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ALAN Judge wants to be a great goalscorer for Notts County – not just a scorer of great goals.
The Irish midfielder, 24, has scored 13 times for the Magpies and yet amazingly only three of those were from inside the penalty area, against Accrington in the FA Cup last season and Bury and Colchester United in League One this season.
The rest of them have been wonder strikes.
His latest long-range thunderbolt was in their 1-0 league win against Swindon Town at Meadow Lane, as he seized onto a flick-on from new-signing Chris Iwelumo and smashed the ball into the net from 25 yards, but afterwards he said: "I'd like to score more tap-ins!"
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He has also revealed he is even doing extra training with ex-QPR, Arsenal and Ipswich Town striker Chris Kiwomya, who is a coach at the club, in an attempt to learn how to get into the box more and become a prolific marksman, like his team-mate Jeff Hughes, who scored a career-record 17 goals last season.
"If I keep scoring from long range I will be happy, but I'd like to get a few more from inside the box," he said.
"Chris was a good striker when he played so I've been working with him, as well as the other coaches, because he knows how to get me into the right areas.
"I'm getting a few sniffs in and around the box, but I've just got to get it into my mind to get in there more.
"If you look at Jeff, he's always there and I need that mentality. You could say I'm looking for more Jeff Hughes goals.
"I want to get in there and on the end of knock downs for a few tap-ins.
"I did it at Colchester, but I have got to do it more often."


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Chien-Ming Wang opts out of contract with the Reds
Jul 13, 2014, 10:30 PM EDT
Pitcher Chien-Ming Wang has opted out of his minor league contract with the Reds, John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Wang signed with the Reds back in December and served as organizational pitching depth.
The 34-year-old right-hander made 19 starts at Triple-A Louisville, posting a 3.70 ERA with a 50/45 K/BB ratio in 119 1/3 innings. Wang last pitched in the major leagues on August 24 last season, making the last of six starts for the Blue Jays.
Nothing has been confirmed yet, but rumors have Wang signing a minor league deal with the White Sox.
- renaado - Jul 13, 2014 at 10:37 PM
- bronxbomber213 - Jul 13, 2014 at 10:37 PM
Don't know why yanks wouldn't give him a look.
- cubfan531 - Jul 13, 2014 at 10:44 PM
White Sox make a lot of sense, they've been desperately searching for an answer in the back of the rotation. Scott Carroll had a nice start, but he's regressed back to what he is: AAA depth. Younger arms Rienzo and Johnson haven't gotten the job done either, and you just never know how long Hector Noesi can keep being at least mildly productive.
- edelmanfanclub - Jul 13, 2014 at 10:53 PM
I remember his career went down hill after a game vs the Astros, where he rounded 3rd to hard and hurt his foot. One of the Steinbrenner says it was BS that he had to hit because he was a pitcher and in an NL park. The Astros ended up moving to AL a couple seasons later oddly enough.
- gloccamorra - Jul 13, 2014 at 10:54 PM
Randy Wolf opted out of his deal with the Orioles too. Could we see Wang&Wolf in the Yankees rotation soon?
- vallewho - Jul 13, 2014 at 10:59 PM
NYY could use him
- mazblast - Jul 13, 2014 at 11:32 PM
"a 50/45 K/BB ratio in 119 1/3 innings" does not bode well for him as a major league pitcher. He had two truly effective years with the Yankees, the last of which was in 2007–a long time ago. He got hurt the first time in 2008, and his results nosedived after that, even when he was "healthy".
Face it. He won a lot of games due to great support and luck, and it's long been OVER. He'll get a half dozen starts somewhere based on his "former 19-game winner with the Holy Yankees", stink it up like he did with Toronto last year, and get cut, only to find another GM who'll say, "We can rediscover the magic."
- genericcommenter - Jul 14, 2014 at 8:48 AM
The only reasonable post here. So of course you got a lot of thumbs down. He never struck anyone out and was completely dependent on control. Those high walk numbers are alarming, especially since he hasn't been a serviceable MLB starter in many years. The run support thing is true also- as he led the Yankees in wins but wasn't the best pitcher those years. He was like a 2 year Jack Morris with the run support of a 2001 Clemens.
- dan7162 - Jul 14, 2014 at 12:42 AM
Most people do not realize that Chien-Ming Wang has gone through a "conversion" project (OK, some would say it's "scrape re-engineering" ) during his association with Buffalo Bisons (7-3-2013 to 9-1-2013) and Louisville Bats (4-1-2014 to 7-13-2014).
In the WBC game against Japan, he only made TWO pitches that is not sinker in 6 innings. That was March 2013. He is now pitching with 30%~35% of changeup, curveballs and sliders. He is aware of the fact that his sinkers are no longer dominant and is working hard on it.
Whether or not he is worthy of a MLB contract now, well, we will see.
- genericcommenter - Jul 14, 2014 at 9:01 AM
He left the Yankees twice.
Sure, they could use just about anyone at this point, and he might be a better option than a lot of AAAA guys and DFA 6th starters.
But It's probably not realistic to think either party wants to try a 3rd time.
- dan7162 - Jul 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM
Yankees released him in 2009. In 2013, Blue Jays offered MLB contract when Yankees refused to. So that's the reason that Yankees would rather try the luck on Aceves, LeBlanc, Miller, Rominez, Cabral but refuse a chance to all time Yankees elite pitcher?
- lukedunphysscienceproject - Jul 14, 2014 at 10:09 AM
I'm not sure I understand this post. Please tell me you are not describing Wang as an "all time Yankee elite pitcher".
- mazblast - Jul 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM
This isn't Whitey Ford or Ron Guidry we're talking about here. This isn't even Jim Bouton (to name someone who had two good years, then fell off the map).
- SocraticGadfly - Jul 14, 2014 at 11:29 AM
All time elite? Please, put down the crack pipe.
- 22yearsagotoday - Jul 14, 2014 at 12:56 PM
If he was smoking crack he wouldn't be on this blog.
- chip56 - Jul 14, 2014 at 12:20 PM
Even the years he won 19 games he wasn't "elite." Wang was a good pitcher who got hurt and was never the same. Sucks but it happens.
- genericcommenter - Jul 14, 2014 at 2:44 PM
Mike Mussina was pretty good in 2008, but hasn't been an effective MLB pitcher since then either. Give him a call?
- dan7162 - Jul 14, 2014 at 8:52 PM
CMW ranked 94 in The Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees last year. Well, at least he is an ex-Yankees elite pitcher.
- chip56 - Jul 14, 2014 at 12:23 PM
I applaud Wang for trying to hang in there – I applaud him more for singing with Toronto last year and giving the BJs a rotation of Johnson, Dickey and Wang for a while – but it would appear that without that turbo-sinker he just doesn't have what it takes to be a big leauger.
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Sunil Paul, co-founder and CEO of Sidecar, said his peer-to-peer driver-for-hire company's new business model gives passengers and drivers more control. Nick Simonite/Austin Business Journal
The UpTake: Faced with brutal competition from Uber and Lyft, Sidecar's Sunil Paul is pivoting to give his company's drivers and riders more control over their experience. He hopes that will lead to a more high touch experience than the one offered by rivals.
Sidecar may not be the best known mobile app for booking a peer-to-peer driver-for-hire, but the company claims to have invented the category in 2012 before Uber Technologies and Lyft raised more venture money and spread competing services to more cities.
On Wednesday, San Francisco-based Sidecar turned to innovation to compete, significantly overhauling its business model to give drivers and riders much more control.
In particular, Sidecar now lets riders choose specific drivers, prices or car types, and drivers in turn can set their own prices, limit the types of calls they take and build their own brands and customer rosters. By comparison, Sidecar's competitors dispatch service calls to drivers, who choose whether to accept.
"We are unique in the marketplace," said CEO Sunil Paul, who also revealed Wednesday that Sidecar took a $10 million round of funding last summer from Union Square Ventures, the influential New York City-based venture firm that famously got in early on Twitter. The deal was kept hushed awaiting the unveiling of Sidecar's new strategy.
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A previous report of sexual misconduct against Pimentel occurred four years ago at the school, and another complaint was made eight years ago at another elementary school where both a female principal and Pimentel had worked, Deasy said.
"My determination was that she was previously mishandling other complaints," Deasy said. "My intent was to fire them."
The district never got the chance because both Pimentel and the principal retired after the allegations surfaced last March.
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Sexual and gender based violence in Uganda fails to be adequately addressed by the Ugandan government that fails to consult with women on this issue. It seems sexual and physical attacks on women are new 'weapons to discipline women' in to submission
Women in war-scarred regions who fall victim to either sexual or gender-based violence, face double tragedy: On the one hand there is thin police presence especially in rural communities with some officers named as perpetrators. On the other, corruption within the judiciary makes justice a mirage for victims.
Youth Minister Ronald Kibuule added fuel to the fire by declaring that indecently-dressed girls who get raped have themselves to blame, and exhorted police to prosecute such victims instead!
The minister's unprovoked ghastly remarks, made to a group of adolescents at an October 2013 workshop, rattled the nation and riled activities but pales compared to tales of daily sexual abuses occurring in northern Uganda, brutalised by Joseph Kony-led Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) two-decade insurgency.
When the guns fell silent in 2005, survivors expected a speedy return not just to a normal life but also prosperity. But they are yet to experience a life without violence.
In reality, the government has no practical way to deal with the problem and its failure to implement a Domestic Violence legislation passed in 2010 has allowed the East African country drift wayward.
"This is like a lion; if a lion invades a village, everyone comes out to make an alarm", said Mary Karooro Okurut, the minister of Gender under which issues of women emancipation, child protection and community development fall. "This (problem) cannot be fought by the government alone."
The Uganda government, the police and NGOs, including United Nations Population Fund, report that 7, 690 girls were defiled, 520 women raped and another 251 murdered during reported episodes of domestic violence in 2011 alone. It's not clear how many perpetrators were tried, and no count of cases unreported to authorities.
Almost 20 per cent of Ugandan women last year reported that their first sexual encounter was against their will, according to the report. Strangely, women activists made no noise when a minister tried to justified rape.
The silence is even louder in the 16 districts in northern and north-eastern Uganda which were either at the epicentre of or equally suffered immensely from the 1987-2005 LRA war.
The Government blue-print, titled Peace, Recovery and Development Plan or PRDP, marketed by officials as a magic wand to spur development and consolidate peace largely ignores the specific needs and priorities of the Women.
The brutal wars in the region pitted LRA rebels against government soldiers and it saw thousands of women face abuse - rape, sexual slavery, physical assault and forced marriages. Many were also physically disfigured through the cutting of their lips or ears.
As a result of these violations, many victims developed reproductive health complications that have significantly impinged their ability to resettle into a productive life after the war.
Formerly abducted women who have returned home continue to face sexual abuse, for instance, the case of Rose*. She was abducted when barely a teenager, she spent close to 10 years in captivity but escaped together with her 'husband' - one of the rebel commanders she was forcefully given to and he is still holding onto her years after captivity.
Since 2010, Rose has endured sexual abuse from the man who first raped her eight (8) years ago. The supposed husband has punched out five of her upper front teeth; her body is scarred from the man's constant beatings.
"He even rapes her in the presences of her children," said Ms Jolly Okot, co-founder of Invisible Children, a local NGO, which as well is encouraging Rose to separate from her captor.
The victim, who has no skills or means of alternative livelihood worries that she would be worse off if she abandoned her tormentor.
Economic recovery in sixteen districts in the sub-region, which bore the biggest brunt of LRA war, has further been slowed by a social epidemic of child-headed families and single mothers.
During the war, most girls had to trek several kilometers every night from Internally Displaced People's (IDP) camps to avoid being abducted.
Ms Okot's Invisible Children currently trains 1,000 girls in various life skills at the organisation's centre in Gulu district, her zeal having been inspired by her own agony of abduction and repeated rape.
Now 45 years old, she was first raped at the age of 13 by a commander of the defunct Holy Spirit Movement, a rebel group then led by Alice Auma Lakwena who claimed to possess mystical powers that could melt bullets.
President Yoweri Museveni's new government defeated Lakwena's rapidly advancing forces, and her cousin Joseph Kony, a primary school drop-out and former Altar Boy, re-organised the insurgents into what became the LRA rebellion.
In the bush, Ms Okot was handed over without her consent to a commander as a reward for his fighting prowess."I faced it from both the rebels and the NRA (the Ugandan military, renamed in 2005 as the UPDF). After escaping from the LRA, the NRA came to the village and raped us - me and my sister; we were raped by the NRA and the rebels," said Ms Okot.
She added: "In such a situation you have no one to turn to; there is no law, no one to defend you. You get rape, you walk, and you are bleeding, and the only help is by the mercy of God."Each day in captivity, according to Ms Okot, a commander could snap up a woman and sleep with her overnight after an exhausting day-time engagement either on the farm or battlefield.
She may have grown up with LRA leader Joseph Kony in the same Odeke village, but she says the rebels used sex as a weapon of war.
Sex was not only used as a weapon of war, but also a way of punishment. "Whenever they took us to the garden and we failed to dig, said Ms Okot, "the supervisor would say: I will have sex with you tonight to teach you a lesson."
Godfrey Ayoo, Spokesperson of the LRA, and Uganda army Spokesman Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda both deny that either armed side involved in systematic rape of women.
"As far as my understanding of the scientific definition of sex or rape as weapon of war [is concerned], I have not seen any documented evidence nor verbal confirmation of the existence of a policy by LRA to use sex, and or, rape as a weapon of war against women and children," Mr Ayoo said.
He instead blamed the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers over the reported sexual assaults, an allegation Lt. Col. Ankunda confuted, pointing an accusing finger back at the rebels.
"If there were such cases [masterminded by the Ugandan military], I am sure they were handled," the Colonel said, "I cannot recall any deliberate incident of rape. We would not have condoned impunity when we needed people's support."
The cross finger-pointing by Ankunda and Ayoo confirms sexual abuse occurred, according to victims on a violent and mass scale, but no one now wants to take responsibility. Alice Achiro, 39, who returned home from captivity at the rank of a captain and was the Women's Commander in the bush, like Ms Okot, speaks of unbearable sexual violations.
"The rebel leaders would apply a white power substance mixed with water or shear butter oil to the bust of a captured girl. If it stuck to the body when dry, it would be assumed the girl was HIV-free and she would be given to a particular commander and used as a sex slave every night," she narrated.
Now living with three children fathered by rebel commanders, including Tolbert Yadin Nyeko, then LRA's army commander, Ms Achiro says her first sexual encounter with the top rebel commander lingers on her mind. She, however, declined to share what she describes as "its painful details."
It seems fate remained unkind to her. Years after escaping from the bush, Ms Achiro married a man who turned out a violent drug addict. He battered her for pleasure, she says.When she snapped up for the husband, he became dodgy and eventually lifted everything in the house and vanished.
To Mr Ayoo, the women were conscripted much as fighters and baggage carriers than sex slaves and "I don't know if that meant being used as a weapon of war".
"If Kony captured them, it was for some other reasons; to serve as soldiers and at the end of day also use them for other interests."
On the continuous sexual abuse of the female returnees, Mr Ayena said "they have been left with the devil's choice." The dilemmas the victims are facing would force them to stay, he noted, but their inability to fend for themselves keeps them stuck to abusive men.
Ironically, some returnees who in the bush were Kony's 'wives', speak highly of him as a loving and caring man in many ways than men they found upon return home. Not even the providence by close family members rivalled the upkeep extended by Kony, a global face of terror.
Martin Ojul was the leader of the LRA delegation at the failed Juba peace talks, and admits there was systematic rape of women by the fighters during the war but it was aimed at humiliating the Acholi people for hobnobbing with Yoweri Museveni's government they were fighting.
"In every war, those are the common things that happen. It (sexual violence) happened, it was done by the LRA fighters but was not used as a weapon of war but an abuse of women," Mr Ojul argued.
Sexual abuse and physical assault are men's new "weapons to 'discipline' women", said Judith Pamela Angwech, the executive director of Gulu Women's Economic Development and Globalisation. "People learned abusive ways from the war; rebels and government soldiers raped women, and men who have become frustrated, do it as a way of life," she said.
At the height of the LRA insurgency, the government forced affected communities into congested Internally Displaced People's (IDP) camps where an estimated 1.7 million people lived in squalor, on hand-outs and without privacy. The rebels often attacked the camps, raping women and killing in the open, and people's traditions were broken.
The camp life meant generations of young men and women neither knew nor practiced cultural decorum. They have grown into adults on their own land, but alien to their own ways of life.It speaks to a society turned on its head by war.
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For the last couple of weeks, I have been brainstorming ideas on how to pass all these finals without really trying. For the last couple of weeks, I have failed all these finals without really trying. Nonetheless, let's let bygones be bygones. I am gone with a D, I am DONE, and so are you! (Cue the trumpets.) I made a summer bucket list just in case in the next coming weeks I am too incoherent to remember what I really want to do, and just in case you have no summer plans, well, I can be your muse. Enjoy!
- Test other people's limits.
- Experience the pain of a brain freeze from drinking too many Pina Coladas.
- Meet Blue Ivy.
- Pay back all my debt to my dad.
- Ask my dad for July rent money.
- Go to a wine vineyard wearing heart-shaped sunglasses.
- Make my very own beer titled "Jon's Joose.â€
- Learn a foreign language, or just something Spanish 1 and 2 didn't teach me.
- Fiesta. Party. Fiesta.
- Jump in the water at the beach and tell someone, "Say I'm a bird.â€
- Throw a pool party and pretend I am on The Hills.
- Go on a double date with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
- Get my 13th tattoo of "13†on Friday, July 13th.
- Legalize gay marriage.
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Dogs from all over the world were vying for the title of World's Ugliest Dog in Petaluma, Calif. over the weekend. The opposite of the Westminster Dog Show, in this competition these canines did not come fully fluffed and neatly brushed. Instead, each of the 30 contestants showed up with their own unique look. For instance, Mouse the bulbous Chihuahua was missing an eye, and Daisy the Pug's special feature was an uncontrollable tongue. There were plenty more interesting mugs, but unfortunately only one doggie could go home with the prized title.
The 2012 king of ugly-cute is Mugly, a Chinese Crested. 8-year-old Mugly came all the way from Peterborough, England to show off his weirdly placed whiskers and an aloof gaze. This is Mugly's second "ugly win." His owner says Mugly also won Britain's Ugliest Dog in 2005.
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Oh boy, not another Budget gem! (Hey, somebody has to do this job!) This time it's an historic 1600ha farm bordering De Mond Nature Reserve and more or less equidistant from Arniston, Struisbaai and Bredasdorp.
Apart from a homestead dating back over 200 years, Vogelgezang has three guest cottages, each miles from civilization and each unique.
Let's begin with the Fishing Cabin. If you suffer from a recurring fantasy featuring an isolated cabin, fishing to your heart's content and drinking beer with the mates, help is at hand!
We've seen a lot of places, but you don't get a much better location than this: surrounded by a sea of coastal fynbos and just metres from the wild beach.
So what is the catch? The Cabin is rustic, bordering on raw, so expect bunk beds, communal sleeping, no electricity, an outside solar shower and nothing but corrugated iron between you and the summer heat or the winter chill.
Now that you know what to expect, you will have a ball at the Fishing Cabin.
Heading back towards the homestead, de Mond Cottage is also on its own but with a somewhat different persona – a rustic thatched cottage, surrounded by wheat and canola fields and a distant view of the ocean.
Terracotta tiles, country furniture and simple yet attractive decor, paraffin lamps, gas power (no electricity), an airy kitchen with generous table and Dover stove, a wood-burning 'donkey' for hot water, three uncluttered bedrooms that sleep six total, a loft for an extra four single beds, a comfortable lounge with fireplace and a shady stoep...
A short stroll from the cottage, the owners have fashioned a timber sundowner deck around an old farm dam – a very nice touch.
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Near to hear is the start of the farm's trail run and MTB route, another nice addition to the activities list.
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382 of 396 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another humdinger
I really can't believe that in the first three months of the year I have come across three gems in "A Thousand Splendid Suns," "A Quiet Belief in Angels" and now "The Book Thief." Each of these books is different but they are all stunning in their own individual way.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A 'clever' book, but not for everyone
I am ambivalent towards this book. The writing style was definitely unique; I enjoyed the frequent intermissions by the narrator, which gave the story a light-hearted and a nostalgic back-in-your-childhood feel. The ending was particularly well done - poignant, perhaps tear-jerking for many readers.
However, I felt the characterisation altogether a little weak...
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382 of 396 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another humdinger,
Mr. Peter Steward "petersteward" (Norwich, England) - See all my reviews
I really can't believe that in the first three months of the year I have come across three gems in "A Thousand Splendid Suns," "A Quiet Belief in Angels" and now "The Book Thief." Each of these books is different but they are all stunning in their own individual way.
The Book Thief is highly original, although it did remind me somewhat of my book of the year for 2007 "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas." The subject matter for both books is the Nazification of Germany. Both books look at things from the perspective of a child growing up in the most turbulent of times and both have a child-like simplicity that just adds to their powers.
The Book Thief is a beautiful book from start to finish. Indeed at times it is more of a scrapbook of a life than a novel. It has a strangeness that only enhances the subject matter. For a start it is narrated by death. But this never detracts from the shape or power of the novel as young lives are slowly ripped apart in a German Town where poverty is rife.
The central character Liesel has a beautiful calmness of spirit. She always seems to be on the verge of re-alisation whilst still retaining the fragility of childhood. Slowly and gradually the evil unfolds before her as she becomes aware of the fate of the Jews in a town where she is thrust as an unwilling refugee.
In her adopted father Hans Hubermann, Zusak has created one of those unforgettable men of strength and kindness. At first when Liesel is thrust into the Hubermann household I was expecting a hard-hearted couple keen to take the small amount of money that Lisel brings with her but not so keen to give her the love that she craves. Nothing could be more from the truth. Hans is open with his love and support whilst is wife is softer than she would ever want anybody to know.
There are passages where the book appears to be meandering and nothing much seems to be happening. There is a war on, but it isn't hugely affecting those involved in the story. But then you realise, almost by chance, that it is affecting every character, sometime directly and sometimes in a rather subtler way (if war can be subtle). Then comes a cataclysmic climax that is both sad and uplifting.
This is a very unusual book. It is a delight to read and never stodgy and once again I can only highly recommend it.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Book Thief by Markus Zusak,
K. Leversuch (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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1939 - Nazi Germany - The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. Some important information - this novel is narrated by death. It's a small story, about: a girl; an accordionist; some fanatical Germans; a Jewish fist fighter; and quite a lot of thievery. Another thing you should know - death will visit the book thief three times.
I loved this book, I'm recommending it to everyone!!
It is a long book, of 550ish pages, but well worth the read, and even has pictures in the book! It is incredibly easy to follow and I liked how the pages were often broken up with some asides and important notes.
I think my favourite part was the fact the book was narrated by Death, who had some very funny one-liners. Death was also my favourite character, he was portrayed in a new, almost sensitive way, which I loved. And he had a great sense of humour.
The book had me gripped from the beginning and was full of twists and turns. I was nearly in tears at the end of the book, it was so sad, but I was thoroughly satisfied by the ending.
I loved all the characters, some had me cringing, some had me laughing, some I just loved and wished they were real.
This is historical fiction, but I had no reason to doubt the history in the book, with the concentration camps and the Munich bombings.
9/10, an excellent book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Heart warming and heart breaking in almost equal measure,
Ingaborga (London, UK) - See all my reviews
The eponymous book thief is Liesel Meminger, a young girl whose mother takes her to Munich to live with a foster family on the eve of the Second World War. On the journey to Munich, two things happen. First, her brother dies. Second, Liesel steals a book at his graveside - a manual for grave diggers. Not the most appropriate of texts for a twelve year old girl, but it awakens in Liesel a love of books - and perhaps more importantly, a skill for stealing books.
The Book Thief is narrated by Death, who tells the story of Liesel, her family and her friends. The narrative style has a lightness of touch that is pleasantly surprising given the weight of the subject matter. The characters are vividly drawn, rough and occasionally brutal yet each of them capable of acts of great tenderness, generosity and love.
If I had to find fault with this, it would be the occasionally clunky use of a German phrase followed by an English translation, but overall, this is a wonderful book, and I defy anyone not to be moved by it.
286 of 305 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Just read it!!!,
A. Hope "bookcrossing ali" (Birmingham, England) - See all my reviews
I am not sure how to describe this book - without either giving too much away - or making it sound depressing and grisely which it is not at all. Suffice to say this is a novel narrated by death. It is the story of a young girl living in Nazi Germany, who goes to live with a foster family,and learns to read, and falls in love with: books, her new Papa, a boy called Rudy, and a Jew hiding in a basement. It is also a story of WW2 - from a persepective we don't often see - ordinaary Germans - some of whom were members of "The Party."
Death takes the reader by the hand, and leads us through the lives and deaths of people in Liesel's world, he kind of "gives the game away" a few times - and yet that never spoils it - it prepares the reader for what's ahead.
This is an astonishing book - the writing is great - an unusual style - but one that fits perfectly somehow with the voice of Death - and that of the unforgettable Liesel.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars so very different to anything i've ever read,
Carrie Adams "booklover" (midlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Book Thief (Hardcover)
i was surprised to see some of the reviews posted here about the books thief, but then i realised it is all about how you read it, and of course, who you are. i was tired of books that were written prettily, full of ornate language yes, and wonderful prose that poured out little metaphors and cute similies, but they all blended into one, they were barely distinguishable. i walked into waterstones, alone one sunday morning, and i was only drawn to the book because their was a brightly cloured stand erected for it to sit on, after scanning the blurb i made a snap decision to buy it, because something felt right. the sheer heaviness of the book intrigued me, literally as well as metaphorically, yet the issue of ww2, the holocaust, is one i have seen done well a thousand times. but none have done it, i believe, with the same sheer bluntness yet beauty as the book thief does, the book manages to be incredibly to the point, so open yet the phrasing, the writing so different to anything i have ever seen before. my memories of the book are slightly blurred, it has been a while since i visited liesel and her books, but a few moments have entrenched themselves in my memory- the snow and her first book, the colours of the sky, the library, papa and his accordion, and the falling ashes like snowflakes that make my eyes prick and my skin ripple with emotion still. the author i believe is not purposefully trying to be overly clever, i just think this style of writing is just so different, the short phrases and sentences, the odd facts, they just make the picture the author is painting a more vivid one. so, if you love books,if you love books about loving books, then please, i ask you, buy the book thief, and let it steal you.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best read I have had for a long time!,
Book lover (Israel) - See all my reviews
This book is for me what writing is all about. You learn something, you feel something and it somehow changes you. It has humour (I can't help remembering the detail of the Mayor's wife having swastikas on her slippers!), it has heartache (Max), it has family (despite the flying insults), it has love and overall, despite the tragic scenery and setting, it is a very positive book. Max's books remind me of the "Little Prince", while the girls character reminds me of Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird". Great writing, what sounds like a gimick (narrating through the voice of Death) becomes a charming and very moving story. Great book - if you haven't got it, get and sit down for a good read!
222 of 245 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of empathy,
Gordon Eldridge (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews
Sometimes a fictional interpretation of history is exactly what we need in order to be able to come to a real understanding of what it meant to live through historic events, particularly horrific ones. Markus Zusak provides us with a masterful interpretation of the Nazi period of German history from the perspective of ordinary people suffering through it and striving to keep their lives together and their souls alive and kicking within the horrific and ever-tightening boundaries constructed by the Nazi regime. He gives us a gut-wrenchingly palpable empathy for people facing harrowing decisions on a daily basis. His marvelous characters bring to life the dilemmas of those who believe they should help the Jews as well as the equally nightmarish predicament of Jews who through receiving help put others in danger. We see much of this through the perspective of the main character Liesel, who is only a young girl. Her innocence and the gradual realizations she comes to about the events swirling around her in a maelstrom of horror evoke a remarkable empathy in the reader. If you want to understand how the little people cope with such tragic historic events without allowing their souls to be crushed, read this book. Ultimately it is a portrait of the resilience and hope of the human spirit.
180 of 199 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A 'clever' book, but not for everyone,
J. Takata (London, UK) - See all my reviews
I am ambivalent towards this book. The writing style was definitely unique; I enjoyed the frequent intermissions by the narrator, which gave the story a light-hearted and a nostalgic back-in-your-childhood feel. The ending was particularly well done - poignant, perhaps tear-jerking for many readers.
However, I felt the characterisation altogether a little weak - there were very few characters I could care about; many of them appear to be cardboard cutouts of stereotypical personalities. The story meanders a lot in the middle of the book without much really happening and most of the events seem to have no purpose at all. All in all, I don't know what this book wants to be. It doesn't deliver the full atmosphere of what it was like living in Nazi Germany, as I had expected; nor is it a simple idyllic bildungsroman. It is neither happy nor depressing; its target audience appears to be neither for adults nor for children. Many would undoubtedly argue that it is precisely this ambiguity that makes the book so enjoyable; I believe it is a matter of taste whether you like those kinds of books or not.
If there is one word I would sum up the book with, it would be 'clever' - the structure certainly is ingenious and the narration with Death works very well in some parts. However, I do think that Zusak had tried a tad too hard; I felt the basics of a good book - the characters, the plot and writing style - had suffered as a result of pursuing style over content. While some people (as testified by the many positive reviews) would love this book, others will find it is not entirely up their street. Try it, and find out!
102 of 113 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, wonderful book w/unique perspective,
D. Taggart "danita" (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews
I picked this book up in an airport on a whim. I liked the cover. It took a couple of months to open it up, but once I did, I could NOT put it down. I (foolishly) took it with me on vacation. I did NOT see the sights, because I stayed in my room all day and all night until I finished the book, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying hysterically.
This book is haunting, beautiful, and moving-but not in a sappy way. My family is Jewish, and suffered loss due to the Holocaust. But lots of people have similar stories, and have told them. They are all important, and moving, but this is completely unique, because it's not primarily about the Jews (though they are in the book).
I have to admit, I have never once thought about what it was like for regular, working class citizens to live in Nazi Germany. Or what it was like for their children. There were other innocent victims of the Nazi regime than the ones who died in the camps. Zusak vividly brings to life these special, imperfect and at the same time PERFECT characters and makes you experience their lives as if they were your own. I felt what they felt, saw what they saw, lost what they lost. And, I finished this book crying like a baby. I cried for at least half an hour. And it was wonderful.
A boy with hair the color of lemons broke my heart the night I finished reading this book. (You will understand what that means when you read it.) But I am glad he did. I would never have known him, otherwise.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Tale,
Jacquie F "Jacquie" (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
Narrated by Death, this is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl trying to survive the hardships and deprivations of Germany during WWII. It is the story of a street "Himmel Street" and its inhabitants, and the town of Molching close neighbour to Dachau Concentration Camp. Perhaps it's the story of the ordinary German people too, not the ones that went to fight, but the ones that were left behind, the children, the women and the men.
The characters, the places, the emotions were so exquisitely drawn that I found myself standing on Himmel Street, watching the football games, or the marching Hitler Youth, or walking alongside Liesel as she delivered the ironing to her foster mother's customers.
With Death as a constant companion, telling the story, complaining a little about all the work he had to do at that particular time, and how sometimes he was bound to get involved in individual stories if he wasn't careful. He was amusing and forthright. A surprisingly good story teller in fact.
This story deeply moved me. I cannot begin to explain the laughter and the tears that came in equal measure when reading. I'm not prone to tears, so I must leave it to you to draw your own conclusions in that regard.
An excellent book and one that I would recommend to anyone.
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engineering brick for dome
Can I say first, what a fabulous forum this is, great questions and patient,knowledgable and understanding answers.My question is: could I use engineering brick for the dome? I live in London UK, I have been quoted £3.20 for fire brick, happy to use that on the hearth but engineering brick is about £0.70. I am looking to build a 36" to be used for bread and Pizza, probably fired twice a week, if anyone knows of cheaper firebrick supplier in the UK would be gratefull for info.
Welcome aboard. Your plans sound good to me. My wife (London as a child, Cambridge for work) has alway said that she thinks brick ovens are the perfect way to extend the English seasons. I am guessing that Alf will have an opinion on this. He's in the lake district and knows as much about brick ovens as anyone.
Over £3 for a firebrick seems pretty steep -- perhaps they are high duty bricks for industrial applications. Low-mid duty firebricks are a little over $1 in the states.
How would you describe an engineering brick? How much is a basic fired clay brick?
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James. Thanks for your reply, your wife is right about extending the season here in the uk, I love the idea of a chilly day with good friends,wine and sharing good honest simple food from the oven I fell in love with brick ovens while on some occasional trips to Nice, France 25 years ago, and frequent biz trips to Italy. It was very visual there, with the oven at the the front of the restaurants. It is sensual, magical and has something of the alchemist about it.Here I am married with two teenage children and the dream wont go away.Sorry I digress.
Engineering bricks here are a very dense water and frost resistent brick used for Victorian railway arches and below water line and damp proof course use. density is about 3.3kg for a standard brick 215 × 102.5 × 65mm. Tom Jayne uses them in his oven for the dome, I have not been able to find any thermal transfer details for them yet, perhaps they may not hold the heat as much as fire brick. I would be interested as to whether Alf will have any views
While there are definitely wood-fired ovens in France, the Italian ovens are much nicer. We ate in a small Pizza and Moule Fritte restaurant a couple of times in Provence last summer -- the mussels were great, but the french pizza chef had a few things to learn. The oven was wood-fired, but they had a way to go.
If Tom Jayne used the engineered bricks, I would guess that they would work. The Pompeii oven design is much more efficient than the oven described in those plans, and will work well. My only idea is that there might be something a little better for not much more cost. A low-mid duty firebrick is +/- 30% alumina and 50% silica in the states. A basic red fired clay brick, of unknown makeup, costs about $.45 at Home Depot. Can you find a basic clay brick at B&Q?
One way or the other, you are off on the right foot.
Let us know where it goes.
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Thanks James. Through your wonderful forum you guys had convinced me to make a round oven. I have had Tom Jaynes and Alan Scotts book for 5 or so years as well as an early book by Poilane which showed a round oven. but the forum has demystified about 95% of it. On the issue of bricks, are you saying that a common, quality, high fired red house brick will do? or am I mistaking the terms used in the US, I will check on the make up of what we call red brick. listened to your podcast last night really good, heard you lived in San Gimignano for while, My wife took me there for my birthday a couple of years ago in late May, it poured with rain every day except the day we left, but the stunning medieval architecture made it an amazing place.
Regarding French food,there is a sort of myth that it is always good, the truth is you can generally eat much better in France than a lot of European countries I have had bad food in France and bad pizza in Italy, but rarely.
Regards all
I'm still getting over having to leave San Gimignano. We had a house inside the walls with a nice garden, a garage (!) and pizza oven. I guess all good things must come to end.
Back to the bricks. You can get by with a clay brick in the dome, but my experience is that the firebricks perform better. I'm still trying to understand where the engineered bricks fits in.
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James. I am probably confusing a few things in my own mind. when I am thinking about the bricks for the oven, in my mind I have a vision of this brick having to take thermal shock,resist frost and capable of acting as a thermal sink.An engineering brick(probably a misleading term dating from the victorian era)is usually a blue/black, smooth surfaced, incredibly hard dense brick. It retails here for about £0.70,clay brick is about £0.35 I have just located firebrick at about £1.25. I dont want to get too pedantic,after all I am sure the Romans did not have perfect bricks, but they all had a lot of slaves to rebuild if things didnt work out. my thinking is that this hard brick is probably going to be good for the dome, but I will use fire brick for the hearth. but I will try and persue cheaper prices for the firebrick first.
Sorry of the delay in this reply Miker. Engineering bricks were certainly used in oven construction throughout the UK during the late 19th and early 20th century. As we see throughout our landscape engineering bricks do hold up railway arches so there strength isnt a question. As for withstanding heat thats not a problem they are fired way beyond the temperature that an oven will get to. The problem with them as against firebricks is their ability to store heat, they just arent as good.
So go with firebricks if your still looking for firebricks try these folks:
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Re Fire Bricks in the UK.
John Hall Refractories Ltd http://www.livingnet.co.uk/JHR/location.htm quoted £0.91 ex VAT per brick with delivery @ £30.
Handsworth Refractories http://www.handsworth-refractories.c...ire_brick.html quoted £0.85 ex but a higher delivery charge @ £60.00
The bricks from both companies were 38-42% Alumina.
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In honor of Black History Month, the "Civil Rights in America" exhibit is on display in the KOM A art case (across from HR office). Stephen Marc's photography weaves more than 500 years of African American life together, creating a digital montage of U.S. history and the black experience. Stephen will be on campus Thursday, February 6, 11:30am - 2:00pm in the CTL to discuss his art.
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Before the advent of the new development theories and practices, women were relegated to the bottom of the social ladder. They were seen as docile, weak and unimportant in national development; their contribution to national development remained anonymous. Their economic activities were seen as insignificant in the economic growth system of their countries and so experts and policymakers did not include their economic activities in the national accounting system. They were thought to be fit only for the informal sector and for reproduction. They were denied security; are forced to pay for expensive insurance and can rarely save enough to protect themselves against emergencies.
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As Zimbabwe heads for a Constitutional referendum and a general election this year, political tensions are on the rise. It is hoped that the environment will be even. What is disturbing is the increase of incidents countrywide of harassment, arrest, unlawful detentions and office raids of civic society members.
There has been an outcry by civic society members over continued police crackdown on its members and resistance by the local authorities and traditional structures for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to operate in their areas despite having all necessary documents for them to provide humanitarian assistance.
As the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, I acknowledge the role of NGOs in providing humanitarian and developmental assistance as complementary to Government efforts in meeting the social needs of its citizens during this harsh period where Zimbabwe is under serious food deficit.
Close to two million people are in dire need of food assistance. Millions of Zimbabweans depend on NGOs for assistance and denying them assistance will jeopardise the livelihoods of millions of them.
As the MDC Secretary for Labour, I wish to applaud the humanitarian assistance offered by a number of NGOs in the country more so across the political divide in all provinces. The MDC as a party subscribes to the fundamental principles of freedom of movement and association and will condemn in the strongest of terms the partisan behaviour of the police and some sections of the Judiciary.


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Teen bride and media whore Courtney Stodden revealed today to E! News that she has a sex tape.
Big fuckin' surprise.
The tape is reportedly a solo masturbation sex tape that was made AFTER Courtney Stodden turned 18 last August. That must suck for her husband Doug Hutchison. I mean, it's always looked like a sham-marriage but for the sake of appearances he could have filmed a sex tape with her.
I wonder if Doug Hutchison has a romantic abnormality so unbelievable that it must be hidden from the public at all cost. Just like another sham-marriage I know of…
Now I'm not suggesting that Doug Hutchison sexually attracted to fish like actor Troy McClure who you may remember from such films as The Unbearable Moistness of Sweating and The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel (which he also directed) but it is something to think about. He is the weirdo that married Courtney Stodden after all.
Courtney Stodden also said that her sex tape is private. It's not in the media or even on her computer.
"Hackers, don't even go there cause you'll find nothing," she said.
The last thing you ever want to do is provoke or challenge hackers because they will get you. I expect that the Courtney Stodden sex tape will leak within a week now that she has challenged hackers to find it.
Personally, I think that Courtney Stodden revealing that she has a sex tape is an attempt to get the same press coverage as Farrah Abraham. If that is the reason, she should have accepted one of the many Manwin offers to do porn she received on her birthday.
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Jeff Stelling says the 'hideous decision' to rebrand St James' Park raises plenty of issues...Back to story
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Dan Turner (Liverpool fan) says...
Nice one Jeff. It'll always be St. James' to me too. What bothers me the most is that this is labelled almost as a PR stunt to boost the brand value it could offer to potential suitors. With this added value the club can get more cash, which they can spend on transfers. Fair enough. But the fact of the matter is that the 35 million raised for Andy Carroll is still sitting in the black and white bank. If they can't spend this, what's the chance that the extra revenue raised from this sponsorship sell-out will go on players. Chances are, it'll go in Mike Ashley's back pocket. Just wrong.
Posted 21:40 10th November 2011
Sam Hayley (Newcastle United fan) says...
Well said Jeff, I for one will never even acknowledge that the name has changed! It is St. James Park and always will be!
Posted 21:32 10th November 2011
Derek Mutch (Newcastle United fan) says...
Re - Newcastle United change of name from St James Park to SDA (or Stupid Daft Arena) Has this idiot of a chairman got any thought for Newcastle United fans and the city of NEWCASTLE - No only his pocket! Its a pity all the true fans should refuse going to the next home match as a protest against this idea to rid the club of all of its history in one full swoop. Trust me fans all over the WORLD will forget Newcastle soon and support other clubs.
Posted 21:14 10th November 2011
Allan Bell (Hull City fan) says...
i think mike ashely is pathetic. its all about the money to him, he doesnt care about the newcastle fans he just wants to be a hated man. the name st james is newcastles home not any other name, whilst mike ashely is owner of newcastle united he will slowly but surely destroy it and he is doing dame good job of it. i am so glad that the player arev playing for the manger and ignoring that git that is mike ashley. so annyoying. hope to see the name st james read out on soccer saturday and all sports and radio channels. allan from carlisle
Posted 20:33 10th November 2011
Sean Macconnolly (Celtic fan) says...
Unless the name of the stadium is bought by a sponsor from the start , its farcicle to change it. Makes a mockery of the history of the stadium in my opinion. St.James Park sponsored by blahblah would be just about ok but to change entirely is ridiculous. As a Celtic fan , if they tried to change the stadium from Celtic Park , there would be complete and utter uproar.
Posted 20:28 10th November 2011
Joakeel Reece (Newcastle United fan) says...
I realize that many of our fan support dislike almost all of the decisions that the NEWCASTLE board has been making over the past two plus years, however we owned the Championship[2010]/ Prem mid table last term and are currently sitting pretty nice in third place with 11 rounds gone. Please, Please, Please!!! do let the pundits or your sentimental emotions bring our rise to prominence down. Their explanation is reasonable, even if you could care less about the finances. or Keep the ground name and get dropped down a few divisions and stay there is our other chioce.
Posted 20:27 10th November 2011
Alan Shackson (Newcastle United fan) says...
Whichever company ends up spending millions of pounds giving their name to this ridiculous scheme can guarantee to be instantly despised by Newcastle United fans!!!
Posted 20:25 10th November 2011
Nick Williams (Liverpool fan) says...
Jeff, i couldn't agree more with you there. You also need to take into consideration that the fans morale could be lowered like this and they may have an agressive way to the owners. What may put the Newcastle players off there game. On the other hand if you think back to a couple of years ago you'll remeber that Newcastle were in a financial wreak and Sports Direct took the risk of buying Newcastle and they have done a tremdous job nevertheless it doesn't give them the right to change the stadium name.
Posted 20:25 10th November 2011
Tommy Delcher (Newcastle United fan) says...
Nice one Jeff! And just in response to Lambias stating it is a necessity for the club create revenue this way, why is it only Chelsea who are also exploring this avenue? Why isn't White Heart Lane becoming the Tesco Stadium or Anfield the Lego Stadium? Also notable was his remark of needing funds to purchase "replacements" next summer. Nice to see the club is already anticipating selling our key players once again when the seasons out. Jokers!
Posted 20:08 10th November 2011
Bav Patel (Newcastle United fan) says...
Renaming ST. JAME'S PARK shows how little Mike Ashley and co. care about the club, players and most of all the fans. All he is concerned about is, filling his boots with money made from
Posted 19:54 10th November 2011
Brian Napper (Aston Villa fan) says...
Rediculous descision,Im sure all Newcastle fans will not be happy at all, If Randy tried to change the name of our mecca Villa Park there would be outrage.
Posted 19:51 10th November 2011
Peter Grant (Liverpool fan) says...
I agree, as a Liverpool fan I would be devestated if the ground name was changed at all. Newcastle are synonymous with St James park and unless there is a new stadium then it should stay. Support to all the toon fans who refuse to accept the clown in charge changing its name.
Posted 19:50 10th November 2011
Julie Roseblade (Newcastle United fan) says...
Well done to Newcastle Council for refusing to change signposts, clearly thinks he owns the city and it's heritage not a football club, he didn't even build a stadium. But like he keeps telling everyone its a business to him, funny but I thought as a businessman he would have the sense not to change such a well known brand name. Would you give your customers something they didn't ask for or didn't want?. Richard Branson must be in awe of the man and his PR genius, well it starts with PR at least.....
Posted 19:49 10th November 2011
Jack Robson (Newcastle United fan) says...
excellent article jeff. it softens this harsh blow to know that respected pundits like yourself sympathise with not just ourselves, but all fans that have succumbed to cash-greedy owners that rename their stadium. as you mentioned, an 'emirates stadium' or 'eitihad stadium' is a different game altogether, each stadium being less than a decade old. but to try and write off 130 years of legends and tradition away with a cheap tacky sportswear brand is criminal. i read journalists telling the traditionalists to wake up and get with 21st century football. well if we're surrendering our history and identity at a cost of Ł8m i'm not sure 21st century football is what we want. this will no doubt be tip of the ice-berg, i fear the day of naming brands for club names and re-locations. it will happen..
Posted 19:46 10th November 2011
John Williamson (Manchester United fan) says...
I can't for the life of me understand all of the fuss about a stadium name. Let's be honest it could have been worse they could have named it the "We Haven't Won a Major Domestic Trophy Since 1955 Arena."
Posted 19:37 10th November 2011
David Reay (Newcastle United fan) says...
Commercially cashley is correct but what about tradition, what about Newcastle United, what about the city of Newcastle. You are one greedy man cashley. This is not a business it is our lives.
Posted 19:36 10th November 2011
Bob A (Manchester United fan) says...
Well Said Jeff!!! I agree completely.
Posted 19:35 10th November 2011
Daniel Branley (Newcastle United fan) says...
cheers for supporting every toon fan!! renaming St James is just stripping our club of it's tradition. Some things are just priceless and our heritage is one of them.
Posted 19:24 10th November 2011
John Polkinghorne (Truro City fan) says...
I don't think the grounds name should be changed, its been there for 130 years. Could you imagine the uproar if Old Trafford was renamed the AON stadium
Posted 19:05 10th November 2011
Jon Betts (Wolverhampton Wanderers fan) says...
What a load of rubbish, if i was a toon fan i would be gutted.Its part of our history and for a few quid its gone.With all the protests we have in football surely every serious football fan would boycott this decision.
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Larry Melvyn Evans (born March 23, 1932) is an American chess grandmaster and journalist. He won or co-won the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times.
FIDE awarded Evans the titles of International Master (1952) and International Grandmaster (1957). In 1956 the U.S. State Department appointed him a "chess ambassador".
Evans performed well in many U.S. events during the 1960s and 1970s but his trips abroad to international tournaments were infrequent and less successful. He won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1951, 1952, 1954 (he tied with Arturo Pomar but won the title on the tie-break) and tied with Walter Browne in 1971. He also won the first Lone Pine tournament in 1971. He represented the U.S. in eight Chess Olympiads over a period of twenty-six years, winning gold (1950), silver (1958), and bronze (1976) medals for his play, and participating in team gold (1976) and silver (1966) medals.
His best results on foreign soil included two wins at the Canadian Open Chess Championship, 1956 in Montreal, and 1966 in Kingston, Ontario. He tied for first-second in the 1975 Portimao International in Portugal and for second-third with World Champion Tigran Petrosian, behind Jan Hein Donner, in Venice, 1967. However, his first, and what ultimately proved to be his only, crack at the World Chess Championship title ended in a disappointing 14th place (10/23) in the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal.
He never entered the world championship cycle again, and concentrated his efforts on assisting his fellow American Bobby Fischer in his quest for the world title. He was Fischer's second for the Candidates matches leading up to the World Chess Championship 1972 against Boris Spassky, though not for the championship match itself, after a disagreement with Fischer.
At his peak in October 1968 he was rated 2631 by the United States Chess Federation.
Other well-received books by Evans include Modern Chess Brilliancies (1970), What's The Best Move (1973) and Test Your Chess I.Q. (2001). He revised the tenth edition of the openings treatise Modern Chess Openings (1965), co-authored with editor Walter Korn. He also made a significant contribution to Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games (1969), writing the introductions to each of the 60 games and had urged the future World Champion to publish when he had initially been reluctant to do so.
During the 1960s Evans developed a very successful career in chess journalism and helped found the American Chess Quarterly which ran from 1961-65. He was an editor of Chess Digest during the 60s and 70s and he still writes regularly for Chess Life, the official publication of the United States Chess Federation (USCF) and Chess Life Online. His popular question and answer column was read by more than 250,000 readers every month and ran for over thirty years, but was cut in 2006 as part of a new editor seeking a new look for the magazine. His weekly chess column, Evans on Chess, has appeared in more than fifty separate newspapers throughout the United States. He also writes a column for the World Chess Network.
Evans has also commentated on some of the biggest matches for Time magazine and ABC's Wide World of Sports, including the 1972 Fischer versus Spassky match, the 1993 PCA world title battle between Gary Kasparov and Nigel Short and the Braingames world chess championship match between Vladimir Kramnik and Gary Kasparov in 2000.
His contributions to chess writing and journalism have earned him many awards, including the USCF's Chess Journalist of the Year award in 2000. He was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 1994.
This game, against future grandmaster Abe Yanofsky, who had won the brilliancy prize against Botvinnik at Groningen the year before, was Evans' first victory against a noted player:
Yanofsky-Evans, U.S. Open, Corpus Christi 1947 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.h3 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 dxe5 7.dxe5 e6 8.a3 Nc6 9.Bb5 Qd7 10.c4 Nde7 11.0-0 Qd4 12.Bg5 a6 13.Bxe7? axb5 14.Bxf8 Rxf8 15.cxb5 Nxe5 16.Qe2 0-0-0 17.Nc3 Ng6 18.Rad1 Qe5 19.Qc2 Rxd1 20.Rxd1 Rd8 21.Rc1 Nf4 22.Kh1 Qg5 23.Rg1? (23. f3) Qh5! 24.Kh2? Rd3! 25.f3 (see diagram at left) 25...Rxf3! 26.Rd1? (26.Rc1 protecting the queen) 26...Nxh3!! Larry Parr wrote, "Larry Evans recalls 'a rush' as he played this spectacular crusher. 'This victory,' he wrote in a recent e-mail, 'gave me my first taste of fame. If I could beat the guy who beat Botvinnik, perhaps someday I could also beat Botvinnik!'" 27.gxf3 Nf2+ 28.Kg3 Qh3+! 29.Kf4 Qh2+ 30.Ke3 Ng4+! 0-1 If 31.Kd3, Ne5+ wins White's queen.


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Video games trigger reward and addiction centers of the brain, just like cocaine. Hoeft et. al. at Stanford have compared the activation of these centers in men's and women's brains as they played video games and found them to be more active in male than in female participants. Males showed greater activation and functional connectivity compared to females in the mesocorticolimbic system. The more the men won, the stronger their brain activity. Women's responses were less intense and didn't correlate with winning. This may have something to do with why men seem to become addicted to video games much more easily than women.
There is an interesting and more general article by Robin Henig on play in animals and humans in the New York Times Magazine. The general consensus is that play activity is very important in the development of social intelligence and the ability to respond to rapidly changing situations. It turns out that the rise and decay of play activity in animals corresponds closely to the development curve of the cerebellum, which is important in skilled movements. In one interesting study, experimenters:
...raised 12 female rats from the time they were weaned until puberty under one of two conditions. In the control group, each rat was caged with three other female juveniles. In the experimental group, each rat was caged with three female adults. Pellis knew from previous studies that the rats caged with adults would not play, since adult rats rarely play with juveniles, even their own offspring. They would get all the other normal social experiences the control rats had — grooming, nuzzling, touching, sniffing — but they would not get play... (in) the rats raised in a play-deprived environment, they found a more immature pattern of neuronal connections in the medial prefrontal cortex... less selective pruning of cells and a more tangled, immature medial prefrontal cortex in play-deprived rats might mean that the rat will be less able to make subtle adjustments to the social world.There are numerous theories about the function of play. It doesn't seem unreasonable that that the fragmentary, disorderly, unpredictable, exaggerated, improvised, vertiginous, and nonsensical nature of play trains the brain allows for a wider behavioral repertory and perhaps more competence in responding to novel or unforeseen situations.


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Hi efurryone! A quick update--we don't get to log in much since mom is working full time, going to school full time, and working on a little side business as well :) But we check in periodically so we can try to keep up with all our kittypals!
I have had a nonhealing corneal ulceration. It lasted several months, and ended with me going to a veterinary opthalmologist. I had a few different procedures, but it finally started healing. I have some weird scar tissue mom's keeping an eye on, but we're just thankful it's not hurting me and keeping me from seeing any more!
Otherwise I've just been involved in my favorite things--eating and sleeping!
Sister Ava Grace is herself--for better or worse, MOL! She eats the mailman, anyone who comes in the house to fix anything (like the cable guy!) and even worse, the vet! I mean, I don't like to go either but she's pretty scary when she goes!
But at home, with Mom, she's her regular sweet, fuzzy, affectionate self. Mom says it's just because she has a "Tortie attitude", whatever that means.
And last but not least, brother Cole is a huge mess. He's into everything, on everyone, has the crazies more than any other cat I've ever seen...but whenever I look at him I see my brother Turtle. He's sooo much like him I think Turtle picked him for us so it wouldn't hurt so bad. He loves to play like Turtle did, and he likes a good head scratch....well, until he decides he needs to play again!
Anyway, just wanted to stop in and update you all :) Headbutts, big purrs, and warm fuzzies!
PS-Happy birthday, Turtle. I miss you...sometimes I sit in places you liked to sit, even though they're not places I would normally go. Love you!
I have a sniffly, sneezy thing that I think came from my sisfur. Darn her! It doesn't seem to bother me TOO much, but man it's annoying! Oh well, it could always be worse, right?
I had my checkup a couple of days ago...I got a clean bill of health except the vet said I was a "chunk." Well, excuse me for having big bones! Is it such a bad thing to enjoy my food? Sheesh. Give a guy a break!
Mom does say something about "diabeetus" though, so she's cutting back my treats. Boy, does that make me cranky. I NEED my treats to...well, I'm not sure why, but I JUST DO.
Aaaaanyway. It's starting to thunder a little, so maybe we'll get some rain to cool it off a little!
Sorry that Mom fails at updating for us...at least we're hitting a couple of times a year, right?
It's been pretty sad lately, since my brofur died this weekend. Mom is wondering if she should help another homeless kitty, but feels bad because Turtle just went to the bridge. Of course he can never be replaced, but Mom can help another kitty and love them too.
Mom is looking into pet insurance for Ava Grace and I, since she's so freaked out by Turtle's sudden sickness. Anyone have any experience in pet insurance? Message her and help her out! You know peoples-they're clueless, MOL!
Well, we hope you're all doing okay. Hope your summers are going well and you're staying cool and lazy!
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