Blackout Brings Curtain Down On Dalbeattie School Show
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on December 4, 2008
Dalbeattie High School was about to put on its annual Christmas entertainment on Friday night when part of the town was blacked out.
Four hundred customers in all were plunged into darkness for almost two hours.
Now the students are preparing to do it all again tomorrow night.
Tom Cuddihy, the lead teacher for the production, said: “The [...]
Jean Luc Nelias lifts the curtain on the blackout
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 18, 2008
The problem with ocean races is that when the guys have set off, there is no such thing as a Sunday anymore. Everyone involved has to work everyday. Right let’s move on to some comments regarding this morning’s situation. The bad news is obviously the retirement of BT, who turned around yesterday at 17:30 GMT [...]
Books There are many ways to turn out the lights
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 29, 2008
Blackoutsby Craig BoykoMcClelland %26amp; Stewart,324 pages, $29.99
In one of the stories in Blackouts, a character reflects on a technological challenge that involves compressing data. As he puts it, how to express the greatest amount of information in the most concise way. What it came down to was patterns, the recognition of recurrent patterns in a [...]
China lowers curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 27, 2008
Protests in Tibet have turned into riots in the past two weeks, prompting the Chinese government to lower the curtain on all outside media. Only China’s own state-sanctioned “official media†has been allowed to portray the riots and police action taken against Tibetan protesters. They have placed blame for the uprisings squarely on the shoulders [...]
living Now starring in their own home
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 15, 2008
This Valentine’s Day, actors Gabriel Hogan and Inga Cadranel will be enjoying their newly decorated master bedroom.I wanted red and purple, although those two colours typically clash, Cadranel says. I thought it had the French brothel feel to it. The two have known each other since childhood, and played together while growing up in [...]
living Let’s really put Britney’s well-being first
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 4, 2008
Oh, Britney.Though I try to avoid celebrity news, the pop star’s most recent meltdown crisis keeps pulling me in.I can’t help it. I find myself staying up till 1 a.m. to watch TMZ, guiltily consuming every detail of her forced commitment last week to the UCLA Medical Centre, all the while feeling absolutely sick to [...]
living Forgo pantry for counter space; turn den into storage
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 27, 2008
After much soul searching, rather than a bungalow, Ken and his wife decided to buy a condominium for their retirement years.Their 1,253 square-foot condo is yet to be built and Ken wonders about laying hardwood flooring throughout the suite.Interior designer Dolores Pian [...]
Europe Fears That Meth Foothold Is Expanding
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
JESENIK, Czech Republic %26#x2014; The methamphetamine epidemic is not just a scourge of the American heartland. It has a powerful foothold here in the heart of Central Europe. Home meth labs are sprouting up all over the country to produce this cheap, potent drug using the pseudoephedrine found in common cold medications.
In 2000, the Czech [...]