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When short sayings are not enough, these 3 to 4 liners Christmas sayings for cards will do the work. Now get that pen of your"s and customize your Christmas wish cards with any of these sayings.
Love came down at Christmas
Love all lovely, Love Divine
Love was born at Christmas
Star and angels gave the sign. ~Christina Rossetti
Tis blessed to bestow, and yet
Could we bestow the gifts we get
And keep the ones we give away
How happy were our Christmas day! ~Carolyn Wells
May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope
The spirit of Christmas which is peace
The heart of Christmas which is love. ~Ada V. Hendricks
Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect. ~Oren Arnold
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I"m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow. ~Irving Berlin
At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season"s here
Then he"s thinking more of others than he"s thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime. ~Edgar Guest
Whatever else be lost among the years
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears
Let us hold close one day, remembering
Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men
Let us get back our childlike faith again. ~Grace Noll Crowell
At Christmas-tide the open hand
Scatters its bounty o"er sea and land
And none are left to grieve alone
For Love is heaven and claims its own. ~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men! ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas is forever, not for just one day
For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
Like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself. ~Norman Wesley Brooks
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, – not even a mouse
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there. ~Clement Clarke Moore
Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame
The world will never see his kingdom bright. ~Vachel Lindsay
Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour"s birth
Are ye not singing still on high
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"? ~Felicia Hemans
Let Christmas not become a thing
Merely of merchant"s trafficking
Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
And surface pleasure, but beneath
The childish glamour, let us find
Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways
Through our teeming human maze
And help the age of peace to come
From a Dreamer"s martyrdom. ~Madeline Morse
Be merry all, be merry all
With holly dress the festive hall
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball
To welcome merry Christmas. ~William Robert Spencer
We ring the bells and we raise the strain
We hang up garlands everywhere
And bid the tapers twinkle fair
And feast and frolic and then we go
Back to the same old lives again. ~Susan Coolidge
Wouldn"t life be worth the living
Wouldn"t dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?
I love the Christmas-tide, and yet
I notice this, each year I live
I always like the gifts I get
But how I love the gifts I give! ~Carolyn Wells
Twas Christmas broach"d the mightiest ale
Twas Christmas told the merriest tale
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man"s heart through half the year. ~Walter Scott
Happy, happy Christmas
That can win us back to the delusions of our childish days
That can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth
That can transport the sailor and the traveller
Thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens
Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows
And so let"s all be jolly!
May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace
The gladness of Christmas give you hope
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
The universal joy of Christmas is certainly wonderful.
We ring the bells when princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge when great men pass away.
Nations have their red-letter days, their carnivals and festivals, but once in the year and only once, the whole world stands still to celebrate the advent of a life. ~Anonymous
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth. ~Richard Crashaw
What is Christmas?
It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.
It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~Agnes M. Pahro
It is the Christmas time
And up and down "twixt heaven and earth
In glorious grief and solemn mirth
The shining angels climb. ~Dinah Maria Mulock
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing
It makes no noise at all
But softly gives itself away. ~Eva Logue
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance, each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah Whipp
This December
That love weighs more than gold! ~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon


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Till Fellner
Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1
- Type CD
- Label ECM
- Catalog number ECM 4760482
- Release date 01 July 2005
About the album
In his ECM debut, the insightful Austrian pianist Till Fellner sheds new light on the best-known of Johann Sebastian Bach's works for clavier, the endlessly inventive collection of preludes and fugues often considered one of the sublime monuments of Western music. Fellner shares some musical-temperamental affinities with former teacher Alfred Brendel, and has been praised by the press for his "insistence on putting musical sense and sensibility ahead of idle showmanship": highly concentrated, very self-possessed, he gets at the heart of the material. "In his manner and his music-making he exudes calm and elegance." - The New York Times

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Bo Wallace threw three touchdown passes and Ole Miss beat Pittsburgh 38-17 in the BBVA Compass Bowl on Saturday to complete an impressive turnaround. Ole Miss (7-6) took a five-win improvement over its 2-10 finish in 2011.
Mississippi's no-huddle, up-tempo offense produced 38 first downs and 387 yards. Pitt was held to 266 yards, its second-lowest total of the season.
Wallace, chosen the game's MVP, completed 22 of 32 passes for 151 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions. He judged his performance as only average.
"I played OK. Nothing just crazy," Wallace said. "I felt really good at the start of the game and then had the two interceptions and just had to bounce back from it."
Pitt (6-7) struggled on offense as leading rusher Ray Graham was held out with a hamstring injury he suffered in bowl practice.
The Panthers fell behind in the opening minutes after quarterback Tino Sunseri threw his first interception since Sept. 15 and trailed the remainder of the game.
Wallace's 13-yard touchdown pass to Ja-Mess Logan gave the Rebels the 7-0 lead. Wallace added first-half touchdown passes to Randall Mackey, for 27 yards, and Vince Sanders, for 18 yards.
Pitt was making its third straight appearance in the bowl. The Panthers lost to SMU in last year's game.
The Panthers played their last game as a Big East team. They are moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season.
Ole Miss backup quarterback Barry Brunetti had a 1-yard touchdown run in the third quarter and freshman running back I'Tavius Mathers added a 62-yard scoring run midway through the fourth quarter.
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Senators Take Another Meeting
Saturday, 11.18.2006 / 12:00 AM ET / News
Buffalo Sabres | Press Release
Ottawa scored on two of nine man advantages despite boasting a league-worst eight per cent conversion rate on the power play at the Scotiabank Place and defeated Buffalo for the second time this season, 4-1.
The loss was the first Buffalo has suffered on the road this season after winning their first 10 games away from HSBC Arena.
Making his first start in seven games, Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller was the one bright spot for Buffalo. Miller displayed no lingering effects of the muscle strain he suffered on November 10 in making 37 saves. Miller falls to 9-2-1 on the season. Ottawa out shot the Sabres 41-24, including 19-9 in the third period.
Maxim Afinogenov scored the lone Buffalo goal with just 1.5 seconds remaining in the first period. Afinogenov one-timed Antoine Vermette's turnover past Ray Emery at 19:59 for his second goal and third point since returning to the lineup two games ago.
Buffalo's leading scorer when he was injured, Afinogenov currently ranks third on the team with 22 points (10+12) in 14 games.
Ottawa evened the score five minutes into the second period with their first power-play goal. Peter Schaefer chipped Chris Neil's rebound over Miller's right pad for his third goal of the season at 5:11.
Dany Heatley ripped a one-timer past Miller as he was cutting to the net from the right wing with the man advantage to make the score 2-1 in favor of Ottawa at 1:22 of the third.
Collecting a loose puck in the slot, Vermette fired a backhander that slipped between Miller's pads at 14:50 of the third.
Coming out of the penalty box, Chris Phillips charges Miller on a breakaway and beat the netminder with a high wristshot at 17:17. Heatley setup the breakaway with a long pass through the neutral zone.
Game Summary | Super Stats | Face-offs | Play-by-Play | Shift Chart
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Voices: Christian Treitler, On Tactical Asset Allocation
Christian Treitler is president of Woodcliff Lake, N.J.-based Nosara Financial Planning.
I don't pretend to know the future. I don't believe investors can accurately predict the direction the market is going to take. However, something I believe investors can count on — especially in today's economic climate — is volatility. Many advisers use tactical investing models to combat volatility. These models work by picking a target asset allocation, and when the allocation changes due to fluctuations in the market, they rebalance the portfolio back to the original target asset allocation. What this strategy leads to is selling off asset classes when their price is up, and buying up asset classes when their price is down.
The basic concept behind tactical investing is solid, but I've come to believe that this method isn't precise or contrarian enough. My method is more aggressive and mathematically precise. In fact, I believe it ends up being safer and performing more consistently in the long run. I've achieved a Sharpe ratio of 0.21 for my clients, whereas the average ratio for normal tactical rebalancing is around 0.08.
My approach begins with a target asset allocation in the traditional sense, but the investor then adds a higher and lower range for each asset class. This leaves room for the portfolio to be rebalanced more aggressively after large fluctuations in the portfolio's asset allocation than a traditional approach would prescribe.
Say my client's portfolio is split 60%-40% between stocks and bonds. If equities fall below a certain predetermined threshold–say 40% below the original asset allocation–we rebalance. But instead of bringing the portfolio back to a 60% equity and 40% fixed income allocation, I might rebalance the portfolio to increase my client's exposure to equities. That might bring their portfolio in line with a 65% equity and 35% fixed income allocation. The shift in asset allocation would reflect the present drop in equity price and prepare for the almost inevitable swing in the opposite direction. In this way, every time the market swings up and down, or down and up, my clients get a little further ahead than if they were just rebalancing to their original allocation.
Each of my clients has a different asset allocation range and trigger based on his or her risk tolerance. The more conservative the client, the smaller the target asset allocation range, and the larger the swing has to be to trigger a reallocation, and vice versa.
I am a mathematical person, and I don't like to invest or rebalance using approximations. So I designed an algorithm that determines exactly how much to rebalance a portfolio. Its calculations are based on the client's asset allocation range, reallocation trigger and how much the asset class in question has departed from its previous allocation.
The more the market swings, the more aggressive the reallocation. If the equity portion of the portfolio drops 40% I might reallocate equities 5% beyond the initial target allocation. If equities drop 50%, I might shift that asset class 7% beyond the initial allocation. It's important to note, however, that as volatility increases the amount that I shift the allocation attenuates. As a result, the new asset allocation approaches but never reaches the maximum or minimum limit we've set for each asset class.
That means the strategy isn't as extreme as it might sound at first. But it's still more contrarian than regular tactical asset allocation.


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FDA Spends $182k to Monitor Social Media While Biopharma Industry Waits for Social Media Guidance
FDA Has Been Promising Social Media Guidance - Since 2009
09.20.13 | By Stephanie Fischer
In this austere fiscal environment, I must admit to being a little surprised by the news that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is spending $182,000 on a tool to monitorwhat people are saying about the Agency on social media.
Politico reported on a chilly reception to the news on the Hill:
"It's outrageous for the FDA to spend nearly $200,000 to promote itself on social media when it is claiming sequestration may hurt its ability to approve life-saving drugs and medical devices," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in a statement to POLITICO. "Lives are more important than 'likes.' FDA should cancel this contract immediately and refocus itself on its core mission…"
Meanwhile, the biopharmaceutical industry has been waiting for years for guidance on how they can use social media in a meaningful way to talk about the medicines they make available to patients. Since the FDA hosted a public meeting in 2009 on Promotion of FDA-Regulated Medical Products Using the Internet and Social Media Tools, we've heard guidance would be issued soon. Even Congress grew impatient with the FDA's delay, inserting a provision in the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act requiring that FDA issue draft guidance by July 2014.
Let's hope the Agency meets that deadline, and allows healthcare professionals and patients to engage in a meaningful online dialogue about their medicines soon.


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Cancer Health Center
Childhood Cancer: Health Risks Linger
June 26, 2007 -- Childhood cancer treatments have improved greatly in recent decades, but childhood cancer survivors may need specialized care for their adult health.
So say Dutch cancer specialists in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
They included pediatric oncologist Huib Caron, MD, PhD, of Emma Children's Hospital/Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Caron and colleagues studied nearly 1,300 childhood cancer survivors. The survivors lived at least five years after cancer treatment at Caron's hospital from 1966 to 1996.
Most of the patients had been treated for cancer before age 15. Caron's team checked in with the survivors an average of 17 years later, when most survivors were about 24 years old.
The survivors got thorough medical checkups to check for other cancers, fertility problems, amputations, obesity, heart problems, psychological or emotional issues, and other conditions.
Late Effects of Childhood Cancer
Nearly a fifth of the survivors had no medical problems. But almost three-quarters of the group had at least one medical problem.
Most survivors -- nearly 60% -- had more than one medical problem, and almost a quarter had five or more medical problems.
A total of 121 patients died during the follow-up period, mainly due to their childhood cancer, the study shows.
Patients who got radiation therapy as children were two to three times more likely to have serious health problems than those who didn't get radiation treatment as children.
The study doesn't show whether the young adults' health problems stemmed from their childhood cancer or childhood cancer treatment.
Treating Childhood Cancer Survivors
"At 25 years of age, when life is beginning and you've got life ahead of you, many of our survivors are confronted with health problems," Caron says.
But he adds that in his practice, "the picture is less depressing than you would estimate from these data.
"Yes, they have health problems, but the majority of the people I see in our late-effects clinic are very happy to be around, are very optimistic, [and] cope very well with these kind of health problems," says Caron.
Specialized clinics are needed to treat childhood cancer survivors, who "run a high risk of a large spectrum of different health problems at a young age," says Caron.
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Maggie's Restaurant Closes in Santa Barbara After 14 Months
Site was formerly the State & A Restaurant
POSTED: 09:40 AM PST Dec 24, 2013 UPDATED: 07:55 PM PDT Oct 23, 2013
Maggie's restaurant has closed on State St. in Santa Barbara after 14 months.
A gates is closed and locked on the outside patio, and the inside, while still full of pre- set tables, is dark.
A sign on the window says the restaurant is closed and gives customers with gift cards a number to call to get a refund.
Maggie's opened in August of 2012 after an extensive renovation from the previous restaurant on the site, the State & A.
Recently another restaurant on the same block, Quiznos, also closed.
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Kathy receives prestigious 2013 Athena Business Woman of the Year Award.
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Definition of solar panel in English:
solar panel
A panel designed to absorb the sun's rays as a source of energy for generating electricity or heating.
Example sentences
- The cleanest energy sources of electricity are solar panels and wind turbines, which are only starting to be used in Canada.
- Most robots today draw that energy from electrical cords, solar panels, or batteries.
- Unlike other renewable power sources, solar panels provide the most electricity in the middle of the day, when it is needed most.
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57. Bogon8:56 AM GMT on July 06, 2012
Good morning, campers. You may recall that I started having forebodings of summer heat back in commment 12. Since then heat has arrived with a vengeance. The last time we had something resembling a cool day was on June 26.
I know, because I saved a temperature map from that morning.
I don't remember the last time we had a decent rain. The last mention was in comment 5, three weeks ago. There have been some near misses. My hopes rise whenever the sky grows cloudy, as it did yesterday. The grass is turning brown in my yard. I water daily, but my efforts are directed at preserving the garden, trees and shrubs. The grass can fend for itself.
Barefoot - Wife invited the in-laws over Wednesday night. They brought fireworks and ingredients for making banana splits. I was a bit tired and grumpy when they arrived, but the banana split helped. I have a personal tradition of consuming one each summer. This year I didn't have to bestir myself. The banana split came to me.
Ylee, I considered inserting a link to the wiki for air conditioning. Sounds like you found your own way to the page about Willis Carrier.
Air conditioning is one of those things that have become commonplace during my lifetime, which makes it on topic for this blog. I dimly recall a time when most places I went were not air conditioned. It's hard to remember what that felt like. One's memory works better for the good things in life and selectively filters out the bad. I surely don't miss mildew and clammy sheets at night.
Some of my readers may live in places where summers are cool enough that you don't need air conditioning. A lot of you live in Florida or elsewhere in the South, where AC is largely taken for granted these days. Folks who live in the South and don't have air conditioning are probably not reading this blog, because computers and hundred degree heat don't go together.
Ah, that spurs a thought: unlike the traditional desktop PC, mobile devices like the iPhone should be expected to perform in ambient conditions indoors and out. Does anyone have stories or experience of snazzy new smart gadgets that can't handle the heat?
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U.S. ambassador to South Korea receives outpouring of respect, love … and dog meat
It may not have been the most diplomatic of gifts, but one of Mark Lippert's well-wishers had only good intentions when he delivered a package of dog meat for the hospitalized U.S. ambassador.
Lippert, who is recovering from an attack by a knife-wielding anti-U.S. activist, is a dog lover who regularly walks his basset hound, Grigsby, near his residence in Seoul.
The gift, delivered to Seoul's Severance Hospital Friday morning by an elderly man, didn't make it to Lippert's room. Hospital rules prohibit any outside food being delivered to patients.
The gift giver said the package contained dog meat and seaweed soup, according to an official who didn't want to be named because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media, according to the Associated Press.
Some South Koreans believe dog meat promotes health, heals wounds and can help patients recover from surgery.
The Thursday attack left Lippert with deep gashes on his face and arm and damaged tendons and nerves. The hospital plans to remove the 80 stiches on Lippert's face on Monday and Tuesday and release him on Wednesday.
The suspect in the attack, Kim Ki-jong, 55, could face charges including attempted murder, assaulting a foreign envoy, obstruction, and violating a controversial law that bans praise or assistance for North Korea.
(Photo: South Korean conservative activists hold portraits of Lippert during a rally for his quick recovery; by Ahn Young-Joon / Associated Press)
Posted by John Woestendiek March 9th, 2015 under Muttsblog.
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An artful remembrance of Soviet space dogs
Landing on the moon may have been a giant step for mankind, but, before man deemed it safe enough to venture into outer space, four-legged creatures paved the way.
The first earth creature to reach outer space was a Soviet dog named Laika, who died during the 1957 Sputnik 2 mission.
And, while the race to space heated up, with the U.S. opting to use mice and monkeys to test the effects of zero gravity, dogs continued to be the hand-picked pioneers of choice for the Soviets.
They — Mishka, Belka, Strelka and more — were literally picked off the streets of Moscow as strays, trained and sent into space both before and after 1961, when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
The contribution of those dogs — both to the Soviet space program and, through that, to Soviet popular culture — is artfully depicted in "Soviet Space Dogs," a new book by Olesya Turkina, a research fellow at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
"The Soviet public couldn't get enough of photographs of their beloved dogs, in rockets, oxygen masks and space helmets," a New York Times review of the book notes. "But even in that citadel of communism, quick-buck artists made money off Laika, Belka and Strelka, putting the dogs' heroic images on anything that couldn't move, including candy bars, postcards, stamps, pins and the inevitable commemorative plates."
As the author of the book writes, "These dogs are the characters in a fairy tale that was created in the U.S.S.R.: They are the martyrs and saints of communism." (You can sample the book here.)
Laika, who led the way, didn't survive her space mission, dying from the heat. Other cosmonaut dogs died as well, and most of those who lived spent the rest of their lives in laboratories, suffering ill effects from space travel.
"The lucky ones lived out their days in the laboratory, where devoted attendants would chew bits of (hard-to-find) sausage before feeding it to the dogs who had lost their teeth in the battle to colonize space," Turkina writes.
But they'd become revered in Soviet society, and served as symbols of patriotic sacrifice.
After Belka and Strelka returned alive from a day in orbit in 1960, they joined Laika as celebrities, appearing on radio and television. Their portraits were featured in newspapers, on stamps and in magazines, Turkina writes. One could smoke Laika cigarettes, or buy a Belka and Strelka storybook for their children.
"Soviet Space Dogs, while full of images, is a book for all ages — fascinating for its insights into early space travel, but also for what it says about popular culture and patriotism, and the mutts who, through no choice of their own, were catapulted first into space, then into lasting fame.
(Photos from "Soviet Space Dogs")
Posted by John Woestendiek November 5th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: astronauts, belka, book, books on dogs, cosmonauts, dog books, dogs, laika, mishka, olelsya turkina, outer space, pioneers, race to space, russia, soviet, soviet space dogs, soviet union, space, space travel, strelka, u.s.
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Taliban show off captured military dog
The military dog captured by the Taliban — and shown off by his captors on a video posted on the Internet — was apparently attached to a British special forces unit.
While the Taliban identified their captive as a U.S. dog, military sources who asked not to be identified say the bomb-sniffing dog was British, and that it disappeared after a deadly firefight in Afghanistan's Laghman Province on Dec. 23, according to the Washington Post.
Officials at the Pentagon said it is the first time they recall a military dog being taken captive.
The British Defense Ministry has not confirmed the nationality of the dog.
In the video, the dog, believed to a Belgian Malinois, stands amid a group of heavily armed men, appearing confused at times, tentatively wagging its tail at others.
"Allah gave victory to the mujahideen!" one of the fighters says in the video, adding, in apparent reference to U.S. forces, "Down with them, down with their spies!"
The dog wears a black protective vest, which was oufitted with what the Taliban said were sophisticated electronic devices.
The video was posted on the Internet Feb. 5 via a Twitter account often used to disseminate Taliban propaganda.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said the dog was captured after a firefight between coalition forces and Taliban fighters in the Alin Nigar district of Afghanistan's Laghman province in late December.
"The mujahideen valorously put tough resistance against the troops for hours," he said. "The dog was of high significance to the Americans."
U.S. Special Operations troops often use the Belgian Malinois, some of which have been trained to parachute and rappel with their handlers.
A Belgian Malinois was among the members of the special forces team that found and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011.
Posted by John Woestendiek February 7th, 2014 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: afghanistan, animals, belgian malinois, bomb-sniffing, bombs, british, canine, captive, captured, devices, dog, dogs, explosive, hostage, military, pets, sniffing, special forces, taliban, u.s., video, war
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Bully for them: Dogs to be tops again in UK
Dogs, who lost their ranking as the number one pet (not counting fish) in the United Kingdom in 1994, are now poised to take over the top spot again (not counting fish).
Cats displaced dogs as the nation's favorite pet — or favourite, if you live there — for the first time in 1994, according to the Pet Food Manufacturers' Association (PFMA).
Now, a study by the association predicts dogs will be number one again, possibly as early as this year.
"Rovertaken," read the headline in the Sun. "It's raining more dog than cat," said the Daily Mail.
The study says the number of dogs in Britain is at an all-time high having risen from 5 million in 1970 to 8.3 million today. Cats have fallen from a 2004 peak of 9.6 million to 8.6 million.
Figures from the Kennel Club reveal 'handbag dog' breeds have increased sixfold and the number of Chihuahuas have tripled since 2001.
While more households have dogs than cats — both in the U.S. and Britain — there are more cats overall in both countries, given the number of households where mutliple cats reside. As of 2007, census figures showed 82 million cats and 72 million dogs in the U.S.
Posted by John Woestendiek April 5th, 2011 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, britain, cats, census, count, dogs, favorite, fish, great britain, number, pet, pet ownership, pets, population, study, top, u.s., uk
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Labs still tops; beagles, bulldogs rising
For the 20th year in a row, the Labrador retriever is America's top dog.
While America's three most popular dog breeds remained the same — Lab, German shepherd and Yorkshire terrier — the American Kennel Club's annual list of most oft-registered purebreds had some surprises.
The beagle overtook the golden retriever for the No. 4 spot.
And the bulldog, who has been steadily rising up in rank, took 6th place away from the boxer.
"Not since the early 20th Century has the bulldog enjoyed such sustained popularity," said AKC Spokesperson Lisa Peterson. "'Bob' was the first AKC registered bulldog in 1886, and today the breed enjoys its highest ranking in 100 years at number 6."
The AKC numbers are based on the numbers of purebreds registered with the organization.
Baltimore's top five breeds reflected the national averages, except for the presence of the Rottweiler at No. 5.
Chihuahuas, ranked 13th nationally, were the sixth most popular breed for Baltimore.
Some other national highlights from the AKC's count:
- The French bulldog made the largest leap in the past decade, jumping 50 places from 71st to 21st. Other breeds with the biggest increase in rankings over the last decade include the Havanese (from 86th to 31st) and the Cavalier King Charles spaniel (from 54th to 23rd).
- Closing the gap this year, a couple of breeds that had been on the decline over the past decade made double digit increases over the past year — Keeshonden (from 102nd to 87th) and Anatolian shepherd dogs (from 115th to 109th).
- "Bully" breeds have been steadily increasing over the past decade, including the bull terrier (from 78th to 53rd) and the Staffordshire bull terrier (from 97th to 74th).
- Among smaller dogs that rose in the rankings were the Yorkshire terrier (from 7th to 3rd in the past decade), the Cavalier King Charles spaniel (from 54th to 23rd) and the Havanese (from 86th to 31st), proving that they are top of the Toys.
- A trend toward larger breeds is seen with the rise of the Great Dane (from 28th to 17th), mastiff (from 39th to 28th), Newfoundland (from 53rd to 44th), Bernese mountain dog (from 58th to 39th) and the Greater Swiss mountain dog (from 104th to 88th).
- Three new breeds entered AKC's registry in 2010, and the larger the breed, the higher they appeared in the rankings. The Leonberger, the largest of the new breeds, was ranked 33rd; the Cane Corso ranked 51st; and the smallest of the new breeds, the Icelandic sheepdog, came in at 82nd.
Posted by John Woestendiek January 26th, 2011 under Muttsblog.
Tags: akc, america, american kennel club, animals, annual, baltimore, beagle, boxer, breeds, bulldog, dog, dogs, figures, german shepherd, golden retriever, labrador retriever, list, most, most popular breeds, national, pets, popular, popularity, pug, registration, survey, top dog, u.s., yorkshire terrier
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Hachiko-inspired movie sidesteps big screen
The modern-day, Richard Gere-infused retelling of the story of a loyal Japanese dog named Hachiko won't be showing in theaters in the U.S.
Instead the movie, "Hachi: A Dog's Tale," will make its American debut on Sunday on the Hallmark Channel, the New York Times reports.
The movie, which has already sold more than $45 million in tickets during its release in Asian, European and South American markets, is a contemporary retelling of the story of Hachiko, an Akita who, when his human companion, a college professor, died suddenly at work, continued for two years to return to the train station to wait for him.
Gere plays the professor and is also the movie's producer. It was directed by Lasse Hallstrom, who also directed the Swedish coming-of-age film "My Life as a Dog."
"Hachi" was shot primarily in Rhode Island, using three Akitas to play the different stages of the dog's life.
"Hachi," the Times reports, was not eagerly received by Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio which controlled its distribution. Sony opted not to release it in American theaters.
"You think of all the people who really love their animals, love their dogs, love their cats, would embrace this specific movie," Gere said. "But Sony just had no imagination for it. It was really bizarre."
Hallstrom said the studio's strategy was "a mistake of being overly worried about the size of the movie as opposed to the emotional impact of it."
The Hallmark Channel, which broadcasts about 22 original movies a year, stepped in and bought it, and will premiere the film Sunday night.
Posted by John Woestendiek September 24th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: a dog's tale, akita, american, animals, channel, cinema, distribution, dog, dogs, film, hachi, hachiko, hallmark, japan, japanese, lasse hallstrom, marketing, movies, pets, premiere, richard gere, showing, sony, sony pictures entertainment, theaters, u.s.
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Iraq seeing influx of dogs, but not as pets
Iraq, a country not very welcoming to dogs, will be welcoming more than 1,000 of them in the next five years — all trained to sniff bombs and assigned to the Iraqi police force.
"Iraqis are not fully comfortable with dogs yet," says Brig. Gen. Mohammad Mesheb Hajea, who is in charge of the Interior Ministry's fledgling K-9 unit. "But the people are coming to love them, because they realize what they can do to keep us safe."
Twenty-five dogs and their human handlers graduated earlier this month from Baghdad Police College's newly created K-9 course, USA Today reports. And 120 more bomb-sniffing German shepherds, Malinois and Labradors are scheduled to be incorporated into Iraq's police force by the end of this year.
As in many Muslim countries, Iraqis generally see dogs as unclean animals who shouldn't be allowed in the home.
But authorities says Iraqis are recognizing the contribution canines can make.
"There is no better investment to countering the threats of bombs and explosives," said Col. Randy Twitchell, chief U.S. military adviser to the Baghdad Police College. "The Iraqi security forces are recognizing how useful a role that dogs can play in securing the country."
The U.S. military is paying for the dogs — $12,000 each.
The American advice to bulk up the K-9 units was initially met with resistance.
The vast majority of bomb-sniffing dogs now being used at Iraq's airports are owned by foreign contractors. Those contractors will be phased out and replaced by Iraqi government-owned dogs and their police handlers, Hajea said.
(Photo: U.S. Air Force)
Posted by John Woestendiek March 29th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, baghdad police college, belgian malinois, bomb-detecting, bomb-sniffing, bombs, contractors, dogs, german shepherds, iraq, iraq police force, K-9, labradors, military, muslim, news, pets, security, u.s., unclean, war
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I was at my in laws today, sitting with my mil. The house is all decorated and ready for Easter. There will be a big picnic on Sunday afternoon, and all the extended family joins in the celebration.
Every year my mil puts a ton of candy at the base of this tree. And everyone enjoys the treats
I am not sure where this happy figurine came from, but they are just the cutest little bunny couple. It reminds me of how tender my father in law is with his wife. He is always bringing her flowers or a card or a box of candy. She is one lucky lady. And so am I! I married their son :-)
Sunday there will be lots of food, an egg hunt for the children, a raw egg toss (!), singing, and the remembrance of serving a risen Savior. May the special blessings of this beautiful season fill your world with happiness.
Friday, April 10, 2009
3 comments:
- Rhondi said...
That sounds like a fun family gathering. It's just us and our son here for Easter, pretty quiet :)
Happy easter
Hugs, Rhondi
- April 10, 2009 at 4:45 PM
- Crispy said...
It sounds like a wonderful party is being planned. It will just be me and Bob, but we don't often have days off together so it will be a quite restful day for us. It's good to spend some time with the old dude LOL.
Happy Easter
- April 11, 2009 at 3:19 AM
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- September 25, 2009 at 9:26 AM
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AF started this am so onto cycle #6, cd1. Anyone want to join in?? Would love to have lots of cycle buddies!!We are putting together a spreadsheet of those who are on cd1 or around there. You can put in your symptoms, what you are doing for TTC, etc. docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key...
JOIN LADIES -- CD1 Who wants to be my cycle buddies?!
So once I was convinced I needed to test again, I got home from work and had a small explosion of AF. Just as I had accepted this not being my month, my mean, angry uterus put doubt in my head. I may test on the a.m. Just because.
Katie (33) & Jake (30)
DD #2 due 2/22/14
So...we have a room full of raunchy bitches waiting to catch our bfp's who and I agree hate drunk hubby sex....dude I am dry stop rubbing me raw, and chicks who say tmi is overrated. Damn, did I hit the jackpot with this crew. Let it all hang out.... Best babycenter TTC group EVA!
P.S. I have been flooding my tampons like its my job today...love sitting in a meeting where all I can do is sit there and take it....fml
Love you girls!
~Me 37 ~DH 36
TTC #1 for 3 yrs - "Unexplained"
Natural BFP then M/C @ 7.5 weeks - 5/2012 3 IUI's w/ meds March - May 2013 = BFN Lap on 4/23/14
^Garrett^ sillborn @ 27 weeks 11/21/01 (My angel)
Michael 04/18/03 Jayden 03/31/05 mc October 07/06 at 6 weeks.
Jacob 11/10/10 Austin edd 02/02/14
Sorry shnooter.
Jersey--I know, step away for awhile and you have lots to catch up on!!;-)
Bailey (8/2/04), Peyton (4/21/06), Grayson (5/8/11), & Cody (11/24/13) - All NUCB!!
(.)(.) Silver Boobies w/GOLD Nipples
Glad I don't work tomorrow so I can have a day to feel sorry for myself.
Bailey (8/2/04), Peyton (4/21/06), Grayson (5/8/11), & Cody (11/24/13) - All NUCB!!
(.)(.) Silver Boobies w/GOLD Nipples
Question for you girls: If af id due tomorrow (based on my calendar, not charting) would I see anything when doing a cervix check? Red, brown, anything? I just did one (at work ;) ) and there was nothing but slightly sticky cm. Good sign? I DID NOT test today, I am so proud of myself!!! Probably tomorrow, although I may try and wait until Sunday....
Another question/comment: I do not want new cycle buddies. If/when af arrives can I still join you on the new thread even if I am a couple days behind you?
Sorry about af Schnooter. Hoping for a Christmas BFP for you!
Luci - I think we're all still close enough in our cycles...we must stick together! AF is due for me tomorrow too but still not even any spotting. I broke down and POAS this morning after saying I was done...BFN.
Welcome Sabrina!
Angie - I saw the Jersey Boys when they were in Minneapolis a few years ago. GREAT show!
Stacy - you seriously almost made me wet myself.
I needed a laugh this morning. DH just left for a guys weekend in Nebraska (going to see the U of M football team get their asses kicked) and my little "angels" were driving me nuts. Now I get to go volunteer in the first grade computer lab. I think I'd rather hang myself right now.
Cara (38) & E (37)
^Angels^ 8/2012 10w5d, 3/2013 6w


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Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox can not stand each other. He is trying to drive her out of business. She launches a city-wide slam campaign against him. But on the internet, with the anonymity of cyberspace, they find they are perfect for each other. What will happen when the anonymous emailers meet in person?


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By hbuelow on May 01, 2012
Oracle Process Accelerators are now available. The first two accelerators, Travel Request Management and Document Routing and Approval, address horizontal processes common to many organizations.
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Trisha Curry, nursery department manager at Lowe's Home Improvement in Sikeston, shows some of this year's popular vegetable seeds for gardening in Southeast Missouri. Leonna Heuring, Staff
A poor growing season and increased orders from Europe could make it difficult for home gardeners to get seeds for the most popular cucumber variety and some vegetables this spring.
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Monday Morning Funnies
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Philadelphia on the presidential race.
A practically giddy Mark Salter, the senior aide to John McCain best known for his gruffness, told the traveling press corps before takeoff Monday morning that the would be handing out copies of Barack Obama's energy plan during flight.
Moments after the Boeing 737 was airborne, Salter swooped past the cabin-dividing curtain and gleefully handed out tire gauges that read "Obama's Energy Plan." The stunt pokes fun at Obama's suggestion that American's improve their gas mileage by filling up their tires and will be reportedly be replicated, compliments of McCain supporters, at Obama's appearance in Michigan Monday.
Even more of a surprise? The appearance of John McCain in the back of the campaign plane—or at least the closest he's come as of late. A life-sized cardboard cut-out of the Republican candidate is now fixed to the divider between the press corps area and the campaign staff areas.
Jokes flew freely about the difference between primary McCain (who was BFFs with the media) and the general election McCain (who has become a frenemy to reporters). "Senator, I have a question!" one reporter called, mocking a press conference.
Much has been made about the stricter message control on the McCain campaign and the staff's attempts to reel in the free-wheeling Arizona senator. Check out Laura Meckler's story from over the weekend for more on the strategy.
In other candidate-airplane news, Obama has outfitted his new 757 dubbed by some as "O Force One." The elaborate set-up, including plush leather chairs with his campaign logo, earned an "Audacity Watch" email blast from the Republican National Committee– a play on his best selling book titled "The Audacity of Hope." Photos can be seen here.


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Saturday, 26 January 2013
Though it is China that relies on oil from the Middle East, it was the American government that had the brilliant idea to spend two trillion dollars in Iraq, pouring money in to "reconstruct" the whole country and to train, and arm, more than a half-million men in the army and the police. And it is America that keeps expensive bases in Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait, to "guard the oil supply." But it is China, America's powerful and aggressive and ruthless and cunning rival, that needs to have that oil supply safeguarded far more than does the United States.
And in Afghanistan, there are resources that cannot be exploited -- discovered, mined, transported -- by the hopeless warlike primitive locals -- and it looks as if not the hapless American government, lurching from Getting On The Right Side Of History by supporting what Hillary Clinton calls "Arab revolutions" (they were not revolutions, but uprisings, against a particular ruler, his family, and his courtiers, for the sums they grabbed for themselves, in Libya, in Tunisia, in Egypt), having squandered in Afghanistan, is now going to watch helplessly as the Chinese take over the exploitation of that country's natural resources (it has no other kind of resources to offer).
Here's the maddening story:
Fox News -
There's no end to American folly. This is what happens when stupid people are in control.
Posted on 01/26/2013 7:27 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
26 Jan 2013
Open Carry
Actually, it does have a vast resource that's being fought over. We didn't think the U.S. was there for the sunshine did we?


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Approximate amount of time to 400:
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Welcome to NiGHTS Into Dreams...! This game has 13 achievements for 400
and is a re-release of the fan loved SEGA Saturn classic! NiGHTS Into Dreams... is a game about well dreams! You take control of dreamers Claris and Elliot as they embark through their dreams to confront their nightmares with the help of dream creature NiGHTS. The game is about flight and at its core the game is about score attacking. There are advanced things like tricking about in the air to score more points as well.
The music also changes with the mood of your Pians (think of them as prototype Chao for you Sonic fans out there). Make them happy and the music will become cheerful. Paraloop enough of them into oblivion and the music might become sad. Also anything in between or a conjunction of various moods will alter the music.
Also included is Christmas NiGHTS, which was a free game included in magazines back in 1996 but is pricey to get today. Also of note is that you can play the game with its original SEGA Saturn graphics if you so wish through SEGA Saturn Dreams at the main menu.
Step 1: Claris Playthrough
Pick either Brand New Dreams or SEGA Saturn Dreams and pick Claris. You will start off at Spring Valley. Once you get to Mare 3 continue on until you get to the trick rings. Get a DREAMY rating while in Acrobat Time to get
. Finish this Dream to be taken to the boss, Gillwing. Paraloop Gillwings tail in one hit to get
Paraloop Master
as well as
the IDEAL
once your overall score has been shown.
Continue on to Mystic Forest and then continue on to Mare 4s top down maze and lead the red car following you around into its green garage for
Mystic Garage
. Continue on and beat the Dream to get
the POSSIBILITY
Continue on to Soft Museum and finish it for
the CONFUSION
. If you have gotten at least a C overall for each stage while playing as Claris continue on to Twin Seeds. At the start, walk or jump forward to be flung to a piece of land. Jump off the land into the abyss below and you will rise up and be able to fly through the Dream as Claris herself. Beat this Dream to get
the GROWTH
. Enjoy her ending.
Step 2: Elliot Playthrough
Pick either Brand New Dreams or SEGA Saturn Dreams and pick Elliot. You will start off at Splash Garden. Finish this Dream for
the AFFECTION
then continue on to and finish Frozen Bell for
the CONSCIOUSNESS
. Stick Canyon is up next so complete this for
the REVIVAL
If you have gotten at least a C overall for each stage while playing as Elliot continue on to Twin Seeds. At the start, walk or jump forward to be flung to a piece of land. Jump off the land into the abyss below and you will rise up and be able to fly through the Dream as Elliot himself. Beat the Dream and enjoy his ending. If you got overall A ranks on all of the Dreams you will get the secret ending that involves Elliot going to see Claris.
If you have gotten all A ranks with both Claris and Elliot and you will hear adults singing the end song instead of children. If you also got A ranks on all Dreams you get
into dreams
for your effort. Hopefully along the way you have also made a Mepian for
Hello Mepian
. If not, keep at it.
Step 3: Christmas NiGHTS Into Dreams
Christmas NiGHTS will unlock on the main menu for play after finishing all Dreams. Select Christmas Dreams and after the intro pick either Claris or Elliot. You will play Spring Valley during Christmas time. Beat the Dream as well as Christmas Gillwing and you get
Merry Christmas!
afterwards. Play the Dream again with the child you didn't pick to get the ending scene for Christmas NiGHTS.
Step 4: Miss Anything?
If you missed anything go back to the Dreams and try to get them, such as A Ranks, trying to hatch a Mepian, Dreamy ranks off of Trick Rings, or paralooping Gillwings tail.
NiGHTS is a game that cant really be described since it has no real set genre, but people have loved it for 16 years regardless. The achievements seem to be easy but to get the full 400
will probably take some time for new comers. Those who can get the tricks down and score tons of points or have been playing since 1996 most likely wont have any problems at all. None of the achievements are truly missable either due to the level select. Good luck getting all the achievements fellow dreamers!
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An RNA interference model of RPS19 deficiency in Diamond-Blackfan anemia recapitulates defective hematopoiesis and rescue by dexamethasone: identification of dexamethasone-responsive genes by microarray
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|Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), a congenital erythroblastopenia, is a model disease for the study of erythroid differentiation but is poorly understood. RPS19 is the only gene yet to have been associated with DBA, but its relevance to erythroid differentiation is unclear. The molecular basis for the stimulation of erythropoiesis by glucocorticoids in patients with DBA has not been identified. We demonstrate that targeted degradation of the RPS19 transcript, through retroviral expression of short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs), blocks the proliferation and differentiation of erythroid progenitor cells in cultured human CD34(+) cells. Treatment of RPS19-deficient cells with dexamethasone restores erythroid differentiation to normal levels. We investigated the molecular basis of pharmacologic therapies for DBA using oligonucleotide microarrays to survey gene expression in CD34(+) cells treated with combinations of dexamethasone, erythropoietin, stem cell factor, and interleukin-3. Dexamethasone did not alter expression of RPS19 but activated a genetic program that includes a set of key hematopoietic regulatory genes. Genes specific to erythroid progenitor cells were up-regulated by dexamethasone, while genes specific to nonerythroid lineages were down-regulated. Deficiency of RPS19 therefore blocks proliferation of immature erythroid progenitor cells, and dexamethasone activates proliferation of the same cell population through mechanisms independent of RPS19.
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Part 283: Shopping at Other Stores
RECORD STORE TALES Part 283: Shopping at Other Stores
Straight from my old journal: This is what can happen when Record Store guys go shopping at the competition! Keep in mind these are 2005 prices, not 2014 prices.
Date: 2005/12/12 21:34
Forgive me for praising the "competition" tonight, but I just got home from HMV.
I have no idea how it's possible to have titles like Pink Floyd's The Wall, Ummagumma, and Ben Harper's double Live From Mars, all on sale at 2-for-$30. Ummagumma has a regular price tag of $46.99 on it! Yet they were selling them at 2 for $30! INSANE. I could buy three of 'em for less than it would cost to buy ONE. That is so…fucked up! So I got one of those, and A Collection Of Great Dance Songs remastered. (Strictly for the "new" version of Money.)
And then I sent an email to a co-worker:
I was at HMV tonight, and they have a CRAZY 2/$30 sale on. Check this photo
out. That's right, Pink Floyd UMMAGUMMA remastered for $15. If you buy
one, it's $46 bucks. If you buy two…it's $15 each. Crazy. BUT they had
a bunch of Beatles and a few Stones as well. Double live Ben Harper, all
kinds of crazy stuff. I don't know what you still need for yourself or even
gifts, but that kind of sale is worth taking advantage of.
Cool huh? I still have those albums too. I kind of like that I will always have a record of the exact date and circumstances of purchase.
April 6, 2014 at 10:38 am
That's all that's left here in Tbay is a HMV…man they have and always will suck.
Of note the only good things that I ever did get out of HMV was the print edition of Bravewords and they had had a double live Who Bootleg Cd from there 1982 tour for $20 which I did not have a problem buying!
As I typed this I did buy the 30 anniversary edition of Screaming For Vengeance as well at HMV as it was only $17 for both the audio and US festival dvd included!
That must have been a pricing mistake on there part!!
Seriously though there located in a mall and I hate malls so it's once in a blue moon I go there…..
I miss the Actual record stores in this town……
Tbay sucks for that …..the only ones around are the vinyl stores which is cool if that's your deal…..
Me,well it's amazon now if I want something bad..just preordered Paul Stanley's biography and Keith Sharps book on his yrs with Music Express……..
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The free Hulu you know, with the last five episodes of most sponsored shows available for streaming, with ads, will still exist. But Hulu looks to be pushing Hulu Plus, a $10 per month archive access plan, as early as late May.
That's according to the Los Angeles Times, which cites "people with knowledge of the plans" as saying that Hulu will offer access to the older episodes of many shows for $9.95 per month. No word on whether that access will also launch with support for streaming on certain devices, though there's already an Android phone purported to have a Hulu app, and an iPad app on the way, one that will presumably make use of that $9.95/month subscription plan.
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It's good to see Stacey Solomon carving out a TV career, now as co-host of ITV1 Saturday night show Sing If You Can.
She has also published her autobiography this week - at the tender age of 21. But its title, My Story So Far, is no great shakes. After her I'm A Celebrity exploits, why not something a bit more literary like Confessions of a Kangaroo Shmekel-Eater?


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In His Favor: It was a great season for "Treme" last year and Clarke Peters' Albert Lambreaux had a fantastic arc that included cancer, but was never played for schlocky manipulation. Peters is too good and too subtle an actor to make the story of broad choices that might have generated Emmy consideration. After all, Albert's stubbornness is the defining trait of his character. Why should that change now? Mostly it didn't, but Peters allowed just enough weakness to seep to the surface to generate well-earned sympathy and concern from viewers.
Working Against Him: Peters is no more a Lead Actor than Hugh Bonneville, but he and Wendell Pierce, also excellent last season, are both submitted in a category they have no hope of cracking. They probably had no hope of cracking the Supporting field either, unfortunately. Like "The Wire," "Treme" is another impeccably cast David Simon show in which none of the actors will ever get Emmy nominations. Feh.


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The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree
My four year old precocious, bright, funny, gorgeous son… is a pimp.
Ok maybe not in the 1970s Blaxploitation sense.. but he definitely brings all the girls to the yard. I recently escorted him on a school trip (he struggles with anxiety issues still) and I watched as the little girls clamored to be his line partner. A line partner holds your hand when you walk two-by-two down the street. When we got to the theatre, there was beef over who would sit next to him. One girl started crying. Then, on Valentine's Day, he comes home with this:
I think he got the most Valentines of all the boys in class.
Why the title of this blog? He's just like his father, already lol All the women trying to achieve that number one spot. I joke about it, of course, because he is only 4. But it does make my mind run wild.
I came to a point where I began to question if I wanted his father, as the man he is/was, to be the one influencing and shaping his idea of manhood. I have not, and do not, consider his father a good role model in terms of how he should treat women or carry himself as a man. I'm not interested in bashing him, but essentially, our marriage fell apart because he is a liar and a cheater. He is also raising my son with one of the many women he cheated on me with.
How do I explain that to my son as he gets older? How does his father do that with a straight face? How do you teach your son to be a man when the man he should be modeling himself after doesn't even know how to be one? How do I teach my son to do opposite of everything his father has done with women?
I'm scared… I guess. I'm scared my son will end up just like his father in that regard. That he'll become a man who lies, cheats, and is abusive. That he will come to accept that mistreating women is ok so long as his own selfish needs are taken care of. How does his father teach him to be the opposite of him? Isn't that hypocritical? What lies will he be told when he starts asking questions about why we aren't together and how he ended up with the new woman? Will that lead to my son resenting his father? I don't want that to happen.
Boys are rather protective of their mothers. My ex even had issues with his own father for the way he treated his mother and other women in his life. It is helpful to note, my ex is just like HIS father (with regard to the whole womanizing, lying, cheating, thing). Hell, my own dad was a womanizer who lied and cheated and was abusive. It is not far-fetched to believe my son has a good chance of ending up the same way; it's in his DNA.
And yet, I am letting him have primary care-giving responsibility. Am I over-thinking this or am I justified in having this concern?
Black men and women are struggling when it comes to relationships. Every statistic out there reinforces this idea. The key is to raise our children better, provide them with better examples of how to be. How can we do that when we're not doing the best ourselves? Black children need more positive examples of loving, successful relationships, not based on deception and lies, but on truth, love, respect, honor. Too many baby mamas and daddies caught up in vicious cycles of hate and antagonism. Not enough strong, solid foundations from which they can learn how to be strong Black men and women.
Your thoughts?
I think that you might be over thinking this a little. My nephew (just turned 6) has been a bit of a flirt since he was two. He learned early on that if he would smile and say "Hi!" that most of the time women of all ages would say hello back and give him attention. Soon he was trying to attract attention from all women no matter what their age. Only the attractive ones. I didn't teach him that and his father doesn't see him that much to have that kind of effect on him.
It could be in his genes but who knows.
There's a lot of elements of relationships that are changing significantly. By the time your son grows up, they will be the norm. One of those is the concept of marriage. There is less emphasis on marriage and more on having moderate length relationships. This is happening world wide already.
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My very radical response to your conundrum about relations among Black men and women is we cannot control another person. Though my mama told me this all my life, in my 20's I still stumbled and choked every time someone I was dating choose to do something I disagreed with; i.e. decided to cheat and lie to me so they could be with another person. In one shocking instance, my male lover lied about having been with a male colleague of mine.
This last instance did not make me stumble. Actually, I realized I had heard my mother's message all along. I wasn't shaken, nor did I fall. Instead I moved forward and let it and him go in the direction of his desires. In that very instance, I too was liberated.
People come here to fulfill their destiny, and we as black women have to know this and teach our daughters, and sons. Lead with love so that when people make choices we disagree with can send them on their way with love, and love ourselves in the meantime. That way we become the love we seek.
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IF I MY BE SO BOLD TO GIVE YOU ADVICE…WHAT REALLY ATTRACTED YOU TO YOUR BABY's dady..I'VE witness WOMEN OF QUALITY THROW PEARLS TO SWINE..ARE YOU TEACHING YOUR SON TO VALUE WOMEN..A LITTLE THING LIKE OPENING DOORS, GIVING UP YOUR SEAT AT A EARLY AGE CAN IMPRINT THAT WOMEN ARE SPECIAL..HOW DO YOU REFER TO OTHER WOMEN IN YOUR SON'S PRESENCE…AND FOR GOD'S SAKE DESTROY THE MYTH THAT A PIMP IS ANY THING BUT A VILE CREATURE NOT WITHSTANDING ARE PATHOLOGICAL ATTEMPT TO ROMANIZE A PARASITE..TEACH HIM TO GIVE, SERVE,RESPECT AND HONOR OTHERS FIRST…IN YOUR HANDS SISTER IS THE FUTURE.. SOUNDS DAUNTING..I THINK NOT..LOVE
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County high school athletic directors are confident action taken at the annual S.C. High School League convention of athletic directors and principals will be key in keeping the state's governing body of high school athletics intact.
KERSHAW – Quadarius Fair, Bre Wright and Haley Faulkenberry earned a major part of the orange spotlight at the Andrew Jackson High School fall and winter sports awards night Saturday, March 16 in the AJ High cafeteria.
The Lancaster Bruins posted their third straight win, rolling to a 12-3 win over county rival Andrew Jackson at LHS's Doomsday Corner on Wednesday, March 20.
The Andrew Jackson High School golfers improved to 6-1 on the season, taking a 170-171 win over Lancaster at the Lancaster Golf Club on Monday, March 18.
AJ, which had recently won its region preseason tournament, was led by Logan Sowell, who posted a 41 over nine holes.
BUFORD – Limestone College, which is starting a football program, is the right place for Buford High School senior football player C.J. Blackmon.
KERSHAW – Like sister, like brother.
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Lancaster High senior pitcher Jordan Brock hurled a no-hitter to spark the host Bruins to a 6-0 Region III-AAAA win over Fort Mill at Doomsday Corner on Friday, March 15.
Brock, who was mobbed by his LHS teammates after posting the gem, notched 11 strikeouts and no walks. He did hit two batters.
The Buford High School Lady Jackets softball team sports a new look in the dugout, but the maroon and gold hope to continue in the familiar winning form of its past diamond success.
Andrew Jackson blanked region and county rival Buford, 3-0 at Buford Park on Wednesday, March 13.
The No. 2 ranked Andrew Jackson Lady Vols posted a 1-0 win over the rival Lancaster Lady Bruins at the LHS field on Monday afternoon.
Angela Sims' RBI sacrifice fly scored Haley Faulkenberry in the sixth inning to lift the Lady Vols to the shutout win.
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To say that I was upset when the Penguins opted not to re-sign Max Talbot over the summer would be an understatement. I mean, without Max, who will "shhh" the opposing team's fans at a pivotal point in a playoff series? Without Max, who will beat the piss out of Marc-Andre Fleury on the runway prior to every game to stir up MAF's cat-like reflexes? Without Max, who will have the bragging rights over Sidney Crosby about the Stanley Cup Game 7 scoresheet? Without Max, who will have the balls to tell that douche Ovechkin what we really think about him? Without Max, who will be the superstar in all those silly A&L Motors ads? And finally, without Max, who is going to play with the Penguins' kids at the annual Christmas party skate? You see, Max Talbot was much more than just another hockey player. He was part of the heart, soul, and identity of the young Penguins team. To top it all off, the superstar chick-a-chee'd his way right across to the dirtier side of the state to become a Philadelphia Flyer….yes, that same crowd he shhhh-ed so effectively just a couple seasons ago. For many of us, that is Max disappointment…
However, while many Penguins fans feel a sense of betrayal by Max for going with the Flyers, I hold no grudges against him. He was, after all, a guy that wanted to stay and play in Pittsburgh and someone that will rightfully always be remembered for his contributions to the Penguins' third Stanley Cup. Ultimately, Max had to do what most hockey players do when their stock is near its peak….and that is to find the best deal they can. The Flyers were able to tender him a 5-year deal worth $8.75M, which was longer and more lucrative than anything the Penguins were willing or able to offer him.
In a recent interview with Adam Kimelman over at NHL.com, Max stated that "The first step for me this summer was to realize that I was not going to be back with the Pens. That was obviously tough. It was a hard thing, because I had been there six good years. But when that was set aside, I wanted to make the best decision for Max Talbot — the best organization that gave me the chance to win, an organization that treats its players well and takes pride in winning and doing the right things." He went on to say, "It would have been tough for me to move from Pittsburgh to a team that you have to build a lot more." "I'm a proud guy," he said. "It's something where I can't forget where I've been. It's not like flipping a switch and I hate those guys. I owe them a lot, and I hope Flyers fans can forgive me for saying that. I was there six years. But when I play them I'm going to play them as hard as I can and I'm going to play them as a Philadelphia Flyer and do everything I can to beat them. That's what I do." Indeed, that is what he does.
More to the point, Max will be treated by his former teammates as a Philadelphia Flyer when he faces off against the Penguins for the first time in his career on December 8th in Philly. He also will likely not get a local hero's welcome from the Penguins' faithful when he skates into Pittsburgh for the first time on December 29th. But such is the game of hockey in Pittsburgh, without Max…..


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Whether you are in a store, on the train, at the movies, or at home with loved ones this fall and winter, you could be exposed to this year's strain of influenza (the flu). For most, flu is an unpleasant inconvenience with symptoms ranging from headaches to fever and chills and a sore throat. However, especially for the elderly and other high-risk individuals, the flu can be deadly. An average of 36,000 deaths in the U.S. are caused by influenza.
The flu is highly contagious. If a person with the flu coughs, sneezes or even just talks, he or she will send the virus into the air where others can inhale it into their nose or throat. A person with the flu is contagious a day before symptoms start for a period of up to a week. Children are contagious even longer.
If you or a household member falls within any of the following categories, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' recommends that you get a flu shot in October or earlier:
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