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"Passing through; perfect stop-over in a really beautiful city. Wish we had had more time."
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"We booked late to stay in Perigueux for our Silver Wedding anniversary to be able to enjoy the annual music festival. Delighted at Hotel appearance, location, beautiful bar, staff were excellent - very helpful! Will definitely stay here again - we are always pleased with the quality vs value of I..."
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"Based on first floor we were greatly disturbed to hear what sounded like a herd of elephants running about in the room directly above."
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"Room was clean and well serviced, a bit too small though and bed was a bit basic. Location excellent and no problem parking. Reception staff were very helpful especially with getting taxi when badly needed. Would stay here again if ever in Le Bugue but would ask for their bigger room with decent ..."
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"Excellent hotel as our base in Dordongne. Parking facility. Walking distance to town centre. "
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"Excellent hotel making best use of facilities including small pool which my granddaughters enjoyed. Food was excellent especially the children's menus and very good value"
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"Quiet and peaceful environment. Very closed by to the ticketing office for caves visit. Very helpful staff, email me the detail to collect the keys in advance, even help to call my next hotel to arrange for late check in. Will return on next visit"
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"Visited Sarlat and great value hotel with friendly staff. On the first day we were there we were looked after by a lady who spoke good english which is a big advantage. We strolled down to the town and had a nice walk around and some food in the market square before coming back to the hotel where..."
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"The English speaking man at the desk when we arrived was very helpful, and welcoming. On the down side we felt the cost of 21 euros for two breakfasts was extortionate."
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"This is a premiere hotel which means very small rooms and very small baths. But they are usually clean and and are good value for money. This hotel fits that bill. In addition, the night manager Jonathan is really outstanding. He cares about the hotel and about his guests."
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- Cave of Lascaux
- Perigueux Golf Club
- Lascaux II
- Chateau des Vigiers Golf Course
- Chateau de Marqueyssac
- Jardins d'Eyrignac
- Chateau de Castelnaud
- Chateau de Monbazillac
- Brantome Abbey
- Chateau de Beynac
- Chateau de Montaigne
- Cadouin Abbey
- Bergerac Maison des Vins
- Chateau Les Merles Golf Course
- Place de la Liberte
- Domaine de Rochebois Golf Course
- La Roque St-Christophe
- Cyrano de Bergerac Statue
- Chateau des Milandes
- Grotte de Font-de-Gaume
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2012 Honda Accord Coupe EX-L V-6 2dr Coupe w/Navigation (3.5L 6cyl 5A)
Even though I bought it "used", I got a great deal on a low mileage 2012 Accord V6 Coupe. Having owned 2 previously,I found this one to be classic in its reliability and performance. No surprises. Good, reliable entertainment. The V6 is nice, compared to my previous 4 cylinder Accords. People complain about the driver's side lumbar support as being "agressive".This may be true for most people, however I have a weak back, and find the strong lumbar support to be a blessing. Thefront seats themselves tend to be a bit "firm". They don't massage you or envelope you in comfort. That would be my onlycomplaint about the 2012 Accord.
2012 Honda Accord Coupe EX 2dr Coupe (2.4L 4cyl 5A)
Purchased this car new, maintained it to Spec. Transmission blew at 120k miles.Had to replace. :(
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I purchased a pre-owned 12 Accord EX-L coupe no Navi with about 32k miles. I've had the car for about 7 months now and love it. I do about 24k miles a year so I spend alot of time in my car. The seats are comfortable for me and the passengers. It's got plenty of room for a coupe. My mother whose a little older has a little trouble getting in/out but once shes in there shes very comfortable. I would recommend this car to anyone. Highly reliable, comfy, and most importantly affordable!
2012 Honda Accord Coupe EX-L V-6 2dr Coupe w/Navigation (3.5L 6cyl 6M)
After owning two previous Accords I can say this will be my last. Having been very satisfied with a '98 sedan 5 speed and an '05 coupe 6-speed I can honestly say I'm very disappointed with this '12 6-speed. My expectations of a 6 cyl. 6 speed "sports" car are not even close to aligning with this vehicle, the only performance upgrade is the motor and gearing, which result in a 6 mpg loss with comparable driving. If you're not quite as concerned in performance and decent gas mileage this car is comfortable for long road trips and has a fairly large backseat for a coupe. Also an excellent looking car in my opinion if Honda had oriented it more towards its Prelude roots I would be very pleased.
Exterior design, engine, navigation, after being so pleased with a 7th gen this list has fallen short.
Suspension, Brakes, LSD, trunk seems smaller than my '05, not quite sure why such a big back seat is in a coupe. Wish Honda would drop the "cookie cutter" routine and get back to a sports car. I could go without alot of the amenities in this car for improved handling and stopping power. Gauge numbers are smaller than previous generations. Would appreciate a true sports car with Honda's reliability again but don't expect to see it anytime soon. 7 years ago this vehicle would have been more than sufficient as the previous model was in my opinion, however today I feel the bar has been raised and this vehicle has really only been adjusted to accompany a small portion of 6 speed buyers.
I had a 2009 Accord EX-L 5M sedan that I used for work and a 2006 Corvette convertible (6M) that I used for fun.As often happens in life, circumstances dictated that it would be wise to have one car to do everything.(Divorces suck.)How to combine a work car and a fun car into a fun work car?I need room to haul large items for work, a backseat that 3 kids can inhabit, bulletproof reliability, decent bad weather traction (I live in Cleveland) and enough of a fun factor to keep me entertained - and not miss a Corvette.Also, a manual transmission was a non-negotiable must-have.An upscale brand could also be unwise for business.So I found a car that really does do everything well.
The 3.5L is a truly great engine, combining low end torque and a willingness to rev that is fairly rare.
It sounds great, too - thanks, VTEC engineers.
The medium-throw shifter is a joy to use, and the clutch becomes very user friendly once you get used to it's unexpectedly light effort.
The steering is very good, if shy of great.
The car can certainly get up and move when you ask it to.
The exterior styling is vaguely Italian in a FWD sort of way; the lines are generally very pleasing to the eye.
The audio system is much better than I expected, and the iPod integration was a pleasant surprise.
The cargo and passenger space borders on the unbelievable in a mid-sized coupe.
The brakes are about average, and certainly not special.
Some of the interior carpeting cuts don't quite match up correctly.
FWD brings it's own demerits.
Torque steer is present, and the car could really use a LSD.
Road noise is always present in classic Honda fashion.
My overall MPG is just ok, around 23.5 with a lot of highway miles.
I like digital speedometers, and there's no digital speedometer.
The instrument display is a little bland, some blue and orange lights could have been stolen from the Acura bin.
I'd like to damn the OE Michelins with faint praise; better rubber would turn this car into a top notch FWD sports coupe.
That's why God invented the Tire Rack, I guess.
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Please describe your experience with chondromalacia patella (patellofemoral syndrome).
Comment from: Mango, 35-44 Male (Patient) Published: April 15
I have never had any problem with my knees until I was involved in a motorcycle accident in which my knee hit the road at about 40 k.p.h. I fractured my tibia, ruptured my ACL, tore my medial meniscus, and had a grade 4 chondromalacia patella. A specialist told me I had this condition all along. I never had any problems with my knees and am still trying to find if this was caused by the accident or it just made it worse.
Comment from: 13-18 Female (Patient) Published: October 30
I am 18 years old and have had knee problems throughout my high school athletic career, which has been mostly distance running involving cross country and track. My parents and coaches had noticed that as I run, my legs would kick out to the side in a semi-circle as I brought them forward after each step. After seeing several doctors and receiving many diagnosis that produced no results, including patellar tendonitis, I was finally diagnosed with chondromalacia patella. Once my orthopedist got me to a medical supplier who provided me with a knee brace to align my patella and set me up with physical therapy, there was a marked improvement. Unfortunately, I had only one of the two braces I needed due to confusion with the medical supplier, and my physical therapy was only twice a week for an hour, which was not nearly enough to counteract the aggravation caused by my daily two and a half hour cross country practices, despite my efforts to see the trainer to work out on the bike on days when the pain was at its worst. I couldn't sit still in class, and no position was comfortable for my knees. I ended up "flunking" physical therapy, which I hadn't known was possible, but after finally seeing a medical supplier half an hour away to get my second knee brace for my still-worsening legs, I was able to control the pain. Although I still wasn't able to improve my times to what they had been before all these problems, it was still nice to be able to finish my races without crying, as I had been at the beginning of the season. Now that I have a break from sports for a few months until track, my legs have been steadily improving without the constant stress of daily runs.
Comment from: ramfan09, 13-18 Female (Patient) Published: October 30
I have had knee pains ever since I can remember. I was very active in soccer when I was younger, from the age of five to about nine. Even after I stopped playing soccer I would have knee pains almost daily. I'm 18-years-old now and went to the doctor yesterday, because even though my knees had always hurt, this was not just an ache but a sharp pain, and bending my knee was also painful. I was diagnosed with Chondromalacia Patella Syndrome. My problem is that along with the Chronromalacia Patelle pain, the muscle that stabilizes my knee is too short to work properly. I have three weeks of physical therapy to look forward to, where they will take a foam roller and basically roll out my muscle, like rolling out dough. I'm also taking glucoseamine pills 3 times a day for at least 3 months. The physical therapy is going to be painful, but I would rather have that than my knee get worse!
Comment from: syy, 19-24 Female (Patient) Published: October 14
I was diagnosed with chondromalacia patella at age 16. It was so bad that my doctor felt surgery was the only answer. I went in for knee arthroscopy, and he also had to move my knee caps down because they were placed too high. At the time, there were no guarantees that it would work. I was told it would either get better or not change at all. Since then, it has gotten nothing but worse. I have tried every kind of physical therapy possible, all painkillers, anti-inflammatories. I have specially fitted orthopedics in my shoes, and yet here I am, five years later, in worse pain then I ever thought. They told me the only thing left to do was to give me total knee replacements, but that this couldn't be done until much later on in life as it has to be repeated many times. I would say to avoid knee surgery at all costs, in my personal experience, it has been nothing but horrible.
Comment from: mamap, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: August 13
I developed chondromalacia patella in my late 30s. I have always been relatively active, but not excessively so. The condition just "started," without any injury preceding it. There was no excessive activity before having symptoms of this disorder. My leg would make horrible crunching, popping sounds when walking, especially going up and down stairs or hills. Finally, my doc scheduled an MRI that discovered the cause of my discomfort.
Comment from: sunfireL33, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: October 13
My PFS seems to be directly related to unfortunate genetics; at 25 I have dislocated my patella 5 times and have been in rehab for over a year and a half (this time around). Keep your quads and glutes in good shape and take glucosamine/chondroitin supplements religiously and it'll stay manageable. Once you stop taking it is when you notice the pain and discomfort increase. Also, have your feet looked at for alignment and candidacy for orthotics; by adjusting my right heel it takes 80% of the pressure off my right knee. A patella strap is also something to try (cho-pat, mcdavid make them), which will help with your patella alignment when walking or being active. At any rate, I've been dealing with this for 10 years and am now a candidate for micro-fracture surgery to correct it because I've been incredibly active and aggressive with sports and rehab. Find a great physical therapist and an adjusted work-out routine would be my best advice to any of you!
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Syndicate Won't Make it to Australia Due to "Arcane Censorship"
The game has been refused classification in Australia.
Australia's Classification Board has refused to grant Syndicate a rating. In effect this bans the title from being sold in its current form, and publisher Electronic Arts has no intention of changing the game in order to make it acceptable.
It would not be the first time something like this happened -- a number of games have been refused classification over the years by Australia including Mortal Kombat, The Witcher 2, and 50 Cent: Bulletproof. The latter two were ultimately altered to make them more acceptable while Mortal Kombat remains unavailable in Australia.
The reason for this is because the most mature rating available to videogames is MA15+, meaning any videogame released would have to be deemed suitable to teenagers as young as 15. This is not the case with films and other media and has been a hot issue for some time; earlier this year the groundwork was put in place for an R18+ rating, though this has yet to go into effect.
The extreme violence in Syndicate is largely to blame for it not being granted an MA15+ rating that would allow it to be released. The report cites the presence of "decapitation, dismemberment and gibbing" as one issue, as well as the ability to further injure corpses and kill civilians, according to VG247.
"Combatants take locational damage and can be explicitly dismembered, decapitated or bisected by the force of the gunfire," one part of the report notes. "The depictions are accompanied by copious bloodspray and injuries are shown realistically and with detail. Flesh and bone are often exposed while arterial sprays of blood continue to spirt from wounds at regular intervals."
EA's response to this is that it plans to neither appeal nor alter the game, Joystiq reports. With the current rating system in place, the game simply won't be released.
"The game will not be available in Australia despite its enthusiastic response from fans. We were encouraged by the government's recent agreement to adopt an 18+ age rating for games. However, delays continue to force an arcane censorship on games - cuts that would never be imposed on books or movies," said EA corporate communications exec Tiffany Steckler. "We urge policy makers to take swift action to implement an updated policy that reflects today's market and gives its millions of adult consumers the right to make their own content choices."
Syndicate was revealed back in September after years of speculation that Starbreeze was at work on such a project. Rather than simply revive the franchise with its classic isometric camera view, it will instead be a first-person shooter, much like what's happening with XCOM. Syndicate is currently scheduled for release on February 21 in North America and February 24 in Europe.
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So let me get this straight...Posted: Jan 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by Moegitto
All the stuff they're complaining about in this game is already out on numerous other games but they allow Fallout 3? FO3 had Bloody mess. For crying out loud, you could kill someone, beat their dead body until their head popped off, hold the head, and carry it to you house and make a head collection. My friend had like a little shop of horrors going on in Megaton.
lamePosted: Dec 20, 2011 12:00AM PST by Greendewey
First off I'm getting tired of the uber violence in games lately. I don't find the amount of blood and the need to make people die and bleed realisticly in a game as something that adds to the game experience. But that's just me. Just watched a video for the game...didn't look that bloody.
Secondly. why is there a solar lense flare coming off of the guys gun fire? Adding lens flare to gun fire, that's a new one. Abrams would be proud.
How does a country with Topless hair dressersPosted: Dec 20, 2011 12:00AM PST by V4Viewtiful
Have such a restrictive rating system on games???????? O_0
They'rePosted: Dec 20, 2011 12:00AM PST by bambamthepyro
restrictive tward violence, not sex. The exact opposite of the US.
Actually kind of makes sense if you think about itPosted: Dec 21, 2011 12:00AM PST by learningKnight
I'm no fan of any kind of censorship, but I always thought it was so odd that you could show somebody's brains getting splattered all over a wall on American TV but GOD FORBID you show a nipple. This weird fear/hatred/fetishization of sex in this country has done our culture no good. Frankly I'd rather live in a world with rampant sex vs. a world with rampant violence but hey, that's just me...
It's not because we're soft or afraid of violencePosted: Dec 20, 2011 12:00AM PST by Shadow13th
It's because of politicians that move with snail like speed. As of about 4 months ago they all agreed on introducing an R-rating. The states voted for it, even the guys at the rating board have said they want it. They're just doing all the beuacratic side of it which is annoying as hell. It's officially going to happen and we're expecting it but God knows how long it's gonna take.
Either way, it's easy to get any game here. I just order from Amazon. Games are so cheap in America that even with the conversion rate and shipping costs it's cheaper to buy from Amazon. That's where I got my Mortal Kombat Tournament Edition with the big ass arcade stick. It's pretty easy to get a match against an Aussie on MK =D
They aren't region locked?Posted: Dec 20, 2011 12:00AM PST by learningKnight
American titles work on Australian consoles? Or do you have an American console as well?
NopePosted: Dec 21, 2011 12:00AM PST by Shadow13th
A vast majority of xbox games aren't region locked.
This is real bezoomny gloopy, O my brothers.Posted: Dec 20, 2011 12:00AM PST by learningKnight
Why are the Aussies so afraid of a bit of the ol' ultraviolence? Worried the little molodoy chellovecks will mistake it for their own krovvy history?


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Home > Press > NeoPhotonics Names Lee Sen Ting to Board of Directors
NeoPhotonics today announced the appointment of Mr. Lee Sen Ting to the company's Board of Directors. Originally from China, Mr. Ting accumulated extensive high-level business experience and contacts throughout Asia as he enjoyed a 35-year career in the region with high-tech leaders such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Lenovo.
Mr. Ting currently serves as a director and advisor for several notable technology and financial firms. In addition to serving as an Independent Board Member of the Lenovo Group, among the world's largest personal computer companies, Mr. Ting also serves as a director for Microelectronics Technology, Inc. of Hsinchu, Taiwan, a leading RF provider for wireless communications. He is also a director at Yeepay, a leading e-payment provider connecting major banks, carriers and merchants in China, and EPIN Media, a leading media company focused on transportation venues in China.
In the financial arena, Mr. Ting currently serves as a Managing Director at WR Hambrecht & Co., where he focuses on the firm's China strategy. He is also an Advisor to WK Technology Fund.
Mr. Ting spent the bulk of his career in technology at Hewlett Packard, where among other achievements he helped build the HP enterprise and brand in China. As a former Corporate Vice President of HP and a Managing Director of that company's geographic operations, Mr. Ting was instrumental in the development of HP's long-term partnership strategy and international expansion.
In a tenure spanning more than 30 years, Mr. Ting joined HP in 1965 and rose ultimately to Corporate Vice President and Managing Director of Worldwide Geographic Operations. He served in functional roles ranging from Development Engineer to Far East Area General Manager, Managing Director of Southeast Asia Operations, and Director of Corporate Development and Manufacturing for HP's intercontinental operations. Immediately prior to his last role at HP, Mr. Ting served as Vice President and Managing Director of HP's Asia-Pacific region, where he was responsible for HP's customer facing organizations in all Asian countries in which HP did business.
Mr. Ting serves as a Director of the 1990 Institute and Mills-Peninsula Health Services. He received a B.S.E.E. from Oregon State University and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
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Brownie dark chocolate
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|110 Gram (at least 60% cocoa solids)
|110 Gram
|110 Gram
|220 Gram
|2 Large, beaten
|55 Gram
|1 Teaspoon
|Baking powder
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
1. Pre-heat oven to 350°F (180°C), chop nuts roughly and break chocolate into small squares.
2. Melt butter and chocolate together over low heat.
3. Mix melted butter and sugar in a bowl.
4. Beat eggs then add to mixture.
5. Mix flour with salt and baking powder, then add.
6. Stir mixture thoroughly.
7. Put mixture into greased brownie tray.
8. Bake for 30 minutes, check frequently so as not to over cook. The middle should be sticky, while the outside remains crisper.
10. Leave to cool, dust with icing sugar and cut into squares.Brownies can also be served warm with vanilla ice cream, or eaten cold.
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Calories 220 Calories from Fat 119
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14 g21%
Saturated Fat 5.8 g28.9%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 44.6 mg14.9%
Sodium 154.5 mg6.4%
Total Carbohydrates 23 g7.7%
Dietary Fiber 1.1 g4.4%
Sugars 18.4 g
Protein 3 g5.5%
Vitamin A 4.4% Vitamin C 0.16%
Calcium 3% Iron 6.2%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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|Reviews for All We'd Ever Need
| Yohanna chapter 8 . 7/1
I first read incomplete now this! This is a really nice story huhu
| Girl in Pink chapter 40 . 1/25
Sweet story!
| Blue Aidelle chapter 2 . 9/15/2014
| revengeissweeter chapter 1 . 4/13/2014
I've read this and its a good story. OHHH the feels!
| FieryKnight6241 chapter 40 . 2/2/2014
This story was awesome. I couldn't stop reading. I think it was mainly because this is nothing like shaman king. I don't have a problem with shaman king itself, of course, but this was more original.
| Pseudonym P chapter 40 . 1/14/2014
I really enjoyed this fic! Fantastic job. I love the organic growth of the plot and the characters - my only objection is the pointless fluff because it doesn't really help but it's pointless fluff so I don't know why I'm complaining.
Another thing that irked me is Hana's intelligence with speech. I don't think six-year-olds speak that well (or that witty). But then again, I don't have an extensive background of interacting with six-year-olds, so I wouldn't know.
Again, good job!
| I.Think.Im.In.Wonderland chapter 40 . 7/12/2013
Aw! Such a sweet story! Its 2Am and I could stop reading till I finished haha
Twinkle x
| Compactor07 chapter 40 . 5/29/2013
OH MY GOD ! I can't believe I've finished reading this fic ! I'm speechless, this was so beautiful, seriously you have no idea how much I like this fic and how much I enjoyed reading it. I've been busy lately, but I'm being honest when I say that I've missed this story, every now and then I thought about it, if there were new chapters and if Yoh and Anna would finally get back together. Oh man, that's so awesome, I don't even know what to say, really, this is an amazing story and although I'm sad it's over I'm also so happy with the way it ended that I can barely contain my feelings. Thank you so much for writing this and never giving up, you're so awesome and wonderful. Thank you thank you thank you, from the bottom of my heart. And I hope you continue doing these amazing stories cuz you're an amazing writer 3
| mild.melody.908 chapter 17 . 5/24/2013
i love this so romantic scene it is!Yoh expressions make me shy hahaha
| squirtlepokemon215 chapter 40 . 5/13/2013
Aw. Perfect ending! :) -Alex XD X}
| Guest chapter 40 . 3/24/2013
I lovee your story and I love that it is so recent!
| Sam Mirrikh chapter 40 . 3/15/2013
I had waited for quite some time to see how you'd end this fic. Quite frankly, it didn't live exactly up to my expectations, as an eager, attentive reader. And, before I officially begin my critique, allow me a moment to assuage your fears of this being a flame, because it isn't.
I actually don't mind this story being Yoh/Anna since it's (even if somewhat) canon (in the manga at least). The summary intrigued me, maybe not in the good way and maybe not because it was eye-catching or well thought out. It was the promise of potential melodrama. I stuck to your story as you wrote it, hoping to see something other than the weeping, regretting, hurting and deluding of the one so called Anna Kyoyama. Yoh's won the tournament, good. He's also shaman king; splendid even. So why isn't Anna off his back? Why the constant complaining? Sure, he has duties, but it's to be expected, and I'm quite sure Anna would actually -understand- that, would see to it, see everything's done to perfection, as she always did with his training. No, I don't see how this is logical behaviour. Not only on her side, but Yoh's as well.
In other words, your two main characters (which are the only ones, besides Hana, that really -do- anything) are OOC. You yourself said in one of the chapters that Anna's internally really strong, has gone through a lot of crap in her life, but nevertheless has held her head high, etc., etc. Around chapter 20, I think. You acknowledge this, but apparently forget about it 90% of the time you spent on writing.
You spend overmuch time doing some vague tries at psychoanalysis, both of her and Yoh (which results in awkward switching of POV at times). When, in reality, the story should be moving on, you keep the characters in one place. Continuously. I can't explain it, exactly, how much it irritates, that, for example, it took 19 or so chapters for Yoh to take Anna out on a date, restaurant, whatever you pick. What could possibly replace all those I presume 20k words of self-pity, spiritual deprivation and worthless speculation, you ask? Some action, at least. More lively interaction. There are many other characters in the fandom, I don't know why you decided to centre yourself in only those two, but it was a mistake. Yoh's shaman king, for pity's sake. You could've given some insight on what he does (you have a head on your shoulders, you can think of something) and not just only on what he thinks. I didn't see his loyal and trustworthy friends at all. Not even Manta. What, do they live in some isolated world of theirs where there're only tears and two-faced apologies? While writing this, did you think to compare your work with your own life and experiences? Sure, the characters have nothing to do with you, and you did endeavour to descry their emotions, but this is not a story about only that, now is it? If I had known it was a large rant about Anna's clinginess and unwillingness to make a better life for herself and her son, then I wouldn't have read it.
You should have warned there would be such a repugnant amount of fluff, cuddling and sweet-talking. Their whole dialogues were awkward, repetitive and dry. So is everything else they do. Seriously, you could've done so much with this fic, and I say this because you have the talent. You can weave words well enough, I guess, but that's certainly -not- enough to make your story priceless. Or to justify the lack of effort; effort in making at least one other person from the series appear. Even if it's just to have coffee with or exchange a glance. Maybe you had one idea in mind, but it came out totally different. Especially the end. I'll admit with plain words: it was bad. It is still bad. A second try at marriage? A second child? What's next, a sequel? I don't know your age, but it doesn't really seem like you've gotten a taste from life's cup, and life doesn't revolve around one person only. It doesn't have only love to fuel it. If it was so hard for her, you could've just made her hang herself and have it through without wasting such a load of words to get your point across. As in, you need a better understanding of the characters. And just because many people reviewed, saying how much they adored it, adored you, etc., doesn't mean you did a really great job. In fact, this fic has nothing to do with the SK fandom; it has no SK vibe to it. It feels way too normal. You might as well label it as AU. Though it did feel as if I were reading Twilight all over again, just not in 1st POV. This was not a compliment.
Oh, I nearly forgot to mention a few more tell-tale details. They live in Japan. It's a vastly different— world, not just country. And let's not mention culture. Unless you were Japanese, you'd know the etiquette, and not only it. Just the way of upbringing children, eating habits (McDonalds wtf), ways of dressing. You made some really useless descriptions of her attire. Like, more than once. Some authors think it's necessary to explain every little detail, just so the reader can get a bigger picture of the story itself. Well it's a wrong tactic, and maybe you should consider this. There's this thing called 'mystery' which usually is the driving force. It's what motivates you to keep reading until you've finished. Your story was anything but mysterious. Or the characters' motivations. It had a— specific vibe to it, like that of a fairy-tale. The conviction's warranted by the ending; especially by the last two lines which roughly translate to the well-known Disney incorporated finishing touch in all their movies: "and they lived happily ever after". You realise all this is a total cliché, right? From plot to ending? Well now you do. Oh, and it's all highly unrealistic, if it didn't get through. No one in their right mind remarries. Because divorce happened for a reason and it's the final decision of the partners; it means that there's no more second tries, there's no more shared feelings and/or beds. I've witnessed it first hand. The end.
| Boyfriend Tees and Honey Bees chapter 40 . 3/11/2013
I wish Yoh and Anna would have had a daughter, too! This made me wish it! :) Gonna miss this story!
| Rumia chapter 40 . 3/10/2013
Awwww! They have a little baby girl, how cute! I wish this was a little longer :)
| chashkieh chapter 40 . 3/10/2013
Yay, new kid! It's fun that you've established the fact that they Anna and Hana always bicker... not that Hana could win over his mom. :P It's short but sweet. Love it! :)


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When Tim and I visited my family earlier this year, my brother loaned me the book The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. The story, if you don't know it, is about a man who accidentally begins a long journey to a friend, and along the way, both he and everyone he knows is affected. I reached the last chapter on a Sunday night at Sevier Park, stretched out next to Tim on blankets beneath the setting sun. When I closed the cover, I turned to Tim and sighed. "Did you like it?" he asked me. "Yes," I said to him, my head propped up in my hand. "This book reminded me that people can change." And people, I need to be reminded of that. It seems to me that one of the kitchen's best gifts to us, aside from being a place to connect and find nourishment, is that it is a place that reminds us of truths we forget. Like the book I finished, the kitchen vividly demonstrates that life is dynamic. Things are in flux. Like the green beans we braise on the stovetop, we are, all of us, ever … [Read more...]
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Zucchini Ribbons in Vegan Pesto Alfredo Sauce
There is such satisfaction in bringing together a meal, especially on a dreary day. Where most people crave blankets and movie screens on cloudy weekends, I am the type to crave the kitchen. The kitchen is a place of birth and discovery--a space for testing ideas and seeing what works, for creating combinations that nourish and delight--and when the dreary day you're facing stems from more than the weather, discovering new things is like medicine for the soul. … [Read more...]
Sautéed, Garlicky Beet Greens
"Will you do me a favor?" Tim says to me, the two of us side by side in the car. He's driving. He's usually driving when we're in the car together. It's our habit. He knows I'd rather sit—sit and look at Instagram, sit and watch people out my passenger window, sit and zone out to ponder some new topic he will no doubt hear about from me in due time—so the fact that he usually drives is one way he serves me. It's right up there with killing bugs, cleaning out gutters and replacing the battery in our car—all tasks I guess I could do, if pressed, but which are becoming, to me, as good as poetry and candlelit dinners because I know, to him, they're love. While it's words that flow out of me when I feel great affection, for Tim, it's more practical things, like going with me to Goodwill, which is the store we're leaving now, as he pulls the car around a corner. "Will you make beet greens for dinner?" … [Read more...]
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Thursday through Sunday, I was away in the northwoods with no Internet, little phone signal, creatures crawling in the walls in the middle of the night (!!) and daily dinners at supper clubs where the only vegetables were potatoes. It's a funny world to escape to for a greens-loving girl, but, every year when I go to Minocqua, I think again how nice it is to detox a little from a connected life. In order to take the trip, I was away from Tim for the longest time since we got married, and, kind of like Mary in Downton Abbey, I have to say that it's amazing how another person can become so a part of you that you almost can't remember what it was like to be without him. If I wrote every post on this site from here on out just telling you about what a kind husband I have, I still wouldn't do him justice. Anyway, we're here with my family today, soaking up some time together and with them, so I'm going to keep this post short. I just want to tell you, first of all, that I am … [Read more...]
The House Salad with Cucumbers and Tomatoes
I'd eaten at Tim's approximately two times when I started to sense a theme. When that guy makes a salad, he makes it a particular way. Maybe everybody does this? Over the following years and months, I've eaten this same basic salad with him alongside grilled cheese sandwiches, at fancy dinners we've thrown for friends, during Sunday night barbecues, on lazy weeknights and in many spaces in between. I've eaten it so many times with him that it's truly become our salad, the one we always make, the fallback, the standby, the one we're calling The House Salad, with Cucumbers and Tomatoes. … [Read more...]
Bruschetta Sauce with Balsamic & Fresh Fennel
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|Reviews for Tangled Webs
| Rebakah chapter 3 . 12/21/2011
You gave me a lot to think about. You did a great job on creating a whole new side of Lavender and it's very impressive I love the little Seamus/Lavender bit at the end :)
| TisforTatty chapter 3 . 12/21/2011
I see that I'm finding this story very late, but I have to say how much I love it! I was one of those typical Ron and Hermione fans that found it all too easy to hate Lavender, until I thought about how normal it would be of her to do and act the way she did for the reasons we were led on to believe. Then I find this, and I must say I like this version much better than just accepting 6th year as a big misfortune from mixed-up emotions! This take on Lavender is amazing, and your writing makes it so believable that this is just going to have to be my canon from now on. Amazing job with this story, it only makes me love all of these characters even more!
| charlouis chapter 3 . 12/19/2011
(Trying SO hard not to cry right now...) OMG THAT WAS AMAZING! I love to think of Lavender this way SO much better than the way she was always made out to be! Bravo for such an amazing take on this!
~PotterFan4Ever :D
| rednose chapter 3 . 12/9/2011
Just wonderful. I really like it. Poor Lavender.
I like her talk with Hermione and the part about kissing is hilarious. Thank you so much.
| rednose chapter 1 . 12/9/2011
Interesting. A story where Lavender is not a bitch, slut or just stupid is really a new way to look at her. I like the idea that she is just helping Ron and Hermione. I mean, to be honest, even the always absent Harry has noticed that something is between his friends, so why should not all the other have seen it. Lavender was in the DA, helped Neville and Ginny in 7th year and she fought in the battle of Hogwarts. Really, I think a so superficial person like she is described in her 6 th year would not do soemthing like that. Thank you
| catherine chapter 3 . 8/14/2011
I loved the new perspective on Lavender... I'm glad you took the time to write this :)
| laura-csm chapter 3 . 8/13/2011
My last review of the night : )
This was yet another brilliant story. Reminds me of Wicked and how there are two sides to every story. I despised Lavender before and now I think...I may actually like her! I think I'm about to hit the Lavender/Seamus stories on FF now.
Your stories are beautiful and thought-provoking. I love them.
| AnnieBananie97 chapter 3 . 8/6/2011
I LOVED this story! I'd always thought of Lavender as an idiotic, self centered bitch, but this story COMPLETELY changed my opinion of her. I like this Lavender much more than my previous thought of her.
| of-Snowfall-and-Seagulls chapter 3 . 7/31/2011
Loved the ending! great job!
| dih chapter 1 . 7/30/2011
I haven't laughed this loudly in a really long time. "How long are you going to call him Ronnie?" "Until I think of something worse." This is delightful. I've always found Lavender's behavior absolutely appalling and wondered how she *could* be *quite* so awful. Won-won indeed! This is such a great spin to put on the situation - that she's doing it on purpose. Nothing is so delightful as a secret but perfectly consistent hidden back story and I thank you for this one. I see it was written three years ago but it does say 'to be continued.' Please do.
| Mitchie Love chapter 3 . 6/27/2011
I'm literally speechless. I've always seen Lavender as sort of a teacher for Ron. That she later looked back on his life and saw how happy they were. (:
This was really beautiful and I actually pictured it almost movie-like. I could see Lavender telling the story as well as the images of the wedding, the first kiss, everything. I already liked Lavender, but this made me like her so much more.
| oxsilvermoonxo chapter 3 . 6/26/2011
...this makes me adore lavender brown, and i don't know if i can ever stand to read anything bad about her ever ever again. Sigh. Everything you write seems to get to me on a ridiculously personal level (lol i just thought of how flooded your inbox is probably going to be with all these random reviews from me. heh.)
for some reason, this fic has moved me towards a slightly more...somber mood (the reason for the lack of usual ardent praises, though i assure you, they're still applicable). I'm really glad that Lavender got...a slightly happy end, ish. I really really really want more happy lavender fluff right now though, ahaha (hint hint? :3 haha just kidding. sort of.)
| oxsilvermoonxo chapter 1 . 6/26/2011
to be completely honest, at first i saw the word "lavender" and i was slightly disgusted and quickly moved down the list of your stories. Then i stopped, and thought about it, and thought about your writing style, and curiosity got the better of me, and i am SO GLAD that i decided to put my faith in your writing skills to pull this off with flying colors. I've never heard of the Fanon vs Canon thing (then again, i probably haven't spent enough time hanging around the hp fanfiction community yet) but it sounds like a really good idea. I agree, i've always wondered a bit at Lavender and how the HELL she managed to get sorted into Gryffindor, of all places, and its true, it seems like most readers have just kind of taken that and gone with it. But you seem to have understood her character in so much more depth, and taken into account that J.K Rowling does NOT create shallow, 2 dimensional characters, and the way you've imagined her motives explain so much, and seem so much more realistic, and they turn Lavender from a character that tends to be looked down upon and...well, bashed, into someone human, and relatable, and REAL.
i notice that i always seem to type huge run-on sentences in my reviews to you. heh.
By the way, i read on your profile that you read a lot of books. While not exactly young adult (well...kind of..), i was wondering about your opinion on sci-fi, and if you've ever read Enders Game, or anything else by Orson Scott Card? Because reading your depiction of Lavender really reminds me of those novels, especially the book (in the sort-of seriese), "Speaker for the Dead", because of the way you think about the character and seem to understand it. Anyways, i've known a ton of people who've HATED Enders Game, but personally, its like... my BIBLE, haha, and i adore O.S Card's books, so just thought i'd suggest it if you haven't already read them
| fruitwhirl chapter 3 . 6/20/2011
I really liked this. Very heartwarming. The whole story.
| SpiritedWind chapter 3 . 6/15/2011
This was amazing. I have always hated Lavender. I always thought she was annoying and way too clingy. But after reading this...well my view of Lavender has changed. I would have never expected that and its so amazing and original. The ending was also very touching. It brought tears to my eyes. This was just so so amazing and I loved it. Great job! :)


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In his newest film, Brussels artist Sven Augustijnen uses Belgium's colonial past in Congo to demonstrate that discovering truth in an art documentary is a pointless and futile effort, albeit one well worth seeing.
In his newest film, Brussels artist Sven Augustijnen uses Belgium's colonial past in Congo to demonstrate that discovering truth in an art documentary is a pointless and futile effort, albeit one well worth seeing.
As behoves any true documentary, the most recent long film by the Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen (b. 1970) has a clear storyline. Spectres (2011), previously exhibited in Wiels and now on view at De Appel and other locations, is a 102-minute portrait of Sir Jacques Brasinne de la Buissière, divided into some ten scenes. Brasinne has devoted 50 years to the turbulent decolonization of the former Belgian Congo in the early 1960s, more specifically to the execution of the Congolese premier Patrick Lumumba and two of his trusted associates. The viewer follows the protagonist as he finds survivors and archival documents in his search for who was responsible for this drama. While the film opens as a neutral report, it gradually turns into a dramatic epic – one in which the protagonist has to convince not so much the viewer, but himself, that he is right.
For the most part, the artificial, almost fictitious quality of Spectres is thanks to strategic reversals within the documentary format. To begin with, there is a focus on body language during the interviews. The chat with Arnoud d'Aspremont Lynden, for example, the former Belgian Minister for African Affairs, goes hand in hand with continuous movements of the camera. Augustijnen zooms in on the gesturing hands, shifting feet or the crossing of the knees that are intended to make the text more believable and therefore more convincing, while the speaker – often Brasinne – continues to prattle on unperturbed in the background. The technique of the close-up, which normally visually records verbal testimony and consequently identifies it as being truthful, here functions in a contrasting way. In the zooms and pans on gesticulations and facial expressions, the text is shown merely as a construction whose credibility depends on empathetic gestures.
In addition, Augustijnen plays with the narrative elements of the documentary: the sequence of facts and events that lead to a judgment or conclusion. Spectres, too, has its own linear chronology, with the difference that here, the character reinforces his story one step at a time. Brasinne's version of the Lumumba assassination is confirmed by virtually all of those who are interviewed, and the detailed archival documents, crosschecked with the actual locations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also give him the status of an accomplished and objective historian. The background information, which appears in blocks throughout the film, reveals something different. Brasinne apparently played a key role in Congo under Harold d'Aspremont Lynden, and as a young minister even stood at the drafting table of Congo's hastened independence. As a result, the search gradually changes into a personal process of working through the trauma, and the investigation becomes an atonement in order to assuage Brasinne's conscience. Poignantly accompanied by Bach's Johannespassion, the documentary suddenly almost becomes fiction, and the linear narrative a sophisticated dramaturgy.
The documentary plays on one last idiom, namely that of the reconstruction. When Brasinne returns to Congo, he is visibly affected by the destroyed places and objects that carried traces of Lumumba's death. He (or the director) subsequently decides to travel at night to the site where the assassination took place, and reconstruct the deed in the dark jungle. Brasinne parks his all-terrain vehicle in the way delineated in his many descriptions and indicates where the officers stood in line, how the prisoners were executed, and so forth. The film ends in a long, static shot of his silhouette, which is illuminated by the headlights of the Jeep and which seems to transform itself into the tragic fate of Patrick Lumumba. The reconstruction thus creates an unheimliche switch between the protagonist and Lumumba – interweaving the object and the subject of the investigation. Where re-enactment normally makes the past tangible, as a police reconstruction would, it now expresses itself in the staged reality that Brasinne has described for himself, and that holds him captive after a lifelong engagement.
In the reversals in the documentary, as well as in the accompanying documentation and catalogue, Augustijnen presents different stages of a contradictio-in-terminis: the 'untrue' truth. A series of photographs by Brasinne, shown on monitors or hung in the form of diptychs or triptychs in midsize format, are also such untrue, incomplete truths: fruitless attempts to objectively make a visual record of the traumatic history. We see unpaved roads, ruins and abandoned airfields as silent witnesses to the murder, visited by Brasinne in 1968, in 1988 and again in 2010 for Augustijnen's film. Photographs that say little continue to reappear: an empty segment of jungle; the same image with the camera turned 90°; and again, now zoomed in; a little farther along on the monitor, that same jungle, 20 years before. It is clear that Brasinne has identified his truth with that image. Once it is repeated, zoomed in on or re-shot, the photograph can no longer 'lie', and becomes the representation of a – fictitious – reality. The collection of photographic repetitions expresses a Freudian ritual in which Brasinne inexorably and relentlessly takes possession of an imaginary truth.
Although Augustijnen does not operate didactically – the film remains primarily a portrait – the contents and the form of Spectres resonates with the bursts of post-colonialism in contemporary art. In the wake of the passion for archives and gender studies of the 1990s, artists such as Roy Villevoye, Renzo Martens and Vincent Meessen are once again taking a look behind the Western curtain. The focus on the former colonies is in fact less motivated by a fascination with the cultural 'Other' – we already know that cultures are complex and hybrid – than by a reflection on how it is represented and expressed through the media, as we see in the press photography of central Africa (Martens), the idolatry of New Guinea tribes (Villevoye), or the colonial undertone of Western imagery (Meessen). The pitfalls in ethnographic investigations of this kind are actually still the same as they were 15 years ago, when art historian Hal Foster introduced the paradigm of the artist as ethnographer. The notion of 'demythification', or the idea that art can intervene in the local 'reality', is problematic because the social meaning of the work of art depends solely on its institutional benefactors. 'Just as the productivist sought to stand in the reality of the proletariat only in part to sit in the place of the patron', wrote Foster in his famous essay, 'so the quasi-anthropological artist today may seek to work with sited communities with the best motivates of political engagement and institutional transgression, only in part to have this work recoded by its sponsors as social outreach, economic development, public relations... or art.'1 When Renzo Martens thus resolutely states that his film Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008) is 'no documentary, but a work of art', he avoids the problem for the sake of an ironic artistic spectacle.2 Engagement is here translated into a pathetic form of self-reflection, in which the artist shamelessly wallows in the complex web of his own complicity.
Spectres has no intention of analyzing the conflicting status of the artist.3 It is sooner about examining the uniqueness of the particular formats of the work, such as the documentary, the catalogue and the archive, and playing them against one another. 'The distinction between "film" and "fine art" is no longer relevant, in any case not for me,' writes Augustijnen. 'I do not really "know" the problem of contradicting disciplines or media.'4 In his focus on the documentary, the artist also refuses to conform to the playing field of the fine arts, and to its protective comfort zone of apathy or self-castigation. The zooms, double entendres and reconstructions in the film do, however, point out the impossibility of making fundamental, objective statements; but in doing so, they do not fall into absolute relativity ('everything is pretence, nothing is possible'). For some people, not in the least Jacques Brasinne, that search for truth does have a valid and fruitful objective, with a therapeutic and an intellectual value. Here, art-as-anthropology raises its head as the precarious exercise that it ultimately is: a pointless and ultimately futile effort that is nonetheless worth the trouble of pursuing.
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- Hal Foster, 'The Artist as Ethnographer?', in The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology, George Marcus & Fred Myers, eds. (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995), p. 303. For a stylistically more refined but less clear version, see chapter 6 of Foster's The Return of the Real.
- Renzo Martens, as quoted in 'Renzo Martens: "Medeleven is niet genoeg"', Harm Ede Botje, Vrij Nederland weekly newspaper, Amsterdam, 15 November, 2008.
- Augustijnen applies his work to erasing the exemplary status of the artist. As a result, he sees the financing of his films not as an a priori, but personally seeks subsidy channels by way of his production collective Auguste Orts, integrally placing the production in the hands of the artist. Spectres was also produced by Auguste Orts, with support from the Flemish Audiovisual Foundation, Projections, Cobra Films and the Jan Mot Gallery. See www.augusteorts.be
- Sven Augustijnen, as quoted in Auguste Orts: Correspondence, Dieter Roelstraete, ed. (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010), p. 36.
Translated from the Dutch by Mari Shields


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