The only time I was moved to applaud was about 20 minutes in when Smith took a sudden stab at basic cross-cutting between two different locations.

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Rats that were partly paralyzed from spinal cord injuries regained some ability to swim, cross a ladder and perform other basic tasks after being treated with similar antibodies.

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As an ex Civil Servant of 39 years front line service I have to wonder at the crass stupidity and lack of basic knowledge of people like David Cross of Liverpool.

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So whatever emerges from Southern Cross's crisis must surely be a business whose basic structure is far more robust, where there is no doubt about it's ability to cope in bad times as well as good.

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The software comes with a number of basic transition effects that you can place between different scenes: cross dissolve, fade, push right, scale down.

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The town is peppered with basic houses painted in a kaleidoscope of colours, and the sandy dirt roads that criss-cross Punta del Diablo can still be traversed in about an hour on foot.

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