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Aidan O'Hara: No closer to solving the riddle of Aiden McGeady
In his recently serialised book, former Labour leader Eamon Gilmore reveals a moment that can't have happened too often when two people are discussing football. Both were happy to raise a glass to Aiden McGeady.
"We had a bilateral meeting lasting several hours - and continuing over lunch," writes Gilmore of his summit with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"Lavrov proposed the first toast: 'To Ireland'. After that we toasted Russia, the friendship between our countries, the United Nations, peace, poetry, love... there were several toasts to Aidan McGeady, the Irish footballer who was then playing with Lavrov's team, Spartak Moscow, and of whom Sergei was a fan."
For a man who went through life spelling Eamon with one 'n' it was surprising to see McGeady's Christian name misspelled (albeit to the way it should be in this writer's view), but there was at least some clarity of thought in Gilmore's tactics at the meeting, as he refilled his glass with water rather than vodka.
"By the time the lunch ended, Aidan McGeady's feats were improving with every toast, but I was still stone-cold sober," he adds.
The cruel way of viewing this story is that it was the man who was knocking back shots that was lionising McGeady's ability and there are plenty who would argue that he is a player who would drive you to drink.
The final 10 minutes of Ireland's game against Poland encapsulated so much of his career.
In the 81st minute, he dropped a shoulder, created some room and crossed for Richard Keogh, who should have headed the goal which could have allowed Irish supporters to be currently planning a trip to France rather than fretting nervously over the next eight days and a play-off against Bosnia.
As the clock ticked into injury time in Warsaw, McGeady got the ball in a similar position to where he had crossed for Keogh, made space, and the next time the ball landed was around 10 yards behind the goal thanks to a horribly sliced cross.
So often is the phrase used about him that you could be forgiven for thinking that "McGeady's end product" was his actual name.
No manager has shown more faith in him than Martin O'Neill but, with just 45 minutes of club football this season to add to two international appearances, even the Ireland boss is starting to sound a little frustrated.
"I think we should go past the point now of talking about Aiden's potential," said O'Neill at the announcement of the squad to face Bosnia. "Aiden is not the 18-year-old kid that I brought into the side. He has terrific ability, some managers see certain things in him.
"I was a great believer in him in that sense to do something a wee bit different and that remains so."
If he features in both play-off games, McGeady will join Packie Bonner on 80 caps and move into the top 10 of all-time appearances for Ireland among several legends whom he seems destined never to join in the realms of Irish football folklore.
McGeady's commitment to Ireland has never been in question and, having slipped down the pecking order dramatically at Everton, international football is now his best chance of showing his undoubted talent.
Ideally, international managers want their players to be playing regular club football but, in the coming days, O'Neill has a chance to motivate McGeady and improve his self-belief to the point where he can make a significant contribution and, perhaps, produce something to join some of those legends.
His late winner in Georgia must rank among the most technically difficult goals ever scored in an Ireland shirt and it's why, for all of the frustration he brings, O'Neill is likely to need somebody like him to produce a little bit of magic to get Ireland over the line.
"Fitness can be an issue," admitted O'Neill. "But I still think he is worth it for us that he might just come on and do something or, even if he was to start a game, give a cameo role. That is why he's worth having around."
There are many solid professionals in the Ireland squad, who will give the manager a performance rating of six or seven out of 10 every game but, as we saw in the group games, it only takes a tiny bit of quality to separate evenly matched teams.
There wasn't much between Ireland and Poland other than Robert Lewandowski's brilliance; Shaun Moloney's magnificent goal was the difference in Glasgow, in Germany and at home to Armenia it was Jeff Hendrick who produced the moments of magic to give his team the chance to pick up points.
In Edin Dzeko and Miralem Pjanic, Bosnia have two players playing at a level above anything in Ireland's squad.
McGeady isn't near that quality but could be O'Neill's wildcard to produce something from nowhere that could be the difference.
Two solid, 'give nothing away' well-organised performances are unlikely to cut it in the next eight days.
Last week, Everton released a video of a golf-chipping challenge in which the left-handed McGeady attempted to chip a golf ball into a bucket from around 10 yards.
It took professional golfer Tommy Fleetwood three attempts, then John Stones had 15 before McGeady stepped up. His first try dropped left; second hit the bucket; third was similar to the first; fourth was a horrible effort that fell way short before the fifth landed straight in.
It was a good metaphor for what he gives as a player and can give Ireland in the coming days. Maddening inconsistency, a riddle which nobody seems any closer to solving but the feeling that, perhaps, he can do something which none of his team-mates can.
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Top Six Songs About Diamonds:
Sheryl Crow "Diamond Ring"
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But I blew up our love nest
By making one little request
Diamond ring , diamond ring"
Paul Simon "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
"She was physically forgotten
Then she slipped into my pocket
With my car keys
She said you've taken me for granted
Because I please you
Wearing these diamonds"
Miranda Lambert "Dear Diamond"
"Dear diamond, pretty and new
Perfectly flawless, too good to be true
Dear diamond, you shine like the sun
You wrap around my finger
Just like he does"
Rihanna "Diamonds"
"Find light in the beautiful sea
I choose to be happy
You and I, you and I
Weāre like diamonds in the sky"
Shirley Bassey "Diamonds are Forever"
"I don't need love,
For what good will love do me?
Diamonds never lie to me,
For when love's gone,
They'll luster on."
The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
"Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking-glass ties.
Suddenly, someone is there at the turnstile:
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
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Dive Site: Comino Caves (Santa Maria Caves)
Location: Eastern side of Comino
Description: Cave dive
Depth: 16 metres (52 feet)
Visibility: 25 metres (80 feet)
Rating: *****
The boat anchored in a very sheltered inlet and we descended the shot line to be met by hundreds of saddle bream whom we fed with bread the dive school had provided for us. Once all the bread had been devoured and photos had been taken we followed our dive leader through a brilliant cave complex. It was very pretty with the sun shining through from time to time. Although I'm not over happy in caves, they were so open and pretty I felt very relaxed. Once out the other side, we swam amongst boulders, seeing octopus and spiny lobster and finally came back through the same caves which looked totally different coming the other way! There was another cave we swam through and a nice arch before coming back to the boat.
We dived this site in August 2008. There is a wonderful fantasy element to this dive as you move from light to dark and see the sun shining down through crevices. We fed the fish at the start as well.
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Archive for August, 2017
In regards to the bus complaint…I should add that last year the bus picked her up at 7:25 to arrive at school on time. why the huge difference when going to the high school. may be we were the last stop before school and now we will be the first? This does not seem right. if that is the case, make it fair and be the last stop on the morning and the first in the afternoon so that not both bus rides are and hour and 20 minutes long
A. Routing has the following elements which determine pickup and drop off, distance from home to school (for all riders on a bus combined, the bell schedule, the amount of time required for the bus to stop and pick up each child, space at the bus port, and what each bus is required to do after […]
How hypocritical can Shen be? Coaches preach that players need to stay out of trouble in order to play. Then they allow players who were suspended for drug use to continue to try out. I guess ithis is why no one ever feels they need to be responsible for their actions since there are no repercussions. Thanks Shen for going against everything I have always taught my kids.
A. Shenendehowa is a place of learning. We teach children that no mistake is too great that they can't recover from it if they are willing to accept the consequences and learn from their mistake. We never comment on disciplinary actions and no one other than those directly involved ever knows all of the circumstances […]
I read in a previous Grapevine answer that the prayer room IS available for students, and in another post that it is available during the month of Ramadan. Could you please elaborate whether the prayer room will be available year long? I appreciate your time, Thank you!
A. It is not a prayer room. It was an empty office space that was made available for those who needed a private space to fulfill a religious obligation. A student who needs a private place to fulfill a religious obligation can make a request to the principal at any time and it will be […]
As a student who will not be available on the HSE walkthrough date(s), may I please ask if/where maps of the building can be found? Thank you!
A. You can pick up a map in the main office on the first day of school. Per advice of law enforcement, we do not publicize maps of our schools online.
Are there going to be Sports Physicals for Fall and Winter Sports? We missed the Summer Sports Physical and would really like to take part.
A. The physicals held in the summer are for all three seasons. If you miss it, you will have to get a private physical. Please contact the athletic department for more information.
Why is the special occasion dress code so different for boys vs. girls? It is especially noticeable for events at the end of the school year, in heat and humidity. The girls can be much more comfortable in light short sleeveless summer dresses and sandals. The boys have to wear pants, shirt, tie, socks, dress shoes. What if you make the girls wear dresses that cover them neck to ankles, stockings, and dress shoes? Sounds silly? Why can't the boys wear nice shorts, shirt, and sandals?
A. Talk to your principal.
Could you share what schools / grade levels will have Chromebooks when school resumes in September? Thank You!
A. For the 1:1 initiative, all students in middle school gr. 6-8 will receive a chromebook for use throughout the school year. Other grade levels have chromebooks or Ipads available in the classroom.
Is there a way to get 11 credits senior year. I failed one class and waited a year on another and am afraid that I wont be able to graduate. So basically will I be allowed to graduate if I can't get the 11 credits.
A. Contact your counselor. There are way too many variables for graduation and specific credits in certain areas. Also, by working with the counselor, you may be options for June vs. August graduation.


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Clint Didier, a tea party-backed Republican and former Washington Redskins player, announced Thursday that he would be giving away three guns to raise his profile among a crowded field vying to succeed retiring Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.).
Didier, who has support from the National Republican Congressional Committee, is tapping into one of this cycle's hottest conservative campaign gimmicks with his contest.
Many of the Republicans who have raffled off guns seemed to relish the opportunity to tout their Second Amendment rights in the wake of shootings in Aurora, Colorado and in Newtown, Connecticut.
However, the email-grabbing tactic isn't terribly successful at the ballot box: neither state Sen. Lee Bright (R-S.C.) nor Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) won their respective Republican Senate primaries.
Below is a round-up of some of the current (and former) candidates using guns to attract new supporters.


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The statement below was from a September 1 report on the Round Lake loon family by Ron and Lori Pool. Since then, the surviving chick has suffered no deadly attacks known to the lake residents, and there is every reason to believe it has flown off the lake to begin its migration.
"We lost a chick yesterday afternoon to an invading loon. The other chick was under attack under our neighbors dock, however I jumped in a kayak and ran it off. I was out about a half hour before the adult invader gave up. It was at that time we found the dead chick off shore about 100 yds. Last night we experienced another attack on the remaining chick as we peddled just east of the condos. It was to dark to determine if the chick survived. This morning I went out and found the chick swimming alone just east of the bouys, center of lake. No parent loon was around. Yesterday morning one parent was with the 2 chicks."
We are discussing whether to attempt to encourage the loons to establish a second territory on the lake by placing a nesting raft in the NW corner off Conservancy property. While there's no guarantee installing a raft actually can encourage loons to nest, it has been done on nearby lakes (Douglas, for instance) in recent years.


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Warner Bros.' "A Star is Born" is, by all accounts, a musically-driven film that, truth be told, belongs in the "musical" category at the Golden Globes. Ditto 20th Century Fox's by-the-books "Bohemian Rhapsody," which features an incredible performance from Rami Malek, the latter recounts the ups and downs of the band Queen.
So what's the deal with both films being submitted as dramas for the 2019 Golden Globe awards? Calculated strategy, of course. Especially when it comes to 'Star,' the Bradley Cooper-directed film is going to be a major player at the Globes and Oscars, Warner doesn't want it to be seen as a 'light' musically-driven picture, they want it to be seen as a meaty statement, which, of course, it isn't. It's a remake of a remake of a remake, which, by all accounts, pulls the same strings as its predecessors. Think of it as an updated, modern-day version of the 1974 Kris Kristofferson/Barbara Streisand version, which also takes place in the country music world. Cooper's version is slightly better, but not by all that much.
Anne Thompson broke this story yesterday and it's gotten pundits scratching their heads. But I don't really think there's much to be confused about here -- being relegated to the 'musical' category is a downgrade in terms of how your film may be perceived at the Oscars. There's a lot of fluff in that category, no need to be part of that crowd, especially when 'Star' has a shot at winning the Drama category.


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My second podcast has arrived, and it is heavier on the theory than the controversy - at least I hope.
In this podcast, I submit that gaming - specifically the creativity behind it - is dead. This is certainly not a new idea - but I attempt to explain where we have been and look back at what made us successful. Where are we going? That's up to us.
Expect a look at the past, a bit of gaming philosophy, and a short, semi-technical story.
I look forward to your feedback.
Steve Meretzky has some comments up at Game Set Watch from an interview at GDC. If the name "Meretzky" doesn't ring a bell, you may not have played some of the finest text adventure games ever made.


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First 'North Jersey BBQ Showcase' Spotlights Jersey's Best Pitmasters
This past Thursday, the first-ever North Jersey BBQ Showcase was held at an event space inside the Westfield Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, NJ. The event was organized by pitmaster Robert Austin Cho of Kimchi Smoke and featured more than 10 vendors from around New Jersey and New York, including some of New Jersey's best known BBQ joints.
From New Jersey, there was Red, White, and Que Smokehouse, Hamilton Pork, Big Papa Smoke'm, Smoked, Fink's BBQ Smokehouse, and Kimchi Smoke. Non-BBQ vendors from NJ included Empanada Mania, Carlito's Trailer, Glaze Donuts, and Mr. Cupcakes.
Representing New York was the Handsome Devil BBQ Team (which I've written about previously) and Mighty Quinn's. (However, while MQ is best known for its NYC presence, it now has two locations in NJ too.)
I ate several spectacular dishes at the event. Standouts in BBQ included the sumptuous pork cheeks from Mighty Quinn's, the creative pulled pork tostadas from Big Papa Smoke'm, the glazed pork belly from Red, White, and Que, the smoked pork butt and Mexican street corn from Hamilton Pork, and the whole hog from Handsome Devil. In the non-BBQ category, I adored the bacon cheeseburger empanada from Empanada Mania and the maple bacon cupcakes from Mr. Cupcakes.
At the end of the night, three winners were crowed from the vendors, with Smoked winning the coveted Judge's Prize. Additionally, Handsome Devil won the People's Choice Prize and Hamilton Pork won the Bloggers' Choice Prize.
While there were a good number of people there (including Jersey-based rapper Fetty Wap) and many of them were excited about the event, attendance was a tad lower than expected. I'd attribute this to two factors — timing and pricing. With the event held on a Thursday night against the first night of March Madness, it's understandable less people would be available to attend any event, no matter how good. Second, the event cost $50 for day-of tickets and that did not include drinks, so it's easy to imagine less people attending simply because they couldn't afford to. I sincerely hope this event happens again, but perhaps on a Saturday and with the cost down slightly.
Ultimately, the first North Jersey BBQ Showcase was a success and helped show that Jersey has a burgeoning BBQ scene that is worth paying close attention to. Nearly every dish at the event was full of life and flavor and experimentation that makes the the greater New York City metro area so exciting when it comes to BBQ. It made me realize I haven't spent enough time across the river in New Jersey, and that's something I desperately need to remedy soon.
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
I should probably start off by saying that I have a disgusting fear of the dark. I also hate leaving my toes uncovered in bed, because I can't help but imagine a bony hand pulling me under and taking me away in the middle of the night.
I started the Mara Dyer trilogy in my room, in the dark, with the blinds from my window open. I had to walk by countless mirrors while reading the first and second book, and I dashed across the second floor balcony and leapt from the hall into my bed more times than I would like to admit.
Most of my fears have been with me since I was eight years old and forced to take the trash to the road in the middle of the night after watching Jeepers Creepers, but some of my recent fear came straight from reading about Mara seeing people behind her in mirrors.
I avoided mirrors at all cost last week.
Mara is an interesting character, and Michelle Hodkin is a very talented writer. I had absolutely no idea what was going on with Mara the entire story, and I was completely hooked by the weirdness; I was intrigued by the idea that Mara could hurt people just by thinking about hurting them.
And each time she saw her friends, friends that had died, behind her in a mirror I was able to see them as well. And I felt her anger each time her mother didn't believe her.
This is not the longest review of a book I've ever written; however, there are two sentences from the story that I feel are important to me.
"Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real."
Throughout the story Mara does not know what is real and what is not. The only people that seem to believe her are her brother, Daniel, and Noah. She isn't sure she even believes herself, and I was able to relate to that idea in my own way.
Thinking that people don't like me doesn't make it true. Thinking that I don't have as much talent as other people doesn't make it true. I think we can kill our own dreams ourselves. So maybe we should believe in our stories when other people are telling us they are good and real and important.
"You're not broken."
We don't need to be fixed, because we aren't broken. A lot of people deal with insecurity, and a lot of people go through time when they don't believe in themselves. Mara wants to be better, and I applaud her for that. I always want to be better than I was yesterday, and I want to learn from my insecurities and fears.
I want to be brave.
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A man was arrested late last night by police investigating a terrifying knifepoint raid at a Coventry mobile phone shop.
Two robbers targeted the VV Phone and Gift Gallery in Radford Road, Coventry, at 6.25pm on Saturday, April 16.
One of the men, who was wielding a 12-inch machete, threatened the 35-year-old shop owner and forced him to a corner at the back of the shop.
At the same time, a balaclava-clad accomplice smashed a glass counter with a hammer.
The pair fled with 80 mobile phones worth £10,000.
The raid was captured on the shop's CCTV and the images were published in the Evening Telegraph as the shop owner and police appealed for witnesses.
Today Sgt Chris Bates, of Stoney Stanton Road police's robbery team, said: "We have a man in custody at Stoney Stanton Road in connection with the offence.
"He was arrested late last night.
"Property has been recovered and we will continue our inquiries."
It was the second time this year the shop has been targeted.
In January, 120 phones, valued at about £17,000, were stolen in an overnight burglary.
After this CCTV cameras, new security systems and a safe were installed.
Any witnesses to the robbery earlier this month can contact police at Stoney Stanton Road on 0845 113 5000.


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James Haskell the young and stylish professional English rugby player has recently launched a Rugby World Cup collection in collaboration with young rugby fashion brand Front Up. He has also joined the brand as an Executive Director and TSK caught up with James as the Rugby World Cup is about to start to find out a little more about what inspires him in the world of style and fashion.
A six-foot four Flanker, Haskell's early career saw him play rugby at Maidenhead Rugby Club before joining the London Wasps academy as a highly rated teenager. Haskell became the youngest player to represent Wasps on the professional stage when he was handed his debut at the age of 18 in 2002, while at the same time making great strides on the international front representing England U19 and then England U21. Outstanding performances for England U21 paved his way into the England Elite Squad. won over 40 caps so far.
Haskell's first stint at Wasps saw him represent the Club from 2002 through to 2009 where he was part of sides that won Premiership and Heineken Cup titles, before deciding to experience life overseas and joining Stade Francais where he spent two seasons. Haskell re-sgined with Wasps for the 2012/13 season but decided to continue his overseas education heading to Japan to play for the Ricoh Black Rams.


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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday narrated a bizarre tale from her experience with the health facilities in the city that gave her the shock of her life. A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) conducted at a nursing home in the city displayed her appendix, which had been surgically removed years back.
- Mamata Banerjee unhappy with the states private health sector
- She recalled the incident to relate her personal experience
- She advised nursing home authorities to change the scanner
Ms Banerjee, speaking in the assembly, cited the incident to relate her personal experience about the poor state of affairs in the private health sector.
"I was once admitted to a city nursing home and underwent an MRI test. Though my appendix was surgically removed in a previous operation, the test result strangely showed the organ was in place.
"The doctor was also baffled with the result when I mentioned it to him," Ms Banerjee said in her remarks on the West Bengal Clinical Establishments (Registration Regulation and Transparency) Bill, 2017, that was tabled and passed in the assembly during the day.
She said she advised the nursing home authorities to change the MRI scanner as such wrong results could be "dangerous".
"I told the nursing home (authorities) that they should change the machine. Either the machine was bad or it lacked proper maintenance. If tests are conducted in this way, it would become dangerous for anybody," the Chief Minister said.
She, however, refused to name the nursing home.
The new bill tabled on Friday includes various degrees of penal measures against offending private healthcare providers in the state and introduces a bunch of new regulations like not denying treatments to accident, rape acid attack and disaster victims even if they are unable to pay for it.
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We hear so much about Liquid Natural Fuel – so what's it and the way is it made? Right here, now we have a more in depth look at the fossil gas of our time.
Liquefied Natural Gasoline or LNG because it is thought is a product which is product of close to one hundred per cent methane and is transformed from its authentic form right into a liquid for storage reasons.
Properties of LNG
One in every of the benefits of LNG is that it reduces the quantity of the gasoline by 600 times and so is less complicated to transport, while can also be odourless, colourless and non corrosive.
This liquefaction process is one which purifies the vitality medium for use as energy. The method will get rid of impurities corresponding to mud, water, helium and other heavy hydrocarbons. This gas is then purified at atmospheric strain and condensed right into a liquid at a really low temperature of minus 162 degrees Celsius. This creates the LNG we use and is made from round 90 p.c, with a small mixture of different gases combined in.
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LNG is not as dense as water, which weighs in at 1KG/L and is in truth between 0.41KG/L to zero.5KG/L. This creates a variation in heating value of the gasoline. The vitality density is roughly the identical as propane or ethanol at round 60 p.c of diesel and fewer still than that of petrol, and is round 70 p.c the value of the fuel. Fuel with a better energy density is cheaper to transport as there's the next power density to the quantity of space wanted – this determines production costs. This manufacturing cost has a knock-on impact on enterprise electricity charges and gasoline rates as you will notice under.
Gas on this liquid type is a lot easier to transport than in its traditional type and so is far more price effective a gas. This fuel is fitted into a smaller area similar to pipe, lorry, or by boat if no pipe exists. These sea vessels cryogenically freeze the gasoline to transport it, earlier than it's reheated and turned back right into a usable format at the destination point for usage in businesses. This process increases business electricity rates and fuel rates.
This lower in the scale of the gas makes it far more value efficient to switch as now it may be fitted in to a smaller area equivalent to a pipe, lorry or if over sea where no pipe exists by a cryogenically frozen sea vessel. When the fuel gets to an area it is reheated and turned again into gas in its usable kind.
The manufacturing of gas occurs everywhere in the world, yet it's Qatar and other areas in the Middle East that produce probably the most LNG. The most important piece of infrastructure to supply the LNG is the plant which wants an LNG prepare. The largest of these trains is at present in Qatar, with the second largest is in Trinidad and Tobago and the third in Egypt. These plants usually are linked directly to impartial plants in the encompassing space. There has been a huge development of those plants worldwide as a consequence of reducing in costs of manufacturing in the last few years, ironic with the speed of business power charges.
This issue alongside the growing prices of oil has seen a large rise in the amount of this type of gas in production around the globe. LNG has also adopted these of oil costs since 2003 – a far cry from the buyer's market of the nineties. Receiving terminals for the product currently exist in 18 nations, 18 nations, including India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, the UK, the US, Chile, and the Dominican Republic and there are plans for a lot of more to receive these services.


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Refusing to extend the long term visa of a man who was born in Pakistan but brought up in India and has been living in the country for 49 years now, the Bombay High Court expressed "surprise" that such a visa was issued to him earlier, considering he did not have a Pakistani passport. Stating that the issue needs to be considered seriously, the court has asked the Government of India to investigate the matter.
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The man, Abbas Karadia, is now seeking citizenship of India. Karadia's father was "born in in undivided India at Sidhpur in Gujarat and moved to Mumbai in 1942", according to the petition. In May 1962, he married a woman of Indian citizenship who had migrated to Pakistan before partition.
"She came to India under a Pakistani passport for marriage. She then travelled to Karachi for delivery. While she returned to India after her child was born on April 19, 1965, no separate passport was issued to the infant," states the plea.
Expressing surprise that Karadia did not possess a passport issued by Pakistan, the high court said, "He further claims that the Government of India granted him a long term visa. This needs to be seriously investigated by the Government of India."
In 2012, when Karadia applied to travel on the Haj pilgrimage, his passport application was refused on the ground that he was not a citizen of India. He then applied for a Long Term Visa (LTV), which, according to his petition, was valid from December 26, 2012 to December 24, 2015.
He had also applied for citizenship, but that application is still pending before the Ministry of External Affairs. The LTV, which is pending before the Mumbai Police Crime Branch, has not been processed, with the police seeking his Pakistani passport, failing which he will have to leave India.
"Admittedly, Karadia is not holding a passport issued by Pakistan and has not been granted citizenship. There is no material to show that a visa was granted to him since 2013. We failed to understand how this prayer for extension of visa can be granted," said Justice A S Oka, questioning how the petitioner had been residing in the country without a passport.
The petitioner's counsel Sujay Kantawala said the petitioner and his family had tried to get in touch with authorities in Karachi and written to them for obtaining the passport of his mother to show that no separate passport was issued to him, but there had been no response from Pakistan in this regard.
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James Shields Looks Awesome in 4-2 Victory over A'sFollow @RoyalsBlue_com
Any time James Shields is on the bump for a rubber match, Royals fans should feel confident about their team's chances. In 10 series-deciding games that Shields has started in a Royals uniform, Kansas City came into Sunday with a whopping 9-1 record. Fortunately for the Royals, Shields would continue his trend to lead his team to a 4-2 win, clinching a victorious series against the best team in baseball.
Pitching in front of dozens of family and friends, James Shields dominated the highest scoring offense in baseball. He flirted with perfection, retiring the first 15 A's hitters before Josh Reddick led off the sixth inning with a home run. By the time his offense finally rewarded him with decent run support, Shields had stifled the A's over eight splendid innings.
About that run support – it was nonexistent through the first four innings, as Scott Kazmir matched Shields in what appeared to be yet another Royals/A's pitching duel. The Royals were getting hits (five of them in the first four frames), but double plays constantly killed rallies.
In the fifth, everything changed. Christian Colon led off with a double to deep right, the first extra base hit of the game. Following a strikeout, Alcides Escobar walked, and that immediately gave way to a trio of consecutive base hits. Nori Aoki doubled home the game's first run, and Omar Infante followed with a huge double down the left field line. The knock scored both Escobar and Aoki, pushing the lead to 3-0 – all the Royals would need with Shields on his game. Perez added an insurance run by singling home Infante.
While the Royals eventually got to Kazmir, the A's had no such luck with Shields, who cruised through the first five innings without yielding a baserunner. Reddick's homer in the sixth didn't phase him; by the time he retired the A's in order in the seventh, it appeared that he was in line to try for his first complete game of the season. After Reddick homered again in the eighth, Wade Davis began warming in the bullpen, but Shields managed to hold off Oakland. His final line: eight innings, two runs, two strikeouts, zero walks. After needing 124 pitches to get through six innings last Tuesday, he required just 102 for eight innings on Sunday – his fewest in a game since June 3.
It was the first time that Shields went eight innings since April 17. A month ago, fans were concerned about his health, claiming he was "hurt" and "done." His pitch counts were regularly being taxed, and his command of his changeup was a disaster. Over his last six starts, Shields has surrendered just nine earned runs over a total of 40.2 innings. That amounts to an ERA of 2.01, and a K/BB ratio of 35/7. His superb changeup command was key in keeping the A's off balance all afternoon. Of the 24 outs he recorded, 10 of them came via popup.
Greg Holland worked an uneventful ninth inning to nail down the series win, and collected his 31st save of the season. Aided by the Mariners losing to Baltimore on Sunday afternoon, Holland once again surpassed Seattle's Fernando Rodney for the most saves in the American League.
Shields (10-6) earned his first win since July 7 in Tampa. It marked the eighth consecutive season that James surpassed the double-digit win mark. Kazmir (12-4) failed in his attempt to tie Max Scherzer and Rick Porcello atop the AL wins leaderboard with 13.
When the Royals need James Shields most, he steps up. Nobody mocked his "Big Game" nickname on Sunday. It was the first time that Oakland lost a series at home since Seattle took three of four from them way back from May 5-7. Entering the weekend, Kansas City was preparing to face three of the top six ERA leaders in the league. They walked away with two of three, making a statement to the rest of the league that they're not going away any time soon.
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Saturday was the breaking point, and Manchester United clearly benefited from his absence. Thank God it did, or we may not have heard the end of pointless pontification on the subject.Gary Neville pointed out in the build up to the Leicester game that the break will allow Wayne Rooney to regroup and re-immerge as a player who can contribute for years to come. His future contributions will have to be less domineering than his early performances this season. We also referenced this need for Rooney to reinvent in our previous article weeks ago.
We tell you this not to blow smoke up our own back sides, but to merely point out that a less reactionary approach to the game will lead you to far more sensible conclusions. This is the reason we started Thoughtful Football.
What is far harder to predict is whether Rooney will reinvent himself like a Ryan Giggs, Scholes or Gerrard. This will be down to his personality. It'll depend on whether he wants to remain at the top in some capacity, or play a more dominant role in a lesser league (aka MLS). It's far harder to predict because we don't know Wayne personally. We'd be second guessing his character and that wouldn't be fair.
A second example the Thoughtful Football approach in full motion are the two Paul Pogba articles that we've published. The first explaining that regardless of his performances on the pitch, that he is worth every penny. His shirt sales, and brand equity alone make the monetary argument redundant. He is basically a free transfer.
Our second article focused more on his footballing ability. Write off Pogba at your Peril is an example of how Thoughtful Football fights against the wave of reactionary punditry. Pogba hadn't played well, Pundits and journalists were writing him off, only to be made to eat their words following his performance against Leicester. Just be a little more considered.Pogba clearly benefited from the presence of dynamic but educated footballers who were able to quickly fill the spaces he vacated. Sadly for Rooney, he also benefited from the captains absence. It allowed Pogba to be the Roy of the Rovers for the team, a role which he is far more capable of carrying out due to his athleticism.
It'll be interesting to see if Mourinho sticks with that side against a tougher opposition. Or how Herrera, Pogba and Mata would fair against a midfield three rather than a two. My feeling is they still miss a defensively minded midfield specialist. Another point made in a previous Pogba post and reiterated by Gary Neville in the Daily Mail this week.
Finally we get to the title of this article. It's something we've missed in the midst of the Rooney saga. Zlatan Ibrahimovich gave his most impressive performance without Rooney and without needing to score a goal. He dropped deeper, and linked up play. Zlatan displayed more mobility than we had realised he possessed, but he also demonstrated the intelligence we all knew he had.
Ibrahimovich was doing what Rooney had been trying to do for the last three weeks. This not only illustrates his superiority, but also his understanding of his place on the team. When Rooney was on the pitch, he allowed him to play these passes and assume his rightful role as leader.
It was like watching a semi-pro player turn up and play as a ringer for a terrible Sunday league side, but do so with such respect that you wouldn't even realise how good he was. This emotional intelligence was epitomised after the Bournemouth match where Zlatan said he thought Wayne Rooney was the MOTM, and in the post match interview against Southampton where he stressed that Wayne Rooney was the leader. Anyone trying to accuse Zlatan of being arrogant, would find it difficult to build a case based on his conduct this season.
The truth is that Zlatan Ibrahimovich is more of a natural leader than Rooney. One of the Northampton players gave an interview in which he explained the Zlatan effect. He elevates his team mates and backs it up with supreme ability.
That isn't to say Rooney isn't a leader, but it's like comparing Maximus Aurelius to a really a really good team leader at an RBS call centre in Southend-On-Sea.
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BE SURE TO skip down and read/view all three Kiev installments. Here's the last part of our Kiev time–a shout out from the leader of the Tallin, Estonia church. We had a two day retreat with all the Kiev, Ukraine, and Central Euro leaders. Who is that beautiful emcee on the intro?
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St Peter's Academy had the fantastic opportunity of taking ten Y9 pupils to the 'Hot Air Literary Festival', on 9th and 10th June, where they were able to attend an audience with the renowned children's author Nick Hornby and inspirational television presenter Kirstie Allsopp.
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Date of Birth:August 2, 1924
Date of Death:December 1, 1987
Place of Birth:New York, New York
Place of Death:St. Paul de Vence, France
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I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life. I have a drink in my hand, there is a bottle at my elbow. I watch my reflection in the darkening gleam of the window pane. My reflection is tall, perhaps rather like an arrow, my blond hair gleams. My face is like a face you have seen many times. My ancestors conquered a continent, pushing across death-laden plains, until they came to an ocean which faced away from Europe into a darker past.
I may be drunk by morning but that will not do any good. I shall take the train to Paris anyway. The train will be the same, the people, struggling for comfort and, even, dignity on the straight-backed, wooden, third-class seats will be the same, and I will be the same. We will ride through the same changing countryside northward, leaving behind the olive trees and the sea and all of the glory of the stormy southern sky, into the mist and rain of Paris. Someone will offer to share a sandwich with me, someone will offer me a sip of wine, someone will ask me for a match. People will be roaming the corridors outside, looking out of windows, looking in at us. At each stop, recruits in their baggy brown uniforms and colored hats will open the compartment door to ask Complet? We will all nod Yes, like conspirators, smiling faintly at each other as they continue through the train. Two or three of them will end up before our compartment door, shouting at each other in their heavy, ribald voices, smoking their dreadful army cigarettes. There will be a girl sitting opposite me who will wonder why I have not been flirting with her, who will be set on edge by the presence of the recruits. It will all be the same, only I will be stiller.
And the countryside is still tonight, this countryside reflected through my image in the pane. This house is just outside a small summer resort — which is still empty, the season has not yet begun. It is on a small hill, one can look down on the lights of the town and hear the thud of the sea. My girl, Hella, and I rented it in Paris, from photographs, some months ago. Now she has been gone a week. She is on the high seas now, on her way back to America.
I can see her, very elegant, tense, and glittering, surrounded by the light which fills the salon of the ocean liner, drinking rather too fast, and laughing, and watch- ing the men. That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint- Germain-des-Pres, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with. That was how it began, that was all it meant to me; I am not sure now, in spite of everything, that it ever really meant more than that to me. And I don't think it ever really meant more than that to her — at least not until she made that trip to Spain and, finding herself there, alone, began to wonder, perhaps, if a lifetime of drinking and watching the men was exactly what she wanted. But it was too late by that time. I was already with Giovanni. I had asked her to marry me before she went away to Spain; and she laughed and I laughed but that, somehow, all the same, made it more serious for me, and I persisted; and then she said she would have to go away and think about it. And the very last night she was here, the very last time I saw her, as she was packing her bag, I told her that I had loved her once and I made myself believe it. But I wonder if I had. I was thinking, no doubt, of our nights in bed, of the peculiar innocence and confidence, which will never come again, which had made those nights so delightful, so unrelated to past, present, or anything to come, so unrelated, finally, to my life since it was not necessary for me to take any but the most mechanical responsibility for them. And these nights were being acted out under a foreign sky, with no one to watch, no penalties attached — it was this last fact which was our undoing, for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom. I suppose this was why I asked her to marry me: to give myself something to be moored to. Perhaps this was why, in Spain, she decided that she wanted to marry me. But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.
I was thinking, when I told Hella that I had loved her, of those days before anything awful, irrevocable, had happened to me, when an affair was nothing more than an affair. Now, from this night, this coming morning, no matter how many beds I find myself in between now and my final bed, I shall never be able to have any more of those boyish, zestful affairs — which are, really, when one thinks of it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation. People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted. If this were not so I would not be alone in this house tonight. Hella would not be on the high seas. And Giovanni would not be about to perish, sometime between this night and this morning, on the guillotine.
I repent now — for all the good it does — one particular lie among the many lies I've told, told, lived, and believed. This is the lie which I told to Giovanni but never succeeded in making him believe, that I had never slept with a boy before. I had. I had decided that I never would again. There is something fantastic in the spectacle I now present to myself of having run so far, so hard, across the ocean even, only to find myself brought up short once more before the bulldog in my own backyard — the yard, in the meantime, having grown smaller and the bulldog bigger.
I have not thought of that boy — Joey — for many years; but I see him quite clearly tonight. It was several years ago. I was still in my teens, he was about my age, give or take a year. He was a very nice boy, too, very quick and dark, and always laughing. For a while he was my best friend. Later, the idea that such a person could have been my best friend was proof of some horrifying taint in me. So I forgot him. But I see him very well tonight.
It was in the summer, there was no school. His parents had gone someplace for the weekend and I was spending the weekend at his house, which was near Coney Island, in Brooklyn. We lived in Brooklyn too, in those days, but in a better neighborhood than Joey's. I think we had been lying around the beach, swimming a little and watching the near-naked girls pass, whistling at them and laughing. I am sure that if any of the girls we whistled at that day had shown any signs of responding, the ocean would not have been deep enough to drown our shame and terror. But the girls, no doubt, had some intimation of this, possibly from the way we whistled, and they ignored us. As the sun was setting we started up the boardwalk towards his house, with our wet bathing trunks on under our trousers.
And I think it began in the shower. I know that I felt something — as we were horsing around in that small, steamy room, stinging each other with wet towels — which I had not felt before, which mysteriously, and yet aimlessly, included him. I remember in myself a heavy reluctance to get dressed: I blamed it on the heat. But we did get dressed, sort of, and we ate cold things out of his icebox and drank a lot of beer. We must have gone to the movies. I can't think of any other reason for our going out and I remember walking down the dark, tropical Brooklyn streets with heat coming up from the pavements and banging from the walls of houses with enough force to kill a man, with all the world's grownups, it seemed, sitting shrill and dishevelled on the stoops and all the world's children on the sidewalks or in the gutters or hanging from fire escapes, with my arm around Joey's shoulder. I was proud, I think, because his head came just below my ear. We were walking along and Joey was making dirty wisecracks and we were laughing. Odd to remember, for the first time in so long, how good I felt that night, how fond of Joey.
When we came back along those streets it was quiet; we were quiet too. We were very quiet in the apartment and sleepily got undressed in Joey's bedroom and went to bed. I fell asleep — for quite a while, I think. But I woke up to find the light on and Joey examining the pillow with great, ferocious care.
"What's the matter?"
"I think a bedbug bit me."
"You slob. You got bedbugs?"
"I think one bit me."
"You ever have a bedbug bite you before?"
"Well, go back to sleep. You're dreaming."
He looked at me with his mouth open and his dark eyes very big. It was as though he had just discovered that I was an expert on bedbugs. I laughed and grabbed his head as I had done God knows how many times before, when I was playing with him or when he had annoyed me. But this time when I touched him something happened in him and in me which made this touch different from any touch either of us had ever known. And he did not resist, as he usually did, but lay where I had pulled him, against my chest. And I realized that my heart was beating in an awful way and that Joey was trembling against me and the light in the room was very bright and hot. I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell. We had our arms around each other. It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find. I was very frightened; I am sure he was frightened too, and we shut our eyes. To remember it so clearly, so painfully tonight tells me that I have never for an instant truly forgotten it. I feel in myself now a faint, a dreadful stirring of what so overwhelmingly stirred in me then, great thirsty heat, and trembling, and tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst. But out of this astounding, intolerable pain came joy; we gave each other joy that night. It seemed, then, that a lifetime would not be long enough for me to act with Joey the act of love.
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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 1956 Plot summary: Part one David remembers his first experience with a boy, Joey, who lived in Brooklyn, too. The two bonded and eventually had a sexual encounter during a sleepover. The two boys began kissing and making love; the next day David left, and a little later he took to bullying Joey in order to feel like a real man. David now lives with his father, who is prone to drinking, and his aunt, Ellen. The latter upbraids the father for not setting himself as a good example to his son; David's father says that all he wants is for David to become a real man. Later David comes home drinking too, and drinks and drives once, ending up in an accident. Back home the two men talk, and David talks his father into letting him skip college and get a job instead. He then decides to move to France to find himself. After a year in Paris, penniless, he calls Jacques, an older homosexual acquaintance, to meet him for supper and ask for money. In a flashforward, Jacques and David meet again and talk about Giovanni's fall. Back into the plot line, the two men go to Guillaume's gay bar. They meet Giovanni, the new bartender, whom Jacques tries to make a pass at, until he gets talking with Guillaume. Meanwhile, David and Giovanni become friends. Later, they all go to a restaurant in Les Halles; Jacques enjoins David not to be ashamed to feel love; they eat oysters and drink white wine. Giovanni recounts how he met Guillaume in a cinema, how the two men had dinner together because Giovanni wanted a free meal. He also explains that Guillaume is prone to making trouble. Later, the two men go back to Giovanni's room and they have sex. Part two David moves into Giovanni's small room. They broach the subject of Hella, about whom Giovanni is not worried, but who reveals the Italian's misogynistic prejudices about women and the need for men to dominate them. David then briefly describes Giovanni's room, which is always in the dark because there are no curtains and they need their own privacy. He goes on to read a letter from his father, asking him to go back to America, but he does not want to do that. A subsequent letter from Hella announces that she is returning in a few days, and David realizes he has to part with Giovanni soon. Setting off to prove to himself that he is not gay, David searches for a woman with whom he can have sex. He meets a slight acquaintance, Sue, in a bar and they go back to her place and have sex; he does not want to see her again and has only just used her to feel better about himself. When he returns to the room, David finds a hysterical Giovanni, who has been fired from Guillaume's bar. Hella eventually comes back and David leaves Giovanni's room with no notice for three days. He sends a letter to his father asking for money marrying Hella. The couple then walks into Jacques and Giovanni in a bookshop, which makes Hella uncomfortable because she does not like Jacques's mannerisms. After walking Hella back to her hotel room, David goes to Giovanni's room to talk; the Italian man is distressed. David thinks that they cannot have a life together and feels that he would be sacrificing his manhood if he stays with Giovanni. He leaves, but runs into Giovanni several times and is upset by the "fairy" mannerisms which he is developing and his new relationship with Jacques, who is an older and richer man. Sometime later, David walks into Yves and finds out Giovanni is
I cannot even begin to express what this book means to me. James Baldwin stole my soul when I read it. He's wonderful. I just happened upon it during a time in my life when I was confused and didn't know what to do, and this book (believe it or not) helped me cope with my choices. It was so incredibly realistic and intense, and utterly heart-wrenching, I couldn't put it down. It was exactly what I needed. I could identify with the main characters so easily (oh David, you are my muse. How did I ever live without you?), and they just suck you right into their lives. I adore this book beyond compare. It's a must read. Go read it!
My first introduction to Baldwin's work. I wanted to read one of his books after seeing the documentary "I Am Not Your Negro." This novel was a great start, short yet so well-written. The best compliment that I can give it is that I want to read more Baldwin.
I don't want to start describing this book, because it is so rich and full of material that I'm afraid I would write an essay. I wish I was studying this at university and had to write about it.Yes, it's about a young man's struggle for his identity, and his struggle with his homosexuality, but it's more than that. I loved the contrasts between clean and squalor, and between Americans and Europeans. The filth reminds me of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, and the louche, hard-drinking expatriates remind me of The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. But Giovanni's Room is more interesting than either of them.This book must have made quite the explosion in the book world when it was published back in the 1950s. Not only is it an exploration of forbidden sexuality, but it's a book about a white man written by an African-American.Recommended for: lovers of rich, intense literature.
I have read "Giovanni's Room" before, but so long ago that all I remembered was that the story involved homosexuals and Paris.Written in the mid-1950s and set in Paris, this is the story of a reluctantly homosexual American having his first real same-sex relationship with an Italian waiter. No happy endings here.
I probably read this with too high of expectations because I loved Go Tell it On the Mountain. This is a short novel about a man fighting his homosexuality. I'm amazed that it was written in the 1950s. The first portion with David's flasbacks to growing up in Brooklyn being raised by his widowed father and aunt, and his reaction to his first homosexual experience. As the book moves into his adulthood in France, I lost connection with the characters. Even Giovanni seemed very flat, and I didn't really care for his breakdown at the end.
Beautiful novel about love. And Paris is a city full of desperate longing it seems...
Baldwin followed up the success of his first novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), with Giovanni¿s Room (1956). The book came as a surprise to readers who expected more ¿African-American literature¿, instead, they got a book centered on homosexual Caucasian characters in Paris; moreover, Baldwin was very frank in his depiction of gay love which came as a bit of shock to people. While ostensibly the novel is about a man who struggles to be true to himself in the face of conventional morality, the tale of forbidden love and the difficulties of a doomed relationship transcend ¿gay fiction¿, and I really liked this book. One of the more memorable chapters had the main character seeking out and having meaningless, casual sex in order to reassert his heterosexuality; Baldwin¿s descriptions of the psychology and feelings that go along with this are outstanding.Quotes:On love and settling down:¿¿I told her that I had loved her once and I made myself believe it. But I wonder if I had. I was thinking, no doubt, of our nights in bed, of the peculiar innocence and confidence, which will never come again, which had made those nights so delightful, so unrelated to past, present, or anything to come, so unrelated, finally, to my life since it was not necessary for me to take any but the most mechanical responsibility for them. And these nights were being acted out under a foreign sky, with no one to watch, no penalties attached ¿ it was this last fact which was our undoing, for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom. I suppose this was why I asked her to marry me: to give myself something to be moored to. Perhaps this was why, in Spain, she decided that she wanted to marry me. But people can¿t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.¿On memories of lovers lost:¿Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth¿s witches, when his face will come before me, that face in all its changes, when the exact timbre of his voice and tricks of his speech will nearly burst my ears, when his smell will overpower my nostrils. Sometimes, in the days which are coming ¿ God grant me the grace to live them ¿ in the glare of the grey morning, sour-mouthed, eyelids raw and red, hair tangled and damp from my stormy sleep, facing, over coffee and cigarette smoke, last night¿s impenetrable, meaningless boy who will shortly rise and vanish like the smoke, I will see Giovanni again, as he was that night, so vivid, so winning, all of the light of that gloomy tunnel trapped around his head.¿On forbidden love:¿Each day he invited me to witness how he had changed, how love had changed him, how he worked and sang and cherished me. I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fighting. Or I thought, but I am happy. And he loves me. I am safe. Sometimes when he was not near me, I thought, I will never let him touch me again. Then, when he touched me, I thought, it doesn¿t matter, it is only the body, it will soon be over. When it was over, I lay in the dark and listened to his breathing and dreamed of the touch of hands, of Giovanni¿s hands, or anybody¿s hands, hands which would have the power to crush me and make me whole again.¿On parents:¿He thought we were alike. I did not want to think so. I did not want to think that my life would be like his, or that my mind would ever grow so pale, so without hard places and sharp, sheer drops. He wanted no distance between us; he wanted me to look on him as a man like myself. But I wanted the merciful distance of father and son, which would have permitted me to love him.¿On suicide:¿I had thought of suicide when I was much younger, as, possibly, we all have, but then it would have been for revenge, it would have been my
Very good novel. Hard to put down, especially towards the end. Had my heart pounding !!
I've read this book three times, and each time brings out a new feeling toward the characters. David(the narrator), is not someone who is easy to like. He is homophobic(despite falling in love with a man), and often cruel to those he cares about. Giovanni also evokes mixed feelings. One minute he is charming, and the next he is a whining mess. Even while you hate them, Baldwin has a way to tear at your heart and wish the ending was different. This isn't a gay lovestory. This is the story of a man who is afraid of love, and a man who falls in love too easily. I recommend it to everyone.
Amazing book. He is a pioneer!
This book was greatly written and showed some true cruelities but realities of the cold world.
James Baldwin is my fav author of any time . But i tyhought this was one of his best books . All his book are soo good that you never want to put them down . When i read this i thought poor Giovanni and his lover . I really recommened this book.
Baldwin¿s portrayal of the human condition and the fluidity of sexuality is so compassionate and so very tender that the reader walks away with not only a genius story, but also a clearer conception of our own selves. The foreboding, suffocating confines of Giovanni¿s room is a metaphor for not only the gay population, but also for any individual who feels claustrophobic in their own life/relationship. James Baldwin seems to be not only a masterful writer, but someone who understood much more than we ever will. Giovanni¿s Room is a gem of a novel.
Giovanni's Room is a powerful work of enormous insight dealing with the search for identity. It is remarkable on so many levels, from the power of its descriptions and words to the depth of its various messages to the compelling nature of its story. It commands to be read.
This is truly a must read! This book is beautifully written. Mr. Baldwin did a superb job describing how David (the lead character) and Giovanni (his male lover) meet and fall in love. Their love story is beautiful and tragic. As a LGBT counselor, I have recommended this book to many of the people I have talked with. This story appeals to everyone: gay and straight. This book is moving and it touches your heart. Don't be surprised if you are moved to tears towards the end. This is one of the best stories that I have ever read and it sustains its title as a classic of gay literature.


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I'm gonna write about me going clubbing in this post. Some of you may think that I always get drunk whenever I go club. Cannot control myself. It's all bad impression that you all got. That's what people always say, "People will always remember the bad things you did and always forget the good things you've done". But please don't misunderstood, I didn't mean that not getting drunk is a good thing. It's just an example. Basically it's based on how you think and judge people. As I wrote once at my status, "Don't be so quick to judge me; you only see what I choose to show". You see, this is true. You guys only see what I show, those that I didn't show you would never know. Could you just possibly judge a person based on what you see? Now back to club, I can control myself not to get drunk if I want to. And usually, I only allow myself to get drunk when I know my friends are around. Those who I can really trust on to look after me if I really get drunk. And I'm obviously not a club kaki okay. Clubbers would go club like I don't know? One week once or more more than that? Previously, when I went to my secondary school friend's birthday party, I kinda like reunite with some of the school mates which I didn't see for so long already since we graduated from high school. And all of their perception of me was like "Wahh Pei Ling, always go here and there chiong ahh.." and things like that. LOL. And that time was just few days after the Hennessy party. So yeahh.. I joined contest and won tickets to event. What's wrong with that? Yea I admit I love to enjoy, I love to party. I'm the type of girl like that. I love to enjoy my life. Don't expect me to stay at home and read book. LOL. Haizzz people people. But what I wanna emphasize here was I don't get drunk ALL THE TIME WHEN I GO CLUB. Sometimes, I really hate people who judge me when they don't even know anything. I can tell you how many times I went club, how many times I get drunk and I don't get drunk. And yea I admit also I look so ugly when I get drunk. So when I vomit out in public, you guys would say I get drunk and looks ugly on it. So if I vomit in toilet where you guys couldn't see, would that consider me not getting drunk? -.-
Here's a list of me going club:
1st time- MOS 2009. I still remember going there with Su Ee, Sharon and others. Soya brought us there. LOL
2nd time- Safari 2009. Genting trip with Cheryl Yeoh, Sharon and others.
3rd time- Maison 2009. New year countdown with Sharon and others.
4th time- MOS 2010. CNY Celebration with Sharon and others.
5th time- Safari 2010. Genting trip with Loo See and others.
6th time- MOS 2010. After prom night from Empire Hotel.
7th time- Mist 2011. Joyling and Sm's birthday celebration.
8th time- Mist 2011. The time where most of the college mates also went including Elaine Tan, Chye Wei and those french guys. Got cheap voucher or don't know CraveSense anniversary or something. Haha.
9th time- Hennessy Artistry @ MIECC 2011 (If this consider clubbing. LOL)
10th time- G6 2011. After college's prom night from OVO Bistro. (I remember someone cried when she drunk and someone was surprised I did not get drunk that night.)
11th time- Singapore Zouk 2011. (Worst clubbing experience ever. Too high expectation also la. We went at the wrong timing :X)
12th time- Movida 2011. New Year Eve Celebration. I don't know whether this also counts. >.<
13th time- New Heineken Bottle Launch Event 2012. Won tickets from contest. (I don't think it's clubbing also lah. LOL)
14th time- Mist 2012 with Ee Ling and gang. (First time so random plan. Haha)
15th time- Hennessy Artistry 2012- 3rd Nov @ KWC
16th time- Hennessy Artistry 2012- 8th Sept @ MIECC
17th time- Zouk 2012 (Many people on that time cos everyone didn't go Zouk before haha end up with sucky experience because of the stupid blackout thingy.)
18th time- Zouk 2012. With G-peeps. Our farewell party. LOL
Total 18th times till current. And looking back, I think 90% were because of events or celebrations. Of course, I haven't include those times which are not clubbing like going trips, annual dinner, birthday celebration, yumcha, wedding party, and more which whenever I drank alcohol. You see, everyone have their own stories behind. Please don't judge someone just based on what you see. DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. You are not me. You don't know me. Sorry if I gave you a bad impression when I get drunk. I'm not a good drinker, that's why I get drunk easily. But I really don't get drunk everytime when I drink okay. LOL. Okla I don't know why am I explaining also btw.


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I should have mentioned yesterday, Pat gave Michele and I the full works tour of his workplace when we dropped off the beer. The company he works for makes all kinds of bad ass shit out of quartz and he basically yells at people to get back to work all day.
It's not very often that I get to be the tall one in a photo.
About those headsets that I liked so much at NAHBS, turns out they are a special edition of the new Cane Creek 110 that carries a MSRP of $650. $110 for a King is one thing, it's a serious part that will go forever, but $650 for a slightly dressed up version of the same part? You can keep it, something tells me that it's not worth it even at pro-deal prices.
Final note for tonight, Crazy Joe called this morning and will no longer be a part of Star's Red Mountain Wintertime Extravaganza, I'm still trying to figure out how this plays into the upcoming weekend travel plans now that I no longer need to pick him up in Spokane.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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