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I studied English and History for 3 years and have a B.A degree. I also have an M.A In Creative Writing from UCD. I was heavily involved in Dramsoc during my time in college and it’s the reason I’m an actor today. I had never really acted before but one day I saw that auditions were being held for a play that I knew and after landing the lead role, much to my surprise, it went from there. I spent a lot more time in dramsoc than I did in lectures. Many of my friends from dramsoc are actors now too and quite a few are now familiar names in Irish acting. I’m getting the new high score,” I said, and shouldered past, leading Marten by the leash he was still holding.

The group's second single, " You're Gorgeous", reached number 3 in the UK in October 1996, and was one of the biggest selling singles of the year, going on to chart around the world. However, it presented a more commercial face to the public in comparison to Jones's earlier work, as well as in comparison to the rest of the material on the Ugly Beautiful album. [3] The album produced two more hit singles in "Candy Girl" and "Cornershop". Stephan maintains that, had he and his fellow basketball teammates been present in Jonestown the day of the massacre, things would have gone differently. “If we truly thought Dad was going to do what he did, there’s no way we would have left. Should we have known? I still don’t know.” It’s too easy to speculate. To me, Jones succeeded not because of his intellect, his charisma or any kind of Wile E. Coyote cleverness, but because of his understanding that, with the right image and the right group of people, no one will care what you’re doing, or where. Out of sight and so on. In the years following the massacre at Jonestown, the idea seems quaint that so little attention was paid to what was going on there, given how much attention has since been paid. The point is not that people didn’t wonder what was happening at the time but that once they thought to do something about it, it was too late.

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He used to say we were the only two people of our kind in the universe," Jones says, clasping his hands behind his head and gazing out his apartment window. "He used to say that I would acquire his gift in my late years. I guess I wanted to believe that, as a child." From around 4 am yesterday morning millions of Australians, businesses and essential services lost critical mobile and Internet function. Optus went down for more than eight hours but the company has so far failed to explain exactly what went wrong.

Discuss reading the chapters as told through the Elk’s voice. Why do you think the author chose to include this point of view? What fresh insight does it provide? How did it change your understanding of the first few chapters? The years have shaped another lesson for Stephan Jones, but it makes him uneasy to talk about it. He has learned to train a particular kind of eye on himself, on his own imposing presence, the handsome face, the instinct for gently taking hold of a conversation and pulling it where he wants it to go. He is charming. People do things for him. There are moments when he glimpses the edges of power and understands precisely how it might be used. Everything that happens throughout the novel is possible only because, on some level, the characters believe that it is. Did their culture and upbringing influence that? Discuss what you believe about spirits, the afterlife, and what is possible or impossible. How easy or difficult was it for you to suspend your disbelief? Frankly, I want her and all the other senior executives in Optus focussed on dealing with the clean‑up and not looking over their shoulder about what a government minister might think. It is a matter for the – The wave-sheaf offering shortly after Passover was the first fruits of the barley that the priest offered to God in the early spring. It was always waved “ on the day after the Sabbath” after Passover (Lev. 23:11). This day is sometimes called the feast of the first fruits or the counting of the omer.Jim Jones moved to Guyana in 1977, just as New West magazine was preparing to publish a lengthy account of defectors' allegations about Peoples Temple. By the fall of that year, almost 1,000 Temple members emigrated to Jonestown, but for Stephan Jones, the pleasure crumbled when his father arrived. Suddenly there was no money to buy lumber or supplies--"he was such a tightwad," Stephan Jones says--and the homesteading fervor gave way to the minister's incessant meetings and group lectures and warnings about "enemies." Jim Jones had warned them over and over that invading soldiers would torture their children; maybe that is what they feared most, Stephan Jones says. He does not know. He does not know. It makes him a little crazy sometimes. "I don't even know who my loved ones were with when they died," he says softly. "Who they spoke to. What they said. Where they were lying. For a long time I thought they felt the convulsions before they died, until somebody assured me that you pass out before you feel the convulsions." At the end she’s hitting him in the chest with the sides of her fists, real hits that really hurt. Lewis pulls her to him and she’s crying now, her heart beating hard enough for her and Lewis both. Counting the dollar Jess had given us for playing Cowboy and Indian at the door, we had eight dollars, total. We were in the Gold Mine and we had a gold mine, yeah. In 2000, a line-up of Babybird comprising Jones, Scott and Matt Hay created a third album. Bugged. Sales were poor and the two singles from it, "The F-Word" (later the theme tune to Gordon Ramsay's UK TV cookery show of the same name) and "Out of Sight" barely dented the charts. Babybird were dropped by their record label soon after. A third single from the album, "Fireflies" / "Getaway" was released on Animal Noise records, but sold few copies. The band subsequently split.