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Array-ne The last time I stepped into the Woodsville complex of the present St Andrew’s Village was in 1987 when my son was admitted to St Andrew’s Junior School. The origin of the KIWI Cup goes back to 1967 when 2 best rugby-playing schools in Singapore - Raffles Institution and St Andrew’s School - accepted the offer of the trophy donated by the then New Zealand High Commissioner to Singapore.St Andrew’s School sports field (circa 1967). St Andrew’s School was riding high after beating Singapore American School in both competitions.As usual, the KIWI Cup was always colored by news of old school boys‘fights. men.Philip Liau principal of Raffles and Francis Thomas principal of St Andrew’s School, made joint arrangements for police escort for the Raffles supporters into the school and during the match. and the bugle call for “Battle”.It was a like an 11th Century English battle scene with opposing armies on both sides of the school field.Once you climbed over the low-lying shrubs to get to the school field you could see a sea of flags in the air. Raffles won the KIWI Cup with an aggregate score of 16-15.Here are some pictures of through the years.Fig 1: Early days of the KIWI Cup played at Bras Basah Road (circa 1967)Fig 2: KIWI Cup at Bras Basah Road (circa 1971).
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Does she even look at my pictures? LOOK at all these people I photographed while we were in India. like the shy smile of the dishwasher halfway up the mountain to the fort…rilla: Rilla doesn’t know I’m here… look at her getting all huffy at me when she thinks I’m not around. Can you imagine if that skanky rilla had to carry all the water she used everyday on top of her head… Heck no, I can’t even cross the street in India now!rilla: Chicken!Rilla: The perplexed look on this elegantly dressed gentleman… hey, she’s taking a picture of me, should I smile or look wise? Yummy, crunchy cucumber, sour-sweet barrow fruits and those little dark red ones, never did know what they were called…Rilla: This is the kind of spread I’m looking for. No mention of you…rilla: So I guess you’re not interested in what the tree looks like, hey? That’s exactly how I feel right now with all the Christmas cookies I’ve eaten.rilla: That’s how you look too!Rilla: Oh, the fireplace.
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-ne Tis time once again for that band to play, tis time for me to hear them.Tis time once again for that band to play, tis time for me to share them.So come on now Deadheads,Believe It If You Need It… A pretty standard Sugar Mags (unfortunately with some channel loss for the first time in well over an hour) and JBG finish it all off.This mid-December concert was just a little 1-show trip down to SoCal, their first time ever playing Long Beach… At over 3 hours, the fans near LaLaLand got their moneys worth on this night, that’s for sure.(Hmmm, a way off-track sidenote here …seems I have a serious California bias goin’ on …5 of the last 6 GD shows I’ve listened to are from Cali.)··Lineage: S:MR>Cass>DAT>PCM>DAT>CD* = w/ patches from S:MR>R>R>DAT copy12.15.72 is @ Archive.org for Listening Only–or–Dload the show right here12/15/72 Long Beach - 1st Set, Part 1·12/15/72 Long Beach - 1st Set, Part 2·2nd Set - 12/15/72 Long Beach·
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-ne Spiders - December S&P E-mini Futures: Stopped out of the March contract yesterday at 1457. GLD - February Gold: I still think gold futures still have a shot at the 873 level but a drop below support at 780 will mean that an extended decline has started. SLV - March Silver: I think is now is likely that the 1644 high in March silver will hold and that an extended decline has begun.
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The Hill's Alex Bolton reports that the bill's 3,565 pages contain somewhere between 8,983 earmarks (according to Taxpayers for Common Sense), 9,200 earmarks (according to a Senate staffer) and 11,402 earmarks (according to Heritage's excellent Ominibuster blog). This is primarily a failure of the majority (regardless of which party is in the majority–the Republicans were equally opaque) and of leadership, which prefers to dump a monstrosity of a bill–stitched together behind closed doors–on their colleagues with no time for debate, and no time for their constituents to make their opinions known.
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From The Foreign Policy Association’s Climate Change blog:Harry Reid had this to say yesterday when the Senate’s bill from last week passed the House: “By blocking tax incentives in renewable energy and standards to supply clean, renewable electricity, Republicans missed a chance to grow our new clean energy industries and build new-century jobs. The U.S. currently consumes about 140 billion gallons of gas annually, and uses about 6 billion gallons of biofuel.
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Array-ne The last time I stepped into the Woodsville complex of the present St Andrew’s Village was in 1987 when my son was admitted to St Andrew’s Junior School. The origin of the KIWI Cup goes back to 1967 when 2 best rugby-playing schools in Singapore - Raffles Institution and St Andrew’s School - accepted the offer of the trophy donated by the then New Zealand High Commissioner to Singapore.St Andrew’s School sports field (circa 1967). St Andrew’s School was riding high after beating Singapore American School in both competitions.As usual, the KIWI Cup was always colored by news of old school boys‘fights. men.Philip Liau principal of Raffles and Francis Thomas principal of St Andrew’s School, made joint arrangements for police escort for the Raffles supporters into the school and during the match. and the bugle call for “Battle”.It was a like an 11th Century English battle scene with opposing armies on both sides of the school field.Once you climbed over the low-lying shrubs to get to the school field you could see a sea of flags in the air. Raffles won the KIWI Cup with an aggregate score of 16-15.Here are some pictures of through the years.Fig 1: Early days of the KIWI Cup played at Bras Basah Road (circa 1967)Fig 2: KIWI Cup at Bras Basah Road (circa 1971).
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Does she even look at my pictures? LOOK at all these people I photographed while we were in India. like the shy smile of the dishwasher halfway up the mountain to the fort…rilla: Rilla doesn’t know I’m here… look at her getting all huffy at me when she thinks I’m not around. Can you imagine if that skanky rilla had to carry all the water she used everyday on top of her head… Heck no, I can’t even cross the street in India now!rilla: Chicken!Rilla: The perplexed look on this elegantly dressed gentleman… hey, she’s taking a picture of me, should I smile or look wise? Yummy, crunchy cucumber, sour-sweet barrow fruits and those little dark red ones, never did know what they were called…Rilla: This is the kind of spread I’m looking for. No mention of you…rilla: So I guess you’re not interested in what the tree looks like, hey? That’s exactly how I feel right now with all the Christmas cookies I’ve eaten.rilla: That’s how you look too!Rilla: Oh, the fireplace.
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-ne Tis time once again for that band to play, tis time for me to hear them.Tis time once again for that band to play, tis time for me to share them.So come on now Deadheads,Believe It If You Need It… A pretty standard Sugar Mags (unfortunately with some channel loss for the first time in well over an hour) and JBG finish it all off.This mid-December concert was just a little 1-show trip down to SoCal, their first time ever playing Long Beach… At over 3 hours, the fans near LaLaLand got their moneys worth on this night, that’s for sure.(Hmmm, a way off-track sidenote here …seems I have a serious California bias goin’ on …5 of the last 6 GD shows I’ve listened to are from Cali.)··Lineage: S:MR>Cass>DAT>PCM>DAT>CD* = w/ patches from S:MR>R>R>DAT copy12.15.72 is @ Archive.org for Listening Only–or–Dload the show right here12/15/72 Long Beach - 1st Set, Part 1·12/15/72 Long Beach - 1st Set, Part 2·2nd Set - 12/15/72 Long Beach·
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-ne Spiders - December S&P E-mini Futures: Stopped out of the March contract yesterday at 1457. GLD - February Gold: I still think gold futures still have a shot at the 873 level but a drop below support at 780 will mean that an extended decline has started. SLV - March Silver: I think is now is likely that the 1644 high in March silver will hold and that an extended decline has begun.
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The Hill's Alex Bolton reports that the bill's 3,565 pages contain somewhere between 8,983 earmarks (according to Taxpayers for Common Sense), 9,200 earmarks (according to a Senate staffer) and 11,402 earmarks (according to Heritage's excellent Ominibuster blog). This is primarily a failure of the majority (regardless of which party is in the majority–the Republicans were equally opaque) and of leadership, which prefers to dump a monstrosity of a bill–stitched together behind closed doors–on their colleagues with no time for debate, and no time for their constituents to make their opinions known.
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From The Foreign Policy Association’s Climate Change blog:Harry Reid had this to say yesterday when the Senate’s bill from last week passed the House: “By blocking tax incentives in renewable energy and standards to supply clean, renewable electricity, Republicans missed a chance to grow our new clean energy industries and build new-century jobs. The U.S. currently consumes about 140 billion gallons of gas annually, and uses about 6 billion gallons of biofuel.
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