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Mossel Bay is considered by many to be the westernmost extent of the "real" Garden Route. It's a rather sprawling town, with a natural gas refinery and huge storage tanks on the outskirts so its approach is not particularly attractive. However, it has some of the most wonderful beaches that are, incidentally, among the sunniest in South Africa as they are north-facing.
There are also some lovely old buildings and a fabulous museum, which focuses mainly on the 15th Century Portuguese exploration of South Africa. There is a full size replica of the boat in which Bartholomeu Dias sailed to the Cape. And it's not just a model – it was sailed from Portugal in 1988.
A tree in the grounds of the museum is the site of South Africa's first "post office".
In the 15th Century homesick sailors left some letters in an old boot under the tree in the hope that they'd be found and taken back to Portugal. They were!
Mossel Bay has some fantastic activities on offer. You can ride a horse along the beach, the diving is good and the surfing is spectacular. There is boat-based whale and dolphin watching and a shark cage diving operation that has one major advantage over the better known ones in Gansbaai in that it has exclusivity in the bay. It's still a rather controversial operation, though. The Gouritz River Bridge, where you can do a bungy jump or a bridge swing is close to the town.
The Oyster Catcher Trail, which is portaged and catered, starts in Mossel Bay. It's a great trip; you walk along the beach and rocky coastline, carrying only a day pack,
sleep in lovely comfy cottages and get fed copious amounts of yummy food, usually including oysters, fresh line fish and other sea food.
Mossel Bay is a great beach destination – but it's no secret. This means that – in peak season – the beaches are crowded with families and you may need to carefully weave your way between flying frisbees, crying toddlers, frazzled fathers, moody mothers and flocks of frenetic teenagers.
Beautiful - I have been on lots of seaside holidays, but Dana Bay is in a different class. I am considering buying property in Dana Bay. This is a peace of heaven.
A real relaxed town - Enjoyed every moment. Had some of the best Fish and Seafood at the VIking Restaurant.
Mossel Bay is so clean! - Before we decided to have a holiday in Mossel Bay, a friend commented that it was 'so clean'. Absolutely true. Even though the Buffalo Rally was on while we were there, everything was well controlled. And the day after some 3000 bikers had left, the campsite was spotless again. The city is so well-kept, it is a real example for us in Gauteng where litter is the order of the day. Santos Beach doesn't have waves so is great for 'exercise swimming'; however, Dias Beach, just up the road does have great waves. All in all a great holiday!
Best kept secret - Beautiful scenery, range of good accommodation, excellent restaurants, wonderful beaches, interesting shops. Also an ideal base from which to explore the klein karoo and numerous mountain passes.
Small town outside Mossel Bay - If you want to be outside Mossel Bay to enjoy the peace and tranquil surroundings then stay in Dana bay and explore around it
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Rui Huang was born in Shenzhen, China and trained at the Shenzhen Arts School. She joined The National Ballet of Canada as a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2011.
Ms. Huang's repertoire with the National Ballet includes Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, La Fille mal gardée, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Seagull, The Four Seasons, Emergence and Elite Syncopations. Recently,Ms. Huang danced in the Canadian premiere of Nijinsky by John Neumeier.
Ms. Huang's repertoire with other companies includes Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Carmen, Le Corsaire, The Four Temperaments, Rooster and In The Upper Room.
Ms. Huang won the Bronze Medal at the World Ballet Competition in 2009 in Orlando and was a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne in 2005, won the Outstanding Performance Award at The Third CCTV Dance Competition in China in 2005 and won third place at The Ninth Asian Pacific International Ballet Competition and first place at The Seventh National Ballet Competition of China in 2003.
The Nutcracker "Huang buzzed around, mostly in the air, with lovely, high jumps. She's another to watch." The Globe and Mail, 2013
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Classic French cooking with an American twist is the offering at this charming second floor bistro that overlooks Market Square. First courses include lobster bisque and tuna tartare. Select entrees of striped bass with Swiss chard, Berkshire pork rack with potato hash or the classic coq au vin. Or choose a four- or six-course tasting menu. $$$ Lunch Tues.-Fri.; dinner Tues.-Sat.
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Come for the authentic French food in this downtown Evanston that places an emphasis on locally sourced ingredients. Begin with steak tartare or pan-fried Delaware Bay oysters. Entrees include classics such steak pommes frites and bouilbaisse. Finish off your meal with a selection from the cheese plate. The bistro offers a wide selection of reasonably priced French wines. Dinner daily; brunch Sun.
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Owners Carlos and Debbie Nieto place a slice of French country bistro heaven in Highland Park's downtown area with this charming storefront café. Diners sit at cozy white linen-covered tables to dine on Burgundy escargot, braised lamb shank, risotto of the day and roasted chicken seasoned with herbes de Provence. $$ Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat.; dinner Sun.
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Frank & Betsie's combines a sunny California-influenced cuisine with a French accent. The menu changes daily and seasonally in this warm and inviting spot. Recent selections included paté a la maison, grilled mahi mahi, and steak frites with a rich bordelaise sauce. $$ Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat.
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We Breakdown Moffat's "Five Hints"
Of all of the conversations at last week's San Diego Comic-Con International, Digital Spy's chat with Steven Moffat promised to be the most interesting, promoted as it was as some sort of "loose lipped confession" about the future of Doctor Who.
What absolute twaddle.
Instead, it's the same old lies and obfuscation that you would expect, with the massive website (famously shy of attributing links to its sources in many cases) giving the impression that the words spoken by Moffat in the video below are brand new.
They're not.
We've put together this breakdown of "Steven Moffat's 5 hints about the 12th Doctor" both to let you view the video and to demonstrate how the Moff continues to pull the wool over everyone's eyes…
1. The search has barely begun for the 12th Doctor…
Says Steven Moffat:
You don't really want to be doing [searching for a new Doctor] while the media furore is going on. You kind of want to sit tight while that's going on and think, 'Alright, we'll get to it in a bit!'
Says Kasterborous: utter tripe. Even if Moffat didn't have a reputation as a fibber, we wouldn't believe this. The fact is, the search started months ago…
2. Older Doctors *are* being considered…
Says Steven Moffat:
We've never not considered an older Doctor. It is completely on all the lists we make – there are absolutely older Doctors.
Says Kasterborous: Other than slightly contradicting himself on the previous point, this is good news. The idea that Doctor Who is physically demanding on the main actor even supports the idea of casting an older Doctor alongside a handy, young male companion (or perhaps a female duo, or even a Silurian and a woman…) who can take all of the action stuff on. But then, let's be honest: Jon Pertwee was 50 when he started shooting his first scenes as the Doctor in 1969 – and he was the most action-oriented Doctor of them all!
3. Vastra, Jenny and Strax will be back…
Says Steven Moffat:
Vastra, Jenny and Strax are all enormously popular characters, and we've got Clara still continuing, [that] allows us to do [the regeneration] in a very different way from the way that we did it in 'The Eleventh Hour'.
Says Kasterborous: perhaps this will be more along the lines of the Tenth Doctor's "failed" regeneration from The Stolen Earth/Journey's End?
4. The new Doctor could be very different indeed…
Says Steven Moffat:
You can push that [new] Doctor a bit further, maybe, if you've got a familiar world around him.
Says Kasterborous: don't expect a woman. On the other hand, don't overlook a Doctor-lite episode, perhaps similar to The Christmas Invasion…
5. Doctor Who Series 8 is well underway…
Says Steven Moffat:
The scripts [are] coming in, we know what we're going to do and how it's going to end, and what it's building to.
Says Kasterborous: this is nothing new – we've already heard that Chris Chibnall has been involved at some stage, and planning for the series has been going on for months.
All in all, we've really learned nothing beyond what Moffat has in mind for the regeneration episode…
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If Moffat would leave the running of Sherlock to Mark Gattis & Mrs Moffat and concentrate on Doctor Who we might just get a series made in time. I agree though, the search for Dr no.12 has been ongoing for a while now, But I still think they will go for a younger actor,
1. Certainly not true – while I am willing to believe that the search is ongoing and they have yet to sign an actor(actress) it is nonsense to suggest they aren't even looking.
2. I would much prefer an older actor – and would suggest it is incredibly ageist to suggest that we can't have one because of the "workload" and "action" orientation of the series. They don't seem to have this problem in the USA I notice – when William Peterson left CSI the automatic reaction was not to cast a 26 year old…
3. Wouldn't read to much into this – I think he means that, as in the old series, where new Doctors would traditionally have a first story featuring old elements to help ease the viewer into the new era so we now have regular characters that can help bolster the new Doctor. The 10th Dr regenerated on his own, so Moffat had to build the story with not just a new Dr but new companions. Now he can have Clara, and maybe other characters, who can appear in his first story (Vastra and co being amongst these).
4. The Xmas Invasion, which had Rose and her Mum, was effectively Doctor-lite – he spends most of the time in bed. I never felt this worked particularly well, but it could be one way Moffat could proceed.
5. If the scripts are coming in,I wonder how they are writing the Doctor's new character? If they write it as a Smith like Dr and they cast a 70 year old who has to be pushed about in his wheelchair by Clara it will need a lot of rewriting! Which suggests to me that he has already given them a good idea of how the new Doctor will behave (like the old one…)
As always, the above in just IMHO.
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Man who doesn't dial 911 loses home to inferno9-1-1 in the News, Calls | Caitlin | January 14, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Stephen Forthman shoots first and asks questions later. He wears a shirt proudly displaying the words "I don't dial 911″ next to a picture of a hand gripping a sixshooter. When it comes time to contact local emergency services for assistance, he'd rather just shoot at the problem until it goes away – even when the problem is his own home being on fire.
No injuries were reported in a large structural house fire in North Knoxville at Forthman's residence on Whittle Springs Road yesterday.
Knoxville firefighters were alerted by neighbors at 2:15 p.m. of smoke at the residence, according to Knoxville Fire Department spokesman Capt. John Nickleton. The Knoxville Fire Department responded to an initial report of heavy smoke coming from the garage, and of a large bearded man in the front yard screaming and shooting into the house.
"At first I didn't even notice the fire," said neighbor Tricia Perkinson. "I heard gunshots coming from across the street. When I looked outside, I saw Steve in his front yard waving a gun at the house. He was yelling obscenities and just shooting. He was saying, 'You better get out of here you bleeping bleep.' I thought he had lost his mind. Then I saw the smoke."
"When we arrived at the scene, the house was completely engulfed in flames," said firefighter Daniel Cummings. "Outside, the homeowner was shouting and firing a semiautomatic pistol into the fire."
Firefighters were able to contain the flames to the Forthman residence, but the massive fire gutted the two-story home. Police were called to restrain Forthman, who had to be disarmed and handcuffed before he would stop shooting at the blaze.
Fire investigators are expected to return to the scene today to determine the fire's cause.
This isn't the first time Forthman has refused to dial 911. In 2004, Forthman tried to shoot himself in the torso after having chest pains. His brother-in-law wrestled a rifle away from Forthman and called an ambulance.


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Specially designed for the Chinese market, luxury luggage manufacturer Tumi has teamed up with MINI to make two "MINI Goes Tumi" models. The unique MINI concepts are coated in different paint schemes, Alpha (black) for one and Alpha Brave (Hunter Green) for the other, with contrasting highlights on the exterior. The rest of the cars are also inspired by Tumi colors, from the tires to the grille to the trunk lid.
The majority of the upgrades are, however, on the interior, with custom Tumi fabrics and a matching set of luggage created exclusively for each vehicle. One car features an orange and black combination while the other sports a black and red variant.
Both are set to go on tour this year as MINI looks to team up with new partners on other special edition models.
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Hello there, it's been a while!
Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a fantastic thursday evening, I'm so sorry that I have been MIA on the blog recently! I took a little break to get a few things figured out and I have some exciting news!
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Ok no I'm not engaged yet…
(I WISH that was the news) but I AM starting a new blog! I am in the process of finalizing the web design and it should be up and running very soon! So look for that announcement in the next few weeks! I am excited for this new step. The blog's main purpose will still be 90% wedding inspiration, but the other 10% will be a mix of style inspiration, love stories, and other pretty, happy, feels-so-good-it-knocks-your-socks-off content that you are sure to enjoy.
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Elsewhere, the headline from yesterday's referendum results reads "Oregon passes tax boost on wealthy, corporations." But there's no such thing as a tax on corporations, and states that pass taxes on the wealthy soon find themselves with fewer wealthy people.
There's no such thing as a tax on corporations because the money has to come out of someone's pocket: from shareholders in the form of lower returns, from employees in the form of lower wages, or from customers in the form of higher prices. Liberals seem to think it's OK for shareholders to lose money, ignoring the ripple effects on investment, and to fantasize that employees and customers won't get stuck with the bill, ignoring reality.
The most egregious part of the new law is that Oregon will now tax companies based on their revenues in the state even if they don't make a profit. The state will tax residents earning $125,000 a year at rates that even tax-happy California reserves for millionaires.
Oregon already was not what you would call a low-tax state. Even before Tuesday's vote it had the 15th-highest corporate tax rate in the U.S., which is the same thing as the 15th-highest corporate tax rate in the world, as well as one of the highest individual income tax rates.
On the other hand, maybe Oregonians are tired of all those Californians moving northward to escape their own high taxes.
Keep all of this in mind the next time someone suggests that Atlanta should view Portland as some kind of model.
January 27th, 2010
4:44 pm
Oregon's nonpartisan Legislative Revenue Office says that after the passage of the two tax measures:
2/3 of the states have a higher individual tax burden than Oregon
90% of the states have a higher corporate tax burden than Oregon
January 27th, 2010
4:48 pm
Are you serious how would one define "wealthy people" Walmart pledged $600,000 dollars for Haiti. The Waltons are worth 81.8 Billion
If they Pledge $6 million everyday for the next two years their worth would drop to $79.8 billion.
The Walton family income is about $1 billion per year and they spent at least $3.2 million lobbying for a lower tax rate, and all they have to do is support a communist regime and exploit child labor laws.
January 27th, 2010
5:12 pm
I am stunned at how naive you really are. Have you been to Portland? I have. I also lived in the infrastructure hell that is Atlanta for 4 years. You need to apply for a job a the WSJ if you want to continue to parrot corporate scare tactics that have been trite since the 80's. I am from the South and we all know trickle down turns to trickle on pretty fast. Check out how many people in the fortune 500 really made it on their own. Generational wealth is why we left England and here we are again.
January 27th, 2010
5:23 pm
I'm a corporate tax accountant, and I say there's no such thing as a political blog.
Just think how much more expensive things would be for corporations if thier state governments hadn't used tax revenues to provide all of the costly infrastructure that corporations freely enjoy. Roads, airports, police/fire protection, the court system, etc.
It's a fact that a lot of states are considering a migration to tax on revenues/gross profits, rather than on net income. All that much-used infrastructure ain't gonna pay for itself.
January 27th, 2010
5:47 pm
"I'm a corporate tax accountant, and I say there's no such thing as a political blog."
Then why the hell are you on this blog?
January 27th, 2010
5:52 pm
*weep* *sniff*
'Cause… 'cause… corporate tax accountants are people too and we have voices just like everybody else!!!!
That, and I hate tax myths.
Don't worry your pretty little head, LA. It's past 5pm and quittin' time. I'll blog if I want to.
January 27th, 2010
5:52 pm
It's annoying to me when businesspeople, especially multimillionaires or billionaires, complain about their taxes or talk about wanting to keep "my" money. They completely ignore their employees (who pay a higher % of their income in taxes, ask Warren Buffett). As Professional Skeptic noted, there's an infrastructure network that has to be maintained in order for businesses to thrive. Infrastructure is paid for by taxpayers. Also, it's false that tax cuts for the wealthy spur job creation. Some wealthy people will take the money they save in taxes to put in investments to make more money for themselves, not to create jobs. An example would be manufacturing companies that closed factories in the U.S. and moved them to Mexico and overseas after Ronald Reagan cut the top tax rate in half (in 1981). While business owners made a killing in the 1980's, their employees salaries didn't grow as much as in previous decades. It was the very defintion of "trickle down" economics. It's been a disaster for most Americans, but many people, including many working-class Southerners, still don't realize it.
January 27th, 2010
6:21 pm
"Don't worry your pretty little head, LA. It's past 5pm and quittin' time. I'll blog if I want to."
I thought I smelled feces. What's up skeptic?
January 27th, 2010
6:22 pm
professional sceptic tank, how's life on Bookman's pc blog?
January 27th, 2010
6:56 pm
Don't know. Haven't had much of a chance to look today.
If you'd care to debate the merits of Kyle's topic, I'd be glad to discuss. However, I will not waste further time exchanging the kinds of childish, off-topic barbs that got you banned from Bookman's blog.
Congratulations, by the way, for voilating Kyle's blog rule #2 in your 6:22 post. Guess you're just making the rounds, trying to get banned everywhere. Doesn't make sense to me, but to each his own.
This concludes my second and final off-topic post.
January 27th, 2010
7:06 pm
"However, I will not waste further time exchanging the kinds of childish, off-topic barbs that got you banned from Bookman's blog."
Oh I'm just messing with you.
January 27th, 2010
8:50 pm
The argument that "there's no such thing as a tax on corporations" shows a profound ignorance of how economics work, and even an ignorance of basic conservative economic theory.
According to conservative economic theory, the only duty of corporations is to maximize profits for their shareholders. In order to do that, they must be charging the optimal price for their products–if they charge more, the loss in sales will more than offset the gain in profit per unit sold.
Raising taxes doesn't change that basic equation. Increased taxes on corporations cost shareholders, not consumers.
January 27th, 2010
9:05 pm
Michael Hagmeier
I agree with your basic point but very few stocks pay dividends anymore, so in a lot of cases the shareholders don't benefit either unless the stock price gets pumped up to where they can sell. The CEO's and the Board members are the ones that are raking it in. They make things look good in the short term and cash out. There's not much long term view anymore since Wall Street has basically become a big casino. You're right in that they already are charging all for their product that the market will bear.
January 27th, 2010
9:07 pm
The tax on $125,000 is if you are filing individually, otherwise the tax is on $250,000 if you are filing jointly. Just wanted to clear that up.
January 27th, 2010
11:43 pm
Liberals seem to think it's OK for shareholders to lose money, ignoring the ripple effects on investment, and to fantasize that employees and customers won't get stuck with the bill, ignoring reality.
Well I declare Kyle, I do believe that statement needs a little something. Give me a minute, I'm thinking….
Oh, here it is…
Liberals, CEO's and certain members of corporations seem to think it's OK for shareholders to lose money, ignoring the ripple effects on investment, and
to fantasize that employees and customers won't get stuck with the bill, ignoring reality.
Yeah, were is our fat cat bonus?
January 28th, 2010
8:52 am
Hey Robert Beal, nice post. But Kyle isn't interested in facts. Oregon also doesn't have sales tax or property taxes on vehicles, but Kyle will never factor that stuff in.
In Kyle's world, its only corporate profits and shareholders that matter. Kinda of like the Teabaggers, if you don't have a job with health insurance, you have three options: get a job with health insurance; go into poverty while paying your health care costs; or die.
Life is so simple.
January 28th, 2010
8:52 am
Liberals, CEO's and certain members of corporations seem to think it's OK for shareholders to lose money>/i>
I thought the rationale for profit was that investors are risking their money. Now you're saying they need to be guaranteed not to lose money? So they aren't risking anything? Wow!
January 28th, 2010
12:23 pm
Nice dig Kyle. To be quite honest, I became a tax accountant because I saw my parents with liberal arts degrees get laid off in the '90s. I was interested in a career with a predictable measure of job security. If corporate taxes ever go away, I'll switch my focus to combat corporate/government financial fraud, which I consider to be another constant along with death and taxes.
From my perspective, state tax is just another expense to be managed, like utilities expense or wages. In fact, you might as well pen an article on those darn electric bills that corporations have to pay, and by golly, if corporations didn't have to pay to keep those dadgum lights on, just think about how much less they could charge their customers, or how much more their employees could get paid, or much more their shareholders would pocket.
But taking electricity out of the picture would quickly lead to a situation in which nobody — not the customers, not the employees, not the sharedholders — would get anything at all. I argue that the same would be true if corporations suddenly lost all access to taxpayer-funded public services and infrastructure.
Ok, fine… if we remove corporations' share of the tax burden and stick the whole bill to the middle class, then American consumers would have less disposable income available for the products and services the corporations sell. Alternatively, if we eliminate corporate taxes and make up the difference via borrowing without ever intending to pay it back, China will eventually come take us over.
Me? I'd rather see us "pay as we go" and stay a free country.
Good discussion… but now I've used half my lunch our, so I've got to run…
January 28th, 2010
3:51 pm
It has always and will always be very easy to vote for others to loose money, that is the new American way.
You have it and I want it, so I give uncle sugar permission to go get it.
No wonder we now live in a get rich quick litigious society.
January 28th, 2010
8:45 pm
Hmm, I'll try this again.
Kyle, my comment was directed toward Michael H. Smith's ridiculous statement attacking liberals for thinking "it's OK for shareholders to lose money." Perhaps you should direct your snide comments for those on your side who are actually making ridiculous statements.
January 29th, 2010
12:01 am
Perhaps this time I'll actually be able to post my comment.
Kyle, perhaps you needed to read my comment a little more closely–I was commenting on Michael H. Smith's comment where he clearly implies that shareholders should be guaranteed not to lose money. If you'd have read my comment closely, you would have noticed that I actually quoted the words that had that implication.
January 29th, 2010
8:04 pm
"Liberals, CEO's and certain members of corporations seem to think it's OK for shareholders to lose money"
Yes, of course it's OK for shareholders to lose money–that's why it's called risk.
The implication in Michael H. Smith's comment is that's it's not "OK" for investors to lose money. That is, they should be guaranteed not to lose money.
January 29th, 2010
9:57 pm
Yes, Oregon may have the highest income tax in the US, but Oregon also has NO sales tax, unlike 43 other states. The state general fund depends on the income tax for more than 70% of it's revenue.
January 30th, 2010
11:11 am
We also raised the corporate minimum tax from $10 to a whopping $150. That's not going to be putting companies out of business.


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Professor Grajeda was great. She was very thorough in class and provided a lot of helpful study material online. She really cares about her students. I would take any other classes she teaches.
Overall an easy class. A lot of materials to read which I often found to be inappropriate, such as an old playboy magazine article, or a poem about how to get with girls of certain races. You don't really learn much at all about composition. She claims to be accepting but look out if you disagree with her.
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It was very unclear when things were due. I found most of the literature that she had us read was extremely inappropriate for a class room setting. The discussions were interesting, thought inappropriate at times. For someone who claims to be very accepting of other people's beliefs, she sure is one opinionated person.
She provides weekly packs instead of a textbook. They were easy to understand and follow. The online work could have been better organized but she warned the class that this was her first time teaching an online course so kinda expected. She helped me by email when I was lost which was a real plus. Overall pretty painless for an english class.
Talk about information overload! Way too much info to print out! She was unorganized and was gone out of town twice during our semester and unreachable! I dreaded everyday and did not enjoy it at all! Took too long to get essay grades as well!
Professor G inspired me to want to be a teacher. She is by far the BEST professor I have had and will ever have!
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Class was very disorganized. Never have a clear understanding of what is due. She posts all reading into a .docx file which could be printed for 30$. Supposed to be 3 essays and class discussions for overall grade however for class she missed 2 weeks and made 1 essay/disscusions worth 50%. Makes you thinking about literature, and hard grader.
She is an awesome teacher. She is willing to work with you and help you in what you need. You dont use a textbook. You just write 4 Essays in the whole class, nothing else. No Tests!She is very interesting and funny/sarcastic. Her class is not stressful.
Looks your typical literature type, but you come to know otherwise pretty quick. In class discussions (like 20% of the grade), she adds twist to make you think outside the box. Not in a pushy way though. She actually wants you to think on your own. Just be able to back up what you say. No textbook-creates her own. $30+ to print. And always helpful.
Professor G is one of my favorite professors. I took her for ENC 1101 and 1102. Final grades are based off of four essays, class participation, and one or two quizzes. She is very helpful and easy to talk to if you are confused about an essay and have questions. Do the readings, formulate your own opinions, and participate in discussions= A.
Crazy literature and a lot of hip hop and a funny prof = good class.
She infuses great examples with the use of pop culture. Essays tend to take the majority of your grade up, but also make sure to keep up on the readings. She's interested in your thoughts in class discussion. Go to her for help on essays, she helps you structure them and pay attention to her comments! Easy class if you use your thoughts and try.
She's pretty cool. Most people get confused with how to do her assignments and what's due. Make sure you always pay attention and always in class. Other than that she's pretty chill and relates to her students. You should take her class.
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Kunikenwad! said...
Ruh roh ... incoming nerdrage concerning SWTOR. I've never really understood how some (and I do mean some, not all) WoW players and SWTOR players can never get along. Can't their be two big MMOs out at the same time and both be financially successful?
DBriggs304 said...
"Can't their be two big MMOs out at the same time and both be financially successful?"
In a perfect world...yes. In the real world...No, Absolutely Not, and negative!
WoW fanboys will always have it out for anyone out there trying to compete with WoW and any other MMO fanboys will want nothing but WoW's destruction. Just the way it is. Blizzard has been winning the battle for years though. Warhammer, Aion, Final Fantasy, AOC, and yes...even Rift have all fallen to Wow when everyone was going on and on about them being the 'WoW Killer'. However, SW:TOR is the ONLY one that may actually do it AND has the deep pockets to withstand the first turbulent six months to a year that every new MMO has to go through until it gets it's footing. Would be nice if everyone could play nice, but I don't see that happening.
CrimsonKing said...
@ DBriggs304: WoW killer is such a horrible buzz word. It should honestly just be struck from the vocab of the MMO community. Also saying that games are failures or have fallen just because they didn't live up to the horrible buzz word of "WoW killer" is equally as bad and stupid. If a game is running and making a profit for their respective companies then that is a success. There are reasons why people make up a top 10 MMO list after all and that is because multiple MMOs can and do run simultaneously while being financially successful it just happens to be that WoW is at the top of the list, it doesn't mean it's the only successful MMO though.


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A day after du, one of UAE's two telecom operators, said in a media statement that it will begin retailing iPhone 5-compatible nano-SIM cards from Wednesday, etisalat, the older operator, has stolen its thunder by claiming that the nano-SIMs have been available in its stores since October 1.
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We see Captain Do Gooder catching second wind.
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Captain Do Gooder feels strong, as bruised knees and scraped hands heal.
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The next generation have no fear digest writes the next chapter.
Hold the press down firmly wall street backbiting backbenchers. Drawn into the crossfire, on her mark, place the x on the next general who dares not fall into civil disobedience.
Captain Do Gooder has grown teeth, and she is biting down hard against the line to pipe riches, spoiled from her lands. Stolen from the first pilgrimage, fifteen thousand years old, lost empire.
How dare you steal from, and pollute the minds of her children. Yet old enough to drink and drug and die in war. How dare all of us.
Meanwhile back at the ranch. Captain Do Gooder hugs tight that tree of life, to which sprang all this elbow rubbing and diversion. Wall street huddles in her corner, painted red to match the lengths to which an end will surely bring to it.
Painted red for all to see.
The end to friendly letter writing, give peace a chance, make love not war, generation taking a bow, and snow birding it, to false sense of security land. Like the ostrich with its head in the sand.
Authored by Chuck Keys
It had no color,
Lacking shape, size and dimension.
It wasn't moving or breathing.
There was neither aroma nor taste, not here or there.
Touching was useless because it wasn't physical.
It was indistinct and limitless.
Thinking multi-physically
Multi-sensually and multi-psychologically
It wasn't here or there and it was.
With no distinction,
It looked like everything else,
Or it could not have looked like everything else.
It never made me feel good nor bad,
Nor happy nor sad
Nor quite nor trite.
In our world of joy and destroy, we sort and distort,
Looking more on the surface and less on the inside,
Ready to judge and be judged from outside in.
The "oneness" of mankind stretches beyond definitions and limits,
From outside to inside and from inside to outside.
We are one distinct and alike world of "oneness."
Differences exist for differences,
Therefore, differences don't exist.
Only "oneness" exists.
This poem is dedicated to Dr. Clayborne Carson and The Gandhi-King Community,
For Global Peace with Social Justice in a Sustainable Environment.
They are in meaningless session again
Not seeking to serve but to practice the deception
Not seeking to lead but to mislead
Taking black and white, creating gray
Don't wave that flag if you do not honor it
Oppression by omission. You have given
But rights to the dissidents and wrongs to the citizens
Hear me now
I cannot replace the spine you're missing
If you cannot accept you cannot lead
If you cannot lead you are the problem
Authorizing condemnation and treason
Banning prayer and patriotism
Once filled with victory and pride
Now mired in failure
Represent or resign, serve or secede
Make a stand for once or fall forever
We no longer will tolerate
One nation UNDER GOD.
A fool was crowned
And now we`re bound
To serve and please
On hands and knees,
To hate and smile
Each day and mile,
We feel defeat
And kiss his feet.
The foolish kings
Cut off our wings.
Their poisoned knife-
Our foolish life.
And faith`s refuse
Won`t save our muse,
When banned to fly,
She`ll fall and die.
Still time will flow-
Kings come and go.
But teams of mules,
That choose the fools
To be ahead
Alive and dead,
Won`t change a bit
The fate they meet.
They`ll choke on pride,
They`ll run and hide
And in their shells
Pity themselves,
That life was cruel
To have set the rule-
"Do as you`re told,
Silence is gold."
We pay the price
To hide our vice:
The coward `s role-
To lie and crawl.
And hope someday
Things`ll come our way,
We`ll find the might
To rise and fight.
I came upon a tribe one day
in a land not far away
where everyone gets what they need
from juices of an orange seed
Some who drank the juice had died
and so the tribe felt satisfied
that they had weeded out the weak
with the help of orange seed
Some fell asleep the whole day long
for orange juice was very strong
and never felt an ounce of pain
with not a care to cross the brain
But others would feel more awake
with every little drop they'd take
They'd run and dance and twitch and shake
and never need to take a break
Still others would get sick and green
like a flu they'd never seen
The only really certain cure
was "Never touch the juice no more"
For some, the drug would change their mood
to dumb and brutal, cruel and rude
But even those would find their use
in the tribe of orange juice
Of course, a few got very wise
had visions right before their eyes
Surely, God chose them to lead
with blessings from the orange seed
So anyone made dull and tired
were rounded up and all required
to work all day or face the noose
and never touch the orange juice
But those the seed would energize
were thereby made to supervise
the work so tedious and tough
while sipping on the orange stuff
And those for whom the seed caused harm,
were duly trained to run the farm
All day to sneeze and cough non-stop
yet trusted with the precious crop
And anyone turned cruel, it's true
got plenty of the orange brew
you could guess what jobs they do
and who they really answer to
Not leaders who hallucinate
that everything is going great
nor all the rest who get their dose
(except the ones that need it most)
Not any man or myth or god
nor any beast of sea or sod
but just a noxious little weed
with a toxic little orange seed
There may be some as I suspect
for whom the seed has no effect
I doubt that they're allowed to stay
they wouldn't want to anyway
Infuriated by greed
so we Occupy city streets
tired of being lied to
divided by tyranny
of the Elites
sickened by offshore banks
ran by gangs
known as the Fed
while political infidelity
shakes the White House bed
What happened to the basic foundations
for which this nation was built?
maybe the people's aggravations
will identify our leaders' guilt
No justice lies within this
"heads they win; tails we lose"
so now we take a stand
against their scam
because we're through with the abuse
Time comes and goes
People pass by and fly
We have only memories left
But we remember the sad ones
And easily forget the happy ones
We live in regrets
Saying... what if?
We live in fear
Saying... what will?
We have lost our humanity
We live in the past
Forgetting the present
As if there is only the past tense
We live in memories
Forgetting the future
As if there is no future
We love to brag about our ancestors
But what have we done now?
We all are losing ourselves
War... Drugs...
We think we are fighting for a cause
But that cause is only our greed
We think we are building the future
But we are destroying the future
We are losing our humanity
And there is little left of it...
It is time to stop the war
And move along with peace
Nations send armies to others
Saying:"We've come to civilize you"
According to the dictionary
Civilize is defined as conqueror
Send not armies! Send food and medical supplies!
Why do you come in the name of peace?!
If you only bring with you destruction!
What is happening to Afghanistan?
Why do you send guns instead of pills!?!
Or is the Vito more important than lives?
I am not from Europe, I am not from America
and I am NOT from the Middle East...
I do not know such things...
I am from Earth, regard of my nation
Nations are only names, we are all one
We are connected; we live on the same planet!
Why does one want to kill his brother?
I do not want to lose my humanity
Knowing that little is left in this world
This world can yet be fixed...
And it starts with two words: Love and equality
And it starts with one road: kill the Vito
Cause if it was a man, I would've killed it for the best
You think Hitler is gone?! Well now there is a stronger one
Look at Jerusalem! Hitler wouldn't dare do such things!
Why do we keep looking at the past?!
Forgetting what now is happening!
If the same ones who were massacred by Hitler
Are the same ones doing worse to Arabs?!
Why do we spend billions on weapons?
Instead of spending them on science?
Or at least save other nations from starvation
Why are we better than the Africans?
We have the same God! Or is it because of their color?
I just wish to ask one question to every human being...
A tribute to all nations and hope all be safe :)
This poem wants to make a change . . .
To be a strong yet silent raised fist in Mexico, 1968.
To stand at a window w/a shotgun writing the words
"By any means necessary"
To sit in at a lunch counter in Birmingham, Alabama
Until it is read
To start a breakfast program in Compton, California
In order to feed hungry minds
To stand up for its rights in Akron, Ohio and shout,
"Aint I a poem?"
To integrate an all white book store under protection of the National Guard
And when George Wallace says to it,
"You will not enter unless it's over my cold, dead, body. . ."
This poem will gladly take him up on his offer
But now this poem feels that perhaps it is too militant,
Maybe it and Spike should just "Do the Right Thing" . . .
Take the hand of other poems deep in the South Georgia woods and lead them to freedom
Under cover of night-light
Take its brothers and sisters out of the man's world and
Into Aaron's "Boondocks"
Play its own music, live in Jamaica and
Grow Nappy Locs
Start a union with A. Phillip down at the docks
Be read by Martin while being pelted with rocks
Find out what would happen
"If Beale Street Could Talk". . .
This poem will get accused of "Ego Trippin" but
will not take it personally, declaring,
"And Still I Rise"
It will invite other poems to a free concert headlined by
Marvin, Stevie, Chuck D, and Black Thought
It will do what it should, not what others think it ought
This poem will be munificent . . .
Will give because so much has been given to it
Will do because so much has been done for it
Will be able to sit down because so many others have
Stood up
But this poem can not sit still for long
Because this poem has been disenfranchised . . .
This poem was told there is no longer a need
For affirmative action
only to have it replaced with definitive inaction
This poem cast a vote in Florida,
only to be told that it did not count
This poem observed its commander in thief, fly over rising waters in the Lower Ninth Ward
just to keep his feet from getting wet
This poem watched its country expand our "melting pot" to include all types of ingredients,
Then scrape the black off the bottom of the pan . . .
and send it back to Haiti on a raft
This poem has been pulled over for being DWI
(drafted with intelligence)
This poem was profiled at Hartsfield Airport,
And made to take off it's . . . blues.
This poem never planted any genus of Bush,
It's not concerned with whom you marry,
Nor does it desire to trade the blood of young soldiers for oil, but look what it got
No wonder,
This poem wants 2 b a revolutionary . . .
There was a time in America, when the Bible
was taught in the schools.
The ten commandments were displayed, as "God's set of rules."
There was a time in America, where the
cross could be displayed.
Even in public places, people came together and prayed.
There was a time in America,
there was no "church and state" separation.
As people all across this country asked God to help this nation.
There was a time in America, where
people knew right from wrong.
You could see it in the way they lived, and could here it in their song.
There was a time in America where one
was proud to be a Christian.
One could take stand for holiness,
without coming under "suspicion."
There was a time in America, when
mom and dad were together…
Now, any kind of a commitment to marriage seems lost forever
There was a time in America, where many were proud of "tradition."
There seems to be a lack of any kind of "spiritual nutrition."
There was a time in America, where so many could proudly say;
"I'm going to read the bible and go to church on Sunday."
This is the time for America, to wake
up and try to understand.
We need to seek God right now! All over this land!
This is the time for America, to listen and begin to hear…
The coming of our Lord is drawing ever so near!
NOW is the time to seek the Lord, while he may be found!
The word of God needs to be read in every city and town!
Won't you too seek God and listen to his voice today?
Simply give him your heart and life… This could be YOUR day!
By Jim Pemberton
Music is my high,
Soda is my drink.
Sugar is my ecstacy,
Laughter is my drunkeness.
Anime is my anti-drug,
Strobe lighting is my LSD.
Dreaming is my hallucinogen.
Imagination is as psychedelic as I can get.
Being with family is when I'm as relieved as I can get.
Happiness is as sober as I can get.
Masturbation is as stimulated as I can get.
Orgasming is when I am as relaxed as I can get.
Poetry is my coping,
Art is my creative outlet.
Writing is my addiction,
Reading is my inhalation.
Exercise is my steroid,
Food is my shrooms,
Cooking is my sniff.
Gaming is as tripped out as I can get.
Being with friends is when I'm as hyped as I can get.
Depression is as down as I can get.
Inner strength is as strong as I can be addicted.
Internet browsing is as stoned as I can get.
Dancing is my adrenaline,
Overtiredness is my hangover.
Cake mix is my acid,
Sparkling juice is my booze.
Soberity is my perspective,
Shopping is my drug-dealing.
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When you enter into the age of 25 or above the pressure from parents starts to get married. One has to choose a good partner for that, i wonder how one do that and live lifelong. Is it the love that makes the partners stay cool or the the circumstance make that.. Anyway i want to get the suggestions from the TED community regarding this question. Which one is better, the loved marriage or the arranged marriage? and which one lasts longer?
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Oscar OsorioJun 30 2012: You don't just "choose" a good partner. You have to wait and see which person is most compatible to your ideologies, past times, interests, and such. A person that you can talk to easily and have the best times doing the simplest things. Otherwise, the relationship will either be a frustrating one or one that will eventually fail. Then, when the two realize that they have love between them, they take the next step. Choosing implies that the other person will comply, most of the times, I'm assuming, it doesn't work out for the best, A person that you respect, have fun with, learn with, has an open-mind and vice-versa would also be qualities to look for. Look for do not choose, because some times surprises can happen with this thing we humans call "love"
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(Special) -- It's October — a time of cooling temperatures, autumn-coloured leaves, and calls or letters from students at university asking for a little money to see them through the remainder of the year.
A post-secondary education is a costly affair in Canada. The average four-year program at a Canadian university now costs about $60,000. Only about one in five parents with children under the age of 18 are confident they can pay off the costs to send their children to university and students themselves believe they will struggle to pay off the cost of getting a post-secondary education and expect to be in debt for years to come.
The Canadian Council of Learning reports that the average debt for a university graduate had risen to $26,680 in 2009 from $24,706 in 2000 and $12,271 in 1990. Forty-five per cent of college graduates and six in 10 university graduates have taken out student loans while in school.
No matter who is paying the bills, every student needs to create a budget and stick to it, says the Investor Education Fund.
The obvious costs of getting an education — tuition, books and supplies — are just the tip of the iceberg. There are a whole raft of other costs that should be itemized such as residence or rent, insurance, electricity, gas, water, telephone, cable, Internet, clothing, food, transportation and personal items.
Many students may think that there's no room for any fun in a budget. But that's not the case. They just have to budget for their entertainment and stick to it.
More and more students are working during the school year to help pay the costs and should include all income in their budgets, including wages, education savings plans, scholarships, gifts, family contributions and any other sources of income such as bursaries.
Each year, thousands of students turn to government loans to help them. These loans often have certain advantages over other ways to borrow, such as bank loans and credit cards.
For example, students don't have to repay the loan as long as they are in school. Most student loan programs offer a grace period of several months after post-secondary studies end before repayments begin.
And students don't pay interest on the money they borrow until after they graduate compared to a credit card which can charge interest of more than 20 per cent a year or more.
It's important for students and parents to remember that government loans are meant to lend a helping hand, not to pay the entire cost of a post-secondary education. Students and their families are still expected to contribute some money.
Many students begin their working lives after school with a debt that they will have trouble paying off. The Canadian Federation of Students reports many students finish school with more than $20,000 of debt and about one in every five students who graduate with a student loan are unable to pay it back.
Many students get into financial trouble using credit cards. The IEF suggests students should never use a credit card to pay big bills such as tuition or housing. The best plan is to pay cash for most things, and if you do use a credit card, pay it off at the end of each month and avoid the high interest charges.
Remember that credit card companies like to sign up students because they will tend to stick with that card over time and students often will run up balances before they really understand how the card works and how much interest they will end up paying.
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Bart: If there's anything fairy tales have taught us it's that first wives are perfect and second wives are horrible.
Homer: The exact opposite of real life.
—The Simpsons, "The Ned-Liest Catch"
Giselle: And just think, soon you'll have a new mother.
Morgan: You mean stepmother.
Giselle: It's not true what they say. I have met so many kind and wonderful stepmothers. Edward has a stepmother. I've never met her, but I hear she's just lovely. (Description Cut as Narissa rises into New York City with crackles of dramatic magic as ominous music plays.)
Radio Therapist: Mr. N is on the line, telling us his sweetie pie is acting a little distant. You were saying, Mr. N...?
Nathaniel: No, uh... I've always treated her like a queen, but... lately I'm starting to feel there's this whole other side to her, like I... I don't even know her anymore.
Radio Therapist: I think you need to take her aside and find out how she really feels about you.
Queen Narissa: (approaching the window of the cab in which Nathaniel is sitting) Hello, Worthless. Miss me?
My father's wife is old and harsh with years,
And drudge of all my father's house am I—
My bread is sorrow and my drink is tears.
Come back to me, Beloved, or I die!
—Rudyard Kipling, The Love Song of Har Dyal
I was but seven year auld
When my mither she did die;
My father married the ae warst woman
The warld did ever see.
— The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea
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For decades, Sister Jeanne Gallagher, I.H.M., taught young children about government and the importance of voting.
As the November election nears, the 86-year-old nun and retired teacher fears the state's controversial voter ID law will keep her and other senior citizens from having their say in who leads the country.
Sister Gallagher, and 23 other nuns from the Our Lady of Peace residence, the retirement home for the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary congregation, lack the identification needed to vote in November. Another 11 nuns recently received state-issued identification cards. One 95-year-old sister had to wait four hours at the Driver Licensing Center in Dunmore.
But these nuns say while the state's voter identification law is an inconvenience to them, they have people who will drive them to the center. They also have other sisters who will gladly help them find the paperwork needed for the card.
They worry about the senior citizens who do not have that help.
"I think it's very, very unkind, unfair and ridiculous," Sister Gallagher said of the law, which earlier this month state Supreme Court sent back to the Commonwealth Court for a judge to determine whether voters would be disenfranchised by the law.
That would be the case, the nuns said on Wednesday, in the room at the Our Lady of Peace center that serves as their ward's polling place. For years, the nuns, some with walkers and some in wheelchairs, have only needed to make it to the room off the lobby to cast their votes.
The law requires anyone voting this November to produce a photo ID with an expiration date. The ID can range from a driver's license to a U.S. passport. Supporters say the law is necessary to prevent voter fraud, while opponents point out that there have been no documented cases of in-person voter fraud and the process of obtaining an ID can be difficult and is intended to discourage people from voting.
The congregation's peace and justice committee has sent a letter to Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson and the state's Supreme Court justices, asking them to overturn the law.
The sisters represent "thousands and thousands of elder Pennsylvanians facing a similar exclusion from their lifelong participation in the democratic process. If the Voting Act of 2012 is maintained in the courts, the seniors will have a serious violation of their rights visited upon them. It must not be allowed to stand," the sisters wrote.
One of the acceptable forms of identification is a card issued by a care facility, but because the OLP is not licensed by the state, the cards are not valid, said Sister Eleanor Mary Marconi, I.H.M., assistant administrator at OLP.
Sister Marconi has acted as an advocate for her fellow sisters, accompanying them on trips to the Driver Licensing Center in Dunmore.
Some of the 24 still without ID cards just need to get to the center, but others are missing a key document -- a birth certificate or Social Security card -- required for the ID to be issued.
Sister Pauline Kelly, 78, received her card after a two-hour wait. Her non-driver's license photo ID, which she used for air travel, had long-expired.
She cannot remember an election in which she did not vote, and she worries about the seniors who may live alone who cannot find a ride so they may obtain an identification card.
"The elderly people should have the ability to vote," she said.
Sister Marconi said she will work to get her fellow sisters the required identification until, hopefully, the courts rule it is not needed.
"These sisters want to vote," Sister Marconi said.
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another contradiction
Mr. Jones is quite the contortionist. He professes to accept the inspiration of Scripture, yet thinks it inferior in its views of life issues. Poor God; He has the knowledge and ability to bring the cosmos into existence, yet lacks the tools to keep up with our postmodern times! What I wonder is why anyone with that view of God even bothers with the Bible. After all, this "deity" is nothing more than an idol, fashioned to conform to our wishes and recast in our image, so as not to be threatening to our self-sanctified desires.
Sadly, Gina, the attitude you refer to is barely even shocking or disappointing anymore. In order to be shocked and/or disappointed, you'd have to expect otherwise. And how can we when more and more churches are ORDAINING the unrepentant.
I definitely agree with you on this one: just because someone engages in homosexual activity doesn't make them gay (especially if they don't enjoy the experience). It doesn't even look like Merritt had one - I'm guessing all they did was embrace, fully clothed, before parting ways. How is that gay? I embrace all - doesn't make me gay/bi/etc.


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Adrian Proszenko American pop-punk band Good Charlotte have been locked in to headline the NRL grand final entertainment.
Bulldogs chief bares teeth over Sydney FC's sacking of Melton
Adrian Proszenko Bulldogs boss Todd Greenberg has leapt to the defence of sacked Sydney FC chief executive Dirk Melton, claiming the rival football code is poorer for the A-League club's decision.
Sea Eagles hoping Joey can convince Foran to stay
Adrian Proszenko Manly officials have approached Andrew Johns about joining the coaching staff in a move they hope will help them retain Kieran Foran.
Sea Eagles board glances back to go forward
Adrian Proszenko Manly could be going back to the future in their search for an independent chairman. Sin Bin has been told there is support for the last man to hold the post, Joe Cross, to be handed the gig.


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