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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
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www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/watch.html   (5961 words)

  
 Neighborhood Watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Neighbourhood Watch" is also a short story by Greg Egan.
A neighborhood watch (also called a crime watch or neighborhood crime watch) is a citizens' organization devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood.
The current American system of neighborhood watches began developing in the late 1960s as a response to the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neighborhood_Watch   (233 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Neighborhood Watch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Connecticut Democrat is said to think that modeling a program on the Neighborhood Watch idea and enlisting the help of workers in certain industries "makes sense....
A neighborhood watch is a citizens' organization devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood.
Neighbourhood Watch is also a short story by Greg Egan, based upon a perverse fantasy twist to the legitimate neighborhood watch concept.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/organizations/neighborhood_watch   (251 words)

  
 A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
Shortness of breath, a cough, a continual fever, and red spots on her cheek-bones revealed some deep-seated affection.
But one evening that she had been on an errand in the neighbourhood she met before the door Monsieur Pourpart’s gig: and he himself was in the vestibule.
At the end of the first watch she noticed that the face had got yellow, the lips blue, the nose pinched, the eyes sunk.
www.geocities.com /short_stories_page/flaubertsimpleheart.html   (10665 words)

  
 Neighbourhood Watch Programs
Many neighbourhoods have started "Neighbourhood Watch Programs" and this is an excellent initiative that all neighbourhoods should initiate.
Neighborhood watch programs are an excellent way to keep an eye on your home and watch for anything that is out of the ordinary.
There are several reasons why you would want to combine the advantage of your local neighbourhood watch program with a home sitting service.
www3.sympatico.ca /prr.richardson/NWatch/index.htm   (572 words)

  
 Neighbourhood Watch (short story) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Neighbourhood Watch" is a horror short story by the author Greg Egan.
"Neighbourhood Watch" is notable because it departs from Egan's usual high-tech science fiction.
Neighbourhood Watch is essentially a perverse fantasy twist to the legitimate neighborhood watch concept.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neighbourhood_Watch_(short_story)   (261 words)

  
 The Untold Story
On the eve of August 13, a few hours short of the country's independence day, the tanker split in two and began to disgorge huge amounts of its cargo into the water.
Also transported to a neighbourhood hospital and made to undergo an immediate ECG, he was informed that he too was suffering from exposure to toxic pollutants.
They were told to keep a close watch on all the workers and to inform the administration if they detected anyone discussing the issue even within the port premises," says a KPT employee.
www.newsline.com.pk /NewsSep2003/cover1sep2003.htm   (3009 words)

  
 Orca Network - Luna's story
Luna's story was full of little mysteries from the very beginning - when L67 swam by with her new calf, she was alone, L pod was nowhere to be seen.
I watched for quite a while, and after darkness fell, he took a bit of a cruise with a Coast Guard ship that came in from the rough seas outside to anchor for the night in one of the bays near Luna's territory.
We were watching from a distance in our Zodiac, and pretty soon he appeared to get an idea about something going on somewhere else, and he headed out in what looked like a very purposeful journey back up the sound toward Gold River.
www.orcanetwork.org /news/luna.html   (11615 words)

  
 Naguib Mahfouz — The Son of Two Civilizations
In the narrative stream of his short stories and his novels, the reader encounters a great variety of characters, people described as soon as they appear before us (or the other way round).
Mahfouz's novels and short stories are works of art, picturing milieus from the most ancient of times to contemporary everyday life.
In the narrative stream of his short stories and novels are characters who turn up and disappear.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/literature/articles/mahfouz/index.html   (5481 words)

  
 CANOE - 2006 GAMES TURIN ITALY - Short Track Skating
A story that begins on the dry pavement of North Kildonan, on a driveway that, to an adventurous two-year-old, was the gateway to the world.
The story is funny now, but Klassen wasn't laughing the day her daughter disappeared for an hour.
She watched the women's hockey team settle for a silver medal in Nagano, but it was another silver medal performance that really captured her imagination.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Olympics/2006Turin/ShortTrackSkating/2006/02/08/1431292-sun.html   (2867 words)

  
 Short films
Later, during the heyday of the studios when they owned their own circuits, all accompanying newsreels, cartoons, comedy shorts, sports commentaries, travelogues, were "one-reelers" although not always ten minutes in length (cartoons were usually between five and eight).
The production of shorts went into a slump when cinemas stopped showing them and network television was of little help until cable and specialty channels were introduced.
In many instances a short film is at best a calling card, a credit, to prove to a prospective employer that its maker does indeed know something about producing a film.
www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /gp-pt972.htm   (1329 words)

  
 (GCR4B4) Story Book by Girth
At the age of four, Fizz thought it was time for her and DarkWood to exploit the land beyond the bush line.
We continued the story as "The wind was blowing 90km/h" Literally at the moment we were filling out the cache, the winds were extremely high.
We didn't continue the story, seems like a lot of people have just been logging their names.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCR4B4   (530 words)

  
 The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
The old stories add, moreover, that the devil presided at the hiding of the money, and took it under his guardianship; but this, it is well known, he always does with buried treasure, particularly when it has been ill gotten.
She had probably attempted to deal with the fl man as she had been accustomed to deal with her husband; but though a female scold is generally considered a match for the devil, yet in this instance she appears to have had the worst of it.
The very hole under the oak trees, from whence he dug Kidd's money is to be seen to this day; and the neighbouring swamp and old Indian fort is often haunted in stormy nights by a figure on horseback, in a morning gown and white cap, which is doubtless the troubled spirit of the usurer.
www.geocities.com /short_stories_page/irvingdevil.html   (4181 words)

  
 No happy ending for Lilya
Abandoned by her mother, who takes off to America with her latest boyfriend, Lilya is used and abused by a succession of adults: relatives, friends and strangers.
The only character in the entire movie who is not unspeakably villainous is 14-year-old Volodya (Artiom Bogucharskij), a neighbourhood kid who spends most of his time sniffing glue and looking for alcohol, cough syrup, medicines -- anything that will get him high.
When she climbs to the top of a pedestrian walkway, just as Volodya once did, you are almost resigned to the fact that her death is bound to be better than her short life.
www.rediff.com /movies/2003/may/06lilya.htm   (591 words)

  
 World Media Watch on BuzzFlash.com
Clare Short said yesterday that Tony Blair would have to resign as Prime Minister if he loses the crucial Commons vote on plans for universities to charge top-up fees of up to £3,000 a year.
Blair allies insisted he would not quit if he was defeated despite turning the issue into a vote of confidence.
But in a scathing attack on his premiership, Ms Short said his departure would "renew" a Labour Party which was "crumbling away into disillusionment and enormous loss of members."
www.buzzflash.com /mediawatch/04/01/wmw04005.html   (1835 words)

  
 Triangles
As a fan of Hemingway (a recent book of his poetry was entitled Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems) it's no surprise that he's keen on the short story, a form he's well on the way to mastering.
Neighbourhood Watch; a yarn about migrating to Queensland and a man more at home with his dogs than his family.
In recognition of his talent as a story teller, he was invited to be a feature reader at the 1996 American Association of Australian Literary Studies in Arcata, California along with David Malouf, where he read fiction that appears in Triangles.
www.ipoz.biz /Titles/TRI.htm   (813 words)

  
 The Hindu : A quiet entry
The themes of her stories are not common and her style differs in each story.
It is only a sentence in an old story but knowing that she is no more makes one stop at that sentence for a while.
She has two short story collections and a translated one in English called A Purple Sea to her credit.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/2000/10/15/stories/1315067s.htm   (951 words)

  
 In the News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest human decisions - which music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster.
This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you.
This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption.
www.ctyoungwriters.org /dublinawardshortlist.htm   (2819 words)

  
 Days of Summer, a short story by Nasibu Mwanukuzi. Tanzanian author, poet and musician.
The bed creacked and I threw the old pink bedcover and watched it fall slowly down on the floor.
By now the birds were chirping even louder, and I could faintly hear a voice of a woman calling for her child.
On his right hand he was firmly holding an iron bar, which from a distance looked like a weapon that could kill anybody with an instant stroke.
www.kongoi.com /Ras_Nas/shortstories/daysofsummer.php   (800 words)

  
 Malvina of Brittany - Section II
A house was in course of erection on a neighbouring plot, and a workman, in dipping up a pail of water, had dropped in his watch.
That he was one and the same with the man that Jetson had watched till the door of the Hepworths' house had closed upon him there could be no doubt.
About the usual time the blind was gently raised, and very soon afterwards there came round the corner the figure of a man. We entered the street ourselves a few seconds later, and it seemed likely that, as we had planned, we should come face to face with him under the gaslight.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/shortstories/malvinaofbrittany/chap10.html   (3630 words)

  
 Loopline Film
This short drama directed by Eamon Little revolves around a man and his dog who take up residence in a small country town.
What we have come up with is a film that is free of dialogue, shot on 35mm by one of Ireland's leading photographers and starring Ned Dennehy, one of the rising stars in cinema here and abroad.
'Neighbourhood Watch' is ideal for any broadcasters who have short film slots.
www.loopline.com /htm/21_neighbourhood_watch.htm   (222 words)

  
 The Murder At Jex Farm
A third and stronger reason against any stranger criminal, was the fact that no stranger had left the imprint of his steps within five yards of the gate on the further side of which the girl had fallen.
Jex, who was too old and feeble to be easily roused to curiosity by a story of a chill and a headache that had obliged her guest to retire to her bedroom.
I shot her with Charles's large gun; I had watched him loading it often, and I did as he did, and I put three little bullets in that I took from the shot-pouch that hangs third in the row on the wall.”
home.comcast.net /~MEWF_Short_Stories/MurderAtJexFarm.htm   (10717 words)

  
 Drugwatch Newsletter
In this regard, we, the members of Drug Watch International, may be thought of as sentries for our species, sharing our wisdom and warning our fellow travelers of the danger of drug abuse.
As director of Drug Watch International’s International Drug Strategy Institute, I believe that there is a need for us to study these new and improved adversaries, so that we do not fall victim to their sly ways.
Through Drug Watch International, I intend to bring that experience to bear on a global scale in the battle against the insanity of drug legalization.
www.drugwatch.org /DWNews_V8_N1_2003.htm   (7527 words)

  
 Viet Nam News
Like other people, when the police asked him why he did not cut in on what was happening, he said it was quite normal to hear the dogs barking.
His dog, watching intently, was waging its tail non stop while walking in front of him.
He intended to shout to wake up the neighbourhood, but he thought he possibly saw it by mistake, so he waited.
vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn /showarticle.php?num=01SHO030906   (1349 words)

  
 FilmfestivalsTV Videoblog
Harold's attempts to provide for his growing family through crime are motivated by the best intentions, but ultimately the worst sort of tragedy hits as he tries to protect his family from a situation he has created.
They kept asking what to do with their short films as there are few fests/competitions devoted to short films, and most of those do not have substantial prize packages to help the winning filmmakers move forward with their careers...which should be the whole point of winning awards and prizes at fests.
After two years of struggle and sending money to his wife and daughter in Liberia, and after endless immigration obstacles, the family is reunited in Chicago, where they are finally able to enjoy the prosperity and freedom that drew them, as a last hope...to America.
www.filmfestivalstv.com   (2092 words)

  
 The Real Story of Galileo
The real story about Galileo is much more interesting, and I have only been able to cover it so fully thanks to the tireless researches of my co-author Dr Richard North, who published a learned Bruges Group paper on Galileo in 2004 and reports regularly on later developments on his blog, www.eureferendum.blogspot.com.
Yet the way in which it remains hidden from view means not only that the media are missing one of the most remarkable political stories of our time, but that the public are being very poorly served.
December 23, it may be recalled, was the deadline for responses to the plan by Charles Clarke and Hazel Blears to rush through a merger of all the 43 police forces in England and Wales into 12 regional "super-forces".
campaignfortruth.com /Eclub/060206/CTE-galileo.htm   (600 words)

  
 The Desire to be a Man by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
And then—to see the tinsel and the streamers waving from it in the morning sun, even from the wheels, sports of the gladsome winds of Hope, and to watch them disappearing at the distant bend of the road, away into the dusk.
By the blood-red glow of torches, policemen were controlling the floods of humanity in the neighbourhood.
He watched the tides flinging themselves against his tower before the gusts of wind, rather as the Stylite could contemplate the sands swirling against his column before the breath of the desert wind.
ee.1asphost.com /shortstoryclassics/villiersman.html   (2663 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - EU launches Moldova-Ukraine border mission
EU foreign and security policy chief Javier Solana and European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner represented the 25 nation bloc at a ceremony to mark the launch of the mission.
In 1992, a short civil war took place in the region of Transdniester on the eastern Moldovan border.
The report said the region was a prime location for money laundering and the production and illegal export of weapons, which are untraceable because of their lack of serial numbers.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=13677   (777 words)

  
 Public Diplomacy Watch: September 2005 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Sun story notes that Dow has a portion of a famous Mark Twain quote on his business card - from Twain's Innocents Abroad, his remark that "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness." It's a truth that must be remembered as America revamps its international public diplomacy efforts.
The story looks at the lessons offered by the rebranding of such countries as South Africa, Ireland and Spain, each with their own challenges, strengths and weaknesses.
Be it stories about the war in Iraq, the conduct of U.S. soldiers abroad, American reservations regarding the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court or even the Katrina disaster, more often than not the German public is presented with a distorted picture.
www.publicdiplomacywatch.com /2005/09   (9138 words)

  
 Battlestar Galactica - Season 2 APPROVED - Short-Media Forums
I loved the mini series last year, and I watched the first episode on the series then tried to record the shows on my PC and that failed.
In fact the only Sci-fi show I ever faithfully watched was star trek TNG, which I made a point to watch every night in the beginning.
I've watched the whole series and it was really good although I thought the finale was a bit of a let down considering it wasn't certain that a 2nd series was being commissioned.
www.short-media.com /forum/showthread.php?t=28514   (416 words)

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