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If you're like me, chances are that you love the series more than you could love your first-born child. And because so many of us have been waiting for nine years for another Harry Potter book, expectations for the Cursed Child are sky-high. I read it, I loved it, so I come to you with ways to avoid disappointment.
I know it's a daunting, somewhat terrifying prospect. The sheer potential for devastating disappointment looms above the book, rendering many readers unable to pick it up. From the get-go, negative reviews started popping up on my Goodreads, saying that The Cursed Child read like fan-fiction rather than an actual book, or that the characters were out-of-character, or that it was such a huge disappointment. Then, I saw some updates from people I'm friends with who simply have no desire to read the book, or are put off by some of the negative reviews.
Which is completely understandable. I am not going to sit here and say that I'm a bigger Harry Potter fan that x or y because I read and loved the Cursed Child. We are fans of the series for its content, for its brilliance, not because we are sheep who follow the majority. And most of the criticism is very valid, and had I not been prepared mentally, I would've thought it was a huge disappointment too.
So, here are the things you should know when you go into the book:
It is marketed as the 'eighth book,' but it is not
In fact, it's not really a 'book' at all, is it? It's a script. And not only is it a script, but it also feels less like a continuation, but a simple step into the lives of the characters we loved. It should have been marketed as the eighth story, perhaps, but putting the label of 'book' on it is rather unfair, in my opinion. The casual follower is going into this story expecting a full-blown novel, and they are not getting what they had anticipated, resulting in disappointment.
Remedy: Go into it knowing that it is going to be extremely different from books 1-7. If you're going to pick up the Cursed Child, expecting a straight-up continuation of our beloved series, you're in for a surprise. Rowling has always said that the series ended where it did- and she didn't go back on her word. I cannot stress this enough, but know that this is not the 'eighth book.'
J.K. Rowling did not write it
Most people probably know this, but I know there are many others who hadn't realized it until they had a copy in their hands. J.K. Rowling did not pen the script; she created the story, yes. The characters are hers, the plot is hers, but she did not write it. So do not expect familiar dialogue or familiar phrases. I've always said that reading J.K. Rowling is like falling back into a comfortable routine, like when you come home after a long day of life and ball up in your blankets with a nice cup of coffee and a good book. That's what reading J.K. Rowling is like for me, even if I am reading about severed limbs and murderous pedophiles re: the Cormoran Strike series. I went into this book prepared that it would not feel the same, and I was right. It doesn't feel like Rowling wrote it, and that's because she didn't. It's natural. Accept it.
I suspect this is where the "reads like fan-fiction" point comes into play. Because it's not written by her, it does read a lot like someone who loves and adores the series wrote a continuation. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though. Because the most important aspects are already laid out: our characters are people we know and love, and the storytelling is freaking fantastic, as it always is with Rowling.
Remedy: expect a great story with great characters. Throw aside your pre-conceived notions about what the writing will be like because you simply do not know since it is not written by someone you have read before.
More dialogue than anything else
This is pretty obvious. It's a script; you're not going to have long passages of deep introspection and deliberation. You're not going to have paragraphs that describe yummy food or beautiful surroundings or the wonders of magic. You're not going to have character descriptions or vivid world-building. It's not there, because it's a script, not a novel.
I think this is the thing people were left most disappointed by, because when read quickly, it does feel flat. Imagine your favorite movie, and imagine not seeing it and just reading the script. It just doesn't feel the same. The visual elements aren't there when you're reading a script, you don't know what the characters talk or sound like, you don't see any special effects or anything of the sort. It's very bare-bones. The characters are talking, you have the setting and the general environment, and you need to work with that.
Remedy: now my remedy for this is more concrete than the previous two. Slow down. That's it, just slow down. I know we can get carried away in our excitement, in our need to know what happens next, but I cannot stress how important it is to just slow down and read it as if you were watching the play. When the scene starts, close your eyes and imagine where you are. Imagine what's in front of you, what characters are there, what they sound like, everything. Then read the script as if you were each and every character. Read it aloud, if that helps (it really worked for me), switch up the voices. Make it dynamic. Immerse yourself FULLY in the experience, because if you don't, it's not going to be the experience it could and should have been.
The characters are no longer the people you left
And this is perhaps the thing that I was most wary of, and something that almost made me not like the script until I slowed down and thought about it. When we left our characters, they were seventeen years old. Even in the epilogue, we barely got a glimpse of their lives, their personalities as adults etcetera. By all intents and purposes, Harry, Ron and Hermione died when they were seventeen. We knew them to be reckless teenagers who were good and kind and did heroic things, who saved lives by putting theirs in danger, who were funny and were ruled by teenage angst and hormones. Adult Harry, Ron and Hermione – particularly Harry – are vastly different.
Now, some people may say that Harry's behavior was out of character, and at first, I thought so too. But a lot of it is there, just in different ways: he's quiet, he's stubborn, he's a rule-breaker, and he's unfair to many people around him, including his children. But he's trying his best, and that's who Harry was. Rowling has put a different version of Harry into the story- he's an adult so he has different things to worry about. Adventure is behind him; now, he has a steady job with a steady family. His problems are no longer about classes and Quidditch and Voldemort, they revolve around family, his relationship with his sons.
Remedy: don't go into the book expecting 40-year old Harry to be exactly like 17-year old Harry. Don't go expecting the Perfect Hero, because Harry was never that, and he still isn't- just in vastly different ways. I know that when teenagers make stupid mistakes, it's easy to pass off as childhood and inexperience, but we often forget that adults are vulnerable and make many, many mistakes too. They are just less endearing, especially if you yourself are a young reader who expects parents and adults to behave in certain ways. I think Harry's mistakes in the Cursed Child are less about being OOC, but more about being authentic. Rowling has never been afraid to push her characters, and I'm sure she knew that fans would be unsettled by the shift, but she did it. Because it's authentic.
Just know that the characters you will read about exist in your head. They do, and it's so important for you to nurture them. Think about their actions. It's not laid out for you because it's not a novel. There's a huge chunk of story missing – 22 years of it! – so it's up to you to fill in the blanks. It's up to you to give the characters you love the benefit of the doubt. It's totally understandable if you cannot. Script-reading is difficult, especially if you've never done it before, so I get it. And this is not a post that's telling you what to do or what not to do- just a simple set of guidelines in case you want to read the book but are afraid of being disappointed. It's okay to be disappointed. Just because you don't like this one doesn't mean you're less of a fan. It doesn't take away anything from Book 1-7. Just know that it's okay, and loving this script is going to take effort on your part. It's not all there, you need to do some work too.


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Keta Diablo is one of my favorite erotic romance authors and because I enjoyed her erotic historical romances I thought I would try out her upcoming male/male contemporary erotic romance release. After reading Keta's Crossroads, the first book in her Crossroads series as well as, Crossroads Revisited, which is the second book in her series. I read a very intense and intriguing excerpt on Keta's website that had me wanting to read the novel as soon as possible especially since I loved the first and second book. Now the main character Frank McGuire is an ex-cop turned private investigator after the death of his police partner Quinn Brennan's death. Frank is a very intriguing character who I really loved reading about because he is such a big, strong and handsome man who has a special ability to commune with the dead since he was a child. His relationship with his partner Quinn was very special to him because he was a father figure who took Frank under his wing and made him apart of his own family. Now Rand is Quinn's son, who has had a crush on Frank since even his father's death, and he really wants to have a relationship with Frank but isn't getting it right now. Rand wants Frank to tell him that he loves him and wants to have an open relationship that shows that to him but Frank is not ready for that even though I know that he does love Rand very much. After everything Rand and Frank have gone through in the first book, Crossroads, things really start to heat up for them both in the second book Crossroads Revisited. The third book in the Crossroads series is about to come out in November and I've had the pleasure of receiving an Advanced Readers Copy. In Crossroads Showdown things get more series in Rand and Frank's relationship which is great because I really love them and want them to have their happily ever after since they've been through a lot together. Tough PI, Frank McGuire, attempts to help the FBI locate three abducted children from a small town in West Virginia and this leads for Rand and Frank's relationship with one another to start to change. While channeling his inner spirit for assistance, he mistakenly calls forth a ghost and as Frank races against time to locate the missing girls, he receives help from the most unlikely of sources. To complicate matters, Rand has decided its time Frank commit to their relationship—or run the risk of Rand being gone for good when he returns.
This book is a must have! If you have read Crossroads and loved it as much as I did then you need to get your hands on a copy of Crossroads Revisited now because it is just as good and even better than the first. But that is not the end because Crossroads Showdown will give you a deeper look into the tough PI Frank which some readers have commented is a bit too touch and sometimes seems a bit cruel. In this novel you will see a new side of Frank because he is not a cruel man but someone who has lived a rough life and has been toughen by it. There is suspense in this novel that will keep you guessing about where things will lead Frank in the end as well as what will happen between Frank and Rand who both seem to be coming a bit to terms about where their relationship is heading. I really liked how Frank and Rand have developed in this novel because I really felt that they could have a great relationship with one another if they had a bit more time together so they could feel each other out enough to be comfortable to show their emotional sides. Keta Diablo delivers yet another steamy, hot, sexy and mysterious male/male erotic romance novel that will have you panting as well as making you want more and for the story to never end since you only just get a peek at Frank's new side. I was sad to have finished this novel in less than 6 hours but I just couldn't stop reading it until I found out how things would end for Frank and Rand after getting to see them together after finally trying to make a start on a real relationship. Now that I've read it I hope that Keta will finishing writing up the last novel in the Crossroads series and gives me more about Frank and Rand so I can see if their relationship will make it like I so want it to. I give this book 5 open books:
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CROSSROADS SHOWDOWN by Keta Diablo $ 3.00 (90 Pages)
Tough PI, Frank McGuire, attempts to help the FBI locate three abducted children from a small town in West Virginia. While channeling his inner spirit for assistance, he mistakenly calls forth a ghost. As Frank races against time to locate the missing girls, he receives help from the most unlikely of sources. To complicate matters, Rand has decided its time Frank commit to their relationship—or run the risk of Rand being gone when he returns.

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Tonight, "How to Get Away with Murder" is going to be bringing to you an important episode in tying up some loose ends … or at least beginning that process. The reality here is that this is something that's going to take a ton of time, or at least so much that you won't learn the answer to this key question until you get around to the two-hour finale next week. The show's taking "Scandal" off of the air for a little while, and there's one simple reason for it: Putting the focus solely on giving you answers before the lengthy season 4 hiatus. (Hey, at least revel in the fact that the show is going to be coming back for more.)
Below, you can see now courtesy of ABC some of the first details regarding what is coming up.
"He Made A Terrible Mistake" – Annalise tries to ward off a surprising new angle in the D.A.'s case. Meanwhile, alliances shift amongst the Keating 4, as they discover crucial information about the circumstances surrounding Wes's death.
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Given that this is "How to Get Away with Murder," you do have to anticipate a huge cliffhanger that will carry over into the fourth season. This show really excels at the phenomenon in which you learn a few things, but then see some other questions raised at the same time.
Promo – This really doesn't hold anything back — it makes it clear that the main focus of the finale is going to be figuring out who killed Wes, and we're certainly excited to see some of that play out. At this point, we do think that almost everyone out there is a suspect in some shape or form.
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Born as Sweety Shetty in Mangalore, she completed her Bachelor of Computer Applications from Mount Carmel College in Bangalore. The actress has acted in more than 20 movies in Tollywood and has been rated as one of the brave and bold actress in the industry. Her movie Arundhati is an icon, it is a bench mark in her acting career.
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Can you name a single person who's either pure BH or pure VII as you define them? A person who would never, ever change his allocations under any circumstances, or one who is forced to mechanically make changes based on valuations, with no consideration of other factors?
Of course you can't. No such person exists. Even theoretically there's no sane person who believes valuations can never have an effect on future returns, or one who says they must always. The data is clear – historically, valuations have had some effect on future prices, some of the time. Shiller will tell you that. Vanguard will tell you that. Fama will tell you that. There are no two "opposite" (your word) views.
The retirement study posted at John Greaney's web site does NOT contain an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins. Greaney often referenced that study in his posts at the Motley Fool board. I put forward a post on the morning of May 13, 2002, that asked whether we should be considering valuations when we identified the safe withdrawal rate. You say here that: "Historically, valuations have had some effect on future prices, some of the time."
So should SWR studies include an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins or not? I say they should. What do you say, Anonymous?


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Q. First off, Congratulations for your debut book! How does it feel, being one book old?
Thank you. 'Supertraits of Superstars' being my first book is very special; it has encouraged me in thinking that perhaps I can now venture into writing a few more books.
Q. What inspired you to choose and write about the eleven luminaries from Bollywood?
Since my work involves writing about film actors, I am often asked about stories and anecdotes about them. The stories that always came to my mind were instances of the stars going beyond being just beautiful glamorous people. For instance, I never cease to be amazed at the discipline Mr Amitabh Bachchan displays in everything that he does. Whether it is a film shoot, a social appointment or his personal conduct, he is unwavering in his discipline. Or Shah Rukh Khan's passion for everything that he undertakes. The idea was to feature personalities who have displayed a defining quality in their endeavours—and all 11 people featured in Supertraits of Superstars have a supertrait that is responsible for the success they enjoy.
Q. What was the hardest and favorite part of writing for you?
The hardest part of writing was the discipline it requires besides trying out a new format of writing. My favourite part of course was the fact that it forced me out of the comfort zone vis-a-vis writing.
Q. Who are your favorite authors? How have they influenced you to be a writer, if at all?
Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Erma Bombeck, William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Jane Austen, Munshi Premchand, V.S.Naipaul, Shobhaa De, Ashok Banker and Piyush Jha are a few of my favourite authors. A few years ago, when I went for a short vacation to London, I even visited Stratford Upon Avon, William Shakespeare's birthplace in the hope that I get imbued with some of that prolific creativity.
Q. How has your journey been as writer?
My journey as a journalist/writer has been an eventful one. I am certainly grateful for opportunities that my job offers—of meeting a variety of people from different professions and get a glimpse into their lives and their work.
Q. You have been a successful Editor and from your columns, one can see that writing comes almost easily to you. How was it to write a full-length book?
I have often heard it being said that journalism is literature in a hurry but writing a book is a different ball game. It is much harder than it seems.
Q. Do you believe that the success of a book depends much on the publicity that goes behind it? How did you choose to publicise your book in these days of social media networking?
I think there is certainly something to be said for the virtues of good marketing but having said that, good marketing can only support good content and ensure that it reaches the consumers it is meant for; it can never be a substitute for good content.
Q. You are quite a multi-talented person. Tell us about the other projects that you are part of.
Thank you for the compliment at present my energies are devoted to writing for my work as a journalist and a book or two in between but times are a changing with the new media explosion and it would be interesting to see where that takes writers and content creators. Are we losing the art of conversation? Is grammar no longer relevant to the written and spoken language in the world of sms and tweets and so on.
Q. What can we expect from your next work?
I haven't quite made up my mind but now armed with a little more confidence, I would like to explore the fiction territory.
Q. Any suggestions for our budding writers?
Sit yourself down and write the book that you have been dreaming of. There is no other way to do it, but to start.
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4) I'm 5'1 and have always been very petite.
5) I really want to get a belly button piercing.
6) I'm confused about my sexuality.
7) I am a tad bit obsessed with show tunes and I love watching musicals.
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9) I'm scared that nobody is ever going to like me and I'm going to end up alone.
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Comparing and Contrasting Oedipus and Job
The Book of Job and Oedipus and King are very similar stories in that both characters in each story suffer a very big downfall. In these two stories you see the characters and how they deal with adversity. The one who keeps faith and looks toward a better life is usually the person who will come out on top.
Oedipus was a character that committed some horrible and disgusting crimes. Throughout the whole story he himself causes his own downfall. Oedipus portrays a lack of patients. Oedipus wants to put an end to all this commotion as soon as he can. He threatens to kill anyone with holding information of the murder of Laios. Tiresias is playing games with Oedipus by testing his patients with what he knows. If Oedipus would have been patient with Tiresias he might not have been so upset about the information he was told. Oedipus s anger is another trait that did not help him. He got angry with Tiresias when he will not tell Oedipus what he knows. Oedipus s anger shows when he tells Tiresias that he is stone-blind and has lost all of his power. As Oedipus s anger comes out he begins to show the people his true self and it slowly leads to his downfall. Oedipus s truthfulness also led to his decline of power. When Oedipus finally realizes what has happened he doesn t hide any evidence, which leads him to his fall. Oedipus could have denied all the evidence and gotten rid of Tiresias and no one else would have probably said anything. Oedipus deals with his downfall very bad in this story. To top in all off, he gauges out his eyes so he wouldn t see the pain he brought all of the townspeople. This was a very cowardly act but it seemed like the only thing he could ve done at that point.
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Crude oil prices spiked Monday, the first full trading day of 2016, amid escalating tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but the rally faded by the closing bell as economic concerns resurfaced. Brent crude oil started trading Thursday in New York at $33.43 per barrel, down about 2.3 percent. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark price for crude oil, was down 2.4 percent to $33.14.
WTI held a brief premium against Brent in late December as the first cargo of U.S. crude oil was loaded for exports after a 40-year ban was lifted. The White House last year said the United States was already exporting around 4 million barrels per day in the form of refined petroleum products and had waivers in place to export 500,000 bpd of conventional crude oil before the ban was lifted.
Crude oil prices are moving lower as metrics continue to show the market is oversupplied with crude oil against the backdrop of slow economic growth. A research note from Oxford Economics sent by email said the U.S. economy was expected to grow at an average rate of 1.8 percent per year for the next decade, down from its previous estimate of 2.2 percent.
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Pretty as a picture! This amazing no-bake cheesecake is a winner every time thanks to the light and creamy cheesecake filling, fresh raspberries bursting with flavour and the perfect amount of lemon to bring a little bit of zing. The biscuit base has great texture thanks to the soft digestives meaning you won't get stuck trying to force your fork through it! Decorate the top of the cheesecake with extra raspberries if you like, or leave plain and dust with a little icing sugar for a final flourish. Enjoy!
- 175g digestive biscuits, crushed
- 85g unsalted butter
- 300g full fat cream cheese
- 150g Greek yogurt
- 150ml double cream
- Zest and juice of 1½ lemons, about 4 tbsp of juice
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first time in foshan shopping trip for full house pl advise where to stay for a week .priorty french provincal reproduction furniture , lights , antique reproductions ceramics ect. and soft furnishings
which area has cheap hotel and good commute to furniture malls.
street names for shopping for authentic teasets art ect..
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dear friends i need to stay in foshan 6 nights near chancheng nanhai cheap ac hotel or apartment will do transpotation near metroplus bus a must since i commute to pazhou fr work and wife does furniture shopping pl advise whats best way tpPAzhou complez and best locality in foshan for high end furniture
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will be going to Foshan for about 5 days. I will have some meetings but will also have some time to check out the sites. I am staying at the Swissotel which i really enjoyed on my last trip there. Unfortunately i was unable to see any sites last time so am looking for advise on your best things to do.
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I'm planning to go to Foshan and Shunde in December. I will be staying in HK from 16-12 to january, and i really want to see a little of China.
I will go to Gz for sure and if i understood well there are trains to go to Foshan..but...how to get to Shunde?
I tried to find some informations in chinese websites or in the shunde website but it's too confusing. Can u help me?
I know a little of chinese (mandarin)(i'm still learning it xD) so i dont it will be easy or not to ask infos around foshan.
Is there a bus that goes directly to Foshan from Hongkong Int'l airport? I will travel to Foshan next month. I am considering staying at CITY HOTEL FOSHAN--is it a good hotel? Please let me know... Thanks!
Im doing a report on Foshan and I need to know what types of entertainment and dining are available. WHat types of restaurants and sites are there to see?
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Has anybody stayed in this hotel before? Please let me know some comment about how it is? I'm considering staying there for convenience but worry about the comfort and facilities of the hotel.
Thanks in advance
Can any one tell me where to go in foshan for a good all over body massage.
I'm staying in the foshan hotel on the 6th of October.
I have been living here for 2 months.... any good place for shopping? all i've been is Ronggui..
And... i am desperate for a good body massage.
Someone warned me not to go to just any spa coz.. there might be "For Men" only services.
Thanks a lot...
I will be in Zhongshan in Sept. and read that Foshan is an "artist's community." I would like more information and any recommendations of what to see and where to go there. Also, how do you recommend getting there from Zhongshan? Thank you.
Can anyone tell me the address of the textile city in Foshan and how best to get there from Guangzhou? I would also like to know how to get to the wholesale underwear market in Yanbu. Please if you know this info, i would be grateful for your assistance as i will be in Guangzhou by the end of this week.
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'Stop wukking up on children'
The leader of one Crop Over band wants to put a stop to adults gyrating on children on Kadooment Day.
In fact, Marcia Weekes of Walk Holy band is calling on the authorities to impose an immediate fine of $500 on any man or woman found to be behaving inappropriately towards a child during the street parade.
Weekes said she was driven to launch a campaign against such behaviour after she saw a photograph on social media last year of two adults wukking up on boys.
The bandleader plans to launch an online petition of Friday, asking Barbadians to support her call for the fine. She said the list of signatures would later be forwarded to Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite.
Weekes said she was not being judgmental, but was simply trying to protect vulnerable children. She added that her band would practice what it preached by separating the adults from the children during the parade.
"It [Crop Over] is an expression of our culture. It is how we express ourselves and we are not passing judgement on everyone. What we are saying is that we have a place for your kids so children are not exposed to anything negative on Kadooment Day. We will have your kids kept at a safe place while you might be jumping [and you] don't have to be in our band," Weekes told Barbados TODAY at the launch of Walk Holy band.
The bandleader added that she would like to see Kadooment become "a more family-friendly" event.
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Stop wukking up period and there will be no children !!!
Really, the populace's increased participation in activities seem to devalue the activities. We call for it , increased participation from the masses, that is, but it seems that things are better left with limited participation because we end up getting increased participation from the asses who spoil everything.
Furthermore, stop taking wanna children (in this case, anyone under 16) on Spring Garden Highway, on Grand Kadooment Day. That way you will not expose them to the risk of perverted men and classless women wukking up on them or worse. E.g. of propositioning them.
Kiddies Kadooment exists for a reason.
I agree 100%. A few years ago I took my young children to watch the parade on kadooment day, we live in Canada and I wanted to show them bits of the Bajan culture. We were stationed be Combermere school and as the bands went by I was HORRIFIED at what we saw, and I'm no prude.
Sophia – you will need to explain this to me in person this weekend. I can't figure any of this out.
Now there's a good idea!
I think you should have said perverted men and women; it's nothing to do with class and certainly not gender-specific.
Keep the kids out the street and home cropover day. Let them look from the steps. That's what kiddies cropover is for them. These ppl always looking on ways to get money from the public. N if I feel to wuk up with my kid who's them to tell me I can't.
Tell the parents not to encourage it cause it's foolishness. My daughter goes and nobody can't wuk up on her.
Saw two women grinding on a boy approximately 10 – 12 years old at the Oistins fish fry after mid night, while the crowd cheered them on. They were basically having dry sex with the kid. In civilised countries those women would have been charged and the child would have been removed from his parents home. There is a fair number of people in Bim who seems to lack knowledge of what child molestation and abuse means. Perhaps there needs to be some education on such. It was totally shocking and disgusting to see.
Is there not a Kiddies Carnival day? As one of our correspondents mention they should be a special section dedicated to the under sixteens; and all adult bands designated section! That way no hangups or vices may be encountered.
Ms. Weekes is on point and I will sign it.
@ Angela Maria- you are correct. But many young women are rushing to get children for every man they see before they study that they want to enjoy their youth and have a life. So the children get dragged in their gutters. Yes, I said "women" because men don't get pregnant and can turn their backs and walk off- as many do -so it's the women who need to stop being ignorant.
The adults who try to outdo each other with nasty simulations of sex should also be arrested for public obscenity. Like the two animals who were all over social media, last year, with her legs sprawled open on his mouth.
I believe such laws already exist and I'm tired of the Cropover stakeholders whitewashing vulgarity as " culture". Keep that in the adult clubs but take it off our streets.
Our children are being assaulted- literally and figuratively- by sexual depravity every day and a lot exists within their own homes.
But many of us still raise our children in a wholesome environment and we have the legal right to NOT be exposed to public pornography. Which I believe is still a crime.
So maybe the next step might be a class- action suit against the organizations and persons that facilitate it.
Let me state for the record -that this is maybe, a noble gesture., that can save your country from degenerating into ugly moral decay, and so hell fire down the road. Before you embark on this escapist , feel good venture, shouldn't you first push to get a 'Little England law 'in place, that would demand that every member of society , is required to have some form of age identifying document, or card on their person? When I was 14 , I was 5 ft 1 or two, and approximately 92Lbs. My present 19 year old son, at 14 years of age , was 6ft plus, and close to 200 1bs. For all sorts of reasons, kids have evolved , and will appear , much older than they really are today. Just keeping it real. We have some opportunistic ,politically driven , neo racist , power mongrels , who felt that T&T present PM ,Dr Keith Rowley, should have been castrated , then shipped back maybe to Liberia , for having the audacity, to wine on this 17 year old, who looked more like 27, going on 32. http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Rowley-wine-under-fire-292395781.html Oh yes, the same pedophiliac miscreants, who have no problem marrying 9 , 12 and 16 year olds, because it is 'dey culture ,' brought over from Mama India, Nepal, and Pakistan. http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,149450.html
I am nauseated by the over indulgence of out of control adults on kabooment day. The sheer magnitude of self abandonment in their dress, gyrations, drunkenness must be looked into. As a society our advances must not only be in science and technology but also in our morals and values. Ms Weeks I support your view.
Why would anyone in their right head want to wukk up on a child?!! Not my child!!
You know there's something very wrong if you even have to state that!
Wunna serious!? Anything goes in dis age.
Stop beating, wukking up on, shouting, ignoring, cussing, exploiting de children.
All is to blame, but none tekking responsibility.
Tell all de night clubs tah stop admitting under 18 into clubs to be encourage in underage drinking & highs. But den again @ 16yrs yah is an adult, yah 'parents' CAN'T do yah nuttin if yah even involve in coitus. Mek $$$ promoters.
well I suggest that you hold the children parade at a different date and time and display your culture. Then the Kids will have their on place and time . Holding a special place to keep the kids is also a great Idea., and keep them off the parade all together.We have Youth Culture Fest here in the Bahamas one month before Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival. face book us at Youth Culture Fest for a view.
@Marcia Weekes!!!!! ""Marcia Weekes of Walk Holy band is calling on the authorities to impose an immediate fine of $500 on any man or woman found to be behaving inappropriately towards a child during the street parade."" Which Planet are you Living on,or are you living in your own LITTLE World??? what you are asking the Government to do is ILLEGAL, you as (I am assuming) an Educated Person, and you SHOULD know at this point in Your Life, how Laws and the Legal System works, there is no LAW on the Books Forbidding this action, and there would have to be an amendment made in PARLIAMENT to ad what you want done to the Law. you should have talked to someone in the Legal Profession before uttering such NONSENSE Publicly.and the Barbados Today probably should have brought this to your attention BEFORE publishing your Gibberish.
Why don't you bring your Concerns to The AG.


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Love the vacation feature, and digest is always a good thing
Ari, outstanding update. It seems you have thought of most everything-- the vacation feature is brilliant. Thanks for your hard work.
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Ari, are the E-mail settings and Digest settings paired in a specific way? I wanted to leave Digest set to "Always" and E-mail to "Never," but after I saved the changes, all of the E-mail buttons showed up as "Auto." Is that supposed to happen? (I tried it a couple of different ways with the same result.)
Aficionada,I am not sure why you were unable to make this change, but I have gone ahead and made it for you. Can you take a look at your new settings and confirm that they are now set up to achieve what you want?Ari
I just now checked, and it looks perfect! Thank you.I think maybe my browser was just tired. Working too hard or something.
I'm having the same problem Ari. It would be great to get a digest rather than individual e-mails but when I change and save the settings it reverts back to auto on the e-mail buttons.
What browser and version are you using?Also, what operating system and version are you using?
Internet Explorer 9 with Windows 7.
Ari, I just got an email notification digest today, and I thought it was awesome. I love it! Thanks
so did I! Love it
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I'll have to try this - thanks for letting us know.
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