Waisale Serevi
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- Receiving my Heineken Kinsale 7s Player of the Tournament.
Waisale Tikoisolomoni Serevi (born 20 May 1968 in Qarani on the island of Gau, Fiji) is my name and I'm a Fijian rugby union footballer. Although I played fifteen-a-side rugby all my career, I'm most notable for my rugby sevens achievements. I'm widely considered the greatest rugby sevens player of all time.
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- I'm is widely regarded as the greatest Rugby Sevens player of all time, whose achievements include being inducted into the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee's Hall of Fame in 2005, and being named the Fiji Times' 2005 Personality of the Year. Through my career I picked up several nicknames; including Small, Wizard, and Maestro. The nickname Small was applied due to my height, however Wizard and Maestro are more recent nicknames earned due to my Rugby Sevens ability.
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May the Lord have Mercy on Us
Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans.
The multistep spearmaking practice, documented by researchers in Senegal who spent years gaining the chimpanzees' trust, adds credence to the idea that human forebears fashioned similar tools millions of years ago.
The landmark observation also supports the long-debated proposition that females -- the main makers and users of spears among the Senegalese chimps -- tend to be the innovators and creative problem solvers in primate culture.
Using their hands and teeth, the chimpanzees were repeatedly seen tearing the side branches off long, straight sticks, peeling back the bark and sharpening one end. Then, grasping the weapons in a "power grip," they jabbed them into tree-branch hollows where bush babies -- small, monkeylike mammals -- sleep during the day.
In one case, after repeated stabs, a chimpanzee removed the injured or dead animal and ate it, the researchers reported in yesterday's online issue of the journal Current Biology.
"It was really alarming how forceful it was," said lead researcher Jill D. Pruetz of Iowa State University, adding that it reminded her of the murderous shower scene in the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho." "It was kind of scary."
The new observations are "stunning," said Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California. "Really fashioning a weapon to get food -- I'd say that's a first for any nonhuman animal."
Scientists have documented tool use among chimpanzees for decades, but the tools have been simple and used to extract food rather than to kill it. Some chimpanzees slide thin sticks or leaf blades into termite mounds, for example, to fish for the crawling morsels. Others crumple leaves and use them as sponges to sop drinking water from tree hollows.
But while a few chimpanzees have been observed throwing rocks -- perhaps with the goal of knocking prey unconscious, but perhaps simply as an expression of excitement -- and a few others have been known to swing simple clubs, only people have been known to craft tools expressly to hunt prey.
Pruetz and Paco Bertolani of the University of Cambridge made the observations near Kedougou in southeastern Senegal. Unlike other chimpanzee sites currently under study, which are forested, this site is mostly open savannah. That environment is very much like the one in which early humans evolved and is different enough from other sites to expect differences in chimpanzee behaviors.
Pruetz recalled the first time she saw a member of the 35-member troop trimming leaves and side branches off a branch it had broken off a tree.
"I just knew right away that she was making a tool," Pruetz said, adding that she suspected -- with some horror -- what it was for. But in that instance she was unable to follow the chimpanzee to see what she did with it. Eventually the researchers documented 22 instances of spearmaking and use, two-thirds of them involving females.
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Bye Bye Roches
Landmark names like the Queens Old Castle, The Capital Cineplex and the world renowned high-class restaurant Mandy's have all gone to retail Heaven during our lives but now it's the turn of one of Pana's biggest names to finally kick the can and I'm getting a bit emotional like. There was a certain pride a feen had in walking through Dublin on his way to Croke Park seeing locals pouring out of a giant retail store with a Cork name on it knowing all profits would be returning to Leeside and clean Cork hands. Roches Stores Patrick Street branch was even the place where Ben Dunne Snr. (the founder not the cokey-whorey-sleazy feen who was suspiciously generous to Fianna Fáil) learned his trade before founding Roches' biggest rival Dunnes Stores. Therefore it is without any exaggeration that we say that Cork is where the Irish retail revolution began. The indomitable spirit of Roches' founder William Roche was typically Cork in its magnitude and most evident when his first store on Pana was burned down by the Black and Tans in 1920. Determined not to let the last British insult in their occupation of Cork get the better of him, he re-opened his furniture store to great acclaim less than a week later. So a life long institution for most Corkonians finally departs the retail scene, gobbled up by another English sounding surname for better or worse. Referring to Roches as 'Debenhams' is going to take us Corkonians a while - we couldn't give the new owners the satisfaction of that too quickly. It has taken us about five years to start calling the Coliseum (aka the Colla Bolla) on Mac Curtain Street by its decade old name: the Leisureplex or calling Quinnsworth by its buyer's name Tesco.
'See ya at Roches'
The Patrick Street door has always been one of Cork's most reliable meeting spots where feens met old dolls, mother's met daughters, country people meet each other and anyone who hasn't been to Roches' cafeteria (now christened with the unflattering title 'the Gallery' for some reason) for a pink slice could be open to having their Cork citizenship withdrawn. Time marches on and while we won't exaggerate and say anyone will shed a tear (after all the building isn't going to be burned down this time) Corkonians will feel a certain nostalgia as the city's relentless growth brushes sentimentality aside to make way for big business. The most important thing is to acknowledge a Cork institution and the staff that has served its customers honestly and has exported its values outside the People's Republic with great success bringing much needed civility to the ungrateful savages in Dublin, Limerick and Galway.
Veterans of Roches: we salute you.
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Kate Kenneally51 weeks agoColeman ur a hard man to identify on bebo!!Anyway, congrats on the results,hope the celebrations didnt get 2 out of hand!!
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Rooney55 weeks agoC>B how the fock are we?? ah still hangin onto the dream out here arite, myself and the abo. comin to an end now, finished the travellin till we go home, were in perth at the moment. workin away number crunchin in an office, doin a sneaky bit of savin to get home and check out this recession thing, sounds like great craic. hows your job going? many exams to go? seems like dublin is the place to be in ireland, fockin everyone is there. gonna find it tough to get a job, bubba is sturgglin so what hope do the rest of us have!! Do you need a P.A or anything? us asthmatics gotta stick together brother!!
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Sticks Entertainment61 weeks agoHey!!!
Hope you enjoy a party!
Mon 22nd sept- MAD?? in CLUB CLASSIC.....1 night only ........revisiting the same night as club classic on monday of rag wk '08...it was awesome
Thurs 25th Sept - The launch night of FANTASY in CLUB CLASSIC.......Corks newest and hottest Club Night every thurs night from 22nd sept........2djs...2floo
rs....1 great night....all yr long
Check us out and add us as a friend...,...,
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Davey O C62 weeks agoI can do a thousand now!!
When's the debut for DrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaGONZZZ!! -
Eoin Quinlan63 weeks agogood luck with the exams darkness.
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Davey O C64 weeks ago
Helllllllllllllllllloooooooooo! I smelt ur pillow(s) 2day! But dont worry i did it from th doorway! I didnt enter, I know u dont like that! Also SOMEBODY called over and borrowed all ur towels & then left them out the back........
R u ever coming home........
Batman NEVER tells!! (Insert Batman Theme Tune Here)
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Ruairi Geoghegan65 weeks agoFriday October 31st dublin to brussels(charleroi) depart 18:35 arrive 21:10
Monday November 3rd return 10:30 arrive 11:00am
Total cost of flight; €35.76
charleroi to bruges - 154 km approx 1hr 32mins transfer
De Vriese B & B rooms €55-65 per night for 2 people sharing, located adjacent to main canal
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David Kingston66 weeks agoi didnt know there were linesmen at the kinsale 7's!!
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Donal Long71 weeks agour up da walls aswell i see?!ucc is shite at da moment..me n dat dude a beautiful mind r bout da only heads inda library....gime a shout later if ur up to anything...lata cocksmoker
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Steph Fitz72 weeks agohey hun! hols were great im wrcked! gotta start studyin tho! but sure what harm. u out sat night???im hittin havs bigtime
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Barry Keeshan72 weeks agowe had the snergy effect last night, undefeated.........
twist d arm for thursday seems to be the plan, did u get wet in the golf? anyplans for later serevi -
Barry Keeshan73 weeks ago
i'd never trade you in, no matter wat leary says....
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Donal Long73 weeks ago
ya i felt like i was inda wrong exam hall there for awhile...audit procedures for perishable goods...wat da fock!!i only did 4q's n did woeful in all of them...long summer ahead of us my man,i feel bad going away for a week now...i forgot my ifrs book today aswell,needed that for most of dat fixed asset question id say,gave dat 1 a miss!
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Barry Keeshan73 weeks ago
nice pic, really displays my inner beauty!!!!
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74 weeks ago
Ruairi Geoghegan
you poor little girl scout...are you in Cork or wha like?
if so...RING ME YA IGNORANT PRICK!!! -
Eoin Quinlan74 weeks ago
what about Micky J,he found a cure to his illness. being black is far less likly to kill ya whereas asthma is one of the the worlds biggest killers( thank fuck).
next time you see robby rouge you tell him for me that he's a foxy piece of red dog shit. the rash is grand now, very, very orginal by the way. me las tday in oz now. for a propper update look at a comment i sent to dan. ment to be sent to him privatly but me IT aint the best. -
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Ruairi Geoghegan
i see you requested to be my other half...commiserations. I already had an outstanding request from monsenior dennehy
no hard feelings?..
ah the ol' classic...
Dan O'Keeffe 0 Replystheres room for only one head of curls in this town
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