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We have cruised on many different lines before but never on HAL. When planning our trip to Alaska we chose the Oosterdam because of it's size and itinerary and the great price we got. So glad we did, it proved to be one of the best vacations we have ever taken!
Embarkation/Disembarkation: Both were very smooth and easy. We arrived at the port about 11:30 and were walking onboard about 11:45. Just remember that if you are carrying bottles of wine with you (that is allowed on HAL) that you pack them all in your carry on. If you pack them in your suitcases they will be flagged and checked to make sure you aren't bringing hard liquor onboard. In your carry-on, the wine simply coasts right through the x-ray, no problem. We went directly to our stateroom and were so pleasantly surprised to find it clean and waiting for us. Our suitcases arrived a bit later while we were touring the ship and having lunch. For disembarkation, we decided to use the Luggage Direct program which costs $19.99 per person and assures that when you leave your luggage outside your door at midnight on your last night, you won't even see it again until you arrive at your destination airport, very convenient if your flight isn't until later in the day. The only drawback is that you must get off the ship with the first group at 7:30 a.m., not sure why really.
Dining: We were traveling with a party of 10 family and friends so we chose the early seating with an assigned table in the Vista dining room. Our wait staff were all attentive, funny and accommodating. We found the menu choices always varied and served with detail to presentation. I must say that even with a group of 10, every single one of us loved the food in the dining room and when an occasional dish was not as expected, our waiter was eager to replace it with something else. When that did happen we also got a visit from the Maitre D to find out if there was anything else he could do for us. We had the best escargot we've ever had as well as many other dishes that were prepared perfectly. There were plenty of choices and if you just didn't feel like eating at 5:30 you could visit the Lido with a multitude of choices, the hamburger bar by the pool or eat later in the second floor dining room. Of course you also had the option of eating in the Pinnacle Grill for an extra $25/pp fee, which we did one night but really, the food wasn't that much better there than in the dining room. So in a nutshell…..best food we have ever had on a cruise. A tip when choosing early or late seating...we did hear from some other folks that some of the entree items were not always available at the late seating, although we did not experience this. We did order room service a few times (mostly breakfast)and it was always good, on time and hot.
Stateroom: Cabin 8081 on the Navigation deck was near perfect and in great condition. It's located is on the starboard side of the ship just a few cabins back from mid-ship. It is roomy and well appointed with new looking furniture, bedding, patio furniture and beautiful carpet. The bathroom is very large with double sinks, a shower and a jetted tub, both with optional hand held shower heads. The flat screen TV is on a swivel so it can be viewed from either the bed or the sitting area. There is more than ample storage space (we actually had some extra drawer and closet space and our 4 suitcases fit easily under the bed. The cabin was very quiet and only once did we hear what sounded like noise above us, which was coming from the Lido Buffet dining area but not enough to even bother us only lasting a couple of minutes. The balcony is so spacious with plenty of room for the 2 chairs & table plus the 2 lounge chairs & side table. We didn't have any trouble with the door to the balcony sticking or locking unintentionally. We only saw our cabin steward once even though he kept it beautifully clean and supplied with fruit and fresh ice in the bucket every day. I would be very happy to travel in this cabin again if the opportunity arises.
Entertainment: First and foremost, the HAL entertainment crew dance and sing their hearts out for you. It may not always be your style of music or dance but they are very talented and do a great job of pulling off their shows on the stage they have to work with. The costumes for the final show were absolutely gorgeous with many changes throughout the show. The Magician/Comedian was so great and the other musicians playing in other lounges on the ship were excellent. Just a tip about the shows...the late show (10 pm) has much more seating available but if you want to go to the first show at 8pm, you must get there about 20 min. early to get a good seat.
There were only two things that we would like for HAL to fix ...... please make your ships non-smoking or at least offer a smoke-free casino. I enjoy doing some gambling while cruising but my husband can't tolerate cigarette smoke so we were not able to enjoy the casino together. The second item is the cooking class we took with the chef was very disorganized and we didn't really learn much. Although the cost of the class did include lunch in the Pinnacle Grill afterwards, it really wasn't worth the $30/pp.
The ships captain and crew did an amazing job of maneuvering that huge ship around without even a hint of motion. Sometimes when we left a port we didn't even realize that the ship was moving until looking out the window. We had beautiful sunny weather throughout our entire cruise except for the morning we were in Ketchikan, where is sprinkled a little. The cruise up Tracy Arm was breathtaking and something we will always remember! Thanks captain, for making it up so close to Sawyer Glacier, and turning us around on a dime to cruise back down the fjord.
What more can I say, we had a wonderful cruise and I personally can assure everyone that they really do give away the free cruise that they sell tickets for all week long(wink). We will definitely be cruising with HAL again within the next 18 months.
Juneau was ok but there were 5 ships in port the day we were there and the town was literally wall to wall people. Not really what we enjoy.
Ketchikan was nice and an interesting town but there are way too many jewelry stores at the port and we saw some of the store owners making fun of the cruise ship passengers.


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Men Defeat Women at the Box Office
Posted on Aug 15, 2010
Whether by chance or design, Hollywood turned the weekend of Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, into a cinematic tug of war between the sexes, with two of the most narrowly gender-targeted movies imaginable coming out on the same day.
Über chick flick "Eat, Pray, Love" stars Julia Roberts and has Oprah's enthusiastic blessing. The film's website can be found at the cornball self-helpy letyourselfgo.com.
The "Expendables," meanwhile, is an action supermovie that stars almost every muscled killer from the 1980s, '90s and oughts. It is vulgar, violent and insane. People, buildings and any sense of decency explode when shot by senior citizen Sylvester Stallone and his cohort.
By weekend estimates, the action flick led by $14.4 million in box-office takings. Interestingly, Box Office Mojo reports that a larger majority of "Eat, Pray, Love's" audience was made up of women (72 percent) than the "Expendables' " was of men (61 percent).
We can deduce, therefore, that either Sylvester Stallone has more crossover gender appeal than Julia Roberts or, contrary to popular myth, more men drag women to the movies than the other way around.
But that's enough trying to make sweeping cultural assumptions based on two late summer releases. —PZS
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It unquestionably is portrayed as torture, and yet by the logic many in that audience bought into during the Bush Admin, it isn't torture and thus perfectly acceptable. But here it is being used by the bad guys against one of the good guys (actually, the lone woman in the film).
Yes! I watched the movie and, while it is a no brain blockbuster, - this was an incredibly important scene that seems to have flown under the radar for most media outlets (and on the net).
The American BAD GUYS were waterboarding someone. The way it was depicted showed that it couldn't be possibly meant as anything other than torture.
Considering the target audience of this movie, I think it was a very important that Stallone chose to do this scene.
By thetruth, August 16, 2010 at 11:39 am Link to this comment
Interestingly, in the Expendables, there is a waterboarding scene done by the villians.
It unquestionably is portrayed as torture, and yet by the logic many in that audience bought into during the Bush Admin, it isn't torture and thus perfectly acceptable. But here it is being used by the bad guys against one of the good guys (actually, the lone woman in the film).
Most of this film, the audience were snorting and laughing and carrying on at the ridiculousness. That scene, pretty much the entire theater was dead quiet.


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Sunderland Fires Bruce After Dropping to 16th in Premier League
Sunderland fired manager Steve Bruce after slipping to 16th in English soccer's Premier League following a run of four matches without a win.
The 50-year-old, who spent 2 1/2 years in charge, led the Black Cats to three home victories in 2011 and was subjected to chants of "Bruce out" during a 2-1 loss to Wigan at the Stadium of Light on Nov. 26.
"It is my job as chairman to act in the best interests of our football club at all times, and I can assure everyone that this is not a decision I have taken lightly," Sunderland Chairman Ellis Short said in a statement on the club's website.
Bruce leaves with Sunderland with 11 points from 13 matches, two points above the three relegation positions. The Black Cats finished 13th in his first full season, then 10th last season.
The former Manchester United player joined Sunderland in June 2009 from Wigan to replace Ricky Sbragia, who stepped down at the end of the previous campaign after helping the club avoid relegation.
Backed by funding from Short, who completed a takeover of Sunderland in 2009, Bruce made a number of high profile signings since last season including Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Craig Gardner and Connor Wickham. Short is a former vice chairman of American real-estate investment firm Lone Star Funds.
The club has struggled to score goals in the absence of last season's top-scorers Asamoah Gyan and Darren Bent. Gyan, signed for a club record 13 million pounds ($20.4 million) by Bruce, is on loan at Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates, while Bent joined Aston Villa in January.
Goal Drought
Midfielder Sebastian Larsson leads the team's scoring this season with four goals, while strikers Nicklas Bendtner, Ji Dong-Won and Wickham have four between them.
The team missed several chances in the home defeat against Wigan, which was its sixth loss in the league. It also has two wins and five draws.
"Sadly, results this season have simply not been good enough, and I feel the time is right to make a change," Short said.
Bruce, a long-time fan of Sunderland's northeast rival Newcastle United, has previously managed at Sheffield United, Huddersfield, Crystal Palace and Birmingham City. He had a brief earlier spell at Wigan in 2001.
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Hi everyone, Im trying to find some help with some C file i/o stuff that I cant really figure out. I'm not trying to mooch off work from people as most boards dont like, but on my other forum no one can really help me it seems.
Anyways, if anyone wants to help I have a file called "cars.dat" and im trying to take the data from there and assign it to variables, thats my only problem, because it doesnt seem to be working. Heres the .dat code...
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Too little information, but I will presume that the names are arrays of C strings and the others are arrays of int. Since a C string is an array of char, then an array of C strings is a 2D array of char. Since fscanf wants a pointer to the variables, the & (address-of) is fine for the last three. For the first two, fName [i] and lName[i] ARE pointers, so drop the &. As I say, though, that's based on a guess.
Any time you use an input function, and particularly one that may be required to convert input to a number, check the function for success. fscanf doesn't promise to work. What if you asked it to convert zx5 to an integer? It does promise to tell you if it failed, if you but ask it. Check your documentation for how it does that. Once you break it, it stays broken until you repair it.
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i wonder,why there 's no additional explanations/comments like
1)what ' s an error?
2) is MAXNUM lenght of file? if yes, then how you count it?? probrbley , mistake is not there, where you are looking it
try to work with "cars.txt" instead of "cars.dat" , i dont know , if fscanf works with .dat files
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fscanf works with a file pointer. It doesn't know or care what the extension was in the name used in the fopen statement. It doesn't even care if the data can be parsed according to the user's wishes. If it can, it returns the values. If it can't it fails and returns an appropriate indication.
There is an implication that MAXNUM is the number of records (lines) to read. It could be arbitrarily determined or it could be determined by counting the number of lines in the file. Presumably (to avoid boundary overflows and crashes), it relates to the lengths of the arrays set aside for the data.
Please do not make suggestions based on unfounded impressions you might hold, or admittedly don't know (.txt vs. .dat). That is no help to the OP and might introduce unnecessary complications.
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by John Russell Taylor
Photographs of the young Bergman from her first films in Sweden now seem simply extraordinary. She is astonishingly pretty, vibrant, animated. Once she arrives in Hollywood, the photographs are dramatically different: She is beautiful, but stiff and self-conscious, with too much makeup and odd, ill-chosen clothes. In his examination of her life, Taylor, art critic of the London Times, is fascinated by that old question: What is a star? The ability to inspire affection from audiences, he writes, "is an extraordinary gift, quite apart from the worship inspired by a Garbo, the identification enforced by a Crawford, the edgy, ambiguous feelings provoked by a Davis, the uncomplicated sex appeal of a Harlow. Perhaps the nearest, in this respect, strangely enough, was a star who in most other respects could hardly be more different: Marilyn Monroe. Monroe and Bergman had in common a ready way to their audience's heart." This is primarily a picture book, but the text is much more thought-provoking and entertaining than is usual in the genre. It makes an excellent companion volume to Bergman's memoir, My Story. (St. Martin's, $12.95)
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When many people think of rock quarries, the image of Fred Flintstone still looms large. But the reality is quite different.
"Typically, people who have never been to a rock quarry think we do things the Fred Flintstone way, but we use a lot of cutting-edge technology that helps us to mine rock into aggregate for construction," said Joe Howle, Vulcan Materials Co.'s environmental services manager. "For example, we haven't used fuses or dynamite to blast rock in decades, but people still think that is done."
Vulcan Materials is the nation's leading producer of construction aggregates -- primarily crushed stone, sand and gravel. About half of aggregates produced are used to build and maintain highways, bridges, roads, airports, railroads, and water and sewer systems. The other half is used to build homes, nonresidential buildings, commercial and industrial facilities, as well as non-construction uses such as agricultural and industrial applications.
Vulcan operates 162 stone quarries, 29 sand and gravel plants, 67 sales yards, 39 asphalt plants, and 23 ready-mixed concrete facilities.
For its size and standing in the industry, staying on top requires using the latest technology offers -- and Vulcan has taken advantage of that technology, Howle said.
For example:
A laser profiler can look inside a sheer rock wall and can show how much rock is in there to take.
"It helps us determine how much explosives to use to get the rock out of the ground," Howle said. "We can then control the blast so as not to create too much vibration or noise. We want all the blasting energy to stay at the rock."
When using explosives, workers drill holes and use blasting caps with microchips that allow workers to program the cap to go off at a precise time, Howle said.
"It is measured in milliseconds," Howle said. "We use a computer to program all the caps, usually 15 or 20 caps at a time. If you look at an explosion in real time it looks like one big blast, but it is actually set off in millisecond intervals. It also keeps vibration and noise down, and increases the safety of our workers."
Mobile equipment is monitored constantly via laptop computer diagnostics that measure how much fuel is used in a day, how many hours of use are on the equipment and even how much stone has been moved in a particular loader, Howle said.
"We do this to prevent a catastrophic engine failure, and that saves time and money," he said.
Joysticks, not steering wheels, are used to move buckets on front-end loaders, Howle said.
"We use computers in those, too -- there are electronic sensors that tell us when maintenance is required."
Crushing equipment motors are measured by computer to determine if a conveyor belt is fully loaded or needs more or less rock.
When trucks drive under a bin to receive materials, sensors tell the driver how much material is in the bin.
"We use computers for just about everything now," Howle said. "It helps us become more efficient and more in touch with the times. Technology has allowed us to get humans out of more dangerous areas to get the job done, and that has required more skilled people to do the job we do.
"It's certainly not rocket science, but it's not Fred Flintstone, either."
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"I am the happiest man in the world because God entrusted me with this mission." In John of God: The Brazilian Healer Who's Touched the Lives of Millions, a seemingly average rancher from Abadiânia, Brazil, offers a powerful message of love, compassion, and hope for humanity. João Teixeira de Faria, the healer and medium known as John of God, allows "spirit doctors" to take over his body three times a week to miraculously treat the thousands of people from all over the world who come in need of remedy. John of God has fulfilled his mission as a medium for more than forty-eight years, making numerous pilgrimages around the world. Drawn by the hope of instantaneous healing, over eight million believers have proceeded in front of him throughout his life, as tens of thousands journey to Brazil each year to see John of God and his home, the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola, which is designed to accommodate hundreds of visitors each day. Despite all the media attention paid to this inter-nationally praised healer, little has been revealed about his personal life. Translator Heather Cumming and photographer Karen Leffler have traveled with John of God and chronicled his life and work. What began as an endeavor to document the testimonials of his remarkable healings has now become the first complete, authorized portrait of his world. Stirring words and vivid photographs -- many of which capture the haunting spiritual energy that surrounds John of God and the Casa -- take us on an affecting and deeply personal journey with the humble medium who offers hope for people with none. The result is an intimate portrait of an ordinary individual in extraordinary circumstances and a reading experience that will bring readers of every persuasion closer to their faith. To learn more about John of God and his mission, go to www.beyondword.com and www.friendsofthecasa.org.
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Former Bishop McDevitt and IUP standout LeRon McCoy was released by the Houston Texans Friday.
The 6-1, 219-pound wide receiver was one of many cuts as the Texans had to get down to the league-mandated 53-man opening day roster.
McCoy was drafted in 2005 by the Arizona Cardinals before moving on to the San Francisco 49ers in 2007.
He saw his most extensive playing time with the Cardinals in 2005 when he played in 10 games, starting four. He had 18 receptions for 191 yards and a touchdown that season.
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That's the internet channel, not online gaming. Anyway, I hope it will be popular. I hope it will be a lobby system and not just "you have to have the other person's friend code, and vice-versa", although it will probably come to that.Originally Posted by Wolf Form Link
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I think lobby systems are pretty much required nowadays. I think the DS is in a different situation, because its a small system, its not nearly as big a project as the Wii.
For online, I could see you clicking the channel to play the game in the drive, and then having the ability to view channels where people have hosted games. Who knows though.
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Woody Johnson said seeing his Jets at 3-6 has been a "miserable experience" for everyone involved. As to whether it will lead him to consider a change, perhaps one in the front office or one on the field, Johnson wouldn't comment.
"I never make any midseason statements about players or coaches or anything like that," he said.
Johnson reiterated that Mark Sanchez is the franchise quarterback ("I don't view him that way, that's what he is"). That will remain the same as well. But he also said he's seen the team get in it's own way, commit costly penalties and critical errors.
When asked if he wasn't happy with the current state of affairs, he said this:
"I think what we'll see this week, but it's what the record says is going on," Johnson said. "We're a 3-6 team, are we happy, are they happy, are the players happy? I know the fans aren't happy. I didn't sign up for a 3-6 season, we haven't had one in a while."
Johnson spoke just a day after another one of his quarterbacks was anonymously ripped by his own players. Like Ryan, Johnson called the act "cowardly" and said that if any player has an issue, he should stand up and make himself heard.
Johnson said he meets routinely with players and coaches and doesn't feel like he has the type of team that would come apart.
"Anybody that's anonymous has no credibility and anonymous people don't speak for the New York Jets, they really don't," Johnson said. "I'm out here every day talking to players and coaches, meeting with the coaches and players, and so I think I'm a reasonably good judge."
The struggles, Johnson said, don't have to do with just Sanchez or Tebow. He feels like there are ways many players are being used or not being used are an issue.
"You have to look at all the players and why aren't they' used and why are they used. When we're 3-6, you have to look at everybody," he said. "It's a team sport and it's up to coach Sparano and the head coach to decide how many plays each player has. We need some more good plays and we have to stop stepping on ourselves on the other plays.
"If you take a look at the games we've played in this year, we've been in almost every game, it's just been kind of careless errors, penalties at lethal times, critical third downs. We eliminate them, we'll do well."
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Slavery was almost one hundred years old in the Americas when the institution was first established in New York City. It would last another sixty years in other parts of the Americas after it was abolished in New York in 1827. Howard Dodson discusses the factors and forces that produced the transatlantic slave trade in the Western Hemisphere, and places the rise of slavery in New York City in the context of these hemispheric developments.
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ThursdayCivil Rights era photographs
What: Gibbes Curator of Collections, Sara Arnold, will lead this tour of the exhibition Witness to History: Civil Rights Era Photographs by James Karales. Engaged as a photo-journalist for Look magazine, the acclaimed photographer witnessed and documented many historic events during the Civil Rights movement and created some of the era's most iconic images.
When: 2:30 p.m. Feb. 7-March 7
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When: 10 a.m.-noon
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What: A tour of cabins, which have been renovated to represent different eras of the African-American experience, from slavery to the Civil Rights Movement.
When: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 9, 16, 23
Where: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Ashley River Road
Price: $23 for adults, $18 for kids and free for children younger than age 6
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When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Charleston Southern University Lightsey Chapel Auditorium, 9200 University Blvd.
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When: 10 a.m.-noon
Where: The Meeting Place, 1077 E. Montague Ave.
Price: $25 includes materials for one mask
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"The History of Howard Stern, Part 2" replayed a segment from many years ago where Howard describes his upbringing by a domineering mother to being raised as a "little Hitler." I think at one point he describes himself as the child of Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress.
That prompts his mother, Rae Stern, to call in, and Howard and she go at it. His tone is goofball sarcastic—you know he's kidding. But Rae is upset, and keeps trying to tell him so. Come on—a woman who came of age in the shadow of the Holocaust being compared to Hitler on air.
I've heard the segment a couple of times now, and it's clear Howard's mom doesn't appreciate the joke. And it's just as clear Howard is making great radio.
"Don't you have some of my brown shirts to clean?" he asks her. Because the Nazis wore brown shirts.
It ends with him saying, "I love you mommy"—sincerely—and saying goodbye, even as she keeps saying, "Maybe you need to think before you open your mouth."
Afterwards, because this segment part of a radio documentary format, Howard comments on it.
"I was out of control," he says. "I didn't ever think that my words had consequences. All I cared about was making great radio."
There's regret in his voice, but the truth is, if Howard weren't out of control, he'd have ended up as Steve Allen—the innovative founder of The Tonight Show who was much loved and quickly surpassed. Clever, a bit edgy, but hardly a culture-shaper.
In the argument with his mother, we the listeners were eavesdropping on a battle between a man's ego and his superego—his need to assert himself versus his sense of what's right and proper. It was the battle of what he knows he can be versus what he thinks he should be, his Inner Voice versus His Masters Voice.
That's a battle we can all relate to, and it was Howard's genius to make it part of his show. It was uncomfortable and dangerous—would he make his mom cry? Would she ever speak to him again? Would his dad stick up for his son or take his wife's side?— and therefore you had to keep listening—Stern has a genius for creating radio suspense—what would happen next?
David Letterman, on "The History of Howard Stern," says, "Howard has changed the culture." It's to moments like that he's referring.
The Letterman Show itself used David's mom in segments (whether they were "inspired" by Howard or came to it on their own I leave to others to prove—I just don't know), but the difference is telling. Letterman's mom segments are sweet and homey. Dave's Mom is a gentle lady who is always forbearing, shaking her head at her cute rascal of a son. She's the mom in those 50's movie who smiles when the kids poke their fingers in her cooling pies, then run away.
That's not Rae Stern. Rae Stern is an Old Testament God. She's Jehovah in an apron. Forgiving? Not until he apologizes. Not until he REPENTS. "I didn't raise you to talk like that!" "How dare you compare me to Hitler!" So he's Howard Stern—he is still judged and sentence not on the fact that he's rich, and famous, and successful but on how he behaves that day, that moment. If not, SHE is there, to call him, to chastise him, to be the mom we all fear, and he can be the son we wish we all were—the one who gives back as good as he gets, who lays it all out, who at least has the balls to call his mom Hitler, even if he has to take it back like a kid in the principal's office. No—you can't compare Howard Stern's use of his mom to Letterman's, you can only compare it to…
Phillip Roth. The greatest living American novelist and the greatest living American radio personality drink from the same Freud-infested well. (Roth's background, upbringing, accomplishment and comedy is of course of a piece with that of Woody Allen, Larry David, and Stern). Remember the title of the first chapter of Roth classic book, Portnoy's Complaint? It was. "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Ever Met."
And where did these words first appear, in a Stern monologue, or a Roth chapter:
She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.
That's the famous first line of Portnoy's Complaint, and it's a trope that Howard brought out of literature and dramatized on drive-time radio. He brought this revelatory intimacy to radio both because he understood that it was funny and it sells, but because…
…he needed to. It was his cure, like writing was Roth's and movies were Allen's. Stern may say he regrets it, but to some extent, there was no other way out of his feelings, no better way to do battle than in public, through his art.
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New York Islanders (2-2-1) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (3-2-0)
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It's the New York Islanders. Sorry.
If you're reading this post, you have already shown more interest in the Islanders than both Evgeni Nabokov and Lubomir Visnovsky. Hopefully the Pens care more about this game. Otherwise we'll be faced with another Winnipeg.
Niskanen is out for 2-to-4 weeks. Brian Strait is an Islander.
Season Series: 0-0-0
Last meeting that counted: March 29, 2012. Penguins lost 5-3.
What we said in our recap:
Not really gonna go into this game too much. It's Friday, and 11 people will read this.
Know Your Enemy: Islanders Hockey Blog
What they're saying:
No updates since January 16. Apparently we're not the only ones phoning it in.
Pittsburgh Penguins Lines:
Kunitz – Crosby – Dupuis
Orpik – Martin
New York Islanders Lines:
Moulson – Tavares – Okposo
MacDonald – Hamonic
The Islanders' Strait – Streit combination will almost certainly be the highlight of the night for Steigerwald and Errey. Hopefully they can keep the two names straight. *Groan*
Pens lines via Penguins.NHL.com.
Islanders lines via Daily Faceoff.
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Producer: Larkmead
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Grape Type: Cabernet Sauvignon
Origin: California
Region: Napa
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($50) Good medium ruby. Blackcurrant, currant leaf, leather, smoke and tobacco on the nose. Sweet, dense and lush, with flavors of black raspberry, plum and mocha complicated by tobacco and currant leaf. This, too, finishes with a hint of tartness but possesses a bit more buffering mid-palate material.


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Skewerless Stovetop Kabobs
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"My family loves this quick and easy recipe so much, we never have any leftovers. It's also great on the grill." Jennifer Mitchell - Altoona, Pennsylvania
Prep/Total Time: 30 min
Yield: 4 Servings
- 1 pound pork tenderloin, cut into 3/4-inch cubes
- 3/4 cup fat-free Italian salad dressing, divided
- 2 large green peppers, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- 2 small zucchini, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 1/2 pound medium fresh mushrooms, halved
- 1 large sweet onion, cut into wedges
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon seasoned salt
- In a large nonstick skillet, saute pork in 1/4 cup salad dressing until no longer pink. Remove and keep warm.
- In the same pan, cook the peppers, zucchini, mushrooms, onion, tomatoes, pepper and seasoned salt in remaining salad dressing until vegetables are tender. Return pork to skillet; heat through.
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Jennings Secondary School, situated on a small knoll between the villages of Jennings and Ebenezer was established in 1965. After the Cedar Hall Government School became too small to accommodate the number of students in the area, the government sought outside assistance to build a secondary school. This assistance was granted when the Canadian Government built the Jennings Secondary School as a gift for the people of Antigua and Barbuda.
When it opened its door in September of 1965, the school was staffed with Canadian and Antiguan Teachers. For a number of years afterwards, the Canadian Government continued its upkeep of the school and supplied the students with books and other necessary school supplies.
Jennings Secondary School ran from 9:00am to 3:00pm, but when the roll became too big, it entered into a shift system, in which the secondary section attended school from 8:00am to 12:30pm and the primary section from 1:00pm to 5:30pm.
In September of 1966, a primary school was built in the lower area of Jennings Village thus allowing the secondary section of the school to return to its original hours of all other secondary schools, 8:00am to 1:30pm - which still exists today.
The First Principal of the Jennings Secondary School was Mr. Whitfield Harris. Currently, the school is headed by Mr. Foster Roberts - taking up the mantle as of November 2009.
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SALEM - Salem Realife Church is once again feeding the hungry and keeping them warm with their annual Warm Up Salem Coat giveaway from 11 to 2 p.m. Saturday at Centennial Park.
"We're glad we're able to assist and help. Each year the need has grown," Sarah Vickery said.
Vickery and her husband Jason both serve as lead pastors at the church and she helped start the program four years ago after noticing that people needed winter coats, not just through phone calls from requests, but just from being out and about and noticing some people without adequate coats for the weather.
All people have to do is show up, with no pre-registration required and anyone is welcome to come and pick out a coat, hat, gloves and scarf and sit down for a free hot meal, coffee and hot cocoa. The event is first come, first served.
Shirley Griffin, the financial administrator for Salem Realife, said they have about 1,000 winter coats ready to go, with all different styles and sizes for adults, children and babies, along with the accessories. About 200 families were served last year, with Vickery noting that equated to an estimated 500 people, both adults and children.
The event is always held the first Saturday of November at Centennial Park, with past years being snowy and cold. The Salem Realife Church Chuck Wagon of Hope, another group known as Not Just Smoke and the Salvation Army will handle the food offerings.
"We show a lot of love and compassion. They know the community cares," Vickery said of the families.
She said Yuhanick's Cleaners cleans the coats for free and Friends Roastery donates coffee. Several banks and individuals also help out with donations and a lot of people go out and collect coats. Realife's crochet club, known as the Yarn Ambassadors, knitted over 100 scarves.
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Fairview, McDowell win again at District 10 competitive spirit meet
Fairview and McDowell were two of the titlists from last season's inaugural District 10 competitive spirit meet.
Those squads added to their history Saturday, when the 2014 competition was held before more than 400 fans at McDowell Intermediate High School.
Fairview became the district's first repeat winner. The Tigers defended as the meet's small varsity champion by accumulating 203.50 points out of a maximum 300.
"We had more competition this year, so we were really nervous," Fairview coach Michelle Pratt said. "I think that helped."
McDowell, which won last season's large varsity competition, was the lone entrant in this meet's co-ed division, which didn't exist in the PIAA's inaugural postseason.
However, the lack of opposition didn't prevent the Trojans from exhibiting Saturday's best performance.
The meet's three judges awarded the host squad 260 points.
"This was awesome," McDowell coach Kathryn Wiltse said about competing on campus. "This got us more and more excited for states. We're pumped now, and I really think we have a chance to do better than we did last year."
McDowell placed fourth in the state's large school meet for 2013. The Trojans had to switch to co-ed status because of underclassmen Lucas Wallace and Jason Wood.
The district's medium varsity trophy went to Wilmington.
The Greyhounds (234.50) beat out defending champ Harbor Creek (201.50), but coach Amanda Blackhurst was far from disappointed that the Huskies didn't repeat.
That's because Harbor Creek's point total was still high enough to claim one of the district's three at-large berths for the Jan. 24-25 state meet at Hershey.
"We knew the competition was going to be tougher this year," Blackhurst said. "We started earlier, practiced harder and looked at our routines to see what needed to be cleaned up."
Oil City and Mercyhurst Prep are the other district squads going to the Giant Center.
Each recorded 185 points in its respective divisions with the Oilers third in medium varsity and the Lakers second to Fairview in small varsity.
Mercyhurst Prep was an at-large state squad in the medium varsity division last season. That experience was an eye-opener that will help these Lakers, according to coach Susan Fagley.
"We'd never competed to the crowd before," she said. "We always competed to the judges, so (adjusting to) that was a little different for us."
Warren, Villa Maria and Eisenhower were Saturday's other small varsity squads, while Hickory rounded out the medium varsity field. Eisenhower and Hickory were first-time meet participants.
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CARLISLE, Iowa - Former Sen. Bill Bradley conceded Friday that his views on farm issues shifted over the years and said he regrets voting for the bill that ended most longtime farm subsidies.
"We shouldn't have passed it until they put a safety net in place," he said.
Bradley used a pristine farm setting to spell out a plan that would give $5 billion in cash payments to farmers during sour economic times and take as much as 42 million fragile acres out of production.
Aides to Vice President Al Gore, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, noted inconsistencies in Bradley's positions on farm issues.
Questioned by reporters, Bradley conceded his shift and that he backed the Freedom to Farm Act, which ended most traditional subsidies.
"When we passed it, they said they'd put a safety net (in place)," said Bradley. "They didn't put a safety net on it.
"I ended up supporting it, but it's something that I regret."
Bradley argued that his proposals do more than return to subsidies for farmers, by targeting aid to small, family producers.
"These are fresh proposals, they are not going back to what was," he said. "They are rethinking the issue."
He took some shots from Republicans, underscoring the increased attention his campaign is getting.
"From his support for crippling tax increases on rural Americans to his self-serving flip-flop on ethanol, Bill Bradley has shown he is no friend to family farmers," Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson said.
As a senator from New Jersey, Bradley voted against the ethanol tax subsidy important to Iowans, but said he supports it now as a candidate.
"To be honest with you, when I began this journey I didn't know a lot about agriculture," said Bradley, speaking to 40 people by an empty hog lot. "I had no idea of what the farm economy was all about. My teachers have been the family farmers."
Bradley argued that taking certain acres out of production helps farmers economically by lowering the supply of grain and pushing up prices but also helps the environment by reducing erosion.
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Best Halloween Costumes 2012
My personal favourite fancy dress costumes this year are listed here, and it's always encouraging to see such creativity and variety!
The Lost Woodsman (above) has a moving eye (!) and some amazing hands made from leather gloves and sticks - Find the fantastic tutorial here.
A couple of amusing costumes with a French cookery theme. If I told anyone I was going to dress up as a croquembouche I might get a funny look, but I think it works surprisingly well!
Egyptian God and Goddess fancy dress, with intricate masks - see how much work went into them by clicking here.
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Steve Slagmolen pitched a complete game with seven strikeouts and one walk to lead Toms River North to a 10-3 victory over Brick in Toms River.
Slagmolen permitted three runs on six hits. Anthony Ferlise had a two-RBI double to the wall in the first inning which scored Ron Marinaccio and Karl Blum. Marinaccio finished 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI. Blum added three hits and three RBI, and Cory Cordasco contributed two hits, two RBI and two stolen bases. Brad Applegate was 2-for-3 with two doubles for Brick.


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"There had been so many rumors going on about the Housewives last week, I think I was at the tipping point, basically," Cohen told PEOPLE at the Prabal Gurung show as part of New York Fashion Week recently. "I guess I got a little carried away."
It may not have been the apology that Montag, who had Tweeted that she wanted to join the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, was looking for after calling Cohen's comments "tasteless" and "hurtful and completely unnecessary.
But the Bravo executive says he has more than enough drama on his plate with his current slate of Housewives.
Part one of the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion aired Sunday night – providing some heated moments between feuding former friends Kim Zolciak and NeNe Leakes. But does Cohen encourage all the on-camera battling at the reunion specials?
"I'm happy for it to go anywhere," he said. "I just want them to stay in their seats so we can get through the day. If someone has to go adjust their Spanx, then it's going to cause a whole delay."
Like so many fans, does Beverly Hills hold a special spot in Cohen's heart? "Beverly Hills meant a lot to me," he said. "I loved it so much. Just Lisa Vanderpump. What can you say?"
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Of Wrongful Birth, Wrongful Life, Comparative Law and the Politics of Tort Law Systems
Ivo Giesen
Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law; Utrecht University School of Law (the Netherlands)
June 24, 2009
Tydskrif vir Heedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg (THRHR), Vol. 72, p. 257, 2009
In analysing 'wrongful birth' and 'wrongful life' cases, comparative law is used extensively. This article examines those claims in light of the Dutch Kelly case and the recent South African decision in Stewart v Botha. I argue first that the right to self-determination and the sanctioning of a breach of that fundamental right are at stake here and that those considerations point towards allowing these claims. However, it is also argued that it is not so much the outcomes and arguments found elsewhere through comparative law that are decisive in highly debated cases like those concerning wrongful birth and wrongful life, but that instead it is the cultural background, the policies within a tort law system that decides the issue, irrespective of how the legal comparative arguments are being weighed.
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Relations between human reproduction, divinity and sacred space are therefore at the centre of this interdisciplinary conference. We hope to have thematic panels which cover the following issues:
Gender and Reproduction: are requests for divine assistance made by women or men, or both? To female deities and saints or not?
Fertility and Healing: do healing sanctuaries and saints specialise in fertility? Or is reproduction joined with other concerns?
Reproductive objects: do concerns about fertility have particular affinities with particular kinds of artefacts or materials?
Narrative reproduction: is there anything distinctive about stories of miraculous births in miracle collections?
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A graduate of Champion High School will soon be studying alternative energy sources in England after receiving a prestigious scholarship.
David Palm, 23, the son of longtime Champion residents Rozanne and Bill Palm, is one of 14 students in the United States chosen to receive the Churchill Scholarship - an award granted to students of exceptional ability and academic achievement by The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. It will provide support for a year of studying at the University of Cambridge.
"To see David win a scholarship to do this does not surprise us in the least,'' Palm's former teacher and current Champion High School Principal John Grabowski said.
''He was destined for great things. He's at the highest of high of Champion students that we've had," including students who have gone on to study at MIT and Purdue universities, Grabowski said.
Palm, a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, said he will spend a year studying for his master's degree in chemistry.
"It's strictly a research degree, so there won't be any coursework involved," he said.
Palm said he wants to change the way the world depends on fossil fuels by harnessing energy from a renewable resource and storing it within a chemical fuel.
"My dream project would be to capture the energy from the sun and then store it,'' he said. ''I think it's a fun challenge, a big challenge. A lot of really smart people are already working on it, but it's always been the one problem that I'm the most excited about working on."
Palm graduated from Champion High School in 2009 and has lived in Trumbull County all his life.
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His older brother, Chris, 26, of Cleveland and also a Champion graduate, studied engineering in college and set the stage for a lot of the things he is doing now, he said.
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He will also miss the food.
"My mom is pretty Italian. We would have all the big family gatherings ... the festivals, those are always fun, the Italian Fest, the Hot Dog Shoppe ... all the local sports rivalries, competing against Lakeview in soccer and going head-to-head against some of my buddies is always really fun," he said.
"We have these big problems that we try to take on, but the place we come from and the people that support us along the way still matter, no matter where you are in the world," he said.
Grabowski said he won't be surprised if one day the world is running on alternate energy created by Palm.
"He's very driven. That's probably the most important thing. Not only is he a bright kid, but he is very, very focused and has the desire to get what he wants. We are very proud of David and all the things that he's achieved," he said.


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I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooo excited for dance next season!!!!!! I LOVE THE YANKEE POLKA!!!!!! (yes I know I'm repeating myself, but I'm in love with that dance!)
I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooo excited for dance next season!!!!!! I LOVE THE YANKEE POLKA!!!!!! (yes I know I'm repeating myself, but I'm in love with that dance!)
It's a lot of fun and it will be better with a variety of music that is not on the ISU CD.
The Shibutanis will always be limited in their music choices and the program choices because they cannot portray romantic themes or use music with themes of romantic love/longing. The Hubbells did that and it had a HUGE ick factor. Keifer laying his head on Madisons stomach while the lyrics expressed sentiments of I want you, I need you was seriously squicky.
Im torn on the idea of them breaking up and skating with others. Their lines, matching lines and all of the things of skating with one partner from childhood will be lost and it will take time for the new pairing(s) to gel.
OTOH, Hubbell and her partner have come along nicely and now Maddy can be as sexy as she wants with her partner and no one will say Dude, thats your sister!.
As for the Yankee Polka next year, yuck, yuck and double yuck. I want Weaver & Poje to do well next year and the YP is a short skaters dance. It was created for ice-dancer who make Capellini & LaNotte look tall. W&P really struggled with it last time it was the CD. Maybe Angelika will morph from the rhumba mistress to the Polka Police and whip them into shape.
I love the YP! It's a fun dance and even good ice dance coaches look silly at times working on it with their students which means it's insanely HARD.
Well, it's all over. After a glorious season of my favorite rhythm and theme in ice dance, I'm going to have to polka my ear drums out.
I don't want the Shibs to split up. They work marvelously well together. So what if it keeps them from exploring romance themes in ice dance? That's such an overdone thing in not just ice dancing, but pairs. Having at least one team doing something different every season would be nice.
I'm also looking forward to Kriengkrairut/Giulietti-Schmitt getting higher profile assignments in the coming season. They had some truly lovely programs and moves this season. I hope they continue to develop.
As for US pairs, while I more than sympathize with people who aren't too taken with Denney/Coughlin, they are the most athletic and consistent pairs team the US has had in a long time. They nail their SBS and everything else with gusto almost every time. Everything else they can work on. As for Marley/Brubaker, the team has improved so much in such a short time, there's no reason to think they won't continue to improve.
Then there's the exciting new pairing of Yankowskas and Reagan! I can't wait to see how they turn out. And while I'm not very into Donlan/Speroff, lots of people seem to love them and they can't all be wrong. So that's another team to watch.
It's not in the rule book per se, but I can remember that the Russians said that the Duschenes should not be allowed to win worlds because they can't do romance which is the point of dance in the first place. Dancing is a courtship ritual, "the vertical expression of the horizontal desire legalized by music" was George Bernard Shaw's description of it. Dances like the Argentine Tango are all about sex - the dance between a prostitute and her client in the bordello. I'm hard pressed to come up with a way for siblings to express that in a way that doesn't make the audience feel uncomfortable. How well did the Shib's do with the rhumba (another very sexy dance) this season?
The Kerr's were very inventive in coming up with family friendly themes but then they didn't really reach the very top of the sport. I think the Shib's have the ability to reach the top, which makes me reluctant to say they should split, but they can't do Swing Kids type programs every year and get there. And given the the ISU's propensity to use Latin dances for the SD (two in the last three seasons), they need to find a way to do sexy, without being squicky. This season's SD wasn't squicky but it was so lacking in sexy that they didn't do well with it all season.
People are very pre-occupied with romance, so it'll be difficult for the Shibutanis. Most of the great songs are about unrequited love. It's very good, but it can be monotonous after a while. I would like to see more of the hit songs be about other things, love of science, that new car smell, freedom - anything other than how lousy you feel after being dumped.
For the tango, perhaps Alex can pretend to be the client who implores his prostitute to not sell her body in the bordello any more. And she'll say noooo and he'll say yessss and she'll say noooooooo and ta da, passion without being wierdly incestual.
I think there are many things you can find that are not overly romantic. Just take Die Fliedermaus from D/W. It's just a very nice classical piece. Doesn't have to be romantic- just joyful. And it looks more mature than the other dances the Shibutani's had before. P/B's pharaoh dance- you can do a dance with a story and characters and doesn't have to be romantic.
Are the Shibs still mismatched height wise though? I know Maia grew a whole lot in the past couple years, but I feel like Alex must have grown too, because the height difference still looks very large and a bit awkward IMO.
Oh please, the Shibs have already reached the top faster than any ice dancing team in history, winning bronze in their first trip to Worlds (and all the other numerous medals they have won). That they are siblings didn't keep them from succeeding. And if something is stopping them from being even more successful from now on, it's not because they're brother and sister.
P.S. Shaw must be forgiven for seeing sex in places where there is none, after all, he was married to a woman who wouldn't put out.
In their senior career alone, they have medaled at nine of 13 competitions, 69 percent podium placement.
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Despite worldwide hashtag activism keyed to #BringBackOurGirls, the hostages grabbed last month seem no closer to safety.
On learning that extremist bombs killed 118 at a market in the Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday, Monale Alemika, of Media, scrambled for her cellphone. She was raised in Jos; her parents live there.
"Dad, where are you?" she texted frantically.
He messaged back that the family was safe.
For Alemika, 29, an organizer with Philly Nigerian Professionals, a social group, it was an intimate reminder of why she and other Nigerian immigrants in the region have rallied to spotlight the dysfunction in their homeland.


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