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If Niko wears the Spyde Track Top in Navy from the Russia shop, and equip with a sniper rifle, he looks a lot like the mercenaries who hunt the down pilot Owen Wilson act movie-Behind Enemies Lines. If equip with Uzi, he look like the antogonist wearing the similar outfit featured in Call of Duty-Modern Warfare! His Yoloskovia decendants make him look more like the mercenary in the movie though. Not surprisingly as he is very good in taking cover and use firearm.Willy NOD 06:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
And we care why? Jackass2009 00:54, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
Jackass2009 - your name was well chosen. The above fact is trivia. The article includes a trivia heading. This wiki is packed full of information about references to popular culture in the GTA series. Please, you may find it easier to type without your head wedged so firmly in your colon. I'm adding it, fucking sue me. Chainsoar (talk) 03:25, September 4, 2013 (UTC)
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The Kill la Kill love fest keeps on rolling! After the show made a big splash in the figma and Nendoroid world, it's no surprise to see Medicom Toy jump in and recruit it to the Real Action Heroes range. They're kicking off with series heroine Ryuko Matoi, decked out in her (lack of a) battle outfit.
I'm of several minds on this. Given one of the big draws of the range is that the figures are properly clothed, it seems a bit of a waste to do a character who sports very little clothing indeed. On the other hand, what's there does look pretty good. They've nailed the vinyl look, and the big 'wings' on the costume look great, as do her hair and face. We'll have to wait until a more detailed preview goes up, but suffice to say if you don't mind your gigantic action figures scantily clad, this could be the girl for you.
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My boyfriend and I have been together off and on for 3 1/2 years. He makes 3 times as much as I do, and I try my best to contribute and pay half when I can, but sometimes its just not feasible for me. I try to explain this to him but it seems like it goes in one ear and out the other.
Sometimes, if I walk into a store to buy myself ice cream or something silly, he'll stand outside, and I think it's because he wants to avoid the possibility of being expected to pay.
I clean up his apt for him when he's not there and I cook, which he never does for me, to try to hep out in a way that isn't monetary. However, lately it feels like I'm being tested and he just doesn't want to pick up any bills or anything. I was raised in a family where the man always picked up the tab, but I'm not a gold digger. I just see it as a form of respect. He knows my financial situation and he still gives me a hard time when I don't offer to pay half on a date. It hurts my feeling and makes me feel like he looks at me as someone who takes advantage. I don't care what we do together but he doesn't seem to understand that what seems like a small amount of money to him makes a big difference to me. He's always had money and I've always struggled for it, so I have a hard time getting him to understand my position without him getting defensive.
I love him in so many other ways. He is my best friend, but this polar opposite way of looking at money is pushing me away. How can I make him understand my position without it seeming like I only care about money?
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I think these days who ever makes the invite expects to pay. If the man asked you out He should always pay. after 3 1/2years it sounds like you are an established couple and dates are implied and not asked as romantic events and he may be the kind of guy that thinks at this point you are going to share it all. I'm sure he doesn't think you're a gold digger but maybe he is beyond the stage of wooing you and feels overwhelmed by paying every time you are together. Then again maybe he's just cheap. try to remember if he has always been this way from the start, if so... he's probably cheap. Maybe he is saving money for a diamond? If I were you I would decline his invitations to go out stating "I don't have the money" If he wants to see you he will pay.
I myself have dated a women recently the things seem to be an equal exchange. I always expect to pay but sometimes she grabs the check and wants to pay it. Although she does complain about guys that want to "go dutch" I have told her I will not argue over the check if she tries to pay. She must have a reason to want to treat me. I do buy her gifts from time to time and pay as well but its just hard to know the mind set of someone these days when it comes to money.. Maybe just ask?11|01|0


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maybe he's out of town. a little over a week is a little qwik to jump the gun and post about someone in the bad traders forum. hope it all works out for you though.Originally Posted by Devil Tiger
maybe he's out of town. a little over a week is a little qwik to jump the gun and post about someone in the bad traders forum. hope it all works out for you though.Originally Posted by Devil Tiger
Caveat Emptor; let the buyer beware.Originally Posted by Stringmachine
Always be sure that you're not the one put in a position where they can lose money unless you have faith in the reputation of the person you're doing business with.
"Bought" a Guitar body and neck from JB_From_Hell in September, not here and no communication.
FWIW there´ s a "missing" thread somewhere in the Sound Room that you may or may not have seen, but I didn´t look at it too closely....
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I have had no luck finding him guys. I made a run to Springfield, where he lives and couldn't find his work place. I've left multiple messages on his phone and had no reply.Originally Posted by pinto79
It worries me that he hasn't called. I'll keep tryin' !!!!
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Originally Posted by pinto79
Update. All is well, parts finally arrived.
Thanks to Jon and kac and LesStrat for their help and Support on this one.
I hate to do this...
But hellrider77 has wasted my time.
He agreed to buy a Duncan Distortion from me and said that he'd sent the Money Order for it via the mail.
A month later I still haven't gotten the MO so I PM him asking if he'd forgotten to send it or if it might've gotten lost. I don't get a reply so a week later I PM him AND email him telling him the deal's off.
He responds telling me that he hasn't responded to my PM's because he no longer has a user account here and couldn't get my PMs.
Thats a load of crap. Look at post #103 and check the registry. His account is working just fine and he logged in on the 15th of this month.
So that's one count for lying and one for wasting my time.
I do not think I will be dealing with him again and I'd advise against it to others.
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Update on this, I have e-mailed him, contacted PayPal with a fraud claim, and AIM'd him. One day I got this reply:Originally Posted by Devil Tiger
Session Start (DevilTiger01:mranderson169): Fri Nov 25 17:00:31 2005
DevilTiger01: hey
DevilTiger01: i want to know where those ****ing mustang pups are bud
Session Close (mranderson169): Fri Nov 25 17:07:20 2005
Session Start (DevilTiger01:mranderson169): Fri Nov 25 1707 2005
mranderson169: yea...man i havent sent them yet
mranderson169: i can still send them
DevilTiger01: no, you will send them or i'll be contacting the authorities
mranderson169: ha ha ha
mranderson169: contacting the authorities
mranderson169: ha ha ha h
mranderson169: they will tell you dont be such a dumbass when sending out money
DevilTiger01: just send the pickup
mranderson169: its petty theft if anything
mranderson169: they will tell you use retail next time
mranderson169: ok
DevilTiger01: thank you
mranderson169: thats all you had to say...you didnt have to threaten
DevilTiger01: i wouldnt care but it was for a friend
mranderson169: sorry it took so long
DevilTiger01: it wasnt my money
mranderson169: i just never got around to it
mranderson169: i got busy with school
DevilTiger01: well better late than never
mranderson169: yeah..cool man...give me your address again
DevilTiger01: Lawrence Norton
701 Country Club Lane
Carterville, Illinois 62918
mranderson169: illo have it sent out monday
DevilTiger01: okay cool thanks
Session Close (mranderson169): Fri Nov 25 1717 2005
So obviously I thought this pickup was going to be here and it never came. I messaged him a few more times with concerns and he said it'd be here by Thursday. Never was.
I had to explain to my friend that his $20.00 bucks for his birthday was stolen and he couldn't get the pickup for his 1960's Fender Mustang that his father gave him. This is one of the worst guitar transactions ever and I hope PayPal nails this *******.
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Hey Pinto79, did everything work out with JB_From_Hell? I just send off a MO for a Dimebucker, and since we agreed to the trade I've had no communication with him, and it's been a little over a week. I'm just concerned, because he won't reply to PM's or emails. Any help would be appreciated...
Ok, seriously, this is complete bull****.Originally Posted by ElUnoAstuto
If you'd read the above posts, you'd see that yes, he did get his guitar.
I sent you back a pm the other day confirming our trade, and when you sent me the one saying you'd sent the money order, I sent one back saying that i'd send the dime when I got it. And about 5 minutes ago, I sent another one saying I'm going out of town today, and will send the dime regardless of whether the m.o. gets here today or not.
You mailed the m.o. monday. Today is wednesday. Relax.
Sorry JB_From_Hell, you're right I need to relax, although after we agreed to the trade I didn't here from you for almost a week. You should've at least kept in touch, but I was quick to post in the bade trader thread, my humble apology.
Last edited by ElUnoAstuto; 12-31-2005 at 12:59 PM.
It's all good bro. Anywho, let me know when it gets there. It went out last wednesday.
I dont understand people who would rip someone of like some of the above posts, Its not right, Its one of the few reasons I rarely buy of the net. And please don't relate some of these little spoilt brats to other people of my age, there are people brought up properly still.
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I hate to do this but... I'd avoid dusklose, he said he wanted a pup I had for sale. He said he sent a money order. I mailed him back after a week and told him I never recieved it. He mails me back saying he's sorry he didn't have the money. I told him he should have just been honest from the beginning. Then he mails me back saying it was his brother who was using his id saying he didn't want it. He tells me he wants and the check is in the mail. Again no check comes. He goes thru a big story of how the usps says they get lost all the time. A new check is in the mail. This one never comes either. I mail him again and he writes back saying "I guess it wasn't meant to be." He aslo said he would send me a scan of the check stub but it went through the wash. That surprised me because I was sure his dog ate it.
dang...i just got my ass raped...1) i'm a good guy as elunoastuto, and Tom M i've had trasactions with both of them (2 with eluno...). I sent out 1 money order, and he didnt recieve so i sent a second one which aparently he didnt recieve either....i never said usps loses them all the time...but they say "it happens". and if he doesnt recieve 2 moneyorders, obviously it wasnt meant to be, and i couldnt get my money back for the second one because of my stub being Washed...my dog doesnt go into my pants so he really cant eat it...plus i've never seen my dog eat paper...so i'm in the hole 50$ and i'm getting blamed for not paying...
To confirm, yes I received everything as promised from JB.Originally Posted by ElUnoAstuto
Dusklose, what happen to the first money order you said you sent out? Then 7 days later you told me you didn't send it out because you had to admit you just didn't have the money. I asked you why you just didn't tell me that from the beginning? Then you came back with the story of how it was your brother who used your ID and said you didn't want it, and that you really do want it and another check is in the mail. That check never came either. All in all I waited a month for 2 checks that never arrived? Come on! You should have quit after you told me you didn't have the money and I would not have cared. I understand what its like to be in school and trying to scrape money together. I just didn't like being jerked around for a month.
Avoid Hellrider77 like the plague, Im the top Super moderator on Ultimate-guitar.com and has scammed at least 3 people so far buying and selling. I keep getting constant complaints about him. The worse thing is UG is mostly populated by kids who have little to no money and its very heartbreaking hearing some of the storys.Originally Posted by B2D
Sorry man.
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Yanno, I will never understand why people liked the guy...Originally Posted by Asomodai
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I went to the Bizexpo at the Manchester city centre Hilton on the 9th June.
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I didn't partake in the speed networking as I'm not sure it's very helpful for building any sort of relationship. Having said that I know networking experts who believe that speed networking can be a good start to a relationship!
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Caldwell Investments PLC
2 May 2000
Resultant Exceptional Costs Create A £635,623 Loss
Ninaclip Plc Fastening System Subsidiary To Be Floated Separately
Shareholders To Receive Preferential Treatment
New Opportunities Being Reviewed By Group
Sound Balance Sheet And Cash At Year End
Caldwell Investments Plc hopes to float separately - 'on a preferential basis
to existing shareholders' - its promising Ninaclip Plc subsidiary, developers
of the patented fastening system which is looking beyond the nursery products
market, says chairman Mr Stanley Wootliff.
Reporting today on calendar 1999 results he states that Caldwell suffered
from the problems affecting some High Street stores groups and took the
'difficult and costly' decision to withdraw from the manufacture of 'own
brand' products for a major retailer. The losses incurred in discontinuing
production at two units, together with their ancillary services, fixed assets
and stock losses associated with withdrawal from major product areas,
amounted to £741,732. 'These losses more than account for our total loss
for the year', he says.
Caldwell's pre-tax loss for 1999 was £635,623 after total exceptional items
of £744,188. The figure compares to a £87,131 pre-tax loss (including
exceptionals of £220,988) in 1998.
'The benefit for the future is that we have now extricated ourselves from an
unprofitable major retailer and more than replaced the lost sales with new UK
and overseas customers and retaken control and ownership of the Ninaclip
Mr. Wootliff says that with Ninaclip floated: 'In going forward, Caldwell has
a strong balance sheet, a good cash position and two sound and profitable non-
fashion underwear businesses. Your Board continues to review a number of
opportunities which have been brought to its attention and will keep
shareholders informed appropriately'.
A separate listing should enable Ninaclip to broaden its present range of
nursery accessories as well as developing a variety of new applications for
the company's unique fastening device.
Mr. Wootliff comments: 'The Board continues to regard the Ninaclip as having
considerable potential. However, despite the funds raised by the Group last
year, it is clear that further exploitation of the product will require
greater resources than Caldwell will have available in the foreseeable
future. Accordingly, it has been decided that this young technology company
should have a separate market quote and most appropriately one that attracts
EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) tax relief.
'It is therefore our intention to explore the possibilities of separately
floating Ninaclip Plc in the summer, retaining a substantial minority
interest and giving existing Caldwell shareholders the opportunity to
participate on a preferential basis. The development and marketing budget
has been prepared, appropriate to the scale of potential business.'
Caldwell's financial results for 1999 were also adversely affected by the
strength of the pound. Caldwell's German subsidiary 'produced record sales
and good profits locally,' but these were cut substantially when translated
into sterling after an effective 13.5p.c. devaluation of the Deutschmark.
Withdrawal from the High Street customer and subsequent closures enabled
Caldwell to put up for sale its manufacturing facility at Oldham, Lancashire.
Mr Wootliff says this should generate about £250,000 net cash and
substantially reduce the group's gearing.
Turnover from continuing operations last year was £7.2m (1998: £8.1m). As
indicated at the time of the October rights issue no final dividend is
recommended (1998: 0.8p). Equity shareholders' net assets fell from 24.8p
to 18.4p per share.
The annual report will be posted next week.
Annual General Meeting - Leeds, Monday 5th June.
Further information:
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Contin Discont Total Contin Discont Total
uing inued 1999 uing inued 1998
1999 1999 1998 1998
£ £ £ £ £ £
Turnover 7,210,786 2,659,430 9,870,216 8,097,354 4,241,342 12,338,696
Cost of
sales (5,729,899) (2,335,097)(8,064,996) (6,495,933) (3,793,471) (10,289,404)
1,480,887 324,333 1,805,220 1,601,421 447,871 2,049,292
costs (171,792) (76,110) (247,902) (245,135) (121,226) (366,361)
expenses (979,568) (324,853)(1,304,421) (1,106,262) (331,677) (1,437,939)
60,150 - 60,150 145,291 - 145,291
items - (630,763) (630,763) - (220,988) (220,988)
(loss) 389,677 (707,393) (317,716) 395,315 (226,020) 169,295
Share of
loss (1,765) (12,384)
Loss on
disposal of
fixed assets
operations (79,086) - - -
operations (34,339) - - -
Net interest
payable (202,717) (244,042)
Loss on
taxation (635,623) (87,131)
Tax on loss
on ordinary
activities (40,133) 40,540
Loss on
taxation (675,756) (46,591)
4,877 (5,880)
Loss for
year (670,879) (52,471)
paid and
proposed (46,878) (135,118)
loss for
year (717,757) (187,589)
-Basic and
diuted (5.53p) (0.46)p
No consolidated note of historical cost profits and losses is presented as
there is no material difference between the loss for the financial year as
stated and the loss for the financial year on a historical cost basis.
1999 1998 1999 1998
£ £ £ £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets 344,327 302,073 216,369 143,820
Tangible assets 1,286,407 1,353,879 974,340 991,549
Investments - 79,086 1,786,152 1,865,238
1,630,734 1,735,038 2,976,861 3,000,607
Current assets
Stocks 2,137,232 2,971,368 - -
Debtors falling
due within one
year 1,425,675 2,065,512 87,824 440,116
Debtors falling
due after more
than one year - - 460,834 460,834
Cash at bank and
in hand 1,169,128 584,765 573,090 30,818
4,732,035 5,621,645 1,121,748 931,768
amounts falling
due within one
year (2,921,405) (3,519,803) (156,899) (535,228)
Net current
assets 1,810,630 2,101,842 964,849 396,540
Total assets
less current
liabilities 3,441,364 3,836,880 3,941,710 3,397,147
amounts falling
due after more
than one year (843,402) (1,023,786) (479,379) (534,361)
Provisions for
liabilities and
charges (7,765) (25,150) - (16,902)
Net assets 2,590,197 2,787,944 3,462,331 2,845,884
Capital and
Called up share
capital 1,378,750 1,103,000 1,378,750 1,103,000
Share premium
accoun 1,620,302 1,272,871 1,620,302 1,272,871
reserve 191,734 196,873 191,734 196,873
reserve 27,000 27,000 27,000 27,000
Profit and
loss account (675,881) 135,031 244,545 246,140
funds 2,541,905 2,734,775 3,462,331 2,845,884
Equity minority
interest 48,292 53,169 - -
Total capital
and reserves 2,590,197 2,787,944 3,462,331 2,845,884
1999 1998
£ £
Net cash inflow /(outflow) from operating activities
526,074 (192,006)
Returns on investments and servicing of finance
Interest received 15,386 27,926
Interest paid (218,102) (271,968)
Net cash outflow (202,716) (244,042)
Tax paid (39,775) (82,777)
Net cash outflow (39,775) (82,777)
Capital expenditure and financial investment
Purchase of intangible fixed assets (86,042) (54,231)
Purchase of tangible fixed assets (127,363) (238,456)
Sale of tangible fixed assets - 30,771
Net cash outflow (213,405) (261,916)
Acquisitions and disposals
Purchase of subsidiary undertakings and associates - (18,305)
Sale of subsidiary undertaking - 232,852
Net cash disposed of with subsidiary undertaking - (83,563)
Net cash inflow - 130,984
Equity dividends paid (135,118) (135,118)
Net cash outflow before financing (64,940) (784,875)
Issue of shares 623,181 -
New loan finance - 25,000
Repayment of loans (172,564) (49,899)
Capital element of finance lease payments (12,803) (15,031)
Net cash inflow/outflow 437,814 (39,930)
Increase/(Decrease) in cash in the year 372,874 (824,805)
1. The financial information set out above does not comprise the company's
statutory accounts. The auditors have not reported on the accounts for
the year ended 31 December 1999 nor have any such accounts been delivered
to the Registrar of Companies. Statutory accounts for 1998 have been
delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
2. The calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share is based on the
loss for the financial year of £670,879 (1998: £52,471) and a weighted
average number of ordinary shares of 12,120,912 (1998: 11,471,200).
The calculations of basic and diluted earnings per share for 1998 have
been restated in order to reflect the effect of the rights issue in
October 1999.
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2nd May 2000
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It was a step back in time Sunday on the grounds of Glamorgan Castle.
The annual Vintage Base Ball Carnation Cup was played before a large crowd of onlookers. The event, held in conjunction with the 55th Greater Alliance Carnation Festival, was sponsored by The Alliance Review.
The Alliance Crossing Rails played Chagrin Falls Forest City in the opening game and the Hoover Sweepers played Forest City in Game II.
Vintage Base Ball is much different than today's game. It's uses rules from the 1860's and players are attired in uniforms of the era.
The batter is known as the Striker and outs are referred to as Hands. The pitchers throw the ball underhand. The ball used is larger than a baseball but smaller than a softball. When a team scores a run, it's called an Ace. When a runner scores a run, he marks it on the chalk board behind home plate.
Fielders wear no gloves and if hits are caught on the first bounce they are ruled an out by the umpire who was dressed in suit and tie with a black top hat. Players sat on hay bales to watch the game.
In the opening game, Forest City jumped out to a 4-3 lead but the Crossing Rails battled back to tie things at 4-4 after three innings.
But Forest City took the lead for good at 5-4 in the fourth inning and both teams pitched shutout Base Ball the rest of the way as Forest City won 5-4.
At the end of the game, each team lines up and congratulates the other squad with "three cheers" for their sportsmanship and fine play.
Forest City played the Hoover Sweepers in the second game.
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In 1954 Leon Festinger, a brilliant young experimental social psychologist in the process of outlining a new theory of human behavior - the theory of cognitive dissonance - and his colleagues infiltrated a cult who believed the end of the world was only months away. How would these people feel when their prophecy remained unfulfilled? Would they admit the error of their prediction, or would they readjust their reality to make sense of the new circumstances?
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Light snow, below-freezing temperatures make for traffic mess in Western Pa.
Slick conditions contributed to a slew of minor car crashes on Saturday morning in Allegheny County and points north, but forecasts promise a drier Sunday.
Motorists awoke Saturday to a light snowfall that left icy spots, especially on ramps, overpasses and bridges. State police reported at least 30 crashes across the region, though no serious injuries related to the weather.
"I think a lot of people weren't prepared for snow overnight," said PennDOT spokesman Jim Struzzi. "Bridges, overpasses and ramps — anything that is elevated — freeze before the roads do. People are driving along, and they don't expect it."
Pittsburgh police said fender benders in the city began about 6:30 a.m. and eased up within a couple hours as temperatures climbed. Crashes included a couple at the Liberty Bridge and one at the Highland Park Bridge.
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said Pittsburgh road crews were prepared for the snow, though he conceded there "were some slick spots."
"It hit pretty quick," Ravenstahl said. Police did not report any major injuries in any of the accidents across the city.
Interstate 79 closed between Carnegie and Bridgeville at 7:45 a.m. because of the weather but reopened at 9 a.m., state police said. Struzzi said typical problem areas are I-79, the Parkway North and the Parkway West at Carnegie.
Farther north, police spotted icy conditions on overpasses on state Route 28 in the Kittanning area. They reported a handful of minor crashes but no major accidents there.
Murrysville police said two fender benders occurred Saturday morning, one on North Hills Road and one on Meadowbrook Road, before salt trucks went out. No one was injured, and the vehicles did not need to be towed.
The snowfall reached upward of a half-inch in some areas around Pittsburgh, said National Weather Service meteorologist Lee Hendricks.
Sunday should bring mostly cloudy skies but no more precipitation, he said.
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A storm system on Monday night may deliver rain and snow, and snow showers may materialize on Wednesday morning, too, he said. No significant accumulations are expected. High temperatures this week are forecast around 40 degrees.
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Again, I am honored to have been granted first rights to reveal the line-up of the Meriden Daffodil Festival. The event is a full-blown springtime community festival, with carnival rides and kids' activities and pageants and a parade and artisans' booths and a vast food tent. It also happens to be the biggest gathering of local bands in the state.
Rob DeRosa, who books the acts, knows that this is a special opportunity, for up-and-coming acts as well as for established ones, to play for real audiences (not just friends and family) for real money (not just "the door") in a beautiful environment. (No offense to Café Nine or Arch Street or other indoor joints that nobly support the local music scene, but you don't have a pond and tens of thousands of blooming daffodils on the premises).
Rob DeRosa suggests that the talking points this year are:
- This is the first time that over half the bands booked are making their Daffodil debut. Given the hundreds of bands DeRosa's booked for the fest over the past couple of decades, and how many established bands always itch to play there, it's a credit to him that he still seeks such variety and novelty in the line-up.
- Nine of the 35 local bands on the bill are hyperlocal, hailing from Meriden. DeRosa suspects that might be a record.
- Numerous winners or nominees from state and regional music awards ceremonies: Jenn Hill was nominated as Best Female Performer in the New England Music Awards. Tracy Walton was a nominee for Best Male Performer in the same NEMA competition.
Returning in glory is Violent Mae, the duo of Becky Kessler and Floyd Kellogg, which did one of their first ever shows under that band name at last year's Daffodil Festival. The show had been booked as a solo gig for Kessler, who'd been named best Singer-Songwriter in the 2012 Grand Band Slam (aka the Connecticut Music Awards, organized by the Advocate/Weekly chain of papers). Violent Mae, in turn, was named Best New Act in the 2013 GBS/CMA reckoning.
Electronic pop act Fight the Fear won Best Indie Band at the Band Slam/Ct. Music Awards in 2012 and Best Overall Band in 2013.
Which acts will play when, and on which of the three Daffodil Festival stages, will be announced any day now. This is the initial burst of who the bands are. That info and much more will eventuyally be revealed at the fest's own site, here.
And—cotton candy-stimulated drumroll please—the line-up (in alphabetical order) for the 2014 Meriden Daffodil Festival, to be held April 26 & 27 in Meriden's glorious Hubbard Park, is….
All Riot. A Meriden band making its Daffodil debut, All Riot is an alt-rock combo consisting of Mitch Guerin, Dan Osto, Nick Allen and Christian Adamik.
The Backyard Committee. Mike Sembo's Americana collective, playing just before kindred spirit Mark Mulcahy on the Welcome Stage.
Big Fat Combo. Tom Hearn's punk- and roots-infused bar band to end all bar bands takes life's indignities (the Hale Bop comet suicide cult; getting banned from Sam the Clam's bar) into rousing rock & roll ditties.
Boxcutter. Accomplished cover band from Meriden.
The Bird'n'boys. Blues-rocky Meriden-based cover band fronted by Ellen Sackman.
Chico & Friends. Longtime Daffodil staple, hailing from Meriden.
Coconuts. A comedy rock outfit with Meriden roots, making its Daffodil debut.
Steve Elci & Friends. First Daffodil appearance of the celebrated children's entertainer, whose "friends" (according to his catchy video "Zoo") include a monkey, a panda and a leopard. Special 1 p.m. Sunday concert for kids.
Farewood. Leah Booker & Lou Lorenzo's illustrious "ethereal rock" quartet made a comeback in 2012 with its well-received album Wings of Gold.
Fight The Fear. Daffodil debut for the popular, multi-award winning Hartford pop act (formerly known as Lakshmi).
The Foresters. The Bethany-based sibling rock trio has been playing out for over three years, and the oldest of them has now entered his teen years. Time for the release of their first full-length album!
The Gonkus Brothers. Another steady Daffodil booking, a covers a act with Meriden roots.
Good Night Blue Moon. The fascinating folk-pop ensemble returns.
Grand Cousin. There's almost always a band at the festival representing Wesleyan University's strident music scene. They describe themselves as "A fledgling Buddhist, an Upper-East-Sider-Gone-Rogue, and the sensitive son of a sitcom legend." (The last-named, Henry Hall, is the oldest child of Julia Louis-Dreyfuss.) Their dorm-room video for "Camera" is pretty darn endearing.
Happy Ending. Another long-overdue Daffodil Festival debut, Happy Ending is the longtime pop/psychedelic/psychological/political music project of Hank Hoffman (the Wesleyan grad also known for his Connecticut Art Scene blog and for booking the music shows at Best Video in Hamden).
Jennifer Hill & Co. Hartt School of Music grad Hill does "pop with a definite alternative, blues, rock and cabaret influence."
Kelley & Sean. Return of the Meriden-based Irish music duo.
Lys Guillorn and Her Band. The wondrous singer-songwriter—who plays with Grimm Generation and concocts cool concept shows like "All I've Got is a Photograph" when not doing her dazzling solo-act thing—released her second album, Winged Victory, late last year.
Amy Lynn & The Gun Show. A big-deal "Memphis-Motown soul/rock style" septet featuring Meriden-raised Any Lynn Zanetto on vocals, The Gun tours throughout New England, just released a new video for their original tune "Don't Trip on the Glitter" and is also promoting a cover of the Shangri-La's "Remember (Walking in the Sand)." The band's first full-length album will be out around the time of their Daffodil show.
The Manchurians. Longtime Daffodil Fest faves, led by Roger C. Reale (who's written songs for B.B. King and Edgar Winter, and worked with Mick Ronson). Their sound, reminiscent of British R&B/rock bands of the '60s, always sounds spectacular amid the lights and motion of the carnival rides near the big bandstand stage.
Mark Mulcahy. The former leader of one of Connecticut's most important bands, Miracle Legion began a successful solo career in the mid-1990s. A family tragedy caused a years-long hiatus broken last year with a Daffodil comeback followed by shows at major rock festivals here and abroad. A new album, Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You, came out last fall. You can hear an NPR Fresh Air interview with Mulcahy here.
Mercy Choir. Paul Belbusti's prolific band makes its Daffodil debut. The New Haven-based multi-instrumentalist songwriter has released a slew of recordings in the past year. The four-song EP PPIANO came out just last week (digitally and on audiocassette, preceded in November by His Noiseless Ball, His Boxwood Rattle.
The Mighty Soul Drivers. A relatively new R&B/Memphis Soul act on the scene, one which is made up of numerous bar band veterans and one which made the finals of the CT Blue Society's 2012 Blues Challenge on their very first time playing out. The Mighty Soul Drivers have a couple of members in common with River City Slim & The Zydeco Hogs, who are also playing the Daffodil Festival this year.
The Mighty Sparrows. One of the many bird-named schemes of longtime music scene fixture James Velvet (co-host of WPLR's Local Bands show). These bands and shows vary based on size, volume, venue, line-up and acousticity. The Sparrows (aka The Lonesome Sparrows and The Acoustic Sparrows) consist of Velvet (who sings, plays guitar and writes songs), guitarist/violinist Johnny Memphis, drummer Johnny Java and mandolinist/dobroist/banjoist DickNeal.
Oh, Cassius. The gamechanging duo of established solo artists Meredith DiMenna and John Torres. They won "Best Other" at the 2013 Connecticut Music Awards.
The Paul Brockett Roadshow Band. Not for nothing do these guys' name and logo mimic "Pabst Blue Ribbon." Based in New London, this is a downhome rootsy country rock act you've be privileged to run across in a roadhouse.
Pocket Vinyl. Daffodil debut for this compelling pianist/painter duo. While Eric Stevenson plays and sings, Elizabeth Jancewicz creates an original artwork onstage. The couple (who are married, and have released three albums) auctions off Elizabeth's fresh painting at the end of each show.
River City Slim & The Zydeco Hogs. Making a return to the Daffodil, with River City Slim and Andy Karlok pulling double duty at the festival this year as members of Mighty Soul Drivers.
691. The Meriden-based cover band (specializing in Motown) returns.
Greg Sherrod. Is it possible that this local R&B vocalist legend and Café Nine "blues boot camp" leader has never played the Daffodil Festival?
The Stray Dogs. This aggregation of The Meadows Brothers (Ian and Dustin), Eric Lichter and James Maple has backed singer Kerri Powers and have a long list of band credits amongst them. Not quite as stray as they once were, they make their Daffodil debut.
The Summer Edeen Band. This young singer-songwriter and Lyman Hall school field hockey star won a talent competition at the Durham Fair, been championed by Meriden-based songwriter Gary Burr and recorded in Nashville. With a band behind her, Edeen makes her Daffodil debut.
Them Damn Hamiltons. There's only one Hamilton in the eerie, soft/loud/subtle/slamming ensemble Them Damn Hamiltons: guitarist/mandolin and banjo player Dan Hamilton. Four bandmates—Jeff Chen, Futoma, Mik Walker and lead vocalist Parker Hu—provide a wide range of "dark folk" sounds, including acoustic cello and electric bass. Daffodil debut.
Tracy Walton. Yet another Daffodil debut, of New England Music Awards nominee Walton, who began in music as a bassist in punk bands and eventually found jazz calling to him. Later he fronted the rock act Black Lab Project. Walton's put out two solo albums in the past three years.
Violent Mae. Becky Kessler and Floyd Kellogg developed their singular duo sound during downtime when on tour with producer/musician Kellogg's band I Scream You Scream, and especially when Kellogg produced what was intended to be a solo album for Kessler (who'd led a popular band in North Carolina before moving to Connecticut to work on an organic farm). The supposed solo album became the duo's debut disk instead. Likewise, Kessler was booked as a solo artist for last year's Daffodil Festival, but the gig became one of the first official Violent Mae shows instead.


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The St. Petersburg Times tied for sixth in the world recently in the number of awards earned in the leading competition for newspaper design, graphics and photography.
The Times won 31 awards — 28 awards of excellence and three silver awards — in the annual Society for News Design competition. It was the third year the paper ranked in the top 10 in number of awards, said Patty Cox, Times managing editor/presentation.
SND, which co-sponsors the judging with the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse, issued more than 1,100 awards for visual journalism published in 2009. The winners came from more than 10,000 entries submitted by 374 newspapers from around the world.
The Times' three silver awards went to: photographer John Pendygraft for a portfolio of work; Terry Chapman, Don Morris, Chris Kozlowski and Graham Brink for a presentation on the fall of the stock market; and Nikki Life, Paul Alexander, Holly Braford, Amy Hollyfield, Boyzell Hosey and Cox for the coverage of Barack Obama's inauguration.
Other Times staffers who worked on the award-winning entries: Richard Bockman, Becky Bowers, Andrew Braford, John Corbitt, Sherri Day, Jennifer DeCamp, Kathleen Flynn, Edmund Fountain, Janet Keeler, Melissa Lyttle, Steve Madden, Bruce Moyer, Suzette Moyer, Skip O'Rourke and Patty Yablonski,
Award-winning work will be featured in SND's 31st edition book, The Best of Newspaper Design, this fall. The Times tied with the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, and finished in the awards count behind the Los Angeles Times, Canada's National Post, the National of the United Arab Emirates, the New York Times and Gulf News of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.


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Our guest blogger today is Stefan Petranek, Assistant Professor at Herron School of Art & Design and judge for the My Snapshot online competition.
When I look at "Concession Stand" by Robert Brown I am reminded of artist John Baldessari's commentary about one of his favorite found photographs. He was mesmerized about a particular film still image he had bought because of what it didn't show him, and thus what it left open to interpretation. We are seduced by several different factors in photographs, but one often overlooked by the amateur and sometimes even the professional is what is left out. One of my old photography professors has a farm in Vermont. He used to joke with us that he practiced reductive farming, only choosing what plants to remove and leaving the rest. He may not be a very good farmer but photography, especially the kind where one goes around with a camera hunting for a good image, is just this sort of reductive process.
For Brown's image we are given a title and a very open-ended scene. We see the silhouette of a woman with her hat off, raised to one side, interrupting a distant view of some indiscriminate low lying building. There is just enough detail in the shadows of the foreground to see evidence of some candy bars, which I latch onto because it makes the title of the image ring true. Sometimes not enough context can cause us to lose interest, to throw up our hands and say, "and…" But this image saves itself from that fate because it sets up just enough of a narrative that our imagination (or at least mine) is kicked into gear. There are lots of questions streaming though my mind: Is it a woman? Why does she have her hat raised just so? And where are we? Am I inside the stand looking out or outside looking in? And that view is so bleak, yet intense. It could be any non-descript location, but the vagueness of the scene is disorienting and it makes me feel like this moment was captured just before something consequential was about to happen. It's akin to a cinematic ploy where everything seems too ordinary and hum drum, so the tension in you rises because you know something will have to happen soon. This type of internal visual game (if you will) captured my interest, and that of course is the goal for all of us lens-based artists.
Another thing we are always looking for in the photographic image is quite simply to see something new. But what does new really mean? It doesn't just mean "something I haven't seen before," but more precisely "something I haven't imagined seeing before." I, for example, haven't seen most photos of peoples' cats on Flickr, but if I did they aren't likely to seem new to me. Nothing against anyone's kitty pics of course, we all have them, but a big part of creating a photograph with staying power is offering the world a picture that it has not thought about or otherwise witnessed before. Now you are probably thinking, "well, what's left to take a picture of then." Its not just what is being photographed that determines if something is new, it's also how you photograph it. For example, we have been drawing, painting and photographing trees for ages, but there are individuals that still find ways to render a tree so that when we look at it, it still feels authentic and distinct.
The three images below from the My Snapshot photo competition particularly contain this newness for me:
One type of image that we tend to gravitate towards is that which captures some notion of the sublime. Ideas of the sublime have been around since the mid eighteenth century so it's meaning is complicated, but in short the sublime connotes that which is beyond our comprehension. Visually this tends to mean images that seem surreal or otherworldly. It's also a term that historically has been associated with our perception of the natural world and thus is often brought up when discussing images that deal with both the awe and terror nature is capable of producing.
So I would argue that these three images by Genevieve Bordon, Mili Walker, and Toni Elliott respectively, generate their newness from their ability to depict notions of the sublime. It's quite clear how "Poetry in Motion" fits in, rendering this amazing moment at the end of the day where birds in flight find passage between the ground and looming clouds of black overhead. "The Rabbit Hole" follows similar pursuits rendering the sky as something otherworldly, simultaneously beckoning and foreboding. "Dubai Skyline," perhaps surprisingly for some, also falls into this category for me because it visualizes this unending pristine cityscape, one that almost looks virtually manufactured rather than real. Perhaps it is just because I am not familiar with Dubai's skyline, but I have the same reaction to this image as when I see space cities depicted in Star Wars films. There is something unbelievable about its seeming perfection, which tugs me in the two directions of amazement and fear of what perfection might actually look like.
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The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the second time this year to 5%. But will they continue to go up?
The Bank of England is charged by the government with keeping inflation under control, with a target rate of 2%.
So it is not surprising that with inflation now hovering around 2.5%, the Bank decided to act.
Interest rates have been rising in many countries around the world as banks try to curb inflationary expectations as economic growth accelerates.
In the UK, economic growth has been running ahead of the Chancellor's forecast for some months, although it recently slowed to a year-on-year rate of 2.6%
Additionally, house prices are continuing to rise strongly in most parts of the country, with prices increasing at an annual rate of more than 8%, according to the latest survey from the Halifax.
The Bank has been concerned that higher house prices encourage people to borrow and spend more, thus boosting inflation.
In addition, the Bank is worried that higher wages will boost inflation.
Wages are rising in the UK by around 4.2% annually, just below the Bank's informal target rate of 4.5%.
So far two things have helped keep wages and prices in check.
Higher immigration from Eastern Europe may have lowered inflationary pressures on wages despite relatively high employment rates.
And cheap prices on imported goods, particularly from China, have kept the lid on High-Street prices despite the strong demand.
Both of these factors may have less significance in the future, if the rate of immigration slows, as the government wants, and if China is forced to revalue its currency and raise the price of its exports.
The Bank believes that, in an uncertain world, it is better to err on the side of caution and raise rates- rather than embed inflation in the system, where it is very hard to get rid of later.
Bank governor Mervyn King has repeatedly warned consumers that the rather benign interest-rate climate may be coming to an end, and the world economy now contains more risks than before.
Effect on growth
Some economists believe that the current round of rate rises will significantly slow the UK economy next year.
Oxford Economic Forecasting (OEF) says that growth will slow to 2.3% next year, based on anticipated weaker demand for exports and more reluctance to spend in the shops.
However, Alan Castle, UK economist with Lehman Brothers, expects that higher growth from eurozone exports will compensate for an expected slowdown in the US, and lead the Bank to make at least one more interest rate increase early in the New Year.
With the US economy appearing to be slowing down sharply (annualised growth in the most recent quarter was only 1.6%) the Bank may also want to wait until a clearer picture of the international economic climate emerges.
Budget worries
In the next few weeks, Gordon Brown is due to present his pre-Budget report and is expected to revise upwards the government's official growth forecast.
However, his decisions on future government spending - and borrowing - will also affect the Bank's thinking.
So far, the government is running a large, and larger-than-planned, budget deficit of nearly 3.4% of gross domestic product, and the extra state spending has helped stimulate growth but also added to inflationary pressures.
Mr Brown is planning a sharp slowdown in the growth of public spending from 2007 - which could help moderate economic growth.
The Bank's interest rate hikes increase the size of the deficit, by raising the cost of public borrowing.
But they could also lead to cutbacks in consumer spending from people who have over-borrowed, which would in turn slow economic growth.
With so many uncertainties, it is likely that the Bank will again wait a few months before making another rate decision.
But there is little doubt of the direction of change if they decide to move.
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Deterritorializations: Repetition, Stutter, Report (the first of two brief forays)
The book is liquid dreams. Writing is stone. Writing is breath unheld. The book is air and underground passages. Where there is no water, but light is liquid. Where warm bodies gather. In translation what there is to say vibrates (vacillates? reverberates? hammocks?) in the cleft between what one person is saying.
Between what one person and another—ostensibly "me"—is saying. Are saying.
In translation the body pulsates—cannot be forgotten—to be an acrobat inside someone else's mouth. It's like a skeleton, but softer. A scaffolding underneath the exoskeleton. It's not like a skeleton at all. It's an amoeba. It's a mist. It's a mistake made repeatedly until it becomes apparent. Until it becomes apparent that the mistake is the only option, and therefore the correct option. Or if not correct (never correct), then possible. A possible option: an optics. A perspective.
It isn't sky, only words of the sky. An imitation on the surface—drawn
icon or written sign. To keep time—to measure. Now this way,
now that way. Hit or miss—an arrow aimed at the eye of love.
Sanctuary, the space of the poem, is not a place of adequacy but the
space to explore adequate inadequacy. The poem is space of failure,
contradiction, and abjection…Failure becomes part of a field
of relations rather than an articulation of inadequacy.
Sanctuary, the space of the poem, is not a place of adequacy but the space to explore adequate inadequacy. The poem is space of failure, contradiction, and abjection…Failure and abjection have their own ontological and epistemological complexity. Failure becomes part of a field of relations rather than an articulation of inadequacy.
At this time last year I wrote a letter a day for two hundred days. The paragraphs that begin this post are mined from those letters. I was trying to renegotiate my relationship to the lived archive. I was trying to keep time. I was trying to feel memory—to get the physical sensation of remembering into my synapses, into my fingers. I was trying to think out loud, toward specific listeners. I was trying to articulate some thinking about translation that resisted articulation. I was trying to fail publicly, to get comfortable with standing on unstable ground, and in the process to appreciate that error is option—err or. As in translation: the word or phrase could be this or this or this or… not an infinite realm of possibility, but sufficient multiplicity within the constraints offered by the original to be entirely unsettling and entirely thrilling, where the purpose of the work is not to achieve perfection or stasis, but rather to inhabit the gap or leap or uptake in breath ("uptick," Kaia Sand calls this space in the final section of Remember To Wave) between terms, knolls, moments.
In the same sequence of letters, I wrote these sentences. Poetry and art-making are about specific, concrete material realities—substance, in the chemical, culinary, geographical, or landscape sense of the term—and about representation, expression, and modes of exteriority. The micro and the macro, the specific and the meta, simultaneously. Or perhaps some forms and instances are not meta? No, all forms—even those that reinforce the linguistic status quo rather than critiquing it—are also meta, even if their meta-aim is to accept the workings of power in language unquestioned. Some months later I read Johannes Göransson and Joyelle McSweeney's Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook Deformation Zone. As if it were a pop song, I can't get this paragraph of Joyelle's out of my head; I bop to it as I bike through the city:
I am using the term medium in two different ways here—one, medium like paint, photograph, marble, steel, the stuff of art, the materials of art. The substance. And the other, the transfer of art from one form to another, the delivery system, the conveyance, the technology. Translation fits both definitions, and as such is the example par excellence of art itself. It's both a medium and a medium. Both a thing, a substance, a material, and a conveyance, a way that one material is converted to another form, one substance de-, re-, and con-formed to a new legibility. It already has impossible properties, impossible doubleness, self-saturation, impossible borders.
Translation is repetition and reverberation and echo where the canyon swallows the utterance before it can reach our ears. It is repetition and mutation at the same time. Presence and absence are not separate. I was dazzled by hearing Yona Harvey read from Hemming the Water on Friday, poems interwoven with thoughts on temporality, on rhythm, on gender, on race, on carnival rides and letting go, on how to tease song or talk out of complexity. She talked about repetition (which sizzles in her work) as "a stutter in the poem," the repeated word as "that word and ten other things at the same time," making the word mean something more or something else within a "changing same" that somehow relates to our capacity to use language to move through uncertainty. (That is, through the world.) (That is, through being.)
Here I think of the local, the particular peculiar aspect. How does
it enter into conversation with that which is larger than it without
being defined by the "larger"? (And definition is about delineation,
demarcation, control, restriction, as much as it's about clarity
and articulation.)
—Tonya Foster, from a conversation with Evie Shockley
Elsewhere I've written (in the excellent company of Christian Nagler and Brian Whitener) about the ever-present colonialist (or perhaps colonizing?) aspects of translation, even as the impulse to translate (or to read works in translation) may come out of rejection of colonialist frameworks. How to make the repetition-stutter-report that is possible in the erroneous, imperfect, failed space of translation shimmer such that the "particular peculiar" might remain both legible and illegible in generative ways? How to "delineate, demarcate, control, restrict" in writing (or rewriting, as translation more aptly is) that might suggest a buoyant capacity to cross lines, remake marks, subvert control, evade restriction? The stutter of repetition is both insistence and fade. What we see disappears only to reappear again, slightly—or more than slightly—unrecognizable.
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A poet, translator, book-maker, activist interpreter, educator, and urban cyclist, Jen Hofer was born in San Francisco and currently lives and works in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Hofer's translation of Mexican poet Myriam Moscona's Negro Marfil/Ivory Black (2011) received the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy...


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PHOTO GALLERY: Ashley Greene in Maxim
All eyes may have been on the New Moon Los Angeles premiere last night, but let's focus our peepers on a more intimate glimpse of the Twilight cast for a moment, shall we?
Ashley Greene serves as the cover girl for the December 2009 issue of Maxim—and does so quite stunningly, we might add.
Sink your teeth into our photo gallery of Ashley Greene's Maxim photos and tell us in the comments section: Who rocks a pair of denim cutoffs better, Ashley or her castmate Taylor Lautner?


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Nick Of Time
Author : John Gilstrap
Publisher : Pinnacle (September 27, 2016)
Genre : Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
"A page-turning thriller with strong characters, exciting action, and a big heart." —Heather Graham
A pulse-pounding novel of two young lovers on the ultimate joyride—racing against the clock and against the law . . .
Nicki Janssen's days are numbered, but she refuses to accept her fate lying down. Defying her father and doctors, she hits the road with a pocketful of cash, a bus ticket—and a romantic fantasy of riding off with her childhood crush . . .
Handsome, dangerous Brad Ward is facing a different kind of sentence. Sent to prison for felony murder, he has escaped and rekindled his relationship with Nicki. But when Nicki's father joins forces with a deputy sheriff, the search for the runaways ignites a manhunt—a blistering chase that accelerates with every stolen car, every act of violence . . .
"When you pick up a Gilstrap novel, you are going to be entertained at a high rate of speed."—Suspense Magazine
"Gilstrap will leave you breathless." —Harlan Coban
"One of the finest thriller writers on the planet."—Tess Gerritsen
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Langue : English
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