text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Family is very important for me!! Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Family is very important for me!! Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Family View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message usaraJoined: 05 Jun 2006Posts: 4 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject: Family is very important for me!! Hello!!everyone!! My name is Usara. I am from Japan. I have five families. What do you have your family? I love my family!! I wish my families are very happy. Back to top fiiJoined: 25 Sep 2006Posts: 13 Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: Helloween Today is Helloween What did you do? I love my family There are 4 members in my family. I live in Tokyo now. So, I miss my family. I always call with my mom... Back to top jarodlovelyJoined: 15 Nov 2006Posts: 62 Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:01 pm Post subject: Todya is Thanksgiving...Thanks to my families for all the happiness they provide me. _________________Wanna learn Chinese with me? Find me on http://www.echineseonline.com/j.do?sid=Lucy&type=1&personal=1 Back to top k.tyrosJoined: 13 Feb 2007Posts: 13Location: SAN JOSE COSTA RICA Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject: hello!I am from Costa Rica!nice to meet people from japan!! I love my family, we are always together and I have a son, that is little and I love him so much! Back to top FrancisestJoined: 04 Dec 2006Posts: 64Location: Costa Rica Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Family is very important for me!! Hi my name is Yadira from Costa Rica I have to families one in my country and another in Spain My favorite thing is to eat in family and be setting talking about everything Back to top BusongMSJoined: 20 Oct 2008Posts: 3Location: Iksan, South Korea Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: Hi everyone. My name is HanEomJun There are 4 people in my family I love my family._________________Busong Middle School student (Grade 1 and 2) Back to top PhoebeWJoined: 30 Mar 2009Posts: 6 Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:02 am Post subject: Now i am wondering which is more important, family or work? Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Family All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - INC 46211805 Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in INC 46211805 Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Hobbies View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ChirapaJoined: 08 Jan 2004Posts: 2 Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:36 am Post subject: INC 46211805 I have many hobbies such as planting the flower, collecting magazines, listening pop song. But my favorite hobby is seeing the movie. I like to go to the cinema more than seeing at home by renting VCD or DVD because the cinema has better surrounding. It doesn't have annoying noises that always interrupt me when I see the movie at home. By personally, I like to see the movie that is about the adventure and comedy such as Harry Porter, The Lord of the Ring, The Haunted Mansion. Especially The Lord of the Ring, I saw this movie for 3 times. I fascinate in Legolus's character. He looks kind, gentle and wise. This movie teaches me the sacrifice and belief. How about you? What is your hobby? Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Hobbies All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group

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|It's time for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards! This year the event is hosted by non other than Miley Cyrus at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. I'm sure we will see quite an interesting show. These are the beginnings of Red Carpet images, with more coming. I'm on west coast time, so I don't get to see them for a couple of hours, while all of the east coast people are watching it live now! I can't wait. I will continue to update the images as I get them. I have cropped them for my fellow Pinterest friends! Enjoy! (Getty / Christopher Polk)
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Allow me to start with a list of other valuable digital assets:
- bookmarks
- documents (letters, spreadsheets ...)
- files (Project related file like source code)
- journal (contact history, phone calls ...)
- notes (draft docs or wiki pages)
- web sites (cached and indexed)
Even more relevant acronyms: CalDAV, WebDAV and Unified Messaging.
And most important: The single information does not matter, the relation is the key to success. I'm sure, ZCS would be of much greater and more universal use if it would avoid the digital divide.
I'm no Java guru, but I'm considering to contribute to ZCS.
- Gert
BTW: For a good example of the power of an integration solution see trac, an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects.


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Last night I picked up a copy of Gust's newly-released Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel for the PlayStation 3, slipped it into my console, and watched the introductory movie five times in a row.
We're in the midst of a Japanese role-playing game drought. With a strong emphasis being put on developing games for the Western audience and a stable of core Japanese RPG developers still getting their feet wet on the PlayStation 3 (while avoiding the Xbox 360 completely), we've only seen a slow trickle of quirky JRPG goodness seeping out of Japan in recent months.
Most of what we've been getting comes from NIS America, the North American branch of Japanese publisher Nippon Ichi Software. The publisher and its partners in crime - Idea Factory, Gust, Compile Heart, and the like - have slowly began creating PlayStation 3 games, but the quality so far of titles like Hyperdimension Neptunia, Last Rebellion, and Trinity Universe has been pretty abysmal.
Will the third entry in the Ar Tonelico series and it's first appearance on the PlayStation 3 buck the trend? I've not played enough to say for sure, but this introduction, with its sweeping music and stunning visuals, is definitely a good start.


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TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed slightly lower Monday amid a dearth of market-moving data and mixed commodity prices.
The loonie was down 0.01 a cent to 90.79 cents US.
It's a light week for economic data.
The primary economic news for the week comes out Wednesday when Statistics Canada is expected to report that retail sales in February rose 0.4 per cent from January, when sales posted a big 1.3 per cent bounce from the poor performance registered in December because of severe ice storms.
Economists expect a good chunk of the gain will be driven by higher gasoline prices.
The big number for the U.S. is March durable goods data coming out on Thursday. Economists looked for goods orders to have risen by 1.9 per cent following a 2.2 per cent gain in February. Excluding the volatile transportation segment, orders are expected to have risen by 0.5 per cent.
On the commodity markets, May crude in New York gained seven cents to US$104.37 a barrel.
May copper was unchanged at US$3.04 a pound while June gold bullion fell $5.40 to US$1,288.50 an ounce.
The loonie declined 0.28 of a cent last week as the Bank of Canada said that it was leaving its key rate at one per cent, where it's been since September 2010. The bank also lowered its forecast for first-quarter growth this year to 1.5 per cent from 2.5 per cent, but attributed the downgrade mostly to temporary impacts of a unusually severe winter.
At the same time, analysts said that higher than expected inflation data that came out later in the week likely shifted expectations back toward a firmly neutral bias by the Bank of Canada.


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In 1955 the state signed into law the Mitchell Lama program, a limited profit program for real estate developers. This was at a time when government had to encourage development, and real estate in the city was not the treasure trove it is today.
The program allowed owners to rent units for slightly above fair market rates to people within a certain income bracket. If a family's income went up, they could stay in the program and pay an added fee. It worked, and it was the biggest supportive housing program in the country, encompassing 269 developments.
After a period of years, the contracts ran out and the owners could do as they wished with the properties. As New York rebounded, there was not an incentive to stay with a program that limits profits when units and buildings can be sold for so much money.
Academics have sought ideas as to how to introduce a similar program, given that so many people are in low-income brackets. Some want an aggressive program that simply limits or caps rent. Some groups are more pragmatic, however, and realize that some profit is necessary in order for developers to even consider it.
There might be a way to encourage developers to sign on to a 10 or 20-year contract that keeps rents at realistic levels if government wants to get creative. What developers want more than anything is to sell buildings and units at the best price possible. Solutions that incorporate the free market are usually the best.
If developers were given a locked-in, guaranteed, low capital gains tax when they sold their property after signing on to limited profit housing, it might be enough to encourage them to participate. This way, they would make up for a lot of revenue they did not get when they agreed to keep rents limited.
It would be a way to lower taxes through incentives. And most of all, it could open up the possibility of middle to low-middle income people renting in the city and not being overburdened. Too many New Yorkers already pay at least one-third of their income in rent, which means they have less to spend in other segments of the economy.
This may require cooperation from federal and state government, but it would make sense for government to be open to the possibilities. All real estate developers have to do is bet that their property value will go up in New York City, and that is a pretty good bet.
Good For The Rams
It's easy to write about what a feel-good story the St. Louis Rams drafting openly gay defensive end Michael Sam has become.
Strictly by the numbers, Sam is something of a risky pick in the first few rounds. While he was defensive player of the year in the SEC, which is a very tough conference, he is still somewhat small and his stats in the combine were not stellar.
But he was not a risky pick at the latter end of the draft, and the Rams were smart to pick him. It means that he gets to stay in Missouri, where he can hold on to his "favorite son" status. He also joins an already tough defense.
The concerns about an openly gay player in a locker room will quickly melt away. The Rams also get a player that has something to prove, because being picked that late in the draft will energize Sam. On all facets of social media, the Rams fanbase is happy with the team's ownership, which is not always easy to achieve.
Just ask the Wilpons.


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Im 75% the way their!
Ive been through all all; recovery wise! Ive come from nothing! 20 years of it! Im very very lucky person! Very very lucky!
The next step is to manifest a real economic change! Im simply asking God and manifesting a way to make more money per month! And stick to it until change; real change occurs! And learn to do something I actually like! Not something with such resistance that I regret and resent getting up in the morning!
And to secure my ability to date! Meaning, approach and ask out! Im very shy, but very confident in my ability to know I attract women! And I know when many women are showing signs of interest!
Ive talked to therapists about dating! Ive complained about past women! The therapist simply told me " welcome to the human race"! I told her what I had done! She told me it was normal for what I thought love was! Meaning; Ive hurt women in the past because I reacted to love in a strange weird way because thats what was taught me!
I told her what she had done! The therapist told me that this is how people react! No one is stainless or perfect! People are people creatures!
I wanted better! My therapist told me to go to mars; hahahahahahah!
I got the point! Just go date and get experience!
I have no problem of selection of women to date! Im a guy they think looks like a better version of Bruce Willis! And Ive been told this 1 trillion million God zillion billion illion times! And Ive had all walks of women like me! All good looking to super hot model, mS America good looking! Seems, the better looking they are; they will come up to me and tell me what they think! Ive had women measure me to see if I fit! They wanted to replace their x husbands!
Ive had women want sex relationships; they were training me! Took a few months! But I wasn't into what they wanted; a bit to rough for me!
Ive had women want a baby from me! They simply wanted me to give them a baby!
Ive had several women want sex who were married! I guess they thought it was OK; not OK for me!
When in a room with women; I attract all of them! Its changing now because of my age!
Im 53 years old! And it still shocks me! You would think the really young women would pass! But they don't! It's not like it used to be! When I was in my late 40's I could have gotten half the town pregnant! Crazy!
Ive had several women like me from a distance; when they get close, Im freaked and panicked from PTSD! they now look at me as a wierdo they don't want anywhere near me! so; their it is! it can change within a second; a women's opinion of me if I respond to her in correctly; if Im acting needy or scared or un confident! and its happened many many times; so many times, that I did not bother getting close to women until I could get some of this fixed! and its getting fixed slowly!
I could never get close to anyone until now! So. its strange to say that I attract all of these women! but I legitimately do attract all of these women or have! its just to bad I could not do anything about it! its a strange story! a real one!
I have no problem walking up to the most stuck up hot women in the Universe! no problem! but I have a problem interacting with any of them; or anyone! and thats the problem! its not about women! its about human beings! its about trauma and dissociative disorder! it horribly effected my ability to get physically close to anyone! and it stopped all possible relationships until it could get better!
And I worried about my lack of experience! Who do I date? Meaning, they are all sexy women from a mans point of view! Ive got massive choices! You name the age! 22 on up! But are they the right women? I don't know! I like all women Im attracted to; they can be 70 years old or 20! and I Ive attracted them from 18 to 80!
Some women want children! They want to turn into baby mama's! Ive had several really hot young good looking women hit on me and wait! And later hook up with some tough thug; they ended up having his kids within months! And they break up! And he's the new father! baby Mama's
So, in all reality; Im one of those guys that can have women! But Ive really not been able to have any of them! Its horrible! But it's finally changing!
Ive hurt allot of women that got close to me! They wanted me! I could not respond completely! And backed out! Most understand my dissociative condition is responsible!
Many of these women that wanted me; would scream at me when with their new boyfriends! they were really really mad! I guess they wanted me first! and ended up with the other guy because I didn't hit on them fast enough!
All I have to do is walk up and smile at a women and its on! Or respond to her looking at me! And its on!
" Your cute' " phone number please"! Its as easy as picking apples out of a tree! Looks? I can get anyone! It doesn't matter! And I question this all the time; but still; I get them interested!
But it does matter! The problem is my lack of experience!
Im like 2 people; one that attracts women, and one thats 10 years old and traumatized!
Now, things are getting better! I have to go out! Date!
It's not been that long since I was practicing asking people out for coffee! Now its much easier!
So, now Ive got people calling me, women I interact with and joke around with! It's slowly getting easier!
The next big step of fear is asking people out that are hot! Ive rarely done it yet; Ive been so scared! Not scared at all of rejected! Not attraction rejection; but worse; economic rejection; caste system rejection!
! I had a few girlfriends last year, and stopped when the PTSD worlds were calling to me and taking my attention!
I was terribly afraid that being attracted to me was not enough! When they found out my in recovery and messed up; its over! Im not what they wanted or were looking for; thats been the huge fear! Having a women not be attracted to my physically is Ok! it hurts a little! but not really, because Ive had other women attracted to me or; who cares! I can handle it! its the other that really is not my fault! its not my fault I ended up in the economic mess Im in! Im lucky to be alive! Will the hot women Im talking to understand! and if no t! what then! I guess will have to learn to handle it!
Im very much like a 16 year old; In fact; Im exactly where I was going into the later horrible stages of PTSD and dissociative disorder! about 16 years old is when I zoned out and got hurt!
Im listening to myself write and Im at 16, dealing with 16 year old issues! its OK! Im getting used to this life!
So, its about approach and asking them out! One needs pre selection! And I need allot more practice !
Ive been scared of over the top quality women! What would happen when they found out I wasn't some upper middle class money machine! and Ive been scared of cute women with baggage! What if I just wanted to use them for sex and not anything serious! is this OK! Their not good enough for me? but their good in bed! I guess I have to man up and go find out!
This is the big one! I don't want to use a women; I really don't! But some or many women are hot and sexy to me and I want to sleep with them; I don't want them as my girlfriend! They have to much baggage! I guess I have to work through this and simply date them!
Im afraid I will end up liking the wrong people because they are hot in bed!
I guess this is what you learn and go through when your 19! Im learning it for the first time at 53~
I'm really into visualization! this is the creation of a vision or new story of my life and its goals! what goal do I have! I visualize it, let it grow in my mind, let my imagination and God come up with an answer of creating a solution! and so it roles! my battered mind is getting success training!
I need allot more training and time for manifestation!
The goal is to get good enough and wait for the results!
The Past;
Their are parts of my past un touched and un looked at; basically when I lived with my Grandmother, after my parents divorce and all the pain associated with the loss of my early life and my house and way of life!
Im looking into manifesting my life back to the way it originally was turning out! its possible now! I have to put those ideas into my mind and let God and the Universe do their work to create it for me!


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I try to do a handprint/footprint project with my kids for each HoLiDaY or SeAsOn. I started them shortly after my son turned one and have continued since. It is FuN to look back and see how their hands and feet have grown and the projects make great decorations and gifts. You can find tons of great ideas just by doing a simple Google search for holiday handprint projects. Have fun CrEaTiNg great memories!
I made this wreath last Christmas using my son's handprints for the wreath and my daughter's tiny feet for the holly! I wrote the little poem myself!
I made these little snowmen out of their feet last January!
~Jersey Girl~


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YANKEES: Robinson Cano fires agent Scott Boras and hires company run by hip-hop superstar Jay-Z
NEW YORK >> Robinson Cano plans to switch agents from Scott Boras to a new company formed by musician Jay-Z's Roc Nation and CAA Sports.
Cano will be represented in baseball matters by CAA Sports' Brodie Van Wagenen. The New York Yankees second baseman is making $15 million this season and can become a free agent at the end of the World Series.
"At this point in my career, I am ready to take a more active role in my endeavors both on and off the field," Cano said in a statement.
As of Tuesday, Boras remained Cano's agent listed with the Major League Baseball Players Association.
"I have yet to speak to Robinson, so I'm not going to comment until I talk with him," Boras said.
While the Yankees usually wait for contracts to expire before negotiating new agreements with players, they have said they hope to reach a deal with the 30-year-old Cano while he remains under their control. Boras usually prefers that his clients become free agents to increase bidders and maximize their values.
The new company, Roc Nation Sports, is led by Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, and Juan Perez, who will be the company president. Jay-Z, a part owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, is friendly with injured Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, a former Boras client.
"Because of my love of sports, it was a natural progression to form a company where we can help top athletes in various sports the same way we have been helping artists in the music industry for years," Carter said in a statement.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Feb. 28 that the team had made a significant offer to Cano for a new deal. The agent fees for Cano's next contract could become subject to litigation between Boras and the new company.


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- "Thanks, Tad": A child receives visits from the grandfather who died years before she was born.
- "Matchmaker in Heaven": A mysterious red-haired woman has some surprising insights into the personal ads.
- "A Shaving Cream Surprise": A husband sends a tender message to his grieving widow.
"Miracles come more often than we might suppose," the authors write, "and it's very likely that every family has at least one story they could tell. Each small miracle seems to come as part of a greater plan, to accomplish a thing of worth, to help change a life, in addition to offering comfort. Heavenly miracles—proof of God's love and involvement in our lives—are all around us." Let Heavenly Miracles enrich your heart, mind, and soul and remind us all that miracles do, indeed, happen.
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I'm asked this question often from those approaching me about becoming a Miche representative–the bottom line, the question they all ask, is "what do you make"?
It's a question that I can't answer-as no one representative earns the same. A Miche representative earns commissions based on her (or his) performance and sales, and if they choose-they may build a team as well, and earn from the productivity of the team members they sponsor. A representative can earn more than the individual that sponsored them.
This is a business in which we reap what we sow-there is no paycheck weekly simply for showing up and clocking in. I work daily on presenting my product to new customers, training the representatives that I sponsor, and presenting the opportunity to those interested. There is no "get rich quick" or "get rich fast". To earn money as a direct seller, it takes hard work and persistence, you do actually have to "work" for the compensation.
The reality of the answer is-I can't tell you "how much" you'll make. The answer lies with you–the compensation plan Miche has in place is very generous, but it all comes down to what "you" do with it. I'm very happy about my compensation and look forward to a future with Miche!
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Let me know if you have any questions~email email@example.com, or visit my website and click "join us". Much of the information you need is on my personal website (you'll get one too!) I'd love to explain the compensation plan and commission –as well as the other "perks"! (Can you say vacation, cruise, cancun?)
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SPOT Festival is one of those places where it doesn't really matter if the sun shines or not, you're likely to have a good time whatever the weather. Of course, the fact that there are few proper outdoor stages helps, but the proximity of everything, centred around Aarhus's impeccably designed Musikhuset helps to create a festival where, occasional queues permitting, it's very hard to miss anything and very easy to see an awful lot.
The broad aim of the festival – 2011 being its 17th edition – is to promote the best in Danish and Nordic music, something it has done very well in the past and continues to do. The festival proper starts on Friday, but not before a few shows take place in and around the city itself, a short walk away from the main festival site on Skolegada, next to the Domkirke. Unfortunately bad timing and an equally bad sense of direction force me to miss the opening concert in the cathedral but my bearings are regained in time for the InterSpot showcase, where young Danes Kiss Kiss Kiss (honestly, the drummer looks like Even Stevens era Shia LeBeouf) and Austrians Ginga partake in an exchange programme of sorts, each featuring in each others' sets.
Neither have much extra-special to offer at the moment, but what is done is done competently and there are a few decent tunes stashed away from each band. Elswhere, KT Tunstall and Teitur are getting it on in a musical sense on the outdoor stage, where it has now stopped raining, but heaven only knows how that ended up.
Friday offers more rain than the previous day which does not make a difference to the evening proceedings but other, off-festival type events such as the Tigerspring Day Party feel the force of the weather, with only a few scattered souls about for Michael Møller's delicately-played ballads, and that's before the truly heavens open.
Meanwhile, Anna Von Hausswolff is the first act I see of SPOT proper, quietly slipping into the rear of Musikhuset's Lille Sal. Even from back here, it's impressive. I'm not sure if she was trying to impersonate a Danish accent between songs, but it certainly seemed that way. Regardless, the Swedish singer hits her piano as manically as she aims to hit the highest of the high notes, and succeeds. But she does more than sing spikily, including jumping all around the vocal range quite effortlessly. She does it slowly, she does it quickly, she does it well, above all. I'm sure her face is contorting beyond recognition, but it's hard to tell from up here.
Honningbarna sing in Norwegian, which could prove an obstacle when trying to crack lands outside of the far North but their general demeanour, sound and raucousness does more than make up for it. The singer appears to be a gruff-voiced cello-wielding maniac, threatening to spin himself into the ground or at least decapitate himself with his bow. Musically they are something like Kvelertak's younger brothers (and youthful they are), without being quite so threatening, yet creating a similar level of screaming intensity. A bundle of aggressive fun, in essence. I would chant with my fist in the air if I knew the words but, as I don't, I have to settle for a broad grin.
Now, I'm not one to engage in wanton Americanisms and I find it hard to ever use the word "dude", in writing or in actual, real-life speech. It's mildly disgusting. Yet, it's hard to find another more suitable one to describe Mugison, who is pure charm on legs. All the girls want to be with him, all the men want to be mates with him and so on. He howls, he strums and he croons with just an acoustic guitar and occasional gigantic reverb. His tales are encapsulating, almost as much as his between-song patter which is typical in its Icelandic drollness. That is to say very funny.
In terms of offerings from Danish bands on Friday, things were promising with relative veterans Thulebasen on record being one of those bands who offer a wonky take on, well, just music in general. The sideways slant they put on things abounds at every opportunity, not doing the completely unexpected but at least taking a step to the side and then poking you on the shoulder before you turn the other way.
Plenty of bands on the SPOT bill have had their fair share of good press and good things written about them, and plenty of it is warranted and deserved. Another pair are Treefight For Sunlight and Ice Age who, we are frequently told, are currently getting a lot of love from Pitchfork. Treefight For Sunlight practically bounce around the stage with their woozy and upbeat, melody-heavy tunes making the air thick with joy, if such a thing is possible. Ice Age, meanwhile, do that contrasting hardcore punk thing where the lead singer wanders all about the place whilst the guitarists stand there po-faced, barely moving more than his hands up and down the fretboard, looking utterly contemptuously at all which surrounds. It might not be especially new, having been done in this manner for 30-odd years, but it sure as hell is exciting to listen to and that is a lot of what matters.
As with Mugison and a handful of others, the Icelandic contingent are well represented here in Denmark, most of the bands are new but some are legendary. Mythical, to me. Somebody mentioned Queen when describing HAM to me, half an hour or so before they were due to play. They also mentioned Iron Maiden. Certainly the latter of these is closer to the truth but neither comparisons really do HAM – billed as the "gods of Icelandic rock" – any justice at all. There are many amusing things about the band; the lead singer's look, his voice, too, sounding like Fozzy Bear at all times, both when in full flow, belting it out and also when delivering back stories. But, stone me to death if this wasn't 11 out of 10 on the enjoyment meter. They even made me regret sitting instead of standing, so thunderous was their rock. A thumping way to end day one.
You know Kleerup, the Swedish super-producer guy? Well, he has a band too, called Me And My Army. They are a band who do something like classic rock with acoustic undertones. The only problem is it's not actually all that good and, although staying longer than 10 minutes was a chore, those moments were enough to create a fully-formed opinion of distaste. It could have got better, but I doubt it.
OK, I am going to put my hands up for this. I missed the Japanese kraut-trio perform because there was a football match on, which has long since been forgotten about. I feel ashamed to say that I missed Nissenenmondai because the soundcheck, which I did see, was one of the most heart-stoppingly exciting things of the weekend. By all accounts it was a performance to match Lionel Messi's mesmerising one, much like Bernhoft's act in the main hall, which is confusing. Confusing because it's unclear whether his act of looping several guitars and mouth-created beats and singing wildly over the top of it all is easy to love or hate. Certainly the teenage girls in the place seem to approve, but the whole thing does grow very tired after about 20 minutes.
The performance of Norway's Jenny Hval, much like her current album Viscera, is astonishing. That record is near indescribable and unparalleled in its lyrical discomfort, yet both lyrically and musically one of the most engaging records to be released in recent memory, combining movements of acoustic-led minimalism with those where the texture thickens along with the intensity. Her personal and corporeal words "I walked into town with a toothbrush pressed against my clitoris" raise a few titters tonight but that is probably not the desired effect. The audience was indeed a strange one, with most people sitting down, people coming and going throughout and even two bickering men who thankfully did not come to blows. Hval's own tone too is unsettling, some songs almost spoken in an English manner, crisply and sharply delivered. Live it remains as true to the record as possible, accompanied by drums, bass and other peculiar percussive instruments. And so it ends.
There were many great and potential great things that we didn't manage to see, and plenty of "big names" among that, such as JJ. But the joy in SPOT festival is not just seeing what Denmark and the Nordic region has to offer musically – quite a lot, we know – and nor is it in meticulously planning who you want to see and where, it's about just seeing what you feel like, when you feel like and as is often the case, surprising yourself.
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Prosecutors increase charges against Plaistow couple wanted for child abuse
James Linscott burned, blinded allegedly by Roland Dow
The New Hampshire couple wanted in connection with the abuse of a young boy who was dropped off at a hospital last week, blinded, burned and beaten, may have been spotted in Lynn Wednesday evening.
A caller told police that the two individuals they spotted near the Honey Dew at 1067 Western Ave.. resembled Jessica Linscott and Roland Dow. Investigators said they are not sure if it was the couple.
County Attorney Jim Reams filed two first-degree assault charges Wednesday against Dow and six counts of child endangerment against Linscott earlier Wednesday.
"We believe they are still in the southern New Hampshire or northern Massachusetts area," said Reams.
But even if "they are in California, they will be found and returned," he said.
Reams urged the couple "to surrender and do this the easy way."
Police in New Hampshire and Massachusetts have been looking for the Plaistow, N.H., pair after Linscott's 3-year-old son, James, was brought to Exeter Hospital one week ago with extensive injuries.
On Tuesday, Haverhill police descended on a building on Nichols Street after getting credible tips that Linscott and Dow were spotted in the city.
"We searched the building that they were supposed to be in and they were not in there," Haverhill Police Department Capt. Alan Ratte said.
The boy remains hospitalized with bruises over much of his body, second- and third-degree burns and a head injury so severe it is impacting his sight.
Reams said James was improving and was now in stable, but serious condition.
The boy's paternal grandmother, Helen Nicholson, said her grandson is improving and is out of intensive care. Nicholson's son, Jonathan, was James' father. He died of a drug overdose when the boy was 3 months old.
"The last time the baby told me that Roland hit him, I told Jessica: 'You better not bring him back to Roland's house. There will be a problem because he is horrified,'" she said.
Reams cautioned that anyone who is helping or harboring the pair, faces prosecution as well.


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SONY publishes a documentary about the 30th anniversary of Naughty Dog. Very interesting, a turning point for the company was the Trip Hawkins proposal for them to do Way of the Warrior.
Naughty Dog history on documentary.
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Chinese visitors are the fastest-growing segment of US tourism — shopping for designer purses, taking pictures at historical monuments, touring college campuses in record numbers every year — and Massachusetts tour operators, hotels, and attractions are rolling out the red carpet for this lucrative tourist group.
The Charles Hotel in Cambridge just launched a website hosted in Hong Kong to reach Chinese visitors. Wrentham Village Premium Outlets is decorating its information center in red and gold crepe to mark the Chinese New Year next month. Trademark Tours has expanded its partnership with Harvard University — one of the most popular destinations for Chinese tourists — to create more workshops aimed at Chinese travelers, including topics such as "How to Find Happiness in America."
But reaching out to this market is not a simple endeavor, tourism authorities say. The language barrier is significant, and Chinese visitors tend to travel in large groups, with buses bringing as many as 500 tourists an hour, sometimes overwhelming small attractions.
"We have to cultivate it carefully," said Jackie Ennis, head of international marketing for the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, which recently held a workshop at the State House for businesses that are interested in attracting Chinese tourists.
China is now the third-biggest source of international tourists for Massachusetts, after the United Kingdom and Canada, with nearly 140,000 Chinese visiting the state in 2011.
Spending by Chinese visitors in Massachusetts has more than quadrupled to $285 million in 2011 from $60 million in 2007, according to the US Department of Commerce.
Five years ago, China was not even on the radar in the Massachusetts tourism industry. The boom began after a 2007 US-China travel agreement allowed tour operators to sell group leisure trips from China to the United States for the first time. Wait times for US visas have also decreased dramatically in recent years, while the Chinese middle class has grown — and started taking more vacations.
Nearly 1.5 million Chinese tourists arrived in the United States last year, a number that is expected to more than double by 2016.
Shopping is a big draw for Chinese visitors, who are attracted by the wide selection of consumer products and low prices. Macy's accepts the Chinese credit card UnionPay. The Omni Parker House gives international travelers a free piece of luggage and partners with airlines to have that bag fly free to further encourage shoppers to buy, buy, buy. For Chinese New Year, Wrentham outlets will put up signs in Chinese and give away traditional Chinese candies.
"It's our strongest growing market," said Brian Chuan, director of tourism marketing for Macy's.
New England boarding schools and colleges are also a major destination.
Celine Yu, a native of Nanjing, in Eastern China, lives in Sherborn. She said she is overwhelmed by the growing number of Chinese friends coming to the United States and asking to be picked up at the airport or taken shopping. Many have never been to the United States and choose to come to Boston on their first trip because they want their children to study here, she said.
As Ennis of the state tourism office puts it: New York has the Statue of Liberty, Arizona has the Grand Canyon, "We have Harvard."
Trademark Tours, a Cambridge agency that arranges workshops and tours at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the number of Chinese travelers using its services doubled from 2011 to 2012. They now make up more than a third of its group travel business.
"For people from China who have a deep-rooted desire to pursue academia, Harvard is really a mecca of sorts," said Trademark owner Daniel Andrew. "It's a real pilgrimage."
Chinese executives are also flocking to conferences and training sessions at Boston hotels, convention centers, and business schools, said Jolin Zhou of Sunshine Travel, a Boston tour operator that has seen the number Chinese customers soar 150 percent over the last 10 years.
The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau is planning to host webinars with tips for businesses looking to attract Chinese travelers, such as offering tea and slippers and printing menus and signs in Chinese. But simply translating existing materials is often not enough because the language differences are so complex, said Evan Saunders, chief executive of Attract China, a Beijing marketing agency with an office in Boston.
For the Charles Hotel's new Chinese website, for instance, general manager Alex Attia hired Attract China to create fresh content, even changing the slogan from "the smart place to stay" — a reference to the hotel's proximity to Harvard — to "humanities and styles blend here."
"If you translate 'the smart place to stay,' it means economic, the cheap place to stay," said Attia. "We don't want to go there."
But businesses shouldn't reach out to this rising tide of Asian visitors unless they are properly prepared, tourism industry insiders caution. Generally, Chinese tourists speak less English than European visitors do, requiring translation services. And they expect to be able to bargain for better deals on the accommodations.
"Even if a contract is signed, I'm afraid they're going to come to the desk and try to negotiate a lower rate," said Deb Catania, of Catania Hospitality Group, which owns three properties in Southeastern Massachusetts and on Cape Cod.
The Corning Museum of Glass in Western New York, a popular stop for bus tours headed from New York City to Niagara Falls, has to bring in extra parking lot security and staff to accommodate the 500 Chinese tourists an hour that can crowd into the museum on a busy summer day. The museum has also instructed its staff that Chinese visitors tend to need less personal space than Americans do.
"You have to be aware that they're going to push up against you," said Sally Berry, the glass museum's tourism manager. "They're not being rude. They're just used to being tightly packed."
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(A) Any cigarettes the package of which:
(i) Bears any statement, label, stamp, sticker, or notice indicating that the manufacturer did not intend the cigarettes to be sold, distributed, or used in the United States, including, but not limited to, labels stating "for export only," "U.S. tax-exempt," "for use outside U.S." or similar wording; or
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Current Economic Collapse News -- News Brief -- Episode 175
In this news brief we will discuss the latest news on the economic collapse. We look to see if things are really that different. The central bank will not stop at just confiscating your wealth they will want your life. They want to enslave the people.


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The head of the freshwater iwi leaders' group, Tuwharetoa paramount chief Sir Tumu te Heuheu, said the group would like to advance iwi rights in freshwater through continued discussion with the Government, not through the courts.
But the Maori Council, a statutory body which took a case to the Waitangi Tribunal, continued to take a harder line, promising legal action if the Government did not agree to hold discussions.
The Maori Party, which is seeking to bring together the iwi leaders' group and the council, was planning to meet Prime Minister John Key, as previously agreed.
But Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia was unwell over the weekend so the meeting will depend on her recovery.
The freshwater iwi leaders' group was formed in 2007 and has been a key component of the Land and Water Forum to advance new thinking around freshwater management.
Sir Tumu said the Waitangi Tribunal finding on Friday - that Maori have residual proprietary rights in particular bodies of water - came as no surprise and were consistent with its own actions.
"The tribunal's findings build on a number of earlier tribunal reports on such matters and are entirely consistent with the basis on which the iwi leaders' group has been advancing these issues with the Crown."
He said the iwi leaders' group was committed to progressing its existing discussions with the Crown.
Those discussions were focused on the "appropriate recognition of iwi rights and interests in the context of the development of a new freshwater management framework in New Zealand".
"The preference of the iwi leaders' group has always been to advance these issues in direct discussions at a leadership level with the Crown, not through litigation.
"The tribunal's report does alter that focus or commitment," Sir Tumu said.
Fundamental to any enduring freshwater framework was the resolution of rights and interests of iwi in respect of freshwater.
"That resolution is not about ownership of water in any absolute sense nor exclusivity as is often misunderstood," he said.
"Rather we are looking to fair and meaningful provision for the cultural and economic interests of Maori, alongside existing stakeholders and the public, as part of a new management framework."
The Waitangi Tribunal recommended the Government delay the share float of up to 49 per cent of Mighty River Power and other state-owned power companies until it came up with a mechanism to recognise Maori rights and a way to compensate the breach of them.
Despite accepting the Crown's assurances that nothing arising from the sale of the shares would prevent it from providing rights recognition after the sale, the tribunal said it would be a breach of the treaty unless the sale was delayed.
Maori Council deputy chairwoman and former Maori Party MP Rahui Katene yesterday called on the Government to agree to the hui recommended by the tribunal.
Talking would be a sign of good faith, she said.
"That's all we want at this stage," she told TVNZ's Marae Investigates.
"Of course, we always have the option of going to court, and with the tribunal report in our back pocket, that's going to be so much stronger."
She rejected the suggestion the claim could be seen as holding the country to ransom.
"We believe these are property rights and as property rights they should be protected as much as anyone else's are.
"You as a householder know what your property rights are ... you can sell, you can rent, you can do anything you want within your home.
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Britain's foreign secretary said Wednesday that Iran had conducted covert tests of ballistic missiles alongside a 10-day program of public military maneuvers.
William Hague told the House of Commons that there had been secret experiments with missiles and rocket launchers.
"Iran has ... been carrying out covert ballistic missile tests and rocket launches, including testing missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload," Hague said in a statement covering the Middle East and North Africa.
Iran has said it intends to triple its capacity to produce 20 percent enriched uranium, "levels far greater than is needed for peaceful nuclear energy," he said.
Britain believes Tehran has conducted at least three secret tests of medium-range ballistic missiles since October.
"These tests are provocative acts, directly contrary to Iran' s obligations under U.N. (Security Council Resolutions)," a spokesman for the British Foreign and commonwealth Office told msnbc.com.
A recent International Atomic Energy Agency report and unanswered questions about Iran's nuclear program undermine Iran's claims that its nuclear program is entirely for civilian use, he said.
"Iran continues to seek to develop the range and capability of its ballistic missiles, despite the fact that (UN Security Council Resolution) 1929 specifically prohibits Iran from undertaking ballistic missile activity capable of delivering a nuclear weapon," the spokesman said.
Iran, at loggerheads with the West over its nuclear program, is carrying out a 10-day military exercise in a show of strength it hopes will warn Israel and the United States against any attack. The U.S. and its allies insist it is aimed at developing atomic weapons — a charge Iran rejects.
As part of the exercise, it test-fired surface-to-surface missiles Tuesday with a maximum range of 1,250 miles.
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander said Tuesday that his country has the ability to produce missiles with an even greater range than those currently in its arsenal.
But Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guard's Aerospace Force, stressed that Tehran will not manufacture such missiles because Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf are already within reach.


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Morse sees action at first, could fill in for Giants
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Michael Morse, the Giants' projected Opening Day left fielder, joined infield drills as a first baseman Wednesday. This wasn't necessarily a huge surprise.
Manager Bruce Bochy mentioned during the interview sessions surrounding FanFest earlier this month that Morse, who has played 130 games at first during his nine-year Major League career, might receive some playing time at first base. Bochy reiterated this after Wednesday's initial full-squad workout, pointing out that he might need a replacement at first base when Brandon Belt rests and catcher Buster Posey, a familiar first-base fill-in, absolutely must catch or gets a break.
Morse also played first due to the absence of Brandon Belt, who avoided a salary arbitration hearing by agreeing to a one-year, $2.9 million deal Tuesday night. Belt is expected back in camp on Thursday.


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... to a smoking hot pair of shorts!
Like them? I-so-very-very-much-DO :)
It all started with the hunt for a nice pair of navy blue shorts.
I didn't think I was hunting for the moon, but apparently this summer if you want blue, you either go denim or nada de nada.
... And I didn't want denim, I said navy blue, and lighter fabric.
Racks after racks,
I stumbled on the ugliest navy blue pair of capris.
In a very soft 100% cotton fabric.
In my size.
On sale @ 4$.
No brainer.
They came home with me.
* First of all, I ripped off the belt loops, since they have a tie waist, and I won't wear a belt with them in any case.
* Then, I chopped off some leg length.
* For some reason, I don't like when the waist tie ends up inside, so I marked an X right after the button holes in the inside and punched an eyelet (grommet). much better.
* Tried them on and decided the length, double folded inside, pinned and hemmed.
... And I thought I could be happy with that.
But those eyelets (grommets) were pick-a-boing on my table and I thought: "heck yes!"
...and pulled out also the leftovers eyelets (grommets) from the t-shirt refashion that I made a while ago.
I followed the same criteria that I did for the t-shirt:
* marking my shorts in random order,
* then glue a bit of tacky glue onto the marked spots,
* let dry,
* cut the holes and hammered the big eyelets (grommets) (those come in two parts) and used my pliers for the smaller ones.
Now, these are the shorts I was looking for!
xox, d.
wearing them with my striped and zipped refashioned shirt that I made awhile ago !
wearing them with my striped and zipped refashioned shirt that I made awhile ago !
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One of my favorite Philip Roth scenes comes toward the end of American Pastoral, when Swede Levov's father, a Jewish-American from Newark, and Levov's wife's father, an Irish-American from nearby Elizabeth, neither of whom loves that his child intermarried, bond over the good old days, their commonalities superseding their differences. It is warm and doesn't need to say anything: Unlike the roughly contemporaneous American novelists to whom Roth is most often compared—Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and John Updike—Roth places his chips not on the grandeur of his ideas or the style of his prose, but on the story and on the stuff of life. And it is a microcosm for Roth's method, which is to stick to people from the old neighborhood in ways that invite universal identification. He writes what he knows, the reader supplies what he knows, and the commonalities supersede the differences.
But it is precisely because Roth, in his fiction, unapologetically draws on his own life that Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer at The New Yorker and no relation, has basically consigned herself to failure with Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). How could she come anywhere near the truths, half-truths, and lies Roth has told us about himself, his fictional stand-ins Zuckerman and Kepesh and Tarnopol and, indeed, "Philip Roth"? (When Roth published an open letter to Wikipedia last year, it was like something out of a Roth novel, complete with its opening sentence: "Dear Wikipedia, I am Philip Roth.") How could she compete with the scene in Zuckerman Unbound in which Zuckerman is asked, of his best-selling novel Carnovsky (a fictionalized version of Portnoy's Complaint), "Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"
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Like an escaped prisoner pouring nails on the road behind him, Roth has already made it impossible to catch up to his own virtuosic, career-defining answer to that question (although, for the record, Pierpont reports that young Roth used a cardboard toilet-paper roll lined with Vaseline).
It doesn't help that Roth Unbound is not a biography, but rather notes of steady chronological reading. The summaries of each book pile up so that the whole thing feels like one of those digests describing the reigns of every Roman emperor—becalming or tedious, depending upon your mood. Making matters still more challenging, Pierpont is an immense admirer, as well as a friend, of Roth. The author has even inducted her into the rotating cast of close acquaintances to whom he sends manuscripts for early feedback. She frequently follows the bien-pensant line. For instance, on the question of women in his fiction, Pierpont dismisses Vivian Gornick and the early feminist critics, essentially apologizes for Roth's affairs, and takes at face value his claim that his first wife, a severely unstable woman who blackmailed him into marriage by faking pregnancy, served as what he called "the greatest creative-writing teacher of them all"—an almost psychopathic way to speak of another human being, even a psychopath.
But to dismiss Roth Unbound as hopelessly corrupted would be a mistake. Pierpont's compromise is our opportunity! She landed interviews, which yield some insight and also wonderful scoops: I hadn't known that Roth dated Jackie Kennedy in 1964, or that he once met a girlfriend while on line for Schindler's List (seriously), or that, after 9/11, he displayed a big American flag in his window. (Also: Pierpont believes the retired Roth will write another novel.) She provides a sympathetic account of his oeuvre, filled with supple, attentive readings: Particularly lovely is her observation that a Henry James volume Zuckerman stands on in an early book becomes a thesaurus he uses to prop himself up during sex in a later one.
And Pierpont also is, presumably, giving us Roth as Roth sees himself—more than, say, Blake Bailey will, assuming his planned biography is written without fear or favor. Hers is the canonical interpretation of a canon that seems likely, and rightly, to be esteemed the greatest of the past sixty years.
"I'm fixed forever as what you've made me," Zuckerman tells "Philip Roth" in The Facts (1988). The fixed Roth is a great American writer who happens to be Jewish in much the way he happens to be from Newark. The disastrous first marriage and subsequent psychoanalysis pave the road to Portnoy. He proceeds to build his days around writing, sealing himself off in a Connecticut cabin, "the literary pirate," as Pierpont puts it, "who carries a bottle of Purell." Inspired by European writers past and present, he creates Zuckerman and never looks back, by doing nothing but look back. Though he is no postmodernist: "John Barth was a very nice man," Roth tells Pierpont, "but give me John Updike."
Updike is the closest Roth Unbound has to a Zuckerman of its own. ("Rabbi, Run," Roth mischievously suggests, ever positing counter-lives. "Rabbi Redux. Rabbi Is Rich!") Updike and Roth were born a year apart, broke into the big leagues in the late fifties, scandalized the country in the late sixties, and wrote and wrote and wrote thereafter. They fell out as Updike's reviews of Roth's work grew harsher, and stopped speaking after Updike appeared to endorse Roth's second wife Claire Bloom's negative portrayal of Roth. Meantime, Roth seems to have supplanted Updike as The New Yorker's local saint; editor David Remnick even profiled him. At the same time, Pierpont reports that Updike quite likely suggested the link between sixties countercultural radicalism and the Eastern religion of Jainism that forms the heart of American Pastoral.
The contrast with Updike, whose Pennsylvania hometown is barely a hundred miles from Newark yet a world away from Roth's Newark, suggests a different Roth than the one Roth, Pierpont, and many others have "fixed." Unlike Updike and the others, Roth is a writer of a fundamentally European sensibility, who came to know America as well as any American, and thereby conveyed us to ourselves as no other American could. Roth might have learned from The Adventures of Augie March how to write with exuberance, but unlike Augie March—and Rabbit Angstrom—Roth's best characters are mercilessly tied down ("fixed") to their pasts, their personal histories, their family histories, their ethnocultural histories. This Roth learned from Chekhov and Kafka, and also from the Soviet Bloc writers whom he met in the mid-seventies. (He and Milan Kundera traded the names of Native American tribes while they were in Prague, Roth making up ones such as "the Kreplach.")
Roth tells Pierpont that these authors revealed to him "a whole side of literature that is muted in the American tradition." (Roth's self-awareness, weighty sense of fate and history, and what Pierpont calls "detached relation to realism" are frequently ascribed to his Jewishness, but really they come from Europe's Jewish-inflected cosmopolitan culture—the culture, in varying ways, of Freud, the New York Intellectuals, and Billy Wilder.) Roth's pivot is The Ghost Writer (1979), that perfect novella in which he invents a fantastical story—and, ever the storyteller, presents it as just that, a fantastical story, like an old Yiddish tale—of marrying a miraculously living Anne Frank, freeing himself of all claims American Jews might have on him. It is also when he explicitly begins to tell his story through telling Zuckerman's.
Roth is an American, Newark born. Yet is not Roth also alienated from America? In the ecstatic opening of his 2000 novel, The Human Stain ("…a president's penis was on everyone's mind…"), one senses profound understanding but not sympathy. In Remnick's profile, Roth passes a river and plays the role of knowing local: "Well, o' course, we got the rivah heah, yessir we do!" He knows the voice, but the voice isn't his. Only an American could have fashioned the surreal, parable-like cages in which the Americans in the so-called American Trilogy find themselves, but only a non-American sensibility would give them no way out. "The indigenous American berserk" is a phrase no berserk indigenous American could have coined. It even, perhaps, took a peculiar kind of American to give Portnoy his own entry in the DSM. The Raskolnikov of jacking off was brought to us by the Kafka of America.


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Just kidding, I just thought if that when I went to type a title for this post. We have had some fun Halloween Nights the past few years. Last year was tough and a big blur, but we made it though.. Enjoy the Timeline of Talloween in my house..
We did not dress up, it was hard a couple weeks after my Dad passed.
I wore my Giraffe costume from my race.
Our first family Halloween, so we used Super Baby for our costume.
LS# 2 was in my Belly.. We reused the Turtle costume a few years later.2006-
Our First Halloween as parents.. And guess what?? I didn't put film in the camera!! Mommy FAIL!!
Tonight the Little Studs, Green Lantern and Captain America, will be lead around by their parents Popeye and Olive.. I am looking forward to having a nice family night, with the return of SMILES on Halloween!!
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Written by: Sheri March 22 2011
Hannah May Freemantle was born to Sheri Hall and her husband Paul on Saturday March 19 at 3:38pm!
Mom and baby are doing great. Join us in congratulating Sheri and her family on their new addition! Sheri will be sharing her final post next Wednesday, March 30.
Welcome to the world, baby Hannah!


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Review: Chicago Rib House, 1 Utama
>> Friday, January 24, 2014
Overall comment: Tender ribs that will satisfy + a good variety of non-ribs dishes to enjoy as well.
Halal: No
You would have passed by the Chicago Rib House when you shop at 1Utama's New Wing. It's one of the very few places within the shopping mall that serves porkilicious meals! Now, aren't you excited? :D
Chinese New Year is just a week away. With the many restaurants offering their Chinese New Year promotions, Chicago Rib House will not miss the opportunity to introduce to you their Porkalicious Joy Luck Sets in addition to their famous pork ribs!
The promotional Porkilicious Joy Luck Sets are available from 17th Jan to 13th Feb 2014. Prices range from RM39.90 (individual platter), RM88.80 (for 2 pax) to RM168.80 (for 4 pax).
To add to the festive mood, Chicago Rib House has introduced the Ang Pow Dip to further reward their customers. For every order of the Porkalicious Joy Luck Set (2 pax), customers are entitled to one lucky dip, while every order of the set for 4 pax will entitle 2 lucky dips. A la carte customers can also stand a chance for the lucky dip.Every RM100.00 spent entitles for 1 lucky dip. All lucky dips are while stocks last, so don't miss out the opportunity!
* Carlsberg Beer is also available by the jug at only RM38.80++.
So what's in the set, you may wonder. I had the opportunity to taste the set for 4 pax, so here are the dishes included in the set (4 dishes):
Some of the side dishes available:
Mashed potatoes with its skin + cheese
Not the best as it's somewhat dry, but I'm a sucker for mashed potatoes, so I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Ah, after those 4 dishes, I think I was over-dosed with pork, meat, & cholesterol. If you're adventurous & won't mind indulging in more sinful dishes, Chicago Rib House is also introducing the Drunken Prawns this festive season!
For some variety this Chinese New Year with your family & friends, drop by Chicago Rib House & enjoy a Porkilicious Joy Luck meal! :)
Chicago Rib House
Lot F346, First Floor
1 Utama Shopping Centre (New Wing)
1 Persiaran Bandar Utama
47800 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel: (+603) 7727 3210
Business Hours: 11:00a.m. - 11:00p.m.
URL: http://www.chicagoribhouse.com.my
FB: https://www.facebook.com/CRHMalaysia
No. of Seats: 120
Forms of Payment: Cash & Credit Card
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Taste: * * 1/2
Service: * * * 1/2
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The Score, the Key Stat, the Bottom Line: Friday Night's ActionFriday night offered a full slate of NBA action. Here are some things that caught my eye:
The Score: L.A. Lakers 122, Boston 96
The Key Stat: Kobe Bryant had 22 points and three assists in the first quarter, finishing with 38 points, nine assists and five steals as the Lakers ended their six game losing streak, the longest such run of Coach Phil Jackson's career, and handed the Celtics their worst loss of a very dismal season.
The Bottom Line: Bryant's performance reminded me of two very different songs: "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen and "Forgot About Dre" by Dr. Dre (featuring Eminem). The first reference should be self explanatory: with Kwame Brown, Chris Mihm, Luke Walton and Vladimir Radmanovic--players who were expected to be key members of the eight man rotation--out of the lineup, Lamar Odom struggling to regain his form after his knee injury, the youngest starting center in the league and a starting point guard who would likely be in the minor leagues if the Lakers had not signed him, Kobe Bryant must feel very alone at times. The Lakers' only chance to stay afloat until Odom and some of the others return to form is for the "new" Kobe Bryant (who is actually the "old" Kobe Bryant who led the three-peat Lakers in assists) to go off for about 35-40 ppg for the next few weeks. Or, as Dr. Dre put it, "Y'all are gonna keep (messing) around wit me/And turn me back to the old me."
The Score: Utah 114, Denver 104
The Key Stat: Carmelo Anthony scored 36 points and Allen Iverson scored 33 points, but the Nuggets committed 24 turnovers (including seven by Anthony and three by Iverson) and were outrebounded 40-36.
The Bottom Line: The Anthony-Iverson combination has produced a ton of points but has yet to make much of a dent in the win column and time is rapidly running out on this season. Denver simply does not have enough of an inside presence to be a serious playoff contender.
The Score: Chicago 105, Washington 90
The Key Stat: Chicago outrebounded Washington 47-40 and committed just five turnovers while forcing 14 Washington turnovers. The difference in points off of turnovers (21-5) almost exactly matched the final margin of victory.
The Bottom Line: Ben Wallace has had back to back monster games (14 points, 19 rebounds, five assists and seven blocked shots in Thursday's win over Cleveland; eight points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots versus Washington) and his activity and energy take the Bulls to another level. Chicago is a defensive minded team that will be a very tough out in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Like Denver, Washington is an offensive minded team that does not have the fortitude in the paint to advance very far in the playoffs.
The Score: New York 95, Milwaukee 93
The Key Stat: The Knicks have won five of their last eight games and dropped a two point decision in overtime at Utah.
The Bottom Line: Isiah Thomas' crew is steadily improving and could make a run at the last playoff spot in the East, particularly if the Miami Heat struggle to adjust to the absence of Dwyane Wade. Orlando is reeling lately, so even if Miami stays in the playoff hunt the Knicks could pass the Magic.
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India's commercial capital, Mumbai, has been named among the world's 'dirtiest' cities, ranking last in the "cleanest streets" category, a global survey of 40 key tourist cities has found.
According to TripAdvisor's Cities Survey, Tokyo grabbed the first place while Mumbai ranked last in the list of "cleanest streets".
Similarly in the category of "ease of getting around", Mumbai ranked at the last position while Zurich stood at first place, the company said in a press release.
The cities with the rudest locals, dirtiest streets and worst shopping have been revealed by the Survey which found that the least-friendly locals were from Moscow.
The Russian city ranked last in a number of categories, including "friendliest locals".
Tokyo was the most highly decorated world city, ranking number one for best taxi services, friendliest taxi drivers, best public transportation, cleanest streets and safety.
New York City took out the top gong for shopping, but travellers felt the city's streets could use a sweep with the Big Apple ranking 28 out of 40 for cleanliness.
"New York City's global reputation as a shopping mecca was reinforced by the opinions of the TripAdvisor community worldwide," said Brooke Ferencsik, director of communications of TripAdvisor.
The survey, completed by more than 75,000 people, looked into how travellers and locals viewed 40 key tourist cities around the world.
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Murilo "Ninja" Rua (20-12-1) is done fighting.
The PRIDE veteran and former EliteXC champion suffered a lopsided head-kick knockout loss to Tom Watson (14-4) in the headliner of Saturday's BAMMA 6 event and officially announced his retirement afterward.
The event took place in England at London's Wembley Arena and streamed internationally via pay-per-view.
Watson, BAMMA's reigning middleweight champion, defended his belt in dominant fashion. He rocked Rua early with punches, leg kicks and head kicks, and he nearly forced a stoppage at various points through each round. With Rua already dazed from punches and hobbled by the low kicks, Watson connected on a fight-ending head kick and series of punches at the 2:06 mark of the third round.
It was a signature win for the Canadian-based Watson, a native Englishman and Cage Rage vet who's 10-1 over his past 11 fights.
For Rua, it marked the end of his.
"I would like to announce officially my retirement from pro MMA fights," stated the 31-year-old Rua, the brother of ex-UFC champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua. "It was an amazing run, and it's a very tough moment, but there comes a time for all in life, and it's time to move on. I am proud of all I did in MMA and all experiences I had. I will continue to work with MMA, doing seminars, [teaching] classes, training fighters, and doing my share to help our sport that I love so much. It's time now to help others and enjoy my family, my wife, my kids and move one."
In other weekend action:
- Also on the BAMMA 6 card, Frank Trigg (21-8) continued his successful post-retirement return with a first-round TKO of heavy-handed John Phillips (13-4). Trigg scored an early takedown before slicing and dicing his opponent's head with elbow strikes. The bout was halted at the 2:41 mark of the opening round due to the heavy bleeding.
- In the only other BAMMA 6 main-card bout, UFC veteran Ivan Salaverry (13-8) returned from a three-year retirement and looked flat in a unanimous-decision loss to British fighter Matt Ewin (22-9-1). Ewin has won five straight and seven of his past eight.
- In the headliner of Saturday's KSW 16 card in Poland, 41-year-old Matt Lindland (22-9) suffered his fourth loss in five fights with a 45-second submission defeat to local favorite and Sengoku vet Mamed Khalidov (23-4-2). Khalidov locked in a guillotine and pulled guard before Lindland, who was once one of the world's top 185-pounders, had a chance to tap out.
- In the KSW 16 co-headliner, PRIDE veteran and former EliteXC headliner James Thompson (16-14) submitted strongman champion Mariusz Pudzianowski (3-2) with an arm-triangle choke. Pudzianowski landed heavy blows in the opening round but badly gassed in the second, when Thompson forced him to tap from a rudimentary and loosely applied choke. It was just the second win in Thompson's past 11 fights.
- In the headliner of this past Thursday's debut MMA Live event in Canada, former UFC contender Karo Parisyan (19-7) looked competitive against surging Ryan Ford (15-3) and had the edge through the first two rounds. Unfortunately, for the Armenian, though, a knee to the head in the third round opened a deep gash on his forehead, which prompted a TKO stoppage. Parisyan, who was cut from the UFC in 2010 after a failed drug test and reported drug and anxiety issues, has just one win since December 2007.
- Also on the MMA Live card, UFC and PRIDE veteran Marcus Aurelio (21-9) picked up his third win in four fights with a first-round armbar of Canadian fighter Matt MacGrath (10-6). Aurelio's past eight wins now have come via stoppage.
- Dan Severn's quest for his 100th career win came up short this past Friday, when Lee Beane knocked him out at a Warrior Nation XFA event in Massachusetts. Severn (99-18-7), a 52-year-old MMA trailblazer, sparred with Beane (8-2) for the first couple minutes of the fight before he was knocked out cold with a right hook at the 3:28 mark of the opening round. With Severn badly knocked out, Beane refused to keep hitting the legend until the ref finally halted the bout. It was a nice touch of sportsmanship shown to Severn, who's lost back-to-back fights following a 10-fight win streak in 2010.
- Joe Ellenberger (11-0), the twin brother of UFC fighter Jake Ellenberger, fought for the first time since he was sidelined by a rare blood disease (paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria) and picked up a victory over Jeff Carstens (8-21) at Saturday's Disorderly Conduct event in Nebraska. As MMAjunkie.com recently reported, Ellenberger still is undergoing transfusions due to the disease. He fought for the first time in two years.
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PARIS — Chasing a shot, Roger Federer caught his right shoe in the French Open's red clay, twisting that foot awkwardly and tumbling to the ground.
PARIS — Chasing a shot, Roger Federer caught his right shoe in the French Open's red clay, twisting that foot awkwardly and tumbling to the ground.
Soon enough, he was in a real rut, in danger of his earliest exit from a Grand Slam tournament in nine years.
Federer regrouped and restored order eventually, coming back from a two-sets-to-one deficit to beat 15th-seeded Gilles Simon of France 6-1, 4-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 Sunday in the fourth round to reach his 36th consecutive major quarterfinal.
"I didn't hurt myself or anything," Federer said. "But maybe I did lose that touch of confidence for a little bit, and then I was out of the match there for a bit."
During a rare stretch of mid-match mediocrity from the owner of a record 17 Grand Slam championships — the 2009 French Open trophy is part of his collection — Federer lost 10 of 13 games, including the one in which he fell.
"I didn't give him time," said Simon, a one-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist. "I managed to start moving him around a bit."
But Simon, a former member of the top 10, could not keep Federer down. Able to "tidy up my play," as he put it, Federer went from hitting more than twice as many unforced errors as Simon in the second and third sets, 25-12, to generating more than twice as many winners in the third and fourth, 29-14.
"When things turn nasty," Simon said, "he responds well."
Federer said the match will give him "a lot of info" heading into his quarterfinal against another Frenchman, No. 6-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Federer's turnaround was not the biggest of the day. Not even close. That distinction belonged to 32nd-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain, who is specializing in comebacks: He is the first man in 86 years to win three Grand Slam matches in a row after dropping the first two sets (France's Henri Cochet pulled that off at Wimbledon in 1927).
Robredo did it in the second round Wednesday. He did it in the third round Friday. And then he did it in the fourth round Sunday, defeating No. 11 Nicolas Almagro 6-7 (5), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Robredo trailed 4-1 in the third set, 4-2 in the fourth and 2-0 in the fifth.
"Nobody dreams of doing such things," said Robredo, who dropped to his knees, leaned forward and wept after winning.
Almagro's take?
"I don't know what adjective to use," he said.
Robredo's first French Open quarterfinal since 2009 — he missed the tournament in 2011 and 2012 because of left leg problems that required surgery — will be against another Spaniard, No. 4 David Ferrer, who eliminated No. 23 Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-3, 6-1, 6-1.
Tsonga, the 2008 Australian Open runner-up, got past Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. Tsonga is 3-9 against Federer, but he did come back from a two-set hole to win their 2011 Wimbledon quarterfinal.
"I know he can beat me, and he knows he can beat me," Federer said. "But I'm going to make sure that doesn't happen."
So far, all of the top three men in the tournament — No. 1 Novak Djokovic, No. 2 Federer and No. 3 Rafael Nadal, the seven-time champion — have had issues. Nadal lost a set in each of his first two matches; Djokovic needed his upper right arm treated by a trainer Saturday.
And what about the woman who is everyone's pick to win the title, No. 1 Serena Williams? The 15-time major champion has been nearly flawless, losing a total of 10 games through four matches. She beat No. 15 Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-3 to extend her winning streak to 28 and set up a quarterfinal against Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2009 champion who is unseeded this year and defeated No. 8 Angelique Kerber 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
"It's a shame I had to face Williams here," Vinci said. "She's the strongest player, by far."
Vinci's had more success in doubles, winning three of the last four major titles with Sara Errani, last year's runner-up to Maria Sharapova in singles at Roland Garros. The fifth-seeded Errani said she felt pain "like a knife" in her midsection and had difficulty breathing in the first set Sunday against No. 20 Carla Suarez Navarro, but after being treated by a trainer wound up winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.
Errani's quarterfinal opponent will be 2012 Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska, who eliminated 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic 6-2, 6-4.
Federer changed the direction of things against Simon pretty quickly, exhorting himself more than usual with fist-shaking and yells of "Come on!"
From 2-2 in the fourth set, Federer won seven consecutive games. That was pretty much that, although the final game sure was tense. Simon held two break points, but Federer erased one with a service winner, the other with a big serve that set up a putaway. On Federer's second match point, Simon pushed a backhand wide on a 10-stroke exchange.
When they met at the net, Simon extended his hand for a shake — and Federer pulled him in for an embrace.
The victory was Federer's 58th in his French Open career, against 13 losses, equaling the mark for most tournament wins held by Guillermo Vilas and Nicola Pietrangeli. It also was Federer's 900th career victory anywhere, which puts him fourth in men's tour history, behind only Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl and Vilas.
Sunday's drama came in the same stadium where Federer's streak of 23 Grand Slam semifinals in a row ended with a loss in the 2010 quarterfinals to Robin Soderling.


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Curious on how the world "will end on 12/21 ? The odds aren't with it being a zombie apocalypse after all. Our friends over at Deep Silver, makers of Dead island, contacted book maker Paddy Power for the official odds and they came back with 2,000:1. It's more likely we'll all vaporize in a nuclear holocaust (1,500:1) or disappear in some sort of environmental disaster (1,000:1).
Zombie lovers can rest assured that they have a better chance of decapitating the undead than watching an asteroid take us out (3,000:1) or fending off hordes of human enslaving aliens (5,000:1). Curious to the odds on the world seeing the sunrise on 12/22? Paddy Power puts the odds at 1:1000 for us non-believers.
Deep Silver is laying odds on us wiping the floor with the rotting corpses of the deceased in the upcoming Dead Island: Riptide instead of in real life. Do you blame them, they are busting their humps to give us the ultimate in co-op blood filled zombie killing experiences. No matter how you feel, hit the break and check out the official world ending press release!
"The End of the World is Nigh 2,000/1″
Dead Island Riptide and Paddy Power set the odds of the world ending by a zombie apocalypse
December 20, 2012 – LARKSPUR, CA – Dead Island Riptide – one of the most anticipated video game titles of 2013 – and bookmaker Paddy Power have today revealed the odds of a worldwide zombie apocalypse occurring on 21 December 2012, the day that signifies the end of the Mayan calendar and, for some doomsday theorists, a date that also represents the end of the world.
The odds of a mass zombie outbreak on 21 December 2012 as depicted in the Dead Island Riptide video game published by Deep Silver has been set at 2,000/1. Meaning that civilization as we know is more likely to come to an apocalyptic end as a result of an environmental disaster (1,000/1) or a nuclear holocaust (1,500/1). However, that could be small comfort when you consider that we're more likely to be overrun by the living dead than colliding with another planetary body like a giant asteroid (3,000/1) or being attacked and conquered by extra-terrestrials (5,000/1).
A Paddy Power spokesperson said:
"Punters fancying a cheery 2000/1 flutter that the world will end due to zombie apocalypse on December 21st are more than welcome. For those not totally convinced, Paddy Power is also offering 1/1000* that the sun will rise on the 22nd. Either way, someone's going to win!"
Gamers will be able to take on the zombie hordes once again when Dead Island Riptide is published by Deep Silver on 26 April 2013 for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and for Windows PC.
*Max bet 10, sorry.
About Dead Island Riptide
Having survived the ordeals of the zombie infestation on the once beautiful island resort of Banoi depicted in the original Dead Island game, our group of survivors thought they had finally found a safe place to escape from this terrifying nightmare. But they were wrong. Shortly after the battle-hardened team had landed their helicopter on a military ship, a furious storm hits and havoc quickly spreads on board. Suddenly they find themselves struggling for their lives again with all hope drowning in the rising waves.
With invigorating new elements infused into a proven mix, Dead Island Riptide will reanimate the zombie terror in the original game. A monsoon has hit the once beautiful archipelago and heavy rainstorms have laid waste to large areas of the islands. The city of Henderson and jungle areas on the island of Palanai were flooded leaving boats as the only remaining way of transportation. Dynamic weather conditions will force the team members to adapt to changing visibility conditions.
In new hub defense missions the coop teamplay skills of the survivors will be tested to the limit – they need to strategically place traps, fences and turrets to fend off oncoming Zombie onslaughts and to protect the humans in these sanctuaries. New communication features in coop mode also allow players to enjoy an even more intense and strategic teamplay experience.
For more information, visit one of the following official Dead Island sites:
Official Website: http://www.deadisland.com
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