Quite why the lamp-post shifted into my path, I couldn’t be sure, but I had to take swift evasive action and unfortunately that meant hitting a garden fence. We may have been going a tad faster than I’d realised and I’ll admit that I was getting a bit confused about which pedal...
Bill Finney was an uncle of mine, on my father’s side. Uncle Bill passed away suddenly and all alone. With my parents going on a cruise of the fjords, I was asked to clear out his home and to realise the value of any belongings by selling them off or just arranging a house cleara...
haven’t heard of Sheryl Sandberg or bell hooks or the amorphous concept of “leaning in,” you likely have fallen victim to a particular brand of feminism; a siren call of empowerment that very few are able to ignore. this is whatfeminist success looks like Mainstreamfeminism, an ...
The first image of the famed 1946 film version of James M. Cain’sThe Postman Always Rings Twiceis of a hand-painted sign reading “Man Wanted.” When hobo Frank Chambers (John Garfield) takes the position to which the sign refers, lured in by the site of the luscious Cora (Lana Turne...
next to the creek in the sunshine, staying in one spot for a long time, noticing. We saw a maleand female mallard pair floating lazily through the water, then stopping to bask in the sunshine; robins flitting from ground to tree and back again in search of morsels to eat, I presume...
SAVEE (Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion) - The Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion (SAVEE) dataset was recorded as a pre-requisite for the development of an automatic emotion recognition system. The database consists of recordings from 4 male actors in 7 different emotions, 480 British Engl...
a little girl.SONG TO THE SIRENP67You wonder how on earth these people ever had sex enough to create four children when they truly hated each other so much.ANY DREAM WILL DOP75I alsways thought it would be brilliant to make one album together and call it Fuck the Corrs. But the ...
And then there was Noah constantly referring to Echo as “my siren.” I get that he thought she was irresistible, but I kind of doubt a tattooed, stoner “bad boy” would actually think the words “my siren”every timehe sees this girl. They’re minor things, but they took me out ...
If there's a kind of smart clothing that's a necessity for diabetics(糖尿病患者),it's Siren Socks.These socks use six small sensors(传感器) to check each foot's temperature.Through this information we can find ulcerations(溃烂) that could cause diabetics to lose their...
I stared at the cane. It was long and whippy, with one of those funny shepherd’s crook handles. I decided to change the subject, saying, “I didn’t realise you had any male friends Aunty.” “Hey now, that’s enough of your cheek, laddie! It so happens that Nigel is a retired...