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Last week was Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York, the time of year when style trends are set, when fashion gods are carried from runway to runway, when Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen emerge from their tiny troll lair to present a new collection of looks for their line, The Row. Here are the sisters trying to convince us they're human before the show. I dare you to only watch once. I like to think they're communicating using a sort of Morse code-esque troll twin hand gestures beneath that scarf. Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes welcomed their baby girl into the world on Friday. In case you need to check yourself: There's a days-old human out there with better genes, a bigger bank account, cooler parents and a nicer home that is already more famous than you'll ever be. Seriously, though, I hope they have a dozen body guards watching that baby at all times. Between all the Hey Girls and The Notebook fans out there still praying for the reunion of Ryan and Rachel and anyone wanting to use Mendes-Gosling DNA for a voodoo-like beauty regime (guilty as charged), someone is bound to try to steal that baby.When Fox 19 reality series Queen City ended, we were left with a void of shows featuring mildly interesting locals interacting with each other in staged scenarios. Thankfully, Dayton CW has given us The Valley. The show stars six Miami Valley-area high school grads during the summer before they head off to college. Cameras follow the group as they hang out at area attractions, meet "mentors" and explore personal issues — all while providing superfluous commentary after the fact. Think Real Housewives without the Botox or budget. Yes, it's bad. Sadly, not even bad in a good way. If I wanted to see awkward kids mingle in forced situations, I'd watch teens on the Levee explore the confusing world of "group hangs." And if I did that, I'd be a fucking weirdo. I'm not throwing shade at the kids involved — I shudder to think what 18-year-old me would do on a local reality show. But who is the audience for a show like this? Find out for yourself and watch the first episode here. Miss New York Kira Kazantsev may have won the Miss America crown this Sunday, but Miss Ohio MacKenzie Bart stole the show with her talent: ventriloquism. Obviously, Miss Ohio Roxy was robbed. Saturday Night Live returns for its 40th season next Saturday, Sept. 27 and, as usual, there will be some casting changes. Last year's newbies John Milhiser, Noël Wells and Brooks Wheelan were let go; Mike O'Brien will leave the stage and return to the writers room. SNL's resident Kim Kardashian (also a lot of other great characters) Nasim Pedrad departed to star in the upcoming Fox comedy Mulaney. Colin Jost, who took over Weekend Update with Cecily Strong when Seth Meyers left, will return to the desk without Strong (though she's still a cast member). SNL writer and Daily Show correspondent Michael Che will replace her as co-anchor. Finally — hope you're ready to feel old — the show will bring on its first player born in the '90s as 20-year-old comic Pete Davidson joins the cast. Chris Pratt hosts the season opener next week with music guest Ariana "Not A Baby" Grande. Nasim Pedrad may have taken her talents elsewhere, but we can still enjoy her work in this unaired skit where she plays —to perfection — Aziz Ansari. New movie trailers to hit the Interwebz: After plenty of teases, the first full-length preview of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay is out; Serena —the 35th film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper — places the stars in 1920s North Carolina; John Wick stars Keanu Reeves as a former hit-man thrown back into the game.
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Ohio investigates Cincinnati Charter school; New safety measures in area schools; poverty, drug use down nationally.
All right, let's do this news thing. Ohio has added a charter school from Cincinnati, as well as another from Columbus, to its investigation into Chicago-based Concept Schools, which runs 17 charter schools in the state. Concept has come under state and federal scrutiny after former teachers at the company's Horizon Academy in Dayton made accusations about sexual misconduct, records forgery and other alleged crimes. The state has since received similar complaints about the Horizon Science Academies in Cincinnati and Columbus, officials say. This isn't the first time charter schools in Cincinnati have come under fire. This summer, the Ohio Department of Education shut down VLT Academy in Pendleton due to low performance and lack of a sponsor organization.• Cincinnati Assistant City Manager Bill Moller yesterday told city council's finance and budget committee that the city shouldn't have to commit public financial help to any hotel project at The Banks. The proposed location for a hotel is in a top-notch spot next to the ballpark, Moller pointed out, and the new General Electric offices moving in nearby will only make the area more attractive. The city and county are in talks with at least three hotel developers at this point. Financing plans for the project have yet to be proposed, though the hope is that a hotel at The Banks will be finished midway through 2015. Moller's statements have come after some on council have begun questioning the city's generosity when it comes to tax incentives and loans to lure businesses to downtown and other parts of the city.• It's fall, a time when educators' thoughts turn to school books, lesson plans, shaping young minds and, of course, what to do if a psychotic gunman barges into your school and starts shooting. These are the depressing times we live in. One new defensive solution comes from a northern Ohio company and is called the Bearacade (it's unclear why it's called that, just go with it). The device is a metal wedge that can be crammed under a door and pinned to the floor in an emergency situation to keep shooters out of classrooms. Locally, Kings Schools in Warren County has begun installing the Bearacade. Practice for using the device, as described in The Cincinnati Enquirer, sounds slightly crazy:"Unannounced, Goldie will suddenly shout a security emergency to the class, dash to the front of the room and slide baseball-style into the door. Hanging next to the entrance is the new door block, which he hastily installs, making it virtually impossible for any shooter to enter."However, surprise shouting and a home plate-style slide toward a door to install a metal wedge is probably less disruptive to the educational process than Butler County Sheriff Rick Jones' suggestion that teachers carry heat in the classroom. • Cincinnati Police say crime is down so far this year in the areas around University of Cincinnati. Though some high-profile cases, including violent burglaries, have brought attention to the area, robberies have decreased by half since a peak in 2009. Other crimes have also decreased. CPD has continued to add patrols in the areas around UC, despite the drop in criminal activity. • Some scummy creeps claiming to be associated with the KKK distributed flyers around Green Township last week, including some with anti-immigration messages. Police there say activities from such groups crop up every few years and then abruptly dissipate. They say they're keeping an eye on the situation but don't expect much else from the group, which appears to be from southeastern Indiana. • The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear arguments about one of the state's most contentious death penalty cases. For 26 years, Gregory Wilson has been on death row, convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of Deborah Pooley in Covington. But now, after a number of appeals on his behalf, the high court will consider whether or not his defense team did an adequate job and if new DNA evidence should be sought. Wilson's advocates say the lawyers assigned to argue his case did little on his behalf and that DNA evidence could exonerate him. One of Wilson's attorneys had never tried a felony, and the other was semi-retired and did not have an office or staff. But those looking to uphold his death sentence, including the Kentucky attorney general, say Wilson was convicted by overwhelming evidence, including the eye-witness testimony of his girlfriend, who is serving a life sentence for her role in the crime, and items he purchased with Pooley's credit card after she was murdered. The case could set precedent for the way capital murder cases are tried in Kentucky, legal experts say.• Poverty rates inched down slightly in 2013, the Census Bureau reported yesterday. Though that reduction hasn't matched the reduction in the unemployment rate, the increase in jobs did make a dent in poverty stats. Median household income is still down 8 percent from pre-recession levels, Census data says. The number of children in poverty declined more significantly, from nearly 22 percent in 2012 to not quite 20 percent in 2013. That's good news. • Also good news — apparently, teen drug and alcohol use is down, according to a new study. Drug abuse in general in the United States has leveled off, according to the report by the Department of Health and Human Services. The study found that teens were turning away from illicit substances in favor of spending hours taking selfies that make them look bored, but in a cool way, and posting them on Tumblr.• Finally, because nothing is more important to tea party types than fair representation in all realms of our modern democratic society, newly chosen Miss America Kira Kazantsev is getting flack for a three-month stint she did as an intern at Planned Parenthood. That revelation has set off a tidal wave of hate from some anti-abortion corners of the Internet, despite the fact that Planned Parenthood doesn't solely provide abortions and Kazantsev's role involved supporting sex education, which, you know, actually reduces the need for abortion services. Bravely undeterred by this reality, Twitter users have taken to calling her "Ms. Abortion America," "baby killer supporter" and suggesting that "this chick sure doesn't represent me." Because yes, Miss America is a publicly elected office whose life choices should represent every single American, no matter what their (completely unrelated) political ideologies may be.
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Everyone knows what it's like to mess up a job interview by saying something stupid right at the end (you apparently are supposed to ask the interviewer questions about the position but not whether someone is going to watch you pee during the drug test). Miss California Carrie Prejean made a similar mistake during the Miss America pageant over the weekend.
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When word of Mariah Yeaters dropped paternity suit leaked out this morning, most people thought this would be the last we heard of her or her supposed backstage encounter with Justin Bieber. Turns out thats not the case. She may have withdrawn her legal accusation, but shes still moving forward with her claim that Biebs is the father.
Yeaters attorney Jeffrey Leving, not either of the two men who represented the single mother before, spoke to The Associated Press today and denied moving the case outside the court system was an admission his client was lying. He argued a private DNA test and negotiation between the two parties was simply a safer and better way to handle the situation. If he has his way, both Bieber and Yeater will actually sign a confidentiality agreement barring either from speaking publicly about the results, but the chances of that happening, unless, of course, Bieber thinks he could be the father, are slim to none.
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Asian stocks ended mostly lower in choppy trade Friday, extending losses amid a global market rout, but some markets came off lows as a Group of 20 nations statement gave a slight boost to sentiment.
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The G-20 pledged to take "strong and coordinated" action to stabilize the global financial system, with shares also getting a boost from reports that China's national pension fund received approval to inject more than $1.56 billion into the stock market.
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Indonesian shares ended up 1.7% after plunging 8.9% Thursday. Among other Asean markets, Philippine shares ended down 5.1%, the biggest one-day percentage drop in nearly three years, while Thai shares fell 3.5% in afternoon trade.
Growth-sensitive commodity plays continued to bear the brunt of the selling amid sharp drops in metals prices. Heavyweight BHP Billiton dropped 3% in Sydney and Posco shed 6.2% in Seoul. In Hong Kong, Jiangxi Copper dropped 2% and its Shanghai-listed shares fell 3.3%.
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B1 acceptable or right for someone or something: The film is not suitable for children. A conference was planned, but finding a suitable venue proved difficult. Each room has books, toys, and games that are suitable to that particular age group. My mother doesn't like me to wear short skirts to church - she doesn't think they're suitable.
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One of the interesting points that Scott McCloud raises in his seminal text Understanding Comics is on the nature of abstraction and how people psychologically project onto graphic images. The simpler and less detailed the image, the more a person fills in the gaps themselves and can relate to the character. In video games, those gaps aren't just visual, it can be something like the avatar never talking or never letting the player see their face. (L.B. Jeffries, "Applying Scott McCloud's 'Understanding Comics'", PopMatters, 1 Sept. 2009) Spotting features like that raise the question of what makes a good, psychologically pliant video game avatar. One of the best game avatars ever created is Kirby. A fantastic balance of empowering game design and art, Kirby embodies all of the elements that make for a game avatar which can easily fit into any person's psyche.
From a visual perspective, Kirby is a McCloud abstraction. As the original NES game explains in the opening section: to depict Kirby you just draw a circle, some nubs for arms, shoes for feet, and then add a face. You can project anything you want into that because the face could be anybody's. It's interesting that the original game and several others have stressed and even encouraged people to draw Kirby. It taps into other aspects of people's imagination because they can recreate Kirby however they like outside of the game. A quick doodle of Kirby looks just as much like the little pink ball as an expert rendition, there is no skill barrier to drawing him. Contrast that to something like Mario or Link, which people still love to draw, but can potentially be disappointed when their work doesn't look like the original. Being able to draw Kirby easily removes a barrier to the avatar so that people can feel a greater sense of authority and control over it. I don't mean to imply that every video game avatar ought to be easy to draw, just that it's a potent feature in Kirby's appeal.


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Help us select the next book that the Mobile Read book club will read for May 2011.
The nominations will run through April 28 or until 10 books have made the list.
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Book selection category for May per the "official" club opening thread is:
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The floor is open to nominations.
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1984 by George Orwell [siraks, Pablo, voodooblues]
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from wiki: Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written 1984) is a 1949 dystopian novel written by George Orwell, about an oligarchical, collectivist society. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the Ministry of Truth, protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meager existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother, eventually leading to his arrest, torture, and reconversion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [arkietech, Nyssa, caleb72]
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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment."
Call of the Wild by Jack London [voodooblues, John F, edbro]
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From Wikipedia: The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Gold Rushes.
Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most read books and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [DixieGal, beppe, jkeene]
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from Borders: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, writes Tolstoy in his literary masterpiece Anna Karenina. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest realist novels ever written, Tolstoy himself saw it as his first true novel. The novel was not well received by critics when first published, but Tolstoy's fellow Russian greats all considered it a great work of art.
Joan of Arc (The full tiltle is Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc) by Mark Twain [Ron., DixieGal, issybird]
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In 1429, a 17-year-old peasant girl receives a message from Heaven that she is to rescue France from its English oppressors. Within two years this most unlikely of heroines leads a ragtag army to victory, sees the king crowned, and dies at the stake, martyred by traitors. America's most famous storyteller, Mark Twain, was obsessed with the story of Joan of Arc, and labored 12 years to tell it in this novel, which he considered his masterpiece "
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells [JSWolf, Nyssa, siraks]
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"H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-century after Orson Wells's infamous 1938 radio adaptation. The daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its themes of interplanetary imperialism, technological holocaust and chaos, is central to the career of H.G. Wells, who died at the dawn of the atomic age. The survival of mankind in the face of "vast and cool and unsympathetic" scientific powers spinning out of control was a crucial theme throughout his work. Visionary, shocking and chilling, The War Of The Worlds has lost none of its impact since its first publication in 1898."
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (warning it's pretty long) [AnemicOak, obs20, Piper_]
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"Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years."
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey [GA Russell, DixieGal, JSWolf]
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The year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by refusing to marry a church elder and by befriending Gentiles (non-Mormons). In rides Lassiter, the quintessential Western hero: mysterious, purposeful, a deadly gunslinger, but with an unexpected streak of gentleness. While Lassiter is assisting Jane at the ranch, her friend and rider Bern Venters is having an adventure of his own in the Utah canyonlands. Riders of the Purple Sage is a story of heroism, love, brave men and strong women, good dogs and fast horses. And who is that Masked Rider? (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton [AnemicOak, DixieGal, lila55]
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"Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people "dreaded scandal more than disease."
This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it. "
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith [Ea, beppe, lila55]
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From Wikipedia: "The diary is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle aged city clerk of middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional 'Brickfield Terrace' in Upper Holloway which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind. Other characters include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, and Lupin's unsuitable fiancée, Daisy Mutlar.
The humour derives from Pooter's unconscious gaffes and self-importance, as well as the snubs he receives from those he considers socially inferior, such as tradesmen. In The Diary of a Nobody the Grossmiths create an accurate if amusing record of the manners, customs and experiences of the Londoners of the late Victorian era."
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1984 by george orwell - i've had this one for while in dead tree format. i believe it's available ( at least in epub ) on MR here. does that count?
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A classic book does not just have to be in the public domain. So the idea that the definition of a classic as a moldy oldie is just incorrect. Can we have a proper use of the term classic for a change?
I feel we should have a vote on this and decide the use of the term classic as PD only is highly incorrect.
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I've been meaning to read Anna Karenina, so that's my nom.
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I second 1984 by George Orwell. It is available in MR's library in ePub, prc and LRF formats (as "1984" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four")
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However, legally in the USA, 1984 cannot be downloaded for free as it's not PD in the USA yet.
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I nominate Madame Bovary. It has been on my TBR list. Description lifted from Amazon.
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and if we do change these rules a bit i want another nomination
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A Classic in the public domain (in the US or Canada is fine). Basically, if it could be in the MR library.
This is because many club members don't have the budgets to buy a new book every month, so they wanted at least a month were the selection would [most likely] be free.
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I'd like to nominate Can You Forgive Her?, the first of Trollope's Palliser novels, available here at MR as part of the Palliser omnibus.
HarryT's blurb: Can You Forgive Her? (1864)
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.
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KingKtoykcaj KingKtoykcaj Jan 13, 2009 14:41 Flag
Rafa got it wrong again !
There seems to be selection mistakes for Rafa Benitez for his team against Stoke on the 10th of January 2009.
He left the £20.3million Robbie Keane and the
£26.5million Fernando Torres on the bench,
and opted for Stevie G as a backup striker,
just behind Dirk Kuyt. The 2 main strikers were fit and ready to play at the start.
Keane has scored against Arsenal, and a brace against Bolton, in December 08.
Torres was the League top scorer before
he got injured in November,and was on the bench against Stoke.
Both strikers clearly need more playing time, if not together, then as a lone striker.
Lucas should not have started the match, in place of the injured Alonso, and the former lacks
creativity, vision and flair.
Many would have agreed that Stevie should start in the middle of the park, with Kuyt operating on the right, in place of the light-weight Benayoun against Stoke.
Liverpool's two main strikers, Keane and Torres should have started.
Benitez, if you want to win the title, you have to go for broke. The best form of winning is to ATTACK. Accumulating draws will not win Liverpool the title, that's for sure.
You have to win against the lesser teams if you want to win the EPL title, not forgetting to beat
Chelsea, Arsenal, and MAN UTD along the way.
On current form, Man U will steamroll against any team, but it is another 4 months to the end of the race, and I reckon it will be a close 2 horse race between Liverpool and Man Utd.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
seven of eleven seven of eleven Jan 14, 2009 11:42 Flag
No he did'nt he go it right in his head...that's why he's a fool...give him a red nose.
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ToxicScott ToxicScott Jan 15, 2009 06:11 Flag
There is NEVER a good reason to start 2 defending midfielders like Masch and Lucas. Starting one holding midfielder is part of the game and a integral part of a defensive strategy but if your main goal in playing a match is "not to lose" then Liverpool will win the race for the most draws in a season AGAIN.
It's absolutely mind boggling to see Kuyt up front with Stevie behind him. Kuyt is and will always be a secondary striker who works hard and supplies the ball to a proper striker like Torres. I can kind of understand sitting Torres because he has to be brought back into the squad gently but there's no reason to be sitting Keane. When Rafa buys 50 million worth of strikers and plays Gerrard in their place, it's a sad thing to watch. I'm still more than confident that we'll win the title this year but we could've won it much sooner if Rafa grew a pair.
well said,rafa must set out to will all games,torres and keane in a 4 4 2 formation,got to go with it,needs to drop lucas as he would not stand uot if he played in a sunday league team
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well said jacky o and well said shep. rafa's ridiculous managerial decisions with regard to team selection and substitutions have cost us so many points already! rafa start playing your best players week in week out! keane and torres cannot be left out of the starting 11, how can they form a partnership if they are not playing together. start playing 4-4-2 and then (if you must), when the games won go back to your defensive 4-5-1!
kuyt cannot play as a lone striker and lucas should not have a liverpool shirt on his back! rafa you are ruining our title hopes!


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Have you tried having someone else give the bottle? Sometimes they don't like to take it from Mom because they know you have the boobs and are holding out on them :)
Also, have you tried different bottles? The milk at different temps?
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Don't be in the room, or better yet, don't even be in the house, when she gets a bottle. How often are you giving bottles? Once a day or every other day is plenty. I agree with pp, breast is best and don't regret!
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She'll learn to take the bottle. I think there was a post a day or two ago expressing similar frustration because of LO not taking the bottle... lots of responses had good suggestions for introducing a bottle...try warm breast milk, cold milk, let her nurse than break the latch and sneak the bottle into her mouth... You might try finding that post and trying some of the different suggestions.
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"Poor people have poor ways."
"Waste not, want not."
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Each saying made sense and - if obeyed - made a hard life more bearable.
One frugal practice was never throwing anything away. People collected bits of string, tied them together, rolled them into a ball and stored them behind a trivet hanging on the wall.
All wrapping paper was ironed flat with a hot iron and stored on a shelf in the pantry. Paper sacks were folded carefully and stored. Excess paper, such as old mail, was rolled into a tube, tied with twine and used as kindling to start a fire.
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Patches on clothes were ignored. Neat patches were a compliment to the seamstress. Housewives treasured material scraps along with button and snap collections kept in glass fruit jars. The challenge of repair-and-save was a tribute to the mother.
Chicken feed, flour and sugar sacks were carefully saved, taken apart and valued highly. Draw-string drawers were not an embarrassment as everyone wore them. A big family wearing shirts, dresses and blouses made from the same material meant the seamstress was frugal and had probably bought a bargain.
Toothpaste and toothbrushes were too costly. Just before leaving the house, you dipped your finger into a cup of table salt mixed with soda and scrubbed your teeth and gums vigorously.
Grandma Trew thought iron tablets were too expensive and kept a new 16-penny nail in her water bucket to make sure her family received plenty of iron. Tin cans were tromped flat and buried in post holes dug near trees to provide iron. The white gunk from the acetylene generator was poured around fruit trees to keep the borers at bay.
Potatoes were peeled thin then boiled, saving the juice for soup stock. All water from cooked vegetables and leftovers were saved for stew. All bacon grease was saved to doctor sore cow's teats. Other meat greases were stored for making lye soap.
Envelopes from mail were good to store seeds for next year's garden. Ornamental gourds were great to store seed as they prevented mildew if kept dry. Used tobacco chaws and snuff could be used to treat seed of all types to keep army worms away after planting.
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French Post-Modern Masculinities: From Neuromatrices to Seropositivity by Lawrence R. Schehr. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009.
1When he died in 2011, Lawrence R. Schehr left behind a peerless interdisciplinary body of work. His monographs and journal articles were in areas as diverse as gender and queer studies, literature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as French language, culture and civilization. Although the title French Post-Modern Masculinities gives the impression that the monograph will address the entire post-modern period, Schehr concentrates on the last twenty years. As he explains French Post-Modern Masculinities, his latest monograph, sets out to examine the "changes in the representations and depictions of masculinity and masculine sexualities in the contemporary era of France" (1).
2In the first chapter, "The Work of Literature in an Age of Queer Reproduction", Schehr puts into conversation the literary works of Guillaume Dustan and Erik Rémès, analyzing the impact of bareback or unsafe sex on subject formation. Through an incisive reading of the literary works of these two authors, he argues that "the pursuit of sexual pleasure has to take precedence over everything else, and, indeed, that the definition of self comes only from one's body, from that of another (or others), from the sexualization of masculinity as the be-all and end-all of being" (29). "Neuromatrices and Networks" is the second chapter and it examines French graphic novels which are involved in reorienting the post-modern masculine condition. His interpretation of the attacks against the World Trade Center in the book Villa Vortex by Maurice Dantec is particularly enthralling. He compellingly contends that "the destruction of that building is not the destruction of knowledge itself; the attack is against the institutions that organize knowledge and ultimately do not distinguish between knowledge and nonsense, those institutions that also turn knowledge into a kind of propaganda for death and destruction, for collectivization and for emasculation" (79). This ominous vision of masculinity is further developed in the third chapter, "Topographies of Queer Popular Culture", in which Schehr examines several filmic and literary autofictions. The overarching argument in this chapter is that modern technology and AIDS play an important role in enacting the contemporary crisis of masculinity. "Perversions of the Real", the ultimate chapter, deals with the essay writings of right leaning and heterosexual writers such as Michel Houellebecq and Marc-Édouard Nabe. Schehr discusses the manner in which political discourses infiltrate the literary works of these writers with images that invoke a reimagining of sexuality and masculinity.
3Drawing on Michel Foucault's philosophical oeuvre, French Post-Modern Masculinities attempts to contextualize theoretically the current state of the masculine subject as an individual. Employing Foucault's notion of social constructivism as elaborated in The History of Sexuality, Schehr shows, by way of a solid historical analysis, how the present masculine subject has come to be constructed. He starts from the post-Enlightenment period in which there is an initial rise of the subject as an individual. His linear historical examination ends in the "post-human" period (10) characterized by the centrality of AIDS and the Internet. This "post-human" period marks an end of the independence of the subject as an individual given the fact that the individual is no longer entirely himself. In terms of the masculine subject, Schehr contends that in this "post-human" period there is a radicalization of discourse on gender and sexuality which has led to the proliferation of a "new masculinity as a visible, palpable vulnerability" (11). Schehr gives a convincing argument of the apparition of this new masculinity by analyzing the combined effects of AIDS and the Internet. He argues that the contemporary subject is a palpably "visible node" (12) through a multiplicity of networks or "neuromatrices" which are brought about by the Internet and AIDS. The author offers a fascinating etymological analysis of the term "matrix" showing how it is a symbol of the maternal, and by extension of the feminine. For him, this reflects the manner in which the "post-human" masculine has been emasculated and indeed stripped of its phallic power and position.
4The sheer diversity and breadth of the cultural productions that is examined by Schehr in this monograph is nothing less than impressive and undoubtedly the major strength of the book. Effortlessly scrutinizing novels, essays, films and graphic novels, Schehr shows great insight into contemporary French cultural productions that relate to queer and gender studies. He shows inordinate assurance even when handling material which is not only complex but is by and large sexually graphic in content. One such example is the manner in which he details the demise of the invincible heterosexual male subject. Through a reading of works by writers such as Marc-Édouard Nabe and Michel Houellebecq, Schehr hypothesizes that the apparent "death" of the invincible heterosexual male subject has prompted its inauspicious conception of a sexually decadent and amoral society whose functioning axes upon aggressive and destructive instincts. In the development of this argument, as is the case in the rest of the monograph, Schehr is at once coherent and accessible. The simplicity of expression and the accessibility of the core arguments do not nonetheless compromise the theoretical depth that is achieved in this monograph.
5French Post-Modern Masculinities could however be accused of being somewhat reductionist in its characterization of French gay experience to white, middle-class Parisian experience. An analysis of the interconnections of class, race, nationality and sexuality in "post-human" France would certainly have given this a more holistic depiction of French gay experience. Still considering the weaknesses of this monograph, the presence of several inaccuracies in translation as well as a manifold of typos, spoil an otherwise well-written and well-argued monograph.


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A Queens woman was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for stabbing and smothering her 39-year-old disabled son last year in what she said was a mercy killing.
Migdalia Veras, 57 years old, told authorities that her son, Rene, whose cerebral palsy left him wheelchair-bound and in constant pain, had begged her for months to kill him.
According to her own version of events, Ms. Veras twice stabbed her son with a kitchen knife on March 3, 2011, in the Flushing home they shared and then suffocated him with a pillow to stifle his continued breathing. Afterward, Ms. Veras slashed one of her wrists and plunged the knife into her chest.
Ms. Veras pleaded guilty to manslaughter earlier this month after negotiations with Queens prosecutors who had originally pursued a second-degree murder charge. She had raised suspicion by giving authorities several different accounts, including one in which she tried to deflect blame by saying her son stabbed her and then killed himself, according to the assistant Queens district attorney handling the case, Shawn Clark.
Prosecutors offered a plea to manslaughter after taking into account Ms. Veras's decades of psychiatric treatment, her strong relationship with her son and a medical examiner's report that substantiated much of her story, Mr. Clark said.
"This is a 57-year-old woman with no criminal record who by all accounts loved her son, would have done anything for him," said Mr. Clark. He said the circumstances don't "excuse her actions" and called the plea and sentence "appropriate."
Ms. Veras, who was found mentally competent to stand trial, will receive mental health treatment in prison, said her defense attorney, Andrew Worgan.
Mr. Worgan said Queens prosecutors took a "compassionate" stance in a case he called a "lose-lose situation for everybody."
Before Ms. Veras was sentenced by Queens Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt, her sister, Ada Baez, gave a tearful statement in court, recalling Rene Veras as an avid Mets fan who collected all the team's baseball cards.
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Dressed in a purple shirt and pink pants, the white-haired Ms. Veras spoke inaudibly before she was sentenced. Mr. Worgan, who was standing by her side, said Mr. Veras wanted to inform her family that she had a "heart condition."
Mr. Worgan said Ms. Veras hasn't been officially diagnosed with heart problems as far as he knows.
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An elderly person is looking for the main entrance but is guessing which set of doors to use.
A majority of people coming to Johnson Memorial Hospital assume they will find a receptionist sitting at a welcome desk behind the front doors to Building 1155. After all, that entrance is the closest to the area where most people park and has a large canopy over the drop-off site.
But the actual main entrance to the hospital is tucked away in a corner next to the emergency room entrance, to the west. Because of consistent confusion, the hospital is planning a $7 million project that in part will create a more distinct main entrance.
A new cafeteria that will cost about $2.5 million and improvements to the heating and cooling system are also part of the project.
No loans will be needed for the construction, which will be paid for with savings. Construction will begin in September and take 18 months to complete, Chief Executive Officer Larry Heydon said.
"We feel our entrance creates confusion," Heydon said. "We think in the end this project will better identify our main entrance. Our main entrance is kind of hidden in a corner, and we want a more well-defined entrance."
The new main entrance will be moved to Building 1155, which is where Heydon said a lot of people already think it's located. A new sign will be put on that building to signify that it serves as the hospital's main entrance. Additional parking spaces and landscaping will be added in that area, Heydon said.
A new entrance is also being made to continue with the recent trends of modernizing buildings and services. The hospital expanded its surgical center last year, adding two operating rooms, expanding the two existing operating rooms, adding a new lobby and waiting area and adding post-surgery recovery rooms as part of a $14 million project.
One of the most outdated parts of the hospital will also be getting a new look. The current cafeteria, which is on the far east part of the building, creates more of a walk for patients who aren't very mobile. The current single-line cafeteria is in a part of the hospital that was built in the 1940s, Heydon said.
The new cafeteria will be located in the center of the hospital and will be easier for patients, doctors and visitors to use. The area will offer multiple stations with different types of foods. Wireless Internet access will be available in the new cafeteria along with multiple seating options, such as traditional tables or counter seating, Heydon said.
A portion of Building 1101 — where the current cafeteria is located — will be demolished and replaced with a retention pond and walking trail.
The helipad will be moved farther west on the hospital property. The landing site is being moved to allow for additional parking spaces to be added near the future main entrance, Heydon said.


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