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You decide...

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8th Habit?

Get the 7 Basic Habits first - HERE

I have no financial connections to Covey or Amazon, the publishers or even the shipping company: I just recommend this book and the 8th Habit - judge them for yourself.

Maybe you Prefer this List

AFI TOP 100 U.S. FILMS

The movies I have seen are in Italics
1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.
2. "The Godfather," 1972.
3. "Casablanca," 1942.
4. "Raging Bull," 1980.
5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.
6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.
7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.
8. "Schindler's List," 1993.
9. "Vertigo," 1958.
10. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.
11. "City Lights," 1931.
12. "The Searchers," 1956.
13. "Star Wars," 1977.
14. "Psycho," 1960.
15. "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968.
16. "Sunset Blvd.", 1950.
17. "The Graduate," 1967.
18. "The General," 1927.
19. "On the Waterfront," 1954.
20. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946.
21. "Chinatown," 1974.
22. "Some Like It Hot," 1959.
23. "The Grapes of Wrath," 1940.
24. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," 1982.
25. "To Kill a Mockingbird," 1962.
26. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939.
27. "High Noon," 1952.
28. "All About Eve," 1950.
29. "Double Indemnity," 1944.
30. "Apocalypse Now," 1979.
31. "The Maltese Falcon," 1941.
32. "The Godfather Part II," 1974.
33. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975. (part of)
34. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937.
35. "Annie Hall," 1977.
36. "The Bridge on the River Kwai," 1957.
37. "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946.
38. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948.
39. "Dr. Strangelove," 1964.
40. "The Sound of Music," 1965.
41. "King Kong," 1933.
42. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967.
43. "Midnight Cowboy," 1969.
44. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940.
45. "Shane," 1953.
46. "It Happened One Night," 1934.
47. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951.
48. "Rear Window," 1954.
49. "Intolerance," 1916.
50. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," 2001.
51. "West Side Story," 1961.
52. "Taxi Driver," 1976.
53. "The Deer Hunter," 1978.
54. "M-A-S-H," 1970.
55. "North by Northwest," 1959.
56. "Jaws," 1975.
57. "Rocky," 1976.
58. "The Gold Rush," 1925.
59. "Nashville," 1975.
60. "Duck Soup," 1933.
61. "Sullivan's Travels," 1941.
62. "American Graffiti," 1973.
63. "Cabaret," 1972.
64. "Network," 1976.
65. "The African Queen," 1951.
66. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1981.
67. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 1966.
68. "Unforgiven," 1992.
69. "Tootsie," 1982.
70. "A Clockwork Orange," 1971. (At a drive in spent most of the time in the resturant avoiding it)
71. "Saving Private Ryan," 1998.
72. "The Shawshank Redemption," 1994.
73. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969.
74. "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991.
75. "In the Heat of the Night," 1967.
76. "Forrest Gump," 1994.
77. "All the President's Men," 1976.
78. "Modern Times," 1936.
79. "The Wild Bunch," 1969.
80. "The Apartment, 1960.
81. "Spartacus," 1960.
82. "Sunrise," 1927.
83. "Titanic," 1997.
84. "Easy Rider," 1969.
85. "A Night at the Opera," 1935.
86. "Platoon," 1986.
87. "12 Angry Men," 1957.
88. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938.
89. "The Sixth Sense," 1999.
90. "Swing Time," 1936.
91. "Sophie's Choice," 1982.
92. "Goodfellas," 1990.
93. "The French Connection," 1971.
94. "Pulp Fiction," 1994.
95. "The Last Picture Show," 1971.
96. "Do the Right Thing," 1989.
97. "Blade Runner," 1982. (part of for a Uni class)
98. "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942.
99. "Toy Story," 1995.
100. "Ben-Hur," 1959.

The 5 Reasons the Best ...

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The Meme - My Entry

Five Reasons the Best [Writers, Bloggers] Come from Australia

1. The ozone layer is thinner down here.

2. We are ALWAYS a day/month/year or century ahead of everyone else – so time is on our side.

3. ‘Strine’ (Australian English)appears original and creative.

4. We are so laid back deadlines don’t bother us. (Hey it’s the weekend/surfs up/footy’s on)

5. We don’t feel threatened (critics cant throw tomatoes this far)

The Meme

Tied to the Tracks by Rosina Lippi. July 3, 2007. ISBN: 0425215326

"[This] is a hilarious, smart, sexy novel with a heart of gold." -- Susan Wiggs

"[Lippi] turns her buoyant creative talents to the romantic comedy genre with an effervescent tale of a trio of offbeat Yankee filmmakers plunked down deep in the heart of Dixie." -- Booklist

Read an excerpt. (Adobe Reader required)| Watch the book trailer

You can find Tied to the Tracks at Amazon , Barnes & Nobel, Borders, Powells, or at your local independent bookseller.

This meme has been entered in the Tied to the Tracks contest, originating on Rosina Lippi's Storytelling2 weblog. If you'd like to enter the BUCKS & BOOKS meme contest, get the rules here.

DO YOU HAVE THE
8TH
HABIT
IN
YOUR
LIFE
?

It is noted with interest that France now has a new President;Japan and China have new leaders.
USA has elections next year with potentially the first woman President, the first African American President,
the first LDS President, New York's former Mayor (the first divorced President?) and whole bunch of others from mainstream Democrats and Republicans.

Australia is scheduled to have a General election in a few months and Tony Blair has resigned as PM of Britain.
There is also new Secretary General of the United Nations.

What might all this mean?

oh the blues...

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
On the Horizon
An Acacia tree sits against a bright blue sky in the Masai Mara park reserve in Nairobi, Kenya.

thanks to Time Magazine Pictures of the week. click HERE

Birthday Greetings to
my son,
Tom
&
Davey

In the Northern Hemisphere summer
seems to mean fun, culture and outings....
Time Magazine suggests
50 Things to See, Hear, Read and Do This Summer

Now these guys are braver, here are the selections of Richard Corliss and Richard Schikel

The Top 100 Movies Ever
click HERE

Heard of them all?
How many have you seen?

Do you agree?

TOP 100 BOOKS - CLICK HERE

Time magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo
present their selection from 1923 to the present day.

How many have heard of?
How many have you read?
Remember To Read is different from Seeing....
so don't count viewing a movie, series or DVD.

Get Well TNG#3 - sweet hugs

Happy Birthday to the CEO
(Square Victorians indeed!!)

...destroying the evidence

The Cake

Morning Tea
Lemon cake with cream cheese and icing sugar topping:
also orange zest.

My Kind of town....
looking west up Adelaide St around 4:30pm on a Friday.
Just before the peak hour rush.

I did some baking tonight - I guess I am through the exhaustion.

Slide Presentations in Index

In the next few days I will be renewing my Slide Presentations....and possibly upgrading them altogether.

Please feel free to visit again soon.

Searching Paris Apartments.....

It has comes as a surprise to me that a Paris apartment (to rent or to buy) goes up in cost when there is a Lift in the building. Some apartments are on the 7th floor, in glorious old buildings but have no lift. Perhaps that is why writers starve in Paris Garrets? Or why Parisian women are so slim? Never the less they are delightful to view. The apartments I mean.

Flat rate?
Those days are gone....so has sensible pricing!
Internet shopping including USA Ebay, Amazon etc will be hit hard by this and so will we!
Click HERE for the US Mail website....

RAIN ..AT LAST RAIN!!!

This is the weather radar image for 9:30pm Wednesday 6th June 2007
It has been like this nearly all day.

EBay Buyers & Others Beware!

What's with the US Mail Service Costs?

They seem to have gone through the roof.
A package - say a small book or, magazine used to cost about $AUS6/7 in mailing costs - to bring it to Australia.

Now it's through the roof....

I bought a book for $US14.99 and the postage was to be $US21!!!

A friend on the west coast of USA was sending me a magazine but it would cost $US70 to airmail to me.

This is what I found on the US Mail website - well hidden mind you....

Country Conditions for Mailing — Australia

Prohibitions

Coins; bank notes; currency notes (paper money); securities of any kind payable to bearer; traveler’s checks; platinum, gold, and silver (manufactured or not); precious stones; jewelry; and other valuable articles are prohibited.

Fruit cartons (used or new).

Goods bearing the name “Anzac.” (I didn't know this...)

Goods produced wholly or partly in prisons or by convict labor.

Perishable infectious biological substances.

Radioactive materials.

Registered philatelic articles with fictitious addresses.

Seditious literature.

Silencers for firearms.

Used bedding. (Really? Why would you want to? )

Restrictions

Meat and other animal products; powdered or concentrated milk; and other dairy products requires permission to import from the Australian quarantine authorities.

Permission of the Australian Director-General of Health is required to import medicines.

Observations

Duty may be levied on catalogs, price lists, circulars, and all advertising introduced into Australia through the mail, regardless of the class of mail used.

Customs Forms Required

First-Class Mail International items and Priority Mail International flat-rate envelopes:
PS Form 2976 or 2976-A

Priority Mail International parcels:
PS Form 2976-A inside 2976-E (envelope)

Global Express Guaranteed

Weight not over (lbs.)	Rate	Weight not over (lbs.)	Rate	Weight not over (lbs.)	Rate
0.5	$38.00	24	$220.65	48	$372.25
1	55.00	25	227.05	49	378.40
2	63.45	26	233.45	50	384.55
3	71.90	27	239.85	51	390.70
4	80.35	28	246.25	52	396.85
5	88.80	29	252.65	53	403.00
6	97.25	30	259.05	54	409.15
7	105.70	31	265.45	55	415.30
8	114.15	32	271.85	56	421.45
9	122.60	33	278.25	57	427.60
10	131.05	34	284.65	58	433.75
11	137.45	35	291.05	59	439.90
12	143.85	36	297.45	60	446.05
13	150.25	37	303.85	61	452.20
14	156.65	38	310.25	62	458.35
15	163.05	39	316.65	63	464.50
16	169.45	40	323.05	64	470.65
17	175.85	41	329.20	65	476.80
18	182.25	42	335.35	66	482.95
19	188.65	43	341.50	67	489.10
20	195.05	44	347.65	68	495.25
21	201.45	45	353.80	69	501.40
22	207.85	46	359.95	70	507.55
23	214.25	47	366.10
Weight Limit: 70 lbs.

Insurance

Insured Amount not over	Fee	Insured Amount not over	Fee
$100	No Fee	For document reconstruction insurance or non-document insurance coverage above $800, add $0.75 per $100 or fraction thereof, up to a maximum of $2,499 per shipment.
200	$0.75
300	1.50
400	2.25
500	3.00
600	3.75
700	4.50
800	5.25	$2,499 max.	$18.00

Size Limits

An item must be large enough to hold on its face the postage
and the plastic pouch that carries the Global Express
Guaranteed Air Waybill/Shipping Invoice (shipping label).
The shipping label is approximately 5.5 inches high and
9.5 inches long, and the plastic pouch that carries it is
approximately 7 inches high and 12 inches long.

Maximum length: 46 inches
Maximum width: 35 inches
Maximum height: 46 inches
Maximum length and girth combined: 108 inches

General Conditions for Mailing

See Publication 141, Global Express Guaranteed Service Guide, for information about areas served in the destination country, allowable contents, packaging and labeling requirements, tracking and tracing, service standards, and other conditions for mailing.

The night before my mother flew home, I went in for dinner with her.

I took Thai food, from

Thai on Brunswick

Shop 12 Central Brunswick

Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley.

You can contact Thai on Brunswick on [07] 3216 0085

and we had a lovely evening together.
It was very special. Something I will never forget.
They say every cloud has a silver lining: well, we found ours.

Mum went home

My mother was transferred by Air ambulance to her home city and then taken directly to hospital.