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Critical Review by Michael Kerrigan
SOURCE: "In Realms of Gold," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4758, June 10, 1994, p. 23.
In the following review, Kerrigan offers a favorable assessment of The Orange Tree.
Carlos Fuentes established his international reputation over three decades ago, with The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962). That novel goes in search of the identity of a protagonist who is modern down to his Volvo, and Mexican down to the parasites in his gut, but the quest ends up taking in a past of conquest and revolution, and looks far beyond Cruz's native Veracruz to the shores of the Mediterranean. Like the stars Cruz sees overhead—"only the ghost of the light that began its journey countless years ago, countless centuries"—the past informs the present. Its churches the reconsecrated shrines of Indian deities and its public buildings based on Spanish models, modern-day Mexico is unthinkable without this past.
Not that history is necessarily glorious or even dignified, nor can it be relied on for comfort or support. The grotesque story of Queen Joanna of Spain stands as both example and fable: allowed sole possession of her philandering husband only by his death, she roamed the land with his cadaver, wandering dementedly from monastery to monastery, shunning convents in her terror that even in death he might prove unfaithful. Faced with the prospect of lugging such an uncomfortable history about with them, many in Latin America and Spain have sought to deny the past. Fuentes, however, has always urged them to acknowledge and embrace it, to carry the corpse, however unappealing. The imaginative task he has pursued in an extensive and inclusive corpus of fictional work has been the exploration of what he sees as a distinctive Hispanic condition. Rummaging through the historical archives of Spain and Spanish America, leafing' through its literature, poring over old masters, Fuentes has sought to reanimate history and reveal the Hispanic world to itself. It is a paradoxical world in which time plays tricks, in whose present the past everywhere comes blazing through. It is a world whose America contains its Europe and its Europe America. Its articulation has required innovative, often difficult forms-most controversially the fathomless epic of allusion Fuentes invented in Terra Nostra (1975), for some critics a glorious El Dorado of Hispanic culture and life, for others a vast Escorial of barren academicism.
A novel in five novellas, The Orange Tree is a more manageable work altogether, and it provides the English-speaking reader with an excellent introduction to these realms of gold. Stout Cortés stands at the centre of the first story, a savage personification of the European will to conquest. There is more to him than rapacity and lust, however, and less force to his will than he himself could have imagined. These are important themes in a book which finds in history a cycle of conquest and resistance which changes conqueror as much as conquered. The orange tree provides a recurrent emblem for this process. Its name derived from the Arabic narandj, the orange was native to the East. Its delicious, fragrant fruit, round and red as the sun or a gold coin, was brought back as booty by Syria's Roman invaders. When they set out to conquer the wild Celtiberians, the orange went with them. In the fullness of time, conquered became conquistadors, and the tree completed its westward journey. It ran wild in America, and its fruit acquired a different, more bitter taste. Taking five years to reach fruition, it could symbolize patient endurance; sleeping and gaining strength in winter, it drew life from death.
The first narrator in The Orange Tree speaks from his tomb, having just died of plague, but that is logical enough, once you accept the cyclical view of time at work. Death is where all the ladders start; for the Aztecs, it was the only guarantee of continuing life, the darkness that executes the sun and clears the way for a new dawn; for Fuentes, it is the path to understanding and the obvious place to begin. It is, none the less, strange to read a story which moves from experience into innocence. Cortés's interpreter, Jerónimo de Aguilar, is a wilfully unreliable narrator, telling his tale backwards, a caprice which cannot, however, make up for the authorial power he has lost. For a brief moment the only man capable of representing one world to another, he has fancied himself holding history in his hands and shaping events. Mistranslating Cortés's self-serving blandishments as the dire threats they concealed, Jerónimo offered Moctezuma the chance to avert catastrophe, to see the true nature of the brigand he was welcoming as a god. But the Aztec refused to see; his ancient fatalism was unready to comprehend a man like Cortés, a European who never doubted his freedom to fashion his own destiny.
Yet was Moctezuma really so mistaken? asks Fuentes. Did Cortés really make history, or did history make him? A strikingly unreflecting man in this tale, Cortés acquires an appreciable psychological and moral dimension only in the second, in which his two sons tell his story after his death. "Is reality only the sum total of physical events?", the Roman general Scipio wonders, in The Two Numantias, the third story here: "Are mental events only and always consequences of those material acts? Do we fool ourselves by thinking that it's the other way round …?" The Cortés who emerges in his sons' accounts is an unexpectedly tragic figure, his relationship with the land he conquered intimate, compelling and finally self-destructive. Mexico changed him, though that change is plainly registered only in his children. Both named Martín, one is legitimate and white, with all the sense, pride and entitlement that entails, and the other illegitimate, born to Cortés's Indian mistress and hence the first mestizo. Together they are the first modern Mexicans, and the first to revolt as Mexicans against Spanish rule.
Hard as they have striven to overturn his work, the Martíns represent part of their father's story, what he was and what he accomplished. Rather than asking what posterity has done for us, we have to see, implies Fuentes, that it is only in time and in other people that we are created at all. The notion of sacrifice is crucial to Fuentes as it was to the Aztecs, though it can take many different forms. There are the innumerable roads not taken: "What would have happened if what did happen didn't?" asks Jerómino, "What would have happened if what did not happen did?" There are the thousands who must live in poverty so that Artemio Cruz can have his wealth and power, their anonymity the price of his ego; there are the men who, in Terra Nostra, spend their lives building a royal mausoleum. And there are the warriors of Numantia who kill themselves so that their women and children can eat their flesh. We are part of a cycle of death and rebirth, Fuentes suggests; the idea that we exist as individuals is a problematical one.
The discovery of the New World shattered Spain's sense of itself, overturning all assumptions, and complicating everything with the revelation that things could be quite otherwise. To a nation which had laboured long and hard to establish a single, "Spanish" culture, purified of every trace of Moor and Jew, which offered sacrifices in the shape of heretics to the honour of One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, the discovery of a second world came as a profound shock, especially when this world was so full of strange peoples, plants, animals and other "things not mentioned in the Bible". However unsettling that shock, the Spaniards hurled themselves into the task of possessing this world as if their lives depended on it; as if, indeed, something vital to life had been lost with the denial of multiplicity at home, something which now had to be sought abroad. This common project would do more than anything else to unite the rival kingdoms of Iberia into a single Spain.
In our own time—time measured out to the minute by a digital watch—an Irish actor, Vicente Valera, the protagonist in The Orange Tree's fourth tale, dies during a visit to Acapulco. As he looks at the whores he has gathered around him, he feels, for the first time, how artificial and provisional is the person he has been:
In all of their eyes, I saw a time which disregarded my individuality. Above all, I saw those Mexican children and felt afraid of escaping from my own more or less protected individuality, constructed with a certain care and lots of patience so I could face a helpless humanity in which circumstances neither respect nor distinguish anyone.
I realized what had happened. In death, I had become a Mexican.
Once more, however, the American dimension offers the European gain as well as loss. Poor and powerless as he may be, buffeted as he is by a violent, uncomfortable history which affords him no individual recognition, the Mexican has a share in a collective immortality. As Jerónimo puts it, "the greatness of power fell; the small lives of the people survived". The challenge and the opportunity The Orange Tree presents its reader are those of escaping from "a more or less protected individuality" into a wider existence of multiple possibility and a cyclical history which holds past and present in simultaneity and in ceaseless renewal. It is difficult to maintain negative capability faced with so many alternative possibilities; the temptation is always to reach for synthesis; reading such a history it is hard to resist trying to square the circle. But the rewards are immense: each of its five short novellas reflecting and refracting the last, The Orange Tree contrives to project—if only in image in hints and suggestions—the story of a world. The most important stories, the novel implies, are the interminable annals of the poor. What strikes the reader first in Fuentes's work may be his erudition and intellectual rigour, but what remains in the mind is his sympathy, his concern to commemorate the countless lives sacrificed in pain and obscurity so that we might live.
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Date-Krumm, 42, wins again at Australian Open
Temperatures nearly reached 106 degrees in the afternoon.
An on-site meteorologist was monitoring the weather minute-by-minute to decide whether to delay matches or close the retractable roofs on the two main show courts as part of the so-called Extreme Heat Policy, tournament organizers said.
The roof remained open for Victoria Azarenka's second-round match on Rod Laver Arena early in the day, which she won in 55 minutes.
"Even at 11 a.m. you could really feel it," she said. "I wasn't sure if we were playing with closed roof or open roof. Right before the match I saw it was closed. I thought, `Wow, good. It wouldn't be so hot. It wasn't a problem.'"
Not so. The roof was open - it is an outdoor tournament, after all.
As part of the tournament's tradition, high heat entitles the women to an extra 10-minute break between the second and third sets.
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'Avengers' has few weaknesses
Audiences can't just be entertained by one superhero anymore.
Sometimes you need a triumvirate of superheroes, times two, as in Marvel's "The Avengers." And in the case of this much-anticipated film — the result of a gingerly maneuvered marketing move that has involved four origin stories over several years to build audiences up to the Mount Olympus of superhero movies — bigger definitely is better.
"The Avengers," in the be-all-you-can-be mode of thinking, successfully fulfills fanboys' expectations of what these comic book stories should be, down to the fact that Thor and the Hulk, the all-muscle-all-the-time duo of the group, just can't seem to get along. Embracing all the goodness of summertime blockbuster tradition, the film also is an audience-pleaser for the non-comic book reader.
The movie, under the helm of sci-fi god Joss Whedon (all hail Joss Whedon!), is superhero movie manna, delivering a big, over-the-top amalgam of godlike, monster-like, good ol' American hero-like and obnoxious playboy-like characters who chew up scenery all on their own. Yet Whedon somehow gives each of the characters their own screen time and room to move. It's a difficult proposition trying to balance so many leads in one film, but Whedon does it. He brings out the clashing personalities in each of them.
The action is there in spades as aliens invade, The Hulk pounds things into smithereens, and superheroes are flung here and there. The comedy is spry, too, particularly the witty dialogue, courtesy of writers Whedon and Zak Penn.
Not that this is a perfect movie. It does tout a long running time and has a tendency to drag a bit between action scenes.
In the film, the Avengers team is just about assembled except for one crucial piece to the puzzle, and that's hard-to-find scientist Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), who has retreated to the Third World to lose himself in helping the people there while trying to get control of his anger, because we all know what happens when he gets angry.
Uber spy Natasha Romanoff is dispatched by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), head of international security agency S.H.I.E.L.D., to recruit Bruce to join the Avengers team, because impending doom is on the horizon.
It seems that Thor's wayward trickster brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), plans to invade the Earth on behalf of some alien guys with Deep Throat voices. He wants to steal the Tesseract (a cube of infinite power) from S.H.I.E.L.D. and then, of course, rule the Earth, since he was banished from his own world and has adoptive brother/absolute power issues. He hypnotises soldier Clint Barton, also known as Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), and scientist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard), two of our good guys, to help him take over the world, so our good guys are now bad guys.
The Earth's only hope is its team of superheroes: Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff, Iron Man/Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), and Bruce Banner/The Hulk.
They go through some internal turmoil, of course. Throw together this many he-man personalities and, well, you know someone's not going to get along.
But, alas, they do come together in the end, and you can probably guess who wins.
On the downside, some of the lines are certainly cheesy, and unless you really are a big comic book fan who's enthralled by every little detail, you'll find the movie's pacing marred a bit as the filmmakers take time to develop the essential characters and character relationships.
Still, it is pretty funny seeing The Hulk smack Thor around, just for fun. It's funny seeing Capt. America call Tony Stark out for being selfish. It's funny seeing The Hulk also smack Loki around, just because he can.
The cast is brilliant, as they were for the previous films, the movie doesn't take itself too seriously, and the overall mood of the film is entertaining without losing its emotional human element, represented most of all here by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s upstanding Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg).
The Hulk is right. "The Avengers" is definitely a smash.
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Inaugurating the State-level distribution of aid to the tsunami victims here on Monday, he said the Left Democratic Front Government was implementing the announcements made by the UDF Government.
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This catalogue documents Myfanwy MacLeod's first institutional solo exhibition, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, at the Contemporary Art Gallery, January 20 to February 26, 2006. The publication includes essays by Francis McKee, An Empire of Ruins and Jenifer Papararo, New Icons of the Pastoral and an interview with the artist and Connie Butler.
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We've been sharing some video interviews from my recent trip to the Machinima LA offices, including a tour of the facility and a chat about the company's belief that YouTube is social. I also got a chance to talk with CEO Allen DeBevoise about the Mortal Kombat Legacy web series project and what its success might mean for web series in general.
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MANILA, Philippines—They persevered and was given the "Gold."
The efforts of the proponents behind The Mind Museum, the country's first world-class science center, was recently recognized with the awarding of the "LEED Gold certification" by the US Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute.
This means that more than just being a showroom for numerous scientific artifacts and interactive exhibits, The Mind Museum has met the stringent, globally accepted design and construction practices that increase profitability while reducing the negative environmental impacts of buildings and improving occupant health and well-being.
And indeed, it is a tremendous feat, as The Mind Museum is one of the first few establishments in the country to receive a LEED Gold Certification, a league dominated mostly by players from the real estate industry.
"We got the Gold! Saying that brings me unmatched pleasure quite different from what it means in a sports competition. It is because this time, nature won which is the ultimate victory because it means we all won," says Mind Museum managing director Manny Blas II during the recently held LEED recognition ceremony.
"We did not just make a really cool world-class museum but rather we made a science museum that was very careful to consider in its design and construction, the impact it would have on the balance of natural life and what sustains it. In the end, what we built is a science museum that not just cared for the pleasure of understanding nature but for nature herself," Blas explains.
The Mind Museum, which was built by more than 300 men and women led by Ayala Land Inc. and guided by LEED professionals from Langdon and Seah Philippines, sits on a 12,500-square meter prime lot of the JY Campos Park along 3rd Avenue in Bonifacio Global City. It was conceived in 2006 by the Bonifacio Art Foundation Inc. in a bid to provide the public a perfect avenue to better understand and appreciate the amazing world of science.
Notable is The Mind Museum's sleek futuristic building design by Ed Calma and his team of architects, which boasts of environment-friendly features that conserve water and energy, reduce gas emissions, and improve indoor air quality, among others.
"It is important for us to build and create something that is sustainable because first and foremost we are a science museum, and science already told us that we cannot keep on building the way we have been building and not adversely impact the planet. So for us to be genuine to our being a science museum, I think we had to respond to these findings of science," Blas further says.
"By creating a sustainable structure we can show others that it can be done, that things can be achieved. Imagine, for us who rely on donations, we were able to do it—what more to those who have the money? The other thing is that when we were just getting donors for the science museum, we already told them that we wanted this to be environmentally sustainable, financially sustainable and that we were going to go for a LEED certification and they also liked the idea," he explains.
"I hope The Mind Museum inspires, and make people see the value of building something that is sustainable and at the same time motivate others to follow suit," Blas adds.
At present, The Mind Museum has proven to be an interesting yet educational destination for the young and old alike.
"The Mind Museum is good for both adults and kids, as they will learn a lot here. You see, there is always something that people are curious about and in here, they will get the answer to that curiosity," Blas says.
The Mind Museum features five galleries within its two levels—The Story of the Universe: Its Beginning and Majesty; The Story of the Earth: Its Story Across the Breadth of Time; The Story of Life: The Exuberant Varieties of Life; The Story of the Atom: The Strange World of the Very Small; and The Story of Technology: The Showcase of Human Ingenuity.
It also boasts of an outdoor "Science-in-the-Park," where visitors can experience playful science through four-themed pockets: Music, Math, Living and Water. Other educational offerings include facilities such as an auditorium, laboratory and classrooms for educational workshops. The Mind Museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Operation hours are extended until 9 p.m. every Saturday.
Tickets, which are good for a three-hour stay at the Mind Museum, are priced at P600 for adults; P450 for children and students up to college; and P150 for public school students and teachers. Children two-feet and below can come in for free.
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I already knew this, but!I'm so glad there's a shared stash in this game!I have like... 40? orange guns stowed away on my Borderlands 1 character that would be much more useful on my other ones.
On an unrelated side note, I am sick and tired of people saying Zer0 will only be good at Sniper Rifles and Melee. Only two of his thirty skills exclusively affect Sniper Rifles! Heck, scratch that. One of the two has an alternate, superior effect for non-rifles. Yes, one of his three skill trees is named "Sniping". No, it's not about Sniper Rifles. He's exceptional with every gun, just like the others.
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"The father of 11, grandfather of 15 and great-grandfather of six had gone into hospice in late February because of congestive heart failure. He was declared dead by a coroner the first time in the early hours of Feb. 27 when neither the coroner nor others, including nurses, could find a pulse.
"He was transported to the funeral home, where he began to move. An ambulance was called, and shortly thereafter, he was back in the hospital, talking to family and friends.
"Williams told family members, when they asked about his experience, that he thought he had just gone into a deep sleep."
Now, nephew Eddie Hester tells local TV station WAPT, "I think he's gone this time."
"The same coroner and the same funeral home director came this time, and when they got there, I said, 'I thought y'all were going to send somebody else,' and we laughed about it. Everybody laughed," Hester also told the station.
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1. What ship(s) did you fly as you ranked up? For each, primarily PvE, PvP or both? Group or solo?
2. What ship(s) do you fly at cap? For each, primarily PvE, PvP or both? Group or solo?
3. Which ship(s) do you think are currently overpowered? PvE, PvP, or both? Specifically why?
4. Which ship(s) do you think are currently underpowered? PvE, PvP, or both? Specifically why?
5. What feature of your favorite ships do you like the most? As in, console configurations, station configurations, aesthetics, special abilities, etc.?
I leveled all my characters via the "default" ships; escorts for tacticals, cruisers for engineers, and science vessels for scientists.
At cap I mostly fly a fleet escort with my Tactical character. Mostly I PvE, and PvP just a bit. When I group, it's always a random public group.
Many of the Klingon ships appear overpowered at this time. A cursory glance at SpiderMitch's ship charts for tier 5 certainly gives this impression. The raptor is just like the fleet escort, except it has a stronger hull. The battle cruisers are just like the fed cruisers, except they equip dual cannon, turn better, and have more crew. The Orion cruiser is just like a star cruiser, except it has fighter support and more crew.
Science vessels are underpowered. Cruisers set the firepower standard with 8 weapons. Escorts equip dual cannons to keep parity with only 7 weapons, and then punch ahead of cruisers due to commander and lt commander tactical boff abilities. Science vessels are far behind with only 6 weapons. This means that high level science boff abilities not only need to be just as good as comparable engineering and tactical abilities, they also need to make up for 2 missing weapons. Gravity well 3 needs to affect the enemy just as adversely as a tricobalt torpedo or repeated conventional torpedoes that occur over the same 1 minute cooldown. I know players get annoyed when a well aimed tyken's rift or viral matrix shuts them down, but at present there is NO situation in which I would take a science vessel over a comparably equipped cruiser or escort.
My favorite part of the ships are the exterior aesthetics. The ship I assembled from various fleet escort parts looks great, and the visible weapon ports pretty much match what I have equipped.


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Spanish 33 will polish the students' receptive skills (listening / reading) as well as the productive skills (speaking / writing). Professor Carlos Gonzales will work with students to review grammar; focusing on mastering forms and uses of verbs through oral communication activities. Brief readings from major Hispanic authors and discussions on traditional and current issues will introduce students to Latin American and Spanish history and culture. The readings will be complemented by viewing and listening to TV clipscommercial, news and shows, feature movies and documentaries, and music videos and songs. Potential fieldtrips include mural viewings, excursions to the Museum of Latin American Art, a soccer game, and a Peruvian restaurant.
CMC: What aspect of the Spanish language do English-speaking students struggle with the most?
Gonzales: The aspect that I consider less easy to master is writing. This skill requires a great investment of time and patience, qualities that are not usually found in university life. One of the reasons why it seems to take more time is that the mistakes which are made become more obvious and frequent when they are written downthey are perpetuated in the piece of papera characteristic that does not occur in oral language. As soon as words leave your mouth, they are gone with the wind.
CMC: What are some of the advantages of taking this class in the summer over taking it during the school year? Can students get more out of it?
Gonzales: Summer Session presents several advantages. First, students are more exposed to the target language with less periods of interruption between classes. Second, classes themselves are more personalized. CMC prides itself on having a professor/student ratio of 1:18 in most classes. Language classes during Summer Session fluctuate between 6-10 students. It is like having a personal tutor for each class period. Fieldtrips, excursions, etc. done outside of class time and outside the classroom are more effective and relaxed because they take place in a natural atmospherelike a soccer gameand are not as rigid as instruction that takes place in the traditional classroom; moreover, the activities are not organized by a campus club or organization. The most attractive advantage is the class requierement for language can be completed in 6 weeks instead of a whole semester and frees up your schedule during a regular semester.
CMC: How does studying history and culture specifically help in learning the language?
Gonzales:When we talk about historical events or cultural subtleties in the Hispanic world we obviously do it in Spanish, using the proper terms not just in their chronological and idiosyncratic context, but with the required linguistic strength as well. We learn not just vocabulary wordsthat is isolated wordsbut above all we use phrases and conjugations showing the connotations in the mother tongue. For instance, if we are discussing about the Cuban Revolution o el "cebiche", we first locate the words in the corresponding linguistic context in order to approach them in their historical, chonological, spatial, or gastronomical context.
CMC: Will students be able to comprehend the Spanish TV news, movies, and music without much difficulty after taking Spanish 33?
Gonzales: The student that takes this class has already developed a basic / intermediate level of competency. Classroom instruction will polish those skills that the student is trying to master and will perfect those that are already at an optimal level.
Exposure to audio or audiovisual activities is conducive to gaining a familiarity with the language and its subtletiesi.e. idiomatic expressionsand understanding the accents of the various Spanish-speaking regions in a natural context. The purpose of the TV news, the movies and listening to songs is to equip the student with the daily and social background in the target language. Moreso, the songsas well as the news and moviesafford the student the opportunity to understand social and cultural aspects of Hispanic countries. The difficulties will decrease andin some caseswill even disappear if the student enthusiastically and consistently takes notes, asks questions, and uses the class activities and other real-life situations to practice.
CMC: Most students at CMC, though many would love to, often find it difficult to fit a foreign language class into their schedule once they are done with their General Education language requirement. What do you think is the best/most effective way to maintain foreign language skills without taking any extra classes?
Gonzales: The Hispanic population of California has given rise to local Spanish TV stations that are models of the correct use of the language. That is why one of the suggestions I give to my language students at the beginning of each semester is to watch the news. The advantage of the news is that the difficulty that you may encounter by watching a soap opera or a moviebecause of the unfamiliar accents or the intonations full of histrionic emotionare minimized. If one considers that the anchorman has studied to read the news in a clear fashion, it makes sense that the news would be more easily understood by one who is learning a language. Another advantage is that the student is already familiar with much of what is happening enabling him to concentrate on language production, its verbal context, and semantic use and not on the news itself.
Fortunately, the Spanish language to which the student is exposed here in California is not forced nor artificial as it can be in other states, areas or regions of the United States. One other suggestion I give my students is to visit the Hispanic businesses and storesthat are found here in abundanceas this gives the student the opportunity to practice the language: a grocery store or a swapmeet visitwill provide a bargaining experienceor eating in a Hispanic cuisine restaurant will provide countless contexts for spontaneous oral production. But it is imperative that the student take the initiative and make the effort to create those kinds of situations.
For those that do not have the money nor the transportation to go to a store or to eat at a restaurant, most of the 5C's offer what is known as the "Mesas Hispanas" (Hispanic Table) during the regular semesters. There, the studentsduring lunchtime, 12:00 pm can practice the language in a more relaxed, friendly and jovial setting without all the classroom seriousness and rigor. And what it is even better, even students who are not enrolled in a language class can attend. For instance, CMC offers the Hispanic Tables every Tuesday and Thursday at Collins and Pomona College holds them at Oldenborg Center from Monday to Friday.


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T.I. is a master when it comes to constructing pleasing bangers. The only (considerable) problem remains the lack of a certain je ne sais quoi. While his signature swagger and menacing vocal presence still intoxicate, and his hard-hitting sonics still pound out the speakers, his strict adherence to rigid formulas is maddening. It's almost worse that there are 18 quality tracks; the sheer number of joints reveals what isn't here—namely, introspection, growth, and vulnerability. Part of the problem is that T.I. vs T.I.P. comes just a year after King's rule over last summer. Like Ghost's More Fish as compared to the superior Fishscales, it's a reprise, at best—at worst, it's like a collection of King table scraps (to be fair, even those scraps are mighty delicious).
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In the end, the album's concept is immaterial. This is simply another collection of unabashed bangers and a few limp slow jams that will neither convert newbies nor alienate diehards. T.I. may be stuck in the same gear, but at least it's full-throttled fourth, and not reverse.
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2000 block of Harding Highway, Lima — On Wednesday, an employee of the Allen County Fairgrounds said someone broke into one of the fairgrounds' storage barns and took items.
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6459 Bellefontaine Road, Lima — On Friday, a D and G Mini Mart attendant reported a man pumped $67.81 worth of fuel into his Jeep and then took off without paying for it.
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600 block of North Elizabeth Street, Lima — On Thursday, a woman was arrested when she was found with marijuana on her when officers stopped her for not using her turn signal for a right turn onto North Elizabeth Street.
1100 block of Franklin Street, Lima — A 46-year-old woman said her husband pushed her and hit her over the head with an ash tray on Thursday.
900 block of Crestwood Drive, Lima — On Wednesday, a 86-year-old woman reported her lawn mower was stolen out of her driveway. She said she had mowed the lawn and went inside to do chores, and when she came back out, it was missing.
1300 block of North Main Street, Lima — An 87-year-old woman said when she came home from being hospitalized Monday, she found someone had cracked the wood on her back door and used bodily force to try to break into her house.
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In a sport that tests endurance, character and spirit and is dominated by Kenyans, no one expected an unknown Ugandan to crunch a gruelling 42.195km of the Mumbai Marathon into the fastest ever 2.09.56 hours.
Twenty-six-year-old Jackson Kiprop grabbed the gold, clocking the fastest ever in the history of the Mumbai Marathon in his first attempt at the full race. Kiprop entered the race as a pacemaker to gain experience for future full marathons. Rarely have pacemakers gone on to win the race in any edition across the world. On Sunday, Kiprop made an exception to this phenomenon to clip 24 seconds of the course record in his first full marathon.
Kiprop was inspired by his training partner Stephen Kiprotich's London Games gold medal-winning performance, Uganda's first marathon yellow metal in Olympics. Both Kiprotich and Kiprop train in high altitude conditions of Kaptagat, Kenya. "I have been training for three months with Kiprotich," Kiprop said after winning the race.
He used to train alone until he met his coach Richard Mettow. The training included running six days a week, twice a day with a 5 km run in the morning. In the evening he would pack in a 50-minute run. Each day would have a different kind of a training regimen to forge his muscles for endurance. He is now planning to take a shot at the World Championship to be held in August. Interestingly, when he runs, he keeps his right thumb up because folding it hinders his ergonomics.
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"At 35km, I saw myself out of the race. I wanted water but there was none. I continued and once I had water, I was ok and carried on," the winner of $40,000 said. The prize will help him "construct a decent house for myself and my family". He has a large family to support and move into the city from the suburbs back home.
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