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"Goal! The Dream Begins" is a rags-to-riches sports saga containing all the usual elements, arranged in the usual ways, and yet it's surprisingly effective. We have the kid from Mexico who dreams of soccer stardom, his impoverished life in Los Angeles as an undocumented immigrant, his dad who scorns soccer, his grandmother who believes in him, the scout who gets him a tryout with a top British team, the superstar who befriends him, and even a pretty nurse. There is also a great deal of soccer, some of it looking real, some of it not. The movie works because it is, above all, sincere. It's not sports by the numbers. The starring performance by Kuno Becker is convincing and dimensional and we begin to care for him. He plays Santiago Munez, a busboy in a Los Angeles Chinese restaurant, who plays in an after-work soccer league so deprived that he wears cardboard shin protectors. Then he's spotted by a former soccer pro (Stephen Dillane), who tells him he has p...

If Clause

1.a. if my mother gives me a doll, i'll be angry b. if my mother gave me a doll, i'd be angry c. if my mother had given me a doll, i'd have been angry 2.a. if i have £3.000.000, i'll buy a phone b. if i had £3.000.000, i'd buy a phone c. if i had had £3.000.000, i'd have bought a phone 3.a. if my father gives me cats, i'll kill them b. if my father gave me cats, i'd kill them c. if my father had given me cats, i'd have killed them 4.a. if i get a new motorcycle, i'll be happy b. if i got a new motorcycle, i'd be happy c. if i had gotten a new motorcycle, i'd have been happy 5.a. if my friend gives me a car, i'll be shy b. if my friend gave me a car, i'd be shy c. if my friend had given me a car, i'd have been shy 6.a. i'll be angry, if my boss gives me tasks b. i'd be angry, if my boss gave me tasks c. i'd have been angry, if my boss had given me tasks 7.a. i'll kill you, if you kill my ...

Mt Sinabung eruption, Sunday, September 15, 2013

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Mt Sinabung in Sumatra has erupted around 3 am on Sunday, September 15, 2013 dusting ash up to 50 kilometers from the volcano, prompting evacuations of thousands of people living near the volcano. There were no sign of increased earthquakes prior to the eruption; however, PVMBG (Indonesia’s volcano monitoring agency) mentioned a small (~150 m) plume from the volcano along with a few hundred small earthquakes since mid August. The PVMBG has raised the alert status at Sinabung to Level III (of IV) due to this new activity; an evacuation zone of ~3 km has been set up around the volcano. The characteristics of the 2,460-m volcano's eruptions are relatively unknown because it has been quiet for over 400 years before the eruption in 2010. The eruptions during 2010 was unexpected because the volcano was not even being monitored as potentially active volcano at the time. There is a webcam pointed at Sinabung maintained by PVMBG,. Mt Sinabung eruption September 2013 (Photo sour...

The Next Leader

Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb.           I respect to all Mr / Mrs Teacher, staff and classmates 7,8 and 9. First of all, let us pray praise Allah SWT, because over abundance of His grace and guidance, so that on this occasion the morning we can get together with a great condition           Previously let me Pradhytia Bagas fron XI Science 2 as a candidate for student council president period 2013 - 2014 to deliver the vision and mission of me if I was elected student council president at 3 Senior High School.           My vision is to create an independent, innovative and creative responsibility in preserving the nation's cultural and responsive to advances in science and technology that is based on faith and devotion to God Almighty.           So, i have some program to reach my vission: 1. Cultivating develop faith and devotion to God Almighty through spiritual guidance 2. Produce cadr...

Bandung Should not Build New Road

There are many things that confused people in Bandung. One of those problems is bad quality of road problem. Yeah Bandung is a big city which contains million people, and to satisfying the needs of good service, the governments have a plan to build a new road. I think there are other ways to improve in that case. At least, there are two things why Bandung should not build new road. Firstly, there are already many roads in Bandung. As we can see, Bandung has a lot of road, but none of it is efficient. Road in Bandung is an old Netherlands made and has it function based on Netherlands government. If we prepare to build a new road, what about our children? Will they have a house? I think not. What we can do today is to improve the efficiency of this old road. Secondly, we have limited money. Bandung maybe have a lot of money, but should we use that money only to make another road? I think that unnecessary. There are a lot of problem in this city and we must use the government should ...

The Clever Fox

There once lived a crow. One day he was very hungry. He had not been able to get any food the previous day. “If I do not get anything to eat I will starve to death,” he thought. As the crow was searching for food, his eyes fell on a piece of bread. He quickly swooped down, picked it up and flew off. Far away in a lonely place he sat on a tree to enjoy the bread. Just then a hungry fox saw the crow sitting on the tree holding the bread in his mouth. “Yummy! That bread looks delicious. What I would give to get that piece of bread,” the fox thought. The fox decided to use all his cunning means to get the piece of bread from the mouth of the crow. He sat under the tree. The crow saw him and thought, “I guess this fox wants to eat my bread. I shall hold it carefully.” And he held on to the bread even more tightly. The clever fox spoke to the crow politely. He said, “Hello friend! How are you?” But the crow did not say anything. “Crows are such lovely birds. And you are very charm...

Lion

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The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia (where an endangered remnant population resides in Gir Forest National Park in India) while other types of lions have disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a major population decline in its African range of 30–50% per two decades during the second half of the 20th century. Lion populations are untenable outside designated reserves and national parks. Although the cause of the decline is not fully un...