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Archive for November 2008
Posted by: selsel on: November 28, 2008
My eyeballs are drying up.
Posted by: selsel on: November 27, 2008
Need to replenish my Refresh Naturale Tears soon, or else I think my eyeballs are gonna start shrivelling up and become dried prunes. I was driving to work today and playing the CD, when suddenly I heard our song, 五人的安静。 It was so funny, hearing it out of the blue and Karen going totally out [...]
Cheap thrill!
Posted by: selsel on: November 23, 2008
Ahaha, today is an exciting day! For one, I couldn't find my way to blody Park Mall, I made 2 rounds and went through 2 blody ERP gantries before finding the entrance to the carpark. Argh. Sat through 2 hours of manicure and pedicure, spa treatment no less. So 幸福!:D Now I have shimmery french [...]
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Posted by: selsel on: November 21, 2008
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Feeling Surly..
Posted by: selsel on: November 16, 2008
I scratched my 小白 last night at Hongkong Cafe and I'm still feeling sore about it. Nobody's fault but mine. And I just found my October handphone bill, buried under a pile of papers. Which means I don't get my reimbursements in November. Shit. The event for the young ladies' club thing has to be [...]
You know you're not spending enough time at home when…
Posted by: selsel on: November 10, 2008
Your mum calls you your dog's name at the dinner table. *Faints*
Ah Crap!
Posted by: selsel on: November 6, 2008
I'm so dang-ified today. Why so? Firstly, I just saw on the corporate home page that there was a $199 JAL SIN – Tokyo promotion. No kidding! $850 to fly to Tokyo on JAL is a chance of a lifetime or what! But, bloody, the validity period is from 1 Nov to 30 Nov. How [...]
So boring..
Posted by: selsel on: November 5, 2008
My blog, that is. Because I'm running out of energy to update it and make it nice and interesting. I can barely get enough sleep. Sigh. Even when I do lie down for the required 8 hours a day, my body is sleeping but my mind is not. What is wrong with me! Plenty of [...]


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Hero Level: 367Kingdoms: All level 10Weekly gold: ~300kWeekly seals: ~700 seals 27 hours before reset normally, ~1700 on mythic weeks.Weekly trophies: ~150Invite code: AGENTRONIN316
I just started working a second job two weeks ago, and simply do not have the time to keep up with my current guild's requirements during this transition time (hoping new job will offer full-time soon-ish so I can quit old job.)
Invite sent, welcome!
In a similar position to this. Im level 1000+Invite: RAGEREAVER
yaKhayPlayer Lvl: 13719 Kingdoms at max lvl, other lvl7 up, working on that, since i had to donate much in my prev guild200k, 300k, if the guild needs more obviously i will donate moreThe 1500 seals i make in the 1st day straight, you can check that if i get inWill the traitstones farming lately i have been around 500 to 750, but once i finish farming what i need to complete the main deck i will get the rest on the reward chest and focus only in pvp.
@yaKhay forgot to say done 191 pvp wins (7,8k pvp points) for this week even while farming all those traitstones
that i can see, cant extimate trophies for him more precisely then this data
Thank you for your interest. Sadly we just filled the open spot for now. If you are interested in joining us anyway, keep an eye on this tread to know when we are recruiting again
Recruitment open: Looking for one person.
level 276all kingdoms lvl 10 200k gold per week1500 seals3-500 trophiesinvite code Blerrg
invite sent
Why did you kick me out? The week hasn't ended, I was going to do Tier 1 on Saturday.
Hey I'm looking for a new guild with active members as the one I'm in only has a few people who even play, let alone contribute
I am 211VIP level 3All my kingdom at at level 10 but I haven't yet completed all the quests and haven't done any of the challenges yet. I usually get to PVP tier 1 first (by Tuesday usually) then work on the quests for the rest of the week
I usually get 1000-1100 seals, 130 trophies and contribute around 150K to guild tasks but I feel like I would probably do more if I was in a guild where everyone was pitching in.
I'd love to hear back from you
My invite code is ATTACKCAT
Hi Hero level: 167Seals:1500 (usually before weekends, never missed a single seal)Trophies: ~250-300Kingdoms: I've got 1 lvl 10, the rest is half lvl 5 half lvl 6s and 7s.Gold: 150k works for me for now, as i'm leveling kingdoms. It'll rise eventuallyinvite code: REDDEMON 2
we have 1 spot open, looking for 1 person who wants to join us, not just any guild.
if you're interested - read the first post and let us know please.
Can I rejoin your guild? Maybe I'm not the most active player, but I will ALWAYS do at least the minimum (unless something REALLY unexpected happens).
The minimum req is there so that people can have their lives and don't have to think of this game as a chore, that's why the req is so low (for a top50 guild). That said, pretty much everyone is doing more or much more than the minimum regularly, so we aren't looking for someone who will be doing the very minimum week after week (and then once in a while not even that).
still looking for 1 person, bump
Yes, I did post with a few different guilds looking for a new home, but that doesn't mean I didn't specifically handpick yours after carefully reading the first post. There were lots and lots and lots of adds. Either way, I've found a great new spot for myself and I wish you the very best of luck
That comment wasn't directed at you I saw you already posted in a different thread that you found a guild, so we assumed that you weren't interested anymore. Also thank you and good luck to you too!
Looking for two active people. If you are interested, please read the first post
Hello I am level 520.All of my kingdoms are level 10.My average weekly contribution for my previous guild was 350k+Let's see...for seals I usually get ~600 - 650 in the first 24 hours (PvPing to tier 1), and for my last guild, 800 was the requirement so ~150 - 250 would trickle in over the course of the rest of the week. Though for Mythic weeks, I will definitely try and get to 1300+ over the course of the week. Weekly trophy count average is ~100. Sometimes more.
If you do accept me, my invite code is 'AZAZELL ZYMMER'Additionally I would like to know what I would be required to do for the rest of this week, if accepted.
Level 433Almost all kingdoms at 10300 + trophies 1500 seals 3 days to collect400 k +
Invite code DARKSOTER

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- After this most bizarro of playoff wins, one might have expected the Carolina Hurricanes' dressing room would have been electric with euphoria, or at the very least, giddy with relief.
Instead, there was quiet introspection.
"What do you see in this dressing room?" defenseman Aaron Ward asked, gesturing to the oddly silent room. "It's the knowledge that we absolutely escaped with a game, 100 percent by the skin of our teeth."
A few moments earlier, Rod Brind'Amour had scored with 31.1 seconds left in the third period off a horrific gaffe by backup Oilers netminder Ty Conklin to give the Hurricanes a most improbable 5-4 win in the first game of the Stanley Cup finals Monday night.
Although the Hurricanes' signature move this season has been the comeback, this was unlike anything seen thus far, coming back from a 3-0 deficit that included a penalty shot goal by Edmonton defenseman Chris Pronger and scoring the winner after Oilers starter Dwayne Roloson had left the game -- and the series -- with a knee injury.
It's as though the Eastern Conference champs saved their most dramatic flourishes for this big stage.
Of course, the big finish required a very small, flat start.
"We were blatantly off in the first and second periods," Ward said.
The good thing, the veteran defenseman surmised, was that no matter what happens they can't possibly be as bad in Game 2.
"I don't think you'll find anybody in our room that was real happy with the way we played," coach Peter Laviolette added.
For most of the first two periods, the Edmonton Oilers looked like the team of destiny many believe they are. In spite of a nine-day layoff after the Western Conference finals, the Oilers opened the finals on enemy territory by stapling the Hurricanes to the end boards on virtually every shift. The puck dropped and they started hitting everything that moved, just as they did against Anaheim and versus San Jose and Detroit before that.
The Hurricanes, who have yet to play a team that marries the physical and the speedy so nicely, seemed wide-eyed and flat-footed.
"They did a good job of dictating the game," Kevyn Adams said. "They were able to really control the first 40 minutes."
The Oilers' pounding yielded the first goal as Ward coughed up the puck in his own end and allowed Fernando Pisani to put home a rebound midway through the first period. The swarming Oilers attack led directly to the call on Niclas Wallin in the Carolina crease that sent Pronger in on his first NHL penalty shot, which gave the Oilers a 2-0 lead.
The relentless Edmonton forecheck yielded a loose puck and an Ethan Moreau shot that banked in off Ward to make it 3-0 with less than four minutes to go in the second period.
In the old days, with a 3-0 score late in the second period, reporters would have finished their stories by the start of the third period. Players on both teams would have been saving their energy for Game 2. Coaches would have been drawing up their next game plan.
But the past is the past, and if ever there was a team that lives in the moment no matter what, it's the Carolina Hurricanes. They are an amazing 7-4 this spring when the opposing team scores first. After outscoring the Oilers 4-1 in the third, the Hurricanes have outscored playoff opponents 22-9 in the final frame.
"Guys were upset, and rightfully so. We worked all year to get to the Stanley Cup finals," said Justin Williams, whose shorthanded goal gave the Hurricanes a 4-3 lead midway through the third period. "We had a tough series last time and we can't afford a letdown, and that's what we had in the first 20 minutes, first 40 minutes. They took the play to us. We just had to get that back, get that fight back, that anger."
The Hurricanes have come from behind so often this spring that it's one activity instead of a collection of many tiny moments that weave themselves into something dramatic.
Like defenseman Mike Commodore diving to break up a Ryan Smyth pass on an odd-man rush, after which the Canes turned the puck up ice and Brind'Amour tapped in the rebound of a Williams shot to make it 3-1.
"It was a start," Commodore said. "We know we have to be better. We know we got away with one tonight. The first two periods for us, that's not going to cut it."
Or Eric Staal, who'd appeared to hit a bit of a wall late in the Eastern Conference finals and had missed a couple of glorious chances early in Game 1. But he made a fine play on a Carolina power play to set up Mark Recchi in the slot. Roloson made the initial stop, but former Oilers stick boy Ray Whitney deposited the rebound for his second goal in 3:29 to tie the score at 3-3.
The more the Hurricanes began to move their feet and generate speed through the neutral zone in the second half of the game, the less opportunity there was for the Oilers to knock them down. And the less chance the Oilers had to knock the stuffing out of the Hurricanes, the more the comeback was complete, both on the scoreboard and in the players' minds on both sides of the ice.
"We got seduced late in the second period into trading chances," Edmonton coach Craig MacTavish said. "I thought we were sharp. But the disappointing thing was that we didn't manage our game mentally, as well as what we should have, given the circumstances."
If you can't coach your team to come from behind, you certainly can instill in the players the philosophy that makes it possible.
"I think it's human nature when you're down to raise your level and when you're up to take a breath. And that may be enough, along with trying to push the pace, and push the puck sometimes," Laviolette said. "I think you play a little bit more carefree. To me, if it's 3-1 or 7-1, you've lost the game so you may as well empty the tank, unload the defensemen and push the pace."
The Hurricanes don't have a monopoly on resiliency.
The Oilers lost the opening game in each of the first two rounds and rebounded to win both series in six games.
But that was with a healthy Roloson, not a rusty Conklin -- or Jussi Markkanen -- depending whom MacTavish turns to in Game 2 on Wednesday night.
But games such as this one will be difficult to step away from for the Oilers. As for the Hurricanes, the somber tone in the dressing room reflected the knowledge that this was especially remarkable in a spring when remarkable has been the norm.
Were it not for a handful of mind-boggling saves by rookie netminder Cam Ward, including two breathtaking stops on Shawn Horcoff in the last half of the third period, the story line for this game -- indeed, this series -- might well be different.
"It's almost an expectation," Aaron Ward said. "But those ones were ridiculous."
Now, it falls to the Oilers in Game 2 to play the comeback game.
Scott Burnside is an NHL writer for ESPN.com.


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Brothers Transfer Museum Building to FASM
Excerpted from the Shiretown News
The Friends of the Alfred Shaker Museum (FASM) and the Brothers of Christian Instruction jointly announce the recently completed transfer of the museum building and its contents from the Brothers to FASM for a nominal fee to house the museum. Under the terms of the transfer agreement, the Brothers also provide an easement for FASM over an acre of land on the northeast side of Shaker Hill Road, which is the present site of the museum.
Obtaining greater security for its tenure and investment in the building have long been goals of FASM, which has been renovating the structure for years using its own effort and labor. The work has been done under a long-term agreement with the Brothers, which gave FASM the confidence to move forward with its founding of the museum, as well as work on the building. Tha work and confidence have now been significantly rewarded.
"We are very appreciative of the support and confidence the brothers have shown over the years. They too recognize the value of preserving the Shaker history in the Town of Alfred and in Maine," said James Boyle, FASM president. He thanked, in particular, Brother Jerome Lessard, Provincial Superior of the Order that bought the former Shaker property in 1931. Boyle also thanked Al Carlson of Alfred, who negotiated the terms of the agreement with the Brothers over a period of months and saw it to completion.
The renovation of the first floor of the building is substantially completed. FASM expects to finish the second floor as a reading room and office by the end of next year, if grant monies are forthcoming for the required building materials.


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The Woman Who Dreamed Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987 Fantasy, Drama 103 mins
Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
Watch the official The Woman Who Dreamed 1987 trailer in HD below or find more The Woman Who Dreamed videos on Vidimovie.


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Price and Rinne went toe to toe in a goalie duel that could resurface at the Sochi Olympics, but it was late heroics by Seth Jones that will be most memorable from this game. Jones played 27:29 minutes this evening, second to only Shea Weber for time on ice. But Jones really shined with a minute and a half left where he took a pass from Legwand, pinched into the middle, did a dirty little toe drag and fired a puck over Price's right shoulder. The Game Winning Goal created ripples across social media, including many analysts rashly awarding Nashville the first place prize in the draft (it's still early folks).
Weber had the other Preds goal, which he got after a scramble on the powerplay. Nashville fired 37 shots at Price, an unseen offensive effort that, along with significant bouts of pressure and a very successful penalty kill, lead to their first road win of the season.
With the Preds' win, they move to 4-3-1 and play tomorrow night in Winnipeg, a game that could see Carter Hutton take the net.
Four Thoughts
1. Power Play bad, Penalty Kill good: It was a parade to the penalty box tonight, with 11 powerplays between the two sides. Nashville went 1/6 on the night, the only goal by Weber came just as a 5 on 3 power play ended. The remaining powerplays involved a lack of setup and an unwillingness to pull the trigger. Luckily it was more of the same for the Canadiens, who were 0 for 5 and had a very difficult time getting setup in the zone. The chances they did have were well shut down by Rinne.
2. Disallowed Goal saves the Preds: A minute and a half into the 3rd, as Montreal was really picking up steam, a flurry in front of the net lead to Pekka Rinne falling back into his own net while making a save with his blocker side arm. The Reff on the ice threw his hand up and then violently gestured for a goal. Rinne protested; it didn't look in. The Reffs confered at the middle of the ice and then went upstairs before ruling it no goal – which in my biased opinion was the right call. However the video did not prove, without a doubt, that it didn't cross the line, which it would need to as the call on the ice was for a goal. Here was the official rulling from the NHL:
At 1:35 of the third period in the Predators/Canadiens game, the official located behind the goal line signaled goal. After the referee's huddled, they determined that Lars Eller's shot did not cross the goal line. Video review was inconclusive in determining whether or not the shot crossed the goal line, therefore the referee's group decision that the puck did not completely cross the goal line stands. No goal Montreal
3. Goaltending Showdown: Rinne and Price both played exceptionally well tonight. The first goal on each was a bit unlucky. The Canadiens goal was resulting from a scramble while Weber's goal on Price took a wicked redirection. Rinne played, I think, his best game of the season, making some key saves. Price turned away 35 shots, so you absolutely can't blame him. While Pekka is a likely shoe in for team Finland, Price may have to work for a team Canada position, but the two could absolutely end up meeting in Sochi.
4. Shots Shots Shots: 37 shots tonight for Nashville, and 30 shots per game in 5 consecutive games now (37, 35, 30, 31, 36). It's nice to see Nashville putting some rubber on net, but you need to wonder if it's of the quality needed to make a difference. This game and the games against LA and Toronto specifically, it seems like an overwhelming amount of shots are not quality and are easily gobbled up by talented netminders. But still, the momentum tonight, arguably generated by shooting attempts, was a contributing factor to the win.
5. Seth Jones: What a goal by Jones. Just phenomenal. The 19 year old defenseman is really turning heads around the league. He and Weber are becoming one of the best pairing in the NHL and Weber is clearly a positive mentor to the rookie. This could be the first Calder Nominee in Preds history (didn't look this up – not sure we've had others?)
BONUS THOUGHT: Mike Fisher Injury – it was announced mid day that Fisher would be a game time decision – and it turned out that the decision was no. Trotz announced that Fisher would be day to day with a shoulder injury. Spaling took his place but was very unnoticeable in his 12 minutes of ice time. I would expect Fisher to be out again against Winnipeg, but probably not for much longer after that.
Scoring Summary
1-0 NSH: Shea Weber – Legwand and Fisher at 12:31 in the 1st
1-1 MTL: Brendan Gallagher – Bournival, Eller at 7:02 in the 2nd
2-1 NSH: Jones, Legwand, Wilson 18:33 in the 3rd
Goaltending Stats
NSH: Pekka Rinne (W) – 28 saves on 29 shots (.966); 60:00
MTL: Carey Price(L) – 35 saves on 37 shots (.946); 60:00
My Three Stars
1. Seath Jones: 1 goal, 27:29 TOI
2. David Legwand: 2 (primary) Assists
3. Carey Price: 35 saves
Line Up Report
Predators scratches: Fisher, Clune
Predators starters: Hendricks, Gaustad, Nystrom, Ekholm, Klein and Rinne
Canadiens scratches: Max Pacioretty, Nathan Beaulieu
Canadiens starters: Galchenyuk, Eller, Gallagher, Markov, Subban, Price


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Corrigé bac S/ES LV1 2005 1. a) Who is the narrator? How is he/she related to, Sam? 2 The narrator is a woman)She is Sam's wife. b) Justify your onswer by quoting from the text. 2 (line 4-5) "we produced two sons (1. 12) "our honeymoon » line 16! "my husband's parents" 2. Match one element fromcolumn A with an element from column B. 5 X 2 A B 1. Sam had a heart-attack a) in 76 2. They had children . b. in the late 70's 3. They got married c) the early eighties 4. Sam found a good job abroad d. at the age of fifty-two. 5. They moved back to England e) in the summer of '99 1. d 2. c
3. a 4. b
3. What consequences did Sam's job have on his life?,(30 words) 10 Sam had led a busy life and his work had been harmful to his health. As a result he had bad signs after a heart-attack. So the family decided to move back to England. 4. Choose the right answer..3 4.b ou They decided to rent a place in Dorset. Questions 5, 6 and 7. Focus from line 18. to line 29("We'd done well ... world sporting fixtures) 5. a)1.19. "There was no immediate hurry for either of us to find a job." 5 What does it reveal about their standard of living while abroad?(15 words) They had enjoyed a very comfortable life overseas and had managed to put aside some money. b) 11.1 9-20. "Or so we imagined." - What dces this mean?(20 words) 6 They were wrong to assume they would be able to live on their savings; they soon realized they would have to find jobs quickly. 6. How do they see the British society on their, return to their homeland? (30 words) 10 They hadn't expected so many changes and now find it hard to recognize the British society they had left some twenty years before. The standard of living had increased tremendously and Britain had turned into a consumer society. 7. Find a key sentence showing it wasn't difficult for their children to adapt to their new environment 2 Line 25-26) "Hastily the boys abandoned us for their own age group" Questions 8 to 12. Focus on lines 38 to the end 8. a) Who was Sam in touch with some time after their return?2 He was in touch with Jock Williams (an old friend of theirs) b) What did they talk about on the phone? 2 They talked about money/ their financial situation. 9. Say who the underlined words refer to. (l.39-1.42) 4 X 1 "I took time to wonder why it never seem to occur to Sam that Jock was as big a fantasist as he was, particularly as –Jock had been trumpeting 'mega-buck sales' down the phone to him for years but had, never managed to find the time – or money?- to fly out for a visit. `What did you say ? » (a) I = The narrator l Sam's wife /the woman - (b) He = Sam -
(c) Him = Sam (d) You = Sam
10.1.38. "I lied through my teeth".What did Sam lie about? Why did he feel the need to lie ?(30.words)10 He lied about his financial situation. He felt he was in a competition with Jock and was too proud to admit he hadn't done so well as him. 11. Did the narrator and Sam share the same vision of Jock Williams?(20 words)8 No, they didn't. Contrary to her husband who was fooled by him, she didn't believe a word of what he boasted about. 12. What is Sam's state of mind at the end of the passage? (20 words)8 He feels despondent and sad. He sounds regretful and wishes they hadn't sold their Richmond house before moving abroad. Question 13 13. Translate into French from "The Idea was to have ... line 14 to "... Torquay, line 17. 16 Nous avions en tête de prolonger nos vacances d'été / tout en prospectant pour trouver un logement / où nous installer plus durablement. / Ni l'un ni l'autre n'avions de lien particulier/ avec une région de l'Angleterre. /Les parents de mon mari étaient décédés /et les miens s'étaient retirés dans le comté voisin du Devon / pour profiter de la douceur climatique de Torquay. EXPRESSION 10 POINTS Choose subject 1 or subject 2. . 1. line. 2. ".:. Hong Kong, Australia and South Aftica. They were good times ... Would you be ready to go, and live in a faraway country if it meant a better life? (300 words) 2. a) Do "garden fetes, village cricket' and "theme pubs' correspond to your vision of Britain? (150 words) . b) How can you account for young people's attraction for designer clothes? Do you approve of it? (150words) Précisions pour la correction de la partie compréhension Pénaliser le candidat qui:
a à la fois répondu dans le désordre et SANS numéroter ses questions, sans dépasser -1 sur 10 n'a pas respecté le nombre de mots minimum indiqué n'a pas précisé clairement le(s) n° de ligne(s) de ses citations (moitié des points affectés ). a recopié le texte lorsqu'on lui demandait de répondre avec ses propres mots. a répondu dans un anglais TRES incorrect, à hauteur de – 20% des points
Questions Remarques Points
1. a) Who is the narrator? How is he/she related to Sam?
"The narrator is Sam's wife " suffira 2
1. b) Justify your answer by quoting from the text
une seule citation suffira (line 4-5, 12 ou 16) 2
2. . Match one element from column A with an element from column B
1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b 5. e.
5 X 2 3. What consequences did Sam's job have on his lifestyle? (30 words)
On exigera les 3 points suivants: too much work health problem decision to go back to Engl.
4. Choose the right answer 4.B (they decided to rent a place in Dorset) 3 5. a. "There was no immediate hurry for either of us to find a job" What does it reveal about their standard of living while abroad?
Exiger l'idée de richesse 5
5. b. "Or so we imagined" What does this mean? (20 words)
Exiger l'idée de they were wrong they had to find a job NE PAS tenir compte des citations données dans le corrigé. NE PAS accepter que des citations
6. How do they see the British society on their return to their homeland? (30 words)
Exiger l'idée de changes wealth/ higher standard of living
7.Find a key sentence showing it wasn't difficult for their children to adapt to their new environment.
line 25-26 2
8. a. Who was Sam in touch with some time after their return?
N'exiger QUE Jock Williams 2 8. b. What did they talk about on the phone?
Money/ Their businesses 2 9. Say who the underlined words refer to
a . I = narrator/ Sam's wife b , c, d . He/ him / you = Sam 4 X 1
10. Line 38: What did Sam lie about? Why did he feel the need to lie?
He lied about his financial situation/ income/ success Accepter sentiment de gêne, de honte, de vanité.
11. Did the narrator and Sam share the same vision of Jock Williams? (20 words)
Idée d'opposition confiance/ méfiance 8
12. What is Sam's state of mind at the end of the passage? (20 words)
Sentiments de tristesse + regrets 8 13. Translate into French lines 14-17 Découpage en 8 segments: …holiday/
….around for / …to settle/ …connections/ ….England/ …dead / ….Devon/ …Torquay (accepter tout terme positif % climat)
Pour l'expression écrite , se référer à la grille que vous pouvez trouver sur : http://www.ac-versailles.fr/pedagogi/anglais/lyc/bac.htm ainsi que ac-nantes et ac-caen. Et bon courage à toutes et à tous ! Michelle Jaillet


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No big bang this Diwali
According to anti-noise activist Sumaira Abdulali, founder of Awaaz foundation, the bursting of noisy bombs and other deafening crackers was much lesser than previous years.
"This is the third year in a row that the noise levels were low. The high cost of crackers and increased awareness about the health hazards that crackers pose helped citizens not to burst crackers making it a calmer Diwali," Abdulali said, adding that the highest sound level of 127decibels (dB) was recorded on Wednesday, the day of Laxmi Puja.
Abdulali, however, added that the 10 pm deadline for bursting crackers had been flouted in several areas in the city. "This is the fist time in many years that the 10pm deadline was not observed at many areas such as Bandra (East), Bandra (West), Worli and Marine Drive."
Abdulali lamented that this year's festivals had been noisy affairs but was surprised that Diwali, which in the past has been the noisiest festival, has become a quieter affair.


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Fox News
---the Zero Dark Thirty File
---When Jessica Chastain says "They [the CIA 'enhanced' interrogators] actually received--in our film--no success from those interrogations. They didn't get anything that they used, so I find it really confusing why they would say it's pro [torture]," one should keep in mind this scene from the film.
---"We are immersed into an overwhelming environment in Zero Dark Thirty, just as we are in all of Bigelow's films. But in this case, the environment is the numbingly anonymous one of Big Data, of the numbingly repetitious accumulation of "information" (whether by torture, surveillance, physical search, or collation of records), and of instantaneity (the annihilation of duration) mediated through video screens and telecommunications technologies.
As I was watching Zero Dark Thirty, I found the relentlessness with which all this was depicted almost unbearably intense. I've never seen (or heard) so powerful a depiction (or better, I should say, so powerful an enactment) of entropic dissolution and decay. All meaning, and all feeling, was draining away before my eyes and ears, without even the prospect of any sort of negative finality or conclusion." --Steve Shaviro
---"But I was surprised at what I saw. We've got the go-it-alone gunslinger, Maya, whose past is murky and future is vague. She's Clint Eastwood's 'Man With No Name,' re-imagined as a twenty-something woman. She gathers up a posse, heads out, and kills the bad guy. Then she leaves. Because she's not actually Clint Eastwood, she cries a little. You expect to see someone chasing the C-130 shouting, 'Shane, come back!'
In reality, cowboys don't work as targeters. (But they do ride with a large posse that helps with more than the gunfights. This 10-year hunt involved hundreds of people with several people at the core.) More often than not, effective intelligence—including the effort to find Osama bin Laden—is the result of sustained, collective efforts that spark moments of intuition among a pool of experts and processes, not individual hunches that compel monumental effort." --Nada Bakos
---"'The sad truth,' writes Karen Greenberg in a disturbing analysis 'is that Zero Dark Thirty could not have been produced in its present form if any of the officials who created and implemented U.S. torture policy had been held accountable for what happened, or any genuine sunshine had been thrown upon it.' In that case it would have been like making a film about a gangland murder as viewed by the police -- a crime that in real life the police went after -- but showing it in the film as if all the police on the scene had watched and done nothing. Such a film would stand exposed, and the falseness would draw general comment.
Yet regarding the American torture of prisoners, our leading officials said it was wrong, but then did nothing to back their saying so, nothing to prove that we believed it was wrong. The movie if anything endorses an attitude akin to the new president's: acceptance (with distaste) of a new policy of official ban supported by no accountability. For that is the status quo, and Zero Dark Thirty has this curious contradiction at its heart. Whatever can be absorbed into the story of the successful killing now qualifies as a necessary step toward the killing." --David Bromwich
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Moore had been visiting Disney World in Orlando with his now-estranged father since he was a child, and he'd also begun taking his two children, then 1 and 3, to Disneyland. He thought that juxtaposing all-American iconography of Mickey Mouse with a dark scripted tale would be cinematic gold, or at least deeply weird.
So with the help of an extremely small Canon camera and some very game actors and crew, the director began shooting a movie guerilla-style. . . .
What's remarkable about all this is that, in watching the film, one doesn't get the sense of a guerilla-filmmaking exercise. There are numerous wide shots, and scenes luxuriating in classic Disney images. It looks as if it was made with the full cooperation of the company, which of course it wasn't.
'To me this is the future. Cameras in your hand. Cameras in your glasses. Anyone can be shooting at any time. And I think it will explode,' Moore said." --Steven Zeitchik
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Mandingo Reviews
October 14, 2013
Viewed with fresh eyes, it can credibly be seen as revisionist history of a particularly savage kind.
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June 4, 2008
Mandingo is excessive, yet its excesses invariably reveal the caustic truths of social critique.
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Good to see Fleischer returning to the kind of psycho-pathological thriller that he can handle so well.
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[A] hugely entertaining potboiler.
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One of the most neglected and underrated Hollywood films of its era.
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Until this moment we cannot be certain that the movie is going to employ every cliche of antebellum melodrama.
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Mandingo is racist trash, obscene in its manipulation of human beings and feelings, and excruciating to sit through.
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At least offers no tears for the demise of the good ole days in Dixie.
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Embarrassing and crude.
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The performances are overdramatized and unbelievable in a script that suffers from the same weaknesses.
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The Council on Foreign Relations held a panel on 3D printing as it relates to foreign policy. Sam Cervantes, CEO of Solidoodle in Carroll Gardens, was one of the three panelists.
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See the full video below. Cervantes speaks for about nine minutes starting around 17:00. Some takeaways from what he had to say:
- Solidoodle has shipped to 60 different countries. About 40% of their sales go outside the U.S.
- "3D printing is one small subsegment of the coming Robotics revolution," Cervantes says. He describes the automation/robotics revolution as the integration of the previous industrial, digital and Internet revolutions.
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Experiment could revolutionize MMA judging
At UFC 132 on July 2 in Las Vegas, a fight between Dennis Siver and Matt Wiman followed what has become a regular pattern.
The fight's first and third rounds were very close. A judge could have made a case for scoring either round in favor of either fighter. Wiman clearly won round two, taking Siver down, busting his head open with ground strikes and connecting with elbows for most of the round. Wiman was never close to finishing, but dominated the round, though not enough for a 10-8 score on any of the judges cards.
When it was over, there was no doubt Wiman had done far more damage in the fight. My thought was that Wiman won rounds two and three, but rounds one and three could go either way. In this case, all three judges gave Siver both of the close rounds for a unanimous-decision victory.
The crowd lustily booed the decision. Wiman was so upset he stormed out of the Octagon. People on the Internet complained about corrupt judging and robberies. Reporters after the fight in the press room debated what happened. UFC president Dana White was asked, and he noted the people with whom he watched the fight, all had different viewpoints on who should have won.
There are more complaints in mixed martial arts about judging – after nearly every fight card – than any other issue. The system is basically a hand-me-down from boxing's 10-point must system, which works in bouts of eight, 10 or 12 rounds. But too often in a three-round MMA fight, a fighter, like Wiman, can inflict a great amount of punishment in winning a round, but lose the fight because he comes out on the wrong end of two coin-flip-close rounds, despite clearly doing more damage over the course of the bout.
There is no scoring system that can overcome bad judges, and it's much easier to blame incompetent judges, who do exist, and occasional bad scoring, which will continue to exist no matter what system is in place, then to make a change that will lessen but not eliminate the problem. The current system can, on occasion, render a bad decision from very good judges, usually with the "two close rounds, one dominant round" fight being the main culprit.
"I think it's just apathy and complacency," said J.T. Steele, the president of the amateur California Martial Arts Organization, which is experimenting this year with a new system. "To change the status quo, and for our sport to evolve, you need passionate people willing to work hard. It costs money and it takes time. There's not a lot of people out there willing to do that.
Most of the controversial decisions, like Wiman vs. Siver, are based on a fighter being lucky on close rounds. Lyoto Machida vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson at UFC 123 was the last UFC main event to fall into this category, where after the fight, reporters' consensus was that Machida was the obvious winner of the fight, but that given the 10-point must system in place, the win by Jackson was the correct verdict – even though Jackson himself after the fight said he thought he had lost.
It's the inherent weakness of a system where almost every round is scored 10-9, no matter how close or how dominant it is. Virtually no rounds are scored 10-10, although judges are technically allowed to do so. Unless you dominate the round from start-to-finish and have your opponent just about finished, you are unlikely to get a 10-8 score.
As frustrated as the fans and the promoters are, perhaps nobody is as frustrated as the judges themselves. At times, the person with the most points on your scorecard is not the person you really believed won the fight, a distinction few fans watching comprehend.
Since the start of 2011, California has experimented with a half-point scoring system on its amateur shows, both to get feedback from its judges, and also to compile statistics. At the end of the year, when the stats are done, the findings will be presented to people like Marc Ratner, the vice-president for regulatory affairs at the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and the Association of Boxing Commissioners, to see if the system has more merit than the one in place.
"I like what they are doing," said Ratner. "Right now the best thing to do is use the system for a year, compile the statistics and see what we can learn."
Instead of always writing 10-9 on a scorecard unless there is a completely dominant round with a near finish, you have more options. A 10-9.5 is for a close round, like rounds one and three in Siver vs. Wiman, and rounds one and two in Jackson vs. Machida – both fights in which the person who ended up losing in the current system would most likely have won with the new system.
A 10-9 would be the score for a round that is competitive, but, you have no doubt who won. That is still the score that comes up most of the time with the new system. A 10-8.5 would be for a round where one fighter dominated, but didn't do enough for a 10-8, notably round two in Wiman vs. Siver, and round three in Machida vs. Jackson.
A 10-8 would be similar to how it is currently used, and you'd even have a 10-7.5 for something more dominant than a normal 10-8 round, but for whatever reason, the fight isn't stopped.
The new system also includes a fourth judge whose lone job is to award points based on criteria. If the three judges come out to a draw, which has happened six times so far this year, a winner is determined based on a points system.
The point system was put together by a panel that included well-known referees and judges "Big" John McCarthy, Herb Dean and Nelson "Doc" Hamilton, as well as Steele and George Dodd, the executive director of the California State Athletic Commission.
The system is four points for a knockdown, two for damaging strikes, one for a takedown, one for a sweep, two for grappling into a dominant position (back, mount or side control), and four for a near submission.
"We're not married to this system," said Steele. "We're working on getting it as good as we can, and it's getting close."
So far this year, 155 amateur fights in California have gone to a decision under these new rules. Of those, six, or 4 percent, had different winners based on half-point judging than they would have based on the current system. But there were 17 instances where one judge out of the three had a different winner based on half-points that he would have based on the current system.
"The only ones that are changing are the ones that are very close and the judge has a finer gradient to implement points," said Steele.
"That's going to occur in a very low percentage," noted McCarthy. "Maybe in the end, the half-point system will make a difference in 5 percent of the fights, but that's 5 percent where the fighters are getting the right outcome instead of the wrong outcome."
McCarthy noted he'd have given the UFC 132 bout to Wiman based on the half-point system, but also noted he had it 29-28 for Wiman with 10-point must, so in his case, it would not have changed the result on his scorecard had he been judging the fight.
He said the big fear going into the year is the new system would result in more draws, which is why the fourth tie-breaker judge was put in place. Thus far with the half-point system, the number of fights that ended in a draw before going to the tie breaker was 3.8 percent. With the tie-breaker criteria, while a draw is still a possibility if the fighters end up even on points, that would virtually never happen in practice. So far in 2011, 2.4 percent of UFC fights have ended up as draws.
"One thing we feared was more draws, but that hasn't happened," said McCarthy. "What we learned about the table [tie-breaker] judge is he's giving points for things happening in the fight. You could take the table judges scores and look at the official judges scoring of the fight and it's a very good way for the athletic commission to critique judges. If you have a fighter who scored 12-3 in one round and a judge who gave the round to the fighter with three, he's obviously missing something."
"One thing we really like is at the end of the night, when we have the fourth judges' points and then look over the scorecards, it's very clear what happened during the fight," said Steele. "You can tell if it's a close round, a dominant round, it paints a better picture. Ten-point must is black and white. Half-points give you color. I think from a fan perspective and a regulators' perspective, the half-point system gives you more validation. It gives you a better perspective of the bout. I think at the end of the day, the fighters deserve to have points awarded based on their merit. We're really focused on trying to help the sport evolve from a grassroots level."
"I've talked to a lot of judges and they like it, and the one I've spoken to the most is my son, and he loves the half-point system," said McCarthy. "At times, you can give a close round where a guy didn't get taken advantage of, a 10-9.5, or with Wiman's second round against Siver, a 10-8.5 – he does so much damage but he didn't completely dominate the entire round. He likes the ability to do that."
"I haven't encountered any criticism from my colleagues," said Bill Douglas, another California judge, who favors the system for MMA, but not boxing or kickboxing, because most MMA fights are only three rounds. "The reaction has been very consistent. It's either, 'I'm good with this but if we have to go back, I'm also OK with it,' or a number of officials are completely for it, but there's been no negativity so far."
Steele considers this year part of a learning process, and wants a full year of statistics to learn advantages and disadvantages. Athletic commissions are usually interested in keeping the status quo. He feels if there is going to be a change, it will be spearheaded by the UFC itself.
"I think it comes down to the UFC," said Steele. "They have the most valuable MMA sports property in the world. The second they think that the judging is starting to negatively affect their product, and if they believe the scoring system is part of the negative affect on their product, we'll see changes. For any athletic commission, being graced with the UFC coming to their state is the best thing for the athletic commission, for a city, or a town and for a local economy. If they really think it's damaging their product, we'll see changes."
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- "But why expect better from the Republic? That fool Captain Morvis is exactly who they are—no judgment, all ambition! At least Mandalorians believe in something, Zayne. Yes, they can be indiscriminate and brutal, but with our guidance. They can change. The Republic can't. We're on the wrong side!"
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During the Mandalorian Wars, a clandestine group of Jedi Masters were among the growing legions who defied the orders of the Jedi High Council and went to battle the Mandalorians under the command of Revan. Unlike the Revanchists, however, these rogue masters began covertly sabotaging the Republic war effort under the direction of the maverick ex-council member Dorjander Kace. Having come to believe that the Republic was corrupt beyond redemption, Kace and his followers embraced the Mandalorian way of life, coming to call themselves the Mandalorian Knights.[1]
- "Well, well. Captain Morvis and the young critic. Delighted to see you alive. Unlike your Republic, Mandalorians do have a use for prisoners. My Mandalorian Knights are volunteers, like me."
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As a member of the Jedi High Council, Dorjander Kace became the highest ranking Jedi to openly pledge his support for Jedi intervention in the Mandalorian Wars. Unlike those who followed Revan, however, Kace believed that the Jedi were on the wrong side of the conflict and so swore allegiance to Mandalore the Ultimate along with a small number of like-minded volunteers.[1]
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Ha! As for casting choices, I would direct curious parties to the threads on my forums about this topic. I can't really say who I'd pick, since it takes so long to make a movie. And, to be honest, I have trouble imagining ANY actor in my character roles. They are who they are in my head! An actor wouldn't be them to me.
Not that I wouldn't sell movie rights. Actually, we've had a few nibbles from various producers. As you've said, fantasy is hot. However, it's also very expensive to make a fantasy movie, so producers are wary about the projects they pick up. My kids' series, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, which starts this October with Scholastic, is probably the most likely to be made in the near future.
Do you think "movie potential" for your book is an important factor in the YA market?
I know this applies across the board, but many YA books are being given the book-to-movie treatment nowadays. As YA is an emerging market, it feels like many stories are lined up for their movie adaptation before they even hit the shelves.
Do you think that "movie potential" is more important for YA books? Do you think the YA market is being used as a vessel to more easily find big-bucks action movies?
I don't think that "movie potential" is more important for YA books, because movie deals are SO nebulous, and everyone in the business is very aware of that. Movie deals are often rather small, and remember, a movie deal =/= a movie, and movie deals are different from book deals in a few key ways: typically, with a book deal, you get an advance and then royalties when your advance earns out. With a movie deal, you get paid at each stage. They buy the rights; you get a small amount of money (and sometimes we're talking VERY small—like, maybe you could buy a used car small). They decide to buy a script, you get some money. They take the script into development, you get some money. They produce it, you get some money. So, movie deals CAN be lucrative—if they actually make the movie. But if they JUST buy the rights...not so much.
Now compare the number of books that have movie deals versus the number of books that are actually made into movies. Sure—there have been a lot of movies from YA books, but there are a LOT more without.
If I had the choice between just selling movie rights and selling to a larger foreign country, such as Germany or England or Brazil, I'd rather sell foreign. For most authors, foreign deals are far, far more lucrative than selling movie rights. (Exception: some high profile deals, movie rights sales that turn into movies.)
TL: DR: movie rights aren't important enough, nor are they guaranteed, to make writing a book for a movie worth it.
There ARE a lot of YA books-to-movies right now—I think this is more a reflection of the movie market, though, than the book market.
I think you are correct—that thinking of the movie potential isn't worth the effort—but for a different reason.
My experience is that the author can't do much to make film deals happen. Of the deals I've done for my books, in only one case was I able to go out and shop a property and sell it. The other four times, everyone ignored our attempts to sell the books for film—until someone came to us. My impression of Hollywood has been that they want to find it on their own, not have you go to them pitching it.
Every one of my five deals has been an option agreement. For those who aren't aware, an option is kind of like a lease on a property. You do a big deal, but the producer/studio doesn't have to pay out the entire amount at first—instead they make an option payment, which is often somewhere around 5-10% of the buyout price. That lets them reserve the rights for a period (usually 12-18 months) where you can't sell it to anyone else. They usually have two chances to renew the option, and often the option money paid is deductible from the final buyout price if they decide to exercise their option to purchase.
The vast majority of film deals I hear about from friends are deals like this, with very few films actually being made. But that doesn't mean they can't be lucrative. If the buyout is 10k and you're getting 1k every 18mo...sure, that's not much. If the buyout is 500k, and you're getting 50k every 18mo though, it can make a nice supplemental income.
However, bethrevis is right—translation deals are far more plentiful, and far more reliable. Beyond that, I'd suggest that developing a story for its film potential can draw your attention away from writing the book the way it needs to be written.


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I've had a fabulously constructive week so far...really getting down to some hard grind. I need to as I have many orders to complete over the coming weeks but this afternoon I thought I should get the camera out and add some more vintage pieces to the online shop.
This gorgeous vintage Sirram picnic set is in such great condition and I love the vintage green. Should I be keeping it back for myself and my planned picnics with Elcie the Figaro?
A lovely Summery glass dessert set which comes all the way from France.
A vintage clear glass cake stand...shame about the lack of cakes but I am trying to lose a few pounds.
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I love this last oil painting, it's so colourful and cheers one up no end! I find it difficult to let go of paintings the most. I have to live with them for a while and then talk myself into selling them. At least I know they will be going to a lovely home when I sell them to my wonderful customers.
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