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A Silly, Stupid Controversy
During last week's All-Star break, Timberwolves fans kept asking me some variation on the same question: "Do you think Wally Szczerbiak's getting frozen out of the offense?" So I'm devoting this column to explaining why I don't have much patience for the subject.
It seemed most apparent that Wally wasn't in the offensive flow two weeks ago, in the first half of the Wolves' meltdown against Cleveland. Ever since mid-December, when Minnesota blew a huge lead in the fourth quarter against Dallas, Kevin Garnett seems to have made it a personal mission to take the ball to the hoop whenever the team is on a long scoring drought (a tactic that Wolves fans have long been clamoring for). In Cleveland, KG became less pass-oriented than usual and his teammates obliged. The problem: Garnett wasn't converting lay-ups in traffic or short jumpers in the paint. The entire club regressed into chaotic disaster.
A few days later, in a home loss to the Sacramento Kings, Szczerbiak stood open and called for the ball. Point guard Chauncey Billups passed to Garnett instead. The oversight was discussed in the team huddle during an ensuing timeout and, after the game, Szczerbiak answered with a terse "no comment" when asked if the team was running enough plays designed to get him the ball. Still, Szczerbiak attempted just five shots in the second-half of the game and the notion that he was being "frozen out" of the Wolves' offense hit the newspapers the next morning.
To my mind, the controversy is both silly and stupid. It's silly because the evidence that Wally is being frozen out is shaky, to say the least. A night after the Cleveland fiasco, in a loss to Philadelphia, Szczerbiak jacked up 22 shots, eight more than anyone on the team. In the Kings game, both teams relied on their superstars for offense: Sacramento's Chris Webber had 25 shots, KG had 23, and no one else on the floor had more than 15. Sacramento's Peja Stojakovic, a deadly scorer who deserves the ball at least as much as Szczerbiak, had 14 shots, one more than Wally, who was being well-guarded by defensive specialist Doug Christie for most of the contest. For the season, Szczerbiak is second on the team only to KG in shots attempted and, much more so than in his two previous years, is the obvious second option (again behind Garnett) in the Wolves' offense. Indeed, the primary reason why Szczerbiak made the All-Star team this season was because the point guards and KG (who is averaging nearly six assists per game) are feeding him the ball.
The issue is stupid because it needlessly rejuvenates questions about how well Wally and KG get along. Ever since the two got in a fracas at the beginning of last season, they have faced a steady litany of queries from reporters on the subject. The truth is, they will probably never be best of buddies. Last year, after Szczerbiak got in an on-court scrap with Dallas's Juwan Howard, KG remarked in a post-game interview that he had spoken to Howard before going into the locker room, then added that "Wally can be a feisty, abrasive guy sometimes." The unmistakable inference was that, of the two combatants, KG had more sympathy for his opponent (and friend) than he did for his teammate.
This year, as Garnett has gracefully accommodated and enabled Szczerbiak's expanded role on the team, the irresistible, and somewhat inaccurate feel-good story has been how close the two have become. Having doubtlessly grown tired of the innumerable past references to friction between them, Wally and KG have dutifully pumped up this angle. Now the issue is on the table again. The one or two times Szczerbiak hasn't gotten the ball enough, KG has exerted a more dominant role; in the case of the Sacramento game, with the assistance of Billups, KG's best friend on the team.
The final reason the Szczerbiak controversy is silly and stupid is that it obscures the real reason for the Wolves' lackluster play of late. Lousy defense. In this regard, Szczerbiak has been as culpable as anyone on the team. In a 21-point loss to Detroit that crystallized the Wolves' recent slump, Jerry Stackhouse went off for 40 points, most of them against Szczerbiak. A week later, in the Cleveland debacle, Wesley Person erupted for 27 points--again, mostly against Szczerbiak.
The Wolves are enjoying their best season in franchise history largely because of the way their defense jump-started their offense during the first 40 games. By forcing their opponents to miss shots and turn the ball over, they ignited a fast break attack and scored plenty of easy buckets in transition. Conversely, during Minnesota's recent slump, opponents were making shots and those fast break opportunities were foreclosed.
Ironically, nobody benefits from the team's transition offense more than Szczerbiak, who runs the floor and finishes drives better than anyone on the ball club. Furthermore, when Wally is thriving in the running game, it seems to improve his shooting rhythm and enhance both his confidence and that of his teammates, who look for him more often in half-court sets. The point is, porous defense deprives Szczerbiak of scoring opportunities more often than any slights or oversights by KG or the point guards.
After a ragged performance against San Antonio last Monday tagged the Wolves with their sixth loss in eight games, coach Flip Saunders pushed his squad through a tough, defense-oriented practice the next day. The gambit paid immediate dividends, as Minnesota put the clamps on a good Portland team for a vintage victory on Wednesday. In the locker room after the game, the joyous and obviously relieved players cited the team's renewed commitment to defense as the key, admitting that they had lapsed into bad habits and taken that aspect of the game for granted. No gimmicks or special strategy was utilized, they agreed; all that was required was an increase in their focus and intensity. It was an unintentionally damning indictment of their play during the previous two weeks.
"We got back to fundamentals," Szczerbiak said. "Playing good individual defense and having the confidence in our teammates to back us up." When the defense isn't playing well, does that confidence begin to go away? I asked. "You totally misunderstood what I just said," Szczerbiak answered, obviously annoyed and jumping to the conclusion that I was choosing to emphasize potential friction between him and his teammates instead of seeking a deeper understanding of why the defense had deteriorated in recent weeks. His pique vanished when another reporter asked what it would be like to be in his first All-Star game alongside KG.
"Oh, he's going to be like my big brother, like he always has been," Szczerbiak gushed. "I'm very thankful that he'll be in that locker room. As I've said before, I feel really good about how happy he's been for me making the [All-Star] team."
The feel-good spin and the silly controversy are opposite sides of the same coin. Let's hope that a continued commitment to solid team defense renders both issues moot in the weeks ahead.
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Skip to comments.The Kosovo We Don't Know
Posted on 04/29/2004 5:49:43 PM PDT by Americathy
The recent killing of two Americans by a Jordanian, all serving with the UN police force (UNMIK) in Kosovo has temporarily brought the region to the front page, where the major media quickly linked the incident to Iraq, and then dropped Kosovo back into obscurity. The fact is things are not going well in Kosovo and the major media has several reasons for keeping the covers on the story.
What most Americans know about Kosovo is what Bill Clinton and his media cheering section told them in 1999. It was reported that Christian Serbs were engaged in a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing against Muslim Albanians. "Evidence" of a massacre in Racak was presented to back the claim. With popular, political and media support solidifying behind him, Clinton gave Serbia an ultimatum. Serbia refused, Clinton bombed, NATO occupied, the media reported and Hollywood even produced a few movies to further demonize the Serbs and fuel the propaganda.
With little or no news coming out of Kosovo now, we must assume that thanks to Bill Clinton, Kosovo is a thriving, peaceful democracy protecting the rights of all religious groups. Well, that's about as big a lie as what we were told about Kosovo in the first place. The Racak massacre was the breaking point Clinton used to rally support for the war. With hundreds of published articles about Racak, what do we really know about the "massacre"?
We know Serb forces engaged and defeated KLA forces in Racak in a classic firefight, an event witnessed by French and AP news crew on January 15. We don't know how many casualties were inflicted. The Serbs and news crew left and the KLA resumed control of Racak. The following day 45 bodies were found in a gully with the help of KLA guides. Forty victims were autopsied by a Finnish forensic team dispatched by the EU. The EU report refuted claims the victims were all shot at close range and mutilated. The report never used the word massacre and only found one victim shot at close range, maybe.
The Washington Post, claiming to have the EU report findings leaked by an "unidentified western source" wrote a story that misrepresented and extrapolated the findings. The Post claimed the forensic evidence proved the victims were executed in a massacre, which it did not. The head of the EU forensic team refuted the story. The AP and USA Today, not to be outdone by the Post, added detail and gore that was never proven. In contrast, Le Monde, with journalists at the scene, questioned the credibility of the entire scenario. They raised questions any good investigator should have asked, but were never answered.
With hundreds of articles on Racak, it doesn't take long to determine that most are biased one way or the other. Articles that stick to the facts are very short and few, because the facts are short and few. In the end, the evidentiary requirement we use to convict criminals, "beyond a reasonable doubt," was never met for Racak. None the less, the United States and NATO were going to war over an alleged, unproven and potentially staged massacre of 45 people.
Kosovo was having a civil war with about 2,000 casualties per year, about equally divided between the warring factions. What most Americans don't know is that the struggle dates back to 1389 when the Muslim Turks defeated the Christian Serbs and occupied Kosovo. Control of Kosovo has seesawed for 600 years, but it has been largely a history of persecuting Christians, first under the Turks and later by their Albanian successors. Atrocities occur during civil wars, but the scale of this war was a tempest in a teapot compared to other conflicts in the world.
What was the calculation and motivation for US involvement in the affairs of Serbia?
The calculation was simple. Bombing a Christian nation could be done with relative impunity. There would be no "Christian" outrage as there might be in the Muslim world if Serbia were Muslim. War on Serbia would endear us to Muslims for intervening on behalf of a Muslim cause. Milosovic was not that popular in Serbia and his support would melt away under pressure. Serbia, a moderately developed country, would provide a "target rich" environment. The Serbs, proud and protective of their culture, would submit to prevent its destruction. Popular support in the US and Europe would survive a short and apparently bloodless campaign.
Serbia was bombed and surrendered. Clinton claimed victory. NATO occupation forces moved in. The UN police force took their positions. Milosovic was put on trial. All was well in Kosovo and it dropped from the radar screen. Clinton's legacy as a champion of human rights, influential diplomat and great wartime president was secured. In fact, it was only secure as long as no one knew what was happening in Kosovo, hence the news blackout by the major media in the US and most, but not all of Europe.
The Kosovo civil war continues, but this time the Albanian Muslims have the upper hand and the NATO/UNMIK forces appear incapable of intervention. Serbian Christians are being killed and driven from Kosovo. Christian churches and monasteries are being systematically destroyed. Kosovo, like Albania and Bosnia is being turned into an Islamic terrorist base. Crime is rampant and the economy, except for the drug-trade, is stagnant. Kosovo is moving toward independence as a Muslim state with plans for eventual union with Albania. Investigation of Serb atrocities by the Hague War Crimes Tribunal have found the claims greatly exaggerated or non-existent. Kosovo will be a thorn in the side of Europe and the US as Muslim gratitude takes its usual turn toward hostility. The infidels served their purpose and are no longer useful.
And the motive for intervention in Kosovo? I don't think you have to look any further than the character of Bill Clinton and his media buddies.
The one important fact that is not mentioned is that NATO violated its charter by entering the war. The NATO charter specifically forbids its entry into the internal affair of another nation. The charter also states that it is strictly for defensive purposes.
In fact, before the war the Clinton State Department publicly claimed that there 500,000 massacred Albanians. The estimate was lowered to 100,000 in a public announcement by WIllam Cohen as the 78-day bombing campaign was ending.
The forerunner to the antichrist. No surprise he is involved in Kosovo.
Hope it's not too late.
What is this monument inscribed in Arabic script doing in Bosnia? What is it doing in the Western media declared "Heart of Europe?" None of the peoples of ex-Yugoslavia speak or understand Arabic. None. None of the Bosnian Muslims with exception of maybe a tiny minority of Islam clergy understands Arabic. So, for whom was this monument erected? The only answer to the puzzle could be the fact that round 10,000 foreign volunteers, jihad fighters, fought against the Christian population of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Most of these Islamic fanatics, members of Al Qaeda, came from Arab speaking countries.
front page of what paper????It shoulf have lead but it didn't ....most Americans don't know that it happened!
We are as guilty of the shameful developments in the world as are the globalist forces and their media - by not educating ourselves and relying on propaganda they designed to make us approve.
Rubolottas short article cant say everything. For decades, Slovenian nationalists, Croat neo-Nazis, Albanian extremists, US globalists; and German-French power mongers supported global Islamists in a systematic campaign of demonisation of Serbs. The propaganda, broadcast against professional ethics by Western media, fooled the public and decision makers alike.
Before the Racak massacre, equally obvious hoaxes concerned Serb death and rape camps, Srebrenica massacre, destruction of Dubrovnik, and other nonsense. The hoaxes justified illegal international actions and drew public attention away from atrocities that ethnically cleansed and exterminated several hundred thousand Serbs in Krajina and Western Slavonia (both in todays Croatia) and Kosovo. Serbia-Montenergo is the single European country with close to a million refugees, without any aid to speak about. To see the impossibility of drawing borders around mono-ethnic Balkan states, see for example
NATO attack on Yugoslavia, March June, 1999, violated all NATO countries constitutions. NATO used illegal weapons in its attack: uranium weapons of several types (not only the known anti-armour bullets), graphite webs against power systems, cluster bombs that become mines when not exploded, and pollution from chemical plants bombed. NATO deliberately bombed civilians and civilian infrastructure, yet its supreme commander, General Wesley Clark, a war criminal, is running for US president.
By siding with the globalists and Islamists (to whom US President is just a pawn), and by perpetrating common anti-Serb lies, many groups, such as AI, Doctors Without Borders, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and HRW showed corruption and fascist colours.
Pogroms of Kosovo Serbs by Albanians in March 17 19, 2004, killed 19 (UNMIK) to over 30 people (Serbian Church in Kosovo) and destroyed hundreds of homes, community buildings (incl. hospitals and schools), 36 churches and monasteries, and dozens of cemeteries. Unhindered, the mobs looted homes and holy places.
Prior knowledge of plans for pogroms, and the inability of the German, French, and partly US forces in Kosovo to prevent or stop them, tell volumes about NATO and UN, the two entities responsible for peace and order in Kosovo under UN Resolution 1244. If a casual traveller in Kosovo a year ago, I noticed preparations for a major Albanian offensive against the Serbs, it is impossible that the authorities did not.
The pogroms were triggered by a drowning of Albanian children (supposedly by Serbs, which has been refuted by a UN investigation). Western media are complicit in this lie. A well-documented case exists against BBC. Silence and misrepresentations about the pogroms announce globalist-Islamist business as usual in the Balkans.
One drowned child is the son of a known Kosovo terrorist, Kadri Veseli. This would not be the first case of Islamist sacrifice of their own people for a higher goal. Sarajevo market bombardments are the best known other cases. On March 11, 2004, UN police disarmed a bomb planted by Albanian extremists at an Albanian school, to cause fire and trigger demonstrations.
Just before the pogroms, Hashim Thachi, a Kosovo terrorist leader wanted by Interpol, was visiting the US Department of State and some lobbyists who gathered at the house of David Philips of the New York International Relations Council. The State Department praised Thachi for his democratic accomplishments. With the latter, Thachi discussed the attacks will start on the first available pretext and media will play a role (Serb daily Blic, 25 March 2004).
For information on the Kosovo dilemma, see excellent press bulletins at http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo.html
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It never ceases to amaze me when I hear people say "They (immigrants) are stealing our jobs." they are talking about jobs no one else wants to do. I know I don't want to pick apples, be a janitor, or work fast food. And I'm not smart enough to do I.T. work.
Given that in the mother country they've elected Fox and now Calderon, I wouldn't hold out much hope for the tex-mex voter voting in his or her best interest.
There must be some sort of bad-voting gene that runs through most mexican bloodlines.
It's about time someone said it. When the Republican Base bloviates about immigration, they're not talking about that British sales rep or the German gal that runs the university's language lab. No, they're talking about Mexicans, aka brown people who terrify them.
The geniuses at whitehouse.org took this on big time:
President Bush Rigorously Defends Immigration Bill to His Rapidly Imploding Base of Xenophobic Crackers
BUSH: "Folks, we've been together through a lot. And you've stood by me through it all. Through the illegitimate election of 2000. Through the double-dip recession. Through the terror attacks of 9/11(TM). Through Enron. Through the botched war in Afghanistan and failed hunt for Osama bin Laden. Through the clusterfuck kickoff to the Iraq war in 2003. Through the Patriot Act and illegal wiretapping of innocent Americans. Through "Mission Accomplished." Through Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and a policy of torture. Through Katrina. Through failed Social Security reform. Through Armstrong Williams & Jeff Gannon. Through Terri Schaivo. Through Tom Delay. Through Mark Foley. Through Scooter Libby. Through $3.00 gas. Through Walter Reed. Through "the Surge". Through Alberto Gonzales. And now even through 3500 US troops killed in Vietraq.
On one hand, you correctly accept that I'm practically Jesus. But on the other hand, you can't help but feel a surge of simple-minded, paranoid racist hatred every time you hear one of those dirty Spics yammering away in that nonsense gibberish of theirs."
For a very succinct and thought-provoking take on this issue, see South Park's 2004 episode titled "Goobacks," where immigrants from Mexico are replaced by immigrants from the future. Brilliant stuff.
Given that in the mother country they've elected Fox and now Calderon, I wouldn't hold out much hope for the tex-mex voter voting in his or her best interest. There must be some sort of bad-voting gene that runs through most mexican bloodlines.Indeed, the last thing we need is to contaminate the pure American voting gene. If our electorate becomes too Mexicanized, were liable to let the Presidency fall to some dry-drunk frat boy. Next thing you know we'd be stuck in some stupid war God knows where.
We should be sending volunteers down to Mexico to teach them to vote smart like we do in the USA.
I'm one step ahead of you...I've never voted Republican. My dad used to joke that, if some nutjob like Pat Buchanan got elected President, we'd have to change to my mother's maiden name (Drake...oh so white-sounding). Oh, and kinaidos, I think American-born voters demonstrated in 2000 and 2004 that we are equally capable of voting against our own best interests.
How does it feel to be a walking cliche' ?
This is the low-hanging fruit Dems have ignored for, oh, 7 years now (if not longer). I wouldn't depend on the Dem Party *knowing* what to do in this case - you know - too busy talking about God to the erstwhile "moderates" that are disaffected by Bush, mildy fearful of immigrants, and wholly confused by foreign relations. But, hey, the Sopranos are over so maybe Middle America will pay attention. Or not.
In the late '90's, California's Republican governor Pete Wilson, desperate for an issue to ignite his reelection campaign, got behind Prop 187, which would cut off state benefits for undocumented immigrants. The result: Prop 187 passed easily (but was mostly blocked by the courts), Wilson was reelected easily, and an entire generation of California Latinos has swung overwhelmingly Democratic due to the "brown menace" undertones of the whole campaign.
Hard to believe the Republicans could be this clueless about the long-term political implications, but apparently they are!
Well thank the political humour gods that there are some who answer the republican based humour squads with some counter strikes of another funny point of view. That republicans are total squares.
This is even funnier in answer to those radio hosts Carton and Rossi,
not saying that what really happened was funny, but a sense of humour helps.
This isn't funny.
what the eff is wrong with Lieberman?
Well, the Dems could take advantage of this, but that would mean saying something bad about the other guys, and that would be mean. No dice.
I can't be the only person made extremely uneasy by some of the anti-immigrant rhetoric. Look, every sovereign nation has the right and the responsibility to control their own borders, but the way some of these assholes are talking sounds eerily similar to the Rwandan Hutus talking about the Tutsi "cockroaches" who must be exterminated.
Exterminationist rhetoric is scary shit.
Geni @ 13,
Whenever Republicans are talking, I always hear the Daleks:
Aliens! Aliens! Exterminate! Exterminate!
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It never ceases to amaze me when I hear people say "They (immigrants) are stealing our jobs." they are talking about jobs no one else wants to do.
It never ceases to frustrate me when I hear people talk about "jobs no one else
wants to do" when what they mean is "jobs for which the employer is not offering
enough pay to make the job appealing to me".
I know I don't want to pick apples, be a janitor, or work fast food. And I'm not smart enough to do I.T. work.
I don't want to do IT work. I do it because I'm paid enough to make it
worth my while. Elswinger, I suspect that much like I would happily shovel
shit for $100/hour, you would happily pick fruit, sweep floors, or sling
hamburgers if the price was right.
If engineers made $20K/year, then that would be one of the "jobs no one else
wants to do". If fruit-pickers made $50K, there would be a line around the
block of people wanting to do the work.
We have been so effectively trained to think the the person purchasing labor
gets to set the price at which that labor will be provided, that we assume no
one wants the job if, at the price offered, no one (or people whose only other
option is going back to living in poverty) is willing to provide the labor, then
it must be the case that no one wants the job. Bullshit.
Consider this:
Our food prices stay relatively low because we import workers to do "the jobs
Americans don't want to do" (i.e., jobs that, given the slave labor wages
food-production businesses are willing to pay, people accustomed to our
standard of living find unworthy of their efforts) and thereby keep the price
of doing business lower. But our health care costs are rising. Why don't we
cap health care providers' salaries at what we're willing to pay, and when
those jobs become "the jobs Americans don't want to do", we'll just
bring in more immigrants who are willing to work for less?
Oops. Remove one of the two "no one wants the job"'s from that next-to-last paragraph.
@2. Mexican election results have nothing to do with how the Mexican people actual vote(those who still vote). Every election is rigged by party machines, even the left-progressive party, PRD, has one controlling it's few states. Mexico is a democracy only in American propaganda.
For Rove and Bush, Mexico has the ideal system. During elections cutting voters from rolls, favorable "mechanical difficulties"*, and intimidation at voting stations. Governing consists of kickbacks, no-bid contracts, special laws for donors, and incompetent hacks at every level serving only the party. Sound familiar?
*On election night 1994, with the leftist party ahead in the count, the entire country had an electrical blackout. When the power came back on, the ruling party PRI had won the final count. In spite of rigged computerized voting, power blackouts are still unusually frequent on election days.
#17 I sum it like this remember Stock Market Money runners, Enron, California Energy Power grid. No more Enron, no more California blackouts, but the guys controlling the power grids with money and big money talk hustleing never got busted. Just the top dogs. Maybe perhaps they still do that crazy stuff with the blackouts.
@18 - Agree. With all the privatizations of basic resources under Bush, I expect many politically convenient(for the Republicans) blackouts, oil and water shortages. Perhaps as well internet service cutoffs.
Nobody mentions how the California power "crisis" sort of resolved itself after Enron died. In the sense that CA didn't have to build dozens of new coal or nuclear powerplants in five years, as so many energy analysts/industry shills predicted.
Carton and Rossi actually aren't as bad as this makes them look; among other fairly liberal pursuits, they've protested the firing of a lesbian schoolteacher because of said lesbianism.
They do seem to have a rather nasty streak of racism, though, which is enough to keep me from listening to their show. I don't know if they're Republicans or not.
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Before Dh was concerned about something being wrong physically or mentally after dealing with issues with each of our kids. His fears were put to somewhat of a rest when I assured him that the cyst on Sofia's brain and the focus on her heart were not a genetic thing. Then when we found out that Josh does not have autism after all more stress was gone.
Now he has come up with something new. He says that he worries about how we will be going through the new born phase again of getting no sleep and having to work crazy hours. I told him that we wont have to be working as much this time around because I will be topped out at work. YAY. Then he mentions about how I had a break down after having my daughter. I dont know if ppd triggered it, but I had to be hospitalized for 4 days. I suffer from bipolar disorder and am on 4 different medications. When pregnant I have to be off of them. Then I plan to nurse again and dont want to take them then although I dont think I can anyways. I understand his worry but I dont want that to stand in the way. I was speechless at trying to calm his fears on this topic cause I didnt know what to say. I hope this does not stop us.
More on the DH saga. LOL
Before Dh was concerned about something being wrong physically or mentally after dealing with issues with each of our kids. His fears were put to somewhat of a rest when I assured him that the cyst on Sofia's brain and the focus on her heart were not a genetic thing. Then when we found out that Josh does not have autism after all more stress was gone.
First off YAY both kiddos are and will be good! I am sure that was a huge relief for you both!
And the sleepless nights and what not is all temporary. I mean with kids and babies its all phases. Heck my 2yo still gets up once a night. everynight. You learn to adjust just like you did having the 1st kid, and the 2nd. Sleepless nights or not, we all know they are worth every second of stress and worry. I am sure he will come around. Do you have any friends that already have 3 kids that can lend some good advice for him?
I'm so glad both of the kids are doing well and your DS does not have autism! Great news!
As far as DH's new worries - I'd write down his concerns and match them point for point on what you will do if that happens. example:
1. Concerns about lack of sleep
we will take turns getting up with the baby. It only lasts for a certain amount of time. We have done it before and can do it again
2. Concerns about PPD/breakdown
you will both monitor yourself carefully for any signs. You will see the doctor at the first signs something may not be right. You will be willing to give up nursing if it really becomes a problem (only if you would actually do so).
those are just examples and may not be what you'd say - but I'd write down your thoughts and go through it all with him to show him how serious you are out wanting a third child.
:bigarmhug: Sorry your DH is being a road block. I know how you feel.
Does this all come down to him not wanting anymore kiddos or is he willing but just hesitant because of real concerns that need to be thought through? I hope you can work it all out in the end.
Sara- Unfortunantly all but one of our friends has 2 kids and they try to talk him out of having more. LOL. The one friend we have with 3 has a girl about our son's age and then 2 twins that are a year old. So she is aways telling DH and myself not to have more. The thing is she admitted if she had a singleton the second time around she would have had another. Also, our friends give Dh the old you have a boy and a girl, you should be happy with that. Ugh.
Mel- I like the listing out his concerns and then points I can make about them. I think I just might try that.
Lynn- Sometimes I do wonder if he just doent want anymore kids, but he tells me he does and then at times he will bring up having another baby. So he is either toying with my emotions or is just uncertain about his concerns.
I doubt he's toying with you. He is probably just not sure how to make it work with 3 kids. Sometimes my DH is like that. We don't have any friends with 3 kids and it makes him nervous from both a financial standpoint, and also from a having enough time for all three and juggling practical life with 3.


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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilizationby Lars Brownworth
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In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire duration of the empire's existence. Indeed, so did its neighbors, allies, and enemies: When the Turkish Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople in 1453, he took the title Caesar of Rome, placing himself in a direct line that led back to Augustus.
For far too many otherwise historically savvy people today, the story of the Byzantine civilization is something of a void. Yet for more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. When literacy all but vanished in the West, Byzantium made primary education available to both sexes. Students debated the merits of Plato and Aristotle and commonly committed the entirety of Homer's Iliad to memory. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture, from fabulous jeweled mosaics and other iconography to the great church known as the Hagia Sophia that was a vision of heaven on earth. The dome of the Great Palace stood nearly two hundred feet high and stretched over four acres, and the city's population was more than twenty times that of London's.
From Constantine, who founded his eponymous city in the year 330, to Constantine XI, who valiantly fought the empire's final battle more than a thousand years later, the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.
Still, it was Byzantium that preserved for us today the great gifts of the classical world. Of the 55,000 ancient Greek texts in existence today, some 40,000 were transmitted to us by Byzantine scribes. And it was the Byzantine Empire that shielded Western Europe from invasion until it was ready to take its own place at the center of the world stage. Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to this empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.
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—Steven Pressfield, author of Gates of Fire
"Rome never fell -- it simply moved five hundred miles East -- to Byzantium. For over a thousand years the Byzantines commanded one of the most visceral and vivid empires the world has ever known. And yet their achievements are consistently underplayed; written out of history. Lars Brownworth is a rare talent. His contagious passion brings murderous empresses, conniving eunuchs, lost Greek texts and Byzantine treasures of fairy-tale proportions blinking back into the light. Confidently striding through time and across the mountains and plains of the Eastern Mediterranean, Brownworth puts this theocratic superstate slap-bang in the center of mankind's global story; back where it should be. The Byzantines made our world what it is today. Lars Brownworth matches their verve and brio in his seductive and gripping account."
—Bettany Hughes, PBS host and author of Helen of Troy
"This is history as it used to be, history as story-telling. In this fascinating account of the Byzantine empire, Lars Brownworth covers a thousand years of blood-letting, outrageous luxury, bitter religious disputes and vaulting ambition without giving the slightest impression of being rushed or crowded. The page turns unaided."
—Anthony Everitt, bestselling author of Augustus, Cicero and The First Emperor
"A hugely entertaining and often moving portrait of a civilization to which the modern West owes an immense but neglected debt. Read it, and you will never use the word 'Byzantine' as a term of abuse again."
—Thomas Holland, author of Millennium, Persian Fire and Rubicon
"Lost to the West is the sort of history I wish I'd been offered in school — a fast-paced adventure story that covers over a thousand years of political intrigue, brilliant leaders, incompetent squabblers, mayhem, butchery and religious divides, and vividly pictures a bygone era that is still a vital part of our heritage."
—Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds
"The Byzantines are back! Correcting centuries of neglect, Lars Brownworth guides us through a forgotten world and, with clarity and wit, brings it to vibrant life. Filled with a dazzling cast of ruthless Emperors, conniving generals and half-crazed scholars, Lost to the West is both entertaining and enlightening -- a great piece of popular history."
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Diocletian's Revolution
The long-suffering people of the third-century Roman Empire had the distinct misfortune to live in interesting times. For three centuries before Constantine's birth, Roman architects, engineers, and soldiers had crisscrossed the known world, bringing order and stability to the barbaric, diverse lands beyond the frontiers of Italy. In the wake of the mighty Pax Romana came more than fifty-thousand miles of arrow-straight, graded roads and towering aqueducts, impervious alike to the mountains and valleys that they spanned. These highways were the great secret of empire, providing access to markets, ease of travel, and an imperial mail system that could cover more than five hundred miles in a single day. Graceful cities sprang up along the major routes, complete with amphitheaters, public baths, and even indoor plumbing--a visible testament to the triumph of civilization. But by the third century, time had ravaged the empire's glory, and revolts had stained its streets with blood. Those impressive Roman roads that had so effectively exported the empire now became its greatest weakness as rebel armies and barbarian hordes came rushing in. No one--not even the ephemeral emperors--was safe in those uncertain times. In the first eight decades of the century, twenty-nine men sat on the imperial throne, but only one escaped murder or capture to die a natural death.
Apathy and enervation seemed to be everywhere, sapping the strength of once solid Roman foundations. The military, too busy playing kingmaker to maintain itself, fell victim like everything else to the sickness of the age. In 259, the proud Emperor Valerian led his soldiers against the Persians, and suffered one of the greatest humiliations in Roman history. Captured by the enemy, he was forced to endure the indignity of being used as a footstool by the gleeful Persian king. When the broken emperor at last expired, the Persians had him flayed, dyeing the skin a deep red color and stuffing it with hay. Hanging the gruesome trophy on a wall, they displayed it to visiting Roman ambassadors as a constant reminder of just how hollow the myth of the invincible legions had become.
Such public humiliation was galling, but Roman writers had been lamenting the decay of the national character for years. As early as the second century bc, Polybius blamed the politicians whose pandering had reduced the Republic to mob rule, Sallust railed against the viciousness of political parties, and Livy--the most celebrated writer of Rome's golden age--had written that "these days . . . we can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies."*
Now, however, a more ominous note crept in. The predictions of disaster gave way to glowing panegyrics celebrating the greatness and permanence of emperors who were plainly nothing of the sort. The men on the throne seemed like shadows flitting across the imperial stage, an awful confirmation that the gods had turned their backs on humanity. Barbarian enemies were gathering like wolves on the frontiers, but the generals sent against them more often than not used their swords to clear a path to the throne. The army, once a servant of the emperor, now became his master, and dynasties rose and fell with bewildering frequency.
The chaos of nearly continuous civil war made it hard to tell who the emperor actually was, but the tax collectors came anyway, with their unceasing demands for more money. The desperate shadow emperors tried to save money by reducing the silver content of their coins, but the resulting inflation crippled the economy, and most of the empire reverted to the barter system. Terrified by the mounting uncertainty, men took refuge in mystery religions that taught that the physical world was fleeting or evil, and put their hopes in magic, astrology, and alchemy. Life was full of pain, and the more extreme refused marriage or committed suicide to escape it. The very fabric of so-ciety was coming apart, and rich and poor alike prayed for deliverance.
Salvation came, unexpectedly enough, from Dalmatia. A tough soldier named Diocletian from that backward, rugged land of craggy peaks and lush forests rose up to claim the throne. Assuming power in the usual way by assassinating his predecessor and climbing over the bodies of rival armies, Diocletian was pragmatic enough to admit what others had only dimly suspected. The empire was simply too large to be successfully governed by one man in these troubled days. Its vast territory embraced the entire Mediterranean, stretching from the damp forests of Britain in the north to the blazing deserts of Egypt in the south, from the Rock of Gibraltar in the west to the borders of Persia in the east. Even if he spent his entire life in the saddle, Diocletian couldn't possibly react quickly enough to stamp out every crisis, nor could he dispatch surrogates to fight on his behalf; recent imperial history provided too many examples of such generals using their swords to clear a path to the throne. If the wobbling empire were to be preserved at all, Diocletian needed to somehow shrink its enormous size--a task that had overwhelmed all of his immediate predecessors. Few leaders in history can have started a reign with such a daunting job, but the pragmatic Diocletian found an unorthodox solution: He raised an old drinking buddy named Maximian to the rank of senior emperor, or Augustus, and split the world in half.
It wasn't quite as revolutionary a decision as it sounded, especially because the Empire was already divided linguistically. Long before Rome had dreamed of world conquest, Alexander the Great had swept east to India, crushing all who stood against him and forging the unwieldy territories into an empire. In his footsteps had come Hellenization, and though Alexander's empire had crumbled with his death, Greek culture seeped in and took root. Rome had spread from the west like a veneer over this Hellenized world, superior in arms but awed by the older culture's sophistication. Latin was spoken in the eastern halls of power, but not in its markets or homes. In thought and character, the East remained firmly Greek.
Handing over the western areas of the empire, where Latin was the dominant language, to Maximian, Diocletian kept the richer, more-cultured Greek east for himself. In theory, the empire was still one and indivisible, but each half would have a drastically different fate, and the rough line that was drawn between them still marks the divide between eastern and western Europe today. The full ramifications wouldn't become clear for another two centuries, but Diocletian had effectively divided the world into Roman and Byzantine halves.
Sharing power with another man was a dangerous game for Diocletian to play since it ran the obvious risk of creating a rival, but Maximian proved to be an extremely loyal colleague. Pleased by the success, and aware that two men were still not enough to stem the tide of invaders streaming over the frontiers, Diocletian divided power again by appointing two junior emperors (Caesars). These men were given full authority to lead armies and even issue laws, and greatly eased the burdens of administration by the senior rulers. Four men could now claim an imperial rank, and though for the moment they were remarkably efficient, only time would tell if this "tetrarchy" (rule of four) would be a team of rivals or colleagues.
Diocletian, meanwhile, was just getting warmed up. The lightened workload enabled him to carry out a thorough reorganization of the cluttered bureaucracy. Replacing the chaotic system with a clean, efficient military one, he divided the empire into twelve neat dioceses, each governed by a vicar who reported directly to his emperor.* Taxes could now be collected with greater efficiency, and the money that poured into the treasury could better equip the soldiers guarding the frontiers. With budget and borders in hand, Diocletian now turned to the monumental task of stabilizing the crown itself.
The emperor understood better than any man before him just how precarious the throne had become. Numerous revolts had made the army loyal to the personality, not the position, of the emperor, and such a situation was inherently unstable. No one man, no matter how powerful or charismatic, could keep every segment of the population happy, and the moment some vulnerability was spotted, civil war would erupt. In earlier days, the royal blood of long-lived dynasties had checked ambition, but now that any man with an army could make himself emperor, something more was needed. To break the cycle of rebellion and war, Diocletian needed to make the position of emperor respected regardless of who occupied the throne.
This was the great struggle of the ancient world. Stability was needed for an orderly succession, but often such stability could only be achieved by a tyrant, and every dictator who justified his seizure of power further undermined the principle of succession. In any case, the idea of elevating the concept of the throne flew in the face of established tradition. The last five decades had seen emperors drawn from among the army, men who went to great lengths to prove that they were just like the men they commanded. They ate with their troops, laughed at their jokes, listened to their worries, and tried their best to hold on to their loyalty. Such a common touch was necessary; without it, you could easily miss the first flickers of unhappiness that might ignite into civil war, but it also reinforced the idea that emperors were just ordinary men. Mere mortals could be killed and replaced at will; Diocletian had to prove that emperors were something else entirely. If he failed to change that, then all that he had accomplished would be undone the moment he fell from power.
The Roman Empire had a long tradition of masking its autocracy behind the trappings of a republic. The first emperor, Augustus, had declined to even carry the title of emperor, preferring instead the innocuous "first citizen." For more than three centuries, the Roman legions had proudly carried standards bearing the legend SPQR,* as if they served the will of the people instead of the whim of a tyrant. Now, however, Diocletian wanted to change all that. No longer would the imperial authority be masked behind the worn veneer of the long dead republic. Displays of naked power would awe the populace, whereas pretending to be the "first among equals" had tempted them to revolt.
Religion gave him the perfect outlet for his new political theory. Power and legitimacy didn't flow up from the people, it flowed from the gods down--and Diocletian was more than just a representative of Jupiter, he was a living god himself. Those who were admitted to see him were made to prostrate themselves and avert their gaze from the brilliance of his presence. It was an impressive spectacle, and Diocletian made sure to dress the part. There would be no more simple military clothes for the divine master of the civilized world. A splendid diadem adorned his head--he was the first emperor to wear one--and a golden robe was draped around his shoulders. Cloaked in elaborate ceremonies borrowed from the East, where traditions of -divine rulers ran deep, Diocletian now removed himself from the sight of ordinary mortals, a god among men, surrounded by the impenetrable layers of the imperial court.
Propping up the wobbly throne with the might of Olympus was a stroke of brilliance that had nothing to do with arrogance or self-importance. In a world of chronic revolts, there was nothing like the threat of a little divine retribution to discourage rebellion. Now revolts were acts of impiety, and assassination was sacrilege. At a stroke, Diocletian had created an autocratic monarch, a semidivine emperor whose every command had the full force of religion backing it up. Though the faith behind it would change, this model of imperial power would be the defining political ideology of the Byzantine throne.
The pagans of the empire accepted it all willingly enough. They were pantheistic and could easily accommodate a divine emperor or two--they had in fact been deifying their dead rulers for centuries. Unfortunately for Diocletian, however, not all of his citizens were pagan, and his claims of divinity brought him into sharp conflict with the fastest-growing religion in the empire.
It wasn't in the least bit surprising that Romans were abandoning the traditional gods. The recent reforms of Diocletian had undoubtedly made things somewhat easier, but for the vast majority of citizens, life was still on the whole miserably unjust. Oppressed by the heavy tax burden, made worse by the corruption of half a century of chaos, the common man found no protection in the tainted courts and had to watch helplessly as the rich expanded their lands at his expense. Crushed into hopelessness, more and more people took refuge in the different "mystery cults," the most popular of which was Christianity.
Against the arbitrary injustice of the world all around them, Christianity held out hope that their suffering wasn't in vain; that the seeming triumph of their grasping tormentors would be reversed by an all-powerful God who rewarded the just and punished the wicked. They weren't alone in a dark and fallen world, but could be nourished by the hand of a loving God who sustained them with the promise of eternal life. This physical world with all its pain was only fleeting and would pass away to be replaced by a perfect one where sorrow was unknown and every tear was wiped away. The old pagan religion, with its vain, capricious gods, and pale, shadowy afterlife, could offer nothing so attractive.
When the imperial officials showed up to demand a sacrifice to the emperor, most Christians flatly refused. They would gladly pay their taxes and serve in the army or on committees, but (as they would make abundantly clear) Christianity had room in it for only one God. No matter how powerful he might be, the emperor was just a man.
This rejection of Diocletian's godhood struck at the very basis of imperial authority, and that was one thing the emperor wasn't prepared to tolerate. These dangerous rebels--godless men who denied all divinity--had to be wiped out. An edict demanding sacrifice to the emperor on pain of death was proclaimed, and the Roman Empire launched its last serious attempt to suppress Christianity.
The effects were horrendous, especially in the east, where the edict was enforced with a terrible thoroughness. Churches were destroyed, Christian writings were burned, and thousands were imprisoned, tortured, or killed. Despite the fervor with which they were carried out, the persecutions couldn't hope to be successful. Pagans and Christians had been more or less coexisting for years, and the suffering of the church was met with sympathy. There were the old stories, of course, the whispered tales of cannibalism and immorality, of Christians gathered in secret, eating their master's flesh and drinking his blood, but nobody really believed them anymore. Most pagans refused to believe that a religion that encouraged payment of taxes, stable families, and honesty in trade could be full of dangerous dissidents, threatening the security of the state. Christians were neighbors and friends, common people like themselves, struggling as best they could to make it in a troubled world. Christianity in any case couldn't be swept under the rug or persecuted out of existence. It had already spread throughout the empire and was well on its way to transforming the world.
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LARS BROWNWORTH, a former high-school history teacher, is the creator of the podcast phenomenon "12 Byzantine Rulers" that iTunes named as one of the "podcasts that define the genre." Brownworth and his podcast have been profiled in the New York Times, Wired, and USA Today, and were featured on NPR.
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Brownworth at least proves the thesis of this brief history: the Byzantine Empire did, in fact, hold the line for the West for nearly a millennium. Not only did it preserve the classics of Greece and Rome lost to the West in the centuries that elapsed between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, but it also - just as, if not more, importantly - managed to prevent the soldiers of Mohammed from swarming west and devouring a fractured, sub-developed Europe. "The great walls of Constantine's city.delayed the Muslim advance into Europe for eight hundred years," Brownworth points out, "allowing the West the time it needed to develop" (p. 302). This is all that can be fairly said for it though. The annals of Byzantium offer very little distinct from the late Western Roman Empire. Both were plagued by ceaseless cycles of political, economic and social instability. With an admittedly fair share of exceptions, an individual would usurp the crown of the basileus, murder/blind/tonsure him and any other potential rivals, and then, sooner or later, suffer the indignity of a similar fate himself. Beyond that which it preserved from the Ancient Greeks and Romans it is a struggle to come up with anything distinctive of the Byzantines that would serve to guide and inspire posterity. When the minds of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment looked back it was to the Classical Age, not to the Byzantines, that they found something worthy. The Byzantines' contribution was to ensure that the fruits of the Classical Age were still there. Byzantium essentially served as a bridge between that epoch and the modern one to which we today are a part. Without them not only would our earliest heritage have been (in keeping with the spirit of this history's title) completely lost to us but the West itself would have fallen beneath the conquering sword of Islam. No Byzantium, no Western Civilization.
This is by far the best popular history of the eastern Roman empire of the four I've read over the years. Engaging, comprehensive, and fun to read, it brings the solemn, grimy, hugely brown-eyed figures of Byzantine iconography alive as real people whose motivations one can understand. Very important book as well, if you would truly understand the world as it is today with the split in what used to be Western civilization with Eastern European civilization. As one reads the lessons of the Byzantines, for good and ill, one can see the problems they faced and created playing out in very similar ways in today's headlines. If the world of the Byzantines is a place you've not been in your reading to date, this would definitely be the place to start.
This book should be required reading. Not only is it a great read, but it also shows the great debt the West owes to Byzantium
Mr. Brownworth has done a marvelous job of making the complex simple. By the end I actually cared about Constantine XI on the walls of his great city. Makes me want to plan a trip to Istanbul!
History should always be presented as it is in this book. It's easy reading and a great exposition of history. He makes it seem like a novel or a news article rather than a dry exposition of historical information. It's a great read.
Somewhat of a disapointment to me. This book is more of an overview of the Byzantine Empire that you might get from a history class, than a serious study. The writing is in a style that is more storytelling(as described in one of the reviews on the book)than history. The dates fly by and the main characters have a couple of quick antecdotes or events, then on to the next chapter. Nice appendix on the emperors though which helps to keep the story straight. Might try Gibbon next.
Though no one will trump John Julius Norwich's immaculate three-volume introductory study on the Byzantine Empire, Brownworth's work is brilliantly succinct, and perfect for the novice reader. It is about time that the Byzantine Empire receive proper accolade for not only preserving the classical legacy, but protecting Western Europe from the surging tide of fundamentalist Islam--Brownworth makes sure to note that Islam is often given false, or too much credit for helping save the remnants of classical Greek and Roman civilization. Really a treat to read.
...until reading this book, I had very little understanding of the Byzantine Empire and its place in history. The information concerning the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of Constantinople was a 'surprise ending' for me. Prior to Brownworth's book, I had recently finished an excellent book called '1491'. It appears to me that a historical pattern involving one 'institution' emerges...and that the 'rock' on which this institution us based appears to be comprised primarly of Calcium phosphate.
From Constantine to Constantine XI Dragases, a span of eleven hundred twenty eight years, the Eastern Empire kept alive the glory of Rome, long after Rome ceased to function as the capital of the Roman Empire. Reading much like a historical novel, "Lost to the West" recreates that millenium with all the glory, irony, deceit and courage that any group of fallible humans will create and encounter over eleven hundred years. In the process, it tells a story that, if mentioned at all in secondary and general college history, has been relegated to a brief blurb; an unworthy fate for the empire which kept alive the core of western civilization during the dark ages to the dawning of the modern era. From the "Conquer in this sign" of Constantine's vision to the greatness of Justinian and Belisarius to the final seige and destruction of Constantinople by Islamic hoards, the story is a sprawling epic, all the more remarkable for your never hearing about it at all. If you think you know western history, you owe it to yourself to learn about the Greeks, Thracians and Albanians who became more Roman than the Romans and who certainly remained citizens of Imperial Rome long after the western capital had fallen to the barbarians of northern Europe. It's a must read for history and a total pleasure to peruse just for the story.


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Carla Laszlo and her husband Robert recently went for a 20th-week ultrasound, and seeing the baby come to life on the computer screen before them was an experience like no other. The Southwick, Mass., couple even brought home photographs and a video, just in case they need another fix before meeting the genuine article in December.
"To see your baby for the first time and count fingers and toes is spiritual," says Laszlo. "I was absolutely mesmerized. Aside from desperately wanting to see this little creature inside of me was the anxiety that everything would be forming perfectly and that the baby would be healthy. The news couldn't have been better. To celebrate, we bought a crib!"
More than half of pregnant women have at least one ultrasound, also known as a sonogram, sometime during their pregnancy. The test, which works by bouncing harmless sound waves off the fetus to create an image onto a computer screen, can help doctors and midwives monitor the development of your fetus and help assess various conditions, including some birth defects.


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A federal judge in Birmingham, Ala., has blocked some provisions of a controversial immigration law in the state — most notably those that would "make it a state crime to harbor immigrants and make it a misdemeanor to work in the state" — the Montgomery Advertiser reports.
Other parts of the law were upheld. The newspaper adds that:
"U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Blackburn said the federal government had not met requirements to enjoin sections that make it a crime to not carry documentation, allow law enforcement to detain those they find to have 'reasonable suspicion' of being in the country illegally after stops; require schools to collect information on the immigration status of students and forbid state and local agencies from doing business with undocumented aliens."
As NPR's Debbie Elliott reported in August:
"The state's Republican leaders say they passed the toughest immigration bill in the country to preserve jobs for Alabamians. But critics say the law goes too far, criminalizing all kinds of contact with undocumented residents and putting an extra burden on small business."
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Guillermo del Toro is moving forward with Dark Universe, his planned Warner Bros. film featuring some of DC Comics' supernatural characters, revealing he'll be pitching his idea soon.
"I am going to be presenting my storyline to DC and Warners of where I want to take this universe," he tells Total Film. "We do have a writer, but until that is firmed up, I have to keep it a secret. I hope it happens. […] "It's going really really well. It's like meeting old friends. I grew up with Demon Etrigan, with Swamp Thing, with Deadman, so these are characters that are near and dear to my heart."
First rumored in November as Heaven Sent, the film was quickly confirmed by del Toro as something he was just "discussing" with the studio. By January, however, the filmmaker was already talking about an outline and lining up the "perfect" writer for Dark Universe.
Although del Toro is understandably tight-lipped about story details, he did tell Total Film that he'd "love to use the origins that are proper to each character."
"I love the idea of Jason Blood as a paladin and a knight," he says. "I love the entire Constantine mythology, the Deadman mythology, the Alex Holland Swamp Thing mythology. These are really rich things to well, and to dig."
That's a tall order for one film, particularly considering del Toro previously mentioned a desire to also include The Specrte, Zatanna and other characters he hesitated to name, "because then you'll know the plot."
It may be cool but I think that DC needs to lay out a full plan and blue print for a whole movie universe or else they will never catch up in the COMIC BOOK Movie arms race. Also, what I would give for a shadowpact movie ;)
A Del Toro Dark film? I am there, and if it features the JL: Dark characters, bam, it should be awesome.
Looking fwd to this. Del Toro always brings integrity to his films.
del Toro is just about the only man I would trust to do everything he just said and do it well.
I love Del Toro so it should be awesome seeing him work with so many characters I enjoy.
I hope it won't really be called Dark Universe though.
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Thank you very, very much for the beautiful Thanksgiving greeting. I work in the pre-school section of a public library. I always shelve your books first. They are my favorites as well as my first choice as gifts for first-time parents.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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Happy Thanksgiving to you! :-)
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Happy Thanksgiving to you too! :) I very much enjoyed touring your museum this past week and recalling your visit to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center some years ago. You were so very generous with your time and enjoyed seeing my well-cared for copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar that I bought for my son, now 41, when he was in first grade. :) My friend and I left your museum inspired to make some art. Happy Holidays!!
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You are such an inspiration to me! I have done many lessons with my after school art classes "inspired" by your beautiful work. Thank you!
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An environmentalist's dream. A journey to the perfect organic garden!
In densely populated urban areas, square-foot gardening has become a method adopted by gardeners with very little space. But even if you have a larger space, utilizing this planting technique will help increase your garden's yield. It's a pretty straightforward method and one that works well. It also makes for an attractive, organized vegetable garden.
If you've never used square foot gardening now is a great time to learn! Anyone can do it and this book makes learning square foot gardening a breeze. I've been using square foot gardening now for over 20 years. I thought I'd write this book to share some of my knowledge with the world. I have always had a passion for gardening and I hope you will learn to love it as much as I do after reading this book.
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FOXBORO – The immediate reaction is to summarily dismiss what is about to unfold beginning at noon today.
That would be a mistake.
While it may not carry the weight of the NCAA's Final Four, the NFL's final four – the final four rounds of the draft, that is – can be significant.
While three-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady (sixth round, 199th overall in 2000) shall forever serve as the poster child for the overlooked, fact is, two-thirds of the players (44 of 66) on the Patriots' roster when this year's draft kicked off Thursday night broke into the league as either fourth-through-seventh-round picks or rookie free agents.
The breakdown:
First round – nine (Dont'a Hightower, Chandler Jones, Logan Mankins, Jerod Mayo, Devin McCourty, Darrelle Revis, Will Smith, Nate Solder, Vince Wilfork)
Second round – seven (Patrick Chung, Jamie Collins, Aaron Dobson, Rob Gronkowski, Shane Vereen, Sebastian Vollmer, Tavon Wilson)
Third round – six (Jake Bequette, Duron Harmon, Brandon LaFell, Ryan Mallett, Stevan Ridley, Logan Ryan)
Fourth round – three (Josh Boyce, Stephen Gostkowski, Chris White)
Fifth round – five (Marcus Cannon, Michael Hoomanawanui, Rob Ninkovich, Matthew Slater, D.J. Williams)
Sixth round – three (Tom Brady, Nate Ebner, Chris Jones)
Seventh round – five (Steve Beauharnais, Michael Buchanan, Alfonzo Dennard, Julian Edelman, Josh Hull)
Undrafted – 28 (Danny Aiken, Ryan Allen, Danny Amendola, Armond Armstead, Kyle Arrington, Chris Barker, Brandon Bolden, Brandon Browner, Braxston Cave, Dan Connolly, Ja'Gared Davis, Kanorris Davis, James Develin, Jordan Devey, Reggie Dunn, Marcus Forston, Jonas Gray, Justin Green, Mark Harrison, Charley Hughlett, Tommy Kelly, Josh Kline, R.J. Mattes, Greg Orton, Sealver Siliga, Kenbrell Thompkins, Joe Vellano, Ryan Wendell).
With this year's draft considered deep, there is no question that talent still looms out there on Day Three.
At the start of draft night on Friday, the Patriots held two picks in both the fourth and sixth rounds and one in the seventh.
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Spaghetti Loaf
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Prep 20 mins
Cook 30 mins
This is a recipe that I just made up one day for my husband who had just had a lond day at work, and was craving something italian. It turned out great, and we have sense made this recipe two times.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 -6 ounces spaghetti or 4 -6 ounces angel hair pasta, cooked until al dente and drained
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons flour
- 1 3⁄4-2 cups milk (depending on how thick you want the sauce)
- 1⁄2-3⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup your favorite pasta sauce
- Preheat oven to 350°F Line a loaf pan with foil (I like the release foil).
- In a medium sauce pan melt the butter over medium heat.
- Add the flour and cook for about 3 minutes, stirring constantly, or until it smells a little nutty.
- With a whisk, gradually mix in the milk. This is when you decided how much milk you think it will need.
- Bring sauce to a boil, stirring constantly, remove from the heat and add the cheese, salt, and pepper.
- Pour about 1/3 tablespoons of the sauce on the bottom of the loaf pan then top evenly with 1/3 of the pasta sauce and then the pasta itself.
- Repeat this two more times, cover the pan with more foil then bake in oven for 20-30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven, slice, and serve.
- This is very good next to a italian breaded chicken breast. MMMMmmmm!
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I just made this, i added ground beef and used alfredo sauce. It was so very good. I highly recommend this recipe!
I made this last night exactly as stated except I added a lb of lean ground beef into the layers and it was awesome! It turned out perfect even for my picky eaters. Thanks for a great, EASY recipe!!
Mmmm mmm good! I made this last might for my family and it was a big hit. I loved the presentation of this loaf. When it was cut the slices stayed together and almost looked like lasagna layers. The white sauce was very good, and I used Prego's Italian sausage for the red sauce. I sured this with Italian bread chicken scalipini and it was great. Thank you for posting. I will be making this again.