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By FRANCO PANIZO
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The U.S. men's national team got back on track in their road to the 2014 World Cup on Tuesday night and they did so with one of their more dominating performances under U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
Four days after suffering a disappointing World Cup qualifying loss to Jamaica in Kingston, the United States rebounded by defeating the Reggae Boyz, 1-0, in in front of a sold-out crowd of 23,881 at Columbus Crew Stadium. The win gave the Americans seven points through their first four matches of the third round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying, pulling them level with Guatemala and ahead of Jamaica by goal differential.
Herculez Gomez scored the winning goal in the match played on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, hitting a free kick in the 55th minute past Jamaica goalkeeper Dwayne Miller to end the U.S.'s run of bad luck. The Americans were the dominant side for much of the 90 minutes but hit the posts and crossbar a combined three times in a scoreless first half.
"The team did really well, especially what you saw (in) the first 30 minutes was outstanding," said U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. "The only thing that was missing was scoring goals. Posts unfortunately don't count. We said at halftime, 'We've got to keep pushing, we've got to force it, at moments you've got to force your luck' and it came with a beautiful free kick from Herculez.
"It was very important after that frustrating loss there Friday night in Kingston to come back and get in pole position."
Klinsmann not only changed the 4-4-2 diamond midfield formation from Friday's defeat to a 4-1-3-2, but he also made a few personnel moves that paid dividends for the Americans. The German-born coach played Danny Williams as a defensive midfielder and he also inserted Graham Zusi and Jose Torres on the outside of the midfield, which helped with possession and allowed for fullbacks Steve Cherundolo and Fabian Johnson to overlap and get involved in the attack.
That resulted in the U.S. seeing much of the ball from the opening whistle and they were able to get numbers forward and create several quality looks on goal. Unfortunately for the Americans, they were either denied by Miller or by the posts and crossbar.
Cherundolo, Zusi and Williams all had shots smack off the woodwork and the Americans were unable to find the back of the net despite having eight shots in the first half.
"You live through that," said Klinsmann. "I just wanted to make sure that we keep on pushing it, that they always kind of go for the next occasion. It was really important in my whole career as a striker, you can't get frustrated. You've got to stay hungry for the next one that comes and that's what I told them at halftime. Not even one negative thought you can have after missing or hitting the post or the crossbar.
"You've got to stay positive and force it and we had that sense from the team (that) they were very determined to do really well on a very special night. They really deserved it."
The breakthrough came 10 minutes after halftime. Clint Dempsey was fouled by Rodolph Austin from about 28 yards out and Gomez took full advantage of the opportunity by hitting a curling free kick that Miller got a hand to but could not push clear.
"It was unlucky for him but after all we did in the first half and hitting the posts and what not, we deserved a bit of luck," said Gomez. "In the first half I was taking free kicks and I was feeling confident with the way the ball was moving and how it was going for me so I was excited to pull the trigger there."
The Americans continued to push for another goal but Jamaica found some life as they broke out of their defensive shell and tried to win more possession. Tim Howard had to come up big on one play to deny Austin in the 80th minute, but aside from that the U.S. was not troubled much by the Reggae Boyz.
"Obviously we're back on track, we know it's not done yet, we know it's down to the wire. That's what World Cup qualifiers are all about," said Klinsmann. "We're going to be very, very sharp and focused going into Antigua and then at home in Kansas City playing Guatemala."
The United States is now tied on seven points with Jamaica and Guatemala in Group A. Guatemala topped Antigua and Barbuda, 1-0, in the other match on Tuesday.
The U.S. will round out group play with a pair of matches in October. The Americans visit Antigua and Barbuda on October 12 before playing Guatemala at home at Livestrong Sporting Park four days later.
What do you think of the U.S.'s 1-0 win over Jamaica? Who impressed you? Impressed by the pro-U.S. crowd at Columbus Crew Stadium?
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The positives: Cameron continues to play well and solidified his spot on the NATS roster after the Scotland game. Williams made a case for his spot and had a great shot (as well as some good touches). Herc continues to have a nose for the goal. Johnson played well and has earned a spot at LB. Zusi obviously played great. My only question though: where has that effort been? I watched him earlier this year and he didn't stand out for me like he did tonight.
The so-so's: Torres continues to unimpress IMHO. He's not bad, but I thought the US would have someone better we could turn to; coach Klinsmann obviously doesn't share my opinion. I like Edu on he back line; in the midfield…not so much. He's fast and physical but his touch isn't what it needs to be at the national level. Shea was so-so…after the first time he played for the NATS I thought he was going to be a game changer for us. Hopefully he turns it around. Altidore hasn't impressed me much lately. I think he deserves a spot on the team, but if I had to choose between Altidore and Gomez, I'd pick Gomez.
The questions: Cherundolo and Bocanegra continue to play well, but each time they start it reminds me we really need to start transitioning them (unfortunately). We all thought Chandler was the answer at RB, but that's gone. Spector is a bit too slow at the national level. Lichaj seems to be the likely choice. I still think this team could benefit from Adu and Feilhaber. I thought Adu played very well against Panama, and I think the US could benefit from having skilled players in the midfield.
Important win for the US and loved to see the possession in the first half. Williams and Zusi stepped up to the plate and Cameron continues to look like one of the CB asnwers. Boca was just average. Any CB can look organized and composed when your team has 80% possession but he looked flat footed once the Jam started to attack. Thought Dolo had a good game but his service needs to be better. Realize he and Johnson were more attacking but that is easy to do when you have that much possession. He may be the best RB we have but I do not think he will be able to play 90 minutes for 3 pool games by 2014, so someone else is needed.
Torres slows the game down too much going forward and is too slow of foot and speed of play to add much at this level.
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I think the whole outside back depth issues will be sorted out but Parkhurst added his name to the mix if Chandler ends up not playing for the US. Lichaj should also be in that mix.
Jay in Ft. Lauderdale
True. Still though, can MB and LD please get healthy?! Does anyone think we struggle at all the last 2 games if they're on the field? … and is Stuey ever coming back?
Alex G
IMO Dempsey needs to start playing smart soccer, simple soccer, he always wants to show off and wastes a lot of chances with bad ball control skills.
This result is not enough, if we are having trouble in this stage of the qualifiers, I don´t want to know what´s going to happen to us in the Hex, God help us.
Berkerman is the new Bornstien!
This, coming from a Revs fan? Really?
Donovan depends on transition to do anything. He would have been invisible last night
If he did…those are two impressive games. And judging a sub off of ten minutes of work, especially a striker like Jozy, is not really fair.
No goals against Jamaica is not impressive. Possession when the other team bunkers doesnt mean much either. When Jamaica started attacking in the second half, we didnt look so hot
These 3 rules are why you are not coaching the US Men's National team.
You do know that we did score right? It was 1-0. We won. Sooooooo, is that impressive, or hot?
I agree louis z. And if we did, we had to a little bit. We couldn't keep bombing guys forward when Jamaica was looking for a quick counter. I think it was the perfect game. And Jamaica is good, better than they've ever been and probably top 5 in Concacaf right now.
The Imperative Voice
And I felt like the player we missed more than anyone was Landon, who could have been put in either Torres, Zusi, or Gomez's spots and been an upgrade. While I agree that he blossoms in an open game that lets him run, there were plenty of opportunities to get around the corner on their backs last night that the nominal wings Zusi and Torres lacked the physical tools to exploit. And then in the period where the game opened up after the goal, and Richards came in, that would have been Landon paradise. So there were windows where Landon would have helped.
Highlight of the match for him…he was off…
The Imperative Voice
I've said this a few times now but the USA has in recent years played Italy well because they back off and let us play, then try and win the ball with physical defense. This allows Jozy time to receive the ball with less pressure and figure out his options. Italy does this because their defense is traditionally so good it can beat most teams sitting back, and thus feels like it can be non-gimmicky and conservative.
However, against the USA, it's an invitation for us to move the ball downfield and actually hides some of our passing and touch flaws. Jozy doesn't have to trap in pressure. Jozy can iso his man. Jozy can get the ball and then make a deliberate decision.
It's a very good matchup for us, just like T&T was for Jozy.
The Eredivisie bears some similarities in that they tend to emphasize flowing offense over half-court, physical defense. That AZ is not MLS or England or Brazil is thus to Jozy's benefit in terms of appearances.
But it's not general reality. Most national teams aren't going to let Jozy trap, think, turn. They're going to hassle him like Jamaica, at which point last night he started back passing to no one, flubbing traps, etc.
So I disagree. I think Jozy is instead better suited to games coming up like Guatemala where the opposition is smaller and he can bowl them over or head over them. But Jamaica had some beefy backs and that neutralized Jozy.
The Imperative Voice
I realize Landon is a part answer to the question, but they need to sit down and figure out what the wing player pool is? Cause a continuing pattern I see is having players in wide positions whose crossing is mediocre and who lack the speed to create their own openings. Torres was anonymous and Zusi looked better receiving the ball in the 35 yard danger area centrally. There was no chalk on the boots winger with speed to get to the endline, and the irony is that sort of play was what was flanking Jamaica's bunker and then getting ground passes turned into shots from the top of the 18. Also the crossing was decent but not really really sharp.
So, on top of DMs posing as CAMs we also need to work on CAMs posing as wing mids. Shea was as close to a wing as we had and his confidence looked shot. Really need to figure out who the wings are because that has recently been an American strength.
If they are going to play flowing passing soccer there also needs to be more movement off the ball. The guys off the ball are generally standing looking at the man on the ball or only moving vertically. Rarely do we see diagonal movement, or much creativity in our movement. Also, while improved, I think we still are making negative passes when good positive options are available. Particularly with a team that is bunkered in, a quick pass forward in transition affords you a little more space and options on attack. If instead you make a negative pass and build slowly, you let them get all 11 behind the ball and it really does make stringing the passes together more challenging. Also, if the pass to an advanced position does not lead to additional forward attacking options, you can almost always find a drop ball and regroup.
The Second Gunman on the Grassy Knoll
Wise words from the Imperative Voice. Particularly a fan of the latter comment on a Landon paradise after Richards subbed in. The US had a lot of decent looks on the counter but were too slow in many of those instances. LD always has endurance and fitness to burn in 90+ minutes (see US v Algeria). I think he would have been a good bet to capitalize on those counters.
….that would actually be Torres… with the countless chances he has gotten, while Sasha is being overlooked. At least Berkerman is not a turn over machine and tracks back to defend unlike Torres. Alot of people who bag on Berkerman, clearly dont follow MLS…he is a holding midfielder on RSL (a team that is known for high possession) he is able to get out of pressure…exactly what Klinsi wants.
agree. Johnson tried to fly by on wide runs outside of Torres on the left, but didn't have the ball played to him when he overlapped
No they couldn't. It took Jamaica only a minute to up the pressure all over the field after the goal was scored. If the goal had come early, the US would have come under pressure much sooner. In that case more of the game would have looked like the last half hour with the US basically hanging on instead of like the first half with Jamaica content to put 10 or 11 in the PA and defend only inside 30 yards.
Since 82
I would prefer to see Alitdore as well. Gomez did not do much aside from the set piece.
what, his touch is one of the worst parts of his game!!
Since 82
Great first half. Mediocre second half. We played very well for 45 minutes, but we could of seen our WC chances go sideways if Jamaica had gotten lucky.
scoring goals and being a highly technical / smart are mutually exclusive. his goal stats are not an indication of quality. the guy sucks!!
i think both teams are good,give jamaica credit.jamaica did not want to loose the game so they played defensive and game out after the goal was scored and the usa team did not look so good after jamaica came out to play.hope both team reaches the next round so they can prove themself again.good luck both teams. two good teams.
Does anyone miss JONATHAN BORSTEIN..?????lol worst mnt player


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I know a lot of people who want to travel the world. I love travelling. It's one of those things I've loved doing since I was young. I wanted to share my experiences with other people.
I always have little heart attack kind of things when I'm at airports. They make me feel uncomfortable. Other people make me feel uncomfortable. Strangers; people I've never met before. Ones who you have to unwillingly share your personal space with. I always just try and plug my music in and ignore everything around me, but it doesn't always work, especially when I've been up for hours and hours in the car, with my little brother, who is two years younger than me, and gets somewhat hyper when we're going abroad.
I wanted to write about where I went last May. Nearly a year ago now. My mum, dad, brother and I, we spent a week in Santa Maria di Leuca in the south of Italy. Right near the boot part. I am absolutely useless at Geography, and the only reason I know where Italy is on a map is because I know it looks like a high heeled boot, as someone kindly pointed out to our class back in primary school.
We flew to Italy. I know some people are terrified of flying, but it doesn't bother me. In fact, it seems to actually fascinate me. I love how it feels when the plane goes really really fast when it's just about to take off, and when there's some air pressure, and it goes all bumpy, and you look around and see worry on people's faces. I find it kind of amusing. I love when the plane suddenly goes down and it makes your stomach feel all funny, and I love the danger of it. The adrenaline.
That's something else about me... I'm obsessed with adrenaline. I love doing things that make me feel alive, things that scare me. I'm a strong believer that you should do something that scares you every day. I guess some people think I'm insane because I do a lot of stupid things. I don't think they're actually stupid, it's not like anyone is forcing me to do them. I just like it. I don't like living with stupid regrets.
Yeah, anyway. So when we got there, we had to find our hire car, and it was really hot outside, I remember. I'm one of those people who burns in the sun, if I stay there for too long, I get headaches and my freckles come out and they annoy me, and I have a slight squint. But I love the sunshine. It makes me happy.
When we were driving, I remember the smell... The smell of hire cars. They just smell new, if that makes any sense. If I get in a new car, I will automatically think of being on holiday, because that's what I associate it with.
There were loads of cacti. Everywhere. I remember going up little country roads that were pretty much isolated.
Some people dislike Italy because it's old and dusty, but I think it's beautiful. I find the whole isolated artistic thing absolutely beautiful. I think Italy is more romantic than Paris, actually...
Italy also reminds me of Mark Knopfler's Sailing To Philadelphia album. The first time I went to Italy, I went to Tuscany and Pisa, I honestly believe it's the most beautiful place I have ever been in my entire life. It was perfect. Going past vineyards and sitting in a pizzeria when the sun was just going down as a thunderstorm was setting in overhead. I love thunderstorms. They are one of the somewhat beautiful mysteries of this world.
The first night we spent in Santa Maria di Leuca was amazing. My brother and I had a separate room in the hotel to my parents, and we had a balcony. In the middle of the night, I just crept out of my room and sat on the balcony. The air was cool and calming. I read a little bit, wrote some stuff, and watched the sky, because it was just perfect.
It's one of those places I've been begging my parents to take me back to, because I swear ever since I left, I've been physically missing it.


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By one estimate, nonresidential private investment grew only 2.6% last year after expanding more than 7% in 2011 and '12. Greater business investment is required if we want to see sustained job growth and higher real wages.
The federal tax code has been amended about 15,000 times since 1986. Last year alone, more than 60 provisions expired. Without question, this ever-changing and temporary tax system is discouraging investment.
It's time to find common ground on comprehensive tax reform that will put our nation's interests, not politics, at the forefront.
Many of our global competitors have reduced their corporate tax rates and generated significant new investment. We must follow suit if we wish to remain in the game.
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Most pro players realize that being a professional athlete is vastly different then life in college. Hansbrough is no exception, having figured out rather quickly after losing most of his rookie year to injury. But it hasn't changed him. He's still got his routines, still sports a shy off-the-court personality and remains as focused as ever.
People don't always realize this is a job…
"This is a job. We're definitely not all living in the same place, like we were at Carolina. My teammates weren't my roommates. That's different. Just realizing that this is a job, and you could be gone, very quickly. You never know what happens in the NBA."
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"I'll wake up and go to my spot, where I always eat breakfast. They get my breakfast ready, and I take it down to the Fieldhouse. We'll do a shootaround. I'll come back home. I'll probably watch a little TV, take a little rest, then probably go grab some Q'doba. Afterwards I head down to the Fieldhouse, and work out before the game."
What do you like to watch on TV?
"I like to watch TV shows. I'm a big movie guy."
Action? Drama?
"Yeah, both. I recently finished all of "Prison Break." I watched the "Social Network." I'm always trying to catch new movies and try to work on my movie game."
What's your take on Twitter and social media?
"I think it's good. I think it gives you a chance to interact with your fans. It lets them know what type of person you are. I'm a big Twitter guy. I don't tweet a lot. I like to follow people and see what they're doing. I think it's cool from that aspect."
"Twitter can be useful or hurtful, depending how you use it. If you're out at two in the morning at a bar and drinking, and you go, "Hey, me and my guys are drinking," and you post a picture, it's not the smartest move. But you use it to interact with your fans and develop a fan base and give them a chance to see what type of person you are off the court."
Do you like to see what people Tweet back to you?
"Yeah, I love to see my fans' responses. But I'll be the first to block someone if they send me a hate Tweet, or something like that. I'll block people too."
What are your brother [Notre Dame guard] Ben's NBA prospects?
"I think he's got a shot. Some workouts will be important for him. I think he's got a chance to be in the league, and help a team."
Growing up, what were you and your brothers like?
"Greg [the oldest] was the most outgoing person. He's never met a stranger. I'm more laid back, and kind of shy. Ben's more of an in-your-face, let-you-know-how-it-is person."
Who was the best basketball player growing up?
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Film by Mira Nair, 1991
Full Citation: Anderson, Erika Surat. Film Review of Mississippi Masala by Mira Nair; Michael Nozik. Film Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Summer, 1993), pp. 23-26.
Anderson supports Nair's decision to keep white characters as peripheral to the story, however criticizes the lack of historical context the film provides about histories of British colonialism 25
"It's not mentioned that Indians had become the merchant class in Uganda, and as such were taken to be the agents of oppression, becoming targets of the Amin government. The less visible but more powerful force in Africa, the British, are not mentioned at all, nor is the legacy of their divide-and-conquer tactics." 25, I understand Anderson's point, and agree that more context could have aided the film. However, I think that the choice to keep white characters as peripheral and British colonialism as primarily invisible was intentional and powerful in its own way. This 'invisibility' of European domination is at work in an intereststing parallel between post-colonial Uganda and 1990s American south. As the film attests, Mississippi remains a highly racialized and segregated space, a constant reminder of the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. White bodies do not need to be present in order to impose racial boundaries on the brown and black bodies that populate the film. Just as in Uganda, the pointed absence of visible whiteness reinforces the residual power of colonialism and racial domination and perhaps gives a more realistic impression of what it means to live "post-colonially." Clearly the racial formations constructed by the British /Americans are still at work in Uganda and the American South., This point is articulated best by Seshagiri on page 185
I think that this raises an important question about Nair's positionality and the gaze directed at this film. This is a point taken up in Ballal's critique.
"I argue that the inescapable legacy of empire produces a disjuncture between the film's forward-looking politics and its ambivalent ending: Mississippi Masala illuminates but fails to transcend the geographical and historical boundaries of British Colonialism and American slavery. Ultimately, the very hybridity that Mira Nair celebrates through vibrant spectacle finds itself bereft of a "place" on empire's geographical and political map." 183
The most effective part of her analysis explains the racial formations at work in the U.S. and in memory from Uganda that conspire to Mina and Demetrius from their communities when their relationship is discovered., "In an economy where Indians have, "For the the African American community, economic success in the racially mixed public arena can signal a betrayal of one's private racial origins...[Demetrius' 'place']-invisible until its boundaries are crossed- is a cultural periphery from which Demetrius is allowed to pursue the American dream only if he poses no sexual threat to other racial groups." 190-191, I wish that Seshagiri would have gone further into the colonial roots of racialized sexuality. Moments of her analysis approach this but do not fully engage with it. On page 189 she parallels Amin's 1972 statement that Indians refuse to marry Black Ugandans with Tyrone's statement in the truck. He states emphatically "if you fall into bed with one of their daughters -- then your ass gonna swing." 189. I think that it is important to differentiate between these two legacies in order to honor the particular history of Black Americans in the United States' South. Tyrone references the horrific history of lynching in this statement. Black men were often lynched if they were upstart successes in their community, though the white community claimed that it was for rape of a white woman. This history is important to reading the Black community's concern about Demetrius and Mina, and also to see how Mina's brown body, is reinscribed as white within this particular geography and moment. While I agree with some of the comparisons that Seshagiri makes between the Indian-Ugandan and African-American communities' experiences of migration and national liminality. However, I fear that the American south and Greenwood, MI specifically are not analyzed as meaningful places in Mississippi Masala. While they may be landscapes also characterized by diaspora and estrangement, the Black community is also deeply rooted in the land and have their distinct narrative of life in white America within which another racial Other may be contextualized.
Full Citation: Ballal, Prajeeti Punja. Illiberal Masala: The Diasporic Distortions of Mira Nair and Dinesh D'Souza. Weber the Contemporary West, Winter 1998, Volume 15.1.
It is within this context, that Ballal locates Nair within the academic/physical "West," whose education, privilege and access are residual benefits from the colonial system. Mohanty distinguishes between racialized waves of South Asian immigration, from the "yellow peril" of 1924-1942 to the "model minority" of 1943-1960s. (2), This is related to the questions that Anderson pose at the end of her piece about the rights and abilities of Nair to represent her own community and the implications of that when a wider/whiter audience is concerned.
Ballal locates Nair within the academic/physical and psychic West and therefore charges her work with reinscribing colonial practices of seeing the west as "progressive/modern" and the non-West as "backward/traditional." Ballal argues this in specific regard to the representation of Mina, who is at the mercy of her "traditional Indian family/patriarchy" that wants to arrange a marriage. This view of limited freedom allows the United States/West as the location at which Mina can escape and really be "free", "This representation of Third World women is parallel to strategies employed by colonial discourse... In Mississippi Masala, the body of the young, female hero is used to cross racial boundaries within a discourse of eroticization. Mina is decked in the flaming oranges, reds and golds of titillating, "ethnic" costume and comportment...The film thus serves the exigencies of the Euro-American marketplace where the exotic hero becomes the object of a Western gaze." (4), I think that this is an extremely important aspect of the film that is easily lost to white audiences. Mina is very sexualized in this film, and I agree with Ballal that it is within the discourse of sexuality that she can move fluidly through differently racialized spaces. This is a subtlety that Anderson does not pick up on in her critique. We see this in the first scene of Mina in Greenwood, when she flips up her hair in the grocery store. It is also true in the club scene, where it is through sensual movement that Mina is welcomed and desired in the Black space. Seshagiri sees the use of bright colors against brown skin as a celebration of brown skin and of mixed love(186-187). I think that it is important to see that both celebration and exotification can be happening simultaneously in this film. This is a consequence of Nair's positionality, as Ballal points out, and also of the dominant white gaze of mainstream America., Colonial representations of the "native" male body as effeminized can also be seen in Mississippi Masala through the character of Anil and Ponte who are impotant/sexually deprived/disfunctional (5), What I think is missing from Ballal's critique is an examination of the exoticization / sexualization of Demetrius and the Black male body in relation to Mina/ Indian women in the film. The motel scene, when Anil bursts in is clearly playing on Black penis envy, a phenomenon that can also be traced to colonial formations of race and sex and to the class conflicts constructed between Indian and Black communities in both Greenwood and Uganda. See Seshagiri for more on this (189)
Full Citation: Koshy, Susan. The Fiction of Asian American Literature. The Yale Journal of Criticism 9. (1996) 315-346
"The potential for reinscription of ethnic codings is taken up in a comic mode in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala. Her story revises prototypical narratives of ethnic formation, and the rubric "Asian American" strains to contain the displacements through which ethnicity travels...India as the space of 'origin' never materializes as locale in the film...If the film unsettles or ideas about the category Asian American, it also ironizes the confidence with which we read the category African American by offering us an-other African American story set in Mississippi." 23, This analysis illuminates the hybridity in the narrative of Mississipi Masala, beyond the simplistic reading of hybridity within the "miscegenation anxiety" at work in the film. As Koshy demonstrates inexplicity, the hybridity at work does not erase boundaries of ethnicity/race/origin/nationality to appease the inclusive impuse of multiculturalism or as an easy solution to the conflict of the story. In this case, hybridity stands to complicate borders and allow characters to be imagined differently. This is an interpretation that is interesting to read alongside Seshagiri., How does this interact with Ballal's critique? How can we reconcile their perspectives? This is an example of critiques from distinct disciplines that are not in dialogue in these pieces. How does post-colonial theory fit into Koshy's conception of Asian American Studies? In what way is she constructing borders to the field even while she is interrogating them? How do South Asians fit/not fit within her exploration?
Full Citation: Shukla, Sandhya. Locations for South Asian Diasporas. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 30, (2001), pp. 551-572
A main point of Shukla's article is the processes of narrative production for South Asians in diaspora. She highlights the importance of imaginaries of nation and home and the limits of geography-bounded identification. 553
Shukla from an anthropological perspective is also interested in the ways that different disciplines produce knowledge about South Asian "difference" and cautions against the essentializing potential of categorization. She points to three other forms of narrative production that may speak to/for the experience of South Asians and may also come into conflict with their own understandings of their experiences. Each of these structures contributes to analyzing South Asian subjectivities. Shukla objects, however, to the lack of dialogue between the disciplines., postcolonialism, "The realities, memories, and rebuttals to British colonialism have profoundly affected diasporic peoples and their cultures. In idea and deed, colonialism, then, has created a language in which to understand the development of nationalisms, at home and abroad...these fields also contain questions related to genre and textuality that illuminate the imaginaries central to South Asian diasporic cultural production and experience." 553, In this passage, Shukla indicates that British colonialism continues to influence the ways that nation is conceived by post-colonial subjects. How then could this explain Ballal's argument that Nair is rehashing colonial representations in Mississippi Masala ? Nair is also a post-colonial subject who within some labels would be combined with other South Asian diasporic peoples despite the vast differences in their experiences of migration, in terms of class, nation and gender especially. Here we see the conflicts arising between different disciplinary approaches to the same constructed identity., "Imaginaries" of home and nation, and therefore the construction of a South Asian diasporic "self" are also central to the narrative structure of Mississippi Masala. The audience comes to understand the emotional and intellectual processes of Mina's family through their memories of Uganda., Mina flashes back to her birthdays as a child and the experience of being told to leave "home" as she experiences sex with Demetrius for the first time. This indicates a sense of anxiety residing in Mina about being forced to leave this next home she has found, which she indicates is within the heart/body of Demetrius., We watch Jay try to sort through his feelings about Mina and Demetrius by reflecting on his relationship with Okelo. It is implied that he has not yet recovered from his feelings of betrayal by Okelo, and symbolically the nation of Uganda. Perhaps his sense of betrayal from "home" has become reflected on the black body of Demetrius, now a symbol of his own daughter's embrace of America(n) as "home." (see Seshagiri's analysis of these memories), racial and ethnic formation, "Historically, and more globally, South Asian diasporas can be linked to crucial shifts in the development of capitalism and explanatory discourses of difference; in both the political and military domination of the eastern and southern hemisphere, as well as in the insertion of their peoples into European and North American systems of labor, can be found the origins of the racialization of South Asian diasporas." 554, We see this angle in Mississippi Masala through the conflict that arises between the merchant Indian class in Uganda and the laboring class of Black Africans, mirrored by the Indian property/business owners in Greenwood and the Black laborers. This is a narrative of racial and ethnic formation that explains one aspect of the way that Indians were racialized and treated in different spatial and temporal locations., globalization, "The juncture of two facts render South Asian diasporas analytically ripe for globalization theorists: the emergent third-world technologically based economy of India and the often crucial role that Indian migrant financers around the world play in a range of transnational capital formations." 554


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6 RV Parks near Charleston, Newfoundland
Trinity, Newfoundland 14.19 miles E
Port Rexton, Newfoundland 15.73 miles E
Eastport, Newfoundland 18.75 miles NW
Thorburn Lake, Newfoundland 21.03 miles SW
Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland 26.63 miles NW
Rte 230, Discovery Trail Charleston, Newfoundland A0C 1K0 (map) | (709) 462-3370
Sites: 20 | Latest Rate: $20.00 | 8 Reviews
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Sep 2016 - $20.00
Lovely park on a small lake. We stayed here to tour the Bonavista peninsula. A storm was coming with high winds, so the owner placed us between two other large trailers to shelter us, thank goodness. Otherwise you could park on the lake area. - Kincardine
Jul 2015 - $25.00
This is a nice older campground that is VERY family oriented with many activities geared towards children. We arrived on July 4; they were having a weekend Canada 'party'...free hot dogs & cupcakes at lunch, live music, children's games, etc. In the evening, they had more live music (benefitting the Canada version of Make a Wish Foundation), a community campfire as well as fireworks over the lake. All in all a nice 'party. Yes, this park is older, but the owner/host is VERY nice & service-oriented. The sites are a little close and required a couple of orange leveling blocks--but the biggest thing to be aware of is that it is only 15amp. (Blew the breaker & owner/host nicely fixed it and showed me how to do it again if need be). The park also seems to cater to a lot of 'locals' as everyone seemed to know everyone. - itchyfeetx2
Jun 2015 - $30.00
Many seasonal campers, but sites were neat. Wanted Wi-Fi, so got a small, tight site near the office. Wi-Fi is satellite-based, weak signal, somewhat intermittent. Nice owner/operator, but hard to find, not often in the office. Laundry is on honor system (nice), 1 washer, 1 dryer. Limited store on-site. Would likely look for somewhere else to stay in the future. - Loggenrock
Main Rd Trinity, Newfoundland A0C 2S0 (map) | (709) 464-3657
Sites: 12 | Latest Rate: $23.00 | 2 Reviews
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Jun 2016 - $23.00
I am posting this review even though we didn't stay here. The reasons we didn't stay are, there was only 15 amp available, there are 6 sites that are available, you must back in from the busy street, down a curving slope into the site. You do hear the traffic from that busy street. We were informed the women's bath house was not working, and there was a boil water order in effect. No sewer. Positives, being close to Trinity and close to the nice lake. So if you have a small trailer (>24 ft.), a truck camper, van or tent, this would be OK. - Living the Dream
Aug 2012 - $24.00
This is a small modest older park tied to a historic little cabin resort dating to the 1940s. Offers the basics for a stay while visiting nearby town of Trinity. The owners are gems, very friendly and welcoming, based at their little cafe office a short walk along the road from the campsites. There they serve coffee, scoop ice cream, offer hot dogs, etc in a friendly atmosphere where you can sit at a table for a good Wi-Fi signal. Can only handle RV or trailer up to about 26 feet. Bathrooms had toilet, sink shower and there were three...one each of men, women's and handicapped unisex. Felt like we had landed in the 1950s except for the Wi-Fi! Very pleasant stay. - NC Writer
Stock Cove Rd Port Rexton, Newfoundland A0C 2H0 (map) | (877) 214-2267
Sites: 57 | Latest Rate: $23.00 | 1 Reviews
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Aug 2011 - $23.00
This park is a long narrow site which means a lot of traffic as the roads are one way. Sites are large and quite private with tables and fire pits. This site had a lot of damage from hurricane Igor and as such some maintenance has suffered. Unserviced sites are $ 15 and serviced are $ 23. Water advisory required it to be boiled. The road to the park is either 5 or 12 km of rough gravel road. Good location to tour the Bonavista area from. - lrp374
Trans Canada Hwy 1 Newman Sound Exit Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland A0G 2L0 (map) | (709) 533-2801
Sites: 343 | Latest Rate: $26.00 | 4 Reviews
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Aug 2015 - $26.00
Gravel park roads were easy to navigate to our unserviced site which was a reasonably level gravel pad with plenty of space for our 37' MH and toad. The pad was surrounded by grass and a good cover of trees on three sides that gave a private feel. Some sites had WiFi, but not in our end of the loop, so we went to the camp store to connect. We did not use the bathrooms or the laundry. Note that the rating reflects our unserviced site, and would have been higher had we been on one with hookups. We considered the price a pretty good value for the amenities offered. - DaveInOhio
Jun 2013 - $25.00
The campground is large with level, partially serviced sites that are in the forest or in the open. We chose a site that was near the comfort station in the open (staff said there would be fewer bugs.) The bugs were horrible. I was surprised that you could hear the Trans-Canada-Hwy from our site. On Saturday night there were lively groups with lots of campfires which caused smoke to settle into the campground making the air quality seem poor (watery eyes and coughing.) There is a camp store (not yet open) with WiFi. We woke up every morning to moose droppings and footprints around our trailer. On a positive note, the comfort station was clean and newly renovated (the tile work was actually beautiful.) The visitor center is awesome (helpful staff, gift shop, touch tanks, restaurant, and WiFi.) The coastal hiking trail is quite nice. The playgrounds were great as long as you stayed moving, so the bugs didn't get you. - barkingbear
Aug 2012 - $35.00
Rate shown includes taxes and res fees. Big campground with woodsy sites. Best A area electric sites are 22, 24, 25, 28, 32, 34 for closeness to the Sound. Hiking trail runs through campground. Modern tile bathrooms in section A with Corian counters. Visitor center and camp store cafe had Wi-Fi, but only about half those attempting seemed to be able to connect, whether using a PC laptop, Apple or iPad, for some unknown reason. Laundry in cafe store building, $2.50 each to wash or dry. - NC Writer
400 Main St Hwy 310 Eastport, Newfoundland A0G 1Z0 (map) | (709) 677-2438
Sites: 153 | Latest Rate: $28.00 | 1 Reviews
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Aug 2013 - $28.00
We were surprised when we found this campground, but were very happy with our stay here. The Wi-Fi was pretty good, our cell phones (Verizon and AT&T) both had signal. Interior roads are gravel, but plenty wide enough. Some sites were very level, but some were not. They are putting in some brand new sites that will be ready (serviced) next year. The laundry room was clean and even has an ironing board and iron. There are lots of seasonals here but they all seem to take good care of their sites. Only one OTA TV station, which is typical of Newfoundland. We would definitely stay here again. - Soos
Trans Canada Hwy 1 Thorburn Lake, Newfoundland A0C 2G0 (map) | (709) 427-7668
Sites: 129 | Latest Rate: $30.00 | 4 Reviews
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Aug 2016 - $30.00
Lots of activities. Pool, beach, boat or canoe rentals, go carts. Sites are clean, level and easy to access. Lake is beautiful. - Hornet424
Jul 2013 - $25.00
This is one of the worst campgrounds we've stayed in. Trash in our site (dirty diaper, cigarette butts, beer bottles and caps). We had a pull through site with no services, which is fine, we knew that beforehand. The park is NOT big rig friendly. We kept hitting fairly large branches on the narrow campground roads, which were full of potholes. Kids were everywhere, but I blame the parents for not keeping them off the roads. Neighbors played loud music, singing along, until 1 am. If you want to use the hot tub, its $20/ 30 minutes. Want to swim in the pool? $5 per person. You can boondock nearby for free, and that's what we'll do next time. - Soos
Jul 2013 - $33.00
We stayed three nights to see the area. Our site was large enough for our large MDT and 5er and level. Water and electric and they have a dump station. Park caters to family and children as they have a lot of things for them. The park is also filled with seasonal RV's and very few sites for the traveling RV's. This park had numerous small children riding small bikes and 12 volt cars around on the roadways totally unsurpervised. It was very hard to drive through the park due to the children playing in the roadway.They advertised Wi-Fi Internet but when I checked in they stated they no longer had Wi-Fi and that it had been discontinued. Another boil water before using park. - chiefneon


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Yes and no. Unfortunately, eBay has become something of a customer service nightmare for most people, as is evidenced by the results of any search for "contact eBay," "call eBay," "chat with eBay," or similar phrases. Articles, blog posts, and websites offering contact information all give different answers, and most of them are wrong.

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Live chat: Gone. eBay's live chat system launched with prominent placement on every eBay page. Then links to it were buried in help pages. Then all references were removed, but one link for live chat continued to circulate. Officially, eBay's live chat is long defunct.

Direct email: Gone. Even longer gone are the days when you could email eBay directly from your email account using convenient addresses like "safeharbor@ebay.com" to get a real human response. Don't even try.

Unity across international sites: Gone. Some international sites still have these links or options; some don't. Though eBay handles most of the international customer support in the same facilities as U.S. support, agents helping international users will generally indicate that they don't have access to U.S. accounts in their system.

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By email through web form (in rare cases). To email eBay customer support directly,  try this eBay web form. It will ask you to sign in (and may give you an error if you are already signed in when you open the tool, so you may have to sign out before doing so, then sign in again on the way into the tool), and will then offer you a web form that reaches an email box inside eBay's customer support department. Unfortunately, eBay has begun to ignore or provide canned responses pointing to their automated tools in response to an email sent this way, so your chances of getting help by email dwindle every day. It's not clear how long this form will remain live.

By telephone. If you're not a fan of telephone customer support, you may just have to grit your teeth and place a call nonetheless when trying to reach eBay. Though live chat links and email links used to be scattered through the automated system, now all options either point to other tools or to a link that provides an eBay telephone number and pin. Use these and you'll be able to talk to a human about your issue.

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Do a Google search and you'll find lots of numbers scattered around the web for eBay. A few of them are good; most of them have been changed. Trying them one-by-one and site-by-site is a good way to waste an afternoon and a lot of phone minutes—and you might still not get anyone.

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For many issues, contacting eBay directly may not be the most helpful tack anyway. Though eBay is doing its best to leave the eBay community behind, the eBay community remains a strong one and in many cases, you're more likely to get useful answers by asking:

eBay discussion boards. If your question is category-specific or region-specific, you'll probably get reasonable help or answers from people that tend to know more than eBay's own customer service representatives by posting on eBay's discussion boards.

eBay Answer Center. This goes double for eBay's Answer Center, which is basically eBay's shadow customer service system, powered by the eBay community and by a few eBay staffers that pop in and post every now and then. The Answer Center is easy to use and many, many times more helpful in many cases than eBay customer service.

eBay and PayPal Contacts for the Determined

Though the try-all-the-phone-numbers-you-find method of contacting eBay is the long, arduous way to go, one of the longest lists of contact information for eBay is to be found at The Consumerist. Though the information there was posted several years ago and is solely the responsibility of The Consumerist, there are at least enough options here to keep you dialing (rather than Google searching) for a few hours.


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