I texted the organiser, Ken, from the bus: "Daft question, but is there any chance you could lay your hands on a brick?" Security was evident, but not obtrusive: a roadblock about a mile out of Enniskillen; two tooled-up police officers at the bus station; a few more Land Rovers than might be expected on a Saturday afternoon, but no ring of steel, at least not in the town centre.
More will be said about the obtrusive Crown Prince of Egypt in due course.
The important thing is that the lararium be placed somewhere that isn't so remote that it will be ignored or forgotten, or in a place so obtrusive it gets bumped into and knocked about during the course of the day.
THIS is yet another story about a clueless but obtrusive boss — the kind of meddlesome manager you might laugh at in the panels of "Dilbert," the daily comic strip.
First, a ring is more affordable (Ringblingz will retail for about $40 to $60) and less obtrusive than a wristband.
"They didn't take any notice of it whatsoever it wasn't that obtrusive, I am more self conscious about the hole in my throat, than I were of any bloody arm bands.
To get some height without becoming obtrusive, Mr. Fiore and Mr. Reimnitz lowered the bank's roof by about six feet.
Environmentalists were almost as hyperbolic about what they did not like — allowing vertical rather than the more obtrusive horizontal hydrofracking in emerging gas fields upstate — as they were about what they did.
In fact, except on construction sites, and in the bigger markets where they hawk cheap clothes, fake furs and just about everything else, the Chinese are less obtrusive in Vladivostok than are ethnic Koreans in Sakhalin, descendants of the slave labourers once brought there by the Japanese.
Whatever the true figures, it is hard to think of any other city where beggars are as obtrusive.Despite the success of Mr Gonzalez's barbs about Mr Newsom's illiberalism, the Care Not Cash initiative talks of creating 1,000 new housing units, 283 new "slots" for residential drug treatment and 332 for detoxification procedures, plus a group of roving counsellors and nurses.
