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Britain's Latest Austerity Wedding
Get out the bunting. Austerity Britain, gingerly emerging from the recesses of the worst financial crisis in a generation, is to receive a fillip in the guise of a royal wedding. This morning, Clarence House formally confirmed that Prince William, second in line to the throne, is to marry his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton in the spring or summer of next year.
Cynics, and there are many here in the U.K., will wonder whether plans mooted by the British government earlier this week to "measure" the happiness of the nation is in some way linked. Make no bones about it, a royal wedding of a prince to his university sweetheart will provide a much-needed feelgood boost for Britons fearful about their job security and suffering under the yoke of budget cuts.
For a country now prone to excessive displays of emotion in the wake of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, it will have the license to party like it hasn't done in years. It is doubtful whether the impromptu street celebrations that greeted the wedding of William's parents in 1981 will be repeated. But tills will be jangling as cash exchanges hands in the inevitable rush to grab wedding china and other "tat" — likely manufactured in China — and this will provide a small but significant consumer boost.
The couple, both 28, who met while they were studying at St. Andrew's University in Scotland, gave a brief statement announcing their nuptials. Later, Miss Middleton, born a commoner but now a future princess, was introduced in a photocall with the Prince William at St. James's Palace in central London wearing the same 18-carat sapphire and diamond engagement ring Lady Diana received from Charles.
Amid a volley of flashbulbs, Miss Middleton, playing the demure future princess to a tee, said: "It's quite a daunting prospect, but hopefully I'll take in my stride. William is a great teacher."
Prince William said: "It was my way of making sure my mother did not miss out on today. As you may recognize now it is my mother's engagement ring, so of course it is very special to me, and Kate is very special to me now as well. It is only right the two are put together."
The ring cost £28,000 at the time but will be worth considerably more now.
Asked if he had gone down on one knee, William was more circumspect, declining to answer, but said the moment was "very special."
Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking on the steps of Downing Street, was more forthcoming. He described the moment as "unadulterated good news" and a "cause for national celebration."
He claimed he only learned of the announcement when a note was passed to him while the cabinet was sitting. Mr. Cameron, who also revealed he slept in the Mall in London on the eve of Charles and Diana's wedding, said it was met with "a great cheer" and "banging of the table" from fellow ministers.
The news went global in minutes, leading websites around the world, and was greeted in America with fanfare. ABC's breakfast show, "Good Morning America," chose to open with a trumpet blast to lead the happy announcement.
The boost to the British economy will be difficult to measure. However, VisitEngland, the body that promotes Britain abroad, said it anticipates a sizable increase in tourist traffic at the time of the wedding.
A spokesman said one in eight visitors to the U.K. already went to a tourist site "associated" with the monarchy.
Its spokesman Marc Di-Toro said:
"News of the royal wedding is not only a happy event for the couple and their families. It will also be very positive for the tourism industry, especially in the run up the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
"Our research indicates that the monarchy and the associated places, events and history generates directly and indirectly well over £500 million a year in revenue for the British tourism industry.
"The youth and vigor of the couple is very attractive and millions of people around the world are certain see the wedding as the perfect moment to come to Britain to see the young Royals and our much loved Queen."
The U.K. itself is no stranger to "austerity weddings." A country still exhausted from World War II huddled around TV sets as the then youthful 21-year-old Princess Elizabeth married Phillip, five years her senior, in November 1947. Fears over post-war rationing, then still seven years from ending, were momentarily put aside.
Likewise, when Charles and Lady Diana Spencer married in 1981, Britain was in the midst of a recession. Three million people would ultimately find themselves jobless, but the street parties and glut of china plates bearing the couple's official wedding portrait showed that the British still had an appetite for a royal extravaganza.
The rules of the game will be markedly different this time. Post-Diana, the House of Windsor does not command the same respect it once did and will find itself under greater scrutiny than ever before. The uneasy truce between the Fleet Street tabloids and Miss Middleton will also be pushed to the limit.
Moreover, any sign from William's betrothed of overindulgence, or heaven forfend, not plumping for a British designer, will be leapt upon by the U.K. 's notorious red-top press.
So far, the groom has behaved with a distinct measure of decorum. It is understood that William asked Miss Middleton's father for his daughter's hand before he proposed to her in Kenya .
Matters are not straightforward for Miss Middleton. She will come under enormous pressure to replicate the glamour exuded by William's mother when she glided down the aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral in an Elizabeth and David Emanuel dress.
And while the ceremony is unlikely to be short on opulence and grandeur, the future Mrs. Windsor will know that her wedding will have to answer to some budget constraints. The public will demand it.
Britons expect much of their royals, most notably their princesses. Certainly, the future Princess Kate will have a lot to live up to.
Tuesday's co-announcement from Clarence House has moved on since royal decrees were delivered on parchment. The story appeared on the Queen's Facebook page and Clarence House itself "tweeted" the announcement before it appeared on its official website.


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Brisbane Lions stalwart Jonathan Brown has announced his immediate retirement from the AFL, citing health reasons for ending an accolade-filled 14-year career.
Brown made the announcement at a press conference at the Gabba, flanked by coach Justin Leppitsch and football director Leigh Matthews, who also coached the AFL club from 1999 to 2008.
The 256-game veteran, Brown, played in four consecutive grand finals including the premiership-winning teams of 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Jonathan Brown of the Lions looks on from the bench during the round 13 AFL match between the Brisbane Lions and the Greater Western Giants. Photo: Matt Roberts/Getty Images
However the 32-year-old has suffered multiple head injuries during his career, with the latest occurring against the GWS Giants on June 14.
Brown said he made the decision to quit the game over the weekend.
After spending time with his children, he contemplated the decision further and knew his health was "not worth risking".
Jonathan Brown retires
Brisbane Lions champion Jonathan Brown has retired after a career spanning 256 games. Photo: Getty Images
"I've had to finish up early from a playing point of view, I'll still be involved with the club helping out the guys throughout the year ... unfortunately [I] can't do it out on the field," he said.
"Not to dramatise it. I'm ok, I'm going to recover ... I'm sure [my] symptoms will clear up pretty soon."
The powerful centre half-forward made his debut for the Lions during the 2000 season after he was drafted from TAC Cup side Geelong Falcons.
Jonathan Brown of the Lions is assisted from the field in Round 13. Photo: Matt Roberts/Getty Images
Hailing from the Victorian country town of Warrnambool, Brown said he idolised the Lions as a youngster because his father Brian played for the club when it was formerly known as Fitzroy.
He said his "heart bled for the Lions from the very start and all the way through".
Brown said he was content with his decision to give the game away and that Leppitsch had not put him under any pressure to continue playing.
Brown captained the side from 2007 to 2013, booting 594 goals in his 14-year career.
"I'm looking forward to the future, whatever that may be," Brown said.
"[My] time at the footy club's just been fantastic. The memories is what's really the overwhelming thing. All the happiness, the great times.
"I've been fortunate enough to play in premierships and play with a lot of great players, build some great relationships, [I've] been coached by great men. So it's just been a wonderful ride."

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Jack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist.
He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, has the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow in the Computer Science and Mathematics Schools at the University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.
He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical software.
He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books.
He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernback Award in 2004 for his contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches and in 2008 he was the recipient of the first IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing; in 2010 he was the first recipient of the SIAM Special Interest Group of Supercomputing's award for Career Achievement. In 2013 he received the ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for his leadership in designing and promoting standards for mathematical software used to solve numerical problems common to high performance computing (HPC). He is a fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the national Academy of Engineering.
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March 22, 2014
DALLAS (SMU) – Freshman Dasha Sharapova (15-9) notched her second straight victory with a three-set win over Houston sophomore Maria Cardenas, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, but the No. 24 ranked Cougars proved to be too strong as they defeated the Mustangs, 5-2 in Dallas on Saturday. SMU is back in action on March 26 in Arlington, Texas at UTA at 2 p.m. CT.
Houston (12-3, 3-0) earned the opening the doubles point of the match by winning at the No. 1 and 2 positions. The Cougars then won the No. 1, 2, 4 and 5 singles matches to secure the dual match victory over the Mustangs (6-10, 3-2).
In addition to Sharapova, freshman Anna Kate Anderson defeated Cougar sophomore Rocio Martin in three sets, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 as she improved her overall record to 12-12.
In doubles, sophomore Yana Erkeeva and freshman Macie Elliott improved their overall record to 12-6 as the Mustang duo disposed of Houston's No. 3 doubles pair, 8-5.
Following Wednesday's match at UTA, SMU begins a four-match homestand beginning back in action on March 22 at 4 p.m. when the Mustangs host Middle Tennessee State at the Northwood Country Club in Dallas.


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Magazine of the painting blogosphere.
Jonathan Munar posts a new video about painter Eddie Martinez. In the video Martinez discusses the desire to seek a new, abstract direction in his work, a desire that was realized in his recent exhibition, Matador, at Journal Gallery, Brooklyn.
On changing from figurative to abstract painting Martinez says: "I really have to go into the paintings a little bit more to figure them out, to pull their potential out of them. Because I don't necessarily know what the imagery is and I don't know what the moves are going to be as readily as I did when painting a bouquet of flowers over and over and over again."
Brent Hallard in conversation with painter Jeffrey Cortland Jones.
Hallard begins the dialogue by noting that Jones' works are typcially "no larger than 14 inches on the high side, and the fact that the internal dynamics don't really push beyond the borders, urges us to focus on what is there, with our eyes and our shoulders: it's here we do most of the work. It's an intimate world that we enter, a cave full of reserve and refrain. The paintings are close to white, are anything but white, are minus dilemma, loss, void, end, or struggle-in-sight with purity. We enter simply, plainly, and form a bond – between the thing and 'we' the observer. The way we enter is 'slow' until slow catches up, and then it's fast… to find a world of things that could have flitted by if we hadn't stopped and noticed."
David Carrier reviews the exhibition Peter Soriano: New Work at Lennon, Weinberg, New York, on view through February 23, 2013.
Carrier writes: "What is a painting? For some time, artists have been answering that question in very diverse ways by taking painting apart into its constituent elements. Frank Stella and Elizabeth Murray focused our attention on the stretcher; Julia Mehretu and Cy Twombly dealt with the painterly gesture; and Mel Bochner and Sol LeWitt, the role of drawing. Peter Soriano, who in the 1990s made colored sculptures from polyester resin, now is seeking to make his art more portable by doing improvised wall paintings, schematized landscapes based upon plein air drawings. His original contribution to this ongoing artistic dialogue involves bringing a new visual resource into the discussion... graffiti." Carrier continues: "anyone who loves painterly visual art can enjoy Soriano's wall paintings, which are joyous, truly 'gay' in the traditional sense of that word. Seeing his paintings coming from the bitter cold of an overcast winter day, I thought of Henri Matisse's late cutouts, a perhaps strange but not-irrelevant association. Constructing diagram-like markings, which diagram nothing, Soriano shows how far reaching aesthetic effects can be created by using minimal means."
Edited by artist Brett Baker, Painters' Table highlights writing from the painting blogosphere as it is published and serves as a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting.
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An abortionist in Massachusetts will go on trial in September for killing a woman during her abortion. The abortion itself was legal and carried out in a legal facility. However, Laura Smith, age 22, died from the abortion in September of 2007. The abortionist reportedly put her under anesthesia but failed to have other staff members present who had the medical training necessary to monitor Laura's vital signs during the abortion.
While we should all be outraged, we should not at all be surprised. This kind of negligence and malpractice is rampant in the abortion industry, as the book Lime 5 demonstrates. The abortion industry is the most unregulated, out of control surgical industry in the nation, and it's time for the story to be told. Obtain the book Lime 5 from Priests for Life.org.
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|[I] The pathology of experimental Corynebacterium equi infection in foals following intrabronchial challenge. [II] The pathology of experimental Corynebacterium equi infection in foals following intragastric challenge
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|Six foals were inoculated intrabronchially with a suspension of C. equi. Six weeks before this challenge, three foals were vaccinated with a C. equi bacterin. Three foals were unvaccinated controls. All foals developed a severe bronchopneumonia in the inoculated lung, indicating that vaccination was not protective. Three foals (two vaccinated, one control) were killed eight to nine days after infection. One control died on day 9 with lesions of disseminated intravascular coagulation. The remaining two foals (one vaccinated, one control) were killed on day 17. C. equi was cultured in large numbers from affected lung and bronchial lymph nodes, and in smaller numbers from unaffected lung, spleen, and liver in all foals. In the 8- to 9-day-old lung lesions, the alveoli were filled with macrophages, neutrophils, and multinucleate giant cells and most contained many C. equi. The few foci of alveolar necrosis were associated with groups of bacteria-laden degenerating macrophages. In the lesions of 17-day duration, there was extensive parenchymal destruction with little fibrous tissue reaction. Lesions common to both groups included hyperplastic bronchiolitis, pulmonary oedema, and perivascular lymphocytic cuffs and a pyogranulomatous lymhadenitis in bronchial nodes. One vaccinated foal had a microscopic pyogranulomatous colitis. The lesions in the experimentally infected foals are compared with those in naturally infected foals, and the likely pathogenic mechanisms involved in C. equi pneumonia in foals are discussed. The intragastric inoculation of a suspension of Corynebacterium equi on five consecutive days induced severe ulcerative colitis, typhilitis, and lymphadenitis of colonic and caecal nodes in two ponies killed three weeks after infection. No gross lesions were observed in two ponies killed ten days after infection. A single inoculum of equivalent size failed to induce gross lesions in four ponies killed at 10 or 20 days after infection. Microscopic lesions consistent with early C. equi infection of Peyer's patches were seen in two of the ponies killed ten days after infection. Only one small pulmonary abscess occurred in one foal, suggesting that intestinal lesions are not likely to be the usual precursor of pulmonary disease in naturally infected foals. The gross and microscopic lesions in the experimentally infected ponies were typical of the intestinal form of naturally occurring C. equi associated disease in foals..
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The Requirement is a Database for Intelligent Environments to support Automated Driving.
Here's a Paper on Semantic Event Databases from the University of California at San Diego,
Here's a Paper delivered by Bill Gates which (on page 17) refers to Intelligent Environments as an area of research for Microsoft.
In the 20 minutes I have available it seems to me that the appropriate Approach is :-
1) Start with a Data Model to support the production of maps to get from A to B, (eg the www.theAA.com in the UK).
2) Add a way to store the Rules for driving - eg 'stick to Roads and avoid driving thru Buildings'
3) Add the concept of Drivers, who are Agents.
My preliminary rough Rules are as follows :-
A. What are the Things of Interest ?
A.1 Agents
A.2 Bridges
A.3 Building
A.4 Cars
A.5 Drivers
a.6 Events
A.7 Roads
A.8 Stations
A.9 Traffic Controls
A.10 Transactions
A.11 Vehicles
B. How are they related ?
B.1 A Driver can drive one or many Cars
B.2 A Car can belong to only one Driver at a time.
C. What else do we know about Them ?
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Here's a great deal for a professional children's theater and dance event. Erika Moon Productions and Momentum Dance are performing two favorite stories for family: the classic folk tale Peter and the Wolf and the Norwegian folk tale Peer Gynt in Miami Beach.
Regular price for tickets is $25 per person, but Goldstar is offering a limited number of tickets for just the cost of the service fee, which is $7. Update: The cheapest tickets currently available are $16.50. That's more than two-thirds off the regular price. A workshop for children, included with the ticket, will follow the shows.
The performance is at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Rd.Miami Beach, FL 33139.
Here's Goldstar's description of the two works:
Comedy, drama and suspense combine to engage kids in a battle of wits as Peter and his friends, Bird and Duck, work together to capture the wily Wolf. Unique movements and music accompany each character, as a different orchestral instrument represents each member of the cast.
Gynt, a young Norwegian man with a taste for telling tall tales, will tell children of his many exciting adventures, which include an enchanted forest filled with trees that try to trap him, a dance with a beautiful Arabian princess, and even a journey to the Hall of the Mountain King where he's threatened by terrible trolls.
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by Mike Perry, CEO and Green Coffee Buyer
After the long drive from Amaro to Yirgacheffe we pulled into the Hama Co-op to a large crowd of farmers and families. It was a bit overwhelming how many people came to meet us, watch us cup and hear our feedback. Upon arrival we immediately began to unload and set up in a covered area next to the Co-op office. Fortunately we had cupping tables, large gas propane tanks, stoves, lots of water, scales, grinders and all our cupping supplies. Not only did we have throngs of people crowding to look in, we also had producers (farmers) sitting inside around the cupping tables and for a brief hour I got to experience the life of a rock star.
Once completed we again invited the producers to cup coffees, and then we shared our notes and scores to the masses, followed by a Q and A type of town hall meeting. A common question of the farmers was "how can we get more money for our coffee?" More often than not our reply was "a quality cup, meaning care with processing, and traceability and branding for each Co-op." While every table had prime examples of great coffee, others showed traces of greatness muddled with processing mistakes we could taste in the cup. While we wanted to highlight and acknowledge what was good, we had to be honest enough to let them know why we could not pay high prices for missteps, and offered suggestions for improvement.
It was already late in the day, we had more farmers to meet and coffee to roast. For this reason, three of us (including myself) broke off from the group and drove down to the ECX (Ethiopian Commodity Exchange) to do the roasting while the rest of the group packed up and headed to another Co-op called Harfusa to meet more farmers and hold another town hall meeting to discuss coffee and the needs of those who produce it.
We drove about 50 minutes to the ECX in Dilla and arrived around 5pm with 20 batches to roast. Since the machine was a 2-barrel Probat Burns and there was three of us, we hoped to complete the task in two to three hours. What we did not expect was no light in the roasting room so we had to do our roasting by flashlight. But led by Dave with some help from Jeff and I, we completed the roasting and drove to Yirgacheffe to meet the rest of the team.
But another great thing happened in Dilla, I had a great conversation with Rahil, a certified Q cupper (a Q cupper is a very special cupper who has passed extensive written and tasting exams) whom I met on my previous visit. She has a great palate as well as an understanding of the different coffee Ethiopia has to offer. We had a great time and it all goes well, Rahil will be joining our Klatch team later this year. She will be a valuable asset to not only our team and quality control, but to our customers as well in helping us connect with more of the best Ethiopian farmers.
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Alyssa and Ryan Sneeden, Battle Ground, a boy, Travis Ryan, Feb. 14, 6 pounds, 14 ounces.
Beth N. and Javier I. Gomez, Vancouver, a girl, Adalyn E., Feb. 27, 7 pounds, 10 ounces.
Marriage dissolutions
Beasley, Brian and Karen D. Woman's name changed to Catto.
Morawski, Szymon and Barbara.
Siebold, Michael D. and Michelle K. Woman's name changed to Wiley.
Banda-Torres, Myrna C. and Lezama, Carlos Montes.
Colson, Chona P. and Troy A.
Doss, Sherri L. and Tracy R.
Green, Donald Oren and Julie Elisabeth.
Harris, Clement Michael and Katherine Michelle.
Hinze, Karl D. and Barbara A.
Israel, Christine and Matthew J.
Jones, Sam and Kristen.
Magliano, Samuel Anthony and Deneane Kay.
Perreault, Marie and Eugene.
Rutherford, Kelvin Keith and Katherine Ann.
Strickland, Elizabeth and Robert.
Kramer, Robert W. and Laurent-Kramer, Cecile M.
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The Columbian's policy is to publish all Clark County Superior Court felony sentencings, as provided by the Clark County Clerk's Office. DC signifies that the defendant has entered drug court. Addresses are provided by the courts and may have changed by the time of sentencing. Misdemeanor sentencings, provided by District Court, are published for the following crimes: DUI (driving under the influence), DWS/revoked (driving while license is suspended or revoked), theft-3 (third-degree theft), and assault-4 (fourth-degree assault). If the defendant is sentenced for other misdemeanors at the same time, those offenses are also listed. Money figures represent fines.
Judges: Roger Bennett, John Hagensen, John Nichols, James Swanger, Ed Poyfair, Barbara Johnson, James Rulli, Vernon Schreiber, Ken Eiesland, Robert Lewis, Richard Melnick, Darvin Zimmerman, Diane Woolard, Scott A. Collier and John Wulle. Court Commissioners: Carin Schienberg, Amy Swingen, Kelli Osler, Alison Greene, Suzan Clark, Dan Stahnke, Clayton Spencer, Sonya Langsdorf and Mary Arden.
Brown, Devin Alan, 16, 7318 N.E. 61st Ave., 7 days, 12 months probation, 24 hours community service, malicious mischief-2. (Stahnke, March 3)
Gerber, Devin Joseph, 16, 3801 N.E. Royal View Ave., 12 months probation, harassment with threat to kill. (Poyfair, March 1)
Gutierrez, Missraim Moreno, 16, 11022 N.E. 18th St., 10 days, 12 months probation, 16 hours community service, possession of marijuana and possession of methamphetamine. (Schienberg, March 4)
Thompson, Jacob Taylor, 17, 409 N.E. 135th St., 3 days, 12 months probation, unlawful possession of controlled substance. (Johnson, March 5)
Carillo-Macias, Rafael, 21, 1304 N.E. 88th St., 54 days, taking a motor vehicle without permission-2. (Wulle, March 8)
Meza, Francisco Cruz, 28, address not available, 32 days, theft-2. (Wulle, March 8)
Taylor, Georgio Will, 25, no address, 33 months, robbery-1. (Wulle, March 8)
Bachman, Loretta Roxanne, 31, 3632 N St., 90 days, $750, 3 counts-DWS/revoked, hit and run and bail jumping on a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor. (Osler, March 8)
McCandless, David Miles, 44, 34607 N.E. 127th Ave., La Center, 5 days, $200, DWS/revoked. (Osler, March 8)
Melchor, Nicolai Faustino, 22, 1115 N.E. 107th St., 3 days, $200, DWS/revoked and reckless driving. (Osler, March 8)
Wiley, Keith R., 21, 12210 N.E. 103rd Ave., 2 days, $100, DWS/revoked. (Osler, March 8)


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Beth Broderick Movies and Career Information
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Elizabeth Alice "Beth" Broderick is an American actress famous for her portrayal of the character Zelda Spellman in the television sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch from 1996–2003 on ABC and then the Warner Bros. network. She recently starred as the recurring character Rose Twitchell on the Stephen King and Steven Spielberg TV series Under the Dome.
- Beth Broderick Movies 2015
- Two Step 2015
- Beth Broderick Movies before 2015
- Timber Falls 2007
- Psycho Beach Party 2000
- Fools Rush In 1997
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Welcome to Fina Ejerique, the luxury children's clothing brand from Spain. Fina Ejerique offers childrenswear for children between 0 and 14 years old. The garments have a strong identity and are easy to combine. So please feel free to browse our website and fall in love with Fina Ejerique as well.


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For the aspirational, willing to bend their backs and broaden their minds, the materials for a dream house are all around us; in tin cans, tires and scrap metal, ready for construction projects anywhere from city centers to tropical islands at minimal expense.
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Sir Winston Churchill did it. So did Princess Elizabeth and the
Duke of Edinburgh. Now you, too, can tour the Rockies in style aboard
Canadian Pacific's refurbished fleet of vintage rail carriages.
Venture back to a romantic era, when train travel was an elegant
and epicurean experience. Savour a sumptuous meal at a table set
with china and silver service during the sunset luxury excursion
from Calgary to Banff. Relax each evening amid the red leather luxury
of a classic lounge car on the six-day, culinary tour from Calgary
to Vancouver. Food and travel go hand in hand. Stop longing for
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to go West. Check the links below for more information on Canada's
tastiest adventures.
The Royal Canadian Pacific offers a suite of luxury food and wine getaways aboard
refurbished coaches that allow you to relax each evening amid the red leather luxury of a
classic lounge car. Trips, which head to points west of Calgary through Canada's Rockies,
guarantee you'll experience the royal treatment aboard elite carriages built in the 1900s.
In addition to private charters and bookings, the Royal Canadian Pacific schedule includes a
half-dozen upscale weeklong trips such as the Royal Canadian Rockies Experience, Royal
Clubhouse Golf Tour, Fly-Fishing Adventure, Culinary Wine and Music Experience, and Train
Trails and Spa Adventure. If a week aboard a luxury train isn't enough, you can spend 22 days
on a cross-Canada tour on the TransCanada Steam Express. Pricetag — $26,000.
VIA Rail offers its share of Canadian tour packages that allow you to see the country's
incredible regional scenery while enjoying a traditional rail trip lasting from 6 to 17 days.
Fourteen trips that originate in Canada explore various regions in the West, Central and
Atlantic Canada. Trips include stopovers in key destinations and many include nights in
historic railroad hotels.
Trout Point Lodge offers East Coast hospitality and cuisine in a rustic spruce-log lodge.
The lodge, which sits on pristine Maritime wilderness, is part cooking school and part resort.
Dubbed a country vacation inn, it has been ranked by food writers among the finest of
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The Gourmet Trail
British Columbia's rugged coastline and temperate valleys serve as a backdrop for the
Gourmet Trail and its destination inns. Inn-hoppers will enjoy organic farm tours, hands-on
cooking classes of regional cuisine and exquisitely prepared gourmet meals. Created for lovers
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Oilers pull out of Heatley trade offer
After the agony he has put the Ottawa Senators through since announcing during the Stanley Cup final that he wanted a trade, and then rejecting the one that was arranged for him, it's difficult to imagine that Dany Heatley could ever play for them again.
After the agony he has put the Ottawa Senators through since announcing during the Stanley Cup final that he wanted a trade, and then rejecting the one that was arranged for him, it's difficult to imagine that Dany Heatley could ever play for them again.
It would be a season of acrimony, ruined before it even began. No one would be immune to its effects. The fans would be merciless.
But after the Edmonton Oilers announced on Friday that they're pulling out of the proposed deal that would have seen them take Heatley, it seems possible that he could be back in Senators colours.
He might have no place else to go. Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini said his team was aggressive in its pursuit of Heatley, but couldn't wait forever.
"We did everything we thought we could, and that's fine," he said in a conference call. "We're comfortable with that. It's time for us to move on. (The Heatley camp) can explore their options elsewhere."
Tambellini said he informed Ottawa general manager Bryan Murray at the start of the week that the Oilers were pulling out.
Tambellini said he probably should have made his decision public at that time instead of waiting until the end of the week. However, he took a couple of days before deciding that he had to put the issue to rest. He said he had sympathy for Murray.
"They have a manager in Ottawa trying to make a deal, but if the player doesn't want to co-operate, it's tough to operate," he said.
Murray is now out of the frying pan and right back into the fire. He's under pressure to get something of approximate value for Heatley, and would have got a reasonable package from the Oilers in underachieving Dustin Penner, Andrew Cogliano and Ladislav Smid. However, other than that package, Murray hasn't been offered anything that could even be considered remotely reasonable.
The only other team with any interest in Heatley is San Jose. But whether that interest is serious is another question. So far it hasn't been, though the Sharks may end up being the only option.
Murray didn't have much to say about the matter on Friday. In an email, he said he was aware of Edmonton's decision and understood it, but that there's "really nothing else to say at this time."
Asked if the door was entirely closed, Tambellini sounded shocked when he said, "I'd have to say so.
"There's nothing on the table, that's for sure."
Tambellini took exception to criticism that the Oilers were grovelling, even after being rejected twice, and was astonished that anyone would question his desire to make the team better.
He said the team was only taking time to see where Heatley was coming from and what he was looking for in a new team. Tambellini knows Heatley from their association with Hockey Canada and was hoping to build on that relationship.
But when it was clear Heatley and his agents weren't ready to make a decision, Tambellini said it was time to move on.
Tambellini said he also continues to be furious that someone leaked that Penner, Cogliano and Smid were part of the trade.
"I'm extremely disappointed in that," he said. "It'll eventually come out who did that, but I wasn't very happy. It was entirely unprofessional."
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I started writing this post in December in response to a bunch of posts whose writers were holding high and, in my mind, mighty the ramparts of monogamy. It's a bit rantish, this canty post, but after rereading it a few times, I decided I still liked it enough to post it.
Let me take a moment to sing the praises of bathhouse-style fornication.
In our culture, we place a great emphasis on sex as part of a loving and stable relationship. In fact, we so privilege sex with someone we love over sex with someone we do not, or don't as much, or don't conventionally, or exclusively, or whatever, that it's pretty much an accepted idea that sex with your beloved always is/was/will be inherently vastly superior to sex with the one you love less, if at all.
Moreover, the notion that sex with someone you love, and love exclusively and have sex with exclusively, is superior to sex with someone you don't has such acceptance in this culture that we tend to consider other kinds of sex as not merely inferior, but somehow, well, wrong.
Morally wrong, sometimes. But also immature, unhealthy, a possible misstep on the way to the beautiful fullness of monogamous adult sexual health.
Don't get me wrong. I love sex with the man I love. I love our sex as a playful, passionate, intense physical expression of our feelings for each other, as well as for its metaphysical ability to embody the trust we have in one another. And I love fucking the man I love, which means I also love it when our sex isn't wrapped up, in or around our floaty pink capital-"L" love.
But I also love doing most things with him. In fact, I pretty much love doing just about everything with him more than I love doing it with others or alone. I love bowling with him more. I love going to movies with him more. I love going to restaurants, paying bills, bickering about trivia, folding laundry, walking my dog, singing bad Korean karaoke, or shopping for socks more with him than I do with anyone else.
It's this bundle of stuff—and less the sex in and of itself—that really differentiates my relationship with the man I love from my relationship with everyone else.
Which leads me to the value of bathhouse-style fornication. I have fucked my way through great swaths of men, and slender swaths of women. And I have to say that there is value in it.
The summer before last I gave myself the gift of SlutFest 2004: the permission to do whomever, whatever, wherever and however I wanted to do them. And I did. I won't give you numbers, but it was impressive.
I'll give you an example, though. My friend Stevie called me on a Monday morning to go running with her. My response to her—which I don't remember, but she reminded me of it a couple of weeks ago—was that I'd love to, but I have a threesome at 1:00.
Suffice to say that what I experienced was nothing short of bath-house-style fornication. I fucked and sucked men whose names I didn't know. I had threesomes of several combinations. I fucked my way through the summer and I took some chances that when I look back on them I recoil in horror.
(I always used condoms. I did not always know the person with whom I was using them. I could, very easily, have ended up drugged and dead, my tender bits stored in ziplock bags in some man's freezer. I did not.)
But I do not recoil in horror in light of my experiences. Some of them were very, very good, and some of them were really very awful. Most were in the grey area in between. Regardless of the sublime, the mediocre or the ugly of the deed, I learned a tremendous amount about myself in those few months.
I learned that I am a far kinkier woman than I ever thought I had the capacity to be.
I learned that I am really very good in bed, especially at sucking cock or licking pussy.
I learned that I am apparently a pretty good judge of character, even if I didn't realize it in the moment.
I learned that I have a tremendous capacity for sexual energy, creativity, fervor, passion and play, and that I demand these qualities from my lover.
I learned that I am not ever going to be fulfilled in a traditional monogamous heterosexual relationship.
And I learned that that's ok.
And I learned that as important as I thought sex was to me before SlultFest 2004, that it is actually really way more integral to the person I am than I can even begin to put into words.
I came into SlutFest 2004 feeling a bit repressed about my sexuality. The years I'd spent stripping made me self-conscious about my erotic self. It was hard for me to experience my own sexuality after having put it on the sale rack for so many years, and so I had picked a man who was not sexually compatible with me, as great as I thought he was everywhere outside of our conjugal bed. And then I spent two and a half years with him.
I put my erotic self on hold because I couldn't really integrate it into my whole person. It took fucking a lot of strange men (and a few strange women) for me to put it all into perspective.
And here's what it all comes to, in my world: it's cool if you only have sex with one person in your life if it works for you. It's equally cool for you if you swing like Spiderman from one sex partner to another, one sex party to another, or whatever. It's just not cool to tell me what's mature or real or adult.
It's my body, my mind, my life, and I'm going to rock it the way that I want to. And so should you.
And whether that means that you're having orgasms by watching your lover sleep peacefully beside you or by having him rub your pussy with a live chicken while an NBA Forward has his way with your ass, or by the more realistic panoply of activities that rest in the spectrum in between, you're good as long as you feel good before, during and after.
And even if you don't always feel good—as I didn't always during my experiences in SlutFest—you can take the opportunity to figure out what does make sense to you. And that is what real, adult sexuality is: learning who you are, what you like, what you want and being honest about it. And knowing that like anything else it's probably, over the length of your life, going to change.
Sex is an inherently complicated activity. It is much more than the fitting of interlocking body parts together in copious manners of happy copulation. Sex has emotional, physical, cultural, spiritual and, apparently, intellectual ramifications of potentially fantastic proportions. Undoubtedly, these inherently high stakes of sex makes us want to impose limits, for limits give the appearance of safety.
However, as consenting adults, we have the right to define our sexual lives as we choose. And of course our activities need to be consensual and with other adults, and of course we must strive for honesty with others and with ourselves, and of course we must recognize that respect for self and others is baseline.
Outside of these boundaries, do it. Do it 'till you're satisfied. Whoever, however, or wherever you are.
White House. Outhouse. Doghouse. Or bathhouse.


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An interactive panorama of Opening Convocation
During Opening Convocation Sept. 4, Bryant officially welcomed its 154 th entering class into a student body that hails from 33 states and 85 countries. The 912 first-year students represent one of the largest and most highly qualified groups in the University's history. Ninety-five transfer students also became part of the Bryant family.
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The Chief of Staff has prohibited civilian travel on Israel's Highway 10 near the border, following a thorough security assessment
In light of security considerations, Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has issued an order prohibiting civilians from traveling in the area of Israel's Highway 10 near the Israeli-Egyptian border, except with special permission, for the next year. This decision was made following a thorough security assessment conducted by the IDF.
GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Tal Russo had ordered this area closed to civilian traffic in August 2011, following a terror attack on the Israeli-Egyptian border. Since then, the IDF has taken steps to increase the area's security, including the building of a border fence.
At the same time, the IDF has carried out a thorough assessment of the area's closure. This analysis weighed the security concerns presented by civilian travel near the border against the importance of allowing Israeli civilians to continue their daily life uninterrupted.
It was in light of this assessment that Lt. Gen. Gantz decided to close the area to civilian traffic for one year. The IDF is determined and prepared to protect the citizens of the State of Israel, and it will not tolerate any attempt to use terror against them.


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JWC TO GRACE WELSH ; 19 December 1841; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18411219-JWC-GW-01; CL 13: 323-324
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Have you noticed in the Newspapers divers paragraphs about Carlyle as connected with a certain Edinburgh Professorship now vacant? The students had got up a petition to have him elected to it, etc., etc. From which it is getting rumoured all about that he is actually a candidate. Nothing of the sort. He never for a moment has contemplated availing himself of the kind dispositions of these young gentlemen; and has answered their direct application to him on the subject with a decisive No.— "They would not keep him when they had him," he says (not to them of course, but to me), "and they may try whether they can catch him now." Certainly the men of Edinburgh must have a tolerably high opinion of themselves to fancy he would give up his high position here for the pleasure of teaching them! As to profit, it would be all to try for,—this Professorship of theirs having no salary attached to it worth the name,—some £100 a year perhaps, with the fees that a popular Lecturer might take. But if he is to make his bread by lecturing, in an uncertain way, why not do it here, where he is already secure of an audience? or in America still better, where every one says he might make thousands of pounds in one year? No, no, we are done with Edinburgh. He owes it no gratitude for any recognition he ever found there. It is only now when London and the world have discovered his talent that they are fain to admit it. As for me, I would as soon go back to Craigenputtock as to that poor, proud, formal, "highly respectable" City.


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American Airlines recently launched a Mystery Miles promotion on Facebook.com where members of its customer loyalty program can 'like' the airline for a chance to win 100 to 100,000 miles.
AAdvantage members will find out the amount of miles won after they click the 'like' button at Facebook.com/AAdvantage.
Miles will be deposited into their AAdvantage account within three to five business days, the airline said in a release.
The promotion, which celebrates the AAdvantage program's recent foray into social media channels, runs through March 31, 2011.


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Cats are notoriously stoic. They don't show signs of pain; at least, not until the pain is severe.
In evolutionary terms, cats are not only predators, but they're also potential prey for larger animals. A cat that walks around looking sick or painful will soon become lunch for a fox, coyote, or owl. (This is also why, when they really are sick, cats tend to burrow into closets, corners, or other protected places to hide.)
Pain management is a relatively new discipline in veterinary medicine. It has only recently been recognized that animals suffer pain that should be treated. Just a decade or two ago, veterinarians deliberately withheld painkillers from animals post-surgery, on the misguided philosophy that "the pain will keep them quiet so they don't hurt themselves." Even today, many veterinarians maintain that attitude, and fail to adequately treat pain related to illness, injury, or surgery.
Even today, there are only 70 certified pain specialists in the U.S. Dr. Michael Petty, DVM, past president of the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management (IVAPM), said in an interview with Tufts University, "I have to believe that over 95 percent of animals in pain are not getting proper treatment." (Emphasis added.) That's a horrifying statistic.
Animals tend to develop more pain as they get older. However, as they repeatedly told us in vet school, age itself is not a disease. If pets are losing interest in daily activities, like eating, playing, or grooming, or have more "accidents" in the house, it's more likely due to pain than to old age.
A survey of veterinarians published in 2000 found that 30% of veterinarians used no pain meds at all for declaw surgery, one of the most painful procedures performed on animals. Of the others, the majority (70%) used primarily butorphanol, a drug known to be largely ineffective in cats.(1) While the study's author believes that the situation has improved, it's still not uncommon for surgical pain, particularly declaw pain, to be treated inadequately. Research has proven that cats who undergo declaw surgery (which is actually amputation of the last bone of their toes) are noticeably painful for at least 12 days post-op, yet even the most aggressive pain management protocol only treats pain for 7 or 8 days. Inadequately treated post-op pain from declaw surgery is known to lead to chronic pain. Surveys have estimated that 20-25% of U.S. cats have undergone declaw surgery; how is it acceptable to have up to a quarter of our cat population suffering with chronic pain?
Recently, The Ohio State University looked for signs of pain in dogs and cats brought in to the veterinary school's emergency clinic. They documented pain signs in 56% of dogs and 54% of cats. These numbers are much higher than previous research had found. This is most likely because we now have broader knowledge about the more subtle signs of pain; signs that were previously unrecognized.(2)
A number of "Grimace Scales" have been developed to assess animals' facial expressions for signs of pain. So far, there are Grimace Scales for rats, mice, rabbits, horses, and humans; but not for cats. Such signs include: turned-back ears, pulled-back whiskers, wrinkled nose, cheek bulging, and squinted eyes.
Of course, cats show these signs of pains, but there aren't any "official" criteria at this time, and most veterinarians are not yet trained to recognize the signs. The drawing above shows the established Mouse Grimace Scale, and a similar scale for cats showing what a Cat Grimace Scale might look like
Unfortunately, too many veterinarians are still dismissive of animal pain. The profession as a whole must take pain in animals more seriously. Chronic pain isn't just painful; it causes stress, which suppresses the immune system; disrupts metabolism; and shortens lifespan.(3)
It's up to you to carefully observe your cat. If you're seeing signs of pain, please discuss it with your veterinarian, and insist on treatment. Most vets will give your pet a trial treatment of pain medication (even if it's just to shut you up!). Then you can see for yourself if your cat's behavior changes when the pain goes away.
Fortunately, here in Denver and along the Front Range, we have access to several excellent, certified pain management specialists; as well as the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins. (Click here for the directory of the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management.)
Nobody cares more about your cat's welfare than you do; so you must be the #1 advocate for your feline friend when it comes to pain. If your veterinarian is resistant, consider getting a second opinion. It's that important!
(1) Wagner AE, Hellyer PW. Survey of anesthesia techniques and concerns in private veterinary practice. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2000 Dec 1;217(11):1652-1657.
(2) Wiese AJ, Muir WW 3rd, Wittum TE. Characteristics of pain and response to analgesic treatment in dogs and cats examined at a veterinary teaching hospital emergency service. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2005 Jun 15;226(12):2004-9.
(3) Riera CE, Huising MO, Follett P, et al. TRPV1 Pain Receptors Regulate Longevity and Metabolism by Neuropeptide Signaling. Cell. 2014;57(5):1023-136.


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Release Date: 2015-07-15 (NY)
Genre: Comedy, SciFi/Fantasy
Rating: NR
Duration: 1hr 40min
This film transforms the classic cinematic trope of the new kid on the block into a genre-defying adventure set in a post-Fukushima world. The film follows young Masashi who, after his father's death, moves with his mother to a small city in the Japanese countryside. But when he discovers that their new apartment is already inhabited by a pint-sized, gravity-defying creature, Masashi begins to pull back the curtain on this sleepy town and finds that very little is what it appears to be.
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The new issue of Wired (16.10) reports that Google Maps "now offers step-by-step instructions for not driving from point A to point B." From the Google Maps home page, simply click Get Directions, enter point A, enter point B, click Get Directions button and choose Walking from the Also Available bar.
Following in the footsteps of Tina Turner, a-ha, Duran Duran, Madonna, Moby and countless others, Jack White & Alicia Keys have turned in their 007 theme, "Another Way To Die," for the 22nd James Bond Film, Quantum Of Solace, which opens on November 14. Ain't It Cool News' Merrick with the help of user auddym report there's an official stream here.
A little over one week after making headlines in a lawsuit brought by the trust which owns the 1942 Cornell Woolrich story which Rear Window was based on, Steven Spielberg is making news again. The Los Angeles Times reports that in a scenario more implausible than most of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Steven Spielberg (E.T.) and Peter Jackson's (The Lord Of The Rings) new project has been rejected by a major studio.
After reviewing the final submitted budget of $130 million for a 3-D motion capture (see Beowulf) version of Belgian export Tintin, Universal balked. The LAT article reasons, "According to several people close to the project, Tintin would have to rake in $425 million worldwide in ticket sales before the studios could break even," as "[Spielberg and Jackson] would walk away with more than $100 million before Universal and DreamWorks could make a profit." At press time, it was unclear who would have played Tintin's dog, Snowy.
New Yorkers have less than 60 hours to enter the Netflix Movie Watching World Championship.
Eight "lucky" contestants will compete in Times Square, on October 2, at 10:30 AM, to win $10,000 cash, a lifetime Netflix subscription, The Netflix Popcorn Bowl Trophy and, of course, a Guiness World Record Title for .. consecutive hours spent watching movies. The current title holder? Ashish Sharma of Mathura, India, with 120 hours and 23 minutes. You're going to need one special box of Goobers.


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If there is one criticism I receive from a number of women regarding my books (usually from women who have yet to thoroughly read one or more of my books), it is that I place too much emphasis on the pursuit of short-term and/or non-monogamous 'casual' sex rather than the pursuit of emotionally profound, monogamous 'relationship sex.'
For starters, that criticism is not altogether valid. In my first book, Mode One: Let the Women Know What You're REALLY Thinking, I discuss the power of effective interpersonal communication skills for all aspects of dating and relationships ... not just the pursuit of short-term or non-monogamous sex. Even though the book is targeted toward male readers, many women have read the book and benefited from it.
The book of mine that does focus almost exclusively on the pursuit of casual sex would be Oooooh . . . Say it Again: Mastering the Fine Art of Verbal Seduction and Aural Sex. In that book, I basically teach single heterosexual men how to identify and seduce women who I refer to as 'Pretenders' (i.e., women who will publicly give off the impression that they are prudish and not really into short-term or non-monogamous sex, but behind closed doors, these women are very kinky, free-spirited, and have no problem engaging in a few episodes of casual sex).
You know what is most interesting to me? The fact that the media will have you believe that men are the ones who primarily benefit from the idea of 'hooking up,' when the reality is that it was actually women who first pushed for more sexual freedom and 'ownership' over their own bodies.
If you do your research, you will find that men have always wanted their female sex partners to be totally monogamous to them. Very few men wanted to marry a woman who had already exchanged orgasms with another man. Let's take a brief look at some factors that play into today's more "open-minded" attitude toward sex.
I. A Brief History: Previous century marriages and how Dr. Sigmund Freud's 'Madonna / Whore Complex' factored in those marriages
First, please read my previous article where I break down the ins and outs of Freud's Madonna / Whore Complex. If you are too lazy to read, I will give you the short version: In the 19th Century, famed psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud asserted that a majority of the men in society wanted at least two women in their lives: one woman who presents herself as a "prudish good girl" who would share the best qualities of that man's mother, and be a great nanny and nurturer to his offspring; and another woman who would present herself as more of a kinky 'sex siren' who would be willing to help him fulfill all of his sexual fantasies, and who he could enjoy many episodes of erotically uninhibited orgasmic pleasure with.
The concept of the 'mistress' existed many years before Freud was even born. One of the first incarnations of the mistress role was the 'Courtesan.' A Courtesan was similar to a woman today that would be known as a high priced Call Girl or Erotic Escort.
In previous centuries, many of the men who had wealth, power, authority and a high degree of social status did not marry women for the sake of enjoyable sex. A good number of these types of men married a woman who was attractive, classy, intelligent, and well-spoken. The wife's role was to be a complement to the man's social stature, look good on his arm at formal social functions, and to be a great mother to his children.
One of the man's close friends or business associates would then identify and hire a sexy, erotically uninhibited Courtesan to become the man's primary sex partner. Plain and simple, her job was to obey and submit to each of the man's requests for sexual enjoyment and satisfaction. The role of the wife in this scenario was neither to satisfy the man in bed, nor be satisfied in bed. The wife's role was to engage in sexual relations primarily for the sake of reproduction.
Many of the wives knew about their husband's mistresses, and generally did not object. Their attitude was, "I am being taken care of financially .... I am living a great life ... who am I to complain?" Well, as you can expect, some women did begin to complain. Which leads us to . . .
II. The First Wave of Feminism: The Growing Disdain for Mistresses and Courtesans
As mentioned, many women who were the wives of men with wealth, power, and prestige did not mind their husbands engaging in sexual relations with one or more Courtesans. You have to remember that back in the day, not all women could just go to college, be offered a high paying job, and then subsequently take care of themselves.
In previous centuries, snagging a husband with great wealth was the equivalent to a woman being offered a job with a six-figure salary. So think about it: If you were a woman in this era, and your husband was having sex with one or two Courtesans, what would make you go from being "lenient" and "forgiving" toward that scenario to becoming angry, bitter, and spiteful about the same scenario? "Ah ... okay, got it," you're saying to yourself right now.
Wives were willing to tolerate their husbands having a mistress, as long as those mistresses "knew their place" and did not in any way threaten their lifestyle. Soon, many of the Courtesans were not satisfied with just being the "other woman." Many of them wanted to be upgraded from #2 to #1 (have things changed today? I think not). So some of the Courtesans started allowing themselves to purposely get pregnant in order to gain more access to the lavish lifestyles experienced by many of the more conservative wives. Many men began replacing their older wives with younger Courtesans, and that did not sit well with the recently dumped wives.
As a result, the married women started finding ways to undermine the appeal of the more free-spirited Courtesans. Soon, terms like "whore" began to be used more and more, as well as the similar term of "slut." Basically, to refer to a woman as a "whore" or "slut" was the same thing as essentially categorizing a woman as being "only good for sex." In other words, once a woman got branded as a 'whore' or 'slut,' she was viewed as being "not good enough to marry." Many times, if the Courtesan became pregnant, the husband and demanding wife would pressure her to have an abortion.
Consequently, the end result of the Victorian Era was that all women in society were highly encouraged to present themselves as "marriage material." Many women felt that if they presented themselves as a candidate to be a man's wife, they would attract men who were willing to financially support them and enhance their level of social status. Conversely, if a woman was to continue to present herself as a 'whore' or 'slut,' she would never get married, never have children, and would only be seen as a 'sexual play toy' for men to use and then later discard.
III. The Second Wave of Feminism: Women not only want Equal Rights in the Workplace, but they want to 'Control Their Own Bodies' in Life and in the Bedroom
During the second major phase of feminism, the rift between women who respected the institution of marriage and the women who could care less about marriage became more prominent. In the media, it was men who were labeled 'the bad guy.' For those who really took a closer look at what was going on, they knew there was more to it than women who were being taken for granted vs. their more controlling male bosses and husbands. Feminism was really as much about 'prudish, marriage-minded women vs. kinky, promiscuous type women" as it was "women vs. men."
On one end, you had women who were married who wanted their (wealthy) husbands to pay more attention to them, put forth more effort to please and satisfy them in bed, and protect themselves financially in the event that their husbands decided to dump them and replace them with a younger woman when they reached their mid-to-late 40s or early 50s (Think of Michael Jordan's ex-wife, Juanita. She is set for life financially). Let's call this group 'The Disrespected Wives Club.'
On the other end, you had the women who had traditionally been the 'mistress' or 'on-the-side' types that wanted more opportunities for employment, more freedom over what type of men and how many men they could have sex with, and they wanted the women from 'The Disrespected Wives Club' to stop labeling them 'whores' and 'sluts' and instead be treated like women who were worthy of respect ... and even marriage (if that is what they wanted). Let's call this group 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club.' (Ever heard of Lola Montez? What about Christine Keeler? Both of these women would have been part of 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club')
You starting to get the picture? On paper, feminism seemed like it was all about women coming together to form a monolithic mindset and a greater sense of solidarity in order to gain more respect and opportunities from men in modern society.
Underneath that public façade was the fact that the women who were part of 'The Disrespected Wives Club' hated the women who were part of 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club.' Do you think that former First Lady Hillary Clinton has any genuine love for Monica Lewinsky? Clinton would probably share a dinner with Rush Limbaugh or Dick Morris before she would Lewinsky.
The advent of the birth control pill and other forms of contraceptives played right into the hands of 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club.' You mean, they could enjoy sex with men (and particularly married men) and not risk becoming pregnant? Hallelujah!!
Both groups of women ultimately seemed to achieve most of their goals. The women of 'The Disrespected Wives Club' were able to become financially empowered and financially self-sufficient if they needed to, and they put themselves in a better position to earn a percentage of their husband's salary and net worth if their husband chose to divorce them and replace them with a younger woman. The women of 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club' acted as the impetus for what is known as 'The Sexual Revolution,' and now they were free to openly show their sensuality by wearing sexually provocative clothing and engaging in sex outside the context of marriage if they chose to.
To the more naive factions of society, the 'Wives' and the 'Mistresses' appeared to be on the same page. When it came to better employment opportunities and financial opportunities, they actually were. But when it came to who they wanted to have sex with, and in what manner, the two groups were worlds apart.
The members of 'The Disrespected Wives Club' wanted their husbands to appreciate them more, be more faithful and monogamous, and look to please and satisfy them in bed just as much or more than their mistresses. After all, there are over twice as many nerve endings in a woman's clitoris than there are in the head of a man's penis (the average woman's clitoris has approximately 8,000 sensory nerve endings; the head of a man's penis has approximately 3,500 sensory nerve endings). Also, once again, they did not want to be just discarded when their beauty began to fade and be left struggling financially.
The members of 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club' wanted to basically emulate the sexual promiscuity of men. They wanted to be able to 'have their cake and eat it too' just like they observed wealthy, powerful men doing so. Their attitude was, "We're not stupid. We know if we hold off on having sex until marriage, we are eventually going to be cheated on and taken for granted. Therefore, we are going to have our fun while we're young, and then maybe - just maybe - get married when we get older."
If there are women in today's society who genuinely frown on the notion of 'casual sex' and 'hooking up,' they have no one to blame but the members of their own gender who were active in the feminist movement in the late 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The main mantra of women during that time (and particularly those of 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club') was, "These are OUR bodies, and we want to do with them what we desire!"
IV. The Third Wave of Feminism: "You can call me names ... but I am going to make you pay to have sex with me!"
As we all know, many aspects of society have changed between the 19th Century and the 21st Century. This is why the appeal of marriage is not the same as it once was.
Today, many women in society have accumulated just as much, if not more wealth than many men. Many women are also in positions of power, authority, and prestige. Feminists encouraged women to not stand for professional or personal "disrespect" by men, and included in that change of mindset was the declaration that no wife should have to put up with her husband having another woman as a 'mistress' or 'side piece.' Prostitution now remains legal in only a few countries (see list).
Despite these wide array of changes to societal customs and traditions, what aspects of male-female interactions have generally remained the same? I think you're beginning to surmise where I am headed.
Even as women have become more financially sufficient and empowered, most women still do not like the idea of another woman who may be more attractive than them, younger than them, sexier than them, and more free-spirited and erotically uninhibited than them trying to "steal" their husbands away from them. Women who are more prudish and focused on finding a husband - and more importantly, keeping a husband - still frown on the idea of women who tempt their husbands with quick, easily available sexual companionship.
Hence, why women of today still push for the idea of those free-spirited, promiscuous women to be categorized as "whores" and "sluts." And more importantly, many of these sexually conservative marriage-minded women have persuaded many of the men in society to share and maintain their judgmental attitudes and subjective labels toward the women who have a reputation for being sexually promiscuous.
On the other end, the women who are more of the "temptress" types have gained more influence and power over men. The freedom to engage in short-term and/or non-monogamous 'casual' sex is actually a form of financial power for many single women in society.
Laws against prostitution can easily be circumvented by women who are calculating and savvy, not to mention beautiful and sexy. They can simply get a man to 'wine and dine' them in exchange for sexual favors. A woman who allows herself to be open to short-term and/or non-monogamous sex increases her chances of having sex with men who are essentially "out of her league." To put it more bluntly, if all women were committed to remaining celibate until marriage, many women would end up married to men who were either poor, boring, or unsatisfying in bed ... or worse ... they would never be proposed to at all.
If you read my last book, The Possibility of Sex: How Naive and Lustful Men are Manipulated by Women Regularly, I briefly discuss an experience I had while a member of a cult-like church in Los Angeles. Every single man and woman in the church was obligated to practice premarital celibacy. Guess which gender had the harder time with this? On paper, you would assume the men. Nope. It was the women. During my two-and-a-half year membership in that church, I witnessed more women leave that church because of romantic and sexual frustration than there were men who left the church for the same reasons.
So much for the 'myth' that it is men who are more impatient to have sex with women prior to marriage.
V. How feminists have brainwashed men to feel guilty about the pursuit of casual sex
Talk about having your cake and eating it too. +1 for members of 'The Disrespected Wives Club,' +1 for members of 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club,' and -2 for men who suffer from The Madonna / Whore Complex.
The women who were in the 'Disrespected Wives Club' said, "We are not going to stand for this type of disrespect by our husbands any longer!" End result: Far fewer women are willing to be 'Stay-at-Home Moms.' Women now cheat on their husbands as much as men previously cheated on them. And if you think about dumping your older wife and replacing her with a younger, more erotically uninhibited woman, you are going to pay for it in the form of a large divorce settlement.
The women who were in the 'Disrespected Mistresses Club' said, "We deserve just as much respect as married women receive, and we deserve the right to have sex outside the context of marriage with as many men as we choose to!" End result: If you choose to criticize any woman for being 'too promiscuous,' and subsequently label her a 'whore' or a 'slut' you will be labeled a 'chauvinist,' a 'misogynist', or if you are a woman, a 'jealous hater.'
What the feminists from 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club' did not anticipate were men like Hugh Hefner and other savvy businessmen (even street pimps) who knew how to exploit this new "free-spirited" type of woman. These men persuaded women to use their looks, their bodies, and overall sex appeal as a means of making money for the businessmen and the women (of course, more for the businessmen). Put simply, these 'sexually adventurous' women began to get exploited. Who got the blame? Men.
In the short-run, the original intentions of the feminist movement appeared to be a 'good' thing for all women, but in the long-run, their efforts basically backfired. In their attempt to prevent men from "having their cake and eating it too" (i.e., a husband being able to have a wife and one or two mistresses), they opened the door for women to be objectified and exploited for money both by men and by their own gender.
The feminists - both the frustrated 'Wives' and the frustrated 'Mistresses' - decided to play the middle from both ends, and they failed. What the feminists have never owned up to is the fact that in their attempt to combat a problem, they unintentionally created new and different problems.
Here is what the feminists of 'The Disrespected Wives Club' ideally wanted to happen:
1) They wanted married women to have more say-so and their own sense of financial earning power, instead of just having circumstances dictated to them by their control freak husbands;
2) They wanted married women to stop being treated like "child birthing machines" and nannies, and be treated more like complete human beings whose sexual needs are just as great as their husbands;
3) They wanted to stop the practice of married men maintaining mistresses and 'on-the-side women' while their wives were between the ages of 18 and 44, and then replacing the dutiful wives with a younger mistress when the wife reached the age of 45 - 50;
4) Similar to #3, they wanted the "dumped wives" to be able to earn a percentage of their ex-husband's net worth in the event that they are dismissed and replaced by a younger new second (or third) wife.
Being objective, those goals were not undesirable or unfair at all. They were reasonable.
Here is what the feminists of 'The Disrespected Mistresses Club' ideally wanted to happen:
1) They wanted the freedom to be just as sexually free-spirited and promiscuous as men;
2) They wanted married women to stop labeling them a 'whore' or 'slut' and categorizing them as 'unmarriageable';
3) They wanted the opportunity to use their looks and sex appeal to earn a living for themselves;
4) Similar to #2, they wanted men to treat them with the same degree of respect that they offer to the more prudish type women.
In other words, this group wanted to have their cake and eat it too.
Here is where things went wrong:
1) Once women were given the opportunity to gain just as much power and social status as men without being married, and earn just as much money as men without being married, guess what? Many women lost interest in getting married and many men lost interest in marrying these types of women.
2) Now, instead of women being treated like nothing more than glorified nannies and housekeepers, many women in today's society are treated like nothing more than sexually promiscuous nymphomaniacs who can be 'rented' for a few hours or a few days, and then discarded.
3) Before, you had men who would marry the more 'prudish' type women and just engage in casual relations with the more 'free-spirited' types. Now, the lines between those two types of women have become more "blurred." In other words, most of the women who used to be more 'prudish' have now become more kinky, promiscuous, and sexually adventurous ... and many of the promiscuous women who used to be totally indifferent toward marriage now want to know what it feels like to have a husband and children. A good number of men have become wary of both groups;
4) Today, society is full of women who are not getting married or pregnant because of 'true love,' but rather, many women identify men with wealth, fame, power, and prestige, and they set their sights on getting pregnant by these men so that they will have a regular income check come their way in the form of alimony, child support, or both. Many successful men have become "materialistic targets" rather than objects of love and affection.
5) The vast majority of men never wanted women to have the freedom to sleep with anyone and everyone, but once the sexual revolution took place, men bought into it, and started sowing their wild oats like crazy. Now, men are looked at as the "bad guys" for taking advantage of that new found 'sexual freedom' that women themselves pushed so hard for.
Some women decided to seek a "compromise" of sorts. Introducing the idea of the long-term "boyfriend and girlfriend relationship!!" This relationship is not quite marriage (you will not find mention of a 'boyfriend-girlfriend' relationship in the Christian Bible or other religious books), but at least it prevents Daddy's little girl from being labeled a 'whore' or a 'slut.' The young women can experience sex with different men while maintaining some degree of civil and social respect.
The reality though is this: If you believe in God, and you call yourself a devout Christian, then you know deep-down that 'boyfriend-girlfriend' sex is just another variation of casual sex. Especially if that 'boyfriend-girlfriend' relationship does not result in marriage.
Knowing what I know about history, I now laugh at women who call themselves "admonishing men" for choosing casual sex over relationship sex. It is one big hypocritical joke.
Women wanted more sexual satisfaction, and they got it. Women wanted more freedom to do whatever they wanted to do with their bodies, and they got it. Women wanted to earn more money in the workplace, and now they are able to.
Now that you have read this article, you realize the heart of what the TRUE scenario is and always has been.
The truth is, this was never really a "men vs. women" issue. Initially, this was an issue of "sexually unsatisfied married women vs. the women who wanted to steal their rich, powerful husbands away from them," and now it has evolved to an issue of "women who want marriage, indefinite monogamy, or financial favors in exchange for sex vs. the women who just want to enjoy sex with a number of different men who are going to satisfy them in bed (without the men promising monogamy or financial favors)."
Men have just been caught in the middle of these various battles between two groups of women with different sexual agendas and different sexual morals and values, and have been somehow tricked into taking some of the blame for it. If women never wanted 'casual' sex to take place, they would have never opened their legs unless they had a ring on their left hand. No wonder Book Author Esther Villar received death threats from feminist types when she wrote and published, The Manipulated Man. In that book, she basically pointed out a lot of what I am highlighting in this article: Women are playing the role of the 'victim' for a scenario and social environment that they themselves created.
If there was no such thing as marriage or all women in history had committed themselves to only having sex with a man who was their husband, most of the tenets and major principles of feminism that related to heterosexual women's love lives and sex lives would have never existed.
I, for one, will not express any "guilt" for engaging in casual sex. I know what the real deal is. Divorce rates are rising, marriage rates are decreasing, and women like Kim Kardashian have become celebrity superstars because of a sex tape. I will never apologize for wanting to engage in casual sex with women, and I will never allow myself to be made to feel guilty for 'using women's bodies for my own self-gratification.'
Men are by no means "innocent" in all of this. Many men with wealth and power have always wanted to have their cake and eat it too. The problem is and was, for many centuries, women were willing to (reluctantly) allow it. Then, all of the sudden, you had one group of women that said, "No more! Enough!" and another group of women that said, "Let them have multiple partners ... as long as you allow us to enjoy multiple partners too!!" And then the concept of 'feminism' came to the forefront. Women vs. women with men in the middle.
Not quite the ménage à trois us men were looking for, but we'll deal with it.
Like we always have.
Alan Roger Currie is the author of a number of books, including Mode One: Let the Women Know What You're REALLY Thinking and Oooooh . . . Say it Again: Mastering the Fine Art of Verbal Seduction and Aural Sex. Currie's latest eBook, The Possibility of Sex: How Naive and Lustful Men are Manipulated by Women Regularly is also available exclusively on Amazon.com in their Kindle format. You can also download a copy of Currie's eBook on your iPhone, Android Smartphone, or other Smartphone.
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It had been several years since I last walked the Brookman Park trails, but I had a little extra time on my hands and what better way to get some exercise and take a few pictures. Besides, I wanted to see if I could spot any of the hidden gnomes I'd heard about.
If you're coming from Sechelt, the trail is accessed just past the big sandy beach at Davis Bay, and just before the bridge. It follows along beside Chapman Creek.
You're never too far from the creek and soon after I had started, the sounds of traffic were replaced by flowing water and the plaintiff call of a Swainsons Thrush hiding somewhere in the brush.
The trail is well maintained with this footbridge recently built over a perennial wet spot in the trail.
I was on the look-out for gnomes and was soon rewarded with this pair carved into the aged stump of an old growth cedar.
…and then, just as quickly, another appeared right in front of me. These stately faces were carved several years ago by Terry Chapman, using a chainsaw. Terry started carving at a very young age, making boats and figures from bark found along the riverbanks of the Fraser River. He now lives in Ladysmith where he has his own gallery.
I had heard that there were several gnomes along the trail, as many as seventeen. Some are quite obvious and others… well, they're gnomes so you have to keep your eyes open… and sure enough I was rewarded with another pair, hidden a little further off the trail.
My time was running out and finally I had to turn back. I'd had a great walk through the woods, took a few pictures and had spotted a few gnomes. All in all, not a bad outing. My gnome count for the day – six, but I'll be heading back to see if I can spot a few more.


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>Brookings Oregon News, Sports, & Weather | The Curry Coastal Pilot
The following information is taken from the daily logs of local law enforcement agencies. Charges listed are preliminary and are made at the discretion of the arresting officer or agency. Charges may be amended or dropped at the discretion of the district attorney or courts.
Tuesday, June 21
Justin Forest Martino, 30, of Gold Beach, for probation violation; no bail.
Timothy J. Burris, 23, of Gold Beach, for probation violation; no bail.
Jarrod Keith Hoskins, 21, of Brookings, for contempt of court and second-degree criminal mischief; bail set at $20,000.
Thursday, June 23
Jeffrey Scott Tribble, 51, of Brookings, for harassment and failure to appear on a criminal citation; booked and released.
Alexandra Dyes, 24, of Harbor, for driving under the influence of intoxicants; booked and released.
Friday, June 24
Stephanie Loretta Lowman, 29, of Springfield, for contempt of court, fourth-degree assault and harassment; bail set at $7,500.


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It's been nearly 25 years since G-funk pioneer, Kokane first blessed the microphone, and with his new album Shut da F Up & Cut da Checc, and his emerging label, Bud E Boy ENT, the West Coast veteran continues to prove that classic never goes out of style.
In addition to acclaimed albums of his own like the Eazy-E backed Funk Upon A Rhyme, Kokane (or "Sweet Talk" as he is known to NWA die-hards) has built a career on collaborating with other artists, from Snoop Dogg to Ice Cube, and on 'SDFU&CDC', that chemistry is at it's best.
"I got some cool features on this one," exclaimed Kokane. "I got B-Legit, I went and grabbed Richie Rich from the Bay, I got Daz and Kurupt, and of course I Busta Rhymes and Leezy Soprano to jump on the single, "What I."
He continued:
"I worked with some legends on this one, but I also got to work with some hot up-and-coming talent like Mac Lucci, who's Snoop's artist, and I got E3, which is Eazy-E's son," Kokane noted, adding that, "dude sounds just like Eazy. We're keeping that legacy alive and well. I have my daughter, Aanisah C. Long, who I couldn't be more proud of and Bud E Boy artists, The Xtraz. The response has been good we just represent that West Coast classic sound.
On the production end, Kokane turned to a familiar face: Big Hutch, AKA Cold 187um, who is widely regarded as the inventor of the G-funk sound that helped catapult Cali into the global spotlight in the 90s.
"Big Hutch did his thing on there," said Kokane. "We back to doing that original G-funk movement. He's rhyming and producing on there. My aim on this one was to be well-rounded on the production end. I got Ishan Cooper, who comes from Australia and Mo-Funk who's also from overseas. I really wanted to reach a widespread audience," he added.
As the CEO of Bud E Boy ENT, Kokane hopes that this album, will help shine the light on some of the rising stars his label has to offer.
"I'm really trying to use this album as a catalyst to open doors for all the talented artists I got on Bud E. Boy. These cats are ready to take their music to the next level so be on the lookout."
Click here to purchase or preview Shut da F Up & Cut da Checc by Kokane.


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Electric users ask: Why not put power lines underground?
By Matt Smith CNN | 2/12/2014, 1:39 p.m.
The majestic trees that line streets across the American South are a beautiful sight most of the year.
Then there are the weeks when a winter storm hits, and the trees shed ice-laden limbs that crash down on the power lines below. It's at those times when millions of normally genteel Southern voices rise as one to ask, "Why aren't these &@$#*%! wires underground?"
In one word: Money.
After a 2002 storm that knocked out electricity to 2 million customers in North Carolina, regulators there took a look at what it would cost to bury the three major power companies' overhead lines. The state Utilities Commission concluded the project would be "prohibitively expensive."
"Such an undertaking would cost approximately $41 billion, nearly six times the net book value of the utilities' current distribution assets, and would require approximately 25 years to complete," the report states. Customers' rates would have to more than double to pay for the project, the commission' staff found.
And underground lines "are not without their disadvantages," they concluded. While more reliable "under normal weather conditions," they take almost 60 percent longer to fix when something does happen to them.
Underground power lines make up about 18 percent of U.S. transmission lines, according to the federal Energy Information Agency. Nearly all new residential and commercial developments have underground electric service, the agency said. But it noted that underground power lines cost five to 10 times more than overhead wires, don't last as long and cost more to replace.
"Buried power lines are protected from the wind, ice and tree damage that are common causes of outages, and so suffer fewer weather or vegetation-related outages," it concluded. "But buried lines are more vulnerable to flooding, and can still fail due to equipment issues or lightning."
But there are some places that have decided to go ahead and dig.
In Anaheim, California, the city is gradually burying its above-ground power lines, a project that dates back to the 1990s. The city added a 4 percent surcharge to electric bills to pay for the 50-year project, which costs more than $3 million a mile.
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Time: 8:00am – 12:00pm
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