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gown from Paris, circa 1937 – Sulkas

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masks, East New Britain Province, PNG

[Sulka susu gitvung cone-shaped pith mask painted with bright pink pollen, a cassowary feather top knot and a striped snake emerging from behind the mask through its mouth]

The Sulka create two types of brilliantly colored basketry masks: the large umbrella-shaped hemlaut mask and the cone-based susu mask. Both are constructed with pith woven over rattan basketry frameworks. Their colors are unique in Oceania.

Sulka villages cluster along a narrow strip of coast wedged between the mountainous interior of New Britain and the stony beaches at the south end of Wide Bay. Masks are made for initiation ceremonies (boy's circumcision, girl's ear and nose piercing, young men's teeth blackening before marriage), bride price exchanges and mourning ceremonies.

Sulka susu gitvung/nunu mask with snake emerging from its mouth. The striped body of the snake coils up behind the mask. Colors are made from pollens. The hair is cassowary feathers. Photo courtesy of a private collection. For the story of this mask see Sulka dance information.

[Sulka hemlaut umbrella-shaped mask with bold geometric patterns on the underside]

Hemlaut mask with two small figures on the struts. Drawing based on a mask displayed in the Rotterdam Volkart Museum.

Hemlaut masks have cone-shaped bases topped with a large umbrella shape. A cone's design might represent a wild taro, a praying mantis with claws or human-like forms called nunu.

The strong geometric patterns on the underside of the umbrella are called "writing". They may continue the cone's form or represent something else such as wild palm leaves or a crayfish. Patterns may be painted in red, black, pink or green dyes set off by whites.

Before the ceremony, bright parrot feathers are added to accent the rim. The skirt for the mask is usually made of two layers of different leaves.

Other types of hemlaut masks have additional extensions tied with shell money traded in from southern New Ireland. One style had two nunu heads under the umbrella and required two dancers…(click)

in their Go-go cages, thigh high boots and all. As the music thrummed, the nearest dancer made a summoning motion…..

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picture executive, but that wasn't nearly the truth.
He actually was a custodian for the office area of
the studio, not even the sound stage

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…and screen will provide an evening of storytelling at the Fastbender Performing Arts Center. This award-winning performer will then give a Question and Answer period for students enrolled in the theater program at the University of…

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you are to be included, how about that !?!

And for a mere pittance ! Only ten bucks each, and
YOU are in the mix for an evening of GREAT

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the potatoes along with a medium onion. Add 1/4 cup of flour, some parsley, and a tablespoon of any other fresh herb of your choosing, chopped well.
Heat the oil to…
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Boiling point, at which stage a toxic gas will start to be given….

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a hearty send-off ! Who knows what adventures betide?

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…or some other sponsor on their race car? With the down turn in the economy all businesses, regardless of size, are looking closely at their advertising budget and appraising its cost-to-benefit ratio and the sponsors of NASCAR are no exception.

With some sponsors withdrawing, it opens an opportunity for some smaller enterprises…

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through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I want to wake up, in a city that never sleeps
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

These little town blues, are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, New York..New York

New York…New York
I want to wake up, in a city that never sleeps
And find I'm A number one, top of the list
King of the hill, A number one….

These little town blues, are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, New York..New York New York…(click)

or Lancaster – where will H'con 2012

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at the tone it will be 2013… beeeeeep…
at the tone it will

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toll for thee. Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbors.

Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and
ripened by it, and made fit…(click)

as a fiddle and ready to RUMBLE !'

'Has the meniscus

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of the knee joint are two pads of cartilaginous tissue which serve to disperse friction in the knee joint between the lower leg (tibia) and the thigh (femur). They are shaped concave on the top and flat on the bottom, articulating with the tibia. They are attached to the small depressions (fossae) between the condyles of the tibia (intercondyloid fossa), and towards the center they are unattached and their shape narrows to a thin shelf, the meniscus (from Greek μηνίσκος meniskos, "crescent") is a crescent-shaped fibrocartilaginous structure that, in contrast to articular disks, only partly divides a joint cavity. In humans it is present in the knee, acromioclavicular, sternoclavicular, and temporomandibular joints; in other organisms they may be present in other joints (e.g. between the forearm bones of birds). A small meniscus also occurs in the radio-carpal joint.

It usually refers to either of two specific parts of cartilage of the knee: The lateral and medial menisci. Both are cartilaginous tissues that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion. The menisci are also known as 'semi-lunar' cartilages — referring to their half-moon "C" shape — a term which has been largely dropped by the medical profession, but which led to the menisci being called knee 'cartilages' by the lay public…(click)

…hearing regarding the new shopping mall has been postponed due to overwhelming interest and turn-out at the original meeting. Not all attendees could enter the town hall's boardroom at last night's meeting. The next public hearing will be held at the Churchill High School Auditorium on Wednesday. Guests are asked to ignore the set design during the meeting since the Theatre Club is getting ready for Saturday's performance of…

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…The King in Yellow, which was banned in several countries because its themes have reportedly been known to lead and attendees to thoughts of despair and…

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tire due to a lengthy history of over-eating.

Diet and exercise proved of little or no avail. The
tire persisted in girth and weight. Fasting merely
resulted in binge eating when the fast was over.

Barimetric

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…pressure reads 997.29 millibars and is falling. Scattered rain showers are expected this evening with a low temperature…

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soldering iron is essential when dealing with soft metals such as….

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it is, although chamge is anticipated at the next
election.

Turning now to other news

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…are being installed for "traffic enforcement purposes" at the most dangerous intersections in the city according to police spokesperson…

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today revealed the identities of the 1,234 bodies
recently found in a lecture hall at the local university.

Questions to the faculty anent why the corpses hadn't
been reported earlier were answered with 'Well, they
acted just like normal students !'

Police are

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on the desert world of Kakrafoon with their towels; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with…(click)

-out any plans for the weekend? Then why not head to Bernies again ? Yes, Weekend at Bernies III is released this weekend, at a cinema near …

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enough as makes no difference. I mean, so what it's a
foot too short ! Only need enough to hang yourself
(by accident, of course), right !

So let's get on

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with it, yes yes and then you will cut off my ears.

Wrong! Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.

I think you're bluffing.

It's possible, Pig, I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again…perhaps I have the strength after all…(click)

is said and done, then all's been said and done – wait,
if all's been said and done, then there's nothing

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to be done about it?"

"What he means, sir, is Old Testament situations. Real Wrath-of-God-type stuff! Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies…Rivers and seas boiling…"

"Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes…"

"The dead rising from the grave!"

"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria…(click)

or wisteria, I can never remember which !'

'Well, sir, one's a plant and t'other's a state of non-
mind upon the part of many.'

'Ah ! I see ! Typical college beer bash, then ?'

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nothing…. On the other side of the door was simply a yawning abyss, filled with swirls of multi-coloured gas,vast tendrils of aether floating towards the doorway….

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stay sharp…there's two more coming in. They're gonna try and cut us off. What did you guys do to attract this kind of attention, anyhow?

Couldn't we outrun them first and explain ourselves later? Didn't you say this thing made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs?

Watch the wisecracks, kid, or you're gonna find yourself floating home! I'm nobody's straight-man, not on my own ship…We'll be safe enough once we make the jump to hyperspace. Besides, I know a few maneuvers. We'll lose em'! I just wish I'd known you two were so popular; I'd have boosted your fare but good!

[the ship shudders as an explosion flashes outside the window]

Here's where the fun begins!

How long before you can make the jump to light speed?

It'll take a few moments to get some coordinates from the navi-computer. I could override all that and smoke the jump, but the hyperdrive might shred itself and give us a belly full of scrap metal.

[the ship begins to rock violently as lasers hit it]

A few moments? At the rate they're gaining…?

Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, farm boy! Ever try navigating a jump? Well, it's no mean trick. Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a black hole; that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?

[notices a flashing light]

What does that mean? What's happening?

[noticing it as well]

Uh-oh, we're losing a deflector shield. Everybody get strapped in, we're ready to make the jump…(click)

from school board president to governor? One would think a candidate would need a little more legislative experience. Politics in a state capitol building is a vicious as a…

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Persian emissary.

[encountering a group of Greeks building a wall to hold off the Persians]

I am the emissary to the ruler of all the world, the god of gods, king of kings, and by that authority I demand that someone show me your commander!

[he is ignored by the Greeks]

Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen you slew scare us? These hills swarm with our scouts! And do you think your pathetic wall will do anything other than fall like a heap of dry leaves in the face of…[he sees that the stone wall is partially made up of Persian corpses]

Our ancestors built this wall, using ancient stones from the bosom of Greece herself. And with a little Spartan help, your Persian scouts provided the mortar.

You will pay for your barbarism!

[raises whip, but Stelios cuts off his arm]

My arm!

It's not yours any more. Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves. Do it quickly, before we decide to make our wall just a little bit bigger.

No, not slaves. Your women will be slaves. Your sons, your daughters, your elders will be slaves, but not you. By noon this day, you will all be dead men! The thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you! Our arrows will blot out the sun!

[grins] Then we will fight in the shade…(click)

the temperature was still over 100 degrees. In the direct sunlight it was enough to make the blood boil. Biggles turned to his co-pilot and whispered….

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Alvin…I was just thinking you've got enough vintage steel around here to make a few thousand Toyotas. Ever think of selling the whole place to the Japanese?

There you go. Does the Pope wear a hat? Was Sergeant York's mother an angel? And will a banker grope for money?

I'm not a banker, I'm a financial publisher.

Well, all I know is in '17 after they shipped me off to fight, some New York financier rolled in here one day and hog-glowsered and tub-grumbled my grandfather into mining out the whole town in exchange for shares in something called the United Coke Company. Do you know what those stock certificates are worth today?

[shouts]

JUST ABOUT THE FINEST OUTHOUSE WALLPAPER YOU'VE EVER SEEN!

We were forced to become what you drove through today; a burnt out coal field and the biggest icebox graveyard this side of the Ohio foundry belt! And that's why I *never* let a banker go!

So your grandpa made a lousy deal, is that our problem?

Judge, that's a very tragic, tragic story.

I believe it is.

You should do a book.

Welcome to Supper! How 'bout a nice Hawaiian Punch?

Thank you, Judge. You know, there's nothing better at the end of a long day on the road than a nice warm glass of Hawaiian Punch.

[Bellows!]

THE CAT'S EYES'LL SPIN! NOW, LISTEN!

Ok, we'll listen!

[calm again]

Hey, hey, ha! Ho ha! Heh heh heh heh! Hoola, Hoola, Hoola! The Boola Boola Boola! Look who's got the front seats to the Mexican hat dance now! Just like a bunch of spiders in a birthday cake…(click)

…and "Sound of Silence" clinched Simon And Garfunkel's place in music history. Later that year, "We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles was the last…

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piece of vermicelli in a glass case until, by some extraordinary means, it actually began to move with voluntary motion?

Are you speaking of the worm or the spaghetti?

[the class laughs]

Why, the worm, sir.

Yes, I did read something of that incident when I was a student, but you have to remember that a worm…with very few exceptions…is not a human being.

But wasn't that the whole basis of your grandfather's work? The reanimation of dead tissue?

My grandfather was a very sick man.

But as a Fronkensteen, aren't you the least bit curious about it? Doesn't the bringing back to life what was once dead hold any intrigue to you?

You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind! Dead is dead!

But look at what has been done with hearts and kidneys…

Hearts and kidneys are tinker toys! I am talking about the central nervous system…(click)

of a blue whale, the largest living animal on Earth…..

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girls are FUN ! Everycritter should

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…craze sweeping the nation. This highly dangerous activity, naturally, is very attractive to teenagers and young adults who behave as if they are immortal…

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towels.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with…(click)

-out any prejudice or preconceptions. The ideal juror should….

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only accept payments in darkened alleys, after midnight
and in small, unmarked bills.

In that way,

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discretion is assured, whatever your needs….

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must, when the Devil drives

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down to Georgia, he was looking for a soul to steal.
He was in a bind 'cos he was way behind: he was willin' to make a deal.

When he came across this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot.

And the devil jumped upon a hickory stump and said: "Boy let me tell you what:

"I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy, but give the devil his due:

"I bet a fiddle of gold against your soul, 'cos I think I'm better than you."

The boy said: "My name's Johnny and it might be a sin,
"But I'll take your bet, your gonna regret, 'cos I'm the best that's ever been."

Johnny you rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard.
'Cos hells broke loose in Georgia and the devil deals the cards.

And if you win you get this shiny fiddle made of gold.

But if you lose, the devil gets your soul…(click)

food cookbook is attributed to Abby Fisher, entitled What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking and published in 1881. The roots of soul food can be traced back to ….

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twice. three times a lady,
And I loooooove you.
Yes, you're once, twice, three times…
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