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Issue #25
Another Master Of The Obvious experiment for you. Go to any convention, or any other gathering of fans or professionals, and loudly utter the following ten words:
Now see how long it takes for screaming matches to break out.
This used to be a given in comics. When comics were mostly locked into the six panels per page rigid grid, it was an oppressively enforced given. (In most cases just as oppressive was an editorial insistence on medium shots as the main vehicle of expression, but as most people remember it now the grid takes the rap for it.) So it's not surprising that many artists bristle when someone suggests… well, the ten words above.
Distilled to its most elementary form, the usually huffy reply from the artist runs like this: art sells comics, not stories.
Which has become traditionally true over the past three decades or so. Let's face it, we've promoted a culture of crap. It comes from the perception – imposed on us until we've bought into it, either wallowing in it or rebelling against it – that comics are "for kids." "For kids" in our society means "gutless braindead pablum" in whatever industry or medium the term rears its head; nobody wants to be accused of "corrupting" children. Better to squash that natural curiosity and keep 'em malleable. In comics, that's meant systematically dumbing down the material wherever possible, and it's no wonder artists (and much of the rest of the world) think the stories in most comics are dumb.
They are.
That's no excuse to dumb down the art down too.
Not surprisingly, prior to the rise of a quasi-organized fandom there were no fan favorite artists. If you read interviews with older artists in THE COMICS JOURNAL, which likes to discuss such things, you'll notice artists working in the 40s through the 60s cite a strong editorial emphasis on storytelling in their work in most instances, rather than flash art styles. (DC, at least in the Julie Schwartz offices in the 50s and 60s, preferred a clean, controlled, pseudo-realistic Dan Barry approach, taming into rough similarity such naturally dissonant styles as those of Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino.) Fans tended to be drawn to the flash. (As opposed to THE FLASH, though he did all right early on too.) Jack Kirby was pretty much alone in using things like forced perspective (though rarely every actually breaking out of the grid) and, again unsurprisingly, he was the first true fan favorite artist. (Not to mention a favorite among professional artists eager to break out of the grid themselves, though the real cult hero among pros was Alex Toth, whose brilliant work most fans couldn't stand.)
|Neal Adams
Neal Adams and Jim Steranko were the first real breakout fan favorite artists (Barry Smith arguably cruised in at #3 on the basis of his CONAN work, but that was a little later) and the first artists since EC Comics to introduce a modernism appropriate to their times. Steranko's emphasis was pure storytelling, his big influences people like Kirby, the then all-but-forgotten Will Eisner, and Harvey Kurtzman. He didn't break the grid so much as shredded it, splitting actions down into smaller and smaller fragments, building a modern concept of the panel as a unit of time. Steranko's art was all about time. Adams shattered the grid and grabbed the fan imagination with a photo-realistic style incorporating Kirby's innovations with a layout style cribbed from modern advertising. Never a particularly strong storyteller (though better than most of his later imitators) he muscled past that deficiency with sheer power and bravado, and set the tone for everything that followed.
To the chagrin of fans, comics companies have always distinguished between fans and readers. Comics companies have never really made any serious studies of what elements sell comic books, what little "evidence" there is of such things is almost always anecdotal, but through most of the 70s, they were astute enough to notice an interesting phenomenon: fan favorite artists rarely sold as well as non-fan favorite artists. Maybe they were just on projects that couldn't grab the popular imagination. You could sell Neal Adams on Batman, but you couldn't sell him on Deadman (though, for my money, the latter was the superior product). As a result, few books were ever pushed on the basis of who drew them. (Or who wrote them, for that matter, particularly as playing musical writers became the norm in editorial offices.)
|"Comics companies have never really made any serious studies of what elements sell comic books, what little "evidence" there is of such things is almost always anecdotal…"
This pissed fans off. This wasn't right. As more and more fans moved into the business professionally, some wanted to do something about it. The direct sales market and the comics shop gave them the chance. It gave them secret grottos where the same cabalistic language could be spoken. Again not unsurprisingly, art was pushed and pushed and pushed uber alles until the concept became currency that all you need to sell a book is a fan favorite artist. And the only kind of story they have any idea of how to push anymore is the "big event" that can be summed up in a 50 pt. headline.
A self-fulfilling prophecy if ever there was one.
Meanwhile, something interesting happened with the stories. Almost everyone tried to copy '60s Marvel Comics, the style that was still dominant. Even Marvel tried to copy '60s Marvel Comics. And they ended up copying '60s Mighty Comics.
You may not have ever read Mighty Comics. Published by Archie Comics in response to the hot BATMAN TV show, written by Superman's Jerry Siegel (in what I don't consider his finest hour, but your mileage may vary) and drawn by Paul Rienman, and featuring revived '40s characters like The Shield and The Web (Simon and Kirby's '50s Fly, renamed Fly-Man, was their one sop to modernism) they were far and away the goofiest comics ever published. Originally fairly straitlaced, they quickly dumped all semblance of story and character logic and pushed the action and coincidence hard. Real hard. Villains spoke in a endless string of Snidley Whiplash threats, heroes jabbered in a forced patter that could only be described as a 60 year old shut-in's idea of hip. Heroes existed to pull deus ex machina endings out of their hats. Their most memorable image was a villain – I forget the name – who sneezed lightning out his nose. Their great achievement was to boldly pronounce that, yes, comics are even more stupid that anyone ever thought they could be: braindead and proud of it!
|"[Mighty Comics'] great achievement was to boldly pronounce that, yes, comics are even more stupid that anyone ever thought they could be: braindead and proud of it!"
It had its charms. Briefly. Mighty Comics weren't thought of highly enough to be influential, but they epitomized a style of comics that has increasingly become the dominant style in the business, where you don't really have to concern yourself with story because it's just a comic book so story doesn't matter anyway. For years, I've watched creative teams claiming to be doing "Stan and Jack" when they're really doing "Jerry and Paul." And they don't know it. I've seen people talking about "making comics fun again" and they don't realize the ground they're reclaiming is Mighty Comics territory. And they wonder why their projects fail, when their comics contain "everything a comic book should be."
When we talk about story, we think of writers, one of the reasons The Ten Words invoke such a Pavlovian response in artists and fans. But writing isn't story. They're closely related but not synonymous. I'm not suggesting artists should necessarily be subordinate to writers. In some cases this may be true, in others not so. People in this business like to imagine there's a system that will produce good comics, but we don't know what produces good comics. I don't know. I know what produces bad comics, but doing the opposite doesn't necessarily result in anything better. We don't live in a binary world, convenient as that would be if true. The only way to know if a comic book is any good is to read the end product.
In comic books, the art exists in service to the story. But the writing exists in service to the story too. The first job of both is to tell the story.
A story isn't the plot I write, or the script I write. Those are guides to a story. A story is a character or characters finding their way through a sequence of events until they reach a pointed resolution. In comics, I can write whatever I like, but the story doesn't exist until an artist draws it. To that extent, the artist is the true storyteller in comics. There are some terrific storytellers in comics, but there are many more who don't seem to have a clue that that's what they're supposed to be doing. The art should carry the burden of storytelling, it should contain the cues – unobtrusively – to move the reader's eye from panel to panel, page to page, until a coherent story has coalesced in the reader's head. Every time an artist decides "I'll leave that for the writer to explain," anytime art forces the inclusion of redundant and theoretically unnecessary expositon, it makes bad comics.
I've had this discussion with artists who get passed over for assignments because they're not the flashiest artists in the world. Stylistically staid, wedded to the grid, they look on the pyrotechs with scorn and usually envy. When one of them heard this argument from me a couple years back, he immediately seized it as a vindication. It isn't. That's binary thinking again, either/or. I don't fault artists for exploiting dynamics. Part of the job of drawing is to make the comic as eyecatching as possible. Dynamics are a part of storytelling: a choice of emphasis. It's not an either/or situation, it's a both. Any artist not providing both storytelling and dynamics isn't doing their job.
I'm not calling on the artist to do all the work while the writer sips martinis by the pool. But when writing has to carry all the exposition, the result is usually a shallow, boring comic book. When we can finally get past that, when the "visible" writing of comic books can be given over to the exploration of character through dialogue, we'll end up with comics that are a hell of a lot better. (All other things being equal. We should be looking to movies, where the only "visible" writing is the dialogue, and most exposition is given conversationally; it's very rare to see a movie come to a halt while a narrator announces "the bullet streaks from Murdock's gun, striking Kline in the small of the back." But artists force that kind of thing in comics all the time. Good comics writing is like an iceberg, 90% where you can't see it, but it's that 90% that packs the greatest impact. Comics art is like the ocean; it should cover the writing, not vice versa.
|"…when writing has to carry all the exposition, the result is usually a shallow, boring comic book."
It doesn't strike me as coincidental that the great hemorrhaging of readers occurred simultaneously with the general loss of interest in the "pure pyrotechnics" art style that overran comics in the '90s. It was the apotheosis of the Mighty Comics mentality. Like Fly-Man, it had its charms. Briefly. They stripped storytelling clean out of comics, and, for a moment, it was a shock to the system. It was invigorating. But it dumped the reader out of the equation, and we can't afford to do that, ever.
I don't want to reel artists in, or force them to work in ill-fitting styles. Every artist should be free to develop his own style. But this is still a business, comics is still a commercial art, and whatever style they choose, it has to exist in service to the end product. It has to serve the purpose of comics.
Comics tell stories. Period. There are all kinds of ways, visual and verbal, to tell stories, but storytelling is our raison d'être. It's why we're here.
Check here next week for announcements of new projects. Some very interesting things coming up. Also, STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN #4, rounding out the first Steve Austin miniseries, should be available from Chaos Comics any day now.
And congratulations to Steve Austin for the successful surgery on his neck problem. Rest up and come back healthy, Steve.
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The 2013 Grammy Awards took place yesterday, amid CBS' concerns over "female breast nipples" and (I assume) speculation as to who human scumbug Chris Brown might punch, and the awards confirmed their complete irrelevance by naming Mumford & Sons' dismal Babel as Album of the Year. The proceedings did provide a few rare highlights, however, with performances from nominated artists Frank Ocean, Jack White, Miguel and The Black Keys. Ocean — whose Channel Orange was actually the album of the year — delivered a curious solo rendition of 'Forrest Gump', Jack White brought both his all-female and all-male bands to tear through Blunderbuss singles 'Love Interruption' and 'Freedom at 21', Miguel belted out what had to be the performance of the night with 'Adorn' (joined by an unnecessary Wiz Khalifa), and The Black Keys — now completely unrecognisable from the two-piece garage-blues band we used to know — trotted out a rather bloated 'Lonely Boy' with Dr. John and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Justin Timberlake also took the stage to unveil his great comeback single 'Suit & Tie', joined by an equally dapper Jay-Z for a pretty terrific performance, and you can check out videos of each below.
Watch Frank Ocean perform 'Forrest Gump' below (via Mr. World Premiere).
Watch Jack White perform 'Love Interruption' and 'Freedom at 21' below (via Consequence of Sound).
Watch Justin Timberlake perform 'Suit and Tie' below, ft. Jay-Z (via Mr. World Premiere).
Watch Miguel perform 'Adorn' with Wiz Khalifa below (via Mr. World Premiere).
Watch The Black Keys perform 'Lonely Boy' with Dr. John and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band below (via Mr. World Premiere).

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Runtime: 90 minutes
Jon Voight, Teri Polo, Dermot Mulroney, Ben Crowley, Julian Morris, Chloe Lesslie, Brett Baker, Sandra Carolina, Kevin T. Bennett and Skyler Shaye.
90-minute film (full movie) directed by Josef Rusnak.
The original audio of Beyond has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2012.
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A few days in Berlin
Between the ages of two and five, I lived with my parents in a maisonette close to the racecourse in Krefeld, a small industrial town in north western Germany. A Jack Russell called Lummell lived in the back garden–he was my best friend–my mother and I used to go to Hortons for breakfast every Wednesday, and I would spend my days playing in the spielplatzen with the children of the other jockeys at West Germany's racecourses.
Yes, that's right. West Germany. This was the early 1980s and the Berlin Wall was still physically dividing homes, families, and a city, and ideologically dividing a country, a continent, and the world.
The Berlin of my childhood imagination was an exotic, far-flung place shrouded in mystery. Visiting west Berlin was an undertaking; east Berlin was entirely off-limits. It was a closed, grey world that demonised my four-year-old dreams. How does one explain communism to a four year old?
Following re-unification in 1989, the image of Berlin formed in my memory remained, and remained fast. It had somehow cemented itself, entrenched, and I struggled to overcome the fear associated with it. For another twenty-five years, Berlin existed as an exotic, untouchable world in my mind.
Then I was invited to attend the EyeEm Festival and Awards. This wasn't just an opportunity to visit a city that had plagued my thoughts and thereby banish the demons of stone-cold communism, but to do so in the most fitting way possible. EyeEm is a highly successful photography start-up, a phoenix of the bright young things who shimmered and glittered in pre-war Berlin reanimated for the twenty-first century. Where east Berlin once existed in miserable isolation, EyeEm connects anyone with a phone and an eye for a photo across the globe. Where Berlin was once the chicest, trendiest place to sip champagne and dance the Charleston, EyeEm is part of the start-up culture helping to re-elevate the city to its former glory.
The Festival lasted for two days; I took the opportunity to spend a few more wandering the city, exploring what remains of the wall, walking across Tempelhofer Park, cruising the Spree, and drinking coffee and beer and eating cake and pommes. I was somehow able to reconcile the Berlin or my mind's eye with Berlin as it is today. The fearsome, barbed memories remain. As do the feelings of jubilation, and relief, on seeing pictures of the wall falling. But now I have my own vision of Berlin, not that projected with mutual fear and loathing in the 1980s.
I think I'll be going back.
Daniela and Josh, arriving eventually at the hotel of their destination…
Josh and I have stayed at three different hotels over our ten day trip to Israel. Reaching two of them has proved to be a testing experience for our perambulatory stamina.
Let's start the recantation of our tales of suitcase dragging in Jerusalem, on none other than Yom Yerushalayim. That's Jerusalem Day to those not initiated into the cult of pig-reviling, candle-lighting Judaism. So that's a day that shuts down huge tracts of the city in order to celebrate it and marvel at its wonders. It's a super festival if you're a Jerusalem resident who likes parades and singing songs and flag-waving. It's not such a super holiday if you're trying to reach your hotel located in the pedestrianised zone close to Jaffa Gate and best accessed by Jerusalem's rather snazzy tram. That snazzy tram isn't running through the centre of Jerusalem.
After struggling through Jerusalem's central bus station, which is a multi-layered affair that, if converted into a cake was satisfy Marie Antoinette or the most grizzly Bridezilla, Josh and I made it onto Jaffa Street from where the trams (did not) depart and plenty of buses ran. Knowing that I needed to take the tram to Jaffa Centre, it seemed best to ask for a bus that would do similar. A kindly attendant said to try an 18, but check with the driver. When eventually an 18 turned up, and I asked in my best Ivrit if it went to Jaffa Centre, I was treated to a tirade of epic proportions from a bus driver who was no doubt entirely frustrated by re-routes and hold-ups, and stupid tourists. Humiliated, frustrated, and none-the-wiser, I turned on my heel, probably ramming my suitcase into various others, and declared to Josh that we'd have to take a cab.
We would have been better dragging our suitcases along Jaffa Street to our hotel.
Forty-five shekels later we had been deposited outside the wrong hotel that was somewhat closer to the Damascus Gate than the Jaffa Gate and therefore still no closer to where we were staying. In normal circumstances, I'd whip out a map and we'd figure out a plan. But these weren't so normal because we'd left our map of Jerusalem in the UK. A note to fellow travellers: don't leave your maps at home, they're not so useful there. And while I've spent plenty of time in Israel, all of my time in Jerusalem has been in the company of locals, which means access to cars and intimate knowledge of buses. Thus using a combination of street signs and the tram lines, we attempted to navigate, nay schelp, ourselves from somewhere in Arab East Jerusalem to our hotel close to Jaffa Centre.
Despite the heat, the crowds, the parades, and one truculent wheel on my suitcase, we eventually rolled into our place of hospitality for the next five nights. Heavens were we pleased.
Five days later, we would have to transfer ourselves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. This time the trams were running, we were able to locate the ticket office at Jerusalem Bus Station easily enough, and although we couldn't get on the first bus to Tel Aviv, we only had to wait 20 minutes for the second. We'd located our hotel using Google maps, we'd drawn up a list of viable buses, we thought we were set for a relatively easy journey there. Of course we weren't.
Our first minor hitch was taking the 405 into Tel Aviv Central rather than the 480 into Tel Aviv Savidor. This threw us a little when trying to find a city bus to catch to our hotel at the other end, but we were helped by a kindly stranger who told us that a 16 or 17 would take us to Allenby Street and from there I knew that we could walk easily enough to our hotel.
This is where we came monumentally unstuck. For reasons that remain unknown, Google Maps placed the hotel where we had a booking on the correct street, but at the wrong end of it. That might not have been too much of a problem, except that Rechov HaYarkon is one of the longest streets in Tel Aviv, spanning practically the entire beach-front. Given that Allenby Street is closer the bottom end of Rechov HaYarkon and the hotel was closer to the top, that walk wasn't easy as we thought it would be. We made it, eventually. Hot and bothered but relieved, when we checked Google Maps, that we hadn't got it wrong.
The moral of this story? Don't trust Google Maps.
Never get on a bus around Agrippas Street
Ehm… Daniela, I think that this is the end of the line.
Yes, it was indeed the end of the 30 bus route and instead of taking us to the Israel Museum, Josh and I had wound up at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Not that there's anything wrong with Ramat Rachel per se, and given that one of the major works that Josh is exploring in his Master's thesis is Naftali Bezem's the The Defence of Ramat Rachel, to say that we've been there&emdash;if only to alight one bus and board another in the return direction&emdash;is rather gratifying. But it wasn't the Israel Museum.
As my friend Arieh were to extol later that day, our mistake had been to catch the bus 'anywhere around Agrippas Street.' The buses run in counter-intuitive directions there and while it seemed entirely logical to me to catch a bus pointing in the general topographical direction of the museum, it would actually take us in the opposing direction. Towards Ramat Rachel.
Of course, we could have avoided this entire magical mystery tour had I either asked the driver or read the bus' direction of travel. There were, however, two particular issues with either of these courses of action. The first being that my previous interaction with a Jerusalem bus driver, two days prior, requesting directional confirmation had resulted in my turning heel and getting off the bus after he had shouted at me with such vehemence that I felt nothing but humiliation. I wasn't prepared to go through that again. The second was that there was no direction of travel listed on the front of the bus. All I had to go on was its number. This was not helpful. Hence us jumping on a bus going in the wrong direction.
While buses might be cheap and frequently efficient, they do carry with them an air of mystique and vagary. There is a dark art to reading timetables, acquiring tickets, and understanding intersections. It doesn't matter which bus network you use, in which city, governed by whatever language, there is always immense potential for screw-uppery.
Thankfully, our detour didn't detract from our plans, despite it being a Friday and the museum closing at 14:00. We were able to saunter through the Israeli art galleries, take in some Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, enjoy the Avedon exhibition, and even grab a high-speed peek at the Dead Sea Scrolls. Then we caught the bus back to Jaffa Street, this time travelling in the right direction.
The moral of the story? Never get on a bus around Agrippas Street in Jerusalem.
An unexpected trip to Holy Island
On Sunday morning I found myself throwing a random collection of belongings into a bag and driving for six hours across the country because someone I love needed me. It wasn't exactly on how I had planned on spending my Sunday, but something unexpectedly lovely came out of the tension and the worry. On the return trip, after establishing that the person I love most in the world hadn't inflicted terrible damage on himself and he'd be fine in a few days' time, my father and I made the trip over the causeway to Holy Island. It was a glorious, blue-skied spring day. And I didn't have a camera. Well, I did. But not my usual dSLR that bends to my every whim and for which I have plenty of lenses. It was my iPhone 4 that still runs iOS 6 and has a wildly compromised battery.
Photographers will always tell you that the best camera is the one that you have with you. So that's what I used. Some worked, some didn't. These are my favourites.
Oh, and I'll be going back, with a camera bag laden with lenses.
The return of the pocket-knife
Just before I left for Thailand I was offered the opportunity to review a camera bag for a large retail site. I took an age to decide which bag would simultaneously be of most use to me as a workhorse for my trip and as a review model for Photocritic's readers. My deliberations led me to a Crumpler Jackpack and I dropped a note back to the retail site saying that if they could get me one before I flew, that would be super. To my disappointment (I'm a sucker for camera bags), they couldn't get a bag to me, and I was left loading camera gear into my Lowepro Event Messenger at the last minute.
If you're intested, the Event Messenger is great as a car-to-place-where-you're-staying or carry-on bag for a limited quantity of gear: camera body, two or three lenses, laptop, and a few personal bits and pieces. It's not so great for out-and-about shooting, however. It's a bit too bulky.
What does this not-very-tale-of-woe have to do with a Victorinox Crystal pocket-knife, I hear you ask?
In my haste to pack up my gear, I overlooked that I'd left my pocket-knife in one of my camera bag's myriad front pockets. Pocket-knives are pretty useful additions to camera bags, but not when you're about to board a plane. Despite any number of reassurances that you're a photographer and not a terrorist, security aren't so thrilled by inch-and-a-bit blades in confined spaces.
Interestingly, I didn't have a clue that I'd left it in my bag and it seems that when I passed through security at Heathrow, they didn't have a clue that I'd left it there, either. No one stopped me, my bags weren't searched, and I wasn't asked to deposit it in one of those forlorn bins of useful objects rendered useless by the threat of terrorism.
And no one spotted it, stuffed between two hankerchieves and a some sanitary towels, when I switched planes at Muscat.
Little Victorinox Crystal sat undisturbed in my camera bag throughout my entire stay in Thailand. It wasn't until I tried to get through security at Bangkok airport that somebody noticed it. I was pulled aside, asked if I had anything forbidden in my bag, and then asked to tip it out when I couldn't answer in the positive. There it was. I was a agog.
Seeing as poor little Victorinox Crystal had made it that far, and I rather like it, I was incredibly reluctant to toss it into their 'You are forbidden!' bin. I asked if there were a post office at the airport. An unflinchingly stern gentleman who thought that he spoke better English than he did escorted me down a flight of stairs and behind a barricade to the post office. He was very good at telling me that I couldn't take my little knife through security but very bad at understanding how it got there. When I said to him 'You've not understood a word I just said, have you?' he looked at me blankly. Or maybe he was just humourless.
Anyway, at the post office I needed to queue for longer than it had taken me to get through security, but it cost me the grand total of 41 baht (90 pence) to pop little knife in an envelope and mail it back to the UK. I had no idea if it would survive the trip or be halted by overzealous Customs officers or pinched by postal workers, but it was better to give it a chance rather than abandon it.
Errand complete, I climbed the stairs and attempted security a second time. On this occasion there were no unexpected hitches, but the queue was longer. I tried not to think about my poor little knife, my own absent-mindedness, and the lack of reassurance I felt from security at Heathrow. If it made it, it made it. I continued to try to forget about it, ten days after returning home.
This morning, a little damp and slightly rumpled, an envelope addressed to me in my own hand and with a Thai stamp dropped through my letterbox. Little knife was back!
Crossing the bridge to Myanmar
From the western Thai town of Mae Sot it's possible to cross the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge and make your way into the Burmese town of Myawaddy. The border here has been open more-or-less permanently since summer 2013, and while it bustles with Burmese workers, it's not a crossing made by a huge number of Farangs, or Westerners (literally 'guavas'), unless they work for NGOs. It is, however, becoming more a popular route with people completing visa runs. And there are the occasional people like me, who decide to visit for the day because they can.
For anyone wielding a passport other than Burmese, it's a relatively straightforward affair. On the Thai side you're waved to a window where your departure card is taken and your passport is stamped. There was no queue and no questions were asked. Then you head towards the no-man's-land of the bridge and Burmese immigration on the opposite bank.
On the Burmese side you are invited to take a seat in an air-conditioned office. Here you are asked the purpose of your visit, to which my 'I just want to look around and have lunch,' was met with a bemused smile, asked to pay a 500 Baht fee, relieved—temporarily—of your passport, presented with a receipt, and told to return before the border closes. In my case, this was 17:00. I was under the impression that the border closes whenever the guards decide that it will.
As you enter Myanmar, you face a chaotic, littoral space. In Thailand, cars drive on the left; in Myanmar, cars drive on the right. Trucks loaded sky-high with goods ranging from scooters to linen to mechanical parts struggle to cross lanes against the armies of people and the cavalry of scooters. The road is lined with money-changers, ready to convert Baht to Kyat, taxi drivers of many vehicular descriptions, offering to take you places although where, I'm not quite sure, and the Burmese equivalent of the public telephone. It's confused, confusing, and loud.
When you compare it to Thailand, it's same-same-but-different. The Burmese will transport anything on a scooter, just like the Thais. Every taxi driver across South East Asia wants to know where you're going and to take you somewhere. Both Thai and Burmese pavements are scarcely for walking on, but an extension of a shop or an opportunity to set up a stall. Still, you know it's a different place and not just because everyone wears sarongs and faces are covered in chalk to protect against the sun.
Turn off the arterial road that leads out of Myawaddy and deeper into Myanmar and you're faced with unpaved alleys, lined with wooden huts where people cook on open fires, that are no less thronging but very different. Here, you are presented with unequivocal poverty. I've seen poverty in many places, but somehow, this felt different. I'm reluctant to call it hopeless, because denying someone hope might be denying her or him all that they have. Perhaps the appropriate adjective is helpless.
The poverty that I've seen in Indonesia, in Morocco, in Thailand, is squalid and miserable but it never felt without opportunity or quite so crushing as it did in Myanmar. While these countries might be unstable or have governments that are perceived as corrupt, they're also cosmopolitan, they have a backbone in tourism, and there's at least the insinuation that the authorities can and do act in the interests of the people. Their economies aren't black holes of persistent reliance on NGOs and minimal foreign investment.
Myanmar is recognised as the poorest country in South East Asia: approximately 32% of the population lives in poverty. Although it now functions as a parliamentary democracy, its economy is still recovering from years of corruption and mismanagement under a military dictatorship, and arguably still suffers these vices. What wealth there is sits concentrated in the hands of the very few; there is minimal foreign investment in the economy, and little infrastructure, both in terms of ultilities and in human capital, to tempt it. Myanmar's poverty exists adrift in a vicious circle of corruption, poor infrastructure, lack of external investment, and insularity.
However much the Burmese people are determined to help themselves, who is balancing them on the other side of the equation and is able or prepared to help them in kind?
My morning in Myanmar let me meet children who were overjoyed to be photographed so that they could see themselves on the LCD screen of my camera; speak with an 86 year-old gentleman whose English was mind-bendingly good; eat lunch for 500 Kyat (roughly 30 pence); see young boys playing in the street; marvel at stands of sarongs; smile at men with their moveable feasts; and answer that no, I didn't want a taxi. There's a sense of determination and resilience rising from these people, amongst their bowls of washing and open fires, but they need more than just that, and me with my smiles and my camera and my intrepidity.
It's an experience that I'm pleased that I've had. It is, however, one that left me feeling incontrovertibly sad.
A protest marches on its stomach
I arrived in Bangkok five days before the Thais were due to go to the polls in a general election. However, amid growing discontent and dissatisfaction with Yingluck Shinawatra's government, many people had taken to the streets to protest. Rather than face a ballot sheet comprising the names of Thaksin cronies and shills, they wanted reform first.
The loudest calls were for elections to be delayed until an unelected people's council had been installed and had swept out the corruption and profligacy. While I'm not entirely convinced by the notion of an unelected people's council (what can possibly go wrong there?), I do sympathasise with an electorate feeling that they have Hobson's Choice and that there is no prospect for improvement under the current regime.
Protestors had gathered in force across Bangkok under the slogan 'Shutdown Bangkok; restart Thailand.' Major roads and intersections were blocked; public parks were over-taken; and government buildings were barricaded. For the most part, it was a peaceful movement with quite some support and certaily some impact.
The hotel where I was staying was sandwiched between two of the main protest sites: Lumphini Park 500 metres to the left and Rama I Street 300 metres to the right. Right up until I left Bangkok, the protest sites felt far more festival-like a child-friendly than I would anticipate from a political show of discontent. I spent quite some time wandering amongst the protestors, most of whom were happy to be photographed. Many of my photos focused on the food available to the protestors, either free or paid-for. After all, a protest marches on its stomach.


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Economist Says Drug Spending Not A Crisis
April 6, 2001
Those who are warning that the recent spiraling spending on prescription drugs is threatening to bring down the nation's health system should relax, Princeton University economist Uwe Reinhardt recently told a meeting on prescription drug pricing issues. "In the aggregate, spending on prescription drugs is not a major macro-economic burden," Reinhardt told a meeting of the Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change.
- In 1999, he noted, Americans spent less per capita on prescription drugs ($358) than they did on alcohol, tobacco and entertainment admission fees ($413).
- Increased spending for prescription drugs is overrated as a reason for the recent upsurge in health insurance premiums, since, if prescription drugs account for 15 percent of the cost of premiums and premiums are rising 20 percent per year, only 3 percentage points of the increase is attributable to prescription drugs, he said.
- And those who say that drug spending can be held down by lowering the industry's profit margin are also likely to be disappointed, since industry profits represent only about 1.2 percent of national health expenditures.
What is a major spur towards increased utilization, Reinhardt said, is the increase in third-party coverage of drug costs and tier pricing systems that shield consumers from the actual costs of their medications. Requiring people to pay a percentage of their drugs costs, rather than a fixed copayment, he said, would "give people some idea of the actual cost of drugs."
Source: "Economist says drug spending not a crisis," Reuters Health, March 28, 2001.
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Ford announced that it will bring 9 (nine, n-i-n-e) customized Mustangs at this year's 2010 SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) Show, as well as the new Mustang Boss 302. First of all, we will see a Mustang GT customized by Ford Vehicle Personalization, featuring a custom white tri-coat color developed by Sherwin-Williams with coral undertones.
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O'Leary injury mars Dr Crokes triumph
DR CROKES booked their place in the semi-final but the victory was marred by an injury to Kerry senior Kieran O'Leary, who suffered a broken leg.
Dr Crokes, champions South Kerry and Austin Stacks all advanced but all three games were disappointing.
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Beef and Garlic Scape Stir-Fry
This is the Winter that wasn't. Crocuses are beginning to push their way up in Mid-February, and the Ice Melt purchased after last October's surprise snowfall sits untouched in the front hall. One of the surest signs of Spring in the Chinatown markets is the arrival of Garlic Scapes. If you've never tried them you are in for a real treat.
Garlic Scapes are the curling "flower stalks" of hardneck varieties of garlic. Although the plant does not produce flowers, these stalks start to appear about a month after the first leaves. The Rocombole variety of garlic sends out brilliant green tangling twisting scapes that, if left on the plant would eventually become too tough and fibrous to eat. If cut when young and tender however, they have a delicious, sweet, mild garlic flavor that can be used in countless ways. Let your imagination be your guide.
This simple stir-fry is equally delicious served over noodles or rice.
2 tablespoons light soy sauce
1 tablespoon Shaoxing rice wine, or dry sherry
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 two inch piece of ginger, peeled, sliced and minced
1 teaspoon roasted sesame oil
ground white pepper to taste
1 lb. top sirloin, sliced into thin strips against the grain
3 tablespoons peanut oil
1 bunch garlic scapes, cut into 1 inch pieces
2 small red Thai chilies, minced
1/4 cup low sodium chicken stock
1/2 cup roughly chopped cilantro
Combine the soy sauce and rice wine in a mixing bowl and whisk in the cornstarch. Add the ginger, sesame oil, and white pepper to taste. Add the beef slices and stir to coat well. Let the beef marinate at room temperature for 30 minutes.
Drain the beef and reserve the marinade. Heat two tablespoons of the peanut oil in a heated wok until almost smoking. Working in batches, add the beef and stir- fry until just pink, about two minutes. Remove to a plate.
Wipe out the wok, and heat the remaining one tablespoon peanut oil, swirling to coat the bottom of the wok. Add the garlic scapes, and chiles, and stir-fry until just tender, about three minutes. Return the beef to the wok, add the chicken stock and the reserved marinade, and bring just to a boil. Remove to a serving dish, garnish with cilantro and serve immediately over noodles or rice.
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Her pick: Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
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I don't think I have ever focused an entire post on my Sugar Block Club blocks so I thought it a good idea to do so.
Back in December I decided to use some of the
hoarded much loved fabric I have on hand instead of buying anything new. After a gander through my extensive stash I came across a FQ bundle of Hometown by Sweetwater. It is one of my many favorites. Instead of a white background I decided to use black and it has proven to be quite the dramatic touch. Here is my fabric selection laid out waiting for my first block:
Here are the individual blocks with the month in which they were stitched captioned under them:
Each month there is a recipe that goes along with the block pattern but I have only tried one of them as I have been on a diet and doing quite well I might add (I am not only at my goal weight but a bit under it).
The most challenging block was certainly February as it was a bit fussy to get the points to match up (of course they didn't all match exactly in the end but close enough for me). But my favorite block so far is May. I realize there are some points that don't match but that block seems to have shadows and just seems quite "wow".
I am really loving this BOM and I may even make a sweet sometime soon seeming as how I am doing well with the weight loss. Since we are halfway through I think it is okay to look at the first six blocks all together:
I recently posted this pic on Instagram and stated I need to back off the red and some disagreed but I still thing I need to add a bit more of the yellow for balance reasons. and maybe a bit of the multicolor prints.
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To describe the Blue Diamond as amazing or incredible or breath taking, while true, only just brushes the surface of the exquisite "Diamond" that it really is. To clarify, let's start with the rooms. Each room from the beautiful Cenote suites to the Lagoon Palifitos to the Beachfront Casitas is tastefully decorated. Elegantly crafted open ceilings and hardwood floors welcome you with warm tones that invite relaxation. The furniture is simple and comfortable and the beds will encourage sleep long past the beautiful sunrises. Rain heads in the showers was a nice touch. A gentle shower after a hot day was welcome. Outside we had a private bath/plunge pool that was also great to just sit and soak away the cares of the day in private. For food you have 4 options. Room service has its own small menu. The main restaurant is The Ambar. Walking through the front door into a mood lit circular wine room where you're greeted and shown to your table. There is a wonderful ambiance to the restaurant. The menu here is always the same but full of choices (may i suggest the duck salad) and the food here was delicious. I would recommend a table outside as it sits over the lagoon. Beautiful views of the lagoon and its natives while we ate was a real treat. The next is the Aquamarina where my lady and I had most of our meals. We were greeted by our hostess Aracelli who is an absolute sweetheart. She will take care of everything you need. The head waiter Jesus will great you and oversee that everything is perfecto. And if you have the opportunity to be served by Roman you will not be disappointed. Service with a smile never had truer meaning. The menu here changes nightly. While we we there it was Mexican flare, Mayan flare and a French menu. All nights the food was wonderful! It made you feel like it was a different restaurant every night except with the same warm people serving you. Excellent wine list here as well. Very nicely situated on the beach so again a seat outside is a must to take in the sights, smells and sounds of the Caribbean. Below the Aquamarina is the Ceviche Cha Cha Cha. A nice place to enjoy a lite lunch after a swim in the beautiful blue waters just a few steps away. Again the service here is no different, with Cesar and Ricardo taking control of making your vacation memorable with laughs and good conversation. Very modern decor here so it's easy to feel right at home. After lunch on the deck you can sit on the lounge chairs in the sand and Cesar continues to make sure every want you have is taken care of to the letter. There are several pools at the resort. We did not use the spa because of time but heard the pool there was great as well as the variety of services offered there. Down on the beach front if you've had enough of the sand you can sit in the pool there. It seemed a bit chilly to us but prob just because the ocean was so warm. The jacuzzi overflows into the endless pool and the are both pleasantly warm. All with full service from the bar on site. All of these amenities are within walking distance of your room. It's a very nicely gardened path that stretches probably the better part of a half of a mile from lobby to the beach. But if you left your walking shoes at home there is always a cart with a willing driver to escort you wherever you need to go. The true beauty of this resort is its service. From upper management to the concierge to the waitstaff and the gardeners, they made us feel like family. When we left it tugged at the heart. A big round of thanks and commendation goes out to our friends Victor, Jose and Merial in concierge, Jesus, Roman, Daniel and Aracelli at the Aquamarina, Ceser and Ricardo at the Ceviche, Luis, Jose and Federico at the pool bar, and Luis, Jesus, Darwin, Aldo and Adrianna as the bellmen and front desk reception. Thanks to you all for the most wonderful week we have ever had on a vacation. We will be back soon. To recap for you readers, The Blue Diamond is the only place you will want to go in the Playa del Carmen area. Top notch on all scores. You will never want to leave. We didn't. Thanks for reading and enjoy your stay at the Blue Diamond.
Leave the world behind and enter through the gates of Blue Diamond Riviera Maya to a perfect vacation! The huge and impressive open lobby feels Daunting until you are greeted with a sweet cool drink and a chilled towel. Check in is fast and easy( especially having booked through Cheap Caribbean ). Your host gets Your things and you on a speedy little chariot ( golf cart) driven by a sweet young man who Takes you right to your suite. All the accommodations at Blue Diamond are suites. No 3,500 room monster buildings With elevators and hallways here!!! 128 suites dotted throughout the most beautiful jungle setting ever! From Jr. Suites (like ours) with art installations In each "patio" they share, to the lagoon 2story suites with water view to the very Special beach casitas, no choice is a wrong One! The BD property is a one mile stretch from Lobby to Beach! It sounds long but, seriously It is one of the prettiest most enjoyable walks You could take! Relax!!! There are plenty of golf carts to catch As they pass! They will slow down to offer a ride but, we actually chose to walk a lot. So much food and so much to drink, we needed to work some of it off!:) The raw stone "road" leads from one end to The other taking you through lush, tropical Surroundings. Once you reach the end you Can hear the waves crashing, birds calling And voices chatting. Up the white stucco stairs and you have reached the Hub. The center of life at BD. The small pool bar greets you first, if 10 Lovely folks haven't already, and introduces You to the main Pool/beach area. No massive man made lake with bridges and Swim Up bars here!!!! Just a serene fairly shallow infinity pool (cool) sizable but not crazy and the long ( warm) lap pool that ends With the jacuzzi. Two incredible places to dip or spend hrs. Floating around like a duck on a pond! All of this looking out over the tops of the palm trees to the glittering ocean. Plenty of chaise lounges, umbrellas and even White tented cabanas ring the pools for all To enjoy. Never was there a fight for a place To plant ourselves. Sun or shade there were Always options even late in the morning if One chose to sleep in. This was not the case for us! Since there is Little to do entertainment wise after dinner At this blissfully quiet resort, we found Ourselves back at our room and asleep early most nights. Usually after a delightful Dinner at Aquamarina or Ambar, the slightly More formal restaurant (dinner only). Men, Long pants and closed toe shoes required. Nice jeans are ok but if you are going Somewhere nice, dress well! Right? The menu at Ambar is more traditional, Serious food. Attention payed to us as well as the food they serve was wonderful!! A footstool was brought to our table for my Purse because Romero felt it was necessary. Wow! Has that ever happened Even at the finest places in NY or Paris? I think not!!:) Beef tenderloin, salmon, quail risotto, cauliflower soup, Beet salad and a killer chocolate desert and much more will Be too much to chose from. The best Cappuccino and a shot of tequila will surely Finish you off!! Good luck:) Awake early with warm sun and the sounds Of the birds! Ready for a delish breakfast we walked up the road to the pool to eat in the sun at Aquamarina one of the Two main restaurants. Modern and elegantly casual This high cielinged room is great! Many sat Inside but we like "Al Fresco"! Juan, Cesar,Priciliamo and the gang will take Special care of you! From fresh squeezed juices, fruit plates, eggs of all kinds, yogurt And granola to sweet or savory crepes and waffles, oh my what to choose!! Eggs Benny, Mexican crepes and the smoked salmon bagel Are winners as is the Natural yogurt and granola!! I'm allergic to pineapple so they substituted kiwi, watermelon and bananas. Added to an already impressive plate of melons and fresh papaya!! Yummmm That's just breakfast! Sit by the pool, on the beach, at Aquamarina Or the ceviche bar for lunch! They will bring It to you or you can sit on the decks of either Spot watching people go by, birds play in the breeze and the water roll up on the beach. Heaven! (Speaking of the breeze... While we were there, the breeze was strong And constant! Lovely but makes you forget How strong the sun is and it's easy to over Do it big time!!! SPF 30 at least please!!) Moving on...:) Start with the ever perfect chops, salsa and Guacamole they serve automatically , then.. Full lunch menu with salads, sushi, sashimi Fish tacos and steaks to the "snack" menu Including ceviche(marinated fish and Veggies served cold) excellent buffalo wings Burgers, fish fritters, empanadas and fries!! Amazingly good food and lots of choices Especially for an All Inclusive!!! Cesar is a whirlwind of energy and he delivers Food and drinks at great speed to his guests Everyone here, in all capacities, works very Hard!! It shows in the way they keep the grounds, clean the rooms, serve us at the bars and dining areas and in the kind genuine Way they greet everyone with a smile, a hand To their heart and a big happy "Hola"! Everyone was wonderful to us and we showed Our appreciation with small $ tips throughout The week. It is very appreciated and deserved It is no big hardship to have some singles Or a few pesos in your beach bag or shorts pocket, truly!! Do it!:) No need to worry about leaving things at your Chair by the pool! We left IPads, camera and cash in our tote with no worries! On the Beach, maybe not so safe since it is not as Secure an area! *(Now... There is a safe in every room and we Assume everyone will use theirs but this is Just common sense. There is no need here For jewels and fancy things! So leave them At home. ) Our beach was by far the Prettiest of the strip. We walked both directions And magically our little piece was softer, cleaner And the water was clearer. Not so just a short way down on either side! The other resorts dwarf our little BD but I couldn't wait to turn around and get back To our special place! Some water sports are available. We had a free Snorkel trip with our room and the guys have A couple of jet skis and kayaks if one wants For the most part, little to do but chill and relax. Exactly what we needed! If you want music and dance parties and water slides this ain't the place! Seriously This is an oasis and it should be respected As just that!! Adults only!!!! I have come to learn, sadly, that "Adults" Doesn't equal "Grown Ups". There were a few groups,young and older, Who just had no clue how loud they were, How drunk they got and how they imposed On others around them. Shhhhh!:( The concierge crew did hear our concerns And did try to curb it a bit but, they have a Tough job and I don't envy them that part a Bit!! Although this unfortunate issue did arise We don't hold it against the resort or the BD staff In any way!!!!! So come! Relax, enjoy and be peaceful. It is a gift and a special one to savor! We will see everyone soon! Your fan, foodie girl! ( Thanx Cheap Carribean!!)
We arrived at the hotel to a bucket of champagne after arranging for a non-alcohol room set-up. We asked for a late checkout since our flight out wasn't until evening. We were initially told 3pm, but the day before departure were told that they couldn't give us a late checkout and would have to check out at 9am. When i asked why they wouldn't accommodate a later checkout i was told that they could remove us from the hotel for non-compliance. Who enforces a 9am checkout at a vacation resort? Also, there weren't many people here that we could see, so why be so inflexible with those that are trying to enjoy staying here. The food was good, our dinner service was top rate. We tipped the server heavily because we we're so happy to be treated that nicely. The Royal Swim with the Dolphins was awesome, the Coba Mayan Encounter was another highlight and well worth the money, the Xplor package was a bit disappointing in that they should disclose that they're taking you to a theme-park instead of having you assume you're out in the open country. Big difference. Overall, we were hoping to return here for each anniversary, but didn't ever get that wow, happy you're here, how can we make this your best vacation ever feeling. Too bad.
If you want to be pampered and treated like royalty, look no further. Aside from the amazing rooms, food and views, the all inclusive packages include everything you would want to do at the resort - spa installation like the vapor room, sauna, bubble therapy, and even an authentic Mayan temazcal ceremony are all included; in addition to snorkeling at the reef, kayaks, sail boats, and go-cart transportation. On top of all, the staff is there 24/7 to serve you and to make your stay even better. Rooms were cleaned twice a day, or even more if you wish; restaurant/beach staff are really good and will recommend the best dishes from the a-la-carte menu with daily specials. The food and drinks are great! The best way to describe the food would be high-end dishes with a Mexican twist. You can have any kind of drink at the resort, from tropical juices to cocktails, to wine and spirits. The beach at the Blue Diamond is also a great amenity! It maybe has some small pebbles when you try to go in the water but once you pass it (maybe a foot or two in length) there are no rocks at all. We walked up and down the beachfront to OTHER resorts and their beaches sucked! No service by the beach, no clean towels layer out for you, no showers, and worst of all massive coral rocks all along their beaches. That's not the case with the Blue Diamond, service is always available and very little rocks. If you are thinking this resort may be a little pricey, it is completely justified once you go. You won't regret it! We are very certain we will return!
We have been to three different resorts in the Playa del Carmen/Rivera Maya area and Blue Diamond is definitely head and shoulders over the others. Rooms as well as common areas are fabulously beautiful, new and modern. I want to build a new house now! Service and amenities were excellent. Loved the boutique feel. I couldn't quite understand all the room offerings between this website and the hotel's before we left, but we stayed in a Patio Junior Suite. Lots of other reviewers have a done a good job describing the resort, but I'll just try to clear up what I was confused about here in my review. All PATIO JUNIOR SUITES (6 courtyards with 8 units each) have an outdoor tub, very private back yards, and a sitting area. There is one PATIO SUITE in each courtyard that has its own private swimming pool. We loved the privacy that you had not being on the water, and had our outdoor tub filled daily (it just took a phone call and 20 minutes of patience having cocktails on the back patio) Would stay in this room again. The Cenote Deluxe Junior Suites are farthest from the beach (not a big issue because bikes and carts are readily available), closest to the spa and don't have as much privacy with all back patios facing each other on the cenote. The Laguna Suites are close to the beach, are larger units, and have colder AC (friends of ours were moved there for that reason, something to do with the water table), but again, have less patio privacy. The Palafito Deluxe Junior Suites are very close to the beach, two stories with a beautiful view of the mangrove lagoon (I thought the prettiest waterway), but again, patio is very visible. The Beach Front Casitas looked amazing and had private pools. They even had a special section of beach with lounge chairs that were reserved for those units. I've uploaded the resort map for reference. Happy travels!
From the moment we arrived til we left we felt pampered and relaxed. We stayed in the Patio Suite (Basic room) and loved it. It afforded us privacy, space and luxury. We loved the room and the patio area. Riding the golf carts to/from the beach and restaurants is easy to do. We never waited more than a few minutes. Walking was enjoyable too as you get to look at the art installations and wildlife. We saw coati, crocodiles, a huge snake (yuck), beautiful birds and butterflies, small geckos and what looked like a nutria. The pool and beach were never crowded - both pools at the beach have infinity edges and one is heated. There is also a jacuzzi alongside the heated pool. All of the staff was very friendly and helpful. There is no nightlife here at all, no loud entertainment staff and music is soft and sort of new age like all day/night. So, it's not for everyone. If you are looking for a lively party trip this is not the place. This is romance (99% couples, not a single scene), spoiling, excellent food & drinks in a gorgeous upscale resort. There are bottles of wine and upgraded beef/lobster available but no one every pushed anything or even offered it to us. It was just shown on the menu. Other items comments on - the ride from the airport was not long but we did private shuttle, maybe 30 mins. The outside pool/tub was not cold water. We had very warm, nice bubble bath water filled in our pool. Didn't give room 5 stars as I thought bed was hard and regarding the dining, I thought they could use another option or two.
This is truly one of the most peaceful resorts you will ever visit. There is a not a lot to do at the resort which was why it appealed to us for our 10 year anniversary. We didn't want a big crowded resort with lots of groups. It was mostly couples. The grounds are beautiful. Pool area is small but very peaceful and easy to get cabanas. There were no hidden costs for anything. The servers are so friendly (checkout the Javi special at the pool bar) and food was excellent!! I have been to several all-inc where food is not so great. Everything they make is gourmet and delicious. Don't be turned off because there are only 3 restaurants. They change the theme in one nightly so different menus and all are wonderful. We were also extremely pleased with the true top shelf bar. Lots of places advertise top shelf and then serve you Popov vodka. They had every liquor and mixer you could imagine. Mini bar (which was not so mini) restocked in the room frequently. The only complaint if I had to give one is the ice in the room situation. Due to the design of the resort, there are no ice machines. You need to call the desk every time you want ice. Most of the time, they were there quickly (within 15 minutes) but a couple times, we had to call twice and wait over 2 hours to get it. Last thing is definitely get a bike!!! The grounds are gorgeous and there are paths everywhere to ride a bike. Also makes getting to beach and restaurants easier. They have golf carts to bring you around as well (which come very quickly when needed) but the bike is so much more fun. Caution riding the bike after the Javi special!! LOL!! I suggest calling resort before you go to make sure they have them available for you. They only have so many and of course the nicest rooms get those. The little people get put on a wait list. I bugged concierge a couple times to get one.
For a Luxury All Inclusive, the Blue Diamond falls short. The propoerty is showing it's age or perhaps lack of maintainence as there were a couple of issues with my accomodations that I learned were also being experienced by other guests. There was a leak from the sink in the bathroom that took 2- 3 days to fix and the electriconic Doorbell, Request for Housekeeping Service and Do Not Distrub signs never worked. The other and probably most disappointing item was the Room Service Charge between prime hours of 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. When I think of All Inclusive I expect to be able to dine anywhere at anytime without additional costs, especially in the "luxury" category.
I will start with the positives. We paid for Jr. Suite so room/bathroom were very good. Resort is LONG so lots of walking but if you can wait 10-15 mins every time they can come get you in their golf carts. Pool/beach area is good. The negatives: - The help or someone who comes to clean the room stole $500 from the wallet that was inside of the luggage. - On calling the concierge, they didnt even acknowledge the theft and focused on us "checking out" next day. - The manager NEVER meets with anyone no matter how serious the issue (even after confirming a meeting time, the manager never showed to the meeting). - Only 3 restaurants for food and we were all vegetarian and had confirmed with the resort that they can take care of our dietary restrictions before booking and HORRIBLE experience with food. Unless you can eat nachos, pasta, risoto and fajitas for 5 days for all meals. - First day we had asked to stock the room fridge with our selective items and they NEVER did for 5 days (got the same things everyday). We didnt drink any alcohol but never got the drinks we asked for). There is no customer service at this resort. You can find much cheaper/better deals on excursions outside of the resort.
You will not be disappointed. Everything is fabulous. This is a great resort for those who just want to relax and get away... would not be great for people who want a lot of activities.


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If James/Jacobus marriage to Margaret Harker is correct, then we have Margaret's mother as Dorothy Bigod(1529-1573) and Bigod E. certainly has a G-mother to lend her surname to his Christian name and Dorothy Eggleston receives her Christian name from her G-mother also. I also have Bigod's younger brother as Simeon and what if this were the Simon from Simon Bigod? I'll look at your info. and see what I think. I've already spent much more time on Bigod Eggleston than any other ancestor in my line. It's not that I don't want to get it right it's just that this problem has occupied an inordinate amount of my genealogy time. Along w/ the problem I have of finding Hester Buck's lineage, mother of Hester Eggleston, whereas nobody seems to be involved in researching that, LOL.
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Club president Jorien van den Herik has questioned some of van Marwijk's decisions, so the gritty 1-0 win, courtesy of a fine 37th minute goal from Anthony Lurling, will go some way to easing the tension at De Kuip.
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Utrecht were forced to come from behind to beat RKC Waalwijk 3-1 at Nieuw Galgenwaard.
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Stefaan Tanghe (pictured), buoyed by recently signing a new deal, scored the crucial second moments before the interval and he added a late third to book Utrecht's place in the last eight.
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Carla, Thays, Andrea Mel, Elisa, Others. 115 Min.
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Four very passable she-males samba into their bedrooms and living rooms, accompanied by their handsome and loving boyfriends, for a little gender blending smooching and ass fucking.
Carla looks like your average hard-bodied babe waiting for her sweetie by the park, but once she's out of her everyday clothes an in her zebra striped catsuit with a raging hard-on, the plot thicks. In the true spirit of equality, she and her hard bodied boy toy take turns banging each other nicely before showering and chatting with the director.
This basic premise is repeated three more times, with Thays greeting her man on the street before honking loudly in response to his ass thrusts. The way he watches her face during intercourse is wonderful.
Andrea Mel undresses on her couch, then enjoys the company of a handsome fellow until they shower, she dresses again – and appears angry. Elisa gazes out her balcony's glass doors before joining her tattooed sweetheart on the couch and serves up some hard to read facial expressions. Their shower scene is the best of the four.
Sexy and stylish addition to the long-running Latin she-male series.
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May 27, 2004 - 4:10 pm
For over a year now I get the sensation sometimes in the middle of the night or normally in the mroning when I wake up.. that I leaked urine.. I run into the bathroom and go.. sometimes its hard to start..
Recently my belly has been really big and my pants are tight. =(
The other morning I woke up felt something wet come out.. ran to the bathroom and pee'd normally.. then I had to pee again and again.. and again... then after awhile it was hard to pee... and blood clots s tarted coming out.. ( Had a full hysterectomy so I know its not that) then after I was done passing the clots.. I could pee normally again.. Well I called my OBGYN went in.. they took in my vagina just to make sure.. and took a urine sample which was negative for a UTI...
Made a appt. with a urologist got in the same day.. they took a urine sample and s aid they saw bacteria... but said they were going to send it off for a culture... got the results of that... it was positive for infection.... They still want to do the test where they look inside my bladder with the camera via my urethra .. becuase they are concerned about my history smoking... hair dye.. ect.. I have had infections before... but nothing like this with blood and blood clots and such...
Has anyone ever heard of a person with bladder cancer also having bacteria in their urine ?
thanks all for reading this and I look forward to your responses.
Take care !
Jun 01, 2004 - 1:08 pm
hi, my husband had bladder cancer, big surgery etc and is doing well, BUT, you probably have a urnary ttrack infection- but Please do go for the cystoscopy and let them take a look-My husband never had blood clots, only showed blood once- the other time it was microscopic. You definately have something going on there, but dont panic and assume its cancer- Get your tests done so you can treat whatever it is and get better!!
Jun 04, 2004 - 1:29 am
Yes, I have had recurring bladder ca since 1996. That is one of the things they monitor me for regularly. Don't be afraid of having the cystoscopy (scope of inside of bladder). I have it done in the Urologists office...been getting them anywhere from every 2- 6 mos since dx in '96. It is what helped in early diagnosis and early treatment over the years. I'm still here.
Oct 18, 2004 - 1:46 pm
Hi, I am a 54 year old woman who was dx with bladder cancer Stage I last Fall. I have cystoscope in the uro's office every 3 months and have had 3 reccurences in a row followed with surgery. The cystocope is really no biggie, uncomfortable for about 30-60 seconds. They are very quick and they can just about tell you right then and there pretty much what is going on. I became suspect 2 years ago when I had several recurring urinary tract infections. Bacteria almost every time with some clots appearing also. It is definitely important to have the cystos as they will save your life. I am currently undergoing BCG treatment. Have one more week to go and if anyone reads this reply and is female and has had the BCG- please write about how you felt towards the end of treatment as I am now in some pain and discomfort. Back to the e-mail I am responding to, take control of your situation and go to the Doc and have a cysto, my best advice.


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- The policy can be cancelled within 30 days, and at any time after that for a pro-rata discount
Please note that this extended warranty is currently only available on products sold within the EU or EEA, and is subject to the terms and conditions as detailed on the extended warranty certificate provided.
For customers in outlying areas of the country, the price of the Extended Warranty may be marginally higher, due to the potential for higher collection and redelivery transport costs.
This enhanced warranty is in addition to the standard Gear4music and manufacturer warranty policies, and the Gear4music terms and conditions of trade. No statement or condition of sale contained within these terms affects or restricts your statutory rights as defined under the Consumer Contracts Regulation 2014.
Once the product is delivered, you have 180 days to decide that you definitely want to keep it. If you decide it is not suitable for any reason, you can return it back to us for replacement or full refund, including standard delivery charges.
All Products are new unless stated, and include a minimum of 2 years warranty.
Some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging, and in the case of software, unregistered. These items include:
- Software
- CDs & DVDs
- In-ear Monitors
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Mouthpieces, Reeds etc… for Woodwind and Brass instruments
- Mouth / Lip Care Products
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package, such as computer system built to a customer's personal specifications. Exceptions may only be possible with prior agreement of the vendor, and may be subject to a cancellation fee.
If you also purchase items that do not qualify for free delivery, some delivery charges may be applied to your order which will be shown in your shopping basket.