Déception et amertume chez l'Impact

Pour la première fois depuis la saison 2001, l'Impact n'est pas parvenu à se tailler une place en séries. Malgré une large victoire de 4 à 0 à Atlanta, samedi, l'Impact a échoué à un point de la sixième place après le succès des Stars du Minnesota sur la pelouse des RailHawks de la Caroline.

-Cyberpresse

Don't Worry, Be Unhappy

Tyler Cowen says the good times are over. Where have we heard this before?

-Slate

The Old Man and the Seafood

Joseph Mitchell was a reporter. It's tempting to say his beat was the waterfront, but though he's certainly the poet laureate of the Fulton Fish Market, this would be too literal-minded and geographically limiting. His beat was the margins, including the metaphysical margin of life itself. Mitchell invented a temporal dimension for his stories, a strange and twilit place—Mitchell Time—where a density of historical fact and the feeling ofwhole eras fading from view are sharply juxtaposed with scenes of cinematic immediacy related in the present tense. A cozy aura of death pervades his work, which often features oldsters experiencing the chilling fear of its approach while gleefully playing hide-and-seek with the reaper.

-Voice

7 Miracle Spices With Huge Health Benefits (and Big Flavor)

Spice up your life with these herbs, roots, and plants that benefit your health as much as they do your taste buds: From keeping your heart healthy and your arteries clear to reducing pain and warding off cancer, these everyday flavors will add a healthy punch to all your breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.

-treehugger

"In my day, MI6 – which I called the Circus in the books – stank of wartime nostalgia"

In 1979, 11 million viewers watched the BBC's enthralling adaptation of le Carré's definitive spy novel. Now it's the British film event of the year. Here, in his unmistakable style, the reflections of the man who first taught us about moles, honeytraps and a very peculiar man called Smiley...

-MailOnline

Last wors of 25 famous dead writers

"Relax-This wont hurt"

-leenks

Impact: le moment de vérité

Rarement a-t-on vu l'Impact aussi à l'écoute des états d'âme de l'un de ses rivaux. Pendant que l'Impact en découdra avec les Silverbacks, samedi soir à 19h à Atlanta, il espérera un sérieux coup de main des RailHawks de la Caroline face aux Stars du Minnesota.

Avec un point de retard au classement, les Montréalais savent qu'ils doivent obtenir un meilleur résultat que les Stars. Le consensus au sein de l'Impact est que les meneurs de la NASL joueront réellement le jeu en alignant leurs titulaires.

-Cyberpresse

The Big Party

She is beautiful still in the spring sunlight, the form, the façade, the long, lovely lines. Not young, but quite fashionable, striking the same winsome pose she held when her presence along this glittering Gold Coast stretch could stop men in their tracks. They would stand before her bewitched then, desperate for her favor. Depending on who they were, it would be granted—though not always. She could be fickle that way. But such was her power, her mystery, that she never wanted for suitors.

That was long ago. The men no longer stare. They pass now with barely a glance. These days, the four-story brick and limestone Victorian-style manor house is just a building.

But for one gilded period some 40-odd years ago, 1340 North State Parkway was much more. In the abstract, it was both the epicenter of a new sexual freedom and an object of scorn; more concretely, it was the setting for some of the most notorious, celebrity-filled parties of its time. Where else might you see Frank Sinatra chuckling at a gorgeous naked woman diving into an indoor pool filled with other gorgeous naked women? Meet Joe DiMaggio and Dean Martin and Warren Beatty and the Rolling Stones in the same ballroom? Slide down a fireman’s pole to an underwater bar lit by the sparkling green of an aquarium window through which yet more gorgeous women could be seen cavorting like so many mermaids?

-Chicago Magazine

Burning Man at 25 years

The 25th Burning Man festival, with a theme of "Rites of Passage," took place Aug. 29 to Sept. 5, 2011, 120 miles outside Reno, Nev., in the Black Rock Desert, its home since 1990. Some 50,000 people attended the week-long celebration, which is billed as "an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance." The event, which is more a temporary city than a traditional festival, arose from a bonfire held on the Summer Solstice at Baker Beach in San Francisco in which a wooden man a dog were burned in a spontaneous act of self-expression by local artists and their friends. -- Lloyd Young (29 photos total)

-Boston.com

Russian Firm Introduces a Mini-Hotel for Weary Air Travelers

Most anyone who's traveled for the holidays has been there before: exhausted, burdened by luggage, and irritated because your flight's just been delayed. A tired person stuck for hours in an airport used to roll up her sweater like a pillow and find a corner for a few minutes of very uncomfortable shuteye. But now a Russian creation has arrived to rival St. Christopher as the saving grace of travelers.

-Good

Montréal n'a plus le choix

L'Impact se prépare à affronter le FC Edmonton, samedi, à Montréal, à son avant-dernier match de la saison.

La troupe de Nick De Santis court toujours après une place dans les séries. L'équipe occupe la 7e position au classement de la NASL, à trois points du 6e rang et d'une place en séries.

-Radio Canada

Comment nourrir son cerveau de façon optimale

Les aliments ont un effet direct sur les performances du cerveau. En avalant des produits ciblés, il est possible d'améliorer sa mémoire, de garder un cerveau jeune ou de stabiliser son humeur.

-Cyberpresse

Attention aux arnaqueuses russes

Il existe des sites de rencontres qui placent des photos de superbes femmes comme appâts. Derrière les visages, il n'y a personne. La jeune Russe de 20 ans avec qui vous correspondez pourrait être tonton Boris ayant envoyé par e-mail la photo d'une fille issue d'un magazine et ayant une adresse e-mail anonyme.

-Rue89

T-shirts: film director names as iconic band logos

T-shirts that replace classic rock logos with the names of scientists and philosophers. I just spotted a similar line of film director t-shirts! Available from CineFile Video are Scorcese, Ozu, Fassbinder, De Palma, and others. My favorites are Bunuel/Bauhaus and Herzog/Danzig. CineFile Director T-shirts.

-Boingboing

The First Zombie-Proof House

Somehow, ritual drunk-conversation concerning team captains for the apocalypse has become a major part of the lives of 20-somethings. Having been matured in the Grandaddy-crowned masterpiece film 28 Days Later and the best-selling Zombie Survival Guide, we’re all a little too ready to deal with the 2012 of our dreams.

-PHB

Eighteenth century self-help guide surfaces

One of Britain's first self-help books, written in 1740, to help women resist life's temptations has gone on display.


-The Telegraph

L'Impact défait les Railhawks et entretient ses espoirs

Un but controversé de Luke Kreamalmeyer a permis à l'Impact de l'emporter 1-0 contre les RailHawks de la Caroline, dimanche au stade Saputo, et d'entretenir ses espoirs de participer aux séries.

-Cyberpresse

The evolution of the mistress

I grew up knowing about mistresses because my great-grandfather Stephen Adelbert Griggs, an affluent Detroit brewer and municipal politician, maintained what my mother scornfully referred to as a "love nest" occupied by a series of "fancy" women. Great-grandmother Minnie Langley had to tolerate this, but she exacted a price: for every diamond Stephen bought his latest mistress, he had to buy one for her. This was how his love nest hatched a glittering nest egg of rings, earrings, brooches and uncut gems, which Minnie bequeathed to her female descendants.

-Salon

L'Impact échappe deux points précieux

L'Impact a repris un point sur les Stars du Minnesota en faisant match nul 1-1 à Porto Rico. Mais les Montréalais pouvaient espérer revenir à une seule longueur au classement après avoir ouvert le score à la 88e minute, mercredi soir à Bayamon.


-Cyberpresse

COOL KIDS CAN'T DIE

15 Palindromes

Palindromes are words or sentences that read the same backward or forward. Here are some of my favorites.

1. Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog.

2. Do geese see God?

3. Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?

4. Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

5. A nut for a jar of tuna.

6. Dennis and Edna sinned.

7. Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

8. A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!

9. Ana, nab a banana.

10. Borrow or rob?

11. Vanna, wanna V?

12. We panic in a pew.

13. Never odd or even.

14. Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.

15. Murder for a jar of red rum.

Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

Up and down Detroit’s streets, buildings stand abandoned and in ruin. French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city. Their book “The Ruins of Detroit“, a document of decaying buildings frozen in time, was published in December 2010.

-denverpost

Impact: match capital, atmosphère positive

Mauro Biello dirigera l'Impact mercredi soirà Porto Rico en remplacement de Nick De Santis.

Un oeil sur le match de la sélection canadienne face à son homologue portoricaine, un autre sur celui des Stars du Minnesota face au FC Tampa Bay. Voilà comment l'Impact a meublé sa soirée d'hier, à quelques heures de son match capital contre les Islanders de Porto Rico.

-Cyberpresse

Journal intime d'un marchand de canons

Philippe Vasset auteur de «Journal intime d'un marchand de canons», a répondu à vos questions. Le héros de ce roman est fictif, il vend des sous-marins et des missiles au quatre coins du monde. Les transactions, les noms des fabricants et des acquéreurs, eux, sont vrais.

-Libération

The One-Man Drug Company

After prep school, he built a thriving business. Now he’s got to find a way to get out of it.

Every day he tells himself the same thing. You are doing nothing wrong. It plays through his mind on repeat, keeping his nerves in check. You have no reason to worry. Tonight, a Friday, he is walking down a cobblestone street in Soho, hands wedged in his leather jacket, his posture slump-shouldered, as if he’s curling in on himself. In his right-hand pocket, there is a plastic bag containing numerous smaller plastic bags—“tickets,” he calls them—filled with either a gram or gram and three quarters of cocaine. The smaller ones he calls “chiquitas.” They cost $60. The big ones, known simply as “big ones,” go for $100. He is heading to see a customer, a twiggy, doe-eyed woman who asked to meet outside an art gallery. He thumbs through the Baggies, able to gauge the weight with his fingertips, and secures her order in his fist, all the while humming along to the voice in his head.

You are doing nothing wrong—

-NYmag

Mignane Diouf, de l'Impact, arrêté aux États-Unis

Les déboires de Diouf ont débuté dimanche, au lendemain de la victoire de l'Impact contre les Stars du Minnesota. Alors qu'ils attendaient leur vol de retour vers Montréal à l'aéroport Mineapolis-St. Paul, trois joueurs de l'équipe se sont rendus dans une boutique d'équipements électroniques où l'un d'eux a acheté une paire d'écouteurs. Peu de temps après le départ du groupe, un employé a toutefois constaté la disparition d'un casque d'écoute, d'une valeur de 600$, précise le rapport de police sur l'arrestation de Mignane Diouf.

-Cyberpresse