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Francesca Zambello
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Review: An Operatic 'Cyrano,' Undeterred by a Giant Nose
The Met's revival of Franco Alfano's rarely heard opera was buoyed by powerful performances by Roberto Alagna and Jennifer Rowley....
May 3, 2017, Wednesday
MORE ON FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO AND: Cyrano de Bergerac (Opera) , Opera , Alfano, Franco , Metropolitan Opera , Alagna, Roberto , Armiliato, Marco , Zambello, Francesca , Rowley, Jennifer
'Sweeney Todd' and 'The Crucible': Not New, but Darkly Up-to-Date
Operatic performances of these works highlight the Glimmerglass Festival, while "Iris" serves as a kind of preview of the Bard Music Festival....
July 25, 2016, Monday
MORE ON FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO AND: Glimmerglass Festival , Opera , The Crucible (Opera) , Iris (Opera) , Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Play) , Sondheim, Stephen , Wheeler, Hugh , Miller, Arthur , Alden, Christopher , Zambello, Francesca , Ward, Robert E (1917-2013) , Bard Music Festival , Mascagni, Pietro , Theater , Stambler, Bernard
Review: San Francisco Opera's 'Two Women' Depicts War's Horror at High Pitch
Marco Tutino's new opera (with a libretto by Mr. Tutino and Fabio Ceresa) adapts a 1958 novel by Alberto Moravia....
June 15, 2015, Monday
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Glimmerglass to Offer Mozart, Vivaldi, Verdi and Bernstein for 40th Anniversary
The Glimmerglass Festival of opera in Cooperstown, N.Y., is celebrating its 40th anniversary....
July 7, 2014, Monday
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Bold Strokes in the Country
At this year's Glimmerglass Festival, a production of "The Flying Dutchman" is the most conventional of the offerings, a sign of Francesca Zambello's boldness....
July 23, 2013, Tuesday
MORE ON FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO AND: Glimmerglass Festival , Opera , Zambello, Francesca
First, Make Sure Your Idea Works on a Small Stage
The Glimmerglass Festival's artistic director has learned that in theater, as in business, "if you don't make sure the show is right in a small room, it will never be right in a big space."...
April 7, 2013, Sunday
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Colorblind Casting Widens Opera's Options
Opera productions can take advantage of the racial makeup of cast members to deepen the audience's understanding of certain roles and stimulate new takes on a work....
December 23, 2012, Sunday
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Different War Horse Does the Trick
The Metropolitan Opera is bringing back its visually striking version of "Les Troyens," with a score lasting four and a half hours, in a season that also has a number of new productions....
December 15, 2012, Saturday
MORE ON FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO AND: Metropolitan Opera , Graham, Susan , New York City , Berlioz, Hector , Zambello, Francesca , Opera
Zambello Promoted At Washington Opera
The Washington National Opera said on Thursday it had promoted Francesca Zambello from artistic adviser to artistic director, solidifying its reorganization after the departure of Plácido Domingo and its merger with the Kennedy Center. Mr....
September 14, 2012, Friday
A Promotion for Francesca Zambello at Washington National Opera
She now will have complete oversight of casting, repertory, the young artists program and a new commissioning project....
September 13, 2012, Thursday
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F30 / F31 / F32 / F33 / F34 / F36 (2012 - current)
The sixth generation BMW 3 Series Sedan F30/F31/F34 and the first first generation 4 Series Coupe F32/F33/F36. Get the latest 3 and 4 series pricing from our ordering and pricing guide sticky thread.
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Yes, it might be obvious that I dislike F30 as a replacement for E9x. In my opinion it could have been better. This does not mean F30 is ****. It is still a decent car. So you do not know what I fully think about F30.
Second, I am not stretching anything Mr. Volunteer COP.... guilty judgment before you even turn the sirens off.
Now, let me say it in simple words so that I do not warrant your attack. I relayed what he told me and maybe you forgot to read the part where I said
"Anyways, I take what he says with a pinch of salt because your personal reasons can cloud your judgment."
So relax with your judgmental self. Just cause you bought a F30 does not mean you have to attack anyone who does not like it to the extent you like it.
Last edited by Kayani_1; 07-23-2013 at 04:55 PM.
Relax, you do not own the forum and nor does it come to you in inheritance from your grand pappy. So who are you to tell me to stop post my opinions.
LOL, your maturity is evident in your personal attacks. Why don't you take your own advice and stop posting since you have nothing positive to contribute to the discussion at hand except for showing your behind.
Now run along if you do not like my opinion in a discussion you do not have to read it or reply to it, just move on.
How would I and others ever have gotten the idea that you didn't like BMW's anymore? You seem pretty up front with your strong opinions so it didn't seem like it would take a judge mental mind reader to figure out what you were thinking. Some of us just suggested that it is your right and your money to move on to another car and brand as you have stated post after post of the same negativeness towards BMW and the F30 specifically. All I and others are saying is we get it, you don't like it and BMW is not going to change. It is what it is. You either like them or you don't so move on with your life and buy a different brand car.
I apologize if this seems like a personal attack and it hurt your feelings. It was not meant that way.
The generalized comment that Porsches are more fun to drive than BMW's and in your context the 3 series seemed like a no duh moment. Don't worry I have them to and I fully expect you to pounce on me when I do it.
It's a little silly to having to defend your purchase decision so fiercely when someone brings up something even remotely negative about it. We all like the brand (regardless of how much some want to complain about it); otherwise, we wouldn't be wasting our valuable time here. Why can't we just respect each other's opinions and agree to disagree instead of resorting to childish comments like "leave the forum if you don't like my car" or "it's just a group of envious folks who can't afford the new model."
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Not sure how me recommending that you move on from a car you really, really do not like is considered a personal attack, or how I somehow am trying to "own the forum". I just really get tired of people repeatedly posting how much they hate this or hate that, when they should be voting with their money. THAT will bring change. Posting here about how much you feel the interior is crap compared to your e90 will NOT bring change.
If you want to feel that posing that you should buy what makes you happy is a personal, attack, then I am not sure what to tell you. YOUR post is a personal attack. My post was a recommendation that you purchase something that makes you happy.
I used to be a Nissan guy and have found a better car. Nissan/Infinity build great cars and I've had around 8 of them from 300zx, Altima, Maxima and a G35x. I like the BMW better so I bought the F30 after a brief mistake with a 2012 Toyota Camry SE V6 of which I can tell you does not even compare with the F30 328ix. I'm not defending my purchase as I am not blind to some of the things I don't like about the F30, but I am willing to invest and change the things I don't like. Such as buying new wheels with PSS non run flats, JB4 tuner, Mperformance exhaust and hopefully soon coilovers, if any body ever comes out with them for the xDrive. Then last Mperformance brakes or used 335 ones. For me that will be just about a perfect car for what I want.
Then in 4-5 years when BMW comes out with a new 3 series and if I don't like it I will move on to something I do like if they don't fit my needs. I won't spend endless amount of time talking about a car I don't like. Yes, it's a free country and free forum so post away. But don't be surprised when you get pushback from people on the forum that do like their cars. Especially when people start making ridiculous arguments about recycled materials and such.
Edit: I never told anyone to leave the forum, just don't understand what some people hope to accomplish by endless posts about things they or we can't change.
Last edited by minn19; 07-23-2013 at 06:25 PM.
I never said to "leave the forum"... I said to "move on" which may have been taken that way, but was ment as "move on from this car, to one you like". I do not need to defend my purchase. I like my car, its why I bought it. Its fine if someone else does not like it. As I keep saying, that is their right.
Someone made a restaurant reference, so I am going to use that as an analogy:
You have a favorite restaurant. You have been going there for years, and love their food. Its a happening spot. You go there at least once a month for 6 years. You get to know the chef, and are willing to put up with the occasional undercooked dish because you really love the place, the chef, and feel connected to them. In year 7 they get a new chef. You go there, and the dishes are just not the same. It feels like they are using slightly worse quality meat. The servers are not quite as good. You no longer have a connection to them as YOUR chef is gone. There are also a couple of other restaurants that upped their game that are in the same neighborhood.
New people LOVE the restaurant, but YOU know how good it was, and how good it now isnt. You try to tell the newbies how much better it was, but they are not listening. They gravitate toward trendy stuff and this is the hot spot right now.
Do you continue to go to "your" restaurant, while telling everyone how much better it used to be, or do you just "move on" and go try out the new restaurant? You may be sad "your" restaurant is not for you anymore, but they no longer make what you like... so why continue to go there? The new restaurant is getting good reviews... maybe its time to try them out, instead of standing outside the old place with signs talking about how horrible it is now.
I guess it is a trend with not all but only few F30 posters. They want to defend their purchase decision so fiercely that they can't take part in a civil discussion about cars. Instead they have to attack you at in a childish fashion asking you to leave or not post your opinion. All because their feelings got hurt because F30 is above flaws and how dare you dislike few things about their purchase decision.
How about some of you relax and learn to agree to disagree and maybe engage in positive discussion. I believe this a car forum where one can talk cars without yelling at other to leave and go buy some thing else. If you want to discuss automotive matters then participate and reply to peoples post. Otherwise find an exit for yourself as that is the advice you throw upon others who are here to discuss F30 which is a car being discussed on car forum.
Last edited by Kayani_1; 07-24-2013 at 04:32 PM.
Wow, lol at your lack of understanding simple concept. Oh how memory works so selectively
May be you should reread your post that was unwarranted in its aggressive and immature nature.
Here is your prior post in quotes.
"So, stop posting about it , and simply don't buy it. It's obvious you don't like it. That's fine of course. It's your money. Go buy the car that is better for you. You seem to like the lexus. Go get it. Don't give me brand loyalty, BMW used to do this or that. If they don't make a product you like, just move on.
It seems like you are the one who got your feeling hurt not me. You are the one who is telling me to stop posting on a car forum where discussion about cars takes place. All because you are upset and want to defend your purchase decision so fiercely.
Listen carefully, this is a car forum here we discuss cars of all types. In this thread we are discussing F30. If you can't handle the discussion and feel the urge to yell out at people that are participating in discussion at hand such things as you did.......
"Stop posting about my purchase, Why don't you simply not buy it. It is obvious you don't like it. Go buy a car that is better for you, you seem to like Lexus, Go get it, Don't give me brand loyalty, just move on"
......then you are the one who should take your own advice and exit. Because it is quiet childish and immature to defend your purchase decision with such blind rage at the expense of being rude and not making a single positive contribution to the automotive discussion at hand.
Now, I don't recall me nor anyone else asked you for a lesson on economics or how to fund our opinions with our wallets. Also, neither did I or anyone else ask for your permission to post any further of our thoughts on F30 forum. But yet you pretended as if we asked for your permission. Thus, in my reply..... me kindly telling you that your grand pappy does not own this forum and that we have the right to participate in a discussion on merits of F30 without you telling us to move on and stop posting about it..
I also did not ask for your input on my next car purchase nor created a thread open for that discussion. Yet, you felt the un-controlling urge to do so anyways. All the while using your condescending tone to tell me to move on, and stop posting. When I think it is quiet clear that you are the one who should take your own advice and Thus, my reply suggested that.
I think it quiet evident by non stop attacking negative tone of your post above quoted by me that you are the one that is foaming at mouth. All because you got your feeling hurt in a simple discussion about F30. Why cause I and few other find F30 to be the softest 3 series ever made and lacking in driving dynamics. You have purchased it and now find obligated to attack fiercely anyone who does not see eye to eye with you.
Bottom, line is you need to relax and take a deep breath. It is only a car forum where merely cars are discussed at length and their virtues and shortcomings. You do not have to yell at people to move on or tell them forcefully what they should buy. Now if you want to participate in an intelligent discussion about virtues of F30 then please enlighten us. Otherwise you are making a mockery of yourself and others by side tracking the discussion at hand with nonsense immature attacks.
Oh, and last but not least I am sure me or the others who do not find F30 to be as good as previous 3 series had no intention of attacking your personal purchase decision. Because we know nothing of the factors that went into your decision and neither did you ever solicit our opinion on that matter. Thus, it was not a personal attack against your purchase of F30 by anyone of us as we have no right to do so.
So, either participate in this discussion in a logical way or stop attacking others who are here to merely discuss the merits of F30 and not your purchase decision. As that is not our agenda and neither should be yours. Even at the end if we don't see eye to eye we can agree to disagree.
Last edited by Kayani_1; 07-24-2013 at 05:48 PM.
I am not writing this to defend my purchase decision. If you read my post you could see that I do not think the F30 is a perfect car. I think it is very good as is, but not perfect. Again, I am absolutely baffled as to why you would consider buying another BMW if you truly feel this way. Especially since there are so many good cars in this segment.
Last, I am really not trying to be a smart ass with this next statement. If you think I and jjrandorin's posts to you are just nasty personal attacks, you really need to grow thicker skin.
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Pretty funny that you are adding words to my posts to attempt to make some sort of point. Your 1st quote of me is accurate. Your second quote has a pretty important added line which I did not say:
"Stop posting about my purchase".
I neither posted that or implied it. You seem to think that because someone is tired of seeing the same people recite the same complaints over and over and over and over, that somehow means they do not like discussion or feel defensive.
It's a car forum, for discussion, and for owners and prospective owners to get information. I have learned a lot here in a short time and appreciate people who provide opinions both positive and negative. I dont get people who seem to enjoy bashing a product they are going to buy. I simply dont understand that. Discuss, yes... bash, no. I also dont get people who repeatedly bash a product they are NOT going to buy. If, after I gather all of the information necessary to me to make a purchase, I determine the item in question is not worth my money, I don't continuously tell others how bad it is. I just buy the product thats right for me.
I realize that might be different for others, but I just dont get it. That does not seem like discussion.... however I absolutely stay away from any political discussions on the internet as they usually cause exactly this kind of unresolvable back and forth... and sometimes people just post to agitate, rather than get information, or share in discussion. I am trying to find someplace where I personally attacked you, and I dont see one. Obviously you do, since you keep personally attacking me.
Its all good though, my mistake is caring that someone is attacking me for a reason I dont understand, so you are certainly right in that respect. I also agree with you that we should probably "agree to disagree". because I think our ideas of "discussion" are different, and thats fine too.
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Last edited by jjrandorin; 07-25-2013 at 08:13 AM.
LOL......r u serious.
You said "Stop posting about it"
What is it in that statement.............maybe your selective memory is not working. The "it" is F30 right
Now did you purchase F30 or steal it. I am hoping you purchased it. Thus, your implied statement stop posting about my purchase.
Hope that clears it for you. Now good day. As my intention was not to attack your purchase but rather discuss F30 objectively. But it seems like you are offended.
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In search of a different safari experience, Brad Leithauser travels to Tanzania, where he not only finds animals but also meets the Hadza and the Barbaig, whose way of life gives a new perspective on the wild kingdom
We were flying to a place I'd never heard of until recently—Lake Eyasi—in a plane so tiny I sat beside the pilot. Trusting the wonders of technology, I took comfort in the general inscrutability of the control panel, while feeling unnerved by those instructions I thought I basically understood (do not attempt reverse with propellers feathered). We landed safely, though our descending plane shooed a pair of gazelles off the runway. This was Tanzania, after all. We then had a jolting drive down a road of thick rust-red dust that exploded in such dense clouds, I could make out nothing through my passenger-side window. I'd been in occasional blackouts, when the electricity failed, and whiteouts, when snow came down so fast I seemed to be inside an iceberg, but this was my first ocher-out. Eventually, we wound up on the shore of Lake Eyasi—if a lake that has no water can be said to have a shore. Vast in the rainy seasons, but always quite shallow, Eyasi dries away to cracked lake bed during much of the year.
We had come to this unlikely spot because our safari guide, George Mavroudis, wanted us to meet people he'd befriended from two tribes, the Hadza and the Barbaig. Tourism in Tanzania has been booming in recent years, and the number of safari companies has exploded. George takes justifiable pride in the fact that his safaris offer more than the typical Land Rover cruise to view animals (though we had, in fact, already seen spectacular, superabundant wildlife on the Serengeti Plain). He aims to give travelers a deeper look at Tanzania, in part by bringing them into contact with people who still live in intimacy with that wildlife, tribes for whom daily sightings of lions or hippopotamuses are matters of significance and concern.
George was shepherding four of us: me; my teenage daughter, Hilary; Martin, a photographer; and Martin's assistant, Markian. In the bush we had quickly learned to trust George's judgment. Born and reared in Tanzania, he commands inimitable knowledge of its terrain and wildlife; as the son of a Cypriot Greek immigrant who ran a hotel, he also seems to have the hospitality business in his blood. George told me that he considers English his third language, after Greek and Swahili, which I found discouraging, since he spoke it better than his four guests, all of whom live in the States.
An ideal guide, then, and, as it turned out, an ideal place to ponder the role of people in a shifting landscape. Within living memory, the shores of Lake Eyasi were a hunter's paradise. There was a wealth of game, including now nearly extinct rhinos, tramping myopically through the rich mud of the wooded lakeshore. But a growing human population brought widespread deforestation—trees cut for firewood and the clearing of farmland—and overgrazing by domestic animals, and soil erosion. Here and there, a few pockets of green had been carefully preserved, reminders of a lusher age. But mostly there was a deep dust everywhere, through which the ghosts of big, striking creatures—rhinos, lions, wildebeests, elands—silently wandered.
Some sentences I'd never heard before coming to Tanzania:
"A small elephant is still a big elephant."
"My sister has a pet warthog."
"A lion often sounds like someone throwing up in the distance."
"You don't want to know what's inside a zebra."
"If I say run, you don't ask why."
"Look! The dead crocodile is climbing into the water."
The Hadza we visited are hunters and gatherers. they have no long-term fixed abodes. They build structures made of branches and grass, which suffice for a while. When the land around them begins to get depleted, and their makeshift homes begin to be infested with vermin, they move on. It's a mode of life that has served the Hadza since time immemorial.
They are a small group of people—it has been estimated that there are only about 2,000 speakers of Hadza, a language full of those little clicks that phoneticians call suction stops—and a small people: many can't be much over five feet tall. Traditionally nonconfrontational, the Hadza have been jostled from one homeland to another by larger, more aggressive tribes, finally ending up in a remote terrain near Lake Eyasi. The Tanzanian government at one point attempted to induce the Hadza to settle into a society of rooted agriculture, but the effort was not a success. They soon reverted to nomadic life.
The hunting portion of their hunting and gathering is an exclusively male activity. They hunt with bows and arrows—poison-tipped arrows. "How poisonous are they?" I asked, and George translated my question for a group of hunters. The answer came back with much confident nodding of heads. George reported: "They say that if you scratch yourself on one of the arrowheads, you don't make it back to camp."
Keeping our distance, we followed them—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say they allowed us to tag along on their hunts. We walked through the bush, over hills, and into valleys, for an hour or so. The presence of four inexperienced, twig-snapping tourists cannot have made their task any easier, but they nonetheless came close to bagging a dik-dik, a miniature antelope that would have provided a modicum of meat. George, translating, told us that they had felled an impala nine days before. Everyone had feasted that night.
These days, such celebrations among the Hadza must surely have a somewhat bittersweet flavor. Their land—which is to say, their way of life—is imperiled, given the encroachments of the country's burgeoning population and the threat of ever-diminishing game.
But such dire speculations cannot be dwelled upon during a hunt, for the hunter must devote every iota of concentration to his task. This was apparent even to those four twig-snapping tourists who found themselves caught up in a process both timeless and very much of-the-moment. You might say there's nothing but the moment, since everything is building toward that instant when a dik-dik or an impala or a warthog stands tensely before the man with the poison-tipped arrow. He'll have one shot, and his aim had better be true.
The Hadza women spend a good portion of their days grinding the podded fruit of the baobab tree. Around Lake Eyasi, baobabs are so much larger and more massive than any other vegetation that—like elephants among warthogs—they dominate the landscape. Its pods contain a white, chalky, edible filling surrounding an inedible shell, which surrounds an edible nut. The edible is separated from the inedible by pounding the fruit between rocks and sifting the result. Hour by hour, the women create a ringing that reverberates through the bush. We watched three old women at work. One seemed to be nearly blind, with cataract-cloudy eyes, but she knew by touch what was before her. The rock in her hand fell confidently, time and again, missing her thumb by a fraction of an inch. Although the task looked primitive, she was a precisionist.
Precision of another sort—an altogether spectacular sort—was on display the next day, when we followed some of the men in pursuit of honey, the sole commodity linking the Hadza to the world of commerce. Honey is traded for tools and the bare rubber sandals in which the Hadza cover so many miles of harsh terrain.
The procedure was remarkably efficient. A fire was built at the base of a baobab tree by rubbing sticks together. A number of strong pegs were hewn with a hatchet. One of the hunters then pounded the pegs into the side of the tree, mounting as he went. He was erecting a ladder for himself, rung by rung. The speed of his ascent was amazing.
And the fire at the base of the tree?It provided a smoldering ember, which the hunter plunged into a beehive, hoping to drug the bees with smoke before attempting his theft. The plan worked, mostly. He received only a couple dozen stings, rather than hundreds. It was an arresting sight: a young man high in a baobab, enveloped by an angry cloud, tossing to earth the plunder his bare arm had scooped out of darkness. Wedges of honeycomb hit the ground. George picked one up and sampled a bite. "A bit smoky," he said, "but good." Hilary and I also broke off little chunks. Smoky?Yes. But good.
I've always loved the kind of travel in which entertainment runs thin at the end of the day. No TV, no radio, no DVD's, no telephone, no computers. That's how our evenings were in Tanzania. After sunset (night at the equator falls with a speed I never could get used to), we had nothing but ourselves to rely on for amusement. So, in an appealingly timeless ritual, we swapped stories. Chaucer's pilgrims on their way to Canterbury would have recognized the impulse, or the houseguests in Henry James's Turn of the Screw, competing to come up with the spookiest ghost story.
Our own spookiness was supplied by the soft cries of hyenas in the bush around us: doo-wup, doo-wup. Hyenas make an unnervingly tentative, almost friendly sound—an inquiring call in the blackness. Having looked for animals during the day, we now felt watched, the surrounding night full of hungry eyes.
We were five people of different backgrounds and ages, sitting inside a vast tent after dinner. Conversation was facilitated partly by wine and scotch, partly by a certain reluctance to make one's dark solitary way to one's dark solitary tent. Martin told us about growing up in Germany. Markian had grown up on the western plains of Canada. George had left Dar es Salaam at the age of eight, to attend an English boarding school. Hilary decided it might be a good idea to figure out her college applications while wandering under African skies. Eerie night-sounds continued to glide in and out of the dark. George narrated the tale of the jinxed safari during which an impala, desperate to elude a pack of hyenas, had crashed into and through one of his guest's tents in the middle of the night. Then he added the capper: "Incidentally, the tribes around here don't bother to bury their dead, since the hyenas will only dig them up anyway. They just leave the bodies out."
Doo-wup, doo-wup.
Unlike the Hadza, who dress in rags and whose fly-by-night existence discourages much accumulation of property, the Barbaig we met have a taste for finery. They keep cattle; their lives are tethered to big, solid objects.
George introduced us to a man in his sixties who owned a great many cows. He is a rich man—as evidenced in his having once had seven wives. One had recently died, and now he was making do with six. Of course, being rich means different things in different places. Although there was a house for each of the wives, there was no running water, no electricity. The ground was littered with discarded flashlight batteries. And those wives' houses were—by any standards we'd brought with us—grim, low structures: packed-dirt floors, walls of dried mud, ceilings a thatch of mud and branches.
Having no language in common with them save what George could provide as translator and intermediary, we did a lot of wide-eyed looking. And so did they. I was touched when one of the wives snatched Hilary's hand and held it up in the sunlight, peering at it quizzically. It seems she'd never seen nail polish.
Some further sentences I'd never heard before coming to Tanzania:
"A hyena is the one animal that has ever woken me from a deep sleep purely by its stink."
"I lost two friends to Cape buffalo last year."
"I don't know, but I think it's wildebeest pâté."
"Baboons aren't that smart, but they're still too smart."
George drove us for an hour or so deep into the bush, to a remote Barbaig village. We watched a couple of young men fetch water for their cows. A steep pit had been dug around their well so that the livestock couldn't approach and pollute it. This meant, though, a good deal of backbreaking hauling from the bottom of the pit. I was struck again, as any Westerner new to Africa must continually be struck, by the extent of human labor that we would naturally expect machines to handle. Bucket after bucket was dragged up into the sun. When at last the men were finished, the cows made a quiet sound that echoed down the millennia from biblical days: livestock lapping up water that someone had just hoisted out of the ground.
Martin and Markian asked whether they could take some photographs. Initial reluctance quickly yielded to universal enthusiasm—eventually every- one in the village, after dressing in their best flowing robes, wanted his or her picture taken.
Hilary and I were particularly impressed by a pair of pretty young girls who were watching everything with large, curious eyes. We asked how old they were. No one knew. "They are about twelve," we were finally told, which was roughly what we'd figured.
The two girls looked pleased but puzzled about being photographed. As we soon learned, they had never seen photographs of themselves. Of course, scenes in which the technologically unsophisticated are shown scientific marvels can seem irredeemably clichéd. But if anything can redeem them, it's a 12-year-old girl, bringing to the moment a freshness of experience that revitalizes all of our worn impressions.
Martin handed one of the girls a Polaroid of herself and her friend. What ensued was one of the sweetest sights I've seen in my life. The girl peered hard at the picture and then whooped and laughed in a bright ecstasy of recognition. There I am! her smile and her laughter declared. That's me!
The trip ended and yet lingered—lingers. You might say it ends finally some 7,000 miles away. My daughter and I are in New York, at the Museum of Natural History. We, too, are having our bright moments of recognition. We're saying, I saw those and I recognize that. We're walking from one diorama to another in the Hall of African Mammals. Thompson's gazelles?We can now distinguish them from Grant's gazelles. Wildebeests?Topi?We identify them.
After seeing the real thing, we'd worried that the museum might seem tame. But the opposite proves true. We bring to the dioramas something new, a rich, slightly dizzying dual vision. It's as if, not long ago, we stepped behind the glass and walked there.
One of the dioramas depicts the Serengeti. Someone has painted a baobab in the background. We can almost see a man standing in the tree's crown, stoically going about his business in a cloud of drugged but angry bees. He's tossing honey to the ground.
When to Go
The weather is coolest and driest from June through October. For safaris, consider what you want to see and where you want to visit. Although animal movement can be difficult to predict in the Serengeti, the major wildebeest migration tends to take place in summer.
Getting There
KLM operates flights from major U.S. cities via Amsterdam to Kilimanjaro International Airport, 35 minutes by shuttle, bus, or taxi from Arusha.
Tourist visas (mandatory) are available at all Tanzanian embassies, on www.tanzaniaembassy-us.org, or through any visa service and cost $50 for a single entry. Applications must be submitted with a valid passport.
Yellow-fever vaccination, malaria prophylactics, and preventative measures for hepatitis, rabies, and typhoid are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov).
George Mavroudis Safaris (255-27/254-8840; www.gmsafaris.com)
leads custom, private, luxury tented safaris in Tanzania and specializes in both wildlife
viewing and cultural experiences. Itineraries—from 14 to 21 days, including visits to
four or five wildlife and cultural areas—are arranged based on your activity level and
interests. Prices vary depending on the number of people; for six, the cost per person per
day is $870, including accommodation, meals, guides, transportation, and a visit to the Hadza.
Additional excursions can be added at extra cost. The company also operates Lukuba Island
Lodge on Lake Victoria, an ideal base for hiking, bird-watching, and visiting local fishing
villages. Although T+L highly recommends Mavroudis, other companies that specialize in cultural
experiences in Tanzania include the high-end Hoopoe Safaris (255-27/250-7011;
www.hoopoe.com; tours from $2,545) and value-priced IntoAfrica (44-114/255-5610;
www.intoafrica.co.uk; tours from $1,395). Additionally, there is a Cultural Tourism Program
representative at the tourism office in Arusha who can help independent travelers arrange
visits to local peoples.
What to Read
The Tree Where Man Was Born By Peter Matthiessen. An insightful
portrait of the relationship between humans and animals in East Africa.
Safari By Bartle Bull. A detailed history of the African safari
The White Nile By Alan Moorehead. A readable history of European
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- $860,597 to create and validate a stimulation prediction model that includes how fluids will act if injected into a well to create enhanced geothermal reservoirs. This project is led by Marte Gutierrez and Masami Nakagawa.
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Deborah Thomas of the Library of Congress will present "The National Digital Newspaper Program" at 4 p.m. Sept. 23 in the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library at the University of South Carolina.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Participants should enter through the Thomas Cooper Library.
Thomas, the program's coordinator, will discuss how the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress has created a freely searchable database of U.S. newspapers between 1860 and 1922 (www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) and how the database will help preserve the nation's cultural memory.
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The School of Music at the University of South Carolina will present an evening of music featuring trumpet, trombone and piano March 5 in the school's recital hall.
Trumpeter James Ackley and trombonist Brad Edwards will team up with pianist Joseph Rackers for the 7:30 p.m. performance, which is free and open to the public.
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feel free to post your fancy version in here. but remember, we have a "battle forum"
this one should be pointed at toys only. so if u feel u are toy hit it up. theres a 10 entry limit but u guys can do as many polls as u want.
ILY Fube NO HOMO. But Ight. I got you. Im waiting to see what the Other Wads Post up
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Throwie battle callout.
word: Demigod
deadline:March 3rd.
rules: No digital modifications,color is your choice,one entry per person and all entries must be on paper.
pm your entries to smooth_nuts
i gues thats hwo you wanted us to do it right fube,post "the fancy version" in here then you edit it into the callout thread
I'm so down for the Necro battle
I wont even attempt doing demigod. I might enter the handstyle battle tho.
Ha. Thats whats up. Im going to Enter just for the Hell of it.
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Gaining Knowledge
I totally have the best job you guise.
your a smart man smooth nuts.
the idea of this is to be easy and organized.
when u guys poll your shit just post a new thread
your flicks should be in the post itself with the name on the entry.
make sure u choose the option "add poll"
then put the names in there for the votes.
u guys should know how it works.
then just post it, ill look it over and approve it so everyone can see it.
if im not lookin in this chat thread and u need to update something shoot a pm my way.
the only threads i should see awaiting aproval are from the 4 of u guys.
make sence?
wheres kilc's info?
if i catch slackin ill find someone who will be on top of this.
power to the people.
this is already workin out better then that old bullshit.
Last edited by Fube; 02-24-2009 at 08:01 PM.
I think klic posted it in the toy tags thread
Viruz how do i send you my peice for the battle?
***Weekly Toy Handstyle Battle #1***
Word: Pineapple Express
Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2008
Rules: One entry per person. Send your entry with the word of the battle in the title.
Send your entries to me (klic). PM me if you have any questions, or suggestions for next weeks word
Last edited by klic; 02-24-2009 at 08:32 PM.
keep it in the toy thread tho, i dont want to see u guys in the big boy forum trying to get toy entries.
RhodeIsland - get a internet host, i recommend photobucket.com , get the img tag and copy it. the go to your callout thread, click on the name of the member incharge of the battle and pm the flick to him as indicated.
all the callouts are updated. good job u fuckin toys!
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Okay! Thanks
A this is Slick tho.....
But you know you love it Eski.
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Events for April 18, 2013
Iliff on the Road: Gospel of Thomas - 114 Things that Jesus Might Have Said, Prof. Ann Graham Brock
April 18, 2013 7:00pm-9:00pm
Description: Ann Graham Brock, affiliate professor for New Testament studies, will lead this 4-part class to explore the Gospel of Thomas. If it is indeed a first-century text, as many scholars believe, why it did not make it into the New Testament? The class will compare and contrast this "gospel" with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Dates: Thursdays, April 11-May 2, 7-9 p.m.
Location: St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
Info/Contact: St. Andrew UMC: 303-794-2683 or http://www.st-andrew-umc.com


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Mighty oaks, as they say, grow from tiny acorns, but judging from "Richard Serra: Early Work," the nut that germinated the famed sculptor's career was a hefty one. David Zwirner's museum-quality survey takes viewers back to the downtown scene of the late 1960s, when a gritty New York spawned many of the methods being used by contemporary artists around the globe.
Video, performance, installation, site-specific and process art were all part of a messy reaction against the slickness of Pop Art and Minimalism. Serra was in the thick of the action, but as this exhibition demonstrates, his audacity and single-minded vision set him apart almost immediately.
The latter might be described as a kind formal absolutism, which suffuses all of the sculptures here, though most of them are modestly sized compared with Serra's more recent efforts. At a mere eight by ten inches, a 1967 drawing titled Verb List serves as the Rosetta stone of his artistic approach, offering a taxonomy of simple actions—to crease, to roll, to fold—that have more or less governed his output. Tantamount among these, arguably, is the dictate to impress.
Though Serra's work has earned him the sobriquet "Man of Steel," the front gallery shows his experiments with more malleable materials, such as lead, rubber fiberglass and neon tubing. Nonetheless, the four lead plates leaning against each other to form 1969's One Ton Prop (House of Cards), as well as the 8-by-24-foot sheet of steel wedged into a corner of the second gallery, prove that from the start, Serra's aim was to bend both gravity and space to his will. And yes, it's still very impressive.—Howard Halle
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From best-selling writer Jon Ronson and the executive producer behind the TED Radio Hour and Invisibilia, Audible Originals presents a new seven-episode series, The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson.
[Contains explicit content] Free for a limited time, hear the story of what happened when the tech industry gave the world what it wanted: free porn. Lives were mangled. Fortunes were made. All for your pleasure. Follow writer and narrator Jon Ronson as he uncovers our web of desire.
About Jon Ronson:
Known for exploring the fringes of society, Jon Ronson is a best-selling writer, noted documentarian, and screenwriter – including the award-winning Frank and critically acclaimed Okja. He is the author of international hits So You've Been Publicly Shamed, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and The Psychopath Test, amongst others. A TED Talk favorite, Ronson is also a regular contributor to public radio's This American Life, the New York Times magazine, and GQ magazine.
A Note from Jon:
Hi everyone,
Welcome to The Butterfly Effect. It's sort of about porn, but it's about a lot of other things. It's sad, funny, moving and totally unlike some other nonfiction stories about porn - because it isn't judgmental or salacious. It's human and sweet and strange and lovely. It's a mystery story, an adventure. It's also, I think, a new way of telling a story. This season follows a single butterfly effect. The flap of the butterfly's wings is a boy in Brussels having an idea. His idea is how to get rich from giving the world free online porn. Over seven episodes I trace the consequences of this idea, from consequence through to consequence. If you keep going in this way, where might you end up? It turns out you end up in the most surprising and unexpected places.
So if you're thinking, why do I want to listen to a show about the tech takeover of the porn industry, I have two things to say:
1. Why wouldn't you want to listen to a show about the tech takeover of the porn industry? That's a great idea for a show.
2. Would you want to listen to a show about three women destroying a mysterious Norwegian man's stamp collection? Well, that happens at the end of episode 2. At the end of Episode 3 a woman becomes convinced that she played a part in a murder committed by an Italian priest. At the end of Episode 4 a boy in Oklahoma is forced to move to a house on the very, very edge of his town.
I hope you like our show,
Jon Ronson
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"Jon Ronson is Hunter S. Thompson on Xanax"
They say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer...wrong. Louisa's new best friend has it all - the house, the status, the money. But she's also hiding a dark secret. And as Louisa is drawn deeper into her friend's life, events take a chilling turn.
"started good but.."
For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
"NGAF - Not as simple as it sounds"
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller.
"Funny AND Oddly Inspiring...!"
In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces listeners to one of his most powerful creations: Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.
"My favorite book."
In a time long forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons off balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. As the cold returns, sinister forces are massing beyond the protective wall of the kingdom of Winterfell. To the south, the king's powers are failing, with his most trusted advisor mysteriously dead and enemies emerging from the throne's shadow.
"Review of First 5 Books"
The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them. From Mark Forsyth, the author of the number-one international best seller The Etymologicon comes an audiobook of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.
"If only there were words to describe Mark Forsyth"
How to enrich your life and destroy doubt in five seconds. Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends, and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your life and work is simply knowing how to push yourself?
"Simple and extremely powerful!"
For DEA Special Agent Marshall Everett, life as he knows it is over once a gunshot wound renders his arm useless. Barred forever from the undercover work he loves, he has nothing - no close friends, no family, no hometown or base, and no desire to settle for life behind a desk. He's called to action in the most unlikely of places when he stumbles upon a beautiful girl burying an old steel box in a Parisian park.
"Nice suspense novel with just a touch of romance"
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them to reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children.
"We All Float Down Here…"
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.
"Wait! It Mightn't Be What You Think--"
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
"Condensed, concise science meets social philosophy with humor and wit"
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn.
"Oh, the narration!"
Priceless F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts stolen in a daring heist; a young woman recruited to recover them, and a beach-resort bookseller who gets more than he bargained for - all in one long summer on Camino Island.
"Grisham wrote this?"
Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition. And the Bobs have picked a fight with an older, more powerful species with a large appetite and a short temper.
In 1988, 43-year-old Jeff Winston died of a heart attack. But then he awoke, and it was 1963; Jeff was 18 all over again, his memory of the next two decades intact. This time around, Jeff would gain all the power and wealth he never had before. This time around he'd know how to do it right. Until next time.
"Groundhog's Day, It's Not!"
After the humiliating theft of the Death Star plans and the resulting destruction of the battle station, the Empire is on the defensive. In response to this stunning defeat, the Imperial Navy has authorized the formation of an elite team of soldiers, known as Inferno Squad. Their mission: infiltrate and eliminate the remnants of Saw Gerrera's Partisans. Following the death of their leader, the Partisans have carried on his extremist legacy, determined to thwart the Empire - no matter what the cost.
"A thrilling tale from the Imperial point of view"
Based upon the graphic novels by Joe Harris - with creative direction from series creator Chris Carter - and adapted specifically for the audio format by aural auteur Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Alien: Out of the Shadows), Cold Cases marks yet another thrilling addition to the pantheon of X-Files stories. Featuring a mind-blowing and otherworldly soundscape of liquefying aliens, hissing creatures, and humming spacecraft, listeners get to experience the duo's investigations like never before.
"Could We Have More Please??"
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it.
"Perspective is everything"
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
"This is well worth listening too! Main points are."
One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.
"Great book and perfect narration"
Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start.
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If you suspect a hoarding situation in your neighborhood, it is recommended that you do not attempt to clean up the house or solve the person's hoarding problem. The best action you can take is to contact us.
If you think a family member might be a hoarder, it is recommended you seek professional help for that person or professional guidance for yourself in handling the situation. Generally speaking, hoarders may have a mental illness or a medical condition that needs evaluation and treatment.
Hoarders are unaware that their lifestyle is a problem and rarely seek treatment. Typically it is difficult to change this type of behavior without professional assistance. Consult a mental health or medical professional, or contact us for recommendations and referrals.
Upon receiving a report of suspected hoarding, an inspection and evaluation are made to determine if the property is safe. Next, county agencies representing the Fairfax County Hoarding Task Force are consulted. Task Force members work together to address the issues and offer compassionate, supportive services.
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Photo Galleries: Lakers beat Portland Trail Blazers 113-106
PORTLAND, Ore. - Too many times the Lakers' playoff fortunes appeared to evaporate.
The Lakers couldn't stop Portland's speedy rookie point guard Damian Lillard. The Lakers couldn't consistently hold onto a lead after fighting so hard to overcome a double-digit deficit. The Lakers couldn't ever get a grip on their defensive rotations.
But as they once demonstrated often during a run that secured them consecutive NBA championships three years ago, Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol turned a dicey situation into one that gives the Lakers hope their season will go beyond next week.
The Lakers' 113-106 victory Wednesday over the Portland Trail Blazers at the Rose Garden cemented a one-game edge over the Utah Jazz (41-38) for the Western Conference's eighth playoff spot with three games remaining. The Lakers also swept their first back-to-back set this season after 15 unsuccessful attempts despite playing in a venue where they have gone 5-17 since 2002.
It all started with Bryant scoring 47 points on 14 of 26 shooting in 48 minutes, an output that eclipsed the Rose Garden record held by LeBron James.
"He's just determined to get us into the playoffs," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said. "That's what happens when you open your mouth and guarantee we'll get in the playoffs. Now he's got to do it."
Bryant became the first player in NBA history to record 47 points, eight rebounds, five assists, four blocks and three steals in a game.
He reached such a feat despite averaging 45.66 minutes in the past six games.
"You don't look for excuses," Bryant said. "You don't wait for anybody else to try to make rotations. You do it yourself. By doing that, it sets an example for everybody else to do the same thing."
But this was hardly the case of Bryant continuing to bail out a team lacking offensive chemistry. He had a familiar teammate to rely on with Gasol, who posted 23 points on 11 of 15 shooting in 39 minutes. Though Dwight Howard posted 20 points on 9 of 11 shooting, most of the play centered around Bryant and Gasol.
"That's been working for us really well," said Gasol, who's averaged 15.8 points on 54.7-percent shooting and nine rebounds in the previous five games. "We have to stick it with it, especially down the stretch. It's pretty unstoppable."
The Lakers didn't always look that way.
They entered the locker room trailing 69-61, which accounted for the Lakers' second-worst defensive first-half performance of the season. The Lakers overcame that by opening the second half with a 17-2 run.
Gasol scored eight of the first 10 fourth-quarter points to tie the game up at 98-98 with 6:15 remaining. Bryant converted on two free throws, thanks to a clear-path foul from Lillard. Bryant then followed that up with a 23-foot jumper that put the Lakers up 106-100 with 4:09 left. Once Bryant stepped to the free throw line with 28.2 seconds remaining, Lakers fans drowned out the Rose Garden with "MVP" chants.
"That's very unexpected, particularly in this building considering all the history that we have," Bryant said. "But I appreciate it especially at this stage of this career."
At this stage, the Lakers remain alive in the playoff chase. At least for now.
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Ok, this is a sex-slave vampire story. Here is a sneak peak to the first chapter: Chapter One I woke up to the smell of smoke. Bolting out of bed, I ran out of my room and into my fathers, he wasn't there so I ran to the kitchen where I see him, on the ground, unmoving. "Dad!" I call, "Daddy," I scream after a few seconds. I started to run towards my father when I feel a hand go on my waist. "NO! Daddy! Daddy help!" I screamed. "It's ok, we're here to help," I hear a female's voice. I turn my head to see a firefighter and I stop struggling. A few minutes later, I see the firefighters that came in come out, holding stretcher. When the firefighters turn, I saw a body bag on the stretcher and I knew my father was dead. "NO!" I cried falling to my knees, bawling my eyes out. After several hours had past, I found I had no living relatives so I was to move to an orphanage. When I walked into the orphanage's door, a bell from the door rang. The two males that was there turned.
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Book Review
Students at a local school were assigned to read two books,
'Titanic' & 'My Life' by Bill Clinton.
One student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories!
His cool professor gave him an A+ for this report.
Titanic: cost - $29.99
Clinton : cost - $29.99
Titanic: Over 3 hours to read
Clinton : Over 3 hours to read
Titanic: The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.
Clinton : The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.
Titanic: Jack is a starving artist.
Clinton : Bill is a bull**** artist.
Titanic: In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar.
Clinton : Ditto for Monica
Titanic: During the ordeal, Rose's dress gets ruined.
Clinton : Ditto for Monica.
Titanic: Jack teaches Rose to spit.
Clinton : Let's not go there.
Titanic: Rose gets to keep her jewellery
Clinton : Monica is forced to return her gifts.
Titanic: Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life.
Clinton : Clinton remembers Monica for the rest of his life.
Titanic: Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen.
Clinton : Monica...ooh, let's not go there, either..
Titanic: Jack surrenders to an icy death.
Clinton : Bill goes home to Hilary - basically the same thing.
Just love this oneI've learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Well, the best suggestion is to read in the forums, if nothig of that helps you, then we can try to help, but you need to read first. There is lots of people with intel card issues...Some of them have fixed the problem, some other haven't yet. But I imagine it depends on the intel model.
By the way, what type of Intel HD are you referring?..Model?
have you tried getting the video driver loaded? have you searched the wiki to see if there is something with intel cards?...
If you do not know how to do some basics things in linux, you need a little linux basics.