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What is the COMPLICATION/CONFLICT/CENTRAL PROBLEM in "Where are You Going, Where Have you Been"?
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A review of Ms. Oates's collection of stories entitle The Wheel of Love, a reviewer for the Virginia Quarterly Review wrote that Oates had certainly achieved her goal "to record and communicate what do seem to be dominant tenors of life today," as shocking as they may be. Indeed, Oates has received much condemnation for the violence in her stories, such as "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" whose title ironically cautions parents to stay involved with their children.
From this prevailing caution to parents to rein their children in from the hypnosis of teen culture with its mesmerizing music that for them "made everything so good," Oates designs a conflict that results directly from lack of parental control. For, throughout her narrative, Oates alludes to this non-involvement of parents. The first example occurs as one of the fathers who drops off the Connie and her friends at the shopping plaza picks them up hours later and "never bothered to ask what they had done." Then, the following day, although Connie has told her mother that she was going to the plaza to watch a film, her mother fails to inquire about this movie. Only her sister June asks how the movie was and is satisfied with Connie's nebulous response, "So-so."
Further, although Connie's mother does address some issues, she and Connie are merely "tugging and struggling over something of little value to either of them." That they "were almost friends" indicates that the mother has exerted no authority over her daughter, a parental authority that provides perimeters of behavior and guidance in thinking. Worse than the mother is Connie's father, who is completely uninvolved in the rearing of his children. Working most of the time, he comes home, eats supper, reads the newspaper, and goes to bed. When he is aware of his daughter, it exits only as a passive person, seated while his wife scolds Connie over him.
Without the guidance of firm parents, Connie has a mind "filled with trashy daydreams and music that she "depend[s] upon." Unarmed with moral guidance from parents, who "never bothered with church," Connie who is alone at home, having been allowed to remain behind as the rest of the family attends a relative's barbeque, falls victim to the malevolent Arnold Friend, disguised as a fellow teen, whose "whole face is a mask." Confronted with an evil of which she has no knowledge, Connie finds herself incapable of interpreting the threats to herself and dealing with them, and unwittingly allows herself to become psychologically dominated by the demonic Friend who ironically asks her,
"Don't you know I'm your friend? Didn't you see me put my sign in the air when you walked by?"
"What sign?"
"My sign" [the sign of the devil]. And he drew an X in the air, leaning out toward her....After her hand fell back to his side the X was still in the air, almost visible.
Without a true identity of her own, one that could have been instilled by active and involved parenting, the problem with Connie is that she is unable to identify the malevolence of Arnold Friend. In this inability, she, thus, becomes terribly vulnerable as she lacks a grounded sense of self generated from having morals and values that would have allowed her to recognize life's perils. In short, Connie is unable to perceive reality through the deception of appearances upon which she has formed her life.


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United make Smalling move
Sky Sports News understands Fulham have accepted a bid from Manchester United for Chris Smalling.
Last Updated: 26/01/10 4:20pm
Sky Sports News understands Fulham have accepted a bid from Manchester United for Chris Smalling.
The 20-year-old defender has become the subject of intense speculation during the January transfer window, with a number of clubs tracking his progress.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, a man renowned for nurturing young talent, had openly expressed his admiration for the talented centre-half.
The Gunners are, however, yet to show their hand, with Wenger favouring a cagey approach in his winter transfer business.
That appears to have opened the door to reigning Premier League champions United, with Sir Alex Ferguson keen to snap up Smalling as a potential star of the future.
The England Under 21 international has made rapid progress since joining Fulham from Maidstone in 2008, and made his first Premier League start against Chelsea on 28th December 2009.
The Cottagers had been keen to fend off interest in the youngster amid mounting speculation, and have not commented on United's reported offer, but they appear to have relented in their efforts to keep Smalling in the capital.
When asked about the bid, a Fulham spokesperson said: "Fulham has no comment to make on speculation surrounding Chris Smalling"

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I just took this pic from the Celebrity thread. What is it?
No, that looks like a vintage bag.
I guess you're right ~ the straps are really long. I love that look.
I agree w/ Mon for that reason too Lu - long straps.
I saw this picture earlier this week and was wondering as well. Thanks Mon!
to the best of my knowlegde it's a vintage... i saw her in person w/ a while back, and noticed the long stappy things too :]
it's odd, from pics and IRL i've seen her w/ a few chanels, but they've all been vintage ones... so i guess she really loves her vintage pieces!!
I've never seen that before so I guess vintage too.
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The character is the inspiration for the Blue Fairy in Disney's adaptation of the story.
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India clinch series after a clean sweep over Zimbabwe
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An all-round performance gave India a comprehensive 83-run victory in the third ODI as Zimbabwe, chasing 277 to win, were bowled out for 93 in 42.4 overs at the Harare Sports Club on Tuesday. The victory also meant that India maintained a clean sheet in the series over the hosts. Kedar Jadhav struck a career-best 105 and Manish Pandey made 71 to take India to a fighting total in the final one-day international of the three-match series.
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India were without the services of their more experienced players like Dhoni, Kohli and Ashwin, the young players who were drafted in place of the seniors shared responsibility under the leadership of Ajinkya Rahane to lead the team to a series victory over the African nation.
India skipper Ajinkya Rahane on Tuesday applauded his team for playing as a unit, saying that every member of the side contributed in the 3-0 whitewash against Zimbabwe in the ODI series."The partnership between Manish (Pandey) and Kedar (Jadhav) was crucial for us. I am very happy for the boys. They were hungry and up for the series. (Ambati) Rayudu got his hundred in the first game, (Murali) Vijay in the second and Kedar here. The bowlers chipped in as well. We played as a team," said Rahane at the post-match presentation ceremony.


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Reasons To Go On A Cleanse
AKA. Why I'm cleansing this week..
I'm on the first day of my Gingersnap's Organic cleanse, this is my very FIRST cleanse where I'm not making all the food myself and I'm beyond excited for this week. I'm in the process of writing my own detox and am savvy enough to put myself on my own sort of cleanse/detox/juice fast (hey, I even wrote a book about how I do it) but there is something quite delightful in having someone else handle all that for you and I was eager to give it a go. Everyone has different reasons for wanting to cleanse, sometimes you're feeling gross from several weeks of eating processed foods, maybe you're feeling sluggish and want to boost your system back in to gear and lots of people go on a cleanse because they want to lose an extra few pounds fast. My reasons are none of the above. I actually eat pretty healthy, feel just fine and have no desire to lose weight.
I'm cleansing mostly for my mind! See, my favorite thing about doing a juice cleanse is the crystal clear focus that comes from it after the first few days. I love that excessive amount of clean energy that just oozes out your pores and makes you feel like you can take on the world. I've decided to do this cleanse to help focus. Writing my first big girl book about my entire lifestyle plan, creating a detox, planning lots of exciting events and handling some personal and family things that have come up have really made my brain mush. I forget dates, sometimes forget emails, and I'm just struggling to finish writing sometimes, to be really honest. Also, I've been under a lot of stress, a break up, family health issues, it's enough to turn even this green juice drinking, meditating body into an acidic danger zone. Even the healthiest of us still release stress hormones that can turn our inner environment acidic, lower our immune system, slow us down and make our skin break out. So it's always a great idea to focus on eating alkaline, organic and nutrient dense food when your world is spinning a little too fast for your own good, but you know what's even better?! Having an amazing place like Gingersnap's handle it all for you so that you can have one less thing to worry about and know that you're in good hands getting the nutrients your body needs to function at it's best. As someone who makes food all the time for my blog and for various cooking videos and appearances, it's such a pleasure to have it all come to me for a change and be able to focus on my life and my work instead of worrying about what I'm making for dinner, or what I'm juicing for the day.
Of course, the other reasons for cleansing are also very valid so I don't want to completely skip over them. Going on a cleanse is a great way to get back into the habit of healthy eating when you feel you've fallen off track for a few weeks, it puts you on a strict regimen so it's a lot easier to avoid temptations that pop up and remind you of how amazing you can feel when you are treating your body right. I highly recommend it to my clients who are struggling with gaining motivation to make some serious changes. It's also a great way to rev your body up if you've been feeling sluggish because chances are you're feeling sluggish because you're not getting enough nutrients in your diet or you've let stress bog you down and need a nice healthy rush to re-calibrate you. While I never recommend trying to do something drastic to lose weight quick, if you need to drop a few pounds for a special occasion, going on a cleanse is a great way to accomplish that by flooding your system with glorious good for you foods or juices and NOT depriving yourself! Plus, instead of feeding unhealthy behaviors like some crazy get skinny quick schemes do, going on a vegan, raw, organic juice or meal cleanse will actually influence you to start putting healthier, good for you foods into your body when you've finished.
Why did I choose Gingersnap's Organic out of all the juice spots in NYC?
Gingersnap's Organic is a raw, vegan, organic cafe in the East Village that makes all of it's cleanses (and juices or food you can purchase) on site. I love that I know where my juice is being made and I can trust that it's the freshest possible because it's not being carted on a truck from a warehouse somewhere in Queens or Brooklyn. I also know that the juices are made as a whole, in other words if there's a juice with kale, cucumber, pear and lemon, it's being made all at once and there isn't a massive container of kale juice, a massive container of cucumber juice, etc, that's being mixed together to make my juice. This may seem a little crazy but there are actually some well-known juice spots that do this sort of mixing. The reason why that's not so fabulous for your juice quality is that when they are mixing batches of juice like that you could be drinking kale from 3 days ago, cucumber from this morning and lemon from yesterday. Not an ideal situation. You should always be stickler about your juice, and even more so on a cleanse where you are drinking a lot of it. NEVER drink juice that's not made with organic fruits and vegetables, you do not want all the nasty chemicals, hormones and antibiotics that can be found on non-organic produce inside your body. Also, never ever cleanse with pasteurized juice, look for cold pressed or high pressured processing like they do at Gingersnap's.
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November 2016 - Regal Princess to Caribbean - Eastern
Cruising on the Regal Princess
Princess raised the bar for cruising with the Regal. Best cruise We ever had.
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Tokyo Commodity Exchange deeply regrets the inconvenience to market participants and concerned parties fromthe disruption to trading on November 1, 2011.
An investigation conducted by the Exchange has determined that the problem resulted from the following cause:
1. Occurrence of Disruption
At 7:07 p.m. on November 1, 2011, the Exchange discovered a defect bid/ask price indications for the Gold Standard, October 2012 contract. At 19:17 JST, in accordance with Exchange business rules, Gold Standard, Gold Mini and Gold Options contracts were halted.
At 8:45 p.m. on the same day, the Exchange decided not to resume trade for the affected contracts, as the source of the problem could not be identified and solution was not at hand.
Having gained confidence in the provisional coping (see Item 3 below), the Exchange commenced the day session at 9:00 a.m. JST on November 2 as usual.
2. Cause of the Problem
The results of the investigation found that the defect was caused by a software problem related to indicative price generation.
3. Solutions
The Exchange has applied a provisional process through which it monitors indicative prices to detect and solve problems manually. Since the close of night session in the morning of November 2 the process has run successfully.
In the future, the Exchange plans to implement a corrected program. This is to be provided by its supplier, and will be implemented to the production environment after having performed sufficient verification tests.
Tokyo Commodity Exchange continues to develop more stable marketplace while making every effort toensurethese events will not reoccur. Your continued understanding and support is highly appreciated.


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The federal government would spend Rs 1.4 billion on providing scholarships to talented students of FATA.
Sources of FATA secretariat informed while speaking in a government-run radio programme that students from Class V to Class XII are being provided regular scholarships so that they could continue their education.
More than 3,000 tribal students are benefiting from this programme, they added.


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- Calories213
- Carbohydrates13 g(4%)
- Fat16 g(25%)
- Protein6 g(12%)
- Saturated Fat3 g(15%)
- Sodium667 mg(28%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber3 g(13%)
- Monounsaturated Fat10 g
- Cholesterol68 mg(23%)


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MOTHERWELL climbed over St Mirren and out of the play-off position with this hard-fought victory at Fir Park. It ended a sequence of six successive defeats and strengthened the case for interim manager Kenny Black to be handed the job on a permanent basis. Black has not applied for the position but has refused to rule himself out of the running and this success will have done his cause no harm.
Scorer: Motherwell - Vigurs (52)
Win boosts Black's job prospects Unusually, the match programme gave up two pages to an emotional farewell note to the supporters from the previous incumbent, Stuart McCall, and no-one will have been happier to see the Lanarkshire club climb the table than the Scotland coach.
This was a chance for United to stretch their lead at the top of the table and exert pressure on the chasing pack. Instead, both Hamilton Accies and Celtic can now overtake them this weekend.
It was all change on the park, too, with Craig Reid and Mark O'Brien replacing Steven Hammell and Zaine Francis-Angol from the side which had lost 2-1 to St Johnstone seven days earlier.
United manager Jackie McNamara, meanwhile, took a red pen through his starting line-up, even though they had beaten St Mirren 3-0. He made six alterations, with John Souttar, John Rankin, Stuart Armstrong, Chris Erskine, Ryan Dow and Blair Spittal coming in for Sean Dillon, Callum Morris, Charlie Telfer, Calum Butcher, Nadir Ciftci and Mario Bilate.
While the hosts toiled to gain a semblance of fluency, O'Brien collected the first yellow card of the evening for an overly robust tackle on Paul Paton while Stephen McManus did well to slide in and deflect a netbound drive by Ryan Dow after the forward had latched on to a through ball by Chris Erskine.
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As United possessed a poise and purpose their rivals could only aspire to, Conor Townsend was next to threaten, but McManus once again put his body on the line to block the full-back's venomous volley from Spittal's cross. The home side took half an hour to conjure up an opening but when they did Iain Vigurs spooned a shot over from 15 yards, although Henrik Ojamaa ought to have shot himself from a better position rather than pass the buck.
United had fallen away after their promising start but increased the tempo again and Spittal ought to have broken the deadlock in the 35th minute. However, sent clear by Connolly, he dragged his shot wide of Dan Twardzik's left-hand post. The goalkeeper then did well to beat away a full-blooded 20-yarder by Erskine and made an even better save to deny Connolly, leaning back to turn the ball over after the striker's shot had ricocheted off Lasley.
McManus was then cautioned for a cynical foul on Dow but it helped the Steelmen reach the interval on level terms. Remarkably, however, the game was turned on its head after the restart. Radoslaw Cierzniak fumbled a shot by Craig Reid but, with the goal gaping, Lionel Ainsworth hammered the rebound off the post from inside the six-yard box.
Fortunately for the winger, his gaffe was forgotten three minutes later when Lasley released Vigurs on the left. His low, angled drive from 12 yards was accurate enough but Cierzniak got a hand to it and will feel he should have kept it out.
With United reeling from that unexpected setback, Ainsworth did manage to put the ball in the net from a Lasley through ball but he was denied by the tightest of offside decisions.
Jaroslaw Fojut and Ojamaa were both booked for an altercation off the ball, although the former had appeared to be the aggressor in this instance.
The Estonian sought retribution in the best possible way and his curling shot from the far corner of the penalty area was inches away. It then required a perfectly-timed last-ditch lunge by Conor Townsend to nick the ball away from Ainsworth as he was about to pull the trigger. The full-back, on loan from Hull City, squandered United's best opening, heading over an inviting cross by Nadir Ciftci as Motherwell notched their first home win since the opening day of the campaign.
Motherwell: Twardzik; Kerr, O'Brien, McManus, Reid; Ainsworth (Law 76), Lasley, Ramsden, Vigurs, Ojamaa, Sutton. Subs: Neilsen, Carswell, Lawson, McHugh, Francis-Angol, Moore. Booked: O'Brien, McManus, Ojamaa.
Dundee United: Cierzniak; Paton, Souttar (Morris 77), Fojut, Townsend; Erskine, Armstrong, Rankin, Spittal (Mackay-Steven 59); Dow, Connolly (Ciftci 59). Subs: Szromnik, Dillon, Butcher, Telfer. Booked: Fojut, Paton.
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Gangtok, Jan. 5: Sikkim polices prize catch Dhiren Boro has revealed that the National Democratic Front of Borloland (NDFB) was keen on talks with the Indian government.
Police sources said Boro, the NDFB vice-president who was arrested from his hideout here on new years day, had disclosed during questioning that the outfit was looking for a mediator for opening a dialogue with the Tarun Gogoi government in Assam and the Centre.
The Bodo top gun was arrested along with his wife Pratima Boro and two associates, Babloo Sargari and Praveen Boro, at a rented flat in the flour mill area of Tadong. They had been staying there for the past one year under false identities. Boro was booked under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Police had recovered explosive material and two live grenades from the flat. On January 2, the four were produced before the district and sessions court at Gangtok, which has been designated to try Pota cases. The court remanded them in police custody for 12 days.
Boro, considered to be a part of the NDFB think-tank and one of the earliest recruits to join the outfit, told the police that he did his initial training under the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN).


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After you see the main tourist attractions in Prague such as Charles Bridge, St Vitus Cathedral, Astronomical Clock on the Old Town Square you probably want to see more places but your tourist guide forgot to mention those. There are plenty of activities and places to see in Prague other than the main ones mentioned previously. I'm not going to rewrite tourist guides but I would like you to consider some which are not that well known or are sometimes forgotten.
St. James Church (Kostel Sv Jakuba) – Sunday mass
This Church is near the Old Town Square, has great acoustics which make it one of the finest places for a classical music concert. The Choral works and music during Sunday mass is a must. If you are visiting during colder days, make sure you dress warm. It gets rather cold inside. Also, notice the desiccated human hand hanging to the right of the entrance. It is genuine.
This place is a bit out of the way so it's not often visited but well worth the effort. It is situated close to the city center on a high rock above the river Vltava. It offers great views over parts of Prague. Vyšehrad castle was build in 10th century. Situated within the castle is the church of St.Peter and St.Paul. There are manicured gardens great for a picnic. Not many places in Prague are as green and quiet. To get there just take the metro and then there is a nice walk for you.
Petřín Hill Observatory
The Petřín Hill Observatory is a copy of Paris's Eiffel Tower. It's not much to look at but it will give you great panoramic views of Prague. Petřín Tower is located in Petřín Park which also has a mirror labyrinth.