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AUSTIN, Texas – Second-half goals by Sergio Campano Franco and Sullivan Silva sent the Thunder Bay Chill into final of the 2013 PDL Championship presented by Nike as they took a 2-0 victory against the Victoria Highlanders FC on Friday evening at House Park. The Chill will play for their second PDL Championship on Sunday night.
"I thought the first half they settled it down and we were happy with that," Thunder Bay Coach Tony Colistro said. "Then when we came in ahead of the second half, we talked about some of the opportunities that we had, and we said 'we've got to take this game, we can't wait for it'. I think we played a little more aggressive, a little more direct in the second half."
Thunder Bay came out brightly to start the second half, but needed a little luck to take the lead in the 55th minute. After Campano Franco sent a pass wide to Paul Dillon, the return pass came back to the Spanish midfielder and he hit a volley from 20 yards that slipped through Victoria goalkeeper Elliot Mitrou's hands and into the right corner of the net.
Victoria tried to hit back quickly as Andrew Ravenhill made a good run into the left side of the penalty area, only for his shot to be deflected behind for a corner by Thunder Bay goalkeeper Stephen Paterson's feet. The Highlanders went close from a corner shortly after as Riley O'Neil's header clipped off the base of the left post and went behind for a goal kick as Victoria couldn't quite find the break it needed.
"Everything is so important," Colistro said. "Even when it was 1-0, they had a lot of opportunities at the back post, just a little bit wide and things like that, and we got some breaks and that was enough for us to buy us that insurance goal."
Silva, the 2012 PDL Most Valuable Player, nearly struck in the 65th minute, pulling his shot wide of the left post from the right side of the penalty area, but as the half wore on the pressure started to build from the Highlanders. A good piece of interplay released O'Neil into the left side of the penalty area, only for the defense to recover to block his shot in the 77th minute, and five minutes later Blair Sturrock went close from a corner, with his low shot being cleared off the line by Thunder Bay's Zetroy Robertson.
Victoria again came close with five minutes to go as a good give-and-go released Cam Stokes into the right side of the penalty area, only for his shot to find the side netting. As the Highlanders pushed forward, however, chances on the counter-attack opened for the Chill, and Silva was well denied by Mitrou with three minutes to go from close range after the Brazilian beat two defenders inside the penalty area.
Silva found his goal in as the clock hit 90 minutes, however, as he again got past a pair of defenders on the left side and then rifled a shot into the right corner of the net from 25 yards. For Silva, who missed the majority of the regular season with a broken foot, the goal capped his best performance since his return from injury, according to Colistro.
"We've said we had Sullivan all year, and the team has done so well without him," Colistro said. "I said, 'you're going to be a great trump card for us come playoff time', and today he looked the best that he has all season, and he's ready to be that contributor off the bench. It's a nice little bench player to have, because he's not a bench player."
The Highlanders opened the first half more brightly, holding possession well, and they had the first serious effort on goal as Wesley Barrett's low shot went wide of the right post in the fourth minute. Victoria also found success down the left side through Ravenhill, who overlapped well, but their first big chance came in the 28th minute as a chipped cross by Sturrock from the right found Jordie Hughes 10 yards out, but his header went straight to Paterson.
The Chill took longer to get established, with a long-range effort by Sunny Omoregie going well wide in the 11th minute. As the first half went on, however, Thunder Bay gained a foothold, and Mitrou did well to first punch clear a dangerous cross and then steal possession off the foot of a Chill midfielder at the top of the penalty area to quell the threat just before the half-hour mark. Abraham Villon also went close with a long-range effort, and Omoregie was denied well by Mitrou after Campano Franco spun his defender and slid a good through-ball to the Nigerian forward in the 39th minute.
Thunder Bay will now look ahead to Sunday's game, its third visit to the PDL Championship Game, hoping for a better result than the last time it advanced and fell to the Portland Timbers U-23s in 2010.


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When the boys were both born, we were the proud owners of a small, yellow Cape on a quiet road near Fairfield University. We bought the house when we got engaged...choosing this large yet welcoming town because I was working in Hartford, my husband in Manhattan.
Once I became a mom, the area's beaches became really important to me...a place to go for a change of pace when non-stop diapers and feeding sessions became to much. A place to breathe in the fresh air and see friendly faces when I was feeling lonely and pent-up at home. A place that now holds so many dear memories....Sam wandering throughout the vibrant kayaks, learning his colors...Ben in his baby carrier, probably 5 days old, seeing the ocean for the first time, snoozing with the fall sun on his face.
Of course, I heard about the devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to my former home....but, I really didn't realize the long-term consequences of this epic storm...until just recently.
I was on a story in Fairfield County a few weeks ago and we had a little time to kill before arriving at our shoot. "Let's take a drive down the beach road," I said nonchalantly, not expecting what I would see.
Houses I remember...with big orange Xs on them...a sign that complete demolition is the only option. Property after property sporting burnt-out, orange Arbor Vitae trees, the result of the salty sea spray against once lush landscaping.
But, most shocking of all, is the state of the Penfield Beach Pavilion. I was so thrilled to hear - just a few years ago - that the old pavilion was being re-built on this great stretch of shoreline. Now, about 24 months after it's grand opening, the new, large building is completely closed, surrounded by wire fencing and dotted with orange paint after suffering severe structural damage from Sandy's wrath.
"We are working on a plan to restore it," Director of Public Works Joe Michelangelo tells me, noting that the off-kilter Pavilion isn't completely totaled but that it will be uninhabitable for the rest of this summer. Michelangelo had just started his job when Sandy hit. He says the damage to this important building - which cost 5 million dollars of taxpayer money to build in 5 years - is a real blow to the community: "The Fairfield beaches and this building were just the crown jewel."
The Pavilion will have to be placed at a higher elevation to fulfill FEMA's new, post-Sandy standards. "We don't want to go down this road again," says Michelangelo. The options, which are being presented to the Board of Selectmen and the Parks & Recreation Committee next week, are to raise the building about five feet in it's existing spot or shift the structure back into the parking lot which Michelangelo believes might create more flexibility with re-construction.
After five years and five million dollars, I ask Michelangelo if folks in town have any regrets. Should the new building have been built better? Or, was there no way to predict Sandy's devastation?
Michelangelo says, he's not sure...but he is looking into all those questions. Town leaders are asking: why did this happen? Can we seek damages? Is there any legal recourse? They will continue to pursue these issues until they get answers. For now, Michelangelo believes insurance money will cover the cost of repairs which will include iron and concrete pilings on the under-side of the structure.
Calls and emails to architect George Wiles were not answered.
The beach - an incredibly popular spot for families - remains open and usable, sporting a set-up of temporary bathrooms.
Michelangelo hopes the Pavilion will be open a year from now, primed and ready to host functions in the rental rooms. He can't wait until this structure, once again, becomes the back-drop for many more family memories: "I don't think the town will want to go through another summer without that pavilion."


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Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 20:44
I know door and window casing will cover most of this, but it seems like these holes and gaps should not be so extreme. Am I correct? The last image is the exterior door jamb--seems it should be more exact, right? Uggh....... |
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- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 23:39
The drywall gaps do look messy to me. The door thing bugs me in the picture but it's very close up and I wonder if that is within normal limits. |
Looks very sloppy to me, I would definitely be complaining whether they consider it to be tolerant or not. I feel like I could be a GC after going thru the process of my house build. Just my .02 cents FWIW |
Are they using a sledgehammer to cut the sheetrock!! It does look a bit sloppy and ripped apart. |
- Posted by threeapples (My Page) on Tue, Aug 7, 12 at 8:48
Ughh. Ok, I'll bring it up to my builder. Can't understand why they think this is acceptable. Palimpsest, you can see the door gap from my height very easily (5.5) and the door is 8ft. |
- Posted by cottonpenny (My Page) on Tue, Aug 7, 12 at 10:01
- Posted by hollysprings (My Page) on Tue, Aug 7, 12 at 11:12
Very sloppy. Looks like they tried to cut it with a butter knife. But mud and trim will cover it all. Just hope that their finishing skills are better than their rough application skills. I'd want all gaps around the windows sealed with expansion foam and caulk before the trimwork starts as well. It's just one more layer of proper air sealing the conditioned space you pay for into the home. |
- Posted by EngineerChic (My Page) on Tue, Aug 7, 12 at 11:19
Yeah, that looks poor. They should fix those big chunks before applying trim. |
- Posted by joyce_6333 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 7, 12 at 12:06
Besides just being a really sloppy job, it appears there is no caulking or foam around the windows. That would make me wonder what's behind the sheetrock in other areas. |
- Posted by threeapples (My Page) on Tue, Aug 7, 12 at 13:39
yeah, i'm pretty concerned. i hate that i have suspicion about other areas. how irritating! |
it appears to me the shims were sticking out when they put the drywall up and it busted out that piece. It happens, and assuming they patch it and then caulk the space, its no issue. It also appears to me there is low expanding foam between the window and framing. Alarming? No. Sloppy? maybe. Just have them patch it and have no worries. |
Is there going to be an casing (trim) around the windows? Damaged drywall that is going to be covered up by trim is not worth all that much effort. |
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Guess what? We went to SXSW 2012. Without further introduction, here are our SXSW superlatives for 2012:
BEST BEARD:The one on the bassist from Black Tusk, which swings around impressively when he headbangs. -Tom
BEST HAIRCUT: The pompadour on the guitarist from Ceremony, a sort of punk-rock version of the Kid N' Play hightop fade.
BEST SHOES: The shiny blacks on the feet of Kindness, whose soulful disco-dipped sets were long on potential, dance moves, and legs. (He's tall.) -Amrit
BEST BARE FEET: Nick "Paisley Adams" Allbrook, the perpetually shoe-bereft bassist for Tame Impala, who was recast this week as the perpetually shoe-bereft livewire frontman for Australian classic riff-rock vamp band/Tame Impala spinoff POND. What he lacks in shoes he makes up in HEART (and amphetamine-y spasms and contortions). -Amrit
BEST BOSS: TIE: Ricky Rozay and Bruce. On that note, the best Fader Fort closer rumor (among others like Outkast, Jay-Z, along those lines of impossibleness) was back to back sets by Springsteen and Miami's finest.
BEST HUSTLE: Yeah, so after Rick Ross played Fader Fort, he got on a plane and played a show in Miami later last night. Of all of which he boasts, this might be the most bawse. -Corban
BEST/WORST MALL EXPERIENCE: On opening night, Apple Store Barton Creek Square fixed my Air even though I didn't have a Genius appointment. Too bad it took an hour to get a ride back to 5th St. – Scott
BEST CONFESSION: Jacked Doritos taste pretty good. -Tom
BEST ALBUM DOWNLOADED AT THE AIRPORT: The O.F. Tape Vol. 2. -Corban
MOST STARVED, AND THEREFORE MEANEST, CROWD: Fiona Apple at Stubb's. I wish I could express what it was like to experience the collective groan that rippled through the crowd as Tom (who is, just so you know, approaching 7") moved through the audience, many of whom who had been waiting all day, to meet Scott and me. Luckily, the show was worth all of the strain. -Corban
BEST UNINTENTIONAL HARMONIES: Two members (Elizabeth and Caroline) of Girl Crisis singing along front row to Nite Jewel at Wax Poetics' showcase. -Scott
MOST JACKED STAGE: 1100 Warehouse Honorable Mention: The Doritos Jacked Stage. -Corban
BEST GUEST APPEARANCE: Swag-rap lunatic Riff Raff, resplendent in complicated braids and more-complicated facial hair when he jumped onstage to kick a verse with Queens rap bulldozer Action Bronson. Said Bronson: "I can't wait to hear this!" -Tom Honorable Mention: Fucking GANGSTA BOO. -Corban
MOST HIT SINGLES IN ONE SETLIST, NON-SPRINGSTEEN EDITION: Lionel Richie @ The Moody Theater. -Scott
BEST ONSTAGE USE OF A SHOWER CURTAIN: Lower Dens, whose set at ND 501 featured an onstage shower curtain. -Amrit
BEST CELEBRITY SIGHTING (EVERYWHERE): Vermin Supreme, future President Of The United States. -Scott
MOST AGGRESSIVE ADVERTISING: TIE: Nike and Google, who basically just outspent everyone ten-, maybe twenty-fold (Nike built a basketball court and another multipurpose field, cuz people just wanna hoop during SXSW! Right? I never saw anyone on it). -Corban
LONGEST SETUP TIME: Korallreven at Barbarella, approx. 50 minutes. -Corban
BEST WAILER: Screaming Females leader Marissa Paternoster. -Tom
SXSW was ill.. don't let these corny dickriding ass writers convince u that I WASNT consistently the best thing happening out here this week
— Mr M******** eXquire (@eXqomaniaRules) March 18, 2012
BEST SINGLE SERVING TUMBLR THOUGHT UP BY STEREOGUM STAFF MEMBERS: WhatRappersThoughtOfTrashTalk.tumblr.com, because right after Trash Talk got done playing their set at Lustre Pearl, Tom raced over to Nacho Picasso (whom he had seen earlier) to see what he thought. Nacho loved it. -Corban
BEST FLEET FOXING: TIE: Poor Moon and Father John Misty, hours apart at Sub Pop's Red 7 showcase outdoor stage. -Scott
BEST GUITAR SHREDDER: Screaming Females leader Marissa Paternoster. -Tom
BEST LIVE-ACTION MOUNTAIN DEW AD: Lil Wayne, #DEWeezy. -Corban
MOST AWESOME SHOW, NOT EVEN KIDDING/BEING CUTE OR TRYING TO COUNTER THE COUNTER BACKLASH OR WHATEVER: Skrillex at 1100 Warehouse. Over to Tom for more. -Corban
BEST PLACE TO SNEAK IN NCAA TOURNAMENT GAMES: The Marriott sports bar Champions, three years (at least) running. Rock Chalk Jayhawk. -Corban
BIGGEST SNACK CHIP: You didn't think that 56ft tall Doritos vending machine was just a stage, did you? -Scott
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Describing the audience of a songwriter who's previously struggled with anorexia as "most starved." Keep it classy, guys.
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You forgot one superlative:
Best Review of SXSW by a Band Who Played: The Future of the Left's Andy Falkous, who gave the event "3 cocks less than zero." http://www.aux.tv/2012/03/future-of-the-left-hate-sxsw-rate-it-three-cocks-less-than-zero/
Honorable mention: Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi, who tweeted "sxsw was fun for about six minutes but somehow we ended up staying five days."
Strangely, the FOTL review is how I feel about that Skrillex diarrhea diatribe posted earlier today, which I can only assume was induced by consuming all of those Jacked Doritos.
That said, you're no longer to post about Ceremony anymore. I brought them here, and I'm taking them away with me. So long, Stereogum and I'll be back when I can trust the writing team once again.
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P.S. I feel the need to explain why I'm so disappointed by the "In Defense of Skrillex" article, so here's my long-form explanation. For starters, it's essentially a shock piece meant to incite an intense, polarizing
reaction in the site's readers who obviously aren't accustomed to seeing the man-child known as Skrillex plastered as the main story on the front page. Tom's a great writer, no doubt and after giving the post a full read-over, he covers all of his bases (no surprise) in writing a well thought-out piece "defending" his support for him (or at least to the extent of Skrillex's live show.)That's great and all, and but here's what irks me whenever I see stories like this float across music sites. Unless Stereogum's new marketing strategy is to drive traffic into the site by coming to the defense of un-Stereogum-esque musicians to mess with / anger its readers and rack up a post with an easy 100+ comments reward featuring nothing but back and forths between people who are grossed out by what they've just read vs. people who want to jump on the "I'm suddenly open-minded, too!" bandwagon vs. a few people who have always secretly loved the topic but were too afraid to admit it until now, then why bother? The new "Deconstructing…" feature does that already and it's at least pertinent to the audience's interests. This article however has so much transparency gushing out of it, like it's just looking for a knife fight, begging us to either get understandably angry (which I have) or to test how easy it is to convert readers into a flock of sheep based on one person's experience at a Skrillex show. From where I'm sitting, "In Defense of Skrillex" comes across to me more like it's trying to tell me, "Hey, Stereogum reader, I know you're such a close-minded douchebag when it comes to this type of music, so I'm going to pull a mind fuck on you all by saying good things about something that for the last year, all of us have only been only saying bad things about. Who's the open-minded one now, bitch? Just when you thought you had the answers, we changed the questions! Skrillex 4LIFE. Game over. I am officially holier than thou. Get the f*ck outta here…" So really, "In Defense of Skrillex" isn't really so much about Skrillex as it is actually about how Stereogum thinks we're just a bunch of snobby music-obsessed assholes who live in bubbles confined by our self-awareness boundaries. Why that pisses me off is because it tells me that you think I'm stupid.
All of this is funny because just the other day, I wrote this comment under 'Gum's SXSW photo diary post:
"…And that's why I'm thankful for Stereogum. It's the best of everything without anyone trying to talk over our heads."
What I unfortunately didn't consider is that sometimes a site can have just as much of an adverse affect when they attempt to talk under our heads as well.
Something just tells me I just had my CM Punk moment here on the comment section.
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You think these people care what you have to say? You think that your opinion matters? It does not. You have such a tiny, tiny irrelevant voice that cannot make a sound or influence anyone's thoughts at the end of the day. All of those hours spent blogging and writing on top of the input you deliver here… it's just white noise. Come back to the dark side…
My disappointment stems from a few different reasons, which I narcissisticly detail here: http://stereogum.com/981042/ceremony-adult-video/video/comment-page-1/#comment-7661121
Simply stating the information to facilitate Doritos and Taco Bell were accurately plastered all terminated everything downtown isn't advertising. I think they managed to facilitate on their own already.
http://www.iquestintl.com/ -
You didn't think to 56ft tall Doritos vending piece of equipment was honorable a stage, did you?
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important to assess whether the sources you are referring to were all
army, navy and DOD -- because those groups have repeatedly drawn a much
harder line on China than other aspects of the US leadership. As I said,
there is no question that frictions are growing in a serious way. And it
is def true that the US is looking more towards China especially after
this year and as it frees up bandwidth.
But I'm still not sure about stating it so bluntly without my comments re
China, which I think are important qualifications.
On 11/4/2010 4:37 PM, Reva Bhalla wrote:
Wrote this following the china briefing at the army navy club in which
the Chinese assertiveness and collision course were discussed at length.
Can definitely tone down, but that was mainly where I was coming from,
esp as we're hearing about changes in the admin to focus in more on
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On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Matt Gertken <email@example.com>
Agree with Sean's points about the China threat language. Not only is
there a lack of nuance to that view, but it is also very old. Even in
the recent context, the "China is getting more assertive" line has
been a fad all throughout 2010 and we have to distinguish our
explanation of this assertiveness from AP's and Reuters'.
Also Sean's point about the PLAN and mine about the SCS are similar
and connected. We can discuss all this over the phone if you'd like.
but overall the piece is great and a good way to kick off Obama's trip
On 11/4/2010 4:25 PM, Sean Noonan wrote:
On 11/4/10 2:33 PM, Reva Bhalla wrote:
Sorry this is so freakin' long. THe visit begins on Saturday.
U.S. President Barack Obama begins a four-day visit to India Nov.
6, bringing along with him a 375-member entourage of security
personnel, policymakers, business leaders and journalists to
demonstrate to the world that the U.S.-India relationship is
serious and growing.
Obama will begin his visit to India in the financial hub of
Mumbai, where he will make a symbolic show of solidarity with
India on the counterterrorism front by staying at the Taj Palace
hotel that was attacked in 2008 and highlight corporate
compatibility between the two countries. The remaining three days
of his trip will be spent in New Delhi, where the U.S. president
will address a joint session of Parliament (a reciprocal gesture
following Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address to
Congress when he visited the United States in Nov. 2009. [this
paragraph sounds like Obama is just doing these things to be nice
to his little Indian brother. Is the the case? or are there
other reasons Obama needs to do this? I have no idea, but want to
There is little doubt that the United States and India are feeling
out a much deeper and strategic relationship, as evidenced by
their bilateral civilian nuclear agreement, growing business
links, arms deals and a slew of military exercises taking place
over the next several months. Still, there are still some very
real and unavoidable constraints that will prevent this already
uneasy partnership from developing into a robust alliance. The
most immediate hindrance lies in the U.S. strategic need to
bolster Pakistan in both shaping a U.S. exit strategy from
Afghanistan and in maintaining a broader balance of power on the
subcontinent. In the longer term, however, India could more
effectively use the threat of Chinese expansion in its perceived
sphere of influence to manage its relationship with Washington.
Strategic Motivations
India is not a country that makes friends easily[why?],
particularly friends who have the military prowess to reach the
subcontinent by land or sea. India grew closer to the Soviets
during the Cold War out of fear of the U.S. relationship with
Pakistan, but only with the comfort of knowing that Moscow's reach
into the subcontinent was limited. Once the Soviet Union
collapsed, India was left without a meaningful ally while it
remained deeply resentful of the United States' relationship with
Pakistan and the blind eye it turned toward the rise of Pakistan's
Islamist proxies in Kashmir and Afghanistan.
The 9/11 attacks then brought about a long-suppressed opportunity
between India and the United States. Both countries had common
cause to cooperate with each other against Pakistan, neutralize
the jihadist threat and embark on a real, strategic partnership.
For the United States, this was the time to play catch-up in
balance of power politics. The U.S. interest at any given point on
the subcontinent is to prevent any one power from becoming
powerful to the point that it could challenge the United States,
while at the same time protect vital sea lanes running between
East Asia, through the Indian Ocean basin to the Persian Gulf. The
United States has the naval assets to guard these maritime routes
directly, but as it extends itself further across the globe, the
need for regional proxies has also grown. Though India's
capabilities remain quite limited given the constraints it faces
in trying to manage itself at home, it is an aspiring naval power
with a deep fear of Chinese encroachment and Islamist militancy.
India also has a massive consumer market of 1.2 billion people and
has the United States at the top of its list of trading partners.
A roughly balanced and diversified relationship exists between the
two countries, even as protectionist tendencies run heavily on
both sides of the trade divide. According to the U.S. Census
Bureau, the United States exported USD 16.4 billion of goods and
services, mostly aircraft, fertilizers, computer hardware, scrap
metal and medical equipment, to India, while India exported USD 21
billion worth of goods and services, mostly IT services,
pharmaceuticals, textiles, machinery, gems and diamonds, iron and
steel products and food products, to the United States. For a
number of reasons, India makes a strong candidate for regional
proxyWC? in the U.S. point of view.
And here is where a fundamental U.S.-India disconnect arises.
India is far from interested in molding itself into a proxy of a
global hegemon. India's self-enclosed geography and internal
strength permits New Delhi to be fiercely independent in its
foreign policy calculations, unlike a much weaker Pakistan that
needs an external power patron to feel secure. [ this explains my
question above really well. though where does its 'internal
strength' derive from? population? resources? It hink you could
say something briefly about that]
The United States has thus been caught off guard every time New
Delhi takes a stance that runs counter to US interests, in spite
of the U.S. charm offensive with India that revved up in 2005 with
the civilian nuclear deal. This can be seen in such issues as
India's refusal to comply with U.S. sanctions, hang-ups over
allowing U.S. firms into the Indian nuclear market after signing
the bilateral deal and Indian protests against U.S. interference
in the Kashmir dispute. As a former Indian National Security
Advisor put it, India is happy to have this partnership with the
United States, but Washington is going to have to get used hearing
"no" from India on a lot of issues.
The Pakistan Problem
The much more urgent misalignment of interests that is sapping the
U.S.-India relationship concerns Pakistan and the future of
Afghanistan. In 2001, when the United States was hit by al Qaeda
and the Indian parliament was attacked by Pakistan-backed
militants soon after, India sensed an opportunity. The Cold War
shackles were finally? broken and the urgency of a broader
Islamist militant was driving New Delhi and Washington together.
India hoped that that bond would sustain itself to keep Pakistan
isolated in the long, but it was only a matter of time before U.S.
balance of power politics came to disappoint New Delhi.
The United States is reaching a saturation point in its war in
Afghanistan. Short-term military victories provide useful
political cover in unpopular wars, but they also overlook the core
disadvantage the occupier faces against the insurgent when it
comes to on-the-ground intelligence, corruption, population
control and the insurgent luxury of choosing the time and place of
battle. Washington is thus in the process of shaping an exit
strategy from Afghanistan, one that will necessarily involve some
sort of accommodation with the Taliban that can only be
orchestrated with the one power in the region that has the
relationships to do so: Pakistan. Pakistan has every interest in
keeping the United States involved in the region and acting as a
patron to Islamabad, but not to the extent that U.S. military
activity in the Pakistani-Afghan borderland risks severely
destabilizing the Pakistani state. This means that in return for
Pakistani cooperation in trying to tie up loose ends in the
jihadist war, Pakistan will expect the United States to facilitate
a Pakistani resurgence of influence in Afghanistan that would
extend Pakistan's strategic depth and thus stifle any Indian
attempts to develop a foothold in the region that could one day
place Pakistan in a pincer grip.
This inevitability is naturally very discomforting for New Delhi,
who maintains that Pakistan will continue to compensate for its
military weakness by backing militant proxies to target the Indian
state and that the United States is effectively turning a blind
eye to this concept in supporting Pakistan to meet its needs in
Afghanistan. Moreover, a Taliban political comeback in Afghanistan
would (in India's mind) allow for Pakistan-backed militants to
reconstitute themselves; only this time around, a number of these
militants have been drawn into a much more unpredictable and
lethal jihadist network that denies New Delhi the ability to
quickly and easily lay blame on Pakistan for terrorist acts in
The Indian strategic interest is therefore to take advantage of
Islamabad's sour relationship with the current Afghan government
and build a foothold in Afghanistan with which to keep an
additional check on Pakistan along the country's northern rim.
India has primarily done so through a number of soft power
developmental projects. Besides being one of the top five
bilateral donors to the war-torn country, India has laborers in
Afghanistan building schools, hospitals, roads and power plants.
One of the most notable projects India has been involved in is the
construction of a 218km highway from Zaranj in Afghanistan's
southwestern Nimroz province to Delaram in Farah province to
transport goods from Afghanistan to the Iranian port of Chabahar.
The road, which was completed in Aug. 2008, is key to India's
longer-term goal of being able to use Afghanistan as a land bridge
between South Asia and Central Asia, where vast amounts of energy
resources are concentrated and are already being tapped heavily by
the Chinese. To do so effectively, India cannot rely on the good
graces of its Pakistani rival to allow Indian goods to flow
through. Indeed, there is a current arrangement in place that only
allows Afghan goods to reach India via Pakistan, but does not
allow Indian goods to transit Pakistan in reaching Afghan markets
overland. In creating infrastructural links between Afghanistan
and Iran, India is developing alternative trade routes to bypass
Pakistan and reach into Afghanistan and Central Asian markets.
A quiet debate has been taking place among Indian defense circles
over whether India should elevate its support for Afghanistan, to
include deploying Indian forces to the country. The public
rationale giving for such a plan is that Indian laborers involved
in reconstruction projects in Afghanistan have been walking
targets for insurgent attacks in the country and that the small
contingent of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) are insufficient
to protect them. In addition to regular attacks on Indian
construction crews, the 2008 bombing on the Indian embassy in
Kabul shed light on threat of Pakistan using its militant
connections in the country to try and drive India out. Those
arguing for a military deployment to Afghanistan believe that
placing Indian troops in the country would sufficiently alarm
Pakistan to divert forces from its east, where Pakistani forces
are concentrated in Punjab along the Indo-Pakistani border, to its
northwest with Afghanistan, thereby shifting some of the
battleground focus away from Kashmir and the Indian homeland. They
also make a dangerous assumption that the United States is in
Afghanistan for the long haul, and will be there to contain
attempts by Pakistan to act out against Indian military overland
expansion in the region.
There are a number of reasons why such a scenario is unlikely to
play out. The most obvious constraint is the enormous logistical
difficulty India would have in supplying troops in Afghanistan. If
India cannot convince Pakistan to allow overland trade to
Afghanistan, it can rule out Pakistan agreeing to an Indian supply
line to Afghanistan. India is also extremely risk averse when it
comes to military deployments beyond its borders. India is already
struggling immensely with a counterinsurgency campaign in Kashmir
and in Naxalite territory along the country's eastern belt and
remembers well the deadly fiasco its troops encountered when India
deployed forces to Sri Lanka to counter the Liberation of Tamil
Tigers Eelam in the late 1980s. [wouldn't they also be bigger
targets for islamist militants, ESP those supported by Pak?]
At the same time, India is unwilling to bow to Pakistani pressure
by downgrading its presence in Afghanistan. An inevitable U.S.
drawdown from the region and a Pakistani return to Afghanistan
translates into a bigger security threat for India. The more India
can dig its heels in Afghanistan through primarily reconstruction
projects, the better chance it will have to develop some say in
the state of affairs of that country to try and keep Pakistan's
regional ambitions in check. Pakistan, however, will continue to
demand that the United States use its leverage with India to
minimize the Indian presence in Afghanistan and hand over to
Islamabad the task of shaping the future Afghan government.
Though little of this discussion will hit the headlines, this
disconnect in US-India strategic interests - India wanting the
United States to sustain pressure on Islamabad and serve as a
check on Pakistan-backed militancy and Washington needing to
bolster Pakistan to withdraw from Afghanistan and maintain some
balance in the region between the two rivals - will cloud Obama's
high-profile visit to the subcontinent. There is even a chance
that India may have to share the spotlight on Obama's tour, as
rumors are circulating that the U.S. president may make a surprise
visit to Afghanistan in showing his dedication to the war effort.
The U.S. administration has been debating back and forth whether
the president could make such a trip without also stopping over in
Pakistan, since having Air Force One fly over Pakistan in an
India-Afghanistan trip could create more drama between Washington
and Islamabad. The sensitivity to these issues brings to light
just how high maintenance of a region this is for the United
States and the more urgent calling for Washington to keep
relations with Pakistan on steady footing.
Leveraging the China Threat [I'd rather we not use the phrase
"China threat." This is the same phrase commonly used by the
extreme "anti-sino haters" who don't understand how geopolitically
weak China actually is. (you can ask Rodger what an "anti-sino
hater" is)]
While Pakistan and Afghanistan are together a force pulling India
and the United States apart, China could be the magnet that keeps
this burgeoning U.S.-India partnership from derailing. China's
insatiable appetite for resources, heavy reliance on export trade,
along with an overarching need to protect those vital commercial
supply lines has driven Chinese naval expansion into the Indian
Ocean Basin, namely through ports in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka and Pakistan. China's extension into India's
perceivedperceived? or what they would like to be their sphere of
influence? or would it be better to say their near abroad?
bordering states? sphere of influence has in turn driven the
modernization and expansion of the Indian navy out of fear of
Chinese encirclement. Just as the United States is interested in
bolstering Japan's naval defenses, Washington views an Indian
military expansion in the Indian Ocean as a potentially useful
hedge against China.
India has watched with concern as China has become more aggressive
in asserting its territorial claims in Arunachal Pradesh and
Kashmir, while raising the prospect of more robust military
assistance to Pakistan in its time of need. Moreover, while
India's Nepal policy has largely been on auto-pilot, China has
been quietly building up its clout in the small Himalayan kingdom,
threatening to undermine New Delhi's influence in a key buffer
state for India. The more India grows concerned over China, the
more interested it could b ?
The United States meanwhile is reaching a dead-end in trying to
pressure China to end its currency manipulation policies
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Beijing is unwilling to bear the social and political costs of
slowing down the growth of its economy. As trade tensions continue
to simmer between the two, China has been taking advantage of the
United States' preoccupation with its wars in the Islamic world to
assert itself in areas of strategic interest, including the East
China Sea and in disputed territories with India. This level of
assertiveness can be expected to grow as the People's Liberation
Army continues to increase its clout in political affairs. [and
PLAN (navy) leadership is more powerful along with PLAN's general
Though U.S. attention is currently absorbed in trying to work out
an understanding with Pakistan on Afghanistan (an understanding
that will severely undermine the US-India relationship for much of
the near-term,) it is only a matter of time before U.S. attention
turns back toward countries like China, whose interests are
increasingly on a collision course with the United States. As U.S.
attention on China increases, India can highlight its own fears of
Chinese expansion in South Asia as a way to leverage its
relationship with Washington. The mutual Chinese threat could
especially come in handy for New Delhi when it comes time for
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Pakistan, as India and the United States attempt to work out the
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Christmas is over. For the families of 20 slain children in Connecticut, it's been the first without their late loved ones, with the grief all too real and far too near.
It's been just more than ten days since Adam Lanza burst into the Sandy Hook elementary school and shot at everything that moved. Along with the 20 murdered children – innocent souls snatched from this life with startling and harrowing viciousness – Lanza claimed seven adult victims. He also killed himself. At times like this it seems that sanity will never return, and never so much as in the days immediately following the outrage.
But eventually sanity must return. And as we now look back we must not only examine the madness of the original shooting, but also attempt to reconcile the emotion-drenched madness of the reactions to it.
There's a lot to reconcile. For now, I'm going to limit myself to just two examples.
On December 19, National Review Online published a retrospective featuring observations by a number of individuals. Among them was The Human Christ author Charlotte Allen, who wrote the following:
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A very impressive teacher once told me, "Failing to plan is planning to fail." This has stuck with me for more than 30 years. From that day forward, I've made planning an important part of everything I do. I take it so seriously I plan to be spontaneous.
The continuing economic contraction resonates through Chesterfield County government like tremors after a major quake. Unlike the feds, we can't print money or charge it to the kids; we have to face the fact that there aren't enough dollars to pay for everything we want. Over the years, we've become addicted to state subsidies, federal subsidies and ever-increasing revenues from bubbles inflated by the central planners. During the bubbles, instead of saving to make it through the lean years, we adopted the Washington model of trying to be all things to all people.
Where to start? After a State of the Union speech ranking among the longest in the last 45 years, what was said? Stay the course, in other words. Blame Bush, the banks and Congress for any failures, while taking credit for any success; scold the Supreme Court and lecture the rest of us. If we aren't smart enough to understand his brilliant plans, he'll just have to lecture us again. He's getting so repetitious I'm looking for my HeadOn so I can apply it directly to where it hurts.
Every day, to the amazement and delight of more than 20 million people across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh performs his host duties flawlessly with half his brain tied behind his back. Anyone who has ever spent an objective hour listening to his program knows that Rush has a brain the size of a planet. The corporations once known as the mainstream media assure us we now have a president who is always the brightest guy in the room, instead of one who didn't have enough brains to tie his shoes.
Talk about a man-caused disaster; have you looked at the recovery lately? The Republicans under the Bush dynasty and the Clinton interlewd paved the way for the current debacle of fiscal debauchery. The only thing growing is the government. Have the Liberals staged a second revolution? Khrushchev predicted the Soviet Union would bury us and since they're now on the trash heap of history, is the liberal politburo of leftwing academics, corrupt politicians and their lamestream propaganda machine digging the grave instead?
You can't beat good political drama. The Nuremberg rallies with all those glistening uniforms and snappy torch light marches. The May Day parades with the Soviet gerontocracy standing on Lenin's tomb, smiling at the grandchildren of the people they tortured riding on their shiny tanks and missile launchers. Even little North Korea stages some pretty impressive mass birthday parties for the Glorious Midget.
Never since the mid 1970s when the Water Gate Congress insisted on abandoning our South Vietnamese allies after the war had been won have I seen defeat snatched from the jaws of victory in such a bold and decisive manner.
Lately the news reminds me of Monty Python. I keep waiting for President Obama to appoint a Czar of Silly Walks or Reverend Wright to resurface and declare piously, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" If the situation wasn't so serious I couldn't take it seriously.
Is it time to double-down in Afghanistan? Is it time to send more Americans to a long, hard slog in a country whose synonym is "quagmire"? As our economy is being outsourced, our debt monetized, and our infrastructure crumbles, will we march deeper into a thankless nation-building campaign, an Asian Little Bighorn that's resisted every empire from Alexander to Moscow?
Over the last seven months, a wave of activity called ChesterFest has risen from a cloudbank on the horizon to a tsunami crashing through the last few weeks of reality.
Stating the obvious passes for folk wisdom in remote tribal areas such as the Southside of Chicago, and since we now live in the Chicago-on- the-Potomac, perhaps we should start to take some of this obvious wisdom into account. Take statistics; here is a science that's used to make judgments and to justify actions. And what's statistics – just numbers, and what's in a number?


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Boys bowling: Chesterton's Nate Sipe earns P-T bowler of the year
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Updated: May 1, 2013 2:00PM
Five pins is a really good improvement from one bowling season to the next, whether you're talking about league play or high school competition.
A 10-pin jump is stellar. Fifteen pins … just phenomenal. Twenty pins … enormous.
And then there's Nate Sipe. The Chesterton senior was a pretty good bowler in the high school ranks as a junior, averaging 197 with some nice series (526 high), but admittedly inconsistent.
One year later, he has the second-highest average in Northwest Indiana with 219 (seventh in the state) with the high series in the state (536), top region finish at state (11th) and a Post-Tribune Boys Bowler of the Year honor, too.
So what was the difference? Was it an equipment adjustment? Not really, though he's known to have a little too many bowling balls lying around the house.
"I've got like 65," Sipe said, not joking.
And no, his family doesn't have a garage to store those 65 balls. They're in his modest sized bedroom, taking up more space than the bed or dressers.
Nope, it wasn't a change in equipment. It was just about fun.
"Mentally I just tried having fun and not worrying about anything," he said. "I talked to people at meets to take my mind off bowling and any pressure."
And it worked. Not only did Sipe have a great regular season, helping the Trojans win the conference title, but when the postseason arrived with a tougher sport shot oil condition, he was even better. The average wasn't as high as the regular season, of course, since it's more challenging, but Sipe still did better than anyone else.
That's not rhetoric or hyperbole. He averaged 206.8 on the sport shot during the postseason, starting with a 695 series in the sectional.
"I slowed down my approach and arm swing a little, and it helped me get more revs (revolutions) on the ball," Sipe said, explaining the physical side of his massive improvement from the previous season.
The individual sectional was just the start for Sipe. He helped Chesterton win the team sectional, then he kept rolling in singles with all the way to the state finals where he placed 11th— best of any Northwest Indiana boy.
Sipe also attributed team success to his individual success.
"Our chemistry was pretty good," he said. "In tournaments we did well when I pumped everyone up."
That emotional boost was part of Sipe's new attitude that helped raise his average 22 pins.
"I really think the mental aspect helped more than the physical part, because I was more relaxed," he said.


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This site was originally created by John Fuller as a record of the descendants of Henry and Susannah Fuller, who sailed to the Cape Colony on the ship Ocean, along with several thousand other British emigrants in the group known as the 1820 Settlers. I have now taken over the management of the site from John, and it is likely that in the future the site will change somewhat as I develop it to reflect my own interests. However, I do intend to keep all the original Fullers of the Ocean information available.
As well as the descendants of Henry and Susannah, the site includes the known descendants of Henry's siblings, a number of whom later followed him out to the Cape. The Fuller genealogy on this website therefore starts with Henry's parents, William and Ann Fuller of West Ham, Essex, in England. Currently the site names 438 known descendants (and spouses of descendants) of William and Ann in 77 different families.
The site is organized into generations, each with its own link on the left of the site. Henry and Susannah themselves are Generation 1, the first in South Africa. Note that if you want to see all the children born to a particular couple, make sure you're looking at the list for the parents' generation – children who did not have offspring or whose marriages and children aren't on the site will not appear in the list for the next generation (visit the link Build your tree for more about this).
The "Surname List" contains all the surnames that appear on the site and the "Name Index" contains a list of every individual on the site. Each entry on both lists is linked to the page where it appears.
Information about living people has been excluded in order to protect their privacy. Where records have not been verified, a 'living' person is regarded as anyone born within the last 110 years.
I welcome your comments and contributions. In particular, I believe our mutual enjoyment of this resource would be enhanced by the appearance on the site of as many photographs of our Fuller ancestors as we can assemble. In general, I would post fairly low-resolution copies of photographs to the site, so that the integrity of ownership of the original is respected.
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on August 5, 2008I hate advertising. Deeply. It's mental and visual clutter—even when it's pretty I wish it wasn't there, and it's ugly most of the time anyway. It tricks people into buying things they don't need, it makes them feel bad about who they are, and it turns people's attention away from themselves and things they could be doing to improve themselves, like reading a book, and instead convinces them that if they find a deodorant that really embodies them, or buy the same over-priced, disposable clothing that everyone else is wearing it will all be good. The fact that there's now advertising on the ceilings of New York subway cars? Hate. Deeply. And of course I'm not immune to it and I hate that too.
Although I think advertising/marketing/branding are evil industries (that help to supply my paycheck), I'm not about to compare the people who work there to Nazis or fascists or even Satan's gleeful minions. Some of my best friends work in advertising! But it is scary that there's a superstructure that is trying to control us, and most people have stopped questioning it. Advertising is a part of the landscape; it's weird when it's not there.
Though I am not comparing advertising drones to fascists, Steven Heller, in his amazing, smart book Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State does really interesting things when he analyzes and interprets the "overall graphic schemes" of the propaganda art and institutional design of the totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Communist regimes of China and the USSR. Nowhere in the book does he make statements about modern advertising like I do—I used this as a chance to go off, sorry. He saves his passion for condemning the regimes, and addresses today's advertising calmly and intelligently. Heller was a senior art director at The New York Times for many years, and his eye is sharp and his observations illuminating.
From the introduction:
"On the one hand, modern totalitarian states market themselves both to reinforce their power over a captive populace obliged to consume the dominant ideology and to extend the reach of that ideology to the hold-outs, the not yet captive, and the next generation. Corporate branding, on the other hand, is ostensibly a benign practice, intended to convince consumers to make informed choices. Still, it is never neutral. The aim of strategic branding is not merely to raise visibility in the marketplace by celebrating the intrinsic worth of an idea or product but also to infiltrate the subconscious in order to trigger conformist behavior (i.e., fealty to the brand). The read objective of commercial branding campaigns is not to create "educated consumers," but rather to capture the loyalty of a targeted, and hopefully malleable, demographic. If this require engaging in some ruse of creating a fallacy, then ruse and fallacy it is."
The book is a feast of visual propaganda for anyone who is drawn to it (and I am, as the artists were good at their job). But the text, thorough and clean, is by far the best part—with anything less competent, Iron Fists would be a hollow, though engaging, retrospective, and there are already plenty of those.
The scariest part of the book is realizing how exhaustive and well-planned this aspect of these evil regimes was. Each leader exactly how to package and market themselves. And we all know how successful their campaigns were.
And the question remains: Is Nike willing to dream this big?
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Jul 2nd 2009 5:10AM andzro, where did you get that from ?
The Light and How to Swing It: Patch 3.2 and the Paladin II {WoW}
Jun 26th 2009 6:47AM This means that any Paladin can be tasked with judging Light instead of the assignment going to Retribution Paladins simply because it scales better with them.
Not really -- not any Paladin.
I'd prefer Paladins w/ Divinity to judge Light, and that'll be Holy most of the time.
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May 3rd 2009 4:51PM Given that EA owns 15% of The9, WAR is very possible.
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Apr 8th 2009 6:14AM Overrepresented != Overpowered
It's not Holydins who are overpowered.
It's the other healing classes which are underpowered.
Burst damage is bursty.
Guess who can survive that ?
It's not rocket science. Stop calling Holydins overpowered.
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Mar 16th 2009 12:37AM hint:
* The adds are undead
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that should buy you some time to cleanse & heal
Raid Rx: 5 Heroics to help toughen your healers {WoW}
Mar 16th 2009 12:29AM I remember running heroic HoL using my Holy Pally, healed through Loken (group hug method, no running away). Fun and exciting =)
This surely brings back memories of fighting/timing heals against Firemaw's Shadowflame.
tips for those interested:
* make sure everyone's @ maximum health
* bacon tank
* SS someone (usually the 1 whom you're going to heal the last)
* check Loken's cast bar, pick some1 to heal other than bacon'd person
* time HL so that your heal overlaps his nova by a tiny bit margin
* be aware of Light's Grace for your HL (different timing, obviously)
* if you're using Quartz, you can cast Holy Shock on 3rd person before your HL finished casting (somewhere in 'red' zone)
* heal 4th and 5th person, if your Shock crits previously - great ! it's even easier.
you can make the encounter a little easier by combining HoSacrifice + bubble.
Breakfast Topic: Blizzard's patch 3.1 goals {WoW}
Mar 8th 2009 8:21PM ^^^
This is how I, too - view the current changes: what about the lowbies ? What about those healers and tanks starting to gear up ?
Take for example: the nerf to Enhancement's Flurry.
Sure - they've lowered the budget to Haste at the same time, but +haste gear are only available in Northrend !
Another example: mana regen nerf. 60% nerf. Damn: couldn't they just apply the nerf at level 80 !? That's one thing: another thing is - I remember that mana regen is not unlimited when I was gearing up my Holy Priest.
It's moronic and insane beyond any words could describe that Blizzard revamped every single class to fit one, just one high end instance !!
Breakfast Topic: Blizzard's patch 3.1 goals {WoW}
Mar 8th 2009 4:27PM this is what happened when a game gets too big and there are no viable competitor: they become arrogant, dull, and lost their origins.
in other words: corrupted.
Spiritual Guidance: Too many Disc Priests? {WoW}
Feb 22nd 2009 9:07PM 3.1 will make Disc shine even prettier:
* buff to meditation
* OO5SR nerf = Holy Concentration nerf to its 5SR 'cheat' element. It'll be just a cutdown version of Pally's Illumination - Priest itemization doesn't help the situation because it's too widespread: int, spi, crit, haste, and mp5 (unfortunately)
* OO5SR nerf = Surge of Light nerf, same deal as Holy Conc: due to the reduction (if not removal) of its 5SR 'cheat' element.
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emski Jun 26, 2007 3:03 PM
Hi Emski,Thank you for your comment. Scott is actually at the Taj Mahal Hotel and you're suggestions regarding autorickshaws are also valid.As for Papaya, I hope you haven't experienced what you've said and our inclusion of this was on the back of fairly broad research that suggests papaya ( in both fruit & extract form) is a very good food to ease heartburn, indegestion and many other stomach ailments. Further research has indicated it might not actually be the best for delhi-belly in that it aids with constipation, so thank you for pointing that out to us.We'll continue to look over time to improve and build on our current language guides and user feedback is always welcome in assisting us to create more useful podcasts.
language-guides Jun 26, 2007 5:04 PM
HiPlease look at your reasoning for using the right hand to eat. Its rather simplistic and downright stupid ! Please look into Hindu customs and culture for the correct reasons behind the use of the right hand for eating.
Chandra Jul 6, 2007 5:41 AM
very very interesting and helpful thanks to the guide which has helped me a lot
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We now have an iPhone / iPod touch application version of our Hindi language guide.Check it out at http://journals.worldnomads.com/language-guides/post/25816.aspx
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TropicalBreeze on 1/9/2009 1:10:00 PM more reviews by TropicalBreeze
Age: 36-43 Skin: Normal, Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
This product is awful. It does nothing to lengthen the look of lashes. I applied several coats and it still appeared as if I didn't even put on any mascara. On top of that, it left me with raccoon eyes. Blech. This mascara is dirt cheap, you get what you pay for. It's a bad product. I threw it out immediately.
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Lilyeuhh on 9/9/2008 3:06:00 AM more reviews by Lilyeuhh
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
I liked the cream formula, suitable for sensitive eyes like mine. The curved wand is really useful to reach every lash, curve and separate well the lashes. It's written "natural to dramatic look" but it's much more a natural look than a dramatic effect.
As I prefer dramatic look, I won't buy it but it's okay for everyday look.
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goback on 9/9/2008 2:13:00 AM more reviews by goback
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
I hated this mascara. I bought it becasue my sister told me it was not bad and because it was on sale. The low price is a good indicator of the quality of this product - CRAP. The formula is wet and it drags down your lashes. So there's not point curling you lashes if you're going to use this mascara as they will become poker straight. Also, as the formula is so wet, the wand comes out with too much product and it just gets everywhere. The only redeeming factor is that it doesn't seem to smudge much once it dries but that is little consolation as this was the worst mascara I have ever used.
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balgownian on 5/12/2008 12:31:00 AM more reviews by balgownian
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
Bought this for just over $2 at Target, and I have to say that's about all I would pay for it. Refuses to hold a curl (and I use a Shiseido curler) and flakes horribly. I chucked it after about a week.
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tabrizli on 4/28/2008 2:28:00 PM more reviews by tabrizli
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium Hair: Brown Eyes: Hazel
I liked this okay. It was better than average but not my favorite. Seemed like a lot of product came out on the wand. Not too clumpy. Pretty good.. just not my favorite and didn't wow me. Overall I'd say Rimmel has great mascaras... definitely better than L'Oreal and Revlon.
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miumiu24 on 1/5/2008 4:08:00 PM more reviews by miumiu24
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Dark Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
Bought this on sale, and thought it wouldn't be much to lose to give it a try. This mascara is okay, but it's not phenomenal either. Yes it does define lashes, and hardly clumps, but when I bought this I was looking for a mascara that gave me super dramatic lashes I wouldn't have to work hard for (and found it with CG LashBlast). This could be perfect for others but it's just not the right one for me. Didn't use this much anyway. Will definitely not repurchase.
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gmy76z on 12/17/2007 8:57:00 PM more reviews by gmy76z
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Tan Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
i really love this mascara! it makes my eyes look really big and doesnt clump at all. i absolutely love it. it lengthens and adds volume to my lases! Great product! :)
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xhanabi on 11/6/2007 2:33:00 AM more reviews by xhanabi
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
Decent drugstore mascara, works much better with a mascara base. I like the curved wand - it makes it easier to apply, however I'm not sure how effective the curved wand actually is. I think I want to try the regular wand version to see if it's any better. This mascara lengthens alright, not much volume, but does make my lashes longer, darker, and more noticeable. Doesn't hold a curl too well, but it isn't too bad.
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sweet_sorrow123 on 10/21/2007 2:01:00 PM more reviews by sweet_sorrow123
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Other Hair: Other Eyes: Other
I hate the curved wand version, its just not the same. I have difficulty applying it w/ the strangely curved want too. Formula doesn't seems to hold up any curl either. I'll stick to the norm. ESL.
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SuzieV on 7/22/2007 2:25:00 PM more reviews by SuzieV
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I am on my second or third tube of this. It does not clump or smudge, and does an adequate job. I go between this, Voluminous, and 2000 Calorie. The latter two are much more thickening but they clump.
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