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New study links exposure to early morning sunlight and a lower Body Mass Index.
Young teens aren't exactly embracing the government's Let's Move mantra, the latest fitness data suggest.
Oreos are as addictive as cocaine, at least for lab rats, and just like us, they like the creamy center best.
Mississippi researcher's autopsy on chicken nuggets finds little chicken at all.
Fish are high in several beneficial nutrients, including some that are related to healthy brain development.
If your teenager tells you that he or she has a stomach ache it might be more than just an excuse to get out of doing something you've asked them to do.
When brothers and sisters pick on, harass, hit, punch, kick, insult and generally harass other siblings they're not typically identified as bullies. The response is more often kids will be kids.
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is producing remarkable results in teenage girls by cutting infections in half. A new study measures the vaccines impact since it came on the market in 2006.
Only about half of teen girls in the U.S. have gotten at least one dose of the expensive vaccine, and just a third of teen girls have had all three shots, according to the latest government figures.
"These are striking results and I think they should be a wake-up call that we need to increase vaccination rates," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC study compared infection rates in girls 14 to 19 before and after the vaccine became available. The proportion infected with the targeted HPV strains dropped 56 percent, from about 12 percent before the vaccine was sold to 5 percent. That result was for all teens after it was on the market, whether or not they were vaccinated.
Among girls who had gotten the vaccine, the drop in HPV infections was higher " 88 percent.
For the vaccine to be effective, 3 shots have to be given over a period of 6 months. There are two vaccines against HPV, but the study only looked at Gardasil. Both vaccines are approved for use in males and females " ages 9 to 26 for females and ages 9 to 21 in males.
The study involved interviews and physical examinations of nearly 1,400 teen girls in 2003 through 2006 and of 740 girls in 2007 through 2010.
The vaccine's impact was seen even though only 34 percent of the teens in the second group had received any vaccine. That could be due to "herd immunity" " when a population is protected from an infection because a large or important smaller group is immune.
Some parents have balked at having their children and teens vaccinated for a sexually transmitted disease out of concern that it could encourage sexual activity. Frieden said the vaccination is meant to protect them when they become adul
The rotavirus vaccine is definitely one vaccine you want to make sure your child gets.
Rotavirus is a gastrointestinal disease that causes an inflammation of the stomach and intestines. It can produce severe diarrhea along with vomiting, fever and abdominal pain. Dehydration is often a side effect and globally, its responsible for more than half a million deaths each year in children under the age of five.
This disease is bad news for youngsters, but since the Rotarix and RotaTeq vaccines were introduced - U.S. children have benefited greatly from the protection.
Most parents are good about making sure their kids receive all the recommended vaccines, but many wonder how effective these vaccines really are. A new study says that the rotavirus vaccines are 91-92 percent effective for children 8 months and older. Thats an excellent result.
The study, led by Margaret M. Cortese, MD, of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aimed to find out the effectiveness of the rotavirus vaccine.
There are several types of rotavirus vaccines. Researchers looked at the effectiveness of the monovalent vaccine called RV1- that came out in 2008. They also reviewed data on the pentavalent vaccine RV5.
The researchers gathered files on all children who went to one of five hospitals in Georgia and Connecticut with severe diarrhea lasting no more than 10 days.
The children were all born after the RV1 vaccine had been introduced (2008).
The researchers tested their stools for rotavirus and looked at their immunization records.
The researcher then compared the vaccination history of the children who had rotavirus to those who did not have rotavirus.
There were 165 children who had rotavirus in their stool and 428 who tested negative for it.
When the researchers compared these groups, they found the RV1 rotavirus vaccine was 91 perce
Kids and water: They may not want to drink a lot of it, but they sure love to play in it. Now that the magical season of summer is almost here, there will be a lot of children doing just that. While you may think you already know everything there is to know on water safety, its still a good idea for parents, guardians and babysitters to freshen-up on ways to help keep kids safe when around or in water.
The good news, according to a study published by the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John Hopkins University in 2012, is that more parents ARE paying attention to water safety. Children dying from drowning"related incidents have declined dramatically since the early 1990s.
Unfortunately, more than 1,000 U.S. children still die from drowning and another 5,000 are injured every year. Dying from drowning isnt the only serious outcome that can occur. Nonfatal drowning can also result in brain damage and long-term disability.
Children less than 4 years old are most likely to die in drowning incidents, usually in bathtubs or after falling into water. Older children are more likely to drown while swimming, according to research cited in the study, with the risk rising in warmer regions of the South and West that have longer swimming seasons.
Lets review a few water safety tips, provided by kidshealth.org, and USA Today News that may help your little one from becoming one of the heart-breaking statistics listed above.
Supervision: The number one rule for water safety and children is that an adult, preferably one who knows CPR, is overseeing any child or group of children in water - whether the water is in a bathtub, a wading pool, an ornamental fish pond, a swimming pool, a spa, the beach, or a lake. If you dont know how to swim, learn. A parent or guardian who can actually enter the water and retrieve a child is able to respond faster, when a child is in trouble, than someone who has t
Time and time again headlines declare that vegetables are absolutely necessary to a healthy lifestyle. As parents, we get it. But what if your little one doesn't like broccoli, green beans, squash, cucumbers, carrots, beets -ok, I'll pass on that one too- corn, cauliflower, spinach or tomatoes? What if every time you attempt to smuggle a vegetable into your child's meal world war three breaks out?
Well...there may be hope. Try a little dip (and tenderness). According to a small but optimistic study, kids that don't normally like veggies messing up their perfectly good meal, will reevaluate that outlook and give vegetables a taste if they are presented with a bit of flavored dip.
The fact that the dip used during the study was low in fat, calories and sodium didn't seem to matter.
The study was conducted at the Center for Childhood Obesity Research at Pennsylvania State University.
Thirty-four preschoolers were asked to do a taste test of vegetables with and without the low-fat dip.
Not surprisingly, the kids liked the veggies better when they were served with dip. When the dip was flavored, kids liked the vegetables even more compared to plain dip or no dip at all.
What I find amazing is that thirty one percent of the little tykes liked the vegetables as is nothing added. When the researchers added the dip though, a whopping sixty-four percent were thumbs up on the vegetables. There were of course, those children who wouldn't budge even while others were smiling, dipping and exclaiming how tasty cauliflower can actually be. Six percent said no thanks to the dip and the vegetables while eighteen percent said absolutely no to the vegetables with no dip.
To see just how far kids were willing to go with the veggie and dip combo researchers did another study. This time they offered 27 preschoolers celery or squash both notorious for being leaders in a preschooler's yuck category. The kids basically picked at the
I recently ran into a friend I hadn't seen in about 5 years. We were catching up on each other's lives when her teenage son joined us. The last time I saw John he was about 11 years old and full of pre-teen energy and curiosity. This time however, he was quiet and kept his head down when he said hello. When he finally looked up, I saw why he had been avoiding full-face eye contact. John had a pretty severe case of acne. Not a few pimples, but entire areas on his face that were red and dotted with large pustules and cysts. It looked painful.
Typically, acne isn't a serious medical condition. It comes and goes throughout life and is more of an annoyance than anything else. For some though, acne can cause emotional distress and lead to scarring of the skin and psyche.
Fortunately, there are many over-the-counter (OTC) medications that when combined with a consistent face cleaning routine, keep breakouts to a minimum.
But for some people, teens in particular, acne can progress to the point where OTC medications don't control the problem. Pediatricians are often called upon to help teens come up with a plan of treatment.
There is a range of medications that can clear up even severe cases of acne, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Writing in the May issue of its journal Pediatrics, the group throws its support behind new guidelines from the American Acne and Rosacea Society that detail how to treat acne in children and teens of all ages.
That "all ages" part is important because acne is becoming more and more common in pre-teens, too, said Dr. Lawrence Eichenfield, the lead author of the AAP report. One study of 9- and 10-year-old girls found that more than three-quarters had pimples.
A possible reason for why kids are experiencing breakouts at a younger age is that, on an average, boys and girls are starting puberty earlier than in past generations says Eichenfield.
According t
Many a new mother has struggled with whether to breast-feed or give her newborn formula. A recent study, published in the journal
10 to 20 percent of children have common skin warts, but where do they come from? Old wives tales and folklore suggest they come from touching frogs or toads, but I think we've all grown past that as an explanation. Actually, warts are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). They form when the virus gets into the skin, usually through a cut or scratch. The virus causes the rapid growth of cells on the outer layer of skin and once formed, they can be rough or smooth to the touch.
How do children get warts? A recent study found that elementary age children are most likely to catch the virus from family members or at school.
The study was led by, Sjoerd C. Bruggink, MD, Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He and his team looked at how warts are commonly spread. They focused on HPV, but not the strains transmitted through sexual activity.
The study looked at 1,000 children ages 4 to 12. Researchers looked for warts on the children's hands and feet, and recorded information such as whether any family members or classmates had warts, whether the children walked barefoot at home, and whether they visited public swimming pools, used public showers or played sports barefoot. At a follow-up exam a year later, the children were re-examined for warts.
Overall, 29 percent of the children in the study developed new warts during the year. Researchers said that children who had warts at the start of the study were more likely to develop new warts than were children who had no warts at the beginning of the study.
The investigators noted that the susceptibility to developing warts may run in families. The study found that children who had family members with warts were twice as likely to develop warts.
20 percent of the children were more likely to get them from classmates who had warts.
Prevention should be aimed at reducing transmission within families and classes, the researchers s
How doctors are helping kids beat a common food allergy.
This is one of those health concerns you heard a lot about in the 70s and 80s when the government began to take an active role in reducing the amount of lead in our everyday environment.
As long ago as 1904, child lead poisoning was linked to lead-based paints, but it wasnt until 1971 that the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act was passed. Finally in 1978, lead-based paint was banned. The inside and outside of homes built before then most likely were painted with a lead based paint. Since lead is slightly sweet to the taste children are tempted to put fallen paint chips, or peeled chips, into their mouths.
Lead was also an additive used in gasoline till 1986 when it was phased out of production. Tons of lead was released into the atmosphere and eventually found its way into the dirt of playgrounds, and yards.
The banning of lead in these two areas alone has dramatically reduced the number of American children with elevated blood lead levels. Thats extremely good news because lead poisoning can have terrible consequences for children and adults.
But, despite the progress that has been made in the last four decades, about 2.6% of U.S. children aged 1 to 5 years old still have too much lead in their systems, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Surveys conducted between 2007 and 2010 show that more than half a million children had blood lead levels equal to or above the recommended 5 micrograms per deciliter (mg/dl). A level at, or higher than 5 mcg/dl, is considered a level of concern by the CDC.
Children can be exposed to lead by inhaling it, swallowing it or in rare cases absorbing it through the skin. In the bloodstream it can damage red blood cells, limiting their ability to carry oxygen to the organs and tissues that need it. Lead can end up in the bones and interfere with calcium absorption. It can severely affect mental and physical development and at very
The dreary days of winter are quickly giving way to longer hours of daylight. Kids will soon be swimming, biking, playing sports and enjoying all the other advantages that more sunshine and warmer weather offers. Theyll also be absorbing more UVA and UVB rays.
While skin cancer in children is rare, and melanoma " the deadliest form of skin cancer- is even more unusual, more cases are being reported according to a new study. The rates increased by about 2% per year from 1973 to 2009 in U.S. children ages newborn to 19. Melanoma accounts for up to 3 percent of all pediatric cancers, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.
As you might expect, the largest increase was seen in teenage girls from 15 to19 years old. Girls tend to lay out in the sun or visit tanning booths more often than boys. Girls are more likely to have melanomas on their lower legs and hips while boys melanomas are typically found on the face and trunk.
Recent studies have also shown that melanoma is on the rise among adults as well. Exactly what is driving these trends is not fully understood, but increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation from both the sun and tanning booths as well as greater awareness of melanoma may be responsible, according to study authors led by Jeannette Wong of the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
Skin cancer looks pretty much the same in children as it does in adults. Parents should routinely check any moles or changes in their childs skin.
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common skin cancer. It is highly treatable, grows very slowly and is located on the top layer of skin. It usually appears as a small, shiny bump or nodule on the skin, mainly those areas exposed to the sun, such as the head, neck, arms, hands, and face. It more commonly occurs among people with light-colored eyes, hair, and complexion.
Squamous cell carcinoma is a more aggressive skin cancer but
Stopping pancreatic cancer before it becomes cancer.
If a child is diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), will he or she eventually outgrow it or continue with the condition into adulthood?
A new study shows that nearly 30% will continue to struggle with ADHD, and may develop other mental health issues.
"We suffer from the misconception that ADHD is just an annoying childhood disorder thats over treated," researcher William Barbaresi, MD, of Boston Childrens Hospital, says in a prepared statement. "This couldnt be further from the truth. We need to have a chronic-disease approach to ADHD as we do for diabetes. The system of care has to be designed for the long haul."
The study included 5,700 adults. Two groups were created: one group had been diagnosed during childhood with ADHD, and the other group grew up without ADHD.
Out of 367 participants who had childhood ADHD, 232 were followed into adulthood. At age 27, nearly 30% had adult ADHD.
Researchers also found that nearly 57% of the adults with childhood ADHD had at least one other mental health issue. 35% of the adults without childhood ADHD also had one or more mental health issues.
Substance abuse or dependence (26%), antisocial personality disorder (17%), other substance abuse/dependence (16%), hypomanic episodes (15%), anxiety disorder (14%) and major depression (13%) were the most common mental health issues experienced by adults diagnosed with childhood ADHD.
The researchers noted that death from suicide was nearly five times higher in this group.
Among all 367 adults with childhood ADHD, seven (1.9%) had died, three of them from suicide. Of 4,946 people without ADHD, only 37 (0.7%) had died, five by suicide.
Ten people whod had childhood ADHD (2.7%) were in jail at the time of recruitment for the study.
This study "speaks to the need to greatly improve the long-term treatment of children with ADHD and provide a mechanism for treating them as adults," r
A new study slated to appear in the Journal of Pediatrics, says that there is no association between the amount of vaccines a young child receives and autism. Some parents have worried that there may be a link and have opted out of having their child vaccinated or reduced the number of vaccines recommended.


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"Amis is a force unto himself. . . . There is, quite simply, no one else like him." —The Washington Post
"One of Amis's funniest novels." —The New Yorker
"Amis's language is electric, his wit as sharp and precise than it has been in a decade." —USA Today
"Full of heart and warmth . . . an unexpected reward for readers." —People
"At heart an old-fashioned novel. . . . Amis is, like Dickens, an insistently moral writer, satire being an edifying genre with a noble cause: the improvement of society." —The New York Times Book Review
"Breathtaking. . . . A great big confidence trick of a novel—an attack that turns into an embrace—a book that looks at us, laughs at us, looks at us harder, closer, and laughs at us harder and still more savagely. It is every inch the novel that we all deserve. So let's give thanks that Martin Amis was bad enough and brave enough to write it." —The Guardian (London)
"Shockingly, savagely funny. . . . Martin Amis represents the best of contemporary British literature—serious, hilarious, unsettling and provocative." —Huffington Post
"Lionel Asbo bears a strong resemblance to the trio of novels . . . that made Amis' reputation. . . . But Lionel Asbo may be even better than these ambitious works of fiction, more disciplined, funnier and more inventive. . . . To say that it is a return to form is an understatement—it might be his finest work." —The Denver Post
"Full of Amis' trademark virtuoso prose and wit. . . . Technically brilliant, dazzling in style, manic in energy and driven by a narrative momentum impossible to resist." —The Toronto Star
"Little in fiction is more entertaining than Martin Amis at his pithy best. . . . 'Lionel Asbo: State of England' posits plenty of pith and cutting cultural criticism. It is wild. It is whacked. . . . [It] swings between wildly funny and harshly real." —The Plain Dealer
"Amis' portrait of someone who feeds Tabasco-splashed meat to his pit bulls in order to enrage them and toughen them up is surprisingly tender. . . . Fond, too, is Amis' approach to Asbo's mixed-race nephew, who serves as the vehicle for the moral conclusion of what in form is in fact not satire but a fairytale . . . Amis' plea . . . would seem to be that nobody is beyond redemption." —The Daily Beast
"An Amis sentence is mordant and coruscating, unpredictable and unruly, its own singular music. No surprise, these creations gather into paragraphs of propulsive insights, mini-essays in satiric spin and compression. There may be no better paragraph writer in the language, either. . . . The novel mingles in genuine characters with the usual comedic grotesques, and is tender, almost earnest, in its emotions." —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
"Crackles with brilliant prose and scathing satire. . . . He riffs like a jazz master, in and out of vernacular, with brief gusts of description, all driven by a tight bass line of suspense." —Publishers Weekly
"In his 13th novel—one of his most compulsively readable—wily, dead-on satirist and consummate artist Martin Amis is grandly acerbic, funny and unnerving. . . . With crisp insights, rollicking storytelling and acrobatic wit, Amis has created a peppery, topsy-turvy Pygmalion fable and hilarious dismantlement of our cherished rags-to-riches fantasy." —Kansas City Star
"This deliciously shivery, sly, and taunting page-turner provokes a fresh assessment of the poverty of place, mind, and spirit and the wondrous blossoming of against-all-odds goodness." —Booklist
2006 Desmond Pepperdine, Renaissance Boy
Dear Jennaveieve,
I'm having an affair with an older woman. Shes' a lady of some sophistication, and makes a refreshing change from the teen agers I know (like Alektra for example, or Chanel.) The sex is fantastic and I think I'm in love. But ther'es one very serious complication and i'ts this; shes' my Gran!
Desmond Pepperdine (Desmond, Des, Desi), the author of this document, was fifteen and a half. And his handwriting, nowadays, was self-consciously elegant; the letters used to slope backward, but he patiently trained them to slope forward; and when everything was smoothly conjoined he started adding little flourishes (his e was positively ornate—like a w turned on its side). Using the computer he now shared with his uncle, Des had given himself a course on calligraphy, among several other courses.
On the plus-side, the age-difference is surprisingly
He crossed that bit out, and resumed.
It started a fort-night ago when she rang up and said its the plumbing again love. And I said nan? I'll be right over. She lives in a granny flat under a house about a mile away and theres allways some thing wrong with it's plumbing. Now I'm no plumber but I learnd a bit from my Uncle George whose in the trade. I sorted it out for her and she said why not stay for a few drink's?
Calligraphy (and sociology, and anthropology, and psychology), but not yet punctuation. He was a good little speller, Des, but he knew how weak his punctuation was because he had just begun a course on it. And punctuation, he (quite rightly) intuited, was something of an art.
So we had a few Dubonnet's which I'm not used to, and she was giving me these funny look's. She's all ways got the Beatles' on and she was playing all the slow one's like Golden Slumber's, Yester-day, and Sh'es Leaving Home. Then gran says its so hot I'll just slip in to my night-dress. And she came back in a babydoll!
He was trying to give himself an education—not at Squeers Free, recently singled out, he read in the Diston Gazette, as the worst school in England. But his understanding of the planet and the universe had inconceivable voids in it. He was repeatedly amazed by the tonnage of what he didn't know.
So we had a few more drink's, and I was noticing how well preserved she is. She's taken good care of herself and shes really fit considering the life shes' led. So after a few more drink's she says are'nt you frying alive in that blazer? Come over here handsome, and give us a cuddle! Well what could I do. She put her hand on my thigh and slid it up my short's. Well I'm only human aren't I? The stereo was playing I Should Of Known Better—but one thing lead to another, and it was mind blowing!
For instance, the only national newspaper Des had ever read was the Morning Lark. And Jennaveieve, his addressee, was its agony aunt—or better say its ecstasy aunt. The page she presided over consisted of detailed accounts of perhaps wholly imaginary liaisons, and her replies consisted of a lewd pun followed by an exclamation mark. Desmond's tale was not imaginary.
Now you must believe me that this is all very "out of character." It was never mean't to be! Okay we live in Diston, where that sort of thing isnt much frownd up on. And, okay my Gran had a mischivous youth. But she's a respectable woman. The thing is shes got a big birthday coming up and I reckon its turnd her head. As for myself, my background is strict christian at least on my fathers side (Pentecostalist.) And you see Jennaveieve, I've been very unhappy since my Mum, Cilla passed away three year's ago. I can't find the word's. I needed gentleness. And when gran touched me like that. Well.
Des had no intention of actually mailing his letter to Jennaveieve (whose partly naked body also adorned the page headed, not Ecstasy Aunt, but Agony Angel). He was writing it simply to ease his own mind. He imagined Jennaveieve's dependably non-judgemental reply. Something like: At least you're having a Gran old time! Des wrote on.
Apart from the legal question which is worrying me sick, theres another huge problem. Her son, Lionel is my uncle, and hes' like a father to me when he's not in prison. See hes an extremely violent criminal and if he find's out I'm giving his Mum one, hell fucking kill me. Litrally!
It might be argued that this was a grave underestimation of Lionel's views on trespass and reprisal . . . The immediate goal, for Des, was to master the apostrophe. After that, the arcana of the colon and the semicolon, the hyphen, the dash, the slash.
On the plus-side, the age-gap is not that big. See Granny Grace was an early starter, and fell pregnant when she was 12, just like my M
He heard the thick clunks of the locks, he looked with horror at his watch, he tried to stand upright on deadened legs—and suddenly Lionel was there.
Lionel was there, a great white shape, leaning on the open door with his brow pressed to his raised wrist, panting huskily, and giving off a faint grey steam in his purple singlet (the lift was misbehaving, and the flat was on the thirty-third floor—but then again Lionel could give off steam while dozing in bed on a quiet afternoon). Under his other arm he was carrying a consignment of lager. Two dozen, covered in polythene. Brand: Cobra.
"You're back early, Uncle Li."
He held up a callused palm. They waited. In his outward appearance Lionel was brutally generic—the slablike body, the full lump of the face, the tight-shaved crown with its tawny stubble. Out in the great world city, there were hundreds of thousands of young men who looked pretty much like Lionel Asbo. In certain lights and settings he resembled, some said, the England and Manchester United prodigy, striker Wayne Rooney: not exceptionally tall, and not fat, but exceptionally broad and exceptionally deep (Des saw his uncle every day—and Lionel was always one size bigger than expected). He even had Rooney's gap-toothed smile. Well, the upper incisors were widely spaced, yet Lionel very seldom smiled. You only saw them when he sneered.
" . . . What you doing there with that pen? What's that you writing? Guiss it."
Des thought fast. "Uh, it's about poetry, Uncle Li."
"Poetry?" said Lionel and started back.
"Yeah. Poem called The Faerie Queene."
"The what? . . . I despair of you sometimes, Des. Why aren't you out smashing windows? It's not healthy. Oh yeah, listen to this. You know that bloke I bashed up in the pub the other Friday? Mr. 'Ross Knowles,' if you please? He's only pressing charges. Grassed me. Would you credit it."
Desmond knew how Lionel was likely to feel about such a move. One night last year Lionel came home to find Des on the black leatherette sofa, innocently slumped in front of Crimewatch. The result was one of the longest and noisiest slappings he had ever received at his uncle's hands. They asking members of the public, said Lionel, standing in front of the giant screen with his arms akimbo, to fink on they own neighbours. Crimewatch, it's like a . . . like a programme for paedophiles, that is. It disgusts me. Now Des said,
"He went to the law? Aw, that's . . . That's . . . the lowest of the low, that is. What you going to do, Uncle Li?"
"Well I've been asking around and it turns out he's a loner. Lives in a bedsit. So there's no one I can go and terrify. Except him."
"But he's still in hospital."
"So? I'll take him a bunch of grapes. You feed the dogs?"
"Yeah. Only we're out of Tabasco."
The dogs, Joe and Jeff, were Lionel's psychopathic pitbulls. Their domain was the narrow balcony off the kitchen, where, all day, the two of them snarled, paced, and swivelled—and prosecuted their barking war with the pack of Rottweilers that lived on the roof of the next high-rise along.
"Don't lie to me, Desmond," said Lionel quietly. "Don't ever lie to me."
"I'm not!"
"You told me you fed them. And you never give them they Tabasco!"
"Uncle Li, I didn't have the cash! They've only got the big bottles and they're five ninety-five!"
"That's no excuse. You should've nicked one. You spent thirty quid, thirty quid, on a fucking dictionary, and you can't spare a couple of bob for the dogs."
"I never spent thirty quid! . . . Gran give it me. She won it on the crossword. The prize crossword."
"Joe and Jeff—they not pets, Desmond Pepperdine. They tools of me trade."
Lionel's trade was still something of a mystery to Des. He knew that part of it had to do with the very hairiest end of debt collection; and he knew that part of it involved "selling on" (Lionel's word for selling on was reset). Des knew this by simple logic, because Extortion With Menaces and Receiving Stolen Property were what Lionel most often went to prison for . . . He stood there, Lionel, doing something he was very good at: disseminating tension. Des loved him deeply and more or less unquestioningly (I wouldn't be here today without Uncle Li, he often said to himself). But he always felt slightly ill in his presence. Not ill at ease. Ill.
". . . You're back early, Uncle Li," he repeated as airily as he could. "Where you been?"
"Cynthia. I don't know why I bestir meself. Gaa, the state of that Cynthia."
The spectral blonde called Cynthia, or Cymfia, as he pronounced it, was the nearest thing Lionel had to a childhood sweetheart, in that he started sleeping with her when she was ten (and Lionel was nine). She was also the nearest thing he had to a regular girlfriend, in that he saw her regularly—once every four or five months. Of women in general, Lionel sometimes had this to say: More trouble than they worth, if you ask me. Women? I'm not bothered. I'm not bothered about women. Des thought that this was probably just as well: women, in general, should be very pleased that Lionel wasn't bothered about them. One woman bothered him—yes, but she bothered everyone. She was a promiscuous beauty named Gina Drago . . .
"Des. That Cynthia," said Lionel with a surfeited leer. "Christ. Even uh, during the uh, you know, during the other, I was thinking, Lionel, you wasting you youth. Lionel, go home. Go home, boy. Go home and watch some decent porn."
Des picked up the Mac and got smartly to his feet. "Here. I'm off out anyway."
"Yeah? Where? Seeing that Alektra?"
"Nah. Meet up with me mates."
"Well do something useful. Steal a car. Eh, guess what. You Uncle Ringo won the Lottery."
"He never. How much?"
"Twelve pounds fifty. It's a mug's game, the Lottery, if you ask me. Oy. I've been meaning to ask you something. When you creep off at night . . ."
Des was standing there holding the Mac in both hands, like a waiter with a tray. Lionel was standing there with the Cobras in both hands, like a drayman with a load.
"When you creep off at night, you carry a blade?"
"Uncle Li! You know me."
"Well you should. For you own security. And you peace of mind. You going to get youself striped. Or worse. There's no fistfights any more, not in Diston. There's only knife fights. To the death. Or guns. Well," he relented, "I suppose they can't see you in the fucking dark."
And Des just smiled with his clean white teeth.
"Take a knife from the drawer on you way out. One of them black ones."
Des didn't meet up with his mates. (He didn't have any mates. And he didn't want any mates.) He crept off to his gran's.
As we know, Desmond Pepperdine was fifteen. Grace Pepperdine, who had led a very demanding life and borne many, many children, was a reasonably presentable thirty-nine. Lionel Asbo was a heavily weathered twenty-one.
. . . In dusty Diston (also known as Diston Town or, more simply, Town), nothing—and no one—was over sixty years old. On an international chart for life expectancy, Diston would appear between Benin and Djibouti (fifty-four for men and fifty-seven for women). And that wasn't all. On an international chart for fertility rates, Diston would appear between Malawi and Yemen (six children per couple—or per single mother). Thus the age structure in Diston was strangely shaped. But still: Town would not be thinning out.
Des was fifteen. Lionel was twenty-one. Grace was thirty-nine . . .
He bent to unlatch the gate, he skipped down the seven stone steps, he knocked the knocker. He listened. Here came the shuffle of her fluffy slippers, and in the background (as ever) the melodic purity of a Beatles song. Her all-time favourite: "When I'm Sixty-Four."
Dawn simmered over the incredible edifice—the stacked immensity of Avalon Tower.
On the curtained balcony (the size of a tight parking space), Joe lay dreaming of other dogs, enemy dogs, jewel-eyed hellhounds. He barked in his sleep. Jeff rolled over with a blissful sigh.
In bedroom number one (the size of a low-ceilinged squash court, with considerable distances between things, between the door and the bed, between the bed and the wardrobe, between the wardrobe and the free-standing swing mirror), Lionel lay dreaming of prison and his five brothers. They were all in the commissary, queuing for Mars Bars.
And in bedroom number two (the size of a generous four-poster), Des lay dreaming of a ladder that rose up to heaven.
Day came. Lionel left early with Joe and Jeff (business). Des dreamed on.
For six or seven months now he had been sensing it: the pangs and quickenings of intelligence within his being. Cilla, Des's mother, died when he was twelve, and for three years he entered a kind of trance, a leaden sleep; all was numb and Mumless . . . Then he woke up.
He started keeping a diary—and a notebook. There was a voice in his head, and he listened to it and he talked to it. No, he communed with it, he communed with the whispers of his intelligence. Did everybody have one, an inner voice? An inner voice that was cleverer than they were? He thought probably not. Then where did it come from?
Des looked to his family tree—to his personal Tree of Knowledge.
Well, Grace Pepperdine, Granny Grace, had not attended all that closely to her education, for obvious reasons: she was the mother of seven children by the age of nineteen. Cilla came first. All the rest were boys: John (now a plasterer), Paul (a foreman), George (a plumber), Ringo (unemployed), and Stuart (a seedy registrar). Having run out of Beatles (including the "forgotten" Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe), Grace exasperatedly christened her seventh child Lionel (after a much lesser hero, the choreographer Lionel Blair). Lionel Asbo, as he would later become, was the youngest of a very large family superintended by a single parent who was barely old enough to vote.
Posted August 26, 2012
One word, "awful"! Doesn't deserve the one star a had to rate in order to post this review. I am on page 50 and can not torture myself any longer by reading this rubbish!!!!!!
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Gotta love Amis, he's done it again, too weird, too funny!
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I bought it because Barnes and Noble recommended it. A complete waste of money...
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I have failed to finish only 2 books in my life, this was the third. I thought it was terrible. Would rather read the Sun.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted October 13, 2012
You not only do not care about any of the characters, you dislike most and hate the main character and want him to die. Plus, you cannot even understand 20% of what they are saying because of the low-life accent/way they talk. Could not finish it.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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Very good. Fast read. Really funny. Buy it now.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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In this novel, Martin Amis holds our world in his hands, thrashes it around and then hits us upside our heads with it. Bam! Pow! He masterfully makes us sympathize with an ASBO, makes us hope for the best for him, hope he'll use his powers for good and not evil. And, then, when Lionel doesn't, we're...dare I say it...disappointed. And then horrified. Bravo, Mr. Amis.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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Unsympathetic characters, despicable behavior which the author tries to excuse because of where they came from. Sex with your grandmother is not acceptable no matter how poor or neglected you are. This was supposed to be funny. Well it wasn't. And the prose wasn't worth wading through it.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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Got to appreciate British wit. I was unfamiliar with some of the slang used but this did not keep me from enjoying the antics of the anti-social life of Lionel and his more civilized nephew, Desmond. Life changes from near poverty to wealth after Lionel wins the lottery while incarcerated for the umpteenth time. Unfortunately his wealth does not make Lionel a likable, humble character. You have to laugh throughout the book. Quite different and refreshing from other currently popular fiction.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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Dozens of Senegalese farmers, smallholders and entrepreneurs attended Friday's event. Many of them have been hit hard by poor crop harvests in the Sahel region, resulting in low earnings and under-nutrition.
"Since most people in Senegal work in agriculture, our food security initiative will keep helping farmers harness new seeds and technologies, increase yields and boost incomes", Mr. Obama said.
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From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team--the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits--Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon; Groot, a tree-like humanoid; the deadly and enigmatic Gamora; and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand--with the galaxy's fate in the balance.
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which first appeared in comic books in MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #18 (Jan. 1969), stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, featuring Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, with John C. Reilly, Glenn Close as Nova Prime Rael and Benicio del Toro as The Collector.
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As much a social provocateur as an aesthete, Albee's split personality complicates matters for those reckoning with the conspicuous assets and liabilities of his dramatic imagination. Nowhere is this more true than with The Goat. "Testing the tolerance of the audience" is how the author himself has described the play. Yet his proposed subtitle for publication, Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy, suggests a less crusading mission. Given that Western theater was founded on plays dealing with cannibalism, reproductive incest, and parricide, let's leave aside for a moment the shock value of interspecies sex, daring though it undeniably is for Broadway. The more contested issueand the one that reaffirms Albee's ability to shake a theater season out of its doldrumsis whether this latest zoo story rises to the occasion of genuine tragedy.
The Goat focuses on a 50-year-old architect whose seemingly perfect domestic life is shattered by the revelation that he's having an extramarital affair with a shameless livestock hussy named Sylvia. Martin, played with unyielding dignity by Bill Pullman, is a character whose lofty attributes put him squarely into the tragic-hero club. Smarter and better-looking than most, he's the epitome of the American success story, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect who's been recently commissioned to design a $27 billion "World City" in Kansas. Not much in the way of action, however, is required of him. Unlike, say, Oedipus or Orestes, Martin neither has to investigate the root cause of a plague nor revenge his father's murder. Instead, he has only to explain to his best friend, wife, and son the nature of his barnyard dalliance. On second thought, perhaps Oedipus and Orestes get off easy.
Despite the gravity of Martin's crisis, The Goat has a decidedly boulevard ring, with laugh lines carrying the burden of the author's Euripidean ambition. The tension between form and content isn't always tonic. Divided into the three living-room scenes, the play begins in the manner of a sophisticated domestic comedyone in which husband and wife parody Noël Coward characters in romantic crisis, and everyone tries to top each other in an increasingly annoying game of semantic hairsplitting. Albee clearly wants to begin with a recognizable (albeit idealized) domestic settingthe perfect bull's-eye for life's wrecking ball. The comfortably familiar atmosphere, however, leads to a comfortably familiar dramaturgy. Reality rarely visibly intrudes onto this realistic world. We are treated merely to one-liner reports of the unspeakable from the safety of a well-heeled suburban bunker.
In this respect The Goat shares similarities with A Delicate Balance, Albee's 1966 Pulitzer-winning drama exploring tragic intimations among characters huddled around a living-room bar. The setup here involves a husband and wife who seek cover in the bedroom of their closest friends' adult daughter, who unexpectedly returns home after another failed marriage to find that her place has been usurped. Scant reason is offered for the older couple's fugitive freeloading: "There was nothing . . . but we were very scared." Dread as a cozy abstraction, in other wordsa situation as paradigmatic in Albee as cocktail sniper chat.
Even more prototypical, however, is the figure of a lost or mutilated child, which recurs in Albee's writing as a half-remembered memory of life's inevitable harsh truth. Even Tobias and Agnes, the besieged middle-aged hosts in A Delicate Balance, are mourning the death of their young son, though their grief is dimly experienced through the screen of years. Leave it to the psychoanalysts to connect the autobiographical dots with Albee's own adoption as an infant. Suffice it to say that the loss is often parodied (The American Dream, 1961) or revealed as a sham (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1962) or turned into a vaudevillian hat trick (The Play About the Baby, 2001). A Delicate Balance transmutes the old anguish over the dead boy into the vague worry that "the delicate balance" of a plush if emotionally uncommitted existence will be upset.
It can be argued that Albee isn't dramatizing the inescapable facts of our human condition, but rather the way we sidestep them with booze, bickering, and blinkered illusions. But if this is the case, then the playwright is guilty of a kind of imitative fallacy, as his dramas skirt the existential abyss as agilely as his characters. Even The Goatwhich takes up the ancient theme of Eros's capricious power to wreak havocultimately flinches from the primal screams that pour out of destroyed wife Stevie (played by the formidable Mercedes Ruehl) in the crockery-busting middle scene. Albee turns away, in effect, from what is most poignant about his drama: Martin really had found his perfect human mate, and their years together had been a mutual blessing. But rather than pursuing the tragic costs and meanings, the final deflective movement involves gay son Billy making a distraught pass at his reviled daddy. This daring act necessitates a progressive critique of the way society overreacts to wayward sexual impulses, which is aimed at the buttinsky best friend and punctuated by a slain goat in a body bag. Tragedy, like history, seems to repeat as farce.
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This lovely townhouse is spacious and set on a quiet residential street, just over a 5 minute walk to Regent's Park. You're just a short bus/tube ride into Oxford Street, or about a 25 minute walk. Euston / King's Cross stations are 1/2 stops away.
On entering this warm and comfortable family home, the traditional hallway leads to a large open-plan main kitchen and dining area spanning the length of the house. The modern kitchen is nicely decorated with blue cupboards and the dining table comfortably seats 8. There are views over the sunny garden and the front of the house at each end.
At the end of the hallway is a library come study. Spacious, and with a useful desk and an iron spiral staircase to the garden below, this room would be useful for finishing off some work before going for a walk around Regent's Park just around the corner.
Down the stairs from the main hallway is the lower ground level of the house. With a double sofa bed and a medium sized kitchen and bathroom at one end, the living area in the centre and the simple double bedroom at the the other end, this could essentially be used as a self-contained flat. So, perfect for a nanny or teenager. The main exit to the long garden is also on this level. The garden contains a seating area with table and chairs - a lovely spot for some al fresco dining.
Moving up to the first floor of the house, is the sitting room, which is tastefully decorated with a couch and a couple of armchairs. There is a piano room with a comprehensive library towards the back of this room.
The second floor is home to the master bedroom with a king-sized bed and an en suite bathroom. The bathroom is stunning with traditional fittings and a classic sink and bath.
On the top floor of the house the two single rooms are very spacious and brightly decorated. One room has a trundle bed, which pulls out and can accommodate 2 guests. The bathroom on this floor serves these two bedrooms and also has traditional bathroom fittings. The back bedroom also has a wonderful view over the garden.
The property is well situated within 5 minutes walk of Camden Town and Mornington Crescent Underground stations (Northern Line) which can easily be used to reach large National Rail stations like Euston and King's Cross if you're heading further afield. King's Cross is connected on most of the tube lines (Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria, Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan) and so you can reach most of central London within 20 minutes.
It won't take long to stroll to Regents Park or Primrose Hill , where there are brilliant views of the surrounding areas of London. Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace and Leicester Square can all be reached within 20 minutes on the Underground and it is also easy to get to the shopping districts of Oxford Street, Regent Street and Knightsbridge in just a few stops (Northern and Central lines).
This is a spacious and comfortable property. It will make a superb temporary home to a family or a group of adults alike, and with it being so well located near parks and transport, there are lots of options to explore!
Please note, this house has a resident cat. If you would prefer, we can ask the owners if they could relocate him but this would be subject to availability. It is very likely that, for the summer of 2013, the cat will not be at home.
Bordering Regent's Park, Camden Town in northwest London is best known for its market and perhaps more recently the late great Amy Winehouse.
It became an important location during the early development of the railways and is located on the London canal network. In 1816, the Regent's Canal was built through the area creating a lock around which Camden Lock Village was developed. Today it is home to the internationally renowned Camden Market where you are sure to find something for the whole family. Amongst the bustling clothes, crafts and jewellery stands, there are some really unique pubs and bars offering nightly live music and DJs. The Lockside Lounge on the water's edge is a popular spot, as are the Barfly and Proud Camden music venues on Chalk Farm road on the west side of the district. You can enjoy fresh food from every continent whilst sitting astride a motorbike on the canal's edge, eating and watching the ducks swim by.
This area is renowned for its alternative culture although there are many period properties to enjoy a traditional style of home, from Georgian and early Victorian townhouses to modern apartments and mews homes on cobbled streets, making this an area full of character which will appeal to everyone. Many townhouses in Camden are over three or even four floors so there's plenty of space for the whole family to relax.
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Children's choir offers Swedish meatball dinner
BATAVIA—"If you liked our pancakes, you'll love our meatballs" is the theme of the second annual Swedish Meatball Dinner presented by the Swedish American Children's Choir on Saturday, March 10, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church, 8 S. Lincoln St. in Batavia. The dinner will feature Swedish meatballs and gravy, mashed potatoes, carrots, lingonberries, Swedish rye bread and dessert.
Also featured will be Swedish gift items for purchase, Swedish and American Baked Goodsfor sale and live Swedish music, including a brief performance by the Swedish American Children's Choir. All proceeds from the event benefit the choir tour fund for a performance tour this summer.
The choir is the largest of its kind in the Midwest and comprised of children 4-16 years of age from the Fox Valley and surrounding suburbs. They present performances of Swedish songs and Scandinavian dances throughout the area.
Dinner tickets are by reservation only and carry-out orders are available. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for children 3-10 years old, and free for children under the age of 3.
For reservations, call the choir office at (630) 414-9700.


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Disney's Castle of Illusion ~ Trophy Guide & Roadmap
If you are not a registered member of ps3trophies.org, please join the forums and become part of the friendliest, most helpful and best gaming community on the web! If you do join the forums due to this guide, it would be greatly appreciated if you would give the author, Xander45, a referral.
This is a HD remake of the classic 1990 Sega Genesis platformer of the same name. With the original game's director, Emiko Yamamoto, fulfilling the same role here you know that this game will pay loving tribute to the original, but more than that it's a great platformer in its own right! Take control of Mickey as he bounces his way through the Castle of Illusion and defeats the witch Mizrabel to save his beloved Minnie.
Step 1: Play through the levels collecting all diamonds, statue pieces, playing cards and chili peppers along the way.
This is the main step of the game, inside the main hub (the castle itself) you'll find several doors. To begin with only one will be available to you, but as you collect diamonds the others will follow suit. Inside each door are three more doors, 2 of which contain 75 diamonds, a statue piece and another varying collectible. You need to collect everything from these levels and if you follow the videos provided in this great series of videos by groungh then you'll do just that.
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If you don't wish to follow the videos on your first run through then don't worry about keeping track on what you've already gotten. When you get near the level doors all the relevant info for that level will appear, including how many diamonds you've collected and if you've picked up the statue piece and card/pepper. Also when you replay the levels anything you have already collected will change from silver to gold.
As you go through the game you'll bounce on a lot of enemies' heads but don't forget to also use your projectiles () as you'll need to kill 25 this way to get Illusion Breaker. Once you've killed 75 enemies by any means, you'll also receive Disillusioned.
In this step you will earn;
World of Illusion
Masters of Illusions
Castle Decor
Masters of Illusion
Pretty Picture
Fortune Hunter
Money Bags
Illusion Breaker
Step 2: Replay Toyland Act 2 to cleanup remaining trophies.
If you return to a completed level you will see a large pocket watch floating above you near the start. If you pick this up a clock will start and will time your run through the level. The best level to do this is Act 2 of Toyland then you can kill two birds with one stone and complete a speed run of the level whilst also jumping on the 7 enemies described in the trophy description of Superbounce.
In this step you will earn;
Tick Tock
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World of Illusion
Collect all the Magic Playing Cards.
These are floating playing cards that you'll spy on your journey through the Castle of Illusion. There are 5 in all and they appear in the levels;
Collect all of Donald's Chili Peppers.
These are large floating chili peppers that are usually hidden away in quite hard to find areas. There are 5 in all and they appear in the following levels;
Masters of Illusions
Defeat Mizrabel and rescue Minnie.
You will get this for defeating the final boss of the game, Mizrabel. Like all bosses in the game she attacks in a set pattern and for the most part can be avoided by simply jumping at the right time. If you are struggling then this video by groungh shows you how it's done.
Castle Decor
Complete a Castle Statue.
See Masters of Illusion
Masters of Illusion
Complete all Castle Statues.
In every non boss level you will be able to find a piece of a castle statue that looks like a silver version of the item in the trophy image for Castle Decor.
Pretty Picture
Collect 50 Diamonds to unlock your first Painting in the Castle
See Money Bags
Fortune Hunter
Find 50% of all Magic Diamonds.
See Money Bags
Money Bags
Find all the Magic Diamonds.
In each non boss level you will find 75 floating diamonds, and within the main castle hub you will find the remaining 50 you need to get this trophy. The ones within the castle hub are in plain sight and very easy to find, but some of the ones in the levels are very tricky and in some cases not even visible on screen.
If you follow these walkthrough videos by groungh you will have no trouble finding them.
Diamond/Collectibles Location Vids
Break the illusion of 75 enemies.
Breaking the illusion simply means defeating, and to do that you can either jump on an enemy's head or throw an object at them (the object varies depending on the level). Once you've defeated 75 enemies this trophy will pop.
Bounce on 7 enemies in a row without touching the ground.
The easiest place to get this is at the start of Toyland Act 2. Shortly after starting you will come across a toy soldier, this is the first of the 7. Bounce on the 2 toy soldiers' heads, then on the toy plane, then on the clown, then on 2 more toy soldiers before finally landing on the jack in a box. This video from groungh shows you how it's done;
Illusion Breaker
Break the illusion of 25 enemies with projectiles.
In each non boss level you will find various items such as apples and candles floating in the air that can be used as projectiles. Simply press to throw the item at an enemy and defeat them. Do this 25 times and the trophy is yours! The amount of projectiles you currently have is shown in the top left of the screen.
Tick Tock
Complete a stage in Time Attack.
If you return to an already completed level you will notice a large pocket watch floating somewhere near the start of the level. Jump into it and a clock will start, simply complete the level after touching the watch and the trophy will pop.
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|October 5th, 2013, 08:50 PM
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That should be everything, feel free to comment
|October 5th, 2013, 08:58 PM
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Nice job mate! Looks like it might become another THL staple
Keep up the great work, trust you to dig out the most obscure games ever
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|October 5th, 2013, 09:03 PM
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Thanks mate, you know me, I love to make guides that very few people are gonna use
As long as it helps one person out then it's worth it. Definitely a THL friendly game this one, if you follow the vids you'll fly through it and the only thing that will make it a bit longer is the unskippable cutscenes!
|October 9th, 2013, 06:34 PM
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*Guide stuck*
|October 9th, 2013, 06:37 PM
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Congrats on another guide Xander! It's a shame the games are so niche your great work isn't appreciated by more people
Keep it up
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|October 9th, 2013, 06:52 PM
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|October 18th, 2013, 03:04 AM
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FINALLY managed to achieve 100% for this game. It was nice. Final boss gave me some trouble though, and the unskippable cutscenes were a bit annoying too.
Thank you so much for the guide!
|October 28th, 2013, 04:05 AM
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Fantastic guide Xander, game is great, although the final boss is a little tricky . Hope to see you soon in another of these obscure games lol
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1 teaspoon
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Oh, oh, oh! This was sublime! I searched for this recipe for years. We would savor this cake as kids growing up in Hawaii. Loved it more than the guava version. I did punch up the orange flavor a lot. Here's how: Used one fresh orange for the zest and then squeezed the juice into the 3/4 measuring cup. Filled the rest of the cup with frozen orange juice concentrate (undiluted. Also, used orange food coloring and an extra egg (yolk and white) for more richness and rise. The texture was super. Light and tender. Heavenly orange flavor. Thank you so much. Made it a third time.
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Very good. The only reason that I gave it a four was because on the recipe, it said to place the cake in an ungreased tube pan- and I had a lot of trouble getting it out. I was able to salvage my cake and cover up some of the affected spots with the orange glaze from this site. (Which was very good and complimented the cake nicely.) Everyone seemed quite pleased with the taste of this cake and using the icing like glue- the appearance wasn't all that bad- it actually looked good. Good recipe and I would make it again- Only in a greased pan.
This is a wonderful, light cake. To make the recipe a little better, use castor sugar instead of the white sugar. If you can't find castor sugar in your market, which is simply super fine sugar, put 1-1/2 c. sugar in your food processor and give it a whiz for about 45 seconds to a minute. The sugar will dissolve in the batter more easily and create and even lighter cake.
This is a great "keeper cake" -- perfect to have on hand for serving with summer fruits and berries. It dresses up nicely with custards or creams and quickly becomes an Old Standby Cake. Can't imagine not making it about four or five times a year.
This was my first time making any type of "chiffon" cake. I must say this recipe ROCKED!!! The cake was light and fluffy and big enough to serve many, many folks! I served this cake with whipped cream and mandarin orange segments. A total hit!
This cake was perfect. Just how how a real cake should be. Will definitely use again and again. I made it in a greased 10 inch round and lined the bottom with parchment and it worked fine.
I made a grapefruit chiffon cake instead of orange, and the flavor turned out really good. The texture was not as light and fluffy as I was hoping but I think that was more my heavy handedness than anything. I will probably try it again and see if I can't get it lighter this time.
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Ooh a fellow Princess Pokemon. The design looks awesome ^^ I'll definitely look out for you. I'll be the Princess Lapras on Fri/Sun and the Princess Cradily on Saturday
unfortunately due to health complication i have to postpone this costume as i want to do it justice x3
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