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A view from West Virginia campus
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- It was nearly 1 a.m. Sunday morning, but local basketball courts had seemingly never been busier.
Kids of all ages, with excitement to release after their West Virginia basketball team had just advanced to the Final Four, found their way to the nearest court and began to do their best Da'Sean Butler impersonations, imagining they were the All-American leading his team to victory that night.
Most courts had to be lit by dim spotlights and the headlights of passing cars. But there were plenty of lights that night as traffic lined the streets to the Harrison-Marion Regional Airport in Bridgeport, W.Va., where the Mountaineers were scheduled to arrive two hours after clinching the East Regional championship with an upset win over No. 1 seed Kentucky.
Page 2 taps a student journalist on each Final Four campus to paint a picture of March Madness.
• Emily Newell at Butler
• Gabe Starrosta at Duke
• Brian Gawthorpe at West Virginia
• Joey Nowak at Michigan State
There, more than 600 fans gathered outside the airport gates in hopes of getting a glimpse of the team as it returned to the Mountain State and boarded its transport bus en route to Morgantown.
Nearly an hour later, more than 1,000 people were on hand at the WVU Coliseum. Although it was 2:30 a.m., screaming fans still dressed in their Old Gold and Blue apparel held signs and banners while a local radio station broadcasted the team's arrival live throughout the tri-state area.
The entire team, including head coach Bob Huggins, addressed the crowd, with much of their statements expressing their appreciation of the fans.
"You don't know how much these guys love you all," Huggins told the crowd.
It wasn't the first time the team has been welcomed home with such a reception. The night the Mountaineers won the program's first Big East Conference championship, fans flocked to the now-traditional meeting sites.
Times such as those help the team appreciate whom they are truly playing for.
"It's an amazing feeling knowing you have this kind of support from everybody," senior forward Wellington Smith said. "The state has become a family to us."
Through their hard work as an underdog, pursuit of perfection, and pride in what they do and where they come from, Huggins and his team have become an ideal representative for their followers. Those are three characteristics West Virginia University prides itself on. It's what the state is all about.
The run has transformed the university into "a basketball school," one player stated. It's not farfetched to see why that just might be the case.
Since that night, fans can't seem to escape the constant celebration. They wouldn't want to, anyway.
Sound bites from the Mountaineers' Big East and East Regional championships have filled the airwaves of almost every radio station within reach. People from all walks of life call in to radio and television shows hoping to share with fellow fans where they were and what they were doing when Devin Ebanks launched the basketball into the air as the final buzzer sounded, signaling the program had punched its ticket to the Final Four for the first time since 1959.
The university itself is on spring break, but there's still a continual buzz surrounding the team on campus between all the ticket searching and trip planning. Banners proclaiming the school's support for the team wave throughout the university grounds while Morgantown businesses and restaurants have decorated their buildings with the Old Gold and Blue.
Messages written by fans on a school-sponsored Web site read: "This means the world to us," "You make me feel a part of the team" and "Your heart and spirit is infectious."
It's a time to cherish if you're a Mountaineers fan. After a previous 51-year Final Four drought, fans never know when the program will have this much success again.
The team's followers have grabbed on, held tight and made sure not to forget a second of the Mountaineers' run at what could become the school's first national championship in a top sport.
Win or lose, the team can rest assured it won't be taking this journey alone.
Brian Gawthrop is a junior at West Virginia University, majoring in business management. He is the sports editor of the school newspaper, the Daily Athenaeum.
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I am very interested in hiring a classic for the day in October, to transport myself and my wife to be from the Church that we are to be married in, to our reception (roughly 5 miles down the road).
I am enquiring as to whether anyone within this community would be willing to loan me their car for a short period of time on a Saturday in October (Payment will be given, of course)
I understand this may be an odd request, however any help on the matter would be greatly received. I should note that the wedding will be taking place in Marlow, Bucks.
Many thanks,
You either need to contact one of the many specialist firms who do hire out classics for weddings, or get a mate to do you a favour. Offering to pay for the use of a private car may have insurance implications for a car not covered for hire.
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The Krays (1990)
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Directed by: Peter Medak
Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Tom Bell
Factual error: The recruits' hair is far too long when they parade after being conscripted. In those days Army recruits practically had their heads shaved - sideburns were shaved off to one inch above the ear (Army regulations). Curiously, this applies to the Staff Sergeant too - his hair would barely be visible under his hat.
Factual error: When Reggie Kray goes to visit Frances' parents for the first time he is driving a 'D' registered car, this would mean that the car was from 1966. This event happened before 1966 as they were married in April 1965.
Factual error: If you look at the band playing in the Regal Club the night the boy's mother first visits, the night where they first bring on the donkey, you'll notice that the drum kit used by the drummer in the band is, from what we can see, a 1980's Pearl kit, far too modern.
Visible crew/equipment: After Ronnie gets out of bed naked, he looks in the mirror and talks to himself. A microphone can be seen at the bottom of the mirror.
Deliberate mistake: When the people come into the club looking for money off the owner a fight breaks out between the Krays and the people the Krays stick a sword through the gang leaders hand. But it quite obviously goes through the gap in his fingers.
Visible crew/equipment: After the graveyard scene between violet and Ronnie, Ronnie is in a bathroom looking in the mirror. At the bottom right of the screen you can see a crew light.
Visible crew/equipment: Before Ronnie goes into kill George Cornell as hes getting out of the car look at the side window and you can see a boom mic reflected.


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LAFAYETTE — The Lafayette Parish School Board on Wednesday unanimously approved a school safety package designed to improve security on campuses with additional personnel, including a safety officer, school resource officer and dean of students.
The board also discussed but did not vote on the use of new alarm systems and new security cameras.
The school safety package was recommended after a review of campuses that reported increases in discipline issues after a new discipline policy was started this school year.
The package included:
- $275,000 for one safety officer each at Comeaux, Acadiana and Lafayette high schools and two officers at the N.P. Moss Preparatory campus, which houses the district's alternative program for students removed from their home school due to discipline issues.
- $225,000 for an additional assistant principal position at Lafayette and Comeaux high schools to address increased enrollment and a dean of students at Carencro High related to an increase in discipline issues at the school.
- $45,000 for an additional school resource officer at Carencro High.
Assistant Superintendent Sandra Billeaudeau said the costs of the alarm systems and security cameras are still under review. The district does not have the money to pay for new alarms and security cameras at this time, she said.
Billeaudeau told board members that a state task force organized in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn., in December to review school security issues might identify funding streams for districts.
Initial costs were estimated at $336,000 for new alarm systems and $873,000 for new security cameras to serve 42 campuses, Billeaudeau said. "Understand those two items are critical to our school safety," she said.
The package also identified the need for an intervention program for the district's most-troubled students; however, that program, administered by the nonprofit group AMIKids, was approved by the School Board at its Jan. 9 meeting.
The intervention program will cost about $123,000 for the remainder of the school year and the school system will share the expense with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office and the Lafayette Consolidated Government.
Other items discussed during the meeting included:
JOB DESCRIPTION: Board member Tehmi Chassion's effort to move up by two weeks action on the Superintendent Pat Cooper's request to amend a job description for a special assistant to the superintendent failed in a 4-5 vote.
The board in February approved the job description for the special assistant to the superintendent for facilities, maintenance, grounds, and transportation and required that person to have at least a high school diploma.
On Jan. 9, Chassion questioned the description and the lack of qualifications for Thad Welch, who does not have a high school diploma but who has worked in the special assistant to the superintendent position for the past year. Cooper submitted an amended job description that states a high school diploma or GED is preferred.
Voting in favor of moving the job description change to the action agenda were board members Rae Trahan, Shelton Cobb, Chassion and Tommy Angelle. Voting against moving the issue to the action agenda were Greg Awbrey, Mark Allen Babineaux, Mark Cockerham, Kermit Bouillion and Hunter Beasley.
Awbrey said the board's job is to ensure that policies are enforced. "Policy was not followed," he said.
"I don't have anything against anybody," Awbrey said. "It comes down to what we're supposed to do ... The people in my district are counting on me to make sure that we're treating everybody fairly."
After the board's business, at least one educator spoke out against the job description change. At least two other educators and three employees supervised by the special assistant spoke in support of Welch's work.
"How about standing behind him and asking him to go get his diploma? We can't just knock somebody down ... We are people who are educational. Let's back him up," said Norma Davis, a custodian.
In response to the public comments, Cooper said Welch has improved the custodial and maintenance departments.
"We've cleaned up a lot of the shenanigans that was going on, and Mr. Welch is responsible for that," Cooper said.


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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Oscar-winning South African-born actress Charlize Theron was named a United Nations messenger of peace on Friday, with a special focus on ending violence against women.
Messengers of peace, of which there will now be 10, are celebrities mainly from the fields of film, music, literature and sport who are charged with promoting U.N. activities and ideals through public appearances and media contacts.
Theron, 33, won an Academy Award for her role in the 2003 movie "Monster," in which she played serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who came from a background of violence and abuse and was executed in Florida in 2002.
In the 2005 film, "North Country" she played a woman who fights back against sexual harassment. She has been in dramas like "The Cider House Rules," thrillers such as "The Italian Job" and the special-effects filled "AEon Flux."
Theron, named by Esquire magazine last year as its "Sexiest Woman Alive," has also been involved in charitable causes such as putting mobile health clinics in rural areas of her native South Africa where access to care is limited.
She had her own experience of domestic violence at the age of 15 when her mother fatally shot her alcoholic father as he threatened the family in a drunken rage.
Designating her a messenger of peace, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, "You have used your voice, compassion and special relationship with the public to create a better world."
The other messengers of peace are actors George Clooney and Michael Douglas, musicians Daniel Barenboim, Midori Goto and Yo-Yo Ma, authors Paulo Coelho and Elie Wiesel, equestrian Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein and naturalist Jane Goodall.
Reporting by Patrick Worsnip; editing by Chris Wilson


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We told you that the alleged KC Hayden scandal video was "to see is to beleive".
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a lot of websites are reporting that Hayden had been able to video-tape her secretly using his mobile phone camera while dressing up in an undisclosed locations?
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Before the Philippines' Hayden Kho was Hong Kong's Edison Chen. He has been at the center of Asia's biggest sex scandal, but now actor Edison Chen has broken his silence on the public episode that has ended careers and caused him to face at least one reported death threat.
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Hayden Kho apologizes, suspends self as a doctor
"I feel deep remorse," Kho told a press conference aired live on television Friday.
"I know it's too much to ask for forgiveness right now, pero sana someday people will learn to condemn the sin and not the sinner," he added.
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Maricar Reyes, star magic's newest talent is recently being compared to Heart Evangelista and Mikee DCojuangco in some physical aspects. Before venturing into this new field, Maricar did lots of TV commercial projects and even modeling. She modeled for Pond's Facial Wash, Modess commercials.
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Nigeria: Your letters show Mercy she's 'not alone'
Earlier this year, Open Doors launched a letter-writing campaign for Mercy James in Nigeria - a victim of Boko Haram, who was abducted from her hometown and held in captivity for over five weeks. Read below Mercy's story and how your letters have provided her with joy.
Mercy's story
At just 22 years old, Mercy had experienced more horrors than many of us experience in a lifetime.
"My first day was like hell," she told us, recalling her first day as a captive of Boko Haram. "I cried all day and all night. I prayed like never before and asked God to give me courage."
Mercy's town had been attacked. In the panic, she lost sight of her father and fell into the hands of the Islamist militants. For over five weeks she was held in captivity, during which time Mercy was beaten, made to attend Islamic rituals and forcibly married. But despite this, Mercy trusted in God to rescue her. And, in time, He did.
When Open Doors met Mercy last year, she had been left to live in an internally displaced people's (IDP) camp. She was destitute, injured and deeply traumatised, which is why Open Doors sought to help her with counselling, medical expenses, income generation and encouragement through your letters.
Mercy today
Now 23, Mercy forms a much more hopeful picture. "The transformation has been so radical, that was hard to recognise her," wrote an Open Doors worker.
Today, Mercy does not live in the IDP camp but has been taken in by a foster family - within the context of distrust and isolation often experienced by former Boko Haram captives, this is an extraordinarily fortunate situation.
Also, Mercy is feeling much stronger now - a serious injury that she'd sustained to her leg during an aerial bombardment has healed. And with the support of Open Doors, Mercy has started a tailoring business, which is doing well.
"The sewing machine and monetary support I received helped me a lot," says Mercy. "I started up my own business and now have a shop. A lot of people bring their clothes for me to sew; I can now cover my needs and those of my (foster) family."
Mercy's gifts
Open Doors, together with international visitors, went to see Mercy in order to pray with her, encourage her, and deliver the all-important letters.
When she saw the letters, Mercy burst into joyful laughter. "I am so happy because I know that I am not alone and that other believers out there are praying for me."
As well as the letters, the volunteers delivered one item that immediately caught her eye. It was a bracelet. "I was deeply touched by the bracelet I received," she told us. "Though it's just a bracelet, it has a deeper meaning. All the colours on it speak about Psalm 23."
Mercy's message
"I am overwhelmed and my heart is filled with joy seeing Open Doors here again. Words cannot express the joy and peace I have. All I can say is, may God continue to bless your charity and all those who are out there praying for us in northern Nigeria.
"For other believers who are being persecuted because of Christ, I have this to say: though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil for God is with you. If God delivered me, He will do the same for you."
You can still write a message of support to Mercy James - the deadline is 30 November 2016.
To support other persecuted Christians in Africa, visit the letter-writing webpage for the latest writing campaigns, or send a donation to support believers with trauma care - a gift of £46 can provide a trauma awareness session to comfort a church leader and equip them to comfort others.
Please pray:
- Thank the Lord for Mercy's trust in Him and for how far she has come in the last year
- That Mercy would continue to heal following her ordeal and that her life would be blessed
- That women still held captive by Boko Haram would know the comfort of God and would be freed from their control soon, both physically and emotionally.


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In America, Japan is thought of as the birthplace of sushi and the country that kind of looks like a shrimp. Learn more about the world with this Groupon.
Choose Between Two Options
- $15 for $30 worth of Japanese cuisine for up to three people
- $40 for $80 worth of Japanese cuisine for four or more people

The menu includes seafood entrees ($14+) including fresh grilled teriyaki salmon, sushi rolls ($4+), and soup ($8+).

Yamato Ya Japanese Restaurant
Since 1982, Yamato Ya Japanese Restaurant has been sating Anchorage appetites for fresh fish with a menu of sushi and Japanese-style dishes. Yamato Ya's chefs roll fresh tuna into traditional maki, grill steaks of teriyaki-marinated salmon, and deep-fry tiger prawns, as well as serve a range of meat and poultry-based entrees, soups, and fried-rice dishes.


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Teresa and Joe Giudice Plead Guilty to Fraud Charges
Just seven months after saying they were not guilty of fraud charges, the Real Housewives of New Jersey couple have changed their minds, pleading guilty in Newark Federal Court Tuesaday. The husband-and-wife duo have been slapped with a total of 41 counts of mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud.
Joe, 43, is also charged with failing to file tax returns for five years — during which time he earned nearly $1 million — while Teresa, 41, is accused of hiding her income from her Bravo reality series and business ventures when the family applied for bankruptcy back in 2009.
"Today, I took responsibility for a series of mistakes I made several years ago," she said in a statement obtained by Celebuzz. "I have said throughout that I respect the legal process and thus I intend to address the Court directly at sentencing. I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I am heartbroken that this is affecting my family–especially my four young daughters, who mean more to me than anything in the world. Beyond this, I do not intend to speak specifically about the case outside of court, at the recommendation of my attorney and out of deference to the Government and our legal system."
Teresa's husband could face 37 to 46 months in jail, while the reality star herself may receive a 21 to 27 month sentence. Joe, who was born in Italy and is not a U.S. citizen, may also deported.
They are both scheduled to be sentenced on July 8.


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LOS ANGELES (Sep. 27)
Congregational Minister James W. Fifield said today that Radio Station KMPC here is "fair and impartial towards racial and religious groups." The Federal Communication Commission has accused the station of slanting news in an anti-Semitic fashion.
Replying to a comment by a correspondent at a press conference that G.A. Richards, owner of KMPC and other stations, said that "all Jews are Communists," Rev. Fifield declared: "I don't think he (Richards) means it. He is explosive." Rev. Fifield has been labelled anti-Semitic because of the nature of his own radio broadcasts, carried on another station.


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I seem to have a thing for chairs, especially mid-century modern ones. I can't stop collecting photographs of them. I've already done a montage of the Bertoia diamond chair, and I've been hording images of the Eames lounge, the Saarinen tulip chair, and the Panton chair. Today I must be feeling a bit subdued (summer's not my season) since I've chosen Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair. It's an absolute classic, obviously, and works pretty much anywhere, but interestingly, as you'll see, almost all the interiors that include the chair (or chairs, as they're most often seen in pairs) are rather quiet, neutral, formal even, in the strict modern sense. I don't particularly lust after the Barcelona chair, though I would love a Barcelona daybed upholstered in white leather. Anyway, here's what I found:
And, my favorite, the Barcelona daybed in white . . .
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As the Chicago Bulls return home to take on the Charlotte Bobcats for the second time this season, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that it would be hard for the Bulls to play any worse against the Bobcats this time around than they did last time, when they closed the book on 2012 with one of their worst performances to date. Also, under Tom Thibodeau, the Bulls have a history of rebounding from bad losses with a vengeance. That hasn't always been the case this year, but still.
The bad news is that it would be perfectly consistent with the way this team has performed this year for them to roll over to an inferior opponent at home for no real reason. And since the Bulls seem to go out of their way to make no freaking sense this year, losing to a team they should beat would make perfect sense.
Although, then again, since it would make sense based on their track record for them to fold, maybe they'll flip the script and win handily. Or, since that would also make a lot of sense, maybe they'll lose.
My head hurts.
Anyway, Charlotte has been substantially better than they were last year — they have 11 wins in 43 games after managing just 7 wins in 66 games last year — but that hardly means they've been good. Hoopdata pegs them 28th in the NBA in points per 100 possessions, ahead of only the Washington Wizards — who have been without John Wall until a few weeks ago — and the Indiana Pacers — who are without Danny Granger and have been all year. Defensively, they're 29th, as only the Sacramento Kings have been worse so far.
(For comparison's sake, the Bulls are 20th on offense and 3rd on defense.)
Charlotte's one of those teams that seem like they should be a lot better than they are when you look at them on paper. The guard rotation of Kemba Walker, Ramon Sessions, Ben Gordon and Gerald Henderson looks solid, as all four have been no worse than above-average, statistically. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is a solid rookie despite lacking a consistent jumper. Bismack Biyombo is averaging 2.5 blocks per 36 minutes in his second year, and while he's not all that good otherwise, he's got quite a bit of room to grow.
The problem, as far as I can tell, stems from two things: number one, this is an extremely young team and they're still figuring out how stuff works in the NBA, especially on defense. Henderson, Kidd-Gilchrist and Biyombo are all solid individual defenders, but the team defense isn't there. But that should come in time.
The other problem is one of personnel. Namely, that while their guards and wings are solid, Charlotte has some god-awful bigs. Biyombo's decent, but Byron Mullens, Brendan Haywood, Tyrus Thomas, Hakim Warrick and (shudder) Desagna Diop are below-average at best. Their best five-man unit, by my estimation, is two of Walker/Gordon/Sessions, with Henderson, MKG and Biyombo flanking them. Unfortunately, this presents some problems, namely that whoever is the nominal two on the floor is going to get abused, and that neither MKG nor Biyombo really has the bulk to play the four and the five, respectively.
At the end of the day, they're going to struggle until they get some decent bigs in there. Admittedly, that didn't stop them from out-rebounding the Bulls back in December, but still.Tags: Ben Gordon, Charlotte, Charlotte Bobcats, Chicago, Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers, Kemba Walker, NBA, Tom Thibodeau


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Meshugga Beach Party -Twenty Songs of the Chosen Surfers
The sound this holiday is Hanukkah surf rock, didn't you know?
There's frankly not much in terms of Hannukah music, and what's there is, let's face it, BAD! But that's when Adam Sandler comes to the rescue. His Hannukah Song (whichever part) is the new classic.Tags: gifts, music, CD, soundtracks, holidays, CDs, Hannukah, holiday gifts, hanukkahAdded 9 Years Ago from Amazon.com
Great unique gift. My kids loved it!Added 10 Years Ago from Didgeridoostore


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I Killed People. Smuggled People. Sold People.: The GRAND THEFT AUTO IV Trailer
After much internet-crashery and website-cloggery (it took yours truly an hour of trying), Rockstar Games unveiled a one minute and three second trailer for the eleventh game in their flagship series, Grand Theft Auto IV. Rockstar's product earns them gamer adoration and lands them in hot water with parental watchdog hysterical types in pretty much equal measure. The short of it is that in terms of subversive, uncouth expression of social dissatisfaction and rowdy satire, Rockstar is the game development equivalent of The Sex Pistols. Puckish rude humor permeates GTA, from visual gags to the plot and game geography itself; the last installment, San Andreas is set in an elaborate, detailed recreation / parody of 1990's Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas, with miles of environs in between. Everybody may get chortles from shootouts in front of pastiches of the Hollywood sign or Circus Circus casino, but the locals-only in-jokery deepens as you drive past buildings modeled on the Warner Bros. lot, Randy's Donuts, the Watts Towers... and is anyone outside of the Hollywood area supposed to get excited that the tiny, storefront Tiki Theater, the city's last straight porn theater, is lovingly reproduced? Do kids "get it" when they fly a helicopter into the Chemosphere from Body Double? It's some kind of brilliant joke, the design of this dream Los Angeles, with all the boring parts removed, and renamed "Los Santos", but it's hard to explain. It's satiric city planning.
Speaking of far-flung satire, difficult to unpack, there is the matter of the Grand Theft Auto IV trailer.
For some reason, the GTA IV trailer is modeled on Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi. Seriously. It's funny at first, but the dramatically framed images of the Grand-Theftverse New York City stand-in, Liberty City, are honestly beautiful, the Philip Glass music is sobering enough, that it slides out of parody into something effective, exciting and epic. Then it becomes funny again, because one is inevitably left to wonder: insofar as this is a joke, who is it for?
Q: I've never been able to buy a Philip Glass record, but is that really his Koyaanisqatsi score, or a sound-alike?
A post last November at Dr. Mabuse's Kaliedo-Scope, concerning "Video Games as Art" left me sighing a little. The gist of it is that David Bordwell and Roger Ebert think video games are inherently limited in artistic possibility and cannot achieve the "stature of art" (Ebert's words). I don't have a pressing interest in New Media studies ("I can't figure out the Old Media! Call me when somebody figures out how to program this furshlugginer VCR!"), and I can't believe anyone still bothers getting embroiled in "but is it ART?!" arguments, but the residue of critical bias against video games among popular film writers is irritating. It's unfortunate that Bordwell particularly, who is well-schooled in early cinema, doesn't recognize the parallel to the motion picture art form's struggle for legitimacy. Two points. Or maybe they're questions:
-What does the film critic or theorist have to offer video game studies?, and
-How can other critics play, if we can't, you know, play?:
Now, I have time to play maybe one modern game a year. I'm not purporting to come from some gaming culture insider standpoint. I am aware that some fascinating work and/or warring is going on in the field of game scholarship, regarding the relative value of investigating games as a storytelling medium, or as, er, games. Whether these lively polemics are fruitful or not is someone else's problem. I see major hindrances for critics, commentators and theorists from any other discipline hoping to horn in on the arena or assist in its development.
The first problem is unfortunately "Is the critic good at video games?", and there are sundry corollary problems regarding how we can approach a text that requires mastery of extra-disciplinary talents, a text which fundamentally changes, or is incompletable for different "readers". The sense in which Finnegan's Wake or Gravity's Rainbow (or, say, Salo or INLAND EMPIRE) are "difficult" is pretty different than Metal Gear just being too goddamn hard to beat. How can I hope to say anything about Metal Gear if I can't play for more than 10 minutes? Finishing San Andreas probably took me 100+ hours. The ending of the mission-based storyline (for the game is eternally playable after the narrative proper is concluded, the story-matter remains unexhausted) is rather key to evaluating the game's moral ambiguity... so if you don't see what happens as James Woods' sarcastic CIA agent grows to respect your slovenly gangbanger character... or the realistic way in which crack tears apart the neighborhood community, and thrives on depression and poverty, or any number of other late-game plot points, how can you undertake a thorough reading of the text?
This is all fraught with practical, logistic peril, probably exciting to some, but it kind of gives me a headache. Furthermore, I suspect the games theorists are correct, and the structures and techniques video games use to tell stories leave the rest of the lit crit community stymied. Just because game cut scenes use imitative cinematic language doesn't mean the whole game is cinematic, or the narrative has necessary foundation in film narrative... right?
Rockstar's trailers for 2006's Bully were frankly funnier and more clever than any motion picture comedy coming attractions of last year. The trailers are built on modern film trailer models, with emphasis on narrative, character and cinematic mise en scène; there is no indication of what the screen looks like during play, of play mechanics, or game tasks. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a cheeky/decadent pastiche of Scarface and Miami Vice, and San Andreas parodied/celebrated/criticized -- was immersed in -- '90s black urban cinema. San Andreas demonstrates a deep understanding of the lineage of African American film from wild and woolly '70s blaxploitation to the earnest films of of John Singleton and the Hughes Brothers. The Bully trailers play with tropes of the social commentary black comedy, coming-of-age film, teen sex comedy, and youth nostalgia picture. The GTA IV trailer promises a sort of Moscow On the Hudson with a human traffiking twist, and the trailer is styled after a renowned documentary film. It all points up to fact that film critics could, should, and shall be useful video game commentators.
Film studies is not going to be the key to indigenous video game theory; game theory is. But simply perusing the cursory list of examples above, it is clear that the ladies and gents with a bent toward film genre studies and aesthetics are specially equipped for the job. Game narratives are fundamentally different in structure than film narratives, but they are informed by film genres from surface iconography, to the raw tissue of story. And games have unique methods for investigating genre storytelling that requires a specialist's finesse. I mean, when Rockstar advertised Max Payne 2 "a film noir love story", and is publishing L.A. Noire, a sepia-toned game set in a perfectly reconstructed '40s Los Angeles... well... Never send a ludologist to do a film theorist's job.
So Back to Me: I see I've rambled more than I intended; I was planning on proposing that the open-world "sandbox" structure in the Grand Theft Auto car-chase,-crime-and-mayhem franchise is a close cousin to the amoral landscape of exploitation films. In general, sandbox crime games and exploitation movies suspend or exaggerate real-world rules in favor of colorful metaphor. The resultant carnivalesque space is playful and wild, but the symbolic weight it affords every action lets us seriously investigate our core concerns as human beings -- life and death, love and sex, jet packs and zombies, power and ethics -- in more vivid, envigorating ways than realistic dramatic storytelling allows.
-Bonus Rhetorical Question: Pet Peeve or Legitimate Problem with Lazy Writers?: Comparing a film's plot, in some vague, general sense, to a "video game" is frequent perjorative shorthand for film reviewers. You will see these writers complain when editing seems inspired by "MTV", or when action sequences are like "a comic book." They're using shorthand for media with which they aren't familiar and/or are unwilling to understand. Therefore, don't trust those people.
Update: Okay, so thanks to Wikipedia, there are no in-jokes in the world, and everybody gets the Koyaanisqatsi reference in the GTA IV trailer. Whatever, Wikipedia!


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Can anyone beat Sisaundra Lewis on 'The Voice'?
Monday night, the top 10 contestants on The Voice took to the stage for live performances of some dreadfully mediocre songs (Avril Lavigne, really?). Overall, it was not an impressive night for the group, who generally seems like an improvement over last season's crop.
Then 44-year-old Sisaundra Lewis took the stage, ending the night with a performance of Journey's Oh Sherrie. Sisaundra, who grew up in Polk County, is a mother of three. She's performed with Cirque du Soleil; she's even worked as Celine Dion's vocal director. She is not someone who'd you expect to masterfully deliver a Journey song.
But this is Sisaundra we're talking about, so OF COURSE she did. (Watch the video below for ear-shattering proof.) Besides being hands-down the best thing about Monday's The Voice, the performance also made it clear: There is nothing Sisaundra cannot do vocally.
Which made us wonder: How is there any way she's going to lose this competition?
The singer, who's on Blake Shelton's team, is in another stratosphere of talent compared to her fellow performers. Oh, sure, Team Usher's Josh Kaufman is great, and Team Adam's Christina Grimmie gets better every week. But there's no one like Sisaundra. Such an obvious talent gap might make the show boring if it weren't so fun to watch her perform. But can anyone beat her?
Now, it could happen, as the final 10 contestants' fates are in the hands of the fickle American public, so winning is not only dependent on being able to sing the best. And it's happened before on The Voice, when the show lost its most talented vocalist of season 4 - former Michael Jackson backup singer Judith Hill, who's now the star of Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet From Stardom - early on in the live shows.
But last year, Tessanne Chin won, and she was very Sisaundra-like in her ability to dominate the competition early on with flawless performance after flawless performance. She already sounded like a pro, much in the same way Sisaundra sounds like she could release a record any second.
So will The Voice crown its actual best singer for the second year in a row?
Tonight brings us one step closer to finding out, when the top 10 are whittled down to just 8 contestants. We bet Sisaundra makes it through just fine.


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Matt, a home arcade games programmer runs into an old acquaintance who saved his life years earlier from a burning automobile. The rescuer, Simon, is down on his luck, living like a bum. The grateful Matt feels obligated to help Simon, so he takes him into his home and gets him a job in the mail room of his company. However, what Matt doesn't know is it was no accident running into Simon, and Simon has an old score to settle with Matt, going all the way back to the night Simon saved Matt's life.
Terse but tacky reworking of the Pacific Heights/Single White Female premise of the pitfalls of inviting a psycho into your home. War veteran (Lenny Von Dohlen) bumps into a former comrade (James Remar) who saved his skin in Panama. He returns the favour by setting him up with a decent job, not realising just how seriously loopy he has become. Engaging enough but ultimately it runs out of imagination and flair long before the hammy conclusion. HH PM
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As Neil Armstrong hurtles towards the moon, an eccentric professor and his son crank up their old car and take to the road, aiming to up the mileage on their mileometer so its the same as the Apollos. This blending of the historical and the personal is mildly provocative and fairly entertaining, even if Ted Danson is woefully miscast as said wacky prof.
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Newly elected Gainesville City Councilman Sam Couvillon will be sworn in after today's meeting alongside Danny Dunagan, the city's first directly elected mayor.
Couvillon, 43, will represent Ward 1 in northwest Gainesville, and said he hopes to bring an open mind and fresh set of eyes to the board.
"I looked at the makeup of the board and felt like we needed some new blood," he said. "I feel like I'm a good, level-headed thinker, and I think I have a lot to offer from a leadership standpoint."
Though he didn't run for the position with a particular issue in mind, Couvillon said he believes the two most important things for Gainesville to address are its traffic congestion and how to remain an attractive location for businesses.
"I want to make sure we continue to drive business to Gainesville and that it remains a place where people want to do business," he said. "Also, Gainesville is growing and at some point we're going to have to address the issue of traffic.
"Whether it is the Green Street corridor or the E.E. Butler and Jesse Jewell interchange, we've got some tough decisions that we are going to have to make."
However, Couvillon said he has little experience with politics and plans on learning from longtime council members before he attempts any changes.
"I'm not going to have preconceived solutions for problems," he said. "There was not one issue that I wanted to fix when I ran, but I am open-minded and ready to listen to try and solve any issues that come up.
"I want to be very involved in the process, and not just a bystander on the board."
The native of Athens is a broker for BB&T Insurance Services and has lived in Gainesville since 2008, when he moved from Jacksonville, Fla. He is married to Margie Couvillon and has two daughters, Molly and Sarah Grace, who are in Gainesville city schools.
Couvillon said he values public service highly. He is an ambassador for the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce and is active with United Way of Hall County and Gainesville First United Methodist Church, where he teaches a Sunday school class. In addition, he is in the 2013 class of Leadership Hall County, a chamber of commerce initiative that aims to educate existing and emerging leaders in the community about various aspects of Gainesville and Hall County.
Couvillon attributes his desire for public service to his father-in-law, Walton Moore.
"The Moores were a lifelong Gainesville family, and (Walton) was probably my inspiration," he said. "He was a banker for 35 years, but he got involved in public service by serving on the school board.
"He's always been my mentor as far as getting involved in the community and being service-oriented."
Couvillon said there would be a large learning curve as he begins his service on the council.
"I have no idea if I am going to serve on the City Council for four years, eight years or more," he said. "I just want to keep Gainesville as a desirable place for people to live and for businesses to move to."


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This article was published 28/4/2013 (1577 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Women stay in abusive relationships because they have children, are economically dependent on their partner and have nowhere to go, according to three-quarters of Canadians surveyed in a new national poll.
The poll, released by the Canadian Women's Foundation last week to coincide with its ninth-annual campaign to end violence against women, also shows many women don't know where to find the support that will help them leave an abusive partner.
Barb Judt, the chief executive officer of Osborne House, the city's shelter for women and children, said the poll's results are "absolutely true.
"That's why Osborne House has done a lot differently in the last year or so -- we're out there in the media more and we are doing more community awareness.
"And as a result, our numbers have gone up. We had a seven per cent increase from the year before last to last year."
Judt said they do community awareness because domestic violence is an issue that makes people uncomfortable, so they don't speak about it.
"We talk about it and the media has been supportive, so people out there know what resources are out there to help."
But Judt said she knows it is difficult for anyone to get out of an abusive relationship.
"When you are dependent on somebody and they say 'How can you make it on your own?' you start to believe them," she said.
"It's a startling statistic, but people don't realize how hard it is to get out of a relationship. When you leave, you have to start all over again and that's hard."
Judt urged women in abusive relationships to call the crisis line at 204-942-3052.
"Even if they just have questions, they can call," she said.
"And we have outreach work, too. They can go home at night so their partner won't even know they are getting support."
The poll was created by first questioning 1,008 randomly selected Canadian adults who are Angus Reid Forum panelists and then statistically weighing those results to the current education, age, gender and region census data to create a poll sample representative of the entire Canadian adult population.


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Far below, the blue of ocean was slowly replaced by the green of earth as the big jet dipped toward terra firma. Less than an hour ago we took off from Miami International Airport, and now we were about to land in Havana. The wheels touched down, and a few minutes later, I stepped down the gangway and onto the runway, hit by the heat of the tropics and the bright sky above. I was back in Cuba.
I'll be in Havana all week with executive editor Gordon Mott for the Habanos Festival, the annual gathering of retailers, distributors and cigar lovers from all around the world. This is the week we'll find out what's new and coming your way over the rest of the year.
I wasted little time getting a cigar. Minutes after my bags were in my room at the Melia Cohiba hotel, I went down to the hotel's cigar shop (it has a fine Casa del Habano) and grabbed two recent production Bolivar Belicoso Finos, one for me, one for Gordon. The cigar (which rated 93 points in its most recent Cigar Aficionado taste test) was youthful, but delicious, with great oils to the wrapper, a hearty, bold flavor—just what you would expect from a Bolivar. Great way to start our smoking week
We stopped in at one of Havana's best (and best known) cigar shops, the La Casa del Habano at Fifth Avenue, known as Quinta Avenida. The shop was fuller than I've ever seen, with people in each and every room. The humidor was brimming with smokes, with an especially strong amount of Cohiba Behikes. Carlos Robaina, one of the men who runs the shop, said he had many cigars, and showed off boxes full of smokes that had yet to be placed on display in the humidor.
Tonight, we're off to the first official function of the festival, a dinner where we expect to try the new Hoyo Le Hoyo and the ultra-short Partagás Serie D No. 6 that Gordon wrote about yesterday.
We're just getting started. Keep checking back from updates from Cuba. We'll keep you informed.
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Microsoft is taking the tablet war right to Apple in a market that is near to the Cupertino, California-based tech giant's heart.
According to sources close to the late Apple visionary, Steve Jobs was profoundly interested in how the iPad could impact education and learning (inside and outside of the classroom). As a result of this passion, the iPad and a wide array of apps and services have been a huge hit among educators and students.
But the iPad may not have a "lock" on the education market if Microsoft can do anything about it. For starters, Microsoft is slashing the price of its Surface RT tablet to just $199 for schools and colleges looking to procure the devices for academic use.
Microsoft is making this discount purchase opportunity available to schools in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and, of course, the United States.The "Microsoft Surface for education limited-time offer" will be available between June 17 and August 31, 2013, according to a brochure detailing the program. Under the program, Surface RTs without keyboards will go for $199 (normal estimated retail price is $499). With a touch keyboard, the discounted price is $249 (estimated retail price is $599), and with a type keyboard the discounted price is $289 (estimated retail price is $629).
At this time, Microsoft is said to be working on a next-gen Surface RT that could be available as early as this fall.
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These little coconut cakes are a bit of a weekend indulgence. They are rich in flavour, but perfect with a cup of tea. You may want to use a smaller tin, however, as these really are quite fulfilling.
Have a lovely weekend!
Coconut Cakes
(makes about 4-6 small cakes)
(recipe adapted from taste.com.au)
100g raw caster sugar
75g sorghum flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
45g desiccated coconut
30g almond meal
3 large free-range egg whites
100g extra-virgin coconut oil
unrefined icing sugar, to serve
1. Preheat oven to 200C and prepare a muffin tin.
2. In a bowl, mix together the sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, coconut and almond meal.
3. Stir in the egg whites and melted coconut oil.
5. Cool on a wire rack before dusting with icing sugar.


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The act of simultaneously smoking marijuana, blasting music, and driving on remote roads. This is usually a group activity.
A good time to road bowl is when you get off a stressful day at work, and go and pick up some friends. One of them happens to have some marijuana, the other one has a pipe. So you drive up some old logging road, turn on the music loud, light up and pass to the left.
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A Study to Assess the Persistence of Two GBS Antibodies in Women Previously Immunized With a GBS Vaccine
This study has been completed.
Novartis Vaccines
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: January 19, 2010
Last updated: December 7, 2011
Last verified: December 2011
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This study looks at the body's immune response to a GBS vaccine 2 years after the orginal vaccine(s) were given in the V98P2 study. Blood will be drawn and evaluated for GBS antibody levels.
|Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Disease
|Biological: Group B streptococcus (GBS) vaccine
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Extension Study to Assess the Long-Term Persistence of GBS Serotypes Ib and III Antibodies in Women Previously Immunized With a GBS Ib and III Crm-Glycoconjugate Vaccine
Further study details as provided by Novartis ( Novartis Vaccines ):
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Antibody (Ab) response data at 24-months after the last injection given in study V98P2 GMCs, GMRs and associated 95% confidence intervals will also be determined. [ Time Frame: 24- months post last injection from V98P2 ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: Arm 1
This is a phlebotomy study.
Biological: Group B streptococcus (GBS) vaccine
No vaccine will be administered in this study. Only one study visit is required.
Subjects will return to the clinic for a single visit at 24 months (± 3 months) after the last injection administered in the V98P2 study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 42 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Individuals who have given written consent.
- Individuals who participated in V98P2 and received the complete schedule of vaccinations.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Individuals who have not given written consent.
- Subjects who did not receive the complete schedule of vaccination in V98P2.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01053767
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01053767
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|NCT01053767 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|January 19, 2010
|Last Updated:
|December 7, 2011
Keywords provided by Novartis ( Novartis Vaccines ):
Group B streptococcus
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Whelp, this is eight shades of awesome.
Artist Darren Rawlings has taken to Tumblr to showcase his newest series of illustrations, If They Could Transform. Rawlings has taken some of the most iconic cars, trucks, and vans from film and television and turned them into Transformers. We always knew that Kitt from Knight Rider and The Party Bus from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were even cooler than originally suspected.
Check out Rawlings' Tumblr page here as well as his DeviantArt page to see even more Transforming hotness.
The Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters
The General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard
Herbie from Herbie the Lovebug
The Mach V from Speed Racer
The Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo
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Dakini Kush cannabis is a pure Kush variety created for the medical marijuana market by Centennial Seeds out of Lafayette, Colorado. By crossing good old fashioned Hindu Kush with a pre '98 Bubba Kush, those nice Coloradans have concentrated all that Kush flavor and goodness into another great cannabis strain.
Dakini Kush cannabis is a medium/tall plant that grows with vigor and finishes quite rapidly, in around 9 weeks. Yields are average and she is an easy grow, best left untopped and allowed to do her own thing.
Dakini Kush weed has a heritage of great hash making and she makes a great choice of plant for those interested in making hashish or charras. Of course it's not just about the hash though, Dakini Kush marijuana is an excellent bit of greenery and the smoke is smooth and full. The aromas are sweet like caramel with a tangy fruit edge and deep dank notes that imply potency.
Having been developed for the medical community, Dakini Kush weed has useful applications in the treatment of pain and anxiety. She also makes a great recreational smoke, delivering rolling waves of soulful relaxation. Dakini Kush is probably best when taken as an evening smoke when it's time to kick back and put your feet up.
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In Combat Arms, an event is a special occurrence, often coinciding with a real world celebration or holiday. Events are usually activated by the release of a new patch, and ended by a subsequent patch. Many events recur every year, while others occur only once or only in alternate years. Events can consist of special competitions, special weapon and gear sales, special contests, special giveaways, or some combination of these.
An incomplete list of past events
- Recruiting Event
- There have been at least four recruiting events so far. New accounts created during these events receive a free set of weapons (each event offered different weapons) with a seven day duration. Older players complained that they were ineligible for the reward, however these events are quite rare.
- Another randomly occurring event (often as a response to Nexon making mistakes), players earn more experience and/or gp for each match completed. Many players enjoy these events to rank up faster and obtain more gp.
- Holiday Gifting
- After the gift option for NX items was added to the game, players who had gifted an item to another player were randomly chosen to receive the same item for themselves for free.
- Rank Up Event
- These events encourage players to rank up to a certain rank or higher. After the event is over, random players with a rank equal to or higher than the designated rank are be chosen for prizes.
- Market Sale
- When new NX items are added to the Black Market, the prices of certain items are marked down. In some instances, item packs of expendable items are made available to encourage players to buy in quantity.
- GM Live
- During prearranged times, a group of four GMs would start a 16-player One Man Army match on a random server. Players who can beat the GMs (they only have one chance per 24 hours) by getting 1st place would receive 10,000 NX. Players who distinguished themselves in the battle would also get an item from the GMs. GM Live was also hosted for clans during April as the "Nut Shot Edition".
- Hot Shot Events
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NCL Dawn, No surprises: Norwegian Dawn Cruise Review by GrandmaHofmann
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NCL Dawn, No surprises
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Tampa
Demographic: In terms of this cruise: me. 65, reasonably mobile, and chubby. There were a handful of children on board, some truly ancient people, quite a few elderly running along a continuum of disability, and a few dozen younger adults, but for the most part, the average person on this voyage was my age and shape. This, of course, influenced the dress and behavioral norms on the cruise. Yes, I did see the odd person with fuchsia hair or orange hair and the odd drunk, but for the most part dress and behavior was conservative.
Embarkation: It seemed to take forever, but it actually involved an hour's wait. We got there about More 12:30 and were on board shortly after 1:30. NCL handled the volume of people well, with those who were waiting seated in rows of chairs and called by row. Of course, there were people who cheated, seating themselves in areas that they should not yet have been in or entirely skipped the rows of chairs and directly got in the last line for check-in, but most everyone was orderly and considerate.
Food: I would give A's to the breakfast and lunch buffets. The breakfast buffet had all the major players including omelets, and the food-- even the potatoes-- was warm. We always ate when the buffet opened, as we are early risers and there were few people around then. One of NCL's strong suits is its breads and rolls, and they were good at all meals. Lunch was fantastic. I could not believe how many choices we had. The possibilities boggled the mind. You could eat in the Blue Lagoon (which used to be better), Bimini Grill, pool grill or you could have a regular hot lunch, pasta, pizza, wok food, Indian food, hot dogs and hamburgers and chicken kebobs, even barbecue. It was the best lunch buffet I have ever seen.
That said, I do prefer the food station arrangement over a single line. There are always those who appear to have died standing up in the food line so motionless are they. In a few cases I felt like grabbing the spoon and putting food on their plates willy nilly, just to move them along! There were also the people who walked over to the children's eating area and removed full plates of cookies out from under the "for kids" sign. Somewhere on the Dawn there were cookie-less children.I also have to say that I was happy to see skim and regular milk and half and half offered at every meal in the buffet as well as the usual lemonade and ice tea but also two flavored waters. Apparently, the flavored water was a big hit, as I saw one woman filling up a half gallon jug-- yes, a half gallon jug-- every day-- much to the chagrin of a grimacing waiter.
The only change I would make at the buffets is that I would drop the girl who yells, "Washie, Washie, Happy, Happy," over the side of the ship. Is there anyone not annoyed at that expostulation yelled in a terminally perky manner at 6:30 in the morning?
Now we come to dinner. It was usually not inedible. The only time it was inedible was when I was rash enough to order the Kung Pao chicken breast with (3) peanuts and fruity sauce. What I got was a pressed mass of chicken shaped like a breast but which did not look like chicken meat and did not flake like chicken meat. The texture was disgusting. Now, chicken technology has been mastered by KFC, by Cracker Barrel, by Long John Silver's, and they don't have head chefs in all their outlets, so what's up with this? I felt like hunting down the guy they introduced on the first night of the cruise as being responsible for our food and forcing him to eat that Kung Pao travesty. I had steaks in Aqua and in the Venetian. They were so thin as to be very nearly transparent, but they weren't inedible. They were just flavorless. A bottle of Worcestershire, of A-1, or a marinade would help. Ditto on the pot roast but it was saved by gravy. The turkey was turkey roll, a beast that does not exist in nature. No cranberry sauce was served although it was served the next day on the buffet where they carved a real turkey breast. Did the sauce refuse to accompany the turkey roll and hold out for the real McCoy? No shrimp cocktail was ever offered. Lobster was served the first night. Lobster tail. A small lobster tail. My husband tried the snapper and said it was ok. The French onion soup was missing both cheese and onions. Maybe there were two spoonsful of chopped onions, but the soup was mostly broth a quarter of an onion walked through with a small slice of rye bread.
Yes, I could have eaten in the premium restaurants for dinner, but I do not eat there because I disapprove on principle of premium restaurants on ships. They have led to the so very mediocre meals we are served at dinner in the dining rooms today. The cruise lines want to force us into the premium lines by giving us pressed chicken breasts. You go! I won't.
The Aqua is the smaller restaurant. I don't know why it was named thus when there seemed to be a lot more red than aqua in the room, but --. The Venetian is the very large restaurant with gorgeous hand-blown Venetian glass feather chandeliers. Just lovely. Not as attractive as the equivalent restaurants with the Romanov or Hawaiian themes, though, in my opinion. Service seemed much faster in the Venetian than the Aqua.
Desserts were very average overall, the high point being the flourless chocolate cake, my personal favorite, and the nadir being some of the reputed mousses which lacked the very texture of a genuine mousse, resembling instead foamy aftershave.
The Ship: Is just like the other NCL ships we've been on what with certain elevators not going to certain floors, needing to go to one floor to walk down a staircase to get into a restaurant on a different floor, needing to enter the internet room by going down one floor and walking up another. I'm thinking NCL did not want to pay for a new blueprint and has used the same one over and over.
These ships are chopped up into small areas. The atrium was packed every time someone was singing in there. You had to sit up on other decks and look down or line the staircases, etc. I think the effect they are going for is cozy but it's just uncomfortable. There were people standing five and six deep behind the lounge in the atrium watching a show. They were told twice that chairs were on their way, but they never made it.
And while I am on the subject of chairs, I would like to say something about the chairs I encountered on this ship. I did not sit in all of them. I was going to walk around the last day at sea, on a quest to find a comfortable chair, but I took a nap instead. So bear with me and forgive me if I missed a haven of comfort hidden on the ship, but as far as my experience goes, the chairs on this ship were not made for American behinds, and it is mostly American behinds floating around out there on the NCL ships.
Take the chairs in the buffet. They are ice cream chairs. Little round seats on little wickery legs. They didn't look as if they would support half the people on the ship. Ditto on the bar seats. I saw a man who must have weighed 300 pounds haul himself up on one of those, and I held my breath. He didn't stay long though. He must have realized he was in peril.
Then there are the silver vinyl internet chairs. Narrow, teetering, easy to topple much like the high, narrow stools in the mini-suites which I nearly rolled off of three times. The chairs in the Stardust Theater are just dreadful. Narrow as heck, they slope down, so that you have to keep scrunching up to stay in your seat. High arms, too, and no place to put a drink. The chairs in the Spinnaker are an improvement but still were not wide enough to welcome half the behinds on the ship. I did think the chairs in the Venetian were excellent: wide, sturdy, velvety. Who could ask for anything more?
The stores were perhaps a little better stocked than on most ships, but the prices were set for Donald Trump, not Jane Doe. $12 for a extra large Cadbury bar. On the last day they brought out good quality tee-shirts marking each port and the ports as a whole. They were reasonably priced at $17, buy 2, get one free. When I got home, I washed and dried them. They shrank somewhat but not terribly.Cabin: We were in a mini-suite, cabin 11122. It is not huge, of course, All cabins on NCL seem smaller to me than those on other lines. That's why we get a mini-suite when we go on NCL. Plenty of storage. A coffee maker and fridge. Bathtub. One of those partitioned bathrooms with the toilet behind a screen that must make it hard for some larger sized people to enter the area.
The first night we came back from the shows and found our room had not been made up. Even more, the steward was still halfway down the hall! It was then 9:30. I wondered just how long it would take him to get to us, so I went to him and got ice and a schedule and called it a deal. This is the first time in 26 cruises that our room had not been made by the time we got back from dinner, much less shows. The second day he arrived to make up our room shortly after noon; the third day, shortly after 1; the second day-- seeing a trend here?-- it was 2:30. I was beginning to wonder if the two room cleanings were to be merged, if he were going to make up the bed, leave the room, re-enter and turn down the bed.
We told the steward that we hoped he could get to our room by 8:00 p.m., and he did. But how can it take from 8 a.m. when he started cleaning until 3:30 to get 13 rooms cleaned? What was he doing all that time? He did keep our room clean and gave us ice most of the time. He filled our requests for an additional pillow and additional towel. He just wasn't up to par with the other room stewards we have had. In his defense, he seemed mentally slow, so perhaps that accounts for it.
The bed I found most uncomfortable. It was very, very hard. And the pillow situation was bad. There were two mega-pillows, big square pillows, that were of no use for sleeping. The pillow would have been as far down as your waist had you tried to sleep with it. And there were two very thin, very, very thin other pillows that raised your head maybe ½ inch from the mattress.
Entertainment: NCL really gets its use out of its performers. I think for the most part the entertainment was good or very good. Jose and Patti seem to know every song known to man and are very popular. I enjoyed them the first couple times, then Jose's very bad impersonation of Neil Diamond started to get to us, and we skipped Neil Diamond night. Him doing Neil for every song would have sent us round the bend. Here's the thing: they performed 18 times in 6 days. Ditto for Jump, another musical group with good voices and pleasant personalities. 18 times! And they did not know as many songs by far. I did not care for the piano player who tickled the ivories from 4-8. That's a lot of tickling. I thought his voice was decent; I just didn't care for his style.
The production shows that I saw were very good. I didn't go to Bollywood, having heard bad stuff about it from cruisecritic members. I don't really like circuses anyway. The best of the production shows was Band on the Run. I liked the songs and the energy very much. All four of the main singers were very good. The male dancers were much better than they usually are on ships.
Now we come to the worst of the entertainment. NCL did not include individual comedians who I generally like. Instead they have the very sophomoric group, Second City, whose members think they are hysterically funny. Everything they did was dumb. It was not funny; it was annoying. Like watching a class clown who thinks he's a hoot missing the mark entirely. Ditch them! People did laugh, but it was later in the evening and the liquor had been flowing. I am sure they sounded at their best if you were drunk.
Shore Excursions: We took the Calypso Tram around Belize. It was an hour long and was okay. Nothing great, but then, I did not expect it to be. We then went to the craft market directly across from the entrance to the tourism village. I would encourage you to buy there the same things you will see in the tourism village. The latter will not benefit the locals. Yes, you will have to put up with vendors but so what? The people of Belize are terribly poor. Give them a break. They can't compete with the cruise lines. I also encourage you to try Moho chocolate with lime juice and chunky salt.
We also took the Salsa and Salsa excursion in Cozumel. It would be great for a girls' night out. Be aware that although it sounds like you practically get lunch, you get very little food other than tortilla chips and the salsas you make, some of which you won't like. Other than that, each couple gets 2 tortillas with cheese between them and cut into four pieces. So each person is getting one tortilla. Then later you get two tortillas filled with chicken per two people. So again, you are getting one tortilla with a dab of chicken. You do get a few margaritas and, surprise! What happens with people drink but aren't eating? I would not say that drunkenness was a real problem, but a number of women were indeed drunk. I would not take my grandsons there. The resort where the Salsa and Salsa event was held was beautiful on a sunny day and the presenters, charming.
In Costa Maya we took a tour with Native Choice. I am in favor of supporting locals. Let me preface my review with that, as I am not trying to deter you from taking the tour. But I don't see a whole lot of difference between boarding a bus with 30 other cruisers and eating lunch with 30 other cruisers on a private tour than doing the same on a cruise ship tour. We were told several times that only we out of all the other cruisers were going to a real Mayan village. Well, yeah, but... the much vaunted real Mayan village we did not see more of than driving by a few huts and a school. What we saw was a Disneyfied Mayan home that was purpose built for this tour. We did get to make our own tortilla and say "Good morning" in Mayan, but that was about the extent of our "interaction with the Mayan people." They did not speak English from what I could tell. Lunch was fine: chicken, veggies, tamales, and for dessert, very small cups of custard, fruit and mashed pumpkin. A very good hibiscus tea, too.
We did see Chaccoben ruins in groups of ten which was nice. But the tour guide would simply not shut up. It was as if he had to tell us every last fact he knew about the Mayans. Most everyone was bored witless and wanting to get on the bus. The ruins are quite extensive. Once at the Mayan village, when it was already after 1 o'clock, we were all hopeful of eating, but he droned on for another half hour while we made tortillas, until we were ready to charge the food that had been sitting there all that time.
The silliest thing to me was that before we could make tortillas, we were told that we had to all line up to wash our hands at two sinks that were hanging off a bathroom out back. Like elementary school kids. I know we were going to make a tortilla, but we were the ones going to eat our own tortillas not cook for others. If we wanted to wash our hands, that was our business, as far as I was concerned. Plus, after 30 people dry their hands on the same two towels, how clean can they be?
Disembarkation: It looked like 1/3 or more of the passengers chose walk-off at 7:30, so there was a lengthy line that did not clear for over an hour. We were the second group off after them and did not get off til 9:15, so don't plan to take an early flight out of Tampa. We went through very fast at 9:15 simply because so many people had already exited. Valet parking is well worth the extra money. We had a ten hour drive ahead of us and wanted to get off quickly. That allowed us to leave as quickly as possible. We were on the road at 9:20.
Final word: The midship elevators are just plain too small. The sign says they can take 20 passengers. If they can take more than 15, I would be surprised. What makes things worse is the total lack of manners on the part of most of the passengers. They simply refuse to step to the back of the elevators to let others on every time. I almost applauded when one ancient lady with a walker shoved her way on, forcing people to step back. A man who hadn't wanted to let the two prior passengers on said to her, "Really???" But she happily ignored him, and there was plenty of room for her.
Overall: I would give the cruise a B. We booked early and got a very good rate. I have nothing huge to complain about. The cruise was fine. Less
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When I was growing up, watermelon meant summer, and it wasn't just the taste -- cool, sweet, pink -- but the whole ritual of eating. We kids would sit on the stoop and messily eat watermelon slices right down to the white rind.
There was an old wives' tale that eating the white part of the watermelon would give you a stomach ache, which in my neighbourhood somehow morphed into a bizarre suburban myth -- passed on from older siblings to gullible younger ones -- that eating the rind meant instant death. In fact, as I learned when I grew up, all of the fruit is perfectly safe to eat, and the nutrient-packed rind can be pickled or made into relish or salsa.
The watermelon is thought to have originated in southern Africa but is now grown all over the world. In hot spots, its high moisture content -- most watermelons are about 92 per cent water -- is a boon. Early travellers sometimes used watermelons as canteens.
The watermelon's subtle taste also makes it versatile, so think beyond the fruit plate. Watermelon can be used for drinks, desserts, condiments and salads.
When buying watermelon, look for fruit that is firm and symmetrical, with a shiny, smooth rind free of blemishes, scrapes or dents. The melon should feel heavy for its size and make a hollow thunk when tapped. It should also have a "soil spot," a mellow yellow area where the watermelon was lying in the earth and ripening in the sun. Seeing a cut watermelon at the store will give you an idea of the redness and crispness of the flesh, but it's best to buy whole watermelon for yourself. Once a watermelon is cut open, it starts to lose freshness.
The watermelons of my childhood were gigantic and oblong, and eating them was definitely an outdoor activity. The fruit was cut into huge semi-circles and consumed in a messy rush, with juices getting all over everything. The big black seeds were spat into the garden.
Nowadays, watermelons are often pint-sized and round. (The Japanese have even developed a cube-shaped melon for easier shipping and stacking.) These well-behaved supermarket watermelons have only a few very small white seeds. Bred for ease and convenience and polite nibbling, this new type of watermelon is often found cut into small pieces on artfully arranged platters.
Many foodies lament the passing of the big seeded watermelon, saying that the new ones simply can't measure up in terms of taste. Maybe we're mourning the lost flavour of watermelon, but we're probably also mourning the lost endless summers of our childhood.
1. My dad always salted his watermelon, which I thought was crazy. It turns out he was just ahead of the trend for salty-sweet combos. Mixing watermelon with salty cheese has long been a Mediterranean favourite. There are regional variations of this salad: some recipes add black olives or red onions; some throw in mint or oregano or flat-leaf parsley. Some add just a drizzle of olive oil or just a splash of lemon juice. The main thing is to start with the pairing of sweet melon and salty cheese.
Watermelon, feta and mint salad
1.2 l (about 5 cups) seedless watermelon, cut into 2.5 cm (1 in) chunks, chilled
200 g (about 1 cup) feta cheese packed in brine, drained and crumbled
125 ml (1/2 cup) pitted kalamata olives, chopped (optional)
45 ml (3 tbsp) red onion, minced (optional)
45 ml (3 tbsp) olive oil
22 ml (1 1/2 tbsp) lemon juice
2 ml (1/2 tsp) Tabasco sauce
5 ml (1 tsp) kosher salt, or 2 ml (1/2 tsp) table salt
1 ml (1/4 tsp) fresh ground pepper
125 ml (1/2 cup) mint leaves, coarsely chopped
In a large bowl or platter, gently toss together watermelon, cheese, olives and onion. In a small bowl, whisk together oil, lemon juice, Tabasco, salt and pepper, and drizzle over salad. Garnish with mint leaves and serve immediately. Serves 6.
Tester's notes: The fusion of distinct flavours -- sweet, salty, spicy -- and textures makes for a great hot-weather salad.
2. Watermelon sorbet is a refreshing, pale-pink palate-cleanser.
Watermelon sorbet
1.4 l (about 6 cups) watermelon, cut into chunks
60 ml (1/4 cup) white sugar
45 ml (3 tbsp) lemon juice
Pinch salt
125 ml (1/2 cup) light corn syrup
In a blender or food processor, blend watermelon chunks until smooth. (You might need to do this in batches.) Strain through a fine-mesh sieve, pushing on pulp to get all the liquid out, into a bowl. You should end up with about 1 litre (4 cups) watermelon liquid. In a large pot, heat about 250 ml (1 cup) of the watermelon liquid with sugar and lemon juice, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat, add salt and remaining watermelon. Stir in corn syrup until well blended. Cool slightly, then refrigerate mixture for 2 hours until chilled. Process in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. Freeze for 1-2 hours and then serve.
Tester's notes: A light ending for a summer supper, this is a refreshing fruit ice. Because the sugar content in fruit can vary, the texture of frozen fruit sorbets can vary, from slushy to hard. If the mixture has frozen too hard, let it sit for a few minutes before serving. Adding a little alcohol to the initial mix -- about 30 ml (2 tbsp) vodka or liqueur -- will also keep it from freezing too hard.
3. Agua fresca, Spanish for "fresh water," is a drink sold at roadside stands in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Fruit, often watermelon, is blended with lime juice, honey or agave syrup.
Watermelon agua fresca
1.2 l (about 5 cups) seedless watermelon, cut into chunks, divided
250 ml (1 cup) cold water, divided
15 ml (1 tbsp) fresh lime juice (or to taste)
15 ml (1 tbsp) honey (or to taste)
Ice cubes
Lime wedges, watermelon to garnish
Blend half the watermelon with 125 ml (1/2 cup) water in a blender or food processor until smooth. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve, pushing on the pulp to get all the liquid out, into a serving pitcher. Repeat with remaining watermelon and remaining water. Add lime juice and honey and stir to combine. Pour into ice-filled glasses and garnish with lime and watermelon. Makes 4 glasses.
Tester's notes: A really light, fresh summer drink with a gorgeous colour. And if the sun is over the yardarm, you can add vodka for a cool summer cocktail.


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"It will," he said, "be one of
the more interesting days."
Interesting, definitely, but not
the most labor-intensive afternoon of Pletcher's career. In 2006, for instance,
he saddled 17 horses in the Breeders' Cup, and in 2007 he sent out five starters
in the Kentucky Derby. Travers Day, however, will be one of the more unusual,
considering the high-profile status of Uncle
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"We're still waiting on
X-ray results to be read by Dr. [Larry] Bramlage, but right now the only thing
we know for sure is that he's not going to run in the Hopeful," said Pletcher.
The trainer added that Hour
Glass, 12-1 on the morning line for the Ballerina, likely will not run
against her stablemate in the seven-furlong race.
"If there are some defections,
that could change," he said. "But we're probably not going to run."
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