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Product Description
Players try to sell trade goods in different markets for the best prices. Don't worry, barter and bribery also factor.
Product Information
Michael Andersch
Adlung Spiele
Jurgen Martens
Year: 2000
Players: 3 - 5
Time: 30 - 60 minutes
Ages: 10 and up
Weight: 110 grams
Language Requirements: Game components are language-independent. Manufacturer's rules are printed in multiple languages (including English).
- 5 price cards
- 5 goods cards
- 55 trade cards
- 1 overview card
- instructions
Product Reviews
Average Rating: 3.5 in 2 reviews
Im slowly collecting quite a few of the Adlung Spiele card games. Theyre cheap, small, and provide excellent fillers for trading deals. When it comes to actually playing them, however, Ive found them quite a mixed bag. Some of them are real gems, like Meuterer, while others are dreadful bores, like Ocean. Enough of them are worth it, fortunately, to take the chance on new ones, so I continue to pick them up. It was in this way that I got Kathai (Adlung Spiele, 2000 Michael Andersch), a game I knew nothing about. I played it, curious to whether it would be a good game, or a stinker.
Kathai, I am happy to say, seems to fall on the more pleasant end of the scale. I really enjoy trading games, and this one is short and fast enough to be a very pleasant diversion. As often is the case with these card games, Kathai might possibly have profited from being a board game, as the setup and game play is not too far removed. And the mechanics of trading, as well as the whole game, are considerably lighter than other trading games, such as Chinatown and therefore not quite as good. Still, for its price, its a nifty little trading game, and one I would recommend.
Cathay (the name in English) is based on trading in Cathay, a province in China, in the days of Marco Polo. Players are attempting to get the most money (victory points), which are kept track of on a separate sheet of paper. Five price cards are arranged in the middle of the table, in order of point value, with five commodity cards (Salt, Gold, Silk, Spices, and Tea) randomly placed one under each. This shows the initial value of each type of good. Fifty-five trade cards are shuffled, and three are dealt to each player, with the remainder forming a draw pile in the middle of the table. The youngest player starts first, with each player then taking their turn in clockwise order.
On a players turn, the first thing they do is draw a card, but only if they have less than seven cards. They then can take one, and only one, of the following actions:
- Exchange Goods: They can trade cards from their hands with other players, making pretty much any deal they want. Each good card shows one to three goods on it, of two different types. All kinds of dealing and wheeling go on, until the player is finished trading. If they dont wish to (or cant) trade with anyone, they can put one of their cards face down on the bottom of the draw pile and draw the top card.
- Sell Goods: They can sell one type of their goods. Each good has a current value and demand listed on the card above it. The highest good, for example, has a value of +4, with a demand of seven; and the lowest good is worth nothing, having no demand. The player places all cards with the type of goods they are selling face up on the table. The amount of icons on the cards of that type of goods is counted and must meet or exceed the demand number for that resource. The player then receives one point for each CARD (not icon) that they played, plus points equal to the value of the good. The good card is then moved to the end of the line, and all other goods moved accordingly (the market was flooded). The player takes one of the cards they played and places it face down in front of them, discarding the remainder resource cards out of the game.
- Bribe: The player can play one of their face-down resource cards between two of the good cards in the middle of the board, switching them, and their values. A player cannot reverse a previous bribe.
- Get additional Trade Cards: A player can discard one of their face-down cards to draw an additional card (as long as they have less than seven cards).
- Pass
After a player takes one of the above actions, their turn is over, and play passes to the next person. The game continues until the draw deck is depleted, and then after each player has taken two turns. The player with the most points is the winner!
Some comments on the game
1.) Components: Card quality is good, pretty much standard for all of Adlung Spiele. The backs of the cards are in black and white but for some reason it didnt bother me that much (I do so love color). I really enjoyed the fronts of the resource cards. They have a picture of a solemn looking camel, as well as large pictures of the goods that card represents, as well as icons in both top-hand corners. The icons are very distinguishable from one another, although we often forgot their proper names, calling silk towels, tea coal, and spices dirt. It didnt really matter, as long as we all knew what we were trading. I liked how the commodity cards moved according to how much they sold, but it would have been nice to have a board on which they moved. This is only an extremely minor quibble, however.
2.) Rules: The rule booklet in the game comes in three languages, but the English version wasnt really translated very well. It took me a long time to figure out exactly how the game ended, and I finally found the answer on the epitome of answers www.boardgamegeek.com, where the designer posted the answer. Still, these kind of things should be caught in publication, sez I. Other than that, however, the rules are rather simple to understand. Trading comes naturally to most people, and the trading in this game is pretty straightforward. We found the game easy to pick up, and even young people adapt to it fairly quickly.
3.) Time: The game, once everybody knows what they are doing, can end fairly quickly. It was fun, but almost over before I really got into the game. The designer has suggested that you go through the deck twice, and I dont mind this variant. However, because the game was so quick, it serves as an excellent filler that doesnt feel like a filler, thus making it a game often pulled out.
4.) Players and Trading: Due to the fact that there is quite a bit of trading in the game, it certainly plays better with more players (up to five), but even at the minimum of three, the game flows fairly well. Because of the open trading, its usually pretty obvious what goods people are going for, but still, surprises can abound, for most of the resource cards have two types of goods on them and can be used for either one.
5.) Strategy and Fun Factor: Most of the strategy in this game is obvious, so a lot of the game comes down to the cards one draws, and how well they trade them away. Still, knowing how to use the face-down cards is important should one bribe making their good more valuable, or take one more card? This, along with some raucous trading, made the game a lot of fun. And no one felt bad if they were far behind in the scoring, because the game was over quickly. For its price, this game delivers on fun, as long as you are a fan of the trading genre.
I recommend that you pick up Kathai. Sure, there are some rule ambiguities, but you just read this review, so they should be cleared up for you! And for its price, you get a good, solid filler game, one that can easily be taught in a short amount of time. There are better trading and negotiation games out there, but this one gives a decent bang for the buck, in a very short time. The theme fits it well, and youll enjoy it, so next time you purchase games, you just might want to add this inexpensive gem as padding to round out your order.
Tom Vasel
Kathai is a Rummy or Bohnanza style card game. The object is to collect sets of the same goods and turn them in for points. It has a few quirks--notably the fluctuating market values and special actions--that make it better than an ordinary Rummy variant.
There are five goods, and each good starts at a different scoring value, from worthless to +4. The cards each show two or three goods on them, either all the same kind, or of two different kinds. On your turn you draw a card, then do one (and ONLY one) action:
- Trade: Offer to trade cards with another player. Once you do one trade, your turn is over. If nobody wants to trade, you can trade with the draw pile.
- Sell: You can only sell one kind of good. Play cards with that good on it (other goods on these cards are wasted), and score. You must have a minimum number of the good you are selling--the higher the market value, the more goods you need to sell. However, although the minimum to sell is based on the number of GOODS you sell, the score you get is based on the number of CARDS you use when you sell. So that card with three silks on it isn't worth as much as it seems. The +0, +1, +2, or +4 are extra points you earn for selling those goods.
After selling, the value of the good you sell goes down to worthless, and the other goods scoot up to make room. And each time you sell, you keep one of the cards face down in front of you. Its goods don't matter any more--it is just a marker that can be used to bribe or exchange later.
- Bribe: Place a card, either from your hand or an already-sold face-down card, next to two adjacent goods markers and swap their point values.
- Exchange: Exchange one of the face-down cards you got from selling goods for a new card from the deck. In this way you can get two new cards from the draw pile in one turn.
There is plenty of interaction in this game as you trade cards with the other players, and bribe to move the value of other players' goods up or down. Or beat them to the punch selling, causing their goods to become worthless. The game is easy to learn and the graphics are well done.
I almost gave this game four stars--if it were a little more exciting I would have. Still, it was enjoyable and it moved along well--it may become a regular in my gaming groups.


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So we understand and agree that females give birth. We also understand that it takes many females, a long time to populate the species...But, not nearly as many males are needed. So, it would make sense that the males are going to look after their females, get them food, provide shelter, and protect them in general. So then it would also make sense, that seeing as females risk their very lives to give birth, and obviously most succeed in this monumental undertaking, that on some level, even the dimmest of males has to appreciate the phenomena of the reproductive system in the female.
Absolutely agreed, of course it takes two to tango...both are equally important at the time of conception. But it is she, that puts her life on the line to bring forth life into the world. Man recognised this of course, and for it, he revered her, even exalted her...to the point of worship (can't say I disagree with that).
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And it became so.
The new patriarchal semites adored the phallus; so they started paying homage to the almighty penis to such an extent, that they swore binding oaths by placing a hand on each other's genitals, a habit, still common today among the Arabs (and you'd thought you'd heard it all)! Remember, even Abraham's servant swore by placing his hand under the thigh of his master (Genesis 24:9) because thigh was a common euphemism for penis, used in superstitious fear of naming the divine organ directly.
Words like testify, testament and testimony still attest to the oaths sworn on his testicles. Well couple this with a contemptuous attitude toward the women who'd rejected them, and you've got quite a party going on!
Of course, if the penis is so mighty, it must give birth too; so men started doing that too. We have Zeus' fatherhood of Dionysus - made the child come forth from the father's "thigh" (Penis). Hindu myth: that substituted the lingham for the vagina, So that the god Sukra (seed) came out of the stomach of the Great God by way of his penis.
Another middle eastern euphemism for penis was "knee" (genu), so often mentioned, that many believed that his knee was the source of seminal fluid. A father used to establish paternal rights to a child by setting the child on his knee, which is why "genuine" (of the knee) came to mean "legitimate". In Mesopotamia the word "birka" means both "knee" and "penis",
The christian bible calls Jacob's penis the sinew that shrank, lying "upon the hollow of the thigh." Scholars embarrassed by this, have tried to interpret his limp penis as something else; a severed tendon, or a certain thigh muscle - which the Jews are forbidden to eat (Genesis 32: 32.), instead translators recognised the phallic meaning of the "sinew"; they said the God-man's touch on Jacob's shrunken penis was to "cool the fires of concupiscence"!
We all know the bible's laws, reveal a special fear of women's power over the penis. God's commandment was that a woman who grabbed a man's penis, must have her hand cut off, even if she does it to defend her husband against an enemy (Deuteronomy 25:11-12)!
The word "fascinate" is a relic of men's belief in the magic of their penis. Latin "fascinum" means "erect penis"! (presumably fascinating to the opposite sex), especially in the form of a phallic amulet. Such amulets continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages as antidotes to the "Evil Eye".
In the 8th century A.D. the church forbade men to openly to pray to their "fascinum". Again, in the 9th century A.D. the church reminded them that it was forbidden to pray to their penis', and again it went on. 12th and 13th centuries, men were still forbidden to pray to their penis'. So phallic worship of course went on in the form of covert symbols such as the May Pole, posts, pillars and the bride stake erected at weddings, about which the "the guests danced merrily around".
Even christ assumed the role of a phallic god in providing the most popular of conception charms: the holy prepuce - or more accurately, prepuces, for there were hundreds of them in Renaissance churches. At least thirteen of them still survive, and all had the power to make women conceive.
Another insight to phallic worship in churches presented its self after World War 2, England. After investigating a recent bombing of an old church. At its alter, was found to have a large stone phallus within it. Further research showed that alters of approximately 90% of English churches built before 1348, had hidden stone phalli.
By Pagan tradition, the alter symbolised the female body - which is why Witches sometimes use a naked woman as their alter. Not wanting to be outdone, the churchmen inserted (no pun intended) their own representation of their worship - the penis - their hidden god!
Naturally sexual symbolism kept cropping up, embarrassing the church and scholars of patriarchal religion. An understanding of the rival phallus worship is important for comprehension of religious psychology, especially the fundamental insecurity of male self-worship; for the phallic god was useless without the Goddess.
Phallic anxiety was evident in all patriarchal religions, where fear of the devouring vulva led to both ascetic avoidance and persecution of women. Phallic anxiety was the keynote to the church's fear of women, and hence, total oppression toward women was mandated, and "Priest holes" became the alternative for sexual pleasure, of which, they are still in use today.
Phallus worship more often than not, slid over the ill defined line into homosexuality, which was inevitable among men taught by men to worship their penis' and with each other. Often, the male adoration extended toward the superior male, or toward their god.
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"[Maiorano] chose to resign," says Jennifer Nealson, chief marketing officer of the Centennnial, Colo.-based RIA custodian. "He was [recently] married and he wants to spend more time with his family."
The company considers Maiorano's time at the helm a success.
"2010 and 2011 — Frank's tenure — were the best financial years for Trust Company of America in company history," she says. "Since a year ago, [the company] has increased account growth and advisor growth by 12%."
The total number of investor accounts increased from 93,000 to 104,000 — or 12% — from Oct. 31, 2010 to Oct. 31, 2011, and the firm added 13 new advisors during the same period. The firm's assets are now about $10.4 billion, up from just under $10 billion a year ago.
Still, in terms of growth, he did not match his predecessor Terry Reitan who presided over a tremendous four-year stretch in which the Trust's assets grew from $2.3 billion to $9 billion. See: How a small RIA custodian is making big waves.
Maiorano, then 50, came aboard on Jan. 17, 2010, replacing Reitan.
Before joining Trust, Maiorano was managing director of the RIA and institutional consulting services group at Nuveen Investments. He joined Nuveen in 2001. He left in 2008, taking a year off from his career before joining Trust.
Maiorano declined to respond to an e-mailed request for an interview.
Prior to his stint at Nuveen, Maiorano was with Charles Schwab & Co. from 1989 to 2001, holding a variety of positions, including divisional vice president at Schwab Institutional (now Schwab Advisor Services).
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Barry has served on the Trust Company of America's board of directors for the past five years.
Most recently, he was CEO of The Alpine Group of Companies, a part of Intrawest ULC, a global leader in the development and operation of high-end recreational resorts.
Previously, Barry, Canadian born, ran a $500 million division of Intrawest ULC, Alpine's parent. He has held a variety of senior leadership roles including operating responsibility and oversight of six mountain resorts across the United States.
Barry declined to be interviewed for this article.
He first met Steve Finn, chairman of Trust Company of America, in 1999, when they became part of the same group at TEC, a professional development group for CEOs, presidents and business owners.
"[Barry] has a proven track record of strong leadership and the establishment of award-winning service and employee culture, and has achieved great success running large, complex, global service organizations," the custodian said in a prepared statement.
Barry certainly has serious bona fides as a Coloradan: He is a member of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization and was a director of the National Ski Areas Association and former treasurer of Colorado Ski Country USA. Barry has also served on the board of the Summit Foundation and Colorado Special Olympics.
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Trust hired Maiorano in hopes that his experience at Schwab and industry contacts would augment Trust's niche position supporting TAMPS and generate business from more mainstream RIAs and breakaways. At the time, the company said it hoped to grow from its $10 billion level to closer to $20 billion in a relatively short time. See: Frank Maiorano takes the helm at Trust Company of America.
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Ty Ferrell and Carrie Thomas, both Sikeston natives, will once again be competing in their hometown rodeo and are sure to be crowd favorites.
"It's exciting every year," Ferrell said. "It always lives up to it's name. It's the hometown rodeo, it's a real fun rodeo and the Jaycees do a good job of putting it on."
After starting out strong in last year's team roping event before falling short of the money list, Ferrell said he's hoping this year will be a breakout year for him and partner Jerem Hemmann from Oak Ridge.
"We made a decent run in our first run in the performance (last year) and didn't win anything," he said. "In our second run we didn't do anything. We didn't take any money out of there last year, but maybe this year it will be different."
Ferrell, who competes on the Great Lakes Pro Rodeo Circuit, has been a stalwart at the Sikeston competition since they brought in team roping as an event 2006.
The same can be said for Thomas, who in 2000 had her best finish taking second in the barrel racing event, the same year she was named the Professional Rodeo Cowboy's Association's Great Lakes Circuit Rookie of the Year.
"I'm hoping to do better than I did last year," Thomas said, adding she finished fifth last year. "I'm riding a new horse that's doing extremely well this year and I have very high expectations for this year."
Thomas, who has rode in the Bootheel rodeo since she was 18-years-old, said she's been competing every weekend this summer and said she's had her best summer of her career so far.
Drawing slack, she will start her runs on Tuesday, which she said is a fortunate draw since she's on a new horse and there's less crowd pressure.
Things definitely aren't getting easier for local rider as, according to Ferrell, recent changes to the rodeo format has allowed for more top talent to take part,
"The best in the world come to Sikeston," Ferrell said. "It's set up to where they want to come. The Jaycee's have done a good job the last few years making it a tour rodeo. Last year they started with the performances being back-to-back, so like in the team roping where you run two steers, you get to run both of them in the same day. That's really helps the contestants out.
"A couple years ago a lot of the guys that were coming from out west, if they got up in slack, they'd rope in slack and then run off somewhere. Their performances were a little light, where this year and last year all the big name guys like the Trevor Brazile, Cody Ohl and the Shrine Brothers in the team roping all them guys they'll come and if they're up on a Friday or Saturday night they'll be here because they get to run both of their steers in one day. So it's real beneficial."
Chad Tibbs, also from Sikeston, rounds out the hometown competitors.
This year's festivities will get under way starting Monday with team roping and calf roping slack at 6 p.m.
Slack will carry over to Tuesday when barrel racing and steer wrestling will take place also at 6 p.m.
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Unlimited data plans are dead, and it's not because the consumers asked for it. The carriers don't want you on your unlimited data plan if you still are clinging onto yours for dear life. But most people who are clinging on to their unlimited data plans, really don't need unlimited data. As much as I hate to say it, the carriers are right that most people with unlimited data plans use less data per month than the limits set by their capped data plans.
So what keeps these people on their unlimited plans, even though they can be so limiting? It's the fear of going over their data limits one month and then being forced to pay more for extra data when they just had a seldom busy month. Also it's the hassle of having to manage and remember to check their data usage, even though both Verizon and AT&T send warnings to users?
It wasn't too long ago if we all think about it, that we felt the same way about how many voice minutes per month we were using. Do you remember the fear that you talked one too many times to Mom and Dad and now your bill will be doubled due to overage charges for your voice minutes. How quickly we all forget.
But AT&T brought us a little relief and fairness with their rollover minutes, which they still offer to this day. The problem is now nobody cares about voice minutes anymore. But if you're an AT&T subscriber, have you checked your rollover balance lately? Mine is well over 5,000 minutes. And that gives me peace of mind that I'll essentially never have to worry about going over my minutes ever again, especially when each month that balance keeps increasing.
Last week I did what some may think the unthinkable and switched from the unlimited plan to the 5GB capped data plan, for many reasons. But one of the reasons I did it was I know that I will rarely, if ever, exceed my data cap. My average data usage is about 2.5 to 3.5 GB per month. But what about the other 1.5 to 2.5 GB's I paid for AT&T? Why can't I keep this unused bandwith that I paid for? Just like my minutes?
AT&T, where is our rollover data? It's so simple. It could be a boon for you. It could be something that sets you apart from the competition. Imagine being able to assure customers that you "understand" them and that life isn't always predictable, and that you get rollover data for those months where you may have to travel more, or are catching up on the last season of your favorite TV show on Netflix. AT&T, you could finally market your capped data plans as fair. You have the billing infrastructure, and the history of using the term rollover.
AT&T, it's time to realize it's 2012 and nobody cares about rollover minutes anymore, but they sure as hell care about their internet. Rollover Data AT&T, it really could help you get more customers to switch to your network, and help your crusade of getting existing users off their unlimited data plans.
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Boeing is conducting another test flight of its 787 passenger jet over the West Coast.
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In 2013, with the vital support of the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF), USICD launched its first internship program focusing on youth with disabilities who are interested in international development or foreign affairs careers. The project follows from a vision, core to USICD's mission, to increase disability inclusion in U.S. foreign affairs by supporting future generations of Americans to invest their skills and talents in this field. The program will be held again in the summer of 2016 and 2017 with continued funding from MEAF.
The Youth in International Development and Foreign Affairs internship program brought its first cohort of seven talented graduate and undergraduate students and recent graduates with disabilities to Washington, DC, for nine weeks in the summer of 2013 to expose them to the international development field. A similar program was held in 2014 and 2015. Participants go through a one week training course and then work with a major international development agency for eight weeks to learn more about foreign aid and development. Throughout the summer internship program, interns will be able to participate in trainings and workshops on career development topics, in addition to attending meetings at the State Department and other agencies. Interns will receive a limited stipend, reimbursement for travel expenses, and fully-accessible housing. We anticipate that the summer 2016 cohort will need to be in DC from May 29 to July 30, 2016, though these dates may be subject to change. For more detail on the program, please consult the "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQ) page on What Interns Can Expect if Accepted into USICD's Internship Program.
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A writer's poignant memoir of a people whom he had been taught to fear and learned to love in a time of trouble
December 1978 | Volume 30, Issue 1
Franz invited me to spend Christmas, 1934, with his family in Berlin-Friedenau, one of the suburbs absorbed by that great stony capital. I haunted the bookstores, especially around Von Kleist Platz. By then, I could translate the rhythmical, image-loaded poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, a German from Prague, secretary to Rodin, isolated, dressed like a girl until he went to military school, needing human companionship as a dog needs bones yet frightened of intimacy and commitment. There was one shop I returned to almost daily, for it had a shelf of Rilke books in half-leather, what the Germans called Schmuckausgeben, fine editions. I would take them down not to read but only to hold. It was like touching the skin of Rilke to feel that soft binding and the colored title pages. One day the old man who owned the store came up to me and asked, "Would you like a cup of tea?" The store was long and one room wide; a corridor led along one wall, with small rooms off the left, all of them crammed with old books. We carried all the Rilke books with us. I assumed he was going to offer me a special discount if I bought all of them, but even that I could not afford. He showed me into a room with table and chairs. The Rilke books were placed on the table between us like sacred objects brought back from a long-sealed tomb. I could not touch them.
The old man called out to a closed door. Soon tea was brought in by an obviously very intelligent girl of sixteen, hair and eyes black as night, but glowing, glowing. She bowed to me and fled. Pouring tea, the old man said gently, as if he were blessing a child, "I see you like Rilke. Take them. Take all the books. They are too precious to sell."
Suddenly, they were mine, those loved poems written by that poet always in flight, in Worpswede, Paris, Switzerland, in a castle above the Adriatic, the poet who always had women looking after him but could not live with his wife, the poet Germans called der weibliche Dichter, the feminine, or womanly, poet.
"Why?" I asked.
He stared at me the way an animal will look at a human being into whose hands he is entrusting his life. Total, no reservations, to the death. "I am a Jew."
He waved his hands toward all the rooms of books. " They will destroy all of this." (He never used the words for which "Nazi" is an abbreviation; they were always they . But I knew, I knew, from the darkness in his voice.)
Then he turned and gestured toward the door the lovely girl had closed. "I am old. It does not matter. But my daughter, that girl." He could not speak, his throat muttered wordless sounds which were the most moving language I had ever heard. Again, I weep inside to recall it.
He turned his eyes toward me. They burned my eyes.
"She must go. Out of Germany. We are the damned Jews." (Old filling-station neighbor, you knew little of what you were saying. You would have looked at home in a Sturmabteilung , a brown-shirt uniform.)
"I know your name. It was on a traveler's check you gave me for some books. You are Paul. You are American. You are the lucky one. My daughter, Rebekah, get her out. Take her out. Leave me to die. We Jews are very skilled at dying. If you are in trouble, come to Jews. They know so much about it."
The room shrank to my body's size. For a moment, I was in a trap, its teeth on my neck. Outside, I seemed to hear the Nazi boots marching, the shouts in marching cadence, " Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil ." Victory, victory; over the helpless little man opposite me, his thin hands trembling, his head shaking, the tears of two thousand years falling down his cheeks.
"I will try," I said stupidly. "I will try."
Rebekah entered the room. Standing close to me, she said nothing, bowed with more dignity than I had ever seen in a human being, picked up the teapot as if it were a chalice on an altar, and backed out of the room, looking at me, looking at me, with trust, with trust, a flame which miraculously could walk across the floor and close a door. (Back home a month later, I found people who promised to help. I wrote the family. My letter was returned stamped Verschwunden —"disappeared." Do not be patient with the frightfulness of the human race. Howl, howl. From your dark cave, howl.)
That evening it was Friday, and after dinner Franz said, "Now Paul, tonight someone will come. We will go into that room." He pointed to a little odd room in the center of the apartment, the room without windows or outside walls. "Speak softly." All week such bits of food as would not spoil had been saved. Now they were put on the table.
"Who is coming?" I asked.
Franz whispered, "Die alte J'fcdische Witwe, " the old Jewish widow. "She was my friend's wife. He was not Jewish. But she must eat."


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"If you think about it, the culture of a country is dictated by what they learn in school. We in France have Descartes. His rationalism is the basis for all French thought and culture. In Italy you have Machiavelli, who is also about being rational and calculating. Here in England, maybe because they are an island, they are more war-like, more passionate. They view football as an old style duel, a fight to the death, come what may. When an Englishman goes into war that's it, he either comes back triumphant or he comes back dead."
That's Arsene Wenger talking about the English way of sport in Gianluca Vialli and Gabriele Marcotti's book "The Italian Job". It's the most illuminating thing I've read about sport and the national character in years. He could have gone a little further and pointed out that the key British writer is Shakespeare who saw things in terms of the battle between good and evil, vice and virtue, sincerity and duplicity. And generally ended up with a stage full of bodies. I look forward to hearing what Alan Shearer has to say about this.
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4 comments:
- BLTP said...
The funny thing this really shows is how self deluding we all are. As the popular philosophical stereotype from this side of Channel is that WE are the pragmatic rationalists and the French/Italians are the firery passionate creatures.
- 9:45 am
Well, at the end of the day, the continental football types are technically better at all of this thinking and being articulate malarky.
- 3:29 pm
- The Paranoid Mod said...
Meh. Let useless dogs lie...
- 10:58 pm
- swineshead said...
Arsene knows...
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Monster World
Monster World is a farming game from Wooga and Fabryka Gier set in a monster universe.
The cheat is included in the leethax.net Firefox extension.
About the game
In Monster World, the player controls a monster character who is tending to a garden of unusual plants. A variety of fictional plants are available for farming, such as Lemonade Bush or Glass Flower. The player can customize their garden by rearranging plots and placing decorations. Later in the game, additional features become available, such as factories producing additional resources.
Monster World was released in May 2010. The game mechanics make it similar to Zynga's FarmVille series.
Install the leethax.net Firefox extension, restart Firefox, and browse to the game's web page.
Press the LeetHax button on the left to access the cheat interface.
Hover your mouse over each option to see a detailed description.
Simple instuctions
The numbers for coins, Woogoo and such are server-side, and can't be cheated directly. This cheat can make the game harvest and re-plant the same plant by itself while you're away. You can sell all the harvested plants for coins when you're back.
To earn coins:
You can get over 2000 coins per hour this way.
To earn experience:
You can get over 500 XP per hour this way.
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The surname Beckham was first found in Oxfordshire. While the earliest record of the name lie in this shire, there is a village named Beckingham in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire and another village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire so named.
It is only in the last few hundred years that the English language has been standardized. For that reason, early Anglo-Saxon surnames like Beckham are characterized by many spelling variations. As the English language changed and incorporated elements of other European languages, even literate people changed the spelling of their names. Scribes and monks in the Middle Ages spelled names they sounded, so it is common to find several variations that refer to a single person. The variations of the name Beckham include: Beckingham, Beckinham, Beckington, Beckinton and others.
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Many English families tired of political and religious strife left Britain for the new colonies in North Ameri ca. Although the trip itself offered no relief - conditions on the ships were extremely cramped, and many travelers arrived diseased, starving, and destitute - these immigrants believed the opportunities that awaited them were worth the risks. Once in the colonies, many of the families did indeed prosper and, in turn, made significant contributions to the culture and economies of the growing colonies. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families has revealed a number of immigrants bearing the name Beckham or a variant listed above:
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SCOTT CITY - Eddie Earl Laws Sr., 53, died at 2:25 p.m. July 7, 2004, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Born Oct. 31 1950, in Portageville, son of Mildred Lovell of Portageville and the late Lee Laws, he retired as a plant supervisor for Industrial Fuels and Resources. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus Council 6420 in Scott City.
On July 25, 1969, at Portageville, he married Patricia Ann Durbin who survives of the home.
Survivors in addition to his wife and mother include: two sons, Eddie Laws Jr. of Jackson and Adam Laws of Scott City; two daughters, Lee Ann Blankenship and Holly Reed of Scott City; one brother, Kendall Laws of Portageville; three sisters, Kay Blanchett of Burfordville, Helen Lane of Portageville and Carolyn Pruitt of Michigan; and 10 grandchildren.
Four brothers and one sister preceded him in death.
Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City, where parish prayers at 7 p.m. will be followed by a Knights of Columbus service at 7:15 p.m.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church with the Rev. James Seyer officiating.
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Colaninno revealed Piaggio's outlook for the U.S. market during a recent investors conference in Italy.
The Piaggio Group owns the Piaggio, Vespa, Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Derbi, Gilera and Ape brands. The Group had €1.692 billion revenue in 2007 — 51 percent of revenue came from scooter business, 20 percent from light commercial vehicle sales, 16 percent from motorcycles, and 12 percent from parts and accessories. Business in the U.S. accounted for 5 percent of the group's total revenues.
Colaninno says the Piaggio Group's five-prong plan for the U.S. includes:
1) the introduction of selected new products for Vespa and Moto Guzzi, leveraging on their brand name awareness;
2) carrying out a re-launch of the motorcycle brands;
3) further developing the dealer networks, integrating the Aprilia and Moto Guzzi networks, optimizing coverage of major target markets and improving service and support provided to dealers;
4) increasing initiatives designed to provide customers with maximum exposure to, and involvement with, the brands and products;
5) increasing the exposure of brands in magazines, on the Internet and on television.
Piaggio Worlwide Business Plan
The Piaggio Group projects revenue of around €1.95 billion by 2010.
Colaninno says the Group plans to spend the next three years "concentrating on the challenges presented by the international light mobility market, with a special focus on technological innovation, to compete on world markets as an innovator sensitive to fuel consumption and the environment."
He says Piaggio Group's business plan for 2008-2010 includes:
Piaggio Group Figures, 2007
Brands: Nine
Revenues: €1.692 billion
Vehicles Produced: 860,000 vehicles
Vehicles Sold: 710,000 units
Production Plants: Eight
R&D Facilities: Five
Employees: 6,850
Dealers: 13,500 Worldwide
Subsidiaries: 15
Countries Served: 50
The Piaggio Group's products in the U.S. include:
Piaggio Fly 50 (MSRP $1,899)
Piaggio MP3 ($7,199-$8,899)
Vespa LX ($3,299)
Aprilia RXV ($8,599-$9,299)
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Top stories in this morning's LBO Wire:
H.I.G. Capital is close to sealing a deal in a 100% recycled paperboard box. The Miami firm is in final talks with fellow buyout firm Wayzata Investment Partners to buy Caraustar Industries, a manufacturer of packaging products made from recycled materials, Michael Wursthorn reports. Wayzata bought the company out of Chapter 11 protection four years ago.
And Mr. Wursthorn also reports exclusively for LBO Wire that Brookfield Asset Management is marketing a $5 billion infrastructure fund with plans to commit half of the capital itself. The strategy for Brookfield Infrastructure Fund II is to acquire core assets on a value basis, mostly in North America, South America, Europe Australia and New Zealand. Click here to read the full story (subscription required).
More stories available to LBO Wire subscribers: Incline Equity Partners and MTN Capital Partners sell Orthotic Holdings to Frazier Healthcare…GC Capital acquires a majority stake in emergency medical supplies provider Med-Tech Resource…and VTB Capital takes a minority stake in the Russian National Satellite Co., also known as Tricolor TV.
(LBO Wire is a daily newsletter with comprehensive analysis of all the investments, deals, fundraisings and personnel moves involving private equity firms. For a two-week trial, visit our homepage, scroll to the bottom and click "try for free.")
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A buyout group including Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Singapore state investment company Temasek Holdings was in discussions late Tuesday about putting forth a joint bid of about $11 billion for Life Technologies, Ryan Dezember and Dana Cimilluca report for The Wall Street Journal.
Also from the Journal, Riverside Co. Chief Operating Officer Pam Hendrickson argues that the current tax treatment of carried interest as a capital gain is appropriate, and that lawmakers should think twice before touching it.
KKR has named a new chairman and a new chief executive for its Tokyo office, Isabella Steger and Kana Inagaki report at Deal Journal.
Mark Florman has resigned as the chief executive of U.K. trade body the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, Kiel Porter reports at LBO Wire's U.K. sister publication Private Equity News (subscription required).
Advent International has opened its first office in China, according to Reuters.
An uptick in leveraged loan volume isn't producing a matching surge in LBOs, according to S&P Capital IQ data cited by Forbes.
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Nelson Mandela - a memory
With the news that Mandela's breath finally failed him-his lungs were savaged by the tuberculosis he acquired during his 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa-two memories came to mind.
Obamacare: Grumbling is not enough
It is amazing how fast momentum can shift in politics. And it usually happens for reasons that could not have been predicted.
Iran nuke deal merits support
The last minute nuclear agreement worked out in Geneva on Sunday between Iran and the six-powers group is an important first step and merits the support of all progressive, peace-minded people.
Determined to make a difference, a tribute to comrade Debbie Bell
Through years of struggle, Debbie Bell made a difference. And our party the struggle has moved forward and is that much stronger and influential because of comrades like Debbie.
Don Coulter, a fighter's story
Every step that Don Coulter takes on his tough road to recovery, has been supported by his wife, family, his union and community.
Kerry declares end of Monroe Doctrine: Is it for real?
Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, the Monroe Doctrine is hated as an oppressive mechanism whereby the U.S. claims the unilateral right to limit the national sovereignty of area nations.
Senate curbs filibusters in blow against GOP "pirates"
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Democrats, fed up with endless Republican obstructionism, voted to end filibusters on nearly all presidential nominees.
Uncovering the truth about the JFK assassination
The search for the truth is interwoven with the people's movement to defend and expand our democracy and democratic institutions and to defeat right-wing extremism and corporate power that seeks to undermine it.
View from Dallas: Let's not forget what JFK did
While the nation at large prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, few cities have a slate of activities to rival that of Dallas.
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Operation: Military Kids to Celebrate Month of the Military Child in April
- 03-20-2013
- By Stephanie Atwood
Burlington--To recognize the service and sacrifice of kids whose parents or guardians serve in the military, the U.S. Department of Defense has designated April as the Month of the Military Child.
In Vermont, Operation: Military Kids (OMK), a program of University of Vermont (UVM) Extension 4-H, will host several activities during this month for, and in honor of, the state's 4,000 military kids. They are among the more than one million kids nationwide under the age of 18 who have one or both parents serving in the National Guard or armed forces.
Some of the planned events include:
APRIL 1--MONTH OF THE MILITARY CHILD POSTER CONTEST. OMK will announce the winners of this annual poster contest for students, ages 5 to 18. Posters reflect the theme that April is the Month of the Military Child and that children of military families serve, too.
April 15--PURPLE UP! FOR MILITARY KIDS DAY. Vermonters are asked to show their support for military kids on this day by wearing purple, the official color that represents all military branches. Anyone who dresses in purple on this day is invited to send a photo or two as an attached file to firstname.lastname@example.com to be posted on the Vermont OMK Facebook page.
April 20--THE OMK CHALLENGE. OMK and Norwich University will host a free day of outdoor games and activities, including parachute games, juggling, hula hoops and more for military kids at Norwich University in Northfield.
April 23--STATE HOUSE CELEBRATION OF MONTH OF THE MILITARY CHILD. Military kids will be honored at the Vermont State House in Montpelier with a special proclamation signed by Gov. Peter Shumlin and recognition by the House of Representatives during their morning session. Participants in the OMK school vacation camp in Colchester will visit the State House during the day. Winning entries in the Month of the Military Child poster contest will be on display.
For more information about these and other planned celebrations and activities, visit the Vermont OMK web site (www.uvm.edu/extension/omk) or Facebook page (www.facebook.com/OMKVermont). Or contact Stephanie Atwood, OMK coordinator, at (802) 656-0346 or by e-mail at email@example.com.


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PRAGUE, October 13, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Western countries are beginning to pay high-level attention to accusations that Chinese authorities are killing jailed members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement in order to sell their body parts for organ transplants.
October 13, 2006
There were some 60,000 transplant operations in China between 2000 and 2005, but Matas and Kilgour estimate that just 18,000 organ donations in that period came from official sources.
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Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Richard III Act 5, Scene 2 Summary
- Richmond has made camp at Tamworth, only a day's march from where Richard is encamped at Leicester.
- As Richmond and his men have been marching across England to face Richard, he has been receiving encouraging and informative letters about Richard's placement and army strength from his stepfather Stanley, who is still in Richard's fold.
- Richmond gives a rousing and beautiful speech to his followers about the damage that Richard has caused to England and to each individual citizen. Richmond hails this battle as the final bloody push to bring a lasting peace to the land.
- His men believe that conscience is on their side, which makes up for any numbers they might lack. One man fighting for his convictions is as good as a thousand men.
- Also, Richard's forces are waning in number: those who fight beside him do so out of fear more than love. This can't bode well for Richard on the field, as his men will likely desert as soon as they're given the chance.
- Richmond, with a final note that his men fight on the side of true hope, inspires his men to march on to battle.


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Rosalee Hussell, 76, of Mount Alto, W.Va., passed away Sept. 5, 2012, at her home.
She was born Sept. 5, 1936 in Norwich Township, Ohio, a daughter of the late Ercie Arles and Amanda (Rooker) Morris. Her grandson, Franz P. Metz also preceded her in death.
She was a servant to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and was an active member of the Church of Christ, where she was a Sunday School teacher and bulletin board designer. She was a former employee of Bell Telephone, a housewife, co-owner and office manager for Craftsmanship Homes, Inc. in Hobe Sound, Fla. and co-owner of River Watch Farm, at Mount Alto.
Survivors include her husband of 58 years, Lewis Parke Hussell; children and their spouses, Kenneth and Elaine Hussell of Mount Alto, Melissa and Franz H. Metz of Live Oak, Fla. and Chris and Mary Hussell of Cary, N.C.; grandchildren, Malerie Metz, Kenneth Hussell Jr., Joey Hussell, Ashley Hussell, Kristin Schlittler, Curtis Darst and Brittany Darst; brothers, Darryl Morris of Schuyler, Va. and Brad Morris of Cairo, W.Va., and sister, Marilyn Escue of Old Hickory, Tenn.
Service will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Casto Funeral Home Chapel, Evans, W.Va., with Minister Franz H. Metz officiating. Burial will follow in Jackson Chapel Cemetery, Mount Alto. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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News 12 This Morning / Wednesday May 14, 2014
(WRDW) -- Summer break is approaching and many families are looking for ways to keep their students in learning mode over the break.
Studies are showing that just a little summer reading can help academically boost students for years to come and one local school is using a book fair to try to boost summer reading.
"I love it! I just love reading so much!" 9-year-old Jade Brown said.
Jade, a 3rd grade student at Millbrook Elementary, is talking about the book fair at her school.
It comes around twice a year right before the winter and summer breaks.
"Whenever I'm at home reading, it's kind of like I am still at school but just...it's built different," said Jade.
A U.S. Department of Education study found that reading just five books over the summer can prevent summer learning loss, which is why media specialist Michelle Goings keeps organizing these book fairs.
"With the summer break being close to two months now, it's a good opportunity to get some summer reading [and] some good quality books in their hands," Goings said.
Goings has stocked the book fair with reading levels from Pre-K all the way to 6th grade.
"The books cost varying prices," Goings said. "We have some as cheap as a dollar and then others, like hard cover books, are of course more expensive."
All proceeds go toward their library, which Goings says is a big help because students use the library as a resource when prepping for reading comprehension testing.
"Books that are library bound are very expensive books," she explained. "On average [each book is] about $20 a piece," she said.
Of the books they don't sell, they get to keep a portion for their library, which is good news for Jade who tells me she's planning on spending some of her summer break staying sharp and getting ready for 4th grade.
"There are math books and I think that if you read math books and other school type books, then it will help you," she said.
A different study by the Annie E. Casey foundation found that children who don't ready proficiently by 3rd grade are four times more likely to leave high school without a diploma than children who do read proficiently by 3rd grade. The same study found that summer learning loss accumulates by each year, so ever summer counts.
Goings says she's hoping to raise $1,500 at this book fair, which could equal about 75 more books.


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DENVER, Colo. (KKCO) -- The Denver Broncos have confirmed they are waiving former starting QB Kyle Orton.
John Elway, Broncos VP of Football Operations, issued the following statement on the team's official Twitter account:
"We just thought it was the best for the Broncos at this time as well as gives Kyle an opportunity to catch on with another team."
"I spoke with Kyle earlier today and thanked him for everything he did for the Broncos," said Head Coach John Fox. "He was a true professional throughout the season. I've got a great deal of respect for him as both a player and a person. This was the right decision for our football team. We feel good about our quarterback group, and this gives Kyle an opportunity to help another team and showcase his talents. I wish Kyle and his family all the best going forward."
Orton was benched during the Broncos Oct. 9 game against the San Diego Chargers and replaced with former first round pick Tim Tebow.
Elway said the following about Tebow on Tuesday:
"We're going to continue to look where he is. He continues to make progress. We will go into evaluations this off-season not only with Tim, but with the whole football team. He's 4-1 as a starter and the bottom line in this league is to win football games."
During his time as starter this season, Orton completed 91 out 155 passes for 979 yards, 8 touchdowns, and 7 interceptions.


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Women's tennis knocks off NJIT, 4-3
April 10, 2012
Stony Brook, N.Y. - The Stony Brook women's tennis tennis knocked off the NJIT Highlanders, 4-3, on Tuesday at University Courts, snapping NJIT's 14-match winning streak. Stony Brook improves to 7-6 with the victory.
NJIT grabbed the doubles point but the Seawolves then won four matches in straight sets in singles play to earn the victory.
Junior Nini Lagvilava (Tbilisi, Georgia) won 6-4, 6-3 at No. 1 singles while freshman Polina Movchan (Kiev, Ukraine) defeated Nina Mayevska, 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2. Lagvilava and Movchan also won at No. 1 doubles.
Senior Prerana Appineni (Hyderabad, India) easily won at No. 5, 6-1, 6-3 and junior Chloe Pike (Bristol, England) won 6-0, 6-4 at the No. 6 spot.
The Seawolves return to action on Friday, hosting St. Francis (Pa.).
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Radar Issue 4: Better, Connected
In the fourth edition of Radar, we look at business engagement from a number of angles – best practices for gathering external intelligence; tips to ensure successful stakeholder engagement; and what makes a multi-stakeholder partnership work.
Janet Voûte of Nestlé gives her perspective on how good dialogue enables very different organisations to co-develop solutions to societal challenges. Craig Bennett of Friends of the Earth reflects on the need for businesses to more effectively collaborate with each other to send a clear and progressive message to government for more sustainable public policy. Darian Stibbe of The Partnering Initiative provides a practitioner's view of what makes multi-stakeholder partnerships successful.
We also draw on our own experience working with companies on their engagement strategies. Alicia Ayars highlights the essential attributes of more collaborative and solutions-focused engagements. Margo Mosher presents ten tips for ensuring the success of external stakeholder advisory panels. JP Leous discusses how the next phase of sustainability leadership will be claimed by those who better engage with governments to fix policy roadblocks.
We hope you enjoy this summer edition of Radar, which is now available to download on iPad devices. Please let us know what you think!
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