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The MobileRead Literary Book Club June 2011 Discussion: The Master And Margarita
Citizens! It is now time to discuss our inaugural June selection. Comrade toomanybooks has volunteered to lead the discussion, and the devil knows that any of you may post your thoughts at any time you like. Let us begin!
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I just don't get it...
Hello, All.
I haven't posted during the reading time for June's selection, mostly because I've been "boocoo" busy with work and home and, trying to get through this month's selection.
I guess I'm just not a very "literature-minded" person when it comes to a "heavy" book like this one. I've got to admit, I just didn't "get it".
There were certainly entertaining parts but I just had trouble taking the whole read and putting it together in a way that made sense to me.
Maybe next month...
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Hello comrades,
A brief discursion into theory of reading before addressing the book on hand. It is my personal belief that the text of a book is created by the interaction between the reader and the text. If a reader engages with the book each individual reader will get something different out of the same text. It is the job of the author to write a text that draws the reader in and is worth the time they are allotting it.
A reader can benefit from reading a text by an emotional response, new intellectual response or by gaining a sense of time and place.
The last time I read this book I was in college. I personally found it worth rereading. I responded to a theme I hadn't even noticed the first time I read it, the theme that cowardice is the greatest sin. I also felt that I really got a sense of what Moscow was like in the thirties. I loved the small details like Berlioz and Ivan Homeless knowing that Woland was foreign because both his shoes were dyed the same color.
My main question to others is not whether you got the book, but whether the text drew you in and engaged in a rewarding way? If not, what did the author do or fail to do that kept you from being drawn into the text?
I hope this isn't too English majory.
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Let me preface what I have to say with some comments about how I approach any book, including this one. I feel that a book should stand on its own. It should not require reading additional material in order for the book to become comprehensible to the reader. Nor should it require reading the analysis of an expert for the reader to be informed of the book's merits or what the reader should get out of it. So my comments only reflect reading the text itself, including the the introduction [Pevear and Volokhonsky translation] and footnotes. The latter two helped provide insight into the book, but I did not look at any of the links suggested in this thread. So to begin . . .
Overall I found the writing alternating between brilliant (most often in the chapters pertaining to Pontius Pilate) and rather tedious (e.g. I feel most of Chapter 21 could have been removed with no loss), but the book not only had no plot, but no consistent narrative. What I took away over all was an absurd satire of life in the Soviet Union under Stalin, when ones life could be elevated or destroyed seemingly for no good cause, and Bulgakov's putting in writing his revenge fantasies against those who hindered his career.
Certainly the drawing in of the story of Goethe's Faust was obvious, but twisted around. Now it is Gretchen (Margarita) who makes a pact with Satan for the benefit of Faust (The Master). The Master is a rather passive figure thorough out, no? Not sure what I was supposed to make of all of that.
There were all sort of references in this book that I caught, but I guess I am just not literary minded enough to make sense of them. A couple of examples.
When Pontius Pilate is first introduced (Chapter 2) the point is made that he hates the smell of roses. Later when The Master first meets Margarita he tells her his favorite flower is the rose (Chapter 13) and still later in preparation for Satan's ball Margarita is doused with rose oil (Chapter 23). Meaning what if anything?
When Rimsky is threatened by zombies and vampires he is save not just by sunrise, but sunrise heralded by the cock crowing three times. An obvious reference to:
Like I say, of a literary bent beyond me.
I don't know if anyone else thought this might be so, but when I read Chapter 25 I thought Pontius Pilate might have been in part an allegory for Stalin. But not the Stalin as seen from the Western point of view, but a morally ambivalent Stalin as in Bulgakov's eyes.
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I'll start with some reflections about the novel and then discuss one of my favourite parts of the first book.
With the exception of Chapter 2, the first 11 chapters didnt really draw me in. I found the characters simply too flat and uninteresting. This was particularly true in the case of Homeless (at that point the principal human) who was unsympathetic and just didnt act in a manner that was believable. For me, things livened up by chapter 12 and once the Master enters and the love for Margarita is developed I found that the novel came to life. And when Margarita takes over . . . . WOW!
Where did the text draw me in? Certainly in chapter 2 I found that the author engaged in a powerful dramatisation of the problem of corruption and power. Yeshua--in this chapter--is really only a focal point for a power struggle between Pilate and Kaifa--one which starts as a ritual and becomes transformed into a dialogue of naked hatred by the time the men finally part.
Another aspect of the essential injustice of power is seen when Pilate finally does condemn Yeshua. Pilate {and Rome} could tolerate a harmless idealist, but not one who shows an unwillingness to compromise ideals and identity to placate a power structure.
And what of that structure? The ultimate horror of it is dramatised in Pilates vision of the obscenity that Tiberius has become. In the image of the hideous emperor we see the ultimate ugliness of corruption stripped of its majesty.
Interestingly, Pilate has an odd infirmity hemicrania in which one side of his head is subjected to a terrible headache. This seems a reflection of the bilateral quality of Woland. One could possibly assume that the Procurator is one representative of the Dark --though in the end it isnt really quite that simple.
The character of Pilate is vivid, believable, and engrossing. The brilliance of Chapter two kept me going through those earlier sections of Book 1 which I found less engrossing.
And it was worth it.
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A little remark
cowardice is the greatest sin
It is stated a few times in the text. But more than that, the hero of the book among the humans, the winner, is indeed Marguerite, she is not coward, on the contrary she is the bravest of all, for reasons that might be interesting to discuss, true descendant of a queen. In the end she wins. The pirate, the director of the restaurant, is also not a coward, and he also goes unscathed with two prime sturgeons, wrapped in newspaper, under his arm.
Actually, all along the book, the real sin of the Muskovites and of Judas, the great sinner, is probably just greed. That is constantly the target of the author and of Woland's gang. Plus the drinking, the fornication, the corruption, and all the rest of frivolities.
As a corollary, I would like to ask: which are the noble characters in the story. I know whom I would put as first. His name starts with ... L. That is his real name.
whether the text drew you in and engaged in a rewarding way.
Yes it did. To enjoy it, I had to let myself go to the rhythms of the narrative, that matched the crazy exploits of Woland's gang. I read the first chapters slowly and savoring each word, but as soon as I felt almost stuck, I let myself go with the futuristic turbillon of the episodes. I read most of the book in two intense afternoons. Only when the story took me in Jerusalem, I relented the pace of my reading and followed the now slower spires of Bulgakhov tale. Or when the narrative went back to the main "human characters" : the poet and the Master. Actually, I felt impeded by the ebook and resorted to a printed version that allowed me to read much more effectively and faster. An orgy of reading.
To the second part of your question, I answer saying that the text is a jewel of literary perfection, a miracle. Bulgakov is a true Master. I did not perceive any shortcoming. Even the end, slightly sugary for our modern tastes, is absolutely perfect. After all the excitement, all the fabulous vaudeville adventures, the reader is landed in the space of dreams. Not in the darkness, of which we had some description, not in the light, of which we had just some reflected glimpse, but in the sleep, the repose. Great stuff. Ah, the cat, what a theatrical device.
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Eeegads I wish I had seen the other thread sooner. I've read every translation and have a couple first US editions.
It's kinda late now, but imo you haven't fully experienced this book unless you read the Michael Glenny translation (or Russian). Those literary vampires Pevear and Volokhonsky suck the life out of Master and Margarita with their clinical hack-job; it's as if they ran it through Google Translate then added footnotes. Glenny captures the poetry and humor.
Quite frankly you shouldn't understand Master and Margarita; at least without a guide (which ruins a first reading). Even the original text had its meaning intentionally hidden in layers of veiled symbolism to avoid having its socio-political criticism easily spotted.
The beauty of this book is that you don't have to 'get it' to enjoy it; the charm and beauty of the story stands alone, and in prose it is beyond compare. Bulgakov spun pure gold from first sentence to last.
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That said, speaking personally, I did find the P&V version very stilted and often tedious in sections. So, about a third of the way through, I got a copy of Glenny and found it to be more fluid, idiomatic and much less stilted but, apparently, it also takes more liberties with the text {and doesn't provide notes}. What I did was keep the notes to the P&V translation on hand for reference purposes and read Glenny's version. While this certainly slowed my progress through the novel, I found I enjoyed the book more. In the end, reading should be enjoyable and Glenny provided far more enjoyment.
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A little comparison between bits from the opening:
One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald, and carried his respectable fedora hat in his hand. His neatly shaven face was adorned with black horn-rimmed glasses of a supernatural size.
And Glenny..
The first of them--aged about forty, dressed in a grayish summer suit-- was short, dark haired, well fed and bald. He carried his decorous hat by the brim as though it were a cake, and his neatly shaven face was embelllished by black, horn-rimmed spectacles of preternatural dimensions.
Glenny's text is playful and vibrant, two of the most important qualities of Bulgakov's writing, and that excerpt is a good example of what you'll find throughout his translation (for anyone interested).
But not only is the text more fluid and fun (imo), the difference captures something important. The "well fed" and "cake" imagery was deliberate class commentary on Bulgakov's part. Anyhoo, just my 2p. It's a great book in any translation.
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What I'll probably do in the near future is re-read the entire novel using only the Glenny translation.
I think I would agree with Beppe that the bravest person in the novel is Margarita. But what of Yeshua? In the end he dies bravely true to his idealism--apparently with no bitterness, when a compromise could well have saved his life. And would this not also confirm his genuine nobility of soul?
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Going to have to find a copy of the Glenny translation. I did enjoy the P&V translation, but maybe I'm easy to please
I kept getting flavors of Alice in Wonderland from the book. The sentient chess pieces, little bits with Woland's three partners.
And I agree that Margarita was the character I enjoyed the most. Even the Master was a pretty thin character to me.
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One thing that Margarita has in common with Yeshua is the piety, that surprising motion that jumps Woland and put him out of sync. That one, I think, is one of the key passages of the story, even before the message of Levy.
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I think that I read the Glenny translation the first time I read this and the P&V translation this time. Perhaps I am not picky enough about my translations but both worked for me.
I agree about Margarita being the bravest and best character. She is my favorite character. I laugh at Ivan Homeless and the others characters do come off as puppets to be manipulated at times, but I truly care about what happens to Margarita. I have read most of Bulgakov's other work and I think it is well done but minor writing. In his last novel he managed to combine his style and sense of humour with a character I could truly connect to which makes this book his masterpiece.
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A brief note, one of Bulgakov's major influences was ETA Hoffman. If you want to see where some of his stylistic elements came from try reading Hoffman's short pieces.
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• Shorts/skirts (Longer shorts/skirts are recommended)
• Sun hat/bandana
• Swimwear
Visas and Entry Requirements
Please note that we always recommend all nationalities to check with their embassy about entry requirements to Indonesia. The situation with visas in Indonesia is changing frequently, and the below information is accurate as of June 19th, 2015.
A 30-day free visa is available at some arrival locations in Indonesia for many nationalities. This visa is non-extendable. This free visa is available at: Jakarta (Soekarno-Hatta Airport), Bali (Ngurah Rai Aiport), Medan (Kualanamu Airport), Surabaya (Juanda Airport) and Batam (Hang Nadim International Airport). All travelers to Indonesia must be in possession of passport valid for at least six months from date of arrival and have proof (tickets) of onward or return passage.
The nationalities below will be able to receive the 30-day free visa, however we always advise to check with your embassy to confirm entry requirements:
Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam
A 30-day visa-on-arrival is available at all international airports in Indonesia for USD 35. It is then possible to extend this visa for an additional 30 days at the immigration office. Official price is USD 35, extension takes a couple of days and can't be processed at the airport. All travelers to Indonesia must be in possession of passport valid for at least six months from date of arrival and have proof (tickets) of onward or return passage. Payment of visa fees can be made in all major currencies (cash or credit card). However, to avoid any difficulties or abusive exchange rate problems, we highly recommend brining USD 35 in cash.
Visa extension can be done at the Immigration Office (Kuta in Bali) and will take approximately 7 working days. Cost is additional 35 USD for another 30 Days. Maximum stay is 60 Days
The below countries qualify for getting their visa on arrival:
South Africa, Algeria, US, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, UAE, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Hungary, India, UK, Iran, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Germany, Cambodia, Canada, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Maladewa, Malta, Mexico, Egypt, Monaco, Norway, Oman, Panama, France, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, China, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Surinam, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Timor Leste, Tunisia, Greece
Travelers from all destinations not listed above must have their visa arranged in advance through their local consulate.
Optional Activities
Gunung Mas
- Gunung Mas Tea Plantation Visit (10USD per person)
- Borobudur Temple Complex Excursion (70USD per person)
- Taman Sari Water Castle Visit
- Wayang Kulit Shadow Puppet Show
- Kota Gede Visit
- Kraton Palace Visit
- Prambanan Hindu Temple Complex Excursion (30USD per person)
- Snorkelling (70USD per person)
- Diving in Menjangan Island (140USD per person)
- Half Day Surf Class (45USD per person)
- Kecak Dance Performance (20USD per person)
- Puri Lukisan Museum (3USD per person)
- Yoga Class
- Organic Cooking Class
Gunung Batur
- Mt Batur Hike (650000IDR per person)
Lovina Beach
- Lovina Beach Snorkelling (7USD per person)
- Menjangan Island Snorkelling (40USD per person)
Gili Trawangan
- Swimming
- Yoga
- Bali Express: Gili Trawangan to Kuta
Minimum Age
Minimum age of 18 years for this trip.
International Flights
Check-in times and baggage allowances/restrictions vary by airline and can change at any time. For the most up-to-date information for your flight, please contact your airline. We recommend checking in online in advance to avoid potential delays at the airport.
Day 1 Jakarta
Arrive at any time.
Additional Notes:
You will have a group meeting around 6pm (look out for the Welcome Note in the hotel lobby) and an optional dinner afterwards to get to know your fellow group members.
Included Activities:
Arrival Day and Welcome Meeting
Day 2 Jakarta/Cianjur (1B)
Venture to Cianjur via Bogor, visit the floating villages, and opt to visit a tea plantation. Experience local life by spending the night at a homestay.
Additional Notes:
Experience local life by spending the night at a homestay. The homestay is located on the outer ring of Cianjur, and accommodation is multi-share.
Private Vehicle (3.50 hour(s))
Day 3 Cianjur/Bandung (1B)
Depart the homestay and travel to the sprawling city of Bandung, Indonesia's third largest city.
Included Activities:
Orientation Walk
Private Vehicle (2.00 hour(s))
Day 4 Bandung/Yogyakarta (1B)
Travel from Bandung to Yogyakarta on a scenic train journey.
Train (7.00 hour(s), 402km)
Days 5-6 Yogyakarta
Spend free time visiting local sights such as the Buddhist Borobudur temple complex, Javanese temples, or Mt Merapi.
Day 7 Yogyakarta/Ngadas (1B, 1D)
Begin the day with the train journey to Malang. On arrival in Malang, transfer to a private vehicle for about an hour to reach Ngadas.
Upon arrival in the village, meet your hosts and settle into the homestay. In the evening, enjoy a dinner of local fare before gathering at the home of one of the community leaders to learn more about the region's customs and history.
Included Activities:
Ngadas Homestay
Local train (7.00-8.00 hours)
Private Vehicle (1.00 hour(s))
Day 8 Desa Ngadas/Bromo (1B, 1L)
After an early breakfast, say good bye to your hosts and explore more of the village on an included walk. Then begin the trek along the Ancestor Trail to Mt Bromo, led by a local guide trained through a G Adventures-supported capacity building program. Opt to hike to the volcano's crater before continuing to the hotel.
Included Activities:
Mount Bromo Crater Walk
Village Walk
Ancestor Trail Trek
Day 9 Bromo/Red Island (1B)
A pre-dawn trek across the "sea of sand" to watch the sunrise over the crater's rim is a must, popular with both tourists and the local Buddhist Tenggerese, who can be seen giving offerings of food to receive blessings from the Supreme God Hyang Widi Wasa.
Included Activities:
Sunrise Walk to Mount Bromo Viewpoint
Private Vehicle (8.00 hour(s))
Day 10 Red Island (1B)
Enjoy a surf lesson in the morning, then use free time to explore the nearby fishing village, do some more surfing or chill out in a hammock.
Included Activities:
Surfing Lesson
Day 11 Red Island/Pemuteran (1B)
Head to Bali and the beach with time to relax.
Private Vehicle (1.50-2.00 hours)
Ferry (0.75 hour(s))
Private Vehicle (1.00 hour(s))
Day 12 Pemuteran (1B)
Chill out in Bali. Opt to take a snorkelling or diving trip to Menjangan Island.
Day 13 Pemuteran/Kuta (1B)
Today's drive is a journey, highlighting the spectacular natural diversity and intense cultural wealth that makes Bali such a sought after destination.
Our journey takes us across the island of Bali, through the rich tropical jungle, passing by idyllic terraced rice fields, and quaint scenes of local village life. We then arrive at our overnight destination – popular Kuta beach.
Private Vehicle (5.00-5.50 hours)
Day 14 Kuta (1B)
Spend a free day in Kuta. Opt to explore the shops, chill out on the beach, or head to one of the nearby towns. Learn to surf by pre-booking the Half Day Surf Class extra when booking your tour.
Day 15 Kuta/Kubutambahan (1B, 1L, 1D)
Travel to Kubutambahan, enjoying beautiful scenery along the way, and stop for lunch at the G Adventures-supported Bali Community Training Lunch Program en route. Settle in to the charming guesthouse for the evening.
Included Activities:
Bali Community Training Lunch Program
Private Vehicle (1.50 hour(s), 45km)
Private Vehicle (1.75 hour(s), 58km)
Day 16 Kubutambahan (1B, 1D)
Try your hand at Balinese cuisine with an included cooking lesson. Opt to trek around the village, visit a waterfall or swim in a natural spring, or check out a nearby dragon fruit farm.
Included Activities:
Cooking Demonstration and Meal
Day 17 Kubutambahan/Ubud (1B)
Enjoy a morning at leisure to explore or relax. Later, travel to cultural Ubud, visiting the picturesque Gitgit waterfall en route.
Included Activities:
Gitgit Waterfall Visit
Private Vehicle (1.00 hour(s), 27km)
Private Vehicle (2.00 hour(s), 63km)
Day 18 Ubud (1B)
Check out the monkey forest before exploring more of Ubud with free time. Opt to take a yoga class, get a massage, or visit the numerous temples, rice paddies, and markets. In the evening, opt to take in a traditional Kecak dance performance.
Included Activities:
Monkey Forest Visit
Day 19 Ubud/Gili Trawangan (1B)
Transfer to Padang Bai and catch a fast boat to the laid-back island of Gili Trawangan. Beautiful Gili T is home to clear waters and an assortment of beachfront bars, and – best of all – the island doesn't allow motorized vehicles. Enjoy the rest of the day to explore.
Private Vehicle (1.25 hour(s), 40km)
Boat (2.00 hour(s), 60km)
Day 20 Gili Trawangan (1B)
Spend another day in paradise. Chill out at a café, rent a bike and cruise around, or just kick back and relax on the beach. This evening, enjoy a final night out with the group.
Day 21 Gili Trawangan (1B)
Depart at any time.
Want to take the hassle out of getting back to Bali? Book the Bali Express post-tour Extra. Speak to your Global Connection Officer or travel agent to book.
Additional Notes:
Add the "Bali Express: Gili Trawangan to Kuta" to your adventure and make your way back to Bali with the guidance of a CEO. This nifty post-tour Extra includes a fast boat and land transfer to get you back to Kuta. Onward flights from Denpasar airport must not depart earlier than 20:00 on departure day when booking this extra. Speak to your Global Connection Officer or travel agent to book.
Included Activities:
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Launchpad entry: https://launchpad.net/products/upstart/+spec/job-failed-event
When a job fails, there is currently no way for another job to be run as a result of that failure. This specification proposes adding arguments to the stopping and stopped events that indicate a job failed.
It's often useful to know when a particular job fails, another job may be able to handle that case and either fix the problem or alert the user in some meaningful manner.
Use cases
- If the job that checks or mounts a filesystem fails, we want to start an emergency console.
- Some jobs may be run when another stops, but only if the task succeeded.
The scope of this specification is limited to the addition of arguments to the existing events, and a change of behaviour to the normalexit stanza necessary to use this to its full advantage.
When the job's main process or binary unexpectedly terminates with an exit code not listed in normalexit, the job will be considered failed.
normalexit will contain the exit code 0, unless the job is marked as respawn, in which case it will remain empty.
normalexit will be extended to permit signal names.
normalexit SIGUSR1
If the job terminates normally, the argument ok will be appended to both the stopping and stopped events.
stopping mysql ok
When a job terminates unexpectedly, the argument failed will be appended to both the stopping and stopped events.
stopping apache failed
- The exit status is placed in the EXIT_STATUS environment variable, or if killed by a signal, the name of the signal is placed in the EXIT_SIGNAL variable.
stopped apache failed EXIT_SIGNAL=SIGSEGV
When any job script fails, these arguments will also be appended; in addition, the script name (e.g. pre-start) will be received as the third position argument.
stopped tomcat failed pre-start EXIT_STATUS=1
The Job structure in init/job.h will need to be extended to record whether a job has failed, which goal it failed in, and details about the exit status.
int failed; JobState failed_state; int exit_status;
These are set to FALSE when a job enters the starting state, and are set appropriately in job_child_reaper in init/job.c if the job fails.
In that function, the JOB_RUNNING case that only checks normalexit if the job is to be respawned will be moved up a level; such that it is checked for all such jobs.. If the job is not to be respawned, but exited normally, then only the goal is changed and not considered to have failed.
Otherwise any script that is killed, or exits with a non-zero status is considered to have failed unless the goal is already JOB_STOP; in which case it's reasonable to assume the death was caused by reasons out of its own control.
Data preservation and migration
These changes are largely backwards compatible with the previous behaviour.
The new meaning of normalexit to decide whether a job succeeded or failed, along with the new default value, will not adversely affect any existing job; the only additional change will be an alteration in the message for non-respawn jobs.


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9/11 The Dancing Israelis FBI report | Scribd
Yaron Shmuel and Sivan & Paul Kurzberg who were arrested in New York on 911 filming the attack in their words to "document the event," had all been residents of the Brisbane suburb of New Farm.
Shmuel was a regular at the New Farm shopping precinct thru most of the 1990's, while the Kurzberg boys moved into Heal St / Brown St axis of the same suburb at around the same time, precocious teenagers on bikes .. see if they are so precocious when I get 'em onto the gallows!
The 911 Pizza Connection - The 911 song ..woodledoodledoo!
The American Securities and Exchange Commission, says Israeli citizens identified as Mossad, operating out of the Toronto Canada and Frankfurt Germany stock exchanges, sold short thirty eight stocks that fell in value as a result of the attacks, whose profits were specifically stated to be in the hundred$ of million$ of dollars.
It was via the buddy system on Odigo software, which allows one to communicate to a large group of people that share a trait such as the Hebrew language, and from the pulpit of New York synagogues, that thousands of Israelis were warned not to go to the twin towers on 9/11.
Could be Jews who knew the attacks were going to happen sat up late in Melbourne and Sydney on the evening of September 11, to watch the show which began in those cities sometime around 00:02 AEST Sept 12, maybe it was common knowledge in some schools, picture teenage entrepreneurs sitting up late stuffing their guts with pizza, watching their investments mature.
"We talked to people who were with Larry Silverstein on 9/11, they said he got a phone call telling him not to show up at work, he called his daughter and she never showed up either." Rudkowski Prison Planet
Hey there honey get rid of them blues
Daddy's getting money you'll be wearin' new shoes
Turn on the telly it'll be on the news
Stay at home today like the rest of the Jews
Cause today were gonna blow… Woo Woo /
Down the freakin buildings go Woo Woo /
We collect the dough Woo Woo /
Stay at home and watch the show… Woo Woo Woo Woodledoodledoo… Rip it up Frank
Hey Man you say that four thou were away
That's a lotta bodies at the end of the day
This is the way I see it don't wanna be crass
There's a whole lotta Jews thatta gotta get put on trial ///
Did a spike occur in late night food orders in Australia prior to the attacks on the evening of 911, if it did were those extra orders delivered to the homes of Jews, more specifically Frank Lowy of Australian Soccer and Westfield fame, he was mixed up with Larry Silverstein re the proposed redevelopment of the WTC site.
It follows that if Silverstein knew so did Lowy, pictured with then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. They can cry tears of blood but 911 and the subsequent wars are by Jews, for Jews, and enable a Jew agenda, read the Talmud it endorses genocide against non Jews, the Jews wantonly blew up the Twin Towers then blamed innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Michael Mukasey's head has been spotted in the same New Farm location .. he as a New York Judge awarded Silverstein billion$ in insurance payments, who became US Attorney General in the latter stages of the GW Bush administration, Mukasey endorsed the use of torture against the innocent ppl were blamed for the attacks!
Update: Whereas General Michael Hayden pictured at right, who as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was responsible for the "hard yards" torture of those same innocent ppl, could have been the statuesque visitor who showed up in NF sometime around New Year 2014!
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So has Ilan Grapel been spotted in NF in November 2011, more evidence Brisbane has become a haven for criminals and a hub for international terrorism!
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Selling Your Company
It is Monday so it is time for another MBA Mondays post. We are a few weeks into a series on mergers and acquisitions. The first week we covered the basics of mergers and acquisitions. Last week we talked about asset sales.
This week we are going to start a conversation about selling your company. I will kick off the conversation by laying out the key issues in a company sale. Then we are going to do something new on MBA Mondays; case studies. I will invite a few guest posts from entrepreneurs who have sold their companies. That will hopefully start next week.
I think the key issues for you, your investors, and your Board to consider when you are selling your company are:
Reps, Warranties, and Escrow
Integration plan
Stay packages
Governmental approvals
Breakup fees
Price is the amount the buyer will pay for the business. It is the most important issue and also the simplest.
Consideration is the mechanism the buyer will use to deliver the purchase price. The simplest form of consideration is cash in your local currency. That is also the most common form of consideration. Another common form of consideration is the acquirer's stock. That could be publicly traded liquid stock or it could be illiquid private company stock. Buyers can also pay with debt obligations, earn out plans, and a host of other esoteric and less common forms of consideration.
Reps and Warranties are the legal promises and obligations you will take on as a seller. A portion of the purchase price is usually held back and escrowed for some period of time to backstop the reps and warranties. The escrow is usually a percentage of the purchase price. Ten percent is common but I've seen as little as 5% and as high as 25%.
The integration plan is the way the buyer plans to operate your business post acquisition. Many sellers don't think this matters too much but I think it is critical. If you think about the interests of all the stakeholders in the business, not just the shareholders, then the integration plan becomes a very important part of the overall deal.
Stay packages are compensation plans put together by the buyer for your team. There may even be a stay package for you if the buyer wants you to stick around and most of the time they should. These packages are a combination of cash and stock that vests over a stay period. It is common that some of the consideration may be applied to stay packages, particularly unvested employee stock in your company.
The government, and not just your country's government, may be required to approve the sale. This is not common for small deals. Anything sub $100mm would be very unlikely to require governmental approvals. Really big deals, like billion dollar plus transactions, often run into these issues. Big powerful companies that the government worries may have monopolistic properties will usually face governmental approvals for their acquisitions.
If your business will face negative consequences if the sale is announced and then does not close, you will want to ask the buyer to pay a breakup fee if the transaction does not close. Most buyers will resist agreeing to breakup fees but they do exist in many deals, particularly very large deals.
Timing is another important issue that many sellers don't focus on. Sale transactions are very distracting for the senior team and often for the entire team. A long protracted sale transaction can be very harmful to the business and its stakeholders. You can put time commitments into the letter of intent to sell the company and you can expect the buyer to live up to them.
These are the most important issues in my experience when selling a business. For the next few Mondays we will focus on some real world case studies that will highlight many of these issues.


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Re: iAudio recording issues
From: Sergei V. Fleytin <fleytin_at_yandex.ru>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:00:41 +0300
Hello, Erin and others.
Erin, I only followed steps described in manual.
After entering recording screen, if you're satisfied with your gain
1. press 'play' to start / pause recording.
2. press 'rec' if you want your recording to continue in a new file.
3. Press and hold 'play' to stop recording.
4. While recording is stopped, press and hold 'play' to exit recording
HTh, Sergei.
>>>>> "EMC" == Erin M Chaves <em_chalet_at_hotmail.com> writes:
EMC> Hi, all! In my case recording works perfectly with iaudio x5. I
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Yes, New York had a Sixth Borough, but it drifted away....
Selected Shorts is a weekly public radio show broadcast on over 130 stations to about 300,000 listeners. It is produced by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio and distributed by Public Radio International. The radio show is recorded live at the popular New York City stage show which began in 1985 and still enjoys sell-out audiences today at the Peter Sharp Theater at Symphony Space on Broadway and 95th Street in New York City. Selected Shorts is one of the premiere reading series in New York City. The Selected Shorts podcast consistently ranks as one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes.
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Copying Arrays in Java 6
The Java language contains some wonderful antiquities. Switch statements, for example, still don't support the notion of switching on String objects. (The
switch statement has, however, been updated to support enum types.) The reason for this appears to date back to the notion of how
switch statements were originally designed in C. Whatever the reason, I find it unfortunate that I can't write switch statements around Strings, something that I've wished I could do a few times.
System.arraycopy, the method used to rapidly copy the contents of one array to another, appears to have similar legacy underpinnings. Even the name of the method looks like an old style C function such as
memcpy. This preferred means of copying arrays in Java hasn't changed since the first release.
arraycopy method, defined as a static method on System, is certainly powerful enough. The System class provides a single general-purpose method:
System.arraycopy(sourceArray, sourceStartIndex, targetArray, targetStartIndex, length);The
arraycopy method supports more than just copying the entire contents of a source array into a target. In addition,
arraycopy allows for a source and target start index, as well as a length that represents the number of elements to copy.
This additional flexibility, while it may not be what I need most of the time, is commonly used. The ArrayList class, for example, uses
arraycopy to shift the contents of an array when someone inserts an element before its last element. Sun implemented arraycopy to be very fast: It's not implemented in Java, like most of the API, but instead as a native operation that gets executed directly by the JVM.
Most of the time, though, I want to copy an entire array, not subsections. Nor do I need to shift elements in an array very often. Most of my invocations of System.arrayCopy require two lines of code:
String[] source = { "alpha", "beta", "gamma" }; String[] target = new String[source.length]; System.arraycopy(source, 0, target, 0, source.length);For this simple, common need, it seems like Java requires too much code. If I use this construct a couple or more times in a given application, I want a nice reusable method:
private final <T> T[] copy(T[] source) { T[] target = new T[source.length]; // This will not compile! System.arraycopy(source, 0, target, 0, source.length); return target; }Well, that won't work. Compilation fails with the error message:
Cannot create a generic array of TI can get past this error using reflection. Here's the code that makes the
copy method work:
private final <T> T[] copy(T[] source) { Class type = source.getClass().getComponentType(); T[] target = (T[])Array.newInstance(type, source.length); System.arraycopy(source, 0, target, 0, source.length); return target; }The Java compiler shows some concern about the call to
newInstance, giving me the warning "Type safety: the case from Object to T[] is actually checking against the erased type Object[]." Using reflection means that there's not sufficient information for the compiler to know whether or not this is a bad cast. While there might be a better solution, I take the simple route and suppress that pesky warning:
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") private final <T> T[] copy(T[] source) { Class type = source.getClass().getComponentType(); T[] target = (T[])Array.newInstance(type, source.length); System.arraycopy(source, 0, target, 0, source.length); return target; }Using this
copy method, my client code is as simple as it should be:
String[] source = { "alpha", "beta", "gamma" }; String[] target = copy(source);
As demonstrated, I can build my own general-purpose array copy utility method in short order.
In Java 6, I no longer need to roll my own utility method: Sun has introduced direct support for copying an array. Sun has defined a new overloaded method,
copyOf, on the Arrays class.
The basic form of
copyOf is:
targetArray = Arrays.copyOf(sourceArray, length);I wrote a number of JUnit tests to demonstrate behavior of the
copyOf method (and of its variants). Here's the first test, showing basic functionality:
@Test public void genericArrayCopyOf() { Number[] source = { new Double(5.0), new Double(10.0) }; Number[] target = Arrays.copyOf(source, source.length); assertEquals(source, target); }One nice new feature of JUnit 4 is its ability to compare two arrays using
assertEquals. When doing so, JUnit first compares the lengths of each array. If both array lengths are equal, JUnit compares each element in the array using
equals. If the arrays differ, JUnit provides a failure message that shows the unequal values.
Java overloads
copyOf to support primitive types, as well as a couple other variants. Another test shows how I can supply a source range:
@Test public void copyOfWithRange() { String[] source = { "0", "1", "2", "3", "4" }; String[] target = Arrays.copyOfRange(source, 2, 4); assertEquals(new String[] { "2", "3" }, target); }Here is a test that demonstrates copying a primitive range:
@Test public void primitives() { int[] source = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 }; int[] target = Arrays.copyOfRange(source, 4, 5); assertEqualsPrim(new int[] { 4 }, target); }I wrote the method
assertEqualsPrim because JUnit 4 does not cover comparing two arrays containing primitive objects. It contains only a version that compares two Object arrays. Comparing two primitive arrays using
assertEquals means that Java looks for memory equivalence. No matter,
assertEqualsPrim is pretty easy to write:
static void assertEqualsPrim(int[] expected, int[] actual) { if (expected.length != actual.length) fail(String.format("expected length = %s, actual length = %s", expected.length, actual.length)); for (int i = 0; i < expected.length; i++) { if (expected[i] != actual[i]) fail(String.format( "mismatch at index %d: expected [%s] but was [%s]", i, expected[i], actual[i])); } }
What if I want the new array to be of a new, subclass type? The following test fails:
@Test public void genericArrayCopyOfWithNewType() { Number[] source = { new Double(5.0), new Double(10.0) }; Double[] target = (Double[])Arrays.copyOf(source, source.length); assertEquals(source, target); // fail! }But Java 6 allows me to declare a new type for the target array on a copy:
@Test public void genericArrayCopyOfWithNewType() { Number[] source = { new Double(5.0), new Double(10.0) }; Double[] target = Arrays.copyOf(source, source.length, Double[].class); assertEquals(source, target); }
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High Point, N.C. --The Conference Carolinas All-Conference baseball teams were determined by vote from each head coach of participating league institutions. Nominations are collected and then voted upon by ballot and tallied to determine Players of the Year, Pitcher of the Year, Freshman of the Year, Coach of the Year, All-Conference First Team, and All-Conference Second Team. Awards will be presented at the Conference Tournament Championships hosted by Barton College in Wilson, NC at this weekend's conference championship. This year's award winners are as follows:
Freshman of the Year:
Allen Staton – North Greenville
Allen Staton burst onto the scene this season and made an immediate impact. The dynamic diaper dandy stepped into a senior laden lineup and finished the regular season with a .395 batting average. Staton was second on the team with 15 doubles and 42 RBI. Staton also tallied four home runs in his freshman campaign. Along with holding down a starting spot at second base, Staton saw time at third base while also making 11 appearances on the mound including six starts.
Coach of the Year:
Carl Lancaster – Mount Olive College
Carl Lancaster earns his 10th Conference Carolinas Coach of the Year award in his 25-year coaching career at Mount Olive. Lancaster guided Mount Olive to the East Division title for the Trojans' 11th regular season conference championship and fifth in the last six years. Mount Olive was ranked No. 1 in this year's first regular season Collegiate Baseball Division II Top 30 Poll and enters this year's Conference Carolinas Tournament as the top-ranked team in the Collegiate Baseball Poll.
Pitcher of the Year:
Matt Dillon – Mount Olive College
Matt Dillon enters the Conference Carolinas Tournament with an 8-0 record and a 1.60 earned run average. Dillon is one of only nine undefeated pitchers in the nation with at least eight wins. Dillon has recorded wins in each of his eight starts and has gone at least seven innings in his last six starts, including a complete game victory over Erskine and eight shutout innings against North Greenville. Nationally top-ranked Mount Olive is 31-2 since Dillon moved into the starting rotation March 2.
Player of the Year:
Jacob Rogers – Mount Olive
Jacob Rogers leads the nation in runs scored and ranks in the top 15 in home runs and runs batted in. A three-time Conference Carolinas Player of the Week winner this season, Rogers became the first player in Mount Olive baseball history to hit two home runs in a game in three consecutive games. A 2011 All-American, Rogers enters the Conference Carolinas Tournament batting .418 with 14 home runs, 53 runs batted in and 75 runs scored in 45 games.
Eastern Division Regular Season Champions
Mount Olive College
Western Division Regular Season Champions
Belmont Abbey College
All-Conference First Team:
Jacob Rogers, Mount Olive – 1B
Allen Staton, North Greenville – 2B
Michael Hughey, Limestone – SS

Jermaine Berry, Mount Olive – 3B
Geno Escalante, Mount Olive – C
Nick Gaeta, Mount Olive – DH
Derek Fulmer, North Greenville – OF
Antonio Callaway, Mount Olive – OF
Justin Vasquez, Belmont Abbey – OF
Braden Reitano, Mount Olive – OF
Emilio Pagan, Belmont Abbey – Relief Pitcher
Matt Dillon, Mount Olive – P
Bryan Tuttle, Pfeiffer – P
Drew Provence, North Greenville – P
Zach Smith, Mount Olive – P
Mike Mercurio, Mount Olive – Utility
All-Conference Second Team:
Drew Willingham, Erskine – 1B
Cameron Sherrer, Mount Olive – 2B
Collins Cuthrell, Barton – SS
Stephen Mullins, King – 3B
Josh Lyon, Limestone – C
Justin Harris, Pfeiffer – DH
Will Huff, Erskine - DH
Tyler Gaby, King – OF
Chase Corn, Erskine – OF
Will Bynum, Mount Olive – OF
Markus Duckworth, North Greenville – OF
Craig Bolton, Pfeiffer – Relief Pitcher
Ryan Woodring, North Greenville – P
Josh White, Limestone – P
Cory Rhodes, King – P
Jake Moser, Mount Olive – P
Phillip Williams, Barton – Utility


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Let me explain right off the bat that I�ve won election to public office only once in my life, and that was to the board of trustees of the town library in West Boylston, Mass. (pop. 7,700), so I don�t have much of a record in politics.
Nor do I presume, with such skimpy credentials, to offer advice to those who managed to get themselves elected to the United States Congress in last week�s contests. I don�t recall what, if anything, we accomplished during my term, but I do remember that we rarely discussed books.
Most of our deliberations seemed to involve such mundane affairs as fixing a leaky roof and debating pay grades for the staff. That does not deter me, however, from suggesting a federal congressional initiative that would surely result in lower taxes for everybody.
Here�s the plan: Instead of routinely taking money out of people�s paychecks every week and then settling the balance on April 15th, the government would be required to send out itemized bills once a month for its services � just like the telephone company, the gas and light people and so on.
So how will that cut taxes overall? Good question. It wouldn�t, at first. But watch what happens once those itemized bills start showing up in our mailboxes. As it works now, we�re forced to think about the value of the services we get every time we write a check for private-sector bills for gas, oil, water, insurance, cable TV and the like. We have no idea what all those taxes the government takes out of our pay get us in return. Three hundred bucks for Visa? Let�s see, oh yes, there was that dinner out at Olive Garden for your wife and mother-in-law. The new shoes you got from L.L Bean. The wheelbarrow from Home Depot, etc. etc. A hundred for the phone and Internet? Yes, we did make those calls to relatives in New York after the big storm, and streamed a few films online.
They�re all listed on the bill, and they�re all readily recognizable to you, the user of the service.
OK, now let�s see what the government�s itemized monthly bill shows: A thousand and 14 dollars? For what? Six steel rivets for a bridge on the Monongahela River in West Virginia? I�ve never gone near it. Two platters of hors d�oeuvres for a cocktail reception at a State Department consulate in Abu Dhabi? I can�t even find it on the map. Eleven gallons of gas for Air Force One, consumed while sitting on the tarmac in Dayton, Ohio? I don�t even fly. An hour�s work by the doorkeeper for the U.S. Senate? Why can�t they open the door themselves? My share of the pension for Walter L. Fenster, a retired mail carrier from Lost Mountain, Idaho? They probably closed that post office back in the Carter Administration for lack of business. Three hours� work by a researcher on a federal study to discover why dairy cows chew sideways? Is that going to put more milk on the table?
How long do you think it would take before questions would start being asked about the way the government spends our money? Once those bills start coming, I�d give it 30 days � tops. But it�s too late now to start a Draft McKeen for Congress movement this time around. After last Tuesday, the seats are all taken for the next two years.
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Houston Dynamo vs. Sporting Kansas City
Friday, June 6, 7:30 p.m. CT
BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, TX
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Foes in the MLS Cup Playoffs each of the last three seasons, the Houston Dynamo and Sporting Kansas City renew their acquaintances Friday evening when the clubs face off at BBVA Compass Stadium. Both clubs come into the game looking to snap long winless runs. The Dynamo return home off a lost road trip where they were outscored 8-0 in three defeats, last a 3-0 loss at the Colorado Rapids, while Sporting saw their run without a victory extended to five games in a 1-0 reversal at D.C. United.
REFEREE: Juan Guzman. AR1 (bench): Brian Dunn; AR2 (opposite): Jonathan Johnson; 4th: Alejandro Mariscal
MLS Career: 42 games; FC/gm: 25.4; Y/gm: 3.5; R: 14; pens: 10
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: HOU: Brad Davis (USA); Boniek Garcia (Honduras)… KC: Graham Zusi, Matt Besler (USA)
INJURY REPORT, PRESENTED BY HOUSTON METHODIST (as of Thursday, June 5)
HOUSTON DYNAMO -- OUT: Ricardo Clark – Concussion; Tony Cascio – Right knee surgery; Mark Sherrod – Left knee ACL tear; DOUBTFUL: Brian Ownby – concussion
SPORTING KANSAS CITY -- OUT: OUT: Ike Opara – R ankle; Chance Myers – L Achilles; Peterson Joseph – illness; QUESTIONABLE: Aurelien Collin – R hamstring strain; Igor Juliao – R quad strain
- ALL-TIME (18 meetings): Dynamo 6 wins, 22 goals … Sporting 4 wins, 19 goals … Ties 8
- AT HOUSTON (9 meetings): Dynamo 3 wins, 12 goals … Sporting 2 wins, 8 goals … Ties 4
- RETURN MATCH: 8/29: Sporting Kansas City vs. Houston Dynamo, 7 p.m. CT
- The teams have met each of the last three years in the MLS Cup Playoffs, with Sporting winning their Eastern Conference Championship matchup a year ago 2-1 on aggregate. The Dynamo had advanced each of the two previous years, including in 2011 at Sporting Park with a trip to MLS Cup on the line.
- In league play, the last three meetings at Sporting Park have ended in draws. Sporting came away with points on both of their league visits to BBVA Compass Stadium a season ago, a 1-0 win on May 12 followed by a scoreless draw Oct. 9.
- Coaches record: Peter Vermes vs. HOU: P11 W3 L2 D6… Dominic Kinnear vs. KC: P20 W8 L2 D10
The Houston Dynamo concluded their three-game road swing with a third shutout defeat, falling 3-0 to the Colorado Rapids on Sunday evening at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. The Dynamo are in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with 17 points from 15 games.
- The Rapids were in the lead after just the fifth minute. Right back Marvell Wynne hit a perfect cross from the right flank finding a streaking Deshorn Brown, who headed in from about at the penalty spot.
- The lead was doubled on 35 minutes. Dillon Powers made eye contact with Brown and sent a looping pass into space on the right side of the box, where Brown caught up to it before slotting it past goalkeeper Tally Hall inside the far post as the offside flag stayed down.
- Kamani Hill put the match away six minutes after the second-half restart with a wonderfully inventive goal, soaring into the air to connect on a beautiful back heel from a Powers corner kick.
- Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear made no changes to the team that fell 3-0 to the San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium.
- HOUSTON DYNAMO (4-2-3-1): Tally Hall - Kofi Sarkodie, Jermaine Taylor, David Horst, Corey Ashe - Servando Carrasco, Warren Creavalle (Alexander Lopez 47+) - Omar Cummings (Jason Johnson 74), Giles Barnes, Andrew Driver (A.J. Cochran 85) - Will Bruin.
- The Dynamo return home following a three-game road swing where they were shut out in three consecutive games, outscored 8-0. It's the third time in Dynamo club history they've been blanked in three games in a row; their 299-minute stretch without hitting the back of the net is the third longest in club annals.
- The Dynamo have now conceded 27 goals this season, the most in MLS. Their average of 1.80 goals per game is 16th-most in the league, ahead of Montréal, Chicago (both 1.83) and Chivas USA (1.92).
- "I think it was a combination of them dictating the game, and us not really doing any favors for ourselves," said Corey Ashe. "We turned the ball over in bad situations, not really staying clued in. We're giving up soft goals right now, goals that can be prevented. We've had a rough patch, but we need to sort it out, that's for sure."
- "When we break it down, we're not playing bad; we're just not making teams have to really beat us," said Will Bruin. "We're leaving guys open in the box, we're not taking accountability plays, and we're not scoring goals. That's just something we've got to get out of."
- The Dynamo have allowed five goals in the opening 15 minutes, tied for third-most this season in MLS (Seattle and New York have allowed six). The Dynamo have allowed eight of their 27 goals in the first 15 minutes of each half.
- "When you give up a goal in the first five minutes, it's deflating, but we should have guys getting up and saying 'hey, let's go, it's just one goal, get it back, get it going forward," said Bruin. "We're putting our heads down, trying to feel sorry for ourselves, and this is what happens."
- Said Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear: "Losing a goal in the first five minutes of the game is never good. We just didn't play well. We came out, we gave a free header in the first five minutes. It's a dangerous game to play, to play from behind."
- The Dynamo are also averaging 1.07 goals per game, ranking 17th in MLS, ahead of just Chivas USA (1.00) and Montréal (0.92).


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The Evil Spawn doesn't have a phone.
She has two parents who work, eat, and sleep technology but she doesn't have a phone.
One, she doesn't have a job. So how would she pay for it?
Two, she is twelve going on thirteen going on forty, but up to this point her parents (mainly mom… and mom is always right) don't think she is emotionally ready for a phone.
Sure, she would know the technology portion forwards and backwards, but we weren't sure if she was ready with the emotional responsibility that comes with putting a computer in her pocket.
There are mean people everywhere, but owning a phone just gives them more access to our kid.
It's a big world out there and we weren't sure if she was ready to carry it around in her back pocket.
Lastly, our daughter goes from home to school. School to home. There are phones available everywhere she is located.
I'm not one of the parents who believe my child will always be safe and never in danger just because she has a phone.
Do phones help with safety? Maybe.
But mostly they are status symbols that occassionaly make the child's and parent's lives a little less hectic.
In 2014, cell phones (and all technology) is wonderful. I wouldn't want to be without it.
But I also don't want my daughter growing up in a world in which that's all she knows.
One day she will have a phone. Probably a very nice phone.
And we will pay for it. She can pay us back once that job I spend every day dreaming about comes her way.
And when she gets this phone, it will come with rules.
My money. My rules.
I will start with these 18 from Janell Burley Hofmann. She's a genius. And a good mom.
An open letter to her son Gregory on her blog:
"Merry Christmas! You are now the proud owner of an iPhone. Hot Damn! You are a good and responsible 13 year old boy and you deserve this gift. But with the acceptance of this present comes rules and regulations. Please read through the following contract. I hope you understand it is my job to raise you into a well rounded, healthy young man that can function in the world and coexist with technology, not be ruled by it. Failure to comply with the following list will result in termination of your iPhone ownership.
I love you madly and look forward to sharing several million text messages with you in the days to come.
1. It is my phone. I bought it. I pay for it. I am loaning it to you. Aren't I the greatest?
2. I will always know the password.
3. If it rings, answer it. It is a phone. Say hello, use your manners. Do not ever ignore a phone call if the screen reads "Mom" or "Dad". Not ever.
4. Hand the phone to one of your parents promptly at 7:30 pm every school night and every weekend night at 9:00 pm. It will be shut off for the night and not turned on again at 7:30 am. If you would not make a call to someone's land line, wherein their parents may answer first, then do not call or text. Listen to those instincts and respect other families like we would like to be respected.
5. It does not go to school with you. Have a conversation with the people you text in person. It's a life skill. *Half days, field trips and after school activities will require special consideration.
6. If it falls into the toilet, smashes on the ground, or vanishes in thin air, you are responsible for the replacement costs or repairs. Mow a lawn, baby sit, stash some birthday money. It will happen, you should be prepared.
7. Do not use technology to lie, fool, or deceive another human being. Do not involve yourself in conversations that are hurtful to others. Be a good friend first or stay the hell out of the crossfire.
8. Do not text, email, or say anything through this device you would not say in person.
9. Do not text, email, or say anything to someone that you would not say out loud with their parents in the room. Censor yourself.
10. No porn. Search the web for information you would openly share with me. If you have a question about anything, ask a person – preferably me or your father.
11. Turn it off, silence it, put it away in public. Especially in a restaurant, at the movies, or while speaking with another human being. You are not a rude person; do not allow the iPhone to change that.
12. Do not send or receive pictures of your private parts or anyone else's private parts. Don't laugh. Someday you will be tempted to do this despite your high intelligence. It is risky and could ruin your teenage/college/adult life. It is always a bad idea. Cyberspace is vast and more powerful than you. And it is hard to make anything of this magnitude disappear – including a bad reputation.
13. Don't take a zillion pictures and videos. There is no need to document everything. Live your experiences. They will be stored in your memory for eternity.
14. Leave your phone home sometimes and feel safe and secure in that decision. It is not alive or an extension of you. Learn to live without it. Be bigger and more powerful than FOMO – fear of missing out.
15. Download music that is new or classic or different than the millions of your peers that listen to the same exact stuff. Your generation has access to music like never before in history. Take advantage of that gift. Expand your horizons.
16. Play a game with words or puzzles or brain teasers every now and then.
17. Keep your eyes up. See the world happening around you. Stare out a window. Listen to the birds. Take a walk. Talk to a stranger. Wonder without Googling.
18. You will mess up. I will take away your phone. We will sit down and talk about it. We will start over again. You and I, we are always learning. I am on your team. We are in this together. It is my hope that you can agree to these terms. Most of the lessons listed here do not apply to the iPhone, but to life. You are growing up in a fast and ever changing world. It is exciting and enticing. Keep it simple every chance you get. Trust your powerful mind and giant heart above any machine. I hope you enjoy your awesome new iPhone. Merry Christmas!


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More recently, people have been asked again to choose a side. Teenage girls (and, judging by the screaming crowd of thousands I was surrounded by at Comic-Con last year, Teenage girls at heart) have taken sides between a certain sparkly vampire and a werewolf that always manages to find a way to lose his shirt
But now with the last season of Lost upon us, we're asked to pick a side yet again. Will Jacob win out? or will Smoke-Monster Locke finally make his way off the island? Let's just hope it doesn't end up like Gilligan's Island
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ENGINE: 599cc
TORQUE : 49lb ft
WEIGHT: 172kg
Kawasaki developed perhaps one of the very best sports bikes with the J series ZX6R. This motorcycle really does it all, it will tour, commute and scratch and do all of that rather very well!
Its a physically large bike so ideal for taller riders with a reasonable riding position where you can almost sit upright. The seat is very roomy and comfortable allowing you to move around on it. Pillions are well catered for with a generous pillion pad and ideally placed grab handles either side. The foot pegs are nicely positioned to make all types of riding comfortable and the handle bars are not too low or too narrow with the controls easily finding their way to your fingertips. Its a bike that new riders can grow into and experienced riders wont tire of it.
The fairing protection is very good as its quite big and the screen is taller than the ZX6Rs rivals. Fit a double bubble and its even better. The under seat storage is acceptable for a few essentials such as a couple of multi tools, tyre gauge, repair kit and a couple of cartons of Ribena.
Whilst aesthetics vary from person to person, there is no denying the generous fairings providing a reasonably smart and imposing look topped off with the very useful and functional large dual headlamps sitting on top of the ram air scoop dominating the front end of the motorcycle.
The ZX6R J has 6 pot callipers and semi floating discs up front, perhaps a bit extreme on a 600 but, they really work exceptionally with a good feel from the lever. They further come into their own when the bike is being ridden hard ensuring you enjoy braking as much as the grunt from the engine.
The chassis out of the box seems near enough spot on providing reassuring stability and coping well with whatever the road throws at it without any nervous twitches and capable of rapid lean angles provided you can muscle it over quick enough. I personally found that simply adjusting the tyre pressures to suit my intended use with standard suspension settings delivered the good on the road come winter or sunshine.
The ZX6R J 599cc engine is an absolute stonker! Its top end is the most brutal for its class in this era. Power from low down is smooth, strong and eager. Keep chasing it to the upper rev range and you will be awarded with the distinct Kawasaki howl with a serious top end kick that you dont expect. I saw an indicated 175mph speedo reading regularly so thats an indication of how well it performs. I found its best to shift up at 13,500rpm leaving you 1,000rpm spare to the red-line at which point, the power will start to tail off despite the engine just wanting to continue to rev.
The gearbox is quite smooth which is a pleasure on the road and despite gears being successfully selected I occasionally found myself having to double check that it really went in! False neutrals were never an issue for me.
Reliability on the whole is very good as long as the bike has been maintained as recommended by the manufacturer. However, the only common problem seems to be that the rear shock absorber spring can easily rust so its best to fit a quality hugger. Its easy to get grime into the brake callipers so having the callipers cleaned once in a while is recommended. During the winter months in extremely cold conditions its common to experience carburettor icing despite it having carb heaters.
Some owners will love to wheelie their bikes so do check the head races for condition. Bikes that are ridden hard and/or used on race tracks may suffer from warped brake discs and a worn rear shock. The front forks are faultless but just some owners neglect to change the fork oil so its worth ensuring that the oil has been changed or change it yourself after buying a ZX6R.
I also had a sticking gear lever linkage which initially started out as minor unreliable gear shifts and then the sticking linkage suddenly got worse which left me stuck in gear unable to shift up or down. The cure was handled under warranty at my local Kawasaki dealer and it was simply to strip and clean the gear linkage which took about 30 minutes whilst I enjoyed free cup of tea.


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The sun is dying. The world is empty and cold, tainted with mazes and stone's structures perfectly strung together. The man disappeared and behind himself he didn't left anything. Machines quietly moves into the Wild Blue Yonder making screeching and angsty sounds.Taal: EnglishMeer laden
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Pretty bad... The movements are imprecise, it's really hard to tell what's a wall of a hidden passage and what's decoration that's supposed to be on top of walls, telekinesis is badly explained (or only half explained), Dash has no impact, and the storytelling face... that writing... well. Also the floor laser bullshit which kills you in one hit before you even realize what the heck it's supposed to be. And makes you go aaaall the way back to the start. Or the red wall from telekinesis.
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