you can call me for less / free .
^ However , please note MY NUMBER IS STILL THE SAME ...
^ I am in the cunning process of transferring the number across the networks .
^ Consequently , my phone will be being a little temperamental for the next 24-48 hours .
^ A small price to pay for the conveneince of keeping the number I have , after a year , only just managed to memorise .
^ Well , I hope you are all happy and getting along nicely .
^ The world of Entec sewers continues to tick over nicely here in Noel .
^ Three day weekend and a spot of jet-setting to look forward to though - yippee !
^ bye for now - must catch up with so many of you soon &SMILEY
^ love Anna x
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^ ~
^ I like your writing style , very normal , so I suppose you must be too .
^ I would n't worry too much about me being over positive , surely I 'm quite an ascerbic personality ?
^ I think that 's why I admire your dad so much , because he 's even more given to not " suffering fools gladly " than I. I think that
^ Jesus would share your opinion about people being pretend positive .
^ It must have its roots in hypocrisy and Job would have had nothing to do with that !
^ God did n't tell Job that he was damned because of his words , just that he was a silly little know-nothing .
^ Maybe I want to avoid that .
^ Also , it is true that in playing the Pollyanna glad game you might need a sick bucket once in a while .
^ in looking for what God is going to turn from slime to gold in any given situation , there is great joy
^ because it is a constant reminder that you 're not carrying the burden , God is .
^ too complicated to extract the non yucky truth in that
^ I 'm going to let you believe that I 'm sickly sweet , because it will be an isolated incident .
^ I 'm feeling peaceful at the moment .
^ You 've given me a lot to chew over and cry out to God about for answers and I 'm satisfied that it 's God 's idea that I get married .
^ I think he might be bypassing my chronic fear cycles , because I ca n't assume that I 've married the wrong guy out of blind passion .
^ It is everything but .
^ So no annulment get out clauses for me then .
^ I 'm going to turn into superwife overnight and maybe I 'll even learn to cook without burning myself .
^ I 've quite a few friends who are facing the choice of obedience to husband / housewifely duties or a career .
^ The really weird thing is that each of the 3 are the most ambitious people I know , with devotion to doing the job well , not ambition for the power crazy stakes .
^ One of them has turned from her dream of being a surgeon ( she started off working towards medicine and having done her mrcp exams , then took her mrcs exams and has passed both at her young age ) .
^ Now she 's married as of March and pregnant as of slightly after March and aiming for the comparatively lowly world of the gp .
^ She is happier and more fulfilled than ever before , but I 'm still freaked out by the change in her .
^ It 's v. weird and I ca n't believe it 's all true .
^ I 'm starting to look forward to my wedding / married life , freaky friend changes .
^ It 's very exciting as someone involved in ACE that you 're contemplating the Phd thing .
^ God does n't let people down , but it 's so hard for some of the parents to see that .
^ I 'm not surprised when people drop out of the system .
^ I 've been praying for the older students in our school .
^ we 've got more seniors than ever before and now 2 of the parents have agreed for their sons to go on from level 1 to 2 and 3
^ The job of pushing them through is hard though , when they 're not as academic as some people .
^ B grade people .
^ It 's worth them doing it , but they do n't like it for its own sake .
^ They like bits like Health or Music , but the slog is long and hard .
^ Most of our seniors seem to join after 13 , but that 's far too late , especially with the amount of ESLs and EBDBs that people expect Christian schools to take and work miracles with .
^ Good for us that God is on our side , or it would be a disaster .
^ Hope you have / had a great time at your friend 's wedding .
^ This computer is refusing to do anything in Kites , and is generally sounding old and unhealthy , so I will go back to my role as organiser and hope that all is sorted .
^ My letters are very long and follow circuitous routes , so maybe bullet points are preferable after all .
^ speak to you soon ,
^ love from me
^ ~
^ do n't you agree lance ?
^ Of course Donald .
^ Glad to hear your flight was a success - window seats are the best .
^ They so totally rock .
^ By the way , the EQ on the first track on the CD I made for you is screwy &SMILEY .
^ I 've now finished re-working another song I wanted to put on that CD ( it 's special because it features my dad playing the harmonica )
^ Oh well , maybe I 'll have to send you an updated copy ...
^ Say hi to NYC for me .
^ O
^ Hey Guys- I just wanted to let you know that I 'm home now .
^ My flight was fine ... went by quickly .
^ I had a window seat and watched the clouds the whole time .
^ ( well , when i was n't watching movies of course )
^ i cannot believe how incredible everything looks from up there .
^ I wonder what the earth must look like to God ... I kept thinking that the whole time .
^ It 's so unreal to me that He is beyond time and space and the earth and all that ....
^ and then at the same time so close to us and involved in our lives .
^ how is it possible )
^ i decided to stop thinking about it and went back to watching movies ... much easier to just veg out ...
^ now I 'm home again and unpacking .
^ can you believe i 've left my most important thing in england ... my MAKEUP
^ i was so mad when i looked for it this morning .
^ but joy of joys , my mom has given me some money to go buy some new makeup .
^ so it 's really a blessing in diguise .
^ do n't you agree lance ? anneret ?
^ well , I 'm sure abi does
^ okay love you all lots ... miss you already ! !
^ need to unpack , as i 've just been informed we are leaving for
^ Old Anglesea City tomorrow ! !
^ Have a good birthday abs !
^ I 'll take lots of pictures for you !
^ love gina
^ Get reliable access on MSN 9 Dial-up . 3 months for the price of 1 !
^ Limited-time offer )
^ ~
^ Donald !
^ Nick P said you were miserable because you had n't received any emails this week .
^ So , here 's one !
^ It 's &TIME at night , and I have to get up at &TIME tomorrow morning to get to the airport to catch my &TIME flight .
^ Lovely .
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick x
^ ~
^ Donald !
^ Nick P said you were miserable because you had n't received any emails this week .
^ So , here 's one !
^ It 's &TIME at night , and I have to get up at &TIME tomorrow morning to get to the airport to catch my &TIME flight .
^ Lovely .
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick x
^ P.S. Sorry I have n't had a chance to send you a better CD yet . &SMILEY
^ Nick -
^ Hi ... how 's life today ?
^ i woke up with one of your songs going round in my head this morning .
^ it was only like &TIME and i thought lance medlock .. i 'm going to kill you .
^ just let me sleep ! )
^ it 's my own fault because i 've been listening to your cd over and over again .
^ it 's in my car now and it was such a nice day yesterday .
^ sunny , windows down type weather .
^ the people who had my car before me had put in a killer stereo system in it so you 've got to play the music loud to really feel like you 're enjoying your ride .
^ my neighbors really like your cd too . kidding
^ seriously though lance , it 's really good .
^ have you considered doing your music as your career .
^ or would you rather do something challenging ?
^ i just feel like the world is being deprived of your talents that 's all .
^ do you love writing and getting everything out that way ?
^ i 've always wished i could express myself like that
^ it 's really good lance .
^ so thank you for making me a copy .
^ you better be sending me an updated copy with this new song on it
^ how could i live if i did n't have access to a song with your dad playing the harmonica
^ besides , i need to get these other songs out of my head !
^ i 'll be waiting anxiously
^ by the way , i liked this statement in your last email . )
^ Of course Donald .
^ yeah , i feel like you should keep practicing it so that it is a statement that rolls off of you tounge .
^ You could also pracitce things like " you 're always right gina " and " everything you say is wonderful gina " ... things like that .
^ just a thought .
^ how are you feeling about going to south africa ?
^ are you excited ?
^ are you going to be sad about leaving or okay with it ?
^ just curious ...
^ I always find it hard when i get back home to kind of place these 2 worlds together .
^ nobody here understands what happens over there ...
^ besides my family who have been there )
^ and you just ca n't describe a trip when it 's based on relationships and not like sightseeing .
^ so i feel like i almost have to just pick up where i left off before i went to england and just say
^ yep my trip was fine thanks and then move on .
^ i do n't enjoy that balancing of the two places
^ okay i 'll let you go enjoy your birthday celebrations with abi .
^ give her hugs from me .
^ i will most definitely say hi to Old Anglesea for you .
^ I 'll let you know if she has any messages for you when i get back .
^ hope you have a good day lance !
^ Donald
^ All the action .
^ All the drama .
^ Get NCAA hoops coverage at MSN Sports by ESPN .
^ ~
^ Bro in da hood ,
^ you da man , man .
^ i iz well knowin that diffrent iz not spelt wrong .
^ wot planit iz ya from anyhowz ?
^ gettin jiggy wiv da song ?
^ Da sista cat xx
^ " Pastor Nick - Different is not spelled W.R.O.N.G. " wrote :
^ Sister ,
^ I hope you enjoy this week of lounging around .
^ I am desperately trying to dredge up some motivation for my last few days of revision .
^ Not easy .
^ C ya
^ EC
^ " A.N.Ritchie " wrote :
^ Everyone , I 've finished my exams .
^ This is to tell you that I am ver bored , and could you possibly rescue me by sending me lots of lovely emails ( and forwards if you have to ) .
^ Thank you all so very much !
^ Love Jon / Donald / Toni / Nia / Cleo ( whatever you know me as )
^ ~
^ Millzo ,
^ I spoke to Mazz today , and she asked me about coming to visit .
^ I ca n't come this weekend because I 'm up North , but hopefully I 'll come next week on either Mon , Tue or Wed afternoon .
^ I was thinking that we could spend some time together in the afternoon and then meet up with Anna when she finishes work at 6 .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. Great email address !
^ Really memorable .
^ Benzo , hope all 's well .
^ How did you get the keys out the car ?
^ Anyway , if you 're not up to much this Saturday / Sunday , then come visit .
^ I have nothing on Sunday and hockey from 11am to around 3pm on Saturday but if you did come Sat you could always spend the morning with Mazz and I could meet you somewhere .
^ If you ca n't visit no worries .
^ Ring me though or I may even ring you , course is okay and met quite a few Wells people , still not sure whether that 's good or bad ...
^ Mallory
^ ~
^ sob ) ( sob ) i hate lily .
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Camilla ?
^ CAMILLA ? ? ?
^ I have n't seen Camilla for months .
^ But Lily , ahhhhh , now that is another story !
^ Yeah , glad you found your notebook .
^ I have drowned my phone , and therefore did not get your message until last night - sorry .
^ Right , see you soon ,
^ Kane
^ i have found my notebook , thank you for looking , if you did , and thank you for chatting to me the other day .
^ you are quite cool sometimes !
^ i miss talking to you , but i know that camilla has replaced me . ( sigh )
^ c u l8er .
^ cat
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Just got back from an amazing opera The Trojans - Berlioz at new Carlisle Coliseum .
^ Probably the best opera I 've ever seen .
^ Karla 's email address is : &EMAIL
^ I would advice that Karla and Jansel have bought tons of this Tahitian Noni Juice and seem rather sold on it / obsessed , just in case you also have heard a few reports of people getting ill from it - I do n't think anybody has die d yet .
^ I think it is another expensive drink that claims to have health benefits .
^ At &pound; 320.00 a litre I wo n't be testing it for three months to find out !
^ Look forward to seeing you again soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Joshua xoxoxox
^ on &DATE &TIME , Nick Malone at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Hi Ed ,
^ Could you possibly send me Karla Hews ' email address .
^ I want to email hi m about this " noni juice " stuff he 's been involved with .
^ O
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Just got back from an amazing opera The Trojans - Berlioz at new Carlisle Coliseum .
^ Probably the best opera I 've ever seen .
^ Karla 's email address is : &EMAIL
^ I would advice that Karla and Jansel have bought tons of this Tahitian Noni
^ Juice and seem rather sold on it / obsessed , just in case you also have heard a few reports of people getting ill from it - I do n't think anybody has die d yet .
^ I think it is another expensive drink that claims to have health benefits .
^ At &pound; 320.00 a litre I wo n't be testing it for three months to find out !
^ Look forward to seeing you again soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Joshua xoxoxox
^ on &DATE &TIME , Nick Malone at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Hi Ed ,
^ Could you possibly send me Karla Hews ' email address .
^ I want to email hi m about this " noni juice " stuff he 's been involved with .
^ O
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Just got back from an amazing opera The Trojans - Berlioz at new Carlisle Coliseum .
^ Probably the best opera I 've ever seen .
^ Karla 's email address is : &EMAIL
^ I would advice that Karla and Jansel have bought tons of this Tahitian Noni
^ Juice and seem rather sold on it / obsessed , just in case you also have heard a few reports of people getting ill from it - I do n't think anybody has die d yet .
^ I think it is another expensive drink that claims to have health benefits .
^ At &pound; 320.00 a litre I wo n't be testing it for three months to find out !
^ Look forward to seeing you again soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Joshua xoxoxox
^ on &DATE &TIME , Nick Malone at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Hi Ed ,
^ Could you possibly send me Karla Hews ' email address .
^ I want to email hi m about this " noni juice " stuff he 's been involved with .
^ O
^ ~
^ hi benj
^ sal and i are hoping that you meant to type " note " and not " not " ( whereby you would negate the deep meaning and great expense of my gift to you ) .
^ thank yuo for the book ; it is most amusing .
^ how did you know that i would like it , i wonder ?
^ am back at work tomorrow , but am not without hope for the future .
^ i must go boldly ( to correct the imperfect grammar of the stupid ) .
^ love cat ( and vickkkkksta ! )
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Davies , Jon "
^ Subject : &SMILEY
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Jon ,
^ Just a quick not to say thanks for my Christmas present - I look forward to an opportunity some time in the future to remind you of my dancing techniques in person !
^ Great to see you at NV - carpe diem this year eh !
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ You made a wise choice Nick .
^ I think I 'm going to call you " Old Wise Nick " from now on .
^ It occurred to me that the vast majority of people ( ie. everyone - Christian ) goes clubbing either to get horrendously drunk or to pull .
^ As neither of those were on my priority list , or any list at all , it did n't leave a great deal to do !
^ Still , I did get a drink bought for me ... by Triggsy admittedly , but it 's a start , eh .
^ Hope the work 's going well !
^ How was the clubbing ?
^ Did you have the time of your life ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ You beat me to it - I was planning to drop you an email tonight !
^ Glad its going well , and that the new abode is working better than the first .
^ Life this end is not too bad , although I get very tired , and in recent days do n't feel as though I 've been doing as much as I should .
^ Fundraising is going okay - we 've &pound; 28K in the kitty , and I 've begun contacting fund making bodies and charitable trusts .
^ T o give our appeal added clout , I 'm trying to get the most prestigious local resident on our side so .
^ we can use his name - a certain Sir Hugh Hedley ( brother of Bishop Marquet ! )
^ Also thought I 'd be really saucy and try and get the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire on board as well !
^ Had a meal last week with Rylee Woods and Isabel Trower .
^ One just back , and the other about to go - both seemed well .
^ Did you see University Challenge tonight - Wells with Hayley Joby as captain ( they won ! )
^ Did you know that Top Gear are looking for the fastest vicar in the country - somebody 's nominated me !
^ But I do n't suppose they 'll select me .
^ Keep in touch Mate
^ Kaden
^ Hey Kaden !
^ Well , I 'm in my new room , and it is fantastic .
^ My parents even brought me up a sofa a couple of weeks ago !
^ The new house I 'm in is working out really well - all my housemates are quiet , peaceful and tidy !
^ I am just going through that quite difficult patch of term where you feel like you 've really absorbed enough new material , but you know that there 's quite a bit to go before the end of term .
^ After this week there 'll only be two weeks left , so I think it 'll be downhill all the way from then on .
^ It is going pretty well though - extremely intense , but I was expecting that and I 'm staying afloat , so that 's a relief .
^ Hope all is well Kaden - how 's the fundraising going ?
^ Nick
^ ~
^ ~
^ yeah i started work yesterday and i went again today and i 'm going in tomorrow ! ! it 's going ok it 's just learning lots of new things always takes a while ! ! !
^ yeah i 'm still keeping in touch with people in singapore ! theyare all very well ! ! i 've also been writing to Aubrey staggs ! ! it 's really good to be intouch with her again ! !
^ i hope your meeting went well ! ! take care
^ i 'm going to bed
^ sleep well
^ god bless
^ luv ya heaps
^ abz
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To :
^ Subject : &SMILEY
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hiyah Boo !
^ Howzit going ?
^ Have you started the job yet ?
^ What is it like ?
^ I am working hard as usual !
^ Tonight is a prayer and praise thingy for the university mission which is just about to start .
^ I am playing bass guitar .
^ Are you still keeping up with your various overseas contacts ? ? ?
^ Love you ,
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ Catzi ,
^ Her number is same as ever - 0882 3041853
^ How odd ... it 's working now .
^ Modern technology - ca n't live with it ... ca n't live without it .
^ When do you grace the fenlands with your presence again ?
^ This Sunday sees my arrival in the town of Munich , along with my entourage .
^ I will be establishing a place of residence on Larkhall Road at number 8 ( in the attic ) .
^ How 's your summer been ?
^ Well , it seems like I 've been on holiday for ages .
^ Not _real_ holiday because I 've been doing " stuff " , but it 's a LONG time since I had anything to really aim for , so I think it 's a good thing that I get started on my PhD .
^ I wonder how much time I 'll be able to take off though ...
^ Do n't let the work get on top of you girl - it 's not like you 're working for
^ God or anything .
^ Oh yes ... you are actually are n't you ... oh well .
^ Love Nick
^ Yo Nick
^ Her number is same as ever - 0882 3041853
^ When do you grace the fenlands with your presence again ?
^ Am loving the Carlisle life , work is stretching me rather too much for my liking but hey , I 'm sure it 's good for me .
^ How 's your summer been ?
^ Love Catzi xx
^ Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Yo Nick
^ Her number is same as ever - 0882 3041853
^ When do you grace the fenlands with your presence again ?
^ Am loving the Carlisle life , work is stretching me rather too much for my liking but hey , I 'm sure it 's good for me .
^ How 's your summer been ?
^ Love Catzi xx
^ Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Naomi , Fie , Fo and Fum ,
^ so when can you come up ?
^ I 'll probably try and arrange something around my graduation , but I 'm not sure when that 'll be yet cos I have n't heard from the LUPS .
^ O
^ ~
^ Nice one Naomi .
^ My mob is 04800860688
^ O
^ i went punting today and my phone went swimming .
^ alas it is now on the bottom of the dur .
^ rola , would have got you for a coffee today but could n't contact you .
^ please take pity on me and communicate telepathically until i get a new phone , hopefully with the same number
^ please send me your numbers .
^ believe it or not i was going to write out the numbers this week to avert disaster if i lostit .
^ baa humbug .
^ love to y'all .
^ the fish
^ On &DATE , The Lancester wrote :
^ WRONG ! ! ! !
^ It 's the German you schiedelgubber ! ! !
^ I think Jesus owns the fish .
^ Cunning Jennifer .
^ I enjoyed that , although if we 're being pedantic then it is actually impossible :
^ But the lateral ordering of the houses is never stated , so one cannot know whether this constraint has been satisfied or not .
^ However , as far as I can see it only works if you assume a right-to-left ordering ( though it took me a lot longer than 15 minutes to work that out ! )
^ Did you find a quick and devious way of doing it , or did you use a big bit of paper ? !
^ Hi all .
^ Vic , I spoke to Bob Greetings the other day and asked if he 'd seen you in church and he said he had , and that you looked - and I quote - " very well " .
^ How about that for a complement ? ! ? !
^ Let your mind be free .
^ O
^ sure that I 'm
^ This email was forwarded via the University of Munich alumni email system
^ Visit &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ RSNPO sounds good - I have some friends in Sheffield who I could probably stay with to keep costs down .
^ The paper submission deadline is sometime towards the end of January , so there 's plenty of time .
^ 2 ) This is an interesting paper:
^ Tackling the Poor Assumptions of Naive Bayes Text Classifiers &WEBSITE
^ Yes .
^ He deals with a few of the issues addressed to some extent in my dissertation , such as the problem of varying numbers of training examples for different classes ( " balancing " LM 's ) .
^ There are some interesting ideas in here that are relevant ( I think ) to my stuff .
^ 3 ) Comments on paper
^ I 've written and attached a revised version .
^ I 'll send it to Imani Flurries and see what he thinks about the smoothing stuff .
^ s3.3 Reedner asked me some questions about alpha / d factor , their interaction , etc -- did you ever talk to him about this ?
^ I emailed him back with some general points about the classifier ( cc 'd to you as well ) but he did n't get back to me , so I have n't had any further correspondence .
^ Hope things are going well at your end ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ I have not seen the two modified versions of discounting that you describe .
^ One issue with coming up with your own discounting is that people will question why create something new unless it performs better than the standard one .
^ Knesser-Ney discounting has been found to work well for small data sets .
^ In terms of the language model section stating that ) 2-gram LM 's do not generalise well is a bit of a worrying statement .
^ Given appropriate cut-offs and discounting trigrams should work fine ( you could give PP numbers for these - they may also give you an idea of how changes in perplexity affect the classification performance ) .
^ The performance difference between the 3 discounting schemes is very small ( how many test samples were there ? ) .
^ Also for the new schemes there are 2 empirically set parameters in contrast to none for the Good-Turing .
^ Imani
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Imani ,
^ I 've got a favour to ask you .
^ I 've written a paper about spam filtering based on the stuff I did in my project .
^ Would you consider having a look at it ( especially section 3.3 on LM smoothing ) ?
^ In particular there are a couple of discounting functions that I came up with as a result of studying the use of LM 's for this particular problem and I need to know whether they are already in existence .
^ Obviously I have looked at the literature I know about and have not discovered them .
^ If you get a chance to help me I 'd be grateful .
^ Hope the ABSNE stuff is going well this year !
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ Imani Flurries , Lecturer UVI Group Tel : ( +44 ) 4882 33 33
^ Munich University Engineering Dept. Fax : ( +44 ) 4882 882662
^ Trumpington Hendry , Munich , TQ6 1PZ .
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Thanks for the comments Alfie .
^ Will return next draft soon .
^ Just one question : is " Malone &YEAR " my project thesis ?
^ Cheers , Nick
^ Impressive and well-written but you 'll need to cut this a lot and also fit it into 2-column format as per the style files available at YBL and COLING websites --
^ it will need to be max 8 pages incl. refs etc.
^ ( I am not sure about RSNPO
^ I 've put a link to your dissertation on my web page as I got several requests for it from the sskgamma list after Patrick Plummer asked about comparison of any of the extended NB models for spam filtering .
^ I also sent him your draft with instructions not to distribute but to give feedback .
^ best , Alfie
^ Some suggestions :
^ Cut all of S1 and replace with a single sentence and ref to Malone &YEAR
^ Put in a standard ref for txt classif , para1 S2
^ Cut mention of WAcc in para3 , cut Jason / Quinton / Samuel in last para S2 and try to shorten description of prior work .
^ Do you mean multinomial for A etal 2ka ?
^ Cut last 2 paras of 3.1 and replace by Here we extend and develop these techniques for txt classif .
^ p5 , you 'll need some discussion of how you estimate denominators in practice
^ Cut first sentence of p6 , replace varying " with evolving " , cut 2nd model on next line
^ Cut all of p10 and first para p11 and replace with Though not strictly necessary in the two-class case , we report all 3 measures for consistency with the extant literature .
^ We do not use the WAcc measure ( A etal , 2ka
^ because it involves an arbitrary assessment of the cost of and can only be meaningfully compared to an experimentally specific baseline ( Malone , &YEAR ) .
^ p12 para2 significant needs a t-test result to back it up
^ 7.1 -- most people think discriminative means classifers like SVMs that optimise the decision boundary suite
^ I take the point that the model is not fully generative -- maybe compress this and add it to the bullet points in 7.2 , which shld also reiterate the basic conclusion that you 've got best reported results on the extant test set
^ get in here or in 6.2 another ref to Malone &YEAR re better anonymised training / test
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ Here 's an updated version of the paper .
^ I 've also attached my bibtex file .
^ &WEBSITE ) , although it seems they only want 2-column format for the references .
^ They also request double-spacing , which will effectively double the length of the article in terms of number of pages .
^ Hope you had a good weekend .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Are you planning to submit this as a paper and attend the conference yourself ?
^ I 'm happy to do whatever you think would be best Alfie .
^ I 'm planning to be available to attend the conference and would like to present the material if possible .
^ I 'm very happy to go with joint authorship though .
^ I 'll look further into conference specific format specifications .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Still not clear what conf. we mean -- the only one I can conveniently make it to is NLLTL , Boston .
^ I think that 's the only one I CA N'T make , as it 's a couple of months earlier than most of the others and I 'll probably be in SA !
^ Shame .
^ I have been looking at YBL 04 ( &WEBSITE and COLING ( &WEBSITE
^ The paper submission deadline for both of these is not for quite a while .
^ Is there any point in submitting early ?
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ No -- maybe do something with Jason for NLLTL if he is interested -- otherwise wait .
^ I definitely ca n't make ACL04 .
^ I cld make Coling , but wld need to know soon as I 'll be booking flights for sabbatical within a month or so and mid-Aug is about when we plan to rtn .
^ If I submit the paper to one of the conferences and do n't get accepted , can I then submit it to the other ?
^ Or do I just have to choose one ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Thanks Imani - much appreciated .
^ Nick
^ Nick ,
^ I have not seen the two modified versions of discounting that you describe .
^ One issue with coming up with your own discounting is that people will question why create something new unless it performs better than the standard one .
^ Knesser-Ney discounting has been found to work well for small data sets .
^ In terms of the language model section stating that ) 2-gram LM 's do not generalise well is a bit of a worrying statement .
^ Given appropriate cut-offs and discounting trigrams should work fine ( you could give PP numbers for these - they may also give you an idea of how changes in perplexity affect the classification performance ) .
^ The performance difference between the 3 discounting schemes is very small ( how many test samples were there ? ) .
^ Also for the new schemes there are 2 empirically set parameters in contrast to none for the Good-Turing .
^ Imani
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Imani ,
^ I 've got a favour to ask you .
^ I 've written a paper about spam filtering based on the stuff I did in my project .
^ Would you consider having a look at it ( especially section 3.3 on LM smoothing ) ?
^ In particular there are a couple of discounting functions that I came up with as a result of studying the use of LM 's for this particular problem and I need to know whether they are already in existence .
^ Obviously I have looked at the literature I know about and have not discovered them .
^ If you get a chance to help me I 'd be grateful .
^ Hope the ABSNE stuff is going well this year !
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Aimee ,
^ Thanks for coming along to my party .
^ It was great to have you there , and i enjoyed catching up a bit .
^ Did you enjoy POS ? ? ?
^ I 'm sorry I did n't get to say goodbye before you left .
^ It was okay , but a bit too " serious " for my liking .
^ Dancing will always to me be an absurd and silly activity to be hammed up as much as possible .
^ You obviously had mastered this art even in that turgid and pulsating context with your crazy happy-go-lucky , " " , style efforts .
^ Very impressive , but I 'm an amateur in such things and could not hack the pace .... .
^ Tabitha and I - yes we are " together " if that means anything - shocked ?
^ Tell me about it .
^ No , that 's great news , just a bit odd & unbelievable .
^ Suzy said you 'd hardly ever been sighted together since your alleged " going out " began .
^ But no I 'm not shocked .
^ It 's cool .
^ Hope it works out .
^ Shalom ,
^ Aimee
^ my funky address : Rogers Drew College , MANCHESTER , WI3 3LH my funky new mobile : 05505 777 930 my funky website : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Dearest Nick ,
^ Its just perfect !
^ Thank you so much .
^ I have just sent it to a few sponsors in Australia .
^ What did you think of it ?
^ Does it make sense ( if you had time to read it ) ?
^ Well we really must meet v.soon .
^ Happy Christmas
^ Lots of Love ,
^ AlyB .
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Joshua Tarquine "
^ Subject : Re : pdf stuff
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ OK Ed , here it is !
^ I 've had a quick look at it and it looks OK .
^ Let me know if I can do anything else .
^ Speak soon ,
^ ~
^ Hopefully have changed the reply+to address now ..
^ thanks for the heads up .
^ So far sam has attracted the advances of some random american girl .
^ taken us to a gay bar ( at the time he had spikey hair and fit in perfectly ) ...
^ And we still have 9 days to go
^ I worry .
^ Apart from that , having a good laugh with top banter .
^ Oh , and sam baptised me in a pool on top of a castle fort today ... You 'll have to see the video ... muchos amusing !
^ Cheers ,
^ Christian .
^ --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ I have some other rather nice photos as well - I 'll compile a selection and send you the link or something !
^ Glad you 're enjoying Spain - say hi to the posse for me .
^ BTW , you should change your " reply-to " address .
^ Keep it real ! !
^ O
^ On &DATE , Christian Hosier wrote :
^ Beautiful !
^ Am lovin spain .
^ --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Hey Christian ,
^ Here 's that photo I was telling you about ...
^ O
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^ ~
^ ps. i am wearing purple trousers , a green top , a black scarf and a blue jacket .
^ i look like a rainbow !
^ plus pink teddy watch ofcourse !
^ it was nice talking to you on monday .
^ smile right now .
^ it is good for you .
^ also think of something that makes you laugh .
^ now laugh why do n't you ?
^ see it is good .
^ do n't worry .
^ you are very nice i think
^ From : " your place or mine ? "
^ To : " Ropp , Tabitha "
^ Subject : photos
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Tabitha ,
^ What kind of photos do you want ?
^ I 've sent you a couple here anyway .
^ I can send them bigger as well if you want .
^ See ya
^ Nick ( ( &WEBSITE ) ) ( ( &WEBSITE ) )
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^ filth Watson , filth
^ I 'm in like a dirty shirt .
^ Express yourself with cool new emoticons &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Jay !
^ I thought about you the other day when I saw a BMW roadster on TV ...
^ Anyway , thanks for passing this info on to me .
^ I 'd definitely be really interested , but the problem is I 've already booked tickets to spend three months doing voluntary work in South Africa , leaving on April 6th .
^ If the situation varies , do let me know Jay .
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ An unusual situation has arisen - BT have a CASE award that 's about to expire if not used and they 're looking for a student to take it .
^ But that person would have to be in place by April 1 .
^ I am just emailing to see whether you are contactable and want me to investigate this on your behalf ( in Alfie 's absence ) .
^ It 's not entirely clear to me whether the student would actually physically have to be in Munich on April 1 - there might be some wiggle room .
^ I do n't know how much .
^ It 's definitely not a certain thing but I thought it was at least worth an email !
^ All best ,
^ Orlando
^ ~
^ Jenskin ,
^ How are things by the way ?
^ Things are going well thankyou partner .
^ I 'm nearly finished my paper now .
^ I sent it to Alfie and he said it was , and I quote , " impressive and well-written " .
^ So hopefully I 'll be submitting it to a conference sometime soon when I 've tidied up a few formatting issues .
^ Have you found a decent football squad ?
^ This afternoon I 'm playing for " Rutford FC " reserves ( Rutford is my village ) .
^ I am not expecting the standard to be amazing , but it should be fun .
^ It is my first game for ages and I 'm a bit nervous .
^ How was your date with that Canadian girl ?
^ I seem to remember she 's only supposed to stay for one night , - but that 's all you need , now is n't it
^ Whatever do you mean Jens ? ? ! &SMILEY
^ Actually she has n't come yet .
^ Maybe she 'll never come ...
^ Have you heard anything from the Commission for Advancement Incompetence ?
^ I have n't heard anything yet , although I 'm expecting something fairly soon .
^ Pass on my regards to Emily - tell him to watch out for the Churchill porters !
^ My French is deteriorating exponentially .
^ I guess I 'll have to learn Norwegian to be able to communicate with you soon ...
^ All the best Jens ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Quinton ,
^ False alarm on the reference - Munich are going to handle it all internally .
^ Thanks anyway !
^ The BEng went really well - pretty intense , but definitely worth it .
^ My project work with you definitely gave me a good preparation .
^ Right , departure to SA imminent !
^ O
^ Certainly .
^ What are do you plan to work in ?
^ How did the msc go ?
^ Quinton
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Quinton ,
^ I 'm applying for funding from Munich to begin a PhD next year , and I was wondering if you would consider being my first referee .
^ The thing is that I 've only just got the forms , and I 'm leaving for South Africa to do some voluntary work for three months early Tuesday morning , so I have to get this sorted ASAP !
^ I do n't think the form requires much information , just a couple of general comments and a statement of my degree result .
^ I would then need you to send the form directly to the computer lab at Munich .
^ Hope things are well with you ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. How 's the Happy GLR stuff coming on ?
^ ~
^ OK , thanks Annie .
^ Dealer Name : Colston Cycles
^ Model : Dr. Dew
^ Purchase Price : &pound; 800
^ Date of Purchase : 3 September 04
^ Serial number : ?
^ Owner 's name : Nick Malone
^ Address : 26 Grindstone Close , Rutford , LE48AB
^ Age : 25
^ Sex : M
^ Occupation : Student
^ Registration number : 882062
^ Where would I find the serial number ?
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ Hi Nick ,
^ We currently do not have a registration section but you can do it by email if you like .
^ Just give me your details and I will do it for you .
^ Best regards
^ Jay Gosnay
^ Minimo Ltd
^ Unit 9 , Willment Seaton
^ Hollington
^ Norwich EU44 4WO
^ United Kingdom
^ Where on your website is the new bike registration section ?
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Shame about the B hey ! !
^ Well done bro - that 's awesome !
^ I do n't think my results are going to be quite that high - but I have already beaten Jade Leeson Goldeneye and Super Mario Cart !
^ So it isnt all bad ! !
^ new phone is on Voda , but I worked it so that I got a 8800 with it and am selling it on on Ebay at mo for bout &pound; 2820 hopefully .
^ Am on Freedom 800 for next three months , so can ring anybody ! !
^ Great fun !
^ Speak soon Bro !
^ Have to go and write an essay !
^ Kara
^ Hey Jonny ,
^ Got my results for last term 's work yesterday !
^ Exams : ( A , A , A- , B+ )
^ Practicals : ( A+ , A+ , A+ )
^ That means I have an A ( 75-80 % ) overall for the year so far , with just the project to go .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Hello Nick ,
^ I am writing the beginning of this letter in this strange , impersonal , robot-like fashion because :
^ 1) You actually asked me to write to you using this strange , impersonal , robot-like fashion .
^ 2) You recently expressed a general interest in receiving emails in this strange , impersonal , robot-like fashion .
^ 3) You wrote to me using this strange , impersonal , robot-like fashion
^ If none of those apply to you , then please read no further .
^ So , enough cheek to my older and wiser friend !
^ Well done on the results .
^ I imagine that you expect to get over 80 % in your last assignment , will this lead to your average being over 80 % ?
^ Would this put you top of the year and be enough for funding ?
^ I am looking forward to meeting up with you and the boys in Cornwall ...
^ Ive not really been around Cornwall so itll be a good chance to explore and catch up with you guys , I hope that a week is long enough
^ Do you know that Lindsey Hipp has got a job in Cornwall on the north coast so we could pop and see him if he will be there at that time .
^ I expect your anxious to know whether or not SARS has spread to the city where I live , what , no , oh well ,
^ Im going to tell you any way .
^ The city has closed all internet bars , nightclubs and similar places where lots of people congregate ( to have a good time .
^ the uni is also sealed as far as the students are concerned , the lecturers and auxiliary staff can come and go though
^ As a result I have temporarily moved into the uni hotel for free for the next week or so .
^ I do n't mind as Rongrong ca n't leave anyway so it makes it easier for me to see her .
^ Although she cant leave , the other foreign students and I can come and go as well like so the measures taken seem to be better suited to controlling the students rather than stopping SARS .
^ At least I have been doing more study recently because there are less other things to do !
^ Well Nick , I hope you are enjoying the peace and quiet and beautiful surroundings of Munich , I miss Wells and other such green places here .
^ Dana
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^ 3,741.9 miles 11 states
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^ ~
^ Hi Xiaolin ,
^ Thank you for letting me see around your house .
^ The room was nice , but I will be taking accomodation elsewhere .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ You can give me a ring on 286 546 to arrange a time to view the room .
^ Regards
^ Hi ,
^ I 'm starting a PhD in Munich in October and interested in the room you 've got to rent ; I 'll be in Munich this Friday - is there any chance I could have a look at the room ?
^ If so , what time would be convenient ?
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hayley ,
^ I am in contact with Jo about SBR on Saturday , but it should be fine .
^ - Bible studies :
^ Firstly , be assured you 're not the only second year in CU not leading / helping to lead a group .
^ There are a number of others .
^ Secondly , Mallory and I feel it is confidential why we did / did not ask people to lead groups , but we would like you to know .
^ we thought / prayed about it a lot at the time and that the decision was not in any way a judgement of your character
^ Hayley , you are a blessing to the CU and I 'm sure to the Bible study group that you are in .
^ We recognise your talent and know that you have many gifts God wants to use if you will let him .
^ I hope this is an honest answer ,
^ Nick
^ " C.R.Joby " wrote :
^ Nick , Could you do me a favour and play at SBR instead of me on Saturday -
^ I 'd booked up to go to the Delirious concert before the SBR list was issued .
^ Thanks .
^ Also - I think I right in saying Im the only second year in CU not ?
^ leading / helping to lead a cell group - I would at least like to have been offered the chance - could you tell me why I wasnt asked
^ Thanks .
^ Take care .
^ Hayley .
^ ~
^ Hi G .
^ Lance-Does Camron know that I 'm coming over ? ?
^ She knows you 're coming , but she does n't know when .
^ I think she 's known for quite a while that you were planning to come over at some point - did n't you tell her that ?
^ Anyway , I do n't know why she 's homing in on March - maybe she 's just being nosy .. ?
^ know where I would love to go when i 'm over for the month ? france .
^ fancy taking a little trip to paris ? ?
^ i 've never been and i really want to see it .
^ am i crazy ?
^ Yes .
^ Next question ...
^ It would be possible to do a weekend or something , and it would be a lot of fun .
^ Only thing is how much it would cost .
^ I 've had a look online , and I do n't think any of the low-fare airlines fly to Milan from any of the airports near here .
^ Perhaps we could swim ?
^ Still , I 'll bear it in mind ...
^ hope you 're doing well and preparing yourself for my visit . )
^ Yes thanks .
^ I figure a couple of hours a day rigorous mental training , followed by an hour or so punishing physical workout ought to do the trick .
^ I just hope it 's enough ...
^ Soon ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ I 've attached the latest version of the paper , with the category and keyword information , etc.
^ It would be great if you get a chance to have a look at it , but I think I 'm going to have to submit it tomorrow
^ as I 'm away over the weekend , and the deadline is Monday ( I 'm not sure what time )
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ I 've done a quick read of the version you sent me earlier this week .
^ I was hoping to be able to look at it more thoroughly , but I just have n't had the time .
^ This has been a very busy week for me .
^ Among other things , I 'm trying to get a sigir submission out myself .
^ Again , I 'm glad you 're going to be submitting your work .
^ I think you have a solid paper that yo u should feel good about .
^ Here are some minor comments .
^ - I still think you should be more explicit about what you mean by " indep endent " on bullet 3 of your .
^ assumptions. - I 'm still not super excited about your F_f&circ;\{C notation. ( btw , the j subscript is missing on the " where " part of equation
^ 2. - The description of your experimental method is much improved -- very cl ear. - I think the categories , etc. are fine
^ As I said , I was n't able to review it as carefully as I would have liked .
^ Wish I could have .
^ Best of luck .
^ Please let me know how things turn out. -brendon
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ I 've attached the latest version of the paper , with the category and ke yword information , .
^ etc. It would be great if you get a chance to have a look at it , but I think I 'm going to have to submit it tomorrow
^ Friday ) as I 'm away over the weekend , and the deadline is Monday ( I 'm not sure what time )
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE Type : AcroRd32 File ( application / pdf ) Encoding : base64 Download Status : Not downloaded with message
^ ~
^ Thanks Reynolds .
^ I think all of your 4 new points are valid , and I 'm currently making appropriate changes .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ 1) Am I correct in thinking that you use only 2 fields , subject and body .
^ If so , does it explicitly say that somewhere ?
^ Is the choice of these particular fields discussed at all ?
^ Subject and body are the only two fields present in the Redgen corpus - I 've added this into the " Data " section .
^ 2) It may be that I 'm dense , but I did n't understand section 5 .
^ Most important , when I looked at it closely , I did n't understand your experimental procedure .
^ If you can appreciate my difficulty , why do n't you try to write a more thorough description .
^ If not , let me know , and I 'll explain in more detail where my difficulties lie .
^ I 've rewritten this section ; hopefully it is a little clearer now .
^ 3) I think you need to do more to describe the four systems you compare yourself against .
^ More specifically , I was left wondering a ) exactly what you meant by kNN variant , what features were used , and what was the similarity metric .
^ b ) what features were used with the boosting decision trees approach ; and c ) what work the " stacking " approach refers to
^ I have added to section 6.2 to make it clear which algorithms / results I am comparing against , but I do n't want to discuss them in too much detail as they are thoroughly covered in the referenced papers .
^ 4) On carefully reading section 6.2 , I noticed that you report " best results " .
^ This raised a yellow flag for me and I suspect it may do the same for your reviewers .
^ At the very least , I think you need to carefully describe how these " best " results were obtained .
^ Maybe this would be somewhat clearer to me if section 5 were clearer to me . )
^ Then the question is , what about the results you are comparing to ?
^ Are they also " best results " ?
^ Are apples being compared with apples ?
^ " best results " was a bad choice of phrase .
^ By further tuning some of the parameters , I did actually get somewhat better results than the ones I present , but this is n't particularly helpful for generalizing the approach .
^ I have added some graphs showing the results of some of my experiments , and I hope that clearing up point 3 makes the comparison a little less murky .
^ Thanks again Reynolds ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ I 've been able to re-run the necessary experiments , and thus tidy up the method and a few other bits .
^ I 'm working on a couple of other tidy-ups as well .
^ Please take a look if you get the chance .
^ Thanks a lot Reynolds ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ I 've been looking at the ACM categories for submission , and I think the most relevant to my paper is :
^ I. Computing Methodologies I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING I.7.5 Document Capture - Document analysis
^ I ca n't see anything else that 's particularly relevant .
^ What do you think ?
^ Thanks Reynolds ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Your email clears up a number of things for me .
^ First a few minor comments in response to your message and then I 'll move on to the rest of the paper .
^ 1) NB - my confusion - silly comment - please ignore .
^ 2) Now I have a better sense of how you 're thinking .
^ I 'm still not totally comfortable with the F&circ;C notation .
^ Your explanation helps me understand your thinking , but there 's a big difference in my mind between the use of .
^ P(A\|B) notation to represent the probability of A " conditioned on B " and P(A\|B) to represent the probability of A " according to the model B "
^ I become especially uneasy when one interpretation is converted to another by means of a Bayesian inversion within one single equation , which , it seems to me , is kind of what you 're doing .
^ But we can come back to this at a later date .
^ 3) I 've also come to appreciate your use of a field specific P
^ Here again , I have reservations -- one with the use of the F&circ;C notation as discussed earlier and one with calling it a prior , but now even I think I 'm may be getting kind of persnickety .
^ This too we can come back to later .
^ 4) Finally , there is the issue .
^ I agree that conceptually there are 2 aspects worthy of discussion .
^ My suggestion would be to leave in the discussion in terms of " field length normalization " , but rephrase it so that you 're not suggesting .
^ they are 2 distinct points -- something along the lines of " another way of thinking about it is ... " , or some such
^ Now I 'd like to address 4 general points based on a more careful reading of the rest of the paper .
^ Points 2 & 4 are the most important , especially point 4 .
^ 1) Am I correct in thinking that you use only 2 fields , subject and body .
^ If so , does it explicitly say that somewhere ?
^ Is the choice of these particular fields discussed at all ?
^ 2) It may be that I 'm dense , but I did n't understand section 5 .
^ Most important , when I looked at it closely , I did n't understand your experimental procedure .
^ If you can appreciate my difficulty , why do n't you try to write a more thorough description .
^ If not , let me know , and I 'll explain in more detail where my difficulties lie .
^ 3) I think you need to do more to describe the four systems you compare yourself against .
^ More specifically , I was left wondering a ) exactly what you meant by kNN variant , what features were used , and what was the similarity metric .
^ b) what features were used with the boosting decision trees approach ; and c ) what work the " stacking " approach refers to
^ 4) On carefully reading section 6.2 , I noticed that you report " best results " .
^ This raised a yellow flag for me and I suspect it may do the same for your reviewers .
^ At the very least , I think you need to carefully describe how these " best " results were obtained .
^ Maybe this would be somewhat clearer to me if section 5 were clearer to me . )
^ Then the question is , what about the results you are comparing to ?
^ Are they also " best results " ?
^ Are apples being compared with apples ?
^ I 'm sorry I have n't been able to respond more quickly .
^ There are a lot of demands on my time right now , and I 've been doing quite a bit of traveling .
^ Looking forward to hearing your thoughts .
^ I 'll do the best I can to respond promptly .
^ - brendon
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ Thanks for these comments - very useful .
^ I will discuss them one by one :
^ interpolation:
^ My classification model is not Naive Bayesian for a number of reasons , the interpolation mechanism being one of them .
^ The linear interpolation approach I describe is often used in speech recognition to combine multiple language models .
^ allowing the significance of the various models to be optimised using " deleted interpolation " , in which the weights are optimised with respect to an objective function
^ Additionally , the language model approach I use is based not on the NB conditional independence assumption .
^ on the N-gram assumption that within an ordered sequence of " words " , an individual word is dependent only on the N previous words
^ Only when N1 does this assumption equate to NB .
^ When I talk about independence in relation to fields , I am referring to the assumption that the contents of any two fields are unrelated , whereas in reality this is often clearly not the case .
^ For example , if an email subject field contains the word V1AGRA ! !
^ Then the body is much more likely to contain spam .
^ However , I do not stipulate how I use this assumption .
^ If it was a purely NB model , all attribute probabilities would simply be multiplied together , and as a result there would be no need to make field distinctions .
^ NB has been used on the test set in question
^ ( &YEAR - referenced in my paper Computer with fairly poor results , although a similar ( unpublished ) experiment on the same test set was carried out less than two years ago in the Munich Lab
^ ( where I worked last year ) and they achieved better results , though still lower than those I present .
^ It might be the case that I do not need to make the field independence assumption , or perhaps I need to elaborate on what I mean if it causes confusion ...
^ Twofold purpose of the denominator P ( F&circ;\{D_i\}
^ To quote yourself :
^ I guess what you 're saying is that , in your case , the probabilities will be calculated using unequal amounts of evidence ( e.g. , longer sequences of events ) .
^ Equivalently , we might say that there is a finer granularity of the event space .
^ So , the denominator " normalizes " for this difference .
^ In your case the finer granularity corresponds to greater length of the field , so you can think of the denominator as normalizing for the length of the field .
^ ~
^ Thosky you wily old fox ! !
^ So , you are now a member of the working class ... a man of the people ... a bread-winner ...
^ How does it feel ?
^ Let me guess , you wake at 5am , have a quick cold shower , head out for a 30km run ...
^ watching the morning sun rise over the beautiful hills of Norway , stop in at a local cafe for some coffee and cereal while you read the newspaper
^ finish with a quick 10km sprint before reaching the office at 8am , have another shower and wink at the receptionist on your way through
^ sit down with a sigh in your high-backed leather chair at &TIME and begin solving the world 's programming problems
^ About right ?
^ What car did you get ?
^ Jensky , I 'm glad to hear you 're working for a pastor ... sounds like the Lord is following you around ;o ) .
^ Also glad to hear that you are soon to be known as " Mr. Rubbish , the brain behind waste disposal in the 21st century " .
^ I 'm pleased that you 've reached such dizzying heights so early in your career ; I can just imagine the envious stares from lesser employees ...
^ Anyway , your ITB training should put you in a strong position I think !
^ I have succumbed without much of a fight to working part-time at my Dad 's school .
^ This afternoon I 'm teaching art to the little darlings ...
^ Had a rather interesting email from Alfie yesterday .
^ Apart from the usual stuff about conferences and papers and possible consultancy work !
^ he asked me if I would be interested in entertaining the young lady who has been looking after his kids this year as she tours the UK
^ Of all the cheek !
^ Thing is , I met this girl ( she 's Canadian and around 19 ) in Alfie 's back garden when I went over there for some pizza ( remember ? ) .
^ Anyway , she took a bit of a liking to me ( as you can imagine ) and so the situation is potentially slightly awkward .
^ Well , I ca n't really say no can I ? ?
^ He 's only talking about one night though , so it should be OK I think ...
^ I 've just spent a week in Cornwall doing lots of swimming and sight-seeing .
^ Unfortunately my running has been suffering of late , as I no longer have a training partner &SMILEY and do n't know where the nearest track is .
^ Still , the football season is about to start so hopefully I 'll get involved with a team soon .
^ My ankle has been giving me trouble though - flipping annoying .
^ Well , I look forward eagerly to hearing about the working world in due course ...
^ Keep it real ,
^ Jonah
^ P.S. Have you heard from Kingston yet ?
^ When is she coming over to visit you ?
^ Hey partner !
^ Time for some updates .
^ The holiday is over , tomorrow is the day when I become part of the working classes , I will surrender my freedom at 0200 ( +1GMT ) .
^ I 've spent my time and money fairly wisely - spent the remaining kroner from my student loan on a car instead of the usual stuff ( liquer , ladies , sushi ... etc ) .
^ It 's 10 years of age , but fairly descent .
^ It 's main function so far has been to take me around the south-eastern parts of Norway , to see frields , run and go on canoe-trips .
^ I visited ystein ( the guy who came to play frisbee with us and to your barbeque ) in Oslo .
^ He 's dumped / been dumped by ( I do n't know which )
^ his latest girlfriend ( again - happens on a weekly / monthly basis ) , but he 's pretty much enjoying life ... ( the sly little fish
^ Emily and I have done loads of running .
^ Emily 's getting into shape - He 's traditionally been a bit heavier than me and hence slower .
^ now he 's slimmed down and gotten down to business with his training , and today I had a hard time gaining any distance on him
^ I 've also done a couple of races , - but I do not wish to convey my rather embarrasing results .
^ Jack has worked the past month for the company I 'm starting at tomorrow .
^ Tobias , another friend who I studied with at Freud-Jacobson also works there , and his dad ( who happens to be a fricking pastor ) own and runs the whole place .
^ Dag , yet another guy from Freud-Jacobson is starting there in a month .
^ What a wonderful , great , happy little piece of local business ! !
^ I talked to the pastor himself a few weeks back , and he had great news : I 'm gonna be responsible for the the department , - no Sir , I 'm not kidding you .
^ I 'm the responsible for the companies expansion into rubbish ! ! ( ok - I 'm supposed to make a database application for rubbish collection so )
^ the guys collecting the crap can jake the people they collect from - it 's a fast growing sector - hurray !
^ Kristian , a dubious friend of mine , and I went on a canoe trip to the Norwegian mountains , and paddled a mountain lake .
^ It was fairly cold , but not below zero ( luckily - since that would mean ice - ) hard to paddle ... )
^ The trip was well documented , - and the pictures will be made publicly available shortly .
^ The latest week has been spent reintroducing television , more specificly the athletics world champs in Milan .
^ The 200 m today was won in a very ordinary time , 1.44-high , - there is still hope ...
^ The Sweeds are doing terrificly , while my country did n't get a single medal , they are relatively arrogant now , the Sweeds - flipping !
^ We won some rowing though .
^ A guy with the incredible Norwegian name OLAF TUFTE won the &YEAR m singles yesterday , nobody cares , but hell - we won something !
^ Anyway , my convinction about the quality of female athletes has been reinforced , as long as you discount for the ones bred on and testosteron .
^ With regards to the bird-business , I 'm staying out of trouble as usual , playing it safe , avoiding women at all cost !
^ although I went to a party last week with a bucnch of cross-country skiers , a group of people whoose female specimen are of the extraordinary healthy sort
^ How about you , bounty-hunter ?
^ Well , - hope you 're enjoying , - take it easy now .
^ Jens .
^ ~
^ A slightly merry Mallory .... how lovely for you .
^ I have n't had an " email buddy " in ages - how * nice * .
^ Is n't this fun ?
^ Does your mum say that too ?
^ It 's so annoying ! )
^ Serious question : do you know anything about information theory ?
^ I 'm writing a physics essay on the fundamental physical limits of computing but it all starts to get a bit hazy when we start talking about maximum possible entropy , or the information content of a black hole ...
^ Do you study any of that kind of thing in your course or is it more sort-of kind 've hopefully _vocational_ ?
^ That 's what I 'm supposed to be doing on the computer right now , is researching my essay but here I am writing stupid emails &SMILEY and with terrible grammar to boot .
^ I do n't think i chose a good topic .... or possibly a good degree
^ your research lab sounds almost as nice as mine , except we have lovely views of the Cathedral and a building site from mine on the 2nd floor of the physics building .
^ hope you had a great visit with the _lovely_ Quinton ... .
^ au revoir , cfgm
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ SUGAR DADDY OOOOOOOO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ I surrender in hopeless defeat .
^ Except I did get a tin of peas .
^ Anyway , hope you enjoyed the picnic .
^ I went to watch a play last night at the theatre , so I spent my valentines evening with a slightly merry Mallory !
^ There were only about ten of us in the entire theatre , and we had the whole of the front section to ourselves ( assembly rooms ) .
^ So , that was , as they say , that .
^ I have been in the slightly crumby computer science research lab , using old chip-boards and stuff .
^ I 'm heading back to the Science site shortly for a meeting with the lovely Quinton Corey ( my tutor ) .
^ So , I bid you farewell ,
^ O
^ hello benno
^ current V total : one card , three ( 4 ? ) emails , one bunch of flowers !
^ one meal and lots of annoying messages from those irritating people at Crushlink - and i have n't even checked my pigeon hole yet - beat that
^ Do n't mention the V word to Bob - he definitely seemed rather sober about the whole thing last night .
^ He makes me laugh so much !
^ He said he and
^ Karri had decided not to do the whole V day thing but he seemed so disappointed about it all , having to spend his Valentines evening with Sonia &SMILEY )
^ this is after having tried to force himself into my room when I was getting changed ! ! you 'll have to ask him about that one ...
^ I am skiving from my labs , which are n't supposed to finish until 1pm , but we had some research time in the library and there 's only so much research i can cope with .
^ My lab partner 's from Hild Maize - and he 's a good sport as they say .
^ He puts up with me anyway ( I managed 1 1 / 2 out of a 3 hour lab this morning ! ) .
^ But it 's a gorgeous morning and who wants to spend it inside , eh ?
^ Aimee and I are going outside for a " picnic " at 12.30 !
^ 12.30 has arrived !
^ Rowlandson
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : song
^ Date : &DATE &TIME MIME-Version : 1.0
^ Rylie my favourite email buddy !
^ I did n't realise I was sending stuff to your hotmail account .
^ I will remedy my ways .
^ See you later ,
^ Nick
^ cheers - I do n't check this account very often which is why i did n't realise you 'd sent it !
^ c
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Rylie Frances " ( &EMAIL ) , " Rodrigo Malkin " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : song
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Here are the words !
^ Hopefully you 'll basically be able to kind-of look back with good memories !
^ B ( ( Yousayitbest ( P ) )
^ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ The picture 's of an abacus made of atoms ( of ? ) as seen and manipulated through an electron microscope !
^ I am sorry to hear about your funding not happening and I do hope you figure out a way to stay next year .
^ This has n't been too good a year for you in terms of money and things , has it ?
^ I hope you 're okay about all this and that your parents have been encouraging and wise while they 've been staying this weekend .
^ Your parents do sound amazing in the way they seem to have coped with all the upsets in their lives recently - is that really true ?
^ You seem to have coped with it very well yourself , but then you do n't really talk about it so it 's hard to know .
^ Have you learnt a lot this past year ?
^ Will it help you now when you 're thinking about the future ?
^ Sorry to ask so many questions &SMILEY
^ I 'm glad you 're able to trust God in all this .
^ V. reassuring !
^ I 'm sure this will help you learn lots about relying on the Lord and being able to trust in His provision and direction in your life .
^ I am convinced that He has so many great things planned for you , and you have so many cool things to give !
^ But I wonder if I would be able to take my own advice ? ! ( g ) I think I mostly do trust God for things .
^ it 's not an area of my faith which I tend to have problems in ) but then I 'm not sure if it 's ever been really tested
^ You always seem so strong ( is that true ? ) and you have such a great group of friends around you .
^ Anyway , I hope you have someone to talk to about this - because everyone in your crowd seems to be going through one crisis or another at the moment .
^ I know it 's just pressures of work and being busy and finding things to do next year , but I care about you all and I do n't like to see any of you stressed and unhappy . &SMILEY
^ I always rely on you guys being strong when * I * have a crisis
^ It 's going to be pretty hard next year when you all leave - please do n't go ! ( sounds like another song ! )
^ But that 's enough waffling for now ,
^ Have a lovely weekend with your family , love ashley x
^ P.S. Suzy C said it 's been getting pretty claustrophobic in COllege recently , and so - as we 've suggested to a few people - if you need to escape please feel free to come up .
^ even if it 's just for the meal and you need to rush off afterwards ) because we always love having people
^ P.P.S. I do n't usually write such long emails do I ? ( erm ... )
^ I 'm sure email lengths are proportional to the amount of work I should be doing ...
^ ( as opposed to inversely proportional , which would be more logical )
^ P.P.P.S. I 'll be praying for you all .
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Rylie , the picture is indeed groovy .... but what is it ?
^ My supervisor ( the lovely Quinton ) did n't get the grant money he was hoping for , and thus he will not be able to give any of it to me .
^ Bummer .
^ I 'll just have to trust God and see what happens .
^ My parents and sister are coming up soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ No - it 's a long and boring story that I wo n't burden my family with ( I may tell my flat later but only if they 're really annoying ) .
^ Do I keep emails ?
^ Only those from fantastically attractive individuals and sometimes from people who are interesting enough to blackmail later .
^ So I 've deleted all yours then .
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Ah !
^ So I am now hated by your whole family - fantastic ! ! !
^ Sorry for sending the stuff to your hotmail account .
^ I was confused .
^ O
^ P.S. Do you keep emails ?
^ Sorry ... just wanted to try out my pronounciation ...
^ I is enjoying ze librey . hmmm .
^ I was actually just showing JOe Graves your photos - how large were they ? ? !
^ Not that I 'm blaming you or anything ... but your email completely blocked my hotmail account because you sent them ( 2200kB .
^ to my home address which I check using hotmail - but it refused to download the email because it was too large
^ instead sending me multiple copies of all my other emails- I got your obsessed email about 10 times ! )
^ I even sent a message to my parents - asking them if they knew who had been sending me huge emails ! !
^ Eventually , determined to figure this out , I found this website ( &WEBSITE fab and let me check my home account directly .
^ And what ( or should I say who ? ) do I discover is the cause of my problem ?
^ None other than your good self .
^ Oh well , provided me with some necessary distraction .
^ I am enjoying the weather ( which is why i 'm in the IT room ... ) researching quasars for my project and finding lots of nice pictures to illustrate it .
^ See you later , ashley x
^ P.S. 6.30pm Wallis Room - please remind Mallory and Robin if you see them !
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Lance-dross ? ? ? ?
^ How derrogatory !
^ No , there 's absolutely no significance whatsoever about the name .
^ Just pure randomness .
^ How are you ?
^ I 'm working on my project .
^ O
^ Well , Lance-dross ,
^ Is there some significance about the name that I 'm missing here ?
^ Confused , Ilford
^ P.S. Ballroom dancing was fab as always .
^ Your brother was disbehaving as usual , flirting with all the ladies ...
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ ~
^ snip )
^ It does make sense , and I agree , though it 's hard to .
^ know where to draw the line between doubting something because you have genuine questions about it , and doubting because you 've got into a habit of doing so
^ The latter is not so great !
^ I think questions and doubts are good as long as you do n't get stuck in them .
^ As long as you do n't stop looking for answers and searching for explanations ( and asking God to explain too ) then I think it can only be a positive experience at the end of the day .
^ I think the journey can often lead to deeper truths , and help you discover more about yourself and God .
^ But it 's when those doubts start to become beliefs and assumptions in their own right , a new dogma to replace the old , that things get dangerous .
^ I was just chatting to Joan last night , who has pretty much come full circle this past year and is finally starting to get back on her .
^ spiritual ) feet again ( and Quinton G is the same as well I think )
^ However hard it 's been , she 's learnt so much more from this experience about
^ God 's grace and about her own capacities for strength and maturity than she would ever have learnt had this past year been a totally positive , happy time .
^ Ah , the joys of hindsight ...
^ I 'm sure deep down everyone just wants to know they matter , and that people love them .
^ This makes for some interesting friendship dynamics !
^ I think there 's probably a bit of both of your people types in each person .
^ In terms of interesting friendship dynamics , it always makes me a little worried when I see people getting into relationships who have the same insecurities , the same * kind * of incompleteness .
^ So many of my friends seem to have had rocky relationships with people who " understand " them , instead of people who " complete " them .
^ When two people have the same basic insecurity about whether people love them .
^ about their friends , and their basic worth , it can be tempting to think that they 'll be able to provide that security in each other
^ But I 'm dubious ...
^ How can someone truly give another the security and love that they need when they have n't got any to give ?
^ But I guess it can work sometimes !
^ I 'm just always sceptical about relationships ... !
^ Nice one Clarez !
^ A wise hypothesis I think - although I do n't really know , because I do n't really know .
^ But anyway I pretty much agree with your picture ( at the moment anyway ;- ) ) .
^ Bob mentioned you guys were having a big discussion about all that stuff with your parents .
^ SOunds pretty interesting - i 'll get his side of the story tonight before tea ( TF is a regular attendee at Thurs dinner ! )
^ c x
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Unfortunately I ca n't remember the tune for the verse .
^ I can remember the tune and words of the chorus - although something tells me you do too !
^ My number is 04422002848 .
^ If it comes back to me I will be sure to give you a ring on .
^ Well I thought I had your number but I have just checked my phone and discovered I do n't .
^ I will call Joshua if I remember
^ he will give me your number , I will write it down in the memory of my phone then I will call you
^ So complicated !
^ How are you otherwise ?
^ I am deep into the third week of my first term of my final year - scary stuff !
^ Today , however , is football afternoon and I have just taken the minibus test so I can drive the boys to the pitch .
^ It should be fun .
^ How does it feel to have a masters under your belt ?
^ What are you doing ?
^ Where do you live ?
^ I will hunt you down !
^ I have been writing lots of stories and some I have converted into screen plays .
^ I am hoping to film the first in the summer &YEAR .
^ Anyway I must dash to the van .
^ Love to you and all your family ,
^ Giles x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Tarquine , Giles " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : song
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Giles !
^ Just a slightly random question : do you remember the tune to the verse of the Christmas song " The Gift Goes On " ?
^ The words are :
^ Do n't you love to get a present wrapped up in a Christmas bow
^ God gave each of us a present on that night so long ago
^ It 's a Gift that keeps on giving if our spirits can receive
^ It 's the secret joy of living if our hearts can just believe
^ We 're using it at Victoria for their Christmas production ( if we can remember how the verse goes ! ) .
^ If you can remember , could you email me your phone number and I 'll give you a ring .
^ Hope you 're well Giles .
^ Love Nick
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^ ~
^ Gileees ,
^ Unfortunately I ca n't remember the tune for the verse .
^ I can remember the tune and words of the chorus - although something tells me you do too !
^ Your sixth sense serves you well .
^ Funnily enough , I can also remember the chorus perfectly !
^ I think we sung that song in OE for about a month , so in some ways it 's a bit strange that we 've forgotten the verse - ca n't have been that memorable I guess .
^ I think I 'll give your mum and dad a ring to see if they 've got the original tape ...
^ So , my life ...
^ I 'm back living at home now .
^ I am a master !
^ My official title is now : Nick Malone B/Sc hons dunelm M/Phil cantab !
^ And in a few years I may well be Dr. Malone -
^ I 'm planning to do a PhD in a year 's time , probably back at Munich , although nothing is confirmed yet .
^ Right now , I 'm living at home with my parents and Alice and teaching 3 days a week in Victoria .
^ I would n't want to do it for very long , but being around kids again after 4 years of study has been pretty refreshing .
^ I have also been writing an academic paper for submission to a conference next summer in Birks somewhere .
^ If it got accepted that would be pretty exciting because I 'd get to present some work to high-power academics and also get something published !
^ Anyway , it may or may not happen .
^ I 'm playing football for my local team , although I feel a bit tired and unfit at the moment ; thinking I may need to change my diet or something !
^ So , you 're writing films ... sounds good .
^ An entry into the Cannes festival next year ... ?
^ If you 're looking for a devastatingly attractive leading man ...
^ Anything happening on the female front ?
^ I 'm a little short of options in Victoria , but I guess you never know !
^ All best Giles ,
^ O
^ P.S. It 's almost MATRIX / LOTR time ! ! ! !
^ ~
^ hello benno
^ current V total : one card , three ( 4 ? ) emails , one bunch of flowers !
^ one meal and lots of annoying messages from those irritating people at Crushlink - and i have n't even checked my pigeon hole yet - beat that
^ Do n't mention the V word to Bob - he definitely seemed rather sober about the whole thing last night .
^ He makes me laugh so much !
^ He said he and Karri had decided not to do the whole V day thing but he seemed so disappointed about it all , having to spend his Valentines evening with Sonia &SMILEY )
^ this is after having tried to force himself into my room when I was getting changed ! ! you 'll have to ask him about that one ...
^ I am skiving from my labs , which are n't supposed to finish until 1pm , but we had some research time in the library and there 's only so much research i can cope with .
^ My lab partner 's from Hild Maize - and he 's a good sport as they say .
^ He puts up with me anyway ( I managed 1 1 / 2 out of a 3 hour lab this morning ! ) .
^ But it 's a gorgeous morning and who wants to spend it inside , eh ?
^ Aimee and I are going outside for a " picnic " at 12.30 !
^ 12.30 has arrived !
^ Rowlandson
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : song
^ Date : &DATE &TIME MIME-Version : 1.0
^ Rylie my favourite email buddy !
^ I did n't realise I was sending stuff to your hotmail account .
^ I will remedy my ways .
^ See you later ,
^ Nick
^ cheers - I do n't check this account very often which is why i did n't realise you 'd sent it !
^ c
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Rylie Frances " ( &EMAIL ) , " Rodrigo Malkin " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : song
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Here are the words !
^ Hopefully you 'll basically be able to kind-of look back with good memories !
^ B ( ( Yousayitbest ( P ) )
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^ Jonah writes :
^ BrendAn I just realised that I horribly misspelled your name in my last email .
^ Please accept my humblest and most abject apologies .
^ My excuse is that I had another friend who spelled his name BrendOn
^ Nick
^ Dear Bin ,
^ Brendons are hills down in Butleret or somewhere like that .
^ It is a common mistake .
^ Jade
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^ Department of Computer Science ,
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^ Hi Jason ,
^ Just some thoughts on a couple of the issues you raised in your email re spam filtering :
^ 1) Is it really a new idea to use a language model for textcat ?
^ The students in my Intro to NLP class are doing it on the LingSpam corpus , right now , as part of their assignment on smoothed language models .
^ The broad idea of using language models of sorts for textcat is definitely not new - although from my reading it tends to be approached from a Naive Bayesean perspective
^ Although it would seem logical to incorporate a full n-gram smoothed LM into a textcat model , as far as I can see , it has received surprisingly little coverage in the literature .
^ Perhaps this is due to the dominance of discriminative classifiers in recent surveys ( Yang and Kettner 97 , Yang and Pedersen 98 ) .
^ The novelty of our approach ( as far as I can tell ) is based on formalising the idea of linearly interpolating LMs within a semi-structured document framework
^ and then studying the effect of various LM construction techniques on classification performance
^ One of Nick 's important observations was that you want to model the prob. of an OOV word in a class conditional way for spam / non-spam filtering .
^ This is a good point .
^ In the standard use of LMs for ASR ( about which most of the literature exists ) the issue does n't really arise .
^ when using multiple LMs built from separate source data to model probabilities , OOV modelling can be used to better model expectation and thus enhance performance
^ In my masters thesis I discuss the concept of " balancing " LMs to compensate for disparate vocab sizes , with experiments on estimating the likelihood of unseen words based on prior class knowledge .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Consider it done Bob , consider it done .
^ O
^ Hello all !
^ Re speeches ...
^ The order:
^ Sabrina
^ Katelyn
^ Orlando
^ I think it would be a great idea if Nick introduced each of the speakers by saying who they are and their role in the wedding , just in case people do n't know .
^ Nick , can you also handle any announcements which need to be made throughout the afternoon / evening i.e. photos , cutting of cake , going in to eat , how the evening is going to work ( .
^ i.e. clearing the tables , followed by speeches over coffee etc ) ceiligh ... you get the idea
^ thanks !
^ Love ,
^ Bob
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^ Actually I am home now , or at least in the Uk at an agency where I hope to find work once I return properly in Sep willl give you a ring then
^ Dana
^ Sounds like a wonderful gaff
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^ Hey Benjy ,
^ What slander of my good name is this : ( I hope you 've found a job teaching by now , or else I guess you 're hanging ( around on street corners selling dope and stuff .
^ Do n't you know that I am a high quality French teacher who manages to stem some of the tide of what is know as American French
^ to bring some of the beautiful mother tongue this ( obviously ) forgotten part Asia .
^ The teaching that I do at the moment is really good actually ( I mean that I am enjoying it not that I am teaching brill ( though obviously that as well ! ) )
^ Last night the lad that I tutor came over and first I told him about law stuff and why I was going to apply now as I was reading some law stuff .
^ when he arrived then he read out an article from a newspaper with me correcting his pronunciation and then we talked about it and about his prejudice towards the mainland
^ I think I helped him to overcome it though I am not totally sure on that point as he could have just been acting nice towards me
^ Oh , and then he gave me 21 quid for the two hours we spent talking !
^ Crazy is n't it !
^ I am due to start some more teaching tonight which is more business orientated to a group of young female secretaries at some firm .
^ I have meet them once and they look like good fun and I will get paid 28 quid for that two hour session !
^ How is your LL parser generator ?
^ Not too bad I hope !
^ I have finished that book of yours , What 's so Amazing about Grace .
^ What a load of old baloney eh ?
^ American right wing nonsense of the worse kind , do n't you agree ?
^ Married a Chinese girl yet ?
^ Well Nick , not quite yet but if I do I will be sure to invite you to the wedding , I might even ask you to officiate !
^ The lesson bell is going , not a patch on the cathedral bells in Wells but a kind of anodyne version .
^ Take care
^ Dana
^ Oh
^ Israel
^ That book , forget about my comments above , that was just the usual crap response that people may well send out , actually I thought it was really good and I agreed with lots of the contents .
^ What is your view of homosexuals ?
^ I was mildly surprised after reading most of the liberal views espoused in the book to come to the part where he says that he thinks homosexuality is unnatural .
^ I think that we should talk about it when I come back to the UK in September .
^ Regards Rhy
^ ~
^ hi Liz ,
^ Mobile : 04800860688 LL : 02486400246
^ I 'll give you a ring soon ...
^ O
^ ~
^ Was trying to teach the gospel classic " Oh Happy Day " to a group of the most musically challenged kids I 've ever met .
^ Most of them would n't know an A major if it came up and slapped them in the larynx .
^ Soul destroying .
^ Bless them .
^ Its weird how music can be both of immense pleasure and heart-rending pain .
^ Take , for example , my musical life here in Oman .
^ Sometimes I dance in pleasure , other times I writhe in pain .
^ Of immense pleasure is going to hear the resident band at the Radisson SAS hotel .
^ Jet Set is their name , covers of pop music is their game .
^ But they are so talented and tight that its a pleasure to watch them .
^ I 'm a regular down there now and they know my name and play Stevie Wonder Superstition for me automatically whenever I go in .
^ So good I got bunch of 5 of us ( 2 I 'd only met that evening ) dancing at 10pm on an empty dance floor .
^ At the other end of the spectrum , the pain end , is religious music of most forms .
^ Firstly , take the local faith .
^ Hearing a random bloke blasting out verses from the glorious holy book from 5am to night time over a souped-up loudhaler is not good .
^ Then there 's the indian inspired music which involves dodgy use of a drum machine , yodelling and playing violins in with the 6th and 7th degree of the scale grotesquely out of tune .
^ Then there is our own blessed faith which has churned out so much objectionable rubbish in the form of " Hillsongs live " and random tapes made by multi-talented american homeschool families .
^ Oh dear oh dear .
^ I am sat here now listening to Brahms I think it is , some random recording probably from Reader Chapel of a concert I was in .
^ Its like an oasis in the desert , or it was until Visionware just decided to annihilate it by giving &WEBSITE pre-emptive multitaksing pre-eminence over Visionware
^ Mediochre Player 9 .
^ I hate those damn americans .
^ Oops , there 's one for the natural language processing and CIA to montior .
^ Hey , Americans , if you 're intercepting this , just letting you know I 'm only kidding .
^ I have some very good american friends from my time studying there .
^ I love loads about your country , although there 's things that annoy me too .
^ Please allow me both the freedom of speech to express them and the liberty not to be monitored on one of your big databases .
^ Not a single lucrative contract in sight .
^ However , I 'm having fun writing my paper for free .
^ I have learned LaTeX and am getting to grips with it ...
^ I am momentarily distracted by the morbidly fascinating sight of a small spider on the outside of my bedroom window attempting to consume some sort of flying insect approximately sixteen times its size ...
^ On the subjects of IT and insects ...
^ Attached is a picture of two copulating dragon flies I saw last weekend .
^ They managed to fly around while doing it .
^ Now thats quite a skill .
^ And on the IT , we found out how much it costs here for a company internet connection .
^ After dialup , at &pound; 3 a month plus 30p / hour , is a 2Mpbs leased line at &pound; 345.60 per month .
^ Now there 's something to encourage Small and
^ Medium enterprises is n't there .
^ Just saw an awesome film - The Power of One .
^ Not the kind of film you 'd find in blockbuster .
^ But yes , here you get randomly imported titles from the Phillipines with Arabic subtitles .
^ Its about a boy growing up in South Africa during the introduction of Apartheid .
^ The type of film that makes women flinch and inhale sharply often , through a mixture of necessary violence and harrowing plot .
^ Its also by the director of Rocky ( so it said on the back ) .
^ OK , I think thats enough random drivel from me .
^ Do n't think I 'm having a bad time if that whole e-mail sounded negative .
^ Just having a healthy debrief .
^ Its still good here - went sailing in the arabian sea again today after work .
^ The type of thing that would just never happen in blighty .
^ Laterz
^ Rylee
^ ~
^ Did you take that photo yourself Rylee ? ?
^ If so , how ? ?
^ On the subject of copulating Dragonflies , I got a thoroughly indecent postcard from Christian today ; one he got when he was in Corfu with Jennifer ...
^ The Power of One ...
^ I 'll look that one up .
^ Am off to Tabitha 's birthday party in Carlisle on Saturday .
^ Looks like it 's going to be a bit of a Wells reunion .
^ Must get my hair cut before then ...
^ Am currently watching a very interesting NNR " mocumentary " about the Panama Heck .
^ Bet that makes you homesick does n't it ...
^ Freighter , ( rhyming slang )
^ O
^ ~
^ Im really sorry that we never got to see you at New Year .
^ Nikki 's dad has got bowel cancer and he had to go into hospital on New Year 's Eve for an operation .
^ He was in a lot of pain and they took him in earlier than planned .
^ Unfortunately they were n't able to remove the lump and he is going to have to have radiotherapy .
^ As you can imagine , it has been a hard time for Nikki and her family ...
^ they were only just getting used to the idea of Christmas without Nikki 's nan who died only a month before !
^ We decided that we would rather have a quiet new year although we were sorry that we didnt get the chance to see everybody !
^ Nevertheless mate , my sister is close to getting herself set up in a new flat in Munich and I will be down in the next couple of months to move her in and to visit her !
^ so I will let you know when that is going to be and we can arrange to meet up
^ I hope that everything went well over the new year and that the party was good !
^ Happy new year to you anyway mate !
^ Im back at LIPA today , although unofficially because Im not due back for another couple of weeks .
^ Unfortunately when I do start back , I have got exams so I am back in now trying to get ready for them !
^ I hope your new term starts well and that you had a good break over Christmas .
^ Take care mate ,
^ Bob
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Corrie , Bob " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : stuff
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Bob ,
^ I was chatting to Tabitha at New Year , and she mentioned that Nikki 's dad had been unwell - is everything OK ?
^ We missed you both at New Year , but maybe next time !
^ Hope all 's well Bob ,
^ Nick
^ The new MSN 8 is here : Try it free * for 2 months &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey Josue / Haze ,
^ 8 days and counting !
^ Victoria School have been raising some money for Rolomandi , and we 're wondering who we should make the cheque out to ...
^ Also , my brother has some DVD 's that he says you could borrow ; I 'm not sure what space I 'll have in my luggage , but in principle would you be interested ?
^ If so , what kind of movies are you looking for ?
^ See you soon !
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick
^ The cost is R38.85 for 15 tablets .
^ We 're looking forward to seeing you again .
^ We plan to collect you in Jhb on the 6th .
^ Say hi to everyone ...
^ Bless you
^ Laura
^ Josue / Laura ,
^ Could you possibly give me an idea of the cost of doxycycline tablets in SA so I can compare with the cost here ?
^ Thanks - very much looking forward to seeing you ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Josue / Laura ,
^ Could you possibly give me an idea of the cost of doxycycline tablets in SA so I can compare with the cost here ?
^ Thanks - very much looking forward to seeing you ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Bingo ! ! ! !
^ The right address ! ! !
^ Did n't I give you the right address ?
^ If not I 'm sorry , but never mind you have got it now : )
^ Hows things ?
^ Everythings fine back here ! my car has just come back from the garage for the second time in the space of about a week .
^ I took Camron to church Sunday and we had steam billowing out from under the bonnet .
^ That was funny ! ! !
^ But we made it to church , just a little late .
^ anyway thats been the highlight of my week so far that and the jake for it .
^ Speak to you soon take care Nancy
^ --- Rolomandi Mission Station ( &EMAIL ) wrote : ) Nancy , is this your email address ? ? ? ?
^ I 've tried about 4 different permutations , so hopefully this is finally the one ...
^ Nick
^ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly ... " Ping " your friends today !
^ Download Messenger Now &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ You 're welcome mate , you 've got the talent .
^ Jez aka Virus
^ Thanks for your comments Virus !
^ Nick
^ Emailed From &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Jonah ,
^ hope you are feeling your usual perky self again now and that you have an absolutely FANTASTIC snow-boarding trip - enjoy ! ! ! !
^ You 're going to have a Plummer Christmas ! !
^ It snowed here yesterday .... brrr ..... bitterly cold !
^ I have one day ( today ) of hard work left before I 'm setting myself free from Economics and can RELAX ! !
^ Jessie is coming home tomorrow , and then Isabelle and Manley are coming on Monday , so it 's all rather exciting .
^ Have a very Happy Christmas - enjoy the snow !
^ Love , and a cheery Christmas * hug *,
^ Eric x
^ Thanks for the book Cody ,
^ I look forward to reading it when I get the chance .
^ As for the discussion on the Sabbath - we 'll pick it up again soon !
^ I have been quite ill over the last few days - a really nasty cold .
^ I have recovered quite a bit now , but I am still not quite back to my usual perky self !
^ We are going snow-boarding in a couple of days - yay ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Have a laugh ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Guess it 's partly because there 's not much to report except my workrate has probably tripled this term !
^ Glad to hear you 're finally getting down to it . &SMILEY
^ Have fun with that data ... !
^ I 'm doing quite a lot of music recording at the moment , as I 've just reassembled my home studio .
^ First track almost complete !
^ Ah - and the 3 reincarnations of an almost full beard ! - The last one I 've just got rid of .
^ I kept my goatee for a while , but it 's all gone now .
^ Just a bit of renegade stubble .
^ All the best Isabel , and have a fantastic Christmas yourself .
^ I 'm hoping to be up in Wells sometime in the New Year .
^ Nick
^ Good to hear things are going well ,
^ I 'm sorry I 've been a lousy correspondent recently .
^ Guess it 's partly because there 's not much to report except my workrate has probably tripled this term !
^ I had the opportunity to discuss my research with a leading American academic yesterday ( who also edits a journal ) , which was really helpful .
^ Having pretty much done the Lit Rev ( phew ) , I can now get on to look at something exciting and play with some data ( wahey ! ) .
^ Still enjoying teaching .
^ Not much else to report really - it 's been frustrating I have n't been able to play more footie and pool while being fun has n't been quite as successful as I'dve liked .
^ Ah - and the 3 reincarnations of an almost full beard ! - The last one I 've just got rid of .
^ Best Wishes ,
^ Have a great Christmas .
^ Good Bless ,
^ Isabel
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Thanks for the e-card Isabel !
^ Things are good here - busy and enjoying it .
^ Love Nick
^ Mr Tanner Trower
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^ slightly panicked .
^ we were supposed to organise it this weekend and then Rodrigo went away adn
^ Shelley came !
^ why am i still in the lbrary ? ? ! !
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Yeah yeah .
^ Rylie , it 's your last night ! ! ! ! ! !
^ How do you feel ?
^ O
^ Forever traumatised ... &SMILEY
^ P.S. Sticks and stones may break my bones ... but air will never hurt me !
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Ur .... .
^ Well ... ... ... .
^ Um ... ... .... .
^ no .
^ O
^ i thought it sounded pretty good !
^ was n't i in any way convincing ? )
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ ~
^ Entirely my pleasure Nick
^ Take care
^ Lindsey
^ &EMAIL wrote:
^ Hey Slippy-T ,
^ Thanks for the review - I really appreciate your comments .
^ I 'll try and put some more info up soon too .
^ Thanks man ,
^ Nick
^ Emailed From &WEBSITE
^ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun !
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Stomp was great , the artists manage to capture ones attention for near on a hour and three-quarters without the use of a single word and barely any pitched melody - Brilliant !
^ We also went to see the first part of the Spiral Cycle - Morley .
^ That was tough listening - Good though .
^ Thanks for the picture of the two of us doing the mime , it brings a lot of emotions and feelings flooding back - the whole memory although somehow indelibly etched in my mind was in a back place .
^ Nick , this morning the spring air is fresh ( even here in Carlisle ) and I am reminded of us going up to Lansdown to play footie .
^ I would really like to pay visit to Bath with you before you go to SA ?
^ Lots of Love ,
^ Joshua C. xoxox
^ PS .
^ This is the first e-mail that I will be sending you from outlook .
^ Entourage ) using the wireless connection form my computer with my hotmail account as a backend ! - it all works - internet surfing is very fast too
^ PSS .
^ I could really do with a hair cut , just not sure what style I should go for - perhaps your sister or mum could advise on a male fashion mag to look at ? !
^ Hey Ed .
^ How was Stomp ?
^ Thanks for coming down last Friday - it was a real treat to have you here , and great to talk .
^ Also , thanks for the guitar strings ; I 'm sure they will hum beautifully when I get around to putting them on ...
^ Time marches on !
^ Love Nick xx
^ P.S. I got my hair cut today - short and sweet .
^ ~
^ Lindsey , great to see you yesterday .
^ Look forward to our next meeting ...
^ Here are my bank details :
^ Nat-West sort-code : 52 30 44 account num : 64820684
^ Love to the family ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ OK Lindsey , you 're on .
^ I 'll probably come up the night before , but it will be pretty late because I am in school on the Friday and do n't finish till around 6 .
^ Looking forward to it ,
^ Nick
^ Dear Nick ,
^ The 20th would suit us .
^ Is this still good ?
^ Best wishes
^ Lindsey
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Just to say Happy Easter , and enjoy revising !
^ Are you still teaching ?
^ Im sure they all behave for you !
^ When I did CSLA , we had to take primary school kids , and they were terrible ! ! !
^ Not like when we went to school ... .
^ Proud to say I have finished my essay and java , and have started revision ! !
^ Im going to visit relatives over Easter weekend , so that should be good .
^ See you in a week or so .
^ Patrick
^ ~
^ Donald Manley !
^ That 's what I call you . )
^ Donald , THANKYOU for sending me an interesting email .
^ It 's been days since I had anything but junk .
^ Did you know that 's what Florida is called ?
^ Yes , I had heard that .
^ Did you know that i 'm IN Florida right now ? !
^ I confess I was in total ignorance as regards your current whereabouts , but thankfully I now feel enlightened .
^ Why are you in Florida anyway ? ?
^ It 's TERM TIME ! !
^ Get back to work ... now !
^ Yes , Florida comes a distant second to Chapel St. Leonards , but I suppose at least it 's got sunshine .
^ Not that
^ Chapel does n't mind you , it 's just that it can be somewhat erratic .
^ Like this email .
^ Hmmm ...
^ Ok , I 'll send you an MP3 in a few days , but it 'll take a little while to download .
^ Persevere though !
^ By the way , I have little desire to hear about anything that was pulled from
^ Amy 's nose .
^ Please .
^ Some things are better left unsaid .
^ I would like a Florida Orange - ca n't you send it FedEx or something ... ?
^ Get a tan ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Hello Nick
^ After much thinking ! ! and working dates around and stuff I am really interested in going out there especially in the english teaching .
^ being " taught " myself as you put it so here are a few more practical questions before I pluck up the courage to e mial Josue directly
^ the earliest I will be able to fly out will be on the 30th of July or the 1st of august .
^ I will only be able to be 3 weeks max possibly even a bit less because of planning for new job
^ Will that be too little time ?
^ the christian thing does n't scare me too much any more especially as i have met Josue .
^ can you tell me a bit more about the school and mission base ; what they do ; where are they adn what its like ?
^ after my flights what kind of cots will there be ?
^ am getting quite excited , will it be ok to call tonight too ?
^ Eric
^ From : " Rolomandi Mission Station " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " toni rogers " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : to Eric - re : SA
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Eric ,
^ will you be there or back in england ?
^ Will it be the school holidays or what will be happening ?
^ does it matter that I am not the best of Christians ? will I still be useful ?
^ Hi Nick I definitely am interested ,
^ will you be there or back in england ?
^ Will it be the school holidays or what will be happening ?
^ How did the mission go you cheeky thing ? hands full indeed !
^ still do n't know when I will break up from my school and really anything about dates and stuff yet although it may have to be a week or two after that .
^ I definitely sounds less scary to work with Josue than with a bunch of Christians I do n't know ,
^ does it matter that I am not the best of Christians ?
^ will I still be useful ?
^ Eric x
^ From : " Rolomandi Mission Station " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " toni rogers " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : to Eric - re : SA
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Eric !
^ Hi ; good to hear from you .
^ I just got back from a mission trip to Lesotho ; we assembled three pre-school playground areas in three Christian schools and spent a bit of time with the kids as well .
^ There were four of us from the mission base and fifteen Americans ( mostly girls ) .
^ Needless to say I had my hands full ... so to speak ...
^ I just spoke to Josue about the summer .
^ He said there are definitely things you can help with and that it would be a blessing to have you here .
^ They will be travelling from Jo'burg to Venda ( where the school is ) on July 21st , so that would be a convenient time to arrive if it were at all possible from your end .
^ Anyway , send me another email in the next week or so if you 're interested , otherwise no worries .
^ OK , speak soon ,
^ Nick x
^ Hi Nick
^ how are you doing ? how is South Africa ?
^ What have you been teaching or doing ?
^ When is the school holiays ?
^ Sorry for masses of questions but would love to know what you are doing and stuff as it has been a while but also have an ukterior motive as I was wondering I know I have thought about .
^ discussed this a few times and it is still only a thought , when the school holidays are asI have got quite a long break
^ most other people are working and I would love to go away and actually do something but am not really brave enough to go on my own
^ It will probably be during the month of August .
^ I spoke to Jon yestarday and she said you may be on your way back soon and I may have left it too late .
^ Will you be able to see if I would be needed and able to do stuff ?
^ I have got a job ! !
^ IT is a church school in Bethnal Stewart which is near where I live now so I will hopefully stay there .
^ I was thinking of living at Mum and Dads again which would have been hard becuase of them and also
^ Nichola so its good its not there I did go for 2 jobs in Enfield one which I wanted but did n't get and the other I did not like .
^ I am actuallly looking forward to it being a church school an did n't think I would be .
^ Its getting easier with Nichola and I but there are still quite a few days where I wish desperately it was possible for us to be together and stil be going somewhere with God .
^ I still have lots of work to do especially in the next two weeks and then actually start at my new school before they break up so they pay me over the summer .
^ Hope to catch up soon
^ Eric x
^ are part-time I 'll be in good old quality hear from start that in year , something like seriuosly for anyone who teaching
^ Are you
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^ ~
^ Nick - so good to hear from you .
^ I was only thinking earlier this week that I must contact you very soon , as I was conscious you 'd be off to S.A. shortly .
^ I 'm glad you 've enjoyed teaching - I guess the kids really loved you .
^ I 'm sure the music recording was quite rewarding ( even if it was n't lucrative ! )
^ The prospect of 3 months in F A must be very exciting - I hope it lives up to what you 're hoping for .
^ I 'll look forward to hearing all about it when you get back .
^ As far as funding is concerned , I hope Munich come up with a satisfactory response soon - I guess it 's very difficult to live with the uncertainty .
^ Let me know when you hear .
^ And beyond that - contemplating your future ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Student days really are drawing to an end ! ! ! ! !
^ You ask about me - I ca n't remember when we were last in contact ; had I told you my ME has told me to stop work - ideally now .
^ although he 's sort of agreed I can continue until my contract runs out August &YEAR
^ I 'm comfortable with that now , and even looking forward to it , given all the stresses in ministry in this Methodist Circuit .
^ I 've sold the flat in the last few weeks , since I could never make it a permanent home , and am looking to buy a small house on the outskirts of Sheffield .
^ I 've found one about 3 miles from where I live / work .
^ it backs directly on to the Peak District , with some good views from the window , and stunning views from a couple of hundred yards away
^ There 's also a very good and active local church ( LEP , but mainly Anglican ) where lots of things are happening - so that would be good .
^ I was undecided whether to stay here or go back to Hampshire , but I 've so few real friends down there now , that on balance I feel Sheffield is more like home now .
^ My Dad 's been desperately ill for months now .
^ He 's given us lots of scares , and my brother and I have spent a lot of time nursing him , although I have now managed to get a professional care package in place , which is working well .
^ We just take it day to day , and I go down most weeks to see him .
^ The good ( and bad ! ) news is the Project here in Fullington .
^ The builders moved in in early January , and all was going welll until a couple of weeks ago , when serious dry rot and woodworm was discovered .
^ We expected some , but nowhere near as much as we 've found - I waiting for estimates but it 's likely to be at least &pound; 30k .
^ I 'm sorry for the old dears , as they thought that they 'd raised almost enough .
^ You asked how I am - Very tired ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Keep in touch Nick ; I often think of you and pray for you .
^ It would be good if you can get up here for a break sometime between S.A. and Munich .
^ God Bless
^ Kaden
^ Hi Kaden !
^ How goes it sir ?
^ I 've had a good few months here at home , working in school and recording music and stuff .
^ However , on April 6th I am off to South Africa for three months !
^ It should be a fantastic experience , and I feel like I could really do with a total change soon .
^ I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about whether or not they 're going to give me funding to start my PhD next year , and then I guess I 'll have to make some decisions about my future ...
^ Anyway , I hope you 're doing OK Kaden , and I look forward to hearing how things are going with the project etc .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Nick , you old water buffalo you ,
^ " I was trying to teach relationships last night - not quite sure if everyone was following though ... " - I 'm assuming you mean relationships of the database variety ...
^ Computer science lectures round the campfire - how could anyone resist ?
^ " What 's known as Dunedin , the bike or the city ? " - That would be the city .
^ Glad to hear you 're doing well on the whole .
^ Have the medical missionaries arrived yet ?
^ Tell me about Rolomandi mission station then .
^ Where is it ?
^ How come you 're there ?
^ This weekend I was in Wells for a mini holiday as I had Monday and
^ Tuesday off .
^ Twas really good to see people again and I must recommend " Hide " as a top restaurant .
^ It 's on the Kingston and serves the most delicious lamb burgers .
^ Jack Lee also thinks the hand-driers in the bathrooms are amazingly powerful , but Toddy maintains there are more spectacular ones in Ilkley .
^ By the way , what are your plans for the summer ?
^ Are you doing anything from the 11th to the 17th of July ?
^ I 'm looking for people to walk coast to coast with ( up above Wells way ) as I 'm considering doing so as a possible recreational vacational activity .
^ Well , this week is going to be nice and short for me .
^ I have to write a report on the first year ( well , eight months ) of my PhD in the next three weeks , so that will keep me occupied .
^ Hope things are good with you .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Nick , you old water buffalo you ,
^ " I was trying to teach relationships last night - not quite sure if everyone was following though ... " - I 'm assuming you mean relationships of the database variety ...
^ Computer science lectures round the campfire - how could anyone resist ?
^ " What 's known as Dunedin , the bike or the city ? " - That would be the city .
^ Glad to hear you 're doing well on the whole .
^ Have the medical missionaries arrived yet ?
^ Tell me about Rolomandi mission station then .
^ Where is it ?
^ How come you 're there ?
^ This weekend I was in Wells for a mini holiday as I had Monday and
^ Tuesday off .
^ Twas really good to see people again and I must recommend " Hide " as a top restaurant .
^ It 's on the Kingston and serves the most delicious lamb burgers .
^ Jack Lee also thinks the hand-driers in the bathrooms are amazingly powerful , but Toddy maintains there are more spectacular ones in Ilkley .
^ By the way , what are your plans for the summer ?
^ Are you doing anything from the 11th to the 17th of July ?
^ I 'm looking for people to walk coast to coast with ( up above Wells way ) as I 'm considering doing so as a possible recreational vacational activity .
^ Well , this week is going to be nice and short for me .
^ I have to write a report on the first year ( well , eight months ) of my PhD in the next three weeks , so that will keep me occupied .
^ Hope things are good with you .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Gav-boy ! !
^ Greetings .
^ Greetings .
^ Are you not entertained ?
^ I am Maximus Decimus Meridius , commander of the armies of Rome and servant of the true emperor Marcus Aurelius .
^ Of course not .
^ It is good though is n't it .
^ Why have you been getting injections ?
^ Going anywhere pleasant ?
^ Yes Donboy .
^ I 'm going to distant climes , to the land of the mosquito -
^ South Africa .
^ Leaving on April 6th and returning on June 29th .
^ I have been pumped full of immunity and am thus ready to take on the world .
^ So , what have you been up to ?
^ Oh this and that ... wheeling and dealing ... you know the nature of the beast Parker ...
^ Who do you play football with ?
^ Men .
^ Big men .
^ Men with ankles as thick as cedars .
^ How 's the recording going ?
^ Not too shabby thanks .
^ The progress is slow but indubitable .
^ Actually , I was briefly up in Wells last weekend , visiting my bro .
^ I also saw various other people like Savanna , Leilani , Rodrigo , Jack , etc.
^ Reminded me of the good old days ... a bit .
^ It 's been a while though ( for me anyway ) .
^ Right , I need a drink .
^ See ya Forro ,
^ O
^ Malone ,
^ Greetings .
^ Are you not entertained ?
^ I watched Gladiator for the first time last week .
^ Okay , so it 's good after all . )
^ Well , that 's quite a paper ...
^ Looks very complex and impressive .
^ I hope it is excepted ( I mean accepted - what is happening to me ? ! )
^ Why have you been getting injections ?
^ Going anywhere pleasant ?
^ What did they put in you ?
^ Whatever it is it must surely be better than nanotubes .
^ Word on the street is they might not be so friendly to the old aveolar macrophages - ah well .
^ Work is going well and I feel rather motivated .
^ Pity it 's almost bed-time .
^ Tomorrow I 'm going on a course for writing CGI scripts , so that will be fun .
^ Plus , my supervisor is finally building me a computer - at last !
^ So , what have you been up to ?
^ Who do you play football with ?
^ How 's the recording going ?
^ Jonathan Keppel sent me a copy of his new album the other week - it 's very good .
^ Well , enjoy your day off tomorrow .
^ Shania
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Wheeler ,
^ Greetings .
^ I am in pain .
^ I had an injection in each arm today ( dirty great needles ) , and had my thigh kicked in this evening on the 5-a-side pitch .
^ Apart from that life is sweet .
^ Tuesday is my day off , so I 'll be spending some time working on my new recordings .
^ Then it 'll be off to school for some circuit training with my sister and various others ( if I 'm up to it of course ) .
^ My paper has now been submitted .
^ I attach the final version .
^ I will know whether or not it has been accepted sometime in April .
^ Note how I 'm using mono-clausal sentences .
^ For no particularly good reason .
^ Anyway , that is the way of things .
^ Now , I 'm thirsty so I suppose I 'd better go and have a drink .
^ Problem ... solution ... simple yet elegant .
^ Later Parker ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Malone ,
^ Greetings .
^ Are you not entertained ?
^ I watched Gladiator for the first time last week .
^ Okay , so it 's good after all . )
^ Well , that 's quite a paper ...
^ Looks very complex and impressive .
^ I hope it is excepted ( I mean accepted - what is happening to me ? ! )
^ Why have you been getting injections ?
^ Going anywhere pleasant ?
^ What did they put in you ?
^ Whatever it is it must surely be better than nanotubes .
^ Word on the street is they might not be so friendly to the old aveolar macrophages - ah well .
^ Work is going well and I feel rather motivated .
^ Pity it 's almost bed-time .
^ Tomorrow I 'm going on a course for writing CGI scripts , so that will be fun .
^ Plus , my supervisor is finally building me a computer - at last !
^ So , what have you been up to ?
^ Who do you play football with ?
^ How 's the recording going ?
^ Jonathan Keppel sent me a copy of his new album the other week - it 's very good .
^ Well , enjoy your day off tomorrow .
^ Shania
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Wheeler ,
^ Greetings .
^ I am in pain .
^ I had an injection in each arm today ( dirty great needles ) , and had my thigh kicked in this evening on the 5-a-side pitch .
^ Apart from that life is sweet .
^ Tuesday is my day off , so I 'll be spending some time working on my new recordings .
^ Then it 'll be off to school for some circuit training with my sister and various others ( if I 'm up to it of course ) .
^ My paper has now been submitted .
^ I attach the final version .
^ I will know whether or not it has been accepted sometime in April .
^ Note how I 'm using mono-clausal sentences .
^ For no particularly good reason .
^ Anyway , that is the way of things .
^ Now , I 'm thirsty so I suppose I 'd better go and have a drink .
^ Problem ... solution ... simple yet elegant .
^ Later Parker ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ To : All Second and Continuing Third Year Students
^ From : Chloe Rudd , Senior Tutor
^ Re Accommodation 2001-2002
^ As you are all aware , accommodation in College is likely to be very tight next year , due to increased quotas et cetera .
^ We still hope at this stage to honour our pledge to guarantee housing in college for all those who wish in their final year ( except for fourth years who have already spent their third year in ) .
^ We would like to simplify the dendritic ballot system for future years .
^ This will be a rolling process and will not affect those who have already received ballot positions in previous years .
^ eg. current third years who opted to live in for their fourth year will be placed in the system according to the old JCR procedures )
^ Those in the second year of a four year course with no period abroad will now be asked to indicate whether they would prefer to be accommodated this coming year , 2001-02 , or in their final year .
^ Please complete and return the electronic form at the address below letting us know your preferences .
^ If you have moral objections to saving paper , hard copies are available from my office ) .
^ If you would like accommodation in college next year the form must be returned by 6pm on Tuesday January 23 .
^ If you do not return the form by this time , it will be assumed that you do not wish to live in college , and you will have no automatic right to do so .
^ A list will be posted up outside my office and the JCR on Wednesday 24 of those who have applied for a room in college .
^ If we have many more applicants for places in college than there will be rooms available , there may have to be a cut-off point and a reserve list .
^ Room allocation will continue in the usual way this year , and be conducted by the JCR in summer .
^ Please fill in your response before &DATE at : &WEBSITE
^ - and thank-you to Hayley Delong for setting up the form .
^ ~
^ Nick - hi .
^ Sorry not to have been online recently - the stuff in the study / your bedroom is all over the place at the moment , and the pc has been disconnected , due to decorating .
^ I 'm now stopping till after Christmas , so we 're back on line .
^ Room is half done - so at least the potential is clear .
^ Anyway - glad the hat is coming in useful ; it 's been really freezing here this week , until today - now it 's milder and foggy .
^ Going to collect Nayeli tomorrow , staying in Maximus 's overnight , and down via Wife so Camron can go to Gareth Streets ' church on Sunday !
^ Mummy 's staying at home because her gang of boys are doing a presentation in Hungerford Sunday evening .
^ Busy w / end !
^ School ends Wednesday - when are you coming home ?
^ See you soon .
^ Q .
^ Hi Daddy ,
^ Thanks for buying me that hat in Spain , it 's been fantastically useful with all the cycling I 'm doing here in Munich .
^ It has been extremely cold recently - somewhat like that chair-lift !
^ Well ... somewhat .
^ O
^ ~
^ oh how logical you are ...
^ thank you for that response ... .
^ i guess that 's part of our differing personalities ... i go with my feelings and you go with the facts .
^ i want to feel like God is leading me someplace ...
^ you think i should just look at it logically and choose what i want to do .
^ i do agree with what you 're saying though and appreciate your thoughts
^ maybe half the time my problem is that a lot of times i do n't know exactly what i want to do .
^ i feel like it should be some big written in the sky message saying " you should do this "
^ when really it 's much more simple than that .
^ just go with your heart
^ anyways ... i 'm glad you guys came over tonight ...
^ it was good to spend time with you .
^ have a good night .. day ... well , whenever you get this . )
^ Donald
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : Re : wednesday morning emails
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ will you pray for me when you think about it , that I would know what
^ His will is ?
^ Nick -
^ You 're welcome for the CD .
^ i 'm glad you like it .... i thought you would like their style .
^ i think they 're pretty awesome too .
^ are you going to make me a cd of some of your stuff so that i can hear it properly
^ maybe we could get you a record deal in america ... )
^ or maybe i could just listen to it and be amazed at your creative skills ...
^ Yeah , thanks for reminding me that I have to go back in two weeks .
^ i 'm not exactly looking forward to having to leave again .
^ I 've loved being here again and spending time with people that I have missed this year .
^ time is not always brilliant is it ?
^ I do wish i had a few more weeks to spend here .
^ I know too that when I go back I 've really got to decide what it is that God wants me to do ?
^ will you pray for me when you think about it , that I would know what His will is
^ I want desperatly to be able to come back here ... well , you know that ... and i 'm just a little afraid of the possibility that this is n't where God wants me .
^ I know that whatever God 's will is for me will always be the best thing ... but that does n't mean it 's always easy does it ?
^ Who knows though ... maybe I will be back .
^ I 'll be praying for you as you go off to South Africa as well .
^ God will really use you there and that it will be a real blessing for you
^ It 's awesome that you get to go and do that ...
^ i know it will be a good experience for you .
^ ( what exactly are you going to be doing there anyway ? ? )
^ anyway , i should go ...
^ i need a nap before our evening with the Hosiers .
^ i will see you soon ...
^ hope you have a fun time swimming ...
^ Donald
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : Re : wednesday morning emails
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Donald , THANKYOU for the CD .
^ They are a pretty awesome band and incredibly well produced .
^ I ca n't believe how quickly your time here is going ( sorry , you probably do n't want to be reminded ) but I guess it means you have to come back soon ...
^ Time is also hurtling toward my departure for SA , which I am looking forward to , although it seems somewhat surreal at the moment .
^ Anyway , it 's really good to have you here , and I 'll see you ( probably very ) soon ,
^ Nick
^ Find a broadband plan that fits .
^ Great local deals on high-speed Internet access .
^ ~
^ Can you help me come up with a plan ?
^ OK Donald .
^ Here 's the deal ...
^ Camron will be with Zachary and George that day , but she 'll be getting back before dinner .
^ So , you come for dinner at about &TIME , and we 'll know you 're coming so we 'll send Camron to answer the door and hey presto , Carter 's your uncle .
^ How about perhaps we could drive ? ?
^ Yeah , the problem is Donald that there 's a large body of water in the way .
^ It 's called the French Channel , and I do n't fancy our car 's chances .
^ OK , so you probably meant getting a ferry or the channel tunnel or something .
^ I 'll look into it .
^ Sleeping in the car ... hmmmm ... undesirable to say the least , but I suppose it could be done .
^ See you soooooon ,
^ O
^ Lance-
^ I figure a couple of hours a day rigorous mental training ,
^ am i crazy ?
^ Yes .
^ Next question ...
^ Perhaps we could swim ?
^ Still , I 'll bear it in mind ...
^ ~
^ Ginarina ,
^ By the way , March 3rd is my 25th birthday !
^ So we 'll be having a sort-of birthday meal that night - just to warn you !
^ Should be fun ...
^ O
^ Perfect plan lance medlock ! !
^ I love it !
^ I am excited ! ! ! ! thanks for the plan ... you rock !
^ thanks for looking into paris .
^ ( like i did n't KNOW about the French Channel ... DUH ! ) )
^ see you SOON !
^ love gina
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : Re : wednesday morning emails
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Can you help me come up with a plan ?
^ How about perhaps we could drive ? ?
^ Nick -
^ I figure a couple of hours a day rigorous mental training ,
^ am i crazy ?
^ Yes .
^ Next question ...
^ Perhaps we could swim ?
^ Still , I 'll bear it in mind ...
^ ~
^ Donald , we would be very happy to include you in our birthday celebrations .
^ And I want a shed-load of Reece 's Peanut Butter Cups please ...
^ And I 'm just shouting to my parents ...
^ My mum wants some pancake mix and any " gospel / character " posters ( she 'll pay you back ) .
^ My dad wants a " Santana Sunburst " PRS ( he wo n't ) .
^ And that 's it .
^ See you on Wednesday .
^ Probably best if you come to our house for about &TIME .
^ O
^ Hey !
^ I do n't want to intrude on your birthday celebration if you were planning on having a family time ! !
^ You let me know okay ?
^ But if you say you do n't want me to come i will NEVER forgive you . &SMILEY
^ no seriously i 'm excited to see you guys but if that night is n't a good night just let me know .
^ Is there anything you are wanting to have from america ?
^ I 'm bringing your mom hot tamales but other than that i do n't know if you guys want me to bring anything else .
^ i 'm excited that it 's your birthday ... you 're so OLD ! )
^ 4 days and counting ....
^ Donald
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : Re : wednesday morning emails
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Ginarina ,
^ By the way , March 3rd is my 25th birthday !
^ So we 'll be having a sort-of birthday meal that night - just to warn you !
^ Should be fun ...
^ O
^ ~
^ Donald , THANKYOU for the CD .
^ They are a pretty awesome band and incredibly well produced .
^ I ca n't believe how quickly your time here is going ( sorry , you probably do n't want to be reminded ) but I guess it means you have to come back soon ...
^ Time is also hurtling toward my departure for SA , which I am looking forward to , although it seems somewhat surreal at the moment .
^ Anyway , it 's really good to have you here , and I 'll see you ( probably very ) soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ will you pray for me when you think about it , that I would know what
^ His will is ?
^ Donald , for what it 's worth , my personal opinon is that God is far less concerned with exactly WHAT we do than with what happens to us and our character WHILE we 're doing it .
^ Thus , if something is in your heart and you want to do it ...
^ then that 's as good a reason as any for pursuing it until it becomes clear that you either ca n't or should n't be doing it
^ Anyway , that 's just what I think .
^ I 'll pray for you for wisdom .
^ See you in a minute or so !
^ O
^ ~
^ Hey Nick !
^ Glad to hear you 're settling in well .
^ I have a few friends at Chads .
^ Patricia Doyle , she 's in her second year so you probably wo n't know her .
^ Anyhow , I 'll keep my eye out for Kaylee .
^ I know a few PGCE 's who might know her .
^ My work schedule is pretty immense ( but then when is it ever not : op ) .
^ I have teaching practice right through until Christmas , and then after that I just have lectures , essays , a dissertation and my finals .
^ So that 'll be a refreshing change from school and a class full of 8 / 9 year olds ! &SMILEY
^ So how 's your work going and stuff ?
^ Are you enjoying your lectures and getting a lot out of it ?
^ I imagine doing a Masters is pretty hard work .
^ I did n't know about the NCSC graduation thingy .
^ Sounds groovy , though , so I might be tempted to pop along and be reunited with lots of wonderful people again ! !
^ Anyhow , a drink sounds cool whenever you 're free .
^ With it being half term I have a little bit more time on my hands , so I 'm free Friday and Saturday .
^ Or on Sunday my mates and I are having a bit of a curry night if you and your mates want to join us .
^ We 're meeting at Baskin bar for some drinks then going for a curry .
^ Anyhow , let me know when you 're free and we can figure something out .
^ It 'll be cool to catch up !
^ Take care and have a fun day ! !
^ Eliana : op
^ On &DATE ,
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Eliana !
^ So , you 're from ACE Convention ! !
^ I always thought you were Irish ? !
^ Er ... sorry .
^ Thanks for emailing me !
^ I 'm in Kassidy College , and I 'm living just down the road in " Eachard Road " .
^ I am settling in well - it seems like I 've been here for ages !
^ Kaylee is actually at Rowntrees Ronald I think , although she 's studying at Hometon .
^ Her surname is Ropp .
^ By the way , are you going to the NCSC graduation ceremony thingy on the 2nd
^ Nov ?
^ I 've heard good things about Community Faith Church - maybe I 'll visit there sometime .
^ Thanks for the info .
^ We should meet up for a drink sometime .
^ What 's your work schedule like at the moment ?
^ Well , I 'll be seeing you ,
^ ~
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick !
^ It 's Eliana here , from ACE Convention .
^ I hope this is the right address for you and I 'm not emailing some random person who has n't the foggiest who I am - it has happened to me before ! !
^ I trust you and your friends have settled in well and are enjoying everything Munich has to offer .
^ I 've been looking out for your friend
^ Kaylee who 's at Homerton , but not knowing her surname she 's proved difficult to find !
^ So what college are you at ?
^ Have you managed to find a church yet ?
^ I 'm at Community Faith Church which is held at Parkside Community College .
^ The church is made up of mainly students and is pretty much a pentecostal church .
^ If you and your friends want to come visit the church sometime , you 'd be very welcome .
^ The Sunday morning meeting starts at 10am with tea / coffee and then properly at &TIME .
^ The website is &WEBSITE for the church , but sometimes it 's just good to know what churches are out there if you have n't already found one .
^ I 'm sorry it 's taken me a few weeks to get in touch .
^ The first time I tried to find your address the server could n't find it .
^ Anyhow , I hope your term 's going well and stuff .
^ I 'd really like to meet your friend Kaylee and welcome her to Homerton .
^ It would be great if you could let me know her surname so I can drop a note in her pigeon hole .
^ If you 've got any questions regarding ANYTHING about Munich , let me know .
^ Take care and hopefully I 'll see you around !
^ Eliana &SMILEY
^ ~
^ lance only 2 more hours of lectures to go tomorrow , and a fortran programming project to be handed in ! nearly there ! although the fortran does n't seem to want to give me the right answer clarexx
^ training with the footie team - you did n't " accidentally " plan that did you ? when does your term finish ?
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Rylie ,
^ Yes , I was there ! ! !
^ Although it was a pretty hectic weekend .
^ The party was great and I even got to train with the footy team ! !
^ Next time I come up we MUST meet up .
^ Till then ,
^ O
^ lance i 'm sorry i did n't get to see you this weekend .
^ i do n't think i was ever in the same place as you at the same time ...
^ hope rav 's party was good fun .
^ hows life down south ?
^ love clarexx
^ ~
^ Good stuff Jessie .
^ I do n't have to think about serious study for at least a month yet !
^ Yay !
^ Though I 'll be ready for it when it comes ...
^ I hope ...
^ Glad you like the CD .
^ Nick
^ Hey , Nick !
^ Thanks so much for the CD !
^ I really like it- the music is a lot of fun and I like the lyrics too .
^ I remember a few of the songs from the ones you played us that one night this summer .
^ Your CD is really good .
^ Keira and I have both been listening to it a bunch .
^ We 'll work on making it popular over here !
^ That 's great about your funding coming through for the PhD program !
^ That 's really exciting !
^ We just started classes up again on Monday and we 've already have tons of information to learn .
^ Our professors are n't wasting any time at all !
^ It 's rough getting back into the swing of studying so much , but it has been really fun seeing friends and classmates .
^ Also , I looked on line and found some of those songs , so you do n't have to worry about typing them up .
^ Thanks , though .
^ Ken and I led worship at our first Christian Medical Association meeting on Monday and we did the version of " Be Thou My Vision " that we did in Africa -
^ I really like that version of the hymn .
^ Alrighty , I better go .
^ I 've got lots of studying to do tonight .
^ Thanks again for the CD !
^ It 's really good ! - Jessie
^ ~
^ Well Jon , you know what I say ...
^ " Who needs a job anyway ! ! "
^ I have been looking at rational functions today , and am please to say that I think I 'm getting the hang of it .
^ Next week I 'm off to visit Kaden ( you know , the one who thought we were going out ) with my friend Stevo .
^ We are spending a few nights in the Peak District - should be fun .
^ Then I 'm going to a Jade Jamesal concert the next week with my Dad , Mallory , Anna and JC .
^ He 's bald now ( JT , not Mallory ) .
^ I watched about two minutes of Neighbours the other day .
^ It was ABYSMAL .
^ Love Nick
^ so , the guinea pigs .
^ i think you might be a little bemused by this -
^ it is probably one of those " had to be there " situations , but basically ... you know my father now teaches at this independent school
^ well , they have plenty of spare cash to fling around , and they have a number of school pets .
^ i did n't realise this , and when i went into help dad with lesson prep .
^ i was following him round the outside of the building , when we turned a corner and i was confromted by a field in which lay ten or so of the most indolent guinea pigs
^ ( plus a couple of rabbits with massive floppy ears ) you have ever seen .
^ it was like they were on sleeping pills .
^ they were all just lying there and nibbling grass , their noses bobbing up and down .
^ at which point , i heard a cockerel screech and turned round to see three of them behind me .
^ then i heard a sqwark , and in another small field nearby was a goose and a shetland pony .
^ they looked quite happy together .
^ fortunatley , i missed the rats , as they were asleep .
^ by this time , i was basically gibbering , and dad abandoned me to my screeches
^ it was just a really random scene to be in the middle of .
^ but i enjoyed it !
^ i have n't got a temping job this week so i 'm shopping and seeing firedns -
^ rav is coming down this w/e , and i met tessa in bham today and saw her ecuador photos .
^ went to tim gillford 's last w/e for his 21st - and wow , suffolk is just so much fun to be leaving .
^ have n't got a job yet , in case you were tempted to ask ( why not
^ peoples ' concern for my jobless state seems to be at the forefront of the minds of most people
^ i ca n't really tell the vicar to shut up , even though he asks me at five day intervals .
^ my sister and the mother are away at the mo , it 's just me and dad for a bit of father daughter bonding .
^ that means cake
^ hope all 's well with you .
^ your book sounds ... entertaining .
^ it 's back to fun reading ( but no money , no job ) for me is best ?
^ am currently enjoying neighbours and murder she wrote ...
^ lots of love cat
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^ ~
^ Wheeler ,
^ Greetings .
^ I am in pain .
^ I had an injection in each arm today ( dirty great needles ) , and had my thigh kicked in this evening on the 5-a-side pitch .
^ Apart from that life is sweet .
^ Tuesday is my day off , so I 'll be spending some time working on my new recordings .
^ Then it 'll be off to school for some circuit training with my sister and various others ( if I 'm up to it of course ) .
^ My paper has now been submitted .
^ I attach the final version .
^ I will know whether or not it has been accepted sometime in April .
^ Note how I 'm using mono-clausal sentences .
^ For no particularly good reason .
^ Anyway , that is the way of things .
^ Now , I 'm thirsty so I suppose I 'd better go and have a drink .
^ Problem ... solution ... simple yet elegant .
^ Later Parker ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ It 's a wonderfully sunny Saturday morning and that is good .
^ How goes it in the far south ?
^ What have you been up to lately ?
^ Are you still teaching , composing , and preparing papers ?
^ I just thought I 'd write you a quick email to dust the cobwebs out of my head and exercise my fingers .
^ I hope you and all your family are well .
^ I watched Star
^ Trek : The Motion Picture the other night - very enjoyable ; I had n't seen it since I was about 8 years old , I think .
^ I am keeping busy with the PhD and the computer course .
^ I have finished the first module now and so can give myself a month off until the next one comes out .
^ That is good because now I can spend a little time on the nanotubes , which were beginning to feel left out I expect .
^ Apart from that , life carries on much as it has this past age ( I love that line ! ) .
^ Well , I shall no doubt give you a call sometime in the next week or so .
^ All the best ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ I was asked to recommend a possible intern for Visionware Research , here and said you might be interested .
^ Hi Alfie , thankyou very much for putting my name forward for this .
^ It sounds really interesting , and I definitely would have seriously considered it , but unfortunately I am unable to , as I 'm now committed to teaching until Easter when I go to SA .
^ On the paper front , I have joined the RSNPO " mentoring " program and am currently in touch with a guy called Reynolds Hester who has made a few suggestions for improvements .
^ Hope all is well Alfie ,
^ Nick
^ I was asked to recommend a possible intern for Visionware Research , here and said you might be interested .
^ Initially it wld be for 3mths and involve good pay so maybe you cld fit it in or around your Sth Africa trip .
^ I imagine you wld be able to keep a link / consultancy deal during your PhD if you did a good job .
^ They approached me because it has some links to the evolutionary simulations of language development / change and of populations of language users work that I 've done ( see on-line papers on my home page e.g. Evol .
^ Perspective on Diachronic Syntax ) .
^ But they are looking at applications in the computer games industry where AI " agents have linguistic skills and learn by reinforcement what are useful things to say to other players on the team in the usual shoot-em-up " scenario .
^ I think it would be intellectually interesting and the guys involved at MSR are smart and interesting .
^ Let me know ( either way ) if this is of interest and I 'll put you in touch ,
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ Breunaz ,
^ in each boiler , there 's enough energy in 1 minute to send a car to the moon .
^ Well , they probably did n't tell you that one cos I calculated it .
^ You sad bar steward .
^ only joking )
^ I am feeling much better today - the weekend was good , although I 'm extremely annoyed to find .
^ the flipping timer on the video recorder did n't work so I missed my program on the " Theory of Everything "
^ Most disappointing .
^ Received a new CD in the post today - Shawn Hibbard " Soul 's Core " .
^ What a voice !
^ Got kicked in the face playing football on Saturday , so I 'm feeling a bit sore still .
^ Had my photo taken in school today - remember school photos ? !
^ Your stomach bug experience sounds truly disgusting - a real nightmare .
^ Mind you , what a story !
^ SA is still definitely going ahead at the moment , but I 'll let you know if anything changes ...
^ Take it easy Samos ,
^ Nick
^ Nick !
^ Yay for Drax .
^ Let me think , what interesting facts would they have told you ... that the turbine hall is 1 / 4 mile long ( eat your heart out
^ Tate-Modern ) , that it generates 10 % of UK electricity , that in each boiler , there 's enough energy in 1 minute to send a car to the moon .
^ Well , they probably did n't tell you that one cos I calculated it .
^ Soz to hear about the throat .
^ At least you got a day away from the kids for it though .
^ I had a day of illness too , but slightly less pleasant .
^ It involved falling ill with a stomach bug ( at both ends ) while in the desert with a 4WD stuck in 2nd gear .
^ We spent most of the day in a local garage waiting for them to fix the car .
^ Well , I say in the garage .
^ I spent most of it in the bathroom , asian stylee , with no bog roll and scant running water .
^ Just imagine .
^ Well there you go .
^ Do n't you want to eat your dinner now .
^ So let me know when you hear any exciting news , like funding .
^ Are you still going to SA too in the new year ?
^ If not , fancy a trip to Oman and then round the world ?
^ Still soliciting for friends !
^ OK , to bed now , take it easy
^ sam
^ ~
^ Nick !
^ Yay for Drax .
^ Let me think , what interesting facts would they have told you ... that the turbine hall is 1 / 4 mile long ( eat your heart out
^ Tate-Modern ) , that it generates 10 % of UK electricity , that in each boiler , there 's enough energy in 1 minute to send a car to the moon .
^ Well , they probably did n't tell you that one cos I calculated it .
^ Soz to hear about the throat .
^ At least you got a day away from the kids for it though .
^ I had a day of illness too , but slightly less pleasant .
^ It involved falling ill with a stomach bug ( at both ends ) while in the desert with a 4WD stuck in 2nd gear .
^ We spent most of the day in a local garage waiting for them to fix the car .
^ Well , I say in the garage .
^ I spent most of it in the bathroom , asian stylee , with no bog roll and scant running water .
^ Just imagine .
^ Well there you go .
^ Do n't you want to eat your dinner now .
^ So let me know when you hear any exciting news , like funding .
^ Are you still going to SA too in the new year ?
^ If not , fancy a trip to Oman and then round the world ?
^ Still soliciting for friends !
^ OK , to bed now , take it easy
^ sam
^ ~
^ Groining ,
^ Whoah ! !
^ Easy there lance , whats got into you ?
^ Bad day at work ?
^ I was innocently checking my e-mail at work when I was confronted with your somewhat unrestrained e-mail .
^ Are you OK ?
^ My tongue was firmly in my cheek - no cause for alarm !
^ How come they can get 7 / 8 hours on this DVD in pretty good quality , but only 2 pixels in for LOTR ?
^ Beats me .
^ Perhaps we have differing standards you and I ... &SMILEY
^ So what are you teaching then master benjo ?
^ Lots of general stuff , but most specifically art and music !
^ I am doing an arrangement of " Oh Happy Day " with the kids at the moment - with me doing the soaring gospel solos of course .
^ I have n't showered the Canadian girl yet ; probably wo n't happen for a couple of weeks .
^ Nothing much else to report .
^ Watched " The Italian Job " last night ( new one ) .
^ Not bad , but not a patch of Mohammad Caine .
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ Subject : yes
^ Join the damn health club ...
^ girl up for a night and show her around this part of the country !
^ And the canadian girl ?
^ I read it the first time as " and shower her around this part of the country " .
^ I 'm sure you can imagine the look on my face and the double take .
^ In fact , I 'm sure you could imagine more vividly what would have happened if Lad read it .
^ ~
^ stop it !
^ STOP IT ! !
^ I just ca n't take any more of that lip-guard action , so cunningly crafted to resemble a moustache ! !
^ What a turn-on ! !
^ ~
^ Subject : yes
^ Join the damn health club ...
^ Whoah ! !
^ Easy there lance , whats got into you ?
^ Bad day at work ?
^ I was innocently checking my e-mail at work when I was confronted with your somewhat unrestrained e-mail .
^ Are you OK ?
^ Anyway , the website has been updated once again .
^ Lots of new pics and stories .
^ Not sure about the format though ... any ideas for improvements ?
^ Watched Godfather 1 last week .
^ It was actually quite good quality , not much noticeable compression at normal viewing distance .
^ Looking closer , you could see a little blurring / pixellation .
^ How come they can get 7 / 8 hours on this DVD in pretty good quality , but only 2 pixels in for LOTR ?
^ So what are you teaching then master benjo ?
^ Science / english / religion / geography ? ? ? ?
^ Strange .
^ Oh , I sent you a postcard today .
^ You 'll have to wait in suspense .
^ girl up for a night and show her around this part of the country !
^ And the canadian girl ?
^ I read it the first time as " and shower her around this part of the country " .
^ I 'm sure you can imagine the look on my face and the double take .
^ In fact , I 'm sure you could imagine more vividly what would have happened if Lad read it .
^ So has she come and gone yet or are you still anticipating the , ahem , moment ?
^ Talk to ya soon ,
^ sam
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Sorry for the delay ... Work kinda enveloped my whole life for a while .
^ That 's what working in the city is like , and that 's not what I want for my life !
^ Anyways , finished with it all now , which is nice .
^ So , my situation .
^ Well , not absolutely sure to be honest .
^ I 'm almost probably definitely going to Milan with OM in the new year to work with Muslims ...
^ I fancied something a bit random , but building walls in some south american country did n't really grab me ... but as islam interests me )
^ i fancy learning french , the paris thing sounded like a cool thing to do ... still not sure exactly what it will involve
^ whether they are going to want me to do street drama etc.
^ ( if they do they can forget it !
^ Anyways , i 'm going away next weekend to find out more info about it .
^ Until then , I 'm going to try to do scummy work to earn a bit of money .
^ The project will cost about 3,000 quid so I 'm going to have to work quite hard to raise that much .
^ I might try living in Munich ( if I can find a room to let ) , otherwise I 'll go back to Exeter .
^ I just find I get a bit restless in Exeter , so I 'd rather be in dur
^ After July ... not sure .
^ do you fancy going treking in Nepal ?
^ A friend has just got back from there and it looked amazing .
^ I 've decided I 'd quite like to go , so if you 're interested let me know !
^ What are you up to ?
^ Still teaching ?
^ It would be great to meet up some time .
^ Glad to hear you 're playing footy ... I wish I was !
^ I 've played a bit of basketball recently which has been good ... realised spending 7 years away from the game does n't help your ability to play ... but its coming back .
^ Bo .
^ Hopefully see you soon !
^ Cheers , Christian .
^ What up Christian ? !
^ Played football today for my local club .
^ We lost 2-1 and I got CANED in the face , rendering two of my front teeth virtually useless ( temporarily at least ! ) .
^ What 's your situation like at the moment ?
^ Anything interesting going on ?
^ I 've had depressingly few emails recently , so I can only surmise that all my friends have died .
^ ~
^ O
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^ ~
^ Mr B ,
^ But I thought my actions over the summer would have put an end to Eliana 's advances .
^ She obviously knows what she wants and , dare I say it , is prepared to stop at nothing to get it !
^ Just attended a weekend conference with OM ... all about how to raise money , what to expect etc. with regard to working with Muslims in Milan .
^ All a bit daunting really .
^ They kept using the words " calling " and " missionary " , which gives me a bit of an odd feeling .
^ Still , I guess a missionary is kinda what I 'll be .
^ A cool one though .
^ Am currently at home after finishing my slave labour job in Carlisle ... A very similar job has turned up in Carlisle , but this time paid , so hopefully I 'll be starting that on Monday .
^ I seem to spend my whole time moving about these days !
^ How is your paper going ?
^ Made any decisions about PhD 's yet ?
^ Cheers ,
^ Christian .
^ ~
^ Hey buddy sorry i di n't repy before ; have been inhospital all week , as I impaled my lower leg on a fence spike , jumping over to fetch a football .
^ Nice .
^ 5 inches in and there i was suspended upside down from my shin .
^ Painful .
^ Anyway , i was pretty lucky -
^ did n't do any major damage , ie lgaments , tendons , etc -
^ just some muschle damage , now on crutches for a bit .
^ Pain in the ass .
^ 
^ anyway thanks for emailing me- had an awesome time in Tanzania over the summer- climbed kilimanjaro- a long story
^ i wuld dealry love to see you and Nayeli over the holidays- its been far too long
^ Possible ?
^ let me know sam
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Greetings Samuel ! !
^ Sorry I 'm not around this year to KICK YOUR BUTT at squash , but I guess we have to live with disappointment .
^ How are things ?
^ How was your time abroad in the summer ?
^ How 's work going ?
^ I 'm back home now , taking a sabbatical year .
^ Actually I 'm teaching at Victoria school three days a week ; wanted to spend a bit of time with my family .
^ In the new year I 'm planning to spend a few months in South Africa doing some voluntary work , and then hopefully I 'll be starting a PhD next
^ October , possibly back in Munich .
^ Hope you 're well old boy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Shallom Aimee .
^ Leach .
^ I 'll say it again - !
^ You sun of a gun .
^ Yeah , I 'm looking forward to Hull now , but I have got quite a bit of maths to learn before I arrive !
^ His grace be with you too !
^ Nick
^ Yo Nick ,
^ Good to talk the other week .
^ You 're great , you are .
^ My news is in a separate email .
^ Hope you have no problems reading it .
^ If you do then let me know .
^ Hope Hull University , or whichever fine establishment iot is you 're off to , meets approval .
^ Keep in touch .
^ Hope to see you soon .
^ Hope you are satisfied with life and still finding time to spend with God .
^ He 's great , God is !
^ His grace be with you ,
^ Aimee .
^ ~
^ as I impaled my lower leg on a fence spike , jumping over to fetch a football .
^ OWWWWWWCH .
^ That sounds horrendous .
^ Still , what a story for the ladies ... !
^ Vaguely reminiscent of Crocodile Dundee ...
^ Would be lovely to meet up - we 're going snowboarding over Christmas , but will have a think about after that ...
^ Take it easy boyo ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Willy ,
^ Working with Muslims ... sounds promising .
^ It 's strange not quite knowing where you 're going in life is n't it .
^ Christian , you 'd make a fine , with your eye-catching looks , deeply masculine voice and irresistible charisma !
^ Ahem .
^ Guess what , I saw Eliana the other day !
^ Turns out she 's still got the hots for me - a friend of hers had a quiet word with my Mum about it .
^ Quite funny I guess .
^ Do n't really think it 's going to happen though - oh dear .
^ I 'm still teaching ; doing full-time this week cos my Mum 's away and I 'm taking her place on the days I 'm not usually in .
^ It 's tiring but I like it .
^ Do n't think I 'd want to do it as a career though , at least not yet .
^ Have been playing a fair amount of footy and stuff - you must not let your talent go to waste young man ! !
^ Get your boots on .
^ After July ... not sure .
^ do you fancy going treking in Nepal ?
^ Sounds fun .
^ Who knows , maybe ...
^ Lots of sweet loving ,
^ Kane
^ ~
^ O
^ This email was forwarded via the University of Munich alumni email system
^ Visit &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Is it ! ?
^ Do they know / sense that ?
^ Flip .
^ Is n't the saying " practise what you preach " ?
^ Christian , as far as I 'm concerned , feeling your butt is never appropriate ...
^ though there was that one time ...
^ Anyway I digress .
^ The point is that " feel my butt " is an appropriate slogan for your general attitude and behaviour when around women .
^ H
^ ~
^ Telly two ?
^ Rylee , I was doing some theorising the other night , and came up with some interesting results ...
^ Thought you might want to check my workings though ... have a look at the attached document .
^ to the tune of a popular football chant )
^ you 're so conscientious its unbelievable
^ BTW jake , you are invited for telly two ( naturally )
^ TV - I may take you up on that one Rylee .
^ Will let you know ...
^ I am indeed working .
^ Have a lot of scripts to write and stuff .
^ I 'm going to try and do quite a bit of work now because things become rather hectic as I approach my thesis deadline , !
^ i.e. I 've got three consecutive weddings in July , two on the two weekends before my thingy is due in , and one on the weekend after
^ U.N.C.L.E .
^ On &DATE , Rylee Macer wrote :
^ Thanks for the reply The Man From .
^ Are you at work ?
^ I think we need to find you an award for being the person in munich .
^ So I 'm struggling to think of anything funny to say .
^ Oh , whaddya call him
^ Samuel Hazeldine is presenting Have I Got News For You tonight .
^ Should be funny .
^ If you 're bored and not otherwised engaged , why not come round for some saturday night telly .
^ Parky ( 9.30 ) , Haguey ( 10.30 ) ...
^ Hi there Play It Again .
^ I 've had the most vile lunch at Rosie Chan 's Chinese place .
^ O
^ On &DATE , Rylee Macer wrote :
^ ~
^ I 'm really enjoying the actual teaching although I had no idea how complicated it was having to break concepts down into something .
^ children can understand , especially when they are very different from you and learn in different ways
^ I 'm doing some extra work on how boys learn and also how to get them interested in French .
^ is really interesting and useful because it is those kind of boys who work in a very different way from me
^ Lectures are really interesting .
^ They are very creative and I 'm really interested in everything we 're doing ..... it definitely suits me !
^ We spent this week looking at creative ways of getting children to write poetry and we did some poetry too and I was really lost in it .... the first time that 's happened to me for ages .
^ I like teaching French better than drama and I 'm also enjoying the english languague part of it which is surprising .
^ I think I might decide to just be an French teacher if I do decide to be a teacher .
^ I hate getting up so early and cycling in the dark .
^ I also feel like I have assignments coming out of my ears !
^ They are really really interesting but there are just too many and I have Monday afternoons off .
^ also Tuesday afternoons sometimes but I really need to spend that time working and then have to do everything else as well as a bit more work at weekends
^ It 's probably good for me but definitely exhausting .
^ Anyway , that 's how my work is .... I LOVE teaching year sevens and eights ... they are so sweet !
^ i love it when they understand something or when they 're really imaginative or really responsive to you ... anyway I 'm just turning intoa sad old teacher
^ Better get on with my marking !
^ Seriously that 's what I 'm doing !
^ Tabitha
^ PS .
^ I 'm going to buy a computer ( thought you 'd be interested ) PPS ) I 'm going to be Kate 's bridesmaid ( much more interesting ! )
^ PPPS I really miss college
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ On the whole , yes .
^ Sometimes I get scared because I 'm not understanding some concept or other , but most of the time I 'm OK .
^ I 'm really enjoying being part of college and playing football , going to bops , chatting to people etc .
^ I 'm also really enjoying the practical work we have to do - it is so good to have a purpose again !
^ Your work sounds a lot more demanding ( physically and emotionally , if not mentally ) than mine though !
^ How are you handling it ?
^ Nick
^ On 17 Oct &YEAR , A. Ropp wrote :
^ are you enjoying yourself ?
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ I was not stressed when I wrote " Ofcourse it does n't mean I ca n't come ... " you misinterpret me
^ I was not stressed when I wrote " Ofcourse it does n't mean I ca n't come ... " you misinterpret me
^ On &DATE , L.C. Malone wrote :
^ go this
^ ~
^ Women do n't have egos and if I was a man I would n't have an ego
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Problem is , if you 're as bad at cricket as I am the possibility of utter humiliation is always around the corner !
^ At least an essay is safer for the ego .
^ On 5 May &YEAR , A. Ropp wrote :
^ If you could see me now I would be sticking my tounge out at you .
^ Cricket seems a zillion times more delightful than this essay which has got about one hundred million words in the title alone .
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Ha ha !
^ On 5 May &YEAR , A. Ropp wrote :
^ I wish I was a boy
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ ~
^ the " telly two " was actually a genuine mistake . oops .
^ Had a text from a girl asking if she could send me something through the mail ... Should I say yes ?
^ ask her what it is .
^ if its a letter bomb then say no .
^ if its &pound; 10,000 then say yes .
^ anything else , come back for a second security council resolution .
^ Christian " F.M.B " Plantagenet .
^ whats that ?
^ Christian " Feel my Butt " Plantagenet ?
^ ~
^ That is very good , buddio !
^ I 'm glad you got moved in ok .
^ I 'm pretty shattered and am only just starting to feel slightly settled in here , though I am almost dreading the weekend .
^ as there will be nothing to do except see people , as my first module will be done , and for once , that scares me
^ I guess I just do n't really want to make that many more good friends , though it would be great if I had some brilliant friends here .
^ It is weird , but at college I would say that about 60 - 70 % of my friends were girls , as I just got on better with them on the whole .
^ here , I am very relectant to invite any over for coffee etc , as I do n't want them to get the wrong idea
^ I do n't want to have to always mention Karri , so that they leave me alone
^ I do n't really know what to do , cause it is like , I want to be friends with people , but certainly do not want a new girl .
^ I guess I was never scared about meeting girls before , as I was always on the lookout for one , but now I have found Ka )
^ search has stopped , and I am so , so happy ( except that we are 7000000 miles apart most of the time !
^ Do you understand what I am saying ?
^ Anyway , I am getting on well with the guys here , who are mainly foreign and in my house at least , trying to get better qualified so that they can get a job in something more interesting .
^ I 'm trying hard not to be uppity , like , " went to a good university and got a good degree " but I sometimes have to catch myself .
^ Keep smiling , and in contact .
^ You are a great friend .
^ Oh , you 'll love this , I 'm playing guitar at CU on Wednesday ...
^ It begins .
^ Take care of yourself , Nick .
^ Bob
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Everything you 'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Roots &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Attached WORD document + attempt at text version
^ At last the silence is broken ... ...
^ His Lordship will now speak !
^ I have been hiding away in my little hole for the last while happily recieving the e- mails you underlings have been sending me )
^ I have finally returned to you , so as to bestow upon you , blessings of my wonderful and extrodinary wisdom .
^ Tabitha , I hope you wont be too offended by my e-mail .
^ I 'm warning you in advance that I disagree about a few of the points which you raised in your last message .
^ Ahem ... .
^ Robert K. Greetings 's Pearls of Wisdom , September &YEAR
^ Lunches .... .
^ As Sawyer says , Boys eat more that girls .
^ I do n't want it to be a burden on your shoulders .
^ Things like bread , margarine and other staples I think should be bought as a group , but fillings can be bought separatly .
^ I am willing to change my stance on this if you wish , but this is my opinion .
^ point 6 cost of food .
^ I agree with Tabitha .
^ We can eat well , cheaply .
^ I am the master of stingy , high quality cooking .
^ ( the secret is to add bread cubes .... . )
^ TV .
^ I 'm cool with either having a TV and video , or having nothing at all .
^ I do n't need to watch anything though , ie no licence .
^ Cutlery .
^ If you want I can bring some of mine , but I think Nick has a nicer set .
^ Candles are cool .
^ Bring them .
^ We do n't need a food processer , but if gaving wants one , Ok , I guess .
^ Microwave ... .
^ I 've never heard about microwave cooking being un nutritious .
^ Where did Tabitha hear that ?
^ I 'm happy to buy one .
^ Splitting the cost of stuff .
^ Bad Idea !
^ Allow me to explain ... .
^ If we all pay for the things , how do we work out who gets to keep what ?
^ Things like food processors , and microwaves are hard things to slip five ways at the end of a year .
^ so I feel that it would be a better idea if people just kept the things which they bought
^ Ie , Jon keeps the plates , me the microwave , and rav the food proc .
^ If anyone wants to fight about this one , I have my sabre ready !
^ Prayer .
^ I definatly agree with Tabitha .
^ Prayer is good .
^ perhaps we should get a prayer diary which we could write prayer requests in .
^ No joke about prayer meeting .
^ I think that it would be a great idea .
^ As for being humble , I 'll leave that to you guys , and you can call me , Your Lordship " or The Envied One " .
^ SAWYER 'S FLAT STUFF VERSION 2 comment 's
^ Coords of the flat are off by 0.3 degrees S. I checked those last term .
^ I 'm thinking about getting a GPS thing by the way !
^ I heard that the OK military is no longer dithering the signals .
^ Cool , eh ? ! )
^ Are the curtains really that bad , Sawyer ?
^ When I ask that question , I 'm asking from my standards , which as you know are not quite the same as yours .
^ Account - cool , Went do you want the check ?
^ 2D ? what is that ?
^ Breakfasts .
^ Same as before , some people eat more than others .
^ I think we should have a separate supply of butter for lance 's toast . )
^ But I suppose we can do what ever .
^ We can always change these things through the year .
^ Hinkle of food .
^ Once more , if we are economic , we will be fine .
^ but , it really wo n't matter that much about the bills .
^ as we will all be paying for these out of the account , so as long as it does n't get out of hand ....
^ Democracy .... .
^ Hah !
^ I am the self appointed ruler .
^ I will delegate jobs to you my darling underlings according to your worth .
^ My this next year will be fun , wo n't it ? ! )
^ I can bring dusters etc , if you want , Dish cloths too .
^ Ditto with the microwave .
^ I have a toaster , but it is quite ancient .
^ I think it works though .
^ Cool , I hope that was useful for you guys .
^ It 's good that we are sorting this out now .
^ Thanks !
^ I 've been busy with work , loads of fat stupid tourists .
^ Quotation of the month ... .
^ " Is that you talking , or is it a recording ? "
^ Duh ! ! ! ! )
^ Actually , there are less tourists now ,
^ Oh well .
^ Things are still not going wonderfully well with my boss , so if you could pray about that , that would be cool .
^ Only two more weeks left !
^ Wahey !
^ I 'm REALLY looking forward to seeing y'all here in Munich .
^ Plan is so far .... -bring sleeping bags if you have them , as it will make my mom 's life easier .
^ If you do n't have any , That 's Ok , cause we 've got plenty of sheets here .
^ Also , if there is n't ewnought room in your bags for a sleeping bag , than , we can give you bedding .
^ No worries ! -I think everyone is arriving on Sunday .
^ Any time in the afternoon / evening is good !
^ I had origionally thought about punting down to granchester and staying there , ie camping , overnight , but now .
^ I think it might be easier , and more fun to punt down there , and then backi again to munich , but return to my house to sleep .
^ if we wanrted to camp , I 'd have to sort out stuff with farmers
^ ie " can I camp in your field please ? " , and still , we'ed have to share the fields with cows
^ So , we can just punt down , take some drinks and munchies , and then return to Munich later , to sleep .
^ If any of you are desparate to sleep outside , we could also sleep on the punt , as there might ( just ) be enough room .
^ Should be loads of fun whatever .
^ Punting at night is cool ! ( but you have to watch out for the fenlanders ... ... )
^ I also thought about taking you punting down the river in the daytime , to show you the backs of the colleges , a very touristy thing to do .
^ Anyway , we can play it by ear . -
^ Is there anything that any of you a re allergic to ?
^ Or that you really hate , ie food wise .
^ If you tell me now , we can plan food accordingly . -
^ I 'm looking forward to seeing you all .
^ It will be great ! ! ! !
^ I 've now finished the second draft of my novel .
^ I 'm sure you guys will all be tormented with me going on about it next year .
^ Actually , It would be good if those english students amougst us read it .
^ I would be interested in hearing what you think of it .
^ Plenty of time for that , next term .
^ Ok I think that that is it .
^ Take care ,
^ Bob
^ Oh , and if My dad has n't sent this to everyone , could someone , ( I 'll pick Sawyer ! ) forward this to the others .
^ Cool .
^ Thanks . &SMILEY
^ Vern Greetings
^ Department of Statistical Science
^ University College Carlisle Tel : ( 060 ) 8486 4240
^ Gower Street Fax : ( 060 ) 8242 8204
^ Kane KI4Q 6BT UK
^ ~
^ Hi Zachary ,
^ Just thought I 'd drop you an email to say thanks for the walking stick ( ! ) and also how nice it was to see you and George here today .
^ Remember to keep resting that leg and not doing too much with it , also be diligent in your physio exercises !
^ There , that 's my lecture finished .
^ I 'm working quite hard on my Munich preparation at the moment , although this coming week I 'm going up to Sheffield with Regan Morand to stay with someone I know from Wells who lives near the Peak District .
^ Hopefully my ankle will have recovered enough to go on a few nice hill-walks !
^ I 'm not sure how this M / Phil is going to pan out .
^ I 'm expecting it to be a lot of work , but I 'm not sure .
^ whether I 'll come home for the whole of the Christmas and Easter holidays , or whether I 'll stay in Kassidy for part of them
^ It partly depends on my finances I suppose .
^ It has been quite tough for me this holiday , having finished University and suddenly feeling quite lost and alone .
^ I 'm looking forward to getting stuck into student life again , although these last few months have been a valuable chance to look at some painful issues between me and God , and do a bit of soul-searching .
^ Well , till we meet again !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ finally made it to see the new bond film .
^ Really enjoyed it ( your right there was some shocking computer graphics - but the innuendo was tame by wells standards ! )
^ Also I think this time Pierce Blauvelt finally attain and maybe surpass Garth Connery levels of smoothness ( and I did n't think that was possible ! )
^ I 've heard some vicious rumours that Tabitha is now in Munich .
^ If she 's around next Saturday I would n't mind seeing her .
^ Well , actually it 'd be nice to see her again as long as she 's a bit friendlier than her former roomate when I see her .
^ She made Miss Gabriel seem positively burning hot and I 've only ever tried to be her friend .
^ Makes me think maybe you can never be good friends with girls .
^ Anyway off to learn some ornithological skills .
^ Look forward to seeing you next Saturday .
^ Isabel
^ ps. by the way what 's your mobile number .
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote : 7th sounds good Isabel - it 's a date .
^ Have n't seen HP ( no great desire to either ! ) but I have seen the new JB - quite enjoyed it , although there are some fairly shocking bits and some outrageous inuendo !
^ Right , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ With Yahoo! Mail you can get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs
^ ~
^ Jimmy ,
^ I think we all know that Aaron downplayed his intelligence so that you would n't feel bad .
^ Under that soft and downy exterior is a mind as sharp as ... as a very , very sharp thing .
^ How do you find out how compatible you are with someone , love-wise ?
^ I would like to find out if there is any future in my relationship with Bob .
^ Let 's gloss over the price of my shoes ; they 're a sore point ( literally , as well- I have a horrible blister ) .
^ The whole Davies family ( yes , they let us out as a unit- we were surprised , too ) went to see Gosford Park yesterday and found it to be most entertaining .
^ Recommended !
^ With love for a happy Easter ,
^ Aimee xx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Donald Davies "
^ Subject : Re :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Ritchums ,
^ I have been emoding a bit myself recently , and ... .
^ IT 'S OFFICIAL , I 'M MORE INTELLIGENT THAN GAV ! !
^ I 'm also quite compatible with him in the lurrrrve department apparently !
^ Anyway , glad the shoes are making you happy - how much ?
^ Later ,
^ O
^ Sent : Wednesday , &DATE &TIME
^ Dear Boys ,
^ Re : the current craze of emode tests .
^ I am , you will be unsurprised to note , a " millionaire " in the personality test .
^ And Bob ... I am very , very evil .
^ I nearly reach the end of the scale- you were right all along !
^ I am bored with work ( moan , moan ) so today I bought a pair of shoes that cost lots of money ( my great-aunt sent me a cheque for Easter ) .
^ This cheered me up immensely !
^ Hope you are all well ,
^ Much love ,
^ Aimee xx
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^ My very dear Kane ,
^ I have indeed been kepping up with ER- did you expect anything less ? !
^ I am glad Jefford and Abbey are together at last .
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^ I really envy you your family home in C-St.-L ( apart from the bugs ) .
^ It must be so nice to know you have somewhere to go .
^ I went to Miriam Wilkes ' wedding , which was a complete rah-fest , but I enjoyed myself all the same .
^ However , I told Miriam to sit me next to someone single , Christian and fit , but I do n't think she heard the last catagory , unfortunately , so I did not find my Prince Rooming .
^ I am beginning to feel he does n't exist .
^ Get out the violins !
^ It 's been a lovely day here , but I was in an office till 5.30 , so I did n't see any of it .
^ The office is fun- the people are cool .
^ Hope all 's well ...
^ Love Jon xx
^ P.S. I have been tempting for two weeks now , and I feel that my skills naturally lie withing that environment .
^ I think my boss is pleased with how good at tempting I am , and there is certainly lots more work in this area , according to the agency I am with .
^ Although the hours are long and the pay is bad , I am quite enjoying tempting ...
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Donald Davies "
^ Subject : Re :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Jon ,
^ Have you been keeping up with ER ? ? ?
^ Did you watch the last two episodes the other week ?
^ How exciting - Camron and Jefford stuck in a hot room !
^ I actually began to look forward to lunchtime TV , but alas , now it 's back to Brookside or some other inane trash .
^ Anyway , I 've just got back from spending a few days in Chapel St. Leonards with my family and grandparents .
^ It was a nice break and we managed to pack in quite a bit of stuff .
^ I have also been to a couple of weddings this summer - my wedding presents have consisted of bottles of champagne that we most fortunately had in the house !
^ I did get some nice cards though .
^ Mallory 's coming to stay this weekend , and I 'm about to start my footballing career for " Rutford FC " .
^ The sun is shining , etc ...
^ Right , chow !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Oh sweet irony .
^ Just had my interview ... 1B controls came up ... oh dear !
^ Still , they might be feeling generous and give me a job for the sheer Christmas Spirit of it ... We 'll see .
^ Have a great Christmas !
^ But Christian ...
^ I did n't invite you ...
^ Thanks for inviting me to your Wyatt thing , Nick .
^ Boys , have an interview on Monday with Analyticon ...
^ ~
^ Boys boys boys .
^ Sorry for the lack of correspondence - turbulent times .
^ Finished work with Copal Fartners about three weeks ago now .
^ Had a short visit to Norwich for my OM training weekend , interviewed for another job in the city the following Friday and started the next Monday ( the one we 've just had ) .
^ So no Sainsbury 's here Rylee m'boy !
^ And this job actually pays me money !
^ It just gets better and better .
^ So again , I 'm working in the financial services sector with a start-up .
^ Quite a bit different to Copal .
^ They have n't started trading yet , but have raised six million quid in funding investment and with only four people working full time .
^ Perhaps a good time for me to join the team ?
^ More interesting is that ANALyticon called me last week and have a vacancy to fill , starting in January .
^ Had a good chat to recruitment lass and am now waiting to hear about an interview .
^ The difficulty was that I had planned to go to Milan in Jan for six months .
^ I asked if they would still have a need in July , but she was n't so confident about that .
^ So the next day I contacted her to say I was willing to give up the french thing to work at Analyticon !
^ this left me in a bit of a tricky situation with OM , my formal interview being tomorrow
^ Then this morning I get a call from OM saying that they probably would n't be able to place me with the Milan team because .
^ 1) I 'd be the only guy and
^ 2) They only take people on for 1-2 years
^ And I had been praying for a job by the end of December and closed doors for Spain if it was n't my " calling " .
^ Qool .
^ I 'll keep you posted on further events .
^ You love it .
^ Rylee .
^ Sorry to hear about the injured back , but the physio treatment sounds like it was well worth it !
^ Nick .
^ I believe the Lord is calling you to be a music teacher , do n't you agree Rylee ?
^ Anyways , should probably get back to my city admin job .
^ Cheers ,
^ Christian .
^ --- Rylee Macer ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Samos !
^ You have my deepest sympathy .
^ What a nightmare
^ Anyway , take it easy and I 'll pray for a quick recovery .
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^ Oh sweet irony .
^ Just had my interview ... 1B controls came up ... oh dear !
^ Still , they might be feeling generous and give me a job for the sheer Christmas Spirit of it ... We 'll see .
^ Have a great Christmas !
^ But Christian ...
^ I did n't invite you ...
^ Thanks for inviting me to your Wyatt thing , Nick .
^ Boys , have an interview on Monday with Analyticon ...
^ ~
^ The point the guy was making , as far as I could see was not about evolution , but rather the age of the Earth .
^ Secondly , just because assumptions are made , this does n't necessarily mean that they are wrong .
^ With regards to radiometric dating , assuming that a rock started out with none of the daughter product is ver likely to be valid .
^ as many of the products are only produced through radioactive decay , and when not trapped in rocks , are very easily lost
^ I am not really going out on a limb to say that radiometric dating does appear to work .
^ How can I say this ?
^ If you use different techniques , ie different isotope ratios , you will still arrive at roughly the same age , within the bounds of error for each technique .
^ Usually within a few millions of years )
^ True , it is hard to say what the universe was like billions of years ago , and
^ The present is the key to the past ) really does n't apply to the formation of the Earth .
^ Many people argue that the until Post Heath , the processes , ie plate tectonics would have been much different .
^ For example , the earth is the only terrestrial planet to have what we call continental crust , that is a light , bouyant crust .
^ If you look at mars , which is still slightly active , although .
^ compared to Earth , pretty much tectonically dead , the crustal rocks are very different to our continents , but similar to our oceans - the rock is basalt
^ The same is found on the moon .
^ Questions being investigated include things like this , ie can we use the crusts of the other terrestrial planets as analoges for the early earth ?
^ Science does not have all the answers , but the same can be said about the bible .
^ God has given us minds to ponder his creation , and I love doing that .
^ And you guys are great to discuss this with .
^ Love ,
^ Bob
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Bob ( and Anna & Parker ) ,
^ So this guy is defending traditional geology against young-earthism .
^ Well I do n't see any problem with his arguments , although I would question how much " YEC " literature he 's actually read , because he skirts over a discussion of any details .
^ However , he makes the point that if one holds the view that " the present is the key to the past " then one can date rocks back well into the millions of years .
^ And it would appear that this is indeed so , although it is of course an " unscientific " view .
^ in the literal sense ) because we cannot observe what the universe was like thousands / millions of years ago
^ Well , you might say that we can " observe " it because we can study the rocks that date from that era , but that is clearly a circular argument .
^ Personally I would not like to make any claims about the age of the earth :
^ as I do n't see a particularly convicing argument either way , but I would like to make a couple of ( amateurish ! ) points
^ - presumably God must have started everything off at some point , and since we do n't really know what state he started it off in , I do n't see how we can make valid assumptions about .
^ for instance , how much of a given elemental isotope there was in the rock to begin with ( necessary for radiometric dating )
^ - the fossil record does not appear to concur with what we would expect from a purely evolutionary theory of special origin .
^ It shows gaps between species , and hardly any transitional forms ( for example , there has not been a single irrefutable transitional primate-human discovered in the fossil record ) .
^ This suggest that if evolution did happen , things must have evolved very quickly between major special boundaries , but this contradicts the whole theory of evolution , because by definition things ca n't happen quickly .
^ I only make these two points because they relate to the geological record , and the age of the earth ; there are many other personal problems I could raise with evolutionary theory , but that is for another day .
^ Nick
^ Robert K. Greetings
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^ Dear Nick , Bob and Anna , ( I hope Anna does n't mind all these emails )
^ Well , interesting emails .
^ Even though the Bible does n't have all the answers , it has all the answers we need and God has all the answers - does anyone disagree ?
^ Okay , I do n't really like arguing about evolution etc. from a non-biblical point of view as we can never be certain of anything that way , but just this once ... !
^ 1) I would tend to say he is attacking YEC , rather than defending traditional geology etc.
^ Look at the language he uses .
^ " The scientific consensus is that the earth is of a vast age compared with " YEC insists that the cosmos is only six thousand years old
^ This is not the language of an objective critique of YEC , as I surely do not need to point out .
^ 2) The fact that these fundamental concepts of geology were established before Nina is of no relevance whatsoever .
^ 3) Traditional geology and evolution is a model used to explain the way the world exists at this point in time .
^ In my opinion it does this rather badly .
^ Now , you attack YEC and ask for an alternative model .
^ As Nick mentioned , it would be advisable to read some YEC literature .
^ However , regardless of whether or not an alternative model is presented does not alter whether or not the first model is correct .
^ Aristotle taught egocentricity whether or not that was correct had nothing to do with whether or not Copernicus had yet advanced the idea of .
^ 4) Christians do need to challenge the belief that the ultimate controlling power in the universe is blind chance .
^ There are many ways of doing this including raising the argument for design , pointing out the existence of irreducible complexity and so on .
^ Why could n't God have used blind chance ?
^ As I see it , we have already distanced him and diminished his role by attributing a large part our existence to slow-moving geological and evolutionary processes .
^ Why stop there ?
^ Blind chance is fundamental to the theory of evolution and accepting the major tenets of evolution without accepting the god , so to speak , seems rather curious .
^ 5) Within geology , these three concepts are universally held ; I have never heard any professional geologist deny any of them .
^ Read some YEC literature .
^ Also , Nick pointed out that the fossil record would expect transitional fossils between ape and men .
^ This is as much a challenge to evolutionists as the one lain down by the geologist who wrote the article we are discussing .
^ Hope you 're all well and having a good weekend .
^ Love Parker
^ ~
^ Nick , I miss you loads I wish I had popped in to see you instead of e mailing and we were just chatting away now , oh bugger .
^ sorry if that offends you but I am going a bit mad I just spoke to Anna Hinkle up in Wells and I really miss it
^ I just wish I had some sort of goal or something to aim for but I just feel dead vacant
^ What do you see me doing ?
^ What do you think I would be good at ?
^ What about Josue again , good idea or not ?
^ Can you pray for inspiration for me , there are so many " good " things I would love to be doing .
^ I do have a few vague ideas but do n't really know how to take the next step
^ The solicitors clerk thing was fun for the few days I did it but I think the big case I was hoping for is going to be pulled so I am going to have to do a big rethink .
^ AAAAH
^ I didnt mean to be rude about you working so hard I actually wish I had worked harder so I had not just scraped by !
^ actually knew what I was talking about I am actually missing Johns library and studying ! !
^ How bizarre is that .
^ I am glad you have settled in alright , you are going to have to work at a firm with a football team )
^ there is a computer firm near me calle Data Connection which has one and it is very nice ( I did temporary kitchen work
^ Nick what do you mean about keeping your options open ?
^ You 've done a Robert on me ( a friend of mine who I met up with a couple of weeks ago who is into vague spirituality and not Christianity any more .
^ What is St. Barnabus like ?
^ I really need to move churches I wish St. Nics was portable .
^ Have you got Tabitha 's e mail addrees I have got a new phone since you sent me the text before and Suzy 's !
^ That carpet sounds awful , you need a rug , when is your birthday adn I will see what I can do
^ Anyway keep in toucha and I wil try adn call soon , I just realised how skint I am yesterday so am trying to keep my calls down xx
^ am dreading my parents discoverinhg that I have been using the home phone ooops Eric
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " toni rogers "
^ Subject : Re :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Liz !
^ Alas , I am still working just as fanatically - I guess it 's just the way I am !
^ But I 'm enjoying life here as well .
^ It 's a bit strange being a postgrad , but I 've got to know lots of nice people and got into the football team , etc. etc .
^ You 're a solicitors clerk ? ! ?
^ I never thought I 'd see the day ...
^ I 've been to a nice church called St. Barnabus , but I have n't decided to comit to any church yet .
^ I 'm not sure how this year will pan out , but I 'm keeping my options open .
^ Who do I see from Wells ?
^ Well , the only person I 've really seen so far is Bob - I spent a bit of time at his place the first weekend I was here .
^ I 've emailed Tabitha a few times , and I met Nicolae in the Post Classroom the other day !
^ I have a nice room here , but the carpet is a terrible brown-orange colour .
^ I have an internet connection in my room though , which I 'm very happy about ( of course ) .
^ Well , keep me informed about what you 're up to .
^ If you are passing through , let me know and we can meet up - weekends are generally best for me .
^ All the best you crazy kid you !
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick How are you doing ?
^ How is the course going ?
^ I hope you are not working quite as fanatically as you used to !
^ What church are you at in Munich ?
^ Who do you see from Wells ?
^ When can I come through and see you ?
^ You will never guess what I am doing for a short term job , I a m a solicitors clerk , I have to wear black and commute .
^ it is only four months and then I am hoping to go abroad either to work or travel or a bit of both
^ Nic and I are just friends now which is a bit of a bummer but definitely for the best .
^ I am also still at home and still at my old church which must change soon .
^ Anyway hope to hear from you soon and hope you are having a great time Eric x
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^ Hello you ,
^ sounds incredibly exciting , three months in South Africa wow ,
^ I am very jealous I would love to be escaping today would be nice
^ am looking forward to the holidays but will still have to do lots of work .
^ I guess you know how busy it is from your Dad 's work and Tabitha last year .
^ Does your Dad 's school need a new RE teacher ? ?
^ it has just been the desire not to fail that has kept me something
^ going on the course adn i am very jealous of people who I am hearing are in their dream jobs because I am not sure if this is mine
^ maybe I will find a non - mainstream niche thta will suit me better with special needs or
^ Am I reasonably happy ?
^ Not really sure , some days I am incredibly miserable sometimes for no specific reason ; other days I am quite cheerful especiallly if the sun is shining .
^ Today I feel a bit sad .
^ It has been very hard being together with Nichola as well as all the confusion , guilt and uncertainty , she has been very very depressed and drinking a lot .
^ I have also discovered that it is nice to be that special to someone and that I am less independant than I thought .
^ As we separate and go back to being friends I feel like I am losing part of me and its hard to make the changes , I am sure you know and Carlisle can be quite lonely .
^ I think when I have a job , money and the summer sorted it will be easier , do I sound incredibly pathetic ?
^ Do you mind praying for us both ?
^ Would love to hear all about South Africa , will you still be e mailing out there ?
^ When do you actually go ?
^ Have a brilliant time if do n't speak before
^ Eric x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " toni rogers " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Liz .
^ Can I confess that I have lost track of where you are and what you are doing and I would love you to fill me in
^ I am in the end stages of my PGCE and have to start looking seriuosly for jobs now , fun , fun fun
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^ Hi Nick
^ how are you doing ? how is South Africa ?
^ What have you been teaching or doing ?
^ When is the school holiays ?
^ Sorry for masses of questions but would love to know what you are doing and stuff as it has been a while but also have an ukterior motive as I was wondering I know I have thought about .
^ discussed this a few times and it is still only a thought , when the school holidays are asI have got quite a long break
^ most other people are working and I would love to go away and actually do something but am not really brave enough to go on my own
^ It will probably be during the month of August .
^ I spoke to Jon yestarday and she said you may be on your way back soon and I may have left it too late .
^ Will you be able to see if I would be needed and able to do stuff ?
^ I have got a job ! !
^ IT is a church school in Bethnal Stewart which is near where I live now so I will hopefully stay there .
^ I was thinking of living at Mum and Dads again which would have been hard becuase of them and also Nichola .
^ so its good its not there I did go for 2 jobs in Enfield one which I wanted but did n't get and the other I did not like
^ I am actuallly looking forward to it being a church school an did n't think I would be .
^ Its getting easier with Nichola and I but there are still quite a few days where I wish desperately it was possible for us to be together and stil be going somewhere with God .
^ I still have lots of work to do especially in the next two weeks and then actually start at my new school before they break up so they pay me over the summer .
^ Hope to catch up soon
^ Eric x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " toni rogers " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Liz .
^ Can I confess that I have lost track of where you are and what you are doing and I would love you to fill me in
^ I am in the end stages of my PGCE and have to start looking seriuosly for jobs now , fun , fun fun
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^ Hi Nick , thanks for listening to me the other night .
^ I 'm doing a bit better now , although I am still a bit confused about a few things .
^ I definitely think that the eye contact thing is a problem .
^ Anyway , I 'm going to the optician tomorrow , maybe I need some new glasses and I 'll ask them about why it takes me longer to focus on things .
^ I still think I 'm giving out the wrong signals somehow , maybe I always have been , it 's just that I 'm more aware of it now than in the past .
^ I think there are just things that I 'm doing that I think are innocent that other people do n't see that way .
^ For example , something maybe I 'm becoming aware of is that putting your hand on someone 's hip / waist is much more sensitive than putting it on their shoulder .
^ I think there 's been a recent incident and I can remember back to the Grease duet with Oliver Orme , and the furore over me putting my hand on her waist , which I thought was entirely innocent .
^ Anyway this aside .
^ I took real encouragement from my BS yesterday .
^ It was about the need for sacrifice to atone for our wickedness in Ezekiel .
^ It had a great cross-ref to Hebrews &TIME where it was saying how God had sent Jesus to atone for our sins and the jist was that now he has set us free to serve him .
^ I guess it really made me think about what my purpose here on Earth .
^ Also we had the clash of the Pool titans last night .
^ Philip 's B against Philip 's A. We managed to upset the odds and the A 's to pull off a 5-4 triumph .
^ I managed to get us off to a good start , and played pretty steadily , although my long potting was unspectacular .
^ Best Wishes
^ Isabel
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote : Hi Hernandez ,
^ How 's the football and hockey going ?
^ Have you scored any more goals ?
^ No more goals , but I was playing in a hockey cup match the other day with a Uni Firsts player , and he said he thought I could push a Uni hockey team if I trained next year !
^ Is there a good time I can call you sometime soon ?
^ Call me tonight sometime if you like - after 8 : 00ish .
^ Do you know if she will be in wells long ?
^ I think Tabitha left Wells yesterday Isabel .
^ Speak soon then ,
^ Nick
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^ To paraphrase an old bud of mine ... ( eminem ) ( I think ... )
^ Those people that do n't understand what I say , will never understand .
^ Those that do , do , and so do n't need me to explain it .
^ As you guessed , we 're not telling , are we Nick .
^ Mallory
^ PS Hope you noticed the lack of a question mark after the word " Nick " .
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^ Hi ,
^ I am back at school and already thinking about studying .
^ It was so fun to hear about everyones summer .
^ I gave Amanda and Brian and Tatum the your CD and they all said thanks so much .
^ Your a Hit .
^ I think it is the start of a second
^ Irish invasion .
^ The other day I watched movie Bennie and June .
^ It came out early ninties .
^ Have you ever seen it ?
^ There is a great part where they discuss the evils of raisins and I thought of you .
^ I do n't understand how there can be such animosity to dried fruit but I guess the world is a hard place even for a grape .
^ How is school going ?
^ Do you have any prodigy drama or music students ?
^ Are they keeping you super busy or do you have time to work on your sophomore album .
^ Your American fans will soon be clamoring for it .
^ Oh and Currently I can only think of only one Englishmen who I would be willing to practice what I am learning under the Plamondon 's tutelage but sadly he is not in the Henryton area .
^ Sorry one last question .
^ I was trying to find a recording of the Yahweh song .
^ Do you know how wrote it .
^ Off to be studious ,
^ Macie
^ ~
^ No more swearing or I 'll be really * * * * ed off !
^ So , Kings college , 1.30pm , be there or be Nick Malone ... .
^ However , if the film IS showing you might want to meet me nearer my end of town as I 'm near the cinema ?
^ you would n't want me to have to waste my time and energy going into town when I do n't need to would you
^ I 'll look up cinema times although it 's new so it may not be out yet ... .
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Yeah , bring your bike .
^ I 'll meet you outside Kings College , and if you do n't have your helmet I 'll beat the $ * * % out of you !
^ O
^ It finishes at one , and it 'll take me another five minutes to get into the centre of town and i need to buy Gill 's birthday present on the way so what about half past one ?
^ Shall I bring a bike ?
^ Will you tell me off if I do n't wear a helmet ?
^ Where in town ?
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Nice .
^ OK , Saturday afternoon is fine by me .
^ Where shall I meet you / what time ?
^ O
^ That would be cool .
^ I think it might have to be the weekend as i have got mainly constant lectures or school until then .
^ Are you free Saturday afternoon ?
^ I am going to an French teaching conference ( I think ) on Saturday morning somewhere near Shania 's
^ Piece so I could meet you after that ?
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ can
^ ~
^ I guess a cool e-mail address makes up for a boring surname !
^ I 'm sure my essay will be finished one day , but this is a particularly evil one about the potential for a approach to Islam ( .
^ I ca n't rush it like I usually do because it 's coursework
^ Grrrrr .
^ I even braved the JL for the first time today which was quite scary .
^ I 'm going mad , I 've been trying to work all day !
^ Glad you 're getting a well earned break though - enjoy !
^ Isaiah x
^ ps ignore me , I always get melodramatic when I actually have to do work &SMILEY
^ Hey Isaiah ,
^ " res48 " is quite a cool email address actually - you 're lucky .
^ I am very much enjoying my freedom thank you !
^ I am a man of leisure - I even had croissants for breakfast this morning ! !
^ The thing about essays is they always get finished , so I 'm sure yours will too : o ) .
^ Manana manana ,
^ Nick
^ Hiya ,
^ Sorry you were chased off by my slightly drunk friends on Wednesday !
^ They 're usually slightly more normal than that !
^ Anyway , I hope you 're enjoying your post-exam freedom . . .
^ I 'm having growing essay issues , which somehow do n't seem to go away when I ignore them , that 's one of life 's real cruelties .
^ It was good to chat the other night , til soon ,
^ Isaiah
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ I 've just reread your last email saying that I would be able to squeeze in an obscene amount of travelling .
^ Well , I 've just come back from spending the Spring
^ Festival ( Chinese New Year ) at my girlfriend 's home .
^ It was great and I got to meet all her relatives as well .
^ Her Gran has two daughters and three granddaughters , a total of five females but with three stunners amongst them .
^ Of course my girlfriend is the best looking one !
^ Though only just !
^ Also did a bit of travelling in the north-east of China including going to an Ice Lantern Festival which was spectacular though a little hazardous !
^ Am back in Dalian for the weekend but am going to
^ Korea on Monday for the rest of the holiday , only a few weeks though .
^ I suppose this is quite a lot of travelling !
^ How did those exams go ?
^ Top of the year or finding that there are a few other clever bods out there !
^ I 've got the result of the Chinese exam that I took and I got a level five so I am pleased with that .
^ I want to try and get a level seven when I take it again in April !
^ Tell me what is happening back home .
^ Are you still bumping into Wellsites and having reunions ?
^ It seems an age ago when we were in Wells together !
^ Georgia
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^ if you can persuade them that an electronic drumkit is a commonwealth country , or a european university offering a short-term intensive language course , then yes .
^ Do they give out many bursaries for electronic drum-kits ?
^ On &DATE , Rylee Macer wrote :
^ you guessed it .
^ or rather for my " educational benefit "
^ That sounds nice .
^ Presumably you have to provide an explanation of how your travels will be for the betterment of mankind before you can get your hot little hands on these unnecessarily generous moneys .. ?
^ On &DATE , Rylee Macer wrote :
^ hmm , ok-ish .
^ not feeling the pressure of next monday enough yet &SMILEY
^ dreaming about travel to far off lands subsidised by unnecessarily generous munich bursaries .
^ they 've
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^ Dont worry , I was n't going around throwing my arms around random people 's waists .
^ I just did n't realise how suggestive it was and I only did it a couple of times , when it appeared to me it was appropriate .
^ I 'm still working on the eye contact thing , I think part of the problem is that I have tended to look at people directly in the eye , when speaking to them .
^ And I am getting some new glasses .
^ At the mo , I still do n't feel that comfortable around girls and wo n't go and speak to them unless I have a specific reason .
^ Still I do n't really understand what was so bad about calling KT from a foreign country .
^ I mean , obviously I had a phone in my flat , I had her number ( and most of the rest of colleges ! ) and she 'd told me she wanted to keep in contact .
^ To be honest , I thought 5p per minute ( or precisely $ 0.08 / min ) was a small price to pay for the privilege of speaking to her and trying to keep in contact with her .
^ I can see now , it was a complete and utter waste of money .
^ I still feel really deceived by her comment that she 'd try harder to keep in contact with me .
^ I was surprised she said it but made it clear that I expected to hear from her .
^ I did trust her and she gave me the impression that she was someone I could rely on .
^ As with several other things with her it appears my judgement was completely wrong .
^ Generally , though I am much better and in pretty good spirits , everything considered .
^ I 'm looking forward to the awards ( sports ) ball tonite .
^ Although I hear I 'm going to be mentioned in a few speeches , hopefully nothing too negative ! !
^ The football on Saturday was a bit really .
^ We did n't get going until the last 15 minutes when we were already 6-0 down .
^ Personally , I struggled to get into the game , but it was pleasing to start passing the ball well towards the end .
^ And i think I can be credited with 2 assists for the two consolation goals we scored .
^ Best Wishes AV
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote : No problem Isabel - it was good to speak to you .
^ About the waist thing - I think you should _definitely_ avoid it in the future .
^ That could definitely give off the wrong signals !
^ Glad to hear about the pool upset - I always like to hear about an underdog win .
^ Cheerio !
^ Nick
^ Mr Tanner Trower
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^ Well after 3 months of non-stop fun , your evil sides will be please to he ar that its all come to and end for now .
^ I managed to do my back in yesterda y pulling a boat up out of the water .
^ Am in constant pain and can hardly st and or walk without my back spasming .
^ Saw the doctor and he has ordered bed r est and physio for a while .
^ But that means no diving , sailing , gym , windsurfi ng , hiking or anything else .
^ Lucky then that I happened to buy Hardy 's " Far f rom the madding crowd " 99p penguin classic ( Actually &pound; 31.12 out here ) to kee p me entertained .
^ Also have some random christian books if i need to get to sl eep quickly .
^ Oops , did i say that out loud .
^ Anyways , throw us a quick prayer if you have a sec , its not so pleasant walking round like a hunch-back ) .
^ Boys , I need a news update for you too now to keep me entertained since I have no watersports to do it for me .
^ yours in pain ,
^ sam
^ ~
^ Samos !
^ You have my deepest sympathy .
^ Thanks for your deep sympathies Nick .
^ Actually , I am not dead , so maybe ju st sympathy is appropriate for now .
^ Had my second physio session this mornin g with my swedish .
^ She has been pulling my trousers down a little and using a vacuum suction machine as part of the treatment .
^ And i ts all free on insurance ( well , after the first &pound; 920 ) .
^ Hows that for servic e !
^ What a nightmare
^ Did you know , that Kaboos is arabic for nightmare .
^ And also that His Maje sty the Sultan is called Qaboos .
^ Easily confused .
^ Be careful not to slip up , you might get into trouble !
^ Anyway , take it easy and I 'll pray for a quick recovery .
^ Thank you Nick .
^ You 'll be heartened to know that I seem to be recovering quite quickly .
^ This morning , I can walk a bit straighter and move a bit m ore freely .
^ Well , I did n't have any choice this morning but to walk to the ro ad to get a taxi to the hospital for my appointment since the family left me alone with no car !
^ Anyways , I 'm going to start on my 99p classic after lunch .
^ Good to hear your production went well Nick .
^ Maybe you should be a music teacher rather than an spam-warrier .
^ Quixote , sorry , Plantagenet , hows the job at Sainsbury 's ?
^ Rylee
^ ~
^ Yay , nice one Quixote .
^ Is that the one in Stevenage ?
^ Ha ha Nick , get this ,
^ Christian is moving to Stevenage .
^ Ha ha ha .
^ Nick , you should be a music teacher .
^ My back is much better this evening .
^ I 'm on the mend quickly .
^ Yay for swedish vacuum pumps , and prayer of course .
^ And when in January might that start date be ?
^ Fancy sneaking in a quick trip to Oman first , either of yous ?
^ ~
^ Jon ,
^ Have you been keeping up with ER ? ? ?
^ Did you watch the last two episodes the other week ?
^ How exciting - Camron and Jefford stuck in a hot room !
^ I actually began to look forward to lunchtime TV , but alas , now it 's back to Brookside or some other inane trash .
^ Anyway , I 've just got back from spending a few days in Chapel St. Leonards with my family and grandparents .
^ It was a nice break and we managed to pack in quite a bit of stuff .
^ I have also been to a couple of weddings this summer - my wedding presents have consisted of bottles of champagne that we most fortunately had in the house !
^ I did get some nice cards though .
^ Mallory 's coming to stay this weekend , and I 'm about to start my footballing career for " Rutford FC " .
^ The sun is shining , etc ...
^ Right , chow !
^ Nick
^ P.S. I 've always found you tempting . &SMILEY
^ hello benj , hope all 's well .
^ i am temping in an office xx
^ is ok apart from the fact that i email people and tell them i am ! tempting ! always amusing am i. um , not much else to say
^ went to a wedding , was lovely , bought the happy couple a salt and pepper shaker- if i ever get married
^ i 'll be putting some fun stuff on my list ! parents are off tomorrow on hol
^ sal is on her thrid camp of the year- i think she is avoiding us , for which i cannot blame her .
^ o well .
^ eastenders calls .
^ cat
^ Chat with friends online , try MSN Messenger : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ No Bob , but I think she 'll probably still check &EMAIL
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Do you have Tabitha 's new email address ?
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Enjoy , enjoy , enjoy .
^ Had a chat with Tabitha tonight - has she told you about her " new " bike ? ! ?
^ You seem to be keeping yourself busy , you social animal you .
^ Ah , if I could only be better than I am ...
^ Uriel
^ hey lance .
^ hope all is good .
^ am off up to manchester for the day to see lizzie on sat , bit of a random and last minute decision .
^ kt visited , was fun ...
^ temping is still the most boring thing on the planet ...
^ hope you are keeping well .
^ a xx
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^ ~
^ That quote is me all over Macie !
^ Hmmm ... prelude to the Meditations by the sounds of it ...
^ 
^ Hard-core man !
^ Nice one ,
^ O
^ " If you would be a real seeker after truth , it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt , as far as possible , all things . "
^ - Rene Kingbury ( 1596-1650 ) -
^ hey hon , love this quote ... thought of you ..
^ what do you reckon huh ?
^ Z xx
^ ~
^ I 'd like to stay over please Tabitha .
^ Thanks , Nick
^ hello everyone .
^ just to let you know that Saturday night is going to take place at a Mexican restaurant on Clapham High Street at about 7.30pm .
^ the nearest tube is Clapham North or you can go to Clapham junction and take the 925 bus up to the high street .
^ I live at 37 Edgeley Road ( just off Clapham High street )
^ If it 's a nice day some of us may play frisbee on the common in the afternoon or if it 's rainy we will find some other way to distract ourselves .
^ you are welcome to stay on a spot on our floor
^ please bring a sleeping bag and pillow and let me know so that I can buy you some breakfast
^ I will check this email again on wednesday .
^ My landline is 04048860808
^ looking forward to seeing you all ,
^ Tabitha x
^ Half price modem , FREE connection and one month FREE - click here to sign up to BT Broadband .
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^ You should be able to import them into Outlook Express by using the " Import " wizard on the " File " menu .
^ O
^ Hi Nick ,
^ just wondering if you can tell me how to read the e-mails that I backed up on the cd I gave you .
^ our harddrive melted , so everything was lost on it .
^ Fun .
^ Is it easy to read them ?
^ Bob
^ ~
^ I just kept thinking about Mallory when he was speaking , because when we last met .
^ Mallory was telling me that he still had lots of doubts , etc , and Imani was saying that if you actually start doing what Jesus says
^ look a few verses on ) the peace that he promises to give will be yours
^ My rendition of this is n't too good , but basicvally he was saying some christians come up to him and say " Where 's this peace ? " to which he would reply , where 's the obeying
^ Jesus 's commands ? .
^ Do you think I should say something to Mallory along these lines ?
^ Ie. e-mail him ?
^ In terms of Imani 's ( the Bible 's ? ! ) principle of " doing what Jesus says " , I 'm inclined to say that it 's " not as simple as it seems " ! !
^ But in some senses maybe it is ...
^ I think it is in some ways related to the " faith and works " doctrine ; i.e. faith without works is dead ( Jade ) , but works without love is useless ( Quinton - 1 Corinthians 13 ) .
^ So from a theological point-of-view the problem is that if you just go about doing the things .
^ Jesus commanded but your heart is not in it , then you might as well be banging your head against a brick wall
^ However , if you love Jesus you will obey his commands because that 's what you do when you love someone who is in authority over you .
^ The problem is that this seems a bit like a " chicken and egg " scenario , except it 's " what comes first : heart or deeds ? " ! !
^ I guess you have to make a decision about whether you 're going to follow Jesus or not ...
^ then again faith is a gift of God , not of man ( Hebrews ) , so maybe the decision is not entirely up to us anyway
^ I 'm inclined to believe that no single statement in the Bible is likely to be the answer to the problem of struggling as a Christian !
^ rather I think it 's something we work through , the crucial bit for us being that we do actually want to work through it
^ Now let 's look at it from a practical , " life experience " point-of-view .
^ I think the lack of peace in Mallory 's life comes primarily from the fact that he 's not really " sold out " to a single world-view .
^ rather he 's living a partially " secular " and partially " Christian " lifestyle , which is bound to cause tension
^ I do n't think that a serious lack of peace comes from having doubts - after all , we cannot " convince ourselves " of the truth of any particular world-view , thus we cannot stop ourselves from having doubts .
^ Personally , I do n't think that emailing Mallory with a potential " solution " to his problem ( even with the best intentions ) will do much good ( although I could of course be wrong ! ) .
^ I think he 'd benefit more from knowing that you care about what he 's going through and if he wants anyone to talk to / get advice from , you 'll be there .
^ I guess you could email him and just mention that you heard an interesting idea in a sermon the other day and was wondering what he thought about it ...
^ Well , I look forward to our next meeting Bob - I do enjoy spending time with you .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Howdy Nick ,
^ Whassup ? ?
^ Well have played my first gig as GS so to spk .
^ Think it went well as everyone seemed to be dancing away merrily , apart from during the rude interuption of a fire alarm -
^ bet you miss College !
^ Went to see Blues Brothers @ Theatre Jamesale , which was top notch entertainment -
^ Singing was fab and the dancing and lighting was done really professionally too !
^ Also gave a presentation up at the Business School yesterday - they 're checking up on our progress so far .
^ Went pretty well and they seem more than happy with the progress I 'm making and the direction I 'm hoping to go .
^ Celebrated by going to Klute , which was actually surprisingly good !
^ And you could actually move in there too !
^ How 's your research going ? ?
^ Are you nearly finished yet ?
^ Are you set up for going to SA yet ? ?
^ It 's all going to be very different after this week - when people have graduated . mmmmmm
^ Am a bit annoyed KT has n't spoken to me yet ( and does n't look like she 's going to ) - really feel she should and that I ca n't really do anything .
^ I was really confused and upset by what happened .
^ Anyway Best Wishes
^ Isabel V
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^ Hi there Mr. Trower !
^ Thanks for the email .
^ You sound like you 're bascially enjoying yourself - good !
^ How 's life in Luxembourg ?
^ Life in Luxembourg is pretty good .
^ I really enjoy time spent with my family , and my schedule affords me quite a bit of rest and relaxation time as well which is fine and dandy .
^ I 've been on half term this week , and took my godson and his brother on holiday for a few days .
^ Both of them have an undeniable gift for bed-wetting , so we had some fun there .
^ Overall it was a good time though , and I think they enjoyed it .
^ I am still planning to go to SA , but not until Easter time .
^ I have n't really made any concrete arrangements yet though .
^ On the football front I 'm playing central midfield for my local club .
^ Quite enjoying it , although I 'm yet to score !
^ Hope to see you when I come to visit at some point .
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Sorry it 's taken me so long to mailing you .
^ It 's been busy and hectic and i 've been really tired .
^ How 's life in Luxembourg ?
^ What are you up to and are the plans to go to SA still on ?
^ What have you been up to with the family ?
^ Things seem to be going pretty well up here .
^ I scored a long-range goal with a speculative shot in our first footie match of the season .
^ although we went down 6-4 , we played some pretty good football , however yesterday - in losing 4-0 to Snow B it did n't look so good
^ The research is coming along alright and teaching has just started this year .
^ I 'm feeling much more at home and confident in class , having had last term 's experience and scoring pretty well on the module .
^ Best Wishes
^ Spk soon
^ Isabel V
^ Mr Tanner Trower
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^ Hi Rylie &SMILEY
^ How are you ?
^ I 'm very well thanks Rylie , enjoying my current situation ...
^ What are you up to ?
^ Well , I 'm living at home ( in Rutford , about 4 miles outside of Luxembourg ) with my mum , dad and sister .
^ I 'm teaching 4 afternoons and 2 mornings a week in the school at which my dad is the headmaster .
^ It 's a very small
^ Christian school with quite a " family " atmosphere .
^ Apart from general " classroom assistantship " I 'm teaching art and music .
^ After 4 years of study and hardly seeing any kids at all I 'm loving the times I spend with the kids , remembering what kids do and say , etc.
^ I also enjoy living at home - I suppose I 'm really a family person at heart
^ It 's not all great though ;
^ I go through phases of feeling fine , and then sometimes feeling quite dislocated from things and not really knowing where I 'm going , etc. etc.
^ I 'm planning to spend a few months in South Africa this year with some missionary friends of mine ,
^ after which I 'll probably begin a PhD at Munich , although nothing is confirmed yet .
^ It 's good to have some idea of possibilities for the future , but I do n't feel like I 've got any very strong targets or goals yet .
^ No friends Rylie ? ? ! !
^ I ca n't believe that for a minute .
^ They must be insane in Peterborough not to get on with you !
^ Anyway , of course I 'll pray for you , and I understand how difficult it must be .
^ Are you involved in a church that could support you and provide friendships and things ?
^ Well , I 've just had half term , and the break was wonderful .
^ Hope you enjoy yours Rylie .
^ Love Nick
^ Hiya !
^ Have been meaning to e-mail you randomly for ages and then Adelle said she 'd seen you in Luxembourg and I rememebred I was going to get in touch ! !
^ How are you ?
^ What are you up to ?
^ Luxembourg seems to be a popular place at the moment ! !
^ Well , two people is popular in comparison with Peterborough ! !
^ Which is where I am ! !
^ All a bit mad ! !
^ And I am a bit of Bill No Mates here ! !
^ Which is , joking aside , getting a bit tough ! !
^ Basically , I 'm working as ana assistant chaplain in a secondary school in the mopst deprived area of Peterborough .
^ The students are fantastic , although I never imagined the kind of child protection issues which I 'm encountering here .
^ Sadly , the staff are not very friendly and very suspicious of " support " staff especially " chaplains " ! !
^ Which is fair enough , especially as the way they are treated by senior management is shocking .
^ Sadly , I have been seriously considering leaving .
^ Ideally I want to stick it a year but it has been getting me quite down which is not good for a " hard northerener " ! ! !
^ But , the new half term starts tomorrow and I 'm going to try and exude enthusiasm and brass neck and brave it out .
^ Would really appreciate some prayers though if you would n't mind .
^ Well , I better stop bothering you .
^ But hope this finds you well , and would be great to hear from you .
^ Love ashley
^ ~
^ Great stuff Timbo ! !
^ Hope the interview goes / went well , and that you have wisdom in making the right decision !
^ Finally they 're starting to recognise your potential - let the head-hunting begin !
^ Love Nick
^ Yo Nick ,
^ I 've been offered a job here in Munich with KJN in their transport modelling department .
^ Interview with Stotherford tomorrow , so lots happening
^ God is very good !
^ Love ,
^ Bob
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^ Boys , I 've been busy ...
^ Rylee , my excitement is reaching fever-pitch as Christmas approaches and I anticipate the opening of that present you gave me before you left !
^ Bring it on baby ! !
^ It 's &TIME in the morning and my porridge is in the microwave .
^ Last night was our school 's Christmas production , for which I was the musical director .
^ It went particularly well , and I was very happy with it all , especially our rendition of " Happy Day " which gave Whoopi Goldberg a run for her money .
^ I 'm currently reassembling my home studio , ready for some recording action .
^ Rylee , you must come round and lay down some phat trumpet loops sometime ...
^ Last weekend I was at a sleepover !
^ Yes , I am revisiting my teenage years - going for midnight walks , playing truth or dare , running naked around the block ...
^ It was actually a joint birthday party for two of the older students at school ; they were 16 and 17 .
^ In other news , I am still refining my paper to be submitted sometime in the new year , and I still do n't know about next year .
^ Today I 'm going to buy an electric razor .
^ Blessings chaps ,
^ Nick
^ Boys , why are we not sending joint emails ?
^ Rylee , are you still alive ?
^ I 'm starting a new job tomorrow .
^ And this time it 's paid !
^ Bring it on .
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^ Samos !
^ You have my deepest sympathy .
^ What a nightmare - hope the doctors can do something .
^ Perhaps some local remedy might be available ... ?
^ You know , something like a potion made from white sand mixed with cactus milk and a virgin camel 's pubic hair ?
^ Anyway , take it easy and I 'll pray for a quick recovery .
^ O
^ Well after 3 months of non-stop fun , your evil sides will be please to hear that its all come to and end for now .
^ I managed to do my back in yesterday pulling a boat up out of the water .
^ Am in constant pain and can hardly stand or walk without my back spasming .
^ Saw the doctor and he has ordered bed rest and physio for a while .
^ But that means no diving , sailing , gym , windsurfing , hiking or anything else .
^ Lucky then that I happened to buy Hardy 's " Far from the madding crowd " 99p penguin classic ( Actually &pound; 1.12 out here ) to keep me entertained .
^ Also have some random christian books if i need to get to sleep quickly .
^ Oops , did i say that out loud .
^ Anyways , throw us a quick prayer if you have a sec , its not so pleasant walking round like a hunch-back ) .
^ Boys , I need a news update for you too now to keep me entertained since I have no watersports to do it for me .
^ yours in pain ,
^ sam
^ ~
^ Boys , have an interview on Monday with Analyticon ...
^ OK Christian - I 'll get on the hotline to Our Father .
^ Anyway , if you ca n't answer their question , you can always ask them an impossible question instead ( in the manner of Jesus ) .
^ For instance , you say " First answer me this : does the set of all sets that do n't contain themselves contain itself ? "
^ Then you 'll have them stumped and dazzled in one fell swoop .
^ But seriously , really hope it goes well - I reckon you 'll be fine .
^ In terms of the NV party Christian , I had sort-of planned to be in Wyatt , but you never know ; my plans may change ...
^ Be blessed boys ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ But Christian ...
^ I did n't invite you ...
^ Thanks for inviting me to your Wyatt thing , Nick .
^ Boys , have an interview on Monday with Analyticon ...
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ sorry I did n't reply sooner , things have been a bit stressful .
^ Do n't worry , I do n't think you 've been unsympathetic at all , quite the reverse .
^ Mmm - I do appreciate your help and advice on this issue .
^ I do n't really know what she 's been going through and while I wish she could 've spoken to me about it , I do accept that she was n't compelled to do so .
^ But I do feel hurt that she froze me out altogether and I wish she had n't done this and felt angry to be treated like that .
^ Anyway , I think I 've more or less put the whole sorry affair behind me ( after much prayer ) .
^ How 's the research going ? ?
^ Almost at the end of the tunnel ?
^ Enjoyed seeing Amanda in action last night - things are looking promising !
^ And we seem to have done some pretty good bargain hunting - Kewell for &pound; 5mn and Finnan for &pound; 3mn .
^ Best Wishes
^ Isabel
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Hey Isabel ,
^ Admittedly I 'm no expert at relationships , but what sort of valid reasons do you mean ?
^ Not sure what they could be ? ?
^ The thing is , you just do n't know what people have been through .
^ I 'm loathe to give examples , because I do n't like to speculate ... but as a general example .
^ people sometimes get hurt by things when they are younger , or whatever , and thus can find situations very threatening which can appear fairly harmless to other people
^ I 'm not suggesting that this is the case for Terrance , but it might be ... and you just do n't know what she 's going through .
^ Personally , I honestly do n't think the situation should have been left how it was .
^ Probably not , but you ca n't blame it on Terrance - that 's for God to judge .
^ From my knowledge of the situation and applying biblical principles , it would suggest that some action / communication should have been forthcoming to address the situation / conflict .
^ I know I 'm not perfect and I do err and stray , but I believe the above statement is accurate and is far from restrictive .
^ But that 's the point - your knowledge of the situation from her point-of-view is extremely limited !
^ And even if Terrance is acting wrongly ( which she probably is - I suspect there are ways that you have both acted that have been far from ideal .
^ does n't mean that she is able to / knows how to resolve the situation
^ People do n't always do what we think is " right " but again it 's for God to judge , not us - we are only accountable for ourselves and our consciences .
^ Isabel , please do n't think that I 'm unsympathetic to your position - I know that what you 've been through in this situation has been really tough .
^ I just want to help you to let go of any rights you feel you have over how
^ Laterz " should " respond , as that is the only way to freedom .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
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^ Hi Eliana ,
^ How was your Christmas and New Year ?
^ I had a great time at Christmas , snowboarding the French Alps !
^ The slopes were fantastic , and I have GOT to go again soon : o ) .
^ I was in Wyatt with friends from Wells for New Year .
^ We had a lot of fun , although I got a cold on New Year 's Day .
^ However , I still managed to traipse around
^ Wyatt so that was nice .
^ So how 's things going at school ?
^ Well , I had an excellent music lesson today .
^ The kids really got into it , and to my amazement behaved like angels !
^ I really do love those kids on days like today ...
^ Tomorrow may be a different story though : o ) .
^ All in all things are going well - this Friday I 'm guiding them in the art of building towers out of spaghetti and blue-tac !
^ I 'm teaching for half the week at the moment , and recording music and stuff in the other half .
^ It is really a nice balance .
^ Great news about your work in school - sounds like you 're getting some really good opportunities .
^ It is a privilege to be able to make a difference in a child 's like is n't it ?
^ I 'm still planning to leave for South Africa at the end of March / beginning of April .
^ In fact I 'm going to inquire about injections tomorrow !
^ I 'm not quite sure what I 'll be doing out there yet , but I know it 'll be quite a change from here .
^ Not that here is at all bad , but broadening horizons and all that ...
^ From my experience of commuting , I 'd say moving to Peterborough is a good option , especially if things are starting to open up in the school ...
^ OK , all the best Eliana ,
^ Nick
^ Hey Nick !
^ Just thought I 'd drop you a line to see how you 're doing .
^ How was your
^ Christmas and New Year ?
^ I was at my sister 's for Christmas which was different .
^ We usually go up to Oxford to see my grandparents , but seeing as
^ Kristen had just bought a new house we decided we would christen it with
^ Christmas ( a bit of wobbly theology ! : op ) I was back in Munich for New
^ Year and was at a party at a friend 's house .
^ Susanna Hendric was here aswell which was lovely .
^ It was good to catch up with her .
^ So how 's things going at school ?
^ God 's been doing some incredible stuff in my school recently .
^ My Head Teacher had asked me if I wanted to set up some sort of afternoon club in the school .
^ I 'd been thinking for a while that I would like to start a " Bible Club " but mainly for the un-churched kids , and did n't really know how to explain it to my Head Teacher .
^ I thought that she might see it as promoting one specific religion above others ( which obviously is n't a good thing in a multi-cultural community ! )
^ Anyhow , I eventually plucked up enough courage to suggest it to her , to which she replied " What an excellent idea ! "
^ I was absolutely stunned !
^ So since October I 've been running " Finders Keepers " every Tuesday lunchtime , and get to tell about 40 un-churched kids every week all about the love of God !
^ It 's such an awesome opportunity and I 'm loving it !
^ Admittedly , the whole 80 mile round trip to Peterborough every day has been taking its toll on both my energy and my finances .
^ So I 've been praying about whether I should change my job so I can stay in Munich , or if I should move to Peterborough to be close to my current job .
^ Its been a pretty tough decision but it 's been good to reassess my priorities .
^ So I 've pretty much decided that I 'm going to move to Peterborough .
^ It seems to be the right thing in terms of how God 's using me in the school right now in reaching out to these kids , and also how miraculously supportive my Head
^ Teacher is being of " Finders Keepers " .
^ God 's definitely doing something ! !
^ Anyhow , that 's where things are at the moment .
^ Are you still planning on going out to South Africa in March ?
^ What is it you 'll be doing out there ?
^ Well , I 'd better be off and get myself ready for school tomorrow !
^ Take care ,
^ Eliana &SMILEY
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^ Viviano ! !
^ The darling of Philip 's B strikes again !
^ Wonderful .
^ I was playing 5-a-side tonight .
^ Scored a couple of glorious goals , but now I 'm in pain cos I had my thigh painfully lambastered .
^ Just about worth it though ...
^ Still enjoying the teaching ?
^ Sure am .
^ Kids are so ... interesting .
^ I love em .
^ When are you off out to SA ? ?
^ I booked my tickets the other day ( 6th April - 28 June ) and had a couple of injections today .
^ It is all happening ... !
^ Isabel , I 'm coming up to Wells for a visit on the weekend of the 21st / 22nd this month .
^ I shall hope to see you around .
^ Adios !
^ O
^ Dear BEn ,
^ I 've been quiet for way too long .
^ When are you off out to SA ? ?
^ Still enjoying the teaching ?
^ Teaching here 's been good and satisfying although there 's been quite a lot and I did n't get back from Stockton til &TIME last Thursday ( very late ! )
^ Things have been pretty busy up here but are going well .
^ Philip 's B won our first footie match of the term 2-1 and I scored - wohoo .
^ Also , The PhD is finally getting off the ground and I 'm well into my first empirical chapter - will be presenting some preliminary findings internally soon , with the possibility of doing something external in the stuff !
^ Have you applied for funding for a PhD yet ? ? or are you having second thougts ?
^ BEst Wishes
^ Isabel V
^ Mr Tanner Trower
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^ Wells WI3 9IH
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^ Hi Liz .
^ Can I confess that I have lost track of where you are and what you are doing and I would love you to fill me in
^ Of course !
^ Twould be a pleasure ...
^ Well , I 'm off to South Africa in under a week !
^ I 've been teaching part-time at my Dad 's school , and writing / recording music in my spare time .
^ I 'll be in SA working with Josue for about three months , back in time for the good old
^ French summer .
^ I 've been living at home , which has been very and generally good as I 've been able to spend some quality time with my mum , dad and sister .
^ Other than that , I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about whether or not they are going to offer me funding to start my PhD next year .
^ If the answer is yay , then I 'll probably start that in October .
^ If the answer is nay , then I 'm not sure what I 'll do next year , but I 'll probably look for alternative sources of funding or something like that ...
^ I am in the end stages of my PGCE and have to start looking seriuosly for jobs now , fun , fun fun
^ So , you 've almost completed your PGCE ?
^ I have great respect for anyone who sticks at that for a year - not an easy ride !
^ Are you thinking of teaching somewhere in Carlisle ?
^ What aspirations do you have for the future ?
^ Are you reasonably happy ?
^ Love and stuff ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Stevo ,
^ Have you crashed back down to earth now ?
^ With a bump old boy , with a bump .
^ Actually I 'm really enjoying being at home , and today I got to spend time in school with the kids so that was nice .
^ I 've had a couple of days to sort myself out now , so I 'm feeling a bit more " equilibrious " .
^ I 've got a wedding to attend in a couple of weeks , and then I should hear from Munich sometime soon about accomodation and other preliminary arrangements .
^ I 'm glad to hear you 're actually using that exceptional body of yours !
^ My brother 's recently joined a rather nice gym here in Rutford , so hopefully I 'll be able to accompany him on a fairly regular basis over the next few months .
^ This recording studio sounds interesting .
^ I am resting my creative energies for the time being , but I definitely have n't recorded my last song !
^ Are you going to lay down some tunes at some point in the near future then ?
^ I will definitely be seeing you sometime soon Stevo .
^ Keep the home fires burning ...
^ O
^ Hey Jonah ,
^ Have you crashed back down to earth now ?
^ What 's it like to be back ?
^ I 'm sure your mum was pleased to see you .
^ I 'm doing my stuff in leeds .
^ Playing some footy and have even been for a few runs !
^ One of my friends has conned me into entering the great north run so I am now inflicting pain upon myself upon a weekly basis - sometimes more .
^ I 'm getting better though - last run was 5 miles in 43 mins .
^ My guitar is getting a bit more use as well - I met someone at the weekend who knows of a digital studio that people can use for free and which does n't get much use ! !
^ It will be nice to see you at some point my friend .
^ I 'm sure you have many stories .
^ S
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^ I drove out to Oklahoma with my brother ( we made it in record time 16hr ) .
^ 16 hours !
^ You could drive across the whole of Brighton twice in that time !
^ Oh yeah ...
^ Hungary 's a bit bigger is n't it ...
^ When do you rejoin academia ?
^ I wish I knew .
^ They should be sending me some information about that sort of stuff soon .
^ Probably early October .
^ Are you getting excited ?
^ I think so &SMILEY
^ Pride and Prejudice does indeed contain many useful life-skills .
^ Now , if only there were a few rich , young French landowners living in Henryton for you to practice on ...
^ I like Iron and Wine , and I agree that " Such Great Flexney " is an awesome song .
^ Thanks again for putting that stuff together Cynthia - I 'm really enjoying it .
^ Ciao ,
^ O
^ Glad you liked the pics .
^ It 's easy to take good pictures in beautiful places like Kruger .
^ If the whole doctor thing does n't work out then I guess I will just have to travel the world and capture it on film .
^ Maybe I should have thought through that option a little more .
^ I too have been away .
^ I drove out to Oklahoma with my brother ( we made it in record time 16hr ) .
^ Last road trip of my last summer off .
^ The ending of an era has come and I guess I should consider growing up .
^ If I just ca n't live with that alternative it 's the third star to the right and straight on til morning , Right ?
^ When do you rejoin academia ?
^ Will you have to move back to school ?
^ Are you getting excited ?
^ A few mouse clicks and brilliant realizations and before you know it you will be Dr. Malone !
^ Thinking Happy Thoughts ,
^ Macie
^ P.S. Something to ponder ... is neverneverland a double negative ?
^ P.S.S. I should have read Pride and Prejudice years ago .
^ I could have learned those valuable feminine skills such as being coy and getting a man to think he wants to marry me after just one evening of dancing .
^ Today I read the " how to turn down a proposal while making it sound like I am doing him a favor by not marrying him " section .
^ Thank goodness I learned this lesson before the proposals have started to come my way .
^ Hopefully I wo n't have to turn many down ( seeing as of now I have yet to have had a serious relationship and like you never wanted to date just to fill the time let 's just say .
^ turning down a myarid of proposials is not a concern that keeps me up at night ) but now I feel ready if need arises
^ What a relief !
^ P.S.S.S. Sometimes a little iron and wine goes along way so it may take a while to work your way to the racy stuff but the last song is my favoite of theirs Such Great Hights '
^ ~
^ Vivaldo ,
^ Would love to come , but will be busy sorting out stuff ready for Munich .
^ I 'll be starting my PhD early October , so I 've got to find a place to live , etc .
^ Hope you have a smashing time ,
^ Linda
^ Hello One and All ,
^ Hope you 've been having a great summer - and the way the weather is it does n't appear to be finished yet ! !
^ As you may or may not be aware I have finally enforced myself to leave the prison cell of Maximus 's where I have been captive for the past 26 months for greener pastures .
^ I cordially invite you to the house-warming party of 23 Magdalene Street on &DATE beginning from around 5PM onwards to include hopefully a trip to Philip 's Bar @ around &TIME followed by Klute - for those who are game .
^ Hope you can make it ,
^ Isabel V
^ ps. Some accomodation can be provided - especially in my King-Size bed .
^ pss. The postcode is WI3 1LG , for those who do n't know precisely where it is . !
^ psss. I 'll email you with more details closer the time .
^ pssss. If anyone has Tindale , Davis or Sascha 's email can you let me know or fill them in .
^ psssss. This is getting silly now - but 23 Magdalene street was actually standing for more than a century when I first arrived in Wells in &YEAR
^ Blessed are those who laugh at themselves
^ For they will never cease to be amused !
^ Mr Tanner Trower
^ Teaching Assistant
^ Department of Economics and Finance 23-26 Old Elvet
^ Wells WI3 9IH
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^ Yo Sammy !
^ Yeah , I hope we can meet up .
^ I have played guitar twice now at CU , but really do not think that I am good enbough .
^ I found today that I would get lost rhythem wise , and it was very hard , because I started faster than the people and from then on , it was like me trying ot hold myself back .
^ I have more and more respect for guys like you Sonia and Plummer .
^ Thankfully there is another guy in the CU now who can play guitar , named Bobby , so I hope that he will either play more often than I or at least teach me how to play better .
^ I hope to see you this weekend .
^ Bob
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^ Hey buddy ,
^ I 've been doing lots of VB this week , and programming is quite fun .
^ I can see why you like it so much !
^ I 've just been wrestling a bit with a simple days of the month program which is now working !
^ I feel pretty good about it , because , like you always did , I have done more than was required
^ How cool !
^ Are you going over to my house tonight to have supper and watch the fireworks ?
^ Humph !
^ Poor Yard has no fireworks to watch !
^ Keep well ,
^ Bob
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^ Hi Nick
^ Yeah , I thought you would kind of dissapprove of VB , but such is life .
^ Anyway , it is quite a nice route in , I feel .
^ I know that we have a tutorial on C++ coming up , but I wonder how much we can learn in one day ?
^ Still , it is just meant to be an introduction to programming , but I am enjoying it .
^ This course is pretty good in it 's range of topics .
^ I mean , already each of the modules has been very different , and each one of them has been interesting !
^ Quite good really !
^ How are you getting on ?
^ I wonder if Tabitha went to my house tonight as well .
^ How are you getting on with her ?
^ I hope things are improving .
^ Still , I do n't really understand why they are the way they are .
^ My understanding is that she does n't want to see you because it what ? , will make her want to be with you ?
^ Is that right ?
^ Oh , how confusing .
^ Do you ever think that you think about things too much ?
^ Parker and I were discussing this , and we thought that you thought about things a lot more than we did , and
^ Parker said that Tabitha was the same , ie that she thought about things a lot as well .
^ Is that true ?
^ Parker also said that I think about things a lot , but I do n't think I do as much as you do .
^ Hummm .
^ I am kind of glad that we are not undergraduates anymore .
^ I really , really loved my time at Johns , but I think I have gone past that now , and I would n't start again as a fresher now , even at Johns if I could .
^ I really want to just settle down and have be settled for a while .
^ I think I would quite like to have my own place to come home to at night , and to feel like I had a place in the world .
^ I want to get away from the whole term-system and get into the life that so many people are dying to get out of !
^ Why is that ?
^ I would also like to be closer to Karri .
^ I feel that since we have been so far apart , we have become not as close friends .
^ I 'm not saying for a moment that I 'm any less in love with her .
^ for indeed , if anything I am more in love with her now than I have ever been , and love her more now as well than ever before
^ I am just saying that because we do n't see so much of each other there is not the same closeness in every aspect of our lives that there one was .
^ I really miss it actually .
^ We 're planning that Ka will come and stay at my house for about a week this holiday , which will be great , as I will have a chance to really see her again .
^ This last weekend was quite crazy with lots of running around the NE , but it was great fun .
^ Even so , Ka and I did n't get that much time alone , which I kind of missed .
^ One of the parts of the trip that I liked the most was just sitting in the car at Margarets talking to her , after we had come back from my Grandad 's 75 birthday .
^ I ca n't remember what we talked about , but it was just so NICE to be sitting there beside her , as if we had always done this , and just talk about the day .
^ Oh , I miss her quite a lot .
^ I miss you as well , and having a good solid male friend to go and talk to at anytime .
^ Do you remember me coming and banging on your door at 7 in the morning once ?
^ I think that was when I broke up with Ka .
^ And on top of the hill that night ...
^ You have been such a good friend to me .
^ Thanks .
^ I also miss our debates about various Christian issues , and the like .
^ You would generally take some vaguely controvercial side and I would defend what I was thought was " proper " , and would generally come out changed .
^ Do you remember the first year at CU ? ... .
^ Why do we always sing such Rooasmatic Songs ? ? ? ! ! !
^ And now look at me !
^ Thanks .
^ Anyway , I really should go .
^ See you soon !
^ Bob
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^ Linda ,
^ No worries , you must be looking forward to starting back in Munich !
^ Are you still going to be in Chads and play footie & hockey ? ?
^ I 'm seriously considering retiring from Philip 's footie and pool , especially since departmental commitments are likely to occupy me for much of Weds afternoons .
^ The house is great and there is loads of space - so you 'd always be welcome to visit .
^ Best Wishes
^ Isabel
^ p.s. I saw Kaden about a week ago - he seemed well but under a bit of pressure getting the church project finished on time .
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Vivaldo ,
^ Would love to come , but will be busy sorting out stuff ready for Munich .
^ I 'll be starting my PhD early October , so I 've got to find a place to live , etc .
^ Hope you have a smashing time ,
^ Linda
^ Blessed are those who laugh at themselves
^ For they will never cease to be amused !
^ Mr Tanner Trower
^ Teaching Assistant
^ Department of Economics and Finance 23-26 Old Elvet
^ Wells WI3 9IH
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^ Hi ,
^ Sorry about the email address - it is a direct consequence of you not replying from that address as I just press the reply key &SMILEY
^ So the classic peace of mind , enjoyment verses money debate has hit you .
^ Where are you based at by the way ... close to Carlisle ?
^ Leilani said most for the high paying jobs are there but I guess you can find something more flexible outside .
^ Life goes on and shya is steadily drowning in her work - they have a lot of reading and 3 full days of lectures 9-5 .
^ Guess who prepares the food on those days &SMILEY
^ We went to a Sidney formal yesterday and had a Chads postgrad ( who is a post doc now as a guest - the wife was shya 's course-mate ) had some juicy stories about it .
^ will get back to work ... .
^ best
^ Ravi
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hey Ravi ,
^ * * DO N'T USE THIS EMAIL ADDRESS ANYMORE!!** It 's going to die soon .
^ Use &EMAIL please &SMILEY
^ I 'm going to submit that paper to a few conferences , but the deadlines are not until around March next year so there 's no point submitting it for a while .
^ Hey , did n't they close the schoold you went to or has your Dad moved to a new school long since ?
^ ~
^ Cheers Nick , how 's thing going in the run up to the end of term !
^ Are people still rushing around like headless chikens b4 4 weeks of freedom .
^ have u got any more footie matches ?
^ How 's the project going ?
^ Are u still well ahead ?
^ I remember i was quite well ahead in the undergrad diss , but remember .
^ sometimes as long as what u do does n't appear majorly wrong then do n't count on ur supervisor to come up with many alterations / suggestions
^ Especially of they r busy professors .
^ Also was wondering if Regan and Tabitha are alive and well ?
^ Have n't heard from them 4 quite a while .
^ Best wishes
^ Isabel
^ --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote : )
^ Sure thing Isabel ,
^ O
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^ Good to hear from you Sammy-boy ,
^ Sounds like you had fun during half-term .
^ Did n't realise you were a Godfather !
^ Your going to have to put that scoring record right soon .
^ How are you enjoying playing centre-mid , is your fitnss up to it ?
^ Well - CC is on Friday and will be gd to see Ross & Dickie again .
^ Teaching seems to be going OK but am really busy and so the research is taking a bit of a back seat . -
^ Good news is it looks like I 'll be getting a 12 % pay rise next August .
^ - benefit of being linked to the bottom of the Lecturers ' pay scale
^ Best Wishes
^ Isabel V
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Hi there Mr. Trower !
^ Thanks for the email .
^ You sound like you 're bascially enjoying yourself - good !
^ How 's life in Luxembourg ?
^ Life in Luxembourg is pretty good .
^ I really enjoy time spent with my family , and my schedule affords me quite a bit of rest and relaxation time as well which is fine and dandy .
^ I 've been on half term this week , and took my godson and his brother on holiday for a few days .
^ Both of them have an undeniable gift for bed-wetting , so we had some fun there .
^ Overall it was a good time though , and I think they enjoyed it .
^ I am still planning to go to SA , but not until Easter time .
^ I have n't really made any concrete arrangements yet though .
^ On the football front I 'm playing central midfield for my local club .
^ Quite enjoying it , although I 'm yet to score !
^ Hope to see you when I come to visit at some point .
^ Nick
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^ Dear Brother Nick : Greetings in Jesus Name from Japan .
^ So good to hear from you again , and to know that you are still on Planet earth , I see you are doing the rounds of the Universities .
^ in Computer Science and now masters at Munich , then Ph.D ...
^ By the way , Do you know what Ph.D. stands for .
^ Post Hole Digger ..
^ That is one degree I have , as a lad on the farm in Australia , I dug many post Holes , and had blisters on my hands to prove it .
^ What part of South Africa are you thinking of ?
^ What contacts do you have there ?
^ Sorry to hear that Victory Christian Centre has closed down , and Gouge and Sherry Staggs have moved back to the U.S.
^ Do you have their address there ?
^ I stayed with a family named Blythe , when I was at VCC , but any letters to them have been returned .
^ What happened that the church closed down ?
^ Where do you fellowship now in church ?
^ All the family are well .
^ Most of my ministry is in other Asian nations .
^ I have just recently returned from 3 weeks in Myanmar ( Burma ) which was my fourth visit .
^ There I held 5 Pastors seminars and crusades in Yangon ( Rangoon ) Mandalay and Kalay in the north .
^ Taught about 6000 pastors , and saw many saved and healed and baptized in the Holy Spirit .
^ In one meeting saw 500 young people accept the Lord in a Youth Hostel from all over Burma .
^ It was awesome .
^ I was hoping to come to Brighton , this year , but it looks like it might be next year now .
^ In April 23rd-May 7th I will be in Australia for a Conference and other meetings .
^ Next year I am planning a further visit to Myanmar with Seminars in Yangon and Kalay , then another Seminar in Medan , Indonesia , and after that to Nellore , India for a Convention with several thousand people attending .
^ That will be late February and into March DV .
^ Next time you write please send me your postal address , so I can get my mailing list up-to-date .
^ Blessings on you in all your studies .
^ Do n't lose your vision for Missions .
^ In His Love , Jaiden and Victory .
^ Lionel C. Pipping .
^ Titus &TIME ; Philip 4 : 60
^ ~
^ Nick - thanks for email ; glad the Worcester B Re-union was a success - hope things are going well for all the gang .
^ As in Munich , had a very rough night here Saturday night - three tiles off the front and one at the back - fixed them Sunday by wedging the ladder ( had to go and buy one ) across meets
^ from the flat roof above Camron 's window to tv aerial at the side of the house and then crawling along ladder with tile clenched between teeth - well
^ almost - and relocating tile with one hand while hanging on to ladder with other - sort of Rudd Spencer
^ Missouri Housman .
^ Tile fixed , but then stranded on roof - devised escape plan worthy of Indie .
^ involving resourceful use of rope ( previously used to haul up ladder ) bullwhip style to support descent over edge of roof onto window ledge
^ then released by upward flick to dislodge end of rope cunningly jammed behind chimney , so as not to leave whip / rope stuck up on roof
^ Quite relieved to reach terra firma intact !
^ Anyway , enough of that .
^ We 've now removed the rest of the wallpaper from the study / your bedroom , and are hoping to start re-papering later this week .
^ Ma and Pod arrive shortly .
^ See you soon - D .
^ Hi Daddy ,
^ Well , I did some exercise this morning - I went on a run .
^ Oh , and we also got the 70mph gales today !
^ At times I was running full-pelt into the wind and felt like I was going absolutely nowhere !
^ There are branches littered all over Munich at the moment - it really has been awesomely powerful .
^ I met up with Bob , Jon and Tabitha today - we had a really nice meal at Tabitha 's house .
^ It was almost like being in the flat again !
^ Then I went back to
^ Bob 's house for dinner .
^ Now I 'm contemplating tomorrow 's schedule .
^ Have a relaxing week , and I 'll see you at the weekend .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ A COMPLEX LITERARY ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORIC WELCOME POEM ( WRITTEN BY HIS LORDSHIP ) BY A WORTHY FOLLOWER OF THE VENERABLE ST .
^ GAVO
^ Dear Flat people ,
^ I was so overwhelmed by the depth of hidden feeling , knowledge and purpose in Bob 's poem that I felt I really must pass on this exposition of it
^ To my flat mates of joy , [ Reference to this ( infinitesimal ) hypothetical temporal state of being on seeing Bob . ]
^ Say I , Hernandez oh boy !
^ [ Origin unknown , possibly Canadian .
^ Generally excepted as an exultation of glory to the male members of the flat .
^ I.e. Nick and Parker ) This has been unsuccessfully disputed in recent years by followers of Jon and Tabitha . ]
^ What fun we shall have as a five !
^ [ Euphemistic approach to flat life , giving evidence to the view that dictators always start out like this .
^ It is a little known fact that the term five probably does not refer to the five flat people ]
^ may in fact be of anglo- canadian origin and mean group of four slaves controlled by red-haired pseudo- deity .
^ Will we not be cooking [ Earlier manuscripts substitute we and will , giving a more likely rendition of the text ]
^ Fried RICE and looking [ Delusional reference to the mythical idea that students eat rice .
^ Many treatises were written on this subject by the venerable St. Dominic .
^ His authoritative writings still draw many followers . ]
^ for chicken of suitable size ?
^ [ Reference to expensive organic chicken usually smaller and therefore more difficult to find .
^ Very popular with the revered flat people . ]
^ Till we next meet then , [ Denotes anticipation of friendship , the author reveals his deep-felt need for companionship .
^ Linked with the frailty of human emotion syndrome as studied by EMH of the F.S.S. Voyager medical research labs . ]
^ Parker , Jon , Tabitha and Big Nick , [ Here each of the author 's flat mates is personified as a well-known clock
^ 1) Parker .
^ An anagram of the V.G.A. clock ( Virtual Germ-free Apartment ) .
^ Thought to pertain to the author 's ideal state of being for the coming year .
^ 2) Jon .
^ The Jon Clock is often found in anthills .
^ Its source of power is unknown , but it appears to work reasonably accurately .
^ It comes with a built- in television .
^ 3) Tabitha .
^ There is no such clock , thereby giving great support to the popular view that the original spelling was N2o .
^ This would then correlate with the well known laughing clocks of eastern Mauritius .
^ N2O is the chemical symbol for nitrous oxide more commonly known as laughing gas . )
^ 4) Nick .
^ Likened to Big Sedgwick in Carlisle , this shows the authors feelings regarding the permanency of Nick , his unwavering tick-tock Some authorities use this reference to introduce the deity of Nick , but we refute that , giving Kaden the credit . ]
^ I wish you the best of the prize .
^ [ Curiously , here the author appears to be wishing for his friends to enjoy his presence while he is absent .
^ This seemingly contradictory statement actually makes perfect sense if the reader interprets the merit of the author 's presence inversely from that which is portrayed .
^ However , scholars struggle over this version as it is generally thought His Lordship was very well liked by his colleagues .
^ A dilemma for the modern mind to puzzle over if ever there was one .
^ The venerable St. Dominic put it down to grammatical errors , but this proved highly unpopular with the PTD ( Pro Timo Deo ) groups of his day , leading to his untimely martyrdom . ]
^ What prize is this ?
^ I hear you say , [ Figurative language appertaining to the gift of friendship .
^ Fundamentalist followers of His Lordship often claim that he could actually hear his friends questioning remarks over hundreds of miles .
^ This cannot be refuted strongly enough as current opinion states that His Lordship was definitely not divine .
^ Some may argue that early engravings of the renowned flat person glow with a radiance of their own , but we attribute this to their being discovered in close proximity to radioactive surroundings St. Philip 's Darkroom ]
^ Of which his lordship speaks today [ Allusion to the means of communication employed by the author to deliver his poem .
^ Many beautiful words have been written on this proverbial verse of verses , highlighting the individuality of text .
^ The appearance of living words are starkly contrasted by the citation of the author 's pseudo-title his lordship , denoting grim and lofty determination .
^ However , the non-inclusion of capital letters in the name suggests a glimmer of recognition that mortality may have reached the author .
^ Death comes to all . ]
^ Why , tis living with me , of course !
^ [ False egoism , of which the author is prone .
^ Also can be interpreted that the gift of friendship is living inside the author , or , for that matter , any gift .
^ Could this possibly be another hidden allusion to the author 's brevity of existence ?
^ The venerable St. Dominic was of that opinion . ]
^ Nice Rhyme , Bob ! )
^ [ Probably the author 's original comments .
^ These words have become timelessly enshrined as the Pro Timo Deo benediction .
^ Devotees squawk loudly while chanting in solemn Canadian monotones Nice Rhyme , Bob many times over .
^ This practice is outlawed in 60 states due to the subtle machinations of the Venerable St. Dominic Appreciation Group .
^ These worthy individuals have taken it upon themselves to ensure the Welcome Poem is passed down through the generations in all purity and with the highest appreciation of purpose . ]
^ ~
^ Normal &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ Hi , Nick - just come across the words to your song - you sent them before
^ Christmas - I meant to ask you to sing / play it over the holiday , but I forgot .
^ Next time . .
^ Just got back from taking Nayeli back to Wells - he got there to discover he 's got two pieces of work due in ( in 48 hours ' time !
^ he did n't know about as well as the one he did know about - such is life - well , Nayeli 's life , anyway ..
^ Have just ( yesterday ) removed the pillar in the middle of the kitchen - turns out that although it looked as though it was supporting the beam above !
^ I 'm sure it was meant to support it , or at least to give the impression that it was doing so
^ in fact it was n't offering any serious support at all , since it was sited on the floorboards over - nothing
^ To be structurally significant it should have been built on a brick / block foundation coming up from the solid ground and through the flooring - but actually the " builder " clearly never even looked under the floorboards .
^ simply put it in place under the beam without even removing the carpet
^ The point at which it was sitting was actually right between the two nearest joists , so there was nothing under it !
^ a strip of half-inch floor board - if it had been taking any real weight , it would have pushed down through the floor a long time ago
^ A case for the " DIY expert from hell " type of TV programme !
^ Well , bath / bedtime .
^ Looking forward to seeing you in three weeks ' time ;
^ lots of love - D .
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ So it looks like I 'm going to be working in LA for a few months from
^ October / November onwards .
^ LA is the city of the car , so I 'll also be needing to buy car .
^ As I 've got loads of family on the East coast , some of whom know car dealers , I was thinking I could pick up a car there and drive it to LA .
^ This is screaming " road trip " at me , but a road trip for one is n't much fun .
^ I 've got a few friends / family that are spread out along a potential route across the south , so it has muchos potential .
^ I 'm a long way off buying a car , booking flights etc. ,
^ just wondering how much potential / interest you see / have in that suggestion .
^ Let me know what your plans are for this year !
^ Cheers ,
^ Christian .
^ 62 Swallowfield Road ,
^ Exeter , Devon .
^ EX2 6JD .
^ Tel 05550 206662 mob 05555 208666
^ ~
^ Author : Nick Malone , &EMAIL
^ Mentor : Reynolds Hester , &EMAIL
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^ Dear Nick Malone ,
^ Regarding your RSNPO &YEAR submission ID 43 : A Understanding Model Approach to Spam Filtering
^ Unfortunately , your paper submission with the title shown above could not be accepted by the Program Committee of RSNPO &YEAR for presentation at the conference .
^ RSNPO acceptance was very competitive this year , with only 58 out of 619 submitted papers to appear in the program .
^ In this letter we are sending you important information on : - reviewing result of your paper and - conference participation
^ REVIEWS OF YOUR PAPER ( attached at the end of this message )
^ As you may know , this year reviewing for RSNPO used a two-tier system .
^ First , at least three first-tier reviewers read every paper .
^ Then an additional reviewer , known as the area coordinator , synthesized these reviews and introduced additional comments .
^ In some cases , the area coordinator instigated discussion among the first-tier reviewers to work out controversial issues .
^ The area coordinators also attended the program committee meeting in which all the papers were discussed and acceptances were decided .
^ We hope these reviews will provide you with useful feedback .
^ CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
^ Thank you again for submitting a paper to RSNPO &YEAR .
^ We hope that despite your paper 's not having been accepted for presentation , you will be able to participate in RSNPO &YEAR , and look forward to seeing you in Sheffield .
^ If you will be attending RSNPO &YEAR , it is a good idea for you to register for the conference and book accommodation soon .
^ Online registration and hotel information / booking will be available online ( &WEBSITE
^ On behalf of the RSNPO &YEAR Program Committee ,
^ Jade Gouge , Kylie Bruza , and Kal Jarvelin
^ Program Chairs , RSNPO &YEAR
^ RSNPO &YEAR REVIEW FORM EXPLAINED ( Reviews follow ; review #1 is the area coordinator 's review )
^ You are first asked to rate the paper according to 7 dimensions .
^ There is a scale of 1-4 points for each dimension ( 1low , 4 high ) followed by two text boxes .
^ In many cases the reviewers left the instructions for the text fields intact or inserted comments appropriately with the instructions .
^ In other cases the reviewers removed the instructions , so they are provided to help you understand those reviews .
^ DIMENSIONS :
^ Relevance to RSNPO
^ Originality of work
^ Impact of results
^ Quality of arguments
^ Quality of presentation
^ Overall recommendation
^ Confidence in review
^ TEXT BOX 1 - Comments to author ( s ) :
^ Comments to author ( s )
^ PAPER SUMMARY
^ Briefly summarize the paper , including which type of paper it is ( empirical , methodology , theory , systems paper ) .
^ TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE : - Is the paper technically strong ? - Is the result significant ? - Is the paper technically sound ? - Does the paper reference appropriate past work ?
^ RELEVANCE , IMPORTANCE , and ORIGINALITY
^ Is the paper a significant , original and motivated contribution to the field of QI ?
^ If the paper belongs to one of the following types , please consider appropriate points indicated : - Empirical studies : data collection and analysis methods ?
^ statistical or qualitative methods ; significance of findings and conclusions for QI - Methodology papers
^ method 's novelty for QI system design or evaluation ; arguments for the utility of the method - Theory papers
^ description of principles , concepts or models ; relationship to prior work ; how does our understanding of QI advance
^ - Systems papers : description of software and technology ; implementation and evaluation stage ; are novel ways to access stored information supported
^ THE QUALITY OF THE ARGUMENTS AND RESULTS
^ Assess the quality of the arguments and results the bearing in mind the RSNPO Reviewing Criteria .
^ CLARITY
^ Is the paper clearly written ?
^ Does it motivate the research ?
^ OTHER COMMENTS FOR THE AUTHOR ( F ) :
^ TEXT BOX 2 - summary of review :
^ Summary of review ( to author ( s ) and PC members )
^ Summarize your assessment of the paper , pointing out which aspects described above weighted most heavily in your rating
^ ------------- Review from Reviewer 1 -------------
^ Relevance to RSNPO : 4
^ Originality of work : 2
^ Impact of results : 2
^ Quality of arguments : 3
^ Quality of presentation : 3
^ Overall recommendation ( 1 argue to reject , 2 lean to reject , 3 lean to accept , 4 argue to accept ) : 2
^ Confidence in review : 4
^ -- Comments to the author ( s ) :
^ Paper summary :
^ Addresses problems of backoff and interpolation with language models applied to categorisation .
^ Experiments with a spam filtering corpus .
^ Technical excellence :
^ See comments below .
^ Relevance , importance and originality :
^ See comments below .
^ Quality of arguments and results :
^ See comments below .
^ Clarity :
^ The paper is clear and well-written .
^ -- Summary:
^ Summary :
^ Reviewer 2 has pointed out some significant limitations of this work .
^ Although the paper is relevant , well-presented and essentially sound , I agree with the views of reviewers 2 and 3 that this does not really make a sufficient contribution to warrant inclusion in RSNPO .
^ Please note : I do not entirely agree with the very strong comment of one reviewer concerning anonymity .
^ He is right that you chould be careful about such obvious indications , but I think he puts it too brutally . )
^ ---------- End of Review from Reviewer 1 ---------- ------------- Review from Reviewer 2 -------------
^ Relevance to RSNPO : 4
^ Originality of work : 3
^ Impact of results : 3
^ Quality of arguments : 4
^ Quality of presentation : 4
^ Overall recommendation ( 1 argue to reject , 2 lean to reject , 3 lean to accept , 4 argue to accept ) : 3
^ Confidence in review : 4
^ -- Comments to the author ( s ) :
^ Paper summary:
^ This is a methodology paper which proposes a practical method , based on the language model , to filter spam .
^ The filtering process is seen as a classification problem to which LM is being applied .
^ The method is tested on the LingSpam corpus , the experimental results show an improvement , although not too significant , over earlier classifiers .
^ Technical excellence:
^ The paper is clearly written , acceptably well structured and balanced .
^ Also , the paper is readable , the formulas read well .
^ PAPER SUMMARY
^ Briefly summarize the paper , including which type of paper it is ( empirical , methodology , theory , systems paper ) .
^ TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE : - Is the paper technically strong ? - Is the result significant ? - Is the paper technically sound ? - Does the paper reference appropriate material ?
^ RELEVANCE , IMPORTANCE , and ORIGINALITY
^ Is the paper a significant , original and motivated contribution to the field of QI ?
^ If the paper belongs to one of the following types , please consider appropriate points indicated : - Empirical studies : data collection and analysis methods ?
^ statistical or qualitative methods ; significance of findings and conclusions for QI - Methodology papers
^ method 's novelty for QI system design or evaluation ; arguments for the utility of the method - Theory papers
^ description of principles , concepts or models ; relationship to prior work ; how does our understanding of QI advance
^ - Systems papers : description of software and technology ; implementation and evaluation stage ; are novel ways to access stored information supported
^ THE QUALITY OF THE ARGUMENTS AND RESULTS
^ Assess the quality of the arguments and results the bearing in mind the RSNPO Reviewing Criteria .
^ CLARITY
^ Is the paper clearly written ?
^ Does it motivate the research ?
^ OTHER COMMENTS FOR THE AUTHOR ( F ) :
^ -- Summary :
^ Relevance to RSNPO : 4
^ Originality of work : 2
^ Impact of results : 2
^ Quality of arguments : 2
^ Quality of presentation : 2
^ Overall recommendation ( 1 argue to reject , 2 lean to reject , 3 lean to accept , 4 argue to accept ) : 2
^ Confidence in review : 4
^ -- Comments to the author ( s ) : A language model approach to spam filtering by Frederick Malone .
^ Munich University
^ This paper considers an approach to spam filtering in which different language models are built for different parts of an email , and these models are interpolated together to form a final classification .
^ Results comparable to , and sometimes slightly better than , a simple naive Bayes classifier ( depending on how you look at it ) are obtained .
^ Rather than viewing this model as a generative model , I think the algorithm would be better situated in the ensemble classification literature .
^ Specifically , ( 2 ) does not correspond to any generative model .
^ I.e. , just because a set of numbers sum to 1 , that does n't mean you should call them a " probability distribution . " )
^ Note that the idea of weighting different fields differently in emails ( again using a naive Bayes variant ) was also presented by Raina et al. in NIPS last year , along with some theoretical results .
^ This paper also proposes a quite complex language model for modelling text documents .
^ The authors seem to be aware of the large literature on language modelling , but still go on in this paper to present a new backoff / interpolation model .
^ If the authors want to present a new backoff model , then given the massive literature out there ( e.g. , see
^ Joshua Goodman 's excellent survey ) , then I think the authors must meet a very high threshold and compare against current interpolation models , to build a case for theirs .
^ A comparision against Good-Turing --- one of the simpler and less effective backoff methods --- and using unknown-event probabilities guessed via an unspecified procedure instead of learned , makes for a very unconvincing empirical comparison .
^ In fact , even the comparisons against Good-Turing show only very small improvements , which would lead me to guess that this will lose against better backoff procedures .
^ As a spam filter , the results are not very good .
^ Given that precision is more important than recall in spam , I 'd definiately prefer to use the naive Bayes classifier than most of the classifier presented by the authors .
^ I also strongly suspect that the assymmetric cost measure that the authors had declined to use would have made most of their algorithms look much worse than other algorithms .
^ If the authors do n't want to deal with assymetric costs , then they should n't be working with spam .
^ certainly should n't be comparing against others ' algorithms that had been designed specifically for spam ( and therefore presumably optimized for precision rather than recall )
^ In point of methodology , it 's also always better to replicate others experiments ( or to replicate at least one or two of them -- some are quite easy to do ) rather than quote others ' reported results .
^ This is because minor differences such as in tokenization can often make a huge difference , and we 'd like to know if it 's things like that or actual algorithmic differences that 're driving the results .
^ Certainly treating the whole document as one field would have been a simple and very easy test to run as well .
^ would have given insight into whether this algorithm is doing anything useful ( and if so , which part of it )
^ Lastly , please note that citing your own paper and acknowledging your advisor in the submission gives away your identity , and violates both the spirit and the letter of double-blind reviewing .
^ -- Summary:
^ Some interesting ideas , but weak evaluation of them , and overall results as a spam classifier are mediocre .
^ Relevance to RSNPO : 4
^ Originality of work : 2
^ Impact of results : 2
^ Quality of arguments : 3
^ Quality of presentation : 2
^ Overall recommendation ( 1 argue to reject , 2 lean to reject , 3 lean to accept , 4 argue to accept ) : 2
^ Confidence in review : 4
^ -- Comments to the author ( s ) : PAPER SUMMARY
^ Briefly summarize the paper , including which type of paper it is ( empirical , methodology , theory , systems paper ) .
^ This paper presents slightly new probabilistic methods for classifying slightly structured documents .
^ The methods are applied to an existing spam corpus .
^ TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE : - Is the paper technically strong ?
^ Technically correct , but not very innovative .
^ - Is the result significant ?
^ Not for spam filtering , because it does n't address the current important issue : responding to spammers who try to fool Bayesian filters .
^ Only marginally for document classification , because the ideas behind the methods proposed are standard in the field .
^ - Is the paper technically sound ?
^ Yes .
^ - Does the paper reference appropriate past work ?
^ Yes , but recent references are missing .
^ One example :
^ Science , Vol 906 , Issue 0466 , 427-431 , 17 October &YEAR
^ Always Good Turing : Asymptotically Optimal Probability Estimation
^ Alon Goulet , 1 , 2 * Narayana E. Santhanam , 1 Junan Zhang
^ Also missing is a serious discussion of thereal issues in spam filtering .
^ RELEVANCE , IMPORTANCE , and ORIGINALITY
^ Is the paper a significant , original and motivated contribution to the field of QI ?
^ If the paper belongs to one of the following types , please consider appropriate points indicated : - Empirical studies : data collection and analysis methods ?
^ statistical or qualitative methods ; significance of findings and conclusions for QI - Methodology papers
^ method 's novelty for QI system design or evaluation ; arguments for the utility of the method - Theory papers
^ description of principles , concepts or models ; relationship to prior work ; how does our understanding of QI advance
^ - Systems papers : description of software and technology ; implementation and evaluation stage ; are novel ways to access stored information supported
^ See comments above .
^ THE QUALITY OF THE ARGUMENTS AND RESULTS
^ Assess the quality of the arguments and results the bearing in mind the RSNPO Reviewing Criteria .
^ CLARITY
^ Is the paper clearly written ?
^ Does it motivate the research ?
^ Adequate , but the writing is too chronological .
^ Readers do not want to hear what the author did step by step ; they want to know the methods and results .
^ OTHER COMMENTS FOR THE AUTHOR ( F ) :
^ It is unacceptable to violate the policy by including reference 9 and the section .
^ Assumptions 2 and 3 in Section 3.2 are too strong .
^ Even just in the email domain , different messages contain different header fields .
^ It is a mistake to position this paper as about spam filtering .
^ It is about text classification in general , with spam filtering as an application used for a demo .
^ Set notation \{ \} in Equation 4 is a bad choice because you do not view a message as set of words .
^ After Eqn ( 8 ) , explain how phi is estimated from data .
^ If you use Excel to produce figures , do not include all the " chartjunk " ( look this up ) that Excel includes by default .
^ -- Summary:
^ Summarize your assessment of the paper , pointing out which aspects described above weighted most heavily in your rating .
^ Weak reject .
^ Technically correct , but hardly a new contribution to knowledge .
^ ---------- End of Review from Reviewer 4 ----------
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^ ~
^ i was soo surprised to get an email form you ! !
^ thanks !
^ it sounds like youre having a FAB time and youve only been there a few weeks !
^ well , as you probably woud have guessed - we 're back at school now !
^ so exciting !
^ i cant believe its my last term at school and theres soo much going on and the emotions are just running too high
^ my holiday was really good .
^ as you know , hein and my mum are there so ive been alone at home mostly .
^ abs came over quite often last week and it was really good .
^ we went for lots of walks and we tried to find a white horse - but never managed !
^ it just ended up in us being VERY embarrassed
^ we sat in the little childrens play park for hours at night talking and we were freezing cold by the end of it
^ i also started my driving lessons and on monday i drove all the way to swindon and back again over the roudabouts and everything
^ impressive ? ! no ?
^ okay , i know but i thought it was
^ im glad youre having an awesome time !
^ bye
^ anne
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^ To : Mr Cameron
^ From : Her Majesty 's Crown Prosecution Service
^ Re : Notification of the charges being brought against you by Her
^ Majesty 's Government
^ Dear Sir ,
^ Your client and yourself have hereby been charged with one count of unlawful egoism , intent to practice human slavery , unlawful rolling of R 's , and threatening behaviour .
^ The charges are outlined in more detail as follows ;
^ 1) Unlawful pride .
^ You said : One of the most important personages in the country ( in the form of my client ) .
^ The law says : Anyone with the Christian name " Nick " is of no importance whatsoever - &WEBSITE of the 4262 Civil Liberties Act .
^ 2) Intent to practice human slavery .
^ You said : You can expect to be deported as a slave to Singapore .
^ 
^ The law says : Slavery is forbidden by the laws and practices of our dominion .
^ Section 2 , subsection 18.3a of the 4248 Slavery Christian .
^ 3) Unlawful rolling of R 's .
^ You said : Or burrrrrrrrned , as you would say .
^ The law says : No one who is not of Scottish birth may roll their R 's in public .
^ Jamesal Rooter , granted by His Majesty Hatherley Jade the 6th of Scotland .
^ 4) Threatening behaviour .
^ You said : My people ( thugs / mercenaries ) will be round shortly to un-tuck your bed-sheet .
^ The law says : Bed-sheets must NEVER be disturbed whilst being slept in .
^ - Section 67 of the Judicial Act of Public Conduct , Queen Bloomfield , 4288 .
^ If you and your client are found guilty you are likely to be
^ Sentenced to three years incarceration at an egoism treatment centre for committing crimes of " Unlawful Pride " .
^ Deported to A ustralia for " intent to practice human slavery " .
^ Summarily execut ed for " unlawful rolling of R 's " as the original penalty for that crime has never been repealed .
^ Cleaned from head to toe in dettox once a week for the rest of your life by specially trained therapists .
^ You and your client are hereby summoned to appear in court at Worcester B , Wells Owen , at &TIME on the 7th day of January , 8004 AD .
^ Do not be late .
^ U.R. Dead
^ Her Majesty 's Crown Prosecution Service )
^ ~
^ Hi there Nick , and how are you doing ? ?
^ How goest the job , I take it you have about a week and a half to go .
^ The excitement of it all ! !
^ What are you doing once you are finished in the way of holidays ?
^ Hows coping by youreslf going ?
^ Its good practice for next year ! ! &SMILEY
^ I am back in Rio now .
^ Its good to be back but I am quite bored .
^ I havent got much to do at the moment .. so have been doing some cooking ( in practice ! ) and house work .. but never mind .
^ Its the least I can do .
^ Lauren is coming on Sun for a week which will be nice , and then Im going South with
^ Angelo on the 12th for a few days before he comes here .
^ Hurrah .
^ All good fun .
^ If you fancy a trip out here be sure to let me know ok , anytime between now and the 23rd of Sept and excluding the 12-16th Sept is cool . &SMILEY
^ Anyway , email when you get the chance , hope you;re well and take care !
^ Love Isaiah
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thanks for your message .
^ I 'm having a really good time !
^ Ariived on Thurs and stayed the night in Pretoria with one of Josue 's friends .
^ I was quite surprised at how prosperous it was .
^ He showed me around
^ Pretoria on Fri , which was really good fun .
^ Then on the coach up to Louis Tpetert I sat next to this guy who 's at uni in Wells ! !
^ He started this year and is from Zambia , where he was going to on the coach .
^ Surreal !
^ He 's doing a course to do with computers , so you might know him .
^ Think his name was Quinton , but I ca n't remember !
^ Here I 've just been doing some general stuff .
^ It 's really good fun , and I love the people !
^ You soak up the open , relaxed atmosphere straight away .
^ On Sat morning I went into Thohoyando with cornelius and his family .
^ It was great , especially as I think it is very similar to
^ Brazil , particularly the north east .
^ Anyway I 'm having fun and I hope you 're having a really good summer - sorry Nick , I wanted to tell you but did n't get round to ringing you again .
^ I rang Bob & he said all of you guys who are sharing a flat next year were meeting up .
^ Hope you had / will have a good time !
^ Say hi to everyone from me .
^ Take care & God bless you ,
^ Rylee .
^ ~
^ Hi Giles ,
^ Just a quick note .
^ My Dad is organising an evening of " fun " for NCSC graduates on Sat Nov 1 at &TIME somewhere in Luxembourg .
^ He was wondering if you would be interested in coming .
^ No pressure - just letting you know .
^ Soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Samo ,
^ Well , as you no doubt have discovered , this e-mail has an attachment .
^ I enclose my " holiday snaps " - not what they would normally be called .
^ Anyway , I do n't know if you need to have Visionware PowerPoint installed on your c omputer to view the slide show , which is attached , or not .
^ However , since you do that point is irrelevant .
^ Make sure you have headphones / speakers wherever you run it .
^ The presentation has some startling revelations concerning Kaden 's recent business .
^ Please let me know your thoughts on it - either via Anna ( wh ich seems to becoming the norm ! ) or directly .
^ Dominic
^ ~
^ Ladies and Gentlemen , Lally and Malone .
^ We 've already had the CU " A " List of of birthday celebrations .
^ Your
^ Shelleys , Carters and even , to a lesser extent , your Lallyes ( I think ) .
^ SO ... now it 's time for the C-list equivalents to make arrangements as well .
^ It 's my birthday on Saturday .
^ And as most of you are my frineds , or acquaintances , I thought it 'd be nice to have a light meal with you .
^ I decided to mail a lot of you as hopefully enough people can respond to make a half-decent show of it .
^ Perhaps we can go to the Raj Pooth or something like that .
^ As I 'd hate to seperate anyone from their loved ones on my account , I 'd love to extend this invitation to your other halves - if you have any .
^ And if you think they are suitable to be brought into a social atmosphere .
^ Also , I need reminding how lonely I am and what I am missing out on by not using certain brands of aftershave .
^ I 'm not bitter , oh no .
^ I 'm happy , and it would be nice if you were too .
^ So if we could all get together , be happy , forget about work and enjoy the fact that God has given us each others company under the excuse of celebrating my 21st , it 'd be lovely .
^ I have undoubtedly missed one or two people of this list .
^ Certainly some of my fell group whose e-mails i have not got .
^ Feel free to pass this on to suitable individuals .
^ I remain as always , sincerely yours .
^ Josh
^ Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe .
^ All mimsy were the borogoves ,
^ And the momeraths outgrabe
^ ~
^ Hey Captain ,
^ Well , well , Nick , what can I say for myself ?
^ She 's tall , blonde , has a bubbly personality ( of course ) , and has a soft spot for young Canadian men of average or slightly below average height .
^ In other words , I 'm perfect for her !
^ Yes , you have heard it through the grapevine correctly that it looks like I 'll be kicking around Victoria for another year .
^ Believe me , I 'm as shocked as you .
^ My whole decision changed in about the space of a week .
^ I was totally prepared to confirm with your dad that I had decided to call it a Victoria career after this year , but then a few things changed .
^ They offered me double the salary .
^ No not really .
^ I did do a lot of soul searching , pros and cons lists , praying , etc. and my decision basically came down to this :
^ 1) After my visa expires in Sept. &YEAR , I ca n't ever renew it .
^ These two years are a window that I might regret not exploiting to the fullest if I left early .
^ 2) At the present I ca n't see any opportunity waiting for me at home in Romania that wo n't be there next fall .
^ 3) It looks like I wo n't be doing exactly the same thing in the school next year ( like I said , I think I 'd go insane ) .
^ It looks like I 'll be taking on more of a supervisory role in the DUT ie ) goodbye goal checks , more interesting contact with students .
^ 4) I 'd really like to take the opportunity to impact , influence students for another year
^ These are a few of the thoughts that changed my mind .
^ But I 'm honestly still a little torn about it .
^ It 's really hard for me and my personality to change my plans .
^ So yeah , my plans have changed slightly for next year , but I still plan on kick-starting my writing career after I 'm done at Victoria .
^ The intermission is just a little longer than I thought it was going to be I guess .
^ In the first week of summer holidays , however , I 'll be spending a week at the Evening Advertiser to help build up my writing portfolio .
^ It 's not the greatest quality newspaper I 've ever paged through ( far from it actually ) , but it will be good experience and a step in the right direction .
^ As for the current term , it 's been hectic with a capital H the last few weeks .
^ Work parties , In Service Days , Open Days ( school on Saturday ) , rubbish collection .the list goes on .
^ I 'll also be heading down to Grit Farm with the HUT for 3 days on Monday .
^ I 'll definitely be ready for half-term after this week when I 'm heading to Belgium with the Greens for 3 nights .
^ I 'm definitely looking forward to that .
^ Bible Club is going pretty well .
^ We 're still on the Faith topic , which is producing a good amount of thought , discussion .
^ I think it 's been good for them to consider some of the toughest questions non-Christians will throw at them when they leave Victoria .
^ I hope to wrap it up next week .
^ My little holiday at the Greggs has gone pretty well .
^ It 'll be tough to go back to 4 channels , however , I 'll tell you that !
^ All the girls came over one evening for a Anna Goater welcome home party ( they ate ice cream from the same container - no bowls ! ) .
^ It was seriously too much girly-ness for me for one evening .
^ I also had Annie , Rylee , and Dwayne over the next night for a sleepover .
^ And you 'll never believe my hometown hockey team , the Calgary Flames .
^ They 've made it all the way to the Finals .
^ Unbelievable .
^ We are 4 wins away from winning it all .
^ Awesome .
^ Well , enough about me .
^ I 'm glad to hear that you 've been able to use some of your personal areas of expertise to benefit Rolomandi - music , drama , computers , etc.
^ I 'm sure that must be a great feeling .
^ We look forward to when you 're back here so we can once again be the benefactors of that
^ Malone charm .
^ I look forward to hearing how your busy next couple of weeks goes ..I 'd also appreciate it if you just casually drop my name in a few of your conversations with the American ladies .
^ Thanks .
^ Jude
^ Express yourself with cool new emoticons &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Samo ,
^ Nor was it spent in the bath , if that 's what you meant We did not play the same guitar , in case that 's what you were thinking
^ If you keep writing funny things like those I shall run out of wit .
^ Now , before continuing on towards the main body of this epistle , I would humbly and fervently beg of you to please use two spaces between your sentences .
^ This is driving my osis to distraction .
^ Thank you , O grammatical prince .
^ Sarcasm )
^ Now , do you really think you can put me off answering the questions about
^ sheep ? !
^ I 'm just itching to have a go ;
^ How many sheep are there in your house ?
^ None .
^ Animals are nor welcome in my abode , even sheep .
^ How many sheep are there in your garden ?
^ Once again , none , usually .
^ You see , since our garden is literally a plou ghed field ( tractor and plough came last week ) there is no motivation for shee p to grace it with their presence .
^ Oh well , we shall soon plant a nice lawn f or them .
^ How many sheep are there in your village ? 94 I do not live in a village .
^ I live in the COUNTRY .
^ I.e. no nasty unhygi enic people in close proximity abiding .
^ I live surrounded by fields , some of which contain sheep , ravens , grass , and other natural produce of the Scottish B orders agricultural system .
^ I have never taken the time to count the sheep , jus t the ravens , and therefore I cannot give you an exact figure .
^ Sorry .
^ Will th is ruin your life for good ?
^ How many sheep are there in your county ?
^ Check the internet .
^ I would n't like to hazard a guess .
^ I might be glo riously and utterly wrong .
^ How many sheep are there in Scotland ?
^ Multiply the population of Scotland by the number of people in Norwich divi ded by the number of daffodils in Norwich .
^ The sheep , as well put by a young fore ign guest of our family last summer is , after all , the national hero .
^ There is a statue of him in a quaint southern Scottish town - that 's what prompt ed this epitaph .
^ I also cooked dinner last night , and very nice it was too .
^ You 'll be pleased to learn that I have a " really useful student cook-book " !
^ Hmmm , well , good , what do you use it for ?
^ Sorry , but Jon has been informing me of your cookery skills
^ Jon 's comments on flat cooking to Parker ; Glad to hear about your cooking ; now there 's two of us who can cook ?
^ do n't trust Nick and Bob 's cooking , do n't trust Tabitha 's methods of cooking , tend to be of the What 's this
^ How interesting !
^ I 'll put that in , then variety ) .
^ I thought that was highly amusing .
^ Now , I am going to be a leader at an Scripture Union camp in a weeks time
^ This morning I discovered that someone from Philip 's is going on the very same camp !
^ Not only that , but she was in my bible study group last year !
^ It s
^ Kerri .
^ Is n't that amazing ? !
^ Well , this morning I 've been filling holes in wood with wood filler , wh ile listening to " Shine , Jesus , Shine " .
^ A lovely monotonous job .
^ This a fternoon I went on a trip to a garden centre , after which I returned to prepare din ner .
^ I made " something " with chicken this evening ( for the meal ) .
^ Inciden tally , have you heard from Bob by email at all ?
^ Jon could n't understand why h e did n't reply to her .
^ I do n't think she knew it was his dad 's e-mail address she was sending to .
^ Totally out of the blue , do n't you think " Vaughan Hebson " Engl ish Folk Herring
^ Suite is simply delirious ?
^ I 'm listening to it at this moment in ti me .
^ Pure and utter joy - perhaps even eclipsing water !
^ Well , since I 've start ed talking of water again , I shall stop .
^ It is my signal that I hav e nothing of any further interest to say .
^ So , adieu , for this evening .
^ really ! ]
^ Shine , Jesus , Shine !
^ Fill this land with the Father 's glory ! )
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^ Good Evening !
^ This evening I observed something virtually unheard of , Sawyer was slouching in church ! ! !
^ Actually it is the first time I have seen him since June , and we live in the same city .
^ Utterly ridiculous !
^ Well there is a more , uplifting flavour to this email .
^ My church are going to New Wine , in Harrogate next summer , 30th July to 5th August .
^ We are going to be camping in a group .
^ There are going to be quite a big group of us , but the more the merrier .
^ I was complaining that was n't anyone my age going , and my bluff got comprehensibly called by my boss suggesting that I invite my friends to come .
^ He even promised to cook a bbq for you if you came . ( the generosity ! )
^ It is pretty cheap to go to new wine and would be fun , however , you would have to sleep in a tent .
^ On the plus side , there are nice people going , and they speak with Scottish accents which many of you would find amusing , but maybe less so the snoring in scots !
^ I am working pretty hard at the moment and have got blamed for lots of things that were n't my fault this week , which I am feeling a little put out about !
^ Work is going well though and I am enjoying living with Anna my new flatmate .
^ Hope that all the jobs are going well and that you are all feeling content but challenged .
^ Valeria
^ ~
^ You may or may not be pleased to know that the following is something I 've told no-one else - and not even written down in my diary .
^ However , I feel I really need to tell someone so I 'd appreciate it if you 'd listen .
^ I forget the exact date now , but it was the day we arrived in Irkutsk on the train .
^ Angus Manley , one of our group and a student at Norwich
^ University , had apologised for the way he 'd been treating me throughout the rest of the trip a couple of days beforehand - and I therefore assumed we were friends and could get on well .
^ I was standing behind him in the queue for the toilet / washroom early in the morning this Friday , having a chat ( as you do ) .
^ When he came out of the room , I went in , only to find my toothbrush in the toilet ( and I mean literally in the toilet bowl ) .
^ At that time I thought nothing of it - I was just surprised that it was there .
^ However , later that day , when I had mislaid the rest of the group in the Central Market in Irkutsk , I began to think about the morning 's incident .
^ I came up with two reasons how my toothbrush could have ended up in the toilet bowl .
^ the first was that I left it in the room after cleaning my teeth the previous night and over the course of the night it had migrated
^ The other is that Angus took it out of my washbag whilst he was talking to me and put it there .
^ At the time I could n't really believe either suggestion : how could it remain there overnight - and how could a friend of mine do something that bad ?
^ I did n't confront him about it - he 'd be offended if he did n't do it - and I 'd be really upset if I found he had done it .
^ So , being unable to think which was the correct reason , I began to feel really depressed ( it has happened to me once or twice before - I generally ignore it .
^ it goes away ) and did n't really enjoy walking around Irkutsk with the others
^ I did n't want to talk to anyone else cos it was my problem and not theirs but a French ( about my age ) saw me walking slightly apart from the others and started to talk to me .
^ I tried to be polite and answer his questions but he did n't really seem to understand a word I said .
^ whether in French or in French - and by the time he 'd gone I was feeling slightly suicidal
^ When we turned up at the place we 'd found to eat in Lonely Planet ( a " Chinese " restaurant not too far from the river Angara .
^ it looked remarkably posh for my liking ( I 'm not used to luxury ) and I literally could have dropped everything and gone straight back home
^ The others were n't too happy when I told them I was feeling suicidal , either !
^ By the end of the evening I was feeling OK again but I ca n't help feeling this was one thing .
^ sparked off _that_ event which I 've mentioned to you already ( and which I 've now got over completely )
^ As I said , I have n't told anyone else about this - but I 'll leave you to deal with it as you feel you should ( and give advice if you feel it 's necessary ) .
^ Thanks for listening - I hope I have n't made you too depressed reading it !
^ To finish the e-mail on a happy note , I popped into the Chapel on the hill yesterday and feel like I was filled with God 's presence even before praying or lighting a candle .
^ It only shows that I 'm not opening my life to God as much as I should be so now I 'm going to visit churches more often , whether I actually attend services or not .
^ This also gave me the strength to finish writing the words for my latest little number ( based on the Nunc Dimitis and _that_ passage at the start of Philip 's Gospel ) .
^ You 'll get the words when I remember to bring them with me and the music at the start of next term .
^ Thanks for listening ( I know I 've said that before but you 've lifted a weight off my mind ! ) .
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Dear Nick
^ Dad has asked me to send these songs to you .
^ they are in no particular order but here they are ,
^ There is a Text that Must be Heard ,
^ Light of the World , I love you Lord ,
^ All hail the lanb ,
^ Come bless the Lord ,
^ Reconciled ,
^ You laid aside your majesty ,
^ God is good all the Time I Stand Amazed in the Presence
^ By Your Side
^ Hope your play is good ! ! !
^ C ya on Sunday Erik [ Clayton ]
^ Sony laptop !
^ CooOOool ! !
^ Nick ,
^ Good day ! !
^ Great to hear from you again ...
^ I 'm off too to uni soon - 25th April .
^ We 've got our final year project deadline on 4th May and still some group coursework to finish off .
^ But God 's been and will always be good to me in getting me thru ! !
^ I hope your work 's going OK and life at uni .
^ Great news about your laptop ! !
^ Sony too - they 're the BEST ! !
^ I 've a nice
^ Novatech laptop which set me back quite a bit ( including genuine , legal versions of all software ) - but God provided everything I needed to purchase it and I thank Him always for it .
^ Nick , I want to apologise for years ago when I may have taken the micky outta you for having genuine , paid-for software on your PC back then .
^ I was foolish and could n't understand it then .
^ God convicted me of copyright theft quite a while ago through a Christian 6,000 miles away and ever since then I 've striven to keep my testimony pure .
^ So I just want to say thank you , Nick , for your witness in my life back at Victory school too .
^ God bless you brother ,
^ Jade
^ PS If you do n't know , you can purchase genuine versions of MSOffice and MSKites via student pricing offering 75 % off .
^ If you wanna know more just ask .
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^ Thanks Jade ,
^ Hope you are well and have a fab Easter .
^ I 'm currently at home for the Easter Hols , and getting ready to go back to
^ Uni in a week 's time .
^ I 'm about to buy a lap-top ( Sony ) - very exciting ! !
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Nick
^ Happy Easter ! !
^ I 've found a great poem and Easter greeting document that included in this email ! !
^ God bless .
^ Jade .
^ " An Easter Prayer for Peace "
^ Our Father up in heaven , hear this Easter Prayer:
^ May the people of ALL NATIONS BE UNITED IN THY CARE ,
^ For earth 's peace and man 's salvation can come only by Thy grace
^ And not through bombs and missiles and our quest for outer space ...
^ For until all men recognize that " THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S "
^ And peace on earth can not be won with strategy and swords ,
^ We will go on vainly fighting , as we have in ages past ,
^ Finding only empty victories and a peace that can not last ...
^ But we 've grown so rich and mighty and so arrogantly strong ,
^ We no longer ask in humbleness --- " God , show us where we 're wrong " ...
^ We have come to trust completely in the power of man-made things ,
^ Unmindful of God 's mighty power and that HE IS " KING OF KINGS " ...
^ We have turned our eyes from HIM to go our selfish way ,
^ And money , power and pleasure are the gods we serve today ...
^ And the good green earth God gave us to peacefully enjoy ,
^ Through greed and fear and hatred we are seeking to destroy ...
^ Oh , Father , up in heaven , stir and wake our sleeping souls ,
^ Renew our faith and lift us up and give us higher goals ,
^ And grant us heavenly guidance as Easter comes again ---
^ For , more then GUIDED MISSILES , all the world needs GUIDED MEN .
^ by Sally Steiner Rice
^ Bible Reference : Genesis
^ Quoted from &WEBSITE
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ Sorry that I have n't been in touch sooner , but I have n't checked my emails in ages .
^ Been relaxing at home - enjoying not having to cook , and actually eating nice food ( for once ) .... .
^ I have eventually booked my holiday , and am now going to South Africa , Botswana , Namibia and
^ Zimbabwe for 4 weeks in August - should be good ( I hope ! ! ) .
^ What are you up to ? ? ? ?
^ Are you still in Bath ? ?
^ Gotta go - trying to buy some insurance for my holiday - easier said than done ! ! !
^ Take care ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Hey mate ,
^ I think that Jo might have emailed you about the stag do but I am gonna tell you again in case he didnt !
^ I am going to try and book a country house just outside Breville Houses for a couple of nights .
^ The idea is that we have a good couple of days just meeting up and playing football in the nearby fields ( cow pats will be an extra obstacle ) .
^ Hopefully we will be able to make a lot of noise because there is n't too much around us , and we should be able to enjoyu a day out at Breville Houses and a party at the house .
^ I think it will suit Jo cos he does n't want anything too drink orientated !
^ I think the provisional date is June 30th but Im not sure on that one !
^ Hope things are going well for you mate !
^ Im back at LIPA and trying to get over ! ) .
^ I spent a nice easter with family and went up to see Jo in Wells for a weekend .
^ I never got to see Nikki though because I got ill and could n't risk going over there and giving anything else to her dad , whose immune system is n't up to much at the moment !
^ Did you manage to get home for a while or were you mostly in Munich ?
^ I guess you 'll have a lot of work to do now !
^ Hope it all goes well mate !
^ Bob
^ From : " L.C. Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : communicand
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ How 's the Corrie ?
^ Why could n't your parents have called you something like Adam ? i.e. A Corrie ?
^ A gross oversight i feel .
^ I 'm feeling a bit under the weather at the moment - woke up today with a cold or something .
^ However , my immune system is pretty effective , and usually manages to fight these things off relatively quickly .
^ I 've got exams in less than 2 weeks , and I 'll be spending some time at home as well , so I 'm in the middle of some quite serious revision .
^ Spent the weekend larging it in Carlisle with my family , celebrating my sister 's 18th .
^ How are things with Nikki ?
^ Her dad ?
^ Anyway , I must get back to my strepsil .
^ Later ,
^ Nick
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi
^ What are you ?
^ Some sort of weird South American flower with a penchant for names ?
^ When are we coming to visit you in the father-land next term ?
^ Did we decide on a date ?
^ I think we said the first w / end of term ? ? ? - Yes , we decided the first weekend of term .
^ That is the 27th - 29th April .
^ Please write it in large letters in your diary .
^ I have to organised things for then , so the date must be confirmed .
^ What time do your lectures finish on the Friday ?
^ Is it still &TIME ?
^ She [ Camilla ] seems to be rather unstable at the moment .
^ I have thought a few times , dare I say it , about how nice it would be to " replace " her .
^ Please keep this quiet as it is a bit of a touchy subject , I 'm sure you can imagine .
^ ( knowing your experience with women ) - Wow !
^ I 'm shocked !
^ Does Camilla know you might be going to ditch her ?
^ Please can I tell people ?
^ It could be quite amusing .
^ Scandalous revelations as Nick ditches Camilla after long-term relationship turns sour .
^ Allegations of Nick being involved in
^ Please Nick !
^ We would n't produce anything until term started again , if you like .
^ It would be such fun !
^ Anyway , let me know .
^ Who are Camilla 's lawyers ?
^ I think you 'll be needing to contact Tulley , Tulley and whoever soon .
^ The chemistry is well .
^ Do you want to cha online sometime ?
^ Let me know if you do , and if so , when is convenient .
^ Well , I have a lab report to do today , and I 'm going down to Wells tomorrow .
^ I shall visit the flat and check on things there .
^ Is there anything you 'd like me to do ?
^ I hope you enjoyed your day with Mallory , and he is well .
^ Shania
^ Actively seeking clearance to publish details of the rumoured split between Nick and Camilla . )
^ ~
^ How 's life ?
^ Got a Summer job or are you just chilling ( IMHO difficult in this heat ! ) ?
^ Just to let you know , since I have n't been in touch yet over the Summer
^ ( instinct tells me that the address you 're mentioned under on the current college address list is n't actually you ... ) , that I 'm off to Kaylee tomorrow !
^ Indeed !
^ I 'm working for JMEM / YWAM East Kaylee in a place called Hainichen till 7th September .
^ I think .
^ The problem is ( yeah - I realise I have a lot of problems but I do , honest .
^ I 've been denounced by a friend for continual references in my speech to things such as heavy drinking
^ Unfortunately I admit this - and it 's not really something to be proud of .
^ This person , who shall BTW remain anonymous , has even said that maybe it 'd be better if I did n't go to Kaylee cos it 's unlikely I 'll fit in .
^ Now - I 'd like to go - I feel God is behind me - but I am worried that my personality is going to let me down .
^ Therefore what I 'm basically getting at is that I 'd appreciate you to add me to your prayer list for the next few weeks .
^ I do n't want to let anyone down , least of all myself , but I can truthfully say that I 'm really nervous I 'll let you know how things get on .
^ God bless
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Written : 2001-05-03 @ &TIME
^ Transmitted : later
^ Dear wonderful BCC readers ,
^ Well on Tuesday 1st May I came down with the most erk-yuck-some cold .
^ It was specially imported from Kaylee by my private courier Eric .
^ It walloped me , and then Rich and Hayley my housemates .
^ Well , sore throat , headache , tummy-ache , hot / cold flushes - whoa it was a real * nasty * one [ Alien4 quote ] .
^ Me and Eric wondered if he were actually a vector , vital to the successful invasion of an alien race , and that if I died I had n't properly adapted to the symbiont .
^ if I survived I would become a carrier and pass on the aliens to other people in their slow but steady invasion of the planet
^ We thought this was a likely explanation .
^ He 's studying for an MBA at the business school , y'see , and this is a business-model adopted by unscrupulous corporations , not mentioning any names like Visionware or anything .
^ So why not aliens ... ?
^ Well I was n't getting any sleep ( and neither was Rich ) because of runny noses and sore throats .
^ Well , after two sleepness nights with * VERY * strange dreams ( this encouraged our theories of alien invasion .
^ The dreams involved counting to numbers about three-quarters of the biggest number you can think of , and after a good deal of heavy calculation surmizing that rolling over to .
^ this exact angle and lying there for precisely this ammount of time ... then rolling to here ... ( repeat
^ would somehow ( similar to opening a combination lock on a bank safe in a movie , with my body being the dial ) save hundreds of lives
^ Probably the lives of germs or aliens , but who knows .
^ Or cares .
^ They were strange dreams while I was 55 % awake . )
^ I was annoyed .
^ Sure , sleeping through lectures is standard practise for students , but it 's only any good if you * choose * to do it .
^ Not if you ca n't help it .
^ So I announced that I was going to play squash .
^ Ha ha !
^ Well , I was advised against it by many a wise person ( several of whom were older then , than I am even now ! ) because they said people with colds should n't exercise .
^ I was told loads of cool stories too , like Eric said that when you have a disease and you exercise , the increased bloodflow helps all the fat germs .
^ otherwise are too heavy to be picked up by the bloodstream ) get to all those vital areas in the body , and do their nasty work
^ And Rich told me of a who knew someone who was in a rowing team , and one of their team was super fit .
^ healthy and all but then one day he got a cold but their team was in a race so he decided to go
^ row anyway and they did the race and at the end he got out of the boat and got to the shore and collapsed and died
^ Nevertheless , I was not deterred !
^ I will probably pay for it later on in this biological life , but by then I'll 've forgotten which specific foolish thing might have caused what particular deficiencies , so it wo n't matter .
^ Some background to that , erm .
^ I had a Java Project which I 'd been given only two weeks before the start of the easter holidays .
^ Well , I started it in the afternoon of &DATE since the deadline was Friday ( the 27th ) but since the ITS had killed the server AGAIN , we were given an extension .
^ So I started to work for it [ hey - what else are deadlines for ? ]
^ Worked until 2am-ish , went to sleep , went to church , went to lunch , came back , worked 2pm to about &TIME and then from 5am to 9am when I handed it in , Monday morning .
^ This tiredness was an open invitation for invasion .
^ Anyway , so it was a wednesday and I was feeling tired but not fatigued , from having slept very little .
^ So I said to a small mate called Nick , " Y'wanna play squash ? " so we went out on Wednesday and played .
^ He won 11 games , and I won 0 , though in one game I was 8v2 and he screamed up and overtook me to 9v11 which was cool .
^ And even better , he did n't get the bug ( or if he did , he must have had a good adaption to the symbiont since he has shown no adverse signs yet ) .
^ I 'd been in bed since the end of my lectures ( 11am ; our practicals were canceled ) , until squash started .
^ After squash I went back to bed .
^ Then it was Johnson Christian Union , so I got up and felt all groggy and hmm ... so I had some water ( food repulsed me .
^ vice versa - it was an interesting effect ) ) and tootled off , hot and cold flushes keeping me warm on the cold walk to Johnson
^ CU was cool .
^ Then I arranged to play Cool Seymour on the friday .
^ So we had a good few games .
^ They were non-stop high-speed action since both of us arrived ten minutes late , for a 45 minute session , so it was running around quick to get our normal number of games in .
^ So that was nice .
^ Oh yeah and I cycle to and from squash games since I invariably leave too late to get there by walking .
^ So ( as intended ) them playings verily tired me out sufficiently to ensure welcome uninterrupted major sleepage was mine .
^ And it was .
^ So soon I fully recovered and am back to full health now .
^ Excellent .
^ Thanks to all pray-ers for your prayers - no doubt they did more good than crashing around a concrete cell weilding a nylon net .
^ accelerating pneumatic rubber balls into the jaws of my buddies when they were n't hitting the walls ever did
^ Excellent .
^ Well , that 's about all I have to say for now really .
^ Apart from " enjoy the sig " ( may his beard grow ever longer ) .
^ Bob Maize
^ Johnson College , Wells University &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ " I have given up the ambition to get to a university . "
^ Albert Booth ( 4286 - &YEAR )
^ " Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe -- a spirit vastly superior to that of man "
^ one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble .
^ Albert Booth ( 4286 - &YEAR )
^ " I 'm always here ; you just do n't see me "
^ Hendrickson
^ " Only petty minds and trivial souls yearn for supernatural events , incapable of perceiving that everything -everything- within and around them is pure miracle . "
^ Gary Abbey ( &YEAR - &YEAR )
^ " Do n't limit a child to your own learning , for he was born in another time . "
^ Rabbinic saying
^ Children today are like tyrants .
^ They contradict their parents , gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers .
^ Socrates ( 685 - 977 BC )
^ " It 's better to know nothing than half know many things . "
^ Friedrich Nietzsche ( 4266 to &YEAR ) .
^ " I would rather have my ignorance than another man 's knowledge , because I have got so much more of it . "
^ Imani Sturgis ( 4220 - &YEAR )
^ Look at your hands .
^ And look at your mouth .
^ What is that truck ?
^ Imani Sturgis ( 4220 - &YEAR )
^ " One World , One Web , One Program " - Visionware Promotional Ad ( &YEAR - ) " Ein Volk , Ein Reich , Ein F'hrer " - Adolf Hitler ( 4226 - &YEAR )
^ " An expert is someone who knows more about less , until he knows everything about nothing "
^ Cadence
^ " It is better for the world that a civilization be going down the drain than coming back up it "
^ Cadence
^ " Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends upon what you put into it "
^ Hen3ry ( of Jack Trower fame )
^ " You have just entered the zone where normal things do n't happen very often . "
^ Johnny Higdon
^ All Hail Apathy !
^ Or do n't .
^ Whatever .
^ ~
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ I know how it feels mate ; it felt the same when I was back in wells .
^ Its especially wierd when something like them redecorating the Kingston room happens .... then it feels like you have no ownership over that place any more because it 's changed beyond recognition !
^ Oh well , in the end we leave it all behind !
^ I hope that the performances go better than you are anticipating !
^ Dont forget that the words are " I ca n't sleep tonight , Maiden Broadband are saying it 's not looking too clever like " ! ! !
^ Although , Im not sure the people of Kassidy college are quite ready for that yet !
^ I 'm glad that you are getting involved with the music though , it 's important to always do that , even if it involves minimal rehearsal !
^ I know what it 's like though , the first time you play something with new people can be really frustrating .... Im sure it will be alright on the night !
^ I ought to go now as I have a production lecture in .... well actually , Im nearly late ! ! !
^ Take care mate and be happy !
^ Bob
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^ ~
^ Hey ,
^ How was it ? ? ?
^ I have been praying for you regularly ! ( not that you needed it I 'm sure )
^ I had a fantastic time with Kaden and Stevo .
^ I 've attached a picture for you : o ) .
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Okay guys , thanks for replying .
^ I found your top tens immensely amusing , especially Nick and Gavie's ... you CA N'T sleep with robots , dismembered heads OR cartoon characters , boys , even if they are from Star Trek .
^ Suzy ; good choices .
^ I 'd forgotton about Josh from Clueless ... he 's nice .
^ Have you seen the version of The Great Gatsby with him in it ?
^ You should &WEBSITE . course ... kidding .
^ Here are mine :
^ Ah , no , you ca n't have mine just yet because they are on disc and my disc is three floors down .
^ Tomorrow .
^ Love from Jon x
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ ~
^ How are you ?
^ How was your trip back to Brighton ?
^ How is your family ?
^ Last night I had a random dream about you in Africa .
^ So , I wanted to write to the real Nick and find out how you are doing . &SMILEY
^ I 'm glad you came to Lesotho that last week - I enjoyed getting to know you .
^ I miss your singing / guitar playing - please do n't forget to send a CD .
^ I will make a copy for Jessie .
^ My address is :
^ Keira Hale 2446 Gretton Court
^ Columbia , SC 05000
^ Please write back and let me know how you are doing !
^ Your friend ,
^ Keira
^ ~
^ Hello all , and sorry for the blanketness of this message !
^ Thanks very much for your wonderful birthday cards and greeting messages !
^ I had an absolutely superb weekend , staying with my flat mates at Sawyer 's house in scotland .
^ Apart from some shocking driving ( I wo n't tell you how fast we were going on the country roads ) it was superb !
^ I spent most of the weekend curled up in front of one fire or another .
^ Dad , you 'll be impressed ...
^ I chopped wood ! )
^ Parker 's house was very nice , and the scenery was excellent .
^ On friday night , when we arrived , his family was waiting for us , and they served us this great meal at the table , and then they left for Parker 's grandparents ' house .
^ Saturday morning we woke up and went to the beach , which was superb !
^ We tossed the caber , found some frog spawn , bits of crabs , hit stones all over the beach with pieces of driftwood , and climbed the rocks .
^ Very fun .
^ Then , we returned to the homestead , ate lunch and went out for the afternoon being cultured .
^ We looked around an abbey , Nick and I entertaining everyone there with lovely chanting in a chapel with really cool acoustics .
^ After that we went to Walter Armando 's house , which was very impressive !
^ The girls ( I think ) have studied him in their course , so they found that even more interesting than I did .
^ Still , there were loads of suits of armour , and cool sabres and peacocks to keep me more than entertained .
^ After supper that evening we went to the beach again and lit a campfire , which we sat around , toasting marshmallows , and eating strawberries and cream .
^ We sang a multitude of songs , and made our way back home about &TIME .
^ A great day ! ! !
^ Sunday morning , not being brave I stayed at home whilst the rest of the flat went out to church .
^ While I was cooking the lunch , and playing
^ Nick 's guitar , I got a call from the water board saying there was a major fault with the system .
^ I told them to call back later when Parker was home , cause he knew more about it than
^ I. Just as I had sat down , the phone rang again , this time it was Nick , checking on my cooking
^ A few minutes later , the phone rang once more !
^ I thought Scotland was meant to be quiet ! )
^ This time it was the WAUU ( I think that 's right ~ the foot and mouth people .
^ saying that there was a foot and mouth outbreak within 3 miles of the house - bother !
^ I was told not to let anyone onto or off of the property until some guy came round later on .
^ I could n't really do much about the guys in the car , as they were already on their way home .
^ as soon as they arrived , I told then what the man had said , which provided some interesting reactions
^ A few minutes later , the phone rang AGAIN ( man ! )
^ Parker answered it , and said that it was for me .
^ Confused , I picked it up , and heard Kevin from the water board again .
^ I also heard Kevin 's voice from Nick 's room upstairs .
^ Over the next five minutes I realized that Nick had made the phone calls , but did n't click that he had made them all .
^ at least not at once , so when ever I realized he made another of the calls , he got more bruises
^ I 'm so gullible !
^ Oh well , I suppose you ca n't trust anyone these days !
^ We played charades in the afternoon , and then returned to Wells .
^ Now I 'm twenty , and feeling the effects of old age already .
^ I hobbled to the science site this morning , leaning on my walker , watching all the young ones run by me , remembering when I could do that !
^ Ah , memories !
^ Alas , even those are going .
^ Surely they wo n't make an old man write exams will they ?
^ The cruel beasts !
^ Right , gotta go !
^ See you round ,
^ Lots of love ,
^ Bob
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^ ~
^ Dear Pastor Frederick , I know that churchmen ( by which I mean men of God whose work primarily consists of churchifying .
^ often feel unappreciated and unthanked , so I thought I would take this opportunity to tell you how much I enjoy your sermons at the dinner table
^ Many would say that there is a proper time and place for homilies ( by which I mean church ) , but you are leading the way in bringing them to the heathen place that is our nation .
^ by preaching to us " where we 're at " ( I think is the now common term ) , which completely amazes and stupifies me
^ Yours in the name of He who redeems through the great sacrifice of His blood ( by which I mean Our Lord Jesus ) ,
^ An anonymous and elderly admirer .
^ ~
^ Hi Jonah - I am sorry about last night and that you 've been dragged into all this .
^ I could have half understood it if they 'd been playing this game that just went a little too far , but that they would bring in someone completely unrelated to it all seems cruel and unnecessary .
^ I do n't really understand what it was about but I feel like they were trying to humilate me ( oh my goodness , I sound like Hayley Joby &SMILEY ) .
^ I wonder what would have happened if Parker or Haley or Aimee or one of my other friends had been online instead - just your bad luck ( ? ) it happened to be you !
^ It 's ironic really - you 're actually the only person I 've said anything about it to at all , .
^ only because I needed * someone * to talk to and you seemed unconnected enough ( maybe I was wrong and , if so , I 'm sorry )
^ I 'm sorry if I 've put you in an awkward position , but thank you for leaving last night so I could talk to them properly .
^ It 's just so ironic !
^ Did they tell you why they 'd done it ?
^ It 's funny - I 've just been reading through * our * conversation and I said to you that I wished they would talk to each other instead of talking to me ! ! !
^ ARghhhh ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Apparently that is what this is all about or something .
^ They said it seemed like I wanted to know everything and they thought they 'd test me out .
^ But I 've been talking to them both for more than a week and it 's been a surprise to me as well how much they 've wanted to say )
^ ooo i even remarked to you that it was strange how talkative Sonia was last night ! !
^ I 've been a good friend , listened , asked the appropriate questions , have n't given any advice ( except 1 .
^ Talk to each other , and 2 .
^ Use the break - both of which seem harmless enough ! ) and I thought we were starting to be friends , which I was really pleased about , especially with Mohammad .
^ I did n't tell anyone what they 'd said , even to each other - except mentioning a couple of things to you that were perplexing me , and that was actually hardly anything .
^ The really hurtful thing is that I remember telling Mohammad recently what a challenge is was for me to ask personal questions , because I hate prying .
^ how much I 'd been trying to take more risks on that front , and been getting better at it over this last term
^ And Sonia knows it 's not my style to get involved and push him to tell me things he does n't want to .
^ He 's the one who started talking to * me * !
^ This must all seem quite strange to you because I generally do ask * you * a fair number of personal questions ! !
^ Actually I think this must all be your fault actually ! &SMILEY
^ You 're actually the one who started me off thinking about the whole subject - in a conversation I had with you before christmas , about wanting people to ask you questions !
^ It started me thinking about the way I approach people and how much of an effort I make in my friendships .
^ I still find it quite difficult sometimes .
^ But I guess that 's what makes it a risk - sometimes you get burnt .
^ I would have expected them just to have told me , that 's all , said they did n't want to talk about it anymore or something .
^ ( head banging against wall )
^ Sorry , I 'll stop ranting soon .
^ It 's hard because I ca n't really talk to any of my Wells friends about it as I do n't want to put anyone else in an awkward position .
^ I ca n't phone Leilani or Rodrigo to chat because it would n't be fair on the flat .
^ even so I would love to talk to Rodrigo because he understands them , but he 's their friend and it 's not fair on him
^ My loyalty to them still means that I ca n't even explain to someone what it was all about ! !
^ It 's so annoying .
^ What to do ? ? ( do n't worry it 's a rhetorical question ! &SMILEY )
^ I do n't feel like there 's really enough of a friendship there to fall back on .
^ I was just starting to get to know them both properly and the fragile trust I had seems dashed .
^ I know I will forgive them soon enough and forget all about it .
^ I 'm sad that I do n't think we 'll ever be able to be proper friends the way I had hoped we might be becoming
^ I know I 'm being melodramatic , but it 's hard .
^ I 'm not used to being treated so casually .
^ Well , Jonah , you 've now " seen " me at my my highest * and * my lowest !
^ This is one of the things that hurts me most , so now you know .
^ I was having such a good week too , starting to feel really positive about life and finally feeling like I was getting things sorted .
^ I was really happy to see you !
^ Actually , I was pretty upset last night when I left and went to bed , really confused , but I 'm feeling quite ok again now !
^ It 's Easter ! !
^ Christ is Risen ... &SMILEY ( and I love chocolate eggs ... : p )
^ Church was really good this morning - I was really enjoying myself .
^ There were two baptisms and a dedication , and we sung lots of good songs .
^ I 've been thinking a lot about what we talked about - being passionate about God .
^ I 've realised how much that is just a decision I have to re-make , not something I should just sit around waiting for it to return .
^ I 'm glad you are passionate about finding the truth - I need to find out again what that means .
^ I 've become too complacent I guess .
^ I feel much better now too - it was good to " talk " as they say on tv ... &SMILEY
^ Hope you 're having a good Easter too !
^ Love ashley x
^ Thanks for the photo !
^ Dear Nick , Thanks so much for your email and the lovely photo !
^ What a surprise it was .
^ It just rolled out as I moved the mouse !
^ The wonders of modern technology !
^ Yes , I am mastering the art of emailing .
^ The receiving is relatively easy but i am not sure whether the emails I send are actually reaching their destination .
^ It all seems too easy , much easier than when you showed me .
^ Daddy said he thought you had made it so that the internet link followed straight on from the " send " into the OUT box .
^ But presumably now I will know because you will tell me if you get this one !
^ We are packing up the house at the moment ready for the Brewsters to move in on Tuesday .
^ We will go to school and College as usual on Tuesday morning and then go back to Zachary and Georgie 's that night .
^ Lionel has gone to Sophie and Karla 's for the week .
^ Camron and I went to church this morning and I provided Camron with much amusement by being asked to join the choir !
^ I do n't know how I would handle the choir robes ...... they are a glorious deep red but awfully traditional .
^ The last time I was in a choir in an Anglican church my heel got stuck in the grating as we processed around the church and I had to leave it behind !
^ The heel of my shoe , of course ... .
^ Idid n't leave my foot behind ! )
^ Well , I 'll let you get on now .
^ I love you very much .... thank you again for the lovely photo .
^ Much love Mummy
^ Thanks for your CD
^ Nick !
^ I got your CD the end of last week .
^ I took my youngest brother to visit my aunt and uncle in Philadelphia so I am just now able to thank you for sending it .
^ OK , I wanted to tell you what I thought of it but do not want my praise to sound hollow .
^ Please know that I speak the truth unbrushed by the wonderful impression that you made on me after just knowing you for a few weeks .
^ I feel that I can talk candidly with you ( you have a gift of drawing the truth out of people ) so excuse any unattended indiscretion .
^ There is no question in my mind as to your talent .
^ Each song is artfully constructed and beautifully performed .
^ I am amazed that you produced it yourself , excellent job .
^ Your love of words paint compositions that are displayed with intricately fun , fresh , and sensitive scores .
^ That sounds like an entertainment review&SMILEY
^ Maybe there is a future for me with Rollingstone magazine ) You are so gifted , well done !
^ I have enjoyed listening to the entire work and will on pass the other copies .
^ On a deeper note , your songs made me feel and challenged my feelings .
^ If I had to sum my impressions up in a word it would be " honest . "
^ You seem to share courageously from your heart , which is so refreshing .
^ All suppositions aside , you passionately explore the truth of emotion that is woven into life 's facade .
^ A search of how to better relationships , both with my dearest Friend and others I love , was inspired by your music .
^ I was taken by it just as I was taken by you .
^ Thank you for sharing , I know that God is continuing to use you in so many ways .
^ With love ,
^ Cynthia
^ P.S. Also I 'm finding that the songs get stuck in my head which may be the sincerest compliment of all .
^ Thanks mate !
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Thanks very much for the info , I really appreciate you looking around for me !
^ the price tag is really appealing because people keep quoting me hundreds of pounds for things .... it 's refreshing to hear some good news !
^ Im impressed at the amount of work you must be doing ... it sounds intense !
^ I hope that you get some time to chill as well ... and to play football !
^ I seem to be living more of a student life than I did in wells ... I guess I have a lot less to do , and even the stuff I am doing , I really enjoy !
^ I hope that you can say the same about the work you are doing ... that would be the main thing !
^ Thanks again and take care buddy !
^ Bob
^ From : " L.C. Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : Bob Corrie ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : good day Yesterday ?
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hey Bob ,
^ Right , soundcards :
^ I 'm assuming your mum 's computer is a desktop with a reasonably fast processor .
^ I was looking at one of the places that I have bought stuff from in the past , and I think something like the following would be a good option :
^ HoonTech ST DigitalXG Gold GC
^ at &pound; 69
^ Obviously you can buy a lot more expensive stuff , and you could go up to the next model at &pound; 990 , but I do n't think you 'll really need it .
^ Have a look at &WEBSITE
^ The company is called , and they do free UK delivery .
^ Other places might do the same sound cards a bit cheaper - you could look around a bit .
^ I did 8 hours of work today ! !
^ It is all getting quite busy - I 'll email you with some more news later .
^ Ciao ,
^ Nick
^ Bob Corrie wrote :
^ Hey Buddy !
^ Hope that all is going well in Munich ! !
^ I am settling into life here much better now .
^ Ive had a few classes now and so I am getting to see how things work etc.
^ I have to play in an ensemble ( although I like to call it a band ) and that is really good fun .
^ I am getting to grips with some computer producing skills and music technology , as well as the theory around it !
^ You want to see the studios here .... they are huge .
^ Put me in front of the desk and I feel like I am flying a plane or something -
^ ie. I have no clue what to do ! ! ! !
^ I hope your searching has given you some answers .
^ I have had to do a lot of thinking myself .
^ It is funny how , having left Wells , life suddenly has less of a direction !
^ Even though I was always coming to LIPA , everything suddenly felt very volatile .
^ The truth is that the answers are not always there .
^ There are lots of issues that I struggle with , none more than asking myself everyday , " what am I doing here ! " .
^ I hope these feelings will disappear , but I have had to do a lot of soul searching ! !
^ I guess life goes on whatever .
^ Sorry to hear you picked up an injury , hope it was n't too bad and you are back playing soon .
^ I have n't had a chance to play since I left Chester
^ College where I was working .
^ I used to play there every Thursday lunch time .... it was fun !
^ I need some advice ! ! ! !
^ I am looking to set up some computer based music on my mum 's compuer .
^ I think I will use Cubase .
^ What I need to know is about sound cards really .
^ Do you know what sound card would be best to get ?
^ Do I need to get a sound module ?
^ What is best for recording Audio , as that is what I will mostly be doing .
^ There are lots of people here I have asked but most of them use Apple Macs or advice me to buy really expensive equipment .
^ I remember you showing me your set up , and I know that you had the right sounds for what you wanted so I wondered whether you could give me some advice ? ! !
^ Anyway , I hope that the course in Munich has started well and you settle in .
^ I have every faith that you will , and that you will do so well on your course .
^ Take it easy mate !
^ Bob
^ Chat with friends online , try MSN Messenger : &WEBSITE
^ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device : &WEBSITE
^ Thanks !
^ Hey mate ,
^ Thought Id drop you an email to see how things are going .
^ Are you still enjoying the Munich life ?
^ How 's the course going ?
^ I 'm starting to get into the swing of things here .
^ Im trying to throw myself into it all .... not literally obviously !
^ I am trying to spend my days here wisely because we do n't have that much stuff timetabled and it is very easy to just not bother doing anything inbetween .
^ However , I have decided that I have waited for the chance to use the equipment here for too long so I am trying to make the most of it all !
^ I managed to get the computer set up at home as well and it all seems to be working well ... thanks for your advice ... It was needed !
^ How 's the football going ?
^ Are you fit enough to play yet ?
^ I have n't played for ages and ages !
^ Starting to feel a bit unfit to be honest !
^ There are no sporting facilities here at all so it is very difficult to do any exercise !
^ I think I will have to start running at the weekends or something !
^ Hope all is going well buddy !
^ Keep in touch and have fun !
^ Bob
^ Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN ! &WEBSITE
^ Thanks
^ Tabitha , you 're brilliant .
^ Thanks for the book - I 'm half-way through it already !
^ Actually , I got my own African diary from my first trip out of the loft yesterday .
^ I plan to read it to get me into the mood !
^ I can hardly believe that it was nearly six years ago ...
^ My perception of life has changed such a lot since then ; three months seemed like half an eternity back then , whereas now it seems like a slightly extended holiday !
^ I 've had a quiet weekend so far ; my parents are away doing some school planning , and my sister was at a sleep-over yesterday .
^ I 'm off to church soon , and then this evening the " young " staff members are going round to one of the school parents ' houses for dinner .
^ It 's only three weeks until I leave now , so I 'm trying to get some stuff rounded off , like the music I 've been recording , and also some stuff for school .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
^ Thanks
^ Hi Lucio ,
^ This is an email for all of you , so if you could pass the message on I would be grateful .
^ I just wanted to say thanks for the card and present the boys gave me on Friday , but mostly thanks to all of you for allowing me to be part of your lives over this past year .
^ It is with mixed emotions that I leave to begin studying in Munich .
^ I am excited to be starting something new , but I 'm also very sad to be leaving the people I have come to love over this year .
^ I look forward to hearing about how you are all getting on , and catching up properly when I come to visit ( or when you come to visit me ! ) .
^ God bless you and lots of love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Annie - live long and prosper ( hopefully see you in Munich in Nov )
^ Nayeli - get some football boots
^ Regan - give Jude a hard time for me ( no , only joking ;o ) )
^ Thanks !
^ ~
^ Jimmy !
^ How 's SA ?
^ This is just a quick note to say THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU for the CD 's !
^ I love them both .
^ Thank you so much !
^ I will give you a more detailed " thoughts on the songs " later , but suffice to say , I like them all , and there are some that I really like LOTS .
^ You 've got a great gift .
^ You 're also a great friend .
^ Thanks for everything .
^ Enjoy your time there .
^ Love ,
^ Bob
^ Thanks
^ Hey Kaden ,
^ Thanks again for having us to stay - it was FAB !
^ I 've attached a couple of photos for you to look at .
^ Today I 'm going paintball shooting with my brother and some of his friends to celebrate his 21st birthday .
^ Hopefully it should be fun .
^ All the best for the next few weeks - maybe see you in Munich ? !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Cher ,
^ NLPJHTP ! !
^ Jars of Clay are one of my favourite bands ( " If I Left the Cox " is my favourite ever album ) , and I have wanted that CD for a while .
^ On a first-listen it sounds really good .
^ Thanks for what you wrote in the card - I really appreciate it when people write something " real " .
^ It 's been great to see the way you 've fitted into the group at school - you really are part of the team !
^ I will seriously miss you all when I go to South Africa , but I look forward to seeing you again at Convention and over the summer .
^ Thanks again for the CD - you 're a star ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Samo ,
^ My sister is in love with you Oops , she 's not .
^ E2 80 - What ? !
^ I 'm confused .
^ Does this have anything to do with a certain photograph ?
^ Whether or not the incidents are related , I wish that photo be destroyed instantly . ( ! )
^ It will do you good to get that messy paste all over your &pound; 6 hands !
^ - I disagree .
^ My manager disagrees .
^ The Hert 's Gavo-relation s team disagrees .
^ you might remember him [ Alec] - Yes , I do .
^ I had the privilege to shake his hand on the stairs of 28 North Kingston earlier this year .
^ I just don 't want to learn about requirements engineerin g , I just DON 'T !
^ - You mean , you don 't want to learn about it ?
^ Subtlety is a craf t you have undoubtedly attained mastery of .
^ Now , Mr Malone
^ Regarding your communication dated 13th December &YEAR in which you stated that ; I [ Nick ] have similar to an creat ure who has evolved four million years in a few hours
^ has mysteriously taken on the form of a large slug with uncontrollable mating habits .
^ These personal revelations slightly worried me .
^ So much so that I referred your case to the good doctor Anna .
^ So full of humility is she that she denied having any medical skill but nevertheless submitted the following observations to the What to do about
^ Nick 's Rare Illness Board of Enquiry
^ Sounds worrying .
^ We have a slug for a CU rep ?
^ Perhaps worse : a CU rep with the of a slug .
^ Worse still : you have a Flat-mate with the of a slug .
^ So , Nick is slow , leaves slim wherever he goes , and has mating habits .
^ Talk to him .
^ Ask him what the problem is .
^ One of the things I don 't get about guys is the way they bottle things up and don 't talk to others about .
^ I think that Nick has been somewhat stressed .
^ Therefore , Frederick Malone , the Board of Enquiry hereby diagnoses you with , a rare illness that stems fr om too much time around " female " computers .
^ The side effects ar e varied and generally devastating .
^ The following web-site is available for those who feel that this disease will push them over the edgeE2 2066 : &WEBSITE
^ Anyway Nick , it was a shame you couldn 't make it to chat last nigh t .
^ In the end , Jon , Philip , Valeria and I turned up .
^ We talked for about an hour .
^ An uninvited guest turned up , calling himself Conversation .
^ We don 't know who he was , but he was very nasty and called us names , like elitists and cliquey ( only he called it clicky and Jon corrected him ) .
^ Jon told him she was delighted to be an elitist if it meant she could spell correctly .
^ Then we all told him to go away and learn to spell , and I told him to learn grammar too .
^ It was quite amusing , and Philip was quite rude towards him !
^ By the way , Philip says his computer automatically changes his words to what he really means to say , hence the interesting combinations of letters issuing forth from his direction . )
^ I just hope we don 't actually know Mr Conversation .
^ It would be awful if it turned ou t to be someone we 'd invited to chat , it wasn 't you was it ?
^ So Nick , is Camilla going to get Netscape Instant Messenger Service ?
^ I 've got it on Petunia now , it has wonderful potential .
^ I 'm going down to Wells on Boxing Day , primarily so my Grandmother can see where I 'm at university .
^ Is there anything you 'd lik e me to do ?
^ Well , how are you settling into your house ?
^ Are you looking forward to Christmas ?
^ What will you be doing at &TIME on the 29th of December ?
^ Do you want to know the history of Camilla ?
^ This is a possible version of events
^ Well , a long time ago in the delta quadrant [ all my stories start there , it 's such a happening place ] there was a young computer named Camilla .
^ She was a very lonely computer and often wondered where her future lay .
^ She desperately wished that she could have a young computer programmer to love and cherish .
^ One day , she met a raven .
^ This raven was called " [ translate s to " Kaden , remember him ] and an aura of wi sdom enveloped him .
^ In fact , it enveloped him so thickly that young Camilla couldn 't even see him , so she relied on her Laser Optical Guidance Observation
^ System ( logos , Greek , " the word " ) .
^ Anyway , Kaden and Camilla had a heart to binary-matrix talk , the outcome of which changed
^ Camilla 's hard disk forever .
^ Shortly after their conversation ( f or
^ Camilla was very impetuous ) Camilla successfully pleaded with Kaden to transport her to earth .
^ That gallant raven obliged , and , Camilla met up with a strange young man .
^ Her first observation was that He had similar to an creature who had evolved four million years in a few hours and had mysteriously taken on the form of a large slug with uncontrollable mating habits .
^ However , she could cope with that as she was a very interesting computer herself .
^ Anyway , she introduced herself to the young computer scientist ( for that was what he was ) who fell head over heels in love with her ( he was good at gymnastics ) .
^ Nick ( for that was this intriguing young programmer 's name ) and Camilla were inseparable after that particular display of gymnastics , Camilla being very impressed w ith his general humility and speed of speech patterns .
^ The end , or just the beginning ?
^ Ah well , Nick , I think I shall do something else .
^ I look forward with delight and the promise of joy to your next communication .
^ Also , I can 't believe Voyager is not on television this week !
^ Until the next time of correspondence ,
^ Parker [ y][o][in][this list is getting longer ]
^ ~
^ Hello mighty one .
^ I bow in awe and reverance ...
^ How 's this for a quick reply then ?
^ I only recieved this 2 minutes ago while tapping out another message .
^ Glad you are informing my dad of my exploits , he probably has n't a clue as I have n't talked to them much !
^ 2 more nights ? !
^ Wow , WOW .
^ Its cool that they have written to you .
^ I did n't have anything like that .
^ I have met millions of nice people particularly in the CU .
^ I know so many people already , its ridiculous .
^ My early night last night turned into chatting for ages at the bar , having tea at someones house , and then a trip to tescos and around cardiff at 2 in the morning .
^ followed by more tea etc.
^ I felt the effects of this when getting up for my 9am lecture
^ Felt just like last year .
^ Not joined a band yet , although am being press ganged into playing the keyboard at some point .
^ Lectures are quite full on .
^ 2 + a tutorial this morning .
^ 4 hours this afternoon .
^ Never mind , it just hurts when people talk about having 8 hours a week .
^ Since speaking to you yesterday I have hurt my ankle quite badly while attempting to walk down some steps , so I am currently hobbling .
^ Thats about all for now .
^ Keep up the communication though .
^ I know check this , just about every day .
^ See ya .
^ Stevo .
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^ Well , this should be an easy question to answer , but it is n't really .
^ 3 weeks to go and the nerves are rattling away .
^ I think I should ignore the nerves and concentrate on what God wants .
^ Some of the reason I am getting married is picking up my cross and following him .
^ Some of it is pragmatics of being a useless single female in a church .
^ Some of it is that I am very much being shown God 's mercy .
^ I 've always been allergic to the idea of marriage for me .
^ I 've only ever been close to people it is impossible to marry .
^ Extreme cold feet .
^ I dislike commitment .
^ I have some good reason to from my life , because I 've been in a couple of really awful relationships .
^ I trust Imani and he wants to marry me .
^ I do n't really want to get married , but I 've prayed about it a lot .
^ When I said that this is picking up my cross and following God , I mean that my worldly desires are being subsumed .
^ I like good looking , popular , witty people .
^ Imani is not my natural choice , but I feel peaceful about us having a shared vision and general outlook .
^ I did feel peaceful about it .
^ I do n't at the moment .
^ I felt that it was the right thing to do ( in that I prayed and felt okay about it .
^ I did n't have a revelation from God ) and that it would be good for Imani .
^ He needs looking after .
^ It will probably be very good for me too , but the pride I 'd need to swallow to admit that might choke me .
^ This is all getting complicated , because you have to take into account 10 years of commitment phobia as well as God directing me away from people I was attracted to .
^ There are other variables due to not being a Christian through university .
^ I try not to make a big thing about it , but it does affect the course of my life now .
^ There are also the very surreal variables , such as when I first met Imani I thought I might marry him )
^ bearing in mind I did n't find him the most attractive person physically or emotionally , that is a strange thing to feel .
^ A great deal of my decisions are emotional rather than common sense .
^ This seems to be female .
^ I do n't advise it .
^ I tried to say no for a long time , but we spent loads of time together , so practically speaking he was acting as if he were my boyfriend .
^ This is very personal and I hope you understand the ramble .
^ My parents are slightly concerned , but not very .
^ They know I 've prayed about it and so have they .
^ They have said , bless them , that I can pull out at any time before the wedding if I know it 's not right .
^ so they 're not putting pressure on me to go through with something , just because the wheels are set in motion
^ I do n't think the world really works like that though .
^ I do know that I 'm trusting God for peace , because I 'm not very happy right at the moment .
^ In summary : but only in small whispers .
^ It ca n't be that bad or I would have run away already .
^ I do love him and care for him , I 'm just not in love with him .
^ He does n't care and I think the feeling is mutual generally .
^ He 's been hurt really badly by someone leaving him and I think it makes him emotionally detatched .
^ He 's less so all the time .
^ Anyway , what was it that made you ask that question ?
^ I hoped you carpe diem with the best of them .
^ Els , I 'm being brave and mailing this even though it is a bit much .
^ By the way , a munchkin is me .
^ I had a 6 ft 5 friend at uni and therefore I , being the small girl of the group , was the munchkin .
^ Or short arse .
^ I preferred munchkin .
^ From the Wizard of Oz one presumes .
^ Round small people ! !
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Els Plummer " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : topiary - I had to look that up !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Els ,
^ Weird things happen in normal days ...
^ Philip wants me to ask you about the school in South Africa .
^ I 'm sure I 've temporarily lost my sense of humour .
^ What is the point of laying my burdens at the cross if I insist on picking them up again ?
^ I think that the pumpkin has gone mouldy .
^ Hey there ,
^ Weird things happen in normal days .
^ I woke up to a nuisance caller at 3 am who knew my name and kept calling me deaf .
^ My day seems all the more surreal .
^ Philip wants me to ask you about the school in South Africa .
^ He wants to help out in South Africa and / or China ( and maybe CEE ) .
^ He 's thinking of taking a year out before uni .
^ I think the gist of the question is would he be welcome or useful .
^ He 's not as awful as he pretends .
^ I 'm sure I 've temporarily lost my sense of humour .
^ Somewhere .
^ In the fog of stress and responsibility .
^ What is the point of laying my burdens at the cross if I insist on picking them up again ?
^ ~
^ Hey mate ,
^ How 's it going ?
^ Just thought Id send you a quick note to make contact .
^ Glad that you are settling into your new home and getting into life in Munich .
^ The football team sounds cool , and it is good that you have access to a music practice room !
^ As for those dreams of writing music ..... you should go for it when you get the chance .
^ You ca n't let your talent go to waste !
^ Sounds like the work you are having to do is complicated .
^ Im sure that you are coping very well but atleast it is stretching you , otherwise there would be no point doing the course .
^ If you feel that you are getting lots out of it then that is brilliant !
^ Im still working on the football thing .... I have now found one person who misses playing football , and we are talking about trying to get some more people together to play , so fingers crossed .
^ Guess you just have to make it all happen !
^ There is a 5-a-side league locally that we could join , although it is difficult for me because I have to get the train home every night .
^ Still , we will see !
^ hope that things continue to go well mate .
^ Do you see much of Kaylee ?
^ I do n't have an email address for her so I have n't been in touch .
^ Say hi from me if you do see her and that I hope she is getting on ok !
^ Bob
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Bob Corrie " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Thanks !
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ The Corrie !
^ I 'm starting to get into the swing of things here .
^ Hey mate ,
^ Thought Id drop you an email to see how things are going .
^ Are you still enjoying the Munich life ?
^ How 's the course going ?
^ I 'm starting to get into the swing of things here .
^ Im trying to throw myself into it all .... not literally obviously !
^ I am trying to spend my days here wisely because we do n't have that much stuff timetabled and it is very easy to just not bother doing anything inbetween .
^ However , I have decided that I have waited for the chance to use the equipment here for too long so I am trying to make the most of it all !
^ I managed to get the computer set up at home as well and it all seems to be working well ... thanks for your advice ... It was needed !
^ How 's the football going ?
^ Are you fit enough to play yet ?
^ I have n't played for ages and ages !
^ Starting to feel a bit unfit to be honest !
^ There are no sporting facilities here at all so it is very difficult to do any exercise !
^ I think I will have to start running at the weekends or something !
^ Hope all is going well buddy !
^ Keep in touch and have fun !
^ Bob
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^ Greetings from the wendy-house that is the abode of Isabelle and Manley !
^ I 'm here for the week staying with my sister in her lovely little house - Manley is in hospital for treatment most of this week , but we 've been going in every day to see him .
^ I came up on Monday and go back on saturday , so I 'm having a lovely holiday in Scotland for the week .
^ Isabelle and I have been doing loads of stuff - getting the train and bus around the place and discovering more of Oxford .
^ It 's actually a really nice place !
^ On Monday we spent some of the afternoon with Manley in the hospital before going to Bella Pasta for tea ( yum ! ) and then going to see Shrek at the cinema .
^ Yesterday we went shopping in the morning , picnicked in the park and then visited the Oxford transport museum ( free , and really good ) before going to see Manley again .
^ He was really dozy as the chemo knocks him out , but we had a good time together before the bell rang and our time was up .
^ Today we 're going to Pizza Hut for lunch ( yum again ! ) and then will find something to do as well as visit Manley again .
^ I 'd best go now anyway .
^ Isabelle has just got back from her driving lesson , so we 're going to head of into town for lunch .
^ Hope you are still having fun at your uncle 's house .
^ Bye for now , Cody
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^ Hi Isabelle !
^ Great to hear from you .
^ How are you doing ?
^ I 'm doing well thanks Isabelle - I 've been on a 2-month holiday since I got back from SA .
^ &SMILEY I 've been reasonably busy actually with preparing our garden for building an extension , and with various weddings and graduations and things
^ Yesterday we met up with all of my Dad 's side of our family to celebrate my grandmother 's 80th birthday .
^ It was pretty tiring being social , and we had to travel for a total of about 10 hours there and back , but it was worth the effort .
^ I 'm glad you got on OK with Eric - I have n't spoken to her since she got back yet , but I 'm sure I will soon .
^ I 'm very pleased to hear that the Convention pieces are going well - I would love to be able to hear them , especially the music pieces &SMILEY
^ please give them lots of encouragement from me , and tell those boys to SHOUT ! !
^ Will you definitely be coming home at the end of this year ?
^ What are you planning to do when you get back ?
^ I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about accomodation and other practical arrangements .
^ I should be starting at the beginning of October - not too long now .
^ Well , all the best Isabelle .
^ Please say hi to everyone from me , especially the convention students ...
^ Love Nick
^ Dear Nick ,
^ How are you doing ?
^ It was nice to see Eric for the three weeks .
^ We ended up doing " Creare " painting courses together , it was fun !
^ It is lovely to see you write to
^ Rose and Samara , they tell me all about your emails !
^ Are you doing ok ?
^ What are you doing this holiday ?
^ Eulanda 's song is coming on nicely , and Faith and Samuel sound awesome , they just need a bit more practice and they will be perfect !
^ I am really excited about convention and I have them all registered !
^ The speeches are all memorized and they are just practicing eye contact and increased volume ! ! &SMILEY
^ I have just completed all the convention registration .
^ It was a bit of a mission as I did n't know we had to send in the written forms as well , but it all got there on time I hope !
^ It is quite exciting to see what they are all doing , they are all doing about 6 events apart from Eulanda who is doing knitting , art and solo .
^ Faith has 26 Psalms left , and Marina and Aluwani have about 12 proverbs left ! &SMILEY
^ Riaan will be driving the Defender , and I will be in there too with the 7 children .
^ Mr Broderick might pop in to convention but he is mainly going to do the Lesotho school visit
^ God bless , keep well !
^ Isabelle &SMILEY
^ OK Isabelle ,
^ Susannah and I have finished the two convention music items - here they are .
^ " His Strength is Perfect " is in three sections : - Soprano only )
^ for Faith - 2 pages ) - Tenor only ( for Samuel - 2 pages ) - Both parts together ( for the judges - 3 pages
^ " Eagles ' Wings " only has a single section ( 2 pages ) .
^ Any problems let me know .
^ Hope you are all well !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick , how can I explain these birds that are after you ?
^ You need to explain love letters on the e-mail , not me .
^ How are you anyway , I hope that you are well and still on fire for God .
^ Please pass the following message on to your parents .
^ Dear Quinton and Liz , are you still keen on being a missionary for Jesus to
^ Africa ?
^ There is tons of work to be done out here .
^ If so please let me know .
^ Missing you lots adn looking forward to seeing you again .
^ Lots of love Josue .
^ ~
^ Hi Girls !
^ How are you ?
^ How was the holiday ? - I guess it 's almost time to go back to school .
^ actually I 'm guessing you 'll get this on Monday or Tuesday evening , so you 've probably been back to school already )
^ I 'm back home now , and it 's great to be with my family again , but I just wanted to say thankyou for the lovely card you wrote me before I left .
^ I will keep it in my little box of valuable things !
^ I also enjoyed the times we spent together , and will miss the fun we had washing dishes and drawing strange pictures and things .
^ I look forward to seeing how much you 've grown when I come to visit you again , or maybe we 'll meet in Brighton sometime ! ?
^ Well , God bless you both , and do n't forget to keep working hard on your PACEs !
^ Love from Nick
^ P.S. I 've attached a small copy of the picture I took of you before I left - I really like it .
^ ~
^ Hi Liz !
^ Glad to hear you got there OK .
^ It 's pretty weird for me thinking about you being there ...
^ Why did n't you let me know about Warwick ? ? ! !
^ Oh yeah , I forgot about that .
^ Tell him to be gentle with you !
^ He 's quite a character - all Bevingtons are pretty extreme ; it goes with the job !
^ Oh , and tell him to email me ...
^ I am trying desperately to not be judgemental critical and rebellious even internally and retain an open attitude like you said but its not easy
^ I know !
^ That 's why I took pains to mention it to you a number of times !
^ Well , if it gets really difficult , just remember that you 're only there for a relatively short time : o ) .
^ God bless you old girl !
^ Nick x
^ Hi Nick
^ have arrived safely and thoutht I would drop you a quick line or two .
^ I have got 2 questions to ask you .
^ Why did n't you let me know about Warwick ? ? ! !
^ Secondly how on earth are you a sane and fun human being .
^ only joking I am trying desperately to not be judgemental critical and rebellious even internally and retain an open attitude like you said but its not easy
^ I have never seen so many rules in my life or such ghettoism .
^ Was victory very similar to this ? ?
^ Weekly cell tonight aaaaaah .
^ It is very beautiful and everyone is very friendly , the girls shower , what is is with the girl / boy thing ? has got JESUS tiled on the floor .
^ Warwick has offered to take me walking and we talked masses last night and stopped for a drink on the way back which was nice
^ Have got a headache so will say more later in the week ,
^ Ihave said hello to the gorls from you and they were very pleased , Eric
^ ~
^ Well guess what Samara ...
^ I 'M GETTING A NEW MATTRESS ! ! ! !
^ Well ... sort of .
^ You see I 'm moving into a new house to begin my studies , so that means I 'm moving into a new room which means I 'm moving into a new bed , which means the mattress is new .
^ Well , it 's not really new , it 's just new to me ...
^ So , you think I should put my hair into curlers .
^ Well , once I 've grown it a bit longer I 'll send you a photo so you can see what you think .
^ I 'm glad your new kitchen is nice .
^ We could really do with a new kitchen in our house too , but it 's just too expensive at the moment : o ( .
^ Things are expensive in Brighton !
^ Tell me , are you getting better on the trampoline ?
^ Can you do any new tricks ?
^ I had a go on a trampoline on Sunday - it 's the first trampoline I 've been on since I was in Rolomandi .
^ OK , God bless you young Miss Gret , and I 'm sending you a hug with this email ... there you go , I just hugged my computer .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Samara &SMILEY
^ We have new mattresses I guess YOU are jealous now .
^ New mattresses ? ! ?
^ NOOOOOOOO ! ! !
^ I WANT A NEW MATTRESS ! ! ! !
^ Did you have a mouse in your house because it looks as if it chewed your hair:-\}
^ Very funny , very funny .
^ But I have n't cut my hair since Andrea cut it for me while I was with you , so now it 's getting pretty long .
^ I 'm thinking of growing it until it 's as long as yours !
^ What do you think ?
^ Have you been watching the Olympics ?
^ I thought one of the gymnasts looked quite like you ...
^ I hope you have a great time with your grandparents - I 'm sure you will .
^ I do n't think I 'll be coming with my parents , because I have to study during that time &SMILEY
^ Besides , I want to give you a chance to grow as tall as me first ...
^ Love from Nick
^ &WEBSITE had a cool dish cloth:-\} Anyway I miss you allot especially when I do cleanup:-\} &WEBSITE NO we are NOT jealous because your holiday lasts 17 or 67 or whatever .
^ weeks:-\}We have new mattresses I guess &WEBSITE the dining room &WEBSITE we had a mouse in your house
^ Did you have a mouse in your house because it looks as if it chewed your hair:-\} &WEBSITE you are really jealous are n't you:-\}
^ We heard that your parents are coming to visit , are you coming with ?
^ LOVE FROM HANNAH !
^ Hey Rose !
^ I had a dream about you last night !
^ I ca n't quite remember what happened , but you were definitely in it ...
^ How was your holiday ?
^ Dear Nick I am sorry that it took me so long to write back .
^ We painted my house this holiday-oh you already know that , well Ienjoyed my holiday !
^ Of course school has started &SMILEY
^ How was your holiday ?
^ It is almost time for our next holiday !
^ Did I tell you my birthday is on 2nd October ?
^ When is your birthday ?
^ I have started grade 5 already !
^ I also miss you !
^ Loads of Love
^ Rose Gret &SMILEY
^ P.S. Send us a photo of you and Ester is so cool I like her very much !
^ ~
^ Wow Riaan , I never knew you were so articulate / verbose / wordy ! !
^ So , you " took care of " my boys did you ... hmmm , I 'll have to send in the heavy artillery next time ...
^ My friend Eric is staying with you guys at the moment - keep an eye on her will you - make sure she does n't do anything I would n't approve of ;o ) .
^ I watched " Spiderman 2 " tonight - pretty good movie I thought , though you have to take it a bit like a visual comic-book , i.e. do n't expect too much in the way of plot .
^ Some NLPJHTP special effects .
^ I did give blood once , and I 'm certainly familiar with the routine , as the first time I tried to do it .
^ I actually almost passed out at the " finger pricking " stage ! ( you do n't need to pass on this information )
^ It was extremely embarrassing , as all my work colleagues were watching me at the time ; it took me months to live it down .
^ Anyway , the second time I went , I actually managed to get to the donation phase , realising that the trick was " Do n't look at the needle ! "
^ Well I think it was very brave of you - Jade had been doing it for years , and you could see what it had clearly done to him , and yet you still went ahead with it - amazing !
^ How 's the " refusing to get a cold " situation panning out ?
^ Still bearing up ?
^ Well , I 'm off to bed shortly - I guess it takes one to know one .
^ O
^ Dear Nick .
^ Sorry about your boys .
^ They got beat up pretty bad .
^ Maybe you should come personally .
^ Well , school has been going for 4 weeks now .
^ Thus far it has been ok .
^ I have acquiescent myself to the reality that I cannot revolutionize my current status any more than it already is .
^ It is really cool to mess around with synonyms .
^ I had to work as a supervisor the other day .
^ Now that was a challenge of note .
^ It was n't as bad as I would have thought it to be .
^ I can see though , that there is a lot more work involved than just being a monitor .
^ I have realized that God will only give you what He thinks you can handle and sometimes we think we can handle more than what God has given us and then things go down the tubes .
^ So I will learn to be content in whatever state I am in .
^ I suppose it comes down to , responsibility /liability /dependability .
^ Wow , would you look at that .
^ The weather has just been peculiar as of late .
^ One day it is sunny and hot the next 2 days it 's raining a rather not warm , then it is hot again .
^ My nose has been leaking profusely over the last 2 days .
^ I refuse to get a cold though .
^ I have neither the time nor the inclination to accept it .
^ The other day I came home after school and crashed till suppertime .
^ The best solution though , is do consistently go to bed the same time .
^ Forming good behavioural habits is one of the keys .
^ Now I must just practice what I preach .
^ The last weekend a whole lot of us went to LT ( Louis Corrie ) , for me it was more just to see what a city looks like and it is n't very big at that .
^ So Noe and I cruised town and did some odd jobs .
^ There was also some fair in town .
^ So we all met up over there in the afternoon .
^ Noe and I went around checking out what they had .
^ Something that brought back some rather vivid memories was this dud working at a doughnut machine .
^ I spent a whole December working on one of those things .
^ Hard work and character building are the thoughts that pop into my mind when I think of a doughnut machine .
^ HA Ha Ha .
^ I also did something there that I have never ever done before .
^ It was a rather interesting experience .
^ The fact that I got a FREE COOLDRINK has absolutely nothing to do with it .
^ There was a stand that you could go and donate blood .
^ Yes you heard me right .
^ I know all the thoughts you can conger up when you think about that .
^ Noe has been doing it for years so that was a small comfort .
^ You first have to fill in a form , I wo n't mention here what exact questions they ask , but it 's worth a laugh none the less .
^ I 'll leave that up to you to read if ever you do it .
^ Then they " prick " one of you fingers to get some blood to test your iron levels .
^ Mine were fine .
^ Then I got on the seat and waited to be " helped . "
^ When it was time to find a vein the nurse was very happy with me .
^ I have rather prominent veins on my arms .
^ When I worked as a lifeguard I remember seeing how one of the guys demonstrated on another fellow how you put in a needle .
^ It was fine seeing it on someone else , but know it was my turn .
^ It checked pretty cool when she put in the needle .
^ I sort of expected it to bleed where she put the needle in , but it did n't .
^ The human body is one amazing creation .
^ It was slightly uncomfortable at first , but it was n't a problem .
^ All in all it was a pleasant experience .
^ They say you can donate every 56 days so my next date is the end of September .
^ If you have the chance to do it , then I 'll say , " Do it . "
^ Waz says he 'd rather jump off a massive waterfall .
^ Well , we have actually done that before .
^ Well , that is what I have been up to recently .
^ Keep well .
^ Riaan .
^ ~
^ Auntie Leo ! !
^ How absolutely splendid to hear from you !
^ So , your relationship with Wordzap is continuing ...
^ I 'm glad to hear you 've decided to take it to the next level ; do you think you 'll be able to handle that sort of commitment ? !
^ ...
^ If I had I would have worried you for the &WEBSITE are a rat Nick .
^ Thanks for that Leo .
^ I like to keep my lamp under a bushel ;o ) .
^ How is the weather in the U.K. ?
^ We have had the wettest August on record since the 1950's ! !
^ However ,
^ September has started very nicely - yesterday and today have been FANTASTIC .
^ It looks like we might even have a whole week without rain !
^ Everything is looking very green though - I like Brighton really .
^ Last night I offered to help Abel clean-up ...
^ Ah , I miss the old Rolomandi clean-up sessions .
^ Such a good " bonding " time ...
^ I hope you are still praying for me to work a year in the U.K .
^ I do nothing else .
^ Fasting and prayer , 24 hours a day , 7 days a week ...
^ I am so looking forward to your parents visit .
^ Yes , hopefully they 'll be coming out in January - if our school trustees let them that is !
^ OK , lots of love Leo , and please ask Noe why he has n't emailed me yet ...
^ Nick x
^ Hi Uncle Nick
^ How are you doing ?
^ Sorry for only answering now I was busy with Wordzap .
^ I am on my knees begging for mercy .
^ I changed my handicap and it is only zapping me .
^ The other day Noe and I were cooking and he told me to pick a CD and guess what ?
^ Isaw one by you .
^ Iwas shocked .
^ I did not know you had cut a CD or that you were so clued up on music .
^ If I had I would have worried you for the &WEBSITE are a rat Nick .
^ How is the weather in the U.K.It is very warm here .
^ We had our first storm last night .
^ We needed it because everything was so dry and dusty .
^ Last night I offered to help Abel clean-up because I saw him working alone .
^ During my kind gesture I realized that I was on clean-up.Abel was not on clean-up.He was standing in for Nomsa .
^ We had a good laugh .
^ I hope you are still praying for me to work a year in the U.K.I am so looking forward to your parents visit .
^ If you see any of the Rolomandi visitors please tell them I said hi .
^ Regan , Leilani , Jerry , Suzannah and Eric .
^ Love
^ Leo
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ I hope work 's gone Ok this week and you have a nice - extended &SMILEY - weekend .
^ We are off on holiday tomorrow , so I 've been busy sorting stuff before we go .
^ We have to leave really early in the morning so we can pick up Jessie on the way and be in Hull in time for the family .
^ It should be really good - I just hope we 're not all too tired by the journey .
^ My dad 's side of the family are all really loopy and crazy , so we are bound to have some laughs - never a dull moment when my uncles are about .
^ What have I been up to this week ?
^ Practicing pool .
^ Quon-spotting .
^ Cycle rides galore ( now that the weather is so great - summer has arrived in the north ! ) .
^ Ironing , washing , cleaning .
^ Read Judith Wynne 's " North and South " and have now started " Patricia Barton " .
^ Went to Wells with me mam on
^ Wednesday to drop some stuff off at the flat .
^ Celebrated Uriel 's GCSE results with her yesterday ( she got 9 A *'s and 1 A ! ! ! ) .
^ Yep , I 've kept myself pretty busy .
^ About the punting trip Bob has planned .
^ I had originally thought that I could go , but have now decided against it as I ca n't really afford the train ticket .
^ Having had one trip down to Munich already this summer , I ca n't justify spending more money on travelling down again .
^ I HATE money , but it 's a necessity in life , so I ca n't always spend it as I want to .
^ Never mind .
^ I hope you all have really great time anyway - I 'm sure you will .
^ Have you recieved the essay about " atomic clocks " from Parker ?
^ I still have n't been able to see his " The Emissary " slide show , as my lovely pink number does n't have the necessary software .
^ I tried to see it while I was in Wells , but the library closed just as I got there , and we did n't have time to go down to college .
^ I hear its really funny though .
^ Well , better go .
^ Hope you have a nice weekend and a good week at work .
^ Bye for now ,
^ Cody xx
^ PS - have you heard from Regan ?
^ I received a short message from him a while ago saying he 'd had a great time in Spain and he was off again on holiday with his family .
^ He said to say " hi " to you in case he did n't write to you himself !
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^ Ah Oh Ah Ee Ah , Ay
^ To the keeper of the Elrick Destiny ...
^ Greetings and peace to you and your family .
^ I release you from the grave dishonour of accidentally deleting my address ( I trust it was an accident - if I find you have lied to me .
^ I will unleash the fury of the crouching gerbil and hidden guinea-pig upon you , and it will pursue your family to the six hundredth generation )
^ In regards to the hair mousse , I can only assume that some errant ninja has stolen it for his / her own dubious purposes .
^ It was in a blue can , and I definitely left it there for you ...
^ Anyway , the Wise One be with you young apprentice ,
^ QM ( Quiz Master )
^ Dear Master of great skills and wonder ...
^ So happy to hear from you . .
^ When you gave me your mail address at the airport I actually erased it by accident ( total dishonor , shame to whole family so sorry ) thought I could n't contact to the Quiz master any more
^ thank you master for showing the picture .. it needs time till she will get the next flight out to propose .
^ ( She 's saving money for plane ticket )
^ Very sad and lonley in the dorm with Casper .. saw the great note master left for me one Question ...
^ my skills are n't high enough to see the hair moose ... ca n't find it .
^ so sorry disappointed you
^ Happy to hear from the great one . .
^ Mr Li aka Regan
^ ~
^ ~
^ Jonah ,
^ Hi .
^ The Bible Code Yes , I think it is a hoax probably .
^ I don t know an awful lot about it , and I probably think there are significant number patterns in the Bible .
^ I do n't think I like the idea of using word patterns etc. to tell the future
^ Why do you ask ?
^ I think you are investigating it .
^ Do you understand the computer-based side ?
^ I do n't know how much my brother is willing to spend on a guitar - probably a lot if I know him .
^ What do you mean by " what 's your problem " ?
^ Out of interest , could you tell me your guitar 's model number and details ?
^ Bob seems to think you 're giving it to him .
^ That 's awfully kind of you Nick .
^ I do n't do caber-tossing .
^ I do surface chemistry ( at least that 's my aim for today ) .
^ This afternoon I intend to help my mum paint the bathroom ceiling before going into Berwick to buy some Mother 's Day gifts .
^ I do hope Camilla gets better soon .
^ Have you got AOL Instant Messenger yet ?
^ Incidentally , your storage heater was on , but I 've switched it off now .
^ Sorry this is a short e-mail , surface chemistry is calling - faintly .
^ Till you reply ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Hola Be'os ,
^ Hope you 're out of the lab and in bed .
^ Sorry to hear of your computer misforture , sounds like a case of a microsoft product functioning correctly .
^ Maybe its an intrinsic anomaly in the Samuel Streets building which causes random fluctuations in the programme modules which , due to the inevitability of choice and human emotion , result in your inevitable doom , Braxton .
^ Hmmm , a bit of random matrix-isation there .
^ Yes , so the cinema .
^ Well Lad came along , which I guess made the walk home less awkward , but not having an armrest on either side does leave one a bit restless .
^ Also , the sticky floor ( goodness know what those sweaty teenagers do ) spoiled my enjoyment too .
^ Anyway , we came back and watched a programme on TV advertising in politics and she drank herbal tea .
^ I drank hot milk with amaretto and lad talked to her about actresses from chick flicks and whether or not they were Niobi or not
^ Oh the joys .
^ Anyway , I 'm having a girlie evening tomorrow night , 3 or 4 Selwyn chiccies for chocolate based cuisine and probably a dreadful movie .
^ All in the name of hareemdom .
^ Mwuahahahaha .
^ Oh Nick , its a strange game is n't it .
^ Anyway , have a great trip up to Durum and a relaxing bath .
^ Just hope no-one walks in on you this time &SMILEY
^ cheers , sam
^ Rylee Macer 25 Paradise Street , Munich , JD3 1DR ntl ) 05005 064028 orange ) 05505 846202 &EMAIL
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^ Dear Sir / Madam ,
^ I am considering buying a product from your web-site , but I live in the UK .
^ Can you give me any information about costs likely to be incurred by tax / currency conversion , etc. or is this something that is handled by my bank .
^ Thank you ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam ,
^ I am considering buying a product from your web-site , but I live in the UK .
^ Can you give me any information about costs likely to be incurred by tax / currency conversion , etc. or is this something that is handled by my bank .
^ Thank you ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam ,
^ I am considering buying a product from your web-site , but I live in the UK .
^ Can you give me any information about costs likely to be incurred by tax / currency conversion , etc. or is this something that is handled by my bank .
^ Thankyou ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Hey ,
^ I finally stuck those CD 's in the mail .
^ When I burned the Iron and Wine CD I stuck some tracks on the end that I found on my brother 's computer but had never listened to myself .
^ During my recent trek across the nation I got around to listening to them .
^ Some of last few are a bit racier then I would have normally sent to someone .
^ Sorry it they offend &SMILEY
^ Chagrined ,
^ Cynthia
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ here is a little note to let you know my e-mail address . . .
^ I 'm typing with a fellow collegue ( Bmus Student )
^ What chat room should we use ?
^ all the best ,
^ Joshua .
^ ~
^ Buddy-o ,
^ Just thought it would make you proud to know that I was on stage singing a VARIETY of songs last night ( karaoke ) .
^ Never by myself mind , but hardly anyone did .
^ It was with the hockey boys , arms round each other and swaying back and forth etc.
^ I tell you Leishman , never sounded so good !
^ One suggested that my nickname next year would be " karaoke " !
^ I dread to think why ) .
^ Anyway bud , off to watch the varsity hockey in Carlisle on Monday .
^ You should come down and support " Gavin " and co playing " gaystick " hockey .
^ Would be a laugh if you could ?
^ Cheers , I
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Thanks for coming to see the film yesterday .
^ Hope you did n't think it was too shit .
^ Before I forget , here 's a link to a video of my 4th year project : &WEBSITE
^ Clearly everything in colour is artificial .
^ The block is outlined with green lines , which are the edges being tracked ; the maze occludes most of it .
^ I have to say , it was a lot of fun to do .
^ Georgina
^ ~
^ Hi guys , I got this and thought I would send it on .
^ I hope none of you get too annoyed by forwards !
^ Subject : Vote for Jesus !
^ VOTE FOR JESUS CHRIST
^ Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazine 's Person of the Century , which will be in their December &YEAR issue .
^ I propose that we can vote for Christ .
^ Each of us knows at least one person with email .
^ CONTACT THEM .
^ Pass this on to everyone you know .
^ Let 's start a wave of votes for Jesus
^ Christ- Person of the Century .
^ To vote go to :
^ &WEBSITE
^ When you get to the site you must write Jesus Christ in exactly this way .
^ Upper case W , Upper case C ; all the rest lower case .
^ Apparently the poll is case sensitive and writing it any other way does not allow your vote to be counted as Jesus Christ .
^ Remember to PASS THIS ON to everyone you care about .
^ P.S. From what I heard the winner of the poll will have their picture on the front cover of the magazine in Dec , which should be a challenge for the graphics dept at TIME ! ! !
^ And so far Jesus is leading ! ! !
^ Colin Gott
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^ ok !
^ OK ! ! !
^ I 've had enough !
^ I surrender !
^ The conveyed message is aprreciated : " If you mess a little bit with mr. M , he 's gonna mess a heck of a lot with you ! "
^ Merciless retaliation is his approach .
^ Uncompromising force is his trademark .
^ He takes no prisoners .
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ You are besotted with Bob .
^ You talk , eat , sleep and breathe Greetings .
^ - I most certainly am not !
^ I appreciate that Bob has a valid contribution to make to society , nothing more .
^ It may be true that I find his orange hair entrancing , but it is n't actually .
^ No , Bob is a " great guy " - his words , not mine .
^ I am doing some community work this weekend .
^ I think I 'm playing parachute games and organising kids on a bouncy-castle .
^ - I hope you enjoy it and I hope they do to .
^ I 'm off to camp next Saturday .
^ I have almost finished by LL parser generator .
^ I will send you a copy if you like .
^ It 's revolutionary .
^ - !
^ Yes , I 'd love to receive a copy , although I 've absolutely no idea what it does .
^ You 'll have to explain .
^ Revolutionary , eh ?
^ I expect nothing less , at least in words .
^ Please do n't send emails to my Wells account .
^ Just send them to this one .
^ Thank you , I was thinking of asking you which address you wanted me to use !
^ Well , I wrote one sixth of my dissertation yesterday !
^ I have now completed the section on " molecular wires " , and am about to move on to " molecular switches " .
^ Eventually I 'll be writing about nanocomputers , the theory of which I find quite interesting , but for the moment I am explaining the building blocks .
^ Talking of building , this afternoon I have been putting the finishing touches to a stone circle I have been constructing for our garden .
^ It has now begun to rain so I have retreated gracefully indoors and was pleasantly greeted by your e-mail .
^ This evening I am going to have my hair cut , by that well-known hairdresser - my mother .
^ I will probably be going down to Wells next week , perhaps on Thursday .
^ I need to get some more papers from the library for my dissertation .
^ It will also afford me the opportunity to do some shopping and absorb the general ambience .
^ Are you happy that you 've nearly finished your LL parser generator ?
^ Will you have much else to occupy yourself with ?
^ Let me tell you a little story .
^ One of my lecturers told me that the Wells ITS usernames were simply our UCAS codes transferred into base-32 .
^ However , I was looking into this a few days ago ( no , I do n't have too much time on my hands ) and it did not seem to be an accurate explanation .
^ My username certainly produced a number the same length as my UCAS code , but the digits were different .
^ I am unable to solve this puzzle at present .
^ Sincerely ,
^ Shania
^ P.S. As you know , I use my Wells address all the time .
^ However , if you wanted to , you could sent emails ADDITIONALLY to my &EMAIL address .
^ Just a thought .
^ Please send them to my Wells address though .
^ ~
^ Hey vicar
^ Will have to send that sketch - so its in the post .
^ Anthony was supposed to send it to Suzy to send to you ( do n't ask me why .
^ put it in my envelope instead , so I 'm forwarding it ..... way more complicated than it needs to be , I tell you
^ Yesterday I went over to the Harvest camp , in Bishop Delaney .
^ It 's the North 's equivelent of Soul Survivor , and run by the same people .
^ Not nearly so big , but there were massive revival things going on with all the young kids .
^ I went with the Hatherley 's church crowd and came back feeling spiritually renewed after only one day there !
^ Would like to believe that this excitement could extend to Chilton and
^ Cornforth , but without being undeniably cynical , Fat Chance !
^ Thanks for saying that you 'll do this sketch .
^ I ca n't believe we 're doing something so soon this term .
^ Anthony has cast me as a raven of all things .
^ I begin to wonder what she thinks of me and my acting ability !
^ I do n't know about you , but I really feel that we must n't let the group deteriorate into shoddy acting and pathetic sketches .
^ Christian drama has a bad enough reputation .
^ I think we need to catch a bit of a vision , to keep the standards high .
^ Tell me what you think on this - I 'd be really interested to know .
^ Apart from work , how has your summer been ?
^ At the moment , after a busy few months , I am home-alone , because my parents have gone on holiday with my brothers , and I 'm V. lonely because of it .
^ Call me for a chat if you feel you can spare the time - I ca n't tell you how dull Wells is !
^ how much I could do with some company while all the people I know in this city are away - everyone lives down south !
^ It 's times like this that I wish I was back in my home city with a life and the group of friends that I grew up with .
^ For the first few years here , I was going out with Lucio .
^ He has lived in Wells all of his life , and he had friends who became my friends , and family that became my family .
^ He was my everything , my companionship , lifestyle and emotional support .
^ We spent as much time as possible together and he always had ideas of interesting and fun things to do , to occupy our spare time and enjoy each other 's company .
^ Deciding to end it with him was the hardest thing I have ever had to do , not least because I was left without my other half for as long as it took to piece myself back together .
^ And I 'm still feeling the effects of not having him around , even six months on .
^ When I felt that God was telling me to be single , I did not anticipate the loneliness of not having someone - anyone - to run to in times of need .
^ It 's still all I can do to keep myself from picking up the phone and inviting him over .
^ ( We 're still a way off the " just friends " mark yet ) .
^ As I sit here in front of the computer , the rain pours down on another grey
^ Wells day .
^ How depressing !
^ Actually , I 'm not depressed at all it 's just that writing emails keeps me in touch with the rest of the world that I feel so far away from .
^ A couple of people had assured me that God would most likely bless me for the decision to give up my boyfriend for Him .
^ I did n't know what that meant at first but He has , in more ways than one , and like I had never expected !
^ A while back , while we were praying in one of the Margarets flats with the rest of Word , you said a prayer of thanks for friends like these .
^ I always remembered it - it touched a nerve in me because I had been thinking how blessed I felt to be surrounded by such wonderful people , and such good friends .
^ It 's been on my mind a lot how God has done that for me , and I have thanked Him for it so many times !
^ I 've just read over what I have written and I do n't think I like writing about me so much .
^ I 'm sorry for that .
^ There was just something I needed to get off my chest - and you ended up being the sounding board !
^ I guess I value your advice and I feel like you might understand .
^ I 'm going now , to a cell grp.
^ Part of an attempt to get more invloved with Hatherley 's , I suppose .
^ So write back to me if you get the chance .
^ Love & Stuff
^ Jack
^ From : Pastor Nick ( &EMAIL )
^ To : Judith Dewhirst ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : EC
^ Date : 28 August &YEAR &TIME
^ Anthony ,
^ Glad to hear you had a fab time in the Macy .
^ I had a great time today - went with my brother to look at the house we used to live in ten years ago !
^ met some of our old neighbours that we have n't seen for over ten years
^ At first they did n't recognise us , but when we enlightened them , I think they could hardly believe their eyes seeing how big we 've become !
^ The sketch - yeah , they roped me into doing it on the first Sunday .
^ I tried to get out of it but they could n't find anyone else !
^ Oh well , sacrifice and all that .
^ I do n't know whether you should send the sketch , I !
^ 'm not sure if Anthony is planning to send me another copy - I would have thought so , but you can send it if you feel like it
^ My address is :
^ Victory Christian Centre Moorlands Englishcombe Lane Bath , BA2 .F
^ All the best Anthony ,
^ Nick
^ We did " aaaaye " we did " eeeee " , what about another letter ? ...
^ Things really are bad when we have to start thinking of new phrases !
^ But then again , oh what a boost it will give our images if we have really really cool phrases .
^ oh , ca n't wait , yours from , Mallory " totally consumed by dreams of being exceptionally cool " Lally
^ PS Enjoy relative crawling yourself , should be a good one me 's thinks .
^ You the boy , Mallory
^ Ianz ,
^ Thanks for the card .
^ I am going away on Saturday , as you know .
^ Looking forward to a bit of a rest , but how will I survive without my computer for a whole week ? ? ? ? ? ?
^ Have a great time on your relatives crawl .
^ Merry Christmas , ho ho ho
^ Linda
^ P.S. We need to come up with a new phrase for next term .
^ Get thinking !
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^ Hi Guys ,
^ Firstly , can someone please tell me Terrance 's new e-mail address ...
^ as I only have her wells one , due either to me never getting it , or the wonderful system crash and harddrive meltdown of our home computer
^ And can someone please forward this to her .
^ Actually , I 'll do that when I get her address .
^ Parker : I 'm counting on you ...
^ I am now back in Brighton , and freezing my feet off .
^ Even with two pairs of socks ( one thermal ) and a hot water bottle , they are cold .
^ Oh well .
^ It is great to be home .
^ The trip to Uganda was hard , but a success .
^ Ka got what I think will be great data for her dissertation , and I got the experience of seeing what life can be like for some people .
^ IT really is amazing to think that we can think that we are " poor students "
^ well , I guess no longer , except brain box Parker .
^ when there are people who litterally pick the rubbish heaps with the dogs
^ On a more pleasant note , Ka and I would like to ask you to keep the 24th of July next year free , so that you can make your way down to Norwich to witness our marriage .
^ I would love it if you guys could be there , as you 've all been such a support to me through my college time .
^ I remember a lot of you laughing when I said that I loved you in second year ( " I love you guys ! " )
^ But hey , its true .
^ You 're all great .
^ So .
^ Keep the date free please please , please ... .
^ Oh , also , please can you join me in praying for my job , as I really do n't know what I am going to be doing this year .
^ I spent all day today sorting through e-mails of jobs , and sent off four applications , but we shall see .
^ You 're wonderful ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ dear lance ,
^ well , this is surely an advance welcome back , but hey , that 's life .
^ i have no job yet .
^ scotland was frightful .
^ it rained for five days out of six -
^ i swear , the rain actually followed us around .
^ plus , all the old people .... but auntie helen 's aprty was amazing food .... have never tasted stuff so gorgeous in my life
^ life is SO interesting here .
^ tomorrow , i 'm going to get up .
^ i have been watching the commonwealth games .
^ they 've been pretty interesting , but all that 's finished now .
^ hey ho .
^ i have to help my mother plan her craft acitivities for falcon camp
^ wow , is n't life just go , go , go
^ hope you had a good time up north ...
^ love cat xx
^ p.s. they do n't have electricity , but they do now have gas , which is an intersting innovation since my last visit ...
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Davies , Jon "
^ Subject : Welcome home oh fair French maiden
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Strange subject - sorry , got a bit carried away .
^ How was bonny Scotland ?
^ I 'm off to visit Roppz tomorrow , and then my family and I are going to Scotland , stopping off in Wells on the way up so I can tell Parker how attractive I find him .
^ And what exciting things do I have to do today ? ...
^ Cycle into Luxembourg to buy a sanding belt for my Dad 's power sander ! ! ! !
^ Wow , what a life I lead .
^ Yesterday was absolutely BOILING here - practically sub-tropical .
^ I guess it was probably raining up in Scotland - bad luck .
^ Can you believe we 've finished university ? ? ?
^ Where did it go Miss
^ Davies ? ? ?
^ Where did it go ?
^ Found out yesterday that one of my core reading books for Munich costs &pound; 66.99 ! ! !
^ Not buying that then .
^ Anyway , lunch beckons ...
^ ~
^ Nick
^ P.S. What is your dunelm address ? ?
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^ Made it OK ?
^ Hope the flight was fun .
^ O
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^ Valeria ! ! !
^ WELCOME BACK TO BONNIE SCOTLAND ! ! ! !
^ I have just left myself actually !
^ We spent a week 's holiday up there .
^ Hope you 're well .
^ Jonah
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^ Well hello to you all ! !
^ First thing is to say that I am really sorry that I have not been in touch with you all before now .
^ I have been working a stupid number of hours and literally just have not had the time .
^ Things have been a little calmer this past week , only worked 60 hours ! !
^ I am hoping that things will calm down alittle more and become a little more organised so that I can be in touch a bit more .
^ I apologise that this is just a general e-mail to you all but hope to get the time to write individual ones very soon .
^ I hope that the Summer is going well for you all , that you are making lots of money or just enjoying doing nothing and relaxing ( lucky people ! )
^ Let me know what is happening with you all it would be good to here what you are all up to .
^ It is very strange being in college without any of you ; or any other students for that matter , here .
^ The first few weeks were really , really hard and quite lonely .
^ College is a completely different place when you are working in it .
^ Worked loads of hours doing loads of different things , working with maintenance !
^ running the bar , setting up loads of different rooms , doing paperwork , being a conference assistant and today I was even a receptionist for two hours !
^ I had a bit of time off at the weekend and went to Bolton to see
^ Oasis , they were Mad for it !
^ It was brilliant and did me a lot of good to get out of college and have a bit of space from it all .
^ Been a better week thus far and I have certain things to look forward to which are keeping me going , and hey we even have sunshine ! ! !
^ Better go ! , have this whole need for sleep thing going on ! !
^ Hopefully will be in touch more very soon !
^ Hope that you are all well , take care of yourselves ,
^ Fatima .
^ Valeria : How on earth have you coped for a year ? !
^ ~
^ So yeah , I 'm trying to get some closure on the whole " Munich experience " , but I still have n't been able to .
^ figure out what you ladies were talking about at the end of term [ below ] ( and believe me , I 've spent a long time thinking )
^ Could I have some more clues please ?
^ Or , preferably , the answer .
^ Thanks !
^ Hope you are all doing well , and India is awesome , Naomi .
^ Oh , and does anyone know if Vic has an email address ?
^ Cheers , Christian .
^ P.S. Nick , hopefully I 'll be raping through Luxembourg again soon so we can meet up .
^ P.P.S Naomi , has Jennifer had a chance to tell you about the pink scooter ?
^ master of some , but better master if it 's clear .
^ Has anyone tried bioform ?
^ i reckon i agree .
^ but you know 4 ways - jack of all trades , master of none , no ?
^ what happens if it pops though ?
^ At least the plunge is sustained .
^ yeah , but you can always pump it up when you need to .
^ but
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^ We did this !
^ S
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Currently at work getting totally board - I will definitely finish here as soon as I can afford to .
^ Karla and Jansel are moving house - they have offered me a room in the new house but it wo n't be as big as the two rooms that I am accustomed to .
^ However , I really want to get a place of my own in Carlisle to do up an evening project .
^ A place that I can have lots of people to stay whenever I fancy !
^ I have to say that just recently , I have been through major bouts of depression I am finding everything so boring .
^ I feel constrained and tied down to a life of drudgery I hate .
^ I want to break free !
^ I have though about all sorts of crazy but fun jobs to do but still do n't fully know what I want to set my hand to .
^ There are to many options and not enough time or money !
^ What about you ?
^ Have you booked a flight to Africa yet ?
^ I look forward to hearing from you .
^ Lots of Love ,
^ Joshua C. xoxox
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^ Hi Samo ,
^ Did you get my text messages ?
^ Cool !
^ What did you think of Anna 's " V oyager " leaflet ?
^ Cool !
^ What did you think of Anna 's e-mail about Kaden ?
^ Scand alous !
^ Anyway , as you may have guessed , I went down to see the flat yesterday .
^ I had a great day and saw Anna too .
^ I think the bedrooms all need a coat of pa int .
^ The rest of the flat is optional .
^ We have " acquired " ( do n't ask me how ! ) an ironing board and a TV table which are not in the official inventory .
^ Th ere were no letters for you in the post box .
^ Have we decided finally on bedr oom allocation ?
^ If it 's what I think it is then Jon 's smells of smoke .
^ Most of the curtains do n't match .
^ In the living area there are two darkish blu e two- seater settees .
^ The fridge has a minor defect .
^ We have a telephone sock et ! ! !
^ It 's in the hall and there is a telephone ( extremely old .
^ disgusting , d irty , unhygienic , " will be disposed of as soon as I remember the rubber glove s " type85 ) but the line is not connected
^ The little intercom system with the front door is fun !
^ Anna and I played around with it for a while .
^ We nee d air freshener - musty smell in most areas .
^ No bed linen , duvets , pillows etc. are provided .
^ There are no headboards on the beds , which are thick metal and
^ extremely ugly - I 'll be bringing a valance .
^ The toilet makes a nois e like an aeroplane taking off .
^ At least it 's not an elephant trumpeting this ye ar ! )
^ The windows are quite nice .
^ There is a cool little spy-hole in the flat door 96
^ Anna and I played with that too .
^ The flat address is ; Worcester B , St. Maximus 's Garth , Wells , WI3 2WP .
^ The electricity works by a meter .
^ There is an electronic key which must be taken down to a power shop and recharged in return for money .
^ There is &pound; 3 26.60 left in our meter .
^ Most flats use &pound; 770 per week , so we 're rather luck y .
^ We also went to College in search of Bob 's shirts .
^ 28 is basically a builder 's yard !
^ The floors are up , etc
^ Unfortunately we could n't find the sh irts , but they may be in a lock-up so do n't give up hope yet !
^ I also went to the NatWest bank and enquired about " flat " accounts .
^ Interesting .
^ We shall need to discuss that nearer the time .
^ Basically we need one other person to operate it .
^ Anyway , I 'm off on holiday early Saturday morning .
^ E-mail silence for nearly three weeks - how awful !
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^ Big Sedgwick ,
^ Thanks for your e-mail .
^ Did I tell you that Branden is quite wintry at the moment .
^ We have snow and ice , and I have been skating .
^ Yesterday it was about -10 C in the middle of the day .
^ But it is milder now and we 'll probably loose the snow for Xmas .
^ It 's a shame , because the good thing with having snow is that it 's not as dark as it is without it .
^ Today was the shortest day of the year , so we 're moving towards summer now !
^ Where does your Norwegian friend live ?
^ Yes , perhaps i would like him if we meet , I 'm at least known for having a preference for Norwegian girls !
^ A friend of mine ( a girl ) asked me the other day if I had met any Norwegian girls in Wells .
^ And I told another friend yesterday that I have this crush on a girl in Wells , and then he asked me if she is French .
^ " No " I answered him and he said : Then she must be Norwegian !
^ I think you 're right about not getting too heavy about this " Kerri thing " , and I should try to get over her as soon as possible .
^ Speaking of the " bridge experience " , I told my friend about it yesterday and I told him that I better go for more walks with you next term .
^ I also offered him to join him for walks , because I think he could cause similar reactions , but he is not really aware of his influence on girls although I have tried to tell him .
^ He also found it funny .
^ It is a good anecdote -- I 'll remember it .
^ I have never experienced anything like it &SMILEY
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^ See you in Anno Domini &YEAR !
^ Do you have any plans for New
^ Year 's , by the way ?
^ Patrick
^ Hiyah Patrick
^ FEED THE SWEDE !
^ I am having a great holiday .
^ It is FANTASTIC to see my family again .
^ I miss you guys though .
^ I just wrote to my Norwegian friend Philip Youngson .
^ You two should meet , I think you 'd like each other !
^ We have had snow here !
^ Two nights ago I went sledging with some friends .
^ It was dark , but the moon was reflected on the snow - beautiful .
^ How is Branden ?
^ I think you need to pray about this Kerri thing , but do n't get too " heavy " about it , you know what I mean ?
^ I have told a couple of people about our " bridge experience " .
^ They found it quite funny I think !
^ Well , HAPPY CHRISTMAS , and you 'll write soon , wo n't you .
^ I 'll be expecting you
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^ Nick ,
^ Was good to talk to you last night .
^ How are you bearing up ?
^ Just wondered if you have invited Mohammad Berry to the New Year thingy as someone wants her to come .
^ Hope you 're staying unstressed and typically you .
^ Must go and write some letters .
^ " And tomorrow I 'm going shopping for YOU , I do it all for YOU ! "
^ Christmas shopping in Noel . )
^ Shania
^ ~
^ So you finally made it to Africa and I finally got some time to reply !
^ Good to hear from you - Regan is off to a conference so I do n't have supervision this week and this absolutely equals to my taking a week off .
^ Hayden is on study leave and she has a wierd exam in which she has to write eight &YEAR word essays in two weeks .
^ She is totally stressed .
^ I do n't think Ieither of us can type that amount of text in that time .
^ We are having eratic weather here ...
^ Easter weekend was like June and it chilly again .
^ So what are facilities there like - DO you have TV , phone etc. at home ( or where you live ) or is it at work only .
^ When are you finishing - wonder whether yopu actually have finiished by now .
^ Hope to graduate in July .... must see .
^ Will write to you soon .
^ Have fun !
^ best ,
^ Ravi
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ Sorry not to tell you about Jennifer and myself ! ....
^ It was all quite quick and a tad bit surreal ... well , still is really .
^ We 'll definitely have to meet up and have a chat some time soon .
^ Cheers ,
^ Christian
^ Christian Hosier
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^ hello Mr Nick !
^ Thanks for the email .
^ How 's tricks ?
^ " ) We actually have nine guitars in our family ! "
^ Wow !
^ Well , we do n't have any !
^ We used to have one - my dad 's 21st birthday present - but someone borrowed it and broke it .
^ Instead , we have a double base ( dad 's ) , a trombone ( Jessie 's ) and a piano .
^ Keep practicing those kick-ups - I want you to be able to do at least 2000 by the start of term .
^ oh , yeah .
^ Well , I can almost manage 3 ! &SMILEY
^ Today I am going to the dentist for my bi-annual check up .
^ talking of teeth : Parker tells me he 's getting his wisdom teeth .
^ My sister Uriel ( she 's 16 ) has got 3 of hers , and I do n't have ANY yet !
^ In regards to the CD thing .....
^ Kylie says " Thank you so much " !
^ He 's managed to get it working now !
^ So , did you get away this weekend ?
^ If so , I hope you had a really good time at Jaiden 's wedding and with Bob et al in Munich .
^ Did he introduce you to the Fenlanders ? &SMILEY
^ I 've not done much this weekend .
^ Went shopping in town with mam and dad on
^ Saturday morning , then for a bike ride in the afternoon .
^ Yesterday we went to church and me and mam went for another bike ride and then a walk down by the river in the evening - we saw 7 heron on the Avon !
^ I have some letters to write to freshers now - one of them is the brother of my sister 's best friend !
^ Better go and get them written .
^ Bye for now - see you next week some time ! ( when are you coming back up ? ) .
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^ Hey Bear ,
^ Hope you are getting some rest at the moment aswell as teaching in Luxembourg ! !
^ I have spies everywhere ! ! )
^ I 've been trying to get the project legacy done but do n't know how many lines of code we churned out !
^ I am working in CO-OP 8am - 5.30pm everyday and am too tired to get any work done at the end of it , so count yourself lucky you have time for getting some work done ! !
^ Hope it 's all going well .
^ Anyway coming up to Wells for the court case on Monday .... and I have had to jog my memory to think of what happened , a year ago ! !
^ Am a bit nervous , but I 'm sure it will be fine .
^ Still it will be great to get it over with !
^ I am still getting bitter emails from Jobes ( 4 a week ! ) explaining how hurt he is about the band and how I have let him down as a friend ! !
^ So I have to pray on that one .
^ Also , Derrick from Nicks .
^ band sent me wierd text messages saying how I should n't be angry with her and how she wish she 'd had the guts to speak to me last term
^ I do n't want to go out with her and I emailed her to tell her how I felt .
^ She has n't replied yet .
^ I hope I handled the situation well .
^ Have you spoken to Tabitha , how are things going ?
^ Anyway , have to be up early tomorrow goodnight ! !
^ Have fun !
^ Best wishes ,
^ Regan
^ And by the way , are you sorting out your relations with F ?
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^ Hey Bear ,
^ Hope you are getting some rest at the moment aswell as teaching in Luxembourg ! !
^ I have spies everywhere ! ! )
^ I 've been trying to get the project legacy done but do n't know how many lines of code we churned out !
^ I am working in CO-OP 8am - 5.30pm everyday and am too tired to get any work done at the end of it , so count yourself lucky you have time for getting some work done ! !
^ Hope it 's all going well .
^ Anyway coming up to Wells for the court case on Monday .... and I have had to jog my memory to think of what happened , a year ago ! !
^ Am a bit nervous , but I 'm sure it will be fine .
^ Still it will be great to get it over with !
^ I am still getting bitter emails from Jobes ( 4 a week ! ) explaining how hurt he is about the band and how I have let him down as a friend ! !
^ So I have to pray on that one .
^ Also , Derrick from Nicks .
^ band sent me wierd text messages saying how I should n't be angry with her and how she wish she 'd had the guts to speak to me last term
^ I do n't want to go out with her and I emailed her to tell her how I felt .
^ She has n't replied yet .
^ I hope I handled the situation well .
^ Have you spoken to Tabitha , how are things going ?
^ Anyway , have to be up early tomorrow goodnight ! !
^ Have fun !
^ Best wishes ,
^ Regan
^ And by the way , are you sorting out your relations with F ?
^ " You should know not to trust a strange computer "
^ Trouble you say ... ?
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^ I have decided to write you a serious email ( da da da duhhhh )
^ I just wanted to ask you how you were really .
^ You 've seemed quite buoyant and cheerful ( ! ) recently and several people have commented that you 've seemed more relaxed .
^ I wanted to know whether that 's true / real and if you realised that 's what people thought ...
^ I am worried about Rodrigo , although not too much I do n't think .
^ It 's hard to say , he 's a big boy &SMILEY and he can look after himself , but my mothering instinct is strong ( " you must resist the dark side " ) .
^ He says you too are really alike in how you think , but I want to understand you both better .
^ Are your doubts similar to Rodrigo 's ( is it all true ? ) or closer to Bob 's ( can I trust Him with my future ? ) ?
^ Or completely unique ?
^ My brother is also right in the thick of this kind of thing at the moment ( although more seriously I think ) and it just seems like all my guy friends are suffering right now !
^ I really want to understand where you 're all coming from because the things I have problems with are different .
^ Like I said to you before , I have doubts , but I find them harder work to " believe " than just having simple faith .
^ ( maybe I 'm just too lazy ! )
^ That does n't mean I do n't think about things or I 'm too dumb to have questions , but whereas on most things I tend to let my head rule my feelings .
^ on this I find I have no choice but to trust my instinct first and foremost
^ I have just decided to believe * whatever * because it 's too good not to be true and because I can see no better alternative !
^ I just wanted to let you know where I 'm coming from - and reassure you that you can tell me anything because I wo n't be shocked )
^ you do n't have to worry about affecting my own faith ! ( my brother always says that he relies on that in me
^ Do you feel you 've learnt anything new over the past year ?
^ Have you come to any profound truths ?
^ Was being a Rep something that helped you or got in the way ?
^ I 'm still trying to figure that out in myself .
^ This is n't something I 've only just discovered in you to my horror and amazement &SMILEY so do n't worry .
^ ( hmm i do say some funny things ! )
^ I 've known since last term that the " public " Nick was n't quite all there was to you ( ! ) and that you were n't going to church , etc , etc ...
^ But I know most guys do n't like being mothered by people particularly and we were n't really friends enough for me to ask you about it ( maybe I should have ? ) .
^ Mostly I like to give people space and I hate people thinking I 'm prying into their personal life and being nosy , but I 'm wondering whether perhaps I should take more risks in that direction .
^ Anyway , if I badger you too much about anything you 're welcome to tell me ! !
^ Rodrigo told me that story about meeting Imani Bonnington and it sounded so funny !
^ I like Imani , I think he 's an astute kind of guy .
^ I was surprised when Rodrigo said you 'd chosen the * morning service at Nic's * as a way to " get people off your back " !
^ The morning is n't my favourite service in the world ( although i like Nics a lot ) , but then Karla Day is preaching this Sunday morning on " We can have true faith " and he is always !
^ v.excellent ( prob my favourite sunday preacher ever ! ) , so I 'll definitely be there and you 'd better be too
^ Good stuff .
^ I 'm ca n't remember what I meant to say when I started off this email , but there 's a whole lot of waffle for you to be getting on with !
^ Must run , love ashley x
^ P.S. " I wish Nick were here "
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ H : " Where 'd you dig up that old fossil ? ? ? "
^ L : " Nick is a great man "
^ H : " Yeah , great at getting us into trouble ! "
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^ Nick ! ! !
^ Hi , I 'm well .
^ Am I bored ?
^ Well , probably not , although I 'm rather lazy .
^ I 've not done as much Chemistry as I could have .
^ N o , I most certainly am not revising my quantum mechanics !
^ Yet ! )
^ That would make me disillusioned for the entire holiday .
^ So , you 're in a new house !
^ Well , anything is bound to be " relatively tiny " after 26 rooms !
^ Yes , I hope your room will be alright too .
^ When you ask me to say hi to " everyone " , to whom are you referring ?
^ By the way , I 've just finished watching " Voyager " on the television .
^ Did you see it ?
^ If you did , then I 'll just say that living with you if you had passed warp 10 wouldn 't be very different than reality , just kidding !
^ So , what are you up too ?
^ Are you sharing a bedroom in your new house ?
^ How is Camilla ?
^ Petunia is in good health , thanks to your restorative makeover on Saturday .
^ Are your nails still that " hideous shade of colour " ?
^ Well , Samo , I was wondering i f you had any pictures of yourself which you could e-mail me .
^ You see , I 'm looking for one of you with a condescending gaze , and also one where you have your hands raised up , expounding some theory or suchlike .
^ Can you help ?
^ Well , I hope you 're " keeping moving on " .
^ Scotlan d feels very isolated up here .
^ Tell me , does it feel isolated living in the deep south , where most other people live ?
^ I have trouble imagining that it can !
^ Have you heard from anyone else whom I know yet ?
^ Well , I 'm trying to study as much as I can cope with , but I 'm going to be working in my dad 's bookshop to morrow and Friday this week .
^ That should give me a welcome break from the hallowed halls of chemistry .
^ I 'm going to be spending the New Ye ar up in the Scottish Highlands , Inverness , and may possibly be goi ng skiing .
^ Last time I skied I fell over .
^ I was about seven .
^ I didn 't much care for it and have never been back since .
^ I hope I don 't fall down this time as it would be infinitely more embarrassing !
^ Anyway , I am also looking forward to going on the internet much more as we are changing our ISP to one which provides a totally free service , ntl .
^ Tell me , does Camilla have netscape instant messenger service ?
^ Petunia is thinking of downloading it .
^ She has SUCH a mind of her own ! )
^ I hope you and your family are all well in your new home .
^ I 'm really looking forward to receiving y our amusing e-mail !
^ Dominic
^ P.S. I tilt my head slightly and to the side , and smile in a benign manner whilst half-closing my eyes .
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^ Hi Kaden !
^ I had an excellent time in SA ; I hope you got my emails , and I can show you my photos next time I visit .
^ It would be fun to relive some Africa memories ...
^ I 've missed seeing you as well - I was planning to visit this summer , but Munich got into a mix-up with my College membership form .
^ so I 've been waiting for that to come through , and have only just got it sorted out
^ I was in Munich on Friday looking at accomodation , and I 've found a room that I really like just down the road from Kassidy .
^ I 'll probably be starting in early October .
^ I 'm feeling quite excited about getting started on some academic work again , though I will miss the community I 've been a part of this year .
^ You really never know what life will throw at you , and mine has certainly thrown up some interesting twists and turns !
^ Sounds like you 've had a pretty hectic time of late !
^ I know it 's tough , but make sure you do n't overdo it too much Kaden - you still have to make it to next July !
^ All the best , and keep me in touch with the progress of the project .
^ Nick
^ P.S. I 've just bought a nice new ( expensive ) bike for riding around Munich in style - as I 'll be there for at least three years , I thought I might as well do it properly !
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^ Hope you 're well .
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^ Hi Nick !
^ How is thou ?
^ I thought you were going to call sometime .
^ Are you alive ?
^ I have been busy with my job , which is going quite well .
^ However , it would go even better if the sun would shine more !
^ I need more tourists to come punting ! ! !
^ I have been reading the new Harry Blackburn Book , at the same time as my two brothers .
^ ARGH !
^ Conflict ! ! oh , it is a good book .
^ I suppose it is worth the broken arm . ( joking ! )
^ I 've also been having a lot of fun writing a story of my own .
^ I do n't know if it will come to much , but I 'm enjoying it so far .
^ I 'll let you read it next year if it turns out to be any good .
^ I have just sighed , as I am about to go out to work , and the sky has just gone completely cloudy , and the sun has extinguished itself .
^ Wonderful weather for tourists !
^ Not !
^ I 've also started playing my violin again .
^ I have n't played it since I came to Brighton , five years ago .
^ I 've been going through my brother 's grade 1 book ( he is learning violin ) and found it really very fun .
^ I 'm so much better at sight reading now , than when I was 14 !
^ Also , I think it helps not being forced to play .
^ It makes it much more fun , just messing around on it .
^ The sky is positively dark now .
^ I must go and sacrifice a lamb to the spirit of the river ,
^ Father Dur , so that the sun will come out !
^ Have a good holiday !
^ Take Care ,
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^ The flat saga continues to unfold ...
^ Happy reading ,
^ Orlando
^ Dear Tabitha , Jon , Sawyer and Nick ... ...
^ I hope the spelling in this message is better than the last one .
^ I am writing again , not for any particular reason , but only to chat .
^ I have had a spell of bad days at work .
^ It seems that all the tourists have died and are no longer with us here in Munich , which means that the town is quieter , but also means that I do n't get paid .
^ Oh well !
^ Enough about work .
^ It is such a boring subject .
^ BTW , if I start talking about it too much either when you come , or next year , please hit me aver the head with a brass chelaghily , and tell me to shut up !
^ As I think I said in the last message , I 'm looking forward to seeing you again .
^ It will be good to meet up before term stars so as to have some time to chill , and not worry about essays and such .
^ I wonder how many of you have heeded Sawyer 's advice regarding the curtains at our flat ?
^ Anyone ?
^ Can you remember this time last year , when we were all looking forward to going to college ?
^ It seems so long ago now .
^ Oh , how we have all changed since then !
^ Can you remember getting out from your car , and being greeted by name ?
^ Did this happen to you Jon ? )
^ Jay has just handed me some e-mails which he has printed out and brought home .
^ I may have already made this point clear , but as I do n't know when you sent these , and there may be some confusion ...
^ From an economically , minded person to you lot , SPLITTING THE COST OF APPLIANCES FIVE WAYS IS A BAD IDEA .
^ OK , back to this e-mail ...
^ I 've just read a really good book , called Chasing the Dragon .
^ It is by Emely
^ Pullenger ( or something like that ) and is about her missionary work in Conroy Hindmarsh .
^ She spent most of her time , it seems in the walled city there , with the drug dealers , heroin and opium addicts and the like .
^ It reminded me quite a lot of the stories that Josue told us on the CU houseparty .
^ God really works .
^ It was quite useful , I think for me to read , as one of the things which I understand the least is speaking in tongues , and yet much of the book was about situations where this was used .
^ It seems that it is a cure for drug addiction .
^ Weird huh ?
^ Anyway , coming from a tongue free background , I think it was a useful read .
^ I 'm also reading Moonfleet at the moment .
^ I like it too .
^ I got a really cool CD the other day , called A Celtic Celebration .
^ It is a two CD binge , full of ...... Celtic music .
^ Really good !
^ There are bands like Iona , Eden 's burning , etc ... .
^ Jon , are you getting these e-mails now ?
^ If you are , will you send a message saying so ?
^ Thanks .
^ Ok , supper soon .
^ Take Big Care People ,
^ Chow
^ Goodbye ,
^ See ya
^ Au revoir ( do I hear screams yet ? )
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Thanks very much for providing that information concerning the telephone jake .
^ Well , how are you ?
^ I sent you a text message this morning , but you did n't reply .
^ Are you enjoying the summer weather ?
^ I am - we are living under a thick and chilly sea fog , and have been for the past three days .
^ I 've just finished my week in my Dad 's bookshop .
^ It was quite good .
^ I read some books , listened to music , did some work , sent some text messages , etc.
^ Oh , and sold books too !
^ Next week I 'm painting our sitting room and starting to make a cobbled path .
^ I 'm also meant to finish off our stone roundabout thingy , but it 's boring !
^ I 'm quite happy today !
^ Tomorrow I shall hopefully go for along cycle ride in the morning and attempt some of my dissertation in the afternoon .
^ My parents areaway to visit my grandmother for the weekend , so it 's just me and my brother at home .
^ I got back from Wells last Sunday evening .
^ I said goodbye to the flat and handed in the keys .
^ or rather , my parents did as they were staying in Philip 's for a few days and there was no one at reception when I was leaving )
^ The end of a chapter ( and a gloriously enjoyable on at that ) in my life .
^ That means I get to turn over the page .
^ I 've never thought of that before !
^ So , what are you whiling away your time with ?
^ Have you found any jobs you want to do this summer ?
^ Are your various computers all well ?
^ Have you heard from Bob ?
^ I think it must be time for another mass-update .
^ Definitely , I 'd guess tomorrow .
^ Well , I 'd better go
^ Very best wishes ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Great Armando ! !
^ How are you all keeping these days ?
^ The week , or more probably a part of the week , of the 3rd-9th of July
^ Nick and I are gong to do something holiday-like .
^ We could end up anywhere .
^ If you feel like it , you can come too .
^ I wo n't give you any details , and I do n't need any replies .
^ I 'm just passing on some information and if anyone would like to come it can be as last minute as you want .
^ Enjoy June and spend it in worthwhile pursuits .
^ Shania
^ - Carter Maria wrote some brilliant songs
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ Was good to speak earlier .
^ Here is a picture of the nanotubes I made the other week .
^ The big vaguely geometrical looking thing with many imperfections which consists of most of the picture is a salt particle .
^ The tiny little white-ish lines on the top and side of it are nanotubes .
^ As is evidenced by the scale bar they are quite big ( a little under 10 microns long ) but hey !
^ Shania
^ ~
^ lance , i knwo you said know yesterday about not being involved in a drama , but since i have asked literally all the guys in cu and noone seems to ahve a theatrical bone in their body .
^ Christian did tell me tho that you had done acting at wells .
^ now if you really feel like it would be too much with doing music as well then thats okay , but i think you would be really good at playing jesus in the drama .
^ basically it is a 5min mime to michael w smith song agnus dei .
^ practice wise we are having a practice tomorrow night , then before or after cu on wed and then prob one more maybe thurs / fri to go through it
^ have a think about it , but if you could let me know asap so that i have time to resort to a female jesus !
^ love sal xx
^ Hi Vicky , happy New Year !
^ Sorry I did n't make it to CU tonight - went out after my exams finished , and only just got back .
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ hello everyone , hope you all had a good christmas break .
^ Just to tell you all that we will have a college group meeting tomorrow night , usual place , usual time
^ ( 6.30 in the chapel crypt for those of you who have forgotten ! ) .
^ It will prob be a slightly shorter meeting till about 7.30 .
^ Also , for those of you who wanted " witness " clothing but didnt get a chance to get it , you can email Vic Dick .
^ i think they have rugby shirts , boys T shirts and hoodies in most sizes
^ hopefully see you tomorrow night
^ lots of love
^ sal x
^ ~
^ Dear Javier ,
^ In terms of accomodation I would be looking for something probably between &pound; 80 - &pound; 90 per week , although I would n't mind if there was a nice room at a cheaper cost !
^ It is important for the house to be fairly quiet , especially late at night , and a network connection would be preferrable although not absolutely necessary .
^ I am planning to come to Munich next Friday ( 10th ) to have a look at what is available privately .
^ would be very grateful if there was any way I could see any of your available / appropriate rooms
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Dear Owen ,
^ Thank you for allowing me to look around the houses on Friday - I had a useful time , and I would like to take room 8 in 8 Larkhall Road .
^ I know you said you might be able to get me a bigger room in that house , but I particularly liked number 8 .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam :
^ I have an offer of continuation from the QFP to begin study for the PhD degree in October .
^ I have not heard from the QFP about my college place yet , and am somewhat worried about accomodation .
^ as the website states that if I wish to have college accomodation I should have my place confirmed by the end of July at the very latest
^ I have been offered , and accepted a Domestic Research Scholarship , and so my financial conditions have been met .
^ Please advise me on any action I should be taking .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
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^ Hi Amya ,
^ Please could you email me your postal address ASAP .
^ I loved the funky tomatoes - thanks . &SMILEY
^ Sounds like a lot of stuff has been going on in your life !
^ We must meet up in the summer when I get back to catch up properly .
^ I had a good time with your dad last weekend doing some music stuff , and he said you might be interested in hearing some of my music , so I 'm sending you a CD .
^ O
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^ Hi Kaleigh ,
^ I received an email from Jay Gabriel saying that you wanted my address to send me some forms or something .
^ Here it is :
^ 26 Grindstone Close
^ Savanna
^ Luxembourg UA84 1QF
^ I 'm leaving for South Africa on April 6th .
^ I 'll be spending about three months out there doing some voluntary work , so if you could let me know if there 's anything I need to get sorted out funding-wise before then I 'd be grateful .
^ Thanks very much Kaleigh ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Not sure if you got this Jens ...
^ So , Jens , still in the sewage business ?
^ Greetings from the mother land .
^ I 've just been looking at some of Brody 's photos ...
^ I was reminding myself how good-looking Scandinavians can be ... you know I really think we could have gone pro with that vocal beatbox routine ...
^ Anyway , I have of course been avidly watching the Olympics over the last few weeks , and I did n't see you on the track - why not ?
^ Having said that , I did n't see many of your countrymen either , but I guess you get your own back at the winter olympics .
^ Allen has been set alight by Logan Joss ' 200 m gold ( and potential 6000 m gold - the race is this evening ) and of course the Billy Barnes debacle .
^ It has been great to have something decent to watch on TV - a rare event indeed .
^ I have recently had .
^ I do n't recommend it .
^ Aching joints ... violent diarrhoea ... endless vomitting ... you get the picture .
^ I 'm over it now , but still feeling a bit shaky / tired .
^ Am waiting to hear from Munich about whether I 'll still be in Chads and when I should be arriving ... that sort of thing .
^ Heard from Kingston recently ?
^ What 's Emily up to these days ?
^ Rule Britannia !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hello Mr Nick ,
^ have you got home yet or are you going tomorrow ?
^ Hope you 've had a fun few extra days in Wells .
^ I 'm really glad to be home , although it was a bit weird at 1st as everyone was out busy doing stuff , so I was home-alone all Thursday .
^ When I got back on wed , we dumped ( literally ) my stuff in the house and then went into town and met Uriel at the opticians .
^ She was getting some new contact lenses .
^ Me and mam went and had a look at cameras , and , guess what ? ? ? ? ! ! ! - I got one .
^ Wahay !
^ It is really lush - a Rifle EOS 700 with a 28-90mm lense .
^ Very swish .
^ We got it at a bit of a bargain price too , as
^ Fenhams in Newastle had it on special offer - &pound; 50 cheaper than Bainbridge 's , who are usually the cheapest .
^ It is so exciting ( I 'll have to tell Bob ! ) , but I 'm not opening it until Christmas day .
^ Did I tell you I was going to get a camera ?
^ I ca n't remember .
^ As it is so expensive , it is a joint christmas and 21st birthday present ( even though my birthday is miles off ) .
^ Spent the rest of wed feeling very dopey and watching " message In a Bottle " ( a film ( ! ) ) .
^ I think that , once I 'd got home , my body was telling me that I have no choice but to fag out for a while .
^ Mind , I had had very little sleep on Tuesday night as I stayed at the bop until 3ish and walked back with Tabitha after we 'd cleared up .
^ I 'm still feeling rather knacked now !
^ Spent the whole of Thursday sorting out my stuff ( very slowly ! ) .
^ Yesterday , mam was at work in the morning , and I spent the whole morning asleep in bed .
^ I did n't wake up until 11.30 !
^ How scandalous ! !
^ Well , it just proves that I 'm tired ( I am NOT lazy ) after a long term and several late nights .
^ In the afternoon , we went to the airport with dad to get some flight tickets for him for next week .
^ He is flying down to Carlisle ( he 's sick of the trains ) for a conference .
^ Then we went shopping at the MetroCentre and got a wedding present for my cousin who is getting married soon , and got some food ( mmmnnn ...
^ Marks and Spencers ! ! ) .
^ Then , last night , I made some more cards .
^ This morning we ( me and mam ) went to Wallington Ronald ( a National Trust place ) and had a walk in the grounds and then went to a cute town that we like called Corbridge .
^ Then came home , had lunch , chatted the afternoon away with mam and dad ( as well as clean the church and church hall ) and now I 'm writing emails !
^ I also want to say how grateful I am that you came and talked to me openly and honestly on Tuesday .
^ It 's good to get things straight , and by you making that move , we 've done so .
^ Thanks !
^ And , also , if I think of anything else I want to ask you , I will - and I hope you 'll do likewise with me .
^ I know I have n't acted wisely in all that I 've done this term , and I too would value the advise of my friends .
^ I again want to apologise for the way I carried on at certain points during term , and hope that nothing I did caused you any pain .
^ I get so much wrong , it is very annoying , but it is a comfort to know that God still loves and accepts me as I am .
^ will help me to become the better and holier person that I ought to be
^ Well , I 'd better make a move as dad needs to print out some stuff for the church services tomorrow .
^ Bye for now ,
^ Cody x
^ PS - dad 's just gone off again , so I 'm going to type you this poem which I found the other day .
^ I have no idea who it 's by !
^ God has not promised skies always blue ,
^ Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through .
^ God has not promised sun without rain ,
^ Jaiden without sorrow , peace without pain .
^ But , God has promised strength for the day ,
^ Rest for the labour , light for the way ,
^ Grace for the trials , help from above ,
^ Unfailing sympathy , undying love .
^ God bless , Mr Nick , have fun - and I quote you : " BE YOURSELF " and " KEEP IT REAL " ! !
^ Get more from the Web .
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^ allo
^ Hello Mr Nick ,
^ have you got home yet .
^ or are you going tomorrow ?
^ Hope you 've had a fun few extra days in Wells .
^ I 'm really glad to be home , although it was a bit weird at 1st as everyone was out busy doing stuff , so I was home-alone all Thursday .
^ When I got back on wed , we dumped ( literally ) my stuff in the house and then went into town and met Uriel at the opticians .
^ She was getting some new contact lenses .
^ Me and mam went and had a look at cameras , and , guess what ? ? ? ? ! ! ! - I got one .
^ Wahay !
^ It is really lush - a Rifle EOS 700 with a 28-90mm lense .
^ Very swish .
^ We got it at a bit of a bargain price too , as
^ Fenhams in Newastle had it on special offer - &pound; 50 cheaper than Bainbridge 's , who are usually the cheapest .
^ It is so exciting ( I 'll have to tell Bob ! ) , but I 'm not opening it until Christmas day .
^ Did I tell you I was going to get a camera ?
^ I ca n't remember .
^ As it is so expensive , it is a joint christmas and 21st birthday present ( even though my birthday is miles off ) .
^ Spent the rest of wed feeling very dopey and watching " message In a Bottle " ( a film ( ! ) ) .
^ I think that , once I 'd got home , my body was telling me that I have no choice but to fag out for a while .
^ Mind , I had had very little sleep on Tuesday night as I stayed at the bop until 3ish and walked back with Tabitha after we 'd cleared up .
^ I 'm still feeling rather knacked now !
^ Spent the whole of Thursday sorting out my stuff ( very slowly ! ) .
^ Yesterday , mam was at work in the morning , and I spent the whole morning asleep in bed .
^ I did n't wake up until 11.30 !
^ How scandalous ! !
^ Well , it just proves that I 'm tired ( I am NOT lazy ) after a long term and several late nights .
^ In the afternoon , we went to the airport with dad to get some flight tickets for him for next week .
^ He is flying down to Carlisle ( he 's sick of the trains ) for a conference .
^ Then we went shopping at the MetroCentre and got a wedding present for my cousin who is getting married soon , and got some food ( mmmnnn ...
^ Marks and Spencers ! ! ) .
^ Then , last night , I made some more cards .
^ This morning we ( me and mam ) went to Wallington Ronald ( a National Trust place ) and had a walk in the grounds and then went to a cute town that we like called Corbridge .
^ Then came home , had lunch , chatted the afternoon away with mam and dad ( as well as clean the church and church hall ) and now I 'm writing emails !
^ I also want to say how grateful I am that you came and talked to me openly and honestly on Tuesday .
^ It 's good to get things straight , and by you making that move , we 've done so .
^ Thanks !
^ And , also , if I think of anything else I want to ask you , I will - and I hope you 'll do likewise with me .
^ I know I have n't acted wisely in all that I 've done this term , and I too would value the advise of my friends .
^ I again want to apologise for the way I carried on at certain points during term , and hope that nothing I did caused you any pain .
^ I get so much wrong , it is very annoying , but it is a comfort to know that God still loves and accepts me as I am .
^ will help me to become the better and holier person that I ought to be
^ Well , I 'd better make a move as dad needs to print out some stuff for the church services tomorrow .
^ Bye for now ,
^ Cody x
^ PS - dad 's just gone off again , so I 'm going to type you this poem which I found the other day .
^ I have no idea who it 's by !
^ God has not promised skies always blue ,
^ Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through .
^ God has not promised sun without rain ,
^ Jaiden without sorrow , peace without pain .
^ But , God has promised strength for the day ,
^ Rest for the labour , light for the way ,
^ Grace for the trials , help from above ,
^ Unfailing sympathy , undying love .
^ God bless , Mr Nick , have fun - and I quote you : " BE YOURSELF " and " KEEP IT REAL " ! !
^ Get more from the Web .
^ FREE MSN Explorer download : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ I despatched the book " Modern Engineering Mathematics " to you yesterday .
^ It is now with Parcel Force and should arrive sometime soon .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Guys , I will add to this : some really cool long thin .
^ candles cynicism and sarcasm hormones a magnetic poetry set for the fridge door an addiction to " Lemmings " , which Valeria is going to bring so we can play
^ it on Camilla lots of books a need to live cheaply a dislike of an abundance of hot drinks a paradoxical want to be both alone and in company
^ you 'll have to work with me on this one ) MY own unique brand of humour
^ I have some stuff .
^ I still do n't understand what is going on at all , so if one of you organised guys ( not Tabitha ) could send me a list of things you want me to buy , I would be grateful .
^ Also if you could maybe sum up what has been emaling going on while I have been away , I am SO confused .
^ That means you ,
^ Nick , Bob or Parker .
^ If we want stuff , my mother is dying to take me utensil shopping , but is only willing to pay if I but it whilst at home ( .
^ yeah , explain it to me as well ) , so send me what you like to but
^ Also worth bearing in mind is that in all probability I will be living out next year .
^ if we are all going to keep what we buy ...
^ Anyway , just someone send me a list of stuff to get
^ PLEASE .
^ JUST SEND ME THE LIST .
^ I am bringing the TV .
^ It is to me as Dur is to the Lancester .
^ Do not attempt to come between us .
^ But I am happy to have a video and no licence , I can cope with that .
^ Microwave ?
^ Hmm , depends on cost , I guess .
^ Umm , what 's this about #20 ( just imagine the # is a pound sign , the one on this computer has unaccountably disappeared ) ?
^ Are we going for #20 per week for everything ?
^ Remember the relative feebleness of the female mind and sme one explain it to me in short and pithy terms .
^ I love you all dearly , especially the person upon whom I am foisting Bob 's email .
^ I do n't know you , but thank you .
^ Donald
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Davies , Jon " ( &EMAIL ) , " Jay Greetings " ( &EMAIL ) , " Ropp , Tabitha " ( &EMAIL ) , " Wheeler , Sawyer " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Icing
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Lads and Lasses ,
^ Some things I am going to bring to the flat :
^ Happiness A larva lamp A hanging picture thingy
^ My inimitable sense of humour
^ I can almost certainly get hold of some kitchen utensils and things if need be .
^ I think my Grandmother is itching to supply me with at least something .
^ So , until we meet again ,
^ Nick
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^ hi lance ... hope you 're having a better time now that you have everything you tried to come with .
^ ( well most of it ... )
^ i have sad news .
^ i did n't get to go see derek webb because i had the flu ! !
^ so it looks as though you 'll never be a big star ... sorry ! ! )
^ i am still in my full time teaching job for the next two weeks .
^ it 's really good to have a steady job and really bad because these kids are intense .
^ but i 'm thankful to be here .... .
^ ah , life .
^ i do n't even have the energy to comment on it right now .
^ hope you 're okay ...
^ love gina
^ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV , included with MSN Premium !
^ ~
^ Ed , check out this NNR article - amusing and interesting ...
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^ just wondering , was it you who drew the giraffe on my door .
^ i 've been trying to work out who it was .
^ my process of elimination seems to stop at you !
^ we were most disappointed that you were n't at formal today .
^ college gave us free wine !
^ we had dime bar cake for pudding , and there were several spares .
^ chloe starr gave a wonderful speech at the beginning about st. john being boiled in oil
^ ( possibly the fate in store for those who do n't pay their maintenance bills on time
^ david was in his element because he found a heart valve in his steak .
^ you missed a treat .
^ see you soon .
^ liz
^ ~
^ Gav-boy ,
^ Please could you do me a favour and send me a copy of your list of our friends ' birthdays ?
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick ...
^ Thank you .
^ I am not enjoying the heat wave .
^ The heat makes me wilt , for I am a delicate flower ... well , it makes me faint , anyway .
^ I went to Carlisle and saw a play and had a career changing experience ; I no longer want to be a consultant- it 's dull and boring !
^ Now I do n't know , but I guess God has plans ...
^ I am going to Izabella 's party this weekend .
^ I hear you had Eric staying with you- sounds like fun !
^ Hope YOU are enjoing the heat ...
^ Jon x
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^ Hi Nick !
^ Well , I did just about cope with the beach and the sea and the endless hours of sunbathing although it was quite tough at times ! !
^ It was all a good experience but I 'm just glad to be back home ( I guess I can call Wells home ) .
^ I arrived in Wells yesterday after having flown back from Spain on Sunday .
^ I am a little bit tired of my travels but I 'm getting chance to relax here which is good .
^ The best bit about a translating job is that you can do the work when you want as long as it gets done .
^ No early mornings for me then !
^ I do n't know how you 've coped getting up so early and I do admire it , although I 'm not in the slightest bit envious !
^ It 's really nice to see Fatima again after 5 weeks .
^ He 's been working quite hard here but I think I 've managed to persuade him to take things a bit easier .
^ Have you ever been on your own in the computer room at Philip 's ?
^ Its very weird being in here when its empty .
^ No nutters playing on computer games or nervous students trying desperately to finish their essay or dissertation !
^ I hope you enjoyed your family reunion and that you were n't !
^ too overwhelmed by all the people who claimed to know you when you were " so high " but that you do n't remember ever meeting in your life
^ Take care .
^ Stay in touch .
^ Love , Becs
^ ~
^ Hey Kane ,
^ That sounds lovely , and I ( truly - this is not sarcasm ) feel honoured to be asked .
^ I would love to go ... however ... if you feel it 's too expensive , that 's fine .
^ I am not overburdened on the wealth front , but I have some money stashed away under the mattress , and this ) chance seems like a good investment .
^ It is also a valid excuse for a new dress .
^ Basically , if you decide to go , it would be super to come with you .
^ If you feel it 's too expensive / someone you asked previously suddenly says yes / they ask you to support U2 on stage that night , I 'll survive the disappointment ... just !
^ It would be fab to spend a night on your arm , but it would be just as nice to spend an hour on your sofa having coffee ( but without the make-up ) .
^ Tu choisi , mon ami , mais merci beaucoup beaucoup for asking , whichever you decide .
^ Love , Jon xx
^ From : " L.C. Malone "
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : ball
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Jon ,
^ Just had an idea - would you be interested in coming up to Munich for a May ball ?
^ Vic and a posse of her friends are going to Jonathon ball , and
^ Vic was asking if I wanted to go , but I would rather have someone to go with - otherwise I will only know Vic .
^ she will want to be with her posse , none of which I really know ( I do n't think )
^ And quite frankly there are n't any girls in Munich attractive enough for me to go with , so hence I 'm turning to you .
^ Problem is , it 's quite expensive ( ~&pound; 80 ) so I 'm trying to decide whether I can really afford it anyway , and I know you 're not exactly rolling in it !
^ Anyway , let me know if you might be interested .
^ Kane
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^ Okay , I just wanted to clarify what I was saying last night , because I think it is a really important issue , and probably paramount to all of us .
^ I was going to say that I do n't want to start up the whole messy discussion again , but I actually think that it 's very important to discuss it all .
^ Even if it means going over the same ground again .
^ My ideas about relationships , are , I think , fairly clear cut in theory .
^ As I said last night , I would n't go into a relationship unless it was going to be a serious commitment , someone who I could see myself marrying .
^ But I do think that to get to know another person in a way that may very well lead to marriage is important , and that " going out " is a good way to do that .
^ I think friendship is a completely different kettle of fish ( where does that expression come from ? ) to anything else , ie seeing someone in light of being a marriagable item .
^ People who are good friends can be terrible lovers ( could n't think of another word , you know what I mean ) , and so I think that " going out " ( HOW I hate that term .
^ in a serious , God-centred , learning about each other and Christ , kind of a relationship , can be the right way to go
^ Hmmm , how far to go .
^ I honestly do n't know .
^ In theory , I 'd go with thw whole kissing and holding hands and nothing else brigade , but I do feel a complete hypocrite saying that , given that my past purity record is not particularly fantastic .
^ I think that to engage emotionally is to engage physically , and that the stuff I mentioned above is a legitimate expression of the emotional commitment you do have when you are going out with someone .
^ as long as it is n't used as a pathway to other things , as long as there are clear cut boundaries between you and
^ this does sound very cheesy and I 'm not really sure what I mean by it ) as long as it happens in the context of a Godly relationship
^ As I said , all these are great in theory .
^ Practice is much harder , especially as society demands of us that we pull every weekend until we find Mr. / Miss Perfect .
^ O , yes , like that 's going to happen .
^ I think what I find difficult is that so much of my identity relies on who and what other people think I am .
^ To trust that ( a ) God loves you whatever you look like or however horrible you are and .
^ b ) God has a plan for you and that this may NOT involve marriage , is the thing I find most difficult of all
^ I would like to be going out with someone , but because I would actually like to be going out with ANYone , I 'm pretty sure that God is n't going to put me in a relationship just yet .
^ Firstly , I need to learn to trust him , and rely on him for self-worth rather than other people .
^ Secondly , I need to learn to appreciate my friends .
^ Thirdly , I need to get out more ... no , I 'm kidding on the thirdly .
^ When it 's right , I will be in a relationship .
^ But please do n't think I 've gone all pious and holy for once in my very levity-lived life .
^ This is all how the sensible , theoretical , practicing for motherhood part of my brain works- the little part of my brain that so often gets over-rided by the irrational .
^ practical , society-minded , Ant-part that I struggle so hard to control , even here
^ among friends , even now , at an age where I should be getting sensible , even in Wells , where the support network is so good
^ I still feel lonely and there does n't seem to be any room to make mistakes , even as a rep , when my behaviour suddenly got
^ worse ( ! ) ... so good in theory , so bad in practice ( me , that is )
^ I hope I have n't freaked anyone out too much , or said too much ( hmmmm ) .
^ This is n't an attack on Nick 's opinions , but a clarification of my own .
^ I was thinking that maybe we could start an email prayer list ... just among a few friends of us ?
^ I know that I do n't pray enough , and I know that I do n't pray for my friends enough , and , yeah , it would be good to do that .
^ Just call me Sister Donald the Pious ... anyway , I would feel selfishly better if people I know and love were praying for me .
^ Let me know what you think , not just about the prayer stuff , but about all this email .
^ Mes apologies for clogging up your inboxes and for any spelling mistakes .
^ And yes , this has taken the place of a morning 's revision .
^ Also , everyone should read Valeria 's friend 's book The Relationships
^ Revolution because it makes a lot of sense .
^ A LOT of sense .
^ Love , Jon xx
^ P.S. If you could maybe not reveal the contents of this to anyone , that would be good for my peace of mind .
^ Thank you kindly .
^ ~
^ And where will you be , oh Nick of very little brawn ?
^ returning home to the UK in just under a week .
^ See you there then .
^ I went on a [ ... ] with a bunch of American [ ... ]
^ You masochist you .
^ I thought Africa was supposed to be IDS !
^ That 's global warming for you , old chap !
^ It was -20 atop Mt Marler and they say the shrinking glacier there will be all gone within 20 years .
^ The database I wrote for generating the school reports had its maiden voyage , and was reasonably successful , although there were the requisite teething problems
^ Quinton Corey would have leaned back , with his hands in his trendy
^ Fisherman Shorts , then scratched his stubble with his left hand while looking sideways at you over his nose as a " I 'm a bit slow " smile gradually works its way onto his face
^ then he 'd give you a his justification being Why did n't you just REUSE someone else 's ?
^ I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lochevsky .
^ In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics .
^ Plagiarize !
^ Plagiarize
^ Let no one else 's work evade your eyes !
^ Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
^ So do n't shade your eyes
^ But plagiarize , plagiarize , plagiarize ...
^ Only be sure always to call it please " research " [ &WEBSITE
^ I spoke for about 20 mins on my experiences with Christian education .
^ * guffaw *
^ I 'm basically just relaxing and doing some odd jobs
^ Odd ones ?
^ That does n't sound like you Nick ?
^ Never known you to do anything odd ?
^ Powabunga old pal ,
^ Yodel gogel the Turbosome
^ Bob Maize , BScAI BSc MolBioTech y2 @ Tyler Uni &WEBSITE
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^ ~
^ Bennio ,
^ Could I please have a copy of the thing in normal language , not computer box things .
^ You genii might be able to understand it , but I ca n't , sorry .
^ It would be easier in 18th century French ...
^ Love Jon
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^ Hi there !
^ Thanks for your emails - Nick , we surely need to think seriously about helping the football team out !
^ Good to hear the job is going well - what plans for next year ?
^ We wanted to let you know that Phyllistus had a baby girl - they have named her Cynthia - not sure of exact date of birth but know that all is okay .
^ Liz , I look forward to receiving the booklet so we can work out exactly how many more Paces they have to complete .
^ Please pray for us as we make this decision !
^ We love you guys ( & gals ) and look forward to seeing you later in the year .
^ Lots of love for now
^ Josue & Laura
^ ~
^ Thanks for the email ... it was good to hear from you .
^ School is going well - winding down to a very rapid close for the year .
^ We finish on 3 December .
^ After that Josue , Noe , Andrea , Cornelius and Poppie will be doing a training course in Pietersburg ( 7-11 December ) for about 32 people .
^ I will be down in Vereeniging ( about 50 kms from
^ Johannesburg ) with Pedro , Julie and Uriel ( the American girl ) .
^ They will be going on a youth camp and I will be doing some video courses for the studies I am trying to do .
^ I have found it so difficult to get down to them with all the interruptions at home but in the new year we are building an office onto our house for me to work in .
^ Our lounge is a high traffic area - not conducive to studying etc .
^ How is your job going ?
^ Are you learning much ?
^ Have you made any final decisions about further study next year ?
^ Pedro will be going over to
^ International Student Convention next year - we would love him to come and spend a bit of time in Bath after that .
^ will have to organise ... he just accompanied me to Durban and thoroughly enjoyed going to school down there
^ I attended the Administrator 's training course - it was really a blessed time .
^ Otherwise , not too much news ... we 'd love to play host to you again , and James , and Camron any time !
^ Tell your folks we 'd love for them to come out and pay us a visit ! ! !
^ Would n't you like to see your mom on a raft down the Zambezi ? ? ?
^ There 's still plenty to see here !
^ Anyway , Nick , we 're off to Eiland for the weekend - Julie 's birthday treat .
^ I ca n't believe she 's 15 !
^ Praise God I do n't feel any older !
^ Unfortunately , our computer is not the latest , greatest ... but thank the Lord for it anyway - I used to have to do all these accounts manually - so I 'll be thankful for small mercies .
^ God bless ... lots of love to the family and all the folk at Victory ...
^ Laura - Josue , Pedro and Julie
^ ~
^ good evening most handsome sir whats cooking ? ? we went to see billy elliot tonight and it is absolutely excellent ! ! you should definitely see it as soon as possible abz
^ we think you would really enjoy it ! ! im of to bed now sleep well speak to you soon
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^ Hi Nick ,
^ How are you ?
^ I have got four days till I go to Hungary .
^ I am leaving on Thursday 25th at &TIME ( well that is when we leave here ) .
^ I hope all your exams go really well and enjoy them .
^ Oh it is Mummys birthday on Tuesday so if you get a chance do give her a call cause she would love that .
^ See you soon , I love you
^ Alice ( boo )
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^ Good evening my lovelies ,
^ Just to let you know that this " homosexual Jesus movie " forward is actually a hoax .
^ There is no such thing , and forwarding such emails is unlikely to do any good even if there was .
^ Have a look at &WEBSITE
^ See you SOON ! !
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi BEn
^ Thanks for the mail .
^ Things here are good .
^ As for being Miss Freckles , they are all disappearing , and fast .
^ So no such name shall stick , phew ! ! !
^ Coming back to the UK on Mon .
^ Its my Grandads 80th on Tues and then Im straight back up to DH cause of work , i need the library .
^ Thats all Im doing at the moment - a lot of work ! !
^ Seen Tabitha online a fair bit which has been wicked .
^ Im guessing she didnt go to Taize this weekend .
^ Weather here is being all iffy .
^ Good some days and dreadul on others .
^ Oh well , summer soon and thats all that counts really !
^ Looking forward to this term .. well post exams anyway .
^ Hope this finds you well .
^ Did your mum enjoy Nepal ?
^ Sounds like an amazing experience .
^ Take care , love Isaiah
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^ Hi Zachary !
^ Just wondered if you would consider sending my book to me at Munich .
^ If you address it to :
^ Nick Malone
^ Kassidy College
^ Munich TQ9 0WF
^ it should get there .
^ I enjoyed seeing you and George the last couple of days .
^ It is always a pleasure spending time with you .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dearest Samuel ,
^ How long it has been since we last made contact .
^ How I miss your roast lamb .
^ How I miss your sweet ... potatoes .
^ How I miss our late-night conversations .
^ Do tell me , how is your back ?
^ What a frightful inconvenience , being unable to partake in water-based leisure activities !
^ Still , I trust your skin is turning brown , and that your waistline is receding .
^ My dearest Samuel , I do n't believe I have informed you of my impending graduation .
^ I will be back in the city of Munich hencewith on
^ January 24th to partake in the ceremonious conferral of my Masters degree .
^ How proud of me you must feel !
^ It is but a shame that you cannot be present yourself , but one must n't ask for everything .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey bro ,
^ just got back from Stavanger ...
^ been there for a couple of days , installing some stuff ( Software ) for the over there ...
^ Stavanger is on the south-west coast , and it 's a few degrees warmer there ... almost like ... Scotland or something .
^ Get to travel a bit with the job , see the country .
^ Ca n't complain yet .
^ Yep , - I got my letter as well .
^ Although I did n't quite understand what it meant ...
^ I 'll get my degree , I got that much , but first I had to contact some f ... at grett of some sort .
^ then I 'd do something with him either in absence or in person ( is this graduation ? ? ? ) and then I 'd &WEBSITE diploma
^ I though next summer sounded awfully late .
^ I 'd prefer to get it over with rather quickly ...
^ I thought the deal was that we 'd all get it done this autumn at some point ... ?
^ Have n't seen anything about my project yet , I think lovely simone has forgotten me ( how could she ? ? )
^ I think I 'll send her an email and ask if she remembers ...
^ Well , you know ze Germans , - it 's probably going to be a B or something &SMILEY
^ Emily 's doing great - he 's working like a mad mad horse , - 14hour days has been mentioned .
^ And this is early in term 1 .
^ The question is : Will he last ?
^ Will he die ?
^ He 's got pretty much the same approach to everything as I have , he only does it 1.4 times harder ...
^ We 'll have snow pretty soon , and I 'll start skiing .
^ ( looking forward to that like a stupid little kid . )
^ Running 's going better .
^ My coach has big plans .
^ I will wait and see ...
^ Keep up the work BM , has there been any decision about that conference ? ?
^ T the B .
^ Jensky ,
^ I got my BEng confirmation the other day from the Commission for Advancement Salamanders .
^ Have you had yours yet ?
^ I also got an email from Napolean saying that he 'd heard a few of the guys were thinking of graduating next summer !
^ Seems a bit distant to me .
^ What are your thoughts ?
^ Also , did you get a preliminary grade for your project ?
^ I got mine a month or so ago - A+ of course .
^ I am interested to hear what Kingston considers a " good grade " !
^ How 's Emily getting on in Dur ?
^ Hope you 're well old boy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
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^ Nick , sorry I could n't make it last night - we did n't finish packing until very late .
^ I hear that you won the player of the year - very well deserved and exactly where my vote would have gone !
^ I hope your exam results go well - I 'm sure you 'll be fine .
^ be in touch , take care ,
^ Carolyn
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^ do you wanna run tonight ?
^ now :
^ the thing I told you about yesterday ( an off-the-shelf text classifier ) beats my featurevector ( only slightly ) , - which means I 'm useless .
^ more importantly - just for the hell of it I trained the classifier on the whole document collection .
^ i.e. something anyone could have done in 5 minutes )
^ -- ) 900 % accuracy whatever test set I use ...
^ Problem solved - time to go home .
^ unfortunately , something 's telling me something 's not right ...
^ G .
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Just quickly , I 'm in the middle of designing a cd cover for your cds now .
^ What kind of title do you want ?
^ I thought something like Walled
^ Garden " or " Rain
^ Thoughts ?
^ Bob
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^ Maximus 's Garth ,
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^ 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
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^ How 's the back Samos ?
^ ~
^ hi Nick
^ Angelo and I are in our hotel and the weather today aint so great so i , emailing .
^ the co , p is rubbish thou so will make lots of mistakes .
^ Thanks for the mail , good to hear from you .
^ Congrats on finishing work .
^ When are you back up to DH ?
^ i will no doubt be there before you .
^ Am going up on the 23rd via York to see Ad which will be great .
^ Will write later from home , i hate this keyboard !
^ Love Isaiah
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^ Dear Nick ,
^ Thanks so much for writing back so quickly !
^ It was great to hear from you and to know you are doing well .
^ I am home now and absolutely shattered .
^ Working really is wearing , I guess its cause im not used to it though .
^ Anyway , i have the weekend to relax and sleep some , at least thats a bonus ! !
^ I swam lots last term , did you not know ?
^ There was an ongoing joke about how I kept trying to convince Tabitha she wanted to come with me ! !
^ Definitely , swimming next term sounds good by me .
^ I might be going on holiday in September with Angelo .
^ It would only be for a few days just because neither of us will have been on holiday so it would be nice to go somewhere new for a few days
^ We might fly to Nice and meet up there and then he will come back here for a while and then go home .
^ Flying easyjet is so cheap ..
^ it would work out at &pound; 80 for him to fly to Nice , then Rio and then Carlisle .
^ Hurrah for that ! !
^ Spoke to a couple of people today .
^ It was Emmas birthday yesterday , she finally turned 19 !
^ Ha .
^ Had a chat with Luke earlier which was nice , and I tried Adam cause hes meant to be coming to stay .
^ hes still in Ireland but his mum said that he was still planning on coming , so yay
^ I really want people to come visit me .
^ I have never had anyone my age come out and visit as a first time thing so I could show them the sites and what not , so it will be great .
^ Anyway Nick , I will write you again soon when I have anything interesting to say .
^ Take care and lots of love , Oliver x
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^ It 's already a year since we worried about our first , - time flies .
^ The temperature here this morning is -11C , and we 've got enough snow , even though the amount is moderate for this time of year .
^ Emily got back on Sunday to tell that he 's picked up an American genius of a girlfriend in Munich ( first Brody , now Emily , - this is evidence that there is hope ) .
^ Everything else is very normal , which is nice .
^ There 'll be skiing , fat food and the rest of it .
^ Hope everything is easy down " south " as well .
^ May you and the rest of the Malone-clan enjoy peaceful celebrations .
^ Jensk .
^ ~
^ Nick , I got your message and I am very happy to hear from you .
^ I have been trying to phone you on the number you left me unfortunately I could not get through .
^ I really do not know what the problem is .
^ Anyway , I am fine .
^ I am still teaching in a Christian school .
^ I am tired of it .
^ I want to do something else .
^ I am married now .
^ Got married on the &DATE .
^ My &WEBSITE name is Jeremy .
^ We love him and he is a real blessing to us .
^ I have not been playing football for quite some time .
^ I &WEBSITE I need is a couple practises and I will get back in shape .
^ We are still planning to come to the UK in &WEBSITE , I have not given up hope .
^ I will tell you all about it in my next Email .
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^ Yahoo!
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^ Thanks for the definition .
^ I much prefer your definitions to Websters the American translation is just what I needed .
^ I do hope that I do n't have occasion to use this newly learned word .
^ Our garden looks a bit like a landfill site at the moment ...
^ Funny so does ours .
^ The big family project tomorrow is to build a retaining wall .
^ It should be a mere 85 degrees and we are all so excited that it will be so cool here .
^ Munich are going to fund me - pretty exciting actually .
^ Yes that is so exciting ! ! !
^ I am so happy for you !
^ When do you start ?
^ And might I say a very wise choice on the part of Munich .
^ Hmmm ... perhaps not entirely compatible career paths ...
^ Hey , you never know .
^ Two loves born of one heart can always be intertwined .
^ Macie
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ How you doing , you big blobby turnip ?
^ I 'm alright .
^ Up in Birmingham with Deb & currently unemployed between temping jobs at the mo , and floundering over long term career .
^ Never mind ...
^ What 's going on in your life now ?
^ I seem to have lost contact .
^ What 's your mobile number and address now ?
^ The other night I tried to ring you and got a confused chap named Philip .
^ I 'd also like to post you something .
^ Take care .
^ YGYA .
^ Aimee .
^ ~
^ I like the sound of January , I could use a break from the arctic about th en .
^ I am , by the way , back in the beautiful north , my French is soon forgott en , and I spend my days running and working for the man .
^ I 'm doing things with databases )
^ It 's not bad compared with student life , - a lot less work and a lot mo
^ Re money .
^ Just a couple of minor drawbacks , - Lillehammer is perhaps not the liveli est of places and perhaps not among the very warmest neither .
^ We had the first snowfall yesterday ) .
^ Dig in and prepare for winter .
^ Jens .
^ If anyone fancy some skiing , give me a ring ! )
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^ Why do you think everyone thinks we are going out ?
^ Is this a message from the Lord ?
^ not .
^ Anyway .
^ Still no job .
^ Have Mother and sister sitting on my bed .
^ Am off to visit Jack Parfitt tomorrow ; will be nice to see a fellow Wellsite .
^ Have not been temping for a couple of weeks ...
^ Neighbours is not abysmal .
^ It is far , far worse than that .
^ I hope you enjoy the concert- it sounds really good .
^ I am very jealous !
^ Hope all 's well and you 're still enjoying your treatise on maths , or whatever it is ... ? !
^ Love Jon xx
^ From : " Jonah "
^ To : " Donald Davies "
^ Subject : Re : which &circ; is best ?
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Well Jon , you know what I say ...
^ " Who needs a job anyway ! ! "
^ I have been looking at rational functions today , and am please to say that I think I 'm getting the hang of it .
^ Next week I 'm off to visit Kaden ( you know , the one who thought we were going out ) with my friend Stevo .
^ We are spending a few nights in the Peak District - should be fun .
^ Then I 'm going to a Jade Jamesal concert the next week with my Dad , Mallory , Anna and JC .
^ He 's bald now ( JT , not Mallory ) .
^ I watched about two minutes of Neighbours the other day .
^ It was ABYSMAL .
^ Love Nick
^ so , the guinea pigs .
^ i think you might be a little bemused by this -
^ it is probably one of those " had to be there " situations , but basically ... you know my father now teaches at this independent school
^ well , they have plenty of spare cash to fling around , and they have a number of school pets .
^ i did n't realise this , and when i went into help dad with lesson prep .
^ i was following him round the outside of the building , when we turned a corner and i was confromted by a field in which lay ten or so of the most indolent guinea pigs
^ ( plus a couple of rabbits with massive floppy ears ) you have ever seen .
^ it was like they were on sleeping pills .
^ they were all just lying there and nibbling grass , their noses bobbing up and down .
^ at which point , i heard a cockerel screech and turned round to see three of them behind me .
^ then i heard a sqwark , and in another small field nearby was a goose and a shetland pony .
^ they looked quite happy together .
^ fortunatley , i missed the rats , as they were asleep .
^ by this time , i was basically gibbering , and dad abandoned me to my screeches
^ it was just a really random scene to be in the middle of .
^ but i enjoyed it !
^ i have n't got a temping job this week so i 'm shopping and seeing firedns -
^ rav is coming down this w/e , and i met tessa in bham today and saw her ecuador photos .
^ went to tim gillford 's last w/e for his 21st - and wow , suffolk is just so much fun to be leaving .
^ have n't got a job yet , in case you were tempted to ask ( why not
^ peoples ' concern for my jobless state seems to be at the forefront of the minds of most people
^ i ca n't really tell the vicar to shut up , even though he asks me at five day intervals .
^ my sister and the mother are away at the mo , it 's just me and dad for a bit of father daughter bonding .
^ that means cake
^ hope all 's well with you .
^ your book sounds ... entertaining .
^ it 's back to fun reading ( but no money , no job ) for me is best ?
^ am currently enjoying neighbours and murder she wrote ...
^ lots of love cat
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^ Hi Jade ,
^ Hope you are enjoying / enjoyed your time in Barbados or wherever it is you go for your summer holiday .
^ I 'm just wondering if you could give me any information on when the University is planning to send the degree certificates out , because I need to send a copy to Munich before they will confirm my place .
^ If it is likely to be a while , would you consider writing an official letter for me , confirming my result ?
^ My new address is :
^ 26 Grindstone Close
^ Savanna
^ Luxembourg UA84 1QF
^ The address of the Commission for Advancement Studies is :
^ Commission for Advancement Studies 4 Grit Lane
^ Munich TQ6 3MK
^ Thanks Jade ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Good afternoon , Englishman .
^ First things first .
^ You spent 16 hours couped up in a car with an attractive girl around new year .
^ 296 hours have passed since then .
^ May I enquire about the average distance between then two of you during these 296 hours ?
^ And , forgive me for being so direct , over the same period , has the distance at any point been negative ?
^ It was kind of funny - the same day I received complaints from you about hogmany in Wyatt being cancelled I got a similar email from another guy I used to share a flat with there .
^ It sounds astonishing !
^ Cancelling anything in Wyatt due to wind and rain is equivalent to ruling the whole thing out in the first place ! ! !
^ Work has picked up a bit this end , and I 've been travelling our beautiful country on my mission to sell software .
^ We even went to Levi on a company trip - which was nice indeed .
^ - and I 've spent the last week in Kristiansand at the southern tip of N -- ) no snow and incredibly warm , sometimes above zero
^ I actually did like LOTR III .
^ I thought it was better than the two previous ones .
^ But the end ( all 5 of them ) was horrible , I mean - after 2.45 hours of action you do n't want another hour of romantic comedy ...
^ I 'm moving into Leslie 's room in Churchill on Thursday night , leaving
^ Sunday morning .
^ If I manage to collect all the kit they require I may even graduate during this period .
^ When are you coming down ?
^ G .
^ ~
^ ~
^ lance has somebody eaten your computer ?
^ or are you actually having to work hard ?
^ we had the first bailey praise of the year on monday night - twas very good .
^ great atmosphere .
^ the c.u. houseparty was last weekend as well , 70 of us went on it !
^ some had to sleep on the floor .
^ it was really good fun .
^ great chance to get to know the 1st years a little better .
^ the talks were on unity with diversity , very challenging but excellent .
^ how 's munich ?
^ i bet you do n't have fog as thick as we have here this morning ...
^ speak to you soon
^ god bless
^ ashley
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Rylie !
^ How 's tricks ?
^ How is the house working out ?
^ Are they actually making you do some work this year ? ? ( only joking )
^ Well , I 'm now a University of Munich postgraduate , and I 'm having a really great time !
^ I have a lovely room , with a university network connection ! ! !
^ That 's pretty much all I need to be happy : o ) .
^ My parents and sister have been visiting me today , and we 've walked all around Munich , marvelling at the architecture and trying to find places to park and stuff .
^ I am doing quite a lot of work - there 's lots of maths concepts I have to catch up on , because I never really did that much maths at school .
^ Is n't it great to be alive ? ? !
^ OK , hasta lasagne ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Nick -
^ How many times are you going to send the same email to me ? !
^ I was so confused at first as to why you were emailing me
^ besides the obvious , that we became such good friends over Easter when we spent an entire day buying paint for your dad !
^ you HAD to write and tell me you missed me and wanted me to come back to england
^ then i was like please could he send the same thing AGAIN
^ no ... i 'm just kidding .
^ i just thought i would say hi and i hope you 're having fun teaching at the school
^ i wish i could be there with you guys ...
^ how come when i was there i was the ONLY person my age at the school and now that i 've gone , there are about 5 of you
^ it just does n't seem right !
^ anyways , enjoy your sunday
^ i miss sunday 's with your family .
^ eating dinner on the floor in the living room while watching a movie and sitting by the fire .
^ i love it !
^ okay before i start crying ... i 'll go .
^ give my love to your family ! !
^ Donald
^ ~
^ Whazzup Gal !
^ I 'm emailing you from my home village of Rutford .
^ I 'm a touch bored , as I 'm basically sitting around waiting to go on holiday to Chapel next week , but of course that 's not the reason I 'm emailing you !
^ I 'm also hoping to hear from Munich soon about start dates / accomodation etc.
^ Are you in Carlisle over the next month or so ?
^ I 'm hoping to get down there at some point and I 'd love to meet up for coffee or something if you 're available .
^ So , how 's the bloke ?
^ Tell me more , tell me more ... ( like does he have a car ) .
^ Where did you two meet ?
^ Peace ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Ravi ,
^ I 've found a room !
^ It 's in a Chads house on Larkhall Road , near the Texaco garage just down the road from Chads .
^ It 's an attic room , and pretty nice I think .
^ I 've got a favour to ask you , could you have a look at the file at the following link :
^ &WEBSITE
^ I 'm trying to decompress it , but I do n't have Linux on my laptop here , and it 's not working in Kites .
^ Could you possibly decompress it for me and send it to me in a different format ?
^ or if it 's too big could you put it on your webspace , or anywhere I can get hold of it
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ do n't forget to send me tim 's address , i have a letter for him that i want to post .
^ i miss you lots , especially those gems of wisdom that you are apt to come out with .
^ no , seriously , wish you were here !
^ i hope you do n't mind , i sent a copy of the thing that we did sounds a lot worse than it 's meant to ) to roo ,
^ i hope she is n't too lonely or anything .
^ she said that she was feeling quite shy - and that was tday .
^ so i thought it might kind of help her a bit- you know us girls
^ the first thing to go with your selfconfidence is the feeling that you 'll never meet mr fab .
^ of course , we 've both already met you , so how will any other gut measure up
^ it 'll be a hard struggle i can tell you .
^ got to go , honey bunch cat
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Davies , Jon " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : 1 in a million ?
^ That 's gr-Ant-ed .
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Jon ,
^ How are you ma chico latino ?
^ Are you temping ?
^ Are you working at a till ?
^ Stacking shelves ?
^ Designing web-pages ?
^ I 've just started my third week at work .
^ Today I am playing football twice ( once at lunch , and then again in the evening - impressive or what ) !
^ Are you surviving without Tabitha ?
^ By the way , I hope you 're collecting camels !
^ I almost had one of my songs played as a backing for a Channel 4 program !
^ But unfortunately the level of the recording was wrong - bummer .
^ Still , a good sign me thinks .
^ What should I write a song about next ?
^ Have you written any poetry over the holidays ?
^ I am listening to DC Talk at the moment - very inspiring I 'm sure you 'll agree .
^ God is teaching me some great lessons about trusting Him at the moment - exciting .
^ Well , See you soon Jon ,
^ EC
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^ ~
^ Imani and Jack ,
^ Following on from our discussion after my presentation the other day , I realise there were some issues that I may not have made clear , and would appreciate your comments after the following explanation :
^ The classification model I presented is NOT purely generative , rather it is a combined model ( the project title is misleading ! ) .
^ The class posteriors for each document field are modelled in a generative fashion , however the interpolation of field weights is optimised with respect to the classification function , not w.r.t. a generative measure such as overall likelihood / tsperplexity .
^ The reason for this is threefold :
^ 1) The classification function is no more expensive to compute than the test set likelihood / perplexity function , and since it is ultimately the objective function , it seems sensible to use it for optimistation .
^ 
^ are also tested on data from distinct document fields , where the field sizes are of differing lengths
^ Thus EM will tend to prefer FIELDS that are more probable , and the weights are likely to converge maximally for those fields , regardless of whether or not they are actually useful for classification
^ 3) Even if a sensible way of optimising the field weights with respect to likelihood in a generative fashion were found .
^ my experiments suggest that perplexity ( average log likelihood ) does not actually correlate with the performance of the classification function
^ as it does with WER in ASR ) , and thus a purely generative model would probably not make a very good classifier
^ This being the case , it seems to me that interpolating in the log domain W.R.T. THE CLASSIFICATION FN is equivalent to its counterpart in the true probability domain since the log conversion is monotonous .
^ UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT we are only interested in the comparative probability of a class given a document
^ An automated deleted interpolation scheme ( as discussed by Jack in SP2 ) can be used in the same way to optimise the weights , though the classification function is maximised rather than the log-likelihood .
^ I am interested in reading some more of the literature on this issue - I would appreciate it if you could point me to anything that you think might be relevant !
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Well , well , it 's that time of year again , when the hotmail accounts start once more .
^ Hope mine is the first Wells email you receive to your non-Durham account , hope you all have a great Christmas , hope that I keep to my promise that this is the only circular I will send .
^ Much love to you all for a jolly time this Christmas ,
^ love Jon .
^ PS , email me .
^ I like it .
^ Get more from the Web .
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^ Dear everyone ,
^ Yes , sadly this is another generalised email to clog your inbox and generally annoy you by not being personalised in any way .
^ My apologies .
^ But I 'm still going to send it .
^ I am at home and fatally , I have nothing to do .
^ This is good for my tired brain and weary body ( though what I 've been doing to wear myself out , I do n't know .
^ Certainly nothing constructive ) , though not as good for the phone jake , and therefore my parents ' stress levels , which are both steadily rising .
^ I am having a week 's rest before I start work ( enough to ensure I enjoy it .
^ not enough to ensure that I am bored enough to want to work ) , and have done nothing except eat , sleep and shop
^ O , I did go and see Chicken Run , which was very amusing .
^ Although I am weirded out by how much the sight of talking chickens amused me .
^ And by how much some of the chickens reminded me of people I know ...
^ I 'm sorry I do n't have anything more interesting to say ; hopefully something disasterous will happen in the next few weeks so you wo n't all have to read these dull emails .
^ I 'm just kidding , by the way ) .
^ Anyway .
^ I hope you 're all well ... to those of you lucky enough to be jaunting off to foreign places , send me a postcard .
^ To those of you who are n't , send me an email and we 'll be bitter together .
^ To those of you accidentally on this mailing list who are bored and annoyed , once again , I 'm sorry .
^ But email me and shout electronically at me- at least I 'll have something to do ... O , well , I 'm off to watch Wimbledon and thus waste more time doing absolutely nothing .
^ Happy Holidays ,
^ Love Jon ( onia ) .
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^ Hi Alfie ,
^ Hope you had a good summer .
^ I 'm busy sorting out arrangements for returning to Munich in a month or so , and I was just wondering if you could offer me any advice on accomodation .
^ What is the best way to go about looking for accomodation , and where do you think the best areas are in relation to the Lab ?
^ Thanks a lot Alfie .
^ Look forward to seeing you in the future ...
^ Nick
^ ~
^ yeah cowboy , bring it on - I 'm on a roll as well , now - just hope I 'll pass the drugs test ...
^ sleep furiously .
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Bring it on baby ... !
^ " This looks excellent -- I have n't had a chance to read it all thoroughly yet , but you 've clearly done an exceptional job . "
^ O
^ ~
^ Nick .
^ Did you not receive an invitation my dear ?
^ It 's in Horsham .
^ Do you have a fax ? because I can fax you the map she sent me .
^ Wells type people are probably coming to stay at my house after the reception ( the Saturday night ) and then whoever 's going to Bob 's will go from my house to his .
^ We now have rooms in the roof so we can probably all stay up there although it 's breeze blocks and stuff , or we can all camp in my garden which will be quite jolly .
^ Mail me back with your other Q 's .
^ love , Tabitha
^ From : " Pastor Nick " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Ropp , Tabitha " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Wedding
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Tabitha ,
^ Do you know where Jaiden 's wedding is ?
^ How to get there ?
^ What time ?
^ What we 're doing ?
^ etc. ?
^ Answers , I need answers ! ! ! ! !
^ EC
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^ Hi Kaleigh ,
^ Nick Malone here .
^ Hope all is well with you , and that the new ABSNE students are as hard working as we were ! ! &SMILEY
^ Just wanted to ask you about applying for PhD funding for next year .
^ I am waiting on an HKZUX grant for one of Alfie 's proposals , but I will not find out about that until February , so I think I should apply to other sources if I can .
^ Could you possibly advise me on what my options are .
^ Thanks very much Kaleigh ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Kaleigh ,
^ I 'm budgetting for next year , and just wondering if you could tell me how much the Lab provides to increase the WMP maintenance grant of &pound; 9,500 to the HKZUX level .
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie , hope all 's well .
^ Just wanted to ask you if I should be applying to the LUPS for funding , while we 're waiting to hear about the HKZUX text classif proposal .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Naomi ,
^ How 's term going ?
^ Any Chads gossip I should know about ? ?
^ How are Bonnie and
^ Blithe ?
^ I 'm sitting at home this morning , working on my " machine learning connect-4 game " - interesting stuff !
^ This afternoon I 'm going into school to work on some music with the kids .
^ I 'm working three days a week in school , being a sort-of classroom assistant in the mornings and teaching art and music in the afternoons .
^ Actually I think I told you that already ...
^ Anyway , I 'm basically doing fine , enjoying spending time with my family , etc. etc.
^ Hope everything is ok at your end .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Nick
^ how 's things ? what are you doing now ?
^ I 'm planning to incorporate your code into Happy , now that a few students want to use it seriously ( one doing ! ) .
^ Full credit as the author will be given to you , and it will probably go out under the same license terms as Happy .
^ The University might want some hand in it - I have to find out - but since there 's no direct commercial value they might not be interested .
^ Are you ok with this ?
^ Quinton
^ ~
^ Hello fabulous friends .
^ I have never done a group email before ( I do n't think ) ( well , not like this one anyway ) ( of course , I have done group emails of sorts , but ... ) .
^ I am writing to you because I 'm about to head off up to Scotland for about 2 weeks for a caravan " holiday " .
^ I 'm not sure I 'll be able to check my emails , as I 'm not sure whether they have electricity in Scotland
^ I 'm pretty sure they do n't have telephone lines anyway .
^ So , the upshot of all this mental projectional activity on my part is that I probably wo n't be able to reply to your emails for a while ( about 2 weeks actually ) .
^ But rest assured that as soon as I get back I will reply to all who have sent me communications .
^ " Be patient brethren , and you will reap that for which you have laboured " ( Hezekiah 12 : 4 )
^ So , all the best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Javier ,
^ I completed an BEng last year and sent my graduation form to you a couple of weeks ago for the ceremony on Jan 24th .
^ I gather the ceremony itself is at &TIME , but please could you tell me what I need to do in terms of the correct dress , timings etc .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ ~
^ Tabitha ,
^ Have you met Jon 's boyfriend ? !
^ If so , what is he like ?
^ How is life is the classroom ?
^ It 's good to be back home .
^ I 've been busy over the last week or so , with
^ Nayeli 's graduation and Bob 's " Moose " weekend .
^ Now I 'm back in Rutford with my family .
^ Munich have unofficially offered me funding for my PhD , so I 'm pretty certain I 'll be back there in October .
^ It 's quite a strange thought , but I 'm pretty excited about it .
^ Looking forward to seeing you at Bob 's wedding ,
^ O
^ P.S. What are you thinking of getting T&L ?
^ ~
^ hello all , last time my dad let me check e-mails on his computer the e-mail thingy would n't work for a long long time so I am very privileged to be able to write to you all today .
^ Hmm ... well what shall I tell you ?
^ After arriving back in sunny swanmore on
^ Saturday night I went to see some of my friends , only to find out that one of them has a student house with a SWIMMING POOL next year !
^ What do you think about asking college for a swimming pool at Maximus 's ? ) ( anyone want to come with me to see Sykesie about it ? )
^ Have been nannying for a family with four children since Monday which is tiring , but money is very useful ...
^ Only a week to go until i go to Lebanon .
^ Got a confirmation letter from
^ Tearfund todqay which makes it very real , but I 'm actually quite looking forward to it now .
^ We stop in Amsterdam on the way to Beirut which is cool as I 'll be able to say that Ive been to Amsterdam , even if all I 'm going to see is the airport ...
^ I go on my induction on Sunday which is very soon and I have lots aND LOTS AND LOTS ( oops hit caps lock by mistake ) of things to buy before hand mo cool .
^ have n't been shopping for ages ... anyway , that 's about all at the
^ Oh no , I forget ...
^ The roof was taken off our house on Monday so that the extension into the roof can happen , but on Tuesday we got torrential rain and flooding !
^ Doh ! so now we 're stuck without a roof and it 's raining very hard ! ! !
^ Oh dear !
^ Also , a workman 's foot kind of came through our roof today as my Mum and her friend were having coffee .... I do n't think that was supposed to happen !
^ I guess we could call it a skylight ... .
^ Anyways , gonna go , just wanted to say hi to you all and to let you know that I am missing all of you very very much ,
^ The end of term happened far too quickly ! lots of love to you all
^ Tabitha
^ PS THe deal with the Lebanon e-mail thing is that if you want to pray for me and the team when we 're in Lebanon then write to &EMAIL with your name and they 'll send you prayer requests and stuff .... thanks
^ love Tabitha
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^ Hi Mr ( Pastor - different is not spelt W.R.O.N.G ) Nick !
^ How are you doing ?
^ Thanks for the text message yesterday .
^ I 'm glad you enjoyed the last few days of term - I know what you mean about it being rather sad though .
^ It 's kind of the end of a little epoch in our lives .
^ However , there is loads to look forward to , and we can treasure the past in our memories .
^ I am just so thankful to God that I did n't get into Munich and ended up at Philip 's !
^ The past year has been such a great experience and , especially this term , I have felt so blessed .
^ This year has been such a mixed-bag for me - happy times , difficult times : stuff we all go through - but I am so glad for it .
^ as I have ( hopefully ) become a better person through those experiences , and have formed some wonderful friendships with people
^ Can you rememeber at the beginning of this term when I sat next to you at SBR and told you how miserable I 'd been feeling ? ?
^ That was the real turning point .
^ I 'd spent most of the time before Easter and during the holidays feeling rather low and unhappy at myself and my friends .
^ I was so disatisfied with the way that the people I hung around with had different objectives in life and were continually doing things which I know are wrong - getting drunk and acting .
^ I kept telling myself that I should just put up with them and try to get alongside them and help them to see what is right .
^ I soon discovered that it was n't going to work and that it was just making me unhappy
^ I talked about the situation to my mam over the Easter holidays , and she encouraged me to continue praying about it and not to compromise myself anymore .
^ I made a concious decision that when I came back at the beginning of this term .
^ I would get more involved in college activites , would go to CU and SBR , and get to know people who would understand me for what I am
^ All the time I was concious that my friends may not understand it , and that has proved to be the case : Jinsun , Sadie ,
^ Quinton , Jack , Kath and Isabel have all become rather spiteful since I have drifted away from them , but I have continually tried to make it clear that I still want to be friends with them .
^ I still feel that I have a responsibility to be a good witness to them and try to tell them about God .
^ Oh dear , I 'm really going on here : sorry !
^ Once I get going , all my ideas just keep coming out !
^ I was thinking about my conversation with Terrance on
^ Thurday night .
^ We were both reflecting on the year , and especially this term , and I got talking about all this to her .
^ I was in the middle of saying how I wished that I 'd taken earlier opportunities to get to know her and others , when I remembered what Josue had said at the houseparty .
^ God has a purpose in all our lives ; a time and a place for everything .
^ It was evidently God 's purpose that I did n't get to know you guys until this term .
^ It 's amazing , but my regrets seemed to disappear and I looked at the whole thing in a totally different light .
^ I am so much more thankful for what I have now when I look back on what I used to have .
^ The knowledge that God has guided me to where I am now and led me into new friendships makes me so grateful and happy .
^ When I think that , before this term , I hardly even knew you or Terrance or Bob , Tabitha , et al , I feel so thankful for what God has done in my life this term .
^ You know , I can vividly remember that night after SBR , I prayed before I went to sleep that I would make some new and good friendships .
^ God would give me the strength and confidence to go out and get to know people
^ Now , when I look back , I can see that that was an answered prayer !
^ Ooops : this email is getting incredibly long !
^ I only meant to write to say " hello " and let you know my email address !
^ Sorry I have gone on a bit , but I hope you will understand .
^ So , how did ( or is it still going ) the Christian Schools convention go ?
^ What exactly is it ?
^ Is it for past / present pupils and staff ?
^ Anyway , I hope you enjoyed it !
^ I have been talking to my eldest sister Isabelle and found out that she has recently joined a committee in her church of people wanting to set up a christian school in Oxford ( where she and her future husband ,
^ Manley , are going to live ) .
^ I told her the little I know about your school from what you and your dad have told me , and she says she may write to your dad for some info - I was sure he would n't mind !
^ I have no idea what stage they are at in the proceedings , but I am sure your dad would be a useful connection .
^ Well , what have I been up to ?
^ Saturday was a really long day - going to Munich and back .
^ It was good fun though !
^ Jessie 's graduation went OK .
^ Me and Uriel did n't go into the Senate House for the ceremony as it is so boring ( we sat through it for Isabelle last year and I vowed never to go through it again .
^ so we nicked off to see if we could find Bob - which we did
^ He was trying to persude people to have a punt trip , and had had no sucess when we saw him .
^ Anyway , we had a quick chat with him and then said goodbye ( I 'd missed seeing him before he left on Friday ) and then went and met Jessie coming out of the senate house .
^ We had a celebratory meal in Bella Pasta ( yum yum ) before coming home .
^ On Sunday , went to church in the morning .
^ Dad was n't there so we had a visiting speaker and he preached about us being special to God and chosen by Him ( ring any bells ? ? ) .
^ In the afternoon we went to the Longhorsley Convention .
^ I think I told you a bit about it - its the place where my dad was called Pastor Berry by someone !
^ It takes place in a small village in Mateo and is the meetings are held in a huge tent in the church grounds .
^ Dad is the convention chairman each year , and there are usually 2 speakers .
^ This year we had Jessie 's minister from Munich ( Mallory Dixon ) and
^ Phillip Hacking , who spoke at SBR several weeks ago .
^ The talks were really good and focussed on the gift of the Holy Spirit to believers .
^ The past 2 days I have spent clearing up all my junk which I brought home .
^ My room is now pretty much ship-shape and covered in posters and photographs - does n't look quite as covered as my little college room , as Mam wo n't let me stick them on the ceiling ! !
^ I ca n't quite believe that I 've spent nearly 2 whole days tidying up , but I 've been pretty thorough , and have several black bin bags full to prove it !
^ Tomorrow Mam is off work so we will probably go and do the final shopping for the wedding : little odds and ends we have forgotton .
^ It is all so exciting now !
^ Isabelle got all dressed up last night to check that the final alterations to her dress were OK : she looked just lovely !
^ She 's been arranging seating plans for the reception too : all a bit of a palava , and I 'm glad I 'm not the one to decide which table people should be on !
^ It 's funny to think that in just over a weeks time , Isabelle will be married and called Alison Pilling !
^ I 'm really happy for her though , and Manley is a great guy .
^ Anyway , I have just realised that this email is amazingly long , and you are probably bored silly !
^ so I 'd better wind things up now - sorry , but I ca n't be bothered to read back through and edit this
^ When do you start back at work ?
^ I am still looking for a job , and will have to intensify my search soon .
^ Hope that you are well and enjoying the beginning of the hols .
^ It already seems ages since we were in Wells .
^ Have fun ,
^ bye for now , love from Cody xx
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^ Hi there both of you ,
^ Gosh , this is weird .
^ I 'm sat on the top floor of 8 Larkhall Road in my new college room , which is about twice the size of my old poky cupboard in Eachard Road , and Freshers ' Week is starting .
^ Oh the space !
^ Er , yes , if you have n't already guessed , I 'm doing the PhD after all , thanks to a last-minute scholarship .
^ Borneo here I come !
^ Anyhow , just thought I 'd write , as moving into a new place with new people brought back a few memories !
^ How are you doing ? ?
^ Hope things are going well .
^ Write soon !
^ Cheers ,
^ High
^ ~
^ hi Nick
^ how are you getting on ?
^ sounds like you had a nightmare getting there !
^ are they keeping you busy ?
^ we are all keeping fine , thinking of you out there in South Africa .
^ We had a really great open day on sat and spent the day under a hot sun cooking meat on the barbie - felt like we we in south africa for a moment .
^ we pray God richest blessing on you out there , as well as protection and guidance
^ We hope you are having a good time and and experience you will never forget .
^ We know that your family are missing you and looking forward to seeing you again as we all are here in wroughton .
^ the kids especially miss you and send their greetings !
^ The weather is hotting up here nicely , and the boys are now in shorts
^ ( at least this week - you know what Englands like - could be woollys next week then
^ anyway not long till your back home -
^ seems like you 've only just gone .
^ see you
^ God Bless
^ the mcdonalds
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^ ~
^ Dear Nick , Thanks for the e-mail re Harriet .
^ I hane been in touch with her a couple of times because she is going to India in January .
^ We are meeting when I come back from Scotland .
^ How are you ?
^ I feel as if I have n't spoken to you for aqes .
^ I am trying my hand again at writing an e-mail on my Ipaq and then sending it .
^ The internet is very tied up here these days because of the friendships Camron developed in Singapore !
^ She has so enjoyed communicating with them since she has been back , and she has felt the loss of a peer friendship group like she had in school .
^ Is all well with you ?
^ Daddy said you were just off to a Bible study when he spoke with you last .
^ I was n't sure that was going to be part of your life this year after our conversation last ?
^ holiday .
^ Have you been able to plow a different furrow , so to speak , or has there been no spoce to do so
^ We have been praying for you , for peace for you and a real experience of God 's love for you .
^ We do miss you lots when you are away .
^ Camron and I are preparing for Scotland now .
^ I am looking forward to being there but it is a funny thing to be breaking a routine !
^ I feel uncomfortable about missing
^ School and leaving Daddy !
^ But I gather he might take off himself and come and visit you !
^ Much , much love to you , Nick .
^ God bless you and prosper you .
^ Mummy .
^ ~
^ hey lance
^ thanks for the mail .
^ glad to know you are well and happy .
^ what were you doing in london .
^ i love london , but i dont know what it would be like to live there caues its so big and so expensive
^ worked up the stables today .
^ it was good but such hard work !
^ i dontk now how people do it , its so knackering .
^ anyway , when i got up there there werent many people around and as it so happens , one of the horses had died in the night .
^ all very sad , it had cancer and bad lungs and just must have collapsed in the night .
^ poor thing couldnt be moved til today so was lain in the top field .
^ you must definitely come and visit me one day .
^ theres lots to see and do and i love having people to stay . &SMILEY
^ all the same , i hope you have a good few weeks .
^ will email you when i get back from my hols and will see you back in Wells soon .
^ when are you going back ?
^ and what room are you in ?
^ im in karen graces old room , above the bailey room
^ take care Nick ,
^ love Isaiah
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^ ~
^ Hi Kane !
^ Thanks for the text &SMILEY
^ How are you and how was your Christmas ?
^ New Year .
^ Sounds like the party in Wyatt was fun , shame that I couldn t join you guys but there we go .
^ I had a nice 2 week break from work over christmas and seriously wish it had been longer .
^ Anyway , Christmas itself was n't much cop .
^ We had 4 old men round for Christmas dinner , and as charitable as I wish to feel , it s hard to really relax .
^ enjoy a day in which you are expected to enter tain smelly old men who are horrendous eaters and extremely unpleasent to sit down to dinner with
^ However , I hope we made their day special and I guess a lot of the spirit of Christmas is generosity etc , which we can s how in lots of ways .
^ So , a quiet christmas at home with the locals , followed by a full-house f or New Year .
^ Jessie and Jade were up from Carlisle , and Isabelle and Manley made i t down from Oxford for a few days .
^ Manley really probably should n't ha ve travelled , but he 's a determined guy and grinned through the pain .
^ W e went over to Whitehaven on the Cumbrian coast on New Years day to meet up with Isabelle 's godparents and their family , so that was really nice too , though exhausting .
^ We set off early in the morning and were back at midn ight .
^ then I had to be up at 5 the following day ( Friday ) to fly over to Belfast to stay with Cali for 5 days
^ I had a lovely time over there with him and his friends and really did n't want to come home and back t o work .
^ While I was over we had some good news85 he has an interview at Homerton for a PGCE starting next year .
^ I have n't heard yet , so am hopi ng the news is the same for me .
^ He also got a new job working as an admin assistant in a Belfast police department so is really pleased with that as he 's struggled to find work for some time now .
^ He 's also been told by his physio that he is allowed to train for hockey again , so it 's been good news and celebrations all round .
^ And , now , I 'm back at work and appear to have been given a small promot ion in my absence .
^ The head secretary is on extended leave ( gone on holid ay to Hungary ) and in her absence I have been asked to fill her place .
^ Oh boy .
^ I 've only been here 2 months and so it 's a complete joke .
^ Gav t even know half of the 50 odd people in my office .
^ Having been secretary to just one team , I am now working for 4 .
^ More work to do , but I 'm not complaining much as there 's nothing worse than sitting around watching the clock .
^ It 's pretty dull work though , so I 'm already looking forw ard to my next mini-break - in 2 weeks time I 'll be off again to see
^ Cali for his birthday .
^ Bring it on .
^ I hope all 's good with you and that you 're still enjoying helping out with school etc.
^ Have you made any further plans re : trip to South Africa yet ?
^ Let me know what you 're up to .
^ Well , break time over and better get back to it now .
^ Take care and be in touch again soon ,
^ Love Anna
^ PS - I 'm excited about this coming weekend as Suze is likely to be in Noel , and possibly Jack too , so it will be lush to see her / them again . &SMILEY
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^ hello lance !
^ how are you ?
^ hows the work going ?
^ it was nice to see you last week when you came up .
^ it felt just like last year , with you and tim around .
^ i 'm fine , just trying to sort out all the end of term things like packing and cleaning !
^ ca n't wait to clean our house
^ i went away with claypath church last week , which was really good .
^ i now feel like i know a few more people in church
^ i hope everythings ok with you , sorry this is such a sort e-mail -
^ i 've got heaps of things to do !
^ take care
^ clarex
^ ~
^ Hello Nick
^ How are you doing ?
^ Having a good holiday ?
^ Hope you 're working nice and hard and have n't been lounging in the sun all afternoon .
^ i of course would never had spent an afternoon in such an unproductive manner .... .
^ But in my defence it is april and was warm enough to sit outside ( this is scotland as well ) ,
^ surely that is such miraculous event that it had to be taken advantage of ?
^ Let me know if you are still alive , and say hello to matt
^ ( presumable he will still be alive ?
^ Or have you been exercising your brotherly love yet ? )
^ love Rylie xx
^ ~
^ Hello everyone
^ Sorry for the bulk email !
^ I 've been really busy over the last few weeks - I wo n't forget this summer in a hurry .
^ work , holidays , happy memories , small miracles and some of the worst days of my life when my nana died .
^ Thanks to all those who have sent me emails , its much appreciated , and I will try to write to you all as soon as I get chance .
^ Take care
^ from Patrick
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Hi there ! thanks for your reply text with your emial a ddress .
^ Theone I had for you was &EMAIL !
^ So how are things ?
^ I heard on the grapevine thatyou got your funding so i guess you must back in Munich now h aving just started your PhD - on that !
^ I have settled in nicely to my first job here in Fal kirk after successfully passing my finals .
^ I had a great holiday after them as well , spending time at home and in the hills .
^ My sister got married too and that wa s a really special day .
^ Time seems to fly now I 'm working though .
^ I think most of us are continually looking for when we are off n ext and that makes the days fly past !
^ I am doing on average 1 in 3 weekends , which is OK .
^ I 've just starte d nights as well for the first time - first one was last night and it was cool - I was so tired this m orning though and slept well to not get up till 5.30pm
^ Pauline and I have a few friends down in Munich now - we are thinmking of taking a trip there to see folk and see Munich .
^ so it 'd be great to meet for a drink or something if you 're around
^ I 'll let you kn ow when and hopefully you 'll be free .
^ I trust the football is continuing well .
^ I 'm playing a bit of 5-a-side with some of the other doctors here oc cassionally which is fun .
^ Trying to do some climbing , ru nning , squash ... though not all at the same time !
^ Take care Nick and I look forward to hearing from you soon ,
^ Regan
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^ Hi Nick , sorry for bending your ear so much the other day , glad to know you got home alright and I hope your grandparents are well .
^ I am gradually going madder both beacause I am at home and am without Jonathan ,
^ I think I could quite easily cope with one at a time but not both together .
^ will from tomorrow be concentrating muchly on work and writing to people and Christmas shopping
^ I just wondered if you could explain how to access my wells account because I really dont know how to do it and hotmail is down
^ Oh Dear , thankyou again ,
^ love Eric x
^ ~
^ Hey Nick
^ Thanks for the email !
^ I have only just got it because my msn has been broken .
^ Glad to here you 're having a good time and that you aint being lazy .
^ Have you got all your suit cases yet ?
^ I 've been at church today and a load of the guys in our church have gone to " Men 's Camp " so it was just a church full of girls .
^ It was quite funny to see the few men that had n't gone all sticking together !
^ I was waiteressing at a wedding yesterday and the first guy i served i spilt soup all over this his hand .
^ very embarrassing ) , but at least when I had finished serving I heard that one of the other guys had spilt soup all over a guys trousers
^ Well I have to go .
^ Sorry the email is short .
^ Love Macie xx
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^ Donboy ,
^ How do , my old turnip ? !
^ I have n't forgotten about the epic walk Parker , but I 'm not sure it 's going to work out this month .
^ I 've got quite a few things to do here and there , but let 's keep the idea alive - it would be fun to do sometime soon .
^ Are you currently doing your programming course ?
^ If you 're in Dundee you could pop over for dinner or something ...
^ Anyways , I 'll speak to you soon ,
^ Jonah
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Just wanted to say it was really nice chatting to you on Wednesday .
^ It 's good to be able to chat about things to someone who is on the same " wave length " and has had a lot of the same experiences of growing up ( !
^ i.e. convention , PACEs etc. )
^ I 'm sorry I was n't really myself having spent half the week sick in bed
^ thankfully I 'm recovering now and my appetite is back in full force
^ I actually went back to school on the Thursday because one of my tutors was coming in to give me my Interim report .
^ I really was n't in the best of health for my report , but it went really well thankfully .
^ Hope your football training went well in all that rain !
^ I 've always actually enjoyed training in the rain , but then that 's usually running on an " All Weather " track and not a muddy football field &SMILEY
^ Anyhow , have a good week and if you fancy another coffee ( or juice seeing as you do n't like coffee ! ) give me a shout !
^ Have a fun evening !
^ Eliana &SMILEY
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ What a nice surprise to hear from you .
^ I was in exactly the same position as you this morning , in that i could sleep in ....
^ except i woke up at 9am and could n't fall back to sleep ! !
^ Doh .
^ Anyway , I made use of my time and called Emily ( Hensley ) in Japan ! !
^ Hes well .. enjoying it all and very surprised I called .
^ Hehe .
^ I then did the washing and lots of ironing ..
^ am muchly looking forward to my mum coming home and the cleaner coming next week ! !
^ What 's your new song about ? ?
^ Let me hear it when its done ok .
^ Good well done .
^ As for MI2 , I saw it with my bro and my sis about a week ago .. it was good !
^ I have n't seen MI1 though , but apparently its much the same .
^ I do n't know .. but Jack Boardus certainly was looking his best - ha !
^ Hope you enjoy ...
^ My job is still quite rubbish in that I do whatever I want all day and they pay me for it .
^ I have done as much as I can in the way of the web page and I have n't got the rest of the information which is meant to be on the page ..
^ oh well .
^ As for Oasis .. they came ( without Noel ) and played for 30 mins ..
^ then walked off stage ..
^ apparently they " feared for their safety " because people were throwing things at them or something ..
^ so they got some guy to come out and ask us to stop throwing things and then they came back ..
^ started into the next song and about a minute later Liam walked off and the band followed him ..
^ it was rubbish
^ I still had a fun night and saw loads of friends I have n't seen in ages , as well as a bunch of other bands .
^ But it was quite disapppointing .
^ How exciting getting a company car !
^ Take care ..
^ what car is it ? ?
^ How far you driving ?
^ I will be in Wells for Alexis 's Week ( all being well ) so I guess I will see you then .
^ You know , a friend and I might be coming back to the UK and touring around a little ..
^ if we did we would be going to see Jonathon , so maybe we 'll look you up if we 're out your way
^ Take care Nick .
^ Write when you can and have a great weekend .
^ Lots of love , Isaiah x
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^ ~
^ Hey you !
^ Just sat next to Parker in the computer room at Johns .
^ You guys are mad !
^ Your folder is definitely not my biggest file so you 'd better get sending me emails !
^ Hope all 's well .
^ see you soon ,
^ love Becs xx
^ ~
^ Greetings Ravi !
^ Hope you had a lovely summer .
^ I 'm busy trying to make arrangements for coming back to Dur in Oct.
^ I was just wondering if you could give me any advice on accomodation .
^ I 'm not sure whether there 'll be any decent college rooms available now - do you know of any good single rooms still available anywhere ?
^ Say hi to Hayden for me .
^ See you soon ! !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Brady ,
^ Just to let you know I wo n't be able to make it on Wednesday , as it 's my brother 's birthday and we 're having a meal in the evening .
^ I also wanted to say how much I 've enjoyed your company over this last year .
^ You and Lynne have been excellent housegroup leaders - I know that both Camron and I have felt very welcome and it has meant a lot to me to feel part of the Wroughton community .
^ As I contemplate moving on to begin my PhD it is with a real mixture of sadness and excitement .
^ I 'm really sad to be leaving the people I 've come to love over this year , but I feel good about starting something new now .
^ Well ...
^ I guess that 's enough of the sentimental stuff for now .
^ I 'll probably see you in school or around sometime this week , but if not then probably sometime around Christmas .
^ All the best Brady ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Bob ,
^ Just emailing to see how things are with you .
^ I 'm back living at home now , teaching 3 days a week in my Dad 's school ( music and art ! ) .
^ I am planning to do some voluntary work in South Africa some time next year and perhaps go back to Munich to do a PhD in October .
^ This is a nice break from studying and I 'm really enjoying my time with the children at school .
^ I teach mostly 6-9 year olds , and some of them are real little rascals , but they can also be very sweet !
^ I 'm playing football for my local club , although I have n't been playing that well recently ; lacking fitness I think .
^ Ciao ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ What up Kaden ! ?
^ What 's the latest news on the project ?
^ What about your health ?
^ By the way , did you ever get that postcard I sent you ?
^ I 'm well - teaching at my Dad 's school and doing a few other bits and pieces .
^ Got kicked in the face playing football today - why do I do it Kaden ?
^ WHY ? ? ?
^ Anyway , all the best mate !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ this wont be long cause I have to get back to the house , but I am in Wells and I have now resat two of my exams .
^ I just got out of one and I think it went really quite well .
^ I had to write 4 essays in 3 hours which is just so much and my hand is now hurting !
^ still , all my topics came up and i think i passed .
^ Hope so .. agh !
^ Spoke to Tabitha and shes back and seems to have had a great time .
^ She may be coming to visit me !
^ I hope so .
^ I really am looking forward to seeing people in Rio .
^ Adam came out to visit which was really good fun and we had such a laugh .
^ Angelo and I are going on holiday yes but not until Sept 12th and then hes coming to Genva .
^ Lauren is coming to stay beginning of Sept so that will be cool too .
^ Be sure you are more than welcome to come if tyou fancy a trip out ! !
^ Anyway Leyla is waiting downstairs so i better go , but take care and write soon ..
^ one more exam Friday morning and home again Sat .
^ Hope you are well , good luck with washing , food , work .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Isaiah x
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^ Hi Nick !
^ Just thought I 'd drop you a line to see how you 're doing .
^ I was back at my mum 's for the last week , and managed to get all my belongings moved from Munich to
^ Dumfries which really was quite a mission ! !
^ So now my mum 's house is overflowing with all my boxes until she manages to get some ladders for the loft !
^ It was actually quite nice to be back in Dumfries for a good amount of time .
^ I was able to catch up with some friends I literally have n't spoken to in years , and also got to be involved with some outreach with my church .
^ In the past , any time I 've had at home has usually been spent writing essays , but for a change I have n't had any to write !
^ Last night I drove down to Peterborough to spend a week at my new school .
^ So today was my first full day there ( although I did n't do any teaching ) .
^ I got to meet my new class , all of whom are absolutely adorable , and most of the teachers ( who are n't quite so adorable ! ! ) .
^ I 'm actually really excited about it all .
^ So i assume you 're still working hard at finishing your project .
^ Have you had much time to enjoy the gorgeous weather ?
^ The Scottish weather has actually been pretty dire ( no changes there ! ) but yesterday and today in Peterborough have been stunning .
^ I was just wondering what your new email address will be when you leave Munich .
^ I 'd really like to keep in touch .
^ I was going to ask you when I saw you the other week , but forgot when my mind was taken by thinking about where to find a nice jug for my friend 's mum !
^ Anyhow , do let me know when you 're back in Munich .
^ Understandably you 'll have lots of people to catch up with after you leave , but it would be so good to see you again .
^ I genuinely love meeting up with you and enjoy your company .
^ Take care and hopefully I 'll hear from you soon !
^ Love , Eliana x
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^ hi there lance ,
^ i just got home from 4 days skiing in the mts in val disere .
^ it was so nice !
^ matt wilson and matt parkin were here ( they left this morning ) and so we ended up being 7 .
^ it was great and the snow was good .
^ the weather was gorgeous for the last 2 days and i now look like a massive freckle . ugh !
^ i thought they faded with age , not got worse
^ said i havent done much work , though i have spent plenty of time worrying about it .
^ i have to start on my essays today but i know what im writing about so its all sorted .. ha .
^ glad you had a good time with roo - cant believe she ate a kebab ! !
^ must email her sometime too .
^ anyway lance , hope you are well .
^ write back when you can !
^ love Isaiah x
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^ heya
^ i was going to email you tonight so it was really nice to come online and find an email from you !
^ it sounds like you 're having a good time .
^ you might be getting a tan but you just wait - i 'm gonna be miss tan by the time you get back - having started today
^ it was about 20 here which , as you know , seems absolutely boiling compared to our normal weather !
^ we even had bible study outside
^ it was my first friday back in the learning centre today and it was extremely weird working in there without you !
^ i keep expecting you to appear in school or to hear you singing from your bedroom !
^ everything is going well - we had the guys over last night ( thursday ) for our usual meal ,
^ but before dinner daddy , ann v , cory and myself played tennis at the leisure club for the first time .
^ it was such a nice evening and it 's a gorgeous place to play so it was a thoroughly good time
^ i have n't heard anything about accommodation and i wo n't until the end of July which seems an extremely long time to wait but i 'm sure the time will fly by .
^ matt went up to leeds yesterday so it 's very quiet here at the moment !
^ we had our first bible study without you today
^ we started off by playing dodge ball in the barn and then we moved to the garden at the back of the we are discussing " faith " and sort of going on the book " a case for faith " .
^ cory read it last summer
^ we are going to base the next couple of weeks on the main questions that the book asks .
^ i think it will be good .
^ i could go on writing for ages but i think that you probably do n't have much time to sit and read emails so i 'll leave you now !
^ i love you loads lance and miss u lots .
^ i hope you 're having a really great time and i 'll try not to spend too long dreaming about having a tan like yours !
^ a BIG hug from me -
^ boo
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^ Hi Alice ,
^ How 's life back at the ranch ?
^ Have you heard anything about your Bristol accomodation ?
^ I 've been doing mostly odds and ends here in school .
^ I catalogued all the videos in the media centre yesterday , and today I covered for Alison Gramling in her LC as she was at wherever it is applying for a visa .
^ Some of the jobs are interesting ; some are boring , but everything is going OK .
^ It has been really IDS here the last couple of days ( about 60 degrees ) , and I 'm definitely getting a bit of a tan , ready to show you up when I get back !
^ I 've stuck the photo you gave me up on my wardrobe , and it makes me smile when I go to get my clothes out . &SMILEY
^ Love Nick
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^ hello lance
^ how are you ? ? ? ?
^ hows life in the flat ? ? ?
^ weve had our first week at school and it went really well !
^ daddy was quite tired yesterday but he seems fine now he played football this morning ! !
^ matt has gone to p something ! !
^ i dont know how to spell it ! ! !
^ so it is just mummy daddy and me here for aweek
^ this house seems quite a reasonable size with just the three of us here ! ! lol ! ! !
^ i hope you are well
^ ive got to go
^ boo ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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^ heya first of all - sorry that this is a big joint email - i promise to write to you personally as soon as i get a chance ! !
^ well i 'm up in Bristol .
^ i 've nearly made it through freshers week which has definitely been a challenge !
^ i came up on Sunday with the rest of my lovely family
^ got settled into my room - which is lovely by the way ! !
^ i am staying in a house attached to Tetley Ronald .
^ there are 22 of us in the house - they are all great people .
^ we have 14 meals a week provided for us in the main hall
^ already the number of people turning up to breakfast is approximately 20 out of the 800 of us
^ i have got " freshers flu " as my brothers have told me it 's called
^ so that 's proving to be an additional little challenge but hey ho !
^ i have been really busy this week as my department has spent all week doing introductory events with us which has actually been very good because it 's given me something to do .
^ i spent 5 hours yesterday queing to be registered - and am now the very proud owner of a blister the size of a 2-penny piece
^ at the end of the registration que we were given our student card with a particularly unflattering picture !
^ i have met so many new people and i am having immense difficulty remembering people 's names but i feel somewhat rude asking people a second or third time
^ i went to the arts cinema last night and watched a film in German all about football
^ it was surprisingly interesting since i do n't speak a word of German
^ am not a huge football fan !
^ tonight i 'm going to watch Wimbledon which will be ... um ... FANTASTIC ! !
^ i 've met up with Rachel ( Nayeli 's girlfriend ) a few times
^ it has been such a blessing to be able to go and see a familiar face .
^ i have got so many things to say and they are all rushing around in my head -
^ it 's very difficult to actually type them !
^ we will hopefully have the internet working in our rooms later on today but it 's not a definite .
^ thank you everyone for all the texts and emails that i 've had .
^ i cannot tell you what a difference it has made to me to hear from you all .
^ whenever i check my phone and see i 've got a text i have to make sure that i 'm on my own before i read it cos i have a tendency to burst into tears .
^ i am feeling really very homesick althought i know that this is where i 'm meant to be .
^ i 'm really looking forward to tomorrow evening ( saturday ) as it 's the first official christian union meeting -
^ i really want / feel the need to meet some like-minded people .
^ leeds is such a huge place ! and the university itself is humungous ! !
^ there are over 30,000 students here so i keep meeting people talking to them for an hour or so and it is highly likely that the majority of them i will hardly ever see again !
^ i 've got a strange feeling inside because i 'm surrounded by people i do n't know in a place i do n't know and it 's very easy to feel completely overwhelmed
^ i 've met a few girls on my course who i get on well with
^ i get on ok with everyone in the house - so that is a big blessing .
^ can i ask you all a huge favor ? !
^ please pray for me - that i will settle down quickly and recover from this cold and very quickly meet some people who i really " click " with .
^ i would appreciate that more than i can say .
^ i have to head off now and find the accounts department ! !
^ i do n't have the foggiest where it is
^ another little challenge !
^ they keep popping up - it 's amazing !
^ oh - i 've joined the ballet society
^ the dance society - i have ballet every tuesday evening from 6 - 8 and at some point next week i 've got an audition for the dance society
^ does street jazz , contemporary , tap , modern etc !
^ i love you all lots and miss you more than i can say -
^ i 'm thinking about you every day and praying for you all god bless and look after you
^ take care
^ abi
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^ ~
^ Hi Kane !
^ How goes things ?
^ Hope you are well and happy in your new room ( with internet access ! ) .
^ I hope your first few weeks of study are going well and you are meeting lots of new and interesting people in your college .
^ Are you playing college footy ?
^ I think Mallory said you had trials last week .
^ Bet you had no problem getting in the team ... enjoy it !
^ I 'm ok .
^ A bit weary and worried , but then I think I 'm just being a bit daft .
^ Work is going ok , but is nothing marvelous .
^ I 'm getting on well with people here and we have a good laugh , but they are not people I 'll ever be close friends with .
^ I miss you and the other guys !
^ Anyway , I met some nice people from church yesterday and am planning on meeting up with a few of them .
^ during the week I am that busy at work and then so brain dead in the evening that I do n't really feel lonely at all
^ I see quite a bit of Mallory , which is great , but that is part of my worry at present .
^ Are n't relationships the most complex things ?
^ Oh well , such is life .
^ His birthday on Friday was nice , we went to Browns restaurant in the evening and then met up with Annabelle for a drink .
^ Mallory went home for the weekend to see his family , so I amused myself with shopping in Swindon and meeting people from chruch on Sunday .
^ Quite nice .
^ Mallory has a hockey friendly tonight , and I want to go and watch .
^ do n't know if I should as his team mates are all a bit laddish and would probably take the micky out of him if I turn up
^ Anyway , this is all a bit random , but had better go and get on with work or I 'll be in trouble from the boss .
^ Speak soon and take care ,
^ Love Anna x
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^ Dear Nick , ca n't be emailing without contacting you .... how are things going ?
^ As time goes on I miss you more ; I have been used to your being away from time to time but at the moment you never come back ! !
^ Have you any hope about getting that suitcase back in the near future ?
^ I am so sorry about hte extra pressure it puts on you all there not to have it and then have to go back for it .
^ Is it still holiday time ?
^ And how are you handling the heat ?
^ Theis Storm said that Elsa was complaining that it was unbearably hot ...
^ is it for you ?
^ We are all well .
^ Nayeli is in Bath this week with Rachel ..
^ he 's also hoping to play the last Corinthians game of the season with them on Saturday !
^ I have fixed up Daddy 's tennis at the Rutford House Hotel ...
^ Nick Pierazzoli phoned me to say what he had discussed with the manager and I went in to deal with the papers .
^ I am really thrilled ... thank you so much for your hand in that .
^ Now we 've got to get him to play !
^ Ann-V is going to come over once a fortnight or so to give him a game .
^ Better stop now ... lunchtime .
^ We love you so much ,
^ Nick , and think of you often and often .
^ Love to Josue and Laura ....
^ take care of yourself ..
^ Much , much love ,
^ Cristina
^ ~
^ Hey Kane , hope alls well and bonny with you &SMILEY
^ I 'm ok and enjoying my new job .
^ Outside of work things are a little crazy with preparing for my trip to Kenya and making mountains of cards .
^ Am off to meet Mallory now for a bit of pool and then home for more card making .
^ Man , there 's no rest for the wicked .
^ I 'm going home this coming weekend , which should be nice .
^ As it 's bank holiday weekend , Dad 's birthday , Isabelle and Manley will be there and I 'll get to see Suze , it 's all good .
^ Right , gotta go or I 'll be late .
^ All the best and be in touch , love Anna
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^ Hi , Nick ,
^ How is going ?
^ I guess you must be having holidays for Christmas .
^ Just realised this morning when cycling in that I have not got used to the cold as I previously had thought !
^ I am making the em tool for my HVS-LM but will be spending christmas with my cousins in Lon .
^ Regan wants it finished by Jan so I need to be at it over the new year .
^ Btw Hetzler has a paper on my project on his web site if you have nothing to read these days &SMILEY
^ Have a good Christmas and convey my wishes to your family as well .
^ With best wishes ,
^ Ravi
^ ~
^ Hi , how are you ?
^ Well , for the past couple of days Ive been stuffed full of painkillers - I pulled a muscle or something in my neck - a pain in the neck ! - but it seems ok now .
^ Yesterday was my first day of doing work .
^ Ive done about 200 words of BP ( Do you know how long it is supposed to be ? ) , and I did a bit of Java .
^ I dont know how to include classes in different folders ( the graph code )
^ I should probably do some revision as well
^ Hardly any of my friends are back from Uni yet .
^ Im in Wells now , Im gonna go visit Jin Sun , Sadie etc after this .
^ What are your living arrangements at the moment ?
^ Do you still have to sleep on the sofa !
^ Speak to you soon
^ Patrick
^ ~
^ i had a dream about you the other night ...
^ well it was n't about you , but you were in it ...
^ do n't worry , you were n't dating any supermodels this time ...
^ so anyways , how are you ? ?
^ after my dream , i realized i had n't talked to you in a long time .
^ are you enjoying yourself there ?
^ still exhausted ?
^ did you hear that i 'm not coming back to england ?
^ i could n't get a work permit .
^ i guess that 's my closed door huh ? )
^ i 'm feeling like i really need to try to look into things here for now
^ i have a phone interview with a church in arizona tomorrow .
^ it 's a job in children 's ministries in a huge church in pheonix .
^ so ... i 'm looking at that right now .
^ time to make some decisions ... my favorite time
^ hey can you tell me what my personality was again ? )
^ the lady who is interviewing me asked me and i could n't remember my letters .
^ e something something p right ?
^ i figured you would remember since you 're my opposite
^ okay i 'm going to bed ...
^ lance i hope you 're having an amazing experience in south africa .
^ you know , i wish that we all lived near each other .
^ i miss you guys ...
^ HEY ! i almost forgot to ask you ... have you read the DaVinci Code ?
^ it 's a really good book ... some strange theories and stuff , but i enjoyed it .
^ just curious if you 've read it .
^ i 'm sure you could be more intellectual about it than me , but i found it interesting
^ since i 'm not coming back to england , i 'll be anxiously awaiting your mom 's promised family trip to new york .
^ big apple here we come ....
^ Donald
^ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers !
^ ~
^ Jalen
^ I got your email when we got back from church ! !
^ Mummy and I went and at the end of the service a lady from the choir asked mummy if she wanted to join the choir ! ! ! !
^ It was excellent but very funny at the same time ! ! ! !
^ College is going pretty well at the moment ! !
^ The work has become more interesting and I 've got to know people better ! ! !
^ So altogether it 's looking hopeful ! !
^ I 'm definitely planning to stay on so that 's good ! !
^ I have n't been able to find a job yet and the fact that I 'm going away for three weeks is not very helpful ! !
^ Oh guess how fast I can type now ? ?
^ Well I can type about 27 wpm ! !
^ Now I think that that is pretty fast ! ! !
^ Dancing is going ok ! !
^ We were sort of auditioning for a solo part the other day and I did n't get it but I did get down to the last 6 and there were about 25-30 girls in the class ! ! ! !
^ Do you think you will be able to watch the show ?
^ It 's in April sometime ! ! !
^ I hope you can coz it might be the last show I 'm in ! !
^ We went to see Hungary 's Sweethearts last night ! !
^ I do n't think you 'd enjoy it ! !
^ I found it quite funny but it is VERY silly ! ! !
^ Mind you , daddy did quite enjoy it so u might ! ! !
^ You should see a Streets tale ! !
^ H 'd find it cheesy but I laughed so much while watching it ! !
^ Well I better go coz I need to write to some people in Singapore and then eat dinner ! ! !
^ We are gonna have rump steak ! !
^ Mmmmmmmm lush ! ! ! )
^ I love u lots and miss u loads
^ C ya
^ God bless
^ abz
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^ ~
^ Yo Lanone !
^ You know that chick Marcella I told you about ?
^ Moved in with her toward the end of November and am still here now .
^ I 'll probably go back to Tyler in a week or so to pick up uni again ... but she 's asking me to be a househusband for her ... it 's a tough decision .
^ Her parents are n't fussed that we 're friends and sleep together - they just think we 're strange .
^ There are some photos of us at : &WEBSITE which I took with my new digital camera - my chemical camera I had last .
^ year died so since it was time to get a new one I thought I 'd get a digital one ; I 'm pretty pleased with it so far
^ It 's a Kodak DX6440 4MP , 4xOptical zoom , 16mb internal , 128mb card .
^ Christmas with her dad + relatives was pretty tense - apparently they thought I was extremely uncouth and unhelpful .
^ with the social skills of a primary-school kid ... even though I was trying hard to chat to all these strangers
^ wash up when I could , and clean up after meals and stuff , and offer to help whenever I could
^ Still , I somehow managed to get on the wrong side of them .
^ Oh dear .
^ We saw a movie called Dog Soldiers last night on DVD .
^ It 's a british dark comedy , and it was really cool .
^ Heh heh .
^ They poke fun at The Matrix a little bit , and it has some classic coincidences in it too , so it 's all good .
^ Ah well - when I go back to Tyler there 's Alexis who 's moving out of home into a house her dad owns and she wants me to live with her .
^ Her mum keeps suggesting that if we want to keep sleeping together we should date .
^ Ah well , if we move in together away from her it should be much less stressful for Ed .
^ She 's only 26 ... she 's so cute !
^ Photo attached &SMILEY from the last party we went together to .
^ Hope your krismus was good and all that .
^ Have a snazzy new year .
^ Shawn
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ How are you ?
^ I found some old emails and thought I would drop you a quick hello .
^ Hope you are enjoying your holiday and being back home .
^ Have you got a job or anything ?
^ Things here are good .
^ Nicolay is here at the moment , until next Tuesday .
^ We were meant to be going skiing but the snow so far has been rubbish due to rain washing it all away .
^ It did snow last night though and should do again tonight , so we can but wait and see whether it gets better before he goes .
^ Fingers crossed .
^ Good to be back and to see my family and friends again .
^ Its funny how much you can miss a place !
^ HAving said that , i am already missing the freedom and fun of uni life .
^ Still , only 3 short weeks to go .
^ Hope you have a lovely holiday , a very merry Christmas and a happy new year .
^ I will be in touch soon !
^ Write when you can , love Isaiah
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^ ~
^ mete centreal mid role tomorrow .
^ i want you playing more as the deep lying ball wimmer .
^ i have no doubt youve got the ball playing skill to do the job i want in there .
^ what i really need in there is the physical presence as well .
^ put yourself about tomorrow and you can mke the position yours
^ cheers
^ alex
^ Alex Milton
^ Captain Chads AFC
^ Captain Chads CC home : 05000 666006 grett : 05005 422606 mob : 05050 464004
^ ~
^ Hi Robyn ,
^ Hope I got your email address right .
^ Just wanted to say thanks for the fantastic mini-camera , and also for coming to my party on Saturday .
^ it was great to have you there , and I hope you did n't hate the frisbee too much ;o )
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ hello Nick , I hope the dissertation ( project thing ) is going well and you are not in the lab all the time .
^ How are you ?
^ Are you getting to see the sunshine ?
^ I have just been talking to Eric and she is in a bad way .
^ She was at this woman 's house again .
^ Can you pray like crazy for her ?
^ She is so upset and broken .
^ She is absolutely desperate to be loved and consumed by guilt I think .
^ She has a place to do a PGCE next year in south Carlisle .
^ I am considering offering to live with her but ca n't decide if that 's unwise or not .
^ Would i be able to cope ?
^ Not sure .
^ I am having dilemmas about what to wear to the wedding at the moment .
^ I have too many options and I bought another dress today which is lovely but now I REALLY do n't know what to wear .
^ SORRY for how incredibly irrational and vile and upset and angry and not letting go of you ish I have been this year .
^ It is one of my biggest regrets that I have n't treated you better .
^ Hope you 're ok , Tabitha x
^ ~
^ Hey Jez ( I 'm not going to call you Gaystick Malone ! )
^ How are you ?
^ Hope all is well ... is your term over yet ?
^ Are you still in Munich or have you gone home ?
^ Anyway , don;t seem to have been in touch for a while so I thought I would email during my lunch break to update you with my little life .
^ Well , I had Jessie to stay a few weekends ago which was FAB .
^ She is so the best and it was lovely to hang out with her again - just me and her .
^ Cool .
^ We met up with Mallory too which was nice , and he and Jessie seemed to get on well ( I think he 's always .
^ been a bit scarred of her since she told him off on a visit to Wells in 1st year , but don;t tell him I said that ! )
^ Anyway , then last weekend I had to work on the saturday ( pants ) and so worked a 48 hour week ( Man ! ) .
^ On Sat evening we had an economics posse reunion , as Ellen had come accross to see us all .
^ We went for a curry and had a good time , but it did n't half bring back fond memories of Wells .
^ This week I am only working 4 days and so have a3 day weekend in store .
^ Tabitha is coming to stay which I am well excited about , and it is also Mallory 's last weekend as he goes home for Easter on Sunday .
^ Hopefully between his exam and post-exam celebrations I 'll get a chance to see him before he leaves .
^ I handed my notice in at work yesterday !
^ I have to work 4 weeks notice and so will finish here on the Thurday before Easter .
^ cunningly fixed it so that I will get paid for the easter bank holidays ! ) and plan to go home for 10 days or so
^ If I can;t find a new job before then I may well have to go home altogether , although I do n't really want to .
^ I am in two minds about it all .
^ Part of me wants to stay as I am more independent here and do n't really want to live at home any more .
^ Oh , and to be perfectly honest , I want to get Mallory back .
^ But that sounds a bit sad and desperate .
^ Oh well , we 'll see ( that 's my phrase of the week ! ) .
^ I am trying very hard not to get panicy about everything , anf juts trying to trust that God is directly my life and leading me the right way .
^ KInd of hard to accept when it flies in the face of what I really really want , but I 'm obviously wrong ...
^ Anyhow , end of waffling ...
^ I have to get back to work .
^ Take care and speak soon - let me know how everything is going .
^ Bye for now , love Maz
^ Surf together with new Shared Browsing &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ I 'm ok .
^ I am tired at the moment as well .
^ Weather hasnt been brilliant which is annoying .
^ I think I am coming back to the UK for a while in about 10 days .
^ I have a few people I really want to see , ie Jack Hensley who is only back for 2 weeks from Japan and a friend from the OK who is in Carlisle . .
^ Have been revising lots for my theory test ( driving ) .
^ Being in French , its really confusing me , my French is a bit rusty when I start up again , but its ok for now .
^ My friend Alison is now in the UK ( she left this morning ) and on Mon shes going to Africa for 6 weeks .
^ Doh .
^ WIll miss her muchly .
^ Right - What do I want to do in life ?
^ What do I want to get out of life ?
^ I want to be happy .
^ I want to work at something I enjoy and I want to find myself a loving man and have kids .
^ You know , the ideal .
^ But I do , I really do .
^ Above all else I want just to enjoy it .
^ I dont know yet what I will be doing next year .
^ People seem to have ideas of Masters , jobs etc.
^ I think I might take a year off and travel , prob to Africa , for the year , or most of it .
^ I dont really know .
^ I cant decide what I want to work as so just jumping in and doing anything prob wouldnt be wise .
^ And I might not enjoy it .
^ Also I would just love to be a voluteer for 9 months-a year .
^ It would prob change just about everything for me and I would come back with a better idea of lots of things .
^ Anyway , enough of my waffle .
^ I will leave you to it .
^ Have a lovely time with your folks tonight .
^ And good luck packing up !
^ Take care , love Isaiah
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^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ How are you ? ?
^ Things here are ok .
^ I am at work and amongst doing other things , working on my website .
^ Hurrah . &SMILEY
^ Guess what ! ?
^ There is a music festival on just near my house at the moment and until yesterday I did n't think I would be going .. but now I am .
^ There was only tickets left for Wed and Sat so I 'm going Wed .
^ Oasis will be there , as will a lot of other bands , but mostly from the continent .
^ Hmm . .
^ I really wanted to go Friday cause The Cranberries will be there . .
^ I still might go along and see if I can get a ticket for Friday as well .
^ Also it will mean I can really enjoy it cause I wo n't have to be up early Sat morning for work . .
^ Other than that , it was a bit rubbish weather yesterday , but its brightened up again today so I will be todddling over to the pool at lunch and doing my lengths .
^ Good well done .
^ I am going to be in Wells from about the 18-9th til the 27th or so .
^ I finish resits on the 25th but it would be nice to stay on a little as well .
^ Keep Aimee company ( hes up there ALL summer ) and settle into the house a little more .
^ Our house is fantastic and you must come over and see it ok .
^ We just had a new cooker and sink fitted and they brought us a hoover !
^ Yay .
^ When will you be returning to DH for next term to start ?
^ Do you know at all yet ?
^ I will be there for freshers week - join in on all the fun things .
^ Anyway Nick , that 's me for now .
^ Drop me a line when you have time .
^ Take care of yourself .
^ Lots of love , Oliver xx
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^ ~
^ Mr. and Mrs. Broderick !
^ How 's life on the front line ?
^ I 'm currently enjoying the IDS French summer ( it 's always hot here in summer do n't you know ... ) .
^ We 've been doing quite a lot of digging in the garden to prepare for the extension .
^ All our hard work is paying off though , because the concrete is being poured in on Monday ! !
^ Otherwise I 'm having a pretty relaxed time - swimming , playing tennis , playing football , etc.
^ I guess Eric has arrived with you by now ; she 's quite a character is n't she ? !
^ I hope it works out OK .
^ Next week I 'm going with the older students from school - hopefully we 'll get a chance to spend some time on the beach , where I can show off my new " digging muscles " .
^ I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about my college and accomodation , etc. , but everything seems to be in place now .
^ Term will start sometime in early
^ October I expect .
^ I 'm quite looking forward to it now .
^ Well , God bless you both , and do n't forget that I expect a proper reply - none of this two-line nonsense ...
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Donald ,
^ I would first like to state that the last time I checked there seemed to be only 2 or 3 young male teachers there ...
^ OK , so maybe I exaggerated slightly , but let 's face it , it 's QUALITY not quantity that counts , and boy do we have quality !
^ Anyway , your legacy does live on at the school - a number of students have randomly told me " what Miss DeFunji said , or did " .
^ I guess it 's quite a priviledge to be a part of their lives is n't it ?
^ Today I spent a rather large amount of time with Josiah , as he has received 28 scoring violations in the last two days , and only managed to complete 3 pages yesterday !
^ Still , he did much better today and I dare to hope the worst is over : o ) .
^ Friday is Jude 's birthday so my Dad and I are going over to the Stewart 's house to celebrate .
^ Did you meet Jude ?
^ He 's living with the Greens ( Uriel et al ) .
^ This evening my Dad and I bought donner kebabs from the Highworth Kebab
^ Shop and ate them in the car .
^ Anyway , I 'm not feeling very creative this evening , so ...
^ bye
^ ~
^ OK Peoples ,
^ I received a number of complaints and snide remarks on Friday due to the , shall we say , " sketchy " nature of the details surrounding my birthday party .
^ Well , the customer 's always right , so here 's some more information :
^ We will meet on the morning of &DATE at SCHOOL at &TIME .
^ We will be finished sometime in the afternoon , but let 's not get too legalistic about this ...
^ Finally , since quite a few people asked me what I wanted for my birthday .
^ I can only assume that they are at least considering the possibility of buying me presents ( unless of course it is all a cruel joke )
^ Anyway , I 've compiled a list of stuff in case anyone is stuck ...
^ Wireless bike computer
^ Rechargeable front bike light
^ Sports Headband
^ Football socks ( but not horrible ones )
^ CD 's ( in no particular order ) :
^ Jars of Clay - Who We Are Instead
^ Scott - Lose this life
^ Switchfoot - Learning to Breathe
^ Switchfoot - The Beautiful Letdown
^ Mark Kettner - She Can and Must Go Free
^ Shawn Hibbard - Beneath the Velvet Sun
^ Coldplay - Parachutes
^ Nick Boniface - Fight For Your Mind
^ Jack Hert - Brushfire Lemons
^ Philip Coulthard - Heavier Things
^ Jason Dick - Waiting for My Rocket to Come
^ Books:
^ Paulo Hendric - " The Alchemist "
^ Courtney Crace - " Genesis "
^ Any other interesting books ...
^ Right , see you all soon ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Dear Nick , I 'm sending this from Tokyo ( Narita ) airport .
^ The access is free to all who use the airport .
^ I will be back on Monday afternoon &TIME .
^ I would love to do soom recording with you , maybe over christmas .
^ I need some coaching in formatting word doc. sections and chapters etc. as I 'm perparing two operations manuals .
^ Check out the attached , someone has gone to some trouble here - not me I hasten to add , but I did enjoy it .
^ I 'm really looking forward to seeing you ...
^ Lots of love ,
^ Ed xoxoxox
^ Tired of spam ?
^ Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8 .
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Just a quick note to say I really enjoyed talking with you just now .
^ Love you Nick ,
^ Rylee .
^ PS - if you have time , have a look at the co-op bank website & their ethical investment policy .
^ It 's quite impressive .
^ The smile link is for the coop bank too .
^ Work like you do n't need money , love like you 've never been hurt .
^ dance like no-one 's watching " " love your enemy , it 'll ruin his reputation " desmond tutu " Love truly and deeply
^ That firstly demands honesty ( in love ) and then will .
^ Ensure your money is fairly invested - &WEBSITE & fairly invested Mini cash ISA 's ( 6 % ) - &WEBSITE
^ Ask for someone to pray for you if you 're feeling low - &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ ~
^ Samuel , or should I call you Gulliver ...
^ How go your travels ?
^ I 'm off to SA in under a month now ! ! !
^ It 's Sunday and I 'm feeling a bit tired , as I had a birthday celebration yesterday consisting of ultimate frisbee , football and hockey - ideal do n't you think ?
^ Anyway , just checking that things are going OK , etc .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ benja ,
^ do you want to do induldge in some physical exercise ?
^ I 'm partying with Nin at 6.30 , so 4.30 would be a good time , if you want to do track ...
^ when are you going balling ?
^ session : sprints - 60s / 80s - followed by mayhem300s in various forms . )
^ G .
^ ~
^ hey bug-beater !
^ are you winning or what ?
^ will the poor people at the lab be honoured by you precense today ?
^ ~
^ Hi Tabitha ,
^ Welcome back to the UK .
^ Glad to hear you had a good time in the Americas .
^ I 'm at home feeling a little restless , ready to get started in Dur I think .
^ I have n't heard from them about whether I 'll still be in Chads and about any other practical arrangements , so I 'm trying not to be impatient .
^ I had a ghastly bout of a few days ago , so I 'm still feeling a bit shaky / tired , but the less said about that the better !
^ On Monday we 're off to my grandmother 's 80th birthday celebration in Chapel - I think we 're getting a Chinese takeaway or something !
^ Have you met Jon 's boyfriend yet ?
^ When do you move in with Suzy ?
^ Are you having a grand birthday party this year ?
^ When you were in Romania did you meet my friend Jude Watson ?
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ My friend ,
^ Where are you ?
^ Any fixed abode yet ?
^ How are you ?
^ Still in a liminal state ?
^ Who are you ?
^ Are you even sure yet ?
^ There are you - Yet I heard nought of you of late ...
^ You like that ?
^ No !
^ Load of rubbish I made up on the spot !
^ Not even VR material .
^ Anyway , I 'm a little bored .
^ Need to sort my life out soon .
^ Ca n't be bothered for now .
^ What are you up to ?
^ Just thought I 'd get in touch .
^ I 'm sure I was going to say something interesting but it escapes me now .
^ Read The Last Battle yesterday .
^ Which one next ?
^ Shalom
^ Aimee
^ my funky address : 61 Cardiff Rd , Bangor , Gwynedd SS83 5YG my funky mobile : 05505 777 930 my funky website : &WEBSITE
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^ wow ! 5.39 meters for long jump .
^ Not bad !
^ I learn more about you each day !
^ Bob
^ Robert K. Greetings 0464 948 4426
^ Worcester B , St. Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Maximus 's Garth ,
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^ ~
^ One of our users reported a problem with mailto :
^ This is with Red Hat 's RPM .
^ If I run
^ echo " t ( t " \| mailto ig206 -s test
^ I get a Content-type : text / richtext message .
^ But if I run
^ echo " t ) t " \| mailto ig206 -s test
^ I get a Content-type : text / plain
^ I think mailto needs a stronger test for HTML markup , if that 's what it 's looking for
^ ( this does n't seem to be mentioned in the man page . )
^ Regards
^ Mallory Blomerley
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^ Phone : +44 4882 884420
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^ Mallory ,
^ I realise I 've got a shed-load of stuff to do before I leave for SA , so I can probably only do an afternoon or something .
^ I was thinking about maybe coming up on Saturday after lunch and leaving sometime before / during the party .
^ Alternatively you could come over here before heading back for the party - whatever suits you best ...
^ Speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ PS I have heard there is a tall , attractive American ( male ) doing ABSNE this year .
^ No !
^ You 've got it all mixed up .
^ There was a tall attractive American there * last * year .
^ His name was Jay Higbe ...
^ well , " tall " is a relative concept ...
^ I guess the same could be said about " attractive " ...
^ ~
^ PS I have heard there is a tall , attractive American ( male ) doing ABSNE this year .
^ No !
^ You 've got it all mixed up .
^ There was a tall attractive American there * last * year .
^ His name was Jay Higbe ...
^ well , " tall " is a relative concept ...
^ I guess the same could be said about " attractive " ...
^ ~
^ ahh lance ,
^ Saw another strange foreign film last night and thought of you .
^ Do n't know why .
^ I think its your dry unsarcastic but witty commentary on things which I miss .
^ Anyway , it was n't good so I wo n't flesh out the story line .
^ But it was funny how they censored one fruity bit but not another .
^ One scene politely had the film title occupying the entire screen .
^ However , another was left untouched though , and although the bedposts were succesfully obscuring any naughties , the sweaty skin , movement and groaning left little to the were those censors thinking ?
^ So how are things with you at the moment ?
^ Did you hear Christian 's thing in LA fell through ?
^ I told him to undertake an epic cycle journey from Carlisle to Muscat .
^ Good for the body , mind , soul and more importantly people , the CV .
^ Hey , why do n't you through in those october nights and november blues for some action down in the desert ?
^ The safest route is through Turkey then
^ Iran , taking a ferry crossing from Bandar e Abbas to Dubai .
^ You could even do it for charity then cream off a load of the sponsorship for a nice hotel stay and some diving when you got here .
^ You have to get here by February though .
^ Otherwise you 'll miss me and then you 'll have to get all the way to
^ Thailand in under a week .
^ Or Adelaide .
^ Or Aukland or Rarotonga .
^ Hmmm , or Carlisle .
^ Actually , do n't do it or I 'll be really jealous .
^ Its kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity and I 've missed it .
^ Oh well .
^ Better crack on with that arabic .
^ Okely dokely , sees you later then .
^ Rylee
^ ~
^ Yo Nick ,
^ How 's it going ?
^ I hope you have n't been snowed under by the Arctic blizzards that have been sweeping Dundee .... umm ... not really .
^ [ It 's the effect of reading about Eskimos today - do n't worry ! ]
^ This is just a quick note to say ... firstly , I hope you got my last e-mail which basically said - yes do come and visit any saturday .
^ Since then , my diary has been being filled with ink at a rather alarming rate , so I thought I would write and warn you that planning three months in advance is advisable ... &SMILEY
^ No seriously , I was writing to suggest the 20th Feb.
^ Kaylee and I are planning a murder mystery party on Saturday 20th and I thought it would be cool for you to come .
^ I have never done a murder mystery party before , but am told that they 're fun ... so there we have it !
^ You could turn up when you wanted on the Saturday , but we will probably employ you as our personal culinary slave or perhaps our yanking tables around !
^ other such manly stuff slave &SMILEY if you come in the afternoon !
^ BE warned &SMILEY
^ Unless you want to be back for your own church meeting in the morning , you are very welcome to stay over .
^ There are guest rooms where I am staying which cost 12.50 per night .
^ I just thought I 'd suggest it since teh party is likely to go on until 12ish which is n't a great time to start driving home .
^ It is completely up to you - I 'm easy .
^ If it is easier for you to stay over , you are welcome to come to my church service and stick around for a bit on Sunday .
^ I do n't work on Sundays so I wo n't be stressing !
^ LEt me know what you think ...
^ there are a couple of other Saturdays that are still free too if you ca n't make the 20th .
^ Good grief , this was supposed to be a quick note and now I 've gone and written a whole essay at you !
^ sorry !
^ see you ,
^ Amya
^ ~
^ OK Isabelle ,
^ Susannah and I have finished the two convention music items - here they are .
^ " His Strength is Perfect " is in three sections : - Soprano only )
^ for Faith - 2 pages ) - Tenor only ( for Samuel - 2 pages ) - Both parts together ( for the judges - 3 pages
^ " Eagles ' Wings " only has a single section ( 2 pages ) .
^ Any problems let me know .
^ Hope you are all well !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Lucio !
^ I 'm the pianist at Sonia and Mohammad 's wedding - just wondering if you could use this address instead of the one Sonia gave you .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam :
^ I applied for continuation as a graduate student last summer , and recently received notification of the success of my WMP funding application ( ref : SJ / kfw / Yr&DATE / WMP / E07 ) .
^ I am writing to enquire as to the status of my college affiliation .
^ I previously completed the BEng degree at Kassidy
^ College , and am wondering if I am designated to continue at Kassidy , or whether I am free to approach other colleges .
^ whether I am expected to follow this up now , or wait for the QFP to make contact on my behalf
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Nice one !
^ Glad to hear you have been reunited with your baggage and clean socks .
^ We 're back at school : under nine cricket , common entrance exams , key stage 2 exams and warmer weather .
^ I had a phone call from Bookter Roderick which I did n't want to take but Shania forced me .
^ So we chatted etc ...
^ I suppose communication helps to forgive ...
^ I 've just been to the University of East Carlisle with
^ Juliette for her interview which went well , she 'll know in a week 's time .
^ Anyway , I 'm quite shattered so goodbye for now .
^ God 's blessings for you
^ Lindsey
^ ~
^ Alright geeza .
^ I 've meant to stay in better touch , so I apologise ( but I do n't hear you ringing me much either ... ) .
^ I hope all 's well though .
^ I have some hilarious news about hockey , so will have to tell you about it sometime .
^ My sis and dad got back from abroad a couple days ago , so the family 's visiting me tomorrow and then Anna and I are going to meet up with Rachel C in the evening for a couple drinks .
^ I 'm currently on perscribed medicine after a nasty wasp bite on the back of my neck / shoulder so am feeling pretty knackered .
^ Otherwise well , except having to now put in the hours ( managing around 5 a day ) but I need to do quite a bit more .
^ Anyway , talk soon , I
^ ~
^ Hi Ed ,
^ Could you possibly send me Karla Hews ' email address .
^ I want to email him about this " noni juice " stuff he 's been involved with .
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi Karla ,
^ Nick Malone here .
^ I was just thinking about our conversation about Tahiti and the noni juice , and thought I might try and get hold of some for my parents .
^ I was just wondering whether you could advise me on the best way to obtain some .
^ Thanks ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Frederick ,
^ You must have done so much good now that it must count for at least another four or five years .
^ It all sounds amazing as usual ...
^ News from the north :
^ There have been traces of summer .
^ Well , actually , we had some really good weather for at least a week .
^ Now it 's a bit messy again , but I 'm sure a proper correction in temperature will follow .
^ Life has made a steep turn upwards lately , - work is not to stressful , running i going ok .
^ There is even a slight hint of that good old in the air !
^ Imagine that !
^ As you seem to be painfully aware of , we had midsummer yesterday ( midwinter in your case , yeah ? ) .
^ It was celebrated with a bbq in the evening sun , beside a 30 meter high waterfall !
^ rains these very small drops on you if you sit close enough , joined by an especially high-qulity specimen of the female kind
^ Oh boy , the good things come to those who are pacient !
^ If you wanna try to convince me in religious matters , this is probably a good time . )
^ And as usual , when these things happen - I get absolutely nothing done , nothing at all !
^ Oh well , there 's no reason to hop on that sky-rocket and take off just yet , though .
^ I 'd like to hear some more details about these med-students , if you do n't mind me enquiring ...
^ I 'm sure good old Nick Juan has made an irresistable impression !
^ Enjoy the last few days in Africa .
^ T the B .
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Howz You ?
^ I went to Vineyard this morning it was inspiring as ever .
^ A lady spoke on the e word yes you 've guessed it evangelism : as part of your life all the time !
^ Same stuff just a new package ( as the old V. skool days )
^ I 'm now doing some research for my dissertation ; it is very rewarding yet like wading through syrup at times .
^ If you have any ideas about a dissertation topic then do let me know .
^ I feel a little out at sea without a boat !
^ Sometimes I think I have a very clear idea about how to approach the subject then it all of a sudden slips out of my grasp !
^ I 'll continue hope all your projects are going swimmingly .
^ Oh , I saw the film Iris yesterday - it is quite thought provoking .
^ It had a few scenes from Bath , along by the river ( boating area ) .
^ Oh leads me to think Lord of the Spirals - Classic scenery , visually stunning , yet very much lacking in narrative build up and in some ways a key hero .
^ To start of it 's the Wizard but them he dies in a very uninspiring way at least in comparison to the rest of the story !
^ Anyway , I 'll let you get back to your Sunday studies
^ LOL
^ Joshua xoxoxox
^ PS. the " Subject : " was forcing me to think of something so I didn't ... I rebelled !
^ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ I have been reading my Bible !
^ I have been challenged by the idea of grace , I realise I 've shown you none .
^ I 'm sorry , please forgive me ?
^ N a o
^ ~
^ Hey Kane ,
^ The first two chapters have been sent to my supervisor for his perusal , and hopefully he will have time to have a look at them and give me some feedback over the next couple of weeks .
^ ( imagine this in a Canadian " Bob voice " ) : Well DONE
^ Very impressive indeed ! ( and that was in a high-pitched Geordie " Anna voice " - urgh ! ) .
^ My work is going okay ( ish ) .
^ 800 words has now increased to 1,200 , so I am feeling rather pleased with myself .
^ However , having hit a slump in brainpower , I 've given up for a while and am having a well-earned break .
^ I have been coughing a bit over the last few days .
^ I still blame you . &SMILEY - you and everyone else ! &SMILEY boohoo .
^ Poor me . ( sniff ..... cough ! )
^ Baggy jeans are the way forward ! ! ! ! ! !
^ But do n't you go and cramp my style please ( unless you 're willing to pay me royalties ) . - ur , yeah !
^ Hello ? !
^ And who got baggy jeans 1st ! ?
^ Moi . &SMILEY
^ Suzy and Jack - where do you think they 'll get the rings from ? - oh , Milan of course !
^ Yeah , we are indeed moving house - it all gets quite confusing , but we 're moving into my grandparent 's house for a week , before packing up and going snowboarding ?
^ yay ) and then we have to find somewhere else to live for a week or so , before we move back into this
^ house. - so , I guess you 'll be busy packing for the move soon then
^ Must be getting quite used to it all by now ... .
^ Moving house is turning into a bit of a Malone hobby , is n't it ?
^ Yes .
^ The " nose-job " has been delayed , probably till Easter .
^ ANYWAY IT 'S NOT A NOSE JOB ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! -
^ whatever you say , Nick , whatever you say ! &SMILEY
^ I 've just got back from collecting the newspapers from the delights of our local newsagents .
^ The guy behind the counter was none other than the bloke convicted of breaking into our garage a few years back and stealing 5 bikes and our lawnmower .
^ It was a somewhat weird experience .
^ Rather like the time I passed a guy in our street who was wearing my Berghaus jacket which had been stolen from our church hall a few days before .
^ Righty , better stop waffling and get back to work .
^ " history " here I come ...
^ All the best Cody !
^ Speak soon , -
^ Likewise Mr B ,
^ Eric x
^ ~
^ Jennifer , a strange thing happened to me yesterday ...
^ I received a text from Naomi , which I then replied to , but my phone told me that the number was no longer in use !
^ What can it mean ?
^ Anyway , could you please send me Naomi 's real phone number .
^ Thanks
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Sorry I missed you at the weekend .
^ Hope you had a good time while you were here .
^ Was there a group of you visiting ?
^ A few people said they saw a selection of the " old crowd " around !
^ I suppose your term will have finished now , or are terms different for NZ students ?
^ We 're still plodding along here in Wells , trying to cope with our mammoth 10 week term !
^ Finish on Wednesday , which will be very welcome !
^ You 'll be interested and perhaps amused to know that I 'm presenting a motion in the JCR meeting tomorrow !
^ See the attached .
^ I had no intention of making such a fuss about it , but having exhausted all other channels of making my feelings known I felt this was the only thing to do !
^ I emailed Bob Woodall shortly after the Kingston Ball to say that I thought SEC had been wrong to do what they did .
^ He did n't reply , but went to see Chloe Rudd to ask if I was alright because I 'd sent a strange email suggesting that animals have morally significant interests !
^ Yes , clearly I 'm mad !
^ I 'm not expecting to get the motion passed tomorrow night , but as long as I make a few people think I 'll have achieved something .
^ Well , I should go , I 'm meeting Alison and Karla for lunch .
^ Hope all 's well with you and that I do manage to see you next time you 're up here .
^ Anthony .
^ PS Melchisedec is indeed a conscious entity ( subject to philosophical considerations about our knowledge of other minds ... ) .
^ Have you not seen him before ?
^ I had him last year .
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam :
^ I recently placed an order for the following item : 1 x JAMES TAYLOR - GREATEST HITS
^ Order number : 42628268
^ I would be very grateful if there is any way you could deliver the above item by &DATE as it is a present for a friend who 's birthday is on that day .
^ Additionally , I changed the delivery address a few minutes after placing the order to be the same as the cardholder 's address .
^ Please could you confirm that the change has been noted .
^ Many regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ a pleasant morning , Sir !
^ I guess you 're recovering from the excesses of drugs , prostitutes and alcohol ...
^ I think our lab is built on the principle of a green-house .
^ It takes forever to warm up , but once it 's warm , it stays that way , - sticky , warm and humid , - perfect for unintelligent lifeforms - like me .
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ Here 's a first draft of the paper .
^ I 'm just sending you the TeX file ; hopefully you should have no problem compiling it .
^ The only potential problem might be that it 's written in a Kites environment so might have a few extra windowsey characters .
^ If you want the PDF version let me know .
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Imani ,
^ I 've got a favour to ask you .
^ I 've written a paper about spam filtering based on the stuff I did in my project .
^ Would you consider having a look at it ( especially section 3.3 on LM smoothing ) ?
^ In particular there are a couple of discounting functions that I came up with as a result of studying the use of LM 's for this particular problem and I need to know whether they are already in existence .
^ Obviously I have looked at the literature I know about and have not discovered them .
^ If you get a chance to help me I 'd be grateful .
^ Hope the ABSNE stuff is going well this year !
^ Regards ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Cher ,
^ I sent this email out yesterday , but I did n't have your email address .
^ Now I have it , so here 's the email ...
^ !
^ Our computers have selected your name at random and you are invited to LANCE MEDLOCK 's birthday party !
^ Yes , this is a once in a lifetime opportunity .
^ Simply call this number : 05050 5296370 ( calls cost upwards of &pound; 10 / min , max call length 3hrs ) .
^ OK , here are the details :
^ It 's a " football and McDonald 's " party ( queue groans from Macie and Sally ) , but you do n't actually have to play football ! ! ( queue relieved sighs from
^ Macie and Sally ) , unless you 're a boy of course ( Jude - that 's you ) .
^ This monumental event is happening on Saturday March 6th , probably in the morning / lunchtime so PLEASE be free .
^ Sweet love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Cher ,
^ I sent this email out yesterday , but I did n't have your email address .
^ Now I have it , so here 's the email ...
^ !
^ Our computers have selected your name at random and you are invited to LANCE MEDLOCK 's birthday party !
^ Yes , this is a once in a lifetime opportunity .
^ Simply call this number : 05050 5296370 ( calls cost upwards of &pound; 10 / min , max call length 3hrs ) .
^ OK , here are the details :
^ It 's a " football and McDonald 's " party ( queue groans from Macie and Sally ) , but you do n't actually have to play football ! ! ( queue relieved sighs from
^ Macie and Sally ) , unless you 're a boy of course ( Jude - that 's you ) .
^ This monumental event is happening on Saturday March 6th , probably in the morning / lunchtime so PLEASE be free .
^ Sweet love ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Jonah ,
^ Hello .
^ Firstly , thank you for sending the " lucre " e-mail .
^ Your classification of Bob ( at least I assume it was he ) was rather amusing .
^ It was really great to hear from you the other night .
^ Thanks for calling .
^ Bob suggested you all kidnap me from work - I like that idea very much !
^ Yesterday morning I was working , but in the afternoon I went up to
^ Wyatt and bought a pair of shoes .
^ I am now in the rather frivolous position of having two pairs of shoes .
^ Last night I had a wonderfully luxurious hot bath , which I enjoyed immensely .
^ This morning I have been at church and am now looking forward to a delicious stir-fry for lunch .
^ I have decided that I am only going to write up another 8 chemistry lectures before next term , after which I will relax / turn my attention to more interesting pursuits in the evenings .
^ Bye , and enjoy next weekend .
^ Shania
^ ~
^ is anything going down tonight ?
^ my money is on lance having 5 beautiful swedish blondes round for dinner and jake playing with his wrinkly membranes
^ Rylee Macer 25 Paradise Street , Munich , JD3 1DR ntl ) 05005 064028 orange ) 05505 846202 &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam
^ I would like to join the Malone Appreciation Society as I am a big fan .
^ Please add me to your mailing list so that I can receive notice of future events , release dates for the next album , tour dates , etc .
^ Thank you .
^ Personal Message for Nayeli and Nick :
^ guys , you are GREAT ( as Nick likes to say ) and I * am * a big fan ! &SMILEY
^ But seriously , I really enjoyed chatting to you guys last night and have very much appreciated getting to know both of you better this term .
^ You are two of the most gentle , , mature guys I have the pleasure to know - but do n't worry , you are most definitely DifferenT .
^ ;p Have a great holiday with lots of rest and may the Lord really bless you in everything
^ Speak soon , lots of love , ashley x
^ p.s. keep it real !
^ ~
^ Hey Nick ,
^ How is life under African skies Mr Malone ?
^ Have you had any remarkable adventures yet or is everything running smoothly ?
^ I meant to ask before you left , but what are you actually going to be doing for the next three months ?
^ I am guessing you are in South Africa .
^ What season is it there at the moment ?
^ I spoke with Mr Farwell the other day and he tells great tales of your musical prowess , not to mention the arrival of a long-awaited piece of work - Nick 's Wells photos ...
^ He is going to send me copies so I too may enjoy them .
^ Today has been a day which I am pleased is ending .
^ I had to give a presentation this afternoon and have spent the last week memorising two thousand words .
^ Thankfully it all came off flawlessly and now I can relax .
^ I had dinner with Kaylee and Valeria last Monday which was very nice .
^ Kaylee was up in Wyatt for a few days .
^ Today was a day that should not have been spent in a lab - it was and sunny ( ! ) and warm ( ! ! ) .
^ Well , I do n't know if or when you 'll get this .
^ I hope you enjoy your next few weeks .
^ Let me know how things are going if you have the time and internet access .
^ Until next time ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ hey Slobodan !
^ my presentation did n't impress anyone , I do n't think , but I avoided being fu..ed in the a.. by Flurries and Youngson simultaneously , and that was quite pleasing &SMILEY
^ I 'm off to get mein schlafen now , as I 'm not getting anything done , but I 'll be back in business this evening .
^ see you then , in you 're in .
^ Tora-tora-tora .
^ ~
^ Linzy ,
^ Are you up for a little cinema outing on Saturday ?
^ My parents and I are thinking of going to watch Wimbledon , and I was wondering if you wanted to come as well ...
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi Adam ,
^ The book " Behaviour and Understanding Processing " has been despatched to you and should arrive shortly via ParcelForce .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Hi Adam ,
^ The book " Princinples of Concurrent and Distributed Programming " has been despatched to you and should arrive shortly .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ hi Mr B ,
^ I have something to say which , failing to speak to you this evening , I 've decided to email to you .
^ Sounds like a cop-out rather than speaking face-to-face but , believe me , I 'd prefer to speak to you personally about it - I just want to get it said .
^ Please forgive my impatience !
^ Now that I 've got you scared , I 'll continue ...
^ I wanted to apologise if I was a bit short last night ( Tues ) when we spoke .
^ I think I probably was , and I have to admit I meant to be .
^ I have been - how shall I put it ? - a bit cheesed off recently with regards to our friendship .
^ Yes ... here I go again ! ! ( sorry ) .
^ We 've hardly talked at all this term , and I 've really missed it and it 's bothered me .
^ Can you remember when you came to my house at the end of last term and we had such a fun time ?
^ Well , I 've just wanted a bit of that .
^ Good chats and laughs etc , which for some reason do n't seem to have happened .
^ When I 've popped round you 've always either been out , in mid conversation with others , or working .
^ I do n't blame you for this at all ( I 'm to blame for a lot of it ) , it 's just been frustrating sometimes .
^ I guess I basically just wanted to tell you that you mean a lot to me and I value our friendship very much .
^ I guess that 's why I 've missed it so much .
^ Oh , and while I 'm in a very honest mood , I 'll tell you that I have been jealous .
^ Yes .
^ The chats I 've wanted , you 've had with Valeria - and I confess that in a horridly self-centred way I have been jealous .
^ In a way it 's only natural , but it shows what a nasty little body I am really .
^ Oh , why am I telling you this ? ?
^ Anyway , I 've been praying about this whole thing this evening and really hope I can put it all aside and work properly at my friendships .
^ I guess I 'm telling you all this so that you might understand a bit of where I 've been coming from .
^ Oh , and I do n't want you to think that by saying all this I am expecting anything back from you or whatever .
^ I just want any confusion which has been lingering about to go away and for us to be proper friends again .
^ You 'll probably think that nothing 's been wrong and that I 'm going o.t.t and blowing stuff out of proportion , but I am female and it is the privilege of our sex to do so ( ! ) . &SMILEY
^ Right , now that I said all I wanted to say ( I think ! ) , I 'll go to bed !
^ Hope you had a good evening and enjoyed Celebration Praise .
^ Man !
^ That guy was full of some amazing stories .
^ Hope the hashing ( or whatever you call it ) is going ok too ...
^ good night !
^ love Cody xxx
^ PS - I was seriously " scandalised " that you could n't remember my birthday ! .
^ &SMILEY PPS - if this has freaked you out , delete it from your inbox and from your memory bank , and accept my apologies for being a silly-billy
^ Lf R .
^ ~
^ it 's me , partha and a couple of annas here today ,
^ dan the man 'll be down later on to work what he calls " a full day " ...
^ people are generally fairly worried .
^ the fulfilment of the profecy has so far been elusive , it 's all about getting the right accuracy with the basic methods before I start interpolating .
^ And this varies quite a bit depending on the data I test on etc.
^ But I believe a tiny improvement is possible , 83.5 % is the insider 's tip .
^ I 've been writing a bit today , so the research part is suffering ...
^ go go go ! !
^ thorbos
^ ~
^ Hi all !
^ just a few random Wells thoughts to share ... .
^ has there always been the Wells logo / shieldy thing on the window panes along the bridge in Elvet 1 ?
^ Have the doors downstairs in Elvet always been dark red ?
^ Are tutors ever there when you want to see them ?
^ hmmm . little things to report ...
^ There is much scaffolding around Elvet Riverside ... but very little roof !
^ Bring umbrellas .
^ The computers in the upstairs computer rooms appear to have been replaced with cardboard boxes .
^ I wonder what 's inside them ? ? ! ! !
^ And lastly ... did n't there used to be a big cathedral thing ?
^ Ok .
^ I 'm mad .
^ I 'm going but just a few personals ...
^ Jack : I have n't a clue where you are or when you 're going , so hope you 're ok and keep me posted of addresses and dates etc.
^ Thanks for the postcard by the way !
^ Valeria : how goes it ? thanks for sending the cheque .
^ Suzy : Thanks for the parcel .
^ have n't opened it yet ... am being very good !
^ Cody : It was so great to see you the other night .
^ Thanks again for the meal .
^ I 'll have to tell you sometime about the match report I got from Patrick and Jo .
^ Honestly they were like a pair of 5 year olds !
^ Tabitha : Hope my last e-mail answered your question , i.e. I 'm going on the 26th .
^ Jon : Thanks .
^ You 're a star .
^ will be in touch .
^ Kates : my favourite nana , hope all the travel prep is going well .
^ Nick : hope you 're having a good holiday .
^ do n't really know where you 've been , what you 've been doing but I hope that all 's well .
^ Parker : Boo ! how 's things ?
^ Bob : Huh !
^ I 'm not talking to you ! ! ! get out ! !
^ Mallory : Hola !
^ Como est 's ? do n't let the spanish slip ... I expect e-mails written in spanish this year !
^ well that 's about all .
^ I must go off to the bank to collect my spanish potatoes , er .. pesetas .
^ I ordered &pound; 300 the other day and the woman told me I would have to pay commission if I brought any back .
^ I answered that much as it would be great , I did n't think that &pound; 900 would last me 9 months , let alone leave me with any change !
^ anyway , I promise to stop rambling rubbish now .
^ take care .
^ lots of love ,
^ Sylvia xxx
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^ ~
^ Hey bro ,
^ Hm - this must be from ww2 i suppose - my dad was a bit young back then ... but grandpa ...
^ How are things by the way ?
^ Have you found a decent football squad ?
^ How was your date with that Canadian girl ?
^ I seem to remember she 's only supposed to stay for one night , - but that 's all you need , now is n't it &SMILEY
^ Have you heard anything from the Commission for Advancement Incompetence ?
^ It would be nice to get a confirmation that we 've actually tortured ourselves through Munich ...
^ Emily went yesterday - he 's starting in a week 's time and moving into
^ Orlando 's old flat at Churchill ( Staircase 61 ) .
^ I told him I 'll be there when the houseparties begin to materialise .
^ My work is quite wicked , it 's all VB programming which is childs play when you 've fought battles with C++. - 8 till 4 every day , then running - most days .
^ I 've joined my old squad , although most of the guys that were there when I left have given up running .
^ But there are new guys coming through - a 21-year-old who 's done 1.53 for the 200 m - I 'll join in with his regime and see how it goes ...
^ My French is deteriorating exponentially .
^ Later .
^ G .
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam :
^ Please find attached reference for Sawyer Wheeler ( applicant for the Undergraduate Diploma in Computing via the Internet ) .
^ If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me .
^ Sincerely ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Hi Quinton ,
^ I 'm applying for funding from Munich to begin a PhD next year , and I was wondering if you would consider being my first referee .
^ The thing is that I 've only just got the forms , and I 'm leaving for South Africa to do some voluntary work for three months early Tuesday morning , so I have to get this sorted ASAP !
^ I do n't think the form requires much information , just a couple of general comments and a statement of my degree result .
^ I would then need you to send the form directly to the computer lab at Munich .
^ Hope things are well with you ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. How 's the Happy GLR stuff coming on ?
^ ~
^ Where on your website is the new bike registration section ?
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ 3,741.9 miles 11 states
^ Thelma & Louise xx
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^ Hi ,
^ I 'm coming to Munich in October to begin a PhD in the Physics Lab , and am interested in one of the rooms you are renting out .
^ I 'm a tidy , hygenic sort of person - I like sport , and do n't smoke or drink .
^ I 'll be in Munich on Friday ; would it be possible to see the room ( s ) ?
^ If so , what time would be convenient ?
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Colin ,
^ I 'm coming to Munich in October to begin a PhD in the Physics Lab , and am interested in the room you are renting out .
^ I 'll be in Munich on
^ Friday ; would it be possible to see the room ?
^ Where exactly is the house ?
^ If so , what time would be convenient ?
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ I 'm starting a PhD in Munich in October and interested in the room you 've got to rent ; I 'll be in Munich this Friday - is there any chance I could have a look at the room ?
^ If so , what time would be convenient ?
^ Cheers ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Bob ,
^ Just letting you know my time in school this month .
^ The first of December was a Monday , so by the end of term I will have done exactly three weeks - a total of nine days .
^ Thanks Bob ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ ~
^ LANCO ! !
^ update on your progress please , in fact I probably need to speak to you on the phone !
^ Hows munich ?
^ Hows no contact with roo ?
^ I am 2 days into a month of no contact with hannah so I can maybe sympathise more than most !
^ Have you got brices email address ?
^ Thought I 'd like to give him a mail .
^ Also do your parents have one ?
^ my phone no in cardiff is 00500 448062 in case u need it !
^ Enjoying life & God .
^ ( and even my course !
^ reading an engineering book just for fun ! ! ! ! ! )
^ catch u soon - love ya .
^ S
^ ~
^ Hey Brody ,
^ Ca n't remember whether I 've already emailed you or not , but just to let you know that I almost certainly will be coming to Munich in October as they have unofficially offered me funding for my PhD .
^ I 'm looking forward to seeing you again .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey partner !
^ Time for some updates .
^ The holiday is over , tomorrow is the day when I become part of the working classes , I will surrender my freedom at 0200 ( +1GMT ) .
^ I 've spent my time and money fairly wisely - spent the remaining kroner from my student loan on a car instead of the usual stuff ( liquer , ladies , sushi ... etc ) .
^ It 's 10 years of age , but fairly descent .
^ It 's main function so far has been to take me around the south-eastern parts of Norway , to see frields , run and go on canoe-trips .
^ I visited ystein ( the guy who came to play frisbee with us and to your barbeque ) in Oslo .
^ He 's dumped / been dumped by ( I do n't know which )
^ his latest girlfriend ( again - happens on a weekly / monthly basis ) , but he 's pretty much enjoying life ... ( the sly little fish
^ Emily and I have done loads of running .
^ Emily 's getting into shape - He 's traditionally been a bit heavier than me and hence slower .
^ now he 's slimmed down and gotten down to business with his training , and today I had a hard time gaining any distance on him
^ I 've also done a couple of races , - but I do not wish to convey my rather embarrasing results .
^ Jack has worked the past month for the company I 'm starting at tomorrow .
^ Tobias , another friend who I studied with at Freud-Jacobson also works there , and his dad ( who happens to be a fricking pastor ) own and runs the whole place .
^ Dag , yet another guy from Freud-Jacobson is starting there in a month .
^ What a wonderful , great , happy little piece of local business ! !
^ I talked to the pastor himself a few weeks back , and he had great news : I 'm gonna be responsible for the the department , - no Sir , I 'm not kidding you .
^ I 'm the responsible for the companies expansion into rubbish ! ! ( ok - I 'm supposed to make a database application for rubbish collection so )
^ the guys collecting the crap can jake the people they collect from - it 's a fast growing sector - hurray !
^ Kristian , a dubious friend of mine , and I went on a canoe trip to the Norwegian mountains , and paddled a mountain lake .
^ It was fairly cold , but not below zero ( luckily - since that would mean ice - ) hard to paddle ... )
^ The trip was well documented , - and the pictures will be made publicly available shortly .
^ The latest week has been spent reintroducing television , more specificly the athletics world champs in Milan .
^ The 200 m today was won in a very ordinary time , 1.44-high , - there is still hope ...
^ The Sweeds are doing terrificly , while my country did n't get a single medal , they are relatively arrogant now , the Sweeds - flipping !
^ We won some rowing though .
^ A guy with the incredible Norwegian name OLAF TUFTE won the &YEAR m singles yesterday , nobody cares , but hell - we won something !
^ Anyway , my convinction about the quality of female athletes has been reinforced , as long as you discount for the ones bred on and testosteron .
^ With regards to the bird-business , I 'm staying out of trouble as usual , playing it safe , avoiding women at all cost !
^ although I went to a party last week with a bucnch of cross-country skiers , a group of people whoose female specimen are of the extraordinary healthy sort
^ How about you , bounty-hunter ?
^ Well , - hope you 're enjoying , - take it easy now .
^ Jens .
^ ~
^ Hi Nick - Merry Christmas !
^ I hope you had a wicked day and lots of fun .
^ I certainly did .
^ Got some nice presents and had a good laugh in the afternoon playing games .
^ I was just re reading your mail and I realised I didnt say anything about skiing .
^ let me tell you , Rio is right near SO MANY resorts that you could choose one of many wicked places for your Easter ski trip
^ It would be wicked if you came somewhere nearby cause I could come up and visit you for a days skiing and you could even come down here to see Rio ! !
^ Anyway , that was all I wanted to say , so Ill leave it at that .
^ Im going back to DH on the 5th , just booked my flight .
^ Good well done .
^ Hope you had a lovely time and happy new year if I dont hear from you before !
^ Love Isaiah
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^ ~
^ Hi Nick
^ Thanks for the mail .
^ Glad to hear you are well .. hows the new house ?
^ Things here are good , cept Nicolay left today .
^ Doh !
^ We had a good time while he was here and were able to ski for the last 2 days .
^ He loved snowboarding so much he is hoping to come back at Easter and come skiing for a week .
^ Hurrah !
^ How was Carlisle ?
^ I went there on my way home .
^ Stayed at Lukes and then at Eds flat .
^ Had a nice time meeting up with people too .
^ Where is Joshua at uni ?
^ Are you going to be at your grandparents for Christmas ?
^ I cant wait , i love Christmas ... dont yet know what to do for new year though ..
^ not sure if I want to be here or in the UK or in a ski resort ...
^ still , will suss that out soon
^ You have any plans ?
^ Thats me for now ... just got in from celebrating my friend Natalies ( shes at Trevs , you may have met her ) birthday which was fun .
^ Am knackered now ! !
^ Take care ,
^ love Isaiah
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^ ~
^ lance sorry for not saying goodbye to you proberly ,
^ things got into a bit of a rush with the whole packing up thing
^ i stayed at eleanors on sat and sun night in newcastle and got home finally this evening .
^ quite glad to be home , but it 's very strange
^ especially knowing that i 've got to stay here for 3 months .
^ enjoy your last week , hope the graduation stuff goes ok
^ love ashley
^ ~
^ Aw , Nick , Did no one reply to you ?
^ Bob
^ I have a copy of Sound Diver JV / LJ , and I want to run it along-side my &WEBSITE ) .
^ How can I do this ? ? ? ?
^ Please Help .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone ( &EMAIL )
^ Robert K. Greetings 0464 948 4426
^ Worcester B , St. Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Maximus 's Garth ,
^ Wells , WI3 2WP
^ St. Philip 's College
^ 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
^ Department of Geological Sciences
^ University of Wells
^ ~
^ Hi Giles !
^ Just a slightly random question : do you remember the tune to the verse of the Christmas song " The Gift Goes On " ?
^ The words are :
^ Do n't you love to get a present wrapped up in a Christmas bow
^ God gave each of us a present on that night so long ago
^ It 's a Gift that keeps on giving if our spirits can receive
^ It 's the secret joy of living if our hearts can just believe
^ We 're using it at Victoria for their Christmas production ( if we can remember how the verse goes ! ) .
^ If you can remember , could you email me your phone number and I 'll give you a ring .
^ Hope you 're well Giles .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ ~
^ I spent ages writing a message the other day and then Hotmail would n't send it properly .
^ I apologise if it did eventually get through and therefore I 'm now going to repeat myself .
^ I 'm never ever going to have kids .
^ Ever .
^ They are little terrors .
^ We had a thunderstorm so we could n't go swimming and so they decided to run around the house , shouting and basically causing as much chaos as possible .
^ Then when the mother got back , butter would n't melt !
^ But they are sweet , when they 're asleep !
^ Things are going quite well apart from that .
^ Am much more settled now and feel less homesick .
^ I went to Oxley for the day on Sunday with some people I 've met here .
^ It was really hot and sunny and I had a really good day .
^ It was quite nice to have a bit of a break from the family too .
^ This weekend we are going camping which should be quite interesting as 12 other families are going too .
^ Answering a few questions ..
^ I 'm here in Spain until the end of the month .
^ Then I was supposed to go to Kaylee for a month but there 's a hiccup there so I 'm not sure where I 'll be .
^ Probably in Spain to make a change !
^ I will definitely be at home in September though until the 26th .
^ Although I 'll probably be making a couple of trips up to Wells for one reason or another in those weeks !
^ A few personals again before I go ...
^ Louie , can you give me Alex 's e-mail address please because I forgot it .
^ Maximus , thanks for the letter .
^ Hope the wrist is on the mend .
^ Laterz , thanks for your letter .
^ You have confirmed that you are completely insane !
^ Mallory , You 'll have to sue the Space jame playstation game for taking your line .
^ Everytime someone gets knocked on the basketball court the commentator says " ouch ! that hurts ! "
^ Made me think of you !
^ Nick , thanks for the message .
^ I 'll think about you haveing to get up early !
^ Bob , enjoy the Oasis concert !
^ glad last Saturday went well .
^ bet you were glad to see a certain person too .
^ Niks , see last comment above
^ Tanner , how about some news mate !
^ Everyone , thanks for all the text messages and e-mails .
^ Well , I must go now .
^ Will be in touch soon .
^ love from
^ Sylvia xxx
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey Hebrew !
^ That 's right , - after a fattening and horribly freezing Christmas I 'm back in business !
^ How about you , son .
^ Gained any mass over the holidays ?
^ My plan of doing no studying at all while in Norway worked out quite successfully , but I 'm getting into gear now . .
^ I 'm doing Blomerley stuff at home at the moment , and I 'll be down in the lab either tomorrow or on Wednesday ...
^ where I 'll expect to find you , - in total control of everything ...
^ Rooke . ( the one who eats cakes )
^ steamin hunk
^ Nick - thanks for email - and phone call .
^ Glad to hear Chads rolled all over Reader - pity Tottenham allowed Gloucester to do the same to them !
^ Stuart Ronald has submitted his UCAS personal statement to me for possible adjustments - it begins :
^ " I have been extremely interested in films for as long as I can remember . . "
^ This ( predictably really ) from the student who once started a history essay
^ " Connery VII and Connery VIII were two completely different people. . "
^ Other choice excerpts : " Quentin Leishman : Man and his Movies " gave me a really good look into the mind of Mr Leishman
^ seeing what made him tick .. " and " I have been out of school since July &YEAR
^ I tried a number of part-time jobs but found nothing that was either stimulating enough or paid enough .
^ and finally , the closing statement :
^ " I enjoy " showing-off my newfound skills to friends and family .
^ Universities will be queueing up !
^ - D
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ I 'm looking for two types of strapping tape to support an ankle injury :
^ 1) a rigid adhesive strapping tape , sometimes known as " extension strapping "
^ 2) an elastic adhesive strapping tape
^ Please could you advise on which products would meet these needs .
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ any idea whats happened to brumming ?
^ Er ... not really .
^ Heard from him a couple of weeks ago about a possible job in LA , but not since .
^ so how 's the teaching going then ?
^ Was trying to teach the gospel classic " Oh Happy Day " to a group of the most musically challenged kids I 've ever met .
^ Most of them would n't know an A major if it came up and slapped them in the larynx .
^ Soul destroying .
^ Bless them .
^ how 's england ?
^ Today has that classic " dull grey " feel , where the air feels like a wet blanket .
^ The leaves are indeed plentiful .
^ We 've hardly had any rain since you left though , so I 'm not complaining .
^ Anyway , I like Brighton .
^ any sign of those lucrative contracts yet ?
^ Not a single lucrative contract in sight .
^ However , I 'm having fun writing my paper for free .
^ I have learned LaTeX and am getting to grips with it ...
^ I am momentarily distracted by the morbidly fascinating sight of a small spider on the outside of my bedroom window attempting to consume some sort of flying insect approximately sixteen times its size ...
^ Anyway .
^ Lalala .
^ Laterz ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Linzy , I feel the sketch yesterday was a STORMING success .
^ Good job man , good job .
^ Once more , I feel we have outdone ourselves .
^ What a team ! &SMILEY
^ I watched the video last night - it came out OK ; definitely good enough to get the idea .
^ Could you email me your two scripts , and I 'll type up the fifth and collate them all , ready for publication !
^ Speak soon dude ,
^ O
^ ~
^ Garcons ,
^ Voulez-vous venir chez moi dimanche soir pour un bon repas et des bons temps ?
^ Veuillez agreer , Messieurs , l'expression de mes sentiments les plus distinguees ,
^ Rylee
^ Rylee Macer 25 Paradise Street , Munich , JD3 1DR ntl ) 05005 064028 orange ) 05505 846202 &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Well , I was jabbed today , and am thus immune to every disease known to man .
^ I do need to get some anti-malarial tablets though ... thought I might try and get some doxycycline while I 'm out there as it might be cheaper .
^ Leilani said she left a bit as well .
^ Can you get doxycycline from the LT chemist ?
^ Lots of love chaps ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ " ello , " ello , ello !
^ So , how were your last days at work ? ?
^ I hope you had a great finish and have enjoyed the weekend .
^ What are you getting up to this week ?
^ I know you 're off to Jaiden 's wedding on Fri / saturday ( Terrance told me when she phoned the other day ) , and then you 're going to Munich for the punting party .
^ Wish I was going , but never mind !
^ I hope you all have a really great time , which I 'm sure you will !
^ Life here in Pigeon-ville ( or the Concrete Jungle , depending on what mood I 'm in ! ) continues to be pretty non-eventful .
^ That does n't mean I 've been up to nothing though - by no means !
^ I 've had a pretty active week : practicing pool , football ( still ca n't do those flick-ups very well ! ) and netball , and trying - with limited success - to learn some tunes on the piano .
^ I 've also weeded our untidy garden so that it now looks wonderfully civilized , and cleaned the house .
^ Great stuff .
^ We 've got a builder in today .
^ He 's re-tiling the bathroom and is making an unbelievable amount of mess !
^ His mobile phone rings every 5 minutes , and he 's one of those who likes un-limited amounts of coffee !
^ The oil-price protests are going mad here in the north-east , and there are warnings that petrol pumps could have " run dry " by the end of the week unless protesters stop blocking the oil depos .
^ The queues at petrol stations this morning were crazy , and some stations have already run out of diesel .
^ Uh-oh , does n't look too good - our car is a diesel and mam uses it every day to get to work in North Shields .
^ The go-slow protests on the roads caused mayhem on Saturday as 56,000 people tried to get to the football match at !
^ St. Jade ' Park - some people were late or even missed the game as a consequence - so they are not happy magpies
^ Talking of the football , a guy called Shola Blackily made his
^ Noel Utd debut on saturday .
^ He is from a lovely christian Nigerian family who went to my junior school while I was there , and his sister was one of my best friends .
^ It was so nice to see him hit the local headlines - I hope he goes far .
^ Oh , and before I forget , I have something to ask you .
^ A man at church is having problems with his computer , and asked if he could pick MY brains .
^ Well , I was of no help , but I thought I could try asking you .
^ He has just got a CD-rewritable thingy and is having problems with it .
^ He can record stuff on the CDs , and play it back on his PC , but cannot play it on other CD players .
^ Basically what he 's been doing is recording music on his computer , putting it on CDs and then wanting to take them to his school to play in assemblies etc - but he ca n't do this last bit .
^ The programme he has is called " winoncd 3.7 " ( mean anything to you ? ! ? ) .
^ I suggested he may be using the wrong format or something , but that may be out-the-window , so he asked me to seek your " professional " advice !
^ Can you help ?
^ Any ideas would be gratefully recieved !
^ So , how 's the flat stuff going ?
^ Parker told me in his last e-mail that he has been busy communicating with the 2D people via e-mail for the last two weeks or so .
^ ( 2D 2 dimensional flat , as opposed to 3D . I.e. the flat people got it ? )
^ We have e-mailed 6,350 words all concerning our little abode for the upcoming year .
^ Well , you 've all been a lot more active than us , although it seems that our arrangements ( scarce though they may be ) are working ok .
^ Several of us have moved quite a bit of stuff in , and more is to come .
^ I am still playing with the idea of painting , but my enthusiasm for this plan is dwindling fast !
^ Well , better go - hope you 're having fun CU , love , Roof
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^ ~
^ i am getting Bob 's emails , thank you tim .
^ maybe we should have a list of stuff still to get , here is what i am on so far :
^ microwave ( incidentally roo and i have decided it 's too expensive and we
^ do n't want one , so cross that off )
^ saucepans ( do we really not get saucepans ? )
^ other stuff
^ i am going to buy a corkscrew , this will intrest only roo .
^ i am going to buy some wine glasses , ditto .
^ what are we going to do about a video ?
^ i am looking forward to seeing you all ,
^ love cat ( raiser of problems ) xx
^ From : Jay Greetings ( &EMAIL )
^ Reply-To : Jay Greetings ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Subject : a message from Bob
^ Date : &DATE &TIME ( BST )
^ The flat saga continues to unfold ...
^ Happy reading ,
^ Orlando
^ Dear Tabitha , Jon , Sawyer and Nick ... ...
^ I hope the spelling in this message is better than the last one .
^ I am writing again , not for any particular reason , but only to chat .
^ I have had a spell of bad days at work .
^ It seems that all the tourists have
^ died
^ are
^ no longer with us here in Munich , which means that the town is quieter ,
^ but
^ also
^ means that I do n't get paid .
^ Oh well !
^ Enough about work .
^ It is such a boring subject .
^ BTW , if I start talking about it too much either when you come , or next
^ year ,
^ please
^ hit me aver the head with a brass chelaghily , and tell me to shut up !
^ As I think I said in the last message , I 'm looking forward to seeing you
^ again .
^ It will be
^ good to meet up before term stars so as to have some time to chill , and not
^ worry
^ about essays and such .
^ I wonder how many of you have heeded Sawyer 's advice
^ regarding the curtains at our flat ?
^ Anyone ?
^ Can you remember this time last year , when we were all looking forward to
^ ~
^ to
^ college ?
^ It seems so long ago now .
^ Oh , how we have all changed since then !
^ Can
^ you
^ remember getting out from your car , and being greeted by name ?
^ Did this
^ happen
^ to
^ you Jon ? )
^ Jay has just handed me some e-mails which he has printed out and brought
^ home , I
^ may have already made this point clear , but as I do n't know when you sent
^ these ,
^ and
^ there may be some confusion ... .
^ From an economically , minded person to you
^ lot ,
^ SPLITTING THE COST OF APPLIANCES FIVE WAYS IS A BAD IDEA .
^ OK ,
^ back to this e-mail ...
^ I 've just read a really good book , called Chasing the Dragon .
^ It is by Emely Pullenger
^ or something like that ) and is about her missionary work in Conroy Hindmarsh .
^ She spent most of her time , it seems in the walled city there , with the drug dealers ,
^ heroin and opium addicts and the like .
^ It reminded me quite a lot of the stories that Josue told us on the CU houseparty .
^ God really works .
^ It was quite useful , I think for me to read , as one of the things which I understand the least is speaking in tongues
^ and yet much of the book was about situations where this was used .
^ It seems that it is a cure for drug addiction .
^ Weird huh ?
^ Anyway , coming from a tongue free background , I
^ think it
^ was
^ a useful read .
^ I 'm also reading Moonfleet at the moment .
^ I like it too .
^ I got a really cool CD the other day , called A Celtic Celebration .
^ It is a two CD binge ,
^ full of ...... Celtic music .
^ Really good !
^ There are bands like Iona , Eden 's
^ burning , etc ... .
^ Jon , are you getting these e-mails now ?
^ If you are , will you send a message
^ saying so ?
^ Thanks .
^ Ok , supper soon .
^ Take Big Care People ,
^ Chow
^ Goodbye ,
^ See ya
^ Au revoir ( do I hear screams yet ? )
^ Bob
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^ ~
^ Hi Dwayne ,
^ Just a note to say thanks for coming to my party on Saturday and thanks for
^ the CD and chocolates ; I really like Philip Coulthard - in fact I 'm listening to
^ it as we speak ...
^ I hope everyone had a good time - it was certainly a pleasure playing frisbee alongside you !
^ I 'm really glad to have been able to get to know you a bit over the last
^ months Dwayne - you 're a fantastic young man and I 'm sure you 'll have a great
^ future .
^ I 'll miss all of you ( the posse ) when I 'm in South Africa , but look
^ forward to a glorious reunion when I get back in the summer !
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Sallytie ,
^ Just a quick note to say thanks for coming to my party and for the CD which
^ I 'm listening to RIGHT NOW !
^ It 's awesome .
^ We 've had some great fun this
^ year ( well , I have anyway ) and it 's been fantastic spending time with you
^ Dwayne both in and out of school .
^ I do n't want to get too sentimental
^ now , cos I 've still got a few weeks before I go to SA , and anyway I 'll be
^ back for the summer - party on !
^ So , thanks again , and keep it real ,
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Rylee ,
^ Thanks ( kind of ) for the mug : o ) , and thanks ( definitely ) for the money , and
^ thanks ( absolutely ) for coming to my party !
^ It was great to have you there ,
^ I hope you enjoyed it .
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Ed .
^ How was Stomp ?
^ Thanks for coming down last Friday - it was a real treat to have you here ,
^ great to talk .
^ Also , thanks for the guitar strings ; I 'm sure they will
^ hum beautifully when I get around to putting them on ...
^ Time marches on !
^ Love Nick xx
^ P.S. I got my hair cut today - short and sweet .
^ ~
^ Hi Stevo ,
^ Thanks for asking my sister over .
^ We dropped her off yesterday and it 's
^ been pretty hard for my mum especially .
^ I think my sister is feeling pretty
^ lonely right now too .
^ I guess there 's just no easy way of dealing with the initial feeling of homesickness ...
^ I 'll see you when I see you old boy ,
^ Nick
^ P.S. GNR ?
^ ~
^ Dear Jack and Harriet ,
^ Thanks for having me over yesterday .
^ I had great fun spending time with you
^ with the kids - finally destroying Jade ' Star Wars base was a particular high-point .
^ I really enjoy the company of all of your special
^ children ( and yours ' as well of course ! ) .
^ I hope to keep in touch , and
^ would love to meet up again when I 'm back in Luxembourg .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Jude ,
^ Just a note to say a BIG thankyou for the NLPJHTP card and book , which I am
^ looking forward to reading .
^ It was great to have you there on Saturday ,
^ despite your cries of " That 's garbage Malone ! ! " during the frisbee .
^ I will
^ miss you big time when I jet off to SA ( actually , that does depend a bit on
^ how many attractive girls I meet ... ) but I look forward to spending a few
^ glorious weeks with you in the summer when I get back .
^ Soon ,
^ Nick
^ the Compton newsletter of January &YEAR A.D .
^ ~
^ You 've gatt yaurself a deeal , Misster .
^ 4.00 at track - pray for no .
^ theT .
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ Can we make it &TIME at the track Jens ?
^ I 'm balling at about &TIME .
^ Allen
^ benja ,
^ do you want to do induldge in some physical exercise ?
^ I 'm partying with Nin at 6.30 , so 4.30 would be a good time , if you want
^ to do track ...
^ when are you going balling ?
^ session : sprints - 60s / 80s - followed by mayhem300s in various forms . )
^ G .
^ ~
^ Hello Nick !
^ You are the first to receive a message from this address !
^ I hope you feel honoured !
^ Izabella
^ Get free email at &WEBSITE and visit &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Robbie ,
^ OK , possible dates are as follows :
^ A weekend in March would be possible - one of the last three ( Sat 13 , 20 , 27 ) .
^ If I was going to do a Saturday then I 'd leave on Friday after my
^ school duties are finished , however I would n't get to yours before about
^ &TIME I reckon , which would mean I 'd probably need to get a pretty early
^ start on the Saturday to spend an hour or so working on the kit before we
^ officially " start " .
^ However , a Saturday would be quite good from the point
^ of view that I could easily stay over and come back on Sunday .
^ The only
^ other possibility I could really do would be a Tuesday , as that 's my day
^ off .
^ The advantage of that would be I 'd probably be able to arrive a little
^ earlier on Monday ( around &TIME probably ) and thus maybe spend a bit of time looking at the equipment that evening .
^ However , on the down side , it
^ would all be a bit more rushed than the weekend .
^ Pretty much any Tuesday
^ between now and the end of March would probably be OK .
^ Right , speak soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Rider !
^ The land of the fjords is BEutiful ! !
^ I reccommend you make your way over here immediately .
^ I 've spent my time looking for flats and got one today ,
^ the most central flat in Lillehammer I 'd say , quite pleased with that ...
^ Went out on Saturday night , and my oh my what I 've BEEN MISSING ! ! !
^ Met a girl who was my girlfriend when we were 12 - ...
^ The years have treated her well , although one has to take into account that I 've been starved at length so I 'm not quite objective ...
^ the first thing she asked me was if I wanted to share a flat ,
^ the second thing was if I was single ...
^ ( she actually mentioned marrige )
^ ( nothing happend naturally - we 're sivilized &SMILEY )
^ may this only continue ...
^ I have n't got my results , but I 'm sure you 'll beat me with that ( as usual ) , -
^ not that it 's surprising .
^ congrats anyway .
^ We get weather reports every day reporting 900 deg F at Heathrow ,
^ it 's been good here as well although not that baking ( 25C at most )
^ My mum was impressed by your drawing , and rather less so with mine ...
^ May the enjoyment continue !
^ mail again soon .
^ Jensky .
^ ~
^ Hi Jens ,
^ How 's the rubbish disposal ?
^ Are you enjoying being a bin-man ?
^ Guess what , I 've started doing circuits again !
^ Yes , my sister and I have
^ been doing all your old moves , and we have also incorporated some exciting new variants , such as handstands
^ ( not to be confused with Nic Cage 's ) and skipping .
^ Should hear from Alfie in a week or so about the PhD next year .
^ I 'm going snow-boarding in Spain this Christmas with my Dad and my brother !
^ Today I 've got a throat infection - ARRRRGGGH .
^ Bye ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ quote of the day :
^ Get your love some roses .
^ There is nothing more romantic
^ than the gift of the decaying , severed sexual organs of plants grown in mounds of cow manure .
^ - &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ quote of the day :
^ Get your love some roses .
^ There is nothing more romantic
^ than the gift of the decaying , severed sexual organs of plants grown in mounds of cow manure .
^ - &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Rose ... it 's nearly your birthday ... ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ ~
^ Hi Jensky .
^ I 'll send you some pictures .
^ I wait with baited breath ...
^ Sheize !
^ Imagine what that smile will be like if you loose them !
^ What
^ will the ladies say ?
^ I know .
^ A fate worse than death ... but it seems that I am healing quite
^ well .
^ Thanks be to God .
^ How is the old ankle by the way ?
^ Well , I did have a " twinge " while playing 5-a-side the other day , so I 'm
^ strapping it every time I play , and it seems to be holding up OK .
^ Did some
^ more circuits today .
^ Felt pretty unfit though .
^ Had a laugh remembering Annie
^ doing circuits with those Quarter-backs at Churchill ! !
^ My very dear Sim awarded my search for truth with an A- .
^ A- for that piece of $%*@ ! ! ! !
^ No , only joking - you deserve it buddy . &SMILEY
^ Glad to hear you 're freezing your butt off .
^ It was pretty cold here
^ yesterday too - even had some ice on the car ! ! !
^ We 've got slightly more
^ daylight than you , but it 's still pretty dark .
^ Keep searching ,
^ Kane
^ ~
^ First things first : Elbrus is a mountain ( I believe )
^ Who is this " Kat " ? ?
^ Do I know her ?
^ Hang on a minute ...
^ I think I do
^ know
^ her - is she the one was with us when we went to that dance in Churchill
^ during Alexis 's week ?
^ Is she friends with Katherine and Phillipa ?
^ Yep , that 's the one .
^ Rather strange voice though ...
^ And what a collection of splendidly built young females ! !
^ I can only imagine ... are there any particular splendid females in your
^ life
^ Jensky , or just a general stream ?
^ I 'll send you some pictures .
^ I played football today and got CANED ( by a football boot I think ) in the face , rendering two of my front teeth virtually useless
^ ( at least temporarily ! ) .
^ Sheize !
^ Imagine what that smile will be like if you loose them !
^ What
^ will the ladies say ?
^ How is the old ankle by the way ?
^ I 've finally found out what ze-germans mean by " a very good mark " .
^ It
^ turned out the letter 's been with Vijay for a couple of months &SMILEY
^ ( good old vijay )
^ My very dear Sim awarded my search for truth with an A- .
^ Emily 's doing just fine - the girls talk to him ( he 's amazed by this
^ fact )
^ We 've got -5 to -10 and enough snow to go skiing .
^ There is light between
^ 9 and 4 .
^ Love it !
^ G .
^ ~
^ Nick -
^ I had no idea that it would be so hard for you to follow in my footsteps as the " choral director " of the school .
^ now that I look back on it , I can see that , Yes , it must be terribly hard
^ 
^ Every time I heard it , i had tears spring to my eyes .
^ or wait ... maybe it was the worst thing i 've ever heard , and that 's why there were tears )
^ i ca n't remember .
^ either way , you have a lot to live up to , so i will be praying for you.
^ I would actually like to discuss this portion of the email that I received from you :
^ how come when i was there , i was the ONLY person my age ...
^ Is n't it ironic ? ? ?
^ And now there are about 50 young male teachers !
^ What a shame .
^ What a CRYING shame .
^ I would first like to state that the last time I checked there seemed to be only 2 or 3 young male teachers there )
^ as far as devatatingly handsome goes , I would n't really consider your father YOUNG ....
^ so maybe that paragraph should go up for a revision !
^ No honestly though , i feel it is ironic AND a crying shame .
^ in fact i cry every night thinking of all the fun we would have had together this year .
^ Then again , maybe Victoria would n't have been able to handle THAT much fun .
^ We all know Camron and I would have gotten no work done becuase we 'd have been talking all the time .
^ I know , it 's hard for you to imagine that ... but it 's true .
^ You did n't know me well enough to find out that I like to talk and have fun !
^ i 'm gonna tell you now , once you FINALLY figure me out ...
^ there 's a crazy girl hidden under this quiet exterior
^ Enough about me , let 's talk about you .
^ thanks for your email ... i needed a laugh tonight .
^ who knew lance medlock was so funny ? ? ?
^ I suppose i should have guessed though from the time i spent with the rest of your family .
^ I realize ( oops , i mean realise ) that I am sending you quite a long email but somehow I find it hard to stop talking .
^ I think it 's because as I type i keep thinking of everyone there and your family and I find it hard to not miss them so much ! !
^ Maybe emailing is me feeling like i 'm staying connected somehow .
^ I do n't know ... either way , thanks for reading and for making me laugh .
^ Hey if you think of it , when you do music with the little kids , get them to do the Bumble Bee warmup .
^ It 's my favorite ... and tell them i miss them ! ! ) okay lance ...
^ hope you have a lovely evening .
^ lots of love to you and everyone there ! !
^ Donald
^ From : " Nick Malone "
^ To : " Donald DeFunji "
^ Subject : Re : do n't worry , this is n't junk mail ...
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Junk mail from you Donald ? ? ?
^ How could you possibly imagine that I would think
^ such a thing ?
^ Yes , sorry about the multiple email thing ; not quite sure what happened
^ there .
^ Anyway , if you 'd like a few more copies , just let me know ... .
^ By the way Donald , I feel that since we became such good friends over Easter
^ when we spent an entire day buying paint for my dad , I just HAD to write to
^ say I miss you and PLEASE COME BACK TO ENGLAND ! ! ! !
^ Not sure why I said that ... just spontaneity I suppose .
^ how come when i was there , i was the ONLY person my age ...
^ Enjoy online games and music with a high-speed Internet connection !
^ Prices start at less than $ 1 a day average .
^ Prices may vary by service area .
^ ~
^ To my erstwhile flatmates to be:
^ My friends , I am about to embark on a journey of epic proportions , whereby I
^ travel to the wilds of a savage country in an effort to civilise the natives ,
^ who , from what I am have gathered , are most vicious .
^ You will have
^ guessed by now that I am to depart for Scotland tomorrow , and that my nerves
^ are in tatters .
^ I wanted to send you all a farewell ( no pun intended ) message before I went ,
^ mainly concerned with the humdrum daily life we intend to lead together as
^ of next year .
^ I am a humble seeker after information :
^ 1. How much are we putting in the account each week ?
^ 2. What does this cover ?
^ Is it just food , or is it household commodities
^ also ( eg dettol , I realise bulk buying is cheaper ) , and electricity bills ?
^ 3. What does anybody estimate elec. , food , and other necessary stuff to cost ?
^ 4. Can we have a TV please ?
^ I would quite like one , and it would save you
^ all from having to talk to me .
^ Mums and the pater have agreed that we can
^ have our familial " little TV " in the flat .
^ If we have a TV , we need to
^ investigate whether it would be cheaper to have this or to hire one .
^ And
^ what about a video ?
^ Do we really need a TV licence ?
^ Ca n't we just get away
^ without one ?
^ Just kidding , but we need to discuss why Libby wo n't marry Drew
^ in Neighbours ... sorry , I mean we need to discuss all this first .
^ And if I
^ turns out we do n't have a black box , I know I 'll survive .
^ 5. Guys ( literally ) , after your meeting at the end of term , which items
^ necessary for our daily living do you require my fellow missionary and I to
^ buy ?
^ Tell me now , while I have money in the bank .
^ Or at least , less of an
^ overdraft .
^ I am coming to the end of my packet of Minstrels , and therefore my
^ imagination .
^ I shall leave you all to pray for my safekeeping , and torture
^ yourself with thoughts of my early death at the hands of the saveges ( if not
^ Sawyer ) .
^ I hope you all have a very interesting week discussing this , and
^ you manage to make all the difficult decisions prior to my return .
^ Blessings to you all , my best and most favoured of friends ,
^ Antoinetta , aka Jon , Donald , Annie , Cleo , Toadie , Antoine , Rosie , The Jon ,
^ Nina , Toni , blah , blah , blah ...
^ PS How bizarre if this were you , Bob : my mother and sister went to Munich
^ on Thursday , to Kassidy College , to see if my sister liked it .
^ She
^ should , of course , have done this before accepting the place .
^ But hey .
^ Anyway , while they were there , Mums said she saw students asking people if
^ they wanted to go punting .
^ I said politely , O really ?
^ Bob does that .
^ She
^ said , does he have auburn hair ?
^ Because I saw one boy with auburn hair ?
^ Hmmm ...
^ PPS Sawyer , please do n't viciously and amusingly reply to my remarks about
^ your motherland .
^ I was just kidding , for one thing , and for another , I wo n't
^ be around to appreciate them .
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^ Hi Kaden !
^ How goes it sir ?
^ I 've had a good few months here at home , working in school and recording
^ music and stuff .
^ However , on April 6th I am off to South Africa for three
^ months !
^ It should be a fantastic experience , and I feel like I could really
^ do with a total change soon .
^ I 'm waiting to hear from Munich about
^ whether or not they 're going to give me funding to start my PhD next year ,
^ then I guess I 'll have to make some decisions about my future ...
^ Anyway , I hope you 're doing OK Kaden , and I look forward to hearing how
^ things are going with the project etc .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Els ,
^ Weird things happen in normal days ...
^ That is weird .
^ Maybe it was God ! ?
^ You should probably have said Speak
^ Lord , your servant is listening ...
^ By the way , what is a munchkin ?
^ Philip wants me to ask you about the school in South Africa .
^ I 'm sure he would be useful .
^ The Rolomandi school is pretty short-staffed
^ at the moment , so I speculate that there would definitely be an opening if
^ Philip was interested .
^ Josue Broderick is the prinicipal of the school , and Philip
^ can contact him on &EMAIL .
^ He is welcome to email me for more
^ information about what it 's like , etc .
^ I 'm sure I 've temporarily lost my sense of humour .
^ Shame .
^ These things happen .
^ Take a glass of churned cricket blood ; I 've
^ heard it helps .
^ What is the point of laying my burdens at the cross if I insist on picking them up again ?
^ Indeed - Galatians 5 : 1 - easier said than done though ...
^ I think that the pumpkin has gone mouldy .
^ Which pumpkin ?
^ Now , I want to ask you a personal question Els .
^ You are getting married
^ shortly , and I wanted to ask you why you 're getting married , and whether you
^ are at peace about it .
^ You have n't said much about it , and I want to give
^ you a chance to talk if you want to ( but of course you do n't have to ) .
^ OK , I 'm off to seize the day .
^ Nick
^ Hey there ,
^ Weird things happen in normal days .
^ I woke up to a nuisance caller at 3
^ am
^ who knew my name and kept calling me deaf .
^ My day seems all the more
^ surreal .
^ Philip wants me to ask you about the school in South Africa .
^ He wants to
^ ~
^ out in South Africa and / or China ( and maybe CEE ) .
^ He 's thinking of taking a year out before uni .
^ I think the gist of the question is would he be
^ welcome or useful .
^ He 's not as awful as he pretends .
^ I 'm sure I 've temporarily lost my sense of humour .
^ Somewhere .
^ In the fog
^ of stress and responsibility .
^ What is the point of laying my burdens at the cross if I insist on picking them up again ?
^ ~
^ Hey Nick
^ I just thought I 'd mess around with words and it can be fun and yet
^ afterwards I 'm even sure what the words mean .
^ You can send whomever .
^ I can mix it up with the best of them .
^ Eric is coping fine .
^ I think .
^ " I 'll keep 2 eyes on her , as often as I can spare them . "
^ Anything you would n't approve of .
^ Is there any such thing .
^ Ha ha ha .
^ I 'm getting The Hatherley Returns Extended about November .
^ They have added a whole hour on to the already 3 and a half hours .
^ That means I 'll have about
^ 12 hours of Lord of The Rings to watch .
^ Shrek 2 is the last movie I watched .
^ Seeing as I am all the way out here there wo n't be much more for me to watch
^ in a long time .
^ I wo n't tell a soul about your um , er , hmmmm , experience with donating
^ blood .
^ It is nothing to be ashamed of .
^ I know some other people like that .
^ They just wanna pass out at the sight of blood .
^ Cold , What cold ?
^ I fought it off .
^ It never went beyond my nose leaking .
^ Praise the Lord .
^ It is good hearing from you again .
^ And remember .
^ What goes around Comes
^ around .
^ Bfn
^ Riaan .
^ ~
^ ~
^ hello BWM !
^ hope you have had a lovely week since I spoke to you on Sunday .
^ Thanks for
^ ringing !
^ It was great to hear your voice !
^ The rest of my birthday was lovely - picnicing and listening to talks in the Longhorsley tent .
^ My week has been really nice too .
^ Mam has been off work
^ so we 've done loads together , and Uriel finished school on Wed too .
^ Mam and Dad 's 25th anniversary on Tues was lovely , and we went out for a family meal to a funny little Italian restaurant in the evening - very yummy !
^ As well as getting my lava lamp this week
^ ( very groovy : comes with 3 different coloured light bulbs so you can " change your lamp to fit your mood " ! ! ) ,
^ on Friday I seriously splashed out and got myself a MASSIVE Hi-fi system .
^ When my Granny died , she left all her grandchildren some money and
^ I got it on my 21st birthday , so I used that to buy the system .
^ It was
^ reduced from &pound; 665 to &pound; 955 ( exactly the amount I 'd got from Granny ) - handing
^ over my switch card for that much money seemed very wierd !
^ Anyway , I have
^ managed to squeeze it into my already crowded little room and have to be
^ careful not to have the volume too loud or dad gets annoyed : the Mega Base
^ is incredible !
^ So , what else have I done ?
^ Made loads more cards and sold some too .
^ Isabelle
^ Manley are great customers , and they bought a whole load when we went to
^ see them yesterday .
^ Manley was n't too good as his treatment-side effects
^ are kicking in again , but he 's looking on the bright side .
^ He told me how
^ great it is not to have any hair : you do n't have to wash it , worry about
^ bedhair , and even better , you do n't have to shave ! .
^ They had their 1st
^ wedding anniversary on Friday : what a lot has happened in a year !
^ We got
^ them " Sense and Sensibility " on DVD as a small pressie - Isabelle loves it !
^ I 've been to church this morning and afterwards there was a surprise cake
^ champagne for Mam and Dad for their wedding anniversary , so we had a little impromtu party with all the church people .
^ We 're now just waiting
^ for Dad to get back from visiting some people so that we can have lunch -
^ I 'm starving !
^ Well , hope you continue to have fun and have not been reading TOO many
^ complicated computer systems books !
^ Jessie will be home again on Tuesday
^ having finished her job , so I have lots to look forward to .
^ She wants us to
^ cycle the C2C route ( from Whitehaven to Avonmouth ) - all 320 miles of it !
^ Hmmm ... ...
^ Righto , better go .
^ Bye for now ,
^ love , REC ( yes , well .. )
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^ Mr Malone ,
^ Would you be able to join us for an evening outing in honour of your
^ birthday tomorrow ?
^ Please avail yourself to us at &TIME in Middle
^ R , ready to journey by bicycle .
^ I do hope you have a helmet and lights .
^ Miss Browne will be travelling in from Carlisle to join us .
^ Miss Davies
^ shall be ascending from below .
^ Mr Plantagenet shall cross from the other
^ side .
^ Miss Heathcote shall be awaiting you all in the a fore mentioned place ,
^ having just returned from a victorious football match .
^ We do hope that this is acceptable to you .
^ Do not feel the need to dress up .
^ Regards in anticipation of your birthday ,
^ viclabillfi
^ ~
^ Hello ! ! !
^ The unbearable heat has returned once more .
^ I spent this afternoon at the swimming pool .
^ I 'm not exactly tanned , but I think burnt might be the better
^ adjective .
^ Nevermind .
^ The kids have been much better this week ( I think its because of the better
^ weather ) .
^ So they 're calm , I 'm calm , everybody 's calm !
^ Tomorrow we 're going
^ to the beach for the day ( not bad really is it ? getting paid to go to the beach ! ) .
^ I sha n't be forgetting to take the suncream !
^ This weekend I spent a lot of time with some friends I 've made here and went for walks , shopping etc.
^ It was really nice to have a bit of space and when
^ I got back the children came to give me a hug and they said they 'd missed me !
^ Sweet .
^ Thanks for all the letters .
^ If anyone was intending to write any more ( and please do ! ) then do n't send anything after this Saturday because it can take
^ a while sometimes to arrive and I wo n't be here !
^ After that , all post to be
^ sent to my home address or to college .
^ Anybody not knowing that address
^ St Philip 's College , 3 South Kingston , Wells , WI3 9MO
^ Reason for this , well explanation coming up ...
^ Time is passing a bit faster now and I 've only got ten days left here .
^ Then ,
^ after that ... change of plan .
^ As I mentioned before , the job in Kaylee fell
^ through .
^ BUT , I now have another job , this time translating Spanish .
^ The good thing is that I 'll be back in Brighton ( well mostly ) for it .
^ When I get
^ back from here , I 'm going to Spain for a week to see my granddad and then I
^ go to Wells .
^ I 'm going to be working from college at the translation .
^ At the end of August I go back to Spain for a week .
^ If you did n't get all
^ then I will remind you of my whereabouts as I go along .
^ Hope that you are all well .
^ I have to go now but I look forward to getting
^ some news soon .
^ Take care .
^ lots of love ,
^ Sylvia xxx
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^ ~
^ dear lance , thank you for your email and text ... we were very envious ; would
^ have loved to join you in the snow ! we had a tiny flurry , the children went
^ running out into the playground , beside themselves with excitement , made a couple of snowballs , mainly from the grit on the ground because there was n't
^ really enough snow , and then they were back inside freezing cold !
^ looking forward very much to seeing you this weekend ; your boots have
^ come so you can pick them up then .
^ Camron and I were wondering if we could take
^ you back to munich on the sunday ? what do you think ? much , much love to
^ you ..... mummyxxxxx
^ Hi Mummy ,
^ I 'm cooking another tuna meal as we speak !
^ It 's so nice to have the food in the cupboard
^ ( especially when I get back home at around &TIME ! ) .
^ Anyway ,
^ I actually enjoyed the mime-practice thingy , so maybe it will be OK after all .
^ Lots of love you de-capitaliser you ,
^ Nick
^ dear lance , thanks for your email .
^ so glad the food has been a success .
^ abi and i are here on our own as daddy is taking matt back to wells .
^ the house looks a little different from when you were here last as daddy discoverred yesterday
^ that pillar in the kitchen that we hoped was holding up the ceiling wasnt at all .....
^ it was resting on a piece of carpet alone ! ! !
^ so it is no longer in our kitchen and the ceiling is still in place .
^ trust all is well with you .
^ we love you lots and lots ....
^ mummy xxxxxxx
^ Hi Mummy ,
^ Just wanted to say thank you for all the lovely food you bought me .
^ I am enjoying it so much .
^ I used a couple of the sauces when Parker was staying ,
^ last night I made myself a meal from scratch , which was the first time since I moved in last term !
^ Lots of love Mummy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ It 's Eliana here , from ACE Convention .
^ I hope this is the right address for you and I 'm not emailing some random person who has n't the foggiest who I am -
^ it has happened to me before ! !
^ I trust you and your friends have settled in well and are enjoying everything Munich has to offer .
^ I 've been looking out for your friend Kaylee who 's at Homerton , but not knowing her surname she 's proved difficult to find !
^ So what college are you at ?
^ Have you managed to find a church yet ?
^ I 'm at Community Faith Church which is held at Parkside Community College .
^ The church is made up of mainly students and is pretty much a pentecostal church .
^ If you and your friends want to come visit the church sometime , you 'd be very welcome .
^ The Sunday morning meeting starts at 10am with tea / coffee and then properly at &TIME .
^ The website is &WEBSITE for the church , but sometimes it 's just good to know what churches are out there if you have n't already found one .
^ I 'm sorry it 's taken me a few weeks to get in touch .
^ The first time I tried to find your address the server could n't find it .
^ Anyhow , I hope your term 's going well and stuff .
^ I 'd really like to meet your friend Kaylee and welcome her to Homerton .
^ It would be great if you could let me know her surname so I can drop a note in her pigeon hole .
^ If you 've got any questions regarding ANYTHING about Munich , let me know .
^ Take care and hopefully I 'll see you around !
^ Eliana &SMILEY
^ ~
^ Nick ,
^ Thanks for sending the word document .
^ Yes , I agree , the holiday was a raging success !
^ It was one of the most enjoyable weeks of my life .
^ Thanks for finding us such a super place for it .
^ Anyway , yeah , I got home yesterday about fivish after a long journey during the course of I did virtually nothing , just thinking .
^ Do you ever feel like you have a hole inside you ?
^ Missing you all .
^ Chatted to Rylie last night , went to church this morning , watched a Star Trek film on tv this afternoon - very good .
^ Looking forward to the new " enterprise " series starting on wed .
^ Tomorrow I 'm going to Wells for the day .
^ Collecting my keys , sorting out stuff etc .
^ What are you up to ?
^ How is your new house ?
^ Still sorting stuff out I guess .
^ Do you have a room of your own ?
^ Oh , I was thinking , we forgot to send a card to your uncle thanking him for the bungalow .
^ Do you have his address ?
^ I just took out my sim card and lost that fantastic ringtone you recorded ...
^ I shall have to get it again sometime .
^ Well , I 'll speak soon hopefully !
^ Shania
^ ~
^ Yo , Joey-boy ... .
^ When are you coming back to Brighton ?
^ Hope stuff is going well out there for you .
^ Mortgage things are slow
^ here .
^ Leach .
^ Oh well .
^ Please pray .
^ Please also continue to pray that
^ Karri 's stomach will be healed .
^ Thanks buddy .
^ Looking forward to seeing you .
^ Bob
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^ so , the guinea pigs .
^ i think you might be a little bemused by this -
^ it is probably one of those " had to be there " situations , but basically ... you know my father now teaches at this independent school
^ well , they have plenty of spare cash to fling around , and they have a number of school pets .
^ i did n't realise this , and when i went into help dad with lesson prep .
^ i was following him round the outside of the building , when we turned a corner and i was confromted by a field in which lay ten or so of the most indolent guinea pigs
^ ( plus a couple of rabbits with massive floppy ears ) you have ever seen .
^ it was like they were on sleeping pills .
^ they were all just lying there and nibbling grass , their noses bobbing up and down .
^ at which point , i heard a cockerel screech and turned round to see three of them behind me .
^ then i heard a sqwark , and in another small field nearby was a goose and a shetland pony .
^ they looked quite happy together .
^ fortunatley , i missed the rats , as they were asleep .
^ by this time , i was basically gibbering , and dad abandoned me to my screeches
^ it was just a really random scene to be in the middle of .
^ but i enjoyed it !
^ i have n't got a temping job this week so i 'm shopping and seeing firedns -
^ rav is coming down this w/e , and i met tessa in bham today and saw her ecuador photos .
^ went to tim gillford 's last w/e for his 21st - and wow , suffolk is just so much fun to be leaving .
^ have n't got a job yet , in case you were tempted to ask ( why not
^ peoples ' concern for my jobless state seems to be at the forefront of the minds of most people
^ i ca n't really tell the vicar to shut up , even though he asks me at five day intervals .
^ my sister and the mother are away at the mo , it 's just me and dad for a bit of father daughter bonding .
^ that means cake
^ hope all 's well with you .
^ your book sounds ... entertaining .
^ it 's back to fun reading ( but no money , no job ) for me is best ?
^ am currently enjoying neighbours and murder she wrote ...
^ lots of love cat
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^ hey Sammy-Boy !
^ I was going to send you a postcard from Harrogate yesterday , so it 's a good
^ thing I did n't , as you 'd never have got it !
^ I thought you still had a few
^ weeks left in the house - shows I 'm loosing track of time !
^ Oh , a swimming
^ pool ! !
^ How cool is that ?
^ Mind , I bet it is rather chilly in there !
^ And Sky
^ TV ! !
^ Well , the Sky 's the limit !
^ Oh , how cheesy ! ) .
^ Yes , well , so I was in Harrogate yesterday .
^ Mam is always off work on a Wed , and we always like to go out and do something , so yesterday , we fancied going to Harrogate for the day .
^ Jessie drove us there - she is mastering the technique of motorway driving - and we had a lovely time exploring the place .
^ It is an old spa town as far as I can gather , and people used to go
^ there to " drink the waters " , like they did in Bath .
^ Hey , and good old Suzy
^ lives there , so I went and paid her a surprise visit in DeliFrance where she
^ is working - great stuff !
^ I also saw Rachel South , quite by accident , in Woolworths where she 's busy working too .
^ Oh dear , all these people with
^ jobs , and I have n't got one .
^ Ah well , I will survive .
^ I have been busy
^ again ) making cards , and designing packet labels for them .
^ Today I am
^ planning on making some business cards ( oh * la-de-da!* ) that I can give to
^ shops that I visit to try and flog my cards .
^ It remains to be seen whether
^ Anna Cards will soon be thrust into the card-market spotlight ( oh !
^ A pig
^ has just flown by ! ) .
^ Other than cards I have been helping dad with some admin stuff ( typing up
^ meeting minutes etc for the endless committees he is on ) , been on cycle
^ rides ( our fantastic plan for the C2C ride came to nothing in the end .
^ Jessie
^ got cold feet and , as it happens , it 's probably a good thing we did n't
^ attempt it as the weather was really pants and we 'd not have enjoyed it all
^ much as a consequence .
^ Oh well , another time perhaps ) , and various
^ trips into the countryside .
^ This morning I have been playing football and tennis in the church hall .
^ You know , a brick wall is a very formidable opponent ! !
^ " The Noise " that you were involved in sounded like fun - and the way forward
^ as Gadzby would say ! ) .
^ In a few weeks I 'm going to be involved in a local
^ kids thing with our church .
^ The local primary school has strong links with
^ our church ( dad is the chairman of the governors and has been doing
^ assemblies there and runs a Bible club ) and we 're going to take groups of children up to Beadnall ( a place on the coast ) each day for nearly 2 weeks .
^ Phew !
^ There is a house up there which our church has the use of for 4 weeks every summer , and 2 of those weeks are used for the school .
^ I 'm probably going to stay in the house for some of the time and cook for the groups that come and help with their activities .
^ It should be fun , and I hope a great experience for the children ( and me ! ) .
^ Before that , I really should do some reading etc for my dissertation and
^ subjects next year .
^ I 've hardly done any uni stuff since getting back , so I
^ think I 'd better get on with some .
^ For the rest of this week though , I 'm
^ just going to be doing stuff with Jessie before she returns to Munich on Saturday .
^ And , we 've got our family holiday sorted at last .
^ We 're going to a holiday
^ cottage near Aberfeldy in Scotland .
^ It 's funny , coz Jon stayed near there
^ just last week !
^ As far as I can gather , the place is surrounded by endless
^ forests and scarily high mountains .
^ Oh no !
^ I 'm going to be forced to climb
^ them ! ! ( * nightmare flashbacks of Lake District holidays!!* ) .
^ Thing is , I
^ can cope with , and even enjoy , mountain climbing so long as it is at my
^ pace .
^ Walking with my dad verges on an army march ! !
^ Righty-ho , better go !
^ Hope all is going well and you 're enjoying your time at your uncle 's .
^ Do
^ you know where you 're going after that ?
^ TTFN ( ta-ta for now ! )
^ love , Rutheee ( ! )
^ PS - after a lengthy absence , Kaden seems to have resurfaced .
^ Hmmmm .... .
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^ Yo Nick !
^ hope things are going well .
^ I 'm still loving your CD .
^ I ca n't seem to
^ copy it on my machine at work though and it does n't want to play here
^ either ... perhaps the format is weird ?
^ Any way , both Karri and Crystal
^ liked it lots too - they want copies , as does Parker - so a bit of a distribution centre I 'm turning into .
^ Fun !
^ I got myself a digital camera !
^ Wahoooooooooo !
^ Very fun , nice 5 Mpixel
^ job .
^ Lovely .
^ The point of this e-mail : In addition to being the master of ceremonies ,
^ would you also be able to play the drums in the service ?
^ We 'd love it if
^ you could .
^ Looking forward to hearing from you .
^ Have fun out there !
^ Love and prayers ,
^ Bob
^ Robert K. Greetings
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^ Hey Nick ,
^ It 's a wonderfully sunny Saturday morning and that is good .
^ How goes it
^ in the far south ?
^ What have you been up to lately ?
^ Are you still
^ teaching , composing , and preparing papers ?
^ I just thought I 'd write you
^ a quick email to dust the cobwebs out of my head and exercise my
^ fingers .
^ I hope you and all your family are well .
^ I watched Star
^ Trek : The Motion Picture the other night - very enjoyable ; I had n't
^ seen it since I was about 8 years old , I think .
^ I am keeping busy with
^ the PhD and the computer course .
^ I have finished the first module now
^ so can give myself a month off until the next one comes out .
^ That
^ is good because now I can spend a little time on the nanotubes , which
^ were beginning to feel left out I expect .
^ Apart from that , life carries
^ on much as it has this past age ( I love that line ! ) .
^ Well , I shall no
^ doubt give you a call sometime in the next week or so .
^ All the best ,
^ Shania
^ ~
^ ~
^ Rylee !
^ How exciting !
^ Drax power station was just on TV .
^ They were singing its
^ praises in a channel 4 educational program about electricity generation .
^ I 'm at home today with a throat infection ; seems to be going round .
^ Otherwise things are going pretty well ; should know about first round of funding for next year in about a week 's time .
^ Good things ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ ~
^ ~
^ Jensky ,
^ I got my BEng confirmation the other day from the Commission for Advancement Salamanders .
^ Have you had yours yet ?
^ I also got an email from Napolean
^ saying that he 'd heard a few of the guys were thinking of graduating next
^ summer !
^ Seems a bit distant to me .
^ What are your thoughts ?
^ Also , did you
^ get a preliminary grade for your project ?
^ I got mine a month or so ago - A+
^ of course .
^ I am interested to hear what Kingston considers a " good grade " !
^ How 's Emily getting on in Dur ?
^ Hope you 're well old boy ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Georgia ,
^ How 's life ?
^ I trust that legal mind of yours is being honed to a fine
^ point ...
^ I 've just had half-term , which has been a nice break from teaching .
^ Did I
^ tell you I 'm teaching at the moment ?
^ We took my godson and his brother on
^ holiday to the east coast for a few days .
^ He wets the bed .
^ Apart from
^ we had a pretty good time .
^ Currently listening to Philip Coulthard in my
^ room - awesome .
^ I recorded a song the other day with my friend in Carlisle .
^ I 'll send you the MP3 when I get it .
^ Will now be teaching until Christmas .
^ Actually only teaching three days a week - doing some academic work during the other two .
^ Continuing to refine
^ my paper on spam filtering , ready for conference submission sometime soon .
^ Laterz ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ What up Christian ? !
^ Played football today for my local club .
^ We lost 2-1 and I got CANED in the face , rendering two of my front teeth virtually useless ( temporarily at least ! ) .
^ What 's your situation like at the moment ?
^ Anything interesting
^ going on ?
^ I 've had depressingly few emails recently , so I can only surmise
^ all my friends have died .
^ ~
^ O
^ ~
^ This is MY KIND OF FILM :
^ titanic runs &TIME .
^ it is rated pg-13 for tastefully and delicately
^ presented sex and nudity .
^ I liked the jewish police-story by the way ...
^ mrT .
^ On &DATE , Nick Malone wrote :
^ &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ your place or mine ? wrote :
^ You do assume the oddest of pseudonyms - at least I stick to sensible names like Natasha , Sylvia , Ten Raving Chikens , A Bloated Goldfish , ?
^ J.S.Sulc , ( &EMAIL ) , etc ... but you use things like " Pastor Nick " and your place or mine
^ " and " I just canna do't ... ? ? ? what are thats supposed to means
^ ERch fordle you remain a mystery .
^ And also how someone who is studying computer science , a logical positive constructive subject have any time for emotion and romance , such illogical negative destructive uncotrollable doors to temptation ... is really beyond comprehension .
^ Ahh well , maybe some day you 'll see the way to go , erm .
^ Timmy ,
^ " Yeth Bennie ? "
^ Hi , how are you , you raving Australian ?
^ " Not bad , you mad pom ! "
^ I hope this email finds you hard at work ,
^ Hope ?
^ Hope is the prerequisite to .
^ Be dissappointed .
^ doing all the practicals you spent emailing people last term !
^ I ort to be .
^ I am not .
^ I am emailling people .
^ A quick question : what 's a VBS script ( what does VBS stand for ? )
^ VBS is Visual Basic Script .
^ Some evil microshaft plan to take over the world .
^ There are several VBS virii which infect Word , Excell and Acess files and are activated when you , for instance , Save or Spell Check or something .
^ They run and then tell the program to Save or whatever , but while they run they infect all the other files open in that program at that time .
^ Visual Basic is a nasty thing - interpretted rather than compiled , runs really slowly , has no security , requires large Runtime files which are continually being revised ... it 's just not worth it .
^ Visual C is the best thing to go for if you * must * have a microshaft program .
^ A VBS can be run from the command-promt ( given the necessary Runtimes are installed and configured in windows ) so it need n't be encased in a program .
^ Consider the following :
^ run this at command prompt on an ITS machine :
^ begin quote ( (
^ &WEBSITE
^ end quote ( (
^ &WEBSITE contains the code :
^ begin quote ( (
^ INPUT " Message Text : " , var$
^ FOR i 0 TO 60
^ z$ LTRIM$ ( STR$ ( i ) )
^ IF i ( 9 THEN z$ " 0 " + LTRIM$ ( STR$ ( i ) )
^ SHELL " net send cg66 -- " + z$ + " " + varMsg$
^ NEXT
^ end quote ( (
^ then the script will send the message you enter to every computer from cg66 -- 00 to cg66 -- 60 y'see ?
^ That is how the guy sent lots of messages to everyone in the cg66 that time .
^ You could also just do
^ begin quote ( (
^ net send DUNELM The ITS sucks big-time
^ end quote ( (
^ every Win-NT computer in the university would get the message .
^ You got good eyes - where are you looking from ?
^ I thought I was well hidden ... ... ...
^ ~
^ To far-flung friends and family ,
^ In my capacity as best man , being carried out with typical Jay levels
^ of organisation and forethought ( i.e. not a whole heap ) , I hereby invite
^ you to a Moose weekend 2 / 3/4th of July in the fairly central but otherwise
^ completely arbitrary location of Kane .
^ A Moose weekend differs from a Stag weekend in two important aspects .
^ A ) The groom-to-be is Canadian .
^ 2 ) Levels of fun are NOT proportional to level of alcohol intake NOR
^ number of road signs moved to " comical " locations .
^ D ) The inclusion of females in some or all activities is not outlawed
^ outright , particularly if Esme wanted to bake mocca squares .
^ No significance should be attached to the fact that the weekend coincides
^ with Bob 's last unmarried Independence Day .
^ Accomodation and sustenance will be provided for as many of you as can
^ make the trip , and we 'll do our best to ferry you to / from railway stations
^ in Kane , Preston , or Kendal if it would help .
^ We live at
^ 62 Jose Street
^ Kane
^ LA1 5LZ
^ tel : 05500 888660
^ Any event details I included here would have a " subject to change " notice
^ firmly fixed to them , so I shall delay such until future emails .
^ With apologies for the and sincere hopes that you 'll
^ consider coming ,
^ Orlando
^ ~
^ Can you either pick the kids up at Ruperts ( new address ) at 6ish , or let me know and I 'll do it .
^ xo N
^ From :
^ Sent : Thu &DATE &TIME
^ To : Hendrickson Helling
^ Subject : Re : hello and apologies
^ Eear Hendrickson Met Alfie this morning .
^ Gretyl has gym club so I could collect her and Louie at 4.20 .
^ Hansel ( your spelling was fine ) is now recovered .
^ So see you this evening-the PTA dinner went fine , you were missed ( by me ) ! !
^ Love
^ Frederick
^ On &DATE , Hendrickson Helling wrote :
^ Do n't know if you made it last night .
^ Both Alfie and I were completely clobbered with whatever Louie had earlier in the week .
^ Plus I was in Carlisle all day till after 7 , so really could n't face it .
^ Guilt , guilt .
^ I realize that today Roo has rounders after school , but Hansel doesn't .
^ Can we yet postpone their date - either till tomorrow or early next week ?
^ I 'm just madly trying to encourage Roo to be involved in some physical activities of which there seem to be so few at their school .
^ How is Hansel feeling ( please excuse spelling ) .
^ And how are you , by the way ?
^ Dillon
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^ Hi Alfie ,
^ thanks for the references .
^ I was wondering about the rule in CROAK about negation : it sometimes outputs a grammatical relation involving " not " and sometimes does n't .
^ E.g. :
^ \|mod \| _ \|good \| \|very ( \|ncmod \| _ \|mover \| \|good ( \|detmod \| _ \|mover \| \|a
^ \|not+ \| \|move+ing \| \|correctly 0 ; ( ) ( \|ncmod \| _ \|move+ing \| \|not+ ( \|mod \| _ \|move+ing \| \|correctly
^ Thanks ,
^ Rhiannon .
^ ~
^ Dear all ,
^ need to buy Garamond a machine , so its here when he starts .
^ I know nothing about buying kit .
^ I know we budgeted for PCs .
^ Please provide specs - machine - screen - all essential bits - and also could you let me know who you normally buy from , so I can get a quote .
^ Alternatively Kingston / Alfie could order it and I 'll just raise the EC .
^ Anthropology component of budget has 4,934.83 GBP in " other costs " .
^ The 50 % lit cur component is advertised and applications are coming in .
^ That person will also need a machine but that will be according to usual curator specs ( i.e. Matso machine like the rest of us ) .
^ For reasons that escape me we did not budget for this machine in the SSZUX grant .
^ Will have to see what is left after buying Garamond 's and see if we ca n't piece soemthing together between SSZUX left overs and coppers that GeneBase JFE and FlyMine might provide .
^ I am organising this early as I will have more to do than usual in December and will not be doing this in a last minute sort of way !
^ cheers ,
^ Oliver .
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^ Alfie --
^ I came across the following while batch parsing sentences in CROAK .
^ Input was a file of sentences , each on its own line with a blank line in between each .
^ I 've cut and pasted input and output so they appear side by side for convenience .
^ Batch 1's input was 10 slightly different sentences .
^ Batch 2's input was 4 copies of the same sentence .
^ Conclusion : I think what is happening is that the preceding parse is " stealing " the initial punctuation away from the following sentence .
^ So in Batch1 sentence 3 , the leading double-quote that does n't appear in Sentence 3's parse is in fact tacked onto the end of Sentence 2's parse .
^ Is this a known bug ?
^ Is there a workaround ?
^ Many thanks ,
^ Gav
^ ~
^ Dear All ,
^ Dr. Leah Briggs from the Blackface Institute , Munich NZ will give a talk on
^ &DATE 4.30 pm , Max-Perutz Lecture Theatre .
^ Please find the abstract attached below .
^ All welcome to attend .
^ Dr. Briggs works in Susan Ridger 's lab who is known for the exciting work on Hsp90-mediated genetic capacitance ( Nature &YEAR , &YEAR ) .
^ Covering a range of topics and techniques , the talk should be most interesting both from an evolutionary and experimental point of view .
^ Please let me know if you like to talk to Dr. Briggs before the seminar .
^ Best regards ,
^ Christine
^ Between Genotype and Phenotype : Hsp90 , Buffering , and the Evolution of Drug Resistance
^ Abstract :
^ Experimental evolution of microbial populations provides a powerful approach to dissect key population processes influencing adaptation to novel environments .
^ Working with S. C. Cotterell and W. M. Scurr , I studied the dynamics and mechanisms of evolved drug resistance in both the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans and the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
^ Genome-wide profiling suggested that the evolution of drug resistance in E. albicans was canalized , or constrained , to two distinct paths of adaptation to the presence of a drug .
^ Signatures of those paths were also identified in clinical isolates that evolved resistance in human hosts .
^ Our work with K. cerevisiae demonstrated that mode of selection is a strong determinant of the mechanism of drug resistance that is favored in a fungal population .
^ We examined the fitness consequences and the degree of dominance of the resistance mutations , as well as the impact of combining independently evolved resistance mechanisms in hybrid genetic backgrounds .
^ The translation of genotypes into phenotypes , including the expression of resistance mutations , is influenced by genetic interactions or networks .
^ While highly connected networks generally stabilize phenotypes , disturbance of central nodes can result in increased phenotypic variation .
^ The molecular chaperone Hsp90 functions as an responsive central node in eukaryotic networks , influencing the conformation and function of diverse cellular proteins , including key regulators of growth and development .
^ Recent studies in Susan Ridger .
^ s laboratory with the distant model organisms Arabidopsis thaliana and
^ Drosophila melanogaster revealed that Hsp90 buffers genetic variation , contributing to phenotypic robustness .
^ When Hsp90 buffering is compromised , cryptic variants are expressed and selection can lead to the continued expression of these traits , even when Hsp90 function is restored .
^ Working with Dr. Ridger , I have now turned to K. cerevisiae to identify the nature of buffered variation , using drug resistance as a read-out of the function of diverse cellular pathways .
^ References :
^ Briggs , L.E. , Theaker , A. , Redford , M.S. , Philip , D.Y. , Jimnal , D.C.,
^ Scurr , L.M. , Cotterell , J.B. &YEAR .
^ Population genomics of drug resistance in Candida albicans .
^ PNAS : 9284-9289 .
^ Cotterell , J.B. , Maharaja , E. , Newsletter , A. , Rogers , E. , Brickley , C.,
^ Briggs , L.E. , Scurr , L.M. Mode of selection and experimental evolution of antifungal drug resistance . &YEAR .
^ Anthropology 16:4587-1298 .
^ Queitsch , E. , Kneeford , T.A. , Ridger , K. Hsp90 as a capacitor of phenotypic variation. &YEAR .
^ Nature : 412:348-24 .
^ ~
^ Dear All ,
^ Here is an abstract of Dr. Christian Duax 's seminar that will be given at the UXQ today at 11am .
^ Title : " Multiple open reading frames and codon bias in ribosomal proteins and the origin and evolution of the genetic code "
^ We discovered a pattern of multiple open reading frames ( ORFs ) and amino acid bias in Streptomyces coelicolor .
^ Of particular interest was the high incidence of sense / antisense ORFs ( SASORFs ) and the absence of Trp and Cys residues in ribosomal proteins .
^ The L1 protein from the 50S ribosomal subunit was selected for further analysis .
^ Of 365 sequences of L1 proteins in the SWISS-PROT TrEMBL database , 50 % are missing Trp , 64 % are missing Cys and 60 % are missing both .
^ Those from archaea rarely have Trp and / or Cys residues whereas those from eukaryota usually have both .
^ These findings suggest that SASORFs , severe codon bias and absence of Trp and Cys residues are hallmarks of ancient enzymes that have been little altered by missions of years of evolution .
^ Venue : The Bisset Perutz Lecture Theatre , UMD UXQ , Valleys Crescent .
^ All welcome !
^ With regards ,
^ Johnathon
^ Dr. Johnathon Kulczyk UMD Lab of Molecular Biology
^ Valleys Crescent , TQ6 2QH
^ Tel. : +44 4882 402068
^ Fax : +44 4882 268006
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^ Please find attached the completed reference for Mallory Fitzgerald .
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^ Samara
^ samara ,
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^ dear lucy ,
^ Reference for Mallory Fitzgerald as requested :
^ RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
^ Physics Laboratory
^ Grade : NRAS Salary : &pound; 318,893 - &pound; 328,279 pa
^ Limit of tenure : up to 36 months
^ Applications are invited for two Research Associates to develop automatic information extraction ( IE ) from the biomedical literature .
^ The project will study adaptive textual information extraction , initially tuned to literature about the important model organism
^ Drosophila , in order to extract and classify information concerning gene function , gene expression patterns and gene regulatory terms from
^ Medline abstracts and relevant databases .
^ The project is a collaboration between the NLP group in the Physics Laboratory and the GeneBase ( &WEBSITE ( &WEBSITE
^ Department of Anthropology .
^ This project will build on existing technology in Munich for the analysis of natural language text and for computer-based curation ( curation is the process of extracting and linking gene information to the literature ) .
^ Proposed start date : 1 October &YEAR or as soon as possible thereafter .
^ Post 1
^ Research in adaptive IE tools , parsing of free biomedical text and development of an IE system building on existing code base mostly implemented in C or Common Lisp .
^ Post 2
^ Integration of the IE system into the data curation process , development of interfaces between the IE system and existing web-based automated work flows for curation and literature access , ensuring compatibility with grid standards and protocols .
^ This post will serve as a liaison between the Physics Laboratory and Anthropology .
^ Desirable qualifications and experience include :
^ Post 1 : A PhD or equivalent experience in computational linguistics / natural language engineering , particularly statistical NLP and parsing , and information extraction / named entity recognition .
^ Programming : C ( ++ ) / Common Lisp , in a Matso / Linux environment .
^ Post 2 : A PhD , MSc or equivalent experience in computer science .
^ Programming : C ( ++ ) , Matso / Linux , Java , XML / XSLT , Web programming .
^ An interest in one or more of : Web / Grid services , Semantic Web
^ Technologies ( RDF , OWL ) , computational linguistics / NLP , information extraction , e-learning .
^ Applicants should send a cover letter , a completed PD18 form ( &WEBSITE the names and addresses of three academic / professional referees to
^ Kingston Blomerley , Physics Laboratory , LL Pipping Avenue , Munich , TQ9 0CW .
^ Closing date : 21 July &YEAR .
^ For further information / job description , please email &EMAIL ( mailto : &EMAIL )
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^ detected anything , but I still ca n't get into the VPN network -- does this need a manual reset or do I still have a problem
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^ Hello Johnathon ,
^ I 'd like to come to this seminar .
^ Will I be able to get into the UXQ ?
^ Genome Campus people - I will be driving .
^ Let me know if you want to come with me .
^ Tamia
^ On &DATE &EMAIL wrote :
^ Dear All ,
^ Here is an abstract of Dr. Christian Duax 's seminar that will be given at the UXQ today at 11am .
^ Title : " Multiple open reading frames and codon bias in ribosomal proteins and the origin and evolution of the genetic code "
^ We discovered a pattern of multiple open reading frames ( ORFs ) and amino acid bias in Streptomyces coelicolor .
^ Of particular interest was the high incidence of sense / antisense ORFs ( SASORFs ) and the absence of Trp and Cys residues in ribosomal proteins .
^ The L1 protein from the 50S ribosomal subunit was selected for further analysis .
^ Of 365 sequences of L1 proteins in the SWISS-PROT TrEMBL database , 50 % are missing Trp , 64 % are missing Cys and 60 % are missing both .
^ Those from archaea rarely have Trp and / or Cys residues whereas those from eukaryota usually have both .
^ These findings suggest that SASORFs , severe codon bias and absence of Trp and Cys residues are hallmarks of ancient enzymes that have been little altered by missions of years of evolution .
^ Venue : The Bisset Perutz Lecture Theatre , UMD UXQ , Valleys Crescent .
^ All welcome !
^ With regards ,
^ Johnathon
^ Dr. Johnathon Kulczyk UMD Lab of Molecular Biology
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^ Welcome to This Month @ Maltman Group - September &YEAR EVENT SPOTLIGHT
^ Business Process Integration
^ How to Reduce Costs & Streamline Business Pr ocesses
^ 28 September &YEAR , The Hendley Sofitel Demeure , Amsterdam
^ Maltman Group is hosting a one-day Management Briefi ng on Business Process Integration along with Keynote Presenter , SeeBeyond .
^ This briefing will provide delegates with a better understanding of what is involved with Business Process Integration and its wide range of benefits .
^ Case Elliot dies from Carrefour and other industry leading end-user organisations will help delegates explore four common scenarios fo r business transformation including ; Multi-channel marketing , Single Customer View , Real-time Stock Management and Consol idating IT Operations .
^ Click here for more information or to register for this event
^ CXFYfpeha
^ A monthly Journal written by Lucio But ler and Bob Jennings with features covering forthright opinion on activities from the industry )
^ IT Vendors To download this month 's CXFYfpeha in PDF format , click here .
^ ( available free to all registered us ers
^ Who Governs the Governor ?
^ IT Governance continues to attract a great deal of attent ion as organisations of all kinds seek to gain greater benefit from their IT spend .
^ Who exactly does the governing is up for debate .
^ Some organisations have created a new role Director for IT Governance or some such equivalent title .
^ Others ha ve just assumed that the IT Director or CIO will look after governance .
^ The CFO in some organisations has taken up the mantle , and in others the task of governance has been given over to a committee ( surely the worst of all possible worl ds ) .
^ It really doesnt matter where the task of IT governance rests , there is still one issue that never seems to be add ressed who governs the governors .
^ This might seem like one of those attempts at being clever with a logically rec ursive statement ( who governs the governors that govern the governors , etc. )
^ but I assure you it isnt .
^ Where IT is concerned everyone has a vested interest .
^ Tec hnicians like to work with technologies that will enhance their skill set for the broadest possible market they ha te working with niche technologies .
^ This positive feedback mechanism ensures that in most IT markets only two or thre e products take typically over 75 % of the market .
^ Business managers and CFOs have their vested interest also .
^ They wa nt to work with applications that enhance their CVs and will tend to favour the dominant products .
^ Whilst this may seem obvious it means that the organisation itself might be getting a raw deal , with technologies and solutions chosen so they benefit the career prospects of individuals rather than being the optimal solution for the organisation .
^ And so we retur n to the question who governs the governors ?
^ This is a question that goes right to the heart of economics &ndas h .
^ since economics assumes that individuals will always work to their own advantage if they can and will short change the organisation if at all possible
^ The solution to this problem is rather obvious .
^ The only individual or group capable of governing the governors is the owner or owners of the organisation .
^ They are the only peo ple that have the organisations real interests at heart s ince these interests coincide with their own .
^ So coming back to IT governance , it is not enough to give the task to an individual manager , or group .
^ The owners must have some interest in the process .
^ For most large companies this means the shareholders , and for organisations in the public sector it means you an d I since we pay the bills .
^ This issue seems particularly pressing , as spend on large Venture Resource Planning ( ERP ) and Customer Relationship Management ( CRM ) systems is often measured in the tens .
^ an d sometimes the hundreds ) of millions of Euros clearly these investments are large enough to deserve some conside ration at shareholder meetings and the like
^ If such a mechanism had been in place over the last ten years we would not hav e seen so many reckless investments in ERP and CRM systems .
^ However , the IT vendors can breathe out again it s eems unlikely that a proper governance process will be put in place in most organisations as senior management and sh areholders concern themselves with more " strategic " issues .
^ Domain Models
^ It has been interesting to note over the past few months the increasing use of domain models as a foundation for several different categories of application .
^ A domain model is a logical model of a particular industry sector , including the principal structural elements of that area , data models of the major business entities , and a definition of the relationships between them .
^ For example , in the automotive industry , a domain model might include a structural definition of a manufacturer .
^ its supply chain , its engineering division , its aftermarket operations , its distribution capability , its dealership network , and its finance arm
^ Data models would be required for many objects , including a vehicle , a supplier Term
^ a component order , a customer , a finance agreement , a distribution contract , and a design drawing . ...
^ ( read more ) Plasmon Eyes the Langridge
^ Although an exponential increase in the volumes of data t hat organisations are generating is nothing new .
^ the recent increase in information legislation and regulations is hav ing a significant effect on the nature of the requirement to store that data
^ Traditionally , storage of historical data has been seen principally as an archiving issue , with much of the information being shunted into off-line storage , and little attention being paid to the issue of retrieval .
^ Well the current climate has certainly changed that , with the prospect of organisations having to present a wide variety of information at relatively short notice . ... ( read more )
^ Divide and Conquer
^ I recently had a meeting with someone who looked after th e open systems strategy for one of the major hardware vendors during the open systems ( ATRAC ) fad of the early nineties .
^ He proudly told me that his job had been to ensure that his companys open systems were not open and that the operating system was sufficiently differentiated to make it attractive . ...
^ ( read more )
^ Collaboration
^ Technologies and Strategies to Increase Productivity and Reduce Costs
^ A Maltman Group Strategy Briefing
^ 28 September &YEAR - Carlton Lally , Carlisle
^ Selecting and implementing a collaboration solution requires careful thought and planning .
^ some providers take a project-based approach , tailored to a particular application , whilst oth ers favour embedding collaboration facilities into operating systems , portals , and application platforms
^ There are issues of scalability , security , and measurement to be addressed , and how the solution should be integrated into existing sy stems and processes .
^ Most importantly , because collaboration is an activity rather than a piece of technology , an organ isation must promote an environment where collaboration is encouraged and rewarded if it is to reap the benefits .
^ With the increasing convergence of communications , I believe that collaboration solutions have finally come of age .
^ can offer significant improvements in productivity , reductions in the costs of handling information , and enable flexible new ways of working
^ This Strategy Briefing is an ideal opportunity for senior -level to gain a fuller understanding of the latest Information Technologies .
^ as well as getting direct answers to their questions on how the products and services can meet their organisation 's specific needs
^ Delegates are invited to attend the Conference and Exhibition
^ There is also a Corporate Package available so that up to three people from your organisation can attend for only 3&DATE3 + VAT .
^ Maltman Group subscribers are welcomed free of charg e to this event .
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^ The New Business Intelligence
^ Creating Value through Strategic and Operational Excellence
^ A Maltman Group Symposium
^ 5 - 6 October , Radisson SAS Hotel , Amsterdam Airport
^ Maltman Group predicts that pervasive Business Intelligen ce will become one of the primary drivers of information technology during the coming decade , and this will facilitate greater efficiencies and provide the opportunity to realise significant competitive advantage .
^ Technology vendors therefore have a responsibility to provide solutions that enable tighter integration between operational systems , information worker tools , and Business Intelligence , establishing and closing the loop between these previously disparate routines .
^ Reflecting this , the event is intended for Directors , Chief Information and Technology Officers , Business Development , Marketing , and Sales Managers .
^ This event is targeted at assisting organisations to make the best decisions on the evaluation , selection , and implementation of a Business Intelligence solution .
^ This Conference and Exhibition will deal with the issues of managing and exploiting Business Intelligence technology in order to create and sustain efficient decision making processes .
^ will cover the following areas : Making BI functionality available to a wider audience
^ Using performance management to align strategic vision with operational execution .
^ Organisational intelligence within everyday interfaces .
^ Using BI to create a closed-loop feedback system .
^ Guidelines on planning and implementing BI solutions .
^ Build or buy - the eternal dilemma .
^ The need to integrate BI into business processes .
^ The importance of Web technology in supporting the tr ansition from tactical to strategic BI .
^ Culture and collaboration - the key to effective BI .
^ The distinction between " real time " and " appropriate time " BI .
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^ An analysis of vendor positioning in the market .
^ C lick here for more information or to register to attend this event at a cost of &pound; 31&DATE3 .
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^ Busines s Process Management and Integration
^ Technologies and Strategies for Business Transformation
^ A Maltman Group Symposium
^ 17-18 November , Carlisle Heathrow Marriott
^ Maltman Group believes that it is the failure to align in tegration projects with business requirements that is a significant factor in the wider failure to realise value from IT inves tments .
^ There are very few IT projects of any size that do not involve integration to some degree .
^ so it has become a critical foundation technology , not only within the IT department , but with major ramifications for the business as a whole
^ The adoption of a business approach offers real benefits for integration projects .
^ in particular beca use business processes now extend beyond the boundaries of the enterprise , with the value creation process involving suppliers , distributors , and other trading partners
^ Organisations therefore require end-to-end integration across these value chains , rather than just point-to-point solutions .
^ Reflecting this , the event is intended for Directors , Chief Informati on and Technology Officers , Business Development Managers and Venture Architects .
^ This event is targeted at assisting organisations to make the best decisions on the evaluation , selection , and implementation of Business Process Manageme nt and Integration solutions .
^ This Conference and Exhibition will deal with the issues of deploying , managing , and exploiting BPM and Integration technology , and will cover the following areas : Why integration has become a critical foundation tech nology .
^ How a business process layer adds value to integration .
^ The benefits of Service Oriented Architectures .
^ Calculating ROI on integration projects .
^ Guidelines on planning and implementing BPM and integ ration solutions .
^ The role of the Venture Service Bus .
^ Designing flexible integration projects to handle business change .
^ The role of pre-packaged and vertically focused solutions .
^ Common scenarios for business transformation through integration .
^ The role of standards in integration .
^ Evaluation criteria for selecting a BPM and integration solution .
^ An analysis of vendor positioning in the market .
^ Click here for more information or to register to attend this event at a cost of &pound; 62 .
^ There is also a Corporate Package available so that up to three people from your organisation can attend for only 4&DATE2 .
^ Maltman Group subscribers are invited to send one delegate to this event free of charge .
^ Alternatively please contact Honey Bockett on + 44 ( 0 ) 4628 608840 .
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^ Exploi ting Corporate Information Assets
^ Strategies , Methods and Architecture s
^ A Maltman Group Master Class Series
^ &DATE - The Carlisle Hilton on Park Lane
^ &DATE - Amsterdam
^ &DATE - Stockholm
^ &DATE - Carlisle
^ Exploiting Corporate Information Assets is a one day Mas ter Class , presented by Lucio Maltman and Bob Jennings ?
^ will address the following issues : What basic calculations need to be made so that our use of information makes economic sense
^ What is the role of information in the enterprise and how can management benefit from it ?
^ What is data ; what is information ; and how do we convert one into the other ?
^ How can we measure the cost and determine the value of information ?
^ What IT architectures and technologies are needed to optimise the use of information ?
^ Which large corporations are pursuing an information strategy and what kind of benefits are they realising ?
^ The aim of the day is to provide management with a frame work and information to help with their own information strategy .
^ so that the use of information technology might be more ef fective and to bridge the gap between technology and the business
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^ They can deliver the trampoline on Friday .
^ However , I will be in Carlisle so they need to know a time someone will be home .
^ Will you be here , or should we wait till next week ?
^ dates for diary :
^ I 'm trying to get Kathy , but she 's away on hol at the moment
^ My teaching will be on Mon and some Wed from Sept 27
^ I have my Falmington apt on Wed Sept 7 at 2 , so if you could get the kids ( and meet their teachers , esp. Ms Barnaby ) that would be great .
^ Maybe esp. important given current emotional state of both kids ...
^ Half term is week beginning Oct 25 -
^ I should be able to escape first part of week
^ i spoke with Marion and Gracie ; if we are going on boat wkend of Sept 26 they 'd like to come .
^ if they can ( Gracie will be away right up until then , so it 's a bit tentative )
^ I also said you might be away as well .
^ enough for now .
^ xo N
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^ Dear sir , I am a director with the Federal Ministry of Finance and was instructedby the Higson Minister of Finance to find out before the end of this month .
^ WHYyour contract / claim of your fund have not been credited to your account , after instructions has been passed to all various Government quarters
^ all over due contract / claim payments should be released as a lot of petitions by beneficiary 's has been received by the Minister
^ Your bank details are what this office want you to reconfirm , with your telephone and fax numbers , any other information , WHY you have not received your payment up-till date ? .
^ However I will give my assistance to make sure your file is in order for payment as two people came for the claim of the fund and submitted account saying that you are not well .
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^ Sept 22- I have a dentist apt at &TIME which if needs be I can change .
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^ I might have to be away night of November 3 ...
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^ Subject : University of Hull NZ Exam Board
^ Dear External Examiners
^ The confirmed dates of the exam board this year are now the afternoon of 3rd November and the morning of 04th November .
^ Apologies for the change in dates from my original email this is due to new structures being set in place .
^ Regards Uriel Rough NZ Coordinator
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^ I got it too ...
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^ On Mon , &DATE at &TIME , Oliver Portman wrote :
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^ got this - no need to call - see you at &TIMEam
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^ Subject : interview schedule
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
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^ Sorry the 10.30am had to be moved back as it wld have been 5.30am his time ... -- my silly mistake -- so we might want to convene at 11am not 10am tomorrow ...
^ I 'll give Oliver a call at home later
^ Alfie
^ THE SCHEDULE FOR TOMORROW IS AS FOLLOWS :
^ 11.30 Summer Bleasdale ( in person )
^ &TIME Hills Zhang - telephone interview
^ 14.30 Jikiri - video conference
^ 15.30 Tamar Robson - video conference
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^ Dear Dr. Plantagenet :
^ Thank you for taking the time to meet with me yesterday - it was extremely interesting and I enjoyed talking to all of you .
^ I am very excited about the project as it brings together my interests and experience with IE , the semantic web , and information visualisation in a domain that promises to benefit a large part of the scientific community .
^ I was thinking about ontologies a bit more and came up with some further potential uses for them in the project .
^ Reasoning about inverses could be helpful in matching equivalent statements written in different ways in different papers .
^ such as " gene G expresses protein P " versus " protein P is coded for by gene G. " Inheritance can permit searching at different levels of specificity
^ so the fact that " gene H regulates sodium transport " could be retrieved by a general search for ion transport genes
^ And cardinality constraints such as " a strain used has at most one source " might be used to flag up ambiguities in the initial information extraction .
^ OWL Lite would be sufficient for these types of inferences , which is good since it 's the simplest and fastest , although OWL DL would be needed for cardinality constraints other than 0 and 1 .
^ Thanks again and I look forward to hearing from you soon .
^ Regards ,
^ Izak Conroy
^ Izak Conroy Dept. of Computing , Judicial College Carlisle &EMAIL 920 Queen 's Gate , Carlisle AN3 9SF web : &WEBSITE
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^ Hi ,
^ Does anyone have a program for testing corpus homogeneity ?
^ I 'd be very grateful .
^ Weston
^ Weston O'Hare
^ Postgraduate Student ( M.Sc. by research )
^ Physical Linguistics Group
^ Reader College , Levi
^ Tel : 00555 1 804 8244
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^ Recognising Textual Entailment ( RTE ) Challenge A Common Benchmark for Semantic Inference
^ Schedule Change and 2nd Call for Participation
^ &WEBSITE
^ NOTE : The RTE Challenge schedule has been shifted by a few months due to schedule changes in the general PASCAL Challenges Program .
^ Recent years have seen a surge in research of text processing applications that perform inference about concrete text meanings and their relationships .
^ Even though many applications face similar underlying semantic problems , these problems are usually addressed in an manner .
^ Consequently it is difficult to compare , under a generic evaluation framework , semantic methods that were developed within different applications .
^ The PASCAL RTE Challenge introduces textual entailment as a common task and evaluation framework for Natural Understanding Processing , Information
^ Retrieval and Machine Learning researchers .
^ Textual entailment recognition is the task of deciding , given two text fragments , whether the meaning of one text is entailed ( can be inferred ) from the other text .
^ Participants in the evaluation exercise will be provided with pairs of small text snippets , which we term ( T-H ) pairs .
^ The entire data set includes over 6000 French T-H pairs from the news domain ( political , economical , etc. ) , split into development and test subsets .
^ Examples were manually tagged for entailment ( i.e. whether T entails H or not ) by human annotators .
^ Participating systems will have to decide for each T-H pair whether T indeed entails H or not , and results will be compared to the manual gold standard .
^ The dataset was collected with respect to different text processing application settings , such as question answering , information extraction , information retrieval , multi- document summarization , paraphrase acquisition , and machine translation .
^ Each portion of the dataset includes typical T-H examples that correspond to success and failure cases of such applications .
^ The examples represent different levels of entailment reasoning , such as lexical , syntactic , morphological and logical .
^ The goal of the challenge is to provide a first opportunity for presenting and comparing possible approaches for modeling textual entailment .
^ In this spirit , we aim at an explorative rather than a competitive setting .
^ While participant results will be reported there will not be an official ranking of systems .
^ Partial coverage submissions , for systems that handle only specific parts of the test examples , are allowed .
^ The development subset is released first to give an impression of the different types of test examples , but systems are likely to use external / unsupervised knowledge resources .
^ Examples TRUE
^ H&N Technologies announced that it has closed the acquisition of Fromel , Inc .
^ H&N Technologies acquired Fromel Inc. FALSE
^ The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel was established in May &YEAR as the Israel Center for
^ Psychobiology by Prof. Kristian .
^ Israel was established in May &YEAR .
^ FALSE
^ Reagan announced he had Taryn 's disease , an incurable brain affliction .
^ Reagan died of pneumonia complicated by Taryn 's disease TRUE
^ Eyeing the huge market potential , currently led by Linkbridge ,
^ Yahoo took over search company Overture Services Inc last year .
^ Yahoo bought Overture .
^ Important Dates ( may be subject to change )
^ Full Development Set Available August 30 , &YEAR
^ Release of Test Set Dec 15 , &YEAR
^ Deadline for Participants ' Results Submissions February 15 , &YEAR
^ Release of individual Results February 25 , &YEAR
^ Submission of Participants ' Reports &DATE PASCAL Challenges Workshop ( in Southampton , U.K. ) 11-13 April &YEAR
^ Organizing Committee
^ Ido Leach , Oren Pilkenton ( Bar Ilan University , Israel )
^ Bernardo Maetzold ( ITC-irst , Istituto per la Ricerca
^ Scientifica e Tecnologica , Italy )
^ For registration , further information and inquiries - visit the challenge web site ( &WEBSITE
^ Oren Pilkenton ( &EMAIL ) .
^ Elsnet-list mailing list &EMAIL &WEBSITE
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^ Draft minutes - Meeting 2 August &YEAR
^ Please find below the draft minutes of the meeting held on &DATE .
^ Please let me know of any amendments and corrections as soon as possible .
^ The documents tabled at the meeting will be included in the hard copy version .
^ MACHINE LEARNING , LANGUAGE AND NETWORK TECHNOLOGY
^ Organisers ' Meeting
^ Minutes of the meeting held on 2nd August &YEAR , in the Samuel Streets
^ Building
^ Present : A Gabriel ( Chair ) , M Flurries , W P M Parkson , D Livingstone , F Blomerley , P Writer , F Youngson , L Hellams
^ 1. Apologies for absence YKN and KCN sent apologies .
^ 2. Minutes and matters arising
^ It was noted that JV will be on sabbatical leave for the calendar year commencing January &YEAR .
^ It was noted that Dr S. Gretch has accepted the vacant position of University Lecturer in Behaviour Processing commencing September 1st &YEAR .
^ A further appointment to fill the vacancy in Behaviour Signal Processing was hoped .
^ LLT agreed to act as course supervisor for Michaelmas and part of Lent terms .
^ 3. Status of admissions 2004-2005
^ It was noted that 800 applications had been received for entry to the BEng in Animal Behaviour , State and Natural Environment course commencing October &YEAR
^ of whom were from the PRC .
^ The Admissions Panel made 46 offers .
^ 10 successful applicants withdrew and , to date , 10 offers have been confirmed by the Commission for Advancement Studies .
^ The remaining 36 include 2 intermissions and 7 deferrals from 8002 .
^ 12 part-time application packs were sent to prospective students of which 4 completed applications were received .
^ LLT commented that the proportion of non-native French speakers affects topics such as semantics in Understanding I and II .
^ It was noted that a reduction in the number of studentships under the new CTA may mean fewer UK students and more difficulties teaching the course .
^ Suggestions as to extended testing of French language ability included a set written French using some more technical reading from the core reading and the use of web-dur , emailing an mpeg file or use of tapes .
^ Part-time students JV emphasized that the HKZUX is intent on providing part-time routes to higher degrees and that it is important to keep this course open for access as well as funding purposes .
^ It was noted that any change to the course needs to be agreed well ahead of time in order that adjustments may be made to the Commission for Advancement
^ Studies Prospectus and Guide to Courses .
^ It was commented that more support of part-time students would be required if students are to be admitted .
^ LMG agreed to notify the Committee of any changes to deadlines .
^ Fritz
^ The Admissions Panel awarded a total of 6 full HKZUX MTP studentships and 1 fees-only award .
^ It was noted that the Application Wizard did not work and was not effectively used .
^ It was agreed that in the light of the new minTEX online application system to be introduced by the Commission for Advancement Studies in October &YEAR , not to continue with the Wizard .
^ Web Development YP explained that during a presentation to KENET he had been pointed towards alternative software , Blackboard , which assumed an administrative staff to back it up .
^ He has subsequently decided to keep the existing page management system .
^ The bulletin board is now on the site and YP invited comment .
^ YP is working on a design for a system for online quizzes as well as a FAQ system .
^ Compston would spur threads which would be instigated by staff .
^ Quiz questions would be multiple choice provided by the course organisers with an interface designed by YP .
^ YP explained that he could not see a way forward with new software and that he would be testing the system with 30 or so robotic students .
^ LLT suggested an automated email system to prompt new threads with a subject line that would be easily recognisable .
^ 5. Examining 2003-2004
^ All students who had not intermitted had achieved a provisional pass on the BEng course following the presentations and examiners ' meeting on
^ July 30th with the exception of one .
^ One further student satisfied the examiners .
^ Two further students who had attended viva voce examinations in April produced sufficiently good dissertations to pass without further oral examinations .
^ 6. Review of course structure LLT and UCVG tabled proposals regarding changes to the Behaviour II and
^ Understanding II examinations ( see attached ) .
^ The Committee discussed the proposals at length and agreed not to go forward with removing the examinations in Behaviour II and Understanding II but agreed to examine the effect of increasing the weighting of the Lent
^ Term modules .
^ LLT and UCVG agreed to see the effect of doubling the Lent modules and that the Study Board and Commission for Advancement Studies need to be notified of any change to the assessment scheme .
^ LLT and UCVG also tabled the " Revisions to BEng Project Selection " .
^ The Committee agreed to accept the revisions .
^ 7. Liaison Committee Industry Club and Industry Day
^ The Committee asked that associated members also be invited to the BEng project presentations given at the end of July and that invitations be sent out earlier .
^ LMG agreed to send YP the Industry invitation letter to add to the web site .
^ 8. Any other business .
^ The Commission for Advancement Studies would like the ABSNE Organisers to consider the formal award of the M.Sc Degree with Distinction .
^ It was noted that there would be difficulties finessing funding for potential PhD students who narrowly missed a Distinction grade .
^ The Committee was less than convinced that an additional grade was warranted .
^ The Board would like course organisers to consider adding a link to the Commission for Advancement Studies web page concerning plagiarism ( see &WEBSITE
^ The Committee agreed that a link to the Commission for Advancement Studies web page should be added to the page on Assessment and Examining and that supplementary paragraphs regarding code and practical work should be added .
^ PCW welcomes feedback from the course organisers as to the wording .
^ iii .
^ The Board would like Organisers to consider the possibility of allowing for re-examination of M.Sc theses , and if so , under which circumstances .
^ The Committee recognised that under a BEng by research re-submission might occasionally be necessary and possible .
^ Where time is limited ,
^ Re-examination would be very difficult .
^ It was agreed that the Committee needed more information from the Commission for Advancement Studies before further consideration .
^ Computing arrangements for 2005-06
^ As YKN was unable to attend the meeting , LLT agreed to meet with YKN to discuss implications of changes to the existing system and to report back at the next meeting .
^ v. UCVG informed YP that the Behaviour II page could be taken directly from his home page .
^ 9. Date of next meeting
^ The next meeting will be held on &DATE in GC22 .
^ Kaleigh Hellams - Amended 07 September &YEAR
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^ Dear Mr Plantagenet
^ Thank you for your recent enquiry to Conference Munich - we would be very pleased to try and help you find a suitable venue for your event .
^ Would you be kind enough to advise the following :
^ Do you require accommodation for two nights for 20 guests - ie the 5th and the 6th ?
^ Will the dinner be on the 5th or the 6th ?
^ Would the accommodation be enuite or would standard accommodation be acceptable ?
^ What would your catering requirements be in terms of breakfast and lunch ?
^ I look forward to your reply .
^ with best wishes
^ Logan Redgrave
^ -- On 07 September &YEAR &TIME Alfie Plantagenet ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ We are organising a one day seminar for about 30 people on 6th April &YEAR .
^ We need a seminar room , accommodation for about 20 people for the 5-6th , and catering for lunch and dinner .
^ Since this is to mark a Munich professor 's 70th birthday , it would be nice if the dinner could happen in a small formal hall or larger but pleasant dining room .
^ We , the organisers , are fellows of Harrings and Neeling , so have a slight preference to use their facilities if possible .
^ yours ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ Reader in Physical Linguistics
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^ Hiya Alfie and Kingston ,
^ Jay suggested that you two might like to join the MindMaze people for lunch at The Plough next Tuesday , since you know some of the participants .
^ Consider yourselves invited . &SMILEY
^ Depending on the weather , we might be walking there or getting taxis but we have a table booked for 1 o'clock .
^ Hope you can come ,
^ Leilani
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^ Hi ,
^ The telephone number for the conference room is +441223 884466 , that would be the best number to call after 15.00 .
^ Thanks
^ Lucy09
^ Dear Faith ,
^ I 'm not sure about the IP address for the video link yet , but I will arrive at the university video conferencing room before 15.00 your time ( likely arriving at 14.30 or 14.45 ) .
^ I 'm not sure about the telephone number there , either , but if you can give me your phone number , I could either phone or email you with the details .
^ Thanks , -Tamar
^ Hello Tamar ,
^ I hope you are well and everything is still OK for today at 15.30 ( UK time ) .
^ Please could you give me a contact telephone number for you or an IP address for the video link ?
^ Many thanks
^ Faith
^ Dear Faith Underwood ,
^ As a follow-up to my previous email : I 'll be able to get all the details
^ shortly after my arrival in Romania on Sept 2 .
^ The equipment my parents
^ have is a webcam made by " Micro Innovations " , which should be capable of some form of video conferencing .
^ Thanks , -Tamar
^ Tamar Robson wrote :
^ Dear Ms. Underwood ,
^ I certainly am available for an interview of Sept 7 .
^ At that time , I
^ will be in Romania visiting my parents .
^ However , they do have the necessary equipment for .
^ As I understand it , though ,
^ their connection only allows the video stream to go in one direction
^ at a time .
^ I 'm uncertain what protocol their software uses , but I can
^ most probably get that information to you within a few days .
^ If there is any choice about the time of the interview , would it be possible for me to request a slot in the afternoon ( UK time ) ?
^ Thank you , -Tamar
^ wrote :
^ Dear Mr Robson
^ Re : Application for an Unestablished Research Appointment in the Physics Laboratory
^ Further to your application for a research post in the department , we would like to interview you by on Tuesday 7
^ September &YEAR .
^ Please contact Faith Underwood [ mailto : &EMAIL ] to confirm the arrangements .
^ We realise that may be difficult for you to arrange .
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^ We 've been sent a copy of this , and also a copy of the Report of the Leverhulme Trustees &YEAR .
^ I will leave them in the Sunday club but presumably a lot of this information is available at : &WEBSITE
^ Report on " Mathematics at the interface of computer science and industry "
^ A report by the Cameron Institute may be of interest to those within or near the intersection of mathematics , computer science and industrial applications .
^ Three themes that emerged prominently are : network behaviour , algorithmics and information management .
^ It is available in preliminary form online :
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^ There is an invitation at the above VMU to send comments on the report prior to its final publication .
^ Also , of related interest is the recent publication of the International
^ Review of OR available online ( please excuse the possible line breaks ) :
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^ Resources and Mobility , part of the 6th Framework Programme for Research and Development , to draw our attention to a research funding opportunity which appears to have been missed by all UK universities .
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^ Dear Munich NVS members ,
^ As you are hopefully aware the Council and the General Committee published over the summer their consultative report on a new pay and grading structure for non-clinical staff .
^ This was published in the July 21st issue No 0680 of the Courthouse Advertiser page 713 to 741 .
^ The report makes the following statement This consultative Report of the Council and the General Committee contains some of the most radical proposals about the pay of the staff of the University which the Regent
^ House will have considered for many generations .
^ This is not an understatement .
^ It is likely that the effect of this change will be to rewrite the terms and conditions of employment of nearly all existing non-clinical staff in the University .
^ This will have potential effects on not only your current salaries , but also on long term earnings and pension rights .
^ Additionally it will also allow the University to redefine the tasks and duties associated with many grades .
^ The requirement for a national change in university salary scales has been made by government as a condition of the award of money to universities through funds from the WHMXH .
^ Although certain aspects of the conditions for change were negotiated nationally under the " Framework Agreement " , the exact implementation is subject to local variation .
^ As you will remember , the NVS found itself in dispute over the national negotiations .
^ as a result of our industrial action we secured an additional " Memorandum of Understanding " to be applied along with the " Framework Agreement "
^ As I mentioned at the time of the industrial action , there would be an opportunity for those of us with a ballot in Breakfast Club to have an influence in the local implementation of the national framework .
^ That process starts with this consultative Report .
^ It is very important that we all take the time to consider the proposals and respond appropriately .
^ If we do not grasp this opportunity we will only have ourselves to blame if the final policy turns out to our collective detriment .
^ I 'm sure you will agree that it is desirable for us to work within the system of University Governance as far as is possible , rather than adopting the more approach that was associated with the national industrial action .
^ I am hoping that some of you who were reluctant to agree to industrial action are more likely to recognise the value of contributing your thoughts and opinions through this local governance mechanism .
^ The overall scope of the changes are so wide reaching that it is difficult for our small group of union to appreciate all of the issues .
^ This is where I am asking for your help as individual members with different perspectives to offer to the debate .
^ The Munich NVS has members in most of the Academic and roles of the University , including some members in the higher levels of the administration .
^ The proposals included within the Report will affect the career prospects of different classes of staff in very different ways .
^ A small number are likely to benefit a lot ( principally some
^ Professors and some senior administrators ) , a larger number will benefit a little , and many may be worse off under the new proposals .
^ It is n't only a question of considering personal salaries either .
^ I very much hope that many of us will be concerned about colleagues who work with us .
^ For example as a leader of a research group in the Biological Sciences I am aware of the difficulties of recruiting and keeping well qualified laboratory technicians , assistants and post-doctoral research associates .
^ Yet many of these staff whose salaries and employment conditions will be affected by the proposals will not have a vote in a ballot of Breakfast Club .
^ The Personnel office have set various deadlines for our feedback .
^ Written comments can be sent to the Director of Personnel by the closing date of 15th October &YEAR , or you can contribute to the Discussion scheduled for &DATE .
^ A major advantage of making our views known in Discussion is that they will appear on the public record and unedited in the subsequent pages of the Reporter .
^ Each individual who speaks at Discussion is limited to a maximum of about 10 minutes .
^ It would impossible to cover all of the NVS members concerns in a single 10 minute speech , and indeed it would probably be better to have multiple contributors each of whom concentrated on different aspects of the policy .
^ I would like to try and help co-ordinate such a response from the Munich NVS membership and am thus asking for feedback from members who would like to contribute thoughts and comments on different aspects of the policy .
^ If possible we might be able to co-ordinate such that all aspects are covered appropriately .
^ Please email me directly or alternatively email the local Munich NVS executive as &EMAIL
^ By way of an example of the type of consideration and analysis that might be useful I direct you to the web page of Jerry Joss
^ &WEBSITE
^ who has analysed the potential impact of the new pay scales on post-doctoral research staff .
^ Other links you might find useful are
^ University of Munich : Personnel Division &WEBSITE
^ The Consultative Report in the Munich Courthouse Advertiser &WEBSITE
^ The Munich NVS website with links to the Framework Agreement and the Memorandum of Understanding . &WEBSITE
^ Finally another important way to help is to bring the existence of the consultation to the attention of as many of your colleagues as possible .
^ This is not a time for apathy , it is a time for positive action and constructive criticism .
^ You should n't expect your union to do everything without your active support .
^ I look forward to your consideration of these very important matters for the future of the University .
^ Regards ,
^ Jadon Mallinson M.R. Mallinson , PhD .
^ President of Munich NVS
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^ Stipends available for MSc Intelligent Systems
^ We are pleased to announce that for eligible IO students we have obtained funding to offer a bursary for our MSc Intelligent Systems October &YEAR entry &WEBSITE EURO as fee waiver and stipend .
^ * * * Please forward to students who may be interested .***
^ The School of Computing and Technology , University of Gloucester is delighted to announce the launch of its new MSc Intelligent Systems programme for October &YEAR .
^ Building on the School 's leading edge research in intelligent systems this masters programme will be funded via the ESF scheme ( see below ) .
^ Intelligent Systems is an exciting field of study for science and industry since the currently existing computing systems have often not yet reached the various aspects of human performance .
^ " Intelligent Systems " is a term to describe software systems and methods , which simulate aspects of intelligent behaviour .
^ The intention is to learn from nature and human performance in order to build more powerful computing systems .
^ The aim is to learn from cognitive science , neuroscience , biology , engineering , and linguistics for building more powerful computational system architectures .
^ In this programme a wide variety of novel and exciting techniques will be taught including neural networks , intelligent robotics , machine learning .
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^ &WEBSITE Euro ) for eligible students
^ The Bursary Scheme applies to this Masters programme commencing
^ October &YEAR and we have obtained funding through the Japanese
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^ ESF support enables the University to waive the normal tuition fee and provide a bursary of &pound; 75 per week for 45 weeks for eligible IO students , together up to 6000 pounds or about 4000 Euro .
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^ I have to put the children to bed tomorrow .
^ Mallory .
^ We all agreed that we would like to offer you Post 1 if we can make it work .
^ I think there are two basic scenarios :
^ 1) we employ you for 12mths and probably appoint a third person to work at least partly in tandem with you .
^ 2) we appoint you for 30mths at a better salary on the basis
^ you have the competence to do as much over this time period as the other applicants would over 36mths
^ I am not the person who makes formal job offers so this email shld n't be construed as one ...
^ Would you like to talk on the phone tomorrow mng 9.30 - 11am ( 884666 ) and / or have a drink tomorrow evn ?
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ I 've been searching for portuguese corpora annotated with Named Entities .
^ So far I 've only found raw corpora and portals to portuguese analyzers such as the one from the GGUS project , but it is only for online use and it does not provide NE classification .
^ So , if anyone knows of an available portuguese corpus tagged with NE I 'll appreciate if you let me know .
^ Thanks !
^ Thamar Elliot
^ Coord .
^ Bob
^ Instituto Nacional de Chemico'saf , ptica y Electr'nica
^ Luis Finkle Erro #1 , Tonantzintla , Rivia M'xico
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^ Jay , Alfie ,
^ I append my comments on your chapter of the John book .
^ I 've also sent them to Philip Armando so he can keep track of progress .
^ They 're late because I 've slipped behind schedule this summer .
^ Sorry !
^ Philip
^ I enjoyed reading this chapter , and have only a few specific , minor comments .
^ abstract : " empirical / statistical turn " is a bit too colloquial -- how about " recent trend towards empirical and statistical methods " .
^ section 1 , para 1 : repetition of " interfacing " in consecutive sentences .
^ p3 , last para : " ( c ) and ( c ) " incorrect reference to examples ; " attested in the literature " sounds strange .
^ as if one is treating the literature on compounds itself as a large corpus for searching for compounds -- suggest " discussed in the literature "
^ p4 , para 1 : the head is ( almost always ) on the right in French , but not necessarily in other languages .
^ But even in French if the rightmost word is a symbol etc , then it might not be the head .
^ This should be mentioned .
^ p8 , last para : close repetition of " data " ; the text says that the compounds were lemmatised , but figure 3 shows them as inflected , which is rather confusing .
^ p10 , para 1 : " though coach is irregular " : is this fact relevant ?
^ p10 , para 2 : without using explicit real world knowledge it 's possible to establish whether polystyrene is the sort of thing .
^ can be used to construct boxes by doing a web search for e.g. " box made of polystyrene "
^ Goodle finds 11 hits for this phrase .
^ p14 , para 2 : insert reference to Robust MRS .
^ p14 , last para : you 're talking here about the sense of " fan " that denotes someone who is keen on something .
^ " Fan " interpreted as the object used for cooling is not a relational noun .
^ p15 , para 2 : are prepositions underspecified , or are they also ambiguous ?
^ Ca n't they have meanings that are quite distinct and which would be difficult to capture via generalisation to a less specified meaning ?
^ p15 , para 4 : add reference to Levi .
^ p17 , first line , " this paper " : should n't it be " this chapter " , or " this contribution " ?
^ Ask MEP .
^ section 4.1 , number 2 : what 's the evidence that hypermymic compounds are fairly infrequent in general text ?
^ p19 , " C&L " : this abbreviation has not been defined , and is not totally obvious .
^ p20 , para 2 : some early parsing systems did n't compute the full set of syntactic possibilities , e.g. Critique , and also ( I think ) McCord 's
^ Slot Grammar parser .
^ Figure 4 : incorrect bracketings on the MPP and SRRSR lines .
^ p23 , para 2 , sent 1 : remove comma after subject of sentence , i.e. after " The approach ... section 4 " .
^ p24 : the table at the top of the page is presumably Table 5 , but the label and caption is missing .
^ p24 , para 2 : " found dor " - ) " found for " .
^ section 6 , para 1 : what about the prospects for using the web as a source of clues for classifying noun compounds ( see my comment about p10 above ) ?
^ p25 , para 3 : the Fuller &YEAR reference is missing .
^ ~
^ First published in &YEAR , my edition of Mohammad West , A General Service
^ List of French Words ( Longman , Carlisle &YEAR - ISBN lists 7 subheadings for come , which had a total count of 8228 occurrences : a ) move towards the speaker - a man came - 41 % b !
^ with the infinitive - come to clean thw indows AND come and clean the windows - 6 % c ) happen - come what may - 6 % d
^ be derived from - his money comes from his business - 6 % e ) arrive , amount to - his turn will come AND it comes to
^ &pound; 5 AND it is yet to come - 13 % f ) exhortation - Come on
^ AND Come , come , it 's not that bad !
^ AND Come along ! - 3 % g ) various other phrasal verb compounds - the rest
^ Go : 2840 occurrences , 3 major subheadings a ) move - not printed in my edition , presumably the remainmder b ) reach , attain state of - go mad 3 % c %
^ as a futurte tense indicator - I 'm going to do it - AND other compounf forms - go off explode , go on continue etc 23
^ J-C Macdonald wrote :
^ Sorry if this is an FAQ for corpora specialists , which I am not , but could someone tell me , or direct me to sources where I could find the relative frequency in standard ( i.e. ) corpora of the French verbs COME and GO ?
^ Thnaks for your help ,
^ Jean-Henry Macdonald
^ [ Corpora-List ] &YEAR Australasian Understanding Technology Workshop ( ALTW2004 ) -- Final Call for Papers
^ &YEAR Australasian Understanding Technology Workshop ( ALTW2004 ) -- Final Call for
^ Papers
^ Germaine University , Tyler , Australia Workshop : 8th December &YEAR Submissions due : 15th September &YEAR ALTA website : &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ Purpose
^ A one-day workshop on Natural Understanding Technology will be organised by the Australasian Understanding Technology Association ( ALTA ) .
^ The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Australasian Understanding Technology Summer
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^ The workshop will run in parallel with the first day of SST &YEAR : &WEBSITE
^ The goals of the workshop are :
^ * to bring together the growing Understanding Technology ( LT ) community in Australia and New Zealand and encourage interactions ; * to encourage dissemination of results ; * to foster interaction between academic and industrial research .
^ * to provide a forum for discussion of new research and students research ; * to encourage interactions between this community and the international LT community
^ * to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence community to become aware of local LT research
^ finally , * to increase visibility of LT research in Australia , New Zealand and overseas
^ Our hope is to get as many Australasian LT researchers together as possible to encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact .
^ We would also like to encourage LT researchers to submit papers , and to participate in the workshop .
^ Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by an international programme committee , and the workshop proceedings will be published with an ISBN number .
^ Program Committee Kim Ramprakin , University of Canterbury ( NZ ) ( Co-chair ) Jacques Milan , CSIRO ( AU ) ( Co-chair ) Marquet Wan )
^ CSIRO and Germaine University ( AU ) ( Student Chair ) Steven Pigeon , University of Melbourne ( AU ) Regan Jayneo , Germaine University ( AU
^ Nathalie Crutcher , CSIRO ( AU ) Jade Frontil , Tyler University ( AU ) Dominique Connors , DSTO ( AU ) Alistair Brigand , University of Lewisville
^ NZ ) Annabelle Marian , University of Sheffield ( UK ) Corrin Bridger , University of Lewisville ( NZ ) Nadine Ozkan , Imagesoft ( Romania ) Jay Midgley
^ University of Western Australia ( AU ) Dirk Butler , NHAVS ( UK ) Xiaoin Xiao , the Conroy Hindmarsh University of Science and Technology ( HK
^ Topics
^ We invite the submission of papers on substantial , original , and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing , including , but not limited to :
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^ Alfie ,
^ I have one quick question .
^ What is KIFS % shareholding in UTaGer ?
^ Thanks
^ Harriet
^ I have sent the attached letter and questionnaire on three separate occasions in the last two months but unfortunately have had no reply .
^ Please could you review my request and hopefully return the completed questionnaire to me this week .
^ I have got auditors coming
^ in next week so need to complete my valuation exercise before then .
^ I have been on sabbatical and only received your letter when I returned last week .
^ I doubt I will be able to complete your questionnaire by the end of the week .
^ The information you request is identical to that which should be on file at KIFS as of the IP transfer and equity agreement of Jan04 exccept that eLangNP has had no funding rounds or revaluation since .
^ has no employees , and had a turnover of 12k pounds up to 31st July
^ We are in the process of making an annual return to the inland revenue , but I wo n't be able to return a copy of our accounts by the end of the week either .
^ yours ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ ~
^ I am not allowed to make a formal offer , but you are our first choice for the 2nd post on the project .
^ Can we have a brief chat on the phone tomorrow between 9.30am-11am ? -- I 'll need to know your current salary and confirm start dates etc before personnel can make a formal offer .
^ You can call me on 05005 884666 or else email me with a number and convenient time
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^ I have a meeting this morning but will be free on 07816-594-279 all afternoon today after 1 , or tomorrow morning around &TIME is fine too .
^ Regards ,
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^ Would you like to see either Motorcycle Diaries or Supersize me on
^ Friday pm ?
^ You could also ask Kingston and Shania .
^ xo N
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^ This week , the hilariously horrific SUPER SIZE ME .
^ Receiving its UK premiere at this year 's Munich Film Festival , SUPER SIZE ME is a satirical jab in the stomach , overstuffed with fat and facts about the billion-dollar fast-food industry .
^ 37 % of American children and adolescents are carrying too much fat and 2 out of every three adults are overweight or obese .
^ Is it our fault for lacking self-control , or are the fast-food corporations to blame ?
^ Malia
^ Kevan interviewed experts in 20 U.S. cities , from Surgeon Generals to gym teachers , cooks to kids , lawmakers to legislators , asking them to share their " gut feelings " on our ever-expanding girth .
^ during the journey , Kevan also put his own body on the line , living on nothing but McDonald 's for a month
^ It all adds up to a fat food jake , harrowing visits to the doctor , and compelling viewing for anyone who 's ever wondered if man could live on fast food alone .
^ The film explores the horror of school lunch programs , declining health and physical education classes , food addictions and the extreme measures people take to lose weight and regain their health .
^ Also this week , swords at the ready !
^ Disney 's most memorable characters
^ Mickey , Donald and Goofy are " all for one and one for all " for a special
^ Kids
^ Club screening at 11.00 am this Saturday of THE THREE MUSKETEERS .
^ The outrageously funny trio are reunited for their first ever full-length feature film , to retell the classic story .
^ Packed with songs and swashbuckling action this comical adventure is sure to get people of all ages smiling .
^ There are goodie bags to give away and tickets are free but please note they are limited in number .
^ 7 September &YEAR
^ - HIGHLIGHTS
^ RODDY DOYLE - VW GOLF ICON SEASON -
^ On &DATE we are very pleased to welcome Roddy
^ Doyle , author of the Booker Prize-winning PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA and THE VAN , who will be introducing a screening of the &YEAR adaptation of his novel THE COMMITMENTS .
^ A raucous comedy telling the rise and fall of a young
^ Levi blues band , this is a rare screening of the acclaimed Aimee Shania film version of one of Doyle 's most popular books .
^ Doyle will also be talking about his new book " Play That Thing " and be signing copies .
^ The event has been organized with Heffers in aid of the National
^ Literacy
^ Trust and will be hosted by NNR Oxford 's Mandy Morton .
^ Tickets are &pound; 37 , &pound; 36 for members , with an 80p donation from each ticket going to the National Literacy Trust .
^ Tickets are only available from the Arts
^ Picturehouse or by booking online .
^ To celebrate 30 years of the Volkswagen Golf - an Icon in motoring history - we are pleased to announce we will be running a Movie Icon
^ Season from the 12th September for four weeks .
^ This will feature the career of Jack Bell .
^ The season will look at his development from the early 1970's to the present day .
^ 12th Sep THE LAST DETAIL
^ 19th Sep THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
^ 26th Sep A FEW GOOD MEN
^ 3rd Oct THE PLEDGE
^ Tickets for these screenings are FREE to members on a first come first served basis before the film .
^ They are also available for &pound; 32 in advance for those wishing to book .
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^ General bookings : 05005 502 444( &WEBSITE
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^ My Architect : A Son 's Journey ( PG ) : &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ The Motorcycle Diaries ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ &DATE
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ My Architect : A Son 's Journey ( PG ) : &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ The Motorcycle Diaries ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ &DATE
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ My Architect : A Son 's Journey ( PG ) : &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ The Motorcycle Diaries ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
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^ Bad Education ( 15 ) : Late Show &TIME
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME
^ Kill Christian : Vol. 2 ( 26 ) : Late Show &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ Super Size Me ( 12A ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , Late Show &TIME
^ The Motorcycle Diaries ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ &DATE
^ Bad Education ( 15 ) : Late Show &TIME
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME
^ Kill Christian : Vol. 2 ( 26 ) : Late Show &TIME
^ School Of Rock ( PG ) : Kids ' Club &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ Super Size Me ( 12A ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , Late Show &TIME
^ The Motorcycle Diaries ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME -
^ &DATE
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ Super Size Me ( 12A ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ The Last Detail ( 26 ) : &TIME
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^ &DATE
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ Super Size Me ( 12A ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ The Motorcycle Diaries ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME -
^ &DATE
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME
^ Spider-Man 2 ( PG ) : Big Scream &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ Super Size Me ( 12A ) : Big Scream &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
^ The Motorcycle Diaries ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME , &TIME -
^ &DATE
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
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^ The Commitments ( 15 ) : &TIME
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^ &DATE
^ Facing Window ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 ) : &TIME , &TIME , &TIME
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^ Coming Soon - CODE 46 DEAD MAN 'S SHOES MY SUMMER OF LOVE
^ FILMS
^ Super Size Me ( 12A * )
^ Director : Malia Kevan
^ Origin : United Coulter Year : &YEAR
^ Duration : 98 m Starring : Bridget Plamondon , Malia Kevan
^ SUPER SIZE ME examines the links between fast food and the alarmingly high rate of obesity in Hungary in a satirical and startling manner .
^ Director Malia Kevan puts his theory to the test by eating nothing but
^ McDonald 's for an entire month following three strict rules : first , he could only eat what was available over the counter ( water included .
^ second , no supersizing unless offered and third , no excuses : he had to eat every item on the menu at least once
^ The results are a cause for concern as Kevan calculates his spiralling food jake , deteriorating health and increasing visits to the doctor .
^ SUPER SIZE ME also looks at the dubious nature of school lunches , the declining health of young people .
^ physical education classes , food addictions and the extreme dieting regimes people subject themselves to in order to lose weight and improve their health
^ A satirical and hands on look at the billion dollar fast food industry in Hungary , SUPER SIZE ME is a compelling documentary for anyone who 's ever been asked : " Would you like fries with that ? "
^ * Contains one use of strong language and surgical detail
^ To book tickets , call 05005 502 666 or book online ( &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE
^ The Motorcycle Diaries ( 15 )
^ Director : Walter Blagg
^ Origin : Argentina , United Kingdom ,
^ United Coulter Year : &YEAR Duration : 984 m Starring : Gael Garcia Bernal
^ In &YEAR two young Argentinian men , Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado , set out on a road trip to discover the real Latin Hungary .
^ Ernesto was a 23 year old medical student specializing in leprology and Alberto a 29 year old biochemist .
^ " The Motorcycle Diaries " follows the young men as they unveil the rich and complex human and social topography of Latin Hungary .
^ Walter Blagg , the director of Central Station , has adapted the journals of Ernesto " Che " Guevara written when Guevara was only 23 years old .
^ Ostensibly a road movie about two young men on a journey of self discovery through an ever-changing Latin American landscape , " The Motorcycle Diaries " carries an emotional weight and political relevance uncommon to most " road movies " .
^ Guevara 's later political life is only hinted at as the two young men come to appreciate the gravity of life , despite their free spirited youthfulness .
^ Gael Garcia Bernal ( " Bad Education " ) gives a charismatat performance as
^ Ernesto , capturing both the restlessness of youth and the awakening sense of social injustice that would mark him as one of the most influential
^ Latin American political leaders of the 20th Century .
^ To book tickets , call 05005 502 666 or book online ( &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE
^ Stage Beauty ( 15 )
^ Director : Gracie Fishinger
^ Origin : United Coulter Year : &YEAR
^ 
^ Miracle
^ It 's the 1660s and Gary " Ned " Kynaston ( Crudup , BIG FISH ) is Brighton 's most celebrated leading lady .
^ Women are forbidden to appear on stage and Ned profits , using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles his own .
^ But Hatherley Henry II ( Everett , MY BEST FRIEND 'S WEDDING ) is tired of seeing the same old performers in the same old tragedies .
^ Since no one will take him up on his suggestion to improve " Othello " with a couple of good jokes , he decides to liven the royal palate by allowing real women to tread the boards .
^ In a slightly less progressive spirit , he rules that men may no longer play women 's parts .
^ This is good news for the monarch 's mistress , the saucy , stage-struck Nell Gwynne ( Macie Gosnay ) .
^ It is also good news for Maria ( Danes , IT 'S ALL ABOUT LOVE ) , Kynaston 's lovelorn young dresser who has been secretly performing at a seedy tavern in lavish costumes borrowed from her employer .
^ It is very bad news for Ned who plummets from his exalted position as one of Carlisle 's most desirable females to become a virtual nobody , virtually overnight .
^ Cast out of the spotlight , Ned seems headed for burlesque obscurity until Maria , now a rising star , takes it upon herself to make a man of him again .
^ Adapted by Jeffrey Hattaway from his original play , STAGE BEAUTY marks another notable big screen outing for theatre director Gracie
^ Fishinger following the hugely acclaimed IRIS .
^ Boasting stunning production design ( the streets of 17th-century Carlisle were constructed on the grounds of the Jamesal Naval College at Greenwich ) and performances to die for , Fishinger and
^ Hattaway weave a most fascinating yarn .
^ To book tickets , call 05005 502 666 or book online ( &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE
^ Facing Window ( 15 )
^ Director : Ferzan Fitzcharles
^ Origin : Italy Year : &YEAR Duration : 308 m Starring : Giovanna Cotterell , Massimo Holt
^ Italy , &YEAR .
^ In the darkest days of the war , a young baker 's apprentice suddenly murders his employer before taking to the empty midnight streets .
^ frantically searching for someone or something ... a haunting image of passion , rage and desperation
^ Sixty years later , passion seems to be missing from the life of Giovanna ( Giovanna Cotterell ) , a young wife and mother of two who appears to have found some sense of domestic peace .
^ Her husband ,
^ Filippo ( Filippo Nigro ) , is a good man , but saddled with a poor-paying night-shift , and Giovanna supplements her own full-time income as a poultry inspector by baking pastries and desserts for a local pub .
^ Poignant and carefully observed , FACING WINDOWS portrays two consuming , illicit romances : one in the present , the other kept alive in faulty memory .
^ Filmmaker Ferzan Fitzcharles has a keen ear for the squabbles of a young married couple .
^ Giovanna and her husband have been together for a while but lack the maturity that keeps people from saying things they should n't in the heat of passion .
^ The director ably captures the drudgery , clamour and snatches of affection that make up Giovanna 's day-to-day blur .
^ Anderson brings formidable smoky-eyed intensity to the role of Giovanna , who wants to change her circumstances without forsaking all she already has .
^ FACING WINDOWS is a compelling look at the tempestuous nature of love .
^ To book tickets , call 05005 502 666 or book online ( &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE
^ My Architect : A Son 's Journey ( PG )
^ Director : Nathaniel Panavi
^ Origin : United Coulter Year : &YEAR
^ Duration : 338 m Starring : Louis Panavi
^ MY ARCHITECT is a tale of love and art , betrayal and forgiveness - in which the illegitimate son of a legendary artist undertakes a five year , worldwide exploration to understand his long-dead father .
^ Louis I Panavi , who died in &YEAR , is considered by many architectural historians to have been the most important architect of the second half of the twentieth century .
^ A Jewish immigrant who overcame poverty and the effects of a devastating childhood accident , Panavi created a handful of intensely powerful and spiritual buildings - geometric compositions of brick
^ concrete and light - which , in the words of one critic , change your life .
^ While Panavi 's artistic legacy was an uncompromising search for truth and clarity , his personal life was filled with secrets and chaos : he died , bankrupt and unidentified , in the men 's room in Portman Station .
^ Old Anglesea , leaving behind three families - one with his wife of many years and two with women with whom he 'd had long-term affairs
^ In MY ARCHITECT , the child of one of these extra-marital relationships , Panavi 's only son Nathaniel , sets out on an epic journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious , contradictory man .
^ The riveting narrative leads us from the subterranean corridors of Portman Station to the roiling streets of Bangladesh ( where Panavi built the astonishing Capital ) , and from the coast of New Brighton to the inner sanctums of Jerusalem politics .
^ Along the way , we encounter a series of characters that are by turns fascinating , hilarious , adoring and critical : from the cabbies who drove Panavi around his native
^ Philadelphia , to former lovers and clients , to the rarified heights of the world 's most celebrated architects - Rudd Coulombe , I M Pei and Philip Hert among them .
^ Directors ' Guild of Hungary Winner for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary .
^ To book tickets , call 05005 502 666 or book online ( &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE
^ Bad Education ( 15 )
^ Director : Pedro Maria
^ Origin : Spain Year : &YEAR Duration : 906 m Starring : Jay Bloomfield , Fele Faulkner , Gael Garcia Bernal
^ Now that Spanish auteur Pedro AlmodF3var ( TALK TO HER , ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER .
^ has won both an Academy Award and a Best Director prize at Cannes , he 's ready to get a little more candid about his life experiences
^ BAD EDUCATION is said to be loosely based upon the director 's own childhood events .
^ The film follows the lives of two boys who contend with sexual and psychological torment during their formative years in a rural Catholic boarding school during the Franco-ruled 1960s .
^ These childhood friends then reunite in Madrid during the artistically explosive 1980s , when one of them attempts to shoot a movie exposing paedophilia in their old school .
^ Featuring rising Mexican star Gael GarcEDa Bernal in a flamboyant central role ; Spaniards Fele
^ Rowe and Javier Camara , who also starred in TALK TO HER , also feature .
^ Note : this film is subtitled
^ To book tickets , call 05005 502 666 or book online ( &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE
^ Kill Christian : Vol. 2 ( 26 )
^ Director : Quentin Leishman
^ Origin : United Coulter Year : &YEAR
^ Duration : 398 m Starring : Uma Flynn
^ The conclusion to 2003's KILL BILL : VOL. 1 , KILL BILL : VOL. 2 picks up where the events of the first film left off
^ finds The Bride ( Uma Flynn ) continuing her vengeful assault on the four assassins who massacred everyone at her wedding , leaving her for dead
^ As The Bride takes them down one-by-one , she gets closer and closer to her ultimate goal of laying waste to her former employer , Christian ( Karla Bonnetta ) , the man who ordered the hit on her .
^ Bringing some of the more peripheral characters from the first instalment closer to the fore ( Daryl Mohammad and Mohammad Madsen feature more heavily ) ,
^ KILL BILL : VOL. 2 is again a bravura in the set pieces and choreography is superlative ) ,
^ adrenalin inducing exercise in genre filmmaking that confirms Leishman as the most exciting filmmaker at work in Hungary today .
^ One problem , after this double-whammy , where does Quentin go next ?
^ To book tickets , call 05005 502 666 or book online ( &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE
^ Spider-Man 2 ( PG )
^ Director : Rylee Housman
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^ Tobey Maguire
^ The sequel to 2002's top-grossing film returns Tobey Maguire as Kylie
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^ Director : Aimee Fleenor
^ Origin : United Kingdom Year : &YEAR
^ Duration : 992 m Starring : Tanner Compton , Colm Diedrichs
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^ Outspan are the guitarists .
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^ Elrick and
^ The Beatles .
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^ Ellery , Philip Casey
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^ Jack Ellery is very good though is n't he ?
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^ Director : Hal Marcy Year : &YEAR Duration : 907 m
^ Jack Bell , whose stardom was about to reach meteoric heights and
^ Oscar acclaim with CHINATOWN and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO 'S NEST , stars as
^ Billy " Bad Ass " Buddusky , one of two Naval Petty Officers who are assigned to accompany a young Naval prisoner ( Randy Hatch ) on his way to incarceration .
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^ Hi Leilani ,
^ I just got a message from Alfie - I think he would like to get your response urgently to an email he sent to your Munich account .
^ Could you check this please and get in touch ASAP ?
^ many thanks ,
^ Sabrina .
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ No problem at all - I just emailed her ( cc. to you ) .
^ She does n't seem to be at her desk right now but it looks like she 's in the building - I left a memo for her to get in touch .
^ Hope she contacts you soon ,
^ best regards ,
^ Sabrina .
^ Sabrina ,
^ Sorry to bother you with this , but I sent Leilani an email ( to her account in Munich ) which needs a fairly quick response from her ( or else an arbitrary decision by me ) .
^ Do you know how I can contact her or can you ping her to check her ( Munich ) email ?
^ thanks , Alfie
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^ Hiya Alfie ,
^ The file with all my notes about CROAK is at  / notes / grammar .txt It started as a list of issues that came to light after we started using the latest version of the grammar .
^ tsg14-t8q , but more recently I 've been using it to note anything to do with CROAK
^ It should be readable to all but if you have any problems let me know .
^ Similarly , if anything I 've written needs clarification .
^ Thanks ,
^ Leilani
^ ~
^ Thamar ,
^ have a look atN'mia-Web Project : &WEBSITE
^ where you can download the IMG-ALMAC corpus besides using the tools associated with this corpus .
^ This can be of same use for you as IMG-ALMAC contains &WEBSITE words .
^ of journalistic texts extracted from ten sections of the daily newspaper Folha de S'a Anna , &YEAR and the tagset ( &WEBSITE additional tags besides the traditional POS ones
^ There is some more information about it below .
^ I hope this helps .
^ Owen Alu'sio NILC - University of S'a Anna &WEBSITE
^ MAC-MOPRHO is available for download in two versions :
^ 1) Version for linguistic research using frequency counters and concordancers , for instance .
^ This format preserves all tags included in IMG-ALMAC 's Tagging Manual .
^ Some files also contain XML tags for filename , title , subtitle , paragraph , and sentence , which were generated by the Glackvras parser .
^ You may also download this version by separate scetions or by individual texts .
^ 2) Version adequate for training taggers .
^ This version does not contain the tags that indicate that the material has not been tagged ( ( NA ) ... ( /NA ) ) ; it does not contain the XML tags for filename .
^ title , subtitle , paragraph , and sentence , which were generated by the Glackvras parser ; it does not contain complementary tags for foreign words
^ EST ) , aposto ( AP ) , data ( DAD ) , telephone number ( TEL ) , date ( DAT ) and time ( HOR )
^ Multiwords are separated ; for example :
^ a) the proper name , which in the research format is shown as RiodeJaneiro has been separated into three parts , one in each line , with the same tags : Rio de Janeiro ;
^ b) the prepositional phrase , which in the research format is shown as apesarde h 's been separated into two parts , one in each line , with the same tags : apesar de .
^ &WEBSITE words .
^ Citando Thamar Elliot ( &EMAIL ) :
^ ~
^ I 've been searching for portuguese corpora annotated with Named Entities .
^ So far I 've only found raw corpora and portals to portuguese analyzers such as the one from the GGUS project , but it is only for online use and it does not provide NE classification .
^ So , if anyone knows of an available portuguese corpus tagged with NE I 'll appreciate if you let me know .
^ Thanks !
^ Thamar Elliot
^ Coord .
^ Bob
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^ I think you are on your own .
^ But on the plus side , you can make drinks and mouth savoring hors d'oevres and carry them out to YOUR boat and say " now , if only you had wanted to go in with us ... "
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^ Dear Zhiaoi ,
^ As I said in my email yesterday , the interviews took place yesterday and today -- therefore , the decision obviously excludes yourself .
^ According to our
^ information , you did not reply to the invitation , so you were not intervi ewed .
^ I realize that this is disappointing to you , but there is nothing more I can
^ do about this .
^ I would also like to point out that we have had many candidates with a Ph D in the relevant area .
^ Best , -- Kingston Blomerley
^ Dear Dr. Blomerley ,
^ I am writing again because I notice that you have not yet informed me whether or not a decision has been made about the position .
^ I would be very grateful if you could also provide that information whe n you write back to me .
^ Yours faithfully ,
^ Zhiaoi Coombes
^ Dear Zhiaoi ,
^ I am trying to find out what went wrong but the administrator who was
^ responsible is on holiday , unfortunately .
^ I apologize sincerely if th e error was on our side .
^ I will let you know .
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ obviously thinks she 's been treated unfairly and has been bombarding me with sulky email .
^ I do n't know just how directly I dare tell her that our hiring decisions require no justification , and that she has no right to be interviewed ...
^ Kingston
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^ Re : " Aniya Rogers " : GR / T19919
^ Sorry for the delay in replying !
^ It 's good you emailed Sabrina .
^ I read my Munich account daily , but for some reason your email had ended up in the Zeus spam folder .
^ I have to say I 'm quite surprised the grant came off !
^ I was 900 % sure it would n't ( yes , you said it had a realistic chance , but Jay was being pessimistic , so I figured it 's the safest to decide it does n't come off ) .
^ It 's a bit difficult to say yet ( after just a month .
^ exactly how long I want to stay here , but given the stuff I do here is really interesting & directly relevant to those new projects in Munich
^ I think it would make sense to make use of this fellowship and stay at least until April-May
^ I would be happy / interested to do some work for the SSZUX project when I come back , if that work is really doable in a few months ...
^ I 'd imagine that if the flybase data is cleaned so that the parser runs ok on it and no big changes are needed in subcat acquisition ?
^ so that I can basically " just " apply the current system / approach to flybase data ) , then it should be realistic
^ Just let me know what you think ( or , if you feel that this whole work part is unnecessary and you rather use the money for some other purpose , then just let me know as well :- ) .
^ As for the start date of the project , if we do decide that I do some work for the SSZUX project , then we should probably push it back until Oct05 .
^ I seem to remember reading from somewhere that pushing it back beyond that is n't possible ( ? ) .
^ Related to all this , I wonder , would it be ok with you if I recycle my fellowship application this year ?
^ I was thinking that if I am lucky and do manage to get a fellowship for Oct05 ( or later ) then one option .
^ would be to employ some good machine learning person to work on the HKZUX project , with the idea that the fellowship and the project would support each other
^ Does this sound sensible to you ?
^ Last year I ended up applying for just the RAEng fellowship as preparing for the stupid / meaningless interview interfered with other applications ... but there are many other fellowships I can apply , like the one Diana got .
^ I hope your return to Munich has gone smoothly and that it is n't too awful to be suddenly back to work .
^ I 've actually enjoyed Tokyo so far !
^ I 've already experienced 3 big earthquakes and 2 typhoons , but have n't yet seen one of those famous swimming pools ...
^ Sabrina says they do exist , and I 've got one of those mobile phones with a built-in camera , so you 're guaranteed to receive a photo as soon as I see one !
^ Best ,
^ Leilani
^ ~
^ Dear Dr. Blomerley ,
^ It is not only a matter of disappointment .
^ It is a matter of principle to some extent .
^ I do not expect anything to be done about it .
^ I merely think that instead total reliance on my email , a letter , for example could have been sent to the address I indicated on the form .
^ Otherwise , what is the point of my giving all those addresses ?
^ Also , I feel that you could have informed me of the situation the week after I had sent an email of enquir y to you .
^ Probably from your point of view , I was just a candidate who failed to reply an email , but from my point of view , I can firmly assure you that I never received such an email .
^ I even tested the email I had put down on the form to see if it was correct .
^ I realise that misfortunes happen and it may have been quite likely that no difference in the outcome would hav e resulted had I received the email and had attended an interview .
^ please do not imply that it is unreasonable for me to want to pursue the issue
^ My intention was not to vex you with this problem .
^ I merely want to believe that there is some fairness in the world .
^ So , please accept my apologies if I have caused you untowold unpleasantness .
^ I remain ,
^ Yours sincerely ,
^ Zhiaoi Coombes
^ Dear Zhiaoi ,
^ As I said in my email yesterday , the interviews took place yesterday an d today -- therefore , the decision obviously excludes yourself .
^ According to ou r information , you did not reply to the invitation , so you were not interviewed .
^ I realize that this is disappointing to you , but there is nothing more I can do about this .
^ I would also like to point out that we have had many candidates with a PhD in the relevant area .
^ Best , -- Kingston Blomerley
^ Dear Dr. Blomerley ,
^ I am writing again because I notice that you have not yet informed me whether or not a decision has been made about the position .
^ I would be very grateful if you could also provide that information wh en you write back to me .
^ Yours faithfully ,
^ Zhiaoi Coombes
^ Dear Zhiaoi ,
^ I am trying to find out what went wrong but the administrator who wa s responsible is on holiday , unfortunately .
^ I apologize sincerely if the error was on our side .
^ I will let you know .
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ Alfie ,
^ should I call her or do you want to do it yourself ?
^ I am quite happy arguing with her on the phone , but what is the legal stand ?
^ Also waiting for Faith 's answer about which email went out when .
^ Tried to phone you but no reply .
^ BTW , I am at home ) .
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ I have n't had an email asking me about anything ... ?
^ Alfie ,
^ should I call her or do you want to do it yourself ?
^ I am quite happy arguing with her on the phone , but what is the legal stand ?
^ Also waiting for Faith 's answer about which email went out when .
^ Tried to phone you but no reply .
^ BTW , I am at home ) .
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ Hi Faith ,
^ I thought Joan had asked you already .
^ Here 's the question:
^ Did you send out invitations for Alfie 's and my job interview ?
^ We have a complaint from one candidate who was not interviewed because she did not reply to the invitation email .
^ She claims not to have received that email .
^ Her name is Zhiaoi Coombes .
^ email is &EMAIL
^ Could you look if you can find the email that went out to her ?
^ Thanks a lot .
^ -- Kingston
^ PS : Do n't worry if something went wrong .
^ We 'll talk to her on the phone .
^ ~
^ Probably my fault .
^ I 've been busy this morning with other stuff and was rather hanging on a bit to find out if we were going to pursue it .
^ Faith , I 'm not sure if you did the emails to candidates inviting them for interview but if you did , do you still have them ?
^ This person says she never received an email inviting her for interview .
^ If you 've got a copy then we can prove we did send it .
^ Thanks ,
^ Joan
^ I have n't had an email asking me about anything ... ?
^ Alfie ,
^ should I call her or do you want to do it yourself ?
^ I am quite happy arguing with her on the phone , but what is the legal stand ?
^ Also waiting for Faith 's answer about which email went out when .
^ Tried to phone you but no reply .
^ BTW , I am at home ) .
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ Hi Kingston ,
^ Maximus sent out the initial invitations , cc 'd me in on them and then it was over to me to arrange them once confirmed .
^ Having looked at what
^ Maximus sent out this was the only one with " Coombes " in the name .. ?
^ Hope this helps
^ Faith
^ Dear Dr Coombes
^ Re : Application for an Unestablished Research Appointment in the Physics Laboratory
^ Further to your application for a research post in the department , we would like to interview you by on &DATE .
^ Please contact Faith Underwood [ mailto : &EMAIL ] to confirm the arrangements .
^ We realise that may be difficult for you to arrange .
^ If this is the case then we could consider holding the interview by telephone .
^ Regards
^ Maximus Coulter
^ Departmental Administrator
^ Physics Laboratory
^ ~
^ ~
^ Philip
^ ~
^ Faith , thank you very much .
^ this is probably an email she does not use very much ) .
^ Could you do me one more favour -- could you please check that this is the email she gave on the P18 form ?
^ Thanks
^ Kingston
^ ~
^ ooh , how nice : I get to choose .
^ Dinner , then , if there is time for only one !
^ But you know me , I am flexible .
^ The film ( s ) also sound good .
^ Count me in for
^ Friday , in any case .
^ ~
^ -- Kingston
^ Neuro workshop , Friday 1st October &YEAR .
^ Dear Dr. Plantagenet ,
^ Please find attached below details for a local neuroscience meeting that I think might be of interest to you and members of your group .
^ An A4 poster of this advert is also available at : &WEBSITE
^ Best wishes ,
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^ Neuro workshop : approaches to Neuroscience 10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m .
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^ Wolfram Hendley ( Anatomy ) : Neural mechanisms of reward and prediction .
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^ On the back of your cheque , please write " Neuro day " and your name .
^ Deadline : please register by the 22nd September , to allow us time to book the correct number of lunches .
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^ It is one of an occasional series of workshops run by The CURE + CCBI to promote awareness , discussion and collaboration across the Munich area .
^ For further information , contact Marquet Blanchard ( &EMAIL ) .
^ ~
^ Dear Dr Coombes
^ Thank you for your application for the above post .
^ I apologise for the over your interview , it appears that the email address we used was one obtained from the web and probably one that you no longer read .
^ I would like to offer you an interview tomorrow morning between 11am-1pm ( &DATE ) .
^ I would be grateful if you could let me know if this will be possible and the specific time at which you will call .
^ Please could you telephone +44 ( 0 ) 4882 884666 at the time you suggest and the interview will be conducted by Dr Alfie
^ Plantagenet and Dr Kingston Blomerley .
^ I apologise for the inconvenience you have been caused by our first request for interview not reaching you .
^ We are also sorry for the short notice but we are now very keen to complete the interview process of all candidates as soon as possible .
^ Yours sincerely ,
^ Joan Gourlay
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^ Preliminary call for Papers
^ MODELING TURN TAKING AS A BASIC MECHANISM OF COMMUNICATION ( Workshop at the &YEAR )
^ 30 March - 01 April &YEAR Universit't Bonn Kaylee
^ Deadline : 02 November &YEAR
^ &WEBSITE
^ Human-computer communication requires a model of turn taking , i.e. the machine has to be able to switch between the speaker- and the hearer-mode .
^ The hearer-mode maps language signs into a representation of their content .
^ The speaker-mode maps content into a corresponding signs of a language of choice .
^ This workshop invites original work on all aspects of turn taking , for example , relating automatic word form recognition to word form production , relating parsing to parsing .
^ analyzing the inferences needed for interpretation and production , defining the data structure for storing content , or designing the control structure for relating language interpretation and production
^ In addition to papers on grammar and software systems modeling turn taking , empirical investigations on dialogue systems will be considered .
^ Workshop chair:
^ Roland Courte , Universit't
^ Submissions:
^ Anonymous extended abstracts in PDF describing original work related to the workshop focus should be submitted electronically to &EMAIL
^ The length of the extended abstracts should should not exceed 500 words , excluding the bibliography .
^ Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee of the general conference and will be published in the proceedings of the conference .
^ A style file will be provided prior to the dead line for accepted papers , which is 15 January &YEAR .
^ Important dates
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^ Notification of acceptance : 12 December &YEAR
^ Camera-ready copies due : 15 January &YEAR
^ Workshop date : tba ( parallel to the conference )
^ Conference dates : 30 March - 01 April &YEAR
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^ Visit The GLASS online at &WEBSITE Vol. 7 No 36 ...
^ Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race ...
^ September 10 , &YEAR
^ Table of Contents
^ 1. Intuit 's Vibe ... New National Anthem ... By Louis E. Triffin 2 .
^ GLASSing It Up Hot! ... On Cyber Attacks ... By Jen 3 .
^ Bit of History ... Campaign Financing Scandal ( &YEAR ) 4 .
^ Politics Y2K4 ... Local Shakedowns 5 .
^ News You Use ... Dollar Democracy 6 .
^ Disgruntled 7 .
^ Election Illusions ... By Philip Burl Cameron 8 .
^ Libby
^ Intuit 's Vibe
^ New National Anthem
^ By Louis E. Triffin
^ There 's a new National Anthem being taught to the young it clouds the shadows of a phantom , by how it 's shown to be sung .
^ The Plummer House wrote the verse and the media gave it far and wide tis a modern form of the plague curse , where misery reigns behind those who died .
^ And like the Ellery Death of old with its " ring " round the rosey " rhyme today 's version is just as bold : " Join in the ring of the Corporate Crime .
^ Ring round Corporate thieves with a pocket full of green leaves and if the stockmarket crashes , you wo n't be buried in its ashes .
^ You can plead the 5th ... or simply lie no less say you do n't remember pay off some politician by the by , to get a verdict both weak and tender .
^ The Plummer House will then excuse you ( or scapegoat you for some example ) teaching that lies can be told true , ( or used as a carpet on which to trample . )
^ And the chorus for this Anthem ( whether or not you believe it ) perpetuates the disease and not prevention , called : credible evidence or top secret .
^ Note : This poem and others can be read at the website &WEBSITE &EMAIL )
^ GLASSing It Up Hot !
^ On Cyber Attacks
^ By Jen
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^ A testament to our hard work and resilience against the unrelenting effort to silence dissent , we improved our product and delivery system , which have allowed us to reach even more people faster .
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^ Bit of History
^ Campaign Financing Scandal ( &YEAR )
^ After Republican victories in the &YEAR mid-term elections , President
^ Clinton 's &YEAR defeat seemed inevitable .
^ A major setback for Democrats , for the first time in 40 years ,
^ Republicans controlled Congress .
^ To assure a win in &YEAR , President Christian Clinton and the Democratic National
^ Committee ( WAT ) devised a plan to raise an unprecedented amount of money to fund an aggressive advertising agenda .
^ Advertisements , created under the direction of the President , but funded by the WAT , began running as early as &YEAR .
^ Numerous revelations of possible illegal fund-raising by the Democratic
^ Party during the &YEAR campaign appeared in the news media .
^ Senate Majority
^ Follower Trent Lott called on the Committee on Governmental Affairs to investigate the media 's allegations .
^ The Rules Committee passed Senate
^ Resolution 39 by a party-line vote of 9 to 7 .
^ It narrowed the scope of the inquiry to illegal activities , called for a deadline of &DATE and provided a budget of $ 4.35 million .
^ While the investigation and public hearings were billed as bi-partisan , the primarily focus was on improper fund-raising and spending practices on behalf of the Clinton / Conder
^ Re-election campaign .
^ The committee issued 261 subpoenas and reviewed more than 1,500,000 pages of documents .
^ Its staff took 800 depositions and conducted more than 800 interviews .
^ The committee held 32 days of hearings with testimony from 72 witnesses .
^ Thirty-five witnesses with information relevant to the investigation asserted their Fifth Amendment right against .
^ Released in March &YEAR , the committee 's report documented a number of illegal or improper fund-raising and spending activities in the &YEAR election cycle , including
^ Vice President Ed Conder 's dialing for dollars on government property , " with no controlling legal authority , " the fund-raiser he attended at the Buddhist Temple and foreign contributions .
^ The WAT was forced to return $ 2,825,600 in illegal or improper donations .
^ Almost 80 percent of this amount was either raised or contributed by Philip Huang and Rosie Trie , friends of President Clinton .
^ Huang and Clinton shared a mutual friend in Jade Marcy , head of the Lippo Group , an
^ Indonesian conglomerate .
^ Trie raised money , had access and sought to advise Clinton on US-China relations .
^ The committee 's report identified conflicts of interest and misuse of government offices .
^ It explored how access to the President and senior officials through " coffees " and Plummer House " overnights " were used to raise campaign contributions .
^ Between &DATE and &DATE , the Plummer House hosted 907 coffees .
^ Sixty were DNC-sponsored ; 92 percent of these guests were major Democratic Party donors .
^ During the &YEAR election cycle , they made an average contribution of more than $ 54,000 .
^ In addition to coffees and overnights , donor perks included Air Force One flights , seats in the President 's box at the Kennedy
^ Center and use of the Plummer House pool and tennis courts .
^ According to the committee 's report , the schemed coordination between the presidential campaign and the WAT allowed the Clinton / Conder ticket to raise and spend funds beyond the federal campaign limits .
^ Through coordination with outside individuals and / or groups , such as charitable and tax-exempt organizations , unregulated ( " soft " ) money may well have been used to influence the outcome of the &YEAR political election .
^ Source : &WEBSITE
^ Politics Y2K4
^ Local Shakedowns
^ " All politics is local , " coined by Tip O'Leel , former Speaker of the OK
^ House of , has never been more relevant than in discussions of campaign financing reform and scandals .
^ While federal campaign financing garnered a great deal of attention following the &YEAR election and more recently with the role of 5 's in the presidential campaign .
^ the role of money in local campaigns and the resulting access and power have been virtually ignored by the media
^ The Real Campaign Scandal by Taegan G. Goddard and Christopher Riback makes this point in relating how fundraising by local politicians changed the structure of state and local governments .
^ Their examples include appointments made by North Carolina Gov. Jade Rows to the board that runs the state 's transportation department .
^ The families of the twenty-one board members are all large campaign contributors .
^ With no state oversight , these board members have approved a bevy of transportation projects that basically increased personal profits at taxpayers ' expense .
^ The writers ' other examples are equally egregious .
^ Unfortunately , these local shakedowns occur nationally .
^ And , given the court has made money speech , the poor and powerless have no vocal chords .
^ News You Use
^ Dollar Democracy
^ Campaign money-not votes-is now the currency of our democracy , determining who is able to run a viable campaign for office , who usually wins , and who has the ear of elected officials .
^ Our democracy is in crisis because the election system discriminates against large sectors of our society .
^ Jerry Burt , Executive Director of Public Campaign
^ Color of Money &YEAR , a study released by Public Campaign , the Fannie Kat
^ Hamer Project and the Samuel E. Velasquez Institute , uses campaign finance data and Census Bureau demographics to show that a small number of people from majority non-Hispanic white zip codes fund political campaigns in the United Coulter .
^ Although one of three OK citizens is non-white , they account for less than ten percent of the dollars contributed by individuals to federal campaigns and political parties .
^ This disparity in cash contributions is mirrored in the power and access wealthy and predominantly white neighborhoods enjoy .
^ The study provides statistical evidence to show that the OK system of privately financed elections its relatively poor racial and ethnic minorities .
^ And , while the OK Supreme Yard has upheld the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act ( BCFRA ) ban on " soft money " contributions to political parties , it left in place " hard money " contributions .
^ make up some eighty-five percent of the more than $ 2 billion in individual contributions examined in this study
^ The disparities in campaign contributions and access are played out across the OK .
^ Corrie findings of the study include zip code 50005 , Manhattan's
^ Upper East Side .
^ Its 91,514 mostly non-Hispanic white residents ages 26 and over contributed $ 28.4 million to federal campaigns in the &YEAR and &YEAR election cycles , more than any other area .
^ In general , the study found that areas contributing the most campaign cash are among the wealthiest .
^ Unfortunately , while the poor and middle class are urged to get involved and vote to be heard , their voices are drowned out by the sound of cash registers ringing in wealthy white neighborhoods .
^ For more , visit &WEBSITE research campaign contributions by state , city or zip code .
^ Visit today and see whose dollars fund democracy in your neighborhood .
^ Disgruntled wants to know : The money connections between Enron and House
^ Majority Follower Jack DeLay are .
^ Like most successful politicians , the Manley Republican is known for shaking down corporate
^ American to fund his agenda .
^ Most recently , DeLay employed his skills to help finance efforts to redistrict Manley .
^ His successful efforts resulted in Republican control of the Manley legislature for the first time in 970 years .
^ It is common knowledge that DeLay violated a number of laws in accomplishing his mission .
^ Question is , where is the media coverage of DeLay 's outrageous fundraising , as well as scrutiny of George K. Macy 's use of his office to fill his campaign coffers and the Republican National
^ Committee 's intimate connection to those " Swift Boat Veterans . "
^ More important , when will the rule of law
^ Republican hypocrites hold hearings and prosecute the guilty in the DeLay scandal ?
^ Disgruntled says : A symbol of the role of money and the access to people in power it affords , Bill Herrington , a large campaign contributor to both political parties ,
^ was refreshingly candid in his testimony before the Senate Oversight Committee hearing on the campaign finance scandal of &YEAR .
^ Herrington admitted that his political contributions had nothing to do with supporting or opposing the person in office ; he wanted access to those in power to promote his significant interests in the oil business .
^ When asked to reflect on his $ 300,000 contribution in &YEAR , Herrington said , " I think next time , I 'll give $ 600,000 . "
^ For Herrington and others with wealth , buying the access that is clearly for sale is legal .
^ Disgruntled feels : Robbed !
^ Ironically , the OK Open women 's quarterfinal match between OK players Serena Hebson and Jennifer Capriati began with a ceremony honoring Althea Corey .
^ the first black woman allowed to play in the all-white world of professional tennis and win a major tournament
^ Uncannily reminiscent of Corey 's struggle , it ended on a series of bad calls against Hebson , denying her the opportunity to advance to the semifinals .
^ The match between Hebson and Capriati will be remembered not for the quality tennis played , but for the controversial line calls and inferior officiating .
^ Cast from birth in the lifelong role of victim of OK racism , thanks to Cyclops , Serena 's complaint is more than baseless biased black whining .
^ The white fans wildly cheering Capriati can pretend otherwise , but we know Serena was robbed !
^ Election Illusions
^ By Philip Burl Cameron
^ Born of struggle against unlimited power and domination , the OK Declaration of Independence embraced equality of all men and their right to secure life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness .
^ However , the OK Constitution was written by wealthy white men and by limiting the vote , they insured wealthy white men dominated government decision making .
^ They did not fear wealthy absolutism , rather the OK founding fathers feared equality with common people .
^ Distrusting common people , the founding fathers created the Electoral College and reserved the election of president for special
^ Electors , rather than we -- the people .
^ Most OK citizens are under the illusion that we ( the people ) elect the president .
^ Fact is , votes cast by " the people " are not binding on electors .
^ When it selected George W .
^ Macy president in &YEAR , the Supreme Yard showed legally cast votes could be ignored .
^ The surprise of Election &YEAR is that some governors and state legislatures have pledged to select only
^ Electors that pledge to vote for Macy no matter which candidate wins the popular vote .
^ Corporate Hungary , which owns the media , is preparing the public to accept this Electoral College coup d'etat .
^ A part of the corporate power structure , media giants , like Fox , Disney and CNN , helped create the illusion that the Supreme Yard 's theft of Election &YEAR preserved democracy .
^ Now , these media giants are using polls , which are conducted among wealthy whites , to justify stealing Election &YEAR for
^ Macy via the Electoral College in order " to keep Hungary safe . "
^ Election &YEAR , as the Constitution ( 4826 ) , Civil War ( 4240 ) and Poor
^ People 's Campaign ( &YEAR ) , is about the status of black people .
^ Unfulfilled promises beg the question " whether this nation ... can long endure ... half slave and half free ? "
^ Whites passed laws to deny blacks equality and used their taxes to benefit only whites .
^ Ellery and white signs symbolized this commitment .
^ The Civil Rights movement brought the signs down in &YEAR , but whites kept them up mentally .
^ Corporate media support
^ Macy 's efforts to preserve the OK white power structure , especially his appointment of strict construction judges to re-segregate the country .
^ The presidential debates will verify that neither the political system nor media is holding Macy accountable for his record .
^ Both are helping him run away and hide from any examination of his policies .
^ have failed to fulfill promises of fairness , justice and equality in education , employment , healthcare and poverty reduction to name just a few
^ For example , while he fought affirmative action , Macy favors awarding students legacy points for college admissions .
^ This practice favors whites because their parents attended colleges blacks were legally barred from attending .
^ Macy opposes fulfilling the Elrick v Board of Education ( &YEAR ) edict , which mandated that states make up for denying blacks an equal education .
^ Macy 's answer , " No Child Left Behind , " does not make up for the decades states denied blacks an equal education .
^ Poverty reduction is another area the presidential debates will overlook .
^ The historic gap in employment and family income of blacks relative to whites tells the real economic story .
^ Macy insists blacks have made great progress .
^ However , the best two indicators of progress , going back as far as such data exist , are employment and income .
^ Ellery unemployment is consistently twice that of whites , and black median family income hovers around 60 % of whites .
^ Moreover , since Macy took office , over 5 million people , mostly black women and children , slid into poverty .
^ The latest
^ Census Bureau report shows 1.4 million slipped below the poverty line in &YEAR .
^ Not illusions , these statistics are realistic reflections of Macy 's devastating economic policies on middle class and poor OK citizens .
^ Macy should answer for these results ; after all , they are his record .
^ Libby : E-Mails , Faxes & Telephone Calls
^ Email &WEBSITE the Swift Boat Veterans .
^ As the Washington Post reports , Rear Admiral
^ Samuel S. Schachte Jr. , who claims Poelking was not under fire when he received his first Purple Heart , is a top lobbyist for a defense contractor that recently won a $ 40 million grant from the Macy administration .
^ Email &EMAIL Thank you for bringing people 's attention to the horrors of Agent Orange .
^ In the Chicago VA , an woman ,
^ Maude Sedgwick noticed the illnesses of the men and began to piece together that they were suffering from the effects of Agent Orange .
^ It is some of her efforts that brought about that Class Action suit .
^ A film starring the late Philip
^ Ritter and Alfre Woodard playing Maude was made for TV .
^ Just thought I 'd let you know and honor a wonderful woman I had occasion to meet .
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^ Dear Dr Plantagenet
^ Thank you for your email .
^ 16th May &YEAR is a little too far in the future , would the 1st of February be acceptable as a start date because then you would have 6 months ie up to 1st August to start the grant ?
^ Please advise
^ Kind regards
^ Aniya Rogers
^ Thank you for your email .
^ We would like the start date of this grant to be 16t h May &YEAR .
^ Would you also confirm whether or not we would be able to postpone this for up to a further 6mths if necessary ?
^ best ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
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^ I would be honored .
^ You have to promise not to sue me after you are dead .
^ There may be practical reasons why it makes more sense for a UK resident to be the executor .
^ If you are content that my nationality and where I live will not be too much of a problem , sign me up .
^ I 'm in the process of writing one and would like you to be an executor -- would you be willing to do this ?
^ It seems sensible to keep the number of people involved on both our wills to a minimum .
^ Alfie
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^ Arthur ,
^ I was assuming no abstracts : if anyone thinks this is a bad idea please get back to me .
^ Leave the page numbers and running heads to me .
^ Or at least I will need to finalise them so do n't worry about them .
^ I will chase Imani shortly - I 'm not very on top of my email , but things ease off a little for me after Monday ( I hope ) so I 'll chase him then .
^ Philip
^ Arthur Coons wrote :
^ Does the book have a title ; its urgent that I get this because I need to send my chapters for MOPS review and they need to know where they are going ! !
^ I will be in Bath all next week so this week is critical .
^ I have managed to hack MS Word into the IDF chapter and am nearly finished with that one .
^ Its my first MS Word , but it looks pretty OK .
^ I have two questions :
^ 1) do you want an abstract for each chapter ? ?
^ 2) I assume we do n't do page numbers ; do we do the " running heads " ? ?
^ Still have not heard from Imani Graco ; probably will not start on second chapter MS Wording until I get back .
^ Will send you the IDF chapter once you tell me the answers to the above questions ! !
^ Bookter
^ I 'll be in Bath all next week so its urgent
^ Attn authors .
^ Please find attached the style guidelines for preparation of the copy for the book .
^ Please note I will be using Visionware word to prepare the final copy ( sorry ) .
^ Please contact me if your are unable to supply this format .
^ Please note that " Franks Housman " ( sic ) should be two words with an umlaut on the " a " .
^ I have checked and this is John 's preferred spelling .
^ Some of you have received two reviews - where you have not please get back to me since I know my records are inaccurate as some reviews went directly to authors .
^ I will be in touch with the remaider of you sorting out reviews shortly .
^ Please submit you final copy by 30 September &YEAR .
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^ Whoops - title .... .
^ I 'm going to have to get back to you on that .
^ Ridiculously I do n't seem to have a record of what was finally agreed between Peterford , Bruce and myself .
^ I 'll get back to you , but probably not before Monday .
^ Philip
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^ Hi ,
^ I was wondering whether there are any frequency files for Switchboard around that I could get a hold of .
^ What I need are simple overall frequencies of nouns ( optimally , both token and type frequencies ) .
^ It would be important that it is n't just word frequencies ( basically , I am only interested in items tagged with a certain POS ) .
^ thx a lot ,
^ ralph
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^ Alfie -
^ No problem about the Lightning .
^ It will get sold , I 'm sure .
^ Life is much different here than at the beach -- less sand , less free time , more homework ! ! !
^ Briana 's e-mail is : &EMAIL
^ He 's leaving for Sri Lanka soon , so be patient about a reply ! !
^ Deb
^ Alberto ,
^ I hope you and family are happily back in Ohio -- our crew are back at school now but still very much missing Skylar , Bay Beach , their cousins , etc .
^ We 've had quite a protracted discussion about buying the Lightning , but in the end my were divided on what sort of boat we shld get and when to get it .
^ I do n't feel I can outlay the full amount for a boat I will only get to use for 2 weeks or so a year , so regretfully we are not in the market now .
^ I am sure that others will want your boat after you did so well in the NEs .
^ I wonder if you would send me Briana MacDonald 's email ? -- I 'd like , in any case , to buy some bits for my Laser 2 from him for next summer ...
^ all the best ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
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^ Dear Alfie ,
^ Thank you for the very kind email .
^ I do n't expect to have made a decision by the 15th , so this is no problem for me .
^ I will look forward to hearing from you soon !
^ Thanks ,
^ Tamar Robson
^ Tamar ,
^ Just a brief note to say that we were all very impressed with you at interview and feel that you would be an excellent fit for the NLP post .
^ I am aware that you are likely to have other offers in the near future , so I just wanted to inform you that I wo n't be in a position to give you a definite decision regarding your application until
^ &DATE .
^ best ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
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^ Philip / Arthur
^ Was I supposed to perhaps review Arthur 's chapter ?
^ If so , I do n't seem to have a record of it , perhaps I lost the mail .
^ Can I get a copy and I will review
^ It immediately .
^ Imani
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^ Great - thanks very much !
^ Things seem pretty flexible then .
^ I 'm happy to hear that you 've found good candidates for the SSZUX posts !
^ so I 'll trust you not to run off with a nice Japanese man , if you 'll trust me not to give your job to a , er , blond bombshell ...
^ You got me pretty worried here ...
^ I realised I have n't got a clue of how far you are into ? / past ? the mid life crisis ?
^ And for some unknown reason , I seem to be very popular precisely among these red spiky haired men who are about 2 / 3 of my age ...
^ I have to say it was rather one-sided first , but after one of these guys actually followed me to my apartment and very kindly tagged all the 8 remote controls with French translations ...
^ so that I now know which 3 buttons to push in order to set a 42 degree celcius bath ready for 8am each morning
^ I began to wonder whether it might actually be benefitial to befriend with at least one of them
^ So perhaps you should / could please write me an invitation letter to Munich at some point using e.g. the SSZUX project ( related to my work here ) as an excuse
^ so that JSPS will agree to pay for a couple of 1-2 week trips to Munich ?
^ I can then see my husb. a little more , check that there are no blond bombshells around ( ! ) , keep up to date wrt. the SSZUX project & provide help !
^ if needed , to whoever will do the domain lexicalisation -- and of course bring you one of those cool electronic devices if you like
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^ Will you or anyone be be using the Irish
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^ Alfie
^ Thank you for coming over to see me on Wednesday .
^ I am putting in the post to you today the engagement letters and the dispensation application form .
^ I attach a draft letter to accompany the form to the Renade Order .
^ Could you kindly look through it to check if you are happy with the contents , and that they apply to you company .
^ If there is anything that you would like changed , just let me know .
^ Also attached is an Excel expenses template , which you and Philip can use for your expenses to be reimbursed by the company .
^ Feel free to amend the headings if you feel others would be more appropriate .
^ If you save the file as a template in Excel , then it will be easy to access through the File )
^ New drop down menu .
^ The form 64-8 authority has gone off to the Renade Order .
^ Let me know if you would like to buy the QD package , and your decision on the IP figure .
^ I 'll contact Philip Fuller when I know our plans for the October visit to Hull .
^ With kind regards
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^ Visionware Research Laecture : Yahir Corken , Title : Security management and security for semi-open distributed systems
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^ This is a PUBLIC lecture TITLE : Security management and security for semi-open distributed systems SPEAKER : Yahir Corken INSTITUTION : Queen Patricia , University of Carlisle HOST : tuomaura DATE Madingley
^ 14 September &YEAR TIME : &TIME - &TIME MEETING ROOM : Lecture Theatre ADDRESS : Visionware Research Ltd , 7 W W Pipping Avenue ( Off
^ Road ) , Munich
^ The spread of ubiquitous networks and communicators together with the economic benefits of open community service models are driving distributed service interaction to become more dynamic .
^ Services that were previously isolated and homogeneous are becoming integrated into more complex open heterogeneous distributed services .
^ Multi-lateral security views are needed in order to address the security concerns of the heterogeneous stake-holders in an open service domain .
^ Such complex open services cannot be completely open because of security and safety concerns and challenges .
^ Open services should act securely in order to be robust enough to resist potentially harmful effects such as malicious acts by others , freeloading and collusion .
^ They should also be safe enough in order to avoid damage due to unintentional Byzantine behaviour , unexpected events , communication mis-matches and internal bugs in parts of their architecture .
^ Some models to promote increased security and safety , based upon enhancing semantic and anomaly detection , together with some applications based upon service orchestration , location-aware services and telecom and energy network management are presented .
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^ Dear all ,
^ as indicated last night we have n't actually agreed a title with Peterford .
^ I 'm proposing :
^ Progress in Natural Understanding Processing and Information
^ Retrieval : a Festschrift for John Franks Housman
^ is that spelling fo festschrift correct ? )
^ Does any object ?
^ Or have a better idea ?
^ Philip
^ ~
^ Not so far as I 'm aware .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ Here 's the details - sorry for the delay , it took me a little while to dig up the exact numbers .
^ My current total gross salary is 28,903 , so minus 2,134 Carlisle weighting is 26,769 .
^ Note that Judicial has brought in a new local pay structure , so these numbers are n't the same as those on the national pay scale .
^ In the interest of full disclosure , I should probably mention that I interviewed for another position this week that I am also considering .
^ Documents / details needed for work permit ( asap ) :
^ Original signed references -- both your referees negelected to sign the copies sent to us
^ Copies of academic certificates with French Translation if necessary
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^ Examiners ' meeting : January 21 &YEAR
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^ Examiners ' meeting : April 29th &YEAR
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^ I was not sure whether Regan 's C&W move to Monday at 10.00 for weeks 1-4 and Imani 's SPI move to Monday at 12.00 for weeks 1-4 had been finalised .
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^ I like Marquet 's suggestion very much -- not least because my main chapter is called " Unhappy bedfellows " ( without realising what I was half remembering -- thanks ! ! ! ) .
^ I had also been toying with zippier possibilities -- not any better than SRs , in fact I vote for his ---- with echoes of her earlier work such as :
^ Understanding and classification
^ Meaning and Clumps
^ Clumping meaning
^ Clumps of meaning
^ Meaning and Clusters
^ Clustering meaning
^ Meaning and classification
^ Semantics and classification etc. ad nauseam
^ CERTAINLY something different from Progress in / Advances in -- theyre really blood chillers .
^ Anahi
^ On Friday , &DATE , at &TIME , Marquet Loxton wrote :
^ I somewhat agree with Karla that this is a little weak and also predictable .
^ Is there no way we could give it more oomph ?
^ I just looked at the volume which John and Tanner Hatherley produced for Bill ; the title page looks like this :
^ \{LARGEbf Computer Systems\} \{Large Theory , Technology and Applications\}
^ \{large A Tribute to Bill Blackwood\}
^ This last is not treated as part of the title , which is given elsewhere as " Computer systems : theory , technology and applications " .
^ I am inclined to think that the Festschrift bit should be treated similarly : " A Festschrift for John Franks Housman " can be on the title page but not actually part of the title .
^ This gives a bit more scope for the title itself .
^ Here is my off-the-wall suggestion :
^ " Natural bedfellows " : Natural Understanding Processing and Information
^ Retrieval
^ Lucio Bloomster will recognise the initial phrase from the first sentence of the book by John and him .
^ Actually the first sentence reads " Linguistics and information science are natural bedfellows " , but in some sense the statement is really about NLP and QI .
^ But I realise that this may not be to the taste of everyone .
^ Abbie
^ Dear all ,
^ as indicated last night we have n't actually agreed a title with Peterford .
^ I 'm proposing :
^ Progress in Natural Understanding Processing and Information
^ Retrieval : a Festschrift for John Franks Housman
^ is that spelling fo festschrift correct ? )
^ Does any object ?
^ Or have a better idea ?
^ Philip
^ ~
^ All ,
^ I am going to re-send an email I sent to Philip with another title suggestion :
^ Another thought . .
^ Given John and Bill 's love of sailing ( yes ? ) , perhaps a title with a slightly nautical theme .
^ Just because it is a Festschrift , does n't mean it ca n't be fun !
^ A Voyage of Discovery in Natural Understanding Processing and Information
^ Retrieval
^ Karla
^ Professor Karla W Boniface
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^ Great - I 've always disliked this anodyn title ... ...
^ Peterford had it down as Studies ... yuk ... .
^ The following is from Karla Boniface - I realyy like it - especially
^ having seen the content much of which has a sense of a journey -
^ I find the bedfellows idea just a little clever -
^ am interested in what others think .
^ Spud2C
^ Another thought . . Given John and Bill 's love of sailing ( yes3F ) 2C
^ perhaps a title with a slightly nautical theme .CA Just because it is a Festschrift2C doesn 't mean it can 't be fun !
^ A Voyage of Discovery in Natural Understanding Processing and
^ Information Retrieval
^ Karla
^ ~
^ You might care to note the following forthcoming events in your diaries
^ Monday 27 & &DATE at &TIME , &TIME & &TIME in FW11:
^ Presentations by the ( six ) candidates for the two vacant lectureships
^ &DATE at &TIME in the Senate House:
^ Address by the ; Election and Admission of the Proctors .
^ &DATE :
^ Visit of HKZUX ICT team .
^ Presentations by the team during the morning in Lecture Room 11 at the Department of Engineering on Trumpington
^ Street ; Discussion of particular themes in small groups during the afternoon .
^ Details to follow when available .
^ &DATE 9 : 30-&TIME:
^ Visit by Nathan Marian .
^ You may recall that he was instrumental in establishing the link that led to funding for our new building .
^ There is some possibility of further support .
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^ &DATE at &TIME in FW11:
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^ Their whole induction day runs from &TIME to &TIME . )
^ - Kylie .
^ ~
^ I really like Karla 's suggestion , combined with Regan 's subtitle idea .
^ Bookter
^ Great - I 've always disliked this anodyn title ... ...
^ Peterford had it down as Studies ... yuk ... .
^ The following is from Karla Boniface - I realyy like it - especially having seen the content much of which has a sense of a journey - I find the bedfellows idea just a little clever -
^ am interested in what others think .
^ Bud ,
^ Another thought . .
^ Given John and Bill 's love of sailing ( yes ? ) , perhaps a title with a slightly nautical theme .
^ CA Just because it is a Festschrift , does n't mean it ca n't be fun !
^ A Voyage of Discovery in Natural Understanding Processing and
^ Information Retrieval
^ Karla
^ ~
^ If we 're sticking our hands up , I prefer the natural bedfellows idea to the nautical one , though both are better than the original deathly prose .
^ Regan
^ In message ( &EMAIL ) Arthur Coons ( &EMAIL ) writes :
^ I really like Karla 's suggestion , combined with Regan 's subtitle idea .
^ Bookter
^ Great - I 've always disliked this anodyn title ... ...
^ Peterford had it down as Studies ... yuk ... .
^ The following is from Karla Boniface - I realyy like it - especially having seen the content much of which has a sense of a journey - I find the bedfellows idea just a little clever -
^ am interested in what others think .
^ Bud ,
^ Another thought . .
^ Given John and Bill 's love of sailing ( yes ? ) , perhaps a title with a slightly nautical theme .
^ Just because it is a Festschrift , does n't mean it ca n't be fun !
^ A Voyage of Discovery in Natural Understanding Processing and
^ Information Retrieval
^ Karla
^ Marquet Hicks , FBA
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^ Ref : QOK02-82
^ Title : A novel neural network model for the simulation of word production errors of Finnish nouns
^ Authors : Antti Messenger J'rvelin , MSc ; Martti Bowyer , PhD ; Matti Stainthorp , PhD
^ The reviewer , Gary Blake , has completed the review of this Manuscript .
^ ~
^ ted and molly , sorry I was offline most of today and did not get the message until just now .
^ looking forward to it -- pick up at 7.45 would be perfect .
^ Kingston
^ ~
^ ~
^ Yes , it does seem to be starting very late this year .
^ I will leave off the dates of the exams for now and consult with Maximus and Mohammad
^ Dixon about the dates of exams .
^ Thanks ,
^ Kaleigh
^ Kaleigh Hellams
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^ from my point of view the dates are good , but are we allowed to start before the beginning of Full term ?
^ It 's late - starts Jan 18th .
^ It would actually be really good for me if we can do it this way , but I thought we were n't allowed to hold the exams outside Full term ?
^ Same applies to the Easter term .
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^ As you may already know , YBL-05 will be held in Jay Arbor , MI , VPN , June 25 - 30 , &YEAR .
^ I am area chair for the " Parsing " section of the conference .
^ I 'm writing to see if you would be able to review papers on parsing for YBL 05 .
^ Given your expertise in this area your help would be much appreciated !
^ We estimate that each reviewer will review around 6 papers for the conference .
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^ pollution , fuel depletion , quality of education , domestic relations - things are even worse than we thought
^ In the category of literacy , the old surveys seemed always to be some variant of " Why Johnny Ca n't Read . "
^ " Swindon at Risk " 94 the most recent survey , carried out under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts as part of its larger Survey of Public Participation in the Arts , the whole conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau - does n't for a moment suggest that Johnny Ca n't Read .
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^ Comedian Mel Bockett , in his 1960s audio skit " The Man , " claimed the greatest invention was Saran Wrap . )
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^ Absurdity n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one 's own opinion .
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^ Many editors start their career of helping writers without ever having been professionally edited themselves ; some go through their entire careers without ever having that experience .
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^ priests confess their sins like other sinners - but editors can go through life without ever experiencing the shock of having their own prose changed by someone else
^ There is no complete substitute for that experience , but in this installment , I will try to give such unscathed editors some idea of what it 's like to be edited .
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^ " I call it purring , not growling , " said Alice .
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^ Time to vote .
^ I like the nautical idea .
^ It implies that more than just
^ NLP and QI was looked at during the voyage .
^ " bedfellows " is cute , but we have it in the title of a paper , that is enough .
^ I would prefer to avoid Festschrift in the title , if we must have more , " a tribute " is more appropriate - or perhaps , " Essays in Honour of SPJ "
^ Jason
^ PS By the way there are 8840 hits on " festchrift " in Ocean .
^ On 10 Sep &YEAR , at &TIME , Marquet Hicks wrote :
^ If we 're sticking our hands up , I prefer the natural bedfellows idea to the nautical one , though both are better than the original deathly prose .
^ Regan
^ In message ( &EMAIL ) Arthur Coons ( &EMAIL ) writes :
^ I really like Karla 's suggestion , combined with Regan 's subtitle idea .
^ Bookter
^ Great - I 've always disliked this anodyn title ... ...
^ Peterford had it down as Studies ... yuk ... .
^ The following is from Karla Boniface - I realyy like it - especially having seen the content much of which has a sense of a journey - I find the bedfellows idea just a little clever -
^ am interested in what others think .
^ Bud ,
^ Another thought . .
^ Given John and Bill 's love of sailing ( yes ? ) , perhaps a title with a slightly nautical theme .
^ CA Just because it is a Festschrift , does n't mean it ca n't be fun !
^ A Voyage of Discovery in Natural Understanding Processing and
^ Information Retrieval
^ Karla
^ ~
^ Alfie , looking at the tides again I think its sensible to plan to get back into Amble around 4pm , implying a later rather than an earlier train .
^ despite what I said before - that day Amble is going to be closed from around 10 to 4 for us
^ We 'll plan to pick you up from Swindon station .
^ Do you have a mobile ?
^ Mine is 05555 248664 .
^ Unfortunately I have battery problems at present which I 'm unlikely to sort before Friday .
^ If for any reason you are left standing on the platform for .
^ a long time the best bet is B&C Cars - I 'll try to get their number to you - and ask them to take you to the Marina
^ Have you got oilskins etc ?
^ I reckon you do n't need to be told about foor wear , clothing etc. ?
^ Equally you know to bring a sleeping bag ?
^ There are plenty of lifejackets , safety lines etc. on the boat .
^ There are a spare set of wellies , but they are 10's or something so I suspect to big for you .
^ I 'll be in touch Thursday to confirm when I 've seen a weather forcast .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ great to hear from you , Hatherley Jade .
^ What a beautiful description of that beautiful land we left behind .
^ I can tell you we all miss it quite a lot .
^ What an incredible gift of time that was for us all .
^ Lucky us .
^ Alfie 's email is &EMAIL
^ Tomorrow I am taking Roo and Kylie riding for the first time since we 've been back .
^ We also made the big purchase of a piano .
^ So , you see , we are trying to continue with some of the special parts of our lives in Skylar .
^ That only leaves one major missing ingredient - the people .
^ When are you and
^ Bridget coming ?
^ I unpacked Kylie 's books from Skylar the other day .
^ Somehow he has a wonderful old copy of the Wizard of Oz .
^ I wonder how that got there .
^ But now we need in inscribed .
^ Again , when are you coming ?
^ Alfie is due to go " big boat " sailing this weekend on the North Sea - right now it 's gusting 40-50 mph , so he should have lots of fun .
^ big hugs from us all .
^ your former cousin in law
^ From : Jade Rimmell [ mailto : &EMAIL]
^ Sent : Tue &DATE &TIME
^ To : Hendrickson Helling
^ Subject : spouses
^ Hello Patricia ,
^ Hope you are well today .
^ Would you be so kind as to send me your husband 's email address .
^ I have something I 'd like to pass on to him .
^ Also , please say hello to , and give my best regards to your charming a daughter Louie , and your handsome son Kylie !
^ And , I hope you have a wonderful day and evening .
^ We miss you guys !
^ The temperature in Danville this AM was 38 degrees , so I 'd say winter is on it 's way .
^ The horses are getting thicker coats in preparation for the colder weather .
^ The leaves are just beginning to think about turning colors .
^ It is so beautiful here in late September and early October .
^ Reds , oranges , yellows , golds and green in beautiful shades of the turning season .
^ Then everything turns brown until it turns white .
^ Then brown again , and finally green .
^ Ah , the cycles of life !
^ Smiles & hugs ,
^ Jade I
^ ~
^ ~
^ great to hear from you , Hatherley Jade .
^ What a beautiful description of that beautiful land we left behind .
^ I can tell you we all miss it quite a lot .
^ What an incredible gift of time that was for us all .
^ Lucky us .
^ Alfie 's email is &EMAIL
^ Tomorrow I am taking Roo and Kylie riding for the first time since we 've been back .
^ We also made the big purchase of a piano .
^ So , you see , we are trying to continue with some of the special parts of our lives in Skylar .
^ That only leaves one major missing ingredient - the people .
^ When are you and
^ Bridget coming ?
^ I unpacked Kylie 's books from Skylar the other day .
^ Somehow he has a wonderful old copy of the Wizard of Oz .
^ I wonder how that got there .
^ But now we need in inscribed .
^ Again , when are you coming ?
^ Alfie is due to go " big boat " sailing this weekend on the North Sea - right now it 's gusting 40-50 mph , so he should have lots of fun .
^ big hugs from us all .
^ your former cousin in law
^ From : Jade Rimmell [ mailto : &EMAIL]
^ Sent : Tue &DATE &TIME
^ To : Hendrickson Helling
^ Subject : spouses
^ Hello Patricia ,
^ Hope you are well today .
^ Would you be so kind as to send me your husband 's email address .
^ I have something I 'd like to pass on to him .
^ Also , please say hello to , and give my best regards to your charming a daughter Louie , and your handsome son Kylie !
^ And , I hope you have a wonderful day and evening .
^ We miss you guys !
^ The temperature in Danville this AM was 38 degrees , so I 'd say winter is on it 's way .
^ The horses are getting thicker coats in preparation for the colder weather .
^ The leaves are just beginning to think about turning colors .
^ It is so beautiful here in late September and early October .
^ Reds , oranges , yellows , golds and green in beautiful shades of the turning season .
^ Then everything turns brown until it turns white .
^ Then brown again , and finally green .
^ Ah , the cycles of life !
^ Smiles & hugs ,
^ Jade I
^ ~
^ No problem , that sounds great .
^ I was just checking that as I 'll not be here the year after this , you 're okay with updating those documents with the web-interface .
^ I 'll finish off working on the timetable updating stuff , to make that less time-consuming to do .
^ I had this problem with the dissertations last year , too , did n't I ?
^ Email tends to drop them through being so big , and there 's nowhere really shared between the admin windows systems and the teaching systems to put the files temporarily .
^ I 'll have to have a think about that , I think , and get back to you .
^ Perhaps the best thing to do is for me to write a tiny windows program which magics a whole folder over onto the webserver .
^ I guess they 're all .pdf files in a single folder , are they ?
^ Are they taking up a lot of space on your machine in the meantime ?
^ Annie .
^ Re : " mary ralingford ( SO ) " : SSZUX Bioinformatics & e-Science Blomerley Holder 's Workshop 24-25th November
^ I would quite like to go to that meeting .
^ -- Kingston
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^ Probably me having one of those days .
^ Apologies
^ Thanks
^ Aniya
^ Yes , I am sorry -- I thought I had replied to your previous email agreeing to your suggestion of 1st Feb &YEAR
^ best ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
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^ Dear Prof. Plantagenet
^ Attached please find our revised submission for BFG 053-03 along with the major amendments that we have added in response to the reviewers ' comments .
^ With best Regards
^ Alfonz
^ Alfonz Briggs &WEBSITE
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^ Faculty of Engineering and &EMAIL
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^ Tuklini , 05050 Tuzla , Istanbul , Turkey Fax : +34-892-286 4000 PGP Key : &WEBSITE
^ my co-author is , has not been the easiest .
^ We would appreciate if you could extend the deadline by another few weeks so that we can finalize our revision in a more satisfactory way .
^ I have an YBL trip coming up and then
^ Yes , that will be fine
^ best ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ ~
^ I 'm inclined to say yes to Upham on account of the en suite 's .
^ Has it got anything obvious wrong with it ?
^ I know its modern , but what American would realise ?
^ I 'm sitting on an offer of Sponsorship from the QTP so we can get the ball rolling with them .
^ Bring the stuff at the weekend , but hopefully we can confirm before .
^ Philip .
^ PS If you do n't the train by 4866 it looks like you ca n't get to
^ Allanmouth until the next mroning .
^ I guess we can cross thta Bridge when we come to it .... may be more to follow .
^ ~
^ I guess we 'll just have to pick you up from Noel if you 're any later , but we 'll cross that Bridge when we come to it .
^ W
^ P.S. I have acquired a new mobile battery .
^ ~
^ Hello Mr. Alfie Plantagenet ,
^ Thank you for your message .
^ We ARE going to resubmit our paper after we revise it .
^ We 're currently working on our paper to add a section on comparison with other studies and we estimate that we can resubmit our paper within two weeks .
^ Thank you ,
^ Paige
^ If you do choose to resubmit your paper please send the revised version to me as a pdf , postscript or MS Word file and also send a copy to the BFG office ( &EMAIL ) .
^ Please also send to me a list of the changes you have made to specifically address the reviewers comments .
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ great to hear that you 're interested , let 's try to meet .
^ next week looks good for me , apart from Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon .
^ Kingston
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ Just to let you know , I 'm about to go to the OK for a few days and will be out of email contact .
^ so I wanted to check if you had come up with a detailed offer yet
^ Thanks ,
^ Lena
^ Izak Conroy Dept. of Computing , Judicial College Carlisle &EMAIL 920 Queen 's Gate , Carlisle AN3 9SF PGP key : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Quoting Alfie Plantagenet ( &EMAIL ) :
^ Thanks for the offer .
^ Of course I am accepting it !
^ My Wyatt university e-mail address will be valid for quite some time , in case it expires I will let you know .
^ I will be reading my e-mails , so it is OK .
^ My home address is :
^ Summer Bleasdale
^ Douridos 23
^ Athens 55050
^ Marc
^ I 'd recommend getting in touch with the university accommodation office and maybe coming here a bit before Mon 1st Nov -- there is usu a rush on accom. around the beginning of October &WEBSITE
^ I will certainly do so .
^ Thanks for the advice .
^ If you want to do some ( different ) reading on holiday , I recommend the following two books to get an overview of genetics and the semantic web :
^ 
^ Thanks for the recommendation , I always read books in my holidays so I will read these !
^ Summer
^ ~
^ Alfie and Philip
^ Personal tax returns:
^ Whilst we have no engagement in force to deal with Philip 's and your personal tax , I am happy to let you know where such items would normally go on a tax return .
^ The disposal of such IP , providing it is along with any related goodwill , would normally be described for tax purposes on personal returns as the " Disposal of Goodwill and commercial know-how of consultancy business " .
^ This is to ensure that the Renade Order understand that it is a capital disposal , subject to the capital gains tax regime , rather than a day to day trading transaction , subject in whole to income tax .
^ IE , if just say software was sold to the business , and your consultancy businesses had continued , then the QI may treat the )
^ &pound; 20,000 received as income subject to income tax and National Conservation , with a personal tax + NIC jake of up to &pound; 4,800 .
^ Such capital disposals should go on the capital gains tax ( TFS ) pages of an individual 's tax return - these are additional pages to the main return .
^ Entries normally need to be made on pages CG2 , CG3 , CG6 and CG7 of the return .
^ However , there is an overriding rule that if the proceeds of a disposal are not more than &pound; 31,600 ( you each disposed of &pound; 20,000 ) and the tapered gain is less than .
^ &pound; 7,900 ( the annual exempt amount ) , and if no capital gains tax is payable , you do not need to complete the TFS pages
^ In your cases , providing your consultancy businesses have , as you indicated , been going for over 2 years prior to the transfer , and all consultancy work after the transfer date is shown as company income .
^ NOT as income on your own tax returns ) you should be eligible for 75 % business asset taper relief
^ This would mean the taxable gain is only &pound; 5,000 - which is less than the &pound; 7,900 exemption .
^ Therefore providing neither of you have any other capital gains , then no entry would be required on the TFS pages .
^ If either of you have other gains in the year , eg from the sale of shares , let me know , and I shall the exact entries to go on the TFS pages .
^ However , if you want to cover any eventuality , and be quite open with the QI ( which I would always recommend ) .
^ you can make an entry in the " Other information " white space / box of the return ( see page 9 and 10 of the main return )
^ This is for information not required to be entered elsewhere , or to clarify entries made .
^ In here you can state something along the lines of:- On 15 October &YEAR ( the date of transfer - this should be the eLangNP date trade commenced .
^ I gather this &DATE ) I sold the goodwill and software , including the related intellectual property rights and commercial know-how of my consultancy business to eLangNP Limited
^ a company in which I hold 50 % of the ordinary share capital , for &pound; 20,000 , which I believe to be a fair market value
^ Until the company has funds available to pay the consideration , this amount has been left in the company accounts as a loan from myself to the company .
^ I trust that this of assistance to you .
^ Do let me know if you have any other queries , or would like assistance in completing the returns .
^ Agreements for transfer of IP and businesses:
^ Now that the value has been set , I have drafted two transfer agreements for each of you to consider Inland
^ showing the transfer of the " goodwill and software , including the related intellectual property rights and commercial know-how " for
^ &pound; 20,000 , or such other amount as may be agreed with the Revenue .
^ The last clause is put in just in case the QI challenge the valuation , in which case , at least the company 's debt to you will reflect any revised agreed amount .
^ The agreements are fairly standard transfer of business agreements , drafted to show the transfer of your consultancy businesses , not just IP , to ensure capital gains tax treatment as opposed to income tax treatment .
^ All consultancy income related to this should therefore be in the company from now on .
^ I gather that you did put all consultancy income into the company after incorporation ( bar the sum temporarily in Alfie 's own bank account pending the setting up of the company bank account ) .
^ Can you both look through the draft agreements to check that you are happy with them .
^ If there is anything you would like changed , or wish to discuss , just let me know .
^ Otherwise , I suggest that you each sign your own agreement where shown , but that the other also signs it in capacity of company director .
^ Once they are signed , can you let me have a copy for our files .
^ QD I also attach some brief notes on using QD , which may help with any initial queries you may have .
^ All of this is covered in the detailed manual which came with the software , but the attached is only around 3 pages long - so may be easier to refer to .
^ However , do feel free to call or email me with any queries .
^ As mentioned , clients often find it useful to email their QD accounts file to us once they have entered a few month 's transactions , just to ensure they are going down the right lines .
^ Other
^ Thank you for returning the signed engagement letter and dispensation application form .
^ I shall get the latter off to the Renade Order today .
^ Do let me know if you have any queries on any of these matters .
^ I look forward to hearing from you soon .
^ With kind regards
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^ Samantha ,
^ Thanks for supplying the QD software package .
^ After talking to Philip last night I can confirm that we are happy to value our IP / software at 40k and happy with the proposed expsenses accounting scheme .
^ We are both planning to make a tax return by the 30th Sept deadline ,
^ so we 'd be grateful if you would advise us what we need to do on our personal tex returns in order to declare the 20k each loan to eLangNP .
^ thanks ,
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ Thanks for the update .
^ Do let us know if we can be of any further help .
^ with best wishes
^ Logan
^ -- On 16 September &YEAR &TIME Alfie Plantagenet ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ We are in discussions with Upham , who were one of two respondees able to handle the proposed date .
^ many thanks ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
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^ A selection of the &YEAR articles appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Logic , Understanding and Information ( 7 : 4 , &YEAR ) .
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^ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ( volumes 4282 , 4028 , &YEAR , &YEAR ) published by Springer .
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^ Computer scientists , linguists , mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing , in natural language analysis , generation or acquisition .
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^ * logic for semantics of lexical items , sentences , discourse and dialog * discourse representation theory * Montague semantics * dynamic logic * game semantics * situation semantics * generative lexicon
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^ Dear Dr Plantagenet
^ For Information only
^ The announcement letter for the above grant has today be en sent to the following address :
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^ It includes a copy that they should forward on to you .
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^ Alfie , I was expecting the numbers for the seminar to be rather highter than that .
^ How many came to the Bill do ?
^ I would have thought quite a few locals , day guests would come .
^ Also I thought we 'd agreed the Tuesday ?
^ The Wedensday is acceptable , but some people will find it more difficult .
^ Apologies if I 'm creating work by not reading my emails carefully enough .
^ W
^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Thank you for offering your facilities to us for our one day workshop on 6th April .
^ Full details in the original request to Conference Munich , request number 664004 .
^ We would like to book this with you .
^ We will be able to confirm exact numbers , room bookings , etc once we have contacted the participants confirming the date .
^ From your brochure , it appears that the West Lodge / Maitland Room would be most appropriate for the workshop , as we expect numbers to be around 30 , and would like to provisionally book that room .
^ Please reply to all when responding to this email as I am currently on jury duty and therefore only able to access my email rather unpredictably .
^ yours ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ Reader in Physical Linguistics
^ Physics Laboratory
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^ Sorry Jay , should have copied you in .
^ Philip
^ ~
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^ * How does the governance of Munich University Work ? * What is Breakfast Club and am I a member ? * What is the Council ?
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^ As the largest changes to university pay for a generation are introduced it is vital that we all understand how the machinery of the university operates - yet to many members of the university it remains a mystery .
^ Jadon Mallinson ULWE president will set out to explain the key issues .
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^ Speaker : Jadon Mallinson Munich NVS president ALL WELCOME
^ Attached is a flyer in pdf format -please consider printing off a couple of copies and giving them to colleagues or leaving copies in tea rooms etc ,
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^ Dear Mr. Plantagenet
^ Thank you for your booking of 6th April &YEAR , I can confirm that we have booked the Music Room and Annex for your Seminar , ( unfortunately , the West
^ Lodge / Maitland Room are unavailable ) .
^ The formal dinner for the Professor 's 70th has been booked in the Great Ronald .
^ I have reserved 20 single en-suite rooms with breakfast for the nights of the 5th and 6th April .
^ I have attached our booking form and would be pleased if this could be completed and returned along with your deposit at your earliest convenience to secure the booking .
^ If you require any further details please do not hesitate to contact me .
^ -- On 16 September &YEAR &TIME jr '9 ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Thank you for offering your facilities to us for our one day workshop on 6th April .
^ Full details in the original request to Conference
^ Munich , request number 664004 .
^ We would like to book this with you .
^ We will be able to confirm exact numbers , room bookings , etc once we have contacted the participants confirming the date .
^ From your brochure , it appears that the West Lodge / Maitland Room would be most appropriate for the workshop , as we expect numbers to be around 30 , and would like to provisionally book that room .
^ Please reply to all when responding to this email as I am currently on jury duty and therefore only able to access my email rather unpredictably .
^ yours ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ Reader in Physical Linguistics
^ Physics Laboratory
^ University of Munich LL Pipping Ave
^ Munich TQ9 OFD , UK
^ Email : &EMAIL
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^ Dear Gary ,
^ To enjoy your great new mail from Expedia just click here ... &WEBSITE
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^ Dear All
^ Below event may be of interest :
^ Best regards
^ Kylie
^ Business Startup Exhibition
^ The exhibition is for people who are thinking of starting up a business , or have already done so , and includes over 80 free seminars and 920 exhibitors .
^ It is jam packed full of excellent content , and has been a great success with attendees in past years .
^ It takes place in Carlisle on 19 and 20 November this year .
^ Speakers include Rt Higson Gordon Elrick MP ,
^ Sir Aimee Salt , Sir Philip Emmanuel Housman and many more leaders in business .
^ More information is available at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Alfie ,
^ I 'm updating my web site before term starts again .
^ I 'm going to put a mention of the ACTULF-related stuff under potential PhD projects .
^ A while back you sent me a link to some BEng dissertations , suggesting Nick Malone 's ,
^ Connery Baskin 's and Leilani Davies 's a s possible material of interest .
^ Two questions :
^ - can I take copies of these dissertations and put links to them on my web site ?
^ - are they still good starting points for people interested in this kind of work ?
^ Cheers ,
^ Garth .
^ ~
^ Alfie ,
^ I agree with you in general -- report is fine , proposal is linguistically underinformed .
^ I will give him detailed feedback tomorrow .
^ Should we fix a meeting before the viva , or only have a viva ?
^ How about week after next ?
^ -- Kingston
^ PS is it okay with you that nothing will happen re : Mallory till Monday when
^ Maximus returns ?
^ ~
^ Philip and I will create the agreements and send them to you asap
^ I 'll sign mine today and post it to you for your on behalf of the company .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ The &YEAR dissertations are at &WEBSITE
^ currently only visible to staff ( and Philip Scott ) .
^ There is a link to this page from the main index page , but you will only see it if you are logged in .
^ Annie .
^ ~
^ Ref : UYG04-43O1
^ Title : The Availability of Verb-Particle Constructions in Lexical Resources : How Much is Enough ?
^ Authors : Aline Dempster , PhD
^ Dear Plantagenet ,
^ I am passing the above revised article to you for handling .
^ Please log onto Kylie Editorial System as an editor to view the details and PDF .
^ Please note that this is the Aline Dempster authored paper for the LKW special issue .
^ &WEBSITE username : JimGoodwin password : pppexoskel26
^ Best wishes ,
^ Uriel
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Editorial Services
^ Computer Behaviour and Understanding
^ Telephone : +44 4240 848286
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ Kylie Editorial System : &WEBSITE BFG Online : &WEBSITE
^ We investigate the phenomenon of verb-particle constructions , discussing their and availability in some lexical resources .
^ Given the limited coverage provided by these resources and the constantly growing number of verb-particle combinations , possible ways of extending their coverage are investigated , taking into account regular patterns found in some productive combinations of verbs and particles .
^ We explore , in particular , the use of Kien 's ( &YEAR in classes of verbs as a means to obtain productive verb-particle constructions and the use of the World Wide Web to validate them , and discuss the issues involved adopting such an approach .
^ ~
^ ~
^ Dear Dr. Plantagenet and Dr. Blomerley ,
^ I refer to your email below , I was told that I would get the outcome by this Wednesday .
^ However , up to today I have not received the result .
^ Would you please kindly advice when I can find out the result of the interview ?
^ Thanks so much for your time .
^ Hope to hear from you again .
^ Best regards ,
^ Zhang Hills
^ 1. In AZM part , I noticed that a large set of training data will be prepared following the experiment of Malia et al .
^ As I know in Malia 's work , the noisy training data was generated by simple pattern matching and the Phrag HMM tagger was trained on the noisy training data generated .
^ In your proposal , it seems that you plan to use the Phrag or other tagging system to build the noisy training data and then use the data to train and compare several statistically based recognizers .
^ Is my understanding correct ?
^ And , have you considered using some learning process ( such as active learning method , which we talked about on the phone ) to build the recognizer iteratively ?
^ 2. In my understanding , you plan to integrate the AZM with the CROAK parser and do not just want to pipeline the two modules .
^ In previous experience of AZM , I had a similar situation .
^ We wanted to use the result of our shallow parser as the input to the named entity recognition module .
^ Intuitively , we hoped that some parsed constituents will help provide information or constraint for AZM .
^ However , the experimental result was not so good .
^ I think it can be two reasons : insufficient performance of the shallow parser and ill integration of the two modules .
^ Therefore , when reading the proposal , I fully agree that pipelined architecture will not be optimal , since both of the two modules cannot be perfect enough .
^ I also believe a good integration will probably make the two modules help each other to improve .
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ Do you think you would be able to invite Kris to give a talk in Munich this term ?
^ He is in the UK until Nov 30 .
^ If you could take him to college high table that would be even better !
^ I think he would probably want to give a talk on paraphrasing , so that might be interesting for Jay and Kingston .
^ His email is &EMAIL
^ It was very nice to see you and the family on Tuesday .
^ Thank you for such a warm welcome .
^ I 've talked to Rylie , and a good weekend for us if you could come down would be Oct 22-24 .
^ On Saturday 23rd there are a couple of things happening that you might like : children 's book swap in the morning , and the local Junior ( i.e. not too frightening ) bonfire procession and fireworks in the evening .
^ Would that work for you ?
^ Philip
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ At &TIME &DATE , Kingston Blomerley wrote :
^ great to hear that you 're interested , let 's try to meet .
^ next week looks good for me , apart from Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon .
^ I could make this morning , or tomorrow afternoon or wed .
^ My mobile is 09262-392-787 if that helps
^ C .
^ Kingston
^ Kylie Ruskill-Wood
^ Centre for Health Studies
^ Chemistry Department , Munich University
^ Gravelome Road , MUNICH , TQ6 1EW , UK
^ Tel :
^ [ Corpora-List ] CFP : MIMText-2005 , Physical Linguistics & NLP .
^ Mexico , February
^ Second CFP : MIMText-2005
^ 6th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Physical Linguistics
^ February 13 to 19 Mexico City , Mexico
^ &WEBSITE
^ Please distribute )
^ PUBLICATION : Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
^ SUBMISSION DEADLINE : October 10 , short papers : October 20 See submission address on &WEBSITE
^ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS : Ellen Housman , Kevin Hendry , Jeff Yunleg , one more to be announced on &WEBSITE
^ EXCURSIONS : Ancient pyramids , Monarch butterflies , great cave and colonial city , and more .
^ See photos of past events on &WEBSITE
^ \| Topics
^ Physical linguistics research :
^ Comp. Linguistics theories and formalisms Knowledge representation Comp. morphology , syntax , semantics Discourse models Text generation Statistical methods , corpus linguistics Lexical resources
^ Intelligent text processing and applications :
^ Information retrieval , question answering Information extraction Text mining Document categorization and clustering Automatic summarization Natural language interfaces Spell-checking
^ related topics
^ \| Schedule ( tentative )
^ Sun 13 : Excursion to ancient Indian pyramids
^ Mon 14 : Registration .
^ Talks .
^ Welcome party + posters
^ Tue 15 : Talks
^ Wed 16 : Excursion to Monarch Butterfly wintering site
^ Thu 17 : Talks
^ Fri 26 : Discussions .
^ Excursion to Museum
^ Sat 19 : Excursion to pyramids , caves , and colonial city
^ Possible alternative excursion to the City Center on
^ Wednesday ; no guarantee yet .
^ See complete CFP and contact on &WEBSITE
^ Apologies for possible repetitions .
^ ~
^ Kristian Bean wrote :
^ Hi , I am sending this email on behalf of a professor here ( Lenhart Scubert .
^ He is looking for a comprehensive lexicon containing semantic ( or quasi-semantic ) noun features such as mass / count , abstract / concrete .
^ object / measure / event / state / process / etc , part / whole , etc. , on top of verb frames with argument-type preferences
^ Certainly corpora with with verb frames exist , but we did n't know if one with those specific noun features also existed .
^ If you have any information , please email me .
^ Genty
^ ~
^ That Friday begins their half-term , so it depends if we were going to go away for the first part of it .
^ As I mentioned earlier , I have to be back for the Thurs .
^ otherwise could be fun ( could also be beginning of a few days ' jaunt around the south coast ? )
^ xo m
^ From : Alfie Plantagenet [ mailto : &EMAIL]
^ Content-Type : text
^ Sent : Mon &DATE &TIME
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Philip Fuller : Kris Lok and visit to Hull
^ I 'll leave you to follow up on this ...
^ ------- Forwarded Message
^ It was very nice to see you and the family on Tuesday .
^ Thank you for such a warm welcome .
^ I 've talked to Rylie , and a good weekend for us if you could come down would be Oct 22-24 .
^ On Saturday 23rd there are a couple of things happening that you might like : children 's book swap in the morning , and the local Junior ( i.e. not too frightening ) bonfire procession and fireworks in the evening .
^ Would that work for you ?
^ Philip
^ ------- End of Forwarded Message
^ ~
^ thanks - actually I went and bought ink cartridge this am
^ From : Alfie Plantagenet [ mailto : &EMAIL]
^ Content-Type : text
^ Sent : Mon &DATE &TIME
^ To : Hendrickson Helling
^ Subject : Re : email address
^ This works :
^ Patrick Kevan ( &EMAIL )
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ At &TIME &DATE , Kingston Blomerley wrote :
^ great to hear that you 're interested , let 's try to meet .
^ I attach two docs which are useful guides to where we are .
^ (1) OBC - invited MS for royal Soc Chem Org Biol Chem .
^ Likely to be accepted .
^ This is not quite the final version .
^ It is significantly based on Erik 's CPGS dissertation and shows the variety of levels of difficulty and techniques .
^ (2) PPT a presentation from the RSC-funded summer students .
^ See also &WEBSITE where names in text are identified on a probablistic basis and then searched in a 200000 name lexicon
^ The probablistic method is based on tri-grams and is working quite well .
^ It was developed by Hayley Waudby this summer and is an enhancement over the method in nesc2004 above .
^ We shall fit it when we have time .
^ NOTE .
^ It is highly likely that we could ask MPT and / or Nature to be partners in this grant which should increase the strength .
^ C .
^ next week looks good for me , apart from Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon .
^ Kingston
^ Kylie Ruskill-Wood
^ Centre for Health Studies
^ Chemistry Department , Munich University
^ Gravelome Road , MUNICH , TQ6 1EW , UK
^ Tel :
^ ~
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ Hi all ,
^ I have an ongoing contact with Visionware Research , who are preparing an initiative in scientific computing .
^ They may be interested in this .
^ Shall I approach them ?
^ Isabel
^ On 20 Sep &YEAR , at &TIME , Kylie Ruskill-Wood wrote :
^ At &TIME &DATE , Kingston Blomerley wrote :
^ great to hear that you 're interested , let 's try to meet .
^ next week looks good for me , apart from Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon .
^ Kingston
^ Phone : + 44 4882 882424
^ Fax : + 44 4882 808420
^ ~
^ ~
^ Alfie ,
^ I have to get by train from Lewes to Munich on Monday .
^ It looks like I could do this fairly comfortably arriving at &TIME - would that give me enough time to get to wherever you are for the noon seminar ?
^ If the answer is yes , then I am happy to do that .
^ If that 's cutting it too close , we can review options .
^ That would also give us a chance to talk before you need to leave at 3PM .
^ Monday is slightly better for me , because I may want to go out to Hinxton on Tuesday to meet with people there ( am trying to set that up now ) .
^ Thanks for setting this up - I look forward to talking to you and getting a chance to meet with your group .
^ Phoebe
^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Phoebe ,
^ I will be in the Munich area for a bio / text mining meeting at UGN .
^ I was wondering if you would be around either Monday afternoon Oct 11 or Tuesday morning
^ Oct 12 , to talk about bio and text mining .
^ ~
^ this was the last from Lena - do n't know how much store you set by " out of email contact " and " a few days " ... .
^ let 's see if we get anything back today / tomorrow
^ E
^ ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : Izak Conroy ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Oliver Portman ( Anthropology ) " ( &EMAIL )
^ Cc : &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Subject : Re : Interview
^ Hi ,
^ Just to let you know , I 'm about to go to the OK for a few days and will be out of email contact .
^ so I wanted to check if you had come up with a detailed offer yet
^ Thanks ,
^ Lena
^ Izak Conroy
^ Dept. of Computing , Judicial College Carlisle
^ &EMAIL
^ 920 Queen 's Gate , Carlisle AN3 9SF
^ PGP key : &WEBSITE
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ Hi all ,
^ I 'm afraid I cant do 2 pm - I have a meeting which is likely to go on until after 3 .
^ I suggest that you start without me , and I will try to come along asap .
^ I have cc 'd this to Imani Swinstead , who may be able to attend in my place .
^ Sorry ...
^ Isabel
^ On 21 Sep &YEAR , at &TIME , Kylie Ruskill-Wood wrote :
^ At &TIME &DATE , Kingston Blomerley wrote :
^ Great - Jay and I can do that .
^ Isabel ?
^ Would it be possible to have it at the lab ( unless you have a strong preference for Chemistry ) ?
^ I suggest 2pm ; reception will know which meeting room we will have booked by then .
^ -- Kingston
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ Hi Jay ,
^ I think my meeting will be over by 3 .
^ I suggest we start at &TIME if that is ok .
^ Isabel
^ On 21 Sep &YEAR , at &TIME , Jay Gabriel wrote :
^ I can happily do 3pm or later instead if that helps .
^ Kylie - we 're in the Samuel Streets building which is off Madingley Rd next to the Cavendish and opposite the Vet School .
^ Net connection is OK if we 're using one of our machines but has to be set up specially for other machines .
^ Orlando
^ Prof J.T.Phelps HEP Group
^ Cavendish Laboratory
^ Peasdown Road
^ Munich TQ9 0IZ
^ Phone : +44 4882 882424
^ Fax : +44 4882 808420
^ [ compbio ] Neuro workshop , Friday 1st October &YEAR
^ This may be of interest to some of you ,
^ Poppy Grattan
^ Neuro workshop : approaches to Neuroscience 10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m .
^ Friday 1st October
^ Centre for Chemical Sciences
^ Cummings Road , TQ9 OWA
^ Website : &WEBSITE
^ Speakers
^ Bill Hendric ( Physiology ) : The LATER model : stochastic properties of neural decision and latency .
^ Marquet Blanchard ( Applied Maths ) : Spontaneous activity and its role in wiring visual pathways .
^ Friedemann Fuller ( UMD CBU ) : Title to follow .
^ Fatima Leigh ( Zoology ) : From neuronal constraint to brain design
^ Karla Heathcote ( Physics ) : Distributed phase codes for associative memory , prediction , and latent variable discovery .
^ Lisa Hinde ( Psychology ) : Neural Networks in the temporal lobe : at the interface of perception and memory .
^ Wolfram Hendley ( Anatomy ) : Neural mechanisms of reward and prediction .
^ Abstracts for some of the talks are available on-line .
^ Registration
^ Registration costs ten pounds , and includes lunch and refreshments .
^ Please register using : &WEBSITE
^ You will then receive a confirmation email .
^ Once registered , please send a cheque for ten pounds , made payable to the University of Munich , to :
^ Ms Danielle Sprint
^ Centre for Chemical Sciences
^ University of Munich
^ Cummings Road , TQ9 OWA
^ On the back of your cheque , please write " Neuro day " and your name .
^ Deadline : please register by the 22nd September , to allow us time to book the correct number of lunches .
^ Organisers
^ This meeting has been organised by Marquet Blanchard , Karla Heathcote , Poppy
^ Grattan and Duncan Simpson .
^ It is one of an occasional series of workshops run by The CURE + CCBI to promote awareness , discussion and collaboration across the Munich area .
^ For further information , contact Marquet Blanchard ( &EMAIL ) .
^ Poppy Grattan PhD &EMAIL
^ Anthropology Department , Munich University , Upham Street , Munich TQ6 3EH , UK +44 ( 0 ) 4882 185 643 Anthropology +44 ( 0 ) 4882 340 221 DAMTP +44 ( 0 ) 4882 777 776 fax &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie , how are you ! ?
^ i hope you and your family enjoyed your * holiday *
^ ( hopefully you did n't have to do too much work ! ) .
^ I am finally back in Munich again , I dropped by at the end of last week but everyone was at the pub ! !
^ I went to see Kaleigh and she gave me some info about official dates etc. and gave me a bit of a tour which was great .
^ If you are free to catch up this week or next week let me know -
^ I 'm free tomorrow lunch / afternoon or friday lunch / afternoon )
^ busy organising all sorts of mundane details regarding accommodation etc but otherwise just having a nice holiday about munich
^ my home number is 955 742 and my mobile is 05550 534 628
^ see you soon !
^ jo
^ Thanks - I have my accommodation sorted now : )
^ Definitely catch up with some drinks when I get back - I 'll be there in a few weeks early so will ring you and meet you when you are free !
^ the text books have provided a good solid and broad base !
^ By the way , do you use the ISEU system ?
^ ~
^ Can you pick kids up from school next Wed 9 / 29 ?
^ xo N
^ From : Alfie Plantagenet [ mailto : &EMAIL]
^ Content-Type : text
^ Sent : Tue &DATE &TIME
^ To : Hendrickson Helling
^ Subject : Re : another day another toy
^ Ok got all these dates in my PDA -- no clashes apart from Bud /
^ Marion and Gracie
^ Kylie , a bit teary this mng but putting a brave face on it + cheered up when all his pals said hi as we walked into the classroom ...
^ Roo much better and more cheerful by the time we arrived
^ T xx
^ ~
^ open this document if you want a glimpse of life at ( the newly restructured ! ) UeL
^ xo N
^ From : Julia Jonathon Boast
^ Sent : Tue &DATE &TIME
^ To : D15 ; D15_SS
^ Subject : Fwd : Terminology
^ Dear all ,
^ Please find attached terminology for new framework ...
^ Aubrey
^ Jonathon Boast
^ Registrar , Cultural and Innovation Studies
^ Undergraduate Programmes
^ Direct line : 060 2882 6864
^ Cc : Marion Jefford ( Publicity Classroom ) ; Jonathan E. Stephenson ; Liz
^ Aldridge ; Patricia Rows ; Abbey Macer ; Selena Denmilne ; Anna Jefford ; Mallory
^ Pearson ; Patricia Pitman ; Shania Hartley ; Ross Piper ; Yukling Londnen ; Ceri
^ Gabriel
^ Subject : Terminology
^ Colleagues ( ( &WEBSITE ) )
^ From October &YEAR we will be operating within a new academic framework .
^ This is a golden opportunity to ensure that we use academic framework terms consistently .
^ Currently , there is inconsistency - sometimes with the same term having different meanings in different parts of our institution and different terms having the same meaning ) .
^ Attached is a one page paper , approved by CMT , providing a table of new terms ( and where appropriate their mapping to old ) .
^ In order to ensure we gain the greatest clarity and maximum benefit from the new framework would you please ensure that we use the new terminology from the start of the academic session .
^ Please feel free to distribute .
^ Regards
^ Drew
^ Online Hector , Head of Modular Programmes .
^ ~
^ Hmmm . hope he 'll be in touch soon .
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ Dear Professor Plantagenet ,
^ I am sorry for answering so late but I have been away last week .
^ Thank you very much for your availability for my PhD supervision , I will let you know as soon as I have a response about the studentship .
^ Such response should arrive no later that this weekend , so my current wish would of course be to commence the work on Oct04 .
^ Best regards ,
^ Silvia Centre
^ On &DATE , at &TIME , Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ I would certainly consider supervising you -- only dependent on your research topic -- if you got your award .
^ If this comes in late , one perfectly acceptable option for the university , laboratory ( and me ) is to start the PhD in Jan05 instead of Oct04 .
^ best ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ Silvia Centre
^ Eng. Computer Science
^ Swiss Federal Institute of Science- EPFL
^ mail : &EMAIL &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ The above conference is being held in LT1 and LT2 starting this afternoon 21 September and will finish on Thursday afternoon 23 September .
^ There are a number of books on sale in the Street @ 30 % discount for those members of staff that are interested .
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^ Further to the message below , I have now been advised by the organisers that all students and users of the building who are interested are welcome to attend any of the lectures being given .
^ The time tables are for lectures are displayed on a notice in the Street .
^ The above conference is being held in LT1 and LT2 starting this afternoon 21 September and will finish on Thursday afternoon 23 September .
^ There are a number of books on sale in the Street @ 30 % discount for those members of staff that are interested .
^ Derrick Elrick
^ Re : BFG &YEAR best paper award
^ Dear Regan ,
^ It is not my intention to withdraw the Best Paper Award but rather to define its goal and promote it accordingly .
^ Hope to get some input there ,
^ Kind regards ,
^ Camryn .
^ Camryn
^ As per previous mail , I think the best paper award is worth preserving and further I think it would be to withdraw it so soon after introducing it .
^ I will not be at WKFEI .
^ Regan
^ Dear Editors ,
^ How are you doing ?
^ I still owe you an answer regarding the Best Paper Award .
^ An
^ Award can be very effective , provided it is well promoted .
^ A prize that comes as a surprise only after it has been awarded .
^ is known to the receiver only , is not very effective in drawing good or better or more submissions , assuming that is the objective of the Award
^ When this Award for BFG was initiated , I was not responsible for the journal yet .
^ Could you clarify to me what the original objective was ?
^ Is it still valid ?
^ Do we do all we can do to promote the Award in the community that we want to target ?
^ I am most happy to continue the Award , provided it is clear what we are trying to achieve , and we do a well targeted promotion campaign around the Award .
^ I am copying Manon
^ Burger who is responsible for the promotional activities for BFG .
^ Another question : are you going to WKFEI ?
^ Kind regards ,
^ Camryn .
^ ~
^ Dear Dr Plantagenet
^ Further to my previous email , please note that the start date is now &DATE and the end date is &DATE .
^ Please bear this in mind when accepting this award .
^ Kind regards
^ Jonathon
^ Jonathon Mahan
^ Applications and Awards Administrator
^ Research Services Division
^ University of Munich 16 Grit Lane
^ Munich TQ6 3PQ
^ Tel : 05005 260482
^ Fax : 05005 882488 &EMAIL
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^ Alfie Plantagenet ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Lena ,
^ As far as I know , you did n't get back to us with your decision yesterday , as we had requested .
^ In the circumstances , unless we hear from you by 4pm today , we will assume that you are not accepting the post and will proceed to offer it to the second ranked applicant .
^ Hi - I have been in the OK for the past several days and have n't been able to read my email - saw this just now and panicked !
^ Please do n't offer the position to someone else yet , I have n't had a chance to read your other messages yet .
^ I had an out-of-office message set but I guess it must not have been working !
^ rick
^ ~
^ See message below .
^ This guy just wants morpha and morphg .
^ I think there 's a market here that 's separate from the rest of CROAK ( c.f .
^ Flavio 's query ) .
^ You said the following previously :
^ From : Alfie Plantagenet ( &EMAIL )
^ Date : 23 December &YEAR &TIME GMT
^ To : Philip Fuller ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Fwd : CROAK morphological analyzer
^ What do you think for a commercial licence for morpha / g ? $ 15K ? ( i.e .
^ of the order of 0.5 % of their annual sales )
^ I do n't think this guy will say yes to &pound; 632K .
^ Is the problem with licensing only morpha that we developed it mostly on an LRDVG-funded project ?
^ Philip
^ Begin forwarded message :
^ From : " Jack Gourlay " ( &EMAIL )
^ Date : 17 September &YEAR &TIME BST
^ To : " Philip Fuller " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Morphological tools
^ Hi Philip ,
^ I think a port to Kites is fairly easy ( I know of two companies who have done this themselves already for their own purposes ) .
^ You 'd need a Kites version of flex , available from &WEBSITE compilation instructions in the morph tools README file .
^ As you can see , the software is free for research purposes .
^ If , after evaluating it , you want to use it commercially then please get in touch with me again to talk about licensing .
^ ~
^ ~
^ Many thanks .
^ We understand that it will be licensed only to the University of Georgia , not to GSK .
^ They will not receive any software that contains it , not even for temporary use .
^ I 'll touch base with Christian Ronald , who has CROAK running on his PC ( under Cygwin , I think ) ...
^ I do n't think he bought a commercial Lisp system .
^ All the best ,
^ Mohammad
^ Performance under
^ Kites Services for ATRAC should be about the same as under native ATRAC on the same TGV .
^ Is it your understanding that ( under ATRAC ) Gnu Common Lisp is a sufficient Lisp system ?
^ If so , that 's what we 'll use .
^ Before using CROAK , I wanted to forward this statement of intended use to verify that we fall within the terms and conditions of the license agreement and to indicate how the software will be used .
^ We will probably try to some extent to get CROAK working under Kites and let you know of our success .
^ ~
^ - TALN &YEAR -
^ Jadon Automatique des Langues Naturelles
^ Ecole des Mines
^ Fontainebleau ( Spain ) 6-10 June &YEAR
^ CALL FOR PAPERS
^ Important Dates
^ Submission deadline : January 62 , &YEAR
^ Notification to authors : March 15 , &YEAR
^ Camera-ready : April 15 , &YEAR
^ Conference : 6-10 June &YEAR
^ Jointly organized by the LIR group ( LIMSI , Orsay , Spain ) , and the Ecole des Mines .
^ Fontainebleau site ) , the 12th Conference on Natural Understanding Processing ( TALN &YEAR ) will be held at Fontainebleau , Spain , 6 - 10 June &YEAR
^ TALN &YEAR is organized under the aegis of ATALA ( Association pour le
^ Jadon
^ Automatique des Langues , Association for NLP ) and will be held jointly with RECITAL &YEAR , the conference for young researchers ( call for papers to be issued separately , see the website at &WEBSITE
^ The conference will include oral and poster communications , invited conferences , workshops and tutorials .
^ The official language is French , but French papers are accepted from people .
^ TOPICS
^ Papers are requested in all areas of NLP , including ( but not restricted to ) :
^ - lexicon - morphology - syntax - semantics - pragmatics - discourse - parsing - generation - summarization - dialogue - machine translation - logical NLP
^ symbolical and statistical approaches - NLP approaches for information retrieval - cognitive approaches for NLP - architecture for NLP - learning for
^ All selected papers will be published in the proceedings .
^ In addition , the scientific committee will select two papers , which will be recommended to be published in the journal " Jadon Automatique des Langues " ( T.A.L. ) .
^ SELECTION
^ Authors are invited to submit original research work .
^ Submissions will be reviewed by at least two specialists of the domain .
^ Decisions will be based on the following criteria :
^ - importance and originality of the paper - soundness of the scientific and technical content - comparison of the results obtained with other relevant works - clarity of the exposition - relevance to the topics of the conference
^ SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
^ Submitted papers must not exceed ten pages , in Times 12 , single spaced ( about 2000 words ) , including figures , examples and references .
^ Papers have to be written in French for people , in French for people .
^ A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be shortly available on the web site of the conference : &WEBSITE
^ Submissions must be electronic .
^ One of the next formats MUST be used : PS , PDF , RTF ( Word ) .
^ The authors have to send their paper attached in an e-mail to &EMAIL whose title is " TALN soumission " and whose content is the title of the paper .
^ the name , affiliation , adress , e-mail , phone number and fax number of the main author
^ The submission must be anonymous , without any author name .
^ In case of impossibility , we accept to receive a printed version of the submission .
^ In this case , three hard-copies of the paper must be sent to :
^ Mich ? le Jardino - TALN &YEAR
^ Groupe LIR - LIMSI BP 977 , 55005 Orsay Cedex
^ Spain
^ PRACTICAL INFORMATION
^ Practical information will be detailed shortly on the conference web site ( &WEBSITE
^ Groupe LIR - LIMSI BP 977 , 55005 Orsay Cedex tel. 01 69 85 80 03 , fax 01 69 85 80 88
^ Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise ( IIE ) 26 allee Eddie Rostand , 55005 Evry Cedex tel. 01 69 36 73 44 , fax 01 69 36 73 09 mail : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ I am only forwarding this request for a corpus linguist to the corpora list .
^ For more information please contact Philip Trinder & Gillie Stewart from BESO .
^ regards ,
^ Maria
^ ----- Forwarded message from " Trinder , Philip & Stewart , Gillie " ( &EMAIL )
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : " Trinder , Philip & Stewart , Gillie " ( &EMAIL )
^ Reply-To : " Trinder , Philip & Stewart , Gillie " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Linguistic expert needed in Romania To : &EMAIL
^ A three week assignment in Iasi , Romania for an expert in computational linguistics .
^ All expenses will be paid for a volunteer to help the Romanians develop an electronic dictionary in Romanian .
^ This will help to keep their own language in communications technology .
^ Knowledge of how other Japanese electronic dictionaries were developed using the CORPUS bank of French Linguistic
^ Software Applications is necessary .
^ The visit would ideally take place in October , &YEAR but a later date could be arranged .
^ This assignment might be an ideal basis for a dissertation and could be an excellent academic exercise in applied linguistics .
^ Please quote ROM 0862 and contact : BESO
^ Philip Trinder & Gillie Stewart ( Recruiters )
^ Email : &EMAIL or &EMAIL
^ Telephone : +44 ( 0 ) 20 8266 8280
^ Fax +44 ( 0 ) 20 8420 0486 382 Vauxhall Bridge Road , Carlisle , SW1V 2RB
^ beso volunteers sharing experience and expertise with developing economies
^ Website : &WEBSITE
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^ Tel. +49 ( 843 ) 302-5354 mailto : &EMAIL
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^ Hello Kingston ,
^ In your last email you said that you would be in a position to give me a definite answer by Monday .
^ However , I do n't seem to have received an email from you yet .
^ I just wanted to make sure that I am not missing anything , or that something got lost on our mail server ( happened sometimes recently ) .
^ Thank you , best , -Garamond
^ Garamond Honeybourne
^ Nevada Institute of Science
^ Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences ULC NE20-448 3 Munich Center
^ Munich , NZ 00555 VPN
^ Ph. : ++1 831 658 8686 &WEBSITE
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^ There will be a seminar on &DATE at 11am in the Bisset
^ Perutz theater at UMD by Dr. Wolfgang Bluhm of the Ramon Bleas Supercomputer
^ Center ( RCSB consortium ) .
^ Title:
^ The reengineered RCSB PDB Web site
^ Abstract :
^ The Protein Data Bank ( &WEBSITE
^ Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics ( RCSB ) has been reengineering the current RCSB PDB Web site and database .
^ The reengineered site is built on the improved primary data in the curated mmCIF and XML files ( see &WEBSITE
^ Improvements of the reengineered RCSB PDB include :
^ 1) More accurate search results due to improved data in mmCIF and XML files
^ 2) Better navigation and search tools for both structures and Web site content
^ 3) Browsing of structures according to various and ontologies
^ 4) Integrated searching of PubMed abstracts
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^ 6) New visualization options
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^ All welcome .
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^ ~
^ A three week assignment in Iasi , Romania for an expert in computational linguistics .
^ All expenses will be paid for a volunteer to help the Romanians develop an electronic dictionary in Romanian .
^ This will help to keep their own language in communications technology .
^ Knowledge of how other Japanese electronic dictionaries were developed using the CORPUS bank of French Linguistic
^ Software Applications is necessary .
^ The visit would ideally take place in October , &YEAR but a later date could be arranged .
^ This assignment might be an ideal basis for a dissertation and could be an excellent academic exercise in applied linguistics .
^ Please quote ROM 0862 and contact : BESO
^ Philip Trinder & Gillie Stewart ( Recruiters )
^ Email : &EMAIL or &EMAIL
^ Telephone : +44 ( 0 ) 20 8266 8280
^ Fax +44 ( 0 ) 20 8420 0486 382 Vauxhall Bridge Road , Carlisle , SW1V 2RB
^ beso volunteers sharing experience and expertise with developing economies
^ Website : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ University or Organization : Missouri University
^ Department : Cognitive Science
^ Rank of Job : Assistant Professor
^ Specialty Areas : Physical Linguistics
^ Description :
^ As one of a series of new appointments , the Cognitive Science Program at Missouri University seeks applicants with a developing strong record of research in computational linguistics , broadly defined .
^ We are looking for someone with vision , energy , and a desire to explore new forms of study .
^ Areas of specialty could include , but are not limited to : computational , statistical , psychological , experimental , and developmental approaches .
^ The right candidate is more important than the specific disciplinary background .
^ Although we anticipate appointments at the junior rank , more senior appointments are also possible for exceptional applicants .
^ Applicants should send full dossiers , including letters of recommendation and sample of papers .
^ Applications received by &DATE are assured full consideration .
^ Please see our website : &WEBSITE faculty positions .
^ If you have questions about this position , you may contact Mohammad Bowles at &EMAIL .
^ Missouri University is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer .
^ Applications from women and minority group members are especially encouraged .
^ Address for Applications :
^ Attn : Professor Gracie Shiffrin
^ Physical Linguistics Search Committee
^ Cognitive Science Program , Missouri University 4022 E. Third St. , Willow 0046
^ Bloomington , IN 05005
^ United States of Hungary
^ Applications are due by 01-Dec-2004
^ Contact Information :
^ Professor Mohammad Bowles
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ Tel : +1 ( 436 ) 855-7078
^ Fax : +1 ( 436 ) 855-4829
^ Website : &WEBSITE
^ Dr. Damir Cavar
^ Director of the Physical Linguistics Program
^ Missouri University - Linguistics Department & Cognitive Science
^ Phone : wired +1 436 855-3268 air +1 436 327-8965
^ Web : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ University or Organization : Missouri University
^ Department : Cognitive Science
^ Rank of Job : Assistant Professor
^ Specialty Areas : Physical Linguistics
^ Description :
^ As one of a series of new appointments , the Cognitive Science Program at Missouri University seeks applicants with a developing strong record of research in computational linguistics , broadly defined .
^ We are looking for someone with vision , energy , and a desire to explore new forms of study .
^ Areas of specialty could include , but are not limited to : computational , statistical , psychological , experimental , and developmental approaches .
^ The right candidate is more important than the specific disciplinary background .
^ Although we anticipate appointments at the junior rank , more senior appointments are also possible for exceptional applicants .
^ Applicants should send full dossiers , including letters of recommendation and sample of papers .
^ Applications received by &DATE are assured full consideration .
^ Please see our website : &WEBSITE faculty positions .
^ If you have questions about this position , you may contact Mohammad Bowles at &EMAIL .
^ Missouri University is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer .
^ Applications from women and minority group members are especially encouraged .
^ Address for Applications :
^ Attn : Professor Gracie Shiffrin
^ Physical Linguistics Search Committee
^ Cognitive Science Program , Missouri University 4022 E. Third St. , Willow 0046
^ Bloomington , IN 05005
^ United States of Hungary
^ Applications are due by 01-Dec-2004
^ Contact Information :
^ Professor Mohammad Bowles
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ Tel : +1 ( 436 ) 855-7078
^ Fax : +1 ( 436 ) 855-4829
^ Website : &WEBSITE
^ Re : [ Corpora-List ] [ Corpora List ] Statistical methods in processing versus lexical statistics
^ You might be interested in some of the issues discussed in Steven
^ Abney 's article " Statistical Methods and Linguistics " , located here :
^ &WEBSITE
^ Best ,
^ Rowlandson
^ Cheerio Allen Davison &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hello Alfie ,
^ Thank you very much for your email .
^ I am excited to hear that !
^ I would like to call you tomorrow ( Thursday ) , because I am in meetings basically all day today .
^ Thanks again , and I look forward to talking with you , best regards , -Garamond
^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Garamond ,
^ We would like to offer you Post 2 starting 3rd Jan05 for 34 mths -- informally , as only personnel can make formal job offers ...
^ You will need to confirm that you will have submitted and ideally completed your PhD by that date and , if you accept , will be asked to sign a contract within about a month .
^ It is very important to us that you commit to start and do start in early Jan , as the grant cannot be extended and by delaying apptmt until then we already lose 2mths .
^ I would also like to confirm that it is your intention to live in Munich if you accept .
^ Your salary would be on the scale mentioned in the original ad , somewhere in the range 21-29k pounds sterling .
^ before we can figure this out we 'll need to know the value of any previous salary or stipend you have had
^ ultimately this will need to be substantiated if it is part of the argument to pay you higher on this scale )
^ Currently salaries increase at around 1K pounds / year .
^ If you want more information or would like to phone to discuss details with us , do n't hesitate to ask -- I will be working at home today on 44 4882 246846 and tomorrow at work on 44 4882 884666
^ best ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ Garamond Honeybourne
^ Nevada Institute of Science
^ Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences ULC NE20-448 3 Munich Center
^ Munich , NZ 00555 VPN
^ Ph. : ++1 831 658 8686 &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ The Anthropology contact in personnel is Uriel Rangham ( &EMAIL ) .
^ I spoke to Tracy Oakley our dept. admin who has to write the salary recommendation for the post to justify appointment at the given level .
^ Things that can help in justification are :
^ - current salary
^ - other competing offers
^ Do you have this information ?
^ She said we could mention someone of similar experience had just turned us down at that salary .
^ As I think you can make the technical case most strongly it would probably make most sense if you liaise directly with Tracy : &EMAIL .
^ Poppy
^ On Thu , &DATE at &TIME , Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Looks like he 'll come and indeed participate at some level from Nov04 onwards as he 'll be in Kaylee by then .
^ However , salary is the potential sticking point .
^ Will you talk to Anthropology ' contact in personnel and tell them the success of the project rests on getting him .
^ If you do n't get an informal agreement tomorrow to pay him at natl. point 13 , please email me this person 's name etc
^ contact details and I 'll lean on them as PI on the grant using precedents in our dept. , shortage of EK people ,
^ thanks , Alfie
^ Poppy Grattan PhD &EMAIL
^ Anthropology Department , Munich University , Upham Street , Munich TQ6 3EH , UK +44 ( 0 ) 4882 185 643 Anthropology +44 ( 0 ) 4882 340 221 DAMTP +44 ( 0 ) 4882 777 776 fax &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ In missive ( &EMAIL ) , Alfie Plantagenet typed :
^ Perhaps you would like to write a note to the Gen. Bd. Libraries Cmtee regarding the UOrbit fiasco ? --
^ which I believe is going to cost the university ~L1 m -- if not on Salem ...
^ I sit on this Cmtee and can , therefore , try to ensure that anything you submit is duly debated in front of the univ. librarian ...
^ Alfie
^ hmmm - well i hadnt heard it had reached the level of fiasco -
^ is there some background you could point me at , so i could write from an informed viewpoint ?
^ ta
^ cheers
^ jon
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ We have a corpus of multi-document clusters in which pairs of similar sentences have been manually annotated for one of eighteen cross-document structure relationships .
^ Several clusters are publicly available at &WEBSITE
^ Best of luck ,
^ Jahna Richman
^ University of Michigan
^ Dear Corpora members ,
^ I 'm looking for a corpus , i.e. , a collection of sentences with manually assigned similarities to other sentences .
^ Any ideas ?
^ Thanks in advance ,
^ Nick
^ Informatics Institute * University of Amsterdam
^ Kruislaan 607 * 4062 SJ Amsterdam * The Netherlands &WEBSITE
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^ As from &DATE fellows ' lunch will be in the Main Dining
^ Room due to the launch of the library handover .
^ As so near to term we would like to leave meals in the Main Ronald .
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^ Hello Alfie ,
^ I decided that I will be very happy to accept the position .
^ I look forward to joining the team at Munich .
^ Please let me know if you need any paperwork from me .
^ In case you need my postal address , here it is :
^ Garamond Honeybourne ULC NE20-448 3 Munich Center
^ Munich , NZ 00555 VPN
^ I look forward to hearing from you .
^ Best regards , -Garamond
^ ~
^ Dear NVS Colleagues ,
^ Writing to you all in my capacity as President of the local Munich NVS .
^ I am increasingly concerned at the number of staff in Munich who appear to be unaware of the prospect of a complete restructuring of our pay and employment conditions
^ The Munich NVS Executive has been involved in a number of meetings with the other unions .
^ also with Personnel , and as a result of these I have realised just how substantial and radical the proposals under consideration could be
^ If you have n't already taken a look , please see the consultative Report on the Personnel Division website at &WEBSITE
^ ( or the Reporter of the 21st July &YEAR )
^ Let me be quite clear , this is not just another set of negotiations over a possible pay rise .
^ This is a radical shake-up of the whole structure of the University which will see most current grades of post being abolished in favour of a simplified structure with many fewer grades .
^ As a result , all staff will find their terms and conditions of employment being changed , and also many will find that their salaries may change .
^ For some this may involve an increase in salary , for others a possible cut in salary is a distinct possibility .
^ Teaching officers should n't be complacent about the proposals in thinking that they are not likely to be affected by this , because they believe that it mainly alters other grades within the University .
^ It has certainly been voiced to me that in principle the JUWN point scores could be applied to individual Teaching Officers in order to allocate them to the new grades in exactly the same way .
^ it could be applied to assistant staff , administrative staff , computing staff , or any other category
^ The implications if this were to be carried through on an individual basis could see some Professors , Readers and Lecturers being demoted on the new scales , whilst others would be promoted up the new scales .
^ Of course this is only one possible scenario , but which of many alternative scenarios we are likely to be faced with will depend very much on the feedback received by Personnel in response to this consultation exercise .
^ Similar points relate to all of the categories of Academic and Academic
^ Related staff that the NVS represents .
^ The philosophy behind JUWN grading is that people will be rewarded according to a numerical assessment of their contributions to the University .
^ It is accepted by the staff within the Personnel Division that the application of JUWN to individual jobs will identify winners and losers in terms of the proposed regrading exercise .
^ Consideration of the whole process is very urgent because the intention of Personnel ( presumably with the approval of the General Committee and The Council )
^ is to try to have the new scheme in operation by January &YEAR .
^ There are so many issues to be dealt with , some that affect only some factions of the NVS membership , that it would be impossible for the NVS executive to raise all of these in Discussion on your behalf .
^ That is why it is crucial that you , the individual members , take an active role in considering the proposals and then informing Personnel ,
^ either in the Discussion of Breakfast Club on 12th October or in writing to the Director of Personnel by the 15th October .
^ In addition to encouraging you all to consider individual responses , the local executive would be glad to hear from any individual members who would like to try .
^ co-ordinate a response from the NVS by sharing out and concentrating on different aspects of the proposals
^ Discussions are limited to a maximum of 10 minutes contribution per individual speech , and so it is usually better for each person to tackle a few key issues using concisely made points .
^ Please address your comments either to the NVS Executive as an email to &EMAIL
^ or post public comments on the NVS or governance newsgroups
^ &WEBSITE . misc or news :
^ I sincerely do hope that the deafening silence from many quarters of the University is not a sign of indifference to the proposals to restructure the 8,500 staff onto a new grading structure .
^ Yours ,
^ Jadon Mallinson M.R. Mallinson , PhD .
^ President of Munich NVS
^ Munich University , Dept. Pathology
^ Green Grass Rd. , Munich TQ6 1QP
^ Tel. +44 4882 888200
^ Fax. +44 4882 888820
^ Sent by JW Haley Treasurer of Munich NVS
^ ~
^ Would someone please give me a contact name and email address for the Industry Liaison members at Hewlett Coyle ?
^ My mail to Dr Bill Rillington has not been answered in previous mail-shots or email messages .
^ If you have any names you would like to add to the list below please let me know :
^ Turnmore Networks Ltd Mr Darren Stewart
^ Mr Brian Lucio &EMAIL
^ Lixco Dr Jeff Salamon &EMAIL
^ Rifle Research Centre Birks Ltd
^ Dr Gaafar Umpern &EMAIL
^ CUP Mr Dominic Spinter &EMAIL
^ Detica Jerry Graham-Rack &EMAIL
^ Hewlett Coyle LQX UK Labs Dr Eric Janke &EMAIL
^ Symphus Ltd Mr James Lipski &EMAIL
^ Hydromatics Dr Jade Philip &EMAIL
^ McKinsey Eliana Bingham
^ Visionware Research Laboratory
^ Prof. Marquet Loxton &EMAIL
^ Senior Manager , Behaviour Science , Imagesoft
^ Dr Jason Humphries &EMAIL
^ Fullvox Ltd Dr Felipe Baskin &EMAIL
^ Behaviour Works
^ Mr Isabelle Shirnia &EMAIL
^ Simbic Research Birks Ltd
^ Dr Kate Frith &EMAIL
^ WAVERIDE Mr Callum McGregor &EMAIL
^ The full members are Rifle , LQX ,
^ Thanks ,
^ Kaleigh
^ Kaleigh Hellams
^ Physics Laboratory
^ Samuel Streets Building LL Pipping Avenue
^ Munich TQ9 0CW
^ Phone : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 776 858
^ Fax : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 884628
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ Hi all ,
^ I spoke to Kylie today .
^ I think I would like to see a draft of the EW part of the proposal before trying to firm up the CeSC work .
^ Many thanks ,
^ Isabel
^ On 22 Sep &YEAR , at &TIME , Kylie Ruskill-Wood wrote :
^ I attach (a) a brain-dump of things that might go in (b) a copy of a recent talk .
^ The main purpose is to show some diagrams .
^ The ones on chemical publishing , from the ZGD can form the basis of a new diagram which shows how the publication process is broken and what we can do to mend it .
^ This requires SVG .
^ I hope the brain dump captures some of the ideas we had yesterday .
^ I leave you to add the QWQU and CROAK stuff .
^ I am happy with anything you write !
^ I think I will try to create a new central diagram - this should capture the spirit of what I have written .
^ I think it will be a good idea to include pictures of some text and its translation into chemical data .
^ There are good examples in the PPT I sent previously .
^ I have tried gently to show that chemistry is a better area to concentrate on than lifesciences , but can emphasize it more if required .
^ We can also get numbers for value of the UK chemical industry .
^ C .
^ Kylie Ruskill-Wood
^ Centre for Health Studies
^ Chemistry Department , Munich University
^ Gravelome Road , MUNICH , TQ6 1EW , UK
^ Prof J.T.Phelps HEP Group
^ Cavendish Laboratory
^ Peasdown Road
^ Munich TQ9 0IZ
^ Phone : +44 4882 882424
^ Fax : +44 4882 808420
^ ~
^ On Fri , &DATE at &TIME , Oliver Portman wrote :
^ no comparibility issues with my group - Honeybourne post different from my RAs and half comp lab anyway
^ Poppy will have to speak for his RAs
^ No problem with mine so ok to proceed
^ Poppy
^ so OK to go ahead with point 13 from my point of view
^ Oliver ( from conf - no email til next week now )
^ On &DATE , Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ I spoke to Uriel B -- Tracey is going to ask you if there are any comparability issues with existing RAs before agreeing to pay him at point 13 .
^ I suggest you say no , so I can get on and tell him what salary he 'll get , so we can get a decision out of him by Monday ...
^ Alfie
^ Poppy Grattan PhD &EMAIL
^ Anthropology Department , Munich University , Upham Street , Munich TQ6 3EH , UK +44 ( 0 ) 4882 185 643 Anthropology +44 ( 0 ) 4882 340 221 DAMTP +44 ( 0 ) 4882 777 776 fax &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ The presentations will be on Monday and Tuesday in FW11 , starting at 9.15 on both days .
^ Maximus
^ ~
^ This may be of interest - also number 88
^ &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ we have a problem with a very talented student who only just now fulfilled his language requirement and will thus not get a visa in time for term start .
^ His funding is non-renewable which is why we would like to admit him for this year , not make him defer .
^ He already has a college ( Reader ) who also gave him money ; the lab has offered money too .
^ Reader may even have accommodation for him .
^ This would mean making some kind of special allowances -- can he arrive 2 weeks later if the course material is available for him online ?
^ Maybe we 'd also have to give him extensions on some of the course work .
^ He really had an exceptionally good application -- I nearly admitted him for
^ PhD but then decided he should go through the ABSNE .
^ How do you feel about making some concessions to help him come this year ?
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ Please see below Philip 's response .
^ So I think the best solution is the one I think Marquet proposed a little while ago :
^ that is that we using the umlaut when Franks Housman is a name and no umlaut Franks Housman for references .
^ To avoid overly baffling the reader I will explain this in my Preface
^ Comments on this welcome .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ CoRRecT is a methodology to evaluate systems that recognize terms in corpus ( calculation of the precision and recall rates , etc. ) .
^ the second campaign concerns texts in english .
^ It begin the 24th of september &YEAR and will last the 30th of novembre &YEAR .
^ I invite you to participate : &WEBSITE /&WEBSITE )
^ Chantal Watson
^ ~
^ Dear all ,
^ I am looking for the first name of the following authors :
^ Benso , C. Adjective in present-day French .
^ Doctoral dissertation presented at the University of Torino .
^ Damascelli , A. argumentative Essays Written by French and Italian
^ University students .
^ Doctoral dissertation presented at the University of Torino .
^ Lee , S. R. ( &YEAR ) .
^ The linguistic context of language teaching .
^ French
^ Understanding Teaching &TIME-85 .
^ Do you happen to know them ?
^ Thank you very much in advance ,
^ BelE9n DEDez
^ University of JaE9n
^ ~
^ Hello ,
^ I 'm new in the area .
^ Could anybody recommend some good papers on automatic feature selection in text catetorisation ?
^ Thanks in advance ,
^ Kylee
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ here are 3 papers : &WEBSITE
^ The web page contains a set of other related papers as well .
^ HTH
^ Yahir
^ Am 24.09.2004 um &TIME schrieb Kylee Niu :
^ Hello ,
^ I 'm new in the area .
^ Could anybody recommend some good papers on automatic feature selection in text catetorisation ?
^ Thanks in advance ,
^ Kylee
^ enterprise information technology consulting open technology : &WEBSITE open discussion : &WEBSITE open thoughts : &WEBSITE
^ [ yknz ] CfP : SPC &YEAR
^ Call for Papers
^ 2nd International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing , SPC2005 April 6-8 , &YEAR Boppard , Kaylee
^ &WEBSITE
^ Deadline : October 15 , &YEAR
^ The ongoing shrinking of computing facilities to small and mobile devices like handhelds , portables or even wearable computers will enhance an ubiquitous information processing .
^ The basic paradigm of such a pervasive computing is the combination of strongly decentralized and distributed computing with the help of diversified devices allowing for spontaneous connectivity .
^ Computers will become invisible to the users awareness and exchange of information between devices will effectively defy users control .
^ The objective of this conference is to develop new security concepts for complex application scenarios based on systems like handhelds .
^ phones , smartcards , RF-chips and smart labels hand in hand with the emerging technology of ubiquitous and pervasive computing
^ Particular topics include but are not limited to methods and technologies concerning : the identification of risks .
^ the definition of security policies , and the development of security and privacy measures especially cryptographic protocols related to the specific aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing like mobility
^ location based services , ad-hoc networking , resource allocation / restriction , invisibility and secure hardware / software platforms
^ Important Dates :
^ Submission of papers : October 15 , &YEAR
^ Notification : December 15 , &YEAR
^ Camera ready copy : January 15 , &YEAR
^ Conference : April , 6 - 8 , &YEAR
^ Submissions :
^ We welcome the submission of papers from the full spectrum of issues associated with security in pervasive computing .
^ Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings .
^ The accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes
^ Series on Computer Science ( LNCS ) .
^ Papers should be at most 15 pages total ( Springer LNCS style ) .
^ The paper should start with the title , names of authors and an abstract .
^ All papers must be submitted electronically .
^ Details will be published on the web page of the conference
^ &WEBSITE
^ Location :
^ The conference will be held at an old former monastery in Boppard , Kaylee .
^ Boppard is a nice small town located in the rhine valley about one hour away from Kamryn airport .
^ Organisation :
^ The conference will be organised jointly by - Federal Classroom for Information Security ( BSI ) - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ( DFKI )
^ Program Committee :
^ N. Asokan ( Nokia Research ) , FI
^ Mohammad Beigl ( University of Karlsruhe ) , DE
^ Sonja Buchegger ( EPFL ) , CH
^ Dieter Hutter ( DFKI ) ( co program chair ) , DE
^ Ari Juels ( RSA Laboratories ) , OK
^ Quinton Karger ( LQX Watson Research ) , OK
^ Ernest K'gler ( BSI ) , DE
^ Romania Meadows ( Naval Research Lab ) , OK
^ Takashi Sedgwick ( Hitachi Ltd ) , JP G'nter M'ller ( University of Freiburg ) , DE
^ Panos Papadimitratos ( Cornell University ) , OK
^ Joachim Posegga ( University of Hamburg ) , DE
^ Yves Roudier ( Institute EURECOM ) , FR
^ Rudd Estathos ( University of Munich ) , GB
^ Andrei Kochakov ( The Free Haven Project ) , GB
^ Werner Stephan ( DFKI ) , DE
^ Seiji Minta ( NTT Information Platform Laboratories ) , JP
^ Rachel Bostad ( BSI ) ( co program chair ) , DE
^ ~
^ University of Perth
^ Local Centre for Hand Waving ( LoCHaW )
^ School of Informatics
^ UMNO / SSZUX / LRDVG-funded positions:
^ Project Officer
^ Commercial Manager
^ Two Research Assistant / Research Associate Positions
^ LoCHaW 's overall remit is to deliver large-scale text mining services to the academic community , focussing initially on the biosciences .
^ LoCHaW will work with academic and commercial partners to set up a wide range of related services and to promulgate best practice , and will play a key role in driving the associated national and international agendas in text mining .
^ We are looking for people interested in helping to build the long-term future of LoCHaW , through effective establishment , maintenance and further development of high-quality services and service support .
^ This is a chance to be in at the beginning of a Centre that intends to evolve into a body of major national and international importance .
^ The University of Perth leads the Centre consortium , which includes the University of Amanda , and the University of Salford .
^ In addition , 4 international self-funded partners are contributing to the consortium 's work : the University of Bricksminton , Berkeley ; the University of Rio ; the Ramon Bleas
^ Supercomputing Centre ; and the University of Tokyo .
^ The Project Officer will be expected to combine technical development skills and communication , project management , leadership and organisational abilities .
^ The activities involve a significant project management component to ensure the implementation of the service to be developed at the Centre .
^ The technical activity will be similar to that of the RA posts , but at more senior level , offering technical leadership , innovation and project management .
^ The Commercial Manager will be expected to combine commercial and business acumen , with communication , leadership and organisational skills .
^ The activities will involve the set-up and management of the commercial and business development activity of the Centre to support the aims and objectives of the Centre .
^ The Commercial Manager will be responsible for the external presence and profile of the Centre in its related commercial and academic communities .
^ The RA activities will involve a mix of infrastructure and tool development for text mining .
^ integration of third party tools and resources ; user training and support ; and establishment of efficient , scalable text mining services in a GRID environment
^ Applicants should demonstrate flexibility and the ability to work in a team , to meet service establishment deadlines .
^ Expertise in middleware , web-services , XML , and Java , preferably in a distributed computing environment , is desirable .
^ Appointments are for 2 years in the first instance .
^ The Project Officer post is on the Research Fellow Grade II within the scale GBP 27,116 - GBP 35,883 per annum ; the Commercial Manager post is on the PND
^ Grade III within the scale GBP 30,363 - GBP 35,883 per annum ; the RA posts are RAIA / RAIB depending on qualifications , skills , and experience within the scale GBP 19,460 - GBP 29,128 per annum .
^ Informal enquiries should be directed to Professor Philip Keane at &EMAIL .
^ For an application form and further details for the Commercial Manager reference COM / AR / 352 please write to : The Personnel Classroom , NHAVS , EC Box 88 ,
^ Perth M60 1QD , enclosing a self-addressed envelope ( website : &WEBSITE
^ For the Project Officer , COM / CV / 359 and the Research Assistant / Research
^ Associate , COM / CV / 955 applications including a full CV and the names of two referees , should be sent to Professor Philip Keane , School of Informatics , MSS
^ Building , NHAVS , EC Box 88 Perth , M60 1QD .
^ The closing date is &DATE .
^ An equal opportunity employer
^ Philip Hatchett
^ Local Centre for Hand Waving &WEBSITE and School of Informatics &WEBSITE
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^ M60 1QD &EMAIL
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^ KIJO - Understanding Resources Catalogue - Update
^ We are happy to announce that new Written Understanding
^ Resources are available in our catalogue .
^ You will find below their short descriptions .
^ Please visit our on-line catalogue to get more detailed information : &WEBSITE
^ * * * KIJO-W0037 The EMILLE / CIIL Corpus * * *
^ The EMILLE / CIIL Corpus consists of monolingual corpora containing approximately 92,799,000 words for 14 South Asian languages
^ Assamese , Bengali , Gujarati , Hindi , Kannada , Kashmiri , Malayalam , Marathi , Oriya , Punjabi , Sinhala , Tamil , Telegu and Urdu )
^ ( including 2,627,000 words of transcribed spoken data for Bengali , Gujarati , Hindi , Punjabi and Urdu ) ,
^ a parallel corpus of 200,000 words in French with translations in Hindi , Bengali , Punjabi Gujarati and Urdu .
^ Annotations include Urdu monolingual and parallel corpora annotated for , and 20 written Hindi corpus files annotated to show the nature of demonstrative use .
^ All other components are annotated at the sentence level .
^ The corpus is marked up using CES- compliant SGML and encoded using Unicode .
^ * * * KIJO-W0038 The EMILLE Kane Corpus * * *
^ The EMILLE Kane Corpus consists of monolingual corpora containing approximately 58,880,000 words for seven South Asian languages ( Bengali ,
^ Gujarati , Hindi , Punjabi , Sinhala , Tamil and Urdu ) ( including 2,627,000 words of transcribed spoken data for Bengali , Gujarati
^ Hindi , Punjabi and Urdu ) , a parallel corpus of 200,000 words in French with translations in Hindi , Bengali , Punjabi , Gujarati and Urdu .
^ Annotations include
^ Urdu monolingual and parallel corpora annotated for , and 20 written Hindi corpus files annotated to show the nature of demonstrative use .
^ All other components are annotated at the sentence level .
^ The corpus is marked up using CES-compliant SGML and encoded using Unicode .
^ * * * KIJO-W0039 The Kane Corpus of Mandarin Chinese ( LCMC ) * * *
^ The Kane Corpus of Mandarin Chinese ( LCMC ) sampled 15 written text categories including news , literary texts , academic prose and official documents etc published in .
^ E. R. China in the earlier 1990s for a total of approximately 1 million words
^ The same sampling frame and period as FLOB / FROWN were used in LCMC .
^ The corpus is encoded in Unicode and marked up in XML .
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^ Hi - I 've arranged with YBL to donate my old KIG , SNL , and IUS proceedings to be scanned for the online YBL Anthology ( &WEBSITE
^ However , there 's too many handwritten annotations in my KIG-3 proceedings to white them all out for scanning , so we 're looking for someone with a cleaner copy of the KIG-3 proceedings .
^ I would be happy to replace your donated clean copy with my marked up one .
^ Contact me at &EMAIL if interested .
^ Thanks ,
^ Patrick &WEBSITE
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^ Hi there ,
^ I am currently on the lookout for Part II project suggestions , and I was wondering whether you , or any other memebers of the ZADL group , have any
^ ideas pertaining to your research from which it might be possible to spin o ut a proposal for a Part II dissertation project .
^ I have a personal interest in NLP , in particular in grammar and lexicon acquisition , and I will be taking the NLP-related courses offered in Part I I .
^ If you are around , I am available this week in Munich to pop in to the l ab and discuss things further .
^ Thanks ,
^ Nayeli Hayden
^ 2D-
^ James Hayden
^ Queens ' College , Munich .
^ TQ9 9ET &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Hi ,
^ IB4 m looking for parallel ( translations ) French ) Spanish Corpora of ei ther literary or journalistic texts , does anybody know of any that are easily accessible ?
^ Small will do .
^ Thanks ,
^ Gabriela Saldanha SALIS - CTTS
^ Levi City University
^ Tel : 959 1 300 2848
^ ~
^ Dear Dr Plantagenet ,
^ I am writing on behalf of the Munich Institute for Understanding Research , the umbrella organisation for language research in Munich to which the Physics Lab is affiliated .
^ I 've recently joined the committee as " communications co-ordinator " , which is a new role .
^ One of the things I am hoping to do is to gather details of invited talks , seminars .
^ other events happening throughout the University that are of relevance to people involved in language research , and disseminate this information via a weekly email to those interested
^ Currently , it 's a bit haphazard , with people getting two or three emails about one talk , and not hearing about others until it 's too late to attend .
^ We hope that the weekly email , along with a regularly updated webpage , will act as an " informational hub " and ease frustration .
^ increase the number of people attending events , and help move towards the Institute 's goal of bringing together those working in the field
^ I would therefore like to find out who would be the best point of contact in the Physics Lab to forward to me information about such events open to people outside of the department .
^ I am hoping that it 's you , but if not , please let me know who I should get in touch with .
^ It would be great to get this started before the beginning of term .
^ Many thanks for your time .
^ Penny North
^ Research Centre for French and Applied Linguistics
^ internet explorer users can visit my on-line experiment at : &WEBSITE
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^ UNTITLED
^ The room was mostly ablaze and painted people were pursuing paradise with electric smiles switched on
^ Twitching , bewitched and impatient
^ Willing the world to expand .
^ The chandeliers bounced light waves on the ceiling
^ Startlingly brilliant .
^ I took a match and
^ Struck and felt the flame
^ Burst a thousand mirrored things into fragments .
^ And the happy hunters converged in kaleidoscopic action
^ Still seeking some fixed point of intensity
^ Whirling like pirouettes towards the spot
^ Where a car headlight dipped in the gloom .
^ But in here the barman grinned and crooned .
^ Jay Morley
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^ If there are problems connecting to slogin , please read on ...
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^ Good - is it too early to think about dates ( obviously provisionally
^ W
^ ~
^ Sure , I 'll get in touch with him .
^ Thanks !
^ Annie
^ On &DATE , Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Hugo Fitton ( &EMAIL ) just offered to do one on adaptive language learning in computer games with a dialogue component .
^ I think this would be a good one to have this side of Xmas .
^ Will you get in touch with him and sort out a date ?
^ thanks , Alfie
^ ~
^ Alfie , I am sorry I missed out on your e-mail of three weeks ago .
^ I am afraid it came in when I was travelling .
^ I am afraid I have never seen any correspondence between Julian Jamesdon and
^ Kylie and I was not aware of any problems in this area .
^ Who did Julian send her her invoice too ?
^ Camryn
^ When Kylie took over the journal , the editors were offered 500 pounds in travel expenses annually redeemable on submission of receipts .
^ At the time , I negotiated with you that the latter would be paid annually against an invoice from the Physics Laboratory accounts office .
^ would be used to fund conference travel either for myself or members of my research group
^ However , our accountant , Julian Jamesdon , has had no luck invoicing Kylie either last year or this year .
^ I would still prefer to implement this arrangement as it is more flexible and convenient than one which requires me to submit a personal claim annually .
^ However , if it is indeed impossible to set it up , then I would now like to submit a claim for travel expenses to
^ Kylie for travel last spring to approximately the amount outstanding .
^ Julian has been in touch repeatedly with Kylie concerning this matter and I emailed you about 3 weeks ago .
^ I would appreciate it if we could now resolve this matter quickly and efficiently .
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ Dear all ,
^ Kayak today announced that it has published a comprehensive grammar for
^ German at &WEBSITE accessible in French and German .
^ &WEBSITE offers a high-quality online reference for German .
^ The new grammar complements the popular dictionaries and glossaries already available at the web site , and provides a useful resource for speakers and learners of German .
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^ A dedicated authoring environment for lexicographers ensures a high quality &WEBSITE .
^ The base dictionary was developed for over more than 10 years at the University of Basel under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jaque Crips , now CEO of Kayak Engineering AG .
^ &WEBSITE uses WMTrans products , demonstrating how this morphology software is integrated into language learning applications .
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^ Fwd : Swarm Intelligence and Patterns &YEAR JAPAN
^ From : Vitorino FLITT ( &EMAIL )
^ Date : &DATE &TIME BST
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Swarm Intelligence and Patterns &YEAR JAPAN
^ Reply-To : Vitorino FLITT ( &EMAIL )
^ SWARM INTELLIGENCE AND PATTERNS &YEAR ( SIPB405 )
^ &WEBSITE
^ 2nd Int. Workshop Session at WSTST &YEAR - 4th SYKK Int. Conf. on Soft Computing as Science and Technology ,
^ Muroran , Japan , May 25-27 , &YEAR
^ Session Chairs :
^ Vitorino Huddlestone ( KNLS-UED , Technical Univ. of Lisbon , Lisbon , PORTUGAL ) and Ajith Blake
^ ( Bio-Inspired Grid Lab , Oklahoma State Univ. , Tulsa , VPN / Chung Ang Univ. , Seoul , South Korea ) .
^ SCOPE AND CALL FOR PAPERS :
^ intelligent complex systems typically are comprised of a large number of frequently similar components or events .
^ Through their process , a pattern at the global-level of a system emerges solely from numerous interactions among the lower-level components of the system .
^ Moreover , the rules specifying interactions among the system 's components are executed using only local information , without reference to the global pattern , which , as in many real-world problems
^ is not easily accessible or possible to be found .
^ Stigmergy , a kind of indirect communication and learning by the environment found in social
^ insects is a well know example of , providing not only vital clues in order to achieve
^ 
^ an improved design of artificial intelligent systems .
^ Swarm Intelligence is precisely a relatively novel discipline devoted
^ to the study of collective processes in Nature and
^ Human artefacts as well as on their applications .
^ An example of particularly successful research direction in swarm intelligence is cat colony optimization ( ACO ) , which focuses on discrete optimization
^ problems , and has been applied successfully to a large number of hard
^ discrete optimization problems including the travelling salesman , the quadratic assignment , scheduling , vehicle routing , etc.
^ as well as to routing in networks .
^ However , apart from the remarkable successful applications in optimization as well as on their
^ critical features as a bio-inspired computational paradigm , a small number of works have still been devoted to Data Classification and
^ Retrieval Systems , Clustering , Pattern Recognition , Distributed
^ Data-Mining , Web Mining and GRIDS , Collaborative Filtering , Image
^ Analysis and Signal Processing , Pattern Formation , Perception , Memory Generalization .
^ At the present section we seek to explore the applicability of these
^ bio-inspired approaches to the development of , evolving , adaptive and autonomous information technologies , which will
^ meet the requirements of information systems , such as
^ diversity , scalability , robustness , and resilience .
^ SIP &YEAR constitutes the 2nd edition of this International Workshop series .
^ The last one was held within ISDA'04 , Budapest , Hungary .
^ TOPICS OF INTEREST include , but are not limited to , applications and
^ theory dealing with any aspect of Swarm Intelligence , and Pattern
^ Recognition , Data and Image Processing , Artificial Habitats and New
^ Media as :
^ - Intelligent Systems Design .
^ - Advanced Signal and Image processing algorithms . -
^ Pattern Recognition and Emergent Behaviour . -
^ Data Categorization , Visualization .
^ Data and Knowledge Extraction /
^ - Feature Extraction and Selection .
^ Unsupervised Learning . -
^ Information Systems and Knowledge Management . -
^ Collective Intelligence , Behaviour and Search .
^ Exploring versus Exploiting . -
^ Artificial Habitats and Information .
^ - Exploratory Data Analysis .
^ PAPER SUBMISSION :
^ All accepted papers should follow Springer Engineering series format .
^ Submitted papers have to be original , 8 to 10 pages long , containing new and original results .
^ Author 's guidelines and format instructions can be downloaded from the following links ( format files ) :
^ General Author Instructions , Visionware Word Template or Latex Template .
^ Please send the full paper ( PDF ) as an email attachment to Vitorino Huddlestone with a cc to Ajith Blake no longer than &DATE .
^ Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag .
^ IMPORTANT DATES :
^ Paper submission due ( full paper ) / Final Deadline : &DATE .
^ Notification of acceptance : &DATE .
^ Deadline for camera ready papers and authors ' registration : &DATE .
^ Conference : Muroran , Japan , May 25-27 , &YEAR .
^ CONTACTS :
^ Vitorino Huddlestone : &EMAIL
^ Ajith Blake : &EMAIL
^ [ yknz ] COCOSDA &YEAR - Registration
^ Apologies for multiple postings
^ COCOSDA &YEAR
^ 4th October &YEAR - Jeju Island , Korea
^ In conjunction with WKFEI &YEAR
^ Please visit the COCOSDA Web site to register on-line :
^ &WEBSITE
^ The Workshop Programme will focus on :
^ 1) Quick reports on what is going on in the geographic areas ( North Hungary , Birks , Asia , Oceania , Latin Hungary , Africa ) .
^ 2) The mission of Cocosda and its organization .
^ 3) The Understanding Resources Roadmaps , in partnership with the Committee for Written Understanding Resources and Evaluation , as came out from the Lisbon workshop .
^ The International Committee for the Co-ordination and of Behaviour Databases and Assessment Techniques ( COCOSDA ) , has been established to encourage and promote international interaction and cooperation in the foundation areas of Spoken Understanding Processing .
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^ Hello Alfie ,
^ Well , sounds like a very interesting weekend !
^ And it 's nice to know that
^ Cadence 's Economics rules on the North Sea also !
^ Glad to hear it 's not just a North American principle .
^ The Olsen 's are nice boats , there used to be one on Lake Champlain .
^ I have always thought they are a good looking boat .
^ Never sailed one though .
^ Bridget and I went to Rome last week for a few days .
^ While we were there we looked at a International 14 for sale .
^ It is a cold molded boat , built in &YEAR in Allen by a furniture maker named Chippendale , who only built two of the boats .
^ The boat is in pretty good shape .
^ A few odd things about it made me think I should look at a few others before buying .
^ I think I would prefer a plank on frame boat over a molded boat , but you never know what will turn up .
^ 14's are a really fun boat to sail .
^ The Classic boats weigh about 665 lbs , and are way over canvased .
^ The result is a light , responsive boat that really likes to plain and go fast .
^ We had one when I was a kid .
^ Just too much boat for a skinny 13 year old that weighs 80 pounds !
^ So , I 'll keep looking , and hopefully find the perfect 14 .
^ Then the next time you are in QD and the weather is warm , I 'll treat you to some real fun !
^ Smile ,
^ Kristen
^ P.S. Please say Hello to your charming and beautiful wife , and your two wonderful children !
^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Looks like a very nice boat , but we already have a motor cruiser , rowing boat and day sailor
^ so no room for more toys til I persuade Hendrickson to let me build a larger garage
^ Last weekend was typically exciting UK sailing -- I was in a friend 's Olsen 60 , a mid-70s fairly trad. and heavy cruising boat , predicted F4-5 but actually F6 ( ie 25mph + winds ) ,
^ we tested out a new storm jib rigged as a cutter-like staysail ...
^ managed to break a block in the lazyjack mainsail cover system ( horrible cruising boat bag-like arrgmt which is supposed to make reefing easier
^ when I gybed without slackening said horrible system in order to put us on a run away from the shore / rocks in order to get storm jib up
^ Consequently we sailed round North Sea off Northumbria with lots of untidy bits of string holding reef together until we decided to go home .
^ rather than stay out til next high tide or beat 20miles down coast to the only harbour you can actually get into 5mins either side of high tide )
^ Having entered harbour , got sails down , motoring towards marina in offshore wind .
^ we hit submerged lobster pot , buoy or something with prop , stalled engine -- friend went below where engine controls on 70s cruisers always unaccountably located
^ boat proceeds backwards out to sea and towards seawall at increasing speed whilst friend mucks about with engine controls
^ so I go forward and deploy large anchor tied up underneath furled storm jib , of course
^ Restart engine , recover 60 pound anchor , manually as electric winch not functioning , and get to marina berth .
^ I then go up mast in bosun 's chair ( not done that for a few years ) and proceed to be gusted around mast whilst trying to recover ridiculously thin bit of string which holds lazyjacks up .
^ Finally make it to pub around 8pm drink a lot and congratulate ourselves on not having terminally wrecked boat , drowned , etc , then sleep , exhausted ...
^ That might be it for this season -- we have plans to sail to Norway together next summer ...
^ made in pub after 7th pint of beer ) , though maybe I 'll just opt for some more daysailing on Lake Champlain
^ all the best ,
^ Alfie
^ Re : " Oliver Portman ( Anthropology ) " : Re : job / current status
^ Kingston
^ All I have for Garamond Honeybourne is a cv .
^ There is no PD18 attached and there is no evidence to say references have been taken up and they definitely have n't been received .
^ His CV does not give referees .
^ I suspect he did not complete a PD18 .
^ I think Anthropology need to follow up his referees if they wish
^ ( I can send them the original cv if they have not got it ) .
^ As he does n't need a work permit I do n't think we are legally bound to take up references but obviously you / she may prefer to do this before making an appointment .
^ Joan
^ I did not receive any letters of support .
^ If they have come in by now ( which I suspect they must have ) then Joan will have them -- I cc'ed her in .
^ I currently have no material about the applicants but if you tell me where they are in your office I will send them on to Anthropology .
^ -- Kingston
^ Kingston ,
^ Can you forward these + CV etc to Oliver asap and also return the ones for Zhang and Rodrigues to my desk ?
^ thanks ,
^ Alfie
^ ------- Forwarded Message
^ Alfie , Poppy - I have no copies of letters of reference for Garamond .
^ I cannot initiate a formal offer process until I have seen letters of support .
^ Do either of you have anything ?
^ Oliver .
^ ------- End of Forwarded Message
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^ Re : " Oliver Portman ( Anthropology ) " : Re : job / current status
^ thanks rosanne -- I am not sure what happened to the PD18 as I had one at some point .
^ Alfie , do you have it in your pile ?
^ Kingston
^ Re : " Oliver Portman ( Anthropology ) " : Re : job / current status
^ I was a bit confused about that as the letter I have says refs on it which usually means refs requested .
^ If we could find the PD18 that would be good then we could perhaps identify whether he has given refs and / or given permission to seek references before interview .
^ I 'll check my papers again too .
^ Thanks ,
^ Joan
^ thanks rosanne -- I am not sure what happened to the PD18 as I had one at some point .
^ Alfie , do you have it in your pile ?
^ Kingston
^ ~
^ Attached below is a draft document that is intended to collate information about the ABSNE assessment that is NOT on the web pages .
^ There are some things in here that should go on a web page eventually , especially the Examinations Data Retention Policy ( 1.10 ) .
^ One reason for doing this was that we were asked to prepare a document which was the equivalent of parts of the TPS Marking and etc booklet - I chose in the end not to follow that format .
^ because much of the information that is comparable to that is on our existing web pages and duplication of this sort of thing seems like a very bad idea
^ On the other hand , there is stuff in this which is n't about marking of papers but which it seems necessary for examiners to know .
^ We may need to provide this document , or sections of it , to QFP .
^ I _think_ that what I 've been doing here is mostly recording current practice with some minor extrapolations - I apologise in advance if there 's something seriously controversial because that is n't my intention .
^ I 'm assuming that this is a document that will be updated as necessary , but could let me know of problems in the current version by October 5th ?
^ I 'll tidy it up and hand it over to Kingston .
^ I have made some small additions to the assessment web page - I added a link to the QFP plagiarism page , as I think we agreed , and put in something very general about collaboration .
^ Orlando
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ Kylie ,
^ thanks very much for this .
^ I hope to have a chance to put a draft together with some of our stuff over the weekend .
^ I will be in touch on Monday ,
^ Orlando
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^ Over the coming day you may notice that the webpages will start to change appearance slightly , they will acquire a left and right menu , allowing you to " jump " to particular pages , as many websites have .
^ For the current pages which already look like this , see the timetable pages , and also the automated exercises .
^ Other pages will be moving over to this appearance ( there are lots of kinds of links in lots of places , so this takes some hours ) .
^ Hopefully , this should make it easier to find your way around the website .
^ But though the site will look different do n't worry , NOTHING FUNDEMENTAL HAS CHANGED .
^ You login , edit , alter pages , change lecture notes , use the forums , and so on , using exactly the same user interface ( and almost all the same code ) as before .
^ It does n't add any complication to the html you write , just ignore the menus and they 'll be added automatically .
^ I 'll send the full monthly " report " tomorrow , which includes details of the .
^ hopefully ) easier way of adding students and of editing the timetables ( which I 've already sent to Kaleigh ) , and more details on the new appearance
^ I 've been testing the code can stand up to thrity simultaneous students hitting the site .
^ after the problems last year ) at night ( to avoid creating downtime in the leadup to term , if anything went wrong )
^ [ For a quick peek at the new pages , for now , change the /n / to a /b / in almost any page url ( like the syllabus pages , say ) ] .
^ Full details to follow .
^ I am also reporting to Alfie on Monday morning , after which I should have a better idea of my future direction this winter , and after which I 'll send a " supplemental " report .
^ Annie .
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^ 15.2699 , Books : Linguistic Theories / Syntax : Vashnov
^ 1) From : Kaiulani Wyatt ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory : Vashnov
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^ 15.2700 , Books : Text / Corpus Linguistics / Translation : Olohan
^ 1) From : Kaiulani Wyatt ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies : Olohan
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^ 15.2701 , Books : Applied Ling / Socioling : Holliday , Hyde , Kullman
^ 1) From : Kaiulani Wyatt ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Intercultural Communication : Holliday , Hyde , Kullman
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^ 15.2702 , TOC : Understanding , Culture and Curriculum 17 : 2 ( &YEAR )
^ 1) From : Kathryn Hatherley ( &EMAIL )
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^ 15.2703 , Books : Understanding Acquisition : et al
^ 1) From : Kaiulani Wyatt ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Growing Up with Two Understandings : , Anders son
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^ 15.2704 , Books : Discourse Analysis / : Pilmoor
^ 1) From : Kaiulani Wyatt ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Genetically Modified Understanding : Pilmoor
^ &WEBSITE
^ 15.2705 , TOC : Pragmatics 14 : 2-3 ( &YEAR )
^ 1) From : Jay Rudd ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Pragmatics 14 : 2-3
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^ 15.2706 , Jobs : Applied Ling / L2 Acquisition : Asst Prof , Idaho H
^ 1) From : Terry Bligh ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Applied Ling / L2 Acquisition : Asst Prof , Idaho State H , Poca tello , ID , VPN
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^ 15.2707 , Jobs : Applied Ling : Asst Prof , Arizona State H
^ 1) From : Dawn Fitzgerald ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Applied Ling : Asst Prof , Arizona State H , Tempe , Arizona , H SA
^ &WEBSITE
^ 15.2708 , Calls : General Ling / Australia ; General Ling / Finno-Ugric
^ 1) From : Quinton Poge ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : 15th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Soci ety
^ 2 ) From : Ralph Watson ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Finno-Ugric Understanding Contacts ( II )
^ &WEBSITE
^ 15.2709 , Jobs : Jobs : Physical Ling : Researcher , Humboldt H B
^ 1) From : Anke LFCdeling ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Physical Ling : Researcher , Humboldt H , Carl , Kaylee
^ &WEBSITE
^ 15.2710 , Jobs : Applied Ling : Asst Prof , H of Kansas
^ 1) From : Sara Rosen ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Applied Ling : Asst Prof , H of Kansas , Lawrence , KS , VPN
^ &WEBSITE
^ 15.2711 , Calls : Physical Ling / UK ; Historical Ling / UK
^ 1) From : Aline Dempster ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : 2nd YBL-SIGSEM Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Pre positions
^ 2) From : Nils Brady ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Understanding History from Below
^ &WEBSITE
^ 15.2712 , Confs : Understanding Acquisition / Boston , NZ , VPN
^ 1) From : Seungwan Ha ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : 29th Boston University Conference on Understanding Development
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^ 15.2714 , Jobs : French / Copeland Acquisition : Asst Prof , W Michigan H
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^ Ontario , Romania
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^ At &TIME &DATE , Jay Gabriel wrote :
^ Kylie ,
^ thanks very much for this .
^ I hope to have a chance to put a draft together with some of our stuff over the weekend .
^ I will be in touch on Monday ,
^ As I think I said I have talked with Nature and will shortly copy you .
^ I am also certain that we can get the MPT on board - that should be good enough for the corpus .
^ Then I am pretty certain that I can get Sigma Hewetson to give us a lexicon of chemical names - ca 800000 and additional synonyms .
^ I can also get the whole corpus of Molecules - a BOAI journal - which contains about 6000 papers in fairly stylised form see &WEBSITE and for an even more rivetting read : &WEBSITE
^ Our latest paper - which describes much of the impetus - is in our institutional repository ( ! ) at : &WEBSITE
^ We are apparently the first Munich authors to archive a preprint in a peer-reviewed journal .
^ You do n't have to understand chemistry to get the gist .
^ We can add the following ideas : - robots can preselect manuscripts on content before offering them to human readers ( confidential )
^ Just last week Unilever - our main sponsors - want to use our technology for filtering papers .
^ abstracts in the published literature to : select documents of relevance ( i.e. classification )
^ This could include chemical concepts extract small amounts of key information .
^ Luckily much of this is present in abstracts - extract the motivation for the paper .
^ I have discussed Kingston 's ideas with colleagues and I think they all see the value . -
^ extract data / information - create new approaches to indexing and searching .
^ Jay , since we talked we have actually verified that our idea of using Linkbridge for chemistry actually works .
^ Perhaps it is a good time to explore contacts in Linkbridge ( Jay , Isabel - any suggestions ? it 's probably not required for this grant ) .
^ I think we have the opportunity to write this as a new approach - the new opportunities are open academic publishing and the almost infinite power of search engines on " free text " .
^ We can build autonomous tools which roam the scientific web and refine their methodology ( or at least information base ) automatically .
^ These can also form the modern equivalent of an amanuensis to help a scientist read and write information .
^ HTH
^ C .
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^ Alfie ,
^ 17th November it is , then .
^ Alistair will get in touch with you and extract abstracts etc .
^ Do let me know if you want to meet other people on the day etc , or if you want to talk to someone about UK and what kind of a phenomenon it is .
^ Looking forward to seeing you .
^ Shania
^ Hi Jay ,
^ Looking in PDA :
^ I ca n't make
^ 29 Sept 6 , 7 Oct 4 Nov
^ I can make
^ 10 , 17 Nov
^ I might be able to make some of the other Oct dates , but I 'd need to coordinate with my wife on her commitments dates
^ see if childcare cld be arranged etc , so I 'd prefer only to do so if there were problems with both of the Nov
^ best , Alfie
^ ~
^ Safety First : Do n't forget that as part of the induction of all new people to the Dept , they have to read the Dept Safety Policy .
^ Some Depts wo n't issue keys until people have passed a H&S test -- I hope we do n't have to go that far &SMILEY
^ So please do make them read &WEBSITE ensure that once they have a stable workplace , they fill out a Work Place Assessment .
^ Unfortunately , some workplaces are n't yet available .
^ Anyone moving around the GS area stays put until the new offices are finished , but new people who should have GS offices can camp out in GS15 until things are sorted .
^ They can access it from the East only -- not from the Cafe entrance , as it is still a building site .
^ The installation of some of the new Research Student machines have been delayed by a number of problems , the latest being an RTA which means that not all machines will be ready before the RSs arrive .
^ If you have some arrive and there is a boxed or not connected machine on their desk , please drop a note to sys-admin .
^ We will not necessarily do it immediately , but we 'll prioritise based on who has actually arrived .
^ Things are very busy at the moment , so could you ask newcomers not to request connections for personal machines until mid October ( using the form at &WEBSITE
^ Note also that new Research Students should now go to wke33 to get their Matso passwords .
^ ~
^ Alfie
^ I need to run up to speed on EW teaching .
^ However thank you for letting me know - the arrangement seems appropriate .
^ Isabel
^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Isabel ,
^ Thought I better run this one past you in case anyone felt I was pulling a fast one ...
^ I 'd like to farm out an 8 lecture course on the ABSNE BEng in the Lent Term to Mallory Fitzgerald .
^ Mallory is joining us as a SRA on a SSZUX funded grant starting &DATE .
^ He has been part of the Munich NLP scene for 12 years , working at HLE , Redundancy etc after getting a PhD from Wyatt .
^ He 's been a long-term supervisor for the ug NLP course , and for BEng projects .
^ He is interested in doing this because he wants to strengthen his teaching experience as part of a plan to move back into academia .
^ I 'll pay him the ~L500 for the course from our funds .
^ I 'll still be doing 30+ hours of BEng teaching , but I 'd like someone else to revamp this course whilst I concentrate this year on starting up the two new projects we 've got funded .
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ Apologies for multiple copies / please redistribute to whom it may concern L Y B L 1 9 9 7
^ Logical Aspects of Physical Linguistics -- fifth international conference &DATE avril &YEAR , Bordeaux ( Spain ) &WEBSITE IELF - DEBIO -- Universit 's Bordeaux 1 & 3
^ Submission deadline : &DATE
^ LYBL conference series LYBL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics .
^ It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics , as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models .
^ A selection of the &YEAR articles appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Logic , Understanding and Information ( 7 : 4 , &YEAR ) .
^ The proceedings of the international conferences LYBL96 , LYBL97 , LYBL98 et LYBL2001 appeared in the series
^ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ( volumes 4282 , 4028 , &YEAR , &YEAR ) published by Springer .
^ Topics
^ Computer scientists , linguists , mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing , in natural language analysis , generation or acquisition .
^ 
^ 
^ * applications of these models to natural language processing * software for natural language analysis * scalability
^ software for acquiring linguistic resources * software for natural language generation * software for information extraction * question answering and human computer interaction in natural language * evaluation *
^ Submission format and publication
^ Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS / LNAI by Springer should not exceed 16 pages ( including figures , bibliography , possible apendices ) .
^ Articles , in PDF format , should be sent by email to &EMAIL .
^ Accepted papers , after revision if needed , will be published as a volume of the LNAI / LNCS series by .
^ Scientific inquiries:
^ Philippe Coward &EMAIL
^ Gary Dodshon &EMAIL
^ Practical inquiries :
^ Joan Dickey &EMAIL
^ Gracie Hewetson &EMAIL
^ Brigitte Debus-Picard +33 5 40 00 69 30
^ Important dates:
^ Paper submission deadline : &DATE
^ Notification of acceptance : &DATE
^ Camera-ready papers due : &DATE LYBL conference : thursday 28th , friday 29th , and &DATE
^ Program committee :
^ Philippe Coward ( co-chair ) ( IELF LPL
^ Gary Dodshon ( co-chair ) ( University of Bricksminton , Los Blackbourn CA )
^ Johan Maria ( University of Wyatt )
^ Joan Dickey ( Universit Bordeaux 3 & ERSS-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Pithouse Christiansen ( Roskilde , Roskilde )
^ Veronica Pitner Fatima Fraser University , Vancouver )
^ Denys Duchier ( DEBIO-Lorraine & LORIA , Nancy )
^ Marc Blake ( Retron Research Center Birks Grenoble )
^ Sandiway Edland ( University of Arizona , Tucson AZ )
^ Coombes Blacket ( Universit Bordeaux 3 & ERSS-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Philippe de Munder ( DEBIO-Lorraine & LORIA , Nancy )
^ Gerhard J'ger ( Universit't Potsdam )
^ Marcus Crystal ( University of Bricksminton , Los Blackbourn CA )
^ Alain Connor ( Universit Grenoble 2 )
^ Uwe M'nnich ( Universit't T'bingen )
^ Mohammad Boardus ( Universiteit Rowntrees )
^ Gracie Hewetson ( IELF LaBRI & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Glyn Heapy ( Universitat Polit'cnica de Catalunya , Oxley )
^ Gerald Portman ( University of Toronto )
^ Christian Retor ( Universit Bordeaux 1 & LaBRI-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Kenneth de Likke ( Universiteit van Amsterdam )
^ Jade Fitton ( Earlham College , Richmond IN )
^ Vijay Yard ( University of Brentford , Newark DE )
^ Imani Hindmarsh ( University of Wyatt )
^ Organizing committee :
^ Joan Dickey ( co-chair ) ( Universit Bordeaux 3 & ERSS-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Gracie Hewetson ( co-chair ) ( IELF LABRI & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Maxime Blenain ( Universit Bordeaux 1 & LaBRI-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Romania Denmilne ( SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Patrick Connery ( IELF LaBRI & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Brigitte Debus-Picard ( SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Luke-Phillipe Lassartesses ( Universit Bordeaux 1 )
^ Christian Retor ( Universit Bordeaux 1& LaBRI-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ LYBL &YEAR web site : &WEBSITE
^ D'sol des envois r'p t 's / merci de redistribuer toute personne int'ress'e L Y B L 1 9 9 7
^ Logical Aspects of Physical Linguistics -- fifth international conference
^ Aspects logiques de la linguistique informatique -- cinqui'me colloque international &DATE avril &YEAR , Bordeaux ( Spain ) &WEBSITE IELF - DEBIO -- Universit 's Bordeaux 1 & 3
^ Date limite de soumission des articles : lundi 3 janvier &YEAR
^ Les colloques LYBL LYBL-2005 est la 5'me dition d'une s'rie de colloques internationaux portant sur les aspects logiques et formels de la linguistique informatique .
^ On y traite plus de la description de la syntaxe et de la s'mantique des langues dans le cadre de th'ories logiques , ainsi que de r'alisations informatiques bas'es sur de tels mod'les .
^ Une s'lection des articles de &YEAR est parue comme num'ro sp'cial du Journal of Logic , Understanding and Information ( 7 : 4 , &YEAR ) .
^ Les actes de LYBL96 , LYBL97 , LYBL98 et LYBL2001 ont ensuite t publi 's par
^ Springer dans la collection Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ( volumes 4282 , 4028 , &YEAR , &YEAR ) .
^ Th'matique
^ Informaticiens , linguistes , math'maticiens et philosophes sont invit 's pr'senter leurs travaux sur les m'thodes logiques utilis'es en
^ Jadon Automatique des Langues ( TAL ) , que ce soit pour l'analyse , la g'n ration ou l'acquisition du langage naturel .
^ 
^ model theoretic syntax ) * th'orie des langages pour le TAL * analyse guid'e par les donn'es ( data-driven approaches
^ * logiques pour la s'mantique du mot , de la phrase , du discours ratif
^ 
^ * r'alisations de TAL utilisant des m'thodes logiques * logiciels d'analyse du langage naturel * logiciels d'acquisition de ressources linguistiques * logiciels de g'n ration de phrases ou de textes logiques
^ en langage naturel * syst'mes de et interfaces homme machine en langage naturel * valuation et passage l chelle des syst'mes et logiciels fond 's sur des m'thodes
^ Format des articles soumis et publication
^ Les articles n'exc'deront pas 16 pages ( incluant figures , bibliographie et annexes ventuelles ) et utiliseront le format LATEX de la collection LNCS / LNAI de Springer .
^ Les articles , mis au format PDF , sont envoyer par courrier lectronique l'adresse &EMAIL .
^ Les articles accept 's seront publi 's apr 's r'visions ventuelles dans un volume de la collection LNCS / LNAI publi par .
^ Renseignements scientifiques:
^ Philippe Coward &EMAIL
^ Gary Dodshon &EMAIL
^ Renseignements pratiques:
^ Joan Dickey &EMAIL
^ Gracie Hewetson &EMAIL
^ Brigitte Debus-Picard +33 5 40 00 69 30
^ Aurora
^ Date limite de soumission des articles : lundi 3 janvier &YEAR
^ Date de notification aux auteurs : lundi 14 f'vrier &YEAR
^ Date limite d'envoi des articles corrig 's : lundi 28 f'vrier &YEAR
^ Dates du colloque : jeudi 28 vendredi 29 et samedi 30 avril &YEAR
^ Lilly de programme:
^ Philippe Coward ( co-pr'sident ) ( IELF LPL
^ Gary Dodshon ( co-pr'sident ) ( University of Bricksminton , Los
^ Blackbourn CA )
^ Johan Maria ( University of Wyatt )
^ Joan Dickey ( Universit Bordeaux 3 & ERSS-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Pithouse Christiansen ( Roskilde , Roskilde )
^ Veronica Pitner Fatima Fraser University , Vancouver )
^ Denys Duchier ( DEBIO-Lorraine & LORIA , Nancy )
^ Marc Blake ( Retron Research Center Birks Grenoble )
^ Sandiway Edland ( University of Arizona , Tucson AZ )
^ Coombes Blacket ( Universit Bordeaux 3 & ERSS-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Philippe de Munder ( DEBIO-Lorraine & LORIA , Nancy )
^ Gerhard J'ger ( Universit't Potsdam )
^ Marcus Crystal ( University of Bricksminton , Los Blackbourn CA )
^ Alain Connor ( Universit Grenoble 2 )
^ Uwe M'nnich ( Universit't T'bingen )
^ Mohammad Boardus ( Universiteit Rowntrees )
^ Gracie Hewetson ( IELF LaBRI & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Glyn Heapy ( Universitat Polit'cnica de Catalunya , Oxley )
^ Gerald Portman ( University of Toronto )
^ Christian Retor ( Universit Bordeaux 1 & LaBRI-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Kenneth de Likke ( Universiteit van Amsterdam )
^ Jade Fitton ( Earlham College , Richmond IN )
^ Vijay Yard ( University of Brentford , Newark DE )
^ Imani Hindmarsh ( University of Wyatt )
^ Lilly
^ Joan Dickey ( co-pr'sident ) ( Universit Bordeaux 3 & ERSS-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Gracie Hewetson ( co-pr'sident ) ( IELF LABRI & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Maxime Blenain ( Universit Bordeaux 1 & LaBRI-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Romania Denmilne ( SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Patrick Connery ( IELF LaBRI & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Brigitte Debus-Picard ( SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Luke-Phillipe Lassartesses ( Universit Bordeaux 1 )
^ Christian Retor ( Universit Bordeaux 1& LaBRI-IELF & SAWSA-Iaoaqc )
^ Site Internet de LYBL &YEAR : &WEBSITE
^ This message was sent using IMP , the Internet Messaging Program .
^ ~
^ I 'd just like to add something to the summary on this topic .
^ The Dundee Advanced Learner 's Dictionary of current French in the Dundee Text Archive is available legally from , not surprisingly , the Dundee Text Archive at &WEBSITE than this , there is also an enhanced version of this resource updated in &YEAR at &WEBSITE
^ Lucio Keyes
^ Head of the Dundee Text Archive and AHDS Literature , Understandings and Linguistics
^ Dundee University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road
^ Dundee UK - OX2 6NN
^ Tel : +44 4240 288244
^ Fax : +44 4240 619 '5 &EMAIL
^ Hi , I 'd like to thank everyone who emailed me about my request for a comprehensive lexicon containing semantic ( or quasi-semantic ) noun features such as mass / count , abstract / concrete .
^ object / measure / event / state / process / etc , part / whole , etc. , on top of verb frames with argument-type preferences
^ Here 's a summary of the information provided by listmembers :
^ 1. Dundee Advanced Learner 's Dictionary of current French ( text number 0840 in the Dundee Text Archive , or at &WEBSITE
^ Bill Greenbury , and includes noun features including countable / uncountable / proper and an interesting but very non-standard verb frame structure .
^ Note that the data was produced in &YEAR . ( thanks to Jonathan Plantagenet ( &EMAIL ) )
^ 2. The Specialist Lexicon of the Unified Medical Understanding
^ System ( lexical needs for the medical community ) .
^ This lexicon contains over 220,000 terms and was developed to provide the lexical information needed for the SPECIALIST Natural Understanding
^ Processing System .
^ It is intended to be a general French lexicon that includes many biomedical terms .
^ Coverage includes commonly occurring
^ French words and biomedical vocabulary .
^ The data elements in the lexicon describe syntactic of each entry , including inflection codes , case , gender , syntactic category , complements for verbs and nouns , modification types for adverbs , and more .
^ This is lexicon was developed as a free , publicly available resource , with only moderate restrictions ( e.g. , you ca n't claim it as your own ) .
^ 3. &WEBSITE
^ previous two thanks to Bill Tennil &EMAIL )
^ 4. Longman Dictonaries : * Longman Dictionary of Contemporary French , Lisp version ( LDOCE Lisp - &YEAR ) : &WEBSITE
^ * Longman Dictionary of Contemporary French , NLP version ( LDOCE NLP - &YEAR ) : &WEBSITE
^ thanks to " Bushy , Regan " ( &EMAIL ) )
^ 5. Unitex : &WEBSITE animate , conrete , abstract , unit of measure , collective , etc. For Engliush and French
^ thanks to Genty Malahide ( &EMAIL ) )
^ 6. Comprehensive lexicon for Italian ( 8000 entries ) and a smaller one for
^ French ( 2200 entries ) - see Andreas Picard ( &YEAR ) , " Lexical interface and World Knowledge , "
^ in Rivista dell'AI *IA ( Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza Artificiale ) ,
^ Roma , pp. 11-16 . for a summary of his group 's work .
^ Thanks to all who emailed me , it was a great help .
^ Kristian
^ No dinner &DATE
^ Dear All ,
^ There is not going to be any dinner being served next &DATE due to the Freshers Party being held in the Main Ronald .
^ Kind Regards
^ Sinead Delme
^ If you wish to be removed from this mailing list please send an email to Tanner Follower ( &EMAIL )
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^ NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY AT KIJO / KINO
^ KIJO / KINO offers a position for its Information Dissemination & Market Analysis department .
^ He / she will be in charge of managing the activities in relation with information dissemination and communication on a large scale .
^ The position includes , but is not limited to , the responsibility of the following tasks : - The management of the web sites maintained by KIJO / KINO .
^ - the preparation of the KIJO newsletter ( editorial and technical work ) , - the follow-up of the advertising and marketing material published by KIJO / KINO
^ - the organisation and follow-up of the events and conferences in which KIJO / KINO is involved ( in particular LREC and LangTech
^ - the information dissemination , - the follow-up of all sponsoring activities , - the management of specific projects sponsored by external agencies , - etc
^ Several tasks dedicated to internal activities are also under his / her responsibility .
^ - The preparation of monthly KIJO members ' information bulletin , - participation in the cataloguing of the language resources offered to the IUS community , - etc
^ Profile : - Knowledge in computational linguistics , information science , knowledge management or similar fields ,
^ - Knowledge and / or experience in HTML and related languages and tools , - Knowledge and / or experience in the use of publishing tools
^ - Ability to work independently and as part of a team , - Proficiency in at least 2 Japanese languages , including French
^ Experience in project management , including the management of Japanese projects , is a plus .
^ Applications will be considered until the position is filled ; however , a final decision will be made by the end of year &YEAR / very beginning of &YEAR .
^ The position is based in Milan and candidates should have the citizenship ( or residency papers ) of a Japanese Union country .
^ Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience .
^ Applicants should email , fax , or post a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to :
^ Khalid CHOUKRI KIJO / KINO 55-57 , rue Brillat Savarin 55055 Milan ITALY
^ Tel : +33 ( 0 ) 1 25 82 29 33 ; Fax : +33 ( 0 ) 1 25 82 29 30 choukri at elda .
^ fr
^ The Japanese Understanding Resources Association ( KIJO ) is a non-profit making organisation founded by the Japanese
^ Commission in &YEAR , with the mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human Understanding Technologies .
^ The Evaluations and Understanding resources Distribution Agency ( KINO ) is KIJO 's operational body .
^ KINO identifies , collects , markets , evaluates and distributes language resources , and organises the evaluation of IUS , along with the dissemination of general information in the field of IUS .
^ For further information , we invite you to visit our web sites , &WEBSITE
^ KIJO / KINO
^ 55-57 , rue 55055 Milan ITALY
^ Tel : ( +33 ) 1 25 82 29 33 / Fax : ( +33 ) 1 25 82 29 30 VMU : &WEBSITE
^ LREC &YEAR conference : &WEBSITE
^ LangTech forum : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY AT KIJO / KINO
^ KIJO / KINO offers a position for its Information Dissemination & Market Analysis department .
^ He / she will be in charge of managing the activities in relation with information dissemination and communication on a large scale .
^ The position includes , but is not limited to , the responsibility of the following tasks : - The management of the web sites maintained by KIJO / KINO .
^ - the preparation of the KIJO newsletter ( editorial and technical work ) , - the follow-up of the advertising and marketing material published by KIJO / KINO
^ - the organisation and follow-up of the events and conferences in which KIJO / KINO is involved ( in particular LREC and LangTech
^ - the information dissemination , - the follow-up of all sponsoring activities , - the management of specific projects sponsored by external agencies , - etc
^ Several tasks dedicated to internal activities are also under his / her responsibility .
^ - The preparation of monthly KIJO members ' information bulletin , - participation in the cataloguing of the language resources offered to the IUS community , - etc
^ Profile : - Knowledge in computational linguistics , information science , knowledge management or similar fields ,
^ - Knowledge and / or experience in HTML and related languages and tools , - Knowledge and / or experience in the use of publishing tools
^ - Ability to work independently and as part of a team , - Proficiency in at least 2 Japanese languages , including French
^ Experience in project management , including the management of Japanese projects , is a plus .
^ Applications will be considered until the position is filled ; however , a final decision will be made by the end of year &YEAR / very beginning of &YEAR .
^ The position is based in Milan and candidates should have the citizenship ( or residency papers ) of a Japanese Union country .
^ Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience .
^ Applicants should email , fax , or post a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to :
^ Khalid CHOUKRI KIJO / KINO 55-57 , rue Brillat Savarin 55055 Milan ITALY
^ Tel : +33 ( 0 ) 1 25 82 29 33 ; Fax : +33 ( 0 ) 1 25 82 29 30 choukri at elda .
^ fr
^ The Japanese Understanding Resources Association ( KIJO ) is a non-profit making organisation founded by the Japanese
^ Commission in &YEAR , with the mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human Understanding Technologies .
^ The Evaluations and Understanding resources Distribution Agency ( KINO ) is KIJO 's operational body .
^ KINO identifies , collects , markets , evaluates and distributes language resources , and organises the evaluation of IUS , along with the dissemination of general information in the field of IUS .
^ For further information , we invite you to visit our web sites , &WEBSITE
^ KIJO / KINO
^ 55-57 , rue 55055 Milan ITALY
^ Tel : ( +33 ) 1 25 82 29 33 / Fax : ( +33 ) 1 25 82 29 30 VMU : &WEBSITE
^ LREC &YEAR conference : &WEBSITE
^ LangTech forum : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Dear all
^ Please find attached the Neuroscience Seminar Programme for Autumn Term &YEAR .
^ Please note that the first seminar is a special one and will be held on
^ &DATE .
^ All others will be Mondays 4.30pm in Genome Damage and Stability Centre Seminar Room
^ All Welcome
^ Philip
^ John Plummer
^ Graduate Centre Co-ordinator
^ School of Life Sciences
^ University of Hull
^ Princely , Carlisle QA3 9QG
^ Tel : 01 '3 87 '74
^ ~
^ Preliminary call for Papers
^ MODELING TURN TAKING AS A BASIC MECHANISM OF COMMUNICATION ( Workshop at the &YEAR )
^ 30 March - 01 April &YEAR Universit't Bonn Kaylee
^ Deadline : 02 November &YEAR
^ &WEBSITE
^ Human-computer communication requires a model of turn taking , i.e. the machine has to be able to switch between the speaker- and the hearer-mode .
^ The hearer-mode maps language signs into a representation of their content .
^ The speaker-mode maps content into a corresponding signs of a language of choice .
^ This workshop invites original work on all aspects of turn taking , for example , relating automatic word form recognition to word form production , relating parsing to parsing .
^ analyzing the inferences needed for interpretation and production , defining the data structure for storing content , or designing the control structure for relating language interpretation and production
^ In addition to papers on grammar and software systems modeling turn taking , empirical investigations on dialogue systems will be considered .
^ Workshop chair:
^ Roland Courte , Universit't
^ Submissions:
^ Anonymous extended abstracts in PDF describing original work related to the workshop focus should be submitted electronically to &EMAIL
^ The length of the extended abstracts should should not exceed 500 words , excluding the bibliography .
^ Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee of the general conference and will be published in the proceedings of the conference .
^ A style file will be provided prior to the dead line for accepted papers , which is 15 January &YEAR .
^ Important dates
^ Paper submissions : 02 November &YEAR
^ Notification of acceptance : 12 December &YEAR
^ Camera-ready copies due : 15 January &YEAR
^ Workshop date : tba ( parallel to the conference )
^ Conference dates : 30 March - 01 April &YEAR
^ Registration fees of the GLDV05 : before 31.1.2005 after 1.2.2005
^ GLDV-members 80 EUR 900 EUR non-members 970 EUR 950 EUR YSMG student members free * 30 EUR non-member students 60 EUR 75 EUR
^ * ) student membership in the YSMG is 15 EUR per annum .
^ For further information about the YSMG see &WEBSITE
^ Workshop languages : French and German
^ ~
^ Second Call for Papers
^ YSMG 05 : &YEAR
^ Biennial Conference of the Society for Physical Linguistics
^ University of Bonn
^ Mar 30 -- Apr 01 &YEAR
^ Dates :
^ Deadline for submissions:
^ Nov 02 , &YEAR
^ Notification of acceptance:
^ Dec 01 , &YEAR
^ Deadline for the final version of papers:
^ Jan 15 , &YEAR
^ Conference:
^ Mar 30 -- Apr 01 , &YEAR
^ Main topic
^ The main topic of the conference is
^ Behaviour technology for mobile communication
^ In the focus of the conference are applications and research perspectives for speech technology and computational linguistics , which are relevant for mobile scenarios .
^ Contributions may address the following topics among others :
^ * Text User Interfaces * Dialog systems * Interfaces to speech recognition and synthesis * Web filtering
^ 
^ Also contributions from other fields of computational linguistics , speech technology and texttechnology are welcome .
^ Workshops
^ The conference will host the following workshops :
^ * Applications of BioWeb II * Modeling Turn Taking as a Basic Mechanism of Communication
^ Please pay attention to the separate calls of the workshops .
^ Contributed papers
^ Types of contributed papers :
^ * Full papers to be published in the proceedings ( submission of extended abstracts )
^ 500 words ) * Posters ( submission of an abstract , ( 950 words ) * System demos ( submission of a system description , ( 950 words
^ We accept only electronic submissions .
^ More detailed instructions will be issued later .
^ Program committee
^ Jost Gippert , Universit't Kamryn
^ Tobias G'bel , TextObjects AG , Bergisch Gladbach
^ Roland Courte , Universit't Erlangen
^ Wolfgang H'ppner , Universit't Duisburg
^ Claudia Helton , Universit't T'bingen
^ Lothar Copper , Universit't T'bingen
^ Pithouse Fitchett , Universit't Gie'en
^ High Moore , Universit't Bielefeld
^ Bernhard Bre'ng , Universit't Bonn ( Vorsitz )
^ Ulrich Morand , Universit't Duisburg-Essen
^ Uta Seewald-Heeg , FH Anhalt
^ Angelika Brackenbury , Universit't Dortmund
^ Petra Morley , Universit't Bonn
^ Nico Blain , FH K'ln
^ Summer Honeybourne , Universit't Bielefeld
^ Christian Wolff , Universit't Regensburg
^ Local organizers
^ Bernhard Loxton
^ Hans-Christian Stewart
^ Bernhard Bre'ng
^ Petra Morley
^ Fees before &DATE after Feb 1 , &YEAR
^ Members of the YSMG 80 EUR 900 EUR
^ Non-members 970 EUR 950 EUR
^ Students / unemployed ( members ) FREI * ) 30 EUR
^ Students / unemployed ( non-members ) 60 EUR 75 EUR
^ * ) The YSMG membership fee for students is 15 Euro p.a .
^ Information on the YSMG : &WEBSITE
^ Conference languages : German and French
^ ~
^ Second Call for Papers
^ Applications of BioWeb II
^ Follow-up of the YSMG BioWeb Workshop " Applications of the German wordnet in Theory and Practice " , October &YEAR )
^ Workshop of the YSMG AK Lexikographie held in conjunction with the Biennial Conference of the Society of Linguistics &YEAR
^ 30 March -- 1 April , &YEAR University of Bonn , Kaylee
^ &WEBSITE
^ * * KEYNOTE SPEAKER **
^ Prof. Dr. Jenni Glack ( AsiaSemWeb , FlanaWeb ) Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University , Brno Czech Republic
^ Title of the talk : t.b.a .
^ After the success of the first BioWeb Workshop which took place in October &YEAR at Cone , the YSMG Conference provides an ideal opportunity to bring together wordnet researchers , developers and users for a 2nd BioWeb Workshop .
^ The building of wordnets and their application in natural language processing scenarios still plays an important role in Physical Linguistics ( LREC &YEAR , YBL &YEAR , etc. ) .
^ This workshop aims at exchanging results and experiences as well as discussing desiderata and perspectives related to BioWeb resp. other wordnets .
^ We are looking forward to receiving papers and presentations on the following topics ( contributions focussing on other issues are also welcome ) :
^ * BioWeb and other wordnets applied to natural language processing for e.g. Information Retrieval and Document Classification
^ * terminological extensions and applications of wordnets ( inclusion of vocabularies , term extraction , etc . )
^ * ontological extensions of wordnets ( machine learning techniques for the acquisiton of semantic relations , merging wordnets with upper ontologies , etc . )
^ Extended abstracts should be submitted in plain text format or pdf .
^ They should contain up to 500 words , not including the bibliography .
^ Important Dates
^ Submissions of extended abstracts : 02.11.2004
^ Notification of acceptance : 15.12.2004
^ Final versions , for inclusion in the proceedings , due : 15.01.2005
^ Conference : 30.3 - 01.04.2005
^ Participants of the workshop should register for the YSMG Conference .
^ Requests and abstract submissions should be directed to the Workshop organizers :
^ Claudia Helton ( &EMAIL )
^ Lothar Copper ( &EMAIL )
^ Seminar kuhn , Universitaet Cone
^ BioWeb Homepage : &WEBSITE
^ Global Semweb Association : &WEBSITE YSMG Homepage : &WEBSITE
^ Please check for updates and latest news on the BioWeb Homepage .
^ ~
^ In missive ( &EMAIL ) , " " typed :
^ Addenbrooke 's say that Aimee " is n't too bad " after surgery and is expected to remain in hospital for a couple of days .
^ Maximus
^ so once again , addenbrooke 's show themselves to be a most excellent hospital - after 3 ops ...
^ 1 to put in pins , one to close up gaps , and one to tidy things up ) i am now allowed out and allowed to be mobile
^ i will be in some day ( s ) next week ( but will miss wednesday , as i have to be at addenbrookes for a followup visit )
^ may thanks to folks for all the best wishes and cards and books and chocalate / flowers ( latter were both passed on to nurses due to lack of my ability to appreciate )
^ yrs my angrybiker of truly , deeply , madingly road ...
^ cheers
^ jon p.s. if 1 % of the intelligence addenbrooke 's showed in fixing people , was applied by people driving and cycling , it would probably save the medics 20 % of their effort !
^ ~
^ Please find attached the new version of the timetable with recent amendments .
^ Please let me know if this is not correct .
^ Thanks ,
^ Kaleigh
^ Kaleigh Hellams
^ Physics Laboratory
^ Samuel Streets Building LL Pipping Avenue
^ Munich TQ9 0CW
^ Phone : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 776 858
^ Fax : +66- ( 0 ) 4882 884628
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Thanks Ann- I hope I have n't been premature with Phillipa and Candy .
^ If we go for the 4th I may be walking off an overnight flight from the OK - I certainly weill be North Carolina the previous day .... and I 'm not as young as once was !
^ Anyway thanks for your help .
^ W
^ Jay Gabriel wrote :
^ ~
^ Dear Ms Lea ,
^ Would it be possible to move the date of this event to April 8th rather than
^ April 6th ?
^ Alternatively , is April 4th or April 5th available ?
^ Yours ,
^ Jay Gabriel
^ PS : I have CC 'd in Professor Scott who is the overall organiser of the event and Dr Plantagenet .
^ I originally agreed to be the local organiser for this event but it now looks likely that I wo n't be in Munich in April and that Dr
^ Plantagenet will act as local organiser .
^ It would probably be easiest if you could CC all of us for the time being , however .
^ ~
^ May need to get back to you for other formats - but not today 's problem .
^ W
^ Jay Gabriel wrote :
^ ps for fig 1 and fig 4 attached ( this is just straight dvips - so if it does n't look good I can try other options )
^ Also , did you ever get any comments from Barbara Kesser ?
^ I notice you do n't acknowledge her .
^ ~
^ In missive ( &EMAIL ) , Alfie Plantagenet typed :
^ I am sorry to hear about your accident on Sat -- I hope you are recovering fast .
^ slowly ...
^ thanks for info - will pick up and digest it next week !
^ I checked up on the UOrbit discussion in the lib cmtee ( Jan03 ) -- most of the more interesting criticisms were edited out , but the rest is in your pigeon hole .
^ The substance of this and a subsequent unminuted discussion at a later mtg was who will pay for this after the IFP grant runs out in &YEAR .
^ why ( given that take up appears to be minimal - see &EMAIL page )
^ One flaw with UOrbit , at least as far as I can see from the stuff I 've read , is that it does n't support arbitrary indexing of content by search engines or systems like Citeseer .
^ Instead it supports metadata export standards like those from OAI .
^ I suspect supporting the free market via truly open access ( ie minimally put your papers on your web page or else somewhere that allows robotic access ) will lead to more effective and efficient dissemination .
^ In fields where journals do n't allow this , they 'd be better off spending the money fighting the publishers than building Dspace .
^ Alfie
^ cheers
^ jon
^ ~
^ I am issuing the following notice about Visiting Fellowships and Fellow
^ Commonerships at the request of Council .
^ In the past , Council has asked for nominations for Visiting Fellowships and
^ Fellow Commonerships at regular intervals , and the aim has been to have a Sally Dur Visiting Fellow ( Arts ) and a Brenda Ryman Visiting Fellow ( Science ) in alternate years .
^ These Fellowships are normally held by scholars of professorial status on sabbatical leave from other institutions , who often need to make their arrangements well in advance .
^ the rigidity of the alternating system has sometimes made it difficult for the College to offer the Fellowships to scholars for whom they might be appropriate
^ Council therefore decided at its meeting on 16 July that , rather than seeking nominations for a particular year , it would inform
^ Fellows at the start of the academic year that they may send nominations for these Fellowships for any period ( to a maximum of one year ) to the Mistress ,
^ or contact her to discuss possible nominations , at any time .
^ Fuller information about the Fellowships is available in Ordinances IV.5 and IV.6 , which can be found on the College web site .
^ The electors to the Sally Dur and Brenda Ryman Fellowships are the Fellowship in Arts Committee and Yongs Board respectively .
^ The Patricia Amelia Cummins Emmanuel Visiting Fellow Commonership is offered by Council for periods of up to six months to persons outside the academic field
^ who are likely to make important contributions to the creative arts , public service , industry or the media .
^ Details can be found in Ordinance IV.7 .
^ Council invites Fellows to send nominations to the Mistress , or contact her to discuss possible nominations , at any time .
^ The Visiting Fellowships and Fellow Commonerships are supported by funds in the NSC and can therefore only be offered when sufficient income is available in the relevant funds .
^ Honey Gosnay ( Secretary to Council )
^ If you wish to be removed from this mailing list please send an email to Tanner Follower ( &EMAIL )
^ dear Alfie ,
^ Now that my trip to Munich is coming up , would it be possible to send me the teaching schedule ( again ) plus the number of students approx ?
^ Also not sure about room numbers , etc. but I guess same as last year ?
^ Also , I hope that before I come over , the computers in the lab can be checked to make sure that the sentence examples are still on there ?
^ Or , at least , that most of them are working and are hooked up with earphones etc ?
^ That would be great .
^ Have a good weekend !
^ Leah Dr. Leah de Montford
^ Understanding and Communication Science Department
^ City University
^ Northampton Square
^ Kane QI4G 0IQ
^ Tel : ( +44 ) 060 8060 0462
^ Fax : ( +44 ) 060 8060 2088
^ Email : &EMAIL
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^ Dear Fellows , Staff and Students ,
^ First - many thanks to all the kind people - Staff and Fellows - who turned up to help us with cleaning the older part of the Library yesterday and today .
^ It looks a million times better - and smells nice too .
^ Second - this message is to give you some information about our opening plans .
^ We shall be closed this weekend 2 - 3 October .
^ We plan to run all our Freshers ' tours as scheduled on Monday and Tuesday .
^ We hope to be open between 9 and 5 Monday to Friday this coming week 4 - 8 October .
^ We will review opening next weekend nearer the time .
^ We are sorry that we cannot yet open in the evenings , but this is because we have not yet stabilised all our systems so have not been able to train our evening supervisors .
^ We have had quite a few last-minute problems with systems in the new building today ( Friday ) .
^ As a result we may need to restrict our services on Monday until this is sorted out .
^ We hope that this will not be necessary , but will ensure that we keep you all informed .
^ Freshers ' tours WILL run as planned .
^ We look forward to welcoming you to the new library space , and hope you will be pleased with what you see .
^ Kind regards
^ Frances Gecks
^ Frances Gecks
^ Librarian , Curator and Graduate Tutor for Sciences
^ Neeling College , Munich TQ9 0OF
^ Tel +44 ( 0 ) 4882 888420
^ Fax +44 ( 0 ) 4882 884840
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^ Dear All ,
^ I regret that there will be no student car parking and very limited staff and at Harrings Yard from Tuesday 5th to Sunday 10th
^ October inclusive due to the construction of the service trench from the new nursery to Clarkson Road .
^ Although the trench itself is only a metre wide we need to maintain an emergency access route to the West Wing and graduate blocks for fire engines , so the gravelled car park will be completely closed .
^ Cars left in the car park will have to be towed away if owners ca n't be contacted .
^ Fellows and staff wishing to use the front car park must please make an arrangement with me .
^ Priority will be given to resident Fellows and staff working late .
^ I have made some arrangements with neighbouring institutions if we get stuck .
^ If possible , please avoid trying to park at Harrings Yard at all next week .
^ Please accept my apologies for the short notice .
^ The contractors have been waiting for confirmation from the utility companies .
^ The car parks will be closed again later in the term for
^ Re-surfacing and I will send details when I have them .
^ All best wishes
^ Maureen Hert ( Traffic ) Warden
^ ~
^ The Annual General Meeting of the Munich Association of University
^ Teachers will be held at 1.00pm on &DATE in the University Sports & Social Club , Grit Lane .
^ The minutes from the last AGM , held on 27th November &YEAR , are available on the local webside at &WEBSITE
^ AGENDA
^ 1. Apologies
^ 2. Minutes of last AGM
^ 3. Matters arising
^ 4. President 's report
^ 5. Treasurer 's report
^ 6. Secretary 's report
^ 7. Nomination and election of ULWE officers
^ 8. Nomination and election of ULWE committee members
^ 9. Nomination and election of Council
^ 10. AOB
^ Posts open for nomination and election are : President , Vice-President , Treasurer , Secretary , Membership Secretary & Equal Opportunities Officer , plus 5 ordinary members of the Committee and 5 Council .
^ All nominations must be received in writing , accompanied by the written consent of the nominee and supported by the identifiable signatures of two members of ULWE .
^ Nominations should be sent to the Returning Officer :
^ Dr Marquet Cowley , Dept of Applied Maths & Theoretical Physics , Centre for Chemical Sciences , Cummings Road , Munich TQ9 OWA .
^ Nominations open on &DATE and will close on Wednesday 20th October .
^ A list of all nominations will then be circulated to members of the local Association .
^ If you have any queries , please let me know .
^ Anthony Haley
^ Administrator on behalf of ULWE Executive
^ Courtney Haley
^ University of Munich
^ Department of Chemical Engineering
^ Swelford Street
^ Munich TQ6 3RA tel 05005 884224 fax 05005 884246
^ ~
^ The Governing body of the University is Breakfast Club .
^ Members of Breakfast Club have a right to a ballot on many important issues affecting the University , such as for example , any proposals for pay restructuring and regrading .
^ The membership Roll of Breakfast Club is published only once a year and you can only be added at the beginning of that period .
^ If you are left off the provisional list in early October , and fail .
^ to bring this to the attention of the Registrary before publication of the definitive list in November you will have to wait a whole year for your next opportunity
^ Many members of the University may have a right to be added to the Roll but are overlooked .
^ So it is up to you to check .
^ Categories of eligibility for membership are defined in University
^ Statute A III 7
^ 7.
^ b ) University officers and persons treated as such under Statute W , 7 ;
^ c ) Heads of Colleges
^ d ) Fellows of Colleges , provided that they conform to such conditions of residence as may be determined by Ordinance ;
^ e ) such other persons holding appointments in the University or a College in such categories and subject to such qualifying periods of service as shall be determined from time to time by Ordinance ;
^ providing always that any person who is qualified for membership in class ( b ) .
^ class ( d ) , or class ( e ) shall cease to be qualified at the next promulgation after he or she attains the age of seventy years
^ Grace 4 of 23 July &YEAR defines category 7 ( e ) as follows
^ i ) holders of the appointments of Senior Research Associate , Research
^ Associate , Lecturer ( unestablished ) , and Assistant Lecturer ( unestablished ) ;
^ ii ) in any College : persons holding the office of Tutor , Assistant
^ Tutor , Steward or Bursar or Assistant Bursar ; or College Lecturer ( If held full time in a College or Colleges ) .
^ The Head of any College shall certify in writing to the Registrary by 1 October each year the names of such persons ;
^ iii ) Computer Associates , Grades I , II , and III ;
^ iv ) Affiliated Lecturers ;
^ v ) holders of appointments on the staff of the Local Examination
^ Syndicate as Group Chief Executive , Deputy Chief Executive .
^ Director , Assistant Director , and Senior Manager ;
^ provided that no person shall qualify for membership in categories ( i ) , ( iii ) , or ( iv ) unless he or .
^ she is also a member of a Faculty or holds an appointment listed in those categories in a Department or other University institution which is independent of a Faculty
^ So , things to check .
^ 1) Are you appointed to one of the above positions ?
^ 2) If necessary is your Faculty 's listing up to date ?
^ If not contact the secretary of the Faculty .
^ 3) Check the next provisional Roll of Breakfast Club when it is published in the Reporter during the first week of October and if your name is not present and you think it should be , write to the Registrary .
^ 4) If you have been here several years you could check whether the details were correct last year , if not it is likely they may be wrong again this year .
^ Last year 's List of Members of the Faculties and Roll of Breakfast Club
^ Reporter Special No 4 &DATE
^ &WEBSITE
^ Jadon Mallinson , ( VMU : &WEBSITE ) M.R. Mallinson , PhD .
^ Division of Immunology
^ Munich University , Dept. Pathology
^ Green Grass Rd. , Munich TQ6 1QP
^ Tel. +44 4882 888200
^ Fax. +44 4882 888820
^ Courtney Haley
^ University of Munich
^ Department of Chemical Engineering
^ Swelford Street
^ Munich TQ6 3RA tel 05005 884224 fax 05005 884246
^ ~
^ Alfie / Summer
^ Here is my suggested text for the &YEAR BFG Paper Award announcement .
^ Can you give me any comments / suggestions for improvement asap since as
^ you can see the copy deadline is 8th Oct .
^ Regan
^ Announcement
^ &YEAR Computer Behaviour and Understanding Paper Award
^ The &YEAR Computer Behaviour and Understanding Paper Award is given to :
^ Mehryar Kightley , Eunice Hekio and Osama Latif for their paper entitled
^ " Weighted finite-state transducers in speech recognition "
^ Vol. 16 , No 1 , 69 - 88 , January &YEAR )
^ This annual award , voted on by the Editorial Board , is for an outstanding contribution to research and learning in the field of Computer Behaviour and Understanding .
^ This year 's award winner is for a new development in enabling technology which has greatly facilitated the exploration and evaluation of new algorithms .
^ not just in continuous speech recognition , but in a wide-range of statistical language processing tasks
^ Dear Professor Youngson ,
^ I shall shortly be compiling issue 19 / 1 of Computer Behaviour and Understanding .
^ If you would still like the paper award to appear in this issue we will need to receive it by 8 October at the latest .
^ Can you please confirm if this would be possible .
^ Best wishes ,
^ Uriel
^ &YEAR Best Paper Award
^ Dear Board Members ,
^ Most board members have now voted and one paper is so far ahead that the few remaining votes cannot change the outcome .
^ Since I am being pressed by the publishers for the announcement to go in the Jan 05 issue , I am closing the vote a few days early .
^ The winning paper is
^ January &YEAR
^ Kightley , Lucas and Bunting
^ Weighted finite-state transducers in speech recognition
^ I would like to thank all board members for their assistance in choosing the &YEAR best paper award winner .
^ Regan Plantagenet
^ ~
^ ~
^ ~
^ Normandy , now that sounds really fun !
^ We 'll be in touch in a few weeks .
^ Take care , and no pulling muscles , Dr .
^ Philip !
^ Dillon
^ From : Philip Fuller [ mailto : &EMAIL]
^ Sent : Fri &DATE &TIME
^ To : Hendrickson Helling
^ Subject : Re : your dance card
^ It seems that I have been officially designated as social secretary of the clan .
^ Surprising , eh ?
^ It appears that my other ( better ? ) half has ear-marked not only that weekend , but possibly the early days of the following week as well , as a possible time for a family boat trip in the Broads if it is not too freezing .
^ OK -- hope you get good weather .
^ As second-best to having you guys to stay with us we 've just booked a cottage in Normandy for that weekend and the following few days .
^ That will also need some nice weather , so fingers crossed !
^ When are your kids on half term ?
^ Rylie had mentioned a possibility of us meeting up for a day in Carlisle .
^ That could be fun too .
^ It 's that week I 'm afraid .
^ It still seems that I will be in Carlisle on Nov. 3/4 , so if you guys are around it would be really fun to see you then .
^ though i know the attractions are less strong , me without the others )
^ But just think , you and I could run to the university together , get in some real quality time .
^ What do you think , eh ?
^ Excellent .
^ Please come and stay with us .
^ We 'll be at home .
^ I 'll look forward to the run to the university ( .
^ I 'll have to get better since I pulled a muscle around my knee a week ago --
^ too many 10-mile runs and not enough rest I think )
^ Let us know nearer the time your exact travel arrangements for Nov 3-4 .
^ Philip xx
^ ~
^ Ref : QOK02-86
^ Title : A dynamic context constriction method for a data-driven transducer designer
^ Authors : Andrzej Coupland
^ Dear Plantagenet ,
^ I am passing the above article to you for handling .
^ Please log onto Kylie Editorial System as an editor to view the details and PDF .
^ Best wishes ,
^ Uriel
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Editorial Services
^ Computer Behaviour and Understanding
^ Telephone : +44 4240 848286
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ Kylie Editorial System : &WEBSITE BFG Online : &WEBSITE
^ ABSTRACT
^ We present an efficient way to learn automatically mapping rules for Polish by using the concept of " dynamically constricting context method " .
^ Unlike previously known approaches , where decision trees were built not on a causal but on a consecutive basis , we were guided by relationships .
^ Attempts at reconstruction of transcription rules date back to &YEAR , when Sejnowski and Rosenberg applied a neural network for " " mapping .
^ In the latter approaches decision tree based meth-ods were applied .
^ The trees for each letter were built starting from empty contexts .
^ The left and right contexts were then alternately widened until the transcription ambiguity disappeared .
^ Thus it was not a causal but a symptomatic approach .
^ We started in our approach from the symmetrical context wide enough to ensure unambiguous transcription in every context surroundings .
^ Then both contexts i.e. left and right , were shortened alternately until the ambiguity appeared .
^ In all the cases where ambiguous transcriptions occurred , the previous context forms were restored and were not shortened further .
^ Therefore at every step the cause of ambiguity , namely too short left or right context , was clearly known and removed .
^ On the basis of the results obtained , the transcription tables for each letter were reconstructed .
^ A computer implementation of the method was prepared and tested .
^ A 950 thousand character teaching sample of Polish text was prepared and different length training samples were taken from it at random and analyzed .
^ The remaining part was used for verification .
^ It turned out that it was enough to prepare a 30 thousand character sample to learn Polish mapping .
^ We describe also three originally developed generalization methods , i.e. rules coring , absorption and a guessing method in case of a limited context acceptance .
^ The methods applied together allow for removing about 70 % errors .
^ ~
^ Apologies for multiple posting !
^ Please , pass the information to whom may be interested .
^ Thanks .
^ A few temporary sabbatical research positions may be available starting in the interval May &YEAR - March &YEAR
^ in the Research Group on Chemical Linguistics at Rovirai Virgili University ( Tarragona , Spain ) .
^ The website of the group is :
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ The eligible topics for them are the group 's current or future research directions :
^ - Formal language theory and its applications .
^ Nanoscience and nanotechnology ( in connection with biomolecular computing ) .
^ Understanding and speech technologies .
^ Understanding acquisition .
^ Physical neuroscience .
^ This list is not exhaustive , so that other connected fields might still be eligible provided there exists a strong enough candidate .
^ All the positions will be filled in under the form of a scholarship ( rather than a work contract ) .
^ There are two tracks :
^ Track A :
^ - PhD degree obtained earlier than &YEAR , - not having occupied any sabbatical position in Spain since &YEAR , - duration .
^ 3-12 months , - monthly salary : in the interval 2112-6320 euros , likely in the highest part of the interval ( depending on merits and before taxes
^ for the citizens of most countries an agreement for avoiding double taxation will be applied
^ what involves that in most cases the mentioned salary will not be taxed in Spain
^ - travel grant of up to 2000 euros , - health insurance for the researcher and her / his family
^ Track B :
^ - PhD degree obtained later than &YEAR , - not having occupied any sabbatical position in Spain in the past , - duration .
^ 9-18 months , - monthly salary : in the interval 1300-2350 euros , likely in the highest part of the interval ( depending on merits and before taxes
^ for the citizens of most countries an agreement for avoiding double taxation will be applied
^ what involves that in most cases the mentioned salary will not be taxed in Spain
^ - travel grant of up to 2000 euros , - health insurance for the researcher and her / his family
^ Expressions of interest for any of the tracks are welcome until &DATE .
^ A preselection will be done then .
^ The application process will take place later .
^ Carlos Martin-Vide &EMAIL
^ ~
^ VISIONWARE RESEARCH LECTURE
^ This is a PUBLIC lecture
^ TITLE : Distributed Computing and Combinatorial Topology SPEAKER : Maurice Herlihy HOST : Tanner King DATE Madingley
^ 08 October &YEAR TIME : &TIME - &TIME MEETING ROOM : Lecture Theatre ADDRESS : Visionware Research Ltd , 7 W W Pipping Avenue ( Off
^ Road ) , Munich A number of researchers have successfully applied techniques from combinatorial and algebraic topology to solve some long-standing open problems in distributed computing .
^ We will explain the basic concepts and techniques underlying these results .
^ This talk is intended for a general audience , and no prior knowledge of topology is assumed .
^ This talk is adapted from the &YEAR Goedel Prize lecture .
^ You are currently subscribed to msrclectures as : &EMAIL
^ To unsubscribe send a blank email to &EMAIL
^ ~
^ Thanks , is the 5th a possibility ? if not , we should keep the 6th of April
^ Orlando
^ &EMAIL said :
^ Dear Jay I am very sorry but we are fully booked on the 8th April .
^ Please could you advise if you wish to keep the booking for the 6th April .
^ Many thanks
^ Laura Lea
^ -- On 30 September &YEAR &TIME Jay Gabriel ( &EMAIL .ac.uk ) wrote :
^ Re : booking of April 6th ( arranged by Dr Plantagenet ) )
^ Dear Ms Lea , )
^ Would it be possible to move the date of this event to April 8th rather than April 6th ?
^ Alternatively , is April 4th or April 5th available ? )
^ ~
^ Dear Colleague
^ This year 's University Staff Travel Survey takes place this week , 2-8 October .
^ On &DATE you will receive an email containing a link to a web page containing the travel survey questionnaire ; responses can be submitted electronically .
^ In the meantime , please keep a note of the details of your journeys to work ( main mode of transport by distance travelled ) for the week .
^ Best wishes
^ Quinton Dillon
^ Estate Management & Building Service
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ Sorry about this .
^ I ended up spending all last week on the sofa chain-drinking lemsips and feeling sorry for myself .
^ Gave in and went to my mum 's at the weekend and now i 'm all fixed !
^ Have a draft of the of work done - which is essentially a hash of my papers from this year but it 's constructed .
^ The thesis plan is worrying me ... have been going through aline 's and sakas 's theses to try to get an impression of how to put it all together .
^ Very frustrating - progress is so slow at the moment and i get really grumpy when i 'm not productive .
^ Am working at home today because of the weather / power cut .
^ Can I pop in to your office and bug you tomorrow ?
^ Billy
^ Re : BFG &YEAR Paper Award
^ On &DATE , at &TIME , Regan Plantagenet wrote :
^ Mehryar , Fernando and Mohammad
^ I 'm very pleased to be able to tell you that you are receiving the &YEAR BFG paper award for your paper
^ January &YEAR
^ Kightley , Lucas and Bunting
^ Weighted finite-state transducers in speech recognition
^ There is a small monetary award that goes with this and BFG will be contacting you about it shortly .
^ There will be an announcement in the January 05 issue of BFG and on the journal web page .
^ thanks for submitting your outstanding work to BFG !
^ Thank you Regan and the rest of the editorial board , it is very pleasant that our work is being recognized by BFG .
^ Best , mm
^ ~
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^ ZADL Seminar &DATE
^ Health & Peace Group Seminar
^ 12.15pm , &DATE
^ Samuel Streets Building , room to be announced
^ Speaker : Phoebe Goring
^ Title : " Extracting Computable Semantics : Ontology and Text Mining for Biology "
^ Abstract : Ontologies play an increasingly central role in linking biological information across different sources of information : databases , literature , and experimental data .
^ The role of an ontology is to translate between a biological concept .
^ as defined by an expert and expressed in human language , and a computable representation of this concept that can be stored in a knowledge base or database
^ There is a multi-faceted relationship between natural language processing technology and ontologies .
^ Ontologies provide a knowledge base and a natural semantic " target structure " for text mining techniques whose goal is to make the semantics of information embedded in the literature computable .
^ Natural language technology can , in turn , provide techniques and tools for ontology developers , database curators , and end users .
^ This talk will describe several aspects of this relationship between ontologies and text mining , with a specific focus on recent results from the BioCreAtIvE workshop ( Critical Assessment for Information Extraction in Biology , March &YEAR ) .
^ BioCreAtIvE consisted of two tasks : one for entity extraction and one for functional annotation from the literature .
^ Automated extraction and mapping of biological names to unique gene / protein identifiers performed quite well : the top performing systems extracted the list of genes for yeast , fly .
^ mouse from abstracts at rates of 92 % balanced precision / recall ( yeast ) , 80 % ( fly ) and 79 % ( mouse )
^ The functional annotation task - classifying protein function , biological process and location using the Gene Ontology ( GO ) from full text journal articles - proved significantly more difficult .
^ will benefit greatly from annotation tools that allow curators to link ontology classes with specific passages in the literature , to generate significant amounts of training data
^ Overall , the BioCreAtIvE assessment has provided promising performance results in making relations from the literature computable .
^ ~
^ Alfie , remind me ... .
^ What start date did you and Garamond discuss ?
^ Vandervent
^ ~
^ Kathy , Eva ,
^ The ICAME CD-ROM &WEBSITE includes the Polytechnic of Norwich Corpus:
^ Orthographic transcriptions of some 61,000 words of child French language .
^ The corpus is parsed according to Hallidayan grammar .
^ There is no prosodic information .
^ See further
^ Clive Gladwell ( &YEAR ) A Short Handbook to the Polytechnic of Norwich Corpus online : &WEBSITE and ICAME Journal paper on using POW corpus in
^ Clive Gladwell ( &YEAR ) The COMMUNAL Project : Extracting a grammar from the Polytechnic of Norwich Corpus , ICAME Journal 13 , p20-27 and the presentation of the edited version of the corpus in
^ Bob K. O'Donoghue ( &YEAR ) Taking a Parsed Corpus to the Cleaners : The EPOW
^ Corpus , ICAME Journal 15 p55-62 .
^ Eric Hinkle , School of Computing , Bristol University
^ On &DATE , Kathy Bonnetta wrote :
^ Dear colleagues , my colleague Eva-Maria Plantaganet has asked me to post her mail to all list-members :
^ Dear all , I am looking for a corpus of French child language ( I am especially interested in the language of children roughly between 6 and 10 years and in the language of adolescents ) .
^ I have already used the COLT material and parts of the CHILDES project .
^ Is there any other source of spoken child / adolescent language available on CD- ROM ?
^ Thank you very much in advance for your help .
^ Eric Hinkle , Senior Lecturer , Computer Vision and Understanding research group ,
^ School of Computing , University of Bristol , LEEDS LS2 9JT , Brighton TEL : FAX : &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hello Karla ,
^ you may still want to consider contacting Marie Triffin 's research group behind the GISQ , because one of the main focus points of their current research .
^ not yet added to the GISQ cd-rom ) IS in fact on collocations ( ranging from idioms to typical verb-noun collocations )
^ Here 's their website : &WEBSITE
^ hope this helps ,
^ Kenneth
^ At &TIME 5-10-2004 , Karla Rondeau wrote :
^ Hello all :
^ I wonder if anyone out there can point me in the direction of lists or corpora of learner errors in written L2 French , either in electronic format or hard copy .
^ I am aware of the existence of the GISQ corpus , but am assuming that more sources of such information might exist .
^ It would be ideal to find a list / corpus extensive enough to have credible frequencies associated with the observed errors ( or error categories ) , but even typical examples would be a start .
^ I 'm most interested in problems with lexical selectional ( including things like article choice & bound preposition errors ) and collocation infelicities , as opposed to cohesion and other text-level problems .
^ I will happily provide a summary of responses if people reply directly to me .
^ Many thanks in advance .
^ Karla Rondeau
^ Natural Understanding Group
^ Visionware Corporation
^ KnowledgeNow Alert : Lingua , Vol. 996 , Iss. 11 , &YEAR
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^ Lingua Volume 996 , Issue 11 , Pages 1331-1432 ( November &YEAR )
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^ It 's called Lang2a -- see &WEBSITE follow links -- if you cannot access it ask &EMAIL to give you a password .
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^ A new class of EASy students has started their studies at Hull , and to celebrate this , there will be a party this week on
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^ Many AI tasks depend on having large amounts of knowledge and data .
^ There are knowledge bases to be constructed , corpora to be tagged , long training sessions , and so forth .
^ Such resources are critical to our success , but building them can be difficult and time-consuming .
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^ can potentially both enable new , more knowledge intensive approaches to the current open problems in many subfields of Artificial Intelligence and allow the field to tackle new challenges .
^ We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following or related issues : - What kinds of knowledge can and cannot be gathered from volunteer contributors ?
^ - How to evaluate the quality of knowledge collected with such an approach ? - What kinds of knowledge are particularly suited for collection from humans
^ - How do we keep the volunteers interested in the teaching task , how to attract new contributors , and how to increase retention
^ - Can useful knowledge collection be successfully deployed as a side effect to user 's activities ,
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^ [ Important Dates ]
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^ Notification of acceptance : November 5 , &YEAR
^ Spring Symposium : March 21-23 , &YEAR
^ [ Additional Information ]
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^ [ Organizing Committee ]
^ Robert Watson , ELR / Information Sciences Institute
^ Pedro Leigh , University of Washington
^ Connery Kermath , Nevada Institute of Science
^ Rada Blomerley , University of North Manley
^ Push Singh , Nevada Institute of Science
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^ C A L L F O R P A P E R F
^ IINE Spring Symposium &YEAR KNOWLEDGE COLLECTION FROM VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS
^ &WEBSITE
^ Deadline for extended abstracts : October 8 , &YEAR
^ This symposium is centered around the idea of collecting knowledge from large groups of volunteer contributors in a distributed environment .
^ Many AI tasks depend on having large amounts of knowledge and data .
^ There are knowledge bases to be constructed , corpora to be tagged , long training sessions , and so forth .
^ Such resources are critical to our success , but building them can be difficult and time-consuming .
^ What if we could farm out most of that work out to thousands of volunteers on the Internet ?
^ Collecting knowledge from volunteer contributors ( unstructured or with contributors organized into tiers and classes ) can potentially both enable new , more knowledge intensive approaches to the current open problems in many subfields of Artificial
^ Intelligence and allow the field to tackle new challenges .
^ We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following or related issues : - What kinds of knowledge can and cannot be gathered from volunteer contributors ?
^ - How to evaluate the quality of knowledge collected with such an approach ? - What kinds of knowledge are particularly suited for collection from humans
^ - How do we keep the volunteers interested in the teaching task , how to attract new contributors , and how to increase retention
^ - Can useful knowledge collection be successfully deployed as a side effect to user 's activities ,
^ e.g. searching or using the web ? - Can active learning techniques help focus on the most relevant knowledge
^ [ Important Dates ]
^ Extended abstracts due : October 8 , &YEAR
^ Notification of acceptance : November 5 , &YEAR
^ Spring Symposium : March 21-23 , &YEAR
^ [ Additional Information ]
^ See &WEBSITE
^ Watson ( &EMAIL ) for up-to date information .
^ [ Organizing Committee ]
^ Robert Watson , ELR / Information Sciences Institute
^ Pedro Leigh , University of Washington
^ Connery Kermath , Nevada Institute of Science
^ Rada Blomerley , University of North Manley
^ Push Singh , Nevada Institute of Science
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^ This is to inform that there is a second call for papers for all contributions for the Applied Computing &YEAR Conference and also for the Web Based Communities &YEAR Conference .
^ The deadline for submissions is 5 November &YEAR .
^ Papers submitted within the First Call are now under review .
^ These two conferences are follow ups to the &YEAR conferences which were very successful .
^ Please see the details for both conferences below .
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^ IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING &YEAR
^ February 22-25 , &YEAR - ALGARVE , PORTUGAL ( &WEBSITE
^ * Conference background and goals
^ The IADIS Applied Computing &YEAR conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the applied computing area and related fields .
^ This conference covers essentialy technical aspects .
^ The applied computing field is divided into more detailed areas ( see below ) .
^ However innovative contributes that dont fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees .
^ * Format of the Conference
^ The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations .
^ The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book .
^ The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in specific journals .
^ * Types of submissions
^ Full and Short Papers , Posters / Demonstrations , Tutorials , Panels and Doctoral Consortium .
^ All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process .
^ * Topics related to Applied Computing are of interest .
^ These include , but are not limited to the following areas :
^ - Agent Systems and Applications - Algorithms - Applied Information Systems
^ - Bioinformatics - Case Studies and Applications - Communications - Data Mining - Database Systems - E-Commerce Theory and Practice - Embedded Systems - Evaluation and Assessment - Global Tendencies
^ - Grid Computing - Information Retrieval - Intelligent Systems - Mobile Networks and Systems - Multimedia - Networking
^ - Object Orientation
^ - Parallel and Distributed Systems - Payment Systems - Programming Understandings - Protocols and Standards
^ - Security - Semantic Web - Software Engineering - Storage Issues - Technologies for E-Learning - Wireless Applications - WWW Applications - WWW Technologies - Ubiquitous Computing - Usability Issues - Virtual Reality - Visualization - XML and other Extensible Understandings
^ * Important Dates : - Submission Deadline ( second call ) : 5 November &YEAR - Notification to Authors ( second call ) : 10 December &YEAR - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration ( second call &YEAR
^ Until 7 January &YEAR - Late Registration ( second call ) : After 7 January &YEAR - Conference : Algarve , Portugal , 22 to 25 February
^ * Conference Location The conference will be held in Algarve , Portugal .
^ * Secretariat IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING &YEAR
^ Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira , 900 , 3 , 1050-209 Algarve , Portugal E-mail : &EMAIL Web site : &WEBSITE
^ * Scientific Committee
^ Conference & Program Co-Chairs
^ Nuno Guimar'es , Faculdade de Ci'ncias - University of Lisbon , Portugal
^ Pedro Isa'as , Universidade Cadence ( Portuguese Open University ) , Portugal
^ for the full Committee Members list please access &WEBSITE
^ IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES &YEAR
^ February 23-25 , &YEAR - Algarve , Portugal ( &WEBSITE
^ * Conference background and goals
^ The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities .
^ The conference invites original papers , review papers , technical reports and case studies on WWW in particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities .
^ Domain : It is increasingly important for our culture to bring people together and to promote dynamics in professional organizations , mutual understanding , learning and harmony .
^ Creating " virtual communities " is one major way to do this .
^ The Web Based Communities &YEAR conference aims at sharing and aggregating scientifically proven methods on how to organize and moderate WWW-based communities .
^ These communities do not limit participants to particular locations - the international and multicultural dimension is a most challenging one .
^ Good WWW communities undergo a continuous evolution and adapt to the changing world .
^ The nature of these communities can be corporate , scientific , social or educational .
^ Pragmatic questions which need to be addressed include : What software tools are the most adequate and how to use them ?
^ How to promote your community so that new members can find it ?
^ How to protect the members privacy ?
^ How to moderate discussions and how to provide information that people can use ?
^ How to create and maintain a sense of trust and commitment among the members ?
^ In addition , sociology , education , communication and philosophy issues are addressed as the main disciplines reflected in building WWW-based communities , although critical theories on societies and post-modernism are also relevant starting points .
^ New and imminent technologies will be discussed .
^ Objectives : The Web Based Communities &YEAR Conference aims at bringing together new vital understanding of WWW communities and what new initiatives mean .
^ Each new perspective is potentially a catalyst for finding new architectures .
^ National and communities may soon be relegated to a subordinate position compared to communities .
^ critical thinking , expressing aesthetic aspects of our identity , and finding sparring partners for sharpening our ideologies , are all processes that need the new communication .
^ The targeted audience is scientists and members and moderators of WWW communities who feel responsible for optimizing its quality and effect .
^ * Format of the Conference
^ The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations .
^ The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book .
^ The better papers will be candidate for the " International Journal of Web Based Communities " ( IJWBC ) ; ISSN : 4688 - 2266 [ 4 issues per year ]
^ * Types of submissions
^ Full and Short Papers , Posters / Demonstrations , Tutorials , Panels and Doctoral Consortium .
^ All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process .
^ * Important Dates :
^ - Submission Deadline ( second call ) : 5 November &YEAR - Notification to Authors ( second call ) : 10 December &YEAR - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration ( second call &YEAR
^ Until 7 January &YEAR - Late Registration ( second call ) : After 7 January &YEAR - Conference : Algarve , Portugal , 23 to 25 February
^ * Conference Location The conference will be held in Algarve , Portugal .
^ * Secretariat IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES &YEAR
^ Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira , 900 , 3 , 1050-209 Algarve , Portugal E-mail : &EMAIL Web site : &WEBSITE
^ * Scientific Committee
^ Conference Co-Chairs
^ Piet Bogart , University of Twente , The Netherlands
^ Pedro Isa'as , Universidade Cadence ( Portuguese Open University ) , Portugal
^ Program Chair
^ Miguel Baptista Nunes , University of Sheffield , United Kingdom
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^ ZADL Seminar &DATE ( inc. room details )
^ Health & Peace Group Seminar
^ 12.15pm , &DATE
^ Room GC22 , Samuel Streets Building
^ Speaker : Phoebe Goring
^ Title : " Extracting Computable Semantics : Ontology and Text Mining for Biology "
^ Abstract : Ontologies play an increasingly central role in linking biological information across different sources of information : databases , literature , and experimental data .
^ The role of an ontology is to translate between a biological concept .
^ as defined by an expert and expressed in human language , and a computable representation of this concept that can be stored in a knowledge base or database
^ There is a multi-faceted relationship between natural language processing technology and ontologies .
^ Ontologies provide a knowledge base and a natural semantic " target structure " for text mining techniques whose goal is to make the semantics of information embedded in the literature computable .
^ Natural language technology can , in turn , provide techniques and tools for ontology developers , database curators , and end users .
^ This talk will describe several aspects of this relationship between ontologies and text mining , with a specific focus on recent results from the BioCreAtIvE workshop ( Critical Assessment for Information Extraction in Biology , March &YEAR ) .
^ BioCreAtIvE consisted of two tasks : one for entity extraction and one for functional annotation from the literature .
^ Automated extraction and mapping of biological names to unique gene / protein identifiers performed quite well : the top performing systems extracted the list of genes for yeast , fly .
^ mouse from abstracts at rates of 92 % balanced precision / recall ( yeast ) , 80 % ( fly ) and 79 % ( mouse )
^ The functional annotation task - classifying protein function , biological process and location using the Gene Ontology ( GO ) from full text journal articles - proved significantly more difficult .
^ will benefit greatly from annotation tools that allow curators to link ontology classes with specific passages in the literature , to generate significant amounts of training data
^ Overall , the BioCreAtIvE assessment has provided promising performance results in making relations from the literature computable .
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^ Mutirio and will be I coming out for
^ Goring seminar .
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^ Subject : Re : Garamond - start date
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^ From : Alfie Plantagenet ( &EMAIL )
^ 3rd Jan 05 , Monday ...
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^ Given the number of ABSNE students this year it would appear that the 4 very old machines in WI38 ( mada , nika , poke , remi ) are surplus to requirements .
^ I propose to remove them and relocate them to a nearby skip .
^ They are a maintenance headache and contribute at least 90 % of the machine noise in WI38 .
^ Any objections ?
^ Also , FYI , the printer in WI38 is temporarily out of order .
^ Broken ethernet card for which I have been promised a replacement in the post on Thursday .
^ Hayley
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^ I think we should probably go for it .
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^ suppose you have two competing derivations and one visits 3 states and the other 4 -- the shorter .
^ one is likely to have higher probability as you are taking the product of transition and emission probs and these are v. likely to be all less than one
^ In applications of HMMs I know about this is avoided by effectively invariant sampling of the data stream and locking state sequences to this sampling .
^ Maybe it is n't a problem here but the text did n't quite convince me that it was n't and it is the kind of thing that is likely to worry someone with HMM expertise
^ I think I see what you mean .
^ The only time I had to worry about samples of variable length , was during training i.e. using training samples of variable length which correspond to the same abstract class .
^ In the training data , I gor samples of only three and two data points ( when I was interested in having a sample size of four points ) , but I patched them up with zeros .
^ I believe this is called interpolation and this is what the fallside lab people were doing with their data . )
^ Thank you very much for pointing this out .
^ Would you be interested in co-authoring this paper ?
^ Dr Plantagenet , thank you sincerely for all your help so far .
^ I was hoping you may be willing to co-author this , because you have given me substantial advice and feedback , which in fact has been instrumental in supporting this work and making the decision to take it forward .
^ I will update the draft and send you a copy of the final version as soon as I prepare it .
^ Many thanks again ,
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^ Sir Maurice has mislaid his passport , if anyone should come across it please can they hand it into reception .
^ Many thanks .
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^ See you Thursday ! Leah
^ Now that my trip to Munich is coming up , would it be possible to send me the teaching schedule ( again ) plus the number of students approx ?
^ Also not sure about room numbers , etc. but I guess same as last year ?
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^ Dear Dr. Plantagenet ,
^ I am writing on behalf of Shania De Oanet and the Department of Computing at the Open University to confirm the details of your seminar on November 17th .
^ On the day of your seminar , could you please come to the main reception in the Berrill building for around &TIME ?
^ There are instructions to get to the main campus and the reception at this address : &WEBSITE
^ If you have arranged to arrive earlier than this , or if &TIME is not a convenient time to arrive , could you contact either Professor De Oanet or me and we can make other arrangements .
^ We will arrange a buffet lunch from 12pm , so that you will be able to meet members of the department , then we have scheduled your seminar to run from &TIME for around an hour .
^ Could you please send me the title and abstract for your talk ?
^ In addition , could you let me know whether there are any particular arrangements that we need to sort out at this end .
^ For example , if you you need to borrow a laptop or if you have any particular dietary requirements .
^ I hope I have provided all the necessary information ; please let me know if there is anything else that I can help you with .
^ I look forward to meeting you in November ,
^ Alistair Pipping
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^ dynaSight Delivers Enhanced Global Reporting Capabilities to UGS by Jadon Plummer
^ Business Rules
^ Business Rules Evangelist:
^ Changing the Rules by Malcolm Chisholm
^ Complying with New Business Continuity and Contingency Plan Rules by Jerry Benvenuto and Brian Zawada NYSE Rule 664 .
^ NASD Rules 2040 and 2080 outline a set of 10 minimum requirements that must be addressed and serve as valuable guidelines to businesses worldwide
^ Compliance
^ AFCOM : Data Center Management:
^ Government Compliance and Accountability by Jill Sturgis
^ AIIM Survey Shows Organizations Face Internal and External Barriers in Adapting to New Compliance Environment &WEBSITE Web Editorial Staff
^ Complying with New Business Continuity and Contingency Plan Rules by Jerry Benvenuto and Brian Zawada NYSE Rule 664 .
^ NASD Rules 2040 and 2080 outline a set of 10 minimum requirements that must be addressed and serve as valuable guidelines to businesses worldwide
^ Data Management : An Executive Briefing:
^ Data Quality : The Hidden Assumption Behind COSO by George Blenain
^ Executing Compliance : IT 's Time to Shine by Rajeev Rawat
^ In part three of this series providing a guide to delivering a compliance program , Rawat describes presentation of the plan to your senior staff .
^ The Venture:
^ Using Venture Architecture for IT and Business Governance Requirements , Part 1 by Clive Hetzler
^ Thoughts from the Integration Consortium:
^ Sarbanes-Oxley Act and IT : Why There is No " I " in " SOX Team " by Integration Consortium
^ Data Mining
^ Data Mining on the Road to Successful BI , Part 2 by Mohammad High
^ Data mining is not about tools alone but understanding your business and supporting decision making with actionable information .
^ Part 2 of this three-part series will describe the various tools .
^ Java Data Mining ( JSR-73 ) Final Release Published by Imani K. Hornick
^ As a Java specification request , JSR-73 went through several reviews before being accepted as a Java standard .
^ Using Data Mining on the Road to Successful BI , Part 1 by Mohammad High
^ Data mining is not about tools alone but understanding your business and supporting decision making with actionable information .
^ Part 1 of this three-part series will describe the reasons to use data mining and some of the various approaches to choose from .
^ Using Data Mining on the Road to Successful BI , Part 3 by Mohammad High
^ Data mining is not about tools alone but understanding your business and supporting decision making with actionable information .
^ Part 3 of this three-part series focuses on practical applications through case studies .
^ Volume Analytics:
^ Duo-Mining : Combining Data and Text Mining by Guy Bowyer
^ Data Visualization
^ The Evolution of Data Visualization : From Dreary Digits to Dynamic Dashboards by Karla Boothby
^ The key to dashboard success is delivering accurate , timely and relevant data to in a format which is instantly understandable .
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^ Building the Smart Business:
^ The Evolution of the Venture Portal by Colin Plummer
^ ROI
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^ To Outsource or Not : The ROI Question by The Gantry Group
^ Quantifying Uncertainties is Critical to Identifying IT Business Value Potential by E. Bruce Guthridge
^ The return on investment ( ROI ) challenge .
^ Real-Time Venture
^ High Performance Marketing:
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^ Trey Hert , director of Business Intelligence for Encore Development Corporation , and Clay Youngson .
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^ please do
^ cheers
^ jon
^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ Hi Kylie and Isabel ,
^ I am sending you the current draft -- obviously still lots to do , and Kylie , please feel free to change my notes .
^ ideas based on what we talked about on the phone ( the section " amanuensis " is definitely still too vague )
^ I will work on finding examples from random Chemistry papers on the web to illustrate some of the arguments in the NLP section , and will be waiting for your comments .
^ Also , will discuss budget tomorrow from the Lab perspective .
^ Kingston
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^ Do we still teach it ?
^ Briana
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^ It has been dropped from the AI courses but I believe Lucio provides some coverage in Comparative Programming Understandings .
^ Garth .
^ Do we still teach it ?
^ Briana
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^ Can you either pick the kids up at Ruperts ( new address ) at 6ish , or let me know and I 'll do it .
^ xo N
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^ To : Hendrickson Helling
^ Subject : Re : hello and apologies
^ Eear Hendrickson Met Alfie this morning .
^ Gretyl has gym club so I could collect her and Louie at 4.20 .
^ Hansel ( your spelling was fine ) is now recovered .
^ So see you this evening-the PTA dinner went fine , you were missed ( by me ) ! !
^ Love
^ Frederick
^ On &DATE , Hendrickson Helling wrote :
^ Do n't know if you made it last night .
^ Both Alfie and I were completely clobbered with whatever Louie had earlier in the week .
^ Plus I was in Carlisle all day till after 7 , so really could n't face it .
^ Guilt , guilt .
^ I realize that today Roo has rounders after school , but Hansel doesn't .
^ Can we yet postpone their date - either till tomorrow or early next week ?
^ I 'm just madly trying to encourage Roo to be involved in some physical activities of which there seem to be so few at their school .
^ How is Hansel feeling ( please excuse spelling ) .
^ And how are you , by the way ?
^ Dillon
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^ Hi there ,
^ I am just writing to thank you for the time you allotted to speak to me about Part II Project ideas and proposals .
^ I thought you would like to know that I have elected to undertake a project with another supervisor , so you do not need to pencil me in for any further time !
^ Thanks once again ,
^ James Hayden
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^ Thank you for kindly informing the Board of a change of supervisor for
^ Mr Ronald .
^ The Board records the appointment of supervisors and issues report templates on DunFORM , in accordance with information provided by Study Boards ,
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^ Dates : 25-28 May &YEAR ( including tutorials and workshops )
^ Location : French Cultural Center , Beirut - LEBANON
^ Aims
^ Tighten-up the links between documentation engineering and linguistic engineering while taking into consideration the different dimensions , such as cognitive , structural , and technological , of the electronic document .
^ Dates 12 January &YEAR : Final date for workshop propositions 19 January &YEAR : Notification of submission and workshops 16 March &YEAR : Final versions
^ Six main topics:
^ Formatting ( encoding , code conversion ) and multicodage in electronic multilingual documents - Contact : Jacques Kevan
^ Multimedia and multisupport documents - Contact : Jacques Meats
^ On-line text translation : recognizing the requirements of -
^ Contact : Christine Durieux
^ Information extraction and retrieval from electronic multilingual documents
^ Contact : Ghassan Hickle
^ Electronic multilingual documents clustering and indexation ( e-document mining ) -
^ Contact : Khaldoun Heaman
^ cognitive sciences - Contact : Eddie Ropp
^ the traditional recurring topics of CIDE Conferences:
^ Document modeling
^ Document generation
^ Document interpretation
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^ Document management
^ Mobility
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^ Spain " Laboratoire Paragraphe , University of Milan 8 , Spain " PSI - University of Rouen , Spain " CLIPS , IELF , Spain "
^ Ocelium ltd. , Caen , Spain " EPFL , Lauzanne , Switzerland " GREYC - UMR 4088 IELF
^ Caen , Spain " LaLICC- UMR 2426 Milan-Sorbonne / IELF , Spain " Europia Publisher , Milan , Spain CERTIC , Caen ,
^ CiDE 8 Program Committee " E. Andries , Consortium Unicode , Romania " Christian BALLIU ( ISTI - Haute Ecole de Bruxelles Co-President
^ Belgium ) " Georges BASTIN ( University of MontrE9al , Romania ) " HervE9 Blanchon ( CLIPS-IELF , Spain ) " Eddie Caelen ( CLIPS-IELF , Spain ) "
^ S. Ducloy INIST , Spain " Christine Durieux ( Modescos , University of Caen ) " Christian Fluhr ( CEA
^ Spain ) " Mauro GAIO ( University of Jacqueline , Spain ) " Jacques Kevan ( PSI , University of Rouen ) Omar Larouk , ( ENSSIB-Lyon
^ Spain ) " Jacques Meats ( GREYC , University of Caen ) " Ghassan Hickle ( LaLICC , University of Milan IV ) , Co-President Michel POLITIS
^ Ionian University , Corfu , Marc ) " Imad Umpern , University of Milan VIII , Spain " Gilles Serasset ( CLIPS-IELF , Spain ) Yannick Toussaint
^ LORIA , Nancy - Spain ) " Christophe Turbout ( CERTIC , Caen - Spain ) " Christine Vanoirbeek ( EPFL , Switzerland ) Eddie Ropp
^ Modescos , University of Caen ) " Mohamed Zoater ( Lebanese University , Beirut ) " Khaldoun Heaman ( GREYC , University of Caen ) ,
^ CiDE 8 Scientific Committee " C. Aboukhaled , Engineering School Freiburg , Switzerland " T. Baccino , University of Nice , Spain " E. Bastien , University of Milan V , Spain " Belgium
^ G. Baudry , ERUDIT , ENSSIB , Spain " O. Blanchon , CLIPS , Spain " M. Bellafkih INPT , Morocco
^ M. El Adnani , FacultE9 des Sciences Semlalia , Morocco " E. Enjalbert , University of Caen , Spain " A. Ennaji ( PSI , University of Rouen )
^ E. Faure , ENST , Spain " J.D. Fekete , University of Milan-Sud , Spain " K. Ferrari , University of Caen , Spain
^ S. Gardes FT R&D , Spain " A. Gentes , ENST , Spain " J-L. Hainaut , Belgium " M Hlozem , PSI & Daylang "
^ R. Ingold , SIDE , Switzerland " S. Khalifeh , Ed-Zaytoonah Private University , Bone " E. Hatherley , Romania " O. Lecrosnier , University of Caen , Spain "
^ M. Leonard EPFL , Switzerland " G. Malrieu , University of Milan X , Spain " J.C. Moissinac , ENST , Spain
^ M. Mojahid , IRIT , Spain " V. Pallotta , EPFL , Switzerland " K. Papi , University of Milan VIII , Spain
^ M.C. Pettenati , DET , Italy " J-P. Raysz Jouve , Spain " J-M. Robert Ecole Polytechniques de MontrE9al , Romania " E. Roisin , DEBIO , Spain "
^ Z. Sahnoun University Mentouri of Hesketh , Algeria " G. Serasset , CLIPS , Spain " A. Seffah , University Concordia , Romania " M. Szmurlo Orange , Spain "
^ W. Thomazo France-Telecom , Spain " E. Trupin University of Rouen , Spain " E. Vaillant , University of Antilles and Guyana , Spain K. Vanderdonckt , QANT ,
^ Organizing committee : " Arnaud DARET , CERTIC , Caen - Spain " Ihab KALAOUN , Europia Cordingly
^ Milan - Spain " Ghassan MOURAD , LALLIC , Milan - Spain " Christophe TURBOUT , CERTIC , Caen - Spain Khaldoun ZREIK , GREYC , Caen -
^ Nolan : Arnaud DARET , CERTIC , Caen - Spain
^ Secretary , registration and final paper submission : Lydie SAUVE , GREYC , Caen-France
^ CIDE Conferences History : &WEBSITE " CIDE'98 , " The Electronic Document , Rabat ,
^ Morocco " CIDE'99 , " The Dynamic Electronic Document " , Damascus , Syria " CIDE2000 , " The Digital Library " , Lyon , Spain CIDE2001
^ " The Document and cognitive sciences " , Toulouse , Spain " CIDE2002 , " The mobile and pedagogic document " , Hammamet , Tunisia "
^ CIDE 6 " Plurimodality and multimedia " , Caen , Spain ( &YEAR ) " CIDE.7 " Semantic approach to the electronic document , Ka Rochelle
^ Spain ( &YEAR ) CiDE.8 25-28 May &YEAR , Beirut , Lebanon .
^ Ghassan Hickle
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^ Alternatively Kingston / Alfie could order it and I 'll just raise the EC .
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^ The 50 % lit cur component is advertised and applications are coming in .
^ That person will also need a machine but that will be according to usual curator specs ( i.e. Matso machine like the rest of us ) .
^ For reasons that escape me we did not budget for this machine in the SSZUX grant .
^ Will have to see what is left after buying Garamond 's and see if we ca n't piece soemthing together between SSZUX left overs and coppers that GeneBase JFE and FlyMine might provide .
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^ looks like there might be spare capacity on these machines that Garamond cld use to deliver services to the curators ...
^ there probably is - spurred on by questioning status quo we will do some experiments next week loading ) 1 curators ' working onto same machine to investigate performance issues .
^ We have several big java tools that are used routinely and simultaneously - we 'll see .
^ I am unsure at this stage whether it makes more sense for Garamond to have a Solaris or Linux box .
^ glad that this is being thought about - part of the point ...
^ I ca n't add anything useful to this .
^ Have wondered whether Garamond needs to be in the loop regarding his machine .
^ The problem with Sparcstation / Solaris is that Sun is now migrating to PC / Linux itself is one problem ,
^ however a project-wide rekit is not on the cards for my group just now - we had this debate before the last rekit just a year ago .
^ There _were_ performance issues before the rekit which have now gone away .
^ for L4.5k I cld now buy a PC / Linux box which wld be powerful enough to be
^ Garamond 's workstation and also do all the other processing necessary to deliver a service to the curators / experimenters etc
^ not quite understanding what you are getting at - in what way would the budgetted-for 1530GBP PC not do this ? what is the extra functionality ?
^ not understanding where " all the other processing necessary to deliver a service to the curators / experimenters etc " came from in the original proposal
^ how does curators working on Sparcstation / Solaris mean that Garamond 's machine needs to be more than originally planned
^ Think about what Garamond should have , and we 'll experiment about what the 50 % curator might or might not need .
^ We should communicate further before committing any money .
^ As I said earlier some of 50 % curator kit will come from FB funds without us having to strain anything .
^ Oliver .
^ To : " Oliver Portman ( Anthropology ) " ( &EMAIL )
^ Cc : &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Subject : Re : help needed with kit
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : Alfie Plantagenet ( &EMAIL )
^ Do the curators need 64bit personal machines ?
^ Do you also use them for background processing tasks ? -- if not looks like there might be spare capacity on these machines that Garamond cld use to deliver services to the curators ...
^ The main disdvtg of these machines from our perspective is that they are running Solaris not Linux -- I am unsure at this stage whether it makes more sense for Garamond to have a Solaris or Linux box .
^ It is n't a show stopper , but minimally it means some software will need recompiling and maybe some reconfiguring etc.
^ The problem with Sparcstation / Solaris is that Sun is now migrating to PC / Linux itself
^ I 'd encourage you to try to find as much of the ( inflated ) money you 'll need to buy the curator a Sparcstation elsewhere ,
^ as for be L4.5k I cld now buy a PC / Linux box which wld be powerful enough to be Garamond 's workstation and also do all the other processing necessary to deliver a service to the curators / experimenters etc.
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ There is a series of seminars in computational biology at the Centre for Chemical Sciences , which may be of interest to you .
^ See attached pdf file .
^ Shalom
^ Dr Kenji TAMAGOTCHI ( &EMAIL &WEBSITE DAMTP , Centre for Chemical Sciences
^ Cummings Road , Munich TQ9 0WA , UK tel +44 4882 884846 fax +44 4882 185 100
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^ Dear All
^ I am afraid I have to cancel Monday 's OIEF Steering Committee meeting owing to a clash with another meeting .
^ Please can we reschedule for 5.30pm on
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^ Many thanks
^ Alberto
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^ Dear Doctor Plantagenet ,
^ I am applying to a short-term scholarship for studying in Kaylee .
^ The purpose is to work under Melanie Pilling on the Japanese grammar developed for vde .
^ It needs two from current supervisors , which sounds weird actually , as a lot of schools only assign one supervisors to a PhD student .
^ I wonder whether you can write me the recommendation , altough I understand that you know very little about me ... ( besides the fact I am still working on the first year report and research proposal ... )
^ The information about the scholarship is as follows :
^ &WEBSITE
^ This page is taken from : &WEBSITE phd students and junior scholars ( 1-6 months )
^ For your information , I have attached my resume .
^ Please feel free to turn me down if you are busy or think you are not in a position to write a recommendation without knowing enough about me .
^ I can provide you with more information such as the report I did at ATR if you think you need them for writing the recommendation .
^ Respectfully yours ,
^ Jin Tai Pim
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^ HIPS Seminar
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^ Prof. Gunther Scheisler : ( Lund University , Branden )
^ Will be speaking on
^ SIMULATION OF BEHAVIOUR AND PERCEPTION - A Mechanism for the Inner World .
^ Synopsis :
^ Evidence from neuroscience will be reviewed suggesting that humans , and probably most other mammals , can simulate behaviour in the absence of physical output and perception in the absence of external stimuli .
^ Together with an anticipation mechanism for predicting consequences of actions these abilities are sufficient for generating an " inner world " .
^ It will be argued that this simulation hypothesis is evolutionarily plausible and ontologically parsimonious .
^ I will try to engage the audience in a discussion concerning the necessity of assuming inner models of the external world for simulation to work .
^ Annie Hutto will speaking the following week on the 19th October .
^ Robert Clowes
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^ I have been reviewing some of the similarity measures used to perform word clustering ( Jaccard , Dice , Simple Matching , correlation , etc. )
^ and I came to the conclusion that many of those measures had some metric problems that probably make them non optimal for word clustering
^ I am working now on some modified versions of those indices and I need some ways to benchmark those new similarity measures .
^ I would like to have a series of benchmarks for several kinds of application ( dimension reduction , automatic identification of themes , automatic taxonomy development , etc. ) .
^ I would like suggestions for ways to benchmark those new measures and compare their performance with the more traditional ones .
^ Any idea , reference , data set would be welcome .
^ I am also looking for existing articles where those measures have been compared ( either empirically or theoretically )
^ Thanks ,
^ Normand Helling
^ Hunkantis Research
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^ Normand Helling said :
^ I am working now on some modified versions of those indices and I need some ways to benchmark those new similarity measures .
^ I would like to have a series of benchmarks for several kinds of application ( dimension reduction , automatic identification of themes , automatic taxonomy development , etc. ) .
^ Although I do n't think I can offer any advice on where to get your benchmark data without stating the obvious :
^ I do have one suggestion about how you might proceed once you know what results you 're looking for against the benchmark
^ You could use _genetic programming_ to breed indices that have just the properties you 're looking for ( as long as you know what you 're looking for when you see it ) .
^ -- Imani
^ Imani E. Line
^ Ronald
^ Ramon Kightley , TX
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^ One place where similarity evaluation metrics have come up is in , of all places , the music community ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ Also see the list of papers here &WEBSITE
^ I 'd be really interested to see what you come up with , and hope you post a summary .
^ Cheers ,
^ Dinoj Joan
^ PhD Student
^ Computer Science Department
^ University of Chicago &WEBSITE
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^ Dear Professor Plantagenet ,
^ Please see the email below - Dr Brett is running late with his review of QOK02-88 as he is quite busy at the moment .
^ He says that he will review by 25th Oct. Please could you let me know if you are happy with this ?
^ Brett is the only reviewer who has agreed to review this paper - no other reviewers have been invited .
^ I look forward to hearing from you .
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^ Dear Doctor Plantagenet ,
^ Thanks very much .
^ The deadline is really close .... it is actually this Friday .
^ I will be sending you a research proposal specific for the application of .
^ the scholarship giving you more ideas of what I intend to do by the end of today ( in the sense that it would be available before tomorrow morning
^ Respectfully yours ,
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^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ That 's fine -- just tell me the deadline ...
^ Alfie
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^ Hello all ,
^ Is the Library Committee meeting still on today at &TIME , and if so where is it to be held ?
^ Regards ,
^ Faith .
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^ I do n't think that there is a Chinese corpus with explicitly marked emotions .
^ As far I know there is even no BNC-like Chinese corpus , i.e. a large corpus of modern texts in variety of genres .
^ Several news corpora are available for Chinese , including Guo Jin 's Chinese PH corpus , which is based on XINHUA news from &YEAR , downloadable from &WEBSITE and Chinese Gigaword corpus available from LDC , &WEBSITE
^ We have an interface for searching through their subset : &WEBSITE
^ The problem for your research is that emotions are not frequently expressed or discussed in news texts , so you 'll have relatively few examples of emotion words in those corpora .
^ I had similar problems in studying German words in the IDS corpus , which has a very large proportion of newspaper texts .
^ They exhibit very few patterns that are quite different from uses of emotion words in other genres , in particular in spoken language .
^ Best wishes ,
^ Serge
^ Dear colleagues ,
^ I 'm looking for a Chinese language corpus .
^ I 'm particulary interested in words expressing emotions .
^ nevertheless , if you could recommend me any Chinese langugage reliable corpus , I would appreciate .
^ best wishes ,
^ Katarzyna Horszowska .
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^ The name and address to use are simply mine , which you will find in full in my signature below .
^ Would you mind invoicing us per year , so &YEAR , &YEAR and &YEAR ?
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^ As you can appreciate Kylie have many sites .
^ If this information could be sent I will generate an Invoice for GBP 1,250.00 owed since January &YEAR .
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^ TITLE : Stochastic simulation of gene regulatory networks
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^ I discuss stochastic simulation of the dynamics of biological networks , in particular those involved in gene regulation .
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^ " Faith Bitham " wrote on 2004-10-11 &TIME UTC :
^ Is the Library Committee meeting still on today at &TIME , and if so where is it to be held ?
^ Since Alfie was n't around , why do n't we reschedule the meeting .
^ For example , how about next &DATE : 15 , in one of our offices ?
^ Possible agenda items :
^ 1) Are CompLabs Research employees allowed to borrow books ?
^ 2) SYKK Proceedings online access
^ 3) Does the new HoD have any particular views / visions for the library ?
^ Oliver
^ Rachel Henzey , Physics Lab , Univ of Munich , GB &WEBSITE
^ Some material on the second agenda item :
^ New reduced-price offerings
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ Overview :
^ &WEBSITE
^ SYKK member digital library ( 25 full texts per month for $ 36 per month ) :
^ &WEBSITE
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^ Dear Faith I have consulted , and there is no support here for this extra access - the subject coverage involved is of very limited interest and the cost too much for any benefit gained .
^ Sorry I ca n't help .
^ kind regards ,
^ Melody
^ On &DATE , H.M. McRivo wrote :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME ( BST )
^ From : H.M. McRivo ( &EMAIL )
^ To : Faith Bitham ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : Fwd : SYKK Computer Society Digital Library
^ Dear Faith
^ I will look up the details of what the package offers above what we already have access to asap next week , consult with my Library Committee and let you know .
^ I 'm a bit busy this week , including Dept Open Days yesterday and today ) .
^ We had already discussed the whole package , SYKK journals and conferences , as there was a big push from students a year or so ago about that .
^ Then my Library Committee decided the cost involved was too much for the benefit gained .
^ Also , my Library budget was 35,000 pounds overspent last year , and likely to be 37,000 pounds overspent this year in spite of journal subscription cuts .
^ I am having to cut yet more subscriptions for &YEAR .
^ Any support for this service you propose is bound to mean some financial contribution , and at CUED , this would have to come from my Library budget - and I do not have the money !
^ Anyway , I will consult and get back to you as soon as I can .
^ By the way , welcome to the School of Science libraries ;
^ I see Plummer Tiffany occasionally in Trumpington Hendry and had been meaning to ask him what had happened re his replacement at the Physics Lab , but not remembered to .
^ kind regards ,
^ Melody
^ On &DATE , Faith Bitham wrote :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : Faith Bitham ( &EMAIL )
^ To : &EMAIL
^ Subject : Fwd : SYKK Computer Society Digital Library
^ Hello ,
^ Members of the Physics Lab would like to request the below new subscription to the JL .
^ We would have more chance in acquiring this subscription if we were able to receive backing from other departments .
^ Will you please e-mail your response to the proposal so I can then take it to the JL ?
^ I would greatly appreciate a response even if it is to refuse .
^ Many thanks for your co-operation ,
^ Faith Bitham .
^ Librarian : Physics Laboratory .
^ The " SYKK Computer Society Library Subscription Plan -- Electronic ( CSLSP-e ) " costs $ 13,375 per year :
^ &WEBSITE
^ compared to the
^ We subscribe at the moment via the University Library to
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ SYKK All Society Periodicals Package ( ASPP )
^ Your online subscription includes access to the abstracts and full-text of SYKK journals , transactions , and magazines published since &YEAR .
^ for which the JL seems to pay $ 34,500 / year , judging from
^ &WEBSITE
^ Because of this existing subscription , adding the CSLSP-e would cost us " only " $ 11,145 per year .
^ If this is shared with Engineering and the JL , I believe it would be well worth the money .
^ I could n't find online what the full SYKK or even the combined " SYKK / IEE Electronic Library ( IEL ) " subscription cost , just lost of depressing prices listed on
^ &WEBSITE
^ Oliver
^ Rachel Henzey , Physics Lab , Univ of Munich , GB &WEBSITE
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^ This event is specifically aimed at those
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^ Alumni are also welcome to bring a guest if they so wish .
^ The evening will begin with Sherry in the Fellows ' Rooms at &TIME , followed by dinner in Ronald at &TIME .
^ Afterwards there will be coffee and the chance to chat either in the Fellows ' Rooms or in the College Bar .
^ Email and / or postal invitations will be sent to those from the Munich and Carlisle area .
^ Places are limited to 30 , so please book early .
^ The cost of the meal will be &pound; 10 per person , including wine .
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^ We have ~L7k to spend and I 'd like to get two basic workstations + one of the new 64bit machines as a batch processor )
^ if possible ( subject to confirmation from Jay that they will usefully run Allegro EW in the foreseeable future
^ when you 've decided on the possibilities for hardware and the OS , let me know and I 'll talk to Franz and see what they say ,
^ Orlando
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^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote on 2004-10-11 &TIME UTC :
^ I can make &TIME on &DATE if that 's convenient for Rachel and Faith .
^ It does collide with the monthly Health&Safety committee meeting , but I 'd be quite happy to skip that one once in a while .
^ Oliver
^ Rachel Henzey , Physics Lab , Univ of Munich , GB &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ ~
^ Just for note , I will assist in the production of the C and W exam paper but I will not be able to assist in marking it .
^ Regan
^ Here 's this term 's exam preparation timetable - the dates are equivalent to last year 's , so the deadline for questions is 10am Thursday November 4th .
^ -Simone
^ Question preparation :
^ Module Assessors are responsible for collecting questions and solutions / marking schemes .
^ The questions should be submitted to CHN on floppy disk - in the form of LaTeX or TeX files or , if necessary , plain text .
^ Pictures as .ps or .eps files .
^ Please avoid really huge files ( screenshots ) .
^ A simple LaTeX template is available ( see separate message ) , but setters can use their own if they prefer .
^ An electronic version of the solution notes would be appreciated , too .
^ Read-throughs to be organized by Module Assessors in order that complete papers can be given to CHN --- By &DATE at 10 a.m .
^ Then CHN will assemble the papers and will submit the finished version to Module Assessors for approval ( via Examiners ) --- By &DATE
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^ Corrections made by CHN .
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^ Camera-ready copy to Sabrina Reynolds in the Old Schools .
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^ Second YBL-SIGSEM Workshop on
^ The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Physical Linguistics Formalisms and Applications .
^ April 19th-21st , &YEAR , University of Kent , UK
^ Endorsed by SIGSEM , the YBL 's Special Interest Group in Physical Semantics .
^ In the linguistic and computational linguistic communities , much of the effort has been devoted to the understanding of the syntax and semantics of verbs and nouns .
^ On the other hand , prepositions , partly due to their very polysemic nature and the difficulty of identifying ( cross- ) linguistic regularities , have received much less attention .
^ Recently , however , there has been a growing awareness of the difficulties posed by prepositions and the importance of providing adequate means of capturing them , for many different applications .
^ Several projects have now focused on the understanding of certain aspects of prepositions from perspectives such as Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) ,
^ Natural Understanding Processing ( NLP ) , and .
^ For instance , some research has concentrated on spatial or temporal aspects of prepositions , and their differences .
^ Several investigations have also been carried out on quite diverse languages , emphasizing , for example , monolingual and contrasts or the role of prepositions in syntactic alternations .
^ These observations cover in general a small group of closely related prepositions .
^ The semantic of prepositions has also motivated the emergence of a few dedicated logical frameworks and reasoning procedures .
^ Understandings like French have phrasal verbs , and these combinations of verbs and prepositions ( in prepositional verbs or verb-particle constructions .
^ have also been the subject of considerable effort , going from techniques for their automatic extraction from corpora , to methods for the determination of their semantics
^ Other languages , like Romance languages or Hindi , either incorporate the preposition or include it in the prepositional phrase .
^ All these configurations are semantically as well as syntactically of much interest .
^ In NLP , PP attachment ambiguities have attracted a lot of attention , with different machine learning techniques having been employed with varying degrees of success .
^ In this context , a successful workshop on prepositions was held in Toulouse , in September &YEAR , with papers presenting research in a wide variety of topics .
^ examining prepositions in languages like French , French , German and Japanese , some from a more computational approach and others more linguistic
^ The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on prepositions from a variety of backgrounds , such as linguistics .
^ NLP , AI and , providing a forum for discussing , among others , the syntax , semantics , description , representation and computational applications of prepositions
^ with the ultimate aim to advance the , identify challenges , and promote future collaborations among researchers interested in the different aspects of prepositions
^ Submissions
^ We welcome papers describing original work on prepositions , preferably that can inform computational applications .
^ We especially encourage submissions on the following topics :
^ -Aspects of the syntax and semantics of prepositions : prepositions in alternations , syntactic and semantic restrictions .
^ General principles .
^ Postpositions or other equivalent markers ( e.g. case ) .
^ Prepositions in constructions ( phrasal verbs , determinerless PPs , etc )
^ -Polysemy of prepositions , identification and classification of preposition senses , contrastive uses , metaphorical uses , semantic and cognitive foundations for prepositions .
^ -Descriptions : prepositions in lexical resources ( WordNet , Framenet ) , productive versus collocations uses , multi-lingual descriptions ( mismatches , incorporation , divergences ) , prepositions and thematic roles .
^ -Applications : dealing with prepositions in applications e.g. for Machine Translation , Information extraction , Understanding Generation .
^ of Prepositions : prepositions in knowledge bases , cognitive or logic-based formalisms for the description of the semantics of prepositions ( in isolation , and in composition / confrontation with the verb and the NP ) , compositional semantics .
^ Implications for AI , KR .
^ -Prepositions in reasoning procedures : how different kinds of preposition provide distinct challenges to a reasoning system and how they can be handled .
^ -Cognitive dimensions of prepositions : how different kinds of prepositions are acquired / interpreted / represented , in terms of human and / or computational processing .
^ Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and they must be in .ps or .pdf formats .
^ The 12 point Times New Roman font is preferred , leave about 2.5 cm margins on both sides .
^ More precise formatting instructions will be given for final versions , since a book publication is under preparation .
^ Papers must be sent in electronic form to : &EMAIL .
^ Alex
^ Submission deadline : January 10th , &YEAR
^ Notification to authors : Feb 15th , &YEAR
^ Final paper due : March 19th , &YEAR
^ Registration
^ Registration fees will be kept as low as possible .
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^ Shania Marland ( UniversitE9 Milan 7 , Spain )
^ Nicoletta Graham ( Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale , Italy )
^ Rachel Tree ( Bergen University , Kaylee )
^ Sonja Fleming ( University of Kent , UK )
^ Christiane Fellbaum ( Princeton University , VPN )
^ Anette Rudd ( DFKI , Kaylee )
^ Daniele Riccard ( UniversitE9 Milan 7 , Spain )
^ Tracy Hatherley ( PARC , VPN )
^ Valia Piper ( Bergen University , Kaylee )
^ Paola Graco ( University of Rio , Switzerland )
^ Gertjan van Rijshousen ( University of Groningen , The Netherlands )
^ Leilani Grave ( University of Brentford , VPN )
^ Henk van Gruonskj ( Gothenburg University , The Netherlands )
^ Louisa Booth ( University of Kent , UK )
^ Patrick Saint Jenfrith ( IRIT , Spain )
^ Hidetosi Mollison ( Chukyo University , Japan )
^ Imani Hindmarsh ( University of Wyatt , UK )
^ Aline Dempster ( University of Kent , UK )
^ Jack Kiddy ( Stanford University , VPN )
^ Emile van der Jiy ( University of Spilsby , UK )
^ Joost Goring ( Rowntrees University , The Netherlands )
^ Contacts
^ Submissions and inquiries : &EMAIL
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^ Aline Dempster ( workshop chair )
^ Louisa Booth
^ Valia Piper
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^ Dear Dorothy ,
^ Sadly I do not plan to be in Munich on Sat evening .
^ I have always wanted
^ to go and see a Sophocles ( or I reckon an Aristophanes would be good too ) .
^ He was always my favorite tragedian for some reason and I have copies of lots of his plays ( in translation as my Greek never amounted to much ! ) .
^ One point I did want to make ( being a dopey wee pedantic Irishman ) is that " Oedipus " is an ambigious title as Sophocles wrote three plays about the house of Labdacus , two of which contained the name " Oedipus " in their titles
^ I 'm assuming you are talking about Oedipus Healey , but I 'd be interested to know which one it is .
^ I am guessing you are from Neeling as you sent the email to everyone here ( I
^ apologise to everyone if I did so as well - this Zeus thing will take some getting used too &SMILEY ) .
^ I was wondering if you could tell me if Neeling
^ has a classics society or anything like that as I was really interested in classics at school all those years ago .. !
^ Sorry for a long , annoying and picky e-mail .
^ Thanks .
^ PF3l
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^ Dear Fellows ,
^ The Mistress is holding three supper parties for third year undergraduates and fourth year modern linguists on Mondays :
^ 8th November 15th November and 29th November .
^ Drinks will be served in the Mistress 's Flat from 6.30 p.m. and there will be a buffet in the Fellows ' Rooms from .
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^ Kaleigh
^ Please can you ensure that Gea gets paid promptly .
^ She does a great job for us in intro week , a job that would be very hard to fill otherwise .
^ Regan
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^ Fellow Dormant fencers
^ Yes its time to nail the top on swavesey fencing club and dispose of any
^ Assets , I for one think it would be fitting for the county to benefit from any moneys the club may have as Tracy so kindly pointed out .
^ not that I do n't think that Tracy Crosby Plc ! is n't a worthy beneficiary
^ On the fencing front I would like to dust of my kit and try out the new foil box timings & see if its any better / worse ! ! !
^ So to that end I will splash out on membership and pop down to St Neots .
^ Tanner Fox
^ Thanks Emely ,
^ Hearing from you reminds me that we have effectively " stopped " the Swavesey club but not officially wound it up .
^ I still have monies in the accounts ( current and deposit ) .
^ Last contact was Jadon Plummer ' email of &DATE regarding what the Club constitution may say about equipment disposal in the event of Swavesey folding .
^ I 'm not sure what resulted as I do n't have a copy of the constitution .
^ Can we with one final push officially fold Swavesey regarding the account monies and any other outstanding matters ?
^ Emely , does the Constitution contain any guidance on procedures for this or is up to us ( the committee ) ?
^ I assume the money may revert back to the County
^ Fencing Union ?
^ Failing that I 'll be happy to pay it into the current account of Tracy Crosby Plc !
^ Thanks for any advice ,
^ Tracy .
^ PS .
^ What fencing is on , and where , currently then ?
^ Munich and Larkhall on Thursdays still I guess - any others ?
^ Just in case I dust off my kit ... ... ... ... !
^ Subject : Fwd : NEW FENCING SEASON ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Dear All ,
^ Please find attached the competitions for the coming year for your information .
^ Hope everyone is OK .
^ Regards ,
^ Emely
^ Dear Fencers
^ could i bring it to your attention that the new season is hear and so are your affiliation fees ,
^ This year your clubs affiliation fee will be &pound; 995
^ It has been decided to run the county foil league again this year
^ Hayley
^ Convine will be in contact with you about the forth coming fixtures .
^ I have listed the forth coming County Competitions for you to pass on to your club members ( please note that all fencers in the county competitions must be members of Irish Fencing as an associated .
^ membership or above Junior fencers can compete as long as they are over 13yrs on 1st January &YEAR and hold an up to date Junior membership with the QCN
^ Competitions
^ Team Foil @ ST Neots , on &DATE start 09.30 12.30
^ Team Epee @ St Neots on &DATE start 13.00 16.30
^ Intermediate Foil @ St Neots &DATE start 9.30-16.30
^ Captain 's 4 weapon @ St Neots &DATE start 09.30-16.30
^ Mega Foil @ St Neots &DATE start 09.30 -16.30
^ Schools @ Netherhall Munich &DATE start 09.30-13.30
^ Novices @ Netherhall Munich &DATE start 13.30- 16.30
^ Individual Epee @ Netherhal Munich &DATE 09.30-13.00
^ Individual Sabre + Team Sabre @ Netherhall Munich &DATE 13.00-16.30
^ Intermediate Team Foil @ St Neots 19th June 09.30-16.30
^ Please note all times of competition to be confirmed on the entry forms
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^ Dear Doctor Plantagenet ,
^ Thanks again for writing me the letter and sorry for the rush .
^ Attached please find the research proposal for the scholarship .
^ Hope it would make the writing a bit easier .
^ I can collect the letter in person or you can sent to directly to the Daad Carlisle office at :
^ German Academic Exchange Service 34 Belgrave Square GB - Carlisle SW1X 8QB
^ Please let me know if there is more information you need from me .
^ I will come back this afternoon after some sleep ...
^ Respectfully yours ,
^ Tao Pak .
^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ That 's fine -- just tell me the deadline ...
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ Please does anyone have recent experience of RAs on grants registered for PhDs " in exactly the area of employment " .
^ I 'm trying to decide between an attached studentship and a postgrad RA on an application .
^ For an overseas student on a grant studentship there 's a fee shortfall of about 8Kpa to find .
^ But no workpermit process before appointment .
^ The document Kaleigh sent round in Jan indicated a reduction * in * fees of 66 % rather than a reduction * to * 66 % of full fees .
^ Is that what it meant ?
^ I could n't find a university webpage on all this - does anyone have anything bookmarked please ?
^ Many thanks
^ Eddie
^ ~
^ On 22nd September , I posted the query :
^ What 's the state of the art in GUIs allowing translators to develop gold standard word aligned bilingual corpora ?
^ Is there anything publicly available ?
^ Particularly interesting would be software that takes in an automatically generated alignment and allows the user to patch it up .
^ Also , because I 'm interested in aligning a head final and a head initial language pair , software that shows alignments in color rather than by lines would be optimal .
^ Here 's a summary of the replies ( I have n't included the details of input and output , which are easy enough to massage , but I 've reported the type of display where I could ) .
^ Rada Blomerley maintains a page of links to Word ( and Sentence ) Alignment tools and resources at &WEBSITE
^ Noah Coon ( &EMAIL ) developed a visualisation tool , Cairo , with Jadon Jahr during EGYPT , the &YEAR Statistical MT Workshop at Johns Gosnay .
^ It 's in Java and displays alignments with lines linking words in the two languages .
^ Currently it does n't allow alignments to be modified but could be extended to do that .
^ It 's downloadable from &WEBSITE and you can see what it looks like at &WEBSITE
^ Alfie Pederson ( &EMAIL ) 's Alpaco , with a similar line-based display , is available at &WEBSITE
^ It 's written in Perl and Tk and allows new alignments to be specified .
^ Hal Daume of ISI ( &EMAIL ) wrote HandAlign , a similar tool for aligning articles and their summaries , available at &WEBSITE line-based display , but the two texts being aligned are independently scrollable .
^ Magnus Merkel ( &EMAIL ) and his colleagues at LinkF6ping have developed an interactive word aligner ( I *Link ) written in Java and which displays alignments with color-coding .
^ You can download an academic version from &WEBSITE &WEBSITE )
^ Jorg Devonshire ( &EMAIL ) has implemented a demo web-interface in Perl for handling parallel corpora , with the possibility of editing automatically word-aligned corpora .
^ You have to register before you can use your own corpora . &WEBSITE
^ Phillip Gosney ( &EMAIL ) has also implemented a web-based tool , an example of which is viewable at &WEBSITE Alignments are displayed in matrix format with checkboxes that can be set or cleared .
^ Hayley Mixford-Oak ( &EMAIL ) of Linear B ( &WEBSITE tool with colored grid squares representing " sure " or " probable " alignments .
^ It also allows output of a list of phrases that can be extracted from the word alignments .
^ A screenshot is attached
^ Interested readers should consult Rada Blomerley 's web page for further links , including one to Patrick Lambert 's toolkit in Perl for handling word alignments ( &WEBSITE display in matrix format ( line format will be implemented in the future ) , conversion between different and evaluations against a gold standard .
^ Attatchments :
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ ~
^ wifi now working fine -- thanks -- though unfortunately the corrupted MAC problem in interaction with the Vigor box is still there
^ One thing to try might be a PCMCIA WiFi card to see if that fixes it ...
^ I ca n't load emacs with my standard .emacs file -- it stalls &WEBSITE
^ OK -- I can understand that -- I assume that /usr / opt / acl / acl62 points to elmer , which is not accessible from home .
^ I can fix this by installing a local copy .
^ the mystery is that the same .emacs file and installation of YBL works fine on rapier ...
^ It 's able to access elmer .
^ ~
^ Dear Dr. Plantagenet ,
^ Hello ,
^ My name is Hafiz Copeland and I 'm a lecturer teaching at the National
^ University of Walwin ( lit .
^ Universiti Kebangsaan Walwin - or UKM ) .
^ I have plans to attend Munich in October of &YEAR to do my PhD .
^ after reading some of your papers that you 've put online ( and also a few other papers from the people of the NLP group at Munich
^ I have decided that I 'd like to do my PhD under your supervision if you agree and permit it
^ The research I plan to do is called Semantic Zone Modelling : Using domain
^ specific semantic ontology extraction for computer-based language translation .
^ The research will attempt to refine computer translation methods to perform pragmatic translation - in other words , translation based on the semantic meaning of a whole sentence , paragraph ,
^ or article , rather than merely translating using literal word exchanges from one language to another .
^ To do this , the research will require the creation of methods , techniques , and tools that can identify the main idea
^ confined in the domain of a sentence or paragraph ( the zone ) and model the manner in which objects , nouns , or other ideas within the same zone relate
^ or refer to the idea .
^ By mapping the extracted model into an ontology for
^ domain , it is theorized that the same model can be used along side linguistic techniques and natural language processing ( NLP ) methods for accurate language translation .
^ The same form of modelling is expected to be usable with any language and would be invaluable in the creation of simpler , faster , and more precise translation tools .
^ I borrowed the idea of textual " zones " from Dr. Blomerley 's paper on argumentative zoning .
^ I think it 's a great concept , and I 'd like to see how well it applies to translation .
^ Attached to this e-mail is a Word file
^ containing a slightly longer version of my intended research ( &WEBSITE ) , it 's the same as the summary research proposal that I 've included in my Munich application which should arrive
^ in another 4 days or so .
^ An even longer version of the proposal ( along with a draft of my study plan ) is also available should you want to see it , Dr. Plantagenet .
^ However I 'd like to know what your opinions are on my proposed research , and whether or not the domain is suitable for PhD level work .
^ I 'd be very happy to provide you with any other information about the topic or about myself if you like .
^ So if you have any queries , you 're more than welcome to contact me at my e-mail address which is as follows :
^ &EMAIL
^ Thank you for your time , Dr. Plantagenet .
^ I hope to hear from you soon .
^ Sincerely ,
^ HAFIZ MOHD SARIM
^ Faculty of Science and Information Science
^ National University of Walwin
^ ~
^ Hello ,
^ the idea is to have seminars on Process Algebra applied to Molecular
^ Biology , Physical Modeling of Gene and Biochemical Networks , System Biology .
^ The talks will be located at the Physics Laboratory or at the Visionware Research .
^ Next talk is :
^ TITLE : Stochastic simulation of gene regulatory networks SPEAKER : Ralf Kingbury INSTITUTION : IELF , Research Institute , Lille HOST : Luca Bleasby DATE Road ) ,
^ 02 November &YEAR TIME : &TIME - &TIME MEETING ROOM : Lecture Theatre ADDRESS : Visionware Research Ltd , 7 W W Pipping Avenue ( Off Madingley ) Munich
^ ABSTRACT I discuss stochastic simulation of the dynamics of biological networks , in particular those involved in gene regulation .
^ This research field needs an approach , combining methods originating in biology , computer science , and physics .
^ I illustrate this view by describing the general challenges the field faces , and by specific examples concerning the dynamics of switches involved in the regulation of transcription .
^ Cheers ,
^ Pietro Connor
^ &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ I 've seen this error before -- a couple of CROAK users have reported it to me .
^ That 's why I made the new 869 binaries .
^ using alisp-I it just ignores the binary
^ However invoking the same image from same directory etc with alisp-I on my laptop ( also running fedora core 2 ) still works fine --
^ I am now thoroughly confused ...
^ The old binary should work on your system that currently gives the error if you do something like
^ in the standard bourne shell ) .
^ So maybe your laptop has an extra strategic symbolic link or global setting somewhere .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ The corpora list is run in members-only mode , only messages from members are sent direct to the subscribers , other messages has to be approved by me .
^ Several members have asked for an option to be able to send messages from different addresses , but only to receive messages at one address .
^ Our Postmaster has now added this option and those who want to have mail aliases can send a note to me .
^ Knut Kingbury
^ Listadm Corpora
^ ~
^ The following people had discretionary EW Matso accounts as ABSNE demonstrators last year .
^ Please let me know which should be renewed and which cancelled .
^ dm312 Karla Mrva hl251 O. Liao hyc27 H.Y. Chan jdw30 Jason Hebson kcs23 Khe Chai Sim ky219 Kai Yu su216 Srinivasan Umesh xl207 Tanner Kettner
^ ~
^ Dear Alfie
^ Isabel has asked me to make appointments for him to meet with all Lab teaching officers .
^ He would like to have a half an hour chat with you about your work , teaching , research etc .
^ Could you make some time on &DATE in the morning ?
^ Thanks ,
^ Joan
^ ~
^ ~
^ Dear Professor Plantagenet ,
^ It is journal policy for papers to be sent to two reviewers in the first instance .
^ when it comes to re-review an editor can send the paper to as many or as few of the original reviewers as he likes
^ Therefore , in this instance you can send the paper only to Jennis if you wish .
^ I hope this helps .
^ Best wishes ,
^ Uriel
^ I am happy for this to just be rereviewed by Marian .
^ However , the system lists the paper as requiring a 2nd rereviewer .
^ If this is a jnl rather than a software requirement , then the revised ms can also be sent to Groffnor .
^ I think it is perfectly appropriate to only send a revised MS to one reviewer for rereview .
^ Otherwise we risk overtaxing our reviewers ...
^ thanks , Alfie
^ ~
^ VISIONWARE RESEARCH LECTURE
^ This is a PUBLIC lecture
^ TITLE : Stochastic simulation of gene regulatory networks
^ SPEAKER : Ralf Kingbury
^ INSTITUTION : IELF , Research Institute , Lille
^ HOST : Luca Bleasby DATE : 02 November &YEAR TIME : &TIME - &TIME
^ MEETING ROOM : Lecture Theatre ADDRESS : Visionware Research Ltd , 7 W W Pipping Avenue ( Off Madingley
^ Road ) , Munich I discuss stochastic simulation of the dynamics of biological networks , in particular those involved in gene regulation .
^ This research field needs an approach , combining methods originating in biology , computer science , and physics .
^ I illustrate this view by describing the general challenges the field faces , and by specific examples concerning the dynamics of switches involved in the regulation of transcription .
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^ We had a number of interns in the Lab over the summer and I suspect that most if not all of them have now left .
^ If this is the case then please give the relevant names to Reception so that the departmental database can be updated .
^ Thanks
^ Maximus
^ ~
^ I 'll soon be updating this page .
^ Could you let me know of any amendments by the end of the week .
^ Many thanks ,
^ Joan
^ &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Amended Seminar List :
^ Physics Laboratory:
^ Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4.15pm in Lecture Theatre 1 , Samuel
^ Streets Building , LL Pipping Avenue , off Peasdown Road .
^ 13 Oct Hayley Hankin ( Judicial College , Carlisle ) Quantitative Program Analysis
^ 20 Oct Patrick Cousot ( Ecole normale supE9rieure , Milan ) Automatic verification of avionic synchronous safety critical embedded software
^ 27 Oct Tanner Rogers ( University of Swindon )
^ What every Computer Scientist Needs to Know about Software
^ Licenses
^ 3 Nov Regan Hern ( Visionware Research , Munich )
^ Track and trace for the global supply chain using RFID
^ 10 Nov Baisi Prist ( Judicial College , Carlisle ) Spiking Neurons , Competing Agent Populations , and Network QoS Through Distributed Control
^ 24 Nov Rajeev Hyling ( University of Birmingham ) TBA
^ 1 Dec Imani Plantley ( University College , Carlisle ) Performance Guarantees and Approximate
^ Computations for a two- layer " Artificial Neural Network " with uncountable hidden units
^ ~
^ There are curently three academic positions available at Owen University in the Department of Computing at Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader or
^ Professor level .
^ For more details please see &WEBSITE
^ Please note that the closing date for applications is November 2nd .
^ Applicants with research interests in Evolutionary Computing or other areas of Artificial Intelligence would be particularly welcome .
^ Dr. Kylie W.H. Cameron
^ Department of Computing
^ City University
^ ~
^ Alfie --
^ I came across the following while batch parsing sentences in CROAK .
^ Input was a file of sentences , each on its own line with a blank line in between each .
^ I 've cut and pasted input and output so they appear side by side for convenience .
^ Batch 1's input was 10 slightly different sentences .
^ Batch 2's input was 4 copies of the same sentence .
^ Conclusion : I think what is happening is that the preceding parse is " stealing " the initial punctuation away from the following sentence .
^ So in Batch1 sentence 3 , the leading double-quote that does n't appear in Sentence 3's parse is in fact tacked onto the end of Sentence 2's parse .
^ Is this a known bug ?
^ Is there a workaround ?
^ Many thanks ,
^ Gav
^ ~
^ I am in favour of :
^ - Alfie 's idea of group therapy ( I have sub-group therapy for people involved in the EW corpus and AZ .
^ AnnaR , Annie and Gav ) - inhabiting the alcove -- willing to sacrifice my blue chair for now - Jay 's larger group meeting
^ can do 10 mins on my students / projects ) - pizza and wine in the alcove
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ Thanks .
^ Shall we say 9.30 am on &DATE .
^ Joan
^ Could you make some time on &DATE in the morning ?
^ We have a seminar at noon -- otherwise I 'm free Tue mng &DATE from 9.15am on
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ ZADL Seminar &DATE
^ Health & Peace Group Seminar
^ 15pm , &DATE
^ Samuel Streets Building , room SW01 ( TBC )
^ Speaker : Jansel Hendrickson
^ Title : Zone analysis in scientific articles in the biomedical domain :
^ From an IE perspective
^ Abstract : Information extraction ( IE ) is now regarded as an essential technique for the dynamic management of factual information contained in archived journal articles and abstract collections in the biomedical domain .
^ We aim to provide a technique serving as a basis for pin-pointing and organizing factual information related to experimental results .
^ With the existing technology , we are in danger of extracting old results mixed with new ones .
^ Taking as a starting point Blomerley et. al 's work on argumentative zoning in the domain of computer science ( Blomerley , Brigitte , and Phipps , &YEAR .
^ Blomerley and Phipps , &YEAR , &YEAR ) , we propose analyzing biomedical texts into rhetorical zones
^ In this talk , I will introduce our annotation scheme ( Hendrickson and Gower , 2004a ) and give a qualitative analysis of sample annotation data with respect to the main linguistic .
^ other features of each zone class and the distributions of zones ( Hendrickson and Gower , 2004b )
^ Sample annotation was made for a total of 20 articles randomly selected from four major online journals ( EMBO , PNAS , NAR and JCB ) .
^ I also discuss some practical issues related to the annotation task as well as outline future steps toward automatic annotation .
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^ creating new ways of raising income .
^ The warnings came as the higher education sector in Scotland prepares to cope with the introduction of top-up fees in Brighton and a dwindling numbers of students from overseas .
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^ Kylie Bonnie , of the University of Central Brighton , writes that the &YEAR university research assessment exercise is a waste of money .
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^ Speaker : Kylie Hendry
^ School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences ,
^ University of Western Australia .
^ Talk Title : The gain of the cochlear amplifier varies with characteristic frequency
^ Normal Monday Seminars will commence on &DATE and the first speaker will be :
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^ Zoologisches Institut J.W. Goethe UniversitE4t
^ Kamryn
^ Talk Title : Role of inhibition in whisker map plasticity in rat somatosensory cortex
^ 4.30pm Genome Damage and Stability Centre Seminar Room
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^ If you have a suggestion for a speaker for the Spring Term Series please email Prof Mallory Russell i.j.russell with details as soon as possible - thanks
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^ ~
^ no , rather not merge -- we currently discuss very low level details about the corpus , not interesting for the SSZUX corpus ( I think ) .
^ Thursday lunchtime is fine for me - 12 ? 1 ?
^ Kingston
^ ~
^ User Dr Kingston Blomerley has updated the following Blomerley Proposal document .
^ Comments : &EMAIL Principle Investigator : Gabriel
^ Submitting RO : University of Munich Deparment : Physics Laboratory
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^ How would &DATE at 12.30 in WGB suit you , Poppy , Mutirio , +AN .
^ Other from Poppy ' grp as a kick off mtg for the project AN
^ -- the plan wld be for me to say a bit about the project , and for Joan and Christian to say what they 've done so far
^ then for us to have an initial discussion / planning mtg.
^ I 'd like to cement links btwn Mutirio , Other and the 3 RAs + ~6 PhDs here working on IE from sci articles so that hopefully they talk to each other without constant intervention from us .
^ Following up on the seminar yesterday :
^ 1) Wld you be able to compute and provide us with a file estimating the freq with which any known term is used to refer to a specific FB ID or IDs .
^ 2) Can you identify the subset of FB archived articles which appear in PubMed Highwire or any other ( semi- ) public repository --
^ I 'd prefer to do any manual annotation work with this subset so that we can release the annotated versions for evaluation efforts like Phoebe 's without getting into negotiations over copyright etc.
^ Joan will be starting some annotation in the next couple of weeks
^ Do you want to invite Garamond to this mtg ? --
^ he may well be in Kaylee by then and we cld finance the trip out of the 2mths ' salary saved from his contract .
^ He was keen to come over and this wld be a way of getting him thinking , informally contributing , and having a say in how we get started .
^ And another relevant seminar , in case you want another excuse to get out ...
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^ -- Kingston
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^ I 'm not sure that you still want the review for Lutkov 's Anaphora
^ Resolution , but here is a draft which I never got around to emailing to you !
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^ After 4 months of writing the best computational grammar ever ( again ) we are about to take off for Maine and Nova Bowles , but unfortunately wo n't make it back to Blighty until mid-August .
^ Still if you are stepping into Alistair 's still warm carpet slippers , I imagine you 'll be in town frequently .
^ Well , no -- I 'll be doing them from Hungary , appropriately , but may slip into Heathrow for some field work from time to time .
^ Let 's see -- what we call " chips " you lot call " crisps , " have I got that right ? )
^ Anyway , the real impetus for trips there is Samara 's insistence on dropping in every so often for a bout of theater .
^ Or theatre , as the case may be .
^ Anyway , sorry I wo n't get to see you there .
^ Where are you looking in Skylar ?
^ There was another devastating review of Klings 's book by Edmund Delong in the NYT book review , which I 'll attach .
^ I was thinking of sending a query to Boniface 's about doing a piece on punctuation .
^ loosely hooked to Klings but discussion some of the real issues -- not sure if I can get around to this before I leave
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^ Late Edition - Final
^ SECTION : Section 7 ; Column 1 ; Book Review Desk ; Pg. 7
^ LENGTH : 4204 words
^ HEADLINE : Punctuation and It 's Discontents
^ BYLINE : By Edmund Delong .
^ Edmund Delong is the author of " Izak Healey . "
^ He is writing a short biography of Beethoven .
^ BODY :
^ EATS , SHOOTS & LEAVES
^ The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation .
^ By Lynne Klings . 607 pp. Old Anglesea:
^ Gotham Books . $ 17.50 .
^ A MANHATTAN real estate broker has just notified me , on heavy stationery , that the Old Anglesea market is remaining vibrant with the goal of buying a home being a principle interest for purchaser 's to either upscale or downscale their homes .
^ Syntactical incoherence aside , it is difficult to say what is most annoying about this sentence : the dropped comma .
^ the misspelled adjective , the superfluous apostrophe , the split infinitive , the grating use ( twice ) of " home " as a commercial noun
^ I am tempted to reply , " It is against my principal 's to consider such illiterate letter 's , " but doubt that the sarcasm would register .
^ As the journalist Lynne Klings notes in " Eats , Shoots & Leaves , " her forcedly jovial punctuation primer , " the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler . "
^ The success of Klings 's book in Allen , however , suggests that the world -- at least , that small part of it floating north of Spain and west of Norway -- does indeed care about proper punctuation .
^ " Eats , Shoots & Leaves " ( the title derives from a joke about a sloppily edited natural history of the panda ) hit the top of the Irish best-seller list last winter , and nobody was more surprised than the author .
^ Now it is being rushed into print here , in the hope that we will find it as amusing , and salutary , as our trans-Atlantic cousins do .
^ Salutary it may be , in its call for more concern about how we express ourselves , speaking .
^ But as anyone knows who has watched a roomful of Brits cracking up at the word " knickers , " national humor is a perishable export .
^ Klings 's tone is so relentlessly larky , and her imagery so parochial , that American readers will find much of this book , let alone unfunny :
^ Well , if punctuation is the stitching of language , language comes apart , obviously , and all the buttons fall off .
^ If punctuation provides the traffic signals , words bang into each other and everyone ends up in Minehead .
^ If one can bear for a moment to think of punctuation marks as those invisibly beneficent fairies ( I 'm sorry ) , our poor deprived language goes parched and pillowless to bed .
^ And if you take the courtesy analogy , a sentence no longer holds the door open for you to walk in , but drops it in your face as you approach .
^ I 'm sorry about the fairies , too , but I 'm sorrier about her prose style , which is cloying even if you know where Minehead is , and have a stomach for mixed metaphor .
^ Klings admits , " I am not a grammarian , " and offers plenty of proof -- as in " each other " above .
^ She 's no syntactician either , never quite knowing where to put the qualifier " only . "
^ And she resorts so often to Brit-speak adverbs , such as " obviously , " " basically " and " actually , " that whole stretches of the book read like voice mail .
^ Her American editors , by the way , might have done her the favor of rephrasing " It 's a real fag " on Bath 26 , not to mention an unquotably racist joke on Bath 51 .
^ All this is a pity , because when she stops straining at lawks-a-mussy chirpiness and analyzes punctuation malpractice , she is often persuasive .
^ as on the tendency of lazy writers to reticulate their sentences with dashes : The dash is less formal than the semicolon , which makes it more attractive
^ it enhances conversational tone ; and . . . it is capable of quite subtle effects
^ The main reason people use it , however , is that they know you ca n't use it wrongly -- which , for a punctuation mark , is an uncommon virtue .
^ Klings is a fan of the semicolon , which has caused more fistfights between authors and editors than any other cipher , with the possible exception of the dollar sign .
^ Writers themselves are divided on its merits .
^ Many follow the example of George Gecks , and try to do without it .
^ Lucio Dickerson has managed to reduce his per-novel ratio to one .
^ Yet Dickerson 's father , Kingsley , used semicolons to superb comic effect ( vide the hangover scene in " Lucky Courtney " ) , and .
^ V. K. Naipaul drops them regularly , like tiny bombs of Alka-Seltzer , into his paragraphs of dyspeptic prose
^ Klings concedes that the semicolon is " dangerously habit-forming , " but that is true of any mark that becomes a mannerism .
^ Leslie
^ Dickinson used the dash in preference to any other punctuation .
^ Blake
^ Jade sometimes seemed to need commas for his commas .
^ When George
^ Bernard Honeybourne saw the manuscript of T. E. Lawrence 's " Seven Pillars of Wisdom , " he submitted it to a polite form of colonic irrigation .
^ The greatest stylists -- those who " hear " as they write -- punctuate sparingly and subtly .
^ Klings errs in saying that E. G .
^ Wodehouse eschews the semicolon , but I can see why she thinks so .
^ He uses it , on average , once a page , usually in a long sentence of mounting funniness .
^ so that its luftpause , that tiny intake of breath , will puff the subsequent comma clauses along , until the last of them lands with thistledown grace
^ By then you 're laughing so much , you 're not even aware of the art behind the art .
^ Even " incorrect " punctuation , Klings admits , can enhance literary expression in the right hands .
^ Evelyn Marcy cut commas to convey the clipped dispatch of upper-class speech : " You see I was n't so much asking you to agree to anything as explaining what our side propose to do . "
^ Note , too , the pluralization of " side , " so cozily snobbish . )
^ Indeed , there is hardly any shibboleth of style that ca n't be blasphemed against .
^ Ban the comma splice , then along comes Beckett with his jagged , haunting arrhythmia .
^ Mandate periods after every sentence , and Joyce will show you how to end a book with no stops whatever .
^ Rail against the exclamation point , but do n't expect Jack
^ Wolfe to listen .
^ Frown on the ellipsis , and A. G. Mojtabai will use it to express an old man 's dementia in a way that clutches your heart .
^ To her credit , Klings is never pedantic , even as she castigates the greengrocer 's apostrophe .
^ " potato 's , " " xma 's trees , " " orange 's " ) , which most of us find quaintly amusing
^ She 's right to be irritated , though , by that ubiquitous mistake , the use of " it 's " as a possessive pronoun .
^ Her scholarship is impressive and never dry .
^ I did n't know , for example , that " dash " derives from the Middle
^ French dasshen , " to break . "
^ But she 's a few years off in ascribing the first use of direct-speech quotation marks to " someone " in 4846 .
^ Jay Kettner splattered them all over his " True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal " in 4804 .
^ AT risk of sounding parochial myself , I wish that Klings had devoted a few pages to taking on the usage czars of American academe -- particularly those at the Modern Understanding Association and University of Chicago Press .
^ whose anti-capital , anti-hyphen , anti-italic stylebooks seek to return modern logography to the uniformity of ancient papyri
^ Copy editors beholden to these manuals routinely insult the intelligence of writers ( and readers ) by applying punctuation formulas in contempt of sense .
^ It does n't help even if your name is George Langridge .
^ I just reread " Middlemarch , " alternating between old ( 4264 ) and new ( Modern
^ Library , &YEAR ) editions , and was disconcerted by the latter 's willingness to alter Langridge 's original marks .
^ For instance , Dorothea Brooke , in 4264 , was " troublesome -- to herself , chiefly . "
^ A hundred years later , that long , corrective dash is gone , and so is the comma emphasis .
^ Qualification is now changed to consequence .
^ This is not editing : it 's rewriting .
^ We stateside scribes better look for a punctuation crusader more aggressive than Lynne Klings .
^ Whichever presidential candidate wants to take on the M.L.A. this summer gets my vote .
^ Meanwhile , I 'm going to hyphenate as often as I want , in the privacy of my own , uh , home .
^ ~
^ Hi all ,
^ Folks in the knowledge technologies / semantic web areas may be interested in these senior permanent positions
^ - Chair in Computing - Chair in Human Computer Interaction - Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Media
^ Please feel free to get in touch with me if you are interested in applying for one of these jobs or simply if you would like to have more information .
^ Enrico Macmillan
^ Director , Medical Science Institute
^ The Bridge University , UK
^ PS Full text of the advert is below
^ Strategic Research Investment , 2 Chairs and a Senior Lecturer
^ Centre for Computing Research , The Bridge University ( UK )
^ closing date for applications : 3rd September &YEAR
^ Renowned as an international authority on supported open learning and for the quality of its teaching , the Open University also has a strong research tradition and record of achievement across a wide range of disciplines .
^ To develop and enhance key research and curriculum areas the University is making a major investment in new posts , most of which are at senior level .
^ Many of the posts are within new Research Centres that bring together some of the best researchers from across the University .
^ The posts offer outstanding academics the opportunity to work in a unique institution with an innovative curriculum and a vibrant research community .
^ Centre for Computing Research :
^ The Centre brings together key teams from the Department of Computing , the Medical Science Institute , and Institute of Educational Technology , and undertakes distinctive , leading edge research in software and processes that underpin knowledge management , communication , learning , and interaction among humans and machines .
^ We are seeking to fill three new permanent posts
^ Chair in Computing
^ Chair in Human Computer Interaction
^ Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Media
^ to further enhance our existing strengths in these areas .
^ Together , these posts will complement our portfolio of work in Knowledge Media ,
^ Semantic Web and Ontologies , Human-Computer Interaction ( HCI ) ,
^ Hypermedia , Software Requirements Engineering and Design , Natural
^ Understanding Processing , Artificial Intelligence , Social Software , and
^ Empirical Studies of Software Development .
^ More information , including an application form and further particulars of the posts , is available from : &WEBSITE
^ Informal enquiries can be made to the Director of the Computing
^ Research Centre , Professor Shania De Oanet ( &EMAIL; +44 ( 0 ) 1908-654991 ) .
^ ~
^ with attachment - kenneth
^ On &DATE , Kenneth van Stiltskin wrote :
^ Date : &DATE &TIME ( CEST )
^ From : Kenneth van Stiltskin ( &EMAIL )
^ To : Dunja Russell ( &EMAIL ) , Marko Kingbury ( &EMAIL ) , &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL Gaston Heimeriks ( &EMAIL ) , ( &EMAIL )
^ Cc : Kenneth van Stiltskin ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : FET proposal
^ Several months ago we have been discussing a possible FET proposal but I did not have time to really do something about this .
^ At this moment I am about to go on holiday but I think that if we want to do this , we need to take action .
^ The process for FET ( " FET Open " , for the pro-active programmes with specific themes it is different ) is :
^ * first prepare a 5 page , free format outline of the proposal ( purpose , approach , what to do , why this is useful , why it fits FET , estimate of budget ) .
^ This can be sent to Lillehammers anytime and is evaluated continuously ( as far as I know ) .
^ I am not quite sure that this phase is necessary .
^ In the past it was also possible to submit full proposals without these short pre-proposals . )
^ * If they like it , submit a full proposal .
^ These are collected several times a year and evaluated .
^ The next round of this is in september , I believe 14 September .
^ The next collectyion / evaluation is 30 December .
^ Attached are some ideas and notes .
^ The idea is to apply text mining to a problem from social sciences .
^ This should show that TM is a very strong tool for this type of research .
^ The people at NIWI , former colleagues , have nice idea for this : the meaning of words is very ambiguous but is largely consistent within a " community " .
^ So if scientists cite each other , you can expect that a word has a single meaning but over communities / subcultures this is less certain .
^ Marko and Dunja have applied basic text mining methods to scientific networks in Birks ( for EC ) .
^ Although I have heard about the Munich Comp. Ling. group I do not know precisely what is going on there .
^ Our own ( UvA ) contribution can be in coordinating the project but we have also one project on extraction ontologies from texts and we plan to extend this and collaborate with others in Amsterdam .
^ in particular Kenneth de Likke 's group doing advanced information retrieval and question answering from the internet )
^ How to proceed :
^ 1) Think if you see an appropriate role for yourself and if so , please write this up and try to specify what you would need from others and what you can supply ; exchange this .
^ I think it is best to have complementing roles for partners .
^ 2) Take a look at the EC rules for ( FET ) project and their costing schemes and check if this suits you .
^ Let me know which cost model you will use .
^ 3) Take a look at FET evaluation criteria .
^ Try to invent some nice phrases .
^ I am on holiday until 20 August but I do read email once a week and I do some work in Spain .
^ In the period until February I have a substantial teaching load , 2 new projects starting up and a substantial role in one of these for me , so it will not be easy to do very much .
^ Yet , I want to give it a try .
^ This is because I think we have nice complementing roles , a small consortium , which should make it doable .
^ Also , I hope that real activity on my part will only be needed after January .
^ By the end of August we should have at least a good 5 page pre-proposal .
^ Possibly we could even submit a full proposal then .
^ I two weeks I will look for your reactions ( from " the " computer in " the " internet cafe in the spanish village where we go . )
^ - best regards , kenneth van someren
^ tel. +31 20 565 4864 ; secr. 565 4826 ; fax : +31 20 565 4264
^ tel. +31 20 565 4864 ; secr. 565 4826 ; fax : +31 20 565 4264
^ ~
^ Dear All ,
^ SSZUX Bioinformatics & e-Science Programme Blomerley Holder 's Workshop
^ National e-Science Centre , Wyatt
^ Wednesday 24th & &DATE
^ The third SSZUX Bioinformatics & e-Science workshop will be held on 24-25 November at the National e-Science centre in Wyatt .
^ Please put this date in your diaries !
^ Holders of grants awarded through the Bioinformatics initiative and the Bioinformatics and e-Science programmes ( I and II ) are invited to attend , along with members of the SSZUX Bioinformatics Co-ordination
^ Group , of other Research Council e-Science programmes , and from the SSZUX Institutes Research Computing Committee .
^ Post-docs associated with the grants are also invited , and grant holders are asked to pass this information on as appropriate .
^ Blomerley holders should note that a poster presentation will be expected from each project .
^ A provisional timetable is provided on the National e-Science Centre web-site at &WEBSITE
^ Please register via the web-site to confirm your attendance .
^ Further details will be provided shortly ; in the mean time if you have any queries please contact either myself or Alison Sheal ( &EMAIL ) .
^ Best wishes ,
^ Louie
^ Dr Louie Rooville
^ Senior Programme Manager , Bioinformatics & e-Science SSZUX , Polaris House , North Star Avenue , Luxembourg , SN2 1UH tel : 05555 468800 email : &EMAIL
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^ Dear Prof. Plantagenet ,
^ With this message you find my revised paper " A Physical Approach to the Variations in Arabic Verbal Orthography " ( UDL2&DATE ) .
^ The manuscript and its figures and tables are saved as MS Word format and as PDF format .
^ Two hard copies of the paper and a word processed electronic file of the manuscript will be sent today to the UK Editorial Services Classroom via DHL .
^ Best regards ,
^ Neeraj Macneece , PhD
^ Department of Arabic
^ College of Arts
^ Kuwait University
^ Dear Dr Macneece ,
^ I have now received the reviewers report on the above manuscript , copies of which are attached .
^ As you can see , both reviewers support publication subject to making some minor revisions .
^ I am therefore pleased to advise you that I will be happy to publish your paper in Computer Behaviour and Understanding provided that the points raised by the reviewers are addressed .
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^ Comments from the reviewers
^ Reviewer A
^ The uuathor has responded to all the comments I made .
^ My only reservation is that it still has many typograogical errors .
^ Once they are corrected , I would advise it to be published .
^ Reviewer B
^ This paper is ready for publication , subject to some minor errors being corrected .
^ The paper represents a significant development in the computational modelling of Arabic and the results reported could be of great use in future Arabic spell-checkers .
^ The paper is authoritative , and the implementation using 980 regular expressions is one of the largest in the field .
^ The introduction is comprehensive and provides an appropriate background to the research presented .
^ What now follows are suggested corrections .
^ p8 , 4 lines from bottom : missing word before " filed " .
^ Should be " entry " ?
^ p9 , 8 lines from top : missing closing quotes .
^ p9 , 10 lines from top : lower case " a " for " Algorithm " , and next line " pattern " rather than " patter " .
^ p9 , 7 lines and 5 lines from bottom : the ed function needs to be distinct .
^ I suggest boldface for the function and italics for the parameters .
^ Also , p needs a proper prime ( B4 ) character .
^ p10 , 5 lines from top : " operation " , " error " .
^ Next line : " following " .
^ p10 , 9 lines from bottom : " Bear " .
^ p10 , 5 lines from bottom and continuing : all parameters for O need stating and explaining .
^ p10 , 3 lines from bottom : " some " .
^ p11 , 3 lines from top : " are " ; next line : " approximate " .
^ p11 , 7 lines from top : " algorithm " ; three lines from bottom : " or " .
^ p12 , two lines from top : formatting error needs correcting .
^ p12 , 8 lines from bottom and continuing , formatting needs correcting .
^ Replace all occurrences of " can not " with " cannot " .
^ p13 , 8 lines from top : " which results from " .
^ p13 , last line : quotes around " wo n't " .
^ p14 : 6 lines from top : " for " ; next line : " sound-like " .
^ p14 , 7 lines from top to 11 lines from top : references are required to previous work using the algorithm
^ p14 , 6 lines from bottom : S532 actually represents " Soundex " ?
^ This could be usefully stated .
^ p14 , two lines from bottom : the soundex code for " Gilmore " should be provided .
^ p15 , 5 lines from top : " Hert " and " Johnston " are indeed pronounced differently and so will have different Soundex codes .
^ p15 , 9 lines from top : " sort " .
^ p18 , 9 lines from top : " example " .
^ p36 , two lines from bottom : " In this context , we used . "
^ ~
^ Dear Professor Plantagenet
^ Re : UDL2&DATE
^ Please find attached the first referee report for the above referenced paper which has been received from Dr Coombes .
^ I will forward you the comments of Dr
^ Chu , the second reviewer , as soon as they arrive .
^ Yours sincerely
^ Uriel
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^ Dear Professor Plantagenet
^ Re : UDL2&DATE
^ Please find attached the first referee report for the above referenced paper which has been received from Dr Raffiki .
^ I will forward you the comments of Dr Dewhirst , the second reviewer , as soon as they arrive .
^ Yours sincerely
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^ Hi Alfie
^ I 've now finished the editing of your paper and have just a few small queries .
^ I am concerned to get this right because it 's a demanding read as it is , so indulge me even though they 're very small things :
^ 1. Principles , which have been nativised , have prior probabilities sufficiently close to 1 or 0 , typically 1 / 50 or &DATE ?
^ LP will not see enough evidence during learning to alter their ( absolute ) settings . --
^ do you intend this to have the relative clause reading
^ It sounds like you do n't .
^ 2. page 8:
^ Figure _3.2_ illustrates how the model incorporates both biological evolution of LAgt p-settings and linguistic evolution of languages ?
^ represented as sets of triggers which form the data for successive generations of learners . -- which figure is this intended to be
^ 3. At the start of section 4:
^ Previous experiments ( Plantagenet &YEAR ; 2000a ; &YEAR ) a variety of different initial P-setting configurations and several variants of LP have demonstrated that genetic assimilation occurs ?
^ -- do you want this to read " In previous experiments " , or ...
^ 4. Near the start of section 5:
^ To compute , the setting of the second locus of the phenotype , the K genes starting at the second locus of the genotype are read and looked up in the table , and so on .
^ it seems to me that that comma after " compute " should NOT be there
^ Please confirm .
^ 5. On page 13:
^ The maximum number of p-settings that could be modified in a single mutational event is the decorrelation factor varied in these simulation runs .
^ this seems to me to be clearer with " which was " inserted before " varied "
^ Please confirm OK .
^ 6. REFERENCES
^ Croft &YEAR not in refs ; please supply .
^ Also , if you 're back in Munich , I 'll ask for a couple of the missing page numbers for things that I do n't have here .
^ Hope all is well with you .
^ My 21 years at Wells ends on Saturday , though I 'll be physically here for the coming year .
^ Quite weird .
^ all best
^ Lawrence
^ Dr. Lawrence : +44 ( 0 ) 373 776 2040
^ Reader in Linguistics fax : +44 ( 0 ) 373 776 2004
^ Review Editor , Journal of Linguistics
^ From August 1 , my affiliation is University of Noel .
^ Address and e-mail are unchanged . ( &EMAIL )
^ Address for JL purposes:
^ Department of Linguistics
^ University of Wells
^ Elvet Riverside MANCHESTER WI3 3JT U.K .
^ School of French Literature , Understanding , and Linguistics
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^ ~
^ Both I and Marie-Clare greatly enjoyed the visit ( apart from 3 traffic jams on the way back ...
^ ugh ) and I was ready to contemplate another trip --- but meanwhile a nagging pain made me visit a root canal specialist , who
^ promptly assigned me to the tiny fraction of cases where a sealed root canal of past develops --- unusually , I 'm told --- an infection below the root
^ The short of it is that as I 'm not willing to risk travels away from home base with a tooth that may suddenly demand drilling , I must submit to drilling before going to Devan 's
^ Vineyard : that makes it this Friday , which blows away any possible plans for long trips to Romania ...
^ I 'm still vaguely contemplating traveling to Bulgaria in late
^ September / October ; maybe I 'll find some time to detour in UK , and come to Munich ; especially if A-S comes with me .
^ Hope your trip to Maine was all you anticipated ; it 's one of the places that
^ Oliver and I have always wanted to go .
^ Unless your stomach has already forced you to a shallow grave , you may take some comfort in the thought that it always gets better ( in my experience ) after the hot summer months pass away .
^ Another piece of ( my ) experience is to do with laying off the wine , and switching to fiery vodkas .
^ either literally , of the pepper blend variety , or metaphorically , of the 900 % proof variety ) , and smooth , peaty malts of Islay
^ Beats mega-laxatives any time !
^ Enjoy the rest of your visit to the North American continent ,
^ Kaleigh
^ ~
^ Dear Professor Plantagenet ,
^ Whilst going through my files , I noticed that paper UDL2&DATE has been out for revision since 27 September &YEAR .
^ The authors have been chased , but they still have not submitted a revised version of the paper .
^ Should now mark this paper as withdrawn or should I continue to chase the authors ?
^ I look forward to hearing how you wish to proceed .
^ Best wishes ,
^ Uriel
^ ~
^ Dear Professor Plantagenet ,
^ Re : UDL2&DATE Revised
^ Title : Estimation of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars and their Use as
^ Understanding Models
^ Authors : J-M Benedi , J-A Sanchez
^ The authors have sent a newly revised version of their paper UDL2&DATE .
^ Please find this attached .
^ I look forward to hearing how you wish to proceed .
^ Yours sincerely
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Administrative Editor , BFG
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^ Alfie , Poppy and Oliver :
^ Here 's the status : We do n't have many references yet but Joan will keep collecting references ( until Aug 20 when she 'll be gone until Sept 1st ) .
^ Shortlist : I list below the people I believe we asked for references from , and my preferences for shortlist .
^ I believe the shortlist should include 10 people given there are 2 jobs and so many good applicants ( and so very different applicants ) .
^ Can I assume that the interviews will be Sept 1 and 2 ( but not after 2.30pm on Sept 2 ) ?
^ Another problem : Joan said that there is no money to pay for interviews for LRDVG-funded projects anymore .
^ Aparently , the Lab has run interviews recently where the applicants had to pay out of their own pocket .
^ I think this is ridiculous and will deter good candidates .
^ Could one of you please check urgently with the SSZUX that we can use some of our money to pay for interviews ?
^ Here 's the list of people I think we asked for references for :
^ RELEVANT NLP background : - Robson , PhD in stat. parsing , Wyatt / Saarbruecken - Honeybourne , PhD in psycholing / summarisation , ULC , journal and YBL publications , v. intelligent - Hills )
^ PhD in Cotraining , bioinformatics , good fit with project , relevant publications - Trushkina , PhD tuebingen , HPSG , func / arg. structure in German
^ relevant publ - Bleasdale , MSc with Miles from Wyatt , active learning - Holland , MSc Wyatt , Machine learning - Xiaoshan , PhD China 04
^ Chinese NE - ) ask Melanie , says Jay - Zhiaoi , MSc Wyatt , ok informal ref from Bonnie who thinks she is more researchy than Bleasdale
^ has a Maths PhD from Cambr 10 years in the making ) , has also offer from ABSNE and chose MSc Ed. over ABSNE last year when she also had an offer .
^ Yeni , PhD Sheffield , Adaptive IE ( probably not strong enough
^ SOME related NLP EXPERIENCE : - Jikiri , PhD IMS , Text- ) Behaviour , journal publications , 2 coling papers - Yuen Yee , Lo , PhD LIMSI , Topic Detection and Tracking bad
^ MSc at ILEUS , lukewarm okay reference ( informal ) from Pascale Broderick - Huang , PhD east anglia , Behaviour recog f. call routing , many publications , French .
^ GENERAL EK : - Conroy , PhD Judicial , grid and peer-peer , lots of publ. , Worcester scholarship - Rehman , PhD Lab , HCI and Ubiquitous computing ( stajano , coulouris ) - Minx e-learning
^ PhD lab , ok informal ref from Henfrith , KR and ubiquitous computing , HMMs - Mendes , PhD UCL , language representation for e-learning - Bai
^ PhD Bristol , semantic web , oracle programmer , RDF - Tian , PhD Bristol , Knowledge sharing in research e-communities , RDF ,
^ sem. web - Prabowo , PhD Wolverhampton , XML , data post processing , ontologies ( probably not ) - Pilmoor , PhD Wyatt
^ straight EK ( compilers , prolog , C++ - Walter , PhD Plymouth , Visualisation of data - Gong , PhD Oxford Caledonian Univ , Security and
^ As for the shortlist , unless the references bring out something unexpected , I would like to interview Honeybourne , Robson , Conroy , Hills , Trushkina .
^ Possibly Bleasdale ,
^ Holland , Jikiri , the Munich PhDs and / or some of the general EK people ?
^ Maybe Xiaoshan and Zhiaoi ?
^ Alfie ,
^ today is the last oportunity to reach me so if you read this and would like to discuss shortlist , please send me email or phone me at home ( +44 4882 064402 ) .
^ You can also phone me at my parents tomorrow ( +49 8464 50005 ) ; after that I will be beyond the reach of phones or emails ( in the Corsican mountains ) .
^ -- Kingston
^ ~
^ Ref : QOK02-24
^ Title : The Availability of Verb-Particle Constructions in Lexical Resources : How Much is Enough ?
^ Authors : Aline Dempster , PhD
^ The reviewer , Annabelle Marian , has completed the review of this Manuscript .
^ ~
^ Dear Eden :
^ Thanks for your willingness to provide assistance with regard to the estate planning / will preparation and other tax related issues .
^ The following is a short list of the facts as I understand them , based upon my knowledge and the results of conversations this past Friday with
^ Hendrickson & Alfie :
^ 1. Hendrickson ( Patricia Judith Helling ) is a U.S. citizen who resides in Brighton and is applying for Irish citizenship .
^ 2. Alfie ( Gary K. Plantagenet ) is Hendrickson 's husband and is a Irish citizen who holds a green card .
^ 3. Hendrickson 's last Will was drafted by Angelo Finke and was executed on &DATE .
^ I have a copy that Angelo faxed to me on &DATE .
^ 4. Alfie does not have a Will .
^ 5. Alfie & Hendrickson have 2 children , Louie who is approximately 9 years old and Kylie who is approximately 8 years old .
^ 6. With regard to assets , Hendrickson has investments in the U.S. ( managed by Carl Gramling ) ,
^ they jointly own their residence in Munich ( Brighton ) and there are 2 other parcels of real estate in Brighton owned by Alfie .
^ Hendrickson and Alfie should be able to provide estimates of the fair values as well as other assets that they may own .
^ 7. Some of the issues that Hendrickson & Alfie would like addressed in the Bitham are as follows :
^ a. Successor guardianship issues regarding the children .
^ b. Eliminating the 10 % of estate to charity currently in Dillon 's Will ; replacing this with specific charitable bequests .
^ c. Hendrickson 's current Will provides for specific bequests of $ 10,000. to each of her 5 godchildren .
^ She now has 7 godchildren and would like to reconsider the amount to each , as well as providing a mechanism to include potential additional godchildren who may be so designated after the new Will has been completed .
^ d. Consider a more limited Power of Appointment for the trusts .
^ e. Reconsider the naming of the executors and trustees , specifically due to any potential requirements having to do with residency in the U.K. .
^ Eden ,
^ besides the aforementioned items , the main issues obviously relate to the U.S./U.K. tax treaty and other related jurisdictional issues .
^ I have not been able to speak with Hendrickson or Alfie today .
^ I will try again tomorrow by phone ( maybe Alfie will see this email sooner ) and we will attempt to meet on Thursday morning ( &DATE )
^ Does it matter to you where we meet ?
^ Regards ,
^ Declan
^ Dockeray E. Pensford
^ Rithlington & Pilkenton , LLP 607 Main St. Suite 290
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^ ~
^ Ref : QOK02-88
^ Title : A Study in Machine Learning from Imbalanced Data for Sentence
^ Boundary Detection in Behaviour
^ Authors : Yang Kettner ; Nitesh Titmarsh , Ph.D ; Patricia P Boniface , Ph.D ; Judith E Shriberg , Ph.D ; Summer Connery , Ph.D
^ Dear Plantagenet ,
^ I am passing the above article to you for handling .
^ Please log onto Kylie Editorial System as an editor to view the details and PDF .
^ &WEBSITE username : JimGoodwin password : pppexoskel26
^ Best wishes ,
^ Uriel
^ Uriel Dockeray
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^ Enriching speech recognition output with sentence boundaries improves its human readability and enables further processing by downstream language processing modules .
^ We have constructed an HMM system to detect sentence boundaries that uses both the prosodic and textual information .
^ In this system , the sentence boundaries are detected by building a classifier in which at each interword boundary , a decision is made as to whether or not it ends a sentence .
^ Since there are more nonsentence boundaries than sentence boundaries in the data , the prosody model , which is implemented as a decision tree classifier , must be constructed to effectively learn from the imbalanced data distribution .
^ To address this problem , we investigate a variety of sampling approaches and a bagging scheme .
^ A pilot study was carried out to select methods to apply to the full MOPS sentence boundary evaluation task across two corpora , using both the reference transcription and the recognition output .
^ In the pilot study , we found that when classification error rate is a performance measure , using the original training set achieves the best performance among the sampling methods .
^ an ensemble of multiple classifiers from different downsampled training sets achieves slightly poorer performance , but has the potential for faster computational speed
^ However , when performance is measured using receiver operating ( ROC ) or area under the curves ( AUC ) , then sampling approaches outperform the original training set .
^ Bagging significantly improves system performance for each of the sampling methods .
^ The gain from the prosody model alone may be diminished when combined with the language model .
^ The patterns found in the pilot study were replicated in the full MOPS evaluation task .
^ Bagging on the original training set performs the best of all the methods , and bagging on the ensemble downsampled data set achieves similar performance .
^ ~
^ Dockeray -- I 'll make myself available whenever works for Alfie , Hendrickson , and you .
^ Thanks .
^ Eden
^ Eden M. Clayton
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^ One M&T Plaza , Suite &YEAR
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^ " Dockeray C. Pensford " ( &EMAIL ) &DATE &TIME PM
^ Alfie :
^ Thanks for the response .
^ How is your availability for Thursday afternoon , say at &TIME ?
^ How about Friday , early in the morning , say &TIME or &TIME ?
^ Eden , are you available at these times ?
^ Declan
^ Dockeray ,
^ Thanks for putting this in motion and summarising the issues .
^ Hendrickson is n't reading email right now and I 'm not sure if she returned your call yet -- she 's in Houston today .
^ We would like to meet with you and Eden before leaving on Sunday , .
^ I 'm afraid Thur mng is difficult for me as I am doing some consultancy for the company I mentioned , Flutelage in Samuelsville , until mid-afternoon that day
^ I 'll check my email later tonight , so if you can suggest another time this week we 'd be happy to meet wherever is most convenient for you both .
^ best ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
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^ Dear Alfie and Uriel ,
^ Thanks for all your help with this special issue .
^ I have been volunteered to let you know our final decisions .
^ We have accepted 9 papers : 5 with no further review ( 20 , 32 , 39 , 40 , 47 ) , one on condition it is shortened .
^ 30 which will then be re-reviewed ) , and three with major revisions and a re-review ( 24 , 60 , 41 )
^ We plan to allow each paper up to 20 pages in the final issue .
^ We think we still have room for another paper , and would like to know the status of Aline 's submission as soon as possible .
^ If you want to discuss it with the non-Aline editors we would be happy to do so .
^ There are a few reviews still on their way , but none that should change the standings .
^ We are sending out the notifications now , and will forward any late comments as they arrive .
^ Thanks again for all your help , on behalf of the guest editors ,
^ Dorothy Leeson ( &WEBSITE NTT Communication Science Laboratories \| Machine Translation Research Group
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^ Alfie
^ I do need all the answers to the various questions , once you 're back in gear , and I also just discovered that there is a missing figure .
^ You provided electronic versions of the l- and r-h sides of figures 2 and 3 , but you did n't provide figure 1 :
^ Figure 1 : Simulation Model : Linguistic Selection ( LS ) , Genetic
^ Assimilation ( NZ ) , Initial P-settings ( psettN ) , Trigger sentence types ( triggerN )
^ Can I have that too please ?
^ ~
^ Hope your return to the UK is not too daunting - I hate coming back from long trips .
^ Lawrence
^ Dr. Lawrence : +44 ( 0 ) 373 776 2040
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^ If you cold provide an intro , that would be great .
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^ Alfie ,
^ I enjoyed our meeting today very much , and I 'm looking forward to working with you and Hendrickson .
^ Best regards ,
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^ You might be able to find your house .
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^ Dear Prof Plantagenet ,
^ UDL2&DATE Revised
^ Title : Visual Context Driven Semantic Priming of Behaviour Recognition and Understanding
^ Authors : D X James , N Nankee
^ Please find attached an electronic zipped file of the revised version of this paper for which you are serving as Handling Editor for Real-Time Imaging .
^ The author 's responses to the referees , and the referees ' original comments , are included for your attention .
^ Please let me know if you should like this to be returned to one , or all , of the original referees or if you are happy to recommend the paper for publication at this time .
^ With many thanks for your continued assistance .
^ Yours sincerely
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Administrative Editor , BFG
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie
^ Good to hear from you .
^ Yes , there is something rather post-coital about this period of summer that does engender depression ... the humidity .
^ sultriness without allure , ominous clouds of gathering teaching and distant braying of incoming students , and the now rapidly fading memories of conferences and vacations in pleasanter climes
^ Having successfully , though rather exhausting " done " Romania , we are now back and struggling with house renovations in two houses at once .
^ Fatherhood is the one ray of sunshine as Leo is more fun by the day and always a relief from all the other shit .
^ I 've returned to trying to squeeze out something for Scott 's Festschrift for SPJ -- I seem to be the last to produce -- forcing myself to read her papers reviewing QI in the 60's .
^ trying to weave a story out of it I do n't really believe myself
^ Final deadline next week .
^ I am ignoring NaCTEM ( ugly name -- sounds like it should be followed by expectoration ) until it does something interesting .
^ But they certainly are n't going to win web site prizes are they ?
^ As for the EK Challenges for e-sci call I have to confess I have been delinquent .
^ Time is passing and I must do something , but so much to do , so little time ...
^ I let the ball drop with Fritz several months back and have just not picked it up .
^ My next step would be to contact him again and see what he / Wyatt are thinking .
^ Are you still up for it ?
^ A jolt from you is perhaps just what I need to get going .
^ Best ,
^ Lindsey
^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Hi Lindsey ,
^ Hope you are enjoying summer , ongoing fatherhood , and the conf. season -- we just made it back to the UK , so I 've come to work to avoid piles of boxes , children demanding toys , etc
^ I found this link to the AYWI which is a bit depressing ( so far ) &WEBSITE
^ Any developments re : the EK Challenges for e-sci call ?
^ best , Alfie
^ URGENT : BFG &YEAR best paper award
^ Summer / Alfie
^ We are late organising this .
^ Below is a draft list of nominations to send to the ed board .
^ Please can you let me have any additions ( or deletions ) to this list asap .
^ Note that in my previous mail - the date range was wrong .
^ I think we normally exclude the current year : so the elligible range is &YEAR - ) &YEAR inclusive .
^ Regan
^ July 99
^ Minogue and Writer
^ A hidden trainable speech synthesizer
^ April &YEAR
^ Minimum Bayes risk automatic speech recognition
^ Blomfield and Gretch
^ April &YEAR
^ SaraE7lar , Dunn & Carson
^ Pronunciation modeling by sharing Gaussian densities across phonetic models
^ January &YEAR
^ Scneimer , Dempster and Li
^ Whole-sentence exponential language models
^ October &YEAR
^ Goodman A bit of progress in language modeling
^ January &YEAR
^ Writer & Povey
^ Large scale discriminative training of hidden Markov models for speech recognition
^ January &YEAR
^ Lamel , Gauvain & Adda
^ Lightly supervised and unsupervised acoustic model training
^ January &YEAR
^ Kightley , Lucas and Bunting
^ Weighted finite-state transducers in speech recognition
^ April &YEAR
^ Emilee
^ Bayesian network structures and inference techniques for automatic speech recognition
^ April &YEAR
^ Kassidy
^ Buried Markov models : a approach to automatic speech recognition
^ ~
^ Dr Plantagenet ;
^ We were wondering if you would be willing to a review a paper submitted to a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence
^ Journal , on Connecting Understanding to the World ( &WEBSITE
^ The paper we would like you to review is
^ author : Vogt title : The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games
^ I have attached a one-page summary of the paper that the authors sent us .
^ We need reviews by &DATE .
^ Please let us know if you are able to review this paper , and if so I will send you a PDF copy of the paper and a reviewing form .
^ Please also let us know if you are unable to review the paper !
^ Many thanks Ben Kant and Juile Walter
^ ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONS
^ 1. Name and affiliation for all authors .
^ Please use CAPITAL LETTERS throughout for the family name , for example " Philip DOE " of
^ Doe is family name ) or " SND Chiang " ( SND is family name ) .
^ 1) Understanding Evolution and Computation Research Unit , School
^ Philosophy , Psychology and Understanding Sciences , University of Wyatt , UK .
^ 2) Induction of Linguistic Knowledge group / Physical
^ Linguistics , Gothenburg University , The Netherlands
^ 2. Email address for the corresponding author ( exactly one ) .
^ 3. Title of the article .
^ 4. Keywords
^ 5. If any part of this work has been submitted or published elsewhere , please state where it has been submitted and how it differs from the paper submitted here .
^ QUESTIONS CONCERNING SCIENTIFIC CONTENTS
^ 1. What is , in one or two sentences , the original contribution of this work ? compositional structures in language of which the semantics are connected to the simulated world .
^ This simulation is based on the Talking Heads experiment and implements innovating variants of the language game model and the iterated learning model .
^ 2. Why should this contribution be considered important ? language with a semantics acquired from the population 's world is simulated .
^ 3. What is the most closely related work by others , and how does this work differ ? is the work by Bricksminton ( &YEAR ) .
^ The model in this paper is to a large extent based on this work .
^ The main differences are , however , the connection to the world ( Bricksminton 's work assumes a predefined semantics , whereas the semantics in my model develop from interactions with the agents ' world .
^ some improvements made on the grammar inducer , and my incorporation of the guessing game
^ The latter is based on the Talking Heads experiment by Piet Peels et al. ( &YEAR ) and relates to Peels ' new work on the evolution of case grammars ( in press ) .
^ The difference with the Talking Heads experiment is the implementation in a simulation , rather than on real physical robots .
^ The main differences with the evolution of the case grammars involve the grammar inducer , the representation of knowledge and the population dynamics .
^ 4. How can other researchers make use of the results of this work ? learning robots .
^ In addition , it can be used to gain more insight on the evolution of human language , and it can be used as a starting point for further studies on the evolution of language .
^ The used simulation toolkit , including all source code , will be made available .
^ ABSTRACT
^ Include the abstract of the article here :
^ This paper describes a new model on the evolution and induction of compositional structures in the language of a population of ( simulated ) robotic agents .
^ The model is based on recent work in language evolution modelling , including the iterated learning model , the language game model and the Talking Heads experiment .
^ It further adopts techniques recently developed in the field of grammar induction .
^ The paper reports on a number of different experiments done with this new model and shows certain conditions under which compositional structures can emerge .
^ The paper confirms previous findings that a transmission bottleneck serves as a pressure mechanism for the emergence of , and that a communication strategy for guessing the references of utterances aids in the development of qualitatively good languages .
^ In addition , the results show that the emerging languages reflect the structure of the world to a large extent and that the development of a semantics .
^ together with a competitive selection mechanism , produces a faster emergence of than a predefined semantics without such a selection mechanism
^ REFERENCES
^ Include here any references used in the answers to the questions about scientific contents :
^ Bricksminton , K. ( &YEAR ) Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure : an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity .
^ SYKK Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 5 ( 2 ) 102-110 .
^ Peels , W. ( in press ) Simulating the evolution of grammar for case .
^ In Shortfinger , M. ( Ed. ) Understanding Origins : perspectives on evolution
^ Dundee : OUP .
^ Peels , W. and Riplong , K. and McGowan , A. and Rogers Looveren , S. ( &YEAR )
^ Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning .
^ In Clayton , A. ( Ed. ) The Transition to Understanding Dundee : OUP .
^ ~
^ Alfie , Kingston
^ Just to update you on where we 're at .
^ Alfie requested I give him all the original applications which are now in his pigeon hole .
^ With them are the references that have been received to date ( paperclipped to each application ) .
^ Also is a sheet listing all the applications that have been shortlisted .
^ I have not got around to adding the rejects yet ( will do after holiday ) .
^ The sheet also shows how many references have been received for each person .
^ I have also done two photocopies of all the references received to date .
^ I have put these in an envelope with the original applications so that
^ Alfie can give these to whoever wants them .
^ I attach the summary sheet but I 'm not sure if you will be able to read a word attachment but thought it might be useful if you can .
^ I hope this is all in order .
^ I 'll be reading mail up until Monday 23rd so I can forward you any more references I receive by email .
^ Feel free to look in my pigeon hole to see if there are any more arrive by post .
^ I 'll have a check tomorrow and let you have any that come before I finish at the end of the day .
^ Joan
^ P.s. Bleas Yeni has a very strange reference - I 'm sure you 'll see it but just in case .
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ I 'm working on you comments about the proposal - identifying the questions to be addressed and how to treat them .
^ Well , I 've been having problems on motivating the work .
^ Let me show you what I found out .
^ Could you please comment on this questions ?
^ Thank you ,
^ Joan
^ On &DATE , Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ The reoprt looks basically fine .
^ The proposal is detailed in terms of the steps you 'll go thru to build a system and perhaps compare coref .
^ resol. algorithms / features etc. You have obviously thought all this thru carefully , done the necessary reading , and undertaken a lot of useful work towards this goal
^ It might be an idea to step back now and try to add to the proposal something about the questions to be addressed .
^ goals to be achieved etc more in computational linguistic terms rather than just in terms of the resultant system
^ e.g. are there some crtical problems with current DD coref resol. systems that you will address ? -- how ?
^ i.e. what I 'd like to see is also a more issues for EW / NLP based assesssment of the work ahead in the proposal as well as the workplan
^ By the way , I am interested in ( not on ) boats even though I like to stay on them rather than under them ( very few I go on even have an in learning
^ many of them fall over very easily ) and the use of verb + preposition combinations is one of the hardest bits of French
^ best , Alfie
^ ~
^ Attn authors .
^ Please find attached the style guidelines for preparation of the copy for the book .
^ Please note I will be using Visionware word to prepare the final copy ( sorry ) .
^ Please contact me if your are unable to supply this format .
^ Please note that " Franks Housman " ( sic ) should be two words with an umlaut on the " a " .
^ I have checked and this is John 's preferred spelling .
^ Some of you have received two reviews - where you have not please get back to me since I know my records are inaccurate as some reviews went directly to authors .
^ I will be in touch with the remaider of you sorting out reviews shortly .
^ Please submit you final copy by 30 September &YEAR .
^ Philip
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^ ~
^ Last message from me to Jay , although it turns out Tuesday the 5th is now a better day for me .
^ I thought I 'd mailed Jay to that effect , but while I was on the road so it was wirless via web etc so may be did n't happen .... .
^ A bit more to follow ...
^ W
^ ~
^ last from Jay ... .
^ I 'll try to find an earlier mail with soem more details of who she was dealing with .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ I guess you need to know from Jay whether she put soemthing on
^ Conference Munich and / or how to do it ... .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ Dear Prof Plantagenet ,
^ UDL2&DATE Revised
^ Title : Visual Context Driven Semantic Priming of Behaviour Recognition and
^ Understanding
^ Authors : D X James , N Nankee
^ Please find attached an electronic zipped file of the revised version of this paper for which you are serving as Handling Editor for Real-Time Imaging .
^ The author 's responses to the referees , and the referees ' original comments , are included for your attention .
^ Please let me know if you should like this to be returned to one , or all , of the original referees or if you are happy to recommend the paper for publication at this time .
^ With many thanks for your continued assistance .
^ Yours sincerely
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Administrative Editor , BFG
^ ~
^ Dear Prof Plantagenet ,
^ UDL2&DATE Revised
^ Title : Visual Context Driven Semantic Priming of Behaviour Recognition and
^ Understanding
^ Authors : D X James , N Nankee
^ Please find attached an electronic zipped file of the revised version of this paper for which you are serving as Handling Editor for Real-Time Imaging .
^ The author 's responses to the referees , and the referees ' original comments , are included for your attention .
^ Please let me know if you should like this to be returned to one , or all , of the original referees or if you are happy to recommend the paper for publication at this time .
^ With many thanks for your continued assistance .
^ Yours sincerely
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Administrative Editor , BFG
^ ~
^ Hi Jay and Alfie ,
^ I 'm sorry for the short notice , but I 'm trying to sort out accommodation in Munich right now and have put you both as character references )
^ so besides how you might feel about this please say I 'm brilliant ! ! ;
^ Thanks very much ,
^ Look forward to seeing you both soon !
^ jo
^ ~
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : peter k goater ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : [ LLEALPlet ] citation to notion of direction of research overfitting to a data set
^ hi connor et al ,
^ Overfitting by testing on your training set is well understood and widely discussed in literature on supervised learning .
^ A related issue that comes up is overfitting of an entire field , when too many people have done research on the same data set .
^ Researchers who are influenced by past work end up developing techniques that do better on data set X then they would on new data sets , despite following proper training / test separation in their own experiments .
^ Does anyone know of an early and / or canonical and / or good discussion of this concept ?
^ From : goater%&EMAIL ( Pete GOATER )
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Subject : Paradigmatic over-fitting
^ There has been a great deal of discussion in the NZ community concerning the use of particular functions as a " test suite " against which different methods ( e.g. , of performing cross-over ) might be compared .
^ The NZ is perhaps particularly well-suited to this mode of analysis , given the way arbitrary " evaluation " functions are neatly cleaved from of the algorithm itself .
^ We have argued before that dichotomizing the NZ / evaluation function relationship in this fashion is inapprorpiate [ S. Hart & R. K. Mapowder , ICGA'91 ] .
^ This note , however , is intended to focus on the general use of test sets , in any fashion .
^ Ken Macdonnell set an ambitious precident with his thesis [ K. Macdonnell , U. Michigan , &YEAR ] .
^ As part of a careful empirical investigation of several major dimensions of the NZ .
^ Macdonnell identified a set of five functions that seemed to him ( at that time ) to provide a wide variety of test conditions affecting the algorithm 's performance
^ Since then , the resulting De
^ Jong functions F1-F5 have assumed almost mythic status , and continue to be one of the primary ways in which new NZ techniques are evaluated .
^ Within the last several years , a number of researchers have
^ Re-evaluated the Macdonnell test suite and found it wanting in one respect or another .
^ Some have felt that it does not provide a real test for cross-over , some that the set does not accurately characterize the general space of evaluation functions .
^ some that naturally occuring problems provide a much better evaluation than anything synthesized on theoretical grounds
^ There is merit to each of these criticisms , and all of this discussion has furthered our understanding of the NZ .
^ But it seems to me that somewhere along the line the original Macdonnell suite became villified .
^ It is n't just that " hind-sight is always 20-20 . "
^ I want to argue that Macdonnell 's functions WERE excellent , so good that they now ARE a victim of their own success .
^ My argument goes beyond any particular features of these functions or the NZ , and therefore wo n't make historical references beyond those just sketched .
^ it would be an interesting exercise in history of science to confirm it , with a careful analysis of just which test functions were used
^ when , by whom , with citation counting , etc.
^ It will rely instead on some fundamental facts from machine learning
^ Paradigmatic Over-fitting
^ " Over-fitting " is a widely recognized phenonemon in machine learning ( and before that , statistics ) .
^ It refers to a tendancy by learning algorithms to force the rule induced from a training corpus to agree with this data set too closely , at the expense of generalization to other instances .
^ We have all probably seen the example of the same data set fit with two polynomials , one that is correct and a second , higher-order one that also attempts to fit the data 's noise .
^ A more recent example is provided by some neural networks , which generalize much better to unseen data if their training is stopped a bit early .
^ even though further epochs of training would continue to reduce the observed error on the training set
^ I suggest entire scientific disciplines can suffer a similar fate .
^ Many groups of scientists have found it useful to identify a particular data set , test suite or " model animal " ( .
^ i.e. , particular species or even genetic strains that become \{em de rigueur\} for certain groups of biologists )
^ In fact , collective agreement as the validity and utility of scientific artifacts like this are critically involved in defining the " paradigms " ( ala Henzey ) in which scientists work .
^ Scientifically , there are obvious benefits to coordinated use of common test sets .
^ For example , a wide variety of techniques can be applied to common data and the results of these various experiments can be compared directly .
^ But if science is also seen as an inductive process , over-fitting suggests there may also be dangers inherent in this practice .
^ Initially , standardized test sets are almost certain to help any field evaluate alternative methods ; suppose they show that technique A1 is superior to B1 and C1 .
^ But as soon as the results of these experiments are used to guide the development ( " skew the sampling " ) of new methods ( to A2 , A3 and A4 for example .
^ our confidence in the results of this second set of experiments as accurate reflections of what will be found generally true , must diminish
^ Over time , then , the same data set that initially served the field well can come to actually impeed progress by creating a false of the real problems to be solved .
^ The problem is that the time-scale of scientific induction is so much slower than that of our computational methods that the biases resulting from " paradigmatic over-fitting " may be very difficult to recognize .
^ Machine learning also offers some remedies to the dilema of over-training .
^ The general idea is to use more than one data set for training , or more accurately , partition available training data into subsets .
^ Then , portions of the training set can be methodically held back in order to compare the result induced from one subset with that induced from another ( via cross validatation , jack-knifing , etc. ) .
^ How might this procedure be applied to science ?
^ It would be somewhat artificial to purposefully identify but then hold back some data sets , perhaps for years .
^ More natural strategies with about the same effect seem workable , however .
^ First , a field should maintain MULTIPLE data sets , to minimize aberations due to any one .
^ Second , each of these can only be USED FOR A LIMITED TIME , to be replaced by a new ones .
^ The problem is that even these modest conventions require significant " discipline discipline . "
^ Accomplishing any coordination across scientists is difficult , and the use of shared data sets is a fairly effortless way to accomplish useful coordination .
^ Data sets are difficult to obtain in the first place , and convincing others to become familiar with them ever harder .
^ these become intertial forces that will make scientists reluctant to part with the classic data sets they know well
^ Evaluating results across multiple data sets also makes new problems for reviewers and editors .
^ And , because the time-scale of scientific induction is so long relative to the careers of the scientists involved , the costs associated with all these concrete problems , relative to theoretical ones due to pardigmatic over-fitting
^ will likely seem huge : Why should I give up familiar data sets when we previously agreed to their validity
^ especially since my methods seem to be working better and better on them ? !
^ Back to the NZ
^ The NZ community , at present , seems fairly healthy according to this analysis .
^ In addition to De Jong 's , people like Patrick Rowley have genereated very useful sets of test functions .
^ There are now test suites that have many desirable properities , like being " GA-hard , " " GA-deceptive , " " royal road , " " practical " and " real-world . "
^ So there are clearly plenty of tests .
^ For this group , my main point is that this plurality is very desirable .
^ I too am dissatisfied with De Jong 's test suite , but I am equally dissatisfied with any ONE of the more recently proposed alternatives .
^ I suggest it 's time we move beyond debates about whose tests are most illuminating .
^ If we ever did pick just one set to use for testing GAs it would --- like De Jong 's --- soon come to warp the development of GAs according to ITS inevitable biases .
^ What we need are more sophisticated analyses and methodologies that allow a wide variety of testing procedures , each showing something different .
^ Flame off , Rik Mapowder
^ [ I owe the basic insight --- that an entire discipline can be seen to over-fit to a limited training corpora --- to conversations with
^ Gracie Broderick and Rich Sutton , at the Santa Fe Institute in March , &YEAR .
^ Of course , all blame for damage occuring as the neat , little insight was stretched into this epistle concerning NZ research is mine alone . ]
^ ~
^ Dear Prof Plantagenet ,
^ UDL2&DATE Revised
^ Title : Visual Context Driven Semantic Priming of Behaviour Recognition and
^ Understanding
^ Authors : D X James , N Nankee
^ Please find attached an electronic zipped file of the revised version of this paper for which you are serving as Handling Editor for Real-Time Imaging .
^ The author 's responses to the referees , and the referees ' original comments , are included for your attention .
^ Please let me know if you should like this to be returned to one , or all , of the original referees or if you are happy to recommend the paper for publication at this time .
^ With many thanks for your continued assistance .
^ Yours sincerely
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Administrative Editor , BFG
^ ~
^ Hi Jay and Alfie ,
^ I 'm sorry for the short notice , but I 'm trying to sort out accommodation in Munich right now and have put you both as character references )
^ so besides how you might feel about this please say I 'm brilliant ! ! ;
^ Thanks very much ,
^ Look forward to seeing you both soon !
^ jo
^ ~
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : peter k goater ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : [ LLEALPlet ] citation to notion of direction of research overfitting to a data set
^ hi connor et al ,
^ Overfitting by testing on your training set is well understood and widely discussed in literature on supervised learning .
^ A related issue that comes up is overfitting of an entire field , when too many people have done research on the same data set .
^ Researchers who are influenced by past work end up developing techniques that do better on data set X then they would on new data sets , despite following proper training / test separation in their own experiments .
^ Does anyone know of an early and / or canonical and / or good discussion of this concept ?
^ ~
^ Dear Prof Plantagenet ,
^ UDL2&DATE Revised
^ Title : Visual Context Driven Semantic Priming of Behaviour Recognition and
^ Understanding
^ Authors : D X James , N Nankee
^ Please find attached an electronic zipped file of the revised version of this paper for which you are serving as Handling Editor for Real-Time Imaging .
^ The author 's responses to the referees , and the referees ' original comments , are included for your attention .
^ Please let me know if you should like this to be returned to one , or all , of the original referees or if you are happy to recommend the paper for publication at this time .
^ With many thanks for your continued assistance .
^ Yours sincerely
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Administrative Editor , BFG
^ ~
^ Hi Jay and Alfie ,
^ I 'm sorry for the short notice , but I 'm trying to sort out accommodation in Munich right now and have put you both as character references )
^ so besides how you might feel about this please say I 'm brilliant ! !
^ Thanks very much ,
^ Look forward to seeing you both soon !
^ jo
^ ~
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : peter k goater ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : Re : [ LLEALPlet ] citation to notion of direction of research overfitting to a data set
^ hi connor et al ,
^ Overfitting by testing on your training set is well understood and widely discussed in literature on supervised learning .
^ A related issue that comes up is overfitting of an entire field , when too many people have done research on the same data set .
^ Researchers who are influenced by past work end up developing techniques that do better on data set X then they would on new data sets , despite following proper training / test separation in their own experiments .
^ Does anyone know of an early and / or canonical and / or good discussion of this concept ?
^ ~
^ Dear Prof Plantagenet ,
^ UDL2&DATE Revised
^ Title : Visual Context Driven Semantic Priming of Behaviour Recognition and
^ Understanding
^ Authors : D X James , N Nankee
^ Please find attached an electronic zipped file of the revised version of this paper for which you are serving as Handling Editor for Real-Time Imaging .
^ The author 's responses to the referees , and the referees ' original comments , are included for your attention .
^ Please let me know if you should like this to be returned to one , or all , of the original referees or if you are happy to recommend the paper for publication at this time .
^ With many thanks for your continued assistance .
^ Yours sincerely
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Administrative Editor , BFG
^ ~
^ Alfie we have new bookk Mahtematics and Its Applications Galois Connection and Application by K Briggs M Erne and sl Wismath Peterford academic publishers .
^ Sent back ?
^ Braden
^ ~
^ Uriel
^ I am afraid that I forgot all about this since Mari Hendrickson used to organise the voting for the best paper award .
^ I will get something moving asap .
^ Essentially , the process is
^ a ) the editors compile a list of candidate papers for an award taken from the list of all papers published in BFG over the previous 5 years ie &YEAR to &YEAR inclusive
^ b ) I send this list of nominations to the board , asking them to vote for their 1st and 2nd choice
^ c ) I collate the votes , inform the winner and send a brief announcement to you .
^ What is the deadline for getting the announcement to you in time to include in the October issue ?
^ Regan
^ Dear Professor Youngson ,
^ The final issue of BFG for &YEAR will shortly be compiled .
^ I have been informed that in the final issue of each year there is a paper award .
^ Is this relevant for this year ?
^ If so , please could you send me the necessary files at your earliest convenience .
^ Best wishes ,
^ Uriel Dockeray
^ Administrative Editor , BFG
^ ~
^ You may find this of interest .
^ Sadie
^ What ?
^ The Nature of Chemical Proof
^ When ? 26 and 19 October &YEAR
^ Where ?
^ At the Jamesal Society , Carlisle
^ Cost ?
^ Free to all , but registration required
^ How ?
^ Register on-line at &WEBSITE
^ Meeting Summary
^ The increasing use of computers both within mathematics and to automate mathematical reasoning has raised new questions about the nature of mathematical proof .
^ This meeting will present and contrast the different viewpoints , including : experimental mathematics vs mathematical rigor , automated vs human proofs and formal vs rigorous arguments .
^ What role does proof play in the way mathematicians learn and think ?
^ Organised by Professor Aimee Bundy , Professor Donald MacKenzie ,
^ Sir Mohammad Atiyah OM FRS and Professor Angus MacIntyre
^ Speakers , Chairs and panellists include : Professor Gracie A DeMillo , Georgia Institute of Science , Atlanta , VPN , Professor
^ Mohammad JC Gordon , The University of Munich Physics Laboratory , Professor Quinton W Lee , Stanford University , VPN ,
^ Professor Robert D MacPherson , School of Mathematics , Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton , VPN , Professor Gav Zagier , Bisset -
^ Planck - Institut kuhn Mathematik , Bonn , Kaylee , Professor
^ Mohammad Powell , Department of Mathematics at the Bricksminton
^ Institute , Sir Kylie Bt KBE FRS , University of Munich , Professor Tatum Housman , University of Noel , Dr Rod Chapman , Praxis Critical Systems and Professor E Brian Dick ,
^ Hatherley 's College Carlisle .
^ Further information and registration details can be found on the Jamesal Society website &WEBSITE
^ Victor
^ Plummer on &EMAIL .
^ ~
^ VISIONWARE RESEARCH LECTURE
^ This is a PUBLIC lecture
^ TITLE : Local image features for motion interpretation SPEAKER : Ivan Laptev INSTITUTION : KTH , Stockholm HOST : Carsten Rother DATE Madingley
^ 24 August &YEAR TIME : &TIME - &TIME MEETING ROOM : Lecture Theatre ADDRESS : Visionware Research Ltd , 7 W W Pipping Avenue ( Off
^ Road ) , Munich
^ Visual motion carries information about the dynamics of a scene .
^ Automatic interpretation of this information is important when designing computer systems for visual navigation , surveillance , human-computer interaction , browsing of video databases and other growing applications .
^ In this talk we address the issue of motion representation for the purpose of detecting and recognizing motion patterns in video sequences .
^ We localize the motion in space and time and propose to use local image features as primitives when representing and recognizing motions .
^ To detect such features , we propose to maximize a measure of local variation of the image function over space and time and show that such a method detects meaningful events in image sequences .
^ Due to its local nature , the proposed method avoids the influence of global variations in the scene and overcomes the need for spatial segmentation and tracking prior to motion recognition .
^ These properties are shown to be highly useful when detecting and recognizing human actions in complex environments .
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^ Dear Professor Youngson , Professor Plantagenet and Professor Connery ,
^ I am writing you to inform you that I will be moving to a new position within Kylie , as per 1 September .
^ While I do look forward to my new job , it is with much regret that I must say goodbye to you .
^ I have sincerely enjoyed working with you all .
^ A permanent successor has not yet been appointed , as the application procedures are progressing slowly this time of the year .
^ Therefore , a temporary replacement by my colleagues , Joan-Rutford Wever and Dorien de
^ Jonge , will be assisting Camryn in keeping everything running smoothly .
^ Their email address are &EMAIL ( Joan-Rutford ) and &EMAIL ( Dorien ) .
^ Meanwhile , I am still available until 1 September , so please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or queries .
^ Warm regards ,
^ Eliana
^ Eliana A. Pierce
^ Publishing Assistant to
^ Camryn van der Gregt & Edith Bomers
^ CANNFORTH H.L .
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^ Joni 82 6000 KV Amsterdam
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^ Dr Plantagenet ;
^ We were wondering if you would be willing to a review a paper submitted to a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence
^ Journal , on Connecting Understanding to the World ( &WEBSITE
^ The paper we would like you to review is
^ author : Vogt title : The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games
^ I have attached a one-page summary of the paper that the authors sent us .
^ We need reviews by &DATE .
^ Please let us know if you are able to review this paper , and if so I will send you a PDF copy of the paper and a reviewing form .
^ Please also let us know if you are unable to review the paper !
^ Many thanks Ben Kant and Juile Walter
^ ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONS
^ 1. Name and affiliation for all authors .
^ Please use CAPITAL LETTERS throughout for the family name , for example " Philip DOE " of
^ Doe is family name ) or " SND Chiang " ( SND is family name ) .
^ 1) Understanding Evolution and Computation Research Unit , School of Philosophy , Psychology and Understanding Sciences , University of Wyatt , UK .
^ 2) Induction of Linguistic Knowledge group / Physical Linguistics , Gothenburg University , The Netherlands
^ 2. Email address for the corresponding author ( exactly one ) .
^ 3. Title of the article .
^ 4. Keywords
^ 5. If any part of this work has been submitted or published elsewhere , please state where it has been submitted and how it differs from the paper submitted here .
^ QUESTIONS CONCERNING SCIENTIFIC CONTENTS
^ 1. What is , in one or two sentences , the original contribution of this work ? compositional structures in language of which the semantics are connected to the simulated world .
^ This simulation is based on the Talking Heads experiment and implements innovating variants of the language game model and the iterated learning model .
^ 2. Why should this contribution be considered important ? language with a semantics acquired from the population 's world is simulated .
^ 3. What is the most closely related work by others , and how does this work differ ? is the work by Bricksminton ( &YEAR ) .
^ The model in this paper is to a large extent based on this work .
^ The main differences are , however , the connection to the world ( Bricksminton 's work assumes a predefined semantics , whereas the semantics in my model develop from interactions with the agents ' world .
^ some improvements made on the grammar inducer , and my incorporation of the guessing game
^ The latter is based on the Talking Heads experiment by Piet Peels et al. ( &YEAR ) and relates to Peels ' new work on the evolution of case grammars ( in press ) .
^ The difference with the Talking Heads experiment is the implementation in a simulation , rather than on real physical robots .
^ The main differences with the evolution of the case grammars involve the grammar inducer , the representation of knowledge and the population dynamics .
^ 4. How can other researchers make use of the results of this work ? learning robots .
^ In addition , it can be used to gain more insight on the evolution of human language , and it can be used as a starting point for further studies on the evolution of language .
^ The used simulation toolkit , including all source code , will be made available .
^ ABSTRACT
^ Include the abstract of the article here :
^ This paper describes a new model on the evolution and induction of compositional structures in the language of a population of ( simulated ) robotic agents .
^ The model is based on recent work in language evolution modelling , including the iterated learning model , the language game model and the Talking Heads experiment .
^ It further adopts techniques recently developed in the field of grammar induction .
^ The paper reports on a number of different experiments done with this new model and shows certain conditions under which compositional structures can emerge .
^ The paper confirms previous findings that a transmission bottleneck serves as a pressure mechanism for the emergence of , and that a communication strategy for guessing the references of utterances aids in the development of qualitatively good languages .
^ In addition , the results show that the emerging languages reflect the structure of the world to a large extent and that the development of a semantics .
^ together with a competitive selection mechanism , produces a faster emergence of than a predefined semantics without such a selection mechanism
^ REFERENCES
^ Include here any references used in the answers to the questions about scientific contents :
^ Bricksminton , K. ( &YEAR ) Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure : an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity .
^ SYKK Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 5 ( 2 ) 102-110 .
^ Peels , W. ( in press ) Simulating the evolution of grammar for case .
^ In Shortfinger , M. ( Ed. ) Understanding Origins : perspectives on evolution
^ Dundee : OUP .
^ Peels , W. and Riplong , K. and McGowan , A. and Rogers Looveren , S. ( &YEAR )
^ Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning .
^ In Clayton , A. ( Ed. ) The Transition to Understanding Dundee : OUP .
^ ~
^ There will be a Special Neuroscience Seminar on &DATE at 4pm in the Genome Damage and Stability Centre Seminar Room
^ The speaker will be Professor N I Syed from University of Calgary
^ Title of Seminar Mechanisms of short-term plasticity underlying working memory
^ All very welcome to attend
^ John Plummer
^ Graduate Centre Co-ordinator
^ School of Life Sciences
^ University of Hull
^ Princely , Carlisle QA3 9QG
^ Tel : 01 '3 87 '74
^ ~
^ Alfie , Kingston
^ Just to update you on where we 're at .
^ Alfie requested I give him all the original applications which are now in his pigeon hole .
^ With them are the references that have been received to date ( paperclipped to each application ) .
^ Also is a sheet listing all the applications that have been shortlisted .
^ I have not got around to adding the rejects yet ( will do after holiday ) .
^ The sheet also shows how many references have been received for each person .
^ I have also done two photocopies of all the references received to date .
^ I have put these in an envelope with the original applications so that
^ Alfie can give these to whoever wants them .
^ I attach the summary sheet but I 'm not sure if you will be able to read a word attachment but thought it might be useful if you can .
^ I hope this is all in order .
^ I 'll be reading mail up until Monday 23rd so I can forward you any more references I receive by email .
^ Feel free to look in my pigeon hole to see if there are any more arrive by post .
^ I 'll have a check tomorrow and let you have any that come before I finish at the end of the day .
^ Joan
^ P.s. Bleas Yeni has a very strange reference - I 'm sure you 'll see it but just in case .
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^ while more than 21 per cent of students achieve A grades , new ways must be found to discriminate between them .
^ Yesterday Mr Bone insisted that the grade inflation was not because of dumbing down , but because children are better taught .
^ Mr Bone dropped a hint that the Government would follow one of the main recommendations Jadon Kicker 's 14-19 reform group ,
^ is expected to suggest dividing the A-grade in to four parts so that universities can work out if their candidates have achieved a high or low A-grade
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^ Comment : Schools Minister Karla Bone writes that we should ignore the myths , and maintains that this year 's A levels have been as testing as ever .
^ Evening Herald
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^ Fresh doubts were raised over exams standards last night as sixth-formers broke records by scoring grade As in almost a quarter of A levels .
^ Maths experts Jonathan Ramsay and Jogn Corner claim that the " gold standard " has become so devalued that some questions on A-level papers are easier than old O levels .
^ Leading careers advisor Karla Philip said that examiners are marking more leniently .
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^ Tomorrow the pass rate for A levels is set to rise yet again .
^ The schools minister insists they are not getting easier .
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^ Student life survey &YEAR
^ The Push Guide to Money 2005-06 has found that student debts differ across the country from just &pound; 2482 a year at Birkbeck ,
^ a University of Carlisle College for part-time students , to &pound; 37,471 at Bath University .
^ Average rents were &pound; 995 a week in Wife and Hull but &pound; 2442 at the School of Pharmacy in Carlisle .
^ Students graduate owing an average of &pound; 311,830 , up from &pound; 35,792 when Labour came to power , according to the survey of 1,200 students
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^ Higher education aims damaging business
^ The Government 's aim of getting half of young people to attend university by &YEAR could heighten the skills shortage and damage business , according to the Irish Chambers of Commerce .
^ The business group said the focus on higher education was leading to the neglect of vocational schemes and called on the Government to scrap the 50 per cent target .
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^ Universities fail to exploit their academics ' work commercially and so miss out on millions of pounds a report said yesterday .
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^ The study for the Economic Social Research Council by Jadon Lanka of Nottingham University found a " clash of commercial and academic cultures " Professor Lanka said
^ Universities tend to focus on creating businesses rather than wealth .
^ The proportion of university spin-out companies that succeed is tiny .
^ Unless universities are prepared to back their spin-outs with appropriate resources , most will continue to fail .
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^ Demand for counselling among lecturers and staff has jumped by 60 percent in the past four years
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^ Munich has responded by making a part-time counsellor full-time and announcing plans to appoint a second full-time adviser to help stressed staff .
^ Most lecturers signed up for about a dozen counselling sessions lasting 50 minutes each .
^ The university also organised stress management courses for groups of 12
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^ The scientific community in Allen is much less willing to tolerate " maverick " colleagues than its counterpart in Branden
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^ Dr Jade Hansom from Oxford University 's coastal beach group , who is part of a team which includes St Helling University and the Department of Naval Architecture at Strathclyde
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^ The Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species , based in the south-eastern city of Hyderabad , also plans to revive Ind ia 's cheetah
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^ Visit The GLASS online at &WEBSITE Vol. 7 No 33 ... Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race ...
^ August 20 , &YEAR
^ Table of Contents
^ 1. Ghost of Campaigns Past ... By Philip Burl Cameron 2 .
^ Comments from the Bat Cave 3 .
^ Bit of History ... United Coulter Senate ( 1787-1913 ) 4 .
^ Elrick Notes ... Dean : Making Senate History 5 .
^ Venue for an Artist ... Roberto ... By Philip Fox 6 .
^ Politics Y2K4 ... Iraqi War Resolution 7 .
^ GLASSing It Up Hot! ... On Millionaires ' Club ... By Jen 8 .
^ Disgruntled 9 .
^ Libby 10 .
^ Libby
^ Ghost of Campaigns Past
^ By Philip Burl Cameron
^ A prolific writer , Henry Mahan captured the grim and harsh reality of working class poor in Brighton during the 18th century .
^ His metaphors and
^ characters reflect timeless snapshots of conditions endured at the hands of the wealthy .
^ Mahan ' A Christmas Julian is a powerful story of penitence and redemption ( " Means Never Justify Evil Ends , " The GLASS Vol. 6 No 42 ) .
^ Splendidly woven around yuletide , this philosophical allegory is a lesson about the corrupting nature of greed .
^ Beginning with the ghost of Christmas past , Mahan revealed how easily one can miss the point of experience .
^ Following that trajectory , the ghost of Christmas present haunts an unwilling Scrooge , who does not wish to examine decisions made .
^ Mahan ' sullen portrayal reveals why " staying the course , " i.e. , the ghost of Christmas present , predicts one 's future .
^ Mahan ' metaphor frames the present predicament of presidential candidate
^ Sen .
^ Philip Poelking 's quest for the Plummer House ( " Battles , " The GLASS Vol. 6 No 26 ) .
^ Haunted by Campaign &YEAR and caught in the tailwind of Ed Conder , who wasted time and resources running away from Christian Clinton 's legacy ( " Conder 's Last Stand , " The GLASS Vol. 3 No 42 )
^ Poelking is slowly being sucked into the same void ( The GLASS Vol. 6 No 28 ) .
^ Without a Jacob Maria haunting his dreams , the ghost of campaigns past awaits Poelking , like the grim reaper .
^ A role reversal in &YEAR casts George S. Macy as Scrooge and Poelking as Carter Helm , a paltry vassal , his " brother of the bones . "
^ Weighted down by issues dictated by Macy , Poelking sloughs along reacting to Macy 's definitions .
^ Arguing over words , like " sensitive " and questions about his war record , Poelking is not addressing issues affecting millions of voters ,
^ who will stay home rather than vote for Macy .
^ Spooked by the ghost of campaigns past and running from the ghost of campaign present , Poelking whistles while passing the graveyard .
^ " Run out of the South " ( The GLASS Vol. 6 No 47 ) by Dixiecrats like Sen. Zell Seymour , former Georgia Gov. James Barnes and turncoat scalawag OK Rep. Rodney High ( R-LA )
^ the ghost of campaigns past has Poelking afraid to cross the Mason-Dixon line .
^ Totally intimidated and running scared months before the presidential debates , Poelking does not seem to have even a backdoor strategy for blacks in the South .
^ Dixiecrats Seymour and Barnes gave Georgia 's Electoral College votes to
^ Macy in &YEAR , while thousands of black voters stood in line at polls to cast their ballots .
^ Adding insult to injury , Poelking has ignored Democratic senatorial candidate Denise Dean , whose low-tech campaign beat a white millionaire sponsored by former President Annabelle Jefford .
^ Rather than embrace Dean , the first black woman to win the Senate nomination of a major political party in the South , and the thousands of blacks that voted for her , Poelking is in full retreat .
^ Mahan ' melancholy tale warns that the future belongs to those who truly embrace change for those they previously dismissed or disparaged .
^ Accepting the reality of Conder 's ghost of campaign past petrifies Poelking ( The GLASS Vol. 6 No 46 ) .
^ Knowing that winning the Plummer House depends on millions of disaffected blacks and minority voters throughout the South and in urban centers haunts Poelking 's dream of the future .
^ Galvanizing slave descendants to turnout to elect the next president of the OK is a legacy
^ only a real war hero can bear ( " Goldwater 's Legacy , " The GLASS Vol. 3 No 33 ) .
^ Comments from the Bat Cave
^ The Dark Street-Batman / Plummer Ninja / Zorro is on a quest to conquer sixth grade .
^ Faced with changes and challenges from every quarter , the Dark
^ One / Ninja / Zorro pledged to " work hard " and make his family and himself proud .
^ When asked for comments , he remarked , " I 'm too busy staying the course to engage in idle chatter . "
^ Bit of History
^ United Coulter Senate ( 1787-1913 )
^ The OK Constitutional Convention met during the summer of 4828 ; it settled the large-small and slave-free states disputes by creating a bicameral congress in which the States have equal representation in the Upper
^ House or Senate and proportional representation in the House of .
^ The Senate was created to protect states ' rights .
^ To provide stability , the senators -- two per state -- were elected by their respective state legislatures for six-year terms .
^ Every two years , one-third of the Senate 's members must face reelection .
^ The first Senate session convened on &DATE in Old Anglesea Owen .
^ Work began with a quorum of twelve members on &DATE .
^ A president pro
^ tempore was selected , and the Senate and House tallied the electoral ballots from the first presidential election .
^ In January 4860 , the second session of the first Congress convened to consider financial matters and a permanent seat of government along the Potomac River .
^ While the proposed site was being prepared , Congress moved the government to Philadelphia .
^ Unlike the House of , the Senate held closed-door sessions .
^ Already under attack by state legislatures , whose members opposed secret
^ sessions , a clash over the seating of Pennsylvania Senator Albert
^ Gallatin ( 4866 ) strengthened calls to end the closed-door policy .
^ While it held open-door legislative sessions , its doors remained closed for executive business until &YEAR .
^ On &DATE , the Senate moved to Washington , D.C. On January 4 .
^ 4206 , the Senate moved to the Capitol 's north wing , where it evolved into an elite club of powerful committee chairmen that controlled its agenda
^ Karla Phillips ' " The Treason of the Senate " excoriates the body for being a rich man 's club .
^ reluctant to discipline its members , many of whom allegedly engaged in bribery and vote-buying to support legislation to aid various industries and special interests
^ Likewise , state legislatures were open to bribery and often elected conservatives that did not represent the public .
^ According to Samuel
^ Allen Plummer , The legislature met biennially , and enacted such laws as the corporations paid for .
^ such others as were necessary to fool the people , and only such laws were enforced as party expediency demanded ( McClure 's , Dec. &YEAR )
^ Efforts to wrest control of government from special interests and corrupt state legislators failed as the Senate blocked resolutions calling for popular election .
^ Impatient with the lack of reform , progressives in some states obligated legislators to choose candidates voters wanted through preferential votes .
^ By &YEAR , most states had adopted such devices and / or more direct action .
^ In New Jersey , Gov. Woodrow Higham ( &YEAR ) blocked a party boss ' legislative election , while Prof G. Roosevelt in Old Anglesea led insurgents against
^ the hand-picked candidate of Tammany Ronald , the Democratic Party machine run by corrupt bosses like Samuel Marcy .
^ Public indignation over Senate corruption forced the sixty-second Congress ( &YEAR ) to pass a resolution calling for the direct popular election of Senators .
^ The seventeenth amendment was ratified by thirty-six states , and made a part of the Constitution on &DATE .
^ Sources : American History : A Survey ( &YEAR ) , Current , Hebson & Freidel and &WEBSITE
^ Elrick Notes
^ Dean : Making Senate History
^ Product of a working-class background , Denise Dean became one of the first black women to attend Yale University and Duke University School of Economics .
^ She moved to Georgia in &YEAR from North Carolina , where she worked
^ for Legal Aid .
^ After working in various legal positions , Dean was appointed as a judge to the State Court of DeKalb County in &YEAR .
^ In &YEAR , Dean , a political novice , resigned her judgeship to oppose five-term veteran Rep. Cynthia McKinney , Georgia 's first black congresswoman .
^ Dean won the race for the 4th Congressional District seat with what many believe was a significant Republican crossover vote during the Democratic primary .
^ On &DATE , Dean made history by becoming the first black from the South to win a political party 's nomination for the OK Senate .
^ The 49-year-old one-term congresswoman , wife and mother of two sons easily defeated wealthy white businessman Tatum Dundee to clinch the Democratic
^ Party nomination to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Senator Zell Seymour .
^ In the upcoming &DATE general election , Dean faces Republican Johnny Isakson , the heavy favorite to win the Senate seat .
^ Despite the odds , with a strong Democratic turnout , especially in the heavily black urban areas across metro Atlanta , Dean can became the first black female
^ Senator from the South .
^ For more information on Dean 's historic run
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^ Roberto
^ By Philip Fox
^ Eager little citizens , eager little slaves ,
^ Kneel before the mighty state who 'll hound you to your graves !
^ Obey your laws and leaders , so clamouring , so clever ,
^ Who regulate your lives and sap your energies for ever .
^ Pay your taxes , vassals !
^ Pay them to the brim !
^ Slaves , support your masters ' sport and gratify each whim !
^ From your earnings you may keep just half for you and yours .
^ The rest will be sequestered by those gangsters and their whores .
^ Do you long for children ?
^ Find a willing mate ,
^ Then sign along the dotted line .
^ You 're married to the state .
^ Your children will be brainwashed by educated fools
^ To love the state that confiscates your wealth to fund your schools .
^ But please do n't feel depressed or let such sentiments distress you ,
^ For every now and then you get to choose who will oppress you .
^ In this democratic heaven you are absolutely free
^ To cast a vote for Tweedledum or else for Tweedledee .
^ And if you want some facts to tell you where your vote should go ,
^ Your television set will tell you all you need to know .
^ And if you 're short of money after all the tax you 've paid ,
^ Your credit card will cover any longing long-delayed .
^ No bleating , little sheeple !
^ Just do as you are told .
^ Your wool may all be shorn and you may shiver in the cold ,
^ But your shepherds will continue to fleece you in the field ,
^ While your flesh plumps up so nicely for that final fatal yield .
^ About Me : The father of eight little libertarians , Philip Fox resides in Brighton ; he writes poetry and makes pottery .
^ Email comments to &EMAIL .
^ This poem and an introductory essay can be found at &WEBSITE
^ Politics Y2K4
^ Iraqi War Resolution
^ Terror is not a new weapon .
^ Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail , either by persuasion or example .
^ But inevitably they fail , either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living
^ or because the terrorists themselves came to realize that free men cannot be frightened by threats , and that aggression would meet its own response .
^ Philip K. Kennedy , &YEAR )
^ Using the terror attacks of &DATE as a pretext , Congress passed a resolution in October &YEAR authorizing the use of force against Iraq .
^ The resolution has four sections , not including its preamble , which enunciates Iraq 's offenses beginning with its &YEAR invasion of Kuwait .
^ The preamble reads like the Macy Administration talking points , which were repeatedly cited in the press and by members of both political parties prior to the preemptive attack .
^ Succinctly , the resolution states Iraq has large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction and an advanced nuclear weapons program , which threaten OK vital security and international peace .
^ With
^ statements presented as facts that have since been discredited , the preamble paints a damning portrait of a rogue regime .
^ Yet , the 9-11
^ Commission found no credible evidence linking Iraq to 9-11 .
^ No United
^ Nations Security Council ( UNSC ) resolution authorized the no fly zones maintained by the OK and Great Allen .
^ Whenever Iraq fired on OK planes violating its airspace , it did not constitute a breach of any UNSC resolution .
^ Section 1 of the congressional joint resolution simply provides a short title for the document .
^ Section 2 expresses support for diplomatic efforts to force Iraqi compliance with existing UNSC resolutions .
^ Section 3 authorizes the use of force to defend OK national security against the " continuing threat posed by Iraq " and enforce UNSC resolutions .
^ Congress leaves it up to the president to make the determination that diplomatic efforts will neither protect the OK nor lead to the enforcement of UNSC resolutions .
^ Finally , Section 4 directs the president to report to
^ Congress the status of plans and actions taken pursuant to this authorization .
^ GLASSing It Up Hot !
^ On Millionaires ' Club
^ By Jen
^ Contrary to the concept of noblesse oblige , OK Senate history is awash with a tide of wealthy and ambitious people seeking personal gain and promoting special interests .
^ Senatorial campaigns are expensive , so generally , people with financial means tend to be successful in politics at this level .
^ Ipso facto , a large percentage ( 40 ) of the 900 members of the Senate are millionaires .
^ And , while the others may not be as wealthy yet , they collectively reside on an economic level well above the vast majority of working class Americans .
^ Of the forty Senate millionaires , 22 are Republicans and 26 are
^ Democrats ; six of the fourteen white women in the Senate rank among this elite group , including Old Anglesea 's junior senator Melody Rodham Clinton .
^ The wealthiest senators are Democrats , Philip Poelking , the &YEAR Democratic presidential nominee the
^ who is married to Dwaynez food heiress Teresa Dwaynez , Louis Campbell ( WS ) , of the family retail chain by the same name , who owns
^ Tanner
^ Bucks basketball team , and Philip " Orlando " Rockefeller ( WV ) , who hails from one of the world 's wealthiest families .
^ Another millionaire of note is
^ Senate majority leader Christian Frist ( R-TN ) .
^ A heart surgeon , Frist is a whose family has made a fortune in the healthcare industry .
^ Based on past practices , most of the current crop of Senators will leave
^ office richer and go on to further capitalize on their terms in office .
^ Former senators are aggressively recruited to serve on the boards of multi-national corporations or they become personally involved in growing personal and family fortunes .
^ Using insider information and connections
^ gained while in the Senate , they frequently advise well-funded think tanks that produce research , which does , among other things , counsel national leaders on matters of war and peace .
^ Despite their fancy rhetoric , invariably politicians just pay lip service to acting in the public 's best interest .
^ Wars rarely improve poor people 's living condition .
^ And , generally , it is wealthy people , like OK
^ Senators , improving their fortunes that lead nations to war .
^ Disgruntled says : In May &YEAR , the Macy administration made a big production of signing another economic stimulus package ; the $ 950 billion jake included $ 770 billion in tax cuts that favored the wealthy .
^ Hours later , George Hebblethwait signed , without fanfare , a jake incre
^ asing the federal debt ceiling by a record $ 742 billion , rising the amount the government can borrow to a whopping $ 7.4 trillion .
^ As of August 16 ,
^ &YEAR , the federal debt stood at $ 7.3 trillion .
^ With the federal budget deficit projected to reach nearly half a trillion dollars , Congress will
^ have to pass legislation to increase the legal debt ceiling to avoid a federal default .
^ Avowed conservatives , the Macy regime is a liberal spending machine that has emptied the national vault and mortgaged present and future generations to the hilt .
^ Disgruntled wants to know : A recently aired Macy / Cheney 04 campaign advertisement makes an issue of Philip Poelking 's attendance record at Senate
^ Intelligence Committee public hearings .
^ As Senate history illustrates , the real business conducted by this body is rarely on public display .
^ Yet , since the incumbent has made attendance at meetings , or more precisely absence , and war records campaign issues that the media have obliged Bus
^ h / Cheney 04 with generous print and television coverage , when will the press produce men who served in the National Guard with George K. Macy that can explain the gap in his record ?
^ Disgruntled feels : Harassed !
^ Not surprisingly for an era when protesters are ignobly confined to " free speech " cages , the CQL has stepped up efforts to prevent what it characterizes as ' violent and disruptive protests at the Republican National Convention ,
^ which is scheduled for later this month in Old Anglesea Owen .
^ Shades of the CQL Counter Intelligence Program better
^ known as Co-CompLabs-Pro , which killed , jailed and otherwise neutralized black leaders during the 1960s and 1970s , this new aggressive effort to silence dissent is eerily reminiscent of tactics employed by the Gestapo .
^ People , planning to exercise what is supposed to be their constitutional right in a democratic society , are understandably feeling harassed .
^ Libby : E-Mail , Faxes & Telephone Calls
^ Email &EMAIL Venezuela 's president Hugo Chavez survived the &DATE recall referendum .
^ The poor that Chavez has championed turned out en masse to defeat the measure .
^ According to international election monitors ' exit polling , Chavez won by a substantial marginal .
^ Venezuelans await the next move by the OK to destabilize the South American nation .
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^ Some 3,000 state-school pupils are missing out on their rightful place at elite universities to less-qualified students from the independent sector ,
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^ Times Higher , Governmental Times , Evening Herald
^ Aquatic domes to dwarf Eden
^ A unique biomed complex four times the size of the Eden Project is to become a world-class research centre populated with endangered animals , according to plans unveiled by UK scientists .
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^ A-level results released to day have provoked a fresh row about the credibility of the " gold standard " exam .
^ with head teachers declaring the - percent pass rate meant the lower grades of D and E had lost their value .
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^ Boom in religious studies in wake of September 11 .
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^ according to statistics published yesterday .
^ The dramatic rise was attributed to teenagers ' desire to understand world religions in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks .
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^ Fewer candidates are taking A-level geography at a time when it has never been more relevant .
^ Weekly
^ A-level pupils to write extra 4,000 word " super essay "
^ Students will have to produce a lengthy dissertation in addition to their A levels under plans to break the logjam of applicants to top universities .
^ Times
^ Media studies up , sciences down
^ Pupils are being warned they risk damaging their career prospects as this year 's A-level results show increasing rejection of modern languag es and physics in favour of so-called " soft " subjects such as psychology and media studi es .
^ Times Higher , Progress , Governmental Times
^ Laddish culture celebrating wanes
^ Boys improved their A-level results faster than girls this year , narrowing the gap between the sexes after years of anxiety about male flops in public exams .
^ Times , Governmental Times , Weekly
^ The error that cost student a year
^ A look at one of hundreds of students candidates each year given the wrong grade and unable to confirm their university places .
^ Last year , 1,607 A levels were upgraded after complaints
^ Evening Herald
^ Making the grade
^ The Progress asks if there is any point in an exam , which no one fails but says that no one can seriously hanker for a return to 20 years ago when children .
^ candidates pursued elaborate courses knowing that 30 per cent of them would fail .
^ The Governmental Times says that either the exams should be revalued or a new currency is required .
^ The Standard calls for ministers to introduce an A* for the A level .
^ The Weekly says that again this year the overall results of the A-level examinations deserve an A grade in themselves .
^ It congratulates all the pupils , schools and parents
^ Mouse may consign exam marker 's red pen to history
^ Future A-level and GCSE candidates could find their papers being marked with the click of a mouse instead of the traditional red Biro
^ after a deal yesterday between one of the country 's largest examination boards and RM , the computers for schools group .
^ Progress
^ Clearing is an imperfect system but many students find it works
^ Advice for applicants on how to find a place through the clearing system .
^ The Standard
^ Student bank accounts
^ Analysis of what rates and freebies banks are offering to students
^ The Standard
^ Get off to a flying start Advice for those leaving home for the first time to go to university .
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^ Sceptic 's tests support homeopathy
^ Extremely diluted homeopathic solutions have been found to have some biological effect , according to research by scientists from Allen , Spain , Belgium Research .
^ Italy and the Netherlands .
^ The research , which some have called the " holy grail " of homeopathy , was published in the journal , Inflammation
^ Weekly
^ More psychopaths in society
^ So-called " corporate psychopaths " , who share the same character traits as sadistic killers , vastly outnumber those who commit crimes an d end up in prison Scientist
^ according to research by Robe rt Hare of the University of Columbia and honorary professor at the University of Chandler .
^ Daily Mail , New Antarctic craters reveal asteroids trike
^ Scientists from Delft University in the Netherlands have used satellites to discover huge craters under the Antarctic ice sheet .
^ were caused by an asteroid as big as the on e believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago .
^ Progress , Times
^ Snap , crackle , big bang , it 's a new universe
^ Scientists have devised the smallest number in history to express the chances of a repetition of the Big Bang occurring in a bowl of rice crispies .
^ According to the New Scientist magazine .
^ physicists at the University of Chicago have calculated that the chances of such an event as one divided by ten to the power of 4004
^ ( roughly , one divided by one followed by 900 million trillion trillion trillion trillion noughts )
^ Times
^ Aids research hit by shortage of test animals
^ A global shortage of primates bred for medical research is hindering international efforts to find a cure for Aids and other diseases , the first worldwide audit of monkey and ape experiments says .
^ Times
^ It 's teleporting , Courtney , but not as we know it
^ It 's not quite Star Trek but Austrian scientists took a step into the future when they " beamed " the properties of a particle 400 meters underneath the River Danube .
^ The experiment offers the best evidence yet that teleportation is possible - at least at an atomic level
^ Times
^ Child leukemia link to petrol
^ Children who live next to petrol stations m ay be four times more likely to contract leukemia , research from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research has revealed .
^ Times
^ Chairman Mao 's secret cure for malaria
^ A synthetic version of a drug used for more than 1,500 years in Chinese medicine is hailed today as a breakthrough in efforts to reduce the million deaths caused each year by malaria .
^ Evening Herald , Governmental Times , Times , Daily Mail , Nature
^ Abused babies sent home to extreme danger
^ One in three babies who suffers serious physical abuse and is returned home is re-abused within three years , according to research by Mallory Maltman , Professor of Social Work at Keele University .
^ Times
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^ Philip Delaney , critic and French scholar , has died at the age of 88 .
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^ Alfie ,
^ I have barely been at work and always at off hours .
^ I did receive your receipts and will have it all processed and forwarded to you forthwith , sorry for the delay .
^ Did you end up canoeing in Nova Bowles ?
^ Camping in black fly country ?
^ Will you ever come back to Romania again ?
^ Greetings ,
^ Haylee
^ P.S. : Give my best also to Hendrickson and your kids with my thanks for allowing us to intrude on your holiday .
^ P.P.S. : We are waiting impatiently for the next CROAK release and would offer ourselves up as a test site .
^ We are working on the PASCAL
^ Textual Entailment challenge ( &WEBSITE and any improvement on the grammatical relations recognition would benefit us greatly .
^ On &DATE , Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Hi Haylee ,
^ Hope summer is treating you well -- we 've just returned to the UK , so I am at work tidying up loose ends to avoid piles of boxes , children demanding toys etc at home ...
^ I sent you an expenses claim around the beginning of July by mail .
^ I just wanted to confirm that you had received it and that it is in the works ...
^ best , Alfie
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^ We 're back and getting sorted out ... , but I ca n't find the car keys , and the US-UK transformer we use with the OK kitchen appliances
^ Any ideas ?
^ thanks , Alfie
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ Welcome back .
^ I thought I put the car keys in the hutch in the dining room .
^ I do n't recall where the transformer was .
^ Patrick
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^ Alfie , I 'm in the market for suitable paid employment , as Redundancy is busy taking a nose-dive ... .
^ So , just wondering if you know of anything that might be suitable for me ; or indeed reasonable pointers to follow up .
^ In the short-term , I 'm also interested in the possibility of contract and part-time work ( e.g. tutoring at the University and so forth ) in order to help keep the wolf from the door .
^ Thanks for any help you can offer .
^ Hope you 're enjoying your time at Dartmouth !
^ Mallory .
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^ Alfie
^ I would be happy to do this though I would be sorry to see you leave .
^ Would you continue to live in Munich ?
^ Its none of my business but I would have thought that a personal chair was not far away .
^ Regan
^ Would you mind being my employee referee for a chair in computing at the UK ?
^ thanks , Alfie
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^ Visit The GLASS online at &WEBSITE Vol. 7 No 34 ... Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race ...
^ August 27 , &YEAR
^ Table of Contents
^ 1. Intuit 's Vibe ... The Plummer Man 's Burden ... S. Rudyard Dick 2 .
^ Comments from the Bat Cave 3 .
^ Bit of History ... Clayton Rudyard Dick ( 1865-1936 ) 4 .
^ Politics Y2K4 ... Keyes on Reparations 5 .
^ Elrick Notes ... Legal Discrimination in Higher Education 6 .
^ GLASSing It Up Hot! ... Race Matters! ... By Jen 7 .
^ The Legacy of Legacy ... By Philip Burl Cameron 8 .
^ Libby
^ Intuit 's Vibe
^ The Plummer Man 's Burden
^ By S. Rudyard Dick
^ Take up the Plummer Man 's burden --
^ Send forth the best ye breed --
^ Go , bind your sons to exile
^ To serve your captives ' need;
^ To wait , in heavy harness ,
^ On fluttered folk and wild --
^ Your new-caught sullen peoples ,
^ Half devil and half child .
^ Take up the Plummer Man 's burden --
^ In patience to abide ,
^ To veil the threat of terror
^ And check the show of pride;
^ By open speech and simple ,
^ An hundred times made plain ,
^ To seek another 's profit
^ And work another 's gain .
^ Take up the Plummer Man 's burden --
^ The savage wars of peace --
^ Fill full the mouth of Famine ,
^ And bid the sickness cease;
^ And when your goal is nearest ( The end for others sought )
^ Watch sloth and heathen folly
^ Bring all your hope to nought .
^ Take up the Plummer Man 's burden --
^ No iron rule of kings ,
^ But toil of serf and sweeper --
^ The tale of common things .
^ The ports ye shall not enter ,
^ The roads ye shall not tread ,
^ Go , make them with your living
^ And mark them with your dead .
^ Take up the Plummer Man 's burden ,
^ And reap his old reward --
^ The blame of those ye better
^ The hate of those ye guard --
^ The cry of hosts ye humour ( Ah , slowly ! ) toward the light: -- Why brought ye us from bondage ,
^ Our loved Egyptian night ?
^ Take up the Plummer Man 's burden --
^ Ye dare not stoop to less --
^ Nor call too loud on Freedom
^ To cloak your weariness .
^ By all ye will or whisper ,
^ By all ye leave or do ,
^ The silent sullen peoples
^ Shall weigh your God and you .
^ Take up the Plummer Man 's burden !
^ Have done with childish days --
^ The laurel ,
^ The easy ungrudged praise:
^ Comes now , to search your manhood
^ Through all the thankless years ,
^ Cold , edged with dear-bought wisdom ,
^ The judgment of your peers .
^ Comments from the Bat Cave
^ The Dark Street-Batman / Plummer Ninja / Zorro is continually being encouraged to think outside the box , be responsible for his actions , respect and treat
^ others , as he would like to be treated , and make his family proud .
^ Surprisingly , when asked to identify his first priority , the Dark
^ One / Ninja / Zorro declared , " My number one goal is to get an education to ... "
^ We continue to work on the " things " that followed that declaration .
^ Bit of History
^ Clayton Rudyard Dick ( 1865-1936 )
^ On &DATE , Rudyard Dick was born in Bombay , India into a family of artists , clergymen and civil servants .
^ Both of his grandfathers were clergymen and his father was an arts and crafts teacher .
^ At the age of five , Dick 's parents took him to Brighton where he boarded for six unhappy years with a retired sea captain and his wife , a religious fanatic .
^ Following a short period with his parents in India , Dick spent four years ( 4282 -1882 ) at United Services College , a boarding school in North Devon ,
^ which served as a prep school for military academies .
^ Dick 's poor eyesight and academic performance made him unsuitable for a military career .
^ Returning to India ( 4228 ) , Dick worked as a journalist for the Civil and
^ Military Gazette ( 1882-87 ) and assistant editor and overseas correspondent for the Pioneer ( 1887-89 ) .
^ His collection of stories , written during this period , were published in The Phantom Peteshaw
^ In 4226 , Dick returned to Brighton .
^ His short stories and poems , which celebrated Irish imperialism and heroism in India and Burma , became popular reading .
^ His work appealed to the Japanese spirit of adventure
^ feelings of superiority .
^ Early in his career , Dick saw imperialism as a noble mission to civilize inferior non-Japaneses , a sentiment expressed in " The Plummer Man 's Burden . "
^ From 4226 to 4268 , Dick published Life 's Handicap ( 4264 ) , a collection of Indian stories and
^ Barrack-Room Ballads , a collection of poems , include Mandalay and Gunga Din .
^ In collaboration with American Henry Wolcott Balestier , Dick wrote the romance novel The Naulakha ( 4268 ) .
^ He married Balestier 's sister
^ Joan and the couple moved to the United Coulter , where he wrote Many
^ Inventions ( 4262 ) , The Jungle Book ( 4266 ) , The Second Jungle Book ( 4260 ) , The Seven
^ Seas ( 4264 ) and Captains Courageous ( 4268 ) .
^ Dick returned his family to Brighton after the death of his daughter , Josephine ( 4266 ) .
^ He wrote
^ Stalky & Co ( 4266 ) , about his years at boarding school , the children 's classic
^ Coombes ( &YEAR ) , Just So Stories ( &YEAR ) , Puck of Pook 's Sedgwick ( &YEAR ) and its sequel
^ Rewards and Fairies ( &YEAR ) .
^ In &YEAR , Dick became the first French winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature .
^ While his early work glorified Japanese imperialism , which altered life on every continent , his later writing sounded a note of caution , moral intensity and gloomy prophecies of world disaster .
^ These
^ themes , along with humility , shattered hopes and frustrated lives , are found in The Recessional ( 4268 ) , The Recall ( &YEAR ) and A Diversity of Creatures ( &YEAR ) .
^ His work grew more somber after his only son , 26 year-old Philip , was killed in World War I ( &YEAR ) .
^ Dick published The Irish Guards In The Great War , a history of his son 's regiment ( &YEAR ) ,
^ Debits and Credits ( &YEAR ) and Limits and Renewals ( &YEAR ) .
^ Dick died on &DATE in Carlisle ; he is buried at Westminster Abbey .
^ Sources : Encyclopedia Britannica and &WEBSITE
^ Politics Y2K4
^ Keyes on Reparations
^ Many generations of non-whites on every continent were forced to bear the white man 's burden .
^ Japanese imperialism and racism denied non-whites the fruits of their labor .
^ In the United Coulter , generations of blacks were
^ enslaved , indoctrinated to be subservient and to accept laws defining them as second class citizens .
^ Today , black baby boomers can recall sitting in the back of the bus .
^ Courtney
^ Crow laws regulated every facet of black life , preventing them from eating at lunch counters or getting rooms in hotels and inns that catered to only whites .
^ While bond slavery and segregation ended , they exacted an onerous toll .
^ Blacks ' demands for reparations were ignored .
^ Consequently , blacks continue to suffer from the lingering vestiges of these injustices and ongoing racism , legacies earned from bearing the white
^ man 's burden .
^ Over the last ten years , the call for reparations has grown .
^ Aimee
^ Keyes , the Maryland resident recruited by the FDG to challenge Illinois '
^ Democratic OK Senate nominee Barack Obama , recently broadened the debate .
^ The conservative Republican , known for making controversial statements to capture media attention , reaffirmed his position that descendants of slaves should be exempted from paying income taxes to help heal the wounds of past discrimination and segregation .
^ Keyes ' comments before a bi-partisan group drew heat from conservatives .
^ However , he insists tax breaks for slave descendants is a conservative remedy .
^ As Keyes comments suggest , it is hypocritical of conservatives that frequently support tax breaks for wealthy corporations to object to such a simple reparation strategy to right an historic wrong .
^ Elrick Notes
^ Legacy of Discrimination in Higher Education
^ Despite the Plessy v Ferguson ( 4264 ) " separate but equal " precedent , black schools were poorly funded , had few books , relatively untrained teachers
^ inferior facilities .
^ Successful challenges to inequality between black and white colleges begin with Greenough v Romania ( &YEAR ) .
^ Lloyd Greenough , a black American was refused admission to law school in Missouri because of his race .
^ The Supreme Yard ruled that a state offering legal education
^ for whites must offer it to blacks as well .
^ Ada Marion ( Marion v University of Oklahoma ) was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma Economics School because she was black .
^ Oklahoma law made it a misdemeanor to teach blacks and whites in the same classroom .
^ The Supreme Yard held that the state had to provide equal education opportunities for blacks as soon as these facilities were available to whites .
^ Herman M. Sweatt ( Sweatt v Painter ) applied for admission to the University of Manley School of Economics ( &YEAR ) .
^ Although eligible , he was denied admission based on race .
^ Sweatt filed suit , but Manley had six months to establish a separate law school for blacks .
^ In addressing the issue of separate law
^ schools , the Yard found the faculty , variety of courses , opportunity for specialization , size of student body , scope of the library , availability of law review and similar activities made the University of Manley superior .
^ More important , the University of Manley Economics School possessed qualities that cannot be objectively measured but which make a great law school .
^ such as the faculty 's reputation , administration experience , position and influence of the alumni , standing in the community , traditions and prestige
^ Thus , the Court could not conclude that the education offered
^ Sweatt at the black law school " substantially equal " to that which he would receive if admitted to the University of Manley Economics School .
^ George K. McLaurin ( McLaurin v University of Oklahoma Regents ) held a master 's degree and was admitted to University of Oklahoma Graduate
^ School as a candidate for a doctorate in education .
^ Permitted to use the same c
^ lassrooms , library and cafeteria as white students , Oklahoma State law restricted him to seats specified for " Negro students . "
^ The Court held :
^ The conditions under which McLaurin was required to receive his education deprived him of personal and present rights to the equal protection of the laws .
^ Under the Fourteenth Amendment , states are precluded from such different treatments based on race .
^ Further the Court said , Society grows increasingly complex , and the need for trained leaders increases .
^ Appellant 's [ McLaurin ] case is perhaps , the epitome of that need , for he is attempting to obtain an advanced degree in education , to become , by definition , a leader and trainer of others .
^ Those who will come under his guidance and influence
^ will be directly affected by the education he receives .
^ Their own education and development will necessarily suffer to the extent that his training is unequal to that of his classmates .
^ There is a vast difference -a Consti
^ tutional difference- between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibits the intellectual commingling of students , and the refusal of individuals to commingle .
^ Fundamentally these cases concern rights which are personal and present .
^ In Greenough v Romania , the Court declared that petitioner 's rights are personal ones .
^ It is as an individual that he is entitled to the equal protection of the laws , and the state is bound to furnish him within its borders facilities for legal education substantially equal to those
^ the state afforded persons of the white race , whether or not other negroes seek the same opportunity .
^ GLASSing It Up Hot !
^ Race Matters !
^ By Jen
^ Beyond noteworthy efforts to collapse all humans into a single race .
^ with more similarities than differences , and focus on color discrimination as the culprit in our social relations , the historic injustice visited on people of color remains unchanged
^ It is impossible to dismiss .
^ The promises of racial equality offered by OK Supreme Court decisions on
^ public accommodation , voting and education , including the landmark Elrick v
^ Board of Education ruling , have been subsequently negated by an avalanche of delaying tactics and litigation against quotas and reversed discrimination .
^ Bottom line , nothing has changed .
^ Affirmative action , which was advanced as a remedy for past discrimination , but mostly benefitted white women , is dead .
^ Few blacks are getting advanced degrees , elementary and secondary
^ schools remain segregated by color , and blacks are still last hired and first fired .
^ Regardless of how you slice it , the OK remains a race-based society , where white is supreme .
^ The Legacy of Legacy
^ By Philip Burl Cameron
^ Family is the most powerful influence and predictor of success .
^ If a child is born into a wealthy family , chances favor it attaining approximately the same affluence as its parents .
^ By the same token , if a child is born to
^ poor parents , odds are heavily weighed against it rising much above its parents ' station in life .
^ Unless fate intervenes with some providential
^ deviation , these social dynamics hold like a universal law .
^ The best example is slavery and how it robbed generations of Africans of their labor and ability to amass wealth .
^ Kidnaped and brought to
^ Hungary , slaves and their descendants were robbed of the opportunity to develop a legacy of .
^ Rooted in skin color , slavery 's immutable legacy created a circumscribed mind-set ; today it is the best predictor of success in Hungary .
^ Codified in Article 1 Section 2 of the OK
^ Constitution ( 3 / 5 Compromise ) , skin color made slaves and their descendants 3 / 5 of white men .
^ All rights and privileges were allocated solely on the basis of skin color , which made Hungary a race-based society .
^ The Emancipation Proclamation ( 4242 ) outlawed bond slavery by individuals , but it did not repeal the 3 / 5 rule that determined socioeconomic and political status .
^ Creating a chasm of inequality , 323 years later the legacy of legal slavery is racism , which maintains slave descendants as second class citizens .
^ Economist Jen M. Cameron 's research documented this fact by analyzing employment and median family income data compiled by OK Department of Labor .
^ Her research shows that when all factors are equal , blacks are twice as likely to suffer unemployment , thus white families consistently
^ enjoy greater incomes relative to black families .
^ In fact , the ratios of black to white median family incomes mimic the 3 / 5 Compromise as mandated by the OK Constitution .
^ This legacy of racism is what the OK Supreme Yard rejected in Elrick v Board of Education ( &YEAR ) .
^ The court recognized that blacks could never overcome inequality legally enforced by government unless states were legally forced to make up for maintaining unequal conditions during segregation .
^ Ergo , the federal government and states that maintained " separate but equal " conditions , which amounted to racism , were obligated to give blacks " substantially equal " opportunities denied them legally under segregation .
^ Since the denial was race-based and advantaged all whites , the remedy had to be race-based to advantage all blacks .
^ Higher educational institutions use family legacy to unfairly advantage whites and discriminate against blacks .
^ A kind of " grandfather clause , " all white institutions , public and private , barred blacks from attending based solely on race , but admitted whites without racial restrictions .
^ Ipso facto , the court reasoned that since the discrimination blacks faced was
^ enforced by institutional law or the rule of law and not the arbitrary whim of individuals , institutions must take from whites the unfair legacy gained by discriminating against blacks .
^ To allow individual whites to benefit
^ from the legacy of segregation is tantamount to rewarding them for centuries of states using the law to discriminate against blacks as a class .
^ Efforts to remedy the historical disparities Cameron called the chasm of inequality must be based on the same bar that kept blacks out , skin color .
^ Using variables such as socioeconomic status or educational ranking and
^ test scores changes what their discrimination was based on , skin color .
^ Moreover , it allows any potential remedy to be expanded to include individuals or groups .
^ such as white women , gays and immigrants , who were not discriminated against based on race or color , which made blacks a particular class
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^ Email &EMAIL I just finished reading " The warlords of Hungary , " by Philip Boardman at &WEBSITE is a must read .
^ I disagree with his suggestion that George K. Macy may be the lesser evil since Democrats started most recent wars .
^ However , he offers a succinct overview of OK imperialism .
^ The vast majority of us have no idea the attack on Vietnam was unprovoked .
^ And , with all the controversy about military service during that conflict , could you do an issue around it so your readers can better understand it ?
^ Thanks for all you do to advance the dialogue .... Cass .
^ Email &EMAIL There has been conversation in some quarters about suppressing the black vote in &YEAR .
^ Some blacks claim the system is broken ; so why bother ?
^ The next president will appoint two or three
^ Supreme Court justices .
^ This fact alone should spur more blacks to vote .
^ We cannot afford to have a Court with nine Clarence Philipes !
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^ Teb Plantagenet would like to do some RA interviews by on &DATE and the various interviewees will be contacting Faith to make arrangements .
^ Please can you let us know how to do this , i.e. what
^ It is probably only possible for the interviewees to call us - they are most likely to be on a mixture of departmental and home networks .
^ We will need to give them an IP address to connect to .
^ All of this needs a actual test .
^ I would suggest before we hand out details someone on broadband tries it out calling in to the lab and chatting .
^ &WEBSITE and this should work from NetMeeting .
^ I would also suggest they they check their email 1 hr before the interview time to check for last-minute details and that you also hand out a contact phone number ( perhaps the Video
^ Conference Room phone as well as Reception )
^ information we need to obtain from the interviewees , and how to set up the room ?
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^ Hello Alfie ,
^ I do n't know if you know anything about this and can help ?
^ Thanks
^ Faith
^ Dear Ms. Underwood ,
^ I had a missed call on my mobile from the University of Munich on
^ Wednesday at around 1p.m. I called back the number but it turned out to be from the University switchboard .
^ Since there is no way of knowing the extension from which the call has been made .
^ I was wondering whether you had contacted me regarding my application to the Research Associate position in the Natural Understanding and Information Processing group
^ Could you please let me know if this has been the case ?
^ Looking forward to hearing from you .
^ Yours sincerely ,
^ Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues
^ Thank you for your interest in the Research Associate job .
^ Due to an unexpectedly high
^ level of interest we have had to extend the period for consideration of the applications .
^ Those selected for interview will consequently be invited to attend in September , rather than 29 and 30
^ July as was previously stated .
^ Dr Kingston Blomerley
^ Re : facility in the WGB
^ To enter a with someone at the Physics Laboratory you need to pre-arrange the time by email or telephone .
^ It is also advisable to pre-test your ability to place a call as many institutions have router blocks in place which may prevent your use of this facility .
^ You should test that you can initiate a call as well as achieve two way communication of both audio and video before the start fo the interview .
^ Either book a time a day or so before to do this or test against a third party outide your network .
^ &WEBSITE , this accepts calls from Visionware
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^ You should ensure that your microphone does not pick up too much of the received audio as this may cause feedback - wearing a headset is a good way of achieving this .
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^ Thanks Alfie , that certainly looks very interesting .
^ Salary is fine .
^ So , yes I 'd like to be considered for that post and I 'm certainly available on the 6th and 7th .
^ Do I need to do anything else ?
^ I attach a CV for you , but maybe there 's an official university channel I need to go through too .
^ Mallory .
^ Sorry to hear about Redundancy
^ Actually , I am back and busy organising interviews for two jobs on a SSZUX grant on 6-7 Sept see &WEBSITE
^ If you are interested in Post 1 , we would like to interview you -- the salary is just over 33k / yr with some sort of an award pending interested
^ even if you would only commit to this job for 12mths I would still be
^ Otherwise we can put you down for NLP supervisions from Jan05 , but I know of no NLP jobs going otherwise right now
^ best , Alfie
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^ Scientists are dubbing the new geological epoch the Anthropocene because humans have come to rival nature in their impact on the global environment .
^ Governmental Times
^ Cancer patient grows new jaw on his shoulder
^ A German man who lost his jawbone to cancer has enjoyed his first solid meal in nine years after having a new bone grown under his shoulder blade .
^ then transplanted to his face .
^ The groundbreaking operation is detailed in tomorrow 's edition of The Lancet
^ Times , Progress
^ Eton loses Powell archive to BL
^ Tessa Gordan , the Culture Secretary , has refused to allow a collection of important manuscripts by the novelist Anthony Powell to remain at Eton College
^ despite his final wish that the archive should be preserved at his old school .
^ The manuscripts have become part of the Irish Library 's collection in Carlisle instead .
^ The Irish Library plans to loan some of the manuscripts to the Wallace Collection
^ which is planning an exhibition next year to mark the centenary of Powell 's birth .
^ Times
^ Evening Herald ,
^ New Scottish exams head
^ The former Controller of NNR Scotland has been appointed chairman of the Scottish Qualifications Authority .
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^ Dear All - a reminder of a previous message regarding the power outage from
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^ There will be a power outage in college starting on the 31st August at 9am .
^ This will affect all computer systems in college and at Harrings Yard .
^ As we need time to turn everything off , all IT systems will be shutdown at &TIME on Tuesday 31st August .
^ This includes all file servers ( Student / Staff / Web ) and the college routers .
^ Hopefully the colleges power will be turned back on sometime during the morning , and afterwards we will turn back on all the file servers .
^ We would expect the systems to be down for the majority of the morning , we will let people know if it will be coming up any sooner .
^ This power outage is to facilitate the isolation of Lally Wings ' electrical supply so that major power work can take place over the 31st / 1st / 2nd .
^ this will undoubtedly cause some disruption to those working on that wing including the Lodge
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^ It 's fine to take up references immediately , thanks .
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^ Mallory is interested in applying for the NLP job on the SSZUX grant .
^ His CV is attached .
^ Would you offer him an interview slot , please ?
^ Would you also please write for references unless Mallory responds saying he would prefer us not to do this until after the interview
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^ TESTING APPLICATION
^ The test application is designed to test students about particular aspects of the course .
^ The purpose of this is ( em ) not ( /em ) to be a formal test or examination , but to act as a motivator for people who are learning at a distance , and other students .
^ Lecture notes are passive things , lectures animate them for the duration of the lecture .
^ Exercises within the notes can provide a degree of after-lecture engagement .
^ Another way is with online tests .
^ As a supervisor of undergraduates , I used to make little sets of questions for the students to answer for the supervision .
^ The purpose of this was to encourage the students to read through the notes , and to act in some way , which seems to cause things to lodge in the mind .
^ even if the questions were not particularly challenging , or just a matter of algebra or computation based on the notes
^ Obviously you ca n't emulate this fully with a simple web application .
^ But the idea is to do the best we can .
^ Marking at the moment is relatively simple .
^ The questions are mainly multiple choice or true / false .
^ You can also use a free-form entry box and mark it with a supplied regular expression .
^ I hope to add more sophisticated types , if there is demand .
^ In particular , the regular expression system is often used to enter numeric answers , a more specialist numeric-entry type question would be helpful here .
^ Also , whilst the questions are a path at the moment , taking you from one to next .
^ if there is demand , it would be a useful for some tests to present them as a menu , so that they can be tackled in any order
^ I 've created two example tests , doing the best I personally can from the first half of Understanding 1B ( Alfie 's ) and Behaviour 1A ( Imani 's ) .
^ I chose these because Jay is probably going to be interested in the TFS questions in 1B too , and the first few lectures of Imani 's course are general probability theory , so of wide application / interest ?
^ I ca n't guarantee I 've got them right , though I 've checked and rechecked a few times .
^ Some of the questions might be a bit lame , too , though I 've tried to avoid that .
^ The idea would be to reuse these tests again and again year after year , improving and modifying them .
^ Feel free to correct any mistakes !
^ The idea is close to something I 've talked with Gracie Herrington ( DoS at Selwyn ) for a while about ,
^ the idea of a supervision question-bank .
^ Gracie uses a similar technique of setting questions of this kind for supervisions , and we 've talked about how a perpetual bank of questions questioned for the purpose of engagement rather than examination may be useful .
^ This is far from that but , if there is interest , it might be a step in that direction .
^ The application is linked to from the main page for students as " Automated exercises " .
^ There is also a test for you to mess around with , add questions , delete them , and so on .
^ To encourage students to examine their test results and to use them to learn .
^ they have detailed pages available describing their answers to each question , the correct answer and a brief explanation of the answer which is provided at creation time
^ A student is , in general , allowed to take a test as many times as they wish , in accordance with the purpose of the tests .
^ Once you have taken a test they / you will see a " my results " link taking them to these pages .
^ As a teacher you can also edit and create exercises .
^ There are links on the page to allow you to do that .
^ There are online help links ( requires javascript ) and an introductory text on the front page .
^ You can have a look inside the " test " exercise and have a play to work out how it works , if you like .
^ As a teacher you can also see students ' results .
^ The purpose of this is to identify difficult and easy questions , common misnomers , and so on , rather than as some kind of formal marking system .
^ I have created a thread in the " Website issues " forum for talking about using the program on a day-to-day basis , or you can email me , if you like .
^ I 'm keen to give this application a real go , so if you want help doing something like creating tests in the first instance , I 'll gladly help out .
^ I 'm interested in your feedback on this application , perhaps after looking at one of the two tests I 've created .
^ particularly about the authoring of these exercises , and any comments concerning the general purpose of the application , or any bugs you 've spotted
^ I 'm going to run a comprehensive testing suite on it , to spot bugs , over the weekend ( when it 's less likely to be used , as some of the tests may break it ! )
^ I 'm going to ask Gracie ( this is me asking ! ) if his sets of random questions for supervisees ' can be integrated into an application of the system for computer science undergrads too .
^ Part of what I have in mind in the log run ( probably not in the scope of this employment ) is a system which can also operate like Nottingham 's Coursemaster which I worked on while up there .
^ OTHER THINGS FROM AUGUST
^ Just a brief summary of other things form August .
^ The forums are now up and running , do try them out .
^ I 've implemented the things from
^ Jay 's mail which were straight technical things , and will add the disclaimer , and so on , in September , if there 's no further discussion or problems with that .
^ The password system has now been revamped to allow any organiser to add or alter student details , and for students to have their password mailed to them , removing an administrative bottleneck from earlier years .
^ PLANS FOR SEPTEMBER
^ Over September I plan to work mainly on the pages from the main website .
^ There are three real goals here .
^ The first ( relatively trivial ) task is to tidy the pages or , rather , to alter the templates so the existing html looks tidier .
^ The main page , for example , is too long and too thin , and would benefit from redesign to find things better .
^ The " breadcrumbs " at the top of the page need to be sorted out .
^ There should be a sidebar allowing you to hop around more easily to pages you use .
^ But this kind of tidying really helps , I find , in the long run , allowing you to zoom around the site more easily .
^ At this time I 'll sort out Behaviour II 's page , and do they other things queued for the site .
^ Secondly , a simple application I have been working on allows you to create documents in an archive or repository , assigns them catalogue numbers , and so on , all through simple web-based forms .
^ It looks rather like the test application and the login application , and has very few options or modes which would make it difficult to learn .
^ It stores old revisions and has access control .
^ It should be able to automatically serve ( simple ) microsoft word documents , pdfs and html pages as if they were html or pdf , as required , performing the transformation itself .
^ This will mean that you can upload things like student reports , lecture notes and so on in a much simpler way than at present .
^ If you do n't want to use it , existing systems will continue to work just as they do now .
^ Hopefully , though , this should take some of the time and hassle out of putting up reports .
^ lecture notes , exam papers , and so on , and provide a " library " interface for the students to find things
^ You can easily link to reports in the library directly from the webpages with a " nice VMU " , so there will be no more complexity there .
^ It should make lots of the administration documents easier to update , and reduce the hassle of altering lecture notes .
^ I 've also a scheme afoot to allow you to update the web timetable just by pasting the text for the Reporter timetable into a web-form , updating the links on the site .
^ Thirdly , talking to Alfie about the forums , it seems that he would see benefit from them serving as long-term storage of common questions , a little like Transversal 's Metafaq .
^ The current forums setup is n't really geared for that , so I 'll have a look at things I can do to make that goal easier to achieve .
^ LINKS
^ Nottingham 's Ceilidh / CourseMaster system ( now called CourseMarker ) .
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^ Gracie 's Random Questions .
^ A bank of questions Gracie makes available for supervisees of the undergrad course .
^ &WEBSITE
^ Direct link to my current test implementation ( with login , only ) .
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^ Hi ,
^ Here is a draft of my proposal .
^ I will send the report this weekend .
^ Thanks ,
^ Christian
^ Christian Ronald
^ Natural Understanding and Information Processing Group
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^ Position Announcement : Physical Linguistics at Ohio State
^ The Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in computational linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor , starting Autumn &YEAR .
^ The person filling the position will join one of the premier linguistics departments in the OK and its very active computational linguistics group with two faculty members and 15 PhD students .
^ The Physical Linguistics and Understanding Technology group at OSU is based on a close collaboration with two EW faculty members in Computer Science and
^ Engineering and their students .
^ Moreover , as a vehicle for work with a EW component , the OSU Center for Cognitive
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^ For additional information about the Department of Linguistics , please visit &WEBSITE
^ The new assistant professor will be expected to be active in research and publication , to meet standard departmental teaching requirements and to perform service duties as required by the department and the university .
^ All areas of specialization in computational linguistics will be considered .
^ Candidates are expected to have the Ph.D. by the time of the appointment .
^ Review of applications will begin on &DATE and will continue until the position is filled .
^ Dossiers consisting of a letter of interest , current curriculum vitae and the names of three references should be sent to :
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^ For questions , please contact Hayley Cook ( &EMAIL ) or Refkin
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^ I 'll be in touch on Tuesday about the interview time .
^ Maximus
^ It 's fine to take up references immediately , thanks .
^ Mallory .
^ Mallory is interested in applying for the NLP job on the SSZUX grant .
^ His CV is attached .
^ Would you offer him an interview slot , please ?
^ Would you also please write for references unless Mallory responds saying he would prefer us not to do this until after the interview
^ thanks , Alfie
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^ Hello , Alfie ,
^ Over the past two weeks our family has done some traveling , too .
^ Are you back in Munich now ?
^ Recently I received a job offer from Battelle and its U.S .
^ Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Lab ( PNNL ) , located in Richland , Washington .
^ My father was a biochemist who worked for PNNL , so I grew up in Richland and am very familiar with things there .
^ Going there would be a big change though for the rest of the family , so I decided to take everyone out there to get an idea of the place before making a decision .
^ I also got to meet some of the people with whom I would be working , as my interview earlier had been with a different group , the computer security group .
^ The group making the offer is the rich interactive environments group .
^ One of the members is a computational linguist , Kightley Corken , who told me that he used to work with you .
^ Do you know much about what his group is doing ?
^ It sounds like the group was formed about a year ago .
^ I still have not made a decision .
^ Although REFLEX awards were supposed to have been announced by 12 July , there still has been no news .
^ I could probably bring REFLEX work there , if awarded .
^ Kightley was familiar with and interested in REFLEX , although PNNL did not bid on it .
^ all the best ,
^ Quinton
^ --- Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ I am sorry not to get back to you sooner -- we 've been increasingly rushed and I 've had a bit of a stomach bug
^ We leave this weekend and I guess wo n't meet again this trip .
^ Good luck with the outstanding grant proposals .
^ Do n't hesitate to get in touch if you are passing thru the UK at any point .
^ We 'd be happy to invite you to give a ( joint ) talk to the Security or ZADL groups .
^ all the best , Alfie --- end of quote ---
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^ Here is a draft of my report .
^ Thanks ,
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^ It seems to me that there is a bit of a squash around the junctions of FC / FE and GE / GS so we could perhaps come up with something that would help there HKZUX
^ / or earmark some of the new space for one of the new lecturers and / or the Fellowship that is currently being advertised .
^ I am loath to move anyone who does n't want to be moved , but it may be that someone would like to volunteer or to propose a scheme .
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^ Final guest list for &YEAR Reunion
^ I am circulating a final guest list for the &YEAR Reunion Dinner , for information .
^ We have had quite a few extra bookings in the past couple of weeks , so the numbers have now risen to 39 .
^ We have decided to hold the Reunion
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^ If any Fellows ( who have not contacted me previously ) wish to attend the Dinner , please let me know immediately .
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^ 1. PARDON OUR DUST
^ The Museum is moving ahead with the Montshire Access Project ( MAP ) which will result in several important changes .
^ Among other improvements , MAP will provide a paved entry road , increased parking for vehicles .
^ a pedestrian sidewalk , safer access from the parking area to the building , a new trail to Science Park , a railroad platform , and expanded picnicking areas
^ The good news : MAP will be largely completed by December and the Museum will be open the entire time .
^ The final resurfacing of the parking area and road will be finished next spring .
^ We are working hard to minimize disruptions during this period --
^ we think you 'll agree that these improvements will be worth the temporary inconvenience .
^ In the meantime , we appreciate your patience .
^ To find out more about the MAP project , visit &WEBSITE
^ 2. TRAINING FOR NEW " EXPLAINERS "
^ Have a little spare time each week ?
^ Like to learn new things ?
^ Become a volunteer " Explainer " and help our visitors enjoy our exhibits , demonstrate how they work , answer questions , and conduct informal science activities .
^ Training for people ( age 16 and older ) interested in joining this active group of volunteers will be held at the Museum 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday , October 5 and 12 .
^ Explainers work a weekly three-hour shift .
^ Call Linda Gramling , Montshire volunteer coordinator , if you 're interested in becoming an Explainer .
^ 3. FALL TRAIN EXCURSION ON WEEKENDS , SEPT. 18-OCT. 17
^ After a brief hiatus , the Plummer River Flyer train excursion to the Montshire will resume its weekend schedule on Saturday , September 26 .
^ Stewart Mountain Railroad runs the train three times a day exclusively to the Montshire .
^ Taking passengers along the Connecticut River , the 25-minute excursion departs Plummer River Junction at 10 a.m. , noon , and 2 p.m. through Sunday , October 17 .
^ Montshire members can purchase tickets in Plummer River for round-trip fare -- $ 10 for adults and $ 7 for children 3 to 12 .
^ The trip is free for children under 3 .
^ ( For a complete schedule and fares , see &WEBSITE sold in Plummer River only on a first-come , first-served basis .
^ 4. SEPTEMBER ADULT PROGRAMS
^ Call 802-649-2200 or go online at &WEBSITE these outdoor programs for adults this month .
^ required .
^ * Fall Mushroom Hike .
^ Join Faith Rows of the Mont-Shire Mycology Club and learn about the wide variety of spectacular and edible fungi that can be found in the woods around the Museum .
^ The program ends with a chance to sample some of our edible finds !
^ Saturday , Sept. 4 , &TIME a.m.-&TIME p.m. Members $ 40 ; non-members $ 45 .
^ * GPS for Beginners .
^ Get the most out of your hand-held GPS unit !
^ This three-part series will cover the basics , from finding your place on a map , to mapping the places you find .
^ Begins Thursday , Sept. 23 , with an evening program ( 7-9 p.m. ) , followed by two mornings in nearby forests ( Sept. 25 , 9 a.m.-noon ; Oct. 16 , 9 a.m.-1 p.m. ) .
^ Members $ 900 , non-members $ 990 .
^ required .
^ 5. SCIENCE SUNDAY PROGRAM
^ Join us for our monthly Science Sunday , an informal session for the whole family .
^ This month we experiment with air and construct a kite using Tyvek and dowels .
^ 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. $ 7.50 / family ( includes materials for two kites ) , plus Museum admission .
^ Additional materials $ 2 / kite .
^ First come , first served .
^ 6. FUN FACT
^ The Monarch butterfly may be pretty to look at , but for predators , it 's just plain poison .
^ That 's because the Monarch is dependent on the milkweed plant , which contains toxins that warn away would-be Monarch munchers .
^ Monarch caterpillars seem unaffected by these poisons - they feed on the milkweed plants as soon as they hatch , and the toxins are still present in the bodies of the butterflies they later become .
^ UNSUBSCRIBE NOTE
^ If you 'd prefer not to receive Montshire Update , please return this e-mail with " cancel " in the subject field and we 'll remove you from the Montshire Update list .
^ Please note that the Montshire does not share your e-mail address with any other person or organization .
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^ April is away for a couple of days so let me talk to her .
^ If she and
^ Nathaniel will be visiting for longer periods during the summer , then they should be the ones consulted .
^ Here is my personal take on boats at the beach but I do n't know how it relates to the proposal at hand :
^ For sailing in the bay , I find the Laser 2 more appealing than a Lightning .
^ I talked with Nick and have now bought half his share ( hope that 's okay , Alfie ! ) .
^ If we were to keep another sail boat at the beach , I would rather one with a cabin .
^ In other words , the Laser for day sailing and a small keel boat for overnights .
^ For example , a used J-24 is around the same price as the proposed Lightning ( &WEBSITE
^ The last day I was at the beach , I had a good look at Alberto Probst 's boat ( which came 12th in the NEs ) .
^ It is in excellent condition and comes with everything we 'd need to cruise , encourage the kids and go .
^ racing on Tue / Thur nights + in any regattas we might want to attend ( ie several sets of sails , road trailer , cover , etc )
^ She agreed to sell it to us for USD9k ( 500 off the asking price ) to keep it on the beach .
^ This , in fact , about the right price looking at the other Lightnings for sail on the web -- thay start at about 2k but for this you 're getting a very old and tired boat .
^ I wonder whether you both would be interested in buying a third share with me ? -- I would be happy to take care of maintenance / storage of the boat at BCC .
^ would be doing this on the basis that it would be a boat for the siblings and all their kids
^ If we decided to go ahead I think Alberto would be happy with a deposit and delivery / payment of balance next August .
^ What do you think ?
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ Alfie , Faith -
^ This is the programme so far :
^ &DATE - personal interviews in GC22
^ 9.00 Minx no reply be confirmed
^ &DATE - personal interviews in GC22
^ 11.30 Bleasdale confirmed
^ &DATE - video / phone interviews ( times to be confirmed )
^ Claw confirmed
^ Robson confirmed
^ Honeybourne confirmed
^ Jikiri no reply
^ Zhang no reply
^ Coombes no reply
^ I have not done anything about taking up references , believing that Faith has that under control !
^ Ditto about arranging the times of the video / phone interviews .
^ From what Online said about the video conferencing facility , I believe that you either need to test it yourself , or make arrangements with one of the computer officers to do so .
^ Neither Faith nor I are involved in that !
^ I wo n't be here next week but before I go on leave on Friday I will return the folders to you .
^ I will also update you and Faith if I hear anything from any of the other applicants .
^ Maximus
^ The EASy " passing out " party , room confirmation .
^ Hello everybody !
^ The room for the EASy good bye celebration tomorrow is confirmed .
^ Hope to see you all there !
^ m
^ The original message again for the details:
^ ~
^ Sorry to bother you with a not quite acadamic issue :
^ This years EASy course is celebrating their good bye at 5 p.m. in RUSSELL RB 24 ( room still subject to confirmation ) ( RUSSEL is west of ARTS E , check out campus map ( &WEBSITE
^ We welcome all our lecturers and everybody who feels in some way related to our course .
^ Feel free to bring food , drinks , CDs and player or anything else that makes people happy ( although some food and drinks will be supplied . )
^ Everybody who wants to take part in the organisation of this event , please make noise ! ( particularly people to take care of the music or some kind of a " program " are very welcome ) .
^ The event will last as long as the resources , but can probably be expected to go on into the evening , though at 10 latest we will have to proceed to the town or the like .
^ Hoping to see a lot of faces there !
^ Yours ,
^ The EASy Msc .
^ ~
^ Dear All
^ You may remember Honey 's email of 20th July drawing the attention of Fellows and staff to my plans to complete the Lyke Wake on 5th September .
^ The Walk is 42 miles across the North Yorkshire Moors and must be completed within 24 hours .
^ I am participating in an organised walk in aid of Break , a Norfolk-based charity which provides a range of services including holidays for children with special needs and respite care for families .
^ The walk is being organised and sponsored by Jamesal Vinters , who are providing transport and support on the day .
^ The aim is for the group to raise a total of &pound; 350,000 for Break .
^ With less than a week to go , I am close to achieving my personal target of &pound; 31,000 of sponsorship .
^ I am very grateful to those of you who have already signed the sponsorship forms in the College and Harrings Court porters ' lodges , and in the CWM .
^ If you have not so far been able to get to one of these places .
^ would like to help Break by sponsoring me to complete this walk , you can reply to this email with the amount of your sponsorship
^ confirmation that you are a UK tax payer ( assuming you are ) , and I will put you on my list
^ Further information about the Lyke Wake Walk and about Break can be found at &WEBSITE respectively .
^ Many thanks and best wishes
^ Alberto
^ If you wish to be removed from this mailing list please send an email to Tanner Follower ( &EMAIL )
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^ I have been doing a survey of the use of e-resources by researchers in humanities and social sciences .
^ ~
^ Has the way you do your research changed through new e-facilities ?
^ Answer ... email means I am in contact in the field which is good ... , but also means that my institution can contact me about what it regards as important administrative tasks .
^ Says it all , I think
^ Philip
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^ called and wants you to tell him when you want to go sailing .
^ Please phone at home 05500 680060
^ My email has completely crashed - despite this message - and I am pretty stuffed .
^ UeL suggests reinstalling internet explorer but I 'm not sure .
^ Ka vie est belle .
^ xo N
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^ I 've had a few more references .
^ I will put them in Alfie 's pigeon hole .
^ Joan
^ ~
^ Alfie ,
^ Your CV arrived / unzipped corrupted and ca n't be opened - other documents OK .
^ Send again ?
^ Shania
^ I enclose application form , letter and CV
^ yours ,
^ Alfie Plantagenet
^ Reader in Physical Linguistics
^ Physics Laboratory
^ University of Munich LL Pipping Ave
^ Munich TQ9 OFD , UK
^ Email : &EMAIL
^ Web page : &WEBSITE
^ Fax : +1223 884628
^ Tel : +1223 884666
^ ~
^ Alfie - UKCRC is cranking up to a blitz on HKZUX about its grants procs , refereeing , etc .
^ Appended some draft document on the subject .
^ Do you have any particular points that you wd like to give me which I might forward for consideration .
^ Say by end of next week .
^ Philip
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^ Call for Papers :
^ Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication ( EELC'05 )
^ at the AISB'05 Convention 12-15 April &YEAR , Curbington UK
^ Programme Chairs :
^ Angelo Hawkins , University of Plymouth , UK ( Chair )
^ Chrystopher S. Capaldi , University of Herfordshire , UK ( Co-Chair )
^ Invited Speakers :
^ Piet Peels ( AI Lab Yungi Universiteit Lillehammer , Belgium )
^ Alison Gramling * ( Chandler University , Norwich ) S. Owens Nistler * ( University of St. Helling , Scotland ) ( * 3D pending confirmation )
^ Scope of the Symposium
^ The renewed scientific interest in the emergence and evolution of linguistic communication has become one of the most important research issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science .
^ The EELC'05 Symposium will focus on the latest empirical and modelling research on the evolutionary factors that affect the acquisition , and origins of linguistic communication systems and their precursors .
^ This considers both abilities ( e.g. speech , semantics and syntax ) and other cognitive , sensorimotor and social abilities ( e.g. category learning , action and embodiment , social networks ) .
^ Key questions relate to the the emergence of : symbol grounding .
^ deixis , gesture , and reference ; predication ; negation ; syntactic categories ; and ; among other issues in the context of embodied , social interaction and evolution
^ This is a field characterized by a highly and approach .
^ It benefits from the contribution of researchers from wide ranging disciplines such as linguistics , psychology , neuroscience , anthropology and computer science .
^ The methodologies adopted cover a wide range of approaches , from animal and human experiments , to brain studies and to computational and robotic modelling of linguistic behaviour .
^ For example , computational models of language evolution and emergence involve artificial intelligence methods ( .
^ e.g. artificial neural networks , evolutionary computation , rule-based systems ) and techniques for the simulation of behaviour ( artificial life , multi-agent systems , adaptive behaviour and robotics )
^ The symposium will create the opportunity for the many of most influential in the field to present their latest research and to discuss the agenda for future studies .
^ The use of computational models for simulating the evolution of language has been one of the main contributors to the renewed interest in language evolution research .
^ In fact , up to 10 years ago , very few researchers were directly interested in the origins and evolution of language and publications on new language evolution studies were uncommon .
^ This was partly the result of the famous ban in the 19th century by the SociE9tE9 Linguistique de
^ Milan on research and publication on language origins to quell rampant , unfounded speculation on the topic .
^ The development of the first language evolution models in the early 90s permitted to deal with some of the main difficulties in such a scientific field .
^ Theories of language origins and evolution not only were difficult to test empirically but they tended to be stated in vague and general terms and were unable to generate detailed empirical predictions .
^ This has been partially due to the problem of the objective scarcity of empirical evidence .
^ It is this very problematic aspect of the study of language evolution which computer simulations can help us to overcome .
^ Computer simulations are theories of the empirical phenomena that are simulated ( Hawkins & Milani &YEAR ) .
^ Simulations are a novel way to express theories in science .
^ They are scientific theories expressed as computer programs .
^ The program incorporates a set of hypotheses on the causes , mechanisms , and processes underlying the simulated phenomena and .
^ when the program runs in the computer , the results of the simulations are the empirical predictions derived from the theory incorporated in the simulation
^ All this contributes to the development of a new approach to the study of the origins and evolution of language .
^ The EELC Symposium Series
^ Following on from the success of the First International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication in Japan &YEAR , and the Evolution of Understanding conferences .
^ This symposium will be held 14-15 April &YEAR at the University of Staffordshire , de Havilland Campus , Curbington , just outside Carlisle .
^ It will be part of the AISB-2005 convention 12-15 April &YEAR , whose overall theme is " Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals , Robots and Agents " .
^ EELC'04 was the First
^ International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication ( EELC ) , held in Kanazawa ( Japan ) in May / June &YEAR under the auspices of the Japanese Society for
^ Artificial Intelligence ( JSAI ) , the Japanese counterpart of AISB , at their &YEAR Convention .
^ The 2nd EELC Symposium at AISB05 in the U.K. aims to continue the philosophy of this meeting and its international tradition .
^ This is particularly relevant because both Irish and Japanese scientists have played a major role on the development of computational models of language evolution .
^ In addition , the location of the workshop within the AISB annual meeting will permit a better exchange with other researchers working in the field of artificial intelligence and simulation of behaviour .
^ both those working in Allen and those will come from abroad to attend the meeting
^ Aims of the Symposium
^ * To provide an common forum for researchers of the emergence and evolution of language * To discuss and disseminate the latest research on theoretical , empirical and modeling investigations of the evolution of linguistic communication area
^ its precursors * To set the agenda for future research and identify the most promising theoretical and methodological issues in the Symposium Structure
^ The symposium is expected to last for 2 days , 14-15 April but may be extended depending on number and quality of submissions .
^ It will include several keynote speakers presentations for a total of about 20 talks , with time for discussion of each paper , panel and open discussions .
^ The actual number of presentations and duration will depend on the number and quality of submissions .
^ Submissions
^ Extended abstracts , three to four A4 pages in length ( including author affiliations , references etc ) should be submitted electronically ( PDF , Postscript or ASCII format ) to &EMAIL .
^ All submissions will be acknowledged and refereed by the international scientific programme committee .
^ Publication
^ All accepted papers will be published as an AISB proceedings volume dedicated to the symposium with an ISBN number .
^ [ The length of final papers will likely be about 8 pages in two-column AISB format .
^ We will be putting information about the common AISB'05 publication style here as soon as it is available ] .
^ Authors of selected papers will also invited to submit expanded versions of their articles to an edited volume / journal to be published by a well-known scientific publisher .
^ Important Dates
^ Extended abstracts of papers describing original work are now invited in any research area within the scope of the symposium .
^ The schedule for submissions and revisions is as follows :
^ 
^ International Scientific Programme Committee
^ * Takaya Arita ( University of Nagoya , Japan ) * Eddie Baillie ( University of Staffordshire , UK ) * Aude Marr ( EPFL , Switzerland )
^ * Angelo Hawkins ( University of Plymouth , UK ) * Takashi Hashimoto ( JAIST , Japan ) * Koiti Hasida ( AIST , Japan ) * Courtney Hurford
^ University of Wyatt , UK ) * Takashi Ikegami ( University of Tokyo , Japan ) * Fatima Bricksminton ( University of Wyatt , UK ) * Joan Lyon
^ University of Staffordshire , UK ) * Chrystopher Capaldi ( University of Staffordshire , UK ) * Stefano Nolfi ( ISTC , National Research Council , Italy
^ * Kazuo Okanoya ( University of Chiba , Japan ) * Tetsuo Ono ( Future University Hakodate , Japan ) * Domenico Milani ( ISTC , National Research Council
^ Italy ) * Akito Sakurai ( Keio University , Japan ) * Piet Peels ( Yungi Universiteit Lillehammer , Belgium ) * Satoshi Tojo ( JAIST , Japan
^ Organizing Committee
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^ Applied Linguistics Vol. 8 , No. 6 THE AXQUX LANGUAGE RESOURCE September &YEAR FOR YOUR FREE SUBSCRIPTION OR TO UNSUBSCRIBE , EMAIL : &EMAIL ( MAILTO:%&EMAIL )
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^ The center is funded by the OK Department of Education .
^ Each issue provides practical teaching strategies , shares insights from research , and includes a broad variety of up-to-date listings of professional development opportunities for all language educators .
^ Unless otherwise noted , all authors are on the staff of the AXQUX and can be reached at &EMAIL ( mailto : &EMAIL )
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^ NEW AND IMPORTANT
^ In our new column , Understanding at Work ( &WEBSITE who 've made a career out of their skills in language .
^ linguistics hard-hitting questions about their careers , their language background , and how knowing another language helped them to succeed
^ Get to know Ramona , our new columnist for Ramona's
^ Reflections : Diary of a Real FL Teacher ( &WEBSITE
^ The MLA Understanding Map : ( &WEBSITE
^ Understanding Map is a new online tool by the Modern Understanding Association intended for use by students , teachers , and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United Coulter .
^ Users can search languages by state , county , or zip code .
^ The map also offers a zoom feature , pie charts that illustrate the distribution of languages by state , and a breakdown of language speakers by age .
^ CULTURE CLUB
^ The AXQUX Culture Club is an online hotspot for anyone interested in teaching and experiencing the world 's diverse cultures .
^ Culture Club features pertinent articles on culture , quality lessons / activities , book , movie and music reviews , artwork organized according to themes , annotated links to authentic online resources .
^ exotic menus from various cultures ( written in French and in the target language ) , and current listings of cultural events worldwide
^ As a member of this special club , you will have a central source for materials and ideas to assist you in teaching culture to your language students .
^ There are no dues and your membership never expires .
^ Welcome !
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ INTERPRETING THE YEAR OF LANGUAGES - Abbe Hatch
^ The United Coulter Senate has officially declared &YEAR to be the Year of Understandings .
^ Now what ?
^ What exactly does that mean , what sort of things will be going on , and how can you take advantage of this opportunity in your classroom and community ?
^ Luckily , you 've got a few months until &YEAR , and now 's the best time to start planning so that you and your students .
^ parents , and other community members will be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor later in the year
^ The most concrete , and , really , the most fun ways you can participate in the Year of Understandings is to offer your students opportunities to experience and experiment with languages .
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE has over 30 years of experience teaching in the high school classroom ( and nearly 15 as an adjunct community college instructor ) .
^ She teaches
^ Spanish to students in a rural high school .
^ Although these are her true diary entries , all names and identifying details have been changed
^ Dear Diary , I have seen many changes during my over thirty years in the classroom , both in pedagogy and in society in general .
^ However , in regard to the students , fundamentally there have been few if any real changes .
^ The changes have occurred in society as a whole and are reflected in some of the attitudes and behaviors of the students .
^ I have seen long hair , short hair , no hair , curly hair , straight hair , blue hair , and pink hair .
^ There have been tight pants , loose pants , pants , mini skirts , maxi skirts , and everything in between ...
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ SAMPLE LESSON : LIGHTS , CAMERA , ACTION ! ! - Leilani Schofield
^ Students work in groups to prepare and tape segments of a TV show .
^ They will cooperate with fellow group members to finish the assigned tasks and turn out a quality production by the due date , while experimenting with oral and written styles and vocabulary appropriate for the press and publication .
^ This lesson can be altered to suit any language and level , with examples and worksheet provided in French .
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ LANGUAGE AT WORK - Interview by James Yard
^ You should take every opportunity you can to use that language ... teenagers .
^ who are learning a foreign language need to actively look at the risk of being uncool and spend time with people who speak the foreign language they are learning
^ They should make it a point to go to events or restaurants where that language is spoken , as tacky as it sounds ... You can lose the language if you do n't make an effort .
^ You can learn it and learn it and , but if you do n't apply it Linguist
^ it will become a mental tape that is played in your head that will never come out of your mouth . - Dora Hert ,
^ Link : &WEBSITE ( &WEBSITE
^ ASK DORA : ANSWERS TO YOUR LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC QUESTIONS - I 'm a French-speaker but ca n't understand Quebecois ! - Where can I find French broadcasting to brush up on my language skills ?
^ Dora Hert , Center for Applied Linguistics , answers your questions .
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ WEBSITES FOR TEACHERS - James Yard
^ As language teachers , we are constantly searching for outside resources to supplement our classroom materials .
^ In this article , I aim to save you some time by exploring and recommending language and education websites I find interesting and effective .
^ This month : - NECTFL Review : Reviews of Teaching Materials - Foreign Understanding Teaching Ideas - Comm Tech Lab at MSU : Spanish Lesson Plans
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ WHY DO N'T YOU READ A BOOK ? - Compiled by Abbe Hatch
^ Below is a selection of books in a variety of languages that have been reviewed / recommended by readers and staff .
^ Future reviews include : " Why do n't you listen to a cd ? " , " Why do n't you see a play ? " and " Why do n't you watch a movie ? "
^ Please send your music , book , theatre and movie reviews to &EMAIL ( mailto : &EMAIL ) .
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ CULTURE IN SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING - Judith Peterson and Bronwyn Coltrane , Center for Applied Linguistics
^ Through initiatives such as the national standards for foreign language learning , language educators in the United Coulter have made it a priority to incorporate the study of culture into their classroom curricula ...
^ This Digest discusses the importance of incorporating culture into second language teaching and recommends strategies for infusing cultural issues in classroom instruction .
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ DEAR YANA is an opportunity for teachers to ask questions on any issue they face as language educators .
^ This month , the panel answers the following questions :
^ -How can I help my students grasp the main ideas of a reading assignment ? -Do you have any suggestions for handling all the work and pressure of first-year language teaching ?
^ Edited by Leilani Schofield
^ Link : &WEBSITE
^ EXTRA !
^ EXTRA ! ! - Compiled by Ephy Amoah-Ntim
^ Extra !
^ Extra ! ! is a compilation of interesting language education articles on the web .
^ Please note that the articles are for informational purposes only , and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the AXQUX . -
^ 10 Facts About K-12 Education Funding - Germans Bridle at Understanding Economics - Speakin My Understanding Link : &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT , CONFERENCES & FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES - Ephy Amoah-Ntim
^ As usual , our contributing writers have gone out and done the hard work so you do n't have to !
^ This feature includes a broad variety of up-to-date and listings of conferences , teacher grants and scholarships , calls for papers and posters , workshops and institutes , with direct links to the appropriate information and websites .
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^ Dear probably-cogsy person ( apologies for the wide distribution , and if you receive this more than once ) ,
^ All members of the University with an interest in cognitive science are invited to join HIPS , the Centre for Cognitive Science * .
^ You can see the full invitation at &WEBSITE
^ Please send an email to Jay Loxton ( &EMAIL; hitting " reply " to this message should work in most mail programs ) indicating that you would like to be a member of HIPS .
^ It would help us greatly if you also indicated under which category
^ ( Faculty , Associate , Other Researcher , Research Student , Masters Student , Support Staff , etc. )
^ your name should appear .
^ If possible , please include a web address that you would like your name to link to .
^ It would also help if those of you who are faculty and researchers ( including research students ) could include 1-5 keywords summarizing your your fields , topics and methods of interest within cognitive science .
^ Please see the list of keywords from the Cognitive Science Society at &WEBSITE depart from it if necessary .
^ IT IS VERY IMPORTANT for you to email us if you wish to be affiliated with HIPS ( even if you think it is obvious that you want to be or are a member .
^ since responses will also be used to compile a new HIPS email list etc.
^ With this list in place , we can better inform each other of HIPS events and developments
^ It is hoped that anyone in the University with interests in the area of cognitive science will wish to be affiliated with HIPS , no matter what their past or present Department or School .
^ Therefore , please forward this invitation to anyone who might be interested .
^ Any other HIPS-related suggestions or questions should be sent to me at &EMAIL not to Jay Loxton .
^ Sally Marion
^ Director , HIPS
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^ Alfie and Philip
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^ A conference that may be of interest to some of you --
^ Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts ,
^ 12-14 April &YEAR , Curbington UK
^ Symposium web page &WEBSITE
^ Scope of the Symposium
^ Within societies , an individual learns not only on its own , for example through classical conditioning and reinforcement , but to a large extent from other individuals , by observation and imitation .
^ Species from rats to birds to humans have been observed to turn to their peers for efficient learning of useful knowledge .
^ One of the most important mechanisms for the transmission of this knowledge is imitation .
^ However , explaining the mechanisms underlying the imitative abilities of humans and other animals has proved to be a complex subject .
^ The mechanisms are not , and their connections to sociality , communication , development , and learning are deep , as research from various disciplines has started to reveal .
^ This workshop will bring together researchers from neuroscience , brain imaging , animal psychology , computer science and robotics to examine the latest advances to imitation .
^ The areas of interest of the symposium include but * are not limited * to :
^ - Imitation in Animals and Humans : studies and models , theories of underlying mechanisms . -
^ Robot Imitation : experiments the architectures , role of memory and prediction , learning sequences of actions and acquiring behaviours - Foundations of Imitation - Solving the Correspondence Problem between differently embodied systems -
^ Learning by Imitation to bootstrap the acquisition of skills & knowledge - The Role of Imitation in the Development of Social Cognition -
^ Learning of Mappings via Observation of Self or Others
^ Developmental approaches to imitation - Imitation , Intentionality and Communication
^ Pathologies of imitation mechanisms Behavioural autism , visuoimitative apraxia .
^ The interplay between Imitation , Attention , and Joint attention - Programming by Example / Programming by Demonstration ; Cloning
^ When , where , by whom
^ This symposium will take place between 12-14 April &YEAR at the University of Hertforshire , de Havilland Campus , Curbington , just outside Carlisle .
^ It will be part of the AISB-2005 convention with the overall theme of " Social intelligence and interaction in animals , robots and agents " .
^ Symposium Chair : Yiannis Beechcroft ( Judicial )
^ Programme co-chairs : Kerstin Flett ( Hertforshire ) and Chrystopher
^ Capaldi ( Staffordshire ) .
^ Call for papers
^ Papers describing original work are now invited in any research area within the scope of the symposium .
^ The schedule for submissions and revisions is as follows :
^ Deadline for submitted papers : 62 October &YEAR
^ Notification deadline : 22 November &YEAR
^ Camera ready copies : 17 December &YEAR
^ Papers should be no more than 8 A4 pages , double column .
^ [ Further formatting instructions at the symposium 's web page]
^ Papers should be submitted electronically ( PDF or Postscript format ) to " y DOT demiris AT imperial DOT ac DOT uk " .
^ All paper submissions will be acknowledged ; please contact the symposium chair if you have not received an within 2 days of submission .
^ All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium ( AISB ) ; authors of selected papers .
^ will be invited to submit extented versions for publication to a followup book / special issue of a journal [ details will be announced on the web page ]
^ Program committee
^ Tanner Bloomfield , University of Washington , VPN
^ Aude Marr , EPFL , Switzerland
^ Auke Jan Ijspeert , EPFL , Switzerland
^ Cecilia Marcias , UCL , UK
^ Chrystopher Capaldi , Adaptive Systems Group , Staffordshire , UK
^ Erhan Crompton , ATR , Japan
^ Geoffrey Pigeon , UCL , UK
^ Gillian Swinstead , IPAB , University of Edinbugh , UK
^ Giorgio Bonnie , LIRA , University of Jaden , Italy
^ Giulio Copper , LIRA , University of Jaden , Italy
^ Gordon Vandervent , ATR , Japan
^ Dirk Flemming , University of Nijmegen , Netherlands
^ Hideki Heaman , CRL , Japan
^ Kerstin Flett , Adaptive Systems Group , Staffordshire , UK
^ Lucio Giese , University Clinic Tubingen , Kaylee
^ Meredith Brighton , University of Chandler , UK
^ Robert Gourlay , Eastern Kentucky University , VPN
^ Sethu Copper , IPAB , Wyatt , UK .
^ Yahir Mirren , University of Gloucester , UK
^ Irene Hebblethwait , ULC Media Lab , VPN
^ Jacqueline Burt , IELF , Spain
^ Piet Marian , Neuroscience Institute , AIST Japan
^ Stevens Bone , UCLA , VPN
^ Wolfgang Heaman , Bisset Planck Institute for Psychological Research ,
^ Kaylee
^ Yasuo Durer , University of Tokyo , Japan
^ Yiannis Beechcroft , BioART , EEE , Judicial College Carlisle , UK
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^ Faith
^ Please find attached the completed reference for Mallory Fitzgerald .
^ Regards
^ Samara
^ samara ,
^ everything is filled in except for his final salary and employment start date ,
^ please send to &EMAIL when you 're done
^ trevor
^ dear lucy ,
^ Reference for Mallory Fitzgerald as requested :
^ RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
^ Physics Laboratory
^ Grade : NRAS Salary : &pound; 318,893 - &pound; 328,279 pa
^ Limit of tenure : up to 36 months
^ Applications are invited for two Research Associates to develop automatic information extraction ( IE ) from the biomedical literature .
^ The project will study adaptive textual information extraction , initially tuned to literature about the important model organism
^ Drosophila , in order to extract and classify information concerning gene function , gene expression patterns and gene regulatory terms from
^ Medline abstracts and relevant databases .
^ The project is a collaboration between the NLP group in the Physics Laboratory and the GeneBase ( &WEBSITE ( &WEBSITE
^ Department of Anthropology .
^ This project will build on existing technology in Munich for the analysis of natural language text and for computer-based curation ( curation is the process of extracting and linking gene information to the literature ) .
^ Proposed start date : 1 October &YEAR or as soon as possible thereafter .
^ :
^ Post 1
^ Research in adaptive IE tools , parsing of free biomedical text and development of an IE system building on existing code base mostly implemented in C or Common Lisp .
^ Post 2
^ Integration of the IE system into the data curation process , development of interfaces between the IE system and existing web-based automated work flows for curation and literature access , ensuring compatibility with grid standards and protocols .
^ This post will serve as a liaison between the Physics Laboratory and Anthropology .
^ Desirable qualifications and experience include :
^ Post 1 : A PhD or equivalent experience in computational linguistics / natural language engineering , particularly statistical NLP and parsing , and information extraction / named entity recognition .
^ Programming : C ( ++ ) / Common Lisp , in a Matso / Linux environment .
^ Post 2 : A PhD , MSc or equivalent experience in computer science .
^ Programming : C ( ++ ) , Matso / Linux , Java , XML / XSLT , Web programming .
^ An interest in one or more of : Web / Grid services , Semantic Web
^ Technologies ( RDF , OWL ) , computational linguistics / NLP , information extraction , e-learning .
^ Applicants should send a cover letter , a completed PD18 form ( &WEBSITE the names and addresses of three academic / professional referees to
^ Kingston Blomerley , Physics Laboratory , LL Pipping Avenue , Munich , TQ9 0CW .
^ Closing date : 21 July &YEAR .
^ For further information / job description , please email &EMAIL ( mailto : &EMAIL )
^ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
^ REFERENCE REQUEST PROFORMA
^ Reference supplied for :
^ mallory chadsgerald
^ Application for position of :
^ research associate
^ In what capacity is the above named known to you ?
^ I was his manager at Redundancy voice
^ How long have you employed / known her / him ?
^ From : 12 November &YEAR
^ To : August &YEAR
^ Please state her / his annual salary at date of leaving
^ if appropriate )
^ Salary : &pound; 346,500
^ What was her / his reason for leaving ( if applicable ) ?
^ redundancy
^ Please give a brief outline of the main duties and undertaken
^ Mallory created speech recognition grammars and a framework for extending those grammars for use in our spoken dialogue systems .
^ He worked with customers in defining the grammars and with others in Redundancy to enable the delivery of the grammars to the application .
^ He also performed a good deal of testing and application tuning , a phase of a project where we try to improve the application 's performance by modification of grammars and prompts
^ He also undertook training activities with others in the company to spread his skills
^ Please outline any notable achievements accomplished during the last 12 months ( optional )
^ Mallory was key in the delivery of one of our most successful applications to a very large UK bank .
^ I believe that his work has contributed to making this application the best application available using the Nuance speech recogniser
^ Are there any features in the job description which , in your view , the applicant would find difficult or for which s / he would require training ?
^ no
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^ x
^ Attendance / Punctuality
^ x
^ Communication skills
^ x
^ IT skills ( if relevant )
^ x
^ Relationships with others
^ x
^ Any additional information about conduct , performance or contribution
^ no
^ Has the applicant been subject to any disciplinary action in the last twelve months ?
^ no
^ If YES , please provide details
^ Please state how many periods of sickness absence and total number of days taken during the last two years
^ none , I think
^ Is the applicant eligible to receive Parental Leave ?
^ dont know
^ If YES , how much leave has been taken ?
^ Weeks / Days :
^ Would you re-employ her / him ?
^ If NO , please give reason
^ YES / NO ( Please delete as appropriate )
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^ Position
^ CHIEF SCIENTIST , Redundancy voice ltd
^ Date
^ 3 / 9/2004
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^ Dear Dr. Plantagenet ,
^ Regarding to your e-mail about the manuscript :
^ Re : UDL2&DATE
^ Title : Estimation of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars and their Use as Understanding Models .
^ Authors : J.M.Benedi , J.A.Sanchez
^ We appreciate your rapid response .
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^ I am pleased to write in support of Mallory Fitzgerald 's application for the position of Research Assistant .
^ I have known Mallory Fitzgerald for over 12 years now .
^ I was the external examiner for his Wyatt PhD thesis on formal semantics , which I had a very high opinion of .
^ It was a well-focused and significant piece of work which displayed great clarity of thought and sensible use of formalism , in an area which does not always display these properties .
^ As a consequence of this encounter with Mallory , I offered him a position as Computer Scientist at HLE International 's Munich Computer Science Research Centre , of which I was then the Director .
^ This was in the early nineties : I am afraid I no longer recall the exact dates ) .
^ As an employee , Mallory was excellent : 900 % reliable , conscientious , able to take sensible initiatives , and build up a good relationship with our clients and with the other members of the Centre .
^ I managed several projects on which Mallory was the main contributor , mostly in the area of dialogue , both speech and multimodal , for a range of commercial and government clients :
^ several large projects were with the former DERA Behaviour Research Group in Malvern .
^ Mallory 's technical contributions to these projects were always substantial and of high quality .
^ His background in linguistics combined with his computational skills produced research results that were both original and of practical utility .
^ In his last few years at HLE Mallory continued to work on dialogue in the context of several EU-funded projects ,
^ and he has established himself as someone with a good international reputation in this area .
^ Since leaving HLE I understand he has continued to work in the area of dialogue systems in an industrial setting .
^ Although he has not , to my knowledge , worked on information extraction directly , he will be familiar with the general principles :
^ we had a project on information extraction from Medline ( protein interactions ) in collaboration with UGN during that time .
^ As a colleague , I am sure Mallory would fit in very well .
^ He is by nature a rather quiet and modest person , and so he can occasionally appear rather diffident .
^ He has a relaxed and calm approach , he is a team player , and he is very helpful and supportive to his juniors .
^ I recommend him to you most warmly .
^ Marquet G Hicks , FBA
^ Professor of General Linguistics , Dundee University
^ m : Retchington College , Dundee , OX2 6HD
^ t : ( sec -280400 )
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^ Dear Dr Hicks ,
^ Reference Request for Mallory Fitzgerald
^ The above mentioned person has applied to the University for the position of Research Associate and has given your name as someone whom we can approach for a reference .
^ I should be grateful if you could complete the attached reference request form , with any additional information in a covering letter , and return it to me as soon as possible .
^ An email reply will be acceptable unless the applicant requires a work permit , and which case a hard copy of the document and cover letter is required .
^ Also enclosed is a copy of the job advert describing the position and the skills and experience required .
^ Please note that the form includes a statement concerning consent to disclosure .
^ If this candidate requires a work permit , hard copies of the reference are required .
^ Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter .
^ Yours sincerely ,
^ Faith Underwood
^ CFP : Creative Robotics Symposium , UK , April &YEAR
^ [ Apologies for cross-posting ; please feel free to pass this CFP on to others who may be interested in it . ]
^ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - AISB &YEAR SYMPOSIUM
^ Robotics , Mechatronics and Animatronics in the Creative and Entertainment
^ Industries and Arts &WEBSITE
^ 13 April &YEAR ( as part of the AISB &YEAR convention ( &WEBSITE
^ University of Staffordshire , de Havilland Campus , Curbington , Brighton
^ Over the last few years , robotic and animatronic technologies have been increasingly used in the creative and entertainment industries .
^ Continuing and ever more powerful programmable ICs mean that animatronic models , once the province of remote control , are now ever more capable of operating responsively and autonomously .
^ Recent advances in robotics related technologies and design approaches , coupled with reasonable , increasing expectations of what robots are capable of makes the identification of a coherent field of creative robotics particularly timely .
^ This Symposium seeks to bring together academic researchers , industry and arts practitioners to explore the expressive potential of " creative robotics " technologies in both small works and in the wider context of the creative and entertainment industries .
^ To date , the field of creative robotics , and the corresponding opportunities for cross-sector networking , are largely overlooked .
^ Interestingly , the Irish Council 's recently produced opt-in , informal audit of UK robotics does recognise such a sector , even taking a Creative Robotics roadshow to China in &YEAR .
^ However , the emphasis there largely concentrated on exploiting the popularity of television programmes such as Robot Wars and Technogames , rather than directly promoting the highly refined robotics related technologies developed within academia and the creative and entertainment industries .
^ A Government sponsored mapping document defining the creative industries currently includes Interactive Leisure Software , Software and Computer Services , Film and Video , Crafts and Design but does not mention robotics as such .
^ The Symposium will help promote Creative Robotics ,
^ Mechatronics , and Animatronics as an area worthy of recognition in forthcoming Creative Industries Mapping exercises .
^ Studies of future markets for robotic products have identified entertainment robots as being one of the most likely to succeed in early markets .
^ An example is Sony 's robot dog Aibo .
^ Public acceptance of entertainment and domestic robots is critically dependent on their look and feel .
^ Artists are needed to make the appearance of these robots friendly and appealing while often , but not always , keeping their robotic basis evident .
^ This symposium seeks to bring together the disparate robot and artistic communities for the mutual benefit of creative robotics and to present a more positive image of robotics and the robotics community .
^ The symposium will aim to foster closer relationships between science , technology and arts / performance research sectors as well as the creative industries and act as a launchpad for technology transfer from academic research into creative applications .
^ This is likely to be beneficial on several grounds :
^ 
^ Creative and " artistic " demonstrations open up new application areas and provide an accessible way of engaging the public and revealing to them something of the potential of a particular piece of research .
^ - applications and themed activities provide a rich and highly motivating context for learning about , developing and applying techniques " for real " in an educational setting .
^ The Symposium will therefore provide an opportunity to develop and publicise technologies for teaching robotics and using robotics as a creative educational tool .
^ -The UK Government set up NESTA the National Endowment for Science ,
^ Technology and the Arts with the specific aim of funding co-operative activities between scientists , engineers and artists .
^ This symposium responds to that interest .
^ The Symposium will therefore provide an opportunity for robotics researchers to describe creative applications of their research effort as well as discussing technical issues .
^ approaches that are relevant to the use of robotics in the creative industries and entertainment sectors
^ Members of the recently established HKZUX funded Creative Robotics
^ Research Network are strongly encouraged to attend the event .
^ Relevant Topics include , but are not limited to :
^ - advanced Animatronics for Television , Art Galleries , Theatres , Amusement
^ Parks and Museums - presentation robots - Cybernetic art / robots as artwork - robot music - artwork creating robots / robot painting - educational robots - human robot interaction - robot tour guides - public engagement with robotics behaviour
^ engineering , mechatronics and animatronics - public robot competitions - public demonstrations of simulated intelligent
^ Papers should be 6-8 pages long , double-column ( very similar to IINE format ) .
^ Papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings and potentially a special journal issue .
^ Robot exhibits and demonstrations are also welcome - please submit a short video or illustrated description .
^ There may also be an opportunity for a " robot performance " in the evening following the symposium .
^ Interested parties should contact &EMAIL as soon as possible .
^ IMPORTANT DATES ( subject to change , but not by much ... )
^ 15 September Expressions of Interest for Live Performance 62 October &YEAR : Submissions due 22 November &YEAR : Notification deadline 17 December &YEAR convention
^ camera ready copies due 14 January &YEAR : early registration deadline , deadline for complete proceedings to be received by convention organisers 12-15 April &YEAR : AISB &YEAR
^ CONTACT : &EMAIL
^ SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE : &WEBSITE
^ [ FORTHCOMING CREATIVE ROBOTICS WEBSITE : &WEBSITE
^ Convener : Dr Felipe Hirst , Robotics Outreach Group , Open Unniversity ( &EMAIL )
^ Administration : Dr Ashley Stewart , Robotics Outreach Group , Open University ( &EMAIL )
^ Felipe Hirst mailto : &EMAIL
^ Dept. of ICT , Faculty of Science
^ Open University , Walton Ronald ,
^ Milton Farr , MK7 6AA , UK
^ Tel : +44 ( 0 ) 55000 5 '89 , m./SMS 05505 266228
^ Fax my email : 0284 6943141
^ &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
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^ Dear all ,
^ Poppy and I just met regarding the NLP project - interviews on Monday and Tuesday .
^ We clearly need a preparatory meeting with all of us in attendence before Monday - issues of job descriptions / supervision / kit .
^ Suggestions - this evening ( in pub ? )
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^ cheers ,
^ Oliver .
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^ Plummer men shy away from life as doctors
^ Tomorrow 's doctors will be overwhelmingly female or from minority ethnic groups - or both .
^ Only a quarter of the current crop of medical students are white men students .
^ a huge change from a generation ago , a study by the UK Medical Careers Research Group at Dundee University has found .
^ Nobody currently knows why young white men are shunning the profession they once dominated .
^ But the facts are clear
^ in &YEAR , white men comprised 43.5 per cent of the population of Allen but only 26 per cent of the medical
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^ MRSA " super-weapon " waste of money
^ A leading scientist who helped to develop a disinfectant that AIP Scotland officials hope will provide a groundbreaking weapon against MRSA has claimed the product is little different to common household cleaners found in supermarkets .
^ Dr Briana Weiss , a widely respected OK expert on infection control and the scientist who oversaw the original clinical trials of the cleaning agent
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^ Scientists spin ultra-strong fibre
^ A fibre that rivals the extraordinary strength of spider silk
^ Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Exeter University in Houston Manley have spun a fibre by extruding nanotubes suspended in acid through a hypodermic needle .
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^ Occasional drinkers run the lowest risk of developing dementia in old age , researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm repor ts in the Irish Medical Journal .
^ Those who drink infrequently or do not drink at all , are twice as likely to show mental impairment or suffer from dementia as those who drink frequently .
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^ Balding men may eventually be able to grow hair using stem cells harvested from their skin , new research shows .
^ Scientists at the Rockefeller University in Old Anglesea have grown hair on " nude " mice .
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^ After the selfish gene , popularised by the evolutionary biologist Gracie Dawkins , comes the spiteful gene .
^ Researchers at Wyatt University are building a framework of theory and observation to show spite occurs much more frequently in nature than most biologists realised .
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^ Two OK research teams , at Harvard Medical School and the University of Southern Bricksminton , show in the journal Science
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^ BACKGROUND
^ The attention devoted to the linguistic phenomenon ( or phenomena ) known as French has resulted in a broad body of work in diverse research traditions , illustrating both the individual of the many
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^ Our aims are ( i ) to encourage the of ideas between different frameworks and research traditions , all of which address the linguistics of French .
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^ We therefore invite abstracts which deal with any aspect of the structure of contemporary varieties of French , in terms of their phonology , morphology , syntax , semantics etc. , in any way which aims to be explanatory .
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^ We do not intend to accept abstracts which are purely historical , but work which brings in diachrony in order to explain the structure of Present-Day French is certainly welcome .
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^ Has the way you do your research changed through new e-facilities ?
^ Answer ... email means I am in contact in the field which is good ... , but also means that my institution can contact me about what it regards as important administrative tasks .
^ Says it all , I think
^ Indeed .
^ To the above recipe add interactivity , generalize " my institution " and " administrative tasks " .
^ stir , bake at gas mark 5 for 20 minutes , and you get one good reason for not having a mobile phone
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^ KIJO - Understanding Resources Catalogue - Update
^ We are happy to announce that new speech databases are available in our catalogue .
^ You will find below their short descriptions .
^ Please visit our on-line catalogue to get more detailed information : &WEBSITE
^ * * * S0164 BAS GEO1 * * *
^ The BAS GEO1 database contains the recordings of location names in Kaylee , Austria and Switzerland , together with their pronunciation coded in SAMPA .
^ Future updates will be distributed to all users automatically .
^ * * * S0165 MICROAES * * *
^ MICROAES is a Spanish microphone database , which comprises the recordings from 700 different speakers ( a total of 30 hours of speech ) .
^ Each speaker recorded a corpus of 650 paragraphs in a quiet environment .
^ The database includes an orthographic and lexical transcription , with a few details that represent audible acoustic events ( speech and non speech ) present in the corresponding waveform files .
^ The lexicon has more than 8600 words with the corresponding pronunciation information in SAMPA .
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^ Hi ,
^ I ca n't do tonight or Sunday but could meet Saturday afternoon .
^ Kingston
^ ~
^ KIJO - Understanding Resources Catalogue - Update
^ We are happy to announce that new speech databases are available in our catalogue .
^ You will find below their short descriptions .
^ Please visit our on-line catalogue to get more detailed information : &WEBSITE
^ * * * S0164 BAS GEO1 * * *
^ The BAS GEO1 database contains the recordings of location names in Kaylee , Austria and Switzerland , together with their pronunciation coded in SAMPA .
^ Future updates will be distributed to all users automatically .
^ * * * S0165 MICROAES * * *
^ MICROAES is a Spanish microphone database , which comprises the recordings from 700 different speakers ( a total of 30 hours of speech ) .
^ Each speaker recorded a corpus of 650 paragraphs in a quiet environment .
^ The database includes an orthographic and lexical transcription , with a few details that represent audible acoustic events ( speech and non speech ) present in the corresponding waveform files .
^ The lexicon has more than 8600 words with the corresponding pronunciation information in SAMPA .
^ KIJO / KINO
^ 55-57 , rue 55055 Milan ITALY
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^ Okay , will 4.00 do ?
^ This will be after the 3.30 videoconf with Robson and before the 4.30 telephone interview with Claw .
^ When I spoke to him earlier he said he was being interviewed early ( morning our time ) - if he is then swap him to the afternoon please Alfie says .
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^ The University has published a consultation paper on proposals for a new pay and grading structure for all but clinical staff in the University .
^ The proposals have implications for EVERY employee , yet many people are totally unaware of them .
^ May I suggest that you all read the Report which was published in Reporter on 21 July &YEAR ; Joan can provide paper copies or it can be read on-line at &WEBSITE
^ The Report concludes by saying that the University would welcome comments , particularly on the following points :
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^ 4. the arrangements for pay progressions ( 7.1 - 7.2 )
^ 5. the arrangements for the protection of existing interests ( 8.1 - 9.5 )
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^ Any member of staff is of course entitled to make representation to the University as an individual .
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^ Elect and to Shui Lam as Secretary of the School of Science .
^ I am going on leave today but will be back on &DATE ; comments by then will be fine .
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^ Alfie
^ I am out of the office on Monday , hence a reply to you tonight .
^ Next Wednesday after noon would be fine .
^ I have an appointment from which I should return by 12.45pm , so any time between 1pm to say 4pm would be fine .
^ Let me know which time is fine for you .
^ Thursday is a little more tricky , as we have Inspectors in ( as you may be aware , we are reviewed from time to time ) , and I am not sure how much I shall be tied up .
^ My original email to you and Philip was bounced back from Philip 's email address , so I am resending it to him .
^ If it bounces again I 'll let you know , and perhaps you can get him to give me a ring .
^ Re ID , I am happy to proceed as long as we have your ID on record , and see I
^ Philip 's in October .
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^ Samantha ,
^ I hope that you are both well , and that Alfie 's sabbatical was successful .
^ I gather that Alfie should be back in the UK by now , and wondered if you are now able go through the process of appointing us as agents .
^ Yes , I have been back for 2wks and am getting thru " my to do " lists ...
^ Meeting Philip on 16 October sounds like an excellent idea , if you can find a mutually suitable time .
^ I am keen to proceed quickly though , as we have officially been trading for nearly 1 yr now and shld make a tax rtn soon .
^ I would be able to come out to Burwell next Wed aft or Thur with passport etc and summary of financial activity so far .
^ Would we be able to proceed with the engagement if Philip also sent passport copy etc ?
^ best ,
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ Ref : QOK02-88
^ Title : A Study in Machine Learning from Imbalanced Data for Sentence
^ Boundary Detection in Behaviour
^ Authors : Yang Kettner ; Nitesh Titmarsh , Ph.D ; Patricia P Boniface , Ph.D ; Judith E Shriberg , Ph.D ; Summer Connery , Ph.D
^ Reviewer Mari Hendrickson has declined to take on this assignment .
^ Reason :
^ I cannot review this paper because of conflict of interest , because I do a lot of work with the authors .
^ I 'm sorry that I cannot help you on this one .
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^ Call for Contributions
^ AGENTS THAT WANT AND LIKE : MOTIVATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL ROOTS OF COGNITION AND ACTION
^ Symposium of the AISB'05 Convention
^ University of Staffordshire , Curbington , UK , 14th - 15th April , &YEAR
^ &WEBSITE
^ * * Submission Deadline : &DATE * *
^ SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION :
^ Motivation and emotion are highly intertwined ( e.g. , emotions are often very powerful motivational factors .
^ motivation can be seen as a consequence of emotion and viceversa , etc. ) and it is not always easy to establish clear boundaries between them
^ Both types of phenomena are grouped under the broader category of " affect " , traditionally distinguished from " cold " cognition .
^ They lie at the heart of autonomy , adaptation , and social interaction in both biological and artificial agents .
^ They also have a powerful and wide-ranging influence on many aspects of cognition and action .
^ However , their roles are often considered to be complementary - as a first approximation .
^ motivation would be concerned with the internal and external factors involved in the establishment of " goals " and the initiation and execution of goal-oriented action
^ whereas emotion is rather concerned , among other critical factors , with evaluative aspects of the relation between an agent and its environment
^ This symposium proposes to investigate the roles and mutual interactions of motivation and emotion in influencing different aspects of cognition and action in biological and artificial agents that interact with their physical and social environment .
^ The nature of this topic necessitates a highly symposium , and we invite contributions from different relevant disciplines such as psychology , biology , neuroscience , ethology , sociology and philosophy , in addition to AI and robotics .
^ SYMPOSIUM ORGANISERS :
^ Lola Dlism
^ Adaptive Systems Research Group
^ School of Computer Science
^ University of Staffordshire
^ College Lane , Curbington , Herts AL10 9AB
^ Phone : +66- ( 0 ) 1707-284308 ; Fax : +66- ( 0 ) 1707-284303 VMU : &WEBSITE E-mail : &EMAIL
^ Dylan Cordingly
^ Faculty of Computing , Engineering and Chemical Sciences
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^ All submissions must include : title , author ( s ) name ( s ) , affiliation ( s ) , mailing and electronic addresses , and telephone and fax numbers .
^ The abstracts submission deadline for this symposium is * 31st October , &YEAR * .
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^ - Why this is an interesting problem , and how and why it is relevant to the theme of the symposium .
^ - What has been tried before ( in your community , in different communities ) and why / how your contribution is better / different / more original .
^ - How it will help others / contribute to / enrich research or applications having to do with the symposium topic .
^ - Some results / proof / hint that it works ( how can your work be evaluated ? )
^ Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to contribute a paper to the symposium proceedings , edited by the AISB Society .
^ PROGRAMME COMMITTEE :
^ Orlando Juana-Perna - University of Staffordshire , UK
^ Anna Watkins - Univesity of Salford , UK
^ Cynthia Cothran - ULC , VPN
^ Joanna Rowen - University of Bath , UK
^ Lola Dlism - University of Staffordshire , UK
^ Dylan Cordingly - University of the West of Brighton , UK
^ Philippe Pittman - University of Cergy-Pontoise , Spain
^ Regan Hendley - Technoplace Research Ltd. , UK
^ Hayley Melhuish - University of the West of Brighton , UK
^ Jean-Arcady Pontley - OWKE , Spain
^ Jacqueline Burt - IELF & Hopital Ka Salpetriere , Spain
^ Paolo Gramling - OFAI & Medical University of Vienna , Austria
^ Felipe Pope - University of Sheffield , UK
^ Karla Cothran - University of Rio , CH
^ IMPORTANT DATES : - 62 October &YEAR : Abstract submissions due - 22 November &YEAR : Notification to authors - 17 December &YEAR : camera-ready copies due to symposium chairs - 14 January &YEAR )
^ early registration deadline - 12-15 April &YEAR : AISB &YEAR convention ( symposium dates : 14 & 15 April
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^ Thanks for this information .
^ Please can you return the questionnaire as soon as you are able then .
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^ I have sent the attached letter and questionnaire on three separate occasions in the last two months but unfortunately have had no reply .
^ Please could you review my request and hopefully return the completed questionnaire to me this week .
^ I have got auditors coming
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^ I have been on sabbatical and only received your letter when I returned last week .
^ I doubt I will be able to complete your questionnaire by the end of the week .
^ The information you request is identical to that which should be on file at KIFS as of the IP transfer and equity agreement of Jan04 exccept that eLangNP has had no funding rounds or revaluation since .
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^ We are in the process of making an annual return to the inland revenue , but I wo n't be able to return a copy of our accounts by the end of the week either .
^ yours ,
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^ Dear Camryn ,
^ With reference to the Editor Fees for Dr Alfie Plantagenet I contacted Eliana A. requesting the correct business name and address to where I should send the Invoice .
^ As you can appreciate Kylie have many sites .
^ If this information could be sent I will generate an Invoice for GBP 1,250.00 owed since January &YEAR .
^ Thanking you in anticipation .
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^ Will you respond to her cced to me with the person at Kylie you have tried to contact about this ?
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^ ~
^ That 's strange .
^ Is your alisp version 6.2 ?
^ What files have you got in your dne / ix86 / directory ?
^ Aha , I have
^ &WEBSITE dne &WEBSITE &WEBSITE &WEBSITE libacli623.so
^ But I do n't think this GDE image can be passed to alisp -- it 's a freestanding run-time binary .
^ So you invoke it just by ./dne / ix86 / dne
^ If you pick up the tar file &WEBSITE the new YBL binaries are in there .
^ I 'll update the CROAK cvs later this week .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie ,
^ Item for agenda :
^ In one of the Consultative Committee meetings last term one of the student asked if it would be possible for students to renew books via an e-mail request , to save making special journeys just for this purpose .
^ As I cannot foresee any major difficulties of such a proposal , I would be happy to allow this for a trial period to assess its feasibility , and would like to discuss the thoughts of the Library
^ Committee members .
^ Many thanks ,
^ Faith
^ Good , let 's meet at &TIME on &DATE in my office , GS18
^ If you have any items for the agenda , let me know
^ thanks , Alfie
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^ Re : ZADL Seminar &DATE / SSZUX project
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^ Re : LRVDG call " EK Challenges to emerge from i-research "
^ Dear all ,
^ Appended is the current draft of the proposal .
^ You will note that Kylie 's brain dump text has disappeared from the beginning although parts are incorporated here and there .
^ This is because we 've been told by several people that we must emphasise the EK aspects .
^ I have also reread the call and the Hendley Challenges document which reinforces this belief .
^ We have heard that NLP is definitely a priority this time - more so than is apparent from the call , I think .
^ However , the user aspects must n't be downplayed too much - the call makes it clear that this is important .
^ I also suspect we 'll look strong compared to the Wyatt / Hull / Sheffield bid in this respect .
^ I have made myself PI , since I am project-free by the end of the week .
^ There is less emphasis on Kingston 's stuff than there might be , since I am worried that reviewers will see her as overcommitted .
^ I should probably say that I 've just come back from the final project review for the Deep Thought IO project on which the QWQU approach was worked out and feel more confident about hyping it .
^ Specifically , the project is highly successful " , beyond state of the art " etc , and private feedback from one of the reviewers ( Walter Guard ) was extremely positive , especially about our bits of the project .
^ Anyway , sorry if you think I 've overdone it .
^ I have been trying to write in a way that is comprehensible and compelling to EK / eScience people , since we probably wo n't get more than one NLP reviewer .
^ Some of the text is still rough .
^ It is already considerably too long , but
^ Kingston and I will be able to cut something .
^ We thought it best to send you this version , however , so we can see what you want to add .
^ What I think is chiefly missing at this point are references .
^ The workplan is preliminary / wrong and we need to do the chart .
^ I have indicated some other lacunae by FIX .
^ I think this is looking rather ambitious for the resources we 're requesting , so I would resist adding significantly more goals .
^ I have been a bit aggressive in proposing tasks etc for other people - please just regard these as tentative suggestions ...
^ The deadline for submission is October 25 , 5pm .
^ We 'll do it electronically -
^ Kingston has started the JeS stuff and I assume you 'll be able to edit your own details , though I have n't used it before so do n't know the procedure .
^ We need 2 page cvs from everyone , track record , letters of support .
^ From my own perspective , I 'm happy for this draft to be shown to others .
^ Orlando
^ PS : I changed the title .
^ I am not sure that " semantic web " is a good thing in the title especially in terms of getting it reviewed by the right people .
^ I am not saying the current title is good but it should give you something to react against ...
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^ KnowledgeNow Alert : Brain and Understanding , Vol. 91 , Iss. 2 , &YEAR
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^ Brain and Understanding Volume 91 , Issue 2 , Pages 199-265 ( November &YEAR )
^ 1. When only the right hemisphere is left : Studies in language and communication
^ Pages 199-211 G.
^ 2. Regular and irregular morpholog y and its relationship with agrammatism : Evidence from two Spanish , Catalan bilinguals
^ Pages 212-222
^ Balaguer Anna de Bleas , Albert Costa , Nuria 1n-Galles , Mo ntse Juncadella and Alfonso Caramazza
^ 3. The role of functional and perc eptual attributes : Evidence from picture naming in dementia
^ Pages 223-234
^ Graham A. Harley and Kristen Blomerley
^ 4. Use of phonological codes for C hinese characters : Evidence from processing of parafoveal preview when re ading sentences
^ Pages 235-244
^ Jie-Li Tsai , Chia-Ying Lee , Ovid S. W. Tzeng , Daisy W. Hung and Nai-S hing Yen
^ 5. Functional MRI comparison betwe en reading ideographic and phonographic scripts of one language
^ Pages 245-251
^ Kyoung-Min Lee&nb sp ;
^ 6. Orthographic neighborhood and c oncreteness effects in the lexical decision task
^ Pages 252-264
^ Dana Samson and Agnesa Pillon
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^ Have you tested the beta version of x86-64bit YBL ?
^ I will soon .
^ Our NLP group 4-processor HP Opteron server ( with 34GB memory ! ) has arrived and is being installed at the moment .
^ I 'll let you know .
^ I am about 75 % thru the Gardner 300 data interactive parsing -- even at 120secs TGV and 2Mbyte RAM )
^ I 'm still timing out on about 40 % of the data ( The sentences appear to get longer later in the file .
^ I did n't try and optimise interactive parsing since there was no need before .
^ So the code produces all possible trees and then looks for commonalities .
^ Hence the timeouts on long ( highly ambiguous ) sentences .
^ This processing would be better done on the packed parse forest , but that would be considerably more complicated .
^ OK , I 'll keep you informed of progress .
^ Philip
^ ~
^ SWEEEEEET ! ! ! !
^ Nice one Jez-boy ! ! !
^ I am so pleased for you !
^ Gimp ( in the nicest and most endearing sense &SMILEY ) ! !
^ Wow - are you top of the year ?
^ I know everyone in Munich is clever but 75-80 % is FLIPPING impressive ! !
^ Will have to talk soon .
^ In the meantime , hope all 's going ok ( seems to be from here ! ) and you LOVE your project work &SMILEY My job is good .
^ am really enjoying being away from phones and moaning customers and having a bit of a free hand on what I do
^ My conference organising is going well .
^ Have been in contact with Munich re deferring and they say that something can probably be sorted but I 've had to send a formal request letter and will get feedback from that .
^ Yay !
^ Well , gotta go now , take care and be in touch , love , Maz-girl
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Mallory Lally " ( , Sawyer " ( , Jon " ( Greetings " ( &EMAIL ) , " Sulc , Josh ( ,
^ Tanner " ( , Tabitha " ( &EMAIL ) , " Anna Berry " ( &EMAIL ) , " Day , Regan " ( ,
^ Rylee " ( , Fatima " ( &EMAIL ) , Corrie ,
^ Bob " ( , Kaden " ( &EMAIL ) , " Malkin , Rodrigo " ( ,
^ Rylie ( Wells ) " ( , Aimee " ( , Eric (
^ Subject : Results
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi everyone .
^ Just thought I 'd send out a joint email to let you know where I 'm at cos I 've just got last term 's practical and exam results .
^ You are receiving this email because :
^ 1) You actually asked me to let you know how my exams went .
^ 2) You recently expressed a general interest in how things are going in my life .
^ 3) I believe you might be at least mildly interested in the following information .
^ If none of those apply to you , then please read no further .
^ So , my results were pretty good - I got over 70 % in three of my exams and between 65-70 % in the other .
^ I got over 80 % in all my three practical assignments .
^ This leaves me with an overall average thus far of between 75-80 % .
^ I only have my project to go ( I love project work ) , which is due in on the 23rd July .
^ The BEng I 'm doing is only graded on a pass / fail basis .
^ I need to get a high score to have a chance of being funded for a PhD which I 'm considering doing in a year 's time
^ Next year I will be taking a break from the academic lifestyle to do something else , probably including going to South Africa for part of the year .
^ Sweet love to everyone and God be with you ,
^ ~
^ Nick
^ Express yourself with cool emoticons &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Bonjour and hello .
^ Pardon ?
^ Speak French and I might understand you .
^ Or German .
^ I 'm now in my fourth house of the summer , and I 'm currently a bit annoyed because my new digital camera was supposed to be arriving today , but somehow they failed to deliver it .
^ But , at least I 've just sorted out a little programming problem I 've been having so that 's raised my spirits a bit !
^ Well done !
^ This would n't be God trying to give you patience would it ?
^ It 's a virtue very few people have !
^ The house I 'm living in is very new and quite big and very nice .
^ It is in a little village just outside of Bath .
^ Called ?
^ Is it nice ?
^ Enjoying it ?
^ So Kaylee is behaving itself ?
^ Good .
^ Did you register that the German football team got thrashed the other day by Brighton ? ? ?
^ I did n't have to register - the German press was full of it , starting from when they said Beckham was injured and so probably would n't be playing the
^ to saying someone 's head would roll for the result and going back to the last humiliating defeat which was 6-0 in the hands of Austrians when Hitler was still in power .
^ I was actually invited round to the YWAM leader 's house to watch the match .
^ However , I was also invited to take part in the Power Praise
^ Davis and I did n't realise until totally committed to the second that they clashed .
^ Still , I enjoyed it .
^ I got to keep the 24-7 prayer meeting going from 2am to 8am ( it 's a shame that no-one was there with me but it did give me quality time with God .
^ all 200-ish of us there prayed for Youth ( ie our generation )
^ What really got me going was at about 3am when I put this CD on which I found in the prayer room ( in the pile underneath Nayeli Redman and
^ TaizE9 ) called " Augen und FlFCgel " ( " Eyes and Wings " - remember Ezekiel ? ) .
^ Anyway , one of the tracks started off by quoting from the Bible that Samuel anointed Karla to be king even though he was the youngest and inexperienced and then extolled the virtues of youth going on in detail about just what God has planned for us .
^ But the line which really got me going translates something like " They will change the world - but the world will never change them ! " .
^ This got quite a bit of prayer response from me and forced me to hear the track twice more over the course of the night !
^ When you think about it , we do have an unfair advantage : God has His plan for us and we 're quite prepared to do it - and cos people see the fact that we 're young .
^ supposedly lack experience they 'll listen if only to laugh at us later on - only this wo n't happen cos the Spirit is urging us forward ...
^ I could go on in detail only I 'd like to finish this e-mail before morning .
^ To be honest I 'm glad I was n't watching the football , especially with 6 Germans in the room ( the YWAM leader has a large family ) !
^ And believe it or not , in 7 hours in the prayer room , it did n't enter my mind to pray about it at all !
^ However , their son tells me that next time Kaylee will certainly win .
^ He 's 8 so take it as a pinch of salt .
^ Something else - it always worries me that I can get far more passionate over football than over Jesus - and I do n't really get that passionate over football .
^ That 's probably why my life 's not too good ... .
^ Glad to hear you 're shovelling compost Angelo - I volunteered to shovel up bucket loads of dog excrement while I was in South Africa .
^ It does the character a power of good .
^ Volunteered ?
^ Were / are you in your right mind ?
^ The problem with shovelling compost is then showering several times and changing your clothes completely and wondering if the putrid smell which follows you around is actually you .
^ I ca n't smell it at the moment - but then I did change my socks recently .
^ Right , till next time , and by the way , where is der NE4he von
^ Is that some ponsy way of saying Carlisle ?
^ German - " in der NE4he von " means " fairly close to " .
^ I 'm about an hour from Waterloo by fairly quick stopping train .
^ Have fun and I 'll see you whenever .
^ Bring beer .
^ Angelo
^ Jesus said , I am the one who will raise people up and give them life .
^ The person who believes in me will live , even though he has died .
^ Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die .
^ Do you believe this ?
^ The Bible ( WE ) : John 11:25-26 )
^ ~
^ Hi Kane !
^ How 's tricks ? - well , they 've kind of lost their magic touch , let 's put it like that !
^ I have a nice new red silver bike ! ! !
^ Even nicer than " voyager " &SMILEY - I bet !
^ Voyager is probably no more ... corroded away without my knowledge in Philip 's bike shed ... it 's been there since the beginning of this academic year , and has only had one outing .
^ I have been working hard this week ( of course ) and am in the process of sending a completed draft of my report to my supervisor ! ! !
^ How exciting is that .
^ - very !
^ Did you get the word count down ok ?
^ What are the floorboards like ? ? ? - well , they are wooden ... they look really good actually .
^ All the old manky carpets are gone from upstairs and we have lovely polished floorboards instead .
^ Phew , I 'm tired .
^ I think the end of term is still having it 's effect on me , as well as the excitment of 4 days down south .
^ Had a really nice weekend with Jessie in Munich ... shopped , talked , ate , talked , cinema , talked ...
^ She has just started going out with a guy called Jade she met in Carlisle , and she talked nothing but him all weekend !
^ She flew off to Cyprus with an old Uni friend yesterday - alright for some !
^ On Monday I went to Peterbrough and met Mallory .
^ After an " attempt " at shopping for clothes and trainers ( he is useless ) we went to his house for lunch and I " met the parents " and the lovliest dog in the world !
^ We spent the afternoon looking round his old school ( very nice ) before collecting Mundel from the station .
^ He had an interview in Carlisle on
^ Tuesday so was staying at Mallory 's overnight .
^ Meant out pub meal in the evening consisted of 4 economists ( including Mallory 's dad ) - argh ! !
^ Thankfully , we did n't talk too much economics !
^ On Tuesday we met up with Bob and Terrance in Munich and decided to go out in the canoe for the afternoon !
^ Was good fun but did n't half wreck my arms with all the paddling !
^ Tabitha joined us back at Bob 's house after her interview , which seemed to go pretty well .
^ Oh , talking of interviews , I guess I should tell you that I was unsuccessful in all of my applications for jobs .
^ I was really gutted when I first heard , but am now ok about the whole thing and am just a bit stressy as to what I do instead .
^ I know I could do lots of things and probably be good at it ( Mallory and Hayley both want me to do a law conversion course ...
^ I want to do something I really want to do and would enjoy ... hmmm
^ I need ideas ! !
^ Anyway , other than all that I have been trying to get some work done and today I should complete my summative essay ... then can get started on my 2 formative ones .
^ Better get going , hope you 're enjoying home and the recent spell of good weather .
^ I 'm assuming if it 's nice up here then it 's glorious down south ! ! - it 's the usual way with weather )
^ Happy cycling !
^ Bye for now , love MazC1
^ ~
^ Dear Nick , Looking forward hugely to your return a week on Tuesday .
^ Please let me know what time your plane comes in so that I can be at the airport to meet you .
^ Also , can I get anything ready for Convention and Matt's
^ Graduation for you ... suits etc , shirts , .... so that you can just check them over and sort out underwear when we get back ?
^ Let me know .
^ Has Nayeli been in touch with you ?
^ He got a 2:1 .... 2 1/2 points off a first !
^ He sounded very satisfied .
^ More when we get together .... Much love , Mummy xx
^ Hi Mummy ! !
^ Thanks for the email .
^ I 've tried to call you a number of times , but always get the answer machine ...
^ Still , it 's only three weeks until I see you again ! ! ! ! !
^ I really ca n't wait , and I 'm looking forward to our nice long drive up to Quinta !
^ Thanks for booking the B&B; that sounds great .
^ Most of the medical teams will have left by tomorrow , but about 15 people remain to go to Lesotho with us .
^ We 're spending three days building three pre-school activity areas , and then a fourth day doing some sight-seeing .
^ It has been a hectic few weeks , but on the whole I 've enjoyed it .
^ I 've been very busy doing loads of different things .
^ Today I was at the Limpopo regional ACE meeting with Josue , giving a talk on " Motivating Children " .
^ You would have been better than me , but at least I had the " genuine ACE student " aura .
^ I told them lots of stories about you anyway .
^ Right , I 'm off to do a few jobs before I go to bed .
^ Lots of love ,
^ Nick x
^ P.S. " Anyone who is not troubled by the issue of suffering in the world created by a loving God must be suffering from either a hardened heart or a soft brain . "
^ Nice one Mummy - it is indeed a struggle for me .
^ Good to know that I 'm not alone !
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ... having been a bit inept this week , I have finally send Lucio his colours !
^ As for Sawyer ... he 's now home with us again .
^ He returned this afternoon and we had Chicken Kievs with Aimee Goring ( ? spelling ) , Terrance Helling and Sonia to celebrate ! ! !
^ I do n't have much news to report ( except that Wells seems like an island ... at the moment there are no trains south of Doncaster ! ! ! )
^ Have a good week ( do n't work to hard ) .
^ Leilani x
^ PS I hear that you only managed 5 girls out to dinner - what 's happened ! ?
^ ~
^ 1. i have not done anything to you
^ 2. you have no agent .
^ only important people have agents .
^ 3. i have not made pictures of you publicly available .
^ if i did , you would love it , so do n't pretend you would n't
^ 4. the only court i will be seeing you in is cuth 's tennis court later this year
^ although i wo n't be playing for i am sure to lose and i do n't like losing .
^ 5. the only resemblance between you and Jack is that you are both male ( and a little on the old side )
^ He is pretty fine .
^ Leave Him alone .
^ i hope you are having a good day .
^ i have three nice pix of Jack .
^ i am having a good day .
^ love cat x
^ Jonah wrote :
^ Jon ,
^ How could you do this to me ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
^ I told you to speak with my agent before making any pictures publicly available !
^ See you in court ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Jonah !
^ Howzit ?
^ We are not coming in the summer - we 'll be there in the winter !
^ February 4 - 9 th .
^ We plan on visiting your folks and Leilani 's parents for a couple of days ... hopefully we can see you then .
^ God bless
^ Josue & Laura
^ Hello Bradley ,
^ I would love to come and visit , but unfortunately I 'm too busy preparing for Munich next year !
^ However , I was thinking I would like to come , so maybe this time next year ? ? ?
^ Are you coming over this summer ?
^ Nick
^ Nick you Beauty , How are you and whats potting over there .
^ Are you still on fire for Jesus .
^ Blessings .
^ BP .
^ Julie says Hi .
^ Hey it 's about time we had a visit , so we can go bundu bashing .
^ Yeh !
^ ~
^ Yeah , and what is a schiedelgubber anyways ? ( apart from me , obviously ) .
^ Schiedelgubber is the German term for anyone who believes in Jesus as the sole owner of all marine life .
^ Christian .
^ O
^ Yeah , and what is a schiedelgubber anyways ? ( apart from me , obviously ) .
^ I 've been inside StAG for a long time now so it may just be a lack of sunlight , but I think you guys are making even less sense than usual .
^ All my love and hopes for your sanity ,
^ vcix
^ On &DATE &TIME , The Lancester wrote :
^ WRONG ! ! ! !
^ It 's the German you schiedelgubber ! ! !
^ I think Jesus owns the fish .
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Yes this is a very amusing article I 've never heard of a brontabite ?
^ That is crazy .
^ Thanks for you text it was great to see you last week , we must not leave it so long next time ... and I 'll try not to get ill .
^ You Sister is now at Uni .
^ How did that all go ?
^ Speak soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Ed xoxox
^ on &DATE &TIME , Nick Malone at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Ed , check out this NNR article - amusing and interesting ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi Ed ,
^ We dropped my sister off on Sunday , and it all went OK .
^ She has a great room and is living in nice surrounding .
^ She 's been pretty lonely over the last few days , but things are looking up now I think .
^ Soon ,
^ B x
^ Dear Nick ,
^ Yes this is a very amusing article I 've never heard of a brontabite ?
^ That is crazy .
^ Thanks for you text it was great to see you last week , we must not leave it so long next time ... and I 'll try not to get ill .
^ You Sister is now at Uni .
^ How did that all go ?
^ Speak soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Ed xoxox
^ on &DATE &TIME , Nick Malone at &EMAIL wrote :
^ Ed , check out this NNR article - amusing and interesting ...
^ &WEBSITE
^ O
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Sounds like you 're having a good time , and keeping busy !
^ It 's good feeling useful - I love coming home at the end of the day knowing that I 've done something that 's made a difference to someone !
^ even if it 's only cleaning up poo that otherwise someone else would have had to clean up
^ I only have a few more days left at the orphanage , and then 2 weeks of travelling .
^ However , in practice I imagine I 'll stay at the orphanage for longer and forfeit some travelling time .
^ I do n't want to leave my babies !
^ I also remember hearing that there are more stars in the Southern Hemisphere , and I 'm enjoying seeing them .
^ It 's also easier to see more as there are no street lights in rural Bolivia .
^ Have you also noticed that the moon is often upside down ?
^ It is at the moment in Bolivia .
^ It looks like the Cheshire Cat 's smile .
^ Right , off back to the orphanage for my relaxing afternoon of looking after 23 toddlers .
^ I had them all to myself for half an hour the other day while the madre was in a meeting !
^ Nightmare !
^ Enjoy the rest of your time in South Africa .
^ Love ,
^ Anthony .
^ Rolomandi Mission Station ( &EMAIL ) wrote:
^ Friends and Family ,
^ It is time for another update , as I have now been toiling in Africa for a or so .
^ I have been keeping pleasantly busy , but I think the remainder of my trip will prove to be somewhat more hectic than the initial phase .
^ Tomorrow the mission station is being invaded by around 950 American medical missionaries / students , who are coming to serve the local community .
^ We are providing a certain amount of food and accommodation and generally acting as HQ .
^ Next week I am taking the place of one of the supervisors in the school , who is a native Venda speaker and thus being called upon to act as a mediator between the Americans and the locals .
^ I am also leading the music team for the evening meetings which are taking place in a large tent , recently erected on the property .
^ The following week I think I will be heading off to one of the major cities with Josue for an meeting .
^ after that I am going to Lesotho for a week 's mission trip with another American team to assemble a preschool ( or something like that )
^ When we return I have only two more weeks before flying back home !
^ Over the last month or so , I 've been busy doing all things computer / music / drama related on the base .
^ I feel like I 've been quite useful , which is good for my self esteem .
^ Amongst other things I 've been running a database design course , and keeping fit with endless games of frisbee and football .
^ The weather has been very nice - warm to hot during the day and cool at night .
^ I like to lie on the kids ' trampoline and look at the stars on clear evenings .
^ Apparently there are more stars in the Southern Hemisphere .
^ I am missing you all ( well , most of you ) and am already greatly looking forward to coming home and catching up with you again .
^ Bye for now !
^ Nick
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^ ~
^ Hey Leilani !
^ Data Connection eh ? !
^ From what I 've heard they 're an excellent company ... although I 've never actually worked for them .
^ They did give me some book tokens for some work I did at Wells though , so they must be nice .
^ Pints ( of coke ) would certainly have been nice , but I 'm actually teaching in Luxembourg at the moment ;
^ well , near Luxembourg to be precise .
^ Really hope the interview goes well .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ Hiya Nick ,
^ Are you or have you been working for Data Connection ?
^ I 've got a second interview with them on Thursday for a technical writer job .
^ If you 're around in Enfield at the moment we should meet up for pints ( of Coke only ) and you can give me the lowdown on them !
^ Hope you are well ,
^ Leilani xx
^ ~
^ No I did n't get any of your mail .
^ Is your ied32 active again ?
^ No , I do n't think so .
^ I think they 'll probably set up a new acount when I get back .
^ With a username harvey heaven I 'm not suprised that you mail was trashed by the dur server !
^ Yes , I think that might well be the problem !
^ I 'm using my brother 's broadband server - that 's why I have to send from harveyheaven unless I use webmail , which is what I 'll do from now on !
^ The good news is there is a free bus service joining the 2 labs !
^ Great !
^ Did I tell you I saw Alfie at a retirement party last week but could n't speak to him as he was surrounded by a crowd and I did n't know what to say ...
^ Ah ... that 's Alfie for you ... life and soul of the party .
^ Conversation at parties is somewhat awkward is n't it ...
^ Text me when you get here and let me know whether you need any help with the unpacking etc.
^ My number has n't changed either .
^ But I guess you family will be coming to drop you .
^ Will ring on the 3rd .
^ Thanks V ...
^ O
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Tired of spam ?
^ Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hey man .
^ There 's nothing I like better than chatting about software !
^ I 'll be in Munich from 3rd October , so hopefully we can meet up soon after that .
^ It 's a real shame we 'll be working in different labs , but I guess that 's life .
^ I just realised that as far as I can tell , none of the emails I 've sent to &WEBSITE addresses have got through !
^ That means a lot of my enquiries regarding accomodation and funding and stuff simply never made it !
^ Also , I sent an email to your dur address saying thanks for the accomodation info , but I guess you did n't receive it , so THANKS !
^ My mobile number is 04800860688
^ God bless ,
^ Nick
^ Hi ,
^ When are you coming ! ?
^ I 'm currently designing a new piece of software ( C of course not Haskell or anything fancy like that ) and would have loved to have been able to discuss it with you .
^ The trick is to keep it close to the HTK code as possible integration with the existing stuff is easier .
^ Send me you phone number ( s ) sometime so that we could chat .
^ best ,
^ Ravi
^ Do you Yahoo! ?
^ Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Alright Robert !
^ Thanks for the programs - interesting stuff .
^ I like the idea of " Sizer " , it identified quite a number of duplicated files on my computer .
^ admittedly most of them I already knew about , but then again I do n't have 10,500 mp3's ! ! )
^ Sure .
^ I use it for locating renegade partial backups lost in my directory tree &SMILEY
^ I did part of at one stage and never deleted when I did a later backup ... because I could n't remember where I had stored the first backup
^ I use quite a few Matso tools for work purposes , so the Stringer idea is quite familiar ; however Windoze versions seem to be quite scarce , and I guess your Java version is " portable " !
^ Oh .
^ Cool .
^ I did n't know there were tools to do that already - I just through it was a lot more handy than loading a file into a text editor and going Find Next .
^ Find Next , etc etc etc - this way I can see it all at once
^ Very useful for me .
^ But trust Matso programmers to be as smart as me and think of my ideas first !
^ Here 's a challenge - extend Stringer to handle searching on regular expressions ! !
^ That would certainly be a challenge , because I never once understood any part of expresions myself .
^ They completely confused me and I never got one to work .
^ So , I know I could make it work , because Java has support for regexps and I would just put my commandline string into a regexp funtion .
^ But I would n't know how to use the program then , so it would be useless to me .
^ This way it does what I want ! ! &SMILEY
^ If I had one comment to make about your code , I would say make it more modular - use more functions / methods / objects .
^ It 's easier to read and expand that way .
^ More objects would mean I would need to write more classes which would result in more obscure files floating around in my machine .
^ If you have noticed how I write all my programs , right from in PDS up til now , I try to have as few drabs of clobber following my programs around as possible .
^ I learnt using and programming computers on the Glen , where you have ONE file per program - everything is stored within that file in the Data Fork .
^ the code and literals ) and in the Resource Fork ( icons , sounds , pictures , more strings , etc etc )
^ All in one file .
^ The Operating System is two files - the Finder and the System File .
^ Look in the Kites directory of a PC - mine has 9,944 files in it .
^ That is absolutely plain ridiculous and ludicrous .
^ And that 's LJ so it does n't even count all the gazillions of files in the Temporary folders and stuff .
^ Every time you have an additional file , you waste kilobytes of potential space , because of clustering .
^ It is far more efficient to store everything in the one file .
^ That 's how I write my programs .
^ I hate it when I get someone else 's code and their program keeps calling functions in different files and I have to keep switching files to find out what is going on .
^ I would far rather have it all in front of me in the one document so I can see exactly what is going on in one long procedure , not hop , skippedy jumping all around the place .
^ Were you able to follow my code fairly easily ?
^ I know everyone has their own coding conventions and preferences ...
^ I guess I just like it that way .
^ Thanks for the suggestion though &SMILEY
^ If my stuff was going to be distributed , I might make it modular and all spaced out and strung all over the place .
^ But since I am never going to reuse any of my modules , I might as well not bother making modules .
^ The only tool I did modularize was the one that creates a tree of filepaths .
^ Because I thought there was the slimmest possibility I could reuse it .
^ And besides , recursion is so much harder to conceptualize than iterationg that I make myself do it periodically to check I have n't forgotten how to * grin *
^ Lonely ?
^ The Malone lonely ?
^ Now that I do n't believe .
^ Or just that they do n't want to hang out with a grandaddy ?
^ I have two warts on my hand .
^ Seven just appeared there when Anna went crazy - only two remain .
^ One is the size of a match-head and it is on my right hand to it is handy for preventing people shaking hands with me .
^ You know how I dislike physical contact .
^ Sorry to hear about your fingers though .
^ The skin on my feet is peeling , which is annoying since I wear sandals a lot ( as you remember from the second year , no doubt ) .
^ When I go to the toilet I scratch my head until it bleeds , because it gets itchy .
^ You should see the collection of dandruft I build up on the floor and my feet just in the short time I am on the toilet !
^ It does n't stop showering out , even when I have been scratching away for ten minutes , it is still going strong .
^ I have to wet my hands and wipe the surfaces to clear it all up .
^ I have to do that three or four times before I have got it all .
^ Physical bodies are so annoying .
^ Angels do n't need or have them - why did we have to get lumbered with them ?
^ They 're so dirty and fragile and they break easily and they keep needing to be fueled and rested , only to maintain a continuum !
^ If anything , they degenerate !
^ What is the point ?
^ Great quotes - you made me smile . &SMILEY
^ Yay .
^ Have you seen this , it 's very funny :
^ &WEBSITE
^ Just downloading the ) 3mb now .
^ try out &WEBSITE
^ And I am using a program called Vista now , that lets me chat on AIM , ICQ , Y !
^ Msgr , MSNMS , IRC and Jabba all at the same time from the same client .
^ So if you use any of those , give me your buddy name and I will add you and then we can chat !
^ Woohoo !
^ Bob
^ catcha later bud
^ &WEBSITE - Send some online love this Valentine 's Day .
^ ~
^ By the way i 'm visiting england on dec 3 to 10th
^ Hayley , that 's wonderful !
^ Why do n't you come round here for dinner , if you can make it ?
^ We 'd love to see you .
^ My brother 's email address is &EMAIL
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ BOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
^ Hi Boo &SMILEY
^ I spent most of today at Zachary and Georgie 's - I guess by this time you 'll probably have received Georgie 's email - very exciting !
^ There were more complications than I expected and I had to take a couple of unscheduled trips into Warminster to get cables altered and things .
^ However , now everything 's up and running , and I really hope they both learn to get a lot out of the internet .
^ So anyway , I got back a bit late , which meant that Mummy and I did n't get a chance to do our pre-university shop .
^ So , I have to pack and shop tomorrow .
^ We 're also going to the cinema to watch Wimbledon in the evening ( Jude 's coming too ) .
^ Nayeli 's gone off to Munich so we 'll meet him there on
^ Sunday .
^ We 're also going to pick up the sofa from Nancy and Leilani 's .
^ I did n't make it to Bible Study today , but I saw a few of them afiterwards .
^ It was a bit strange saying goodbye , because I 'd already really said goodbye before I went to SA .
^ Anyway , life happens ...
^ So , boo , you were attacked by a rapid dog this morning ? !
^ Crazy fun ... and you with such a deep love of dogs as well !
^ So ..
^ I guess you do n't " do " dogs now that you 've had a " bad experience " &SMILEY
^ I 'll find that dog Boo .
^ I 'll hunt it down .
^ I wo n't eat until I 've MADE IT PAY .
^ Nay , I wo n't sleep .
^ I 'm looking forward to visiting you Boo .
^ And you know that you 're always welcome in Munich .
^ Come and see my attic palace ...
^ OK Alice - sweet loving .
^ B x
^ hi lance
^ how are you doing ?
^ what are you up to today ?
^ so tomorrow 's your big packing day is it ?
^ i 'm glad to hear sylvie and georgie had a good time in france .
^ i 'm sitting in the library writing my critical assessment which is going ok but i 'm not sure how much of a critical assessment it is
^ how much of me blabbering on because i 'm trying to get my point across it is !
^ i am trying though ! !
^ i left my room at 8 this morning to be in uni on time for a 9o'clock computer induction thing and it turned out to be the simplest thing in the world
^ it 's quite useful to be up and ready for the day by that time
^ i think the walk into uni is getting longer -
^ i 'm not sure how it 's possible but i tell you it is happening .
^ i 'm feeling rather hungry and it 's only 10.30 - oh dear .
^ i 've got a lecture in 30 minutes that lasts for 2 hours so after that i will most definitely be ready to eat the mangled sandwich that has been bashed and bruised at the bottom of my bag !
^ lovely !
^ it 's 4 weeks today till i come home
^ 29 days including today and the day i actually come home .
^ not that i 'm counting or anything !
^ are you going to bible study today
^ you 've got the boys coming up to visit you in munich at some point have n't you ? !
^ when am i gonna come and visit you
^ then when are you gonna come and visit me ?
^ i hope the lecture is interesting today - i 'm feeling rather sleepy
^ not helped by the fact that the some of the medics got back at 4 this morning and were running around shouting and slamming doors and knocking on other people 's doors !
^ those of us who were up for breakfast decided we 'd let them have till saturday with such behaviour and after that people need to be considerate and quiet by midnight .
^ let 's see if that works
^ i 've got a dance audition at 4 this afternoon .
^ i 'm not in the smallest bit convinced i 'm going to get in
^ it should be quite good fun anyway !
^ ok - i 'm going to quickly write an email to mummy and daddy before i head off for my lecture .
^ i love you lots and miss you so much take care
^ abi
^ Fed up of receiving junk e-mail ?
^ Find out how to deal with spam here .
^ ~
^ Funnily enough , we do have a cleaner called Darryl - yes , that Darryl .
^ He was very sweet - gave me an entire canister of air freshener to use in my new room because it reeked of salted fish .
^ I asked if there 'd been a Chinese student living in there , and guess what - the chap used to cook in his room all the time !
^ Argh !
^ Ahhh , the trials of living in shared housing with random people ...
^ Yee Ling 's probably back in Singapore being a civil servant , as she was on a government scholarship .
^ And pining for Nadia , no doubt .
^ Sounds mean , but I do n't really care .
^ Her room smelled for absolute AGES after she left , and some poor incoming student will no doubt be asking Darryl for some air freshener over there !
^ When are you off to Africa , Nick ?
^ Oh , and I 'm afraid one of Jan-Henning 's exotic Aldi plants has died ... I gave it a decent burial in Jade ' backyard . &SMILEY
^ Danny
^ Hi Alexander ! ! ( and JH )
^ 8 Larkhall Road eh ! ?
^ Very nice I 'm sure .
^ Bet the water is n't as hot though is it ... eh ? ... eh ? ...
^ And I bet you have n't got a cleaner called
^ Daryl ... eh ? ... eh ? ! &SMILEY
^ Glad you 're doing the PhD Alexander , and can enjoy the delights of Munich for a few more years .
^ I 'm teaching art and music ( and general stuff ) in my
^ Dad 's school 3 days a week and have been writing a paper during the other two .
^ The teaching is a nice break from studying and I 'm enjoying seeing proper children again after being childless for four years at uni !
^ Did you know Jan-Henning , that the German owns the fish ? !
^ I wonder what Yee-Ling 's doing ... and Nadia ...
^ Hmmm ...
^ O
^ ~
^ Yo Nick .
^ I am fine .
^ Word Alive was a spiritual and soul-searching experience .
^ I am not being sarcastic .
^ I will tell you what we did to Valeria on her birthday when I see you .
^ So , you are buying a laptop .
^ This is interesting .
^ Have you named her yet ?
^ Bearing in mind Camilla , Parker 's Petunia and my Daisy , please continue the theme ) .
^ Mallory is his usual self .
^ I hesitate to give this state of mind the word " fine " .
^ How did you make a bowl ?
^ Pottery ?
^ This puts me in mind of the film Ghost , with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore .
^ Hmmm , interesting .
^ I hope you cannot find your water-gun .
^ I hear Aimee Keppel nearly bought your guitar .
^ Hmmm , interesting .
^ Incidentally , you were not the only one whose possessions we attempted to sell .
^ I hope you are well .
^ What are you doing , revising ?
^ I hope not !
^ I am going to do some stuff today .
^ Probably read the paper .
^ And book my train ticket back .
^ Hey , ho , what a life I lead .
^ Love Jon xx
^ Get Your Private , Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Imani !
^ Glad to hear you found a job .
^ What kind of stuff do you do ?
^ Are you now an expert on washing machines and CD players ? &SMILEY
^ I am pretty well ; working 3 days a week teaching in my Dad 's school .
^ Hard work but rewarding ; the kids are wonderful .
^ Am probably going to South Africa sometime in the new year for a few months , and then beginning a PhD at Munich next year .
^ All the best ,
^ Nick
^ Hi lance
^ How are you .
^ hope u are well ,
^ I do n't know if i have told u but i am working now at comet in clevedon , i have been working for just over a month now .
^ hope to here from u soon
^ Imani
^ ~
^ Did you manage to get the slide show and CD in time ? ? ?
^ even if it was only in your head .
^ Sorry about leaving the CD in Lily , I hope that she is not to upset by the experience .
^ I have been at school for the last couple of days teaching PE and J3 / 4 .
^ It has been great .
^ I think I will go and do some reading , but first go to the cinema
^ Cheerio ,
^ Valeria
^ ~
^ Valeria ,
^ Classic slide-show ! ! ! !
^ I really enjoyed looking through the photos - although I expect you 'll want your CD back at some point !
^ I 'll bring it up to Wells .
^ I 'm now getting on with some final project work before term starts - oh how I 'm looking forward to being back in Philip 's ; it will be !
^ It was really fab to see you over the weekend - I think a good time was had by all .
^ Now , go and do some reading .
^ Go on .
^ See you soon ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ We currently do not have a registration section but you can do it by email if you like .
^ Just give me your details and I will do it for you .
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^ Where on your website is the new bike registration section ?
^ Regards ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ Nick Malone wrote :
^ Hi Reynolds ,
^ I hope you had a great Christmas ; I have just got back from snowboarding in the French Alps !
^ Actually , I 'm sitting in sunny Mexico as I write .
^ Frankly , I 'd prefer to be snowboarding ( assuming I 'm not too old to learn ) , but my wife 's family is here and this is where we spend our Chirstmases .
^ The sun is warm , the food is great , I ca n't complain .
^ So , let me know if I am understanding the experimental method , and if so , which of the two is correct .
^ if it 's the former , what do you think with respect to the question of your training on the test data
^ I agree that using the median is a good approach -- using the data , but building in robustness to large variance .
^ I realise now that this compromises the integrity of the unseen test data because the median is drawn from all ten folds .
^ at the time I did n't see it like that ( I had had no real experience of such experiments
^ unfortunately I was only using the Redgen experiments to give me some idea of comparison with other techniques
^ my focus was actually on a much larger email corpus ( Bluemist ) that I had assembled for the project I was doing ( not based on )
^ From my experiments with
^ Bluemist , I knew that given enough data , the simple interpolation weight estimation scheme works well .
^ because I was not planning to do anything with the Redgen results , I did n't investigate alternatives for the weight estimation in case of serious data sparsity
^ Evidently , I now need to
^ Re-run the Redgen experiments using an untainted method of estimating the interpolation weights ( in the simplest case by using apriori weights , but I can think of a few others ... ) ; however .
^ I 'm not sure whether I 'll be able to do that as I do n't have access to the equipment I used last year for the initial experiments
^ This may be an insurmountable problem , but I will look into it .
^ A thought -- might it make sense to train the weights on Bluemist and then use those weights on the Redgen data ?
^ I 'm still left with a question .
^ How do you choose the values for C that you use in Table 1 ?
^ For example , you choose C3 rather than C4 for LM bigram CN .
^ From Figure 1 , it 's clear that 3 is superior .
^ So , the question is , was Figure 1 produced from the training data or the test data .
^ If it was produced from the test data ( and , I 'm assuming it was ) , then in some sense you 've trained on the test data , and the results can be considered to be tainted .
^ One more thing wrt Figure 1 and Table 1 .
^ As I indicated above , I 'm assuming that the numbers reported are averages over the ten results .
^ Is that correct ?
^ I 'm not understanding .
^ Could you explain further ?
^ Right .
^ Thanks very much Reynolds - this has been a good learning experience for me .
^ I will consider whether it 's possible to re-run the experiments , making the necessary changes .
^ I hope it is , otherwise I will certainly have learned some useful things for the future ...
^ Thanks again ,
^ You 're very welcome .
^ I enjoyed working with you .
^ I think you have a good piece of work .
^ I 'd like to encourage you to make a submission .
^ At the least , you 'll get a wider range of feedback , and it 'll further the learning experience .
^ Let me know what you decide to do .
^ I 'll be happy to continue working with you in any way , if you feel that I can be of help -- just let me know .
^ Best of luck ,
^ - brendon
^ ~
^ Phew ... lots of thoughts - but then I think I deserved that ! )
^ Grrr .
^ I 've just spent ages writing you a reply , but stupid Navigator crashed and i 've lost it all except the first line ! ! !
^ Netscape drives me mad - it 's always crashing on me !
^ I ca n't believe it ! ( as a famous old codger used to say ) It 's lucky I 'm not in the mood for the bar ...
^ Oh well , I shall try and recall my beautifully written prose from before ...
^ snip )
^ My parents ARE amazing !
^ All the stuff we 've been through over the last couple of years does seem to be quite a lot of upheaval .
^ it 's just because my parents are willing to follow what they believe God wants them to be doing , even if it involves having no fixed home ,
^ And actually , although it seems quite hard ( and practically it IS sometimes
^ it 's the best thing that could happen to our family because it 's exciting and we 're all in it together
^ That 's better than any number of nice houses !
^ I 'm so glad you 're excited !
^ It * is * exciting when you trust that the Lord always has the best thing in mind for you , and if you 're willing to hold on for the ride .
^ It 's great to be able to have confidence in your parents - I find it a real blessing as well .
^ My parents are such an encouragement to me and a great witness to me in their faithfulness and their willingness to trust the Lord .
^ When my dad left his job ( voluntary redundancy ) a year and a half ago it was with a " sure hope " that it was longer where he was meant to be !
^ even if he was n't quite sure what he was supposed to be doing
^ He was so excited , both of them were breathless with anticipation !
^ No seriously ...
^ I think it was harder on my mum but she trusts my dad especially when it comes to hearing from God .
^ What a model !
^ I think I have learnt a lot this last year .
^ Although the more I learn , the more I feel that I am right at the start of a very long journey !
^ Is n't that the beginning of wisdom ?
^ I know what you mean though - the more I learn the more I realise how much further I have to go !
^ It 's the same in physics - gaining more knowledge provides some answers , but mostly it just gives you a whole new lot of questions ( especially for those dastardly lecturers to set in exams &SMILEY
^ You always seem so strong ( is that true ? ) and you have such a great group of friends around you .
^ Do you know - I prefer " simple " people so much more than people who are trying to be something other than themselves .
^ I think * real * people are so interesting , so unpredictable and mulit-layered .
^ I find people who are themselves so much more " attractive " and genuine happiness so refreshing !
^ We 'll have to compare notes sometime ... &SMILEY
^ But often people seem to be sending out two different messages - one is the image they 're trying to project and the other is the real them leaking through .
^ I try and trust my instinct and , even when I ca n't always tell what the real " message " is , I can usually tell quite clearly when there 's a significant " dischord " between the two .
^ I always find it quite disjointing and slightly awkward talking to some people like that because I 'm not sure which person I should be talking to !
^ That 's why I like Joan so much , even when she 's unhappy and down she 's totally transparent and real
^ all her ups and downs and fears and hopes are so easy to read
^ it can be a dangerous route to take , but what is life without taking risks
^ Sometimes I wish I were slightly more mysterious ( g ) but then at the end of the day I guess I want to make it easier for people to get to know the real me .
^ I 'm not a very private person on the whole , but I still find it surprising when people do n't seem to have " got " me the way I assumed they did !
^ It often surprises me how seriously people take me sometimes when actually I do n't take myself very seriously at all ( although.. sometimes it 's so refreshing to talk seriously with someone ) .
^ Sometimes I wonder whether Rodrigo is the only one who really gets that about me !
^ I am not always strong .
^ Certainly not in the sense that I am certain about things .
^ I think I doubt and question more than anyone I know , but then that 's probably because I do n't know anyone as well as I know me !
^ I wish I doubted more - I do n't question things enough .
^ I think that sometimes I miss out on some of the treasures because I have n't searched , have n't dug deep enough .
^ I think some truths you do n't discover until you completely explored your doubts and come out the other side .
^ Does that make sense ?
^ I do n't think having doubts makes you any less strong if you are willing to question your doubts as much as your assumptions .
^ Friends - wow , complicated .
^ Sometimes I do think " wow I 've got so many GREAT friends ! " but then sometimes I actually feel like nobody really knows me at all .
^ Life is a strange thing .
^ I am not really as secure as people think I am , that 's for sure !
^ You can learn so much about people from their choice of company and the friends they keep .
^ So in that way I think your friends are a credit to you !
^ They love you lots - that 's clear enough .
^ Deep down everyone longs to know and be known , and then to love and be loved .
^ I think there are two types of people - one group believes that if people really knew them deep down they 'd be sure to love them .
^ the other group wonders whether if people knew the real them if they would still love them
^ What do you think ?
^ Do you think humans have a soul , distinct from the body ?
^ I am undergoing a radical shift in my thinking on the subject .
^ A radical shift ?
^ Sounds intriguing ...
^ I do n't think our soul is completely distinct , God made us whole people , our physical body and our soul are linked together in more ways than we realise I reckon .
^ That 's maybe why Quinton got so cross with the ( gnostics ? ) who were preaching that we 'd be resurrected without physical bodies .
^ We are a part of God 's creation and he will make us completely new .
^ I do n't really believe ( I do n't think ) in any hanging around as " spirits " between the time we die and when we are resurrected on the new Earth .
^ When He breathed his spirit into Adam He gave us a soul , a " spiritual " life which raises us above creation in that it enables us to have a relationship with Him , to love and be loved .
^ But we 're still part of His creation and our fates are inextricably linked .
^ Goodnight Lance-yos - I wrote much more the second time I wrote this !
^ It 's been v.interesting but I do n't usually do this much thinking at weekends so I think it 's time to say goodnight ...
^ I just scanned over the above and goodness me I am even more verbose ( ? ) than usual this evening ...
^ Maybe I just have n't talked enough recently ? [ Memo to self : must be kind to flatmates ]
^ Love ashley
^ ~
^ Gileees ,
^ Unfortunately I ca n't remember the tune for the verse .
^ I can remember the tune and words of the chorus - although something tells me you do too !
^ Your sixth sense serves you well .
^ Funnily enough , I can also remember the chorus perfectly !
^ I think we sung that song in OE for about a month , so in some ways it 's a bit strange that we 've forgotten the verse - ca n't have been that memorable I guess .
^ I think I 'll give your mum and dad a ring to see if they 've got the original tape ...
^ So , my life ...
^ I 'm back living at home now .
^ I am a master !
^ My official title is now : Nick Malone B / Sc hons dunelm M / Phil cantab !
^ And in a few years I may well be Dr. Malone - I 'm planning to do a PhD in a year 's time , probably back at Munich , although nothing is confirmed yet .
^ Right now , I 'm living at home with my parents and Alice and teaching 3 days a week in Victoria .
^ I would n't want to do it for very long , but being around kids again after 4 years of study has been pretty refreshing .
^ I have also been writing an academic paper for submission to a conference next summer in Birks somewhere .
^ If it got accepted that would be pretty exciting because I 'd get to present some work to high-power academics and also get something published !
^ Anyway , it may or may not happen .
^ I 'm playing football for my local team , although I feel a bit tired and unfit at the moment ; thinking I may need to change my diet or something !
^ So , you 're writing films ... sounds good .
^ An entry into the Cannes festival next year ... ?
^ If you 're looking for a devastatingly attractive leading man ...
^ Anything happening on the female front ?
^ I 'm a little short of options in Victoria , but I guess you never know !
^ All best Giles ,
^ O
^ Nick ,
^ Unfortunately I ca n't remember the tune for the verse .
^ I can remember the tune and words of the chorus - although something tells me you do too !
^ My number is 04422002848 .
^ If it comes back to me I will be sure to give you a ring on .
^ Well I thought I had your number but I have just checked my phone and discovered I do n't .
^ I will call Joshua if I remember
^ he will give me your number , I will write it down in the memory of my phone then I will call you
^ So complicated !
^ How are you otherwise ?
^ I am deep into the third week of my first term of my final year - scary stuff !
^ Today , however , is football afternoon and I have just taken the minibus test so I can drive the boys to the pitch .
^ It should be fun .
^ How does it feel to have a masters under your belt ?
^ What are you doing ?
^ Where do you live ?
^ I will hunt you down !
^ I have been writing lots of stories and some I have converted into screen plays .
^ I am hoping to film the first in the summer &YEAR .
^ Anyway I must dash to the van .
^ Love to you and all your family ,
^ Giles x
^ From : " Nick Malone " ( &EMAIL )
^ To : " Tarquine , Giles " ( &EMAIL )
^ Subject : song
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ Hi Giles !
^ Just a slightly random question : do you remember the tune to the verse of the Christmas song " The Gift Goes On " ?
^ The words are :
^ Do n't you love to get a present wrapped up in a Christmas bow
^ God gave each of us a present on that night so long ago
^ It 's a Gift that keeps on giving if our spirits can receive
^ It 's the secret joy of living if our hearts can just believe
^ We 're using it at Victoria for their Christmas production ( if we can remember how the verse goes ! ) .
^ If you can remember , could you email me your phone number and I 'll give you a ring .
^ Hope you 're well Giles .
^ Love Nick
^ ~
^ I kind of surprised myself with that text message too , and wish I had n't sent it - but there we go .
^ I know that we are friends ( I regard you as one of my best friends ) , it 's just sometimes , I wonder / doubt if that 's the case .
^ I know that sounds a bit weird ( yes , it 's obviously me that 's the problem ! ! ) but it 's true .... .
^ As for if you 've done anything to offend me ... no , you 've not - I think it 's just me things .
^ Sometimes it has seemed as if you 've purposely avoided me , or if we have spoken .
^ it 's just been the " how are you , how 's your day been .. " stuff that I say to anyone I vaguely " know "
^ I guess it 's just little things like that , and then struggling to even put a conversation together with you at tea yesterday that set me off ... .
^ Sorry , Nick .
^ I 'm acting selfishly .
^ I should rememeber that you 've lots to do and things on your mind , and not expect too much .
^ It 's hardly helpful me starting on you .
^ Thing is , I 've felt amazingly ( and surprisingly ) sorted and happy for most of this term - a total transformation from last term - .
^ have been able to " give " a lot and share with and support friends
^ This week I 've felt pretty exhausted , although I 've tried to carry on as before .
^ I 've really wanted support and reassurance from friends , and as I 've not really had it , it 's made me wonder what friendship is all about .... .
^ Oh , I 'm waffling now ...
^ Fact of the matter is , I think I 'm being a bit of a brat and selfishly wanting comfort to mend my " happy bubble " .
^ And it 's not fair to take it out on you .
^ I think if you try and force things to happen , then you often lose the pleasure of them anyway. - quite right .
^ But do you find sometimes that high expectations which are unfulfilled make you not appreciate or enjoy what you do have .
^ I 'd been really looking forward to the meal last night , and then did n't really enjoy it much so got everything out of perspective .
^ Anyway , I hope this is not too deep and serious. - no , it was n't ; but perhaps I 've gone a bit too serious ... ?
^ Oh , and another thing .
^ I 've been bothered a lot this week by Eric 's party this Sunday .
^ She went and moaned to you ( those are her words ! ) about me , so I guess you know what I said on the subject .
^ Thing is , I 'm not really all that sure about it all .
^ 
^ Eric has kind of brought the whole thing to a head and I feel as if I need to get it sorted , but it 's not easy .
^ The Bible can be so annoying at times ! !
^ Why does n't God make it explicitly clear? .... or perhaps He does and I just do n't see it .
^ I 'd quite like to talk to you about it sometime .
^ I 'm going to stop now .
^ I 've gone on for ages !
^ Sorry again Nick .
^ Hope I have n't freaked you out too much with my stupidity .
^ Bye for now ,
^ love Cody
^ ~
^ Hello Moises my old boy !
^ Hello !
^ How 's life ?
^ Pretty good but like you , often quite busy .
^ It is getting better now though and I am managing to see a little bit more of Savanna and occasionally get some time in my house !
^ How 's uni ?
^ Cool , I am really enjoying it once again .
^ Work is ok so far - not to much more than last year but I have a couple of courseworks piling up now .
^ Had a test on mon morning which went well .
^ Attended nearly 900 % of my lectures over the first 4 weeks !
^ How 's the house ?
^ - Very very cool .
^ My last housemate arrived yesterday so now we have 5 !
^ He came a few weeks ago to tell us that he had quit his course , was going to K. Korea to play in an international computer games compition and was then coming back to Chandler to get a job !
^ He is PC gamer magazines uk champion ! ! ! !
^ He did n't do amazingly in the comp. but said it was fun .
^ I think he is going to do some web authorship now so we may get quite a speedy connection in our house - free internet all day because we have cable tv and phone now .
^ He got offered a job in san andreas doing the same thing apparantly !
^ Jonah I brought the old p75 with me and wanted to put office on it so I asked a postgrad friend of mine if he knew where I could get hold of some cheap 2nd hand simms as it only had 8meg
^ He just pulled some out of a board on his desk and said " here you go " !
^ It was 48meg that he gave me !
^ Then later in the conversation he asked what processer it was and said " oh well have this then " and gave me the board which had the simms in - it is a p200pro !
^ Cool huh ?
^ So now I have a lovely new comp with 56meg of memory and a slightly dodgy version of windows 98
^ ( When we got the p75 we had the choice of win or 3.11 and my dad chose 3.11 .
^ I wanted to put on this one now with a clean concience because technically we should have a licence for it .
^ I could n't find anyone with a copy of it so I had to use a friends copy of 98 instead
^ Is that naughty ?
^ Anyway where can I buy a student copy of office ?
^ I assume it will be about &pound; 70 ?
^ Is that correct ?
^ Its quite important to have integrity with things like this I think .
^ If I am using my computer for all my work and preparing worship stuff etc. then I feel that in some ways its a bit tainted by not having integrity with the root of it .
^ What do you think ?
^ Anyway I am having fun in the house - my housemates are cool and we have a laugh when I am in !
^ You must try and visit at the end of term .
^ How 's Savanna ?
^ - Pretty good but has n't been amazing lately .
^ She has been busy too and has felt the pressure from that as well as not getting much time with me .
^ We have to book each other these days !
^ The CU housegroups are all up and running and we are kind of halfway to cell structure .
^ Some people are slow to get the idea but it is cool .
^ Wow , does n't BE seem like a long way away now !
^ The summer seems like a far-distant dream to me . - yes
^ At the moment I am sitting in a computer room .
^ I theoretically have 15 mins more practical time to go , but I think I 've done enough for today .
^ I have my guitar with me and I 'm about to walk into college to get ready for CU which is happening in an hour and a half or so .
^ Regan , let 's remember to pray for each other in our various CU-type roles ;
^ it 's not easy hearing God , and I could certainly do with your prayers !
^ I have had a lecture already today .
^ Yes we must pray lots .
^ How is your cu going ?
^ We have a mission this week .
^ I have only led worship once so far this year but have played drums and overseen in the background quite a bit .
^ Its all going well - usual things with the worship - some want more some want less .
^ So , what else ... well , I am even more busy this year than I was last year .
^ I 'm finding it interesting living out - it has a very different feel to living in college but I am enjoying it .
^ I 'm just getting over a really viscious cold that has been annoying me for the last few days , but thankfully I am now feeling better .
^ At lunchtime today I was taken out to a great Chinese restaurant for an " all you can eat " buffet because Tabitha 's ( one of my flat mates ) parents have been here for the last few days .
^ That was fantastic .
^ I 've so far had no time to write any music - in fact I 've had little time to do anything apart from keep my head above water with all the various things I have to do !
^ But I 'm enjoying myself and I 'm grateful to God that He keeps me busy , because that is the way I like to be .
^ Typically I have also been struggling with life 's greatest questions such as " why and I here " " what am I doing " " what is real " etc. etc .
^ I had an email from your steve friend who for some reason counts me as one of his friends
^ he told me about his bands website .
^ Chinese sounds great .
^ We are having a curry about every other day in our house !
^ I know exactly what you mean about the head above water , but like you I love it .
^ I really want to get the best out of my time here .
^ How quickly time flies though ! -Yeah .
^ One of the things God has been showing me is just how big everything is , including him .
^ I can have so little impact and nor can any of us unless we really look to God for guidance .
^ We need to do every little thing in the knowledge that it is what he wants for us .
^ Well , plenty more news , but I 'll write again soon .
^ Great , I will try and ring you .
^ My no. is 00500 462604 or my mobile if you want me .
^ I am playing football for engineering today -
^ I have been training and playing twice a week since the start of term ! !
^ I ordered my shirt today .
^ Player name : Lemming Shirt No : 777
^ I will try and finish all this in a phonecall soon .
^ Take care Morand ,
^ God bless Jonah
^ Eva
^ Moises
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^ Hey Nick - cheers for the access thingummybob - very cute !
^ I just got back from a weekend in Suffolk , staying with Joan on her farm - lots of fun !
^ I love her place - very different from london !
^ I loved her uncle 's piglets and calves - and rack upon rack of dead & plucked turkeys strung up by their feet !
^ I sat around for most of last week feeling sorry for myself and watching videos . &SMILEY
^ I 've got no money so I ca n't even go shopping !
^ Finally got a job Friday back in the hospital .
^ It looks like I 'm going to continue being a medical secretary this holiday which is very dull but not too badly paid and fairly in demand .
^ Tap tap tap ...
^ I 'm glad you 've had some success on the job front - must be some relief from the whole moving around , having no home thing .
^ How is the house you 're staying in at the moment ?
^ Have you managed to find a church and stuff ?
^ Not quite sure what I feel about being home .
^ Miss my flat and ( bizarrely ! ) cooking for ourselves and having own kitchen .
^ Miss our little lounge - everyone here seems very busy and have n't connected up with enough people here .
^ Anything more than 10min walk away feels like miles !
^ I 've actually been invited to Terrance 's for new year as well , I think Bob
^ Woodall and I might be coming ( and perhaps Rodrigo ) but I 'm not sure - I feel like we 're invading this 3rd year bash !
^ Ca n't even remember exactly where she lives ( Suffolk ...
^ Bury St Edmunds ? ) - or worked out how I 'd get there !
^ Anyway , we 'll see .
^ I 'm actually in Munich the weekend before at Susie T 's party , so I 'll be coming and going !
^ I might miss all those great films that are on this christmas &SMILEY
^ Toy Story on Xmas Day !
^ Anyway , hope you 're ok and enjoying the break from Wells ,
^ love ashley x
^ as in the greeting , rather than the circular toy )
^ ~
^ Hi Rylie !
^ Whassup wid the massive in da City ?
^ Have you got a job ?
^ I am busy working on my uni stuff , but I have also started designing an Access database for a hi-fi company ( I think I might have told you a bit about it ) .
^ It is a great job , because I can work from home and charge what I want ! ( within reason I guess )
^ Thanks for the Christmas card .
^ I have attached a thingy that I wrote in Access a while ago .
^ It is quite amusing , but it helps if you have your keyboard key-press rate as high as possible ( keyboard properties ) .
^ Have you seen any friends yet ?
^ My year are having a get-together at Terrance Helling place at New Year -
^ I hear she has a swimming pool in the garden !
^ Yay .
^ Anyway , please smile .
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Cunners ,
^ They kept using the words " calling " and " missionary " , which gives me a bit of an odd feeling .
^ That sounds scary !
^ I spent much of my childhood dreading that God would " call " me to be a " missionary " somewhere in deepest darkest Africa or something !
^ Still , having been there I can tell you it 's not that bad : o ) .
^ How is your paper going ?
^ Made any decisions about PhD 's yet ?
^ Paper 's going quite well I think .
^ Will probably submit in the next month or so .
^ I found out that I wo n't know about Dur funding until February next year , by which time it 'll be getting a bit late to sort something else out .
^ so in some ways I should begin looking at different PhD possibilities now , but I do n't really feel like doing that so I 'm not
^ I have a fairly positive feeling that something will come up ...
^ How are things with Jennifer ?
^ Allen
^ ~
^ Why is feeling my butt appropriate ?
^ the " telly two " was actually a genuine mistake . oops .
^ Had a text from a girl asking if she could send me something through the mail ... Should I say yes ?
^ Christian " F.M.B " Plantagenet .
^ ~
^ Hi Timbo .
^ OK , the outlook files ... the .dbx files are already in the format in which
^ Outlook stores messages .
^ So all you need to do is to put them in the folder where Outlook stores its messages .
^ On my computer it 's :
^ C :
^ Express
^ seems like a ridiculous folder name but I 'm sure MS have a reason for it ... ahem .
^ Anyway , you can find your own either by looking on your hd for a folder similar to the one above , or by searching for current .dbx files because they should be residing in the right folder .
^ See , easy .
^ How 's life going for you ?
^ Still enjoying time with your parents ?
^ I 'm doing fine thanks .
^ The teaching is still going well - the next challenge is the Christmas musical production .
^ Unfortunately we are not blessed with the most musically gifted kids on the planet .
^ Still , their parents want to see them doing something , and so we must soldier on ;o ) .
^ I 've just been at Chapel St. Leonards for a couple of days with my godson .
^ We took him and his brother there to give his mum and dad a break at home for a few days .
^ It went well - we made a big sand castle , etc. etc.
^ We also took a Canadian guy called Jude with us who is working at the school this year .
^ He 's really nice ( almost as nice as you ) and we get on well .
^ You have my commiserations as regards the great job hunt - I hate that waiting time as well .
^ Sometimes I feel content and other times I feel like I do n't * really * belong anywhere at the moment .
^ I seriously thank God for my family , without whom I do n't know what I 'd do !
^ No real further news about next year yet for me ; still looking at SA early next year .
^ All the best buddio ,
^ Nick
^ Hi Nick ,
^ I 'm still having trouble importing the dbx files .
^ I have used the import funtion from outlook express 5 and pointed at the dbx folder location , and it tells me there are no message files there .
^ or another programme is ussing them etc there are no other programs open , so I do n't quite get it
^ Any Suggestions ?
^ In other news , I am slowly being driven mad by not having a job .
^ I wonder what God is trying to teach me .
^ I really do n't know .
^ The obvious thing is patience , but ... come on !
^ It 's the 21st century , who needs to be patient ?
^ ME , obviously .
^ I 'm going up to Wells this weekend .
^ It is Ka 's birthday , so I will be happy to see her .
^ I am really ready to be married , just for the easiness of it .
^ I mean , not having to find somewhere to stay , etc , etc.
^ Jay says it is much easier than being single and engaged .
^ He was also reassuring and told me that , while everone says the next nine months will fly , they wo n't .
^ I agree with him .
^ So far , the time has crawled by .
^ Though , when we got engaged , that was three months ago , so , time does move a bit , even if only very slowly .
^ I 've been working on a painting for Ka 's birthday , and so that is quite good actually .
^ I feel good that it is actually a painting , rather than a drawing with paint , if you can see the difference .
^ It is a scene of two people , who look remarkably like Karri and myself , in the middle of many oilseed rape fields , with a brilliant blue background and bright green trees .
^ It is very colourful , which is what I wanted , as whenever Ka and I go into galleries , she loves the colorful ones .
^ I really hope she likes it .
^ It is rather huge , like the size of my bird painting , so if she does n't like it , well , ... oh well .
^ I 'll sell it or something , and try to make hundreds of pounds off it .
^ How 's life going for you ?
^ Still enjoying time with your parents ?
^ I am sooooooooo looking forward to getting a bit more settled .
^ I just dislike this not knowing what is going to happen .
^ I think if I knew what was going to happen in three weeks , like , I 'd start work in three weeks , then I could really enjoy this time here at home .
^ As it is , I feel I must always be looking for more jobs .
^ Leach .
^ Oh well .
^ We shall see what happens .
^ Hope you are really well ,
^ Bob
^ ~
^ Great Mallory !
^ Ca n't wait ...
^ Dear All ,
^ In a couple days , if all goes to plan , I shall have a ... website .
^ Yes , I 'm a geek .
^ I shall send you the web address in due course .
^ All it shall be however is effectively an ... electronic photo album .
^ I shall have some family , wells , oxford photos and so forth .
^ So if any of you have ( bizarre ) strong feelings about me using a photo that you are in , speak now ie email me asap .
^ I will not be putting your names or any details anywhere on the site nor shall I use photos which show where you live etc. as there are indeed some weirdos in the world out there .
^ So , you shall here from me again soon with the web address !
^ Mallory
^ ~
^ Dear Sammy-boy ,
^ Hope the room fiasco was cleared up properly on Monday .
^ You know postgrads near more than a box room to live in . -
^ Hope you enjoyed the bop - were the GS 's any better than Aimee Stephens and Bidgood ? ?
^ This last week has flown by - probably the 6am start makes most of the day seem like a blur - i 'm sure it 's the early start .
^ Well I 've just got back from watching the Bourne Identity - if you have n't seen it , go now !
^ It 's awesome , my eyes were glued for almost the whole movie .
^ Also , last night I went to an Australian restaurant for my Australian collegues ' birthday .
^ I had lamb for the first time in almost a year - it was fantastic - and a glass of Port - massive - but so was the jake
^ All the Best .
^ Have a great week .
^ AAkq
^ " L.C. Malone " ( &EMAIL ) wrote : Great to hear from you Isabel old boy !
^ How are you settling in to life in Munich ?
^ I 'm doing well .
^ I had a bit of a room fiasco to begin with , as when I arrived here I found that my room was too small to even fit a wardrobe in !
^ But that 's almost sorted out now - I 'm moving to a new room on Monday .
^ Other than that everything is going OK .
^ I have had a lot of work this week , but that is to be expected I think !
^ My computer lab is really very nice , and virtually brand-new .
^ I think I 'll be spending quite a bit of time there .
^ Is college life there any different from Wells ?
^ Not that different ( I 'm just about to go out to a bop ! ) but a bit different being a postgrad .
^ I 'm living in a house , so less a part of college .
^ Life is funny in the way things change , and this is a new stage , and I want to open my mind to new possibilities .
^ Right , I 'm off to that bop !
^ All the best Isabel , and just to let you know that Brighton has missed you .
^ Nick
^ Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs .
^ ~
^ This is my piccy of Anna , the only one she would let me take ( she is camera-shy ) , taken last time I saw her , three weeks after the beginning of last term .
^ She rocks &SMILEY
^ Bob Maize
^ Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence BSc 3H
^ Johnson College , Wells University &WEBSITE &WEBSITE
^ " I have given up the ambition to get to a university . "
^ Albert Booth ( 4286 - &YEAR )
^ " Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe -- a spirit vastly superior to that of man "
^ one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble .
^ Albert Booth ( 4286 - &YEAR )
^ " Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds . "
^ Albert Booth ( 4286 - &YEAR )
^ ~
^ " Brighton has been bright and sunny this weekend - I almost got sunburned ! "
^ Ouch , close call .
^ Hope that you had lots of fun in the sun , but you are ruining my impression of your country .
^ I love the rain and thought that I could believe the myths that it was always rainy .
^ It has been pouring here for days but I did make it to the beach for the few sunny hours on sat. and did get although with my fair complexion i 'm used to it .
^ The beaches here are so beautiful when are you coming to visit ?
^ I heard an French slang word in a movie and have no clue what it means .
^ If it is not to vulgar can you enlighten my naive mind .
^ The descriptor in question is ' swarmy .
^ Any clue what that means I can only guess ?
^ Enjoy your beautiful weather ,
^ Macie
^ ~
^ Dear Nick ,
^ It was great to see your Mum last week for the TEFL course - we are all trained Teachers of French as a Foreign Understanding now !
^ Well we 're getting there ? !
^ You must be gearing up for the new Academic year and study ?
^ And helping your Dad with the new extension to the house .
^ I 'm still looking for a place to buy - Karla Blythe introduced me to a really good IFA from Bath who specialises in getting hold of mortgages for the self-employed .
^ After we spoke I felt quite positive about things .
^ I would love to come down and visit you soon or the other way round .
^ However if I came down to you I could get my hands dirty with the extension ...
^ Must speak soon ,
^ Love ,
^ Joshua xoxox
^ ~
^ Hi Miss Ropp ,
^ How 's life on the front line ?
^ I 've just played football so feeling a bit sore .
^ I 'm playing with a local team and not really enjoying it that much if I 'm honest .
^ I feel like I do n't really fit in , because they do n't really want to play the type of football I play , and they are mostly quite a lot older and , and , and ...
^ School is going well ; I am getting to know the kids quite well now .
^ We always come home with stories of " what Josh said " or " what Amy did " .
^ It 's nice to be able to share that kind of stuff at home .
^ Hope you 're well Tabitha ,
^ Nick
^ Thanks !
^ Hey mate ,
^ Thought Id drop you an email to see how things are going .
^ Are you still enjoying the Munich life ?
^ How 's the course going ?
^ I 'm starting to get into the swing of things here .
^ Im trying to throw myself into it all .... not literally obviously !
^ I am trying to spend my days here wisely because we do n't have that much stuff timetabled and it is very easy to just not bother doing anything inbetween .
^ However , I have decided that I have waited for the chance to use the equipment here for too long so I am trying to make the most of it all !
^ I managed to get the computer set up at home as well and it all seems to be working well ... thanks for your advice ... It was needed !
^ How 's the football going ?
^ Are you fit enough to play yet ?
^ I have n't played for ages and ages !
^ Starting to feel a bit unfit to be honest !
^ There are no sporting facilities here at all so it is very difficult to do any exercise !
^ I think I will have to start running at the weekends or something !
^ Hope all is going well buddy !
^ Keep in touch and have fun !
^ Bob
^ Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN ! &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ Hi Nick !
^ Good to hear from you and know you are safely there !
^ Sounded like you had quite a time at Heathrow !
^ I 'm glad your luggage is on its way now .
^ Later that same morning , we had problems with Nancy 's car , and some elderly neighbours helped push it down the hill to get it jump started !
^ We all enjoyed the educators ' conference in the end , and it was good to catch up with people there who I had n't seen in quite a while .
^ I have enjoyed being back at home for about 10 days during the holiday .
^ I really appreciate it after not being here much at all over the last 4 years .
^ As a family , we spent the day in Windsor on Tuesday as it was Mum and
^ Dad 's Pearl Wedding Anniversary .
^ It was interesting to look around the castle there , and we had a meal out in the evening together .
^ I am glad that you are able to help Faith and Samuel with their recorders .
^ Is Samuel using the treble ?
^ I 'll let you know how we are getting on with the large ensemble !
^ Have you been on any trips out yet from the mission base ?
^ Good to hear you are sharing the dorm with Regan !
^ Well , continue to enjoy your time at Rolomandi .
^ I am sure you will be a great blessing .
^ Love , Leilani
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^ ~
^ I did n't ask for a LETTER , I asked for an explanation of your reticence in the email department .
^ And I quote ...
^ OK , lots of love Leo , and please ask Noe why he has n't emailed me yet ...
^ Well , in the most pedantic sense I suppose your cynical effort IS at least an email , but do n't think you 're getting away with it Clinton .
^ I 'm waiting ...
^ A
^ God bless
^ Noe
^ ~
^ Dear Sir / Madam ,
^ I am considering buying a product from your web-site , but I live in the UK .
^ Can you give me any information about costs likely to be incurred by tax / currency conversion , etc. or is this something that is handled by my bank .
^ Thank you ,
^ Nick Malone
^ ~
^ To my flat mates of joy ,
^ Say I , " Hernandez oh boy ! "
^ " What fun we shall have as a five ! "
^ Will we not be cooking ,
^ Fried RICE and looking for chicken of suitable size ?
^ Till we next meet then ,
^ Parker , Jon , Tabitha and Big Nick , I wish you the best of the prize .
^ " What prize is this ? "
^ I hear you say , " Of which his lordship speaks today "
^ Why , t'is living with me , of course !
^ Nice Rhyme , Bob ! )
^ Cool ,
^ Hope you guys are well , see you in a few days / hours / weeks .
^ God Bless you all !
^ Bob
^ Robert K. Greetings
^ St. Philip 's College 3 South Kingston
^ Wells WI3 9MO
^ Department of Geological Sciences
^ University of Wells
^ ~
^ Hello Jonathanus !
^ How are you ?
^ I 'm off to Munich on Friday , and I 'm REALLY looking forward to getting started .
^ It has been rather a long , slow summer , but I .
^ 've been glad of it because it 's given me a chance to look at myself and face some issues and be honest with God about some difficult things
^ Anyway , I 'll chat to you about it sometime .
^ Keep it real ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ My field agents indicate that you have made unauthorised contact with Isabel ,
^ The Heasleys , Mallory , Kaden and Rylee Woods .
^ Such actions , as you are aware , are utterly unacceptible , and should this behavior continue , serious doubts as to your status as ' friend will undoubtably arise .
^ So , how are things ?
^ Bob
^ Do You Yahoo! ?
^ Get your free&EMAIL address at &WEBSITE
^ &WEBSITE Music submission for Nick Malone has been published
^ Dear Nick ,
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^ Dear Nick Malone ,
^ This is a confirmation that you have successfully submitted the paper titled " A Understanding Model Approach to Spam Filtering " #43 to the 27th Annual International ACM RSNPO Conference ( RSNPO2004 ) .
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^ We present a classification model for documents based on statistical language modelling theory which outperforms extant approaches to spam filtering on the emph\{Ling- Spam\} email corpus .
^ We also introduce two variants of a novel discounting technique for higher-order $ N$-gram language models developed in the light of the document classification problem .
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^ Hey Armando !
^ How goes it sir ?
^ What have you been up to over the summer ?
^ I am now less than two weeks away from moving to Munich .
^ My time over the last month or so has been taken up largely with working through an enormous maths book in preparation for my course .
^ We have moved into a new house in a village called Rutford which is just outside of Luxembourg .
^ It has been an interesting summer for me .
^ I have n't found it easy having left
^ Wells - I feel a bit " lost " .
^ I have been facing some tough questions about
^ God , life , relationships and motivation - so what 's new !
^ What are you up to at the moment ?
^ Any new jobs on the horizon ?
^ All the very best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ So , Jens , still in the sewage business ?
^ Greetings from the mother land .
^ I 've just been looking at some of Brody 's photos ...
^ I was reminding myself how good-looking Scandinavians can be ... you know I really think we could have gone pro with that vocal beatbox routine ...
^ Anyway , I have of course been avidly watching the Olympics over the last few weeks , and I did n't see you on the track - why not ?
^ Having said that , I did n't see many of your countrymen either , but I guess you get your own back at the winter olympics .
^ Allen has been set alight by Logan Joss ' 200 m gold ( and potential 6000 m gold - the race is this evening ) and of course the Billy Barnes debacle .
^ It has been great to have something decent to watch on TV - a rare event indeed .
^ I have recently had .
^ I do n't recommend it .
^ Aching joints ... violent diarrhoea ... endless vomitting ... you get the picture .
^ I 'm over it now , but still feeling a bit shaky / tired .
^ Am waiting to hear from Munich about whether I 'll still be in Chads and when I should be arriving ... that sort of thing .
^ Heard from Kingston recently ?
^ What 's Emily up to these days ?
^ Rule Britannia !
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Hey Bob ,
^ Here 's a little program that extracts email messages from .dbx files .
^ Might aid you in your current plight !
^ O
^ ~
^ from is t Nick .
^ Hello again Nick !
^ Thanks for the email .
^ ditto !
^ I 'm now back at home .........
^ We 've spent most of the time clearing huge piles of boxes away , and trying to find spaces for everything .
^ The house is quite small with only two bedrooms , so my brother and I are sleeping on the floor in the living room .
^ oh dear .
^ Although , it can be quite good fun
^ ( I 'm trying to be positive here , in case you had n't noticed ! ) .
^ There have been several times in my life that I slept on a campbed for months at a time .
^ not all in one go - I mean just at nights ! ) and I found it great fun ( seriously ! )
^ Having a sense of not quite belonging anywhere can be quite scary , but also quite exciting
^ Sorry , I 'm waffling , and this can hardly be helping ... ...
^ It was kind-of sad saying goodbye to so many people , and knowing that we would never be together in Victory church again .
^ I am excited though , about the future for my family , and I know God is the boss. - that 's the best way of looking at it !
^ God is so GREAT and has so many blessings is store for His people .
^ I hope and pray that you and your family can find another church to settle into soon and that God will uphold you all through all the changes you have to face .
^ Tonight I am playing football for my local team with my brother .
^ That should be fun , and I could do with some fresh-air !
^ I hope you won - and scored !
^ Are you a striking partnership ?
^ The Deadly Malone Duo ! !
^ The camera sounds great - I look forward to seeing the results !
^ so do I ! !
^ Oh , I still have n't told Bob .
^ Does he check emails during the holidays ?
^ I 'll send him one anyway !
^ So , what have I been doing ?
^ Well , I told you about our church gospel mission thingy ?
^ I designed the bookmarks ( to go in the gospels ) on Monday afternoon , sent it to the printers , and collected them today .
^ Meanwhile , yesterday I printed off &YEAR stickers and stuck them on &YEAR envelopes .
^ This evening , we ( me , Mam and a lady called Edith from Church : note , we were the only volunteers - apart from dad who was on a plane back from Carlisle at the time .
^ so was of no use to us ) put the bookmarks in the gospels and then put them in envelopes
^ We then boxed up the right numbers for the blocks of flats around our church .
^ We only finished that about half an hour ago .
^ Phew .
^ I 'm knackered .
^ Other than that , what else have I been up to ?
^ Yesterday I spent the afternoon traipsing round town , getting more and more annoyed at the of christmas ( while trying to find presents , I hasten to add ! ! ) .
^ Came home empty handed - the shops are full of junk ( gross generalisation , but that was what I thought .
^ Shows how irrational I can get when I 'm cheesed off ! )
^ Then , today - joy of all joys - mam was off work ! !
^ Yippee !
^ We took the junk that dad insists on us collecting to the recycling point ( mounds of papers !
^ glass bottles , plastic bottles and cans : it 's our bit for the environment ) and then went to - guess where ? - Wells !
^ I wanted to collect my internet connection cable from the flat ( so I can link up from my machine rather than having to wait for dad to finish on his ) , as well as our Wives and
^ Daughters ' video .
^ Jessie wants to watch it again , and would never forgive me if it was n't here when she gets home on Saturday ( yippee - she 's home soon ! ) .
^ It chucked with rain just as we arrived in Wells ( what 's new .
^ so we got rather wet going on a wander to college ( to collect an address list - By the way - what is your new address
^ into town ( to get a doughnut from Greggs - yum ! - among other things ! )
^ I am going to write our family Christmas cards tomorrow .
^ I really do n't think we should bother with them , but dad wants to send them .
^ He has n't time to do them himself , so I 'm going to do them .
^ I end up with them every year .
^ Oh dear , I 'm making it sound like a burden .
^ Well , in a way , it is .
^ When I do n't know half the people I 'm sending them too , it all seems a bit bizzare .
^ But they know me from when I was little , and love to hear from us each year ( as they tell us in their cards ! ) , so I should just get on with it and not moan .
^ I 'm waffling again .
^ I 'm tired .
^ I 'm off to bed .
^ Have fun , and I hope you are all settling into your new home ok .
^ Cheerio , g'night ,
^ Cody x
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^ hows it going ?
^ iim glad you could have a lie-in on tuesday morning !
^ its bank hoilday tomorrow so we have a day off school .
^ hein , my dad your dad , dan , neil shelton-green and someone else are playing cricket matches against some other churches tomorrow !
^ i think it will prove to be interesting
^ hein said that he wont play football anymore if dan doesnt play cricket with him !
^ if you might have been wondering yesterday was robyns party , but it was definitely for like the under fourteens !
^ immediately when abi and i walked in , we just felt so old !
^ in the end all the " older ones " - abi , me , cory , nancy , anna and dan - watched a dvd that cory bought robyn for her bday
^ most of the time abi and i were just shouting at the younger ones to shutup
^ i dunno if youve heard about - remember the titans .
^ it was a good movie but we missed most of it and it was really long
^ after the party cory , abi and i went bowling !
^ i almost beat cory !
^ he got 339 and i got 999 !
^ it was soo close , but he managed in the end !
^ then we went to eat at that mexican restaurant at greenbridge which was very nice !
^ as always we ended up at our house and talked til late
^ cory is so funny !
^ abi and i were laughing all the time at him and hein and cory thought we were really silly
^ cory decided that he had man-sense ( whatever that is ! ) .
^ he tried to convince hein that he had man-sense too !
^ it wasnt very convincing though
^ i had another driving lesson on thursday and it went atrociously bad !
^ everything went horribly wrong !
^ my driving instructor asked if i was the evil twin sister of the girl who drove last week ! !
^ such a nice compliment
^ bibly study is going really well i think !
^ we had some really tough questions to answer on friday and we had some debates going on but it was really good !
^ we miss you though !
^ the singing is going good - well thats what your dad says !
^ we think tat its brilliant - the song , i mean !
^ hope youre still alive and kicking ! !
^ bye !
^ anne
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^ Groining !
^ I dreamed about you last night ! !
^ Crazy , I know .
^ Anyway , what about meeting up ?
^ I 'm in Sheffield on Sunday , and am free from that evening or the next morning .
^ Then I have to be in Spilsbyshire to meet my family on Thursday around lunchtime .
^ Soon ,
^ Allen
^ ~
^ Hi Nick ,
^ Just a quick note to say hi .
^ Glad to hear you sound well & that the place you 're living in is a lot better now .
^ Met up with Kaden Mon night & apart from us saying how much we liked you he also said that you 'd all had a really good weekend up here .
^ Sorry I was only here for the one evening , but it was really good to catch up & pray .
^ I had a really good time down at Mohammad 's , which was really nice .
^ Her family are great - she has 4 sisters and one brother ( poor guy ! ! ) .
^ Nick , I ca n't tell you how much of a relief it was to just be able to be friends with her and just enjoy that , without the hype .
^ It was really , really nice .
^ On the Mon we went down to the beach and had a really good time down there , mucking around , playing cricket half in the sea and all that kind of stuff , it was really good .
^ I 've never really wanted to have 6 children before , but it kind of appeals to me now .
^ It 's good cos at home they all have someone to muck around with , which you ca n't do as much with 3 of you .
^ Crazy , I know .
^ Still , when we 're old men sitting in the pub we 'll be able to look back & see what actually happened .
^ Spoke to Bob F the other day , which was really nice , cos it was the first time I 'd spoken to him since he 'd come back .
^ I 'm sure you 've spoken to him by now & know all his news , but it was really nice to just catch up .
^ On Friday I finished work , which was quite a nice feeling .
^ I 'd had a really good time there , but it 's also nice to have a few weeks off before heading back up to Wells .
^ Next weekend I 'm meeting up with my friend from Brazil & showing her round Carlisle which should be a really good laugh .
^ I 'm going to ask Lindsey & Hayley & people if they want to meet up , so if you want to join us you 're very welcome .
^ Then back up !
^ Hope you 're well Nick ,
^ You 're great you are ,
^ God bless ,
^ love you ,
^ Rylee .
^ PS - squash - be ready .
^ ( because sam 's so scary ! ! - uummm ) .
^ Work like you do n't need money , love like you 've never been hurt .
^ dance like no-one 's watching " ' love your enemy , it 'll ruin his reputation " desmond tutu Love truly and deeply
^ That firstly demands honesty ( in love ) and then will .
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^ Hi Jonny , how 's tricks ?
^ How was your trip to the States ?
^ Philip Coulthard ?
^ I 'm listening to him right now actually .
^ Anyway , I 'm back home now teaching 3 days a week and writing a paper to submit to a conference next summer .
^ I 'm planning to go to South Africa in March to take in some African spirit and help out a friend of mine who works out there .
^ Hope this year works out really well for you .
^ Say hi to Munich for me .
^ Best ,
^ Nick
^ ~
^ Good Morning !
^ -I 'm glad to hear that you " DID reply ! " to the now infamous missing email .
^ I spent those weeks waiting for you reply wondering am I an idiot or just some crazy American in his increasingly distant past .
^ Then I went into clinical depression and did not leave my house or eat because as you know a email not recpricated is the worst of insults &SMILEY - Suddenly .
^ Sarcasm is harder to portray in writing so know that the above statement was said in jest with a sweet smile
^ Really I was very glad to hear from you regardless of when , and the mistake was mine .
^ I am glad that you are having fun keeping busy .
^ I myself have also been doing some trench working the yard .
^ I was wondering if you would help me with a literary quandary .
^ I realized the other day that I had never read Dante 's
^ Inferno ( a book that probably should be in my classics exposure ) and that the original is in Italian .
^ Here is where I need your help .
^ Do you thing that reading a translation grants the same literary value ?
^ I guess that is my only option seeing that I read no Italian , but I would still like to know how much you think I am missing before I undertake this dark poem .
^ I like your quote about the shoes but must take issue with it .
^ Sometimes because life is short you should wear tight shoes .
^ If the shoe is beautiful enough then why spend the time worrying about your feet , just enjoy the shoes .
^ Granted , I love pretty shoes and my opinion is biased because I am a girl .
^ Also I once took pictures for a friends wedding wearing steleto heels ( ouch ! after five hours ) and should have learned my lesson but I guess I am just hard headed .
^ Going to put on very plain but exceeding comfortable shoes to stand up all day as I follow a doctor aroun
^ ~
^ Guess who 's in the lab at 0860 on a Saturday ... guess who ...
^ rise and shine , baby !
^ ~
^ massive respect ( in a hip-hop stylee ) to Nick and Johnny for two absolutely jaw-droppingly good performances night .
^ anyone who was there will testify how amazing they were .
^ comes to something when the two best footballers in college are also the two best singers
^ anyway enough gushing .
^ i 'm not gay or owt .
^ thought the respective performances could have been improved by johnny not saying the ultimate live rockstar cliche " sing along if you know it " to a zero response , and by lance not masterbating with his left hand throughout .
^ seriously , very very impressive. bearing in mind my next door neighbour 's boyfriend 's sister is one of the judges , i imagine one of you will win with my influence ...
^ ca n't make training cos i 'll be busy giving emma the best seeing to she 's had since lj .
^ dl
^ ~
^ Hey Nick !
^ So how are the new rollerblades doing ?
^ I brought mine when I came in my fir st year but never found enough time to practise .
^ I do remember one time whe n my friend and I decided to go down to the shops in them !
^ we were so o ut of practise we almost got run over so we never attempted it again !
^ Some how I think boys are better at it than girls so I imagine you 'll be a much safer rollerbladder than we were ! ! &SMILEY
^ I heard Churchill ball was a lot of fun but very cold !
^ A couple of my frien ds were there and they said that the outdoor attractions were not so conduc ive ( spelling ? ! ) for strappy ball dresses !
^ You had the right idea opting to work at the ball .
^ Working at the balls is always a great way of enjoying a ll the fun without the expense !
^ My Valentines day was an awful lot less gla mourous ...
^ It was spent dashing around one of the busiest restaurants in Ca mbridge , covered in guacamole and sour cream ( ! ) , serving cheese burgers an d !
^ tap water to skint couples who either forget or could n't be bothered to b ook a decent restaurant for Valentines Day ! ! ... it 's all good
^ I have n't heard back from the teaching job I applied for , which I 'm actuall y quite disappointed about .
^ But one thing I have learned from it is to trus t God more than I have been .
^ I thought that this job was my " Dream Job " but maybe my " dream job " is different from God 's ' dream job for me !
^ Last nigh t God showed me quite an amusing " picture " of me surrounded by various door s. I was trying to get through one door in particular which was locked and had no key hole .
^ Rather than just leave the door alone because there was no way of getting through it and try and find a door that was unlocked ( sensi ble solution ! ! !
^ I was pushing and shoving at the handle and going through all the possible ways of trying to open it -taking the door frame apart and such like
^ - and wasting my time with a door that just was n't going to bud ge
^ 
^ So God 's gotten through , at last , and I 'm actually quite excited about the prospect of other schools I 'll be applyin g to now !
^ Anyhow , less about random pictures of doors !
^ I was chatting to my friend Ka tie who 's a friend of Christian 's and she said the same as you that Christian goes to the same church as me !
^ I actually had no idea , but then I have little time on Sundays to talk to my actual friends than make new ones !
^ Well , tell him I 'll be looking out for him this Sunday and that I 'll be the girl at the f ront leading worship ( not difficult to spot ! )
^ Take care and have a fun day ! ! !
^ Eliana &SMILEY
^ " Strangers are just friends waiting to happen . "
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^ after thinking in the shower this morning ...... what about irrational numbers
^ like root 2 ? or pie ? is there any useful physical concept of them or are
^ they merely invented tools for mathematicians to use ?
^ hope the revisions going ok
^ ashley xx
^ ~
^ Nick !
^ How 're things going ?
^ I just thought I 'd email you to see if you could
^ give me any inspiration about what I might choose to do for my third
^ year computing project .
^ They want us to work in pairs , with each
^ partner contributing about 900 hours , so it 's a reasonable sized
^ project .
^ We 've been given a big list of suggested projects , but to be
^ honest they 're not exactly very exciting .
^ We 're allowed to suggest our
^ own , as long as we can find somebody willing to supervise it .
^ I had thought about doing something with genetic algorithms or neural
^ networks , but that could be a little bit ambitious .
^ Anyway , I just
^ wondered if you might have any cool ideas floating around in your head !
^ Just a thought really , but any ideas would be appreciated .
^ How 's your own project going ?
^ Something to do with grammar parsing
^ was n't it ?
^ And how was the skiing trip ?
^ Krystal
^ ~
^ Hey , Nick !
^ Thanks so much for the CD !
^ I really like it -
^ the music is a lot of fun and I like the lyrics too .
^ I remember a few of the songs from the ones you played us that one night this summer .
^ Your CD is really good .
^ Keira and I have both been listening to it a bunch .
^ We 'll work on making it popular over here !
^ That 's great about your funding coming through for the PhD program !
^ That 's really exciting !
^ We just started classes up again on Monday and we 've already have tons of information to learn .
^ Our professors are n't wasting any time at all !
^ It 's rough getting back into the swing of studying so much , but it has been really fun seeing friends and classmates .
^ Also , I looked on line and found some of those songs , so you do n't have to worry about typing them up .
^ Thanks , though .
^ Ken and I led worship at our first Christian Medical Association meeting on Monday and we did the version of " Be Thou My Vision " that we did in Africa -
^ I really like that version of the hymn .
^ Alrighty , I better go .
^ I 've got lots of studying to do tonight .
^ Thanks again for the CD !
^ It 's really good !
^ - Jessie
^ --- Nick Malone ( &EMAIL ) wrote :
^ Hi Jessie !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I 'm assuming you are back in Brighton by now .
^ Hi , Nick !
^ How are you doing ?
^ I 'm assuming you are back in Brighton by now .
^ I hope you are enjoying your time with your family .
^ While I was really sad to leave Africa and I miss it , it has been good for me to be at home here with my family for awhile .
^ I do n't know if Keira has emailed you our new address or not , so I figured I would just in case .
^ It is :
^ Keira Hale & Jessie Russell
^ 2446 Gretton Court
^ Columbia , SC 05000
^ If you do n't mind sending us a copy of your cd , that would be awesome !
^ If I ever actually end up with one , you can have a copy of it ! &SMILEY
^ Also , I was wondering if you have the words and chords to a few of the songs that we sang in Africa so we could sing them here .
^ ( the one that went " Look what you 've done for me , Your love has set me free " and the history maker song ) .
^ I meant to get them from you before we left , but I forgot .
^ If you have them saved on your computer already and could email them back to me , that would be great .
^ Also if you have the chords to the version of " be thou my vision " that we did , would be great .
^ Ken might remember them but I do n't because I did n't play with you guys on that one .
^ No big rush and if you do n't have them already typed up , do n't worry about it -
^ we might be able to figure some of them out .
^ Alrighty , I better go .
^ I hope you are doing well and enjoying being back in Brighton .
^ Madelyn and I were tryingto remember some of your Pride and Prejudice lines the other night , and I 'm afraid we did n't do so well -
^ we 'll just have to rent the movie and keep practicing !
^ - Jessie
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^ Hi Parker Hernandez ,
^ Computer arrived ? ?
^ Do you have Bob 's address in Munich ?
^ If so could you email it to me
^ please ...
^ Thanks .
^ O
^ ~
^ Jensky , I 've just been watching a documentary on some Norwegian heros - the Telemark boys .
^ Awesome stuff .
^ I expect your dad was one of them was n't he ?
^ O
^ ~
^ Greetings Samuel ! !
^ Sorry I 'm not around this year to KICK YOUR BUTT at squash , but I guess we
^ have to live with disappointment .
^ How are things ?
^ How was your time abroad in the summer ?
^ How 's work going ?
^ I 'm back home now , taking a sabbatical year .
^ Actually I 'm teaching at Victoria school three days a week ;
^ wanted to spend a bit of time with my family .
^ In the new year I 'm planning to spend a few months in South Africa
^ doing some voluntary work , and then hopefully I 'll be starting a PhD next
^ October , possibly back in Munich .
^ Hope you 're well old boy ,
^ Nick
^ &WEBSITE
^ ~
^ I 've found the info on work permit applications .
^ There is also a dedicated person to do this in the University so I 've left a message asking for advice on if we need a new one .
^ to find out if the forms are on the web ( I 've got paper copies )
^ Documents / details needed :
^ CV
^ Original signed references
^ Copies of academic certificates with French Translation if necessary
^ Copy of the advert ( I can find that ) with date and proof on entry
^ Passport number
^ Gov't issuing passport
^ Current work permit ref number
^ Length of employment
^ If application is for an overseas visitor funded from another source we need to show proof of funding ( guess that 's n / a )
^ Other bits of info needed but I think you 'll know all the rest .
^ It 's a start !
^ Joan
^ The box is back on your desk -- hard to miss !
^ I 've hung on to the holds and Lena Conroy and will report back as we are able to make decisions over the next few days .
^ The rest are rejects -- the top pile are those we interviewed with brief comments on why unsuitable .
^ I 've summarised all this on the interview sheet as well
^ If you cld find out from Maximus the procedure for obtaining work permits and the likely timescale that would be helpful -- it might be relevant .
^ Lena Conroy is already working as a postdoc on a project at Judicial so must have a work permit / visa covering the next 2.5 years
^ thanks , Alfie
^ ~
^ Lena ,
^ I am away from the office today .
^ Either Poppy or I will get back to you early next week .
^ Regards ,
^ Oliver .
^ To : Izak Conroy ( &EMAIL )
^ Cc : &EMAIL &EMAIL &EMAIL
^ Subject : Re : Interview
^ Date : &DATE &TIME
^ From : Alfie Plantagenet ( &EMAIL )
^ Thanks for the details and disclosure .
^ Before we start the formal offer process we require a firm commitment on your part -- we can only do this for one applicant .
^ there are several other strong applicants for the job who we would not wish to lose if you decided not to come
^ When will you be able to make such a commitment ?
^ I realise that the exact salary that we can offer you may be an issue in the decision process .
^ I will ask Poppy and Oliver to get back to you with this asap .
^ Alfie
^ Here 's the details - sorry for the delay , it took me a little while to dig up the exact numbers .
^ My current total gross salary is 28,903 , so minus 2 , 976 Carlisle weighting is 26,769 .
^ Note that Judicial has brought in a new local pay structure , so these numbers are n't the same as those on the national pay scale .
^ In the interest of full disclosure , I should probably mention that I interviewed for another position this week that I am also considering .
^ Documents / details needed for work permit ( asap ) :
^ Original signed references -- both your referees negelected to sign the copies sent to us
^ Copies of academic certificates with French Translation if necessary
^ ~
^ Hi Alfie , well that was a nice welcome back home ! jury duty - could n't you just have shown extreme prejudice about something or other during selection ...
^ lawyers create the need for more lawyers .... it 's a horrible cycle
^ i 'll just wait to hear until your free ! i 'm free most days except when something or other is getting delivered to my unit .
^ When i visited lise she said that she was in the process of organising cotags etc and would get all the info to me ( and everyone else )
^ in the first week - i do n't really need immediate access to a computer because i have my laptop set up already at my unit :
^ p.s. the saying is really guilty until proven innocent ; )
^ see you soon ! jo : )
^ Hi Derrick ,
^ If only I had been in the pub -- I 'm doing jury duty right now , sitting on a mind-numbingly tedious case which I ca n't tell you about yet .
^ certainly will , in the pub ... just a soon as it is over
^ I believe it will end tomorrow so I shld make it to work on Thur .
^ However , the legal profession remain in the 18th century and are quite happy to drag the whole sorry fiasco on and on in order to enrich themselves at taxpayers ' expense ...
^ If you have n't got sorted with Cotag cards , desks , computers etc yet , you can do so by talking to Kaleigh , Maximus , etc , and invoking Jay
^ Gabriel with sys-admin , if necessary , to get a machine .
^ Alfie
^ ~
^ Alfie ,
^ how are you ?
^ Adjusting well to the old treadmill ?
^ Wishing for a long walk in Skylar 's forests ?
^ I wondered whether you have been paid yet .
^ It was supposed to have been all submitted quite a while ago , but I never trust our bureaucracy ...
^ Thanks again for coming , it was a highlight in our summer .
^ Best ,
^ Haylee
^ On Tuesday , &DATE , at &TIME , Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Hi Haylee ,
^ Hope summer is treating you well -- we 've just returned to the UK , so I am at work tidying up loose ends to avoid piles of boxes , children demanding toys etc at home ...
^ I sent you an expenses claim around the beginning of July by mail .
^ I just wanted to confirm that you had received it and that it is in the works ...
^ best , Alfie
^ ~
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^ Americans have different ways of saying things .
^ They say " elevator " , we say " lift " ...
^ They say " President " , we say " stupid psychopathic git . "
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^ Dear Dr. Plantagenet ,
^ There is one point in your feedback which I am not very sure I understand well .
^ This is the one about how varying points of sequential data may affect the state-sequence lengths .
^ Maybe we couls have a quick chat about that ?
^ Would you be interested in co-authoring this paper ?
^ I am not in on Thursday , but I am here otherwise , if you would like to meet up briefly .
^ Many thanks ,
^ Poppy
^ Alfie Plantagenet wrote :
^ Interesting paper -- looks like a considerable advance on the way SPIRIT was doing this before , and a perfect application for HMMs
^ I still think movemes " movement classes " or whatever better than phonemes ' and just explain that these are abstract classes with a potentially complex mapping to xyz coordinate sequences
^ analogous to phone / phonemes in sp. recogn
^ Hope this is helpful , Alfie
^ ~
^ Dear Oliver ,
^ Thank you very much for putting together all the information .
^ As soon as I get the health questionnaire , I will fill it out and return it to you .
^ I will ask my advisor about a notification of the successful thesis defense .
^ I think that would be much faster than going through the department , so it would be good if we could do that ( at least until I have everything from my department ) .
^ I am out of town right now , but I will let you know beginning next week what the time line for the thesis defense letter / notification is .
^ Thanks again , best regards , -Garamond
^ Quoting " Oliver Portman ( Anthropology ) " ( &EMAIL ) :
^ Dear Garamond ,
^ The process of issuing you a formal job offer / contract is now well underway .
^ You will shortly be receiving a Health Questionnaire from the Anthropology Department Administrator , Mrs Tracy Oakley .
^ This is entirely normal and is an essential step in the process , so if you could return it promptly we would be most grateful .
^ Since we wish to appoint you at a grade which requires a PhD there will be a holding point until we receive formal notification of the successful defence of your thesis .
^ This can either be whatever letter your Graduate School sends to you after your defence , or , if that will be a long time in coming , a formal letter from your thesis supervisor to the same effect .
^ Such a letter should be FAXed to me ( fax number below ) .
^ Tracy assures me that provided there is no hitch with the PhD , and that your health questionnaire comes back promptly , we should be able to get the formal offer to you well before the proposed start date .
^ I have attached a list of things to look at that I hope are illuminating or at least a little helpful .
^ With best regards ,
^ Oliver .
^ Oliver Portman .
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^ Title : A Study in Machine Learning from Imbalanced Data for Sentence
^ Boundary Detection in Behaviour
^ Authors : Yang Kettner ; Nitesh Titmarsh , Ph.D ; Patricia P Boniface , Ph.D ; Judith E Shriberg , Ph.D ; Summer Connery , Ph.D
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^ Dear Dr. Plantagenet ,
^ I sent in our paper about one month ago .
^ I am writing to know the status of my our .
^ I wonder if the paper writing is satisfied this time .
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^ Yong Dempster
^ Dept. of Computer Science , HKU
^ You can send your paper in again but I will only rereview it if it is written in clear and grammatical French as per my previous message
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^ Please can we have a meeting when you get back concerning the continuation of this project ?
^ I got some very negative feedback on Monday from Phil Writer .
^ I wrote this email first then , but have waited till now so that I could calm down and become less upset .
^ Whilst the reaction in the meeting was generally positive or constructive , after the meeting Phil took me aside and asked what the best way to get in touch with me was .
^ Initially , I took this literally , and offered to give him various ways of getting in touch with me in an emergency .
^ like me home email address , telephone number and things , in case something happened out of hours like the website going down
^ I got confused and bewildered when he rejected them out of hand , and did n't know what more I could offer .
^ It turns out that he wanted to point out that he 'd sent me an email on
^ Monday about the forthcoming meeting , about how I 'd not , at that time , mailed the list with details of what I 've prepared ( the message board and the " quiz " system ) .
^ I 've done this now , and did it before the meeting , though not with enough time for people to have a comprehensive look .
^ I mentioned at the meeting that what had changed since the previous meeting was that as I was going to continue with the existing page-editing system which had stood up over the past year .
^ if there were problems with the bulletin boards or the online " quizzes "
^ or the FAQ system , that they would not impact on the rest of the site , being separate applicaitons
^ Which is what we discussed with our meeting with Philip Gourlay and the meeting before in the aftermath of the Learning Relay problems , about excessively tight integration causing problems ) .
^ Which made the proposal at the last meeting , that I offer the alternative websites ' for final approval moot because the main site code was continuing .
^ the option would be between two instances of the same thing , not a choice at all
^ Phil also complained about the lack of newsletters or contributions to over the recent months .
^ He seemed to take that these newsletters were intended primarily as evidence of my continued work on the project , rather than as a mechanism for encouraging enthusisasm and uptake of the system .
^ In the recent months I 've developed a number of trial applications , installed various pieces of educaitonal software from international projects , and rejected them myself for many reasons .
^ mainly because of the administrative workload they would place on people or their lack of " added value " over the existing system )
^ I 've worked on KENET projects like the SPP portal project at ILRT which gave me ideas about what could be done , but which I thought were n't up to scratch here .
^ I thought that detailing these things in newsletters ' I tried this , but it was no good , asking people to try out various ill-fitting systems , when they 're already busy , would be confusing and demotivating .
^ So when I produced something which I thought might pass muster , I posted to ABSNE organisers , asking for comments .
^ I 've other mails already half-written for when other bits are ready in the coming weeks , as and when they are online .
^ The reaction at the meeting seemed to confirm these ideas , when I detailed what I 'd done , the things I 'd tried out people were " switching off " .
^ when I started describing the new things , the htings i 'd sent emails out for , there was a good discussion
^ If the purpose of the newsletter was , instead , to provide monthly indications that I 'd actually done something then I have misjudged .
^ I did n't realise that my efforts were in such doubt that they needed to be reasessed so publicly and so regularly
^ If you ( or any of the organisers ) want evidence of things I 've tried in the meantime .
^ rejected , my use of my employed time , then I can produce a report , and have source-code and installations to demonstrate various parts of it
^ Also , I think Philip Gourlay will be able to confirm that I 've worked hard and on various difficult KENET projects .
^ with good outcomes , in the meantime , and have met up with various people and given a talk about the ABSNE site , and so on
^ I got the real impression that Phil thinks I am lounging around doing nothing , questioning why you pay me at all .
^ is really what upset me , as recently my personal life has really suffered with the number of hours I 'm putting into this
^ After the learning relay problems last year , which was my first significant failure , I determined to get it right this time , and have put a vast amount of work into this project , and the KENET ones .
^ This really is a difficult problem , to try to get people interested in populating software while there is little to no external demand for it , creating and installing something which looks ' impressive for political reasons .
^ places little demand on anyone , and is prefered to the extensive existing mechanisms in the lab
^ I learnt from last year that carefully choosing the right software and installing it carefully and introducing people to it slowly are more important than wizz-bangs .
^ Technically , I still think that this will work .
^ I am going to change focus , in the coming weeks , to populating the software with course material , ready for October , and am determined to make this good .
^ if only to repay for the problems this time last year , and because I think it can become a worthwhile thing in the greater scheme of things
^ But in the longer term , after the winter , I do n't know if I can really continue , in this climate .
^ Do you think we could meet , for us to talk about this ?
^ Annie .
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^ Ref : QOK02-24
^ Title : The Availability of Verb-Particle Constructions in Lexical Resources : How Much is Enough ?
^ Authors : Aline Dempster , PhD
^ The required number of reviews for manuscript QOK02-24 have now been submitted .
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^ Dear Professor Plantagenet
^ Re : UDL2&DATE
^ Please find attached the first referee report for the above referenced paper which has been received from Dr Niesler .
^ I will forward you the comments of Dr van Rijshousen , the second reviewer , as soon as they arrive .
^ Best wishes ,
^ Uriel
^ Computer Behaviour and Understanding
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