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By Automobile Magazine 9/13/2013
In honor of Chrysler-built minivans' anniversary, there is a new 30th Anniversary package with an upgraded interior and a smattering of special-edition badges inside and out. (However, it's worth noting that the Chrysler Town & Country didn't actually debut as a minivan until the 1990 model year, which is six years after its Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager siblings debuted, meaning the Chrysler van isn't thirty years old quite yet.) The Town & Country S -- which was new last year -- has been updated with new black chrome trim, blacked-out headlight surrounds, seventeen-inch aluminum wheels, and a monotone black interior...Read more
The Town & Country is the only vehicle in Chrysler's lineup to eschew a numeric badge name. And with good reason: the venerable Town & Country moniker is one of the oldest Chrysler nameplates, applied to famous wood-bodied luxury cars of the 1940s as well as the minivan that helped to save the company in the 1980s. Since then, the five generations of Town & Country (and its Dodge Caravan/Grand Caravan, Plymouth Voyager/Grand Voyager siblings) have been named Automobile Magazine All-Stars a total of six times. Those were rightfully won victories, given that the Town & Country and its corporate compatriots created the minivan segment. Chrysler's minivans established a new kind of people mover that took America by storm throughout the 1980s and 1990s; eventually every major manufacturer fielded at least one minivan. The Chrysler vans also introduced forward-looking innovations like a power tailgate and sliding doors, roll-out rear seats, a stowable second-row table, flip-folding Stow 'N Go seats, and optional all-wheel drive.
Over the years, the Town & Country has been one of Chrysler's best-selling nameplates. In 2012, 111,744 copies of the minivan were sold in the U.S., and the automaker is off to an even better pace through the first two-thirds of 2013.
Minivans were put on this planet for one primary purpose: to haul people. Lots of people, in fact, given that Chrysler has sold more than thirteen million minivans since 1983. The Chrysler Town & Country moves people but also adheres to the brand's principle of infusing everyday vehicles with a little luxurious flair. Since its overhaul in 2011, the Town & Country's exterior has been imbued with projector headlamps, LED taillamps, and a slew of chrome accents. The sportier-looking Town & Country S, introduced last year, jazzes up the aesthetics further with black chrome accents, blacked-out headlight bezels, black-painted seventeen-inch aluminum wheels, and black-backed Chrysler badges.
The new rear-seat video system won't entertain the driver, but a few modifications made during the van's makeover in 2011 -- notably a 283-hp V-6 and revised suspension tuning -- make spending time behind the wheel a little less boring. The Town & Country's standard Stow 'N Go seating, which boasts second- and third-row seats that quickly fold flat into the load floor, provides unrivaled versatility, but what the Town & Country boasts in flexibility it lacks in finesse. Its six-speed automatic doesn't always shift smoothly, its body structure emits rattles over harsh impacts, and we'd be happier if Chrysler expanded the use of upscale, soft-touch materials within. In a 2011 comparison test, we felt that the Town & Country "still needs a ground-up redesign to bring the interior, chassis, and transmission in line with the best vehicles in its class. It is, however, the minivan for those who value versatility above all else." The Chrysler Town & Country is also rated as a Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. With all that in mind, the Town & Country is more of a premium people mover than ever before.


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UNITAR's strategic plan envisaged the creation of three units comprising training activities according to thematic clusters. The Peace, Security and Diplomacy Unit constitutes one of these three units and incorporates four of the Institute's Programmes.
The Unit addresses the four thematic areas listed below, with a view to enhance the capacity of Member States to support the United Nations in meeting its goals and objectives in the areas of peace, security and diplomacy.
- International Law
International law training activities strive to actively promote a better knowledge of international law among law practitioners of Member States with a view to enhance the respect for international law and to assist in bringing about a better application of international legal instruments. A specific focus has been placed on the teaching of international environmental law in order to assist Member States in the implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements.
- Multilateral Diplomacy
The Institute's projects and activities in the field of multilateral diplomacy focus on raising awareness and developing knowledge, skills and expertise in view of strengthening the capacity of diplomats and other government officers to perform effectively in the multilateral working environment.
- Peacemaking and Conflict Prevention
Ever since the Charter resolved to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", the UN has strived to develop more effective methods for achieving this important and challenging goal. UNITAR addresses these important goals by providing advanced training in conflict analysis, negotiation and mediation skills.
- Peacekeeping Training
Newly added to UNITAR's list of leading-edge training programmes, the Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) offers innovative learning opportunities to prepare prospective civilian, military and police personnel to serve in peacekeeping missions around the world.
In addition to the implementation of training and capacity development activities, the Unit produces training tools and methods, such as human capacity needs assessments and evaluations, advisory services, simulations, handbooks, glossaries and CD-ROMs.
Content and Methodology
The activities conducted by the Unit's programmes include the organization of face-to-face training activities such as skills-development workshops, awareness-raising and orientation briefings, knowledge-learning and -sharing seminars, study visits and fellowship programmes; such type of training and capacity development initiatives represent the vast majority of activities conducted by the Unit.
A range of training methodologies is utilized with a view to increase the outreach of the Unit's training activities. Options for conducting correspondence instruction and e-Learning have been explored and respective opportunities are being further developed.
Target Audience
Beneficiaries of the training activities offered by the Unit include diplomats, government officials, staff of regional organizations, academics, legal professionals from the public and private sector, judges, magistrates, NGO representatives, indigenous peoples' representatives, peacekeepers, police, and humanitarian workers world-wide as well as senior UN staff.

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"Success is in the details."
When I walked into Naha, Chef Carrie Nahabedian was sitting a few feet away, but I didn't recognize her because she recently shed 160 pounds. However, she hasn't lost an ounce of her charming personality and warm nature. Ms. Nahabedian and her cousin Michael Nahabedian are co-owners of Naha, and the two recently opened Brindille – a refined Parisian restaurant with a sexy dining room. I've always looked up to her, but now I love her for a whole new slew of reasons. After you read this interview, I bet she'll have you hooked too.
Favorite part of what you do?
That, for one meal, I can make people happy.
Least favorite?
Everything that owning a business entails that takes you away from what you originally got into the business for.
Well put. For example?
If all I had to do was cook every day, it'd be a piece of cake. But I'm a chef and businesswoman, so I deal with taxes, media, payroll. It's all-encompassing.
Pet peeves.
The greatest travesty in dining is when a handsome couple is dining out and the first thing they do is put their phones on the table. Are you the president of the United States? Why do you need your phone?
Favorite cooking magazine.
I grew up on Gourmet and still miss that. Also, Saveur.
How do you cook at home?
Simply. I went on a very big health kick recently…
You look amazing!
Thank you. I don't cook like I used to cook at home – that's for sure.
What's your weight loss secret?
Giving up everything you love. Extreme discipline. Lots of help from doctors and nutritionists to scare you to death to do it.
Name one trend you wish would die.
Twitter…and I'm waiting for the cupcake/donut craze to die. And the casual, dineresque type of dining should go away.
What's the next big thing in dining?
A more refined dining experience. The time has come for a spectacular, over-the-top seafood restaurant. And the whole continent of Africa has yet to be portrayed in a restaurant.
Finish this sentence: There's never enough time…
…between lunch and dinner.
Favorite grocery store.
I'm not a huge shopper, but I've been somewhat turned on by Mariano's. I'm amazed at what they have.
Biggest fear.
Failure. Not being able to do what I set out to do and having to adjust with economic conditions.
If you were an ingredient, what would you be?
Fennel or an orange because I love what you can do with these ingredients. They can be transformed with just two steps.
Your most commonly used phrase.
My motto: 'Excellence or success is in the details.' The one that isn't in my vocabulary is, 'It's fine.' The word 'fine' is barely acceptable.
Name your heroes.
Julia Child, Alain Ducasse…my mother, aunt and grandmother.
What makes you laugh?
Working with Michael every day – that makes everyone laugh.
What makes you cry?
That's my biggest weakness; I'm very emotional. It could be anything.
Greatest accomplishment.
I cooked Kosher during Passover for 1,500 people for the 50th anniversary of the statehood of Israel.
The secret to perfect happiness.
Doing what you love to do, in good health, surrounded by great friends and family. My favorite quote is, 'Being able to enjoy success is the best reason for achieving it.'
In your next life you'll be.
A housekeeper. I'm on a never-ending quest for cleanliness and perfection. Or a big whale shark, just cruise all over the world and have no predators.
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Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 6, 2013, at Shiloh M.B. Church in Shelby with Rev. James Miller officiating. Burial will follow in Shiloh Memorial Gardens in Shelby under the direction of W.S. Brandon Mortuary in Cleveland.
Visitation will be from 6-7 p.m. Friday, July 5, 2013, at the Shiloh M.B. Church and from 9-11 a.m. Saturday prior to the service.
She is survived by sons, Michael Harris of Chicago, Ill., Earl Ruffin of Shelby, and Bruce Reynolds of Monroe, La.; daughters, Linda Harris and Mona Wilson, both of Shelby, Cathy Johnson of Cleveland, Loria Powell of Terry, Glenda Pettigrew, Tracey Slaughter, and Shanda Burrage of Davenport, Iowa, Lisa Denkins of Jacksonville, Fla., and Lavetta Morgan of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; sister, Bessie Phillips of Marianna, Ark.; brothers, Louis T. Harris of East Moline, Ill., and Fredrick Harris of Shelby; 30 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.


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I was alone in the house at night and I thought I saw something through a sky light we don't actually have, I was reall sacred because something was on the roof and it wasn't human. Naturally I assumed it was an alien. I saw it again later as it jumped from our roof to the neighbour's.
When my parents came home I was dying to tell them about the alien things but by then I had realised it was a family of birds. Really big birds, about as big as a person, so I wasn't afraid of them anymore. I was so relieved I didn't even question why these birds were living on our roof.
When I told my mum I pointed to the birds who were now outside the back door, but they weren't there, instead two vulture like creatures were inside the house. They started to come towards us and Cath went into the kitchen to get a knife. They approached the rest of us who were sitting in the living room and they slowly changed into monsters.
Our cat Columbus started to go wild and I didn't want her to attack them because by now they were huge dog like creatures so I held onto her and she had sort of turned into Tilly, another cat who had died a year ago.
Cath came back with the knife and threw it at the second one but missed completly. They were both facing me and I wasn't sure if they wanted me or the cat but I wouldn't let go of her even though she was going crazy. I think I said something along the lines of "We can either fight or run" And then the first monster said "Or option number three." It looked at me and I knew it was going to attack.
Then I woke up.
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I had a really coll dream last night. Too Bad I can't remember it. Bout the only thing I remember is that I got shot, and had a horrendous time recuperating. And there was also this guy who was disguised as a salamander. . . It was actually a really good dream. Darn me for waking up early.
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:47 pm
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I used to love my dreams- they were so vivid.
Now I rarely dream at all- and when I do, they make me sad, or guilty.
I want my dreams back.
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RoseBlood=Rose/Blood= Red
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:39 pm
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RoseBlood wrote:
I used to love my dreams- they were so vivid.
Now I rarely dream at all- and when I do, they make me sad, or guilty.
I want my dreams back.
ditto. We should petition Morpheus.
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:51 am
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I dont know, I used to have vivid epic dreams, but lately I think Morpheus has been taking LSD...
All my dreams are whacky and leaves me confused. XD
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:47 am
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Dreamed that I was staying at my grandparent's house, the one they sold several years ago after Grandfather died. My whole family was there, including my sister, my brother, both parents, Grandmother, and Grandfather. It was the middle of the night, and most of them had gone to bed. Grandfather wanted to know why the grocery store had paged me in an angry voice regarding the meat aisle, but I didn't answer even though I knew why at the time. Then he stretched out and went to sleep on the couch in the living room, while I took his chair.
My brother was awake and sitting on the love-seat in the living room, and I was talking with him. He was saying that he had just won a big cash prize in the lottery -- 1.12 times 90,000 dollars, which I figured would be about 100,000 really. He was planning on going back to outdoor lab, the local schools' go-to-the-mountains-for-a-week-with-your-schoolmates program.
I never did figure out why he needed a lot of money to go to outdoor lab. I wanted to tell him that he needed to buy a good car to replace his junker, but I kept getting interrupted. First he interrupted to tell me I wasn't a Boy Scout any more, which made me mad. And then the air conditioning came on and it was so loud he couldn't hear me. And then, when the air conditioning had finished running, a little girl came to the door selling something -- my Dad answered that door and was negotiating letting the little girl in to play with my sister, when my Mom called me back to the office. She had just discovered that someone (Grandfather?) had invented something called Water Markup Language, and wanted to show me. It involved sticking little plastic markers on the interior side of a cup to indicate things about it. You'd put <cup> at the bottom, and </cup> at the top, for example. And then in the middle you'd put a tag indicating that it was full of water, and what temperature, and so on. Of course every time you took a drink you'd have to redo most of the tags. I suppose it would cut down on the "half empty or half full" arguments, tho.
Woke up.
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:10 pm
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This isn't really my last night dream but it is a recurring theme:
I was wandering the world, only the world wasn't as it is now. It was more run down and decrepit most of the buildings were in ruin and nature was beginning to grow back into many areas.
For the most part it was just me and a rather large cat, about the size of a cougar, but not really a cougar. Oh and i carried a staff and a strange pack with herbs and stuff dangling off it.
On occasion i'd see another "human" though they never really looked human any more they had somehow gone rather feral and dark with dead eyes. But they weren't dead themselves, just soul-less (prolly the best way to describe their look) As a rule if i saw them i avoided them.
The strange thing is that there were places that weren't all falling down, but surrounded by a strange energy and light, still over grown but in a more alive way rather then the reclaimed death way that most of the city had. It was one of these places that i was looking for, and where my friends would be meeting with me.
Oddly enough the biggest thing that i remember is that the "house" that i'm heading to is the one i currently live in, only the Gary Oak tree sanctuary has rather engulfed it. ...
A pretty tame dream by comparison to some of the others i have. I figure it's either trying to tell me, you want to go travel again, but this isn't the time/place. And possibly you really do want to buy your parents house, no matter that there are some really cool places to live in James Bay.
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I go to Canada in about three weeks, last night I dreamt I was going to Canada but I had left all of my packing until the hour before I had to leave. (Normally I'm much more organised and do it the day before.)
And I think I had a talking frog with me. I can't really remember.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:37 pm
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Does anyone else have reoccurring dreams of flying? Or remember which the night they had a certain Deja vu?
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:42 pm
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Yup, creepy stuff! I had a Dream that I was at uni and sat on the floor in my flat (which I'd never seen) and three of my friends were in the doorway (whom I'd never met) It happened about a week after I'd moved into my flat.
He who does not eat cheese will go mad. ~ French proverb.
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I've had a couple of really good dreams, one I can't remember right now and one that I can.
the one I can't remember had something to do with treasure, I think.
The one I DO remember started with me, my sister, and my dad at a community fair that my nanny used to take me to when I was much younger. They used to have a plane fly overhead at one point, and drop a bunch of numbered ping pong balls on a field, and you ran up and picked some, like a raffle. If they called your number, you got big prizes.
Anyway, we got there after the plane had flown on by and I picked up a bunch of numbers, all of which I thought would be winning because I could see the winning number floating over head. But then those numbers went away and I had to find new numbers, then
disappeared, and I had to actually grab candy that was the same kind as a stack of candy nearby. When I finally did that, I got let in.
Instead of prizes now, though, we got into this weird branch of Willie Wonka's factory, where they made candy floss. He invited us to make some of our own, but it was insanely heavy and people started nearly slipping into the suddenly diabolical looking machine. Then I took a bite of candy floss, and then I woke up.
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Location: Still under the Opera House, and still hoarding Tristram's pencils.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:16 pm
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I'm curious. Was it Johnny Depp's Wonka, or Gene Wilder's? Or just the Wonka of Unimportant's Subconscious?
Pirate had a dream the other night that involved Earthsong.
It was kind of funny in a bizarre, stupid way.
In the dream, my Mom was a HUGE ES fan. (In real life, she's only vaguely conscious that it exists.) Anyway, I said something about K'Thonya that she took as slightly negative (I can't remember what I said, but it wasn't meant to be negative), and she's all like, "NO, she isn't! K'Thonya is really sweet!"
Also in the dream, the next several volumes of ES were published, so of course I owned them. But the thing was, the pictures moved and sort of came to life (it was COOL), and for a portion of the dream, things actually took place IN the Earthsong universe. I was just kind of a floating observer. And what I observed consisted mostly of Trissy going psychotic and deciding he wanted some lunch. Let not your heart be troubled; he didn't eat Willow or any of the other characters. He was eating random dream-persons by the ton, though, and his mouth was all bloody. AND THEN SKOGUL CAME FWOOSHING OUT OF THE SKY AND CONKED HIM ON THE HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *comic-book effect: All caps and numerous exclamation points*
I remember commenting to my sister while I was back in the "real world" that there seemed to be a trend in Tristram getting knocked out at the end of every chapter. But seriously, he was. The characters and art-style were still the same, (maybe a mite darker. This is a Pirate dream, after all) but there were some really retarded goings-on that I can't see the Lady doing. *disapproving head-shake* But it never failed that at the end of every chapter, Trissy would be rendered unconscious.
And that was Pirate's Earthsong dream.
"Miguel, you know that little voice that tells you when to quit while you're ahead? You don't have one."
-Tulio, from "Road to El Dorado".
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:17 pm
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le Pencil Pirate wrote:
I'm curious. Was it Johnny Depp's Wonka, or Gene Wilder's? Or just the Wonka of Unimportant's Subconscious?
Johnny Depp for certain, though I wish it had been Gene Wilder. Johnny Depp's take was lovely and all that, but Gene Wilder's is still the one to beat. I LOVE that Willie Wonka!
I had a dream last night that involved my snake's tail getting cut off, me getting huge royalty checks for a bit part in a movie, and having to unravel clues a la National Treasure to figure out where certain items were sunk in a moat, and then I had to dive down and get them or else the bad guy was going to shoot me and a whole bunch of young family member who I think were cousins. Details have all been stolen, unfortunately, beyond what I have relayed.
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It's been a few days since this thread was last posted in. I'll give it a bump with one of last night's dream.
I was going to take my SAT, or some other important test, with one of my friends, Areal. She normally has long hair, but in this dream her hair was short. I adore short hair on women, and she seemed very attractive. It's too bad she's straight. I've never thought of her like that while I'm awake. It's a little confusing.
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Yay for gay people! a best buddy of mine is gay, and i <3 'im. (go st. sirhc!)
ANYWAY, I had a slightly strange dream the other night. My band teacher decided to give me the french horn to play in a concert for the band- IN LIKE, FIVE MINUTES. I couldn't figure out how to play the &^%# thing, and it was in a wacko clef that I'd never seen before. I now have much respect to all who play the french horn.
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Bears GM Phil Emery: Character is a major consideration
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Updated: March 27, 2013 6:19AM
INDIANAPOLIS — If Georgia linebacker Alec Ogletree drops to the Bears at No. 20, it would seem
selecting him would be an easy decision.
Ogletree is a 6-3, 242-pound former safety who eventually could replace Brian Urlacher or be even more valuable on the outside, with new Bears defensive coordinator Mel Tucker expected to add some different wrinkles to their base 4-3 scheme.
Still, there's no guaranteeing the Bears would be seriously interested in Ogletree, a projected top-10 pick with plenty of physical tools, if he's there for the taking come the draft in April — not with general manager Phil Emery stressing how important a player's character is to his evaluations. Ogletree has a recent DUI arrest and was suspended four games for a failed drug test in 2012.
"The biggest thing is that you can't see it all out there [on the field]," Emery said during the NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Field. "The interviews are very important. Trying to predict whether a person is going to produce at the next level, it's a big step. So I guess that would be an underrated
aspect of [the combine]. ...
"We're always trying to dig further on the character of a player and his background to try and predict what that person is going to be in those areas at the next level. How is he going to fit for us in the locker room?"
Emery ranks combine evaluations like this: medical, interview and workout. Even Ogletree seemed to understand teams' thought processes on him, saying the best way to address his past is "just by having a good
"[It's] being a good person and just letting them get to know me and see who I really am and not what they just hear about me," he said.
With the Bears having an apparent need for linebackers, there are others who deserve to have their character questioned. In fact, the linebacker position — with Ogletree, Manti Te'o (Notre Dame), Kiko Alonso (Ore-
gon) and others at the top of the class — may turn out to be the most scrutinized at the combine when it comes to off-the-field aspects.
For example, Alonso, the fourth-best inside linebacker, according to some analysts, was charged with burglary, criminal mischief and criminal trespass in 2011. And that came after he was suspended for the entire 2010 season following a DUI arrest.
The checkered pasts of players such as Ogletree and Alonso are more disconcerting than Te'o and the fake-girlfriend hoax to some evaluators.
Emery, for one, is looking forward to what the new NFL Player Assessment Test reveals. The aptitude test, which is different from the Wonderlic, is a mandatory one-hour, computerized test designed to find out about a player's personality, learning ability, motivation levels and competitiveness.
"There are various ways that people test practical intelligence or practical
applied intelligence," Emery
said. "We are one of the clubs that prescribes to one of those testing companies. Ours is HRT, Human Resource Testing.
"Everyone has their own mode. The most important part of it is understanding the test, understanding the content and how to gauge the results, and where it takes you."


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Cinema | In 'Tiro libre,' walls of separation and misunderstanding
Chicago | A film conceived by Chileans about the aspirations of Palestine's national team has stirred a Chicago film festival—at least judging by an 11-page torrent of comments that debates which filmmaker deserves credit for the idea and which has the more credible connections to justice struggles (Ed M. Koziarski, "Social Justice, with Soccer," Chicago Reader, Apr 3).
In Spanish and English, writers claiming to be related to the filmmakers and even someone posting in the name one of the project's creators, Nelson Soza, vie for the right to tell the story of Tiro libre (Free Kick). The 117-minute documentary has taken a four-year journey to its festival debuts last year in Trieste, Italy, and earlier this month at the Chicago Latino Film Festival.
Piña speaks with interviewer Carla Maldonado, of El Comercio of Ecuador, during the Festival del Cinema Latino Americano in Trieste, Italy, in Nov 07. He did not attend the Chicago screenings. (© 2007 Festival del Cinema Latino Americano)
Alon Raab, writing for the Global Game when the film had the working title Futbol Palestina 2006 (22 Apr 05), interviewed Soza three years ago as Palestine's national team made its way through World Cup qualifying. Soza, listed as producer at the time, along with collaborator Marcelo Piña experienced the woes familiar to the documentary filmmaker: the continued need for financing and, in this case, competition with a second documentary crew filming its own project, Goal Dreams (known originally as World Cup Inshallah), released in 2006 to worldwide praise.
In both films, the West Bank barrier (or "separation fence" or "apartheid wall") and its network of security checkpoints that severely restrict movement in the Palestinian territories become a metaphor for sport's potential to bring transcendent purpose to life (see 11 Jan 08 for how these separations affect women's football). Sport, especially football since FIFA's acceptance of Palestine to membership in 1998, offers Palestine identity, in Eric Hobsbawm's phrase, by providing "a team of eleven named people" to stand in for a fractured whole. The Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, which organizes nonviolent resistance against land seizures and the destruction of Palestinian homes, sponsored the world premiere of Goal Dreams in Jun 06 by projecting the film onto the wall itself—"an endless line of 26 foot concrete slabs," writes ICAHD's Jeff Halper at Tikkun, "running through the campus of al-Quds University in the West Bank town of Abu Dis" ("Watching World Cup Soccer on the Wall," 27 Jun 06). Halper continues:
I was moved to say what often wells up in me when I see common people coping with checkpoints, with unimaginable suffering and constant harrassment, with a 40-year Occupation that threatens to become a full-fledged apartheid regime in the next few months (in which, horror of horrors, my people are cast as the Afrikaners)—and that is, kol hakavod [all honor] to Palestinians who maintain their humanity, their sanity, the very fabric of their lives under inhumane conditions, who even insist that their country be represented with all the others on the football pitch.
One cannot be sure what went wrong in the process of creating Tiro libre, but Soza's name becomes unattached from the project sometime in 2005 or 2006. In 2005, writing for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, he promotes a six-minute teaser for the film, screened in Chicago as a fund-raising and educational tool. He tells Raab of his and Piña's fellow feeling for the Palestinian cause, given Chileans' experience with authoritarian rule under Pinochet and the large Palestinian community in Chile, tracing lineage to the so-called Four Jorges who were part of an 1850s' exodus during the Crimean War (see Mark Holston, "Proud Palestinians of Chile," Américas, November/December 2005, p. 5). "We were not unfamiliar with the word 'Palestino,' " says Soza, referring to Club Deportivo Palestino, a first-division team in Santiago founded by Palestinian immigrants in 1920. The team plays in the traditional Palestinian colors of red, green and white.
Football as an influence on Israel's relationships with her neighbors comes through in the report on Abu Ghosh-Mevaserret and its match against a Druze side from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. For more on unified Arab-Israeli teams, see the recent documentaries Sons of Sakhnin United and We Too Have No Other Land (4:53). (© 2008 Football's Hidden Story)
The idea for Tiro libre was to focus on several players, including those who came from the Palestinian diaspora community. In the most recent qualifying campaign, for the 2010 World Cup, the side included at least one American, Omar Jarun, now with the Vancouver Whitecaps. The pursuit of such stories across continents adds to the movie's appeal, but also to the expense. In an interview with El Comercio (Quito) at the Trieste festival last year, Piña says he logged time in 13 countries and in 20 cities. The film's entry in Trieste lists four countries of origin: Chile, the United States, Egypt and Kuwait. Piña tells the Chicago Reader that he spent $350,000 on the film, although the trail of comments, reputedly from Soza and those with insider knowledge of the situation, alleges that Soza's former colleague did not maintain accountability with investors.
To some extent, the comments seek to cast doubt on Piña's own claims of allegiance with the Palestinian cause. A former film student at Columbia College and a doctoral student in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Illinois—both campuses in Chicago—Piña in his interview with El Comercio says that "my generation grew up in the Chilean dictatorship, and we are marked. Whenever I saw the Palestinian cause it was as the Chilean cause. In my country there are 500,000 Palestinians, and my first love was a Palestinian girl" (Carla Maldonado, "Un joven chileno hizo un gol en Trieste con el conflicto palestino").
He expands his story in the interview with the Chicago paper, recalling his early memories of the Augusto Pinochet regime, which took power in a 1973 coup. Piña remembers kids setting up barricades and clashing with police in his Santiago neighborhood: "The cops came and started shooting and we had to go under the bed. I could hear the bullet shells falling on the roof of my house. Winters in the early 80s felt a lot more gray and cold and hopeless. I thought, 'Is this ever going to end? Am I always going to live like this?' "
Among 350 hours of footage shot for Tiro libre is an interview with Yasser Arafat in Mar 04, not long before his death in November of that year. Arafat takes tea with players and hands each a $1,000 bonus check.
The Palestinian side's 2010 World Cup qualifying adventure already has concluded. They lost a two-leg elimination qualifier to Singapore in fall 07, assessed a 0–3 loss in the second leg, by forfeit, when they were barred from traveling by Israeli authorities. This time no cameras would have been present.
Additional resources
BBC Radio 4 as part of its Crossing Continents series airs a documentary, "Football in the Holy Land," on Apr 24. The reporter is David Goldblatt, author of The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football (see 5 Jan 08).


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I will listen to NO boring book. Old Fav's,Card, King , Hobb. New Fav's, Hill, Scalzi, Sawyer, Interested in Lansdale, Crouch, Konrath
According to George Carlin, Tiger Woods is not black, skin color has nothing to do with it. I believe Carlin thought he was black. Pipe smokers should just suck d#@k, People who walk around listening to walkmans are arrogant pricks. As I was walking my dog listening to Carlin on my headphones, thinking about smoking my pipe when I got home, I found this a strange way to start out a book. Oh just before that he talked how other comedians where idiots who had hope and always offered advice to fix things and how they are political and he is not. I then listened to seven hours of how he could make the world better and his views on politics. He starts out by pretty much bashing everybody. He thinks people in the midwest are soft and boring, the people in the South are all bigots, etc. The only ones worth a sh@t are the New Yorkers, cause they live everyday knowing they can get mugged.
Ignoring the constant put downs, negativity, and trying to make himself seem different by just saying off the wall things he thinks might piss someone off, I find him to be very, very funny and smart. (Although anybody can bitch, that does not take smarts.) I love almost all his routines on the English language and how Americans use them. Like the routine about getting on an Airplane. He is getting in, not on and all the terms used in flying, like the Terminal, etc. I love how he describes baseball, how he feels about those who want to save the planet, his comments on dogs, prostitution, time, germs, what true sports are, cats, etc.
He puts down yuppies (he who wore a pony tail for how long?), businessmen, people with money, (he was probably a millionaire), whites (he who was lily white), anyone who lives anyplace other then New York ( he moved to California). He calls several people arrogant, yet to be a comedian or a writer don't you have to believe you are so important other people will pay to hear you or buy your books or buy the audible versions of your books that you read. When your busy being arrogant and putting everyone else down it is hard to see your own faults.
I gave this four stars, cause he is entertaining and gives you plenty to think about. You just need to be prepared to have your self put down in some way, it will happen, brush it off and listen to what he really has to say.
If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection. t's a HighBridge library of laugh-out-loud, award-winning recordings featuring George himself performing many of his best bits.
Parts of this are so funny, that if you listen and drive you may be in an accident. It is hard to see where you are going when you are tearing up from laughter. The name says it all this is Classic and it is Gold.
Carlin has always been my favorite comedian. The wit, the voices, the edge, it is all combined to make you laugh and think at the same time. There is a lot here on words and how we use them, and of course the seven words you can't say on tv. There is a slight bit on politics and he takes us back to our childhood with Class Clown.
Last year I listened to his biography "Last Words" which came out after his death. It is also a great listen or read.
Carlin is a legend.
This set contains three of George Carlin's classic albums from the 1970s in their entirety: FM & AM, Class Clown, and Occupation Foole.
I did not watch TF on Saturday Night live much, but I love 30 Rock. Parts of this book made me laugh and parts made me think. It was cool to get a behind the scene look at Second City, SNL, and 30 Rock. I also thought it was motivational. It is easy to see why TF is so successful. She works hard, is very intelligent and makes no excuses
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told....
Phil Oglesby hasn't spoken to his mother in years. And she doesn't seem to care until he surprises her with a Mother's Day visit that becomes the biggest mistake he's ever made. Mother's Day is like being invited to a birthday party where the guests decide to hang you. Sometimes in life, it is often a much better idea to stay at home.
A simple humor book with funny poop stories, poop jokes, and poop questions for friends and family.
You probably couldn't define boarding houses, much less think about boarding houses. But now's your chance of a lifetime to ponder boarding houses!
When he was in his first year of secondary school, something extraordinary happened. He stumbled, completely by accident, into a Great New World, a world of fantastic sex, opportunity, and Fetus Factories. That's what this book's about. And it's written by the man himself, Axol O'Lerpler.
Hamsterdamned! is the action-packed and comical tale of gigantic rodents and sex-midgets, of one-legged prostitutes and inept Dutch policemen, of camaraderie and one man's fight to stay alive so he can marry the woman of his dreams.
Everyone knows that if Scarlett O'Hara had an unlimited text-and-data plan, she'd constantly try to tempt Ashley away from Melanie with suggestive messages. If Mr. Rochester could text Jane Eyre, his ardent missives would obviously be in all-caps. And Daisy Buchanan would not only text while driving, she'd text you to pick her up after she totaled her car.
Women love men with a sense of humor. The life of the party is the man who cracks the right word at the right moment. The problem is: Where are the good lines when you need them?
Humorist Allison Erahl pulls no punches in her enjoyable rant about how much work sucks. She says all the things you have thought but probably never said out loud because you want to stay employed. Offering tips on how to avoid work while at work and how to deal with idiot bosses and coworkers, this guide is also practical as well.
In this candid first-person memoir, Huckleberry gives you an insider's view of his beleaguered campaign, such as it is: a hilarious clown car packed with an astonishing array of fear-mongering grotesques, xenophobic paranoids, closeted bigots, and rapacious, self-promoting Conservative pundits, all of them poised to commandeer America's future in the name of God and unrestrained capitalism (not necessarily in that order).
Short--very short. Six hundred words of pure yellow-teeth glory!
We've all seen the news over the last few years, watching in wonder and disbelief at the situations the people entrusted to run the country get themselves into and then proceed to lie their way out of. Just imagine--and this won't be hard--that they were so stupid they wrote reviews of the items that got them into or out of their latest bits of trouble and posted them online.
Robert Isenberg is a man of action verbs. This hilarious collection of essays follows him through some of his most daring and traumatic adventures, from his first skydiving experience to his "routine" checkup at the doctor's office. Whether the topic is fetish pirate companies or sandwich thieves, Isenberg captures the spirit of every subject. With its keen insights and quest for the ridiculous, this collection invites you to put on your turtleneck sweater and experience the world Isenberg style.
I Probably Shouldn't Have Done That chronicles the series of vast, at times incomprehensible, mistakes that Jules makes in an attempt to get over her first "serious" boyfriend. It follows her through drunken nights, drunker nights, bad dates, worse dates, encounters with her ex, and a very few glistening moments of hope and self-realization. It is a thoroughly sad break-up story, an occasionally naive love story, and a comical train wreck throughout.
It's 1972 and Vince Cosmos is all the rage. He's the enigmatic Glam Rock star who sings about being an alien and whose followers worship him. Poppy Munday is the secretary of his fan club - Sunderland chapter - and all her dreams are about to come truewhen she finds herself drwan into the strange orbit of the Seventies' most fabulous star. But what if Vince Cosmos really is an alien? One engaged in a secret battle with aliens already on Earth?
Continue the tale of Ragged Dick as he becomes Richard Hunter in Fame and Fortune. Horatio Alger was once crowned "America's best-selling author of all time." His works are back and they read like never before. You will fall in love with these stories of success!
Welcome to the mysterious town of Whitby, where all the monsters and demons of old come to retire and live out the remainder of their spooky days and nights and eat fish and chips on the seafront. There's a strange new landlady in town, opening a B&B by the harbour; a lady with a tall black beehive, nasty scars about her person and a very chequered past.
The Scarifyers is a series of rip-roaring tales of comedic supernatural intrigue set in 1930s Britain, distilling the likes of Dick Barton, The Avengers, The Devil Rides Out and Quatermass into cracking new audio adventures. The Scarifyers is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, and has been described in the national press as "a slice of audio perfection," "the smartest and most enjoyable thing on British radio," and "like Tintin but with the lights out."
If you're one of those people who loves a good rant then this e-book is for YOU. Dave rants about everything you can think of including: City Link, the NHS, Car parks and bosses.
Dave is opinionated. Dave will give you his opinion whether you want it or not.
If you're one of those people who loves a good rant then this audiobook is for you. Dave rants about everything you can think of including: Jeremy Kyle, Britain's Got Talent, Botox, ITV, Easy Jet, Losers, HR Departments. So if you have a bee in your bonnet or even a chip on your shoulder, don't do yoga or tantric breathing, simply read The World According to Dave.
For over 30 years, Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney had the last word on the most watched television program in history. "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes, aired from 1978 to 2011. A man of wit, rue, and common sense, Rooney spoke to us candidly about what drove us crazy, what brought us joy, and what made us human. Hear the man himself as he reads some of his finest newspaper essays, offering his observations on a variety of topics.
In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children - everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers' communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the eating habits of four-year-olds ("there is no difference between a four-year-old eating a taco and throwing a taco on the floor").
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new collection of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences.
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told....
Infused with her trademark saucy, sweet, and funny voice, Grace's Guide is a tongue-in-cheek handbook for millennials, encompassing everything a young or new (or regular or old) adult needs to know, from surviving a breakup to recovering from a hangover. Read by the author in her inimitable style, Grace's Guide features interactive elements and exclusive stories from Grace's own misadventures - like losing her virginity solely because her date took her to a Macaroni Grill - and many other hilarious lessons she learned the hard way.
Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover") and decrying the worst offenders ("kale is the early morning of foods"). Fans flocked to his New York Times best-selling book Dad Is Fat to hear him riff on fatherhood but now, in his second book, he will give them what they really crave - his thoughts on all things culinary(ish).
"I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you'll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the words I've put together for you in this book. I think you'll find I've left no stone unturned, no door unopened, no window unbroken, no rug unvacuumed, no ivories untickled. What I'm saying is, let us begin, shall we?" (Ellen DeGeneres)
Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcom in the Middle) follows in the exasperated footsteps of Samuel L. Jackson, giving voice to the long-suffering father whose indifferent child will just not eat in this hilarious follow-up to Adam Mansbach's international best seller, Go the F--k to Sleep.
Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.
Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock, Dratch was only getting offered roles as "Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians." Her career at a low point, Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog- sitting, learning Spanish - and dating. After all, what did a forty-something single woman living in New York have to lose?
David Sedaris' collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. With every clever turn of a phrase, Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other to every unforgettable encounter. You can also listen to Sedaris in an interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air.
From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne Sarah Silverman comes a memoir—her first book—that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. If you like Sarah's television show The Sarah Silverman Program, or memoirs such as Chelsea Handler's Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea and Artie Lange's Too Fat to Fish, you'll love The Bedwetter.
Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever.
In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives, a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection. t's a HighBridge library of laugh-out-loud, award-winning recordings featuring George himself performing many of his best bits.
In this wickedly honest new work, Chelsea Handler casts the net wider with even funnier results, recalling the most noteworthy highs and lows of her life to date - including her efforts to diversify by dating red-haired men, her obsession with midgets, and the dog-sitting interlude in which her boyfriend became overly familiar with a Peekapoo.
For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris - Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives - the ones we'd like to pretend never happened - are in fact the ones that define us. In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor.
Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the number one nation at being the best at greatness. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around - we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours just to bow before foreign leaders.
In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much). Powered by Amy's charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, and including a star-studded guest list of vocal appearances.
God Is Disappointed in You is for people who would like to read the Bible...if it would just cut to the chase. Stripped of its arcane language and interminable passages, every book of the Bible is condensed down to its core message, in no more than a few pages each. Written by Mark Russell with cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, God Is Disappointed in You is a frequently hilarious, often shocking, but always accurate retelling of the Bible, including the parts selectively left out by Sunday School teachers.
A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below". At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old Devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man.
Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcom in the Middle) follows in the exasperated footsteps of Samuel L. Jackson, giving voice to the long-suffering father whose indifferent child will just not eat in this hilarious follow-up to Adam Mansbach's international best seller, Go the F--k to Sleep.
Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.
God Is Disappointed in You is for people who would like to read the Bible...if it would just cut to the chase. Stripped of its arcane language and interminable passages, every book of the Bible is condensed down to its core message, in no more than a few pages each. Written by Mark Russell with cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, God Is Disappointed in You is a frequently hilarious, often shocking, but always accurate retelling of the Bible, including the parts selectively left out by Sunday School teachers.
Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut's words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads like a narrative in the unique voice that made Vonnegut a hero to readers and listeners of all ages. At times hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and deeply serious, these reflections are ideal for anyone undergoing what Vonnegut would call their "long-delayed puberty ceremony".
Queue up these hilarious real-life stories from the video clerking trenches. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll wash your hands. No rewinding required!
Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents features outrageous and uncensored profiles of the men in the White House - complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright wacko facts.
American writer Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain has given us some literary gems with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and his travel adventures in 19th-century Europe and to Australia and New Zealand. In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories.
Screw Everyone is comedian Ophira Eisenberg's wisecracking account of how she spent most of her life saying "yes" to everything - and everyone - and how that attitude ultimately helped her overcome her phobia of commitment. Skeptical about long-term relationships, Eisenberg approached dating as a sort of research experiment from early on: She spent her twenties traveling from futon to futon and gathering data, figuring that one day she'd put it all together somehow and build her own perfect Frankenmate.
I Probably Shouldn't Have Done That chronicles the series of vast, at times incomprehensible, mistakes that Jules makes in an attempt to get over her first "serious" boyfriend. It follows her through drunken nights, drunker nights, bad dates, worse dates, encounters with her ex, and a very few glistening moments of hope and self-realization. It is a thoroughly sad break-up story, an occasionally naive love story, and a comical train wreck throughout.
Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd Glass decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. Now, Todd has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone - young and old, gay and straight - breathe a little more freely.
Downton Abbey has brought out the Anglophile in American fans of the hit TV series. But Anglophilia has a long history in America. Why are some native-born residents of our Shining City Upon a Hill, where All Men Are Created Equal, seduced by the fluting tones of manor-born privilege? At last, Anglophilia explained - in American, thank you.
Chris Gethard has often found himself in awkward situations most people, including you, probably would have safely avoided. The good news is now, thanks to this book, you can enjoy the painfully funny consequences of his unfortunate decisions at a safe distance. A Bad Idea I'm About to Do invites listeners to join Chris as he navigates an adolescence and adulthood mired in hilariously ill-fated nerdom, and to take comfort in the fact that - as his experiences often prove - things could always be much, much worse.
They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees. They believe they're unique, yet somehow they're all exactly the same.
Chances are you've been there before: On an awkward first date where you find yourself stuck playing 20 questions with a person who has broccoli stuck in their teeth, or the one who shows up so on-the-rocks wasted that they end up passed out in their bowl of clam chowder before the main course arrives. All My Friends Are Engaged is a collection of dating disaster stories, packed with witty and relatable answers to the age-old annoying question of "Why are you still single?"
The antidote to those cotton-candy platitudes that are all too familiar to anyone who's ever worn a mortarboard, Wheelan's 10 head-turning aphorisms - backed up by a PhD in public policy and extensive social science research - set the record straight. Readers everywhere agreed, turning a Dartmouth Class Day speech that had gone viral into a best-selling book.
Gazing into the bathroom mirror one morning while shaving, Josh Kornbluth realizes that he looks remarkably like the guy on the $100 bill. Like any good Jewish son, he immediately calls his mother. From there he becomes obsessed with what it means to be a founding father, especially when your own father/son relationship (Ben had an illegitimate son named William who was a British loyalist during the Revolutionary War) is more than a bit strained.
Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. These early experiences left Dom with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern-day travel industry and a taste for the darkest of places.
This hilarious, whip-smart collection of essays from a top writer and producer of Six Feet Under crisscrosses from the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to the outrageously Los Angelean (why women wear huge diamonds and what they must do to get them). Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants is a genre-defying combination of personal essay and memoir, or a hilarious, unruly and unapologetic evaluation of society, religion, sex, love, and - best of all - Jill Soloway.
As a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok, Leanne Shirtliffe recognized the constant fodder for humor while pregnant with twins in Asia's sin city. But in spite of deep-fried bug cuisine and nurses who cover newborn bassinets with plastic wrap, Shirtliffe manages to keep her babies alive for a year with help from a Coca-Cola deliveryman, several waitresses, and a bra factory. Then she and her husband return home to the isolation of North American suburbia.
P.J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s underground newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world's only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions, and other "Holidays in Hell" in more than 40 countries.


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Sorry I missed the speed scrap this morning - Saturday mornings DH and I always go out for breakfast and I didn't feel right about cancelling out just so I could scrap. It sounds like you all have alot of fun. Although, it also sounds like some of your computers didn't like getting up so early!
I decided to at least do the scrap "after the fact". So, here's my LO: our funky little monkey


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By Automobile Magazine 12/6/2013
Since 2014 marks thirty years since the debut of the Caravan, Dodge is rolling out 30th Anniversary editions of the SE and the SXT to celebrate. The package content is different in the SE and the SXT, but it's essentially a bundle of optional equipment with special trim. Another new appearance option is the Blacktop Package, also available on the SE and the SXT, which -- as you might suspect -- features blacked-out exterior trim and more use of black inside, with contrasting silver stitching...Read more
The Dodge Grand Caravan is the original minivan, and through three decades of updates and redesigns, Chrysler has worked hard to keep the Grand Caravan (and its Chrysler Town & Country twin) at the forefront of the segment it created. Dodge has pioneered innovations such as dual sliding doors, power sliding doors, a power liftgate, and stowable rear seats. Most of the features introduced by Chrysler have become commonplace, but the Grand Caravan still demands a serious look from anyone shopping for a minivan.
The minivan market has shrunk, as many families have migrated away to crossovers and SUVs, but for those seeking the maximum people- and cargo-hauling capability for the price, nothing beats a minivan. Whereas past versions of the Grand Caravan offered multiple powertrain choices (including optional all-wheel drive) and short or extended-length body styles, the current model offers a single V-6 engine, comes with front-wheel drive only, and is available in only one size. There are, however, four trim levels: the base AVP has an ultralow starting price under $21,000 (with very limited availability of options); the SE and the SXT are the volume models; and the top-spec version is the R/T. The R/T portends to be the sporty offering, but aside from a firmer suspension, its sportiness is limited to body-color exterior trim, leather-and-suede upholstery, and contrast stitching. It's fine as far as it goes, but you'd never mistake it for something from Chrysler's SRT division.
The Grand Caravan does boast the most powerful engine among minivans, however, a 3.6-liter V-6 that makes 283 hp. Unfortunately, the six-speed automatic transmission seems determined to hide that fact, so reluctant is it to downshift. Switching off the Eco button on the dash helps somewhat but not enough. Speaking of economy, the Grand Caravan is a tick or two behind its three main competitors in its EPA combined fuel-economy ratings. We do, however, appreciate the Dodge's fairly direct, nicely weighted steering and its well-controlled ride, neither of which is what you might have expected from a minivan.
If you're at all aware of Chrysler's history of innovation, you probably are expecting some special features, and the Grand Caravan certainly has its share. The signature item is its Stow 'N Go seating (standard on all but the AVP, where it's optional). This allows both rows of rear seats to drop into the floor, to easily convert from passenger to cargo hauling and back again. Other minivans have a similar arrangement for their rearmost seats, but their second-row seats must be carried out of the vehicle. Stow 'N Go is a big deal if you often switch between hauling people and stuff; if your minivan will be used almost exclusively to shuttle a crowd, it's less of a factor -- and in fact, the stowaway seats are rather low to the floor and not the most comfortable, although Dodge claims to have improved them this year. Other noteworthy equipment includes a backup camera with rear cross-path detection (it warns you if traffic is approaching as you back up), a roof rack with stowable crossbars, and an available heated steering wheel.