Conference quark::human_relations-v1

    I got one of my best fun fantasies  three years ago when my husband
    took me to New York City for the weekend of our fifth wedding
    anniversary. We stayed at a suite in the Parker Meridien, had champagne
    and pheasant under glass at Maurice without even thinking about the
    bill, took a carriage around town . . . whew! 
    
    Growing up in Montana, which was not all that prosperous to begin
    with and was economically depressed to boot, a weekend like this
    in New York City seemed like the ultimate in glamor. And it lived
    up to my expectations.  I can hardly wait to do it again!
    
    --bonnie

    

    Travelling in a space ship to visit other worlds, preferably
    inhabited but also as a colonist.
    
    Bonnie J

    
    I'd like to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    
    I can't read music.
    I can't carry a tune.
    I can't play an instrument.
    
    But I'd like to do it, anyway.
    
    DFW

    
    	Do I dare? 
    
    		...no way!
    
    	Joe Jas
    

    I'd like to have a huge Victorian style house on the ocean (I'm
    not sure where.  I'd have to think about that.)  The house would
    be filled with antiques and collectibles.  Re .0, I also *love*
    antique jewelry.
    
    I would have around 100 cats in residence at all times.
    
    I would take a lot of trips and eventually travel almost all over
    the world (except not Central America, the middle east, or Northern
    Ireland, or South Africa, and probably not the Eastern European
    countries either).  I wouldn't want to travel in luxury, but not
    hitchhiking with a backpack either.  Just average tourist class
    stuff I guess.
    
    I would earn my living by selling my oil paintings for enormous
    sums all over the world.
    
    My SO would earn his living by being a lead guitarist in a world
    famous rock band, writing and recording his own songs.
    
    Lorna
    

    The hot-air ballooning fantasy is one of mine, too, but I'm afraid
    of heights.
    
    My real fantasy -- to be a professional ballet dancer, but with
    a small regional company.  Or to write best-selling dectective novels.

    be the funniest female to ever hit broadway
    
    be a famous singer
    
    dance "Swan Lake" for the NY City Ballet
    
    

    Before I have the chance to read and be influenced, I really want
    to think about this one for a minute.
    
    I always thought I wanted....
    
    But, now I am not quite sure.  To get right to the point, I guess
    the ideal fantasy would be for my children to live a happy and
    fullfilling life that not only provided love and experience, but
    the opportunity to see all, and the desire to participate and
    influence.  
    
    My children are my life right now - and always will be.  If I could
    see them understand the REASON for, instead of WHAT just happened,
    then, I would feel like the greatest mother in the world.  
    
    I only hope that all other parents that have this fantasy/desire/dream
    are able to get the comfort that this (I suspect) provides!
    
    Anyone out there going to cheer us on? 
                                          

    
    
    I'm living it...
    
    8^)
    

    TO HIKE THE RED HILLS OF MARS
    

    
    
    
    To be a world famous ballerina (seems to be alot of this one going
    around).
    
    Vicki

    re .3 When Mr. Wall conducts, I'd like to do a song-and-dance
    routine.  
    
    Dana_who_can't_sing_or_dance_worth_a_hoot

    
    
    	To have a body as well toned as Arnold "Conan, Commando,Terminator"
    Schwakjdfadskjfasdkfjsd;lkfegger... (Though without all his bulk..)
    
    	Even just a flat, toned tummy would do me fine.. I hate situps
    though...
    
    							mike

    I really like the way things are going right now and this fantasy 
    has turned out very interesting so far.  I've fantasized about a
    LOT of things...being famous by singing, dancing, acting, or
    leading a revolution...or travelling in spaceships, seeing other
    planets, or knowing how to fly wherever I want.  But when it comes 
    right down to it, I'm really enjoying where I am and what I'm doing;
    what an adventure!  Perhaps I will have other opportunities to 
    experience all of these things at one time or another.  Keep on 
    dreamin'!
    
    Jerri

    "Happy are those who dream dreams, and are willing to pay the price
    to make them come true."  --credited to somebody

    Vacation on an island for a week and be totally alone.
    
    Not an outward bound type thing though.  I would want the boat to
    bring me, plus lots of food, books, I would want a generator, a television
    with a vcr, wine.  But no communication even for an emergency.
                  
    I want to experience the pleasure and fear of being alone!
    

    I would like to see the following removed from the earth in a blinding
    flash of light:
    
    	malls
    	Burger King & McDonald's
    	people who tailgate
    	white supremacy groups
    	pornography
    	TV evangelists
    	organized crime
    	sexually-oriented advertisement
    	Liza Minelli
    

    To replace Julia Child on TV. 
    To have an ultra modern house with a shiny white laminated kitchen
    with every possible convience.
    To have a loving SO.

    My fantasy is my frustration:  If only people could *understand*
    what they're *doing*!!!  Like making people understand, and change,
    their ways when they're destroying the earth.  My world-scale
    fantasy is that things are clean and new again - that we have the
    purity we started with along with the knowledge we have now, plus
    the urge to keep the world pure.  If people could only find a way
    to be rich and prosperous and comfortable without it being at the
    expense of the world.
    
    My personal fantasy, currently, is to win the Ms. America body-
    building contest, and I'm working on that.  Next year I plan to
    enter the regional contest.
    
    --Louise

	My fantasy is to conduct the BSO in the performance of
	Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. At the end I bow to a highly
	appreciative audience given roaring applauses and bravos.
	As I leave Symphony Hall I am warmly greeted with a crushing
	hug by Sophia who says, "Come my darling in my Ferrari to my
	Villa the champagne waits".

    
    	I like to:
    
    	Be a guest on the Carson show, or maybe Letterman
                  
    	Be a five time JEPARDY champion
    
    	Come up with the next tacky fad (pet rock, ect) and retire hoplessly
    rich, sipping martinis on my 60' yacht.
    

    
    
    
    To win Wimbledon.....or Megabucks.
    

    
    My ultimate fantasy:
    
    	Sail in my yacht to a place where it doesn't snow on April 28th
    
    -x

    I think one of my all-time favorite fantasies is to have a home on a
    multi-acre heavily-wooded area, with a clearing for gardening, and
    perhaps a stream or lake nearby.  The house would be of wood and mostly
    natural materials, blending with the surroundings.  The home would have
    a good kitchen, filled with the scent of herbs and good food, a room
    in the basement for home-canned goods, a good workshop for repairs and
    projects, comfortable bedrooms for family and guests, and a large porch
    or balcony with a view.  To round it off, a spouse, several children,
    and a couple of large dogs (golden labs would be fine, thanks). 
    
    Kak 

    I guess I always wanted to be a Singer/Songwriter when I was younger...
    you know "express my feelings and experiences of life and all that",
    but I must be one of the few Welshmen with a really lousy singing
    voice ...and songs always sounded like someone elses.
    
    So I took up Computers...and the rest is history (or fable !)
                                                                
    oh well such is life.
    
    guy.
    
    

I've resisted putting any fantasies in here, but...

I guess that you could say that one of my fantasies is to find a tall Irish
woman with long black hair who enjoys singing, dancing, playing music, Science
Fiction, 'good for you' food, history, new ideas, lots of romance and love
making, Christian spirituality, and anything else that sounds like fun at the
moment... 

How odd... I never thought I had an image of a "perfect woman" engraved in my
brain... :-)

Jim.

    Wow, Dave, that sounds pretty wonderful!  Can I be the spouse?
    I have 1 dog and 1 child as down payment!
    
    
                               Deb
    
    P.S.  Is it a faux pas to reply to someone else's fantasy??
    
    

    My fantasy??
    
    I've had the same one since I was a child...to have the ability
    to change into anything <animal, vegetable, or mineral> at will
    for any length of time I desire, and the strength of character not
    to abuse the power.
                            -sunny-

    That's okay, Deb; I was thinking of doing the same thing.  
    
    Well, Dave, there's two of us who want to join you (and I can even
    provide the cook!)
    
    Oh, we also need horses.
                                       Carol

    
    
    And chickens for fresh eggs!  And a cow for fresh milk!
    Hey, Dave, this is getting more and more fantastic!!
    
                           Deb
    
    I'll do the gardening if you cook, Carol
    
    
    

    To feel my voice resounding throughout my body and a huge, empty
    concert hall, singing ANYthing I want...
    
    Lee

    		To have a full-time, live-in housekeeper.
                

      To learn the truth about Iran-contra  dealings.
    
      To have a time machine to go back to 1 A.D. And come
    back with the real story not just a book (bible) to go by.
    And before the flames start not I don't believe in the book.
    
     Did Marilyn do herself in or what.
    
                   REK
    These are the things I would like to find out!

RE: .29 Dave, .31 me, .32 Deb, .34 Carol, .35 Deb

Sounds like fun, :-) let's do it!

Jim has_more_then_one_fantasy

    
    
    Gee, Jim, I was thinking about this and I think we have
    room for a maid in this arrangement!  How are your house-
    keeping skills?  Carol is bringing the cook, I'll tend the
    garden and the critters, I'm sure we can find SOMETHING to
    occupy Kak (he's a pretty mean cook in his own right!)
    
    We may have something here!
               
                    Deb
    
    

    RE.29
    
    KAK, I AGREE SOUNDS GREAT............
    CAN I BRING MY DALMATION PUPPY TOO?
    KAM
    

    re.29
    I think if we have a gardener and a cook and a critter keeper.....
    we should have someone to provide paintings for the walls, sculptures
    for the gardens and flowers arranged for every room!!!!!!
    
    I'll do that...................
    
    kam
    

    Re:  Last several
    
    Perhaps all of you should start a new note...called COMMUNAL LIVING.
    
    :^)
    
    Jerri

RE: .43

There is such a note in HYDRA::HOLISTIC 28.* :-)

RE: Deb

I'll be glad to be housekeeper, as long as "cook" includes some dishwashing as
well.  I want some time for my two darling sons, and other myriad interests
such as brewing mead...

Jim. :-) 

    
    
    I would like to be in a financial position to quit work and
    have some time to develop my esoteric interests/abilities.  These
    would be my life's work.  I could also have time to experiment
    with cooking, learn patchwork quilting and weaving, spend more
    time creating oil paintings, and design and plant an incredible
    flower and herb garden.  I would also like to spend more time with
    my cat-friends and also raise a golden retriever.
    
    What I like about these fantasies are that with some extra work
    and discipline, they could ALL come true!
    
    Carole
    

    Give Ronbo Reagan a Rambo outfit and send him into action with the
    Contras. Then perhaps he won't be so willing to call himself a Contra.
    
    /cale

    To make a recording with Stevie Wonder and if possible, be discovered
    and asked to star on Broadway in A Chorus Line (if I were only taller).
    
    But, more down to earth: to live on a 60' Cruisers or Trojan Yacht
    and invent something that will make me rich for life.  
    
    Cathy

    for life to be simpler
    
    for love to be everywhere
    
    to be one with the world
    and the community
    
    to not have to worry
    
    "the dream" that is presented in medieval fantasy... life in abundance,
    contact with nature, minimal complexity, and a value placed on fantasy
    ... maybe that is why I am in the SCA
    
    (BTW: communal living is fun with the right people!... now where
    do you get the "right people?")
    
    dana

    
     - the gift of tongues
    
     - the ability to control energy at will (!)
    
     - the strength of mind and purity of heart to use the above only
    for good.
    
    Dave K

    Not sure what I've started with .29, but let's try another.  :-)

    Another fantasy is to be a world-famous photographer, picking and
    choosing assignments, traveling the world and capturing it's beauty for
    others to see.  Perhaps the breathtaking vista from a mountain top, or
    a European castle nestled in a lush, green mountain valley.  A
    picturesque village in the Swiss Alps, or the quiet beauty of a desert
    sandscape.  Surfers battling giant waves in Hawaii, or the infinitely
    varied and hauntingly beautiful reef off Australia, teeming with
    underwater plant and animal life.  From the quiet majesty of an
    underwater wreck in the Carribean to the beauty of the scarcely clad
    inhabitants of the island of Ibiza.  Or just perhaps...if I'm really
    good...That special look of love in the eyes of a newlywed couple, who
    have just for a moment forgotten everyone else and see only each other. 

    Kak
    
    P.S.
    Perhaps I can put some of those in the Den at .29.  ;-)

    Re: .50
    
    Dana, I think you are there...just say it is so!  :^)
    
    "Everywhere, love is all around..."

    Jerri

    What's my fantasy? My one driving true love affair has been with
    Lady Music for the last 23 of 33 years of life. I have sung in rock
    bands, acapella choirs, rock opera formats, babershop quartets, etc....
    
    My fantasy is to sing the song Gesthemane from the rock opera Jesus
    Christ Superstar, fully back by the London Philharmonic and the 
    Moody Blues as the core rock band. To complete this fantasy, I wish 
    with all my "self" that all this could come together at the 7'th
    plane of reality in order that I may personally sing this one song
    for that Force in the universe man, as a race, has named GOD.

    Wow, Len, when do the tickets go on sale?  JCS is one of my
    all time favorite musicals-right up there with Camelot..and
    the Moody Blues are a wonderful choice for backup!
    
    Well, I see I'm so busy joining others in their fantasies that
    I have no time to plan my own...other than a recurring dream
    that I have enough time, enough money, enough energy....
    
    

    My fantasy is to be a secret agent of James Bond proportion.
    
    Cara

    Gee, Cara, I had always pictured you as the 'Ramboette' type!
    
                       DK
    
    

    re: Kak, Carol, et al.
    
    I volunteer to help eat the food all those cooks will be making!

    Jerry,
    
    You're all heart.
    
             Carol

    Carol,
    
    More succinctly put - all tummy!  ;-)
    
    Kak

    Kak, you're one to be talking!  8-)

    
    I'd like to take a ride in Mr. Peabody's Wayback machine.....or
    
    A night out bowling with Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, with
    a few Brontosaurus burgers afterward, and a slice of Wilma's 
    Gravelberry pie.....mmmmmm

    RE: .-1
    
    	HA HA!! That sounds like a good one....
    
    	I'd like to be a famous actress, in a movie like "Gone with
    	the Wind"....and I aint even Southern!
    
    

    	Who ever said "money doesn't buy happiness"?
    I know that what I would like is a lot of money, tonnes of money,
    mountains of money, and than I would decide what I would like to
    do with it. Probably buy a few properties where I could enjoy life
    with my friends and family, a few boats to sail and cruise around
    the seas, probably just really enjoy life with my friends and family.
    Let me not for get an airplane to travel, and a few other things
    of life's necessities.
    I can enjoy life very well with the money I now have, and I manage
    to do most of the things I really want to do, but I know I wouldn't
    spit on a few billion dollars (tax free).
    Do be reassured, my fantasies do go a little deaper than money,
    but I think that globaly it fits well. With tonnes of money, I could
    make all my other fantasies come true.

    
I could go into detail about my fantasies.  I have a couple of 
"old standards" which are dragged out and brought back to life every 
so often -- one revolves around moving to Adelaide, Australia, and 
the other revolves around taking a year to live the simple life as
a hotel desk clerk (or some such) for a meagre wage, plus room and 
board, on the island of Barbados.  These are the most detailed.  I 
have another, which has net yet been fully-fleshed-out, about owning 
a bookstore or other small business and living in a small community 
(like New Shoreham, on Block Island, Rhode Island), far away from 
fast food joints, discount department stores, new furniture, snappy 
cars, career ambitions and corporate ladders.
    
I'd like tons of money though.  Money doesn't buy happiness, it's 
true, but I'd rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.
    
CQ

    re .66  "Whoever said money can't buy happiness doesn't
    know where to shop."  Mrs. Thurston Howell III
    
    :-)

    Or, as Claire Booth Luce said, "Money can't buy happiness, but it can
    make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable." 
    
    	Jon

    I couldn't resist this one!!
    
    My fantasy's are:
    
    1. To be more outgoing when meeting new people.  It takes me a while
       to overcome the 'fear'.  Sometimes it's too late and I miss a
       lot of great opportunities.
    
    2. Once I can resolve number 1. I move to my next fantasy and that
       is being a stage actress, no one famous, my husband and mother
       say I have ALL the qualitites required.
    
    3. To be able to afford a house.  I don't want to buy a house and
       struggle to pay for it the rest of my life. I want to be able
       to buy it, fix it up the way I want it, have the grounds cared
       for (by someone, unlike me, who won't kill every green thing)
    
    4. To have more time with my daughter and to get rid of the fear
       that I'm making mistakes in raising her. ( 'oh, why did I handle
       that this way...now she'll be scarred for life!!')  I guess just
       to be more comfortable with her and myself.
    
    I guess that's it.  These are not in any particular order.  I'd
    be happy with accomplishing one or two. 

    
    	1)	To be able to sing some spine-tingling song with a perfect
    		baritone voice.  Something difficult with a wide range
    		of notes like The Impossible Dream or the Christmas
    		carol Oh Holy Night.  To have that performance recognized
    		by a roaring standing ovation, and tears...
    
    	2)	To be able to see next week's Wall Street Journal today.
    		Just once...
    
    	Joe Oppelt

    
  
    To turn invisible whenever the mood moves me.
    
    The above is a perfectly innocent statement.
    
    Does anyone have Kathleen Turner's address?
    
    Sherm_who_also_would_like_the_address_to_the_U.S._Mint
    
    
    
    

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1. Large Hot Tub
2. Ann Wilson [of Heart]
3. 1&2 in the same place

oh, yeah, Dan [the friend] insists "WITH ME!"

    I've always thought it would be fun to take a famous person from
    the past (George Washington, Elizabeth I, Madam Currie, Peter the
    Great - who I'm currently reading about, etc.) and transport them
    to the present.  I'd then take them on a tour of the 20th century
    and show them cars, airplanes, my microwave oven, computers, the
    Kennedy Space Center, etc.  Why, just my kitchen would probably
    be enough to blow their mind!
    
    Discussing social issues and customs would be fun too.
    
    Sally
    

    WOW .73 .... Now that's what I call a fantasy!
    
    			;-)
    
    Samurai Writer

    To be able to move my "perfect key to sing in" from B flat to 
    E flat above middle C.
    
    Samurai Writer

One of my fantasies was played out a little during the movie "Back to the 
Future".

I would like to take my car [a 1985 Chrysler Laser XT turbo w/electronic 
everything] and a van back 30-100 years [I'm never quite sure how far back 
to go].

In the van, I would pack all the electronics gear I have.  This includes 
computers, compact discs, stereo gear, 27" COLOR tv, videotapes, etc.  If 
possible, I would LOOOOVE one of those Kloss wall-projection systems.

I would ride around the towns [in a car the likes of which the locals would 
never have dreamed of] advertising a new technology showcase.

I would then bring people into a house [how I get it is still up in the 
air] or theater of some sort.  I would demonstrate digital music 
[Stravinsky, Holst, something vaguely familiar] and run through the ages 
right up to current rock and roll.  The concept of a cd would be soooo 
foreign, the look on their faces would be priceless.

Then, the coup-d'etat.  The lights go down, the curtains part and a 
documentary [from around 1978] on science fiction movies and tv series 
would introduce the people to the concept of space travel and the like.  
After a segue, I would start the main attraction - Star Wars.

I would love to see the look on people's faces as they look at something 
unimaginable.  Then to follow it up [in time] with The Empire Strikes Back 
and Return of the Jedi.  Maybe show some of the best adventure flicks, some 
Bond movies, that kind of thing.

What I would also hope to do is generate some wonder in some stoic people.  
try to show them the promise of the future.  Granted a lot of people have 
that now, but there are a lot of others who are pessimistic.

Maybe my real fantasy is to have someone like me from 100 years from now 
travel back and tell me what's coming, just as I'd like to do to our 
historical relatives.

    re .77
    
    The least you could do is take back a real car.  :-)
    
    - M

    Re: .77
    
    You'd probably get burned at the stake as an agent of the devil
    if you tried something like this.  Also, your status would
    drop instantly when you admitted that you personally could neither
    explain how the things worked nor build a new one.
    
    There have been many science fiction stories on this theme.  One
    of my favorites involves a physicist who decided to take a pocket
    calculator back to Isaac Newton.
    
    					Steve

re .79

That's why I would only go back AT MOST 100 years.  I'd like to miss the 
witch-trials.

And I *can* explain how all this works.  After all, I'm an engineer :-)

    A fantastical fantasy -
    
        I'd like to be able to fling as described in the McGill Feigan
    novels by Kevin O'Donnell.  Flinging is the ability to teleport
    yourself and/or a limited amount of extras (people, luggage, etc...)
    from where you are to any place you've been before and can picture
    in your mind ar anywhere you can currently see.
    
    A realistic fantasy -
    
        I'd like to learn to hang glide and then do it well enough to
    to glide from Glacier Point in Yosemite.  Glacier Point gives you
    an almost immediate 3000 foot altitude over the valley.  People
    have glided from there and I believe they still do.
    
    ASP

    My ultimate fatansy would be to be stranded on a Island or another
    planet, with a population of Gorgeous women. Or, be a love slave.
    :-) :-)
    
    -BIG H
    

    i have this fantasy, recently....i hope someday that it becomes
    reality...
    
    i just got a divorce..and my fantasy is that my daughter (age 17)
    will get over being angry with me...and that my *ex* will leave
    me alone and get out of my life altogether.
    
    sigh.....maybe some day...
    
    tony
    

    Tony,
    
    I had that one too.  I had this fantasy that my ex would just
    sort of d r i f t off the face of the earth.
    
    nanci

    
    re: .84
    Mine did!
    I hope there's no police investigation....:-)
    

    re .85
    How'd you do it????  I want details!!! (;-)

    
    well, i was very nice to her. i kept trying to be her friend
    and to encourage her in her life. i told her she could come
    and visit the kids when ever she wanted as long as i had a
    few days notice. when she acted negatively and filled the
    kids heads with b.s. i rationaly (unlike my rantings in notes)
    tried to see the light and stop the negative stuff.....
    
    so she couldn't take all of that stuff and just disappeared.
    
    such is life
    rik
    

    Mine 'ex' did his disappearing act years ago...  No regrets here.
    8*)
    
    My fantasy is to get out of *survival* mode and...
         get into *living* mode.  Can't wait for the opportunity.
    Things are improving gradually, but I look forward to the day when
    I can *step into* the 'light at the end of the tunnel'.  
    
    I'll know it when I see it...
                     
    
    Mary Beth

    
    my REAL fantasy....
    
    just once before i die...
    
    1 night live at the centrum.....
   

    
    
              "But Boss, what about MY fantasy?"
    
                                  - Tattoo, Fantasy Island

    re: last few
    Mine disappeared too. One morning she said I'll come see you in
    the morning and I dident see her again for 3 years. When I did
    see her she hadent changed a bit she still had a bad attitude.
    
    -j
    

    
    Mine?  
    
    
    
    A new moderator.
    
    

    
    -1
    
    I know what ya mean!
    

When I grow up....I want...

         To never *inadvertantly* take or give offense.
         To never *purposefully* inflict or invite pain.
         To never *casually* say hello or goodbye.

I fear, I may never grow up...but I think about it.

Melinda         

I want to swim with a dolphin. And I just found out about a place in the
Bahamas that actually lets you do just that. I'm going.

Jenna

    
    
    Re -1
    
    
      You don't have to go to the Bahamas to swim with a Dolphin.  You
    can do that in Florida.  I recall reading an article in the Travel
    section of the Boston Globe about a month ago where you could swim
    with dolphins in Florida.  I don't recall the specific locations
    though.  
    
      As a side note, while I was out on a sunset dinner cruise off
    the coast of Maui (heaven on earth!) a group of Dolphins swam along
    side of our boat for some time.  It was really neat having all these
    Dolphins dart in and out of the water.  They looked so peaceful
    and joyful that I wanted to jump in and swim with them.
    
    Steve
    

    One of my daughters visited a friend in Hilton Head a year ago,
    and the highlight of her visit was jumping off the boat and
    swimming with *several* dolphins!
    
    I'm jealous!!!!
    
    But *I* haven't got any friends at Hilton Head ;-(
    
    	Pennie

    
    	I doubt I could ever keep up with the dolpins, by just swimming.
     BUT I have sailed with a few in Fla. (marco island) My budy was so
     scared when he first saw the dorsal fin come up next to his foot. I
     almost died laphing when he almost climed the mast. They realy love 
     the wake breaking of the side of the boat. I had a blast down there.
    
     My fantasy is going to come true, Aug. 26th I get married and go back
     to Marco Island for my H-moon, three weeks of ....... and ...... and..
     I'll let you fill in the blanks, but I won't be playing with dolphins.
    
    
     My future fantasy is a big log cabin, a big newfound (dog), a big truck
     and a little wife all located on a nice clean lake with a lot of fish.
    
                             That's not to much too ask !!!,??
                                           __John_Irvine__