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11:28 a.m. I'd been planning this trip for almost two months (prior to E3, actually) by the time I was getting ready on the morning of June 25th, but I'm so disorganized that I hastily assembled all the things I thought I would need: Tape recorder, tapes, pad and pens, business cards, my MiniDV video camera, MiniDV tapes, double-A batteries, triple-A batteries, passport, handy all-in-one train schedule, iPod Shuffle, headphones, Advil (in case I ended up getting a headache from the stuffy cabin on the plane), copies of CDs of musicians I may or may not interview, and so on. I figured I was as ready as I was ever going to be, so I said goodbye to my pets (I had someone check on them every few days), hopped in my taxi, and headed off to SFO -- San Francisco International Airport. I hadn't slept, though. I never do the night before an international flight. I'm always too worried I'll sleep right through my alarm and miss my flight. Missing a flight is no fun. So I stayed up the night before, with the intention of sleeping on the plane to Narita (all 10 to 11 hours of it, if possible) and waking up ready to go when we touched down. It wasn't so hard staying up until 8 a.m. or so, but it got rocky from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., which is when I was really ready to pass out. Plus, I was lugging around a ton of gear, so I felt like a bag of cement by the time I met up with GameVideos.com video dude Jason Bertrand at the airport.
After a breakfast sandwich and some sort of roast-beef pita wrap, I was sated and ready to get the damn flight started. Jason didn't get much sleep either, so he had a little food before we boarded our flight. When they finally announced that they were ready to begin boarding, I found that my seat (booked days in advance of Jason's ticket) was about 20 rows up from his. Sucks to be him. By the time the flight took off, I was really ready to pass out. I was glad to have the window seat, so I could just lean over and fall asleep. I was a lot more restless than I thought I'd be, and I only ended up sleeping maybe one-third of the flight, waking up every time the flight attendants wanted to serve me some food or throw a bag of pretzels at me. Oh, well. I played some Lumines and some Advance Wars DS and occasionally passed out, only to be woken in time for another tepid meal. Note to self: It's probably not so good to begin a week in which you'll get little sleep as it is by staying up the night before your international flight.
1:55 p.m. We landed a little early, just shy of 2 p.m. Monday Japan time, at Narita International Airport. I was supposed to coordinate with my friend Sandy from San Francisco, who decided to coordinate her trip around mine (so I could show her around) and was landing on a separate flight just shortly after ours. So after Jason and I retrieved our luggage and cleared customs (which was thankfully quite swift, unlike during Tokyo Game Show), we waited outside in the terminal area for Sandy. Since I knew we had a little time on our hands, I went over to grab some iced tea and a sandwich or two. Sandwiches in Japan rock because they're very tasty, very light, and they even cut the crusts off of them, making for a very clean and neat sandwich sensation. Jason, being that it was his first time in Japan, was wary and thought the sandwiches would suck because they were "airport food." But after watching me murder two in a row, he was all, "OK, I'm gonna go get a sandwich." And he also got himself a Lipton peach iced tea, which he discovered to be quite nice.
A little later, as I was standing on one side of a large pillar waiting for Sandy to come out of customs, I realized that arriving passengers could actually come from two sides and not just the exit I was watching. I was worried that she'd already arrived and had exited from the opposite side of the pillar, and that I'd missed her. So there I was, looking for a Korean girl in a Japanese airport. Let me tell you -- it's not that easy. And it doesn't sound easy in the first place. My eyes started to bug out from all the strain, but thankfully -- after about an hour or so -- she came out of the customs area and she, Jason, and myself all got tickets on the "Airport Limousine" (it's a bus), and made our way into Tokyo.
4:45 p.m. The tiring part about flying to Tokyo isn't the 10-hour flight; it's the 2-hour bus ride after. We could've taken the Narita Express, a train that can take half the time as the Airport Limousine, but the downside is that it drops you off at the train station, as opposed to the bus, which drops you off at your hotel's front step. Since it was 1) hot, and since we were 2) carrying a lot of stuff, we opted for the Airport Limousine, because none of us wanted to lug this crap through a packed train station, up escalators and whatnot. So by the time we got to our respective hotels (I was staying at the Century Southern Tower in Shinjuku), checked in, and got our act together, it was nearly 6:30 p.m. You might think that at this point, it was time for a little rest. But as Jason and I would soon learn, the last thing the good folks at Q Entertainment had scheduled for us this week was "rest."
Since I had numerous interviews at Q spread out over the course of the upcoming week, my PR contact there wanted to get me in on Monday night to play all the games so that by the time the interview sessions rolled around, I could hit the ground running and just dive right into the meat of the discussion, rather than waste time playing before each session. It was a sound theory, but unusually for me, I was really exhausted by the time we got to Tokyo. Jason was even worse, since he didn't sleep at all during the flight. But out we went, and I took Jason over to the JR (Japan Railways, the country's national railroad network) station in Shinjuku (central Tokyo), where I would show him how to buy his train ticket and ultimately take the Yamanote train line (one of the busiest lines in the Tokyo metropolitan area) down around five stops or so to Meguro, the ward in Tokyo where Q Entertainment is based. Upon our arrival, we met up with my longtime friend Kyoko Yamashita, with whom I used to work quite frequently when she was in charge of PR and events at Square Enix USA. Now she's a marketing coordinator at Xseed Marketing, which published the most recent Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts games. Since Xseed also does a lot of marketing assistance for Japanese developers, helping manage communications between Japanese developers and Western publishers, she was on the job for Q Entertainment, stepping in not only as de facto translator for most of the week, but also as PR coordinator between Q, myself, and Q's respective U.S. publishers: Buena Vista Games, Microsoft, and Namco.
8:30 p.m. Now that we'd rendezvoused with Kyoko, we went inside Q's building and met up with Osamu Ando (Kyoko's Japan-based counterpart), who organized the majority of my schedule in Japan. I met him for the first time at this year's E3, although I'd traded e-mails with him late last year in regards to doing a Q cover story. As I would learn over the course of the week, Ando-san is a superfriendly guy, and we'd share many laughs by the time this amazing week was over. But down to B1 (the basement level) we went, as Ando fired up an Xbox 360 with a beta of Lumines Live! and gathered a few PSPs together with upcoming games Lumines II and Every Extend Extra. While you can read my complete thoughts on each game in their proper previews here, let me just say that Lumines Live! really impressed me. After playing it for so long on a little screen, seeing it big, in high-def and 5.1 surround sound is like seeing and playing a brand-new game. I can't imagine how bored the other guys were watching me play Lumines Live! nonstop, but it was so much fun that I didn't stop until I turned over all 12 stages and tried out some of the new modes and skins. Lumines II and EEE were next, although at one point during the course of the evening, Ando would tell me that they'd decided it was OK to show me a few more of their secret games later in the week. But once I was done getting my fill of at least a good portion of Q's upcoming lineup, it was time for food, and so we hopped in Ando's Jeep and raced off for some delicious ramen.
11:30 p.m. The place we went to, which was still open at 11:30 p.m. or so, is famous for a specialty called "cheese ramen." I have no idea what it tastes like, though (although I was curious), since they ran out by the time we got there. So I'm guessing it must be kick-ass. After we'd loaded up on carbs and ice water, Ando hooked us up with a ride back to Shinjuku, which was great, since the trains had stopped running by that point (trains stop at 12:30 a.m. in Tokyo), and saved us from having to grab a taxi; it was around 1 a.m. when we reached the hotel. After a quick shower, I jumped into my jammies -- and by the time my head hit the pillow, I was already fast asleep.
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Originally posted 02/03/2014 03:45PM
Philip Seymour Hoffman's talent inspired many young actors, and to former Desperate Housewives costar Shawn Pyfrom, the Oscar winner's tragic death on Sunday provided a wake-up call.
Eva Longoria 'Misconstrued' over Getting Married Again
Originally posted 09/30/2013 12:30PM
Although she said only last week, "I've been married twice, so that's been there, done that," Eva Longoria is by no means completely ruling out putting on a wedding dress for a third time.
"I didn't say I would never get married again," the 38-year-old, addressing the comments she made to Access Hollywood, told PEOPLE at Saturday's Eva Longoria Foundation Dinner in Hollywood.
"There's nobody in the works now," she clarified. "So, it's not really on my mind. It was very misconstrued."
Kathryn Joosten Dies at 72
Originally posted 06/02/2012 05:10PM
Emmy winner Kathryn Joosten died of lung cancer Saturday. She was 72.
The actress, best known for her role on Desperate Housewives as plucky neighbor Karen McCluskey and as The West Wing's secretary Mrs. Landingham, was surrounded by family and friends in Westlake Village, Calif., at the time of her death.
"Kathryn passed away this morning after a valiant fight against her cancer," Nadine Jolson, Joosten's rep, told E! News. "Her family was with her. Funeral arrangements are pending. This is a terrible loss, and she fought as hard as she could."
Desperate Housewives Finale Proves Classically Desperate
Originally posted 05/14/2012 08:00AM
Desperate Housewives is over. For longtime fans of the ABC comedy-drama, the two-hour finale flew by.
The first half concluded the preposterous murder trial against Bree (Marcia Cross). It was sad to see Bree led off to the death chamber manacled and in an unflattering orange jumper. Am I kidding? As narrator Mary Alice would say: Yesssssss …
The second half saw the death of one of the best-loved residents of Wisteria Lane, plus a wedding and a birth. If you're at all up on the season you know who did what of which. In other words, it was sweet, it was pat, it was all a bit anticlimactic – but why wouldn't it be after all this time?
Here are some moments – none of them spoilers – that made the farewell classically Desperate.
Desperate Housewives: Five Memorable Moments
Originally posted 05/14/2012 07:00AM
Desperate Housewives, ABC's groundbreaking dramedy, came to a close Sunday night after eight breezily entertaining seasons full of gossip, backstabbing, friendships and frenemy-ships, and many, many instances of rigor mortis setting in. Here are five of Wisteria Lane's most treasured snapshots – but do add your fondest memories in the comments below:
The mystery of Mary Alice, season 1, Oct. 3, 2004: The series hooked me right from its opener: Wisteria Street resident Mary Alice Williams (Brenda Strong), the show's narrator, tells us in a soothing, almost sunny tone how one day she reached into the top of her closet, took down a revolver and shot herself dead. Even though the mystery of her suicide was eventually solved, Mary Alice has remained the voice of the show ever since, commenting with compassion and sometimes rather heavy irony on the adventures of Susan, Bree, Lynette and Gabrielle. I would have gone for a cheap stunt and had the occasional guest narrator – Joy Behar, for instance – but Mary Alice's voice, even more than the tidy lawns and slickly painted houses, was always the real, unifying vision of Wisteria Lane.
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Originally posted 05/13/2012 08:45PM
Sunday marks the end of road for the lovely ladies of Wisteria Lane. And what a road it's been. After eight seasons of drama, debauchery, tears and hilarity, ABC's Desperate Housewives is coming to an end.
A lot has happened to the series' lovely stars, but time has been kind to the ladies. Check out a the photos of the show's core stars – Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria – when the series debuted (left) in 2004 and a new shot taken this year (right). They still look as sizzling as the day all the drama started.
While saying goodbye to Wisteria Lane isn't easy, Hatcher tells PEOPLE that embodying the role of Susan Mayer was "an opportunity that anyone would have been lucky to be a part of. I am at the top of the grateful list."
Here are a few thoughts from Hatcher and her fellow castmates about their years on the iconic show.
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Originally posted 04/29/2012 06:00PM
As the May 13 series finale of Desperate Housewives nears, Teri Hatcher says it is finally starting to sink in.
"Every day it gets to be a little more real," Hatcher, 47, recently told PEOPLE at the Wisteria Lane Block Party benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at Universal Studios in L.A.
"We've had a lot of time to process it, so it's not a shock. But I think you just can't really know what it's going to feel like until it's over."
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Originally posted 04/09/2012 04:45PM
It's going to take more than a breakup to get Eva Longoria down.
The Desperate Housewives star, who recently split from boyfriend Eduardo Cruz, tells PEOPLE that she's still a sucker for love.
"I don't really have a philosophy on love," Longoria said at the Pepsi NEXT launch event in New York's Times Square Thursday, adding, "but I am a hopeless romantic."
Longoria, 37, and Cruz, 27, dated for more than a year before they decided to split last month. But the two seem to be on great terms: they had a cozy post-split date in Los Angeles last weekend.
Eva Longoria Post-Split: 'I Feel Very Excited About My Life'
Originally posted 03/16/2012 07:30PM
Desperate? Hardly.
After stepping out with a smile this week to celebrate her 37th birthday with pals, Eva Longoria says her face tells the whole story.
"I feel very excited about my life and I'm excited about things to come," the actress tells PEOPLE, speaking out for the first time since her split from Eduardo Cruz. "There are so many things on the horizon."
Topping the list: visiting President Barack Obama next week in Washington to discuss education, immigration and the economy.
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Still I have been wanting to bake these for a week now. Only this morning having decided that I must make it or leave it. Baked it I did, and had a bad rush to work as well.
So you really got to excuse my lack of pretty pictures for the microwave potato chips, definitely not as pretty as Finla's anyways.
Of course the crispiness you get when you deep fry the potato chips, is a completely different ball game. When you either oven bake or microwave bake, you do get a crispy chip, albeit a wee bit tasting different.
Naturally if you want to stick to your half a teaspoon of oil for cooking, I will surely advise you to either oven bake or microwave baked! And of course this is surely not the quickest method, however you are those for whom chips are off limits, this is something you can dig in without much guilt.
After making mine, I came across this post which also has beautiful pictures and useful points on making potato chips in microwave
Deep Fried Potato Chips
Ingredients Needed:
1 big Potatoes, washed
2 to 3 tsps of cooking oil
Salt according to your taste
Red chili powder as per your taste
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Using a slicer, slice into very thin rounds. Mine is pretty good and gets very thin ones. Else you can use a mandolin for thin slices.
Wash the potato slices in water and spread on a towel to drain them.
When the chips are dry, toss them in oil and season with salt.
In a microwave safe plate, spread them, making sure they don't overlap, microwave for 3 mins.
when done, flip the chips and again microwave for 3 mins.
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Gilad Shalit Calling for Jonathan Pollard's Release
Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit wrote in an open letter that all Israelis should demand that the United States free jailed spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard.
Israeli officials have said that the revelation over the weekend that the United States spied on at least two sitting Israeli prime ministers opens the door for Israel to demand the release of Pollard, who has served 29 years of a life sentence in a U.S. prison.
"After Israel has released terrorists with blood on their hands as a gesture to the Palestinians, a return gesture is all that is being requested," Shalit said in his open letter. "I believe, and I think that like myself all of the People of Israel believe that the Prime Minister's request for such a simple gesture, the release of Jonathan Pollard, is owed to us by right, and is not a favor," he wrote.
"Please, everyone, join me, in a clear demand to our friends, the Americans: we have already freed scores of murderous terrorists with blood on their hands at your request – now it is your turn to make a gesture to us! It may even save Pollard's life," he wrote.
Shalit appeared to be reacting to reports, including one by Israel's Channel 2, that Israel is linking a Pollard release to the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and will ask that Pollard's release be linked to Israel's release of Palestinian prisoners. The third group of prisoners is scheduled to take place at the end of the week. Channel 10 quoted White House officials as saying that freeing Pollard is not on up for discussionJTA
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Chris Polk missed the entire preseason because of a hamstring injury, which kept him sidelined on Thursday despite Polk practicing earlier this week. That doesn't mean he won't make the roster for a third consecutive season.
The Eagles will release running back Henry Josey, the running back confirmed on Twitter. Josey, who led the Eagles with 225 rushing yards this preseason and averaged 6.6 yards per carry, was in a numbers crunch with a crowded running back corps. In addition to LeSean McCoy, Darren Sproles, and Polk, the Eagles have Matthew Tucker and Kenjon Barner. They could keep four or five at that spot.


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Thyagarajan Jul 11, 2015
Imbibing the qualities of laxmi, saraswati and durga in their retention policy makes tremendous sense to me......hope all the HR personnel and the top management take note of it. He also somewhere hinted that common sense, aggression, and loyalty are key to success. Not so much that you necessarily need to be a harvard or IIM educated.
Harita Sep 1, 2010
Impressive, especially his answer to the questions on 1. banks staying by their side during the recession 2. moving into meat foods.
Somehow stayed away from Wal Mart competition questions :)
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Andrew Gilligan of the Telegraph has resigned from the National Union of Journalists because of that body's failure to stand up for its members over the trifling matter of the freedom of the press. Its a little late, the protocol imposed on them by their union in the reporting of matters involving race, multiculturalism and allied matters should have caused journalists more concern than it did, but better late than never. I fear he will be alone. Incidently the by-election in Rotherham tomorrow was triggered by the resignation of MP Denis MacShane who was caught fiddling his expenses on a scale way beyond that of most crooked MPs. MacShane (or Mac Shame as he is aptly nicknamed) was the man responsible for the NUJ Guidelines on Race Reporting during his time as President of the union. Gilligan says of his resignation:
I've been a member of the NUJ for about ten years. To be honest, there was never all that much point. But I support the principle of trade unionism, I was grateful for the NUJ's backing during the Hutton inquiry, and I valued the work it did for people who couldn't stick up for themselves, particularly on local newspapers.
I'm now resigning from the NUJ in protest at what may be its existential mistake in failing to stick up for its entire membership. The union has decided to back a statutorily-underpinned regulator of journalists – a move taken without the slightest consultation with members, no doubt because they knew we would be against it.
The clincher for me was this chilling piece in the Press Gazette from the head of the NUJ's "ethics council," Chris Frost (pictured above), defending the union's position. Mr Frost, an academic at Liverpool John Moores University, writes:
Yes, you read that right: the union representing journalists wants a regulator to impose its idea of what constitutes a "fair selection of the day's important events" on the press. . .
Now the NUJ is not a very important institution – but propaganda value of its stance to our enemies is considerable. If even the body supposed to represent journalists won't defend journalism, what's the point of it?
Several commentators believe that the point of the NUJ is contained in their Guidelines on Race Reporting.
"The NUJ believes that the attitude of our newspapers and broadcasting stations is crucial in race relations and the formation of opinion on asylum seekers."
"Outside the newsroom, the NUJ is encouraging its members to get involved with events within the wider trade union movement that are making a stand to oppose the divisive politics of far-right parties."
My own union CPS rejected its duty of care to long-standing members who were about to lose their jobs in preference to increasing the diversity of the Civil Service. They have sown the wind.
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Large T antigen (LTA) in our patient's Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) samples taken in 2002 (MCC-1) and 2008 (MCC-2). A, Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV) DNA obtained from MCC-1 and MCC-2 were quantified as normalized reporter (Rn) for long interspersed nuclear elements (LINE) (brown) serving as endogenous controls, MCV-specific regions of LTA (LT3) (green), and viral protein 1 (VP1) (blue). (The value of Rn is automatically calculated by the real-time polymerase chain reaction analyzer as the fluorescence emission intensity of the reporter dye divided by the fluorescence emission intensity of the passive reference dye.) The black horizontal dotted line serves as the threshold line. B and C, Immunohistologic detection of LTA expression in MCC-1 (B) and MCC-2 (C). Sections of the respective lesions were stained with a monoclonal antibody (clone CM2B4 at 1:1000 dilution) specific for MCV LTA (red) and counterstained with hematoxylin-eosin (blue). D, Partial sequence alignment of LTA from MCC-1 and MCC-2. On the left side, the alignment demonstrates 2 base mismatches between MCC-1 and MCC-2 and the base deletion for MCC-1. On the right side, the original sequence data contain a mismatch, and the deletion is shown.
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Has anyone noticed from like UFC 1-30 they all entered under that one stupid song? Its annoying as heck. But the matches are awesome and better than the new UFC matches IMO.
I watch UFC for the fights. I honestly could not give a sh&# about the music.
It kills me when people bash shamrock for going into wrestling and all the hype and then create a thread about what song someone came out to.
Who cares?? Not me thats for sure. Another thought I have about the old school ufc is: how many of the guys who are successful today would be able to fight three fights a night? Or go the long rounds? As much as I like Chuck I do not think he would be champion today if he had to fight three fights a night.
I think hughes could do it and maybe there are a couple others but things would be very different for sure.
This thread is not about the music its a thread talking about old school UFC from 1-30 back in the awesome days with Marco Ruas, Ken Shamrock, Oleg Taktarov, Tank Abbott, Royce Gracie, Dan Severn, Mark Coleman, Maurice Smith, etc. And when Chuck Liddell opened shows not main evented them. And the matches were a lot more extreme back then. And Shamrock demolished his career by entering WWF.
i dont really like the old fights, the mma was not as polished or well rounded, i almost feel like im watching an event at one of the small night club like shows of today..
The fights of today and back than are too diffrent to compare there almost like diffrent sports. I like them both for diffrent reasons but I would have to say I enjoy watching the old ones more.
The beatings back in the old days were amazing and would never happen today such as Pat Smith on Scott Morris. And back in the old days it was unpredictable who would win, everyone thought Mark Coleman would own Pete Williams, look what happened. Today it is so predictable and the matches are more boring.
I know Georges will win but Babalu definitely has no chance against Chuck. Its so predictable with Georges on a streak beating some real contenders. Who has Babalu beat? Travis Wiuff, Chael Sonnen, Mike Van Arsdale? Those are classified as cans.
I feel the same way . except i would rather watch the new ones more :D
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Skip to comments.DUmmie FUnnies 01-26-11 (State of the Eunuch: DUmmies nix Obama's Nudnik Moment)
Posted on 01/26/2011 10:06:05 AM PST by Charles Henrickson
Good speech for a Rethuglican. That's the consensus of the DUmmies on the Compromiser-in-Chief and his State of the Eunuch snoozefest last night. It was Obama's Nudnik Moment: The erstwhile Anointed One has become the Annoying One.
Many threads to choose from; for now we'll go with . . .
this THREAD, "So far, it's a super-progressive speech." and
this THREAD, "Well DU has become quite the Obama bash fest...." and
this Pitt THREAD, "Is this as bad as I think it is?"
There's more where those came from, so if PJ wants to do a SOTU DUFU later, he'll have plenty of material.
So let us now walk across the aisle and take a seat next to a DUmmie, in Bolshevik Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, who should have watched the speech last night to help him get to sleep, is in the [Barackets]:
So far, it's a super-progressive speech.
[Prepare to be shot down, Obamabot impik!]
Progressive? . . . Progressive? That's a freaking laugh!
[DUmmie Go2Peace is having a Jim Mora Moment: "Playoffs? PLAYOFFS??"]
this is DU, unless Obama goes Karl Marx this speech will be panned.
[DUmmie Uzybone, this is your Kewpie Doll Moment! Congratulations!]
Well DU has become quite the Obama bash fest....what the hell happened to DU, seems to have merged with freerepublic.
[Merging Traffic: Troll Booth Ahead]
Some unwelcome guests have infiltrated.
[Undocumented lurkers.]
I think it was a pretty good SOTU. Not the most inspiring and lofty. . . .
[Damning with faint prez.]
I thought the speech was brilliant then came to DU to rave about it...and yikes.....! . . . It's not meant to be a recitation of the Liberal Manifesto. . . .
[Of course not! It's supposed to be a recitation of the COMMUNIST Manifesto!]
Idiots have taken over this place. . . .
[This is news??]
Locking. This post focuses on DU members, not the discussion of ideas.
[OK, let's discuss our ideas ABOUT the idiotic DU members. . . .]
[Speaking of idiots, let's check in with Pitt . . .]
Is this as bad as I think it is?
[Whatever Pitt thinks it is, that's what it is. Pitt starts this thread simply to have people agree with him.]
I have been known on more than one occasion to defend the President even when he didn't necessarily deserve it. I've also kicked him in the ass more than once.
[Yes, Pitt, you have established your credentials as the Opinionator of Record. . . .]
This is an excellent Republican speech.
[Well, it WAS long and boring, Will, so you must have liked that.]
There were a few belly-rubs - new energy policy, and oh we love the children - but he has been kissing GOP ass from beginning to end.
[Even benburch would not stoop that low!]
Please tell me I'm just an insane person.
[You're just an insane person.]
what is this crap? . . . Total poop grenade. Sh*t everywhere.
[Obama believes in defecate spending.]
Yup. Bone to the left. Bone to the right. Bone to the center.
[Boehner in the back, falling asleep.]
Sadly, I can't bear to watch or listen to him any more.
[That makes all of us!]
Maybe Obama should have had backup dancers and strobe lights to make it more "exciting."
[Barry Obama and the Golddiggers! Yes, I can see it now: Babs Mikulski, Big Sis Nappy, Bawney the Dancing Queen, all shaking some serious booty!]
I feel like I'm on a sinking ship!
[This is your Titanik Moment.]
It is certainly not inspiring. Of course I have had 4 shots of Canadian Mist. So it's back to FarmVille and DU for me.
[Stuck on Stupor: The State of DU-nion.]
Talked for well over an hour, didn't say a damn thing
[It's a gift!]
It was boring. . . .
[Barack Obama puts the BO in BO-ring!]
Good one! Very funny.
Here's the short and sweet: Can the AnnointedIdiot talk any longer without saying a damn thing?! =.=
Top 10?
Well in the first two he had Pelosi cheerleading behind him! She was up and clapping and expected the Dems to follow her lead, which they did. Big Ego boost for the Ego in Chief!
Top 15!
I was (fortunately) at a meeting for most of it. Julie had it on when I came home, but I picked up my pocket reader instead. She kept mumbling and I kept ignoring it.
From what I read, I didn't miss a thing. More spending, disguised as "investing".
Top 20! Bow, lesser posters!
Maybe Obama should have had backup dancers and strobe lights to make it more "exciting."
Uh... okay Dummie. You mean like THIS:
Whoa...that's a lot of red Xs.
[Of course not! It's supposed to be a recitation of the COMMUNIST Manifesto!]
Admit it, Charles: This one wrote itself, didn't it?
The only thing that would make the Dummies happy is if Barack Obama made the following speech:
Dear Fellow Comrades and Communist Party members and fellow travelers at Democratic Underground,
I have just signed an executive order dissolving the House, have arrested all Republicans in congress and sent them to concentration camps, and made Nancy Pelosi the new permanent head of the politburo, former House, for life.
I have just signed an executive order to dissolve Fox News and have arrested every conservative talk radio host in America, as accessories to attempted murder of our fallen comrade and martyr, Gabrielle Giffords.
I have just ordered Sarah Palin to be arrested for being Sarah Palin.
I have just signed an executive order banning all guns in America.
I have just signed an executive order making Keith Olberman, propaganda minister in chief, for life.
I have just signed an executive order putting anybody who makes over $75000 a year in the 95% tax bracket and have made all government employees, Hollywood liberals and campaign contributors exempt from all income taxes, and have made Alec Baldwin the head of the new IRS.
I have just signed an executive order outlawing Christianity and have made Islam the new official religion of the United States.
I have just signed an executive order to turn the American Southwest back over the Mexico to resolve once and for the injustice of the Mexican-American war.
I have just signed an executive order to make every illegal alien an automatic citizen and permanent members of the Democratic Party.
I have just signed a permanent alliance with Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela and have declared war on Israel, which shall be destroyed by a nuclear strike as I make this speech.
Only a speech like this would make the Dummies happy.
I feel like I'm on a sinking ship!
Oh-oh. A DUmmie left his Pizza Box Fort in mommy's basement and actually went out into the real world. Welcome to reality, bonehead.
And get out of that Life Boat. Its Women and Children first. And DUmmie, 26yo isn't a 'child'. No matter what Barry and your commieRAT Pols say.
So start swimming, or drown with the rest of us taxpayers.
They all showed in preview, and before I refreshed this page.
(Thanks for the heads up.)
De nada.
But, but, but. It's all about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
I feel like I'm on a sinking ship!
[This is your Titanik Moment.]
Well, if this were Kook spinach posting, he would be feel like he was on his "mothership".
For example:
Poll: What did you think of Pres. Obama's SOTU speech - ?
Worst Democratic SOTU Address ever?
***Check in if you're proud of President Obama and his SOTU tonight***
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What a blast you are, Charles!
These little communists will never be happy. They'll be the first to go when comrad obummer takes complete control.
Does that freak benburch still post over there at insanity underground?
I don't think so, but his legacy lives on.
franksolich can give you a Fat Che update.
WTF? spinning the future, not 'winning the future'...
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Golden years shine brightest in Hawaii
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ATLANTA — If you're 65 and living in Hawaii, here's some good news: Odds are you'll live another 21 years. And for all but five of those years, you'll likely be in pretty good health.
Hawaii tops the charts in the government's first state-by-state look at how long Americans age 65 can expect to live, on average, and how many of those remaining years will be healthy ones.
Retirement-age Mississippians fared worst, with only about 17½ more years remaining and nearly seven of them in poorer health.
U.S. life expectancy has been growing steadily for decades, and is now nearly 79 for newborns. The figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate life expectancy for people 65 years old, and what portion will be free of the illnesses and disabilities suffered late in life.
"What ultimately matters is not just the length of life but the quality of life," said Matt Stiefel, who oversees population health research for Kaiser Permanente.
The World Health Organization keeps "healthy life expectancy" statistics on nearly 200 countries, and the numbers are used to determine the most sensible ages to set retirement and retirement benefits. But the measure is still catching on in the United States; the CDC study is the first to make estimates for all 50 states.
Overall, Americans who make it to 65 have about 19 years of life ahead of them, including nearly 14 in relatively good health, the CDC estimated.
But the South and parts of the Midwest clearly had lower numbers. That's not a surprise, experts said.
Southern states tend to have higher rates of smoking, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and a range of other illnesses. They also have problems that affect health, like less education and more poverty.
These are issues that build up over a lifetime, so it's doubtful that moving to Hawaii after a lifetime in the South will suddenly give you more healthy years, they said.
After Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia and Alabama had the lowest numbers for both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. States with the best numbers included Florida — a magnet for healthy retirees — as well as Connecticut and Minnesota.
The estimates were made using 2007 through 2009 data from the census, death certificates and telephone surveys that asked people to describe their health. The CDC's Paula Yoon cautioned not to make too much of the differences between states. Results could have been swayed, for example, by how people in different states interpreted and answered the survey questions.
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— Nationally, women at 65 can expect nearly 15 more years of healthy life. Men that age can expect about 13 years.
— Blacks fared much worse than whites. They could expect 11 years of healthy life, compared to more than 14 for whites.
The CDC report makes "painfully clear" the disparities in the health of whites and blacks in their final years, said Ellen Meara, a health economist at Dartmouth College.
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Rodney Hampton was one of the quietest great players in Giants history and one of the most unassuming stars in New York sports during his eight-year tenure with the team (1990-97). Hampton was accessible and cordial to the media, but he almost never said anything controversial, or even interesting enough to garner attention. The only headlines he merited were for his work on the field.
Hakeem Nicks is becoming his generation's Rodney Hampton. Without much fanfare, he is one of the very best at his position in the NFL. If he stays on his present track, Nicks will be one of the finest wide receivers to ever wear a Giants uniform. He'll stand at his locker, as he did today, and answer question after question without uttering anything even remotely inflammatory.
Nicks knows he might receive more acclaim outside the Giants' locker room if he spoke up. But like Hampton, Nicks is very comfortable with who he is and what he does.
"That's not my style," he said about talking to get more attention. "That's not the way I go about things. I'd rather just put it all on (game) tape and save the talking for later."
What's at least mildly ironic is that Nicks plays a position that is the home office for NFL divas. When fans think of receivers, the loud, demonstrative types like Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco jump to mind. The quiet guys like Nicks? Not so much. But that means little to Nicks, because recognition is one of the last things he wants from football.
"I'm not really into all that," Nicks said. "I don't listen to the he say, she say stuff. I just play the game the way I've been playing it and if they recognize me, they recognize me. If they don't, I don't look at it any different."
Nicks is so happy to avoid the limelight he is a social media holdout. He's not on Facebook. He has no interest in Twitter.
"That's not my personality," Nicks said. "My marketing guy wants to get a Twitter going and I come home and I forget I have Twitter."
What Nicks does is play. He was at his best Sunday, when the Giants earned a 31-27 comeback victory over the Cardinals in Arizona. Nicks caught 10 passes for a career-high 162 yards. He set up one touchdown with a spectacular grab on the right sideline before scoring the winning touchdown on a 29-yard pass down the left side from Eli Manning.
"Hakeem certainly made a couple of huge plays," Coach Tom Coughlin said.
That has become his norm. With 24 catches for 347 yards and two touchdowns, Nicks is on pace to finish the season with 96 receptions for 1,388 yards and eight scores. Last year, he played in only 13 games because of injuries but still finished with 79 catches for 1,052 yards and 11 scores.
"I feel like I'm scratching the surface," Nicks said. "I don't feel I've reached it yet. It's still year three for me. I don't ever want to feel like I'm getting too big-headed. I always stay humble, within myself. I feel there's always stuff for me to work on."
Nicks, the Giants' first-round draft choice in 2009, on Sunday put up better numbers than Larry Fitzgerald, the Cardinals' perennial Pro Bowler, who had eight receptions for 102 yards and did not score. Typically, Nicks cares little about such comparisons.
"I don't necessarily try to get into that," Nicks said. "I watch him, though, because obviously he's a very talented wide receiver, top of the line. I was watching him as he performed out there, but as far as comparing, I don't get into all of that.
"It's a good feeling, but it's something I don't really get into. It's two different offenses. I'm glad I did put up numbers like that, but he had an excellent game as well. He's a great player."
Nicks is a fan of his contemporaries like Fitzgerald.
"I speak to pretty much every other receiver we face," he said. "(There's) no hatred. They say, 'Keep (playing), keep doing what you're doing, good luck.'"
Some of those receivers might get more acclaim – and perhaps, Pro Bowl votes – because they make a greater effort to put themselves out in public in front of the media more often. That's fine – for them, Nicks said.
"I have no awe in my heart for any man," he said.
But Nicks' understated style can mask a fierce competiveness, as it did with Hampton.
"I play to be the best," Nicks said. "That's my personal goal. But as far as other people acknowledging it, that doesn't make a difference to me. I do it for myself and God. I play for God. He's the one that gave me these abilities."
And the Giants are the team blessed to have him.
*Six Giants did not practice today: center David Baas (neck), linebacker Michael Boley (knee), running back Brandon Jacobs (knee), defensive end Justin Tuck (neck/groin) and cornerbacks Corey Webster (personal) and Prince Amukamara (foot).
Defensive end Osi Umenyiora (knee) and defensive tackle Rocky Bernard (ribs) were limited.
Baas, who has a burner, is day-to-day, Coughlin said. Kevin Boothe, who played center the entire second half of the Giants' victory Sunday at Arizona, again stepped in for Baas.
Coughlin said Boley and Jacobs "are scheduled to go to tomorrow."
*Midway through his news conference, Coughlin was asked about Amukamara, the first-round draft choice who broke his foot on Aug. 6 and subsequently underwent surgery. "Ask me again after the bye," Coughlin said. Instead, he was asked again about five minutes later.
"Prince is not ready to go," Coughlin said. "He's not going to be for a while. We're not going to mess around here. Until he's ready to go…I really don't ask about him every day, as you can probably tell. I don't know much about that, because to me, it's off somewhere in the distance. While I watch him and I see what you see, and I see his reaction to the work - it's very slow, as you would imagine, but it's gradual. And we're making progress."
Coughlin said Amukamara has suffered no setbacks. "I never expected it (his return) any earlier, to be honest," Coughlin said.
When Amukamara was hurt, it was thought he might miss eight-10 weeks. It's possible his absence will exceed that. Amukamara said that disappoints him "a lot," but he understands the importance of not returning too early.
"I learned throughout this process to be patient and not rush it," he said. "Don't want to get on the field too early and reinjure it."
Amukamara said he puts pressure on the bone when he cuts and runs.
"Especially at my position as a defensive back," he said. "You are constantly in your backpedal and constantly changing direction, so of course you are going to have pressure there and that's going to affect the foot a little bit."
*The Giants terminated the contract of cornerback Brian Williams, who was signed on Aug. 24 and played in the team's first four games. His place in the secondary was taken by four-year veteran Justin Tryon, who was signed yesterday.


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Lemon Rice Pilaf
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Prep 15 mins
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The lemon flavor is quite pronounced, we like it as it is, but if you are uncertain use less than what is written. 2 Tbsp. lemon rind equals around 2 lemons-depending on the size of your lemon.
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- 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine
- 4 celery ribs, sliced
- 6 green onions, chopped
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- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
- additional green onion, chopped
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UWM work exhibited at Cannes film fest
Fourteen films by students, faculty and alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres have been accepted into the short-film showcase at this year's Cannes International Film Festival, which kicks off Wednesday on the French Riviera.
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If you think writing a piece of music for a full symphony orchestra is a tough task, you should try finding an orchestra to play that piece.
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DODSON - Garland Hightower, 81, died Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Dodson Nazarene Church with the Rev. Al Mixon, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Dodson Cemetery by Adams Funeral Home.
Mr. Hightower was born Jan. 24, 1925, in Collingsworth County to Elmer and Jewel Bynum Hightower. He married Kathleen Keeton on Aug. 17, 1948, in Fort Worth.
Survivors include his wife; a son Tommy Hightower of Dodson; a daughter, Glenda Sena of Black Forest, Colo.; two sisters, Wilma Beanland of Hollis, Okla., and Wanda Cardwell of Dodson; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Dodson Nazarene Church or Dodson Cemetery.
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Me neither David, gives me backache just thinking about it.
Do you put "must be able to be truly bendy" on your job descriptions….excellent pose and thread count looks pretty high on the sheets!
That's the first time anyone's even commented on the sheet thread count MaxO; I must add this to my future boudoir titles. As for the bendy thing – it just seems to happen. Funny that.
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Helen Anker
Helen Anker (born 1972, Banbury, Oxfordshire) is an actress and singer who trained at the Royal Ballet School and Bird College. She is best known for playing Zelda Fitzgerald in the West End musical Beautiful and Damned,[1] a role she first played at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford before transferring to London's West End.
Her first professional role came at the age of nine in 1981 when she played Louisa in The Sound of Music with Petula Clark at London's Apollo Theatre.[2]
Anker's other roles include Judy Turner in A Chorus Line at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Vera and Patsy in Crazy For You at the Prince Edward Theatre, Victoria the White Cat, Jemima and Demeter in Cats at the New London Theatre, Thelma Furness in Always at the Victoria Palace Theatre, Louisa Gradgrind in Hard Times at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Aggie in Oklahoma! at the National Theatre, and Iris in Fame at the Cambridge Theatre.[3]
In September 2009 Anker opened in the stage version of It's a Wonderful Life as Mary at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. She has also appeared as Eliza Doolittle in the Guthrie Theater's production of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady.
Her television appearances include Holby City for the BBC.
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Some thoughts on recent events I've attended where I have given presentations on Open Badges. The most inspiring take-away I had, came from the OU Symposium 'Caring roles: Learning lives'. This post contains some of my thoughts on how badges could be used to recognise some of the attributes carers develop as they manage the challenges involved in juggling full time education with full time caring roles. In the words of one young carer, they have to live 'one and half lives' as they not only have to think of and look after themselves but the person they are caring for too. Some of the challenges they face are articulated in videos I include from a resource intended to support colleges to support carers, developed by the College Development Network, called 'Enabling Student Carers'.
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From the Publisher"Exceedingly well done." Library Journal Audio Review
The Gods of Marsby Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Bolen
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After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.
After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.
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More great pulp fun. Anyone who likes the first in this series (A PRINCESS OF MARS) will certainly enjoy this second entry, with the caveat that this ends on a cliffhanger. If you read this book you have to read THE WARLORD OF MARS to find out how the arc begun in this book finishes. I have read a variety of pulp authors. ERB is the best of them, and this is his best work.
In A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs gave us a truly remarkable hero in John Carter. With amazing dexterity for a novice writer, Burroughs left us breathlessly anticipating the sequel at the end of Princess, and here it is. Faster paced because the characters have already been developed than Princess and featuring even more breathtaking venues than its predecessor, Gods is a tour de force of classic storytelling set on a lush alien world. From beginning to end, it's sheer action with some introspection and social commentary (especially on religious hypocrisy thrown in). I can imagine few novels I've enjoyed more and none I've reread as often as this. What's even better is that Burroughs gives us the promise of even more at the end (fulfilled in a sequel he promptly ends the storyline with). I highly recommend this, and to those of you who have never before read Burroughs' Barsoom cycle but are just now discovering it, I envy you. You're in for one of the greatest treats in all literature.
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This young adult novel by the popular John Green fell into my arms at the YMCA. An exercise buddy suggested that I read it; she was turned on to it by her teenage son. The novel opens at a cancer support group in a church. Because it's set in Indianapolis some of the landmarks will be familiar. A 16 year-old girl suffering from stage IV thyroid cancer is returning at the insistence of her Mom. "Go out and meet somebody" her mom suggested and without any hope that she will, Hazel does.
Asked to speak about what she's thinking, Hazel describes how everyone on earth is going to die. It is the only end we can expect and that we have. Her speech is more philosophical and much more eloquent but totally lacking in hope. Afterwards, handsome Augustus who's on the mend from osteosarcoma - 80% chance of survival--tells her he likes what she said. Not only that but she looks like Natalie Portman. Augustus and Hazel have a mutal friend, Isaac, who is about to lose an eye from another form of cancer.
Hazel can't leave the house without her oxygen tank. Her prognosis is poor; it's not a matter of if but when. Her parents are extremely kind and protective. She overhead her mom say once that when Hazel dies, she will no longer be a mom.
If The Fault in Our Stars sounds depressing, amazingly it isn't. Green has created a sardonic, wise beyond her years, poetry-loving heroine with an edgy sense of humor. She finds a soul-mate in Augustus who has already lost one girlfriend to death. Hazel holds back. She doesn't want to die and be another "exploding torpedo" in his life.
Interested in revisiting an old favorite classic in a new way? Consider the graphic novel version of your old familiar favorite novel. I recently read The Hound of the Baskervilles reimagined as a graphic novel by Ian Edginton and was pleasantly surprised. This is the famous story of Sir Charles Baskerville who has suddenly died and Henry Baskerville, his nephew and the heir to his estate. Henry is being warned of danger that might befall him as he takes ownership of the manor on the moor. Sherlock Holmes and Watson travel with Henry to the moor to investigate the threat, made complicated by an escaped murderer, jealousy, mysterious family dynamics, and a possible hell hound. The characters were visually well represented including Watson, Dr. Mortimer and Mrs. Stapleton. They mystery, though well known, has enough twists and turns to keep any reader going. The visual look and use of color does well to represent the haunting and atmospheric feeling of the moor and the danger lurking everywhere. For fans of dense novels, there is still quite a bit of dialogue which is slowed down further (for a modern reader!) by the original style. I really loved the look of this graphic novel edition which often reminded me of an animated movie.
Making yourself read outside your comfort zone can end up with some total misses and some excellent surprises. In all likelihood I would have missed Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites, a graphic novel about a talking pack of animals that solve supernatural mysteries in their seemingly sweet suburban neighborhood of Burden Hill. That description wouldn't peak my interest, but also doesn't do the graphic novel justice either.The storytelling is episodic, in that there are chapters that are a complete story into itself which makes for a fast read. There is a pack of animal friends, all dogs and one orphan cat who start uncovering supernatural cases in their neighborhood. They eventually become apprentices in the Wise Dog Society to further their training in fighting these evil forces. The supernatural stories cover a wide range from an evil coven of cats, a rain of mutant frogs, werewolves, magical earthen golems, ghosts, and more.
OK, I selected this book based solely on its title, but boy did I luck out. What an incredibly gifted writer Sam Kean is. In The Violinist's Thumb: and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code, he translates dense scientific concepts into lucid, beautiful prose.
He also knows how to tell stories. The first chapter contrasts the biographies of two of DNA's discoverers, Mendel and the less well-known, Johannes Friedrich Miescher, who because he studied fish slime had to work in very cold conditions so that his material would not deteriorate before he could examine it. And who knew that Mendel joined a monastery so he could secure a university education? His passion for raising peas taught us so much about human inheritance.
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It would be interesting to know how the publishing numbers break down, but a quick peek at the New York Times Best Sellers hardcover list of the top 16 titles shows an exact 50/50 female to male representation. Which to me (unsing completely unscientific methods) shows that books written by women are just as popular or being read in the same numbers as books written by men.
Do you like spy novels? Ones that mix in politics and love? If so McEwan's Sweet Tooth is for you.
It's set in the rollicking early 70s in England - a time of drugs, rock and roll, miniskirts, and--on a more serious note--women's entry into careers en masse. It tells the story of Selena, a bright vicar's daughter who loves to read and read fast. Her mother, in the only moment of life- dissatisfaction she's ever expressed to her daughter, advises Selena to go to Cambridge and study math so she can have a challenging career. Selena, being the good older daughter, follows her mom's advice and gives up studying literature for something better career-wise.
But Selena's real education begins the summer after college. An older tutor she meets through a boyfriend soon becomes her lover. In the process he teaches her about food, wine, politics, international relations, and how to read the newspapers for hidden facts and government policies. He's grooming her for a role in M15, the spy service. But then Tony leaves her abruptly after an argument so Selena goes to London and does find a job with M15.
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