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There always comes a time when we realize that that writer whom we thought was the greatest that ever lived, isn't actually. We readers have all experienced those short-lived deifications of our favourite writers. I used to think Dostoevsky was the greatest writer in history, until I read beyond Crime and Punishment. Gabriel García Márquez was the greatest writer ever too, for the duration of One Hundred Years of Solitude, and then I read something else by him. The more I read of Borges' short-stories the more it became clear the divine ecstasy I felt during Fictions was never going to repeat itself. And contrary to what I'd like to believe, not every José Saramago novel is as brilliant as The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. Perfection? Perhaps only Juan Rulfo can boast of such attribute: there's no flaw to find in Pedro Páramo and The Burning Plain. That is the glory of having written only two books in his lifetime. With Philip Roth I'm approaching that moment, after having read nineteen of his books, when I feel his best work is behind me already and only the leftovers remain for me to read. It's disheartening, this moment of awareness.
Exit Ghost (2007), Philip Roth's final instalment of the nine-part saga of Nathan Zuckerman, the irreverent writer who debuted in The Ghost Writer (1979), obviously disappoints every time it evokes the many better novels that precede it, but as a elegiac compendium of the saga's man themes and anxieties, it's a fitting end to Zuckerman's literary career, which began, decades ago, with him masturbating in the studio of his role model, the writer E.I. Lonoff.
Nathan Zuckerman can't masturbate anymore, he can't even have sex. Impotent and incontinent, the septuagenarian novelist has been living in the woods, isolated from the world, for eleven years now, ever since he started receiving anonymous death threats (echoes of the extortionist from Zuckerman Unbound?). On a chance return to New York to try a new cure for his incontinence, the diaper-wearing, Zuckerman meets a ghost from his past – Amy Bellette, the young student he fleetingly saw, decades before, at the house of E.I. Lonoff. In the first Zuckerman novel, he imagined a fictional past for Amy that turned her into Anne Frank, survivor of the Holocaust and secretly living in American under a false alias. And Nathan of course wanted to have sex with her. Writing a hallucinatory fable about a young, aspiring Jewish writer fantasising about bedding Anne Frank, it's no wonder Roth has been accused of being a self-loathing Jew and his writing anti-Semitic. Exit Ghost, however, is the Zuckerman novel least aware of its Jewishness, not counting the America trilogy (American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain), where, truth be said, Zuckerman was the narrator of other people's lives, and not the chronicler of his own seedy, chaotic, unglamorous existence. He had been missed.
After living like a hermit "with no sense of loss," the feeling of 'drought within' him long since gone, and living outside not just 'the great world but the present moment," Zuckerman's meeting with Amy encourages him to try to return to the world for one final attempt "at being suddenly like everybody else." Through an ad offering to swap a New York apartment for a place in the woods, he meets Billy and Jamie Logan, a married couple of writers, who want to live in a quiet place in order to write and be safe from post-9/11 paranoia, Al-Qaeda and George W. Bush's administration. But no sooner does Zuckerman meet Jamie than he starts imagining erotic scenarios where they flirt, and he even writes a play within the novel, using his usual strategy of converting reality into fiction in order to better control it, a method he had already used in The Counterlife to deal with the death of his brother, although this time, with his memory slowly eroding, not even words are enough to give a sense of stability to the writer who turned his life into art.
That Zuckerman is on diapers the reader already knew from the America trilogy. His dementia is a new development and pervades the novel. "Nothing is certain any longer that except that this will likely be my last attempt to persist in groping for words to combine into the sentences and paragraphs of a book. Because permanent groping is what it is now, a groping that goes well beyond the anxious for fluency that writing to begin with," he laments, incapable of remembering words he jotted down only hours before. Zuckerman's saga continues to be a process of brutal honesty about his frailty, both moral, mental and physical. Besides the powerlessness to control his own bladder, Zuckerman now wrestles with memory loss and with an upstart ruthless writer, Richard Kliman, who wants to make a name for himself by writing a scandalous biography of Lonoff, in which he reveals an incestuous affair he had with his older half-sister.
Exit Ghost is not Zuckerman's final salvo. It's a novel about growing old, about dying. It's about Zuckerman's failure to find meaning in the world, of seeing it being overrun by scum like Kliman, and retreating, after losing his mind and sexual vigour, into the books of his youth for a final ride with them. In particular he re-read and discusses at length Joseph Conrad's "The Shadow-Line." It's a moving, depressing novel, full of melancholy, whose high point is when a writer with dementia talks with a woman dying from brain cancer. As such, the tone is elegiac and melancholy, closer to the sobriety of the America trilogy than the ribald absurdities of The Anatomy Lesson, with a Nathan on painkillers pretending to be a pornographer just to piss off a female taxi driver.
But this is also what I find most captivating about the novel, the way it's a paler, weaker condensation of its predecessors' themes, treating them with the diminished strength that matches Zuckerman's own decline. Jamie, for instance, is an echo of Amy, but the fantasy he imagines for her has none of the forbidden daringness he created for Amy.
Zuckerman's return to a New York he doesn't feel at home in is a far cry from the cocky Zuckerman walking around it after achieving fame in Zuckerman Unbound. The memory loss that doesn't let him work is not unlike the back pain he experiences in The Anatomy Lesson. And his ruminations about the Bush/Kerry presidential race, and putting it in its wider historical context, immediately reminds the reader of Zuckerman's previous journeys through the big themes of American history – the civil rights movement, Vietnam, McCarthyism – that inform the America trilogy. Even his chase for half of a novel that Lonoff never completed is very similar to his earlier trip to Czechoslovakia to retrieve the manuscript of a dead Jewish writer, in The Prague Orgy. This is all to say that the reader benefits most from this novel if he has read the saga in its proper order.
Exit Ghost is also a novel about a paranoid and divided America. Watching Kerry's defeat with Bill and Jamie allows Zuckerman, who's given up voting, to reflect about history. Ironically he also acts as the memory of America, seeing the similarities between this event and others in the past, and being hardly affected by it because he's been knocked around by history too much to have any illusions left. Billy and Jamie, instead, see the now as the defining moment of their lives, without consideration for how it articulates itself with what came before, literally seeing Bush's victory as the end of history. Zuckerman is more worried about the age of the agélastes (1) that is descending upon him; not of Bush and his cronies but of humourless people like Jamie who lack irony, "who didn't ever know how to say anything unseriously," whose response to "the great world was ever anything but painfully intense." Zuckerman, the great satirist, sees the world becoming devoid of irony. The world died before Zuckerman unlearned to live in it. It's significant that in the play within the novel Zuckerman makes Jamie laugh a lot. "I laugh because I find things funny," her alter ego says, transformed by the author through fiction, an example of the power of creative imagination.
This process of the creative imagination is another theme explored in the novel. Like all the other Zuckerman books, especially The Counterlife, this one is an ars poetica of Roth's fiction. Roth, after all, is usually accused of writing himself into his novels and many see Zuckerman as his alter ego (2), although few appreciate how he uses this figure to meditate on the craft of the novelist. Improving and changing life, and not copying it, is what Zuckerman does, plainly stated since the day he imagined an unassuming student he had never seen before was Anne Frank. This ability to reshape life has never been understood, least of all by his family. His father and brother died hating him for allegedly using their lives as material for his novels. But as Zuckerman muses in The Counterlife, to expect his family to give him everything he needs to write a novel is like "expecting the woman next, whom you suspect of cheating on her husband, to reveal herself to you as Emma Bovary, and, what's more, in Flaubert's French."
People don't turn themselves over to writers as full-blown literary characters – generally they give you very little to go on and, after the impact of the initial impression, are barely any help at all. Most people (beginning with the novelist – himself, his family, just about everyone he knows) are absolutely unoriginal, and his job is to make them appear otherwise. It's not easy.
So when Richard Kliman decides to write Lonoff's biography which reveals his incestuous affair, Zuckerman flips. Although Kliman argues he wants to help rehabilitate the forgotten Lonoff, Zuckerman sneers at his good intentions. "Rehabilitation by disgrace" Nathan calls it, aware that he just wants a scandal to boost his own career. Even worse, Kliman's only evidence that the incest happened comes from the unfinished novel. This strikes a chord with Zuckerman because he too has often been accused of things being true just because they're in his novels. On a higher level, this is what many think of Roth's novels, mere romans à clef in which Zuckerman plays him.
Like Lonoff who will be remembered as the author who transferred his incestuous affair with his half-sister into fiction, Roth also runs the risk of being remembered as the author who wrote sexual fantasies about his mother in Portnoy's Complaint. This novel was a turning point in his career, not least because it was his first major success, but also because the stupidity of people who insisted in seeing Roth's life in it made him start blurring the line between life and fiction, banking on the gullibility of readers and critics who saw the novel as thinly-disguised autobiography. When Kliman calls Lonoff's novel "a tormented confession disguised as a novel," Zuckerman replies, "Unless it's a novel disguised as a tormented confession," a perfect description of Portnoy's Complaint, a long rambling confession made by a Jewish man to his psychiatrist. Zuckerman is sensitive to 'biographical reductivism,' as Amy calls it at one point, and instead defends the merits of the creative power of imagination, although one can also read it as an act of self-defence.
But I wonder if his defence of imagination doesn't hinge also on his lament for the death of irony. For an un-ironical world is a world incapable of seeing things through fable, metaphor, capable only of seeing things literally, unable to appreciate humour and artifice, a world where non-fiction sells more than fiction, as it currently does, as if people have a deficit of reality in their lives and no longer have use for fantasy. Exit Ghost is not just Nathan Zuckerman's elegy to Nathan Zuckerman, it's also a warning about the future of the novel. Perhaps this is also the reason why I see so many references to classical American literature in it – his cabin in the woods, evoking Walden; returning to New York feeling like Rip Van Winkle after waking up from his twenty-year-old sleep. It's a novel of nostalgia if the references didn't direct one to death, age, seclusion, alienation. As far Roth's novels go, this may be the most desperate one.
Fully aware of how weak this novel is compared to Roth's previous efforts, it is however much recommended, with the caveat that reading the worthwhile saga of Zuckerman in order first will greatly improve it and make many of the themes here more poignant and clearer.
1 Rabelais, if Milan Kundera is to be believed (and he always should be! He wasn't a police informant, honest! If he says he wasn't, I believe him, and everything else is just mean-spirited lies.), invented the word agélaste, meaning people who don't know how to laugh.
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Chelsea Now: West Siders call for end to 9th Ave. pedestrian deaths
A group of West Side advocates staged a funeral procession down Ninth Ave. in Hell's Kitchen over the weekend to memorialize the pedestrians killed by vehicles on the high-traffic street in recent years.
Led by a New Orleans-style brass band playing mournful tunes, about 75 people holding white balloons marched down the avenue on Sat., June 13, to help draw attention to the deaths caused by reckless driving. The procession paused at five intersections between 45th and 37th Sts. during the march to recall six people struck down by drivers since 2001, all of whom faced little or no consequences for their actions.
"Let's remember the human faces behind the statistics," said City Councilmember John Liu, who is chairperson of the Council's Transportation Committee. "That's why we're here—to demand change."
The event was organized by the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association and the Clinton/Hell's Kitchen Coalition for Pedestrian Safety (CHEKPEDS) in conjunction with the advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives.
Group members were joined by Assemblymembers Richard Gottfried and Linda Rosenthal, State Sen. Thomas Duane and two candidates for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Richard Aborn and Cyrus Vance, Jr.
"Today's effort has been building for a long time," Gottfried said, calling for stepped-up enforcement by police to help avoid tragedies like these. Passing over spray-painted chalk outlines at the intersections where pedestrians had been killed—most while legally crossing the street in crosswalks—the marchers planned to install memorial plaques at each corner in memory of the victims.
CHEKPEDS co-founders Christine Berthet and Martine Treat, who have been advocating for West Side traffic safety for years, insisted that the deaths could have been prevented.
"We want the NYPD to come forward to enforce vehicular law," said Berthet, who also co-chairs Community Board 4's Transportation Planning Committee. While pushing for the city to treat crash scenes as crime scenes, she also asked that drivers "treat Ninth Avenue as a street—not a highway."
In Clinton and Hell's Kitchen, the thoroughfare experiences heavy bus and car traffic because of its proximity to the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Lincoln Tunnel. In November, a 23-year-old pregnant woman, Fabiola Grande-Coyotl, was struck and killed by a truck at 38th St. just steps from her home. Then in April, a 61-year-old art restorer and local resident, Susanne Schnitzer, was killed at 40th St. after being hit by a garbage truck. The driver was later caught in the Bronx but not charged.
"This is not news, because it happens all the time," said Rosenthal, adding that vehicles had already hit two people that day elsewhere in the city. "Pedestrians are the important ones, not the cars." Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, noted that a New Yorker is killed in traffic every 36 hours.
"These tragedies are not accidents. They are, in fact, preventable," he said, calling on both the city and state to take further measures to ensure pedestrian safety. "We can drive fatalities and injuries to near zero if we can get with the program."
Making a rare appearance at a public event considering his involvement in the current situation in Albany, Duane said he was glad to be back in his district—but upset over the reason why. "Everyone who gets behind the wheel of any vehicle absolutely has to be held responsible for the safety of every pedestrian in our city," he said as the group stopped at 40th St. to remember Schnitzer. "We are all precious."


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You love'em or hate' em, you are one, you were one, your a lifer. Places that are unguarded or places that are overguarded. Just want to hear some opinions on the the topic.
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who cares..........................
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To guard or not to guard. . .
From my 59 years of experience, most beaches with guards tend to be overguarded in the early season, but fortunately in the course of the summer they generally learn their trade and their clientele well enough to become much more reasonable. The good news is they're there for the ones who really need them and when they need them.
After guarded hours, it's surfers and spongers who are the primary guards. I know I've pulled out my share over the years, and I've never been a real lifeguard in the traditional sense of the word. It's a job and somebody has to do it or we'll be picking up bodies all along the beach all summer. That's nasty.
FYI- last I heard, OCM was paying guards $14 per hour, and they need at least 143 to cover 9 miles of beach, plus support staff. Cha Ching!
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a new thread...
from a point you never proved...like i said, "LET IT GO!" WHO CARES.........................
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ok, not proving any points here, just asking a general question about peoples opinion. There is hundreds of threads on here I do not have any interest in but I dont go and write "WHO CARES??" on it. Maybe some people do maybe no one does, but who the f are you to determine that?
Oh yeah thats right your the lifeguard buttin in everyone elses business.
Why dont you throw in some of your "old salt" stories in here, about the big rescue back in 2002 or, the monster rip that pulled everyone out, or some overdramatized first aid...
Mdsurfer had valid points and there is not doubt a definite need for guards...
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Get the **** out....kook!
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About 10 years ago in OCMD during a massive swell in early Sept, a kid got caught in a rip and 2 guards flat out refused to go in for her. My and a buddy, who was an ex guard, got her out. between the kids dad and my buddy, those 2 guards were lucky to get off the beach unscathed.
I pretty much hate guards except for the very few cool ones.
i do not like lifeguards they kick surfers and bodyboarders out everywhere, like once me and my friend were surfing, my friend as bodyboarding, and we got kicked off of seaview then we went next to seven president and the life guard told my friend,"okay, you have to give me your fins" and my friend said "F*&K you" then we had to go home. they are a pain in th A*%, why cant they just let us be
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prob because u were surfing in a non surf zone.
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British architect and meteorologist Marin Sawa builds sculptures out of farmed algae and assorted chemistry equipment.
Algaerium is textile-inspired design for 'cultivating' and producing green energy in style. It creates a domesticated mode of algaculture for our urban lifestyles in the space of interior to exterior. This means it acts as aquariums for algae and the 'living' design serves as a new type of plants designed with a new characteristic to visualize photosynthesis through colour change.
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Sergio Porta was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1964. He is a Professor of urban design, the Head of Department, and the Director of the Urban Design Studies Unit (UDSU) at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde (UoS), Glasgow, UK. Together with Dr. Ombretta Romice, he holds the M.S. degree in urban design program to Year 5 students at UoS and teaches various classes including Urban Design 1" at Year 4 andUrban Theory" at Year 5. He is a Member of the Environmental Structure Research Group and the Academy of Urbanism. He sits in the editorial board of leading international journals like Environment and Planning B and Urban Design International. He is a Peer-Reviewer for a number of journals including European Physical Journal, Urban Studies, Urban Design International, Progress in Planning, International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, Environment and Planning B, and Environment and Planning A. His research sits in three areas: urban morphology, street network analysis, and urban design. Overall, he is trying to set up a scientific approach to urban form production and evolution or a science of the common sense" in urban design and construction as a matter of people/environment relations.
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Bonnie-Kay and Bruce Marks announce the marriage of their son, Aaron S. Marks, to Emily Lynn Goldblum, daughter of Carol and Richard Nathenson. Emily is also the daughter of the late Dr. Lee Jay Goldblum.
The ceremony took place on April 28 in Philadelphia.
Rabbi Sharyn Henry of Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh officiated.
Andrea Goldblum Blau, sister of the bride, served as the matron of honor. Micah Kagan, brother of the groom, was best man.
The bridal party included Laura Benjamin, cousin of the bride; Hannah Marks, sister of the groom; Marisa Handelman; Stacey Friedman; and Abby Match.
Groomsmen included Jason Blau, brother-in-law of the bride; Jared Friedman; Shawn Doss; Scott Lipner; and Matthew Wolf.
Emily is the granddaughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Morton Feldman, Aureen Goldblum and the late Dr. Albert Goldblum. Aaron is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Goldenberg, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Marks.
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The Files
Posted 01 October 2012 - 03:06 PM Edited by mkthetimelord, 27 December 2012 - 06:38 PM.
The mission was simple. Go to the base, retreive the files, and save the agent. But no mission in the spy world is ever..simple. Especially when you are James Bond. What is in the files that Bond must obtain, and why are they so important?
Missions 1-4:
[Part 1] Link: http://dyom.gtagames.nl/show/22733
Mission 1- Blochade
Mission 2- Escaping
Mission 3- Getting the files
Mission 4- Goodbye Z8
[Part 2?]
Mission 5- Terrorist Supermarket
Mission 6- Tomorrows news today
Mission 7- The party
Mission 8- The party ends
Other missions are to be announced.
James Bond: The storys protagonist. He should not need an introduction. 2 skins will be released with the missions as an option to install. Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan.
M: M is Bonds boss. She is the one that sends him on his missions.
Q: Q is the MI6 man that handles the weaponary and Gadgets. He is present in one or two missions briefly.
Nigel Bloch: Bloch is one of the 'Boss' style enemies that throws his weight around. He is introduced in the first mission.
Zoe Nightshade: She is a CIA agent that Bond must rescue in Mission 1.
Elliot Carver: Carver is a rich and powerful man that owns the CMGN (Carver Media Group Network)
The missions will be distributed with some optional mods, and one cleo mod that is neccessary for the missions.
Ped model- James Bond
Ped model- 'M'
Car model- BMW Z8
Car model- BMW 750iL
CLEO mod- Car Gadgets
Posted 01 October 2012 - 04:18 PM
Posted 01 October 2012 - 05:46 PM
|QUOTE (mkthetimelord @ Monday, Oct 1 2012, 15:06)
|Mission 4- Goodbye Z8
Z8? Zizo008, 008?
Posted 01 October 2012 - 06:55 PM
|QUOTE (Zizo008 @ Monday, Oct 1 2012, 17:46)
Z8? Zizo008, 008?
Z8 as in the BMW Z8.
Posted 27 October 2012 - 08:32 PM Edited by mkthetimelord, 27 October 2012 - 09:55 PM.
edit: Mission 4 done too.
Posted 28 October 2012 - 03:39 PM
Posted 28 October 2012 - 03:48 PM
|QUOTE (mkthetimelord @ Sunday, Oct 28 2012, 15:39)
|I'm waiting till part 1 the first 8 missions are done until I upload them.
I don't think you should do that At least release one so we can get to know about the mission-pack.
Posted 28 October 2012 - 03:51 PM Edited by mkthetimelord, 28 October 2012 - 03:54 PM.
|QUOTE (Zizo008 @ Sunday, Oct 28 2012, 15:48)
I don't think you should do that At least release one so we can get to know about the mission-pack.
Well I might, but it's just my personal preference that I hate when the missions are released individually. I play the first one, then get bored waiting for the next one/s and forget the storyline and can't be bothered to replay them to remember Also, I didn't want to release any without making a trailer first. But I guess I could release the first mission as a bit of a taster.
edit: here is Mission 1 http://dyom.gtagames.nl/show/21882
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:11 PM
Posted 28 October 2012 - 05:20 PM
|QUOTE (Gorgonit @ Sunday, Oct 28 2012, 16:11)
|Epic mission pack, played it and liked it, good luck with this, it's promising
Thanks that means alot. Glad someone liked it!
I made a small trailer with missions 1-4. I don't think it's that good, but I uploaded it to youtube anyway. Check it out at the first post
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Posted 26 December 2012 - 08:48 PM
Posted 27 December 2012 - 08:51 AM
Posted 27 December 2012 - 06:17 PM
|QUOTE (NexusUndead @ Thursday, Dec 27 2012, 08:51)
| Why do you post these missions, but don't post them in the main post ?
It is linked to gtagarage, so it does it automatically.
Posted 27 December 2012 - 06:22 PM
|QUOTE (mkthetimelord @ Thursday, Dec 27 2012, 18:17)
It is linked to gtagarage, so it does it automatically.
You added link to 1 mission, but you left others, makes no sense.
Posted 27 December 2012 - 06:37 PM
|QUOTE (NexusUndead @ Thursday, Dec 27 2012, 18:22)
You added link to 1 mission, but you left others, makes no sense.
The others have not been released individually like mission 1, but I will add a link for the dyom site with part 1.
Posted 24 January 2013 - 08:54 PM
Posted 25 January 2013 - 03:43 PM
Mission 1:
It was cool, the first mission was the best in my opinion, it had all spy elements, the non-modded 007 skin is propably the best there is. One thing you should improve is to add markers (arrows above their heads) when dealing with a "Kill All Enemies" objective, sometimes it made me get lost.
Mission 2:
I liked it too, but the biggest mistake is the "Kill All Enemies" objective, i had to go back to LV in order to kill them which is the opposite of the mission's objective. Introducing us to the Z8 was nice.
Mission 3:
DYOM Maker helped me from a big pain running away from the explosion was kinda unique. Nothing much to note of.
Mission 4:
The start was a little bit out of nowhere, i mean how did we get there? Anyway, the use of the jetpack was cool and unique, i thought i was supposed to kill them all. I'm sure i'd feel some suspense if i straghtly want to the car, escape...
Rating: 7/10
I'm fancy
Posted 25 January 2013 - 04:19 PM
Thanks for playing and giving me the feedback
Posted 25 January 2013 - 11:39 PM
Mission 1:
I don't agree with Zizo008 that there should be markers on the actors. It's just a challenge to find them all before they shoot you. I had to search for the keycard!
Mission 2:
Nice! Liked the escape-idea. But I would make it a bit bigger challenge to complete the driving. Perhaps you can make something like a roadbloack where the player has to kill all the actors? Would be better than this I guess.
Mission 3:
"Mission Design by DYOM"? Such a shame. Wow, I actually believed we had to drive to Las Venturas, didn't want to finish the mission any more. Glad to be transported to there immediately! Liked the gate-explosion.
Mission 4:
Nice mission! Very enjoyable.
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In general I absolutely love the food at Jai Yun and find it very exciting, but aside from the obvious service gripes there's one thing I just don't get about the food.
Both times I've been, we've been served a diced white fish dish accented by frozen peas and frozen corn. The fish was exceptionally well-seasoned with a delicate and nuanced hand, so much so that I had to focus very carefully only on large pieces to detect that it is probably catfish, but the frozen veggies are just a big turn off. What gives?
One of the later dishes in our recent meal also featured some squash slices, which were far from fresh and actually tasted a bit of rot.
There's also a lot of not very interesting bell pepper pieces here and there in the meal.
What is so strange to me about this is the many small cold plates that open the meal include vibrantly fresh vegetable matter, but some of the stand-bys the chef has been putting out for years that fill in the middle of the progression of dishes have a lot of vegetable junk I would rather do without.
Humorous anecdote about how bad the service is, even by non-Western standards: we were one of two parties in the restaurant and they had already locked the door, yet as I politely held up my teacup to be refilled by the waiter, he turned and gazed out the door, in the process nearly pouring hot tea all over me. No apology.


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Burton police investigate rash of arson fires at trailer park
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Burton police are investigating a string of arson fires at the Twin Meadows Mobile Home Park.
Authorities say there have been more than a dozen since September, several of them this month. Some nearby homeowners say the recent rash of fires is disconcerting.
Ernest Thompson lives on Schumacher Avenue, a quiet residential street off Fenton Road. His backyard is adjacent to Twin Meadows Mobile Home Park. Not too long ago, Thompson says his shed was broken into; the suspect lived in the park. Heâ??s since put up a fence to protect his house, but lately, he has a new concern.
"Probably about two or three months, I mean about 15 or 16 fires in the backyards in just a few months, if Iâ??m not mistaken,â?? Thompson described the recent arsons.
Bruce Stein, owner of Twin Meadows, confirmed there have been more than a dozen fires set to abandoned trailers in the last five months. Detective Matt Bade, lead investigator of the case, said there have been 14 arsons at the park since early September â?? five of them happened in January.
"I looked out there the other day, in the night, about 2 or 2:30, when that fire started over back here...so blazing,â?? Thompson described seeing the most recent fire.
Burton police say the fires are similar in nature and could be related to one another. But with no suspects in custody, they're left asking the public for help, leaving neighbors wary in the meantime.
"My biggest concern is my safety and my family,â?? Thompson said.
The state fire marshal's office is offering up to $5,000 as a reward for any information leading to an arrest. The property owner is offering $1,000.


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Return of the Native?
Photo by Jeanne RiceNo, iceplant is not the national plant of Iceland. That would be Bjork. But iceplant is not the state plant of California, either. That would be stupid, since iceplant needs lots more rain than falls on most of the state. Iceplant needs lots of rain like they have in South Africa, which would explain why iceplants come from South Africa.
Yet iceplant might as well be named the state plant of Caltrans, since its creeping greenery is so common along our interstates—sucking up the sprinkler water by gallonful—that you can buy it at your local nursery by asking for the Freeway Daisy. Isn't that what they used to call Jewel?
Why doesn't Caltrans landscape freeways entirely with California's native plants? When water is so precious, why does it use plants that need so much of it? If the drought continues and we're forced to stop irrigating our roadsides, won't most of this decorative landscaping crinkle into a decrepit shade of dead? Wouldn't plants that are native to California tend to survive better on natural amounts of California rainfall? Couldn't native plants attract native butterflies and birds and bugs that are losing their habitats? Shouldn't our publicly funded California landscaping look like California?
"Technically, our policy is this: we use the best plant material possible in any given situation," says Caltrans' very pleasant spokesperson, Robin Witt. "Because California is such a varied state, the plant material varies depending on where we are landscaping."
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Okay, Robin, but wouldn't native plants . . .
"Having said that," Witt continues pointedly, but still pleasantly, "the Caltrans landscape-architecture division encourages the use of native plants where it is feasible—where it makes sense."
Yeah, well couldn't . . .
"There was a time, not too terribly long ago, that our landscapers actually tried to set a standard of using a minimum of 25 percent native plants on any given project. We don't have that standard anymore."
See, but I don't see why . . .
"Because we found you can't force the issue. Sometimes native plants make sense; sometimes they don't."
How could a native plant not . . .
"The point I am trying to make," Witt continues, "is that sometimes native plants survive, and sometimes they don't. We try to match the best plant with the best situation and hope it comes out right."
That formula—matching the plant with its environment—is endorsed by Mike Evans, who has been selling California native plants at his Tree of Life nursery in San Juan Capistrano for 25 years. But Evans insists this can be more practically accomplished by choosing among the 5,000 types of California natives—approximately half of which grow only here and some of which are becoming endangered species.
"Native plants can do everything that we now most often use non-natives to do," insists Evans. "There are plants that can buffer sound, absorb some of the air pollution and control erosion. And they can do it more cheaply and less wastefully—without all the water, maintenance, pesticides and fertilizers. But they've got to be selected carefully and knowledgeably."
Evans' wrote an essay in the current newsletter of the Orange County chapter of the California Native Plant Society where he also emphasizes the philosophical reasons that Caltrans ought to landscape roadsides with native plants. "Landscaped freeways link our communities," Evans wrote. "Right or wrong, these . . . landscapes become the modern models for decorating outdoor space. Land planners have an opportunity, the responsibility, to exemplify resource and water conservation, wildlife values, and regional authenticity by planting natives in these highly visible landscapes."
Rather than leading the public, however, land planners are often under pressure to follow its preferences. In the case of freeway landscaping, Caltrans is bound to consider the opinions and established landscapes of the communities through which it passes—to be "context sensitive," as Witt put it.
Most of those "contexts" bear little resemblance to California's natural landscape. This region's agreeable climate and rich soil combined with this era's advanced technology has enabled each group of new settlers—whether from the Midwest or the Middle East—to apply their diverse personal histories and visions to the land.
"Hence, you have this hodgepodge of landscape themes along the freeways," says Evans. "That's why the 5 freeway looks one way through Anaheim and another way through San Clemente and another way through open lands of undeveloped right-of-way. While that offers each community some local unity, it takes away from the opportunity of people to really know the place they live—not to mention the tremendous environmental toll it takes on plants and insects and water."
Evans says he has brought his opinions to Caltrans—which spends $65 million per year to landscape more than 25,000 acres—several times over the years. "I've connected with one or two people," he says, "but most of the others think I'm a quack."
Recently, however, as a water crisis approaches, the idea of native-plant gardening has moved toward the mainstream. Southern California's Metropolitan Water District just allocated $2.4 million for a campaign to promote native-plant gardening among the 17 million people in its service area with hopes that it will be as effective as its other water-conservation programs.
"Since the last big drought of 1987-92, we have made major strides toward getting people to conserve water inside their homes—through retrofitting toilets, low-flow showerheads and just being more water-conscious," says Lynn Lepinski of the MWD. "But it turns out that as much as 70 percent of residential water use is outdoors—and that's our next target. We hope to get people to consider the use of native California plants."
And that's where Evans believes that California's freeways could be of great value.
"If there's any place the general population of California could be exposed to the authentic use of native plants," he says, "it would be on the sides of freeways. After all, we all drive."
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iHeartRadio Adds College Radio Stations -- Is Seeking to Add 'A Lot More'
By Mike Stern
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment is again expanding the iHeartRadio platform with the announcement of plans to begin carrying streams from college radio stations on The New iHeartRadio.
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment President and CEO John Hogan tells Billboard the company plans to build out a dedicated location on iHeartRadio for college radio stations beginning with 14 stations selected by the company.
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Hogan says the group was chosen in an effort to represent the width and breadth of college broadcasting by including a variety of formats from schools of all sizes spread across the country. "Our big focus was to do what could initially to be as diverse as possible," he said.
He says the company plans to add many more stations. "We sought out some initial stations to get the ball rolling, but with the announcement today we are hoping to get a lot more."
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Terrestrial college radio has been hard-hit by declining listenership in recent years, with many schools considering selling their broadcast licenses or simply shutting down their stations due to financial pressures.
Hogan says he is aware of the situation and, while that wasn't what motivated this decision, he hopes the opportunity for national distribution helps educational broadcasters become more prominent.
"If this has the unintended consequence of making people more aware of college stations and the diversity they provide that's great," he said. "Hopefully it helps bring more interest and awareness to the stations."
The 14 initial stations included in the roll out are:
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"Can we get the appetizer?" Christine.Eliz asked me for the second time that day. Of course we were going to get the pretzels dripping in butter with the beer-cheese dipping sauce…in 12 hrs we were about to embark on the North Face Endurance Challenge 50K at Bear Mtn, NY. Christine and I had both taken off that Friday from work so that we could drive up to the race early, stretch our legs with some Outlet shopping, and live the American dream…lunch at UNOS and dinner at TGI Fridays. After accidentally ordering a plate of cream sauce with a side of pasta and inhaling the brownie/toffee/caramel monstrosity for dessert it was time to head back to the hotel and mentally prepare for our 31 mi jaunt through the forest. After some stretching and bowel exercises we decided it was probably time we looked at the course map, elevation charts, aid station locations…etc…you know, minor details. Trying not to freak out about 9,000 ft of elevation change and 3 trail runs between the two of us for this training cycle, we hit the hay early for our 4:30 wakeup.
A year ago, Christine and I got our first taste of trails during the half marathon at the same event. North Face advertises this beast of a race as 5/5 stars for technical running and difficulty, due to the mountain's loose boulder terrain and masochistic course design. We knew we had 5/5 star chance of rearranging our faces if we fell on the rocks and probably a 5/5 star chance of dislocating our knees if we didn't train ourselves stupid. So after our first 50K last October, we jumped into a 6 month training plan and froze ourselves with 20+ mile runs all winter.
We were slated to start the race in the last group, Wave 3, about 10 min behind the lead pack. I had no idea what to expect for this race. During our first 50K we took our sweet time through the aid stations and finished back of the pack around 7:40. I'm pretty sure we wasted about an hour giggling, reapplying makeup, stuffing our faces, and coordinating selfies during our last race…jk, but seriously, we took forever! This time the plan was to MAN-UP, blow through the aid stations and hope to at least get 7:40 or avoid the 10 hr DNF cutoff. Although the sun was shining, it had rained all week and the trails were apparently sprinkled with puddles or something; add the chunky-monkey, rocky-road, break-yo-face terrain anything could happen. I tried to maintain a "whatevs" attitude and hide the constipated knot in my stomach, but Christine's concerns about making the 10 hr cutoff were still nagging at me…ugh.
The RD gave us one final reminder that it wasn't worth trying to avoid the puddles and then sent us off. Before entering the trail head we found ourselves positioned behind some dude wearing a pack with a radio-vest contraption. Admiring my reflection in the shiny plate attached to his pack, I jokingly asked if the mirror was for all the trail ladies hoping to look their best for the photos. With a grin he corrected me; it was a solar panel for his Sherpa duties as a member of some uber-important team…whatever, next level, over my head... We soon found ourselves in the woods and quickly approached a bottle neck as people tried to skirt around the first puddle. Christine and I had done this before…she led the way as we splashed through like champs and heard a "Now that's how it's done ladies!" That first mile, we ran up the hills and hit all the mud puddles trying to blow past the Wave 3 bolus. We were in the zone, blew through the first aid station, and grabbed some PBJ at the second. The sun was shining, my ish was muddy, and my shoes were soaked…it was glorious! Eventually we settled into a conga line, put our heads down, and rode the high knowing we had some tough climbs ahead. Soon enough we caught Wave 2 and tucked in behind a pack of grizzled old man runners…the bearded, something about being in the 65+ age group, tough as caked mud all over my thighs kind of old men. We crept up on some "too clean looking" waifish runners sporting neon colors and flashy singlets, and got a few "where did all these fast people come from?" comments as we splashed by on a stretch of technical downhills. I'll tell you where we came from…"those mud puddles you've been skipping around for the last 10 miles." The mud and water were relentless. My thighs were chafing at this point, and when I got splashed with muddy water it stung so good.
After around 13 miles the trail spit us out onto a stretch of road. The course guide forgot to mention that most of the pavement sections were straight up hill. It was gradual, but it was long. We ran most of it and I finally felt safe enough to break out my phone and take a selfie…naturally! Look at this gem I caught…sunshine on my back, salt crusting my face, and Christine crushing a booger in an epic snot rocket!
There was an aid station waiting for us at the top like a sick joke. We actually refueled at this aid and then took off on a quad crushing pavement downhill. Once back in the woods we did some serious scrambling up and down rock faces, ripped up our calves through some brambles, and I took my first digger of the day and acquired the gift of trail rash. We didn't see any other women during this section, and hung with our old man friends in determined silence.
Around 11:30 we flew into the 20 mi aid station knowing that we had friends and family members waiting for us. Greeted by neon signs, words of encouragement, and looks of concern we refueled and gathered our bearings. I was a little worried rolling into this check point. Last year we saw the 50K/50M runners at this same aid station, and I distinctly remember people screaming for SALT and some guy throwing up by a tree. I definitely didn't need to puke, but after stopping I noticed the fatigue start creeping in. Knowing that our plan was to cut down aid station time, Christine's husband urged us on. We said our farewells and found ourselves on another pavement stretch through a parking lot. This small stretch mentally sucks! The pavement was ripped up and it hurt my feet. The parking lot is exposed and it's flat. We ran it a little too enthusiastically and then found ourselves at the base of another long pavement hill. At the top, we saw a photographer merrily snapping away at us walking up the final incline. Asking him to give us a second, we mustered our best "We ran this whole hill" faces and feigned a power surge up the final stretch.
Once we shot back into the woods my legs died. All of a sudden my hammies felt like lead, and just didn't want to move. Every little teeny incline felt like death and walking the hills no longer provided the salvation I needed. Is this bonking? Christine was nice enough to walk-run the next few miles with me. My legs were cramping and my hands were swelling. I popped a salt tab hoping for a miracle and followed behind Christine with my head down in defeat. At this point I was walking the flats, when all of a sudden some scrawny dudes without handhelds or packs came flying around the corner. Thinking they were fresh marathoners I grumbled something under my breath and wallowed in my self-pity. A minute later another one came flying around the corner, donning a pink sports bra, excitedly screaming "Wooohoooo Ladies. We're almost done!" Recognizing the voice from some race interview stalking, it dawned on me that Rory Bosio just passed by us…THOSE WERE THE 50M ELITES!! Energized and semi-star struck we started running again, and the sludge started draining from my legs. I was back in the game and we pressed on with new found confidence. We had 10ish miles left and we had run this section of the course last year. This latter section was by far the hardest, with its steep climbs, and rocky descents. We took it easy hiking the climbs knowing that Timp's Pass was coming up around mile 27. Suddenly, a woman in a purple wig and dress started talking to us all funny…something about "Heellllloooo weellllcome, aid ahead" in an ethereal voice. Was this my first trail hallucination?…I didn't think I was that out of it. Around the corner the best aid station ever materialized. It was manned by ladies in different colored wigs that were really excited for the company of other females. This should've been the first indication that we were running pretty well. A lady wearing a Star Trek dress and a gblue wig handed me a cup of broth, and I greedily inhaled it. ERMERGHERD GIVE ME ALL THE BROTH...TASTES SO GOOD AFTER SO MUCH SUGAR! Ushered along by a woman in a banana suit, we set off to tackle Timp's Pass. There's not much to say about it, except that it hurt and that I refueled on bugs. The insects were relentless during the climb…buzzing in my face and landing in my ears….too tired to swat at them concerned about wasting energy…ugh, THE WORST.
After climbing this beast of a hill I noticed my stomach hurting on the descent. This section was the rockiest and most painful section for my feet. It was also filled with free flowing water from the rain. All the jostling around, skipping between rocks started hurting my stomach…not like belly-ache hurt…like my core was so sore from supporting me during the climbs. Every time my stomach jiggled it pulled at my abs making them ache like I had done some ab-crushing workout. I'm blaming UNOs and TGI Fridays for sore belly jiggles…
The final aid station was 3 miles from the finish, and again, we were greeted by excited cheers, "We need more ladies!!" While grabbing a few quick bites, some guy cupped our packs to make sure that we were properly fueled for the final stretch. It didn't occur to me at the time, but Christine made the point that it was slightly violating to have a stranger cup your hydration bladder…HAHAH! We had declined a fluid refill, but he just had to make sure that we were packing enough for the final stretch. I appreciate the concern; I hope he enjoyed copping a feel. I finally looked at my watch and it read 6:20ish…OMG we were crushing our 7:40 goal. Excited! We flew back down the trail and switched into KILL MODE. I think I stopped saying encouraging things to people that we passed at this point, all I saw was red...and of course mud. We were about to finish and do amazing things. There were barely any other ladies in this section; we were steadily ticking off all of the guys in front of us. We could hear the excited cheers of the finish line up ahead and the trail spit us back out onto the grass. We saw our family and friends along the side lines and they easily ran alongside us towards the final arch.
With the usual finish line flourish, Christine and I clasped hands and raised them over our heads as we ran across the final timing mat. Embracing my partner in crime with a crusty hug the tears came pouring out…AGH I CRY EVERY TIME. Sucking wind trying to compose myself we hobbled over to our friends, clinked our celebratory beers, and admired our mud crusted legs. After crushing it in 6:48:26 we lounged around in the grass eating and chatting. Soon the clouds rolled in, cuing our exit and the start of our hour long drive home. Once back at Christine's we soon discovered that we had placed 3rd and 4th in our age group. Check out those rankings!
I'll take it, with a side of we didn't even train on trails…BOOYA! With that said, I had the appetizer and two desserts with my ribs later that night.
My feet were once so pretty.
Next up: The North Face Endurance Challenge- Costa Rica 21K!!!


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THURSDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight young adults are more likely to have overweight family members and friends than are normal-weight peers, and may be more influenced to lose weight if those around them are dieting, according to a study published online Dec. 16 in Obesity.
Tricia M. Leahey, Ph.D., of the Miriam Hospital/Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center in Providence, R.I., and colleagues examined whether obesity "clusters" among overweight young adults affected their desire to lose weight. They studied 288 young adults aged 18 to 25, who completed questionnaires to determine their number of overweight social contacts, intention to lose weight, number of social contacts trying to lose weight, and perceived social norms for obesity and dieting.
The researchers found that, compared to normal-weight individuals, overweight individuals were more likely to have overweight romantic partners, friends, and family members. Social norms did not account for the shared weight status among social ties. Both groups reported similarly low levels of social acceptability for being overweight. Overweight young adults with more social contacts trying to lose weight were more likely to intend to lose weight themselves.
"This study is the first to show that social contacts and normative beliefs influence weight status and intentions for weight control in young adults. Findings underscore the importance of targeting social influence in the treatment and prevention of obesity in this high-risk age group," the authors write.
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Clemson ready to defy low expectations
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:27:53 GMT —
CLEMSON, S.C. (WACH) - The Clemson baseball team is starting the season under the radar and the squad's taking notice.
The Tigers opened practice Monday for a season in which the league's coaches have picked them to finish third in the ACC. However, Clemson is missing from most of the major preseason top 25 polls, including the Collegiate Baseball preseason poll.
While those on the outside may have low expectations for the team, Coach Jack Leggett, who is entering his 20th season at Clemson, is using that snub in the polls as motivation.
"I dont really put much stock into preseason polls, even when we are ranked No. 1 or No. 10," said Leggett. "I never put much thought into it or even mention it to the team. I did mention this one to the team, because if we play with a chip on our shoulder and practice with a chip on our shoulder, we might be a better team because of it."
Clemson lost five starting position players, including first-round pick and All-American first baseman, Richie Shaffer, and three starting pitchers from a team that finished 36-28 and had an early exit from the postseason in the Columbia regional.
Clemson is looking to an influx of young talent to make a push to the College World Series in Omaha despite the low expectations of those who aren't part of the program.
"We have a really good incoming freshman class. They have been working extremely hard and have been really good examples for the older guys," said Leggett. "I told these players the other day...I always think we are going to win every game. Going into the season, we are going to be 56-0. Going in to every single game, I expect to win."
Clemson opens the season February 15 at Doug Kingsmore Stadium with a three-game series against William & Mary.


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Pakistan, politics and political business cycles
This paper studies whether in Pakistan the dynamic behavior of unemployment, inflation, budget deficit and real GDP growth is systematically affected by the timing of elections. We cover the period from 1973-2009. Our results can be summarized as follows: 1. Unemployment tends to be lower in pre-election periods and tends to increase immediately after elections, perhaps as a result of politically motivated employment schemes. 2. In ation tend to be lower in preelection periods, perhaps as a result of pre-electoral price regulation. 3. We find election year increases in the governmental budget deficit, financed by heavy government borrowings from the central bank and banking sector. 4. Real GDP growth and real governmental investment growth declines during pre and post election terms.
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Armour Heights
30 Tresillian Rd. (Avenue Road and Highway 401)
Asking price: $1.65-million
Sold for: $1.68-million
Taxes: $8,096 (2012)
Bedrooms: 4+1
Bathrooms: 4
Time on the market: eight days
An inground pool, a cabana, a waterfall and a pond are among the highlights of this 55×185-foot ravine lot. It has manicured lawns and gardens and a gate that leads to a nature trail.
The immaculately maintained four-bedroom, four-bathroom stone and stucco home has french doors and a bay window in the living room, a fireplace in the separate dining room, a breakfast area in the kitchen and a main-floor powder room. The family room, also on the main floor, has French doors and a walkout to the yard.
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Lower-level features include a walkout to the yard from the games room, a built-in bookcase in the office, a three-piece bathroom and a bedroom.
Other features of the home include high ceilings, oak floors, a wood-burning fireplace and a cold cellar.
The property is close to Highway 401, Avenue Road, shopping, schools, parks and a golf course.
Listing Broker: Royal LePage Real Estate Services (Elli Davis)
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The House of Representatives sent an unusually confrontational signal to the Chinese leadership on Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to give the Obama administration expanded authority to impose tariffs on Chinese imports to the United States.
The move, which could affect more than $US300 billion ($309 billion) in goods this year, was made in retaliation for China's refusal to revalue its currency. The bill passed by 348 to 79 with the support of 99 Republicans, a highly unusual bipartisan vote at a time when many House Republicans have rarely joined Democrats on an economic issue. But prospects for Senate approval are unclear.
China said the measure would hurt the global economy if it became law, and that it would do nothing to cut the US trade deficit and only risk harming growth.
"We firmly oppose the US Congress approving such bills," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said. "We urge the US congressmen to be clearly aware of the importance of China-US trade and economic relations, [and] resist protectionism so as to refrain from any damage to the interests of both peoples and people around the world."
The measure was intended to hand President
It reflects both election-year politics over a loss of American jobs and great frustration over unfulfilled promises by China to allow its currency to rise in value, which would make Chinese goods less competitive in the United States.
The Obama administration did not take an emphatic position on the legislation and some officials said that, if passed, signed into law and challenged at the World Trade Organisation, it might well be struck down. But this is a case where symbolism may be more important than legal niceties, and the White House has been of two minds about the bill.
Mr Obama has tried to use rising public anger over China's trade advantage to argue to Chinese leaders that the United States will no longer tolerate deliberate currency manipulation, a point Mr Obama made repeatedly in a two-hour meeting last week with China's Prime Minister,
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The risks go beyond trade. Mr Obama is pressing China for help on cutting exports to Iran, managing a dangerous leadership transition in North Korea and some kind of accord on curbing carbon outputs.
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I would not be surprised one bit if my son came home one day naked as a jaybird. Seriously, I wouldn't be.
You see, for about the last six months, he's been losing pretty much everything! One week, he came home on two separate days missing two different jackets. When I went in search of one jacket, a lady told me "You should make him walk up here and look for it himself."
Good idea, in theory, but I don't think I'm going to have a seven-year-old boy walk five blocks along a busy street by himself. But, I was with her on principle.
Then, there was the missing water bottle. That one bottle has actually been MIA quite a few times. One day this summer, he arrived home without his bathing suit. The next day, he came home without his well-earned swim band. I talked to him about responsibility and keeping track of things. Will gave me a pitiful look and said "Mama, this is just a weird, weird world. I don't know how this is happening to me."
It made me wonder: is this a "boy thing", a "seven-year-old thing," or a "Will thing?" Then, it dawned on me. It may be hereditary!
Cripes! why hadn't I thought of that before? You see, I have a habit of leaving a little trail behind me pretty much wherever I go. My cell phone is proof positive, full of frantic texts to co-workers looking for that one missing item.
I've tried little tricks to keep track of things. Instead of having a black wallet, I now have a lime green one, which makes it easier to keep track of when I'm on the run. Now I'm trying to figure out some tricks for Will.
This has also made me think of the one thing moms have told generations of children: "Just you wait until you have your own children, they will do the exact same thing. All of this will come back to haunt you."
Seems like Mom was right ... and my time is now.
Julia is a reporter for WRAL-TV and the mother of a grade schooler. She writes monthly for Go Ask Mom.


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Reviews - Rosalie Guest House3
Alexandra Road,, Penzance, TR18 4LZ
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100% would recommend it to a friend
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Nice Place But Not Best for Vegetarians
First of all I would like to say that the house was very relaxed and pleasant even at the end of what must have been a busy season.
Check-in was very easy and although the owner wasn't home, her son was very welcoming. The front door is accessible by code so guests can come and go as they please. The room was quite small but vey clean and airy and the bed was very comfortable. Unfortunately the shower wouldn't go hotter than luke-warm even on full heat. My only real complaint would be the lack of vegetarian alternatives for breakfast. The proprietor knew we were vegetarian but had not bought any veggie sausages and only used eggs from caged hens. On the first morning I asked whether the eggs were free range and because they weren't I didn't want them. The owner could have gone out for half a dozen "proper" eggs but didn't despite saving money by us not eating the bacon or sausages. Having said this, the landlady was very polite and enthusiastic about the local area. The area was a pleasant avenue with plenty of on-street parking and an easy walk into the town centre and sea front. Overall, I would recommend Rosalie House but not if you're vegetarian.
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Very nice and friendly host.
Liz, the host is a very nice friendly and helpful host.
The room was very nice and clean. I personally think the water pressure from the shower was a little low (personal preference) but still usable.
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Lovely house and lovely area.
Great room in a really nice house on a lovely suburban street.
Quiet and away from any people but only a few minutes walk into town. Lots of on street parking, but obviously plenty of other people know that too.
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Lovely Victorian house
We head a great time here.
Friendly owner.Good breakfast.
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Comfortable little guesthouse.
Very comfortable place, owner's local knowledge is fantastic.
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Rosalie Guest House
This is a lovely B&B and Chris and Liz pay great attention to detail.
It's just a short and pleasant walk to town or sea, and there was easy parking on the street outside. This was a last-minute booking at a busy time, and our room was a very small double bedroom with a separate private bathroom. A lovely touch from Liz was the provision of waffle dressing gowns for the trip down the corridor to our bathroom..
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Great Bank holiday break
A warm welcome to this clean and tidy B&B.
Just a short walk into town and free on street parking just two of the added bonuses to staying here. The relaxed atmosphere here helped set the tone for our break away.
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Would go back
very happy
we stayed here for one night and it was thoroughly enjoyable.
the landlady was very helpful, room was spotless . will return
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A good B&B, accommodating and friendly and comfortable rooms.Great location, ideal for touring around the South Western part of Cornwall, nicely located for restaurants and eating out as well in Penzance,
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