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The new release contains 25 minutes of unreleased music and fixes a problem found on the RCA release affecting the track " Rescued ", which contained rustling noises during some quieter parts.
Braxton is obsessed with both his rustling problem and his daughter.

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The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
Priestesses and priests interpreted the rustling of the oak leaves to determine the correct actions to be taken. The oracle was shared by Dione and Zeus.
In Zeus's oracle in Dodona, Epirus, the sacred oak was the centerpiece of the precinct, and the priests would divine the pronouncements of the god by interpreting the rustling of the oak's leaves.
Ella Watson was lynched by wealthy ranchers in 1889 for cattle rustling.
Jim Averell, a Johnson County businessman, was lynched in 1889 for cattle rustling, although he owned no cattle.
They justified these excesses on what was public land by using the catch-all allegation of rustling.
Rustling in the local area was likely increasing due to the harsh grazing conditions and the illegal exploits of an organized group of regional rustling outfits was becoming well publicized in the late 1880s.
Parties sympathetic to the invaders painted Nate Champion as the leader of a vast cattle rustling empire and that he was a leading member of the fabled " Red Sash Gang " of outlaws that supposedly included the likes of everyone from Jesse James to the Hole in the Wall Gang.
* 1875 The Farmers ' Alliance was born in Lampasas in reaction against the cattle rustling and illegal land dealings prevalent in the county.
It was an Algonquian word, shah-pah-ka, and it meant " the rustling land " or " the rattling land ," or a place where nothing is heard but the rustling of the wind in the leaves.
He then tried to run a dairy business, but was soon caught watering down the milk, and later worked as a butcher, rustling unbranded cattle from other area ranchers.
By 1856, he was actively rustling horses.
He was particularly successful in the rendering of rustling silk and satin dresses and draperies.
: I called my wife and sister Fanny Young ( sister of Brigham Young ) who was living with me ; it was so clear that you could see to pick up a pin, we looked to the eastern horizon and beheld a white smoke arise towards the heavens, and as it ascended it formed itself into a belt and made a noise like the rustling of a mighty wind, and continued southwest, forming a regular bow dipping in the western horizon.
The sound, done by Kelley Baker, also uses a lot of foley to make more prominent the sound of rustling clothes and loud footsteps, a sound technique that was used more in 1950s-era film.
The town was first established as a police outpost and a branch of the Border Mounted Rifles in 1890 following a spate of gun-running and cattle rustling in the area.
The town was the centre of cattle rustling and gun-running and order was only restored in 1874 by the Cape Mounted Riflemen.
He was then transformed into a water reed, whose rustling in the wind was interpreted as a sigh of lamentation.

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She ordered house servants to cut down on noise by removing their shoes and avoiding clothes rustling.
The large ranches defended against cattle rustling often by forbidding their employees from owning cattle and by lynching ( or threatening to lynch ) suspected rustlers.
Despite political turmoil and cattle rustling, the county population grew to 6, 534 by 1890.
There were no lawmen to speak of during the 1880s in or around that area, and typically cattle rustling and other crimes were dealt with by the ranchers themselves.
For the next year-and-a-half, McCarty survived by rustling, gambling, and taking defensive action.
Gromit attempts to investigate what Preston is doing, but ends up getting framed for the sheep rustling and captured by Preston.
( Nevertheless, his ability to provide goat meat for dinner — an animal that the Hat Creek Cattle Company does not raise — seems to point to the fact that he keeps himself in shape by still practicing some rustling on the side ).
Through the cover of dense, trailside chaparral you might glimpse the California Towhee or the colorful Rufous-sided Towhee, birds who often make their presence known by rustling up leaf litter on the ground.
Most were formed to resist the invasion of Rwandan forces and Rwanda-affiliated Congolese rebel groups, but some may have formed to exploit the war for their own advantage by looting, cattle rustling or banditry.
Almost as easily as the theme appears, it fades away into a restatement of the first theme, this time played by the cor anglais while accompanied by rustling ornamentations of the piano.
There is a triplet-dominated, agitated transition and the same theme is heard, now in D, with triplet accompaniments ; the triplets, not the theme, continue to the end of the exposition, and descend gradually from D down to G major for the repeat, or for the second ending and the beginning of the development, where continuity means the continued rustling of quiet strings, building for a bit by exchanging with more energetic passages, then bringing in faster versions of the dotted rhythms of the main themes.
" Philips excels at a variety of different skills including skeet shooting, cattle rustling ( for which he earned the cowboy moniker " Lips "), didgeridoo playing and the ability to discern truck brands simply by hearing their horns ( which he employed for a number of years in a game known as " Whatcha ' Haulin '?
The large companies began to aggressively appropriate land and control the flow and supply of water in this area ; they justified these excesses on what was public land by using the catch-all allegation of rustling, and vigorously sought to exclude the smaller ranchers from participation in the annual roundup ; apparently agents of the larger ranches killed several alleged rustlers.
In the American Old West, rustling was considered a serious offense, and it did frequently result in lynching by vigilantes.
The outlaw Cowboys in Cochise County were not organized, and their acts of violence, rustling or robbery were usually committed by independent groups of Cowboys.
Latex rubber has significant drawbacks in these applications: it is easily damaged by rough handling and by oils, creams, and ointments ; it does not allow air to ventilate ; it also makes a characteristic rustling noise when moved, which limits its use in situations where discretion is necessary.

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* Early to late 1903: Female outlaw Ann Bassett marries a rancher by the name of Henry Bernard, and shortly thereafter is arrested for rustling, having no known contact with her former lover Parker.

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He had done his rustling openly and boasted about it.
The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.
By 1898, rustling losses had been driven down to the lowest level ever seen in Wyoming.
She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.
Miss Ada had giggled, and she went sweeping and rustling to the couch and sank down.
Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.
Footsteps, the movement of hand props ( e. g., a tea cup and saucer ), and the rustling of cloth are common foley units.
Stealing or killing domestic animals is considered to be theft (" cattle rustling "), not poaching.
Guinea pigs that become familiar with their owner will whistle on the owner's approach ; they will also learn to whistle in response to the rustling of plastic bags or the opening of refrigerator doors, where their food is most commonly stored.
Behan tended to ignore the Earp's complaints about the McLaury's and Clanton's horse thieving and cattle rustling.
Most Nilotes practice pastoralism, and many are also known for a tradition of cattle rustling.
The WSGA also employed an agency of detectives to investigate cattle rustling against its members.

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