Posts by cindy baxter
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apparently cicadas only start singing when it has hotted up to 18 deg C.
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The extraordinary thing is the extent to which tabloids and reality TV have been her life.
Every time I've been in the UK over the last few years (and before I left in 04), Jade has been featured in at least one magazine or tabloid newspaper, either for her escapades on Big Brother or purely because her celebrity status meant her every movement being followed.
I don't think she had much choice, poor love. And certainly not a strategy until Max came along.
I guess "bizarrely tidy narrative arc" is appropriate but if being "tidy" means dying of cervical cancer in the glare of the (now international) media spotlight, I think I would have gone for messy.
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So. Poor old Jade. She's dragged herself through eight years of UK tabloid hell, hated and loved for her (incredibly) stupid remarks and racism (and every other thing she's done, all noted on a daily basis by the paparazzi).
I like the fact that she's now getting her own back by selling images of her wedding to get money for her kids' future. (Helped, of course, by celebrity PR man Max Clifford - doubtful she'd have thought of this on her own).
Milk it, I say. The UK tabloid press plays SO dirty with their big chequebooks, so why not take advantage of it? It's not as though she's trying to hide her strategy - and if the papers are stupid enough to fork out the cash, why not?
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thanks Emma - a very familiar road to me, too...
The big difference for me these days are the dairy factories, and shelter belts disappearing, replace by irrigation systems. Dairy was never an industry across the Canterbury plains like it is now.
Driving south from Christchurch, we turned off at the Moronan road, in Tinwald, heading inland to Mayfield and Ruapuna... The old Rangitata bridge was our link to the big smoke of Geraldine, where i was born. Remember the Arundel store? It disappeared when they built the new bridge.
The closer I get to Mt Peel the more at home I feel... this last christmas was no different. Over the inland Orari bridge (with its passing bay, a constant source of fascination to us as kids, for some reason) then turn inland before Geraldine to Woodbury.
Swimming in the Te Moana and Orari rivers hasn't changed at all over the years - the same waterfalls and pools only accessible through local knowledge... head out late on a hot summer's day to swim in water warmed by the sun ...
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fox is getting even funnier to watch.
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it's all good.
PA, NH, IL...
florida and ohio leaning obama...and sununu's just gone. Daddy Bush's henchman in the negotiations up to the UN climate convention.
o joy
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Santos is based on barack obama
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... Or was Obama based on Santos (santos came first...)?Wondering what the viewing audience for that 30 min ad was...
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sorry, typo alert
"..remains wide open with 19%..."
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well there's predicting outcomes and there's admitting that you don't quite know because 20% of the population doesn't know.
That would change the way a story is written... instead of "National leads" or whatever, it would be:
"while xx may be xx points ahead, the outcome of the election remains wide open due with 19% of the electorate undecided."
Saying that one party is way ahead of another, when 19% is undecided, is completely misleading. Some people might decide not to vote because it looks like a done deal...
at the very least, it's lazy reporting.
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that was my thinking. undecideds can jump any old way - I think that to just lump 'em in proportionally is very odd.