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The What to Expect Babysitter and Nanny Handbookby Heidi Murkoff
Marrying the reassuring authority and trust of all the WHAT TO EXPECT books with a lively, accessible voice, THE WHAT TO EXPECT BABYSITTER AND NANNY HANDBOOK contains everything a childcarer needs to know when minding a child, from newborn to toddler. Packed with information, it covers all the basics and so much more. Topics include: how to keep a child safe and what to do in an emergency; the top five reasons babies cry, and eleven surefire ways to calm them down; taming temper tantrums and tempting the fussy eater; how to talk to a baby and how to get a toddler talking; bathing, potty training, sibling disputes; rainy-day activities and how to comfort a child; and how to build a happy and healthy relationship with the child's family.
What to Expect Before You're Expectingby Heidi Murkoff Sharon Mazel
Announcing the prequel! From Heidi Murkoff, author of the world's bestselling pregnancy and parenting books, comes the must-have guide every expectant couple needs before they even conceive - the first step in What to Expect: What to Expect Before You're Expecting. Medical groups now recommend that all hopeful parents plan for baby-making at least three months before they begin trying. And who better to guide want-to-be mums and dads step-by-step through the preconception (and conception) process than Heidi Murkoff? It's all here. Everything couples need to know before sperm and egg meet. Packed with the same kind of reassuring, empathic and practical information and advice that readers have come to expect from What to Expect, only sooner. Which baby-friendly foods to order up (say yes to yams) and which fertility-busters to avoid (see you later, saturated fat); lifestyle adjustments that you'll want to make (cut back on cocktails and caffeine) and those you can probably skip (that switch to boxer shorts). How to pinpoint ovulation, keep on-demand sex sexy, and separate conception fact from myth. Plus, when to seek help and the latest on fertility treatments - from IVF to surrogacy and more. Complete with a fill-in fertility journal to keep track of the baby-making adventure and special tips throughout for hopeful dads. Next step? What to Expect When You're Expecting, of course.
What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expectingby Heidi Murkoff
EATING WELL WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING provides mums-to-be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy - at home, in the office, at Christmas, in restaurants. Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight gain, food safety, the postpartum diet, and how to eat when trying to conceive again. And the book comes with 150 contemporary, tasty, and healthy recipes that feed mum and baby well, take little time to prepare, and are gentle on queasy tummies. At the heart of the book are hundreds of pressing questions every mother-to-be has: Is it true I shouldn't eat any food cooked with alcohol? Will the caffeine in coffee cross into my baby's bloodstream? I'm entering my second trimester, and I'm losing weight, not gaining - help! Is all sushi off limits? How do I get enough calcium if I'm lactose intolerant? I keep dreaming about a hot fudge sundae - can I indulge? (The answer is yes!)
What to Expect The First Yearby Heidi Murkoff
With over 7 million copies sold worldwide, WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is one of the world's bestselling books on infant care - and it has now been updated and revised throughout by Heidi Murkoff. This comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. The book covers monthly growth and development, feeding for every age and stage, and sleep strategies that really work. It is filled with the most practical tips (how to give a bath, decode your baby's crying, what to buy for baby, and when to return to work) and the most up-to-date medical advice (the latest on vaccines, vitamins, illnesses, SIDS, safety, and more). Featuring dozens of Q&A sections, as well as a first-aid guide and charts on monthly growth and development, feeding and sleeping habits, this is the only book on infant care to address both the physical and the emotional needs of the whole family. Covering the most up-to-date knowledge, both medical and developmental, WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is, above all, down-to-earth and reassuring - and an invaluable aid for all parents of new babies.
What to Expect: The Second Yearby Heidi Murkoff
The international super-successful What to Expect brand has delivered again - announcing the arrival of a brand-new member of family: What to Expect the Second Year. This essential sequel to What to Expect the First Year picks up the action at baby's first birthday, and takes parents through what can only be called 'the wonder year' - 12 jam-packed (and jam-smeared) months of memorable milestones (from first steps to first words, first scribbles to first friends), lightning-speed learning, endless explorations driven by insatiable curiosity. Not to mention a year of challenges, both for toddlers and the parents who love them, but don't always love their behaviour (picky eating, negativity, separation anxiety, bedtime battles, biting, and tantrums). Comprehensive, reassuring, empathetic, realistic and practical, What to Expect the Second Year is filled with solutions, strategies, and plenty of parental pep talks. It helps parents decode the fascinating, complicated, sometimes maddening, always adorable little person last year's baby has become. From the first birthday to the second, this must-have book covers everything parents need to know in an easy-to-access, topic-by-topic format, with chapters on growth, feeding, sleeping, behaviours of every conceivable kind, discipline (including teaching right from wrong), and keeping a toddler healthy and safe as he or she takes on the world. There's a developmental time line of the second year plus special 'milestone' boxes throughout that help parents keep track of their toddler's development. Thinking of travelling with tot in tow? There's a chapter for that, too.
What To Expect the First Year, Second Editionby Sandee Hathaway Arlene Eisenberg Heidi Murkoff
Gives a month by month guide to your baby's first year.
What to Expect When You're Expecting (3rd edition)by Sandee Hathaway Arlene Eisenberg Heidi Murkoff
The pregnancy guide that reassuringly answers the concerns of mothers- and fathers-to-be, from the planning stage through postpartum.
What to Expect When You're Expecting 4th Editionby Heidi Murkoff Sharon Mazel
We're expecting again! Announcing the COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED FOURTH EDITION of this bestselling pregnancy book. This is a cover-to-cover, chapter-by-chapter, line-by-line revision and update. It's a new book for a new generation of expectant mums, featuring a fresh perspective and a friendlier-than-ever voice. Heidi Murkoff has rewritten every section of the book, answering dozens of new questions and including loads of new asked-for material, such as a detailed week-by-week foetal development section in each of the monthly chapters, an expanded chapter on pre-conception, and a brand new one on carrying multiples. The Fourth Edition incorporates the most recent developments in obstetrics and addresses the most current lifestyle trends (from tattooing and belly piercing to Botox and aromatherapy). There's more than ever on pregnancy matters practical (including an expanded section on workplace concerns), physical (with more symptoms, more solutions), emotional (advice on riding the mood roller coaster), nutritional (from low-carb to vegan, from junk food-dependent to caffeine-addicted), and sexual (what's hot and what's not in pregnant lovemaking), as well as much more support for that very important partner in parenting, the dad-to-be. Overflowing with tips, helpful hints and humour (a pregnant woman's best friend), this new edition is more accessible and easier to use than ever before. It's everything parents-to-be have come to expect from What to Expect...only better.
What to Expect When You're Expecting 5th Editionby Heidi Murkoff
With 18.5 million copies in print, What to Expect When You're Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the 'Most Influential Books of the Last 25 Years' by USA Today. This cover-to-cover (including the cover!) new edition is filled with must-have information, advice, insight, and tips for a new generation of moms and dads. With What to Expect's trademark warmth, empathy, and humour, it answers every conceivable question expectant parents could have, including dozens of new ones based on the ever-changing pregnancy and birthing practices and choices they face. Advice for dads is fully integrated throughout the book. All medical coverage is completely updated, including the latest on prenatal screening and the safety of medications during pregnancy, as well as a brand-new section on postpartum birth control. Current lifestyle trends are incorporated, too: juice bars, raw diets, e-cigarettes, push presents, baby bump posting, the lowdown on omega-3 fatty acids, grass-fed and organic, health food fads, and GMOs. Plus expanded coverage of IVF pregnancy, multiple pregnancies, breastfeeding while pregnant, water and home births, and cesarean trends (including VBACs and 'gentle cesareans').
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quote: GM has also noted that it will not hit its 10,000 unit mark for the Volt this year. GM has sold 6,142 Volts so far. Even with the battery fire publicity the Volt sold more than 1,108 units in November for its best month ever. The Volt is selling so well now that some in Washington are wanting to end the $7,500 tax credit the Volt offers.
quote: Ford Focus plug in is an SUV
quote: Who honestly believes gas will not go up in price in the future?
quote: Personally I think the Volt will sell well because it simply has no competition, no other car on the planet can do what the Volt does right now.
quote: Everything goes up in price though. It's called inflation.
quote: However if you look at the Volt, it's initial price is so high even with subsidies that any discussion on fuel savings won't even come into play until 5+ years after purchase
quote: The initial "40 miles on a charge" has given way to real world numbers of a more realistic 15-20.
quote: Most people simply will not be able to get around in the Volt without having to switch to the ICE.
quote: Except hybrids do it better. The Prius is $20k LESS than the Volt!! Hello?
quote: you could buy five thousand (5,000) gallons of fuel with the price difference between the Prius and the Volt!!
quote: The Volts real-world mileage on the battery is pitiful.
quote: Fuel is far more volatile in price than most other commodities. Are you really that naive to believe otherwise?
quote: As soon as you drive it off the lot and use less fuel, the savings come into play.
quote: Prius starts at $23,640 with lower standard content. You seriously need to check your facts before posting.
quote: Maybe by your twisted view of the world, where facts have no meaning.
quote: The Volt doesn't run on unicorn farts and air. Do you even pay your power bill or do your parents? Electricity rates are absolutely SOARING while gas is actually on a downward trend. My electricity company has gone up 23% this year alone, and they service millions of people.
quote: Again, there is no savings. You've switched from buying gas to buying electricity AND gas.
quote: I see your subtracting the $7,000 from the cost of a Volt. Vehicle cost is vehicle cost, just because the Government is helping foot the bill doesn't mean that price is magically less. And again, even with the subsidy you're looking at a $40k car!
quote: Excuse me but Car&Driver says about the Volt: "Expensive, heavy, not-great economy when running on gas" So I guess they have a twisted view of the world too?
quote: Come back when you're ready to be realistic. I understand you're in favor of the vehicle, but simply trying to bulldoze away all criticism isn't going to make the "facts" work for you.
quote: Electricity is nowhere near this volatile.
quote: Prius: $23,640 (www.toyota.com) Volt: $39,145 (www.chevy.com) BEFORE tax credit.
quote: You were blatantly wrong on every point
quote: Good job cherry-picking their quotes out of context.

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Barring a setback, Andrew Bynum finally will put on a 76ers uniform next month, Sixers general manager Tony DiLeo said Monday night.
The Sixers have been bubbling with optimism as Bynum continues to work long after the team has broken practice. He also has participated in some of the team's shootarounds but has not had any physical contact.
"I think it will be sometime in February," DiLeo said of the 7-foot center's debut.
The best news of the day came from Bynum, who is recovering from bruises and weakened cartilage in both knees.
"I did dunk yesterday," he said.
"I think the first week in February is when he'll do more extensive basketball drills," DiLeo said. "Right now, we're just building up for where he can get on the floor and do a practice with the team."


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Before the party really kicks into high gear, Thursday night brought the rehearsal dinner for Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady's upcoming Costa Rican weekend wedding for friends, family, Brady's New England Patriots teammates and Bündchen's modeling-world pals.
The festivities in the Central American country follow the intimate Feb. 26 nuptials at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, Calif., which featured Brady's 1½-year-old-son (with former girlfriend Bridget Moynahan) and only a few other guests to witness Brady, 31, and Bündchen, 28, tie the knot.
Thursday's gathering for about 25 people took place at the Milarepa beachfront hotel and restaurant. According to the resort's Web site, this is "a small hotel of luxurious simplicity" with "miles of perfect pale gold beaches, fringed to the high tide mark by lush trees and flowers with outcroppings of rock where tide pools form."
It's also well off the beaten path. To enter Milarepa, guests drive downhill off the main road that runs out of Santa Teresa. To reach the party destination, they then had to walk through a wooded area to an outdoor dining room under a wooden roof.
Of the party guests, a source says, "They are a fun group. They seem so easygoing and laidback … a lot of fun. They're cool people."
On their menu were various kinds of tempura fish and octopus – the destination specializes in seafood – as well as salads with blue cheese. The full bar, known for its Caipirinhas and mojitos, was also fully stocked with San Pellegrino water and white wine.
From the wooden tables set up for the Brady-Bündchen party, guests could walk several hundred yards past a lounge area with a small, shallow pool and down to the beach, described in hotel literature as "the Hawaii of Latin America."
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3A/2A Bi-District Preview
West Orange Stark vs. Coldspring
Saturday, Nov. 15th 6pm, Deer Park
WO-S comes into the Playoffs undefeated once again with another District Championship. The Mustangs have allowed very few points this year and have scored more points since their 2000 season. QB Ortavious Hypolite along with RB Quintavious Garrett will lead the Mustangs. Coldspring is as Athletic as ever and actually played WOS close for one half last season in the Bi-District round. RB James Scott is loaded with speed, The Trojans Defense is quick and athletic as well. WO-S will be to much especially in the 2nd half.
WO-S 35 Coldspring 10
Friday, Nov. 14th Sam Houston State
Silsbee comes in as the 2nd place team in District 21 3A and Huffman gets in as the 3rd place team in 22 3A. Silsbee is led by QB Jeremy Johnson who has had a great season up to this point. The Tigers' Defense has been real strong as well and i look for Silsbee to advance.
Silsbee 35 Huffman 7
Hardin Jefferson vs. Cleveland
Friday, Nov. 14th7pm at Crosby
Hardin Jefferson makes the Postseason as the 3rd place team in 21 3A and Cleveland comes in as the Champs of 22 3A. HJ's strong point was their Defense this season but have a good Rb in Trey Burrell. Cleveland is led by RB Benny Wright. Cleveland has scored a ton of points this season and their Defense has allowed very few. I like Cleveland in this one.
Cleveland 42 HJ 17
Jasper vs. Tyler Chapel Hill
Sat. Nov. 15th 7:30 pm in Lufkin
Jasper comes in as the 3rd place team from 18 3A. The Dogs are lead by QB Dominique Bailey (who has recently been moved to WR. Chapel Hill has had a great season as well led by RB RB Mathew Tucker, who has had a banner season. If Jasper wins this game they will have to stop the Running game and avoid turnovers. I like Chapel Hill in this one.
Chapel Hill 28 Jasper 20
Carthage vs. Tatum
Thur. Nov. 13th in Carthage
Carthage wins the toss for home and home for this game and i look for Carthage to roll. The Bulldogs have played really well these last 4 weeks or so and don't look for them to be slow down this week. Tatum gets in as the 3rd place team. The Eagles have had a down season somewhat after moving back up to 2A.
Carthage 38 Tatum 14
2A Bi-District Games
Kirbyville vs. Corrigan Camden
What a first round game this will be. Kirbyville remains unbeaten and still my favorite to win the D1 State Title. Corrigan Camden is very strong as well winning their District. I'm going with Kirbyville in this one but closer than people may think.
Kirbyville 35 CC 26
New Waverly vs. San Augustine
Another game i would love to see. New Waverly caught my eye when they defeated 3A Celina in 7 on 7 this Summer and look for the Bulldogs to make some noise in D2. San Augustine creeps in as the 3rd place team from 22 2A. The Wolves are led by RB Fred Mosby and have a very Athletic defense. I'm taking NW in this one though.
New Waverly 28 san Augustine 14
Newton vs. Buffalo
Fri. Nov. 14th 7:30 in Lufkin
Newton fell to Kirbyville in week 10 last week and will enter the playoffs as the number 2 team. Buffalo comes in at 3-2 with loses to New Waverly and Corrigan Camden. Newton will be to much in this one.
Newton 40 Buffalo 13


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J. Paul Reddam experienced the sort of year in 2012 that keeps most Thoroughbred owners committed to the business, despite its many uncertainties. The Ontario-born Reddam, 57, burst onto the national scene last spring when I'll Have Another scored wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and entered Belmont Stakes week as one of the more popular, and, according to many, best candidates in recent years to end the Triple Crown drought.
Even though I'll Have Another had to be abruptly retired the day before the Belmont, and was subsequently sold to Japan for stud duty, Reddam's emergence, along with the rest of I'll Have Another's connections, proved to be one of the year's high points. The former university philosophy professor turned successful mortgage lender was an engaging ambassador for the sport during I'll Have Another's winter and spring campaign, peppering his remarks to the press with quotes from the early 20th century thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein as well as astute handicapping observations.
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When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods
University of Michigan Press, 2006
Cloth: 978-0-472-11414-6 | eISBN: 978-0-472-02560-2
Library of Congress Classification DR1523.5.F56 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8/0094972
"This is history as it should be written. In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, a logical advancement on his earlier studies, Fine has successfully tackled a fascinating historical question, one having broad political implications for our own times. Fine's approach is to demonstrate how ideas of identity and self-identity were invented and evolved in medieval and early-modern times. At the same time, this book can be read as a critique of twentieth-century historiography-and this makes Fine's contribution even more valuable. This book is an original, much-needed contribution to the field of Balkan studies."
-Steve Rapp, Associate Professor of Caucasian, Byzantine, and Eurasian History, and Director, Program in World History and Cultures Department of History, Georgia State University Atlanta
When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans is a study of the people who lived in what is now Croatia during the Middle Ages (roughly 600-1500) and the early-modern period (1500-1800), and how they identified themselves and were identified by others. John V. A. Fine, Jr., advances the discussion of identity by asking such questions as: Did most, some, or any of the population of that territory see itself as Croatian? If some did not, to what other communities did they consider themselves to belong? Were the labels attached to a given person or population fixed or could they change? And were some people members of several different communities at a given moment? And if there were competing identities, which identities held sway in which particular regions?
In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, Fine investigates the identity labels (and their meaning) employed by and about the medieval and early-modern population of the lands that make up present-day Croatia. Religion, local residence, and narrow family or broader clan all played important parts in past and present identities. Fine, however, concentrates chiefly on broader secular names that reflect attachment to a city, region, tribe or clan, a labeled people, or state.
The result is a magisterial analysis showing us the complexity of pre-national identity in Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia. There can be no question that the medieval and early-modern periods were pre-national times, but Fine has taken a further step by demonstrating that the medieval and early-modern eras in this region were also pre-ethnic so far as local identities are concerned. The back-projection of twentieth-century forms of identity into the pre-modern past by patriotic and nationalist historians has been brought to light. Though this back-projection is not always misleading, it can be; Fine is fully cognizant of the danger and has risen to the occasion to combat it while frequently remarking in the text that his findings for the Balkans have parallels elsewhere.
John V. A. Fine, Jr. is Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
Maps xv Introduction ONE The Setting, Including the Slavic and Croat Migrations 17 Overview of the Medieval History of the Western Balkans 18 The Migrations 22 Constantine Porphyrogenitus 23 TWO- Croats and Slavs to 1102 27 Brief Historical Summary 27 The Sources on the Western Balkans Prior to I102 29 Constantine Porphyrogenitus 29 The Lombards 33 The Franks 33 The Venetians 37 The Arabs in Sicily and Spain 42 The Papacy 42 Croatia Itself in the Ninth Century 44 The Dalmatians (Split) 46 An Early Czech Source 49 Late References to Croats Produce Alternative Theories 50 Issues of Language 54 The Church in Dalmatia and Its Language 54 The Language Spoken in Croatia and Dalmatia 58 Early Accounts of the Death of King Zvonimir 59 A Miscellany of (Mostly) Domestic Sources 59 Croatia Proper (Eleventh Century to 1102) 59 In the South 62 Conclusions (up to 1102) 63 THREE Slavonia, Dalmatia, and "Velebitia" after I 1o2 67 The Events of 1102 67 Slavonia, 1102-1400 71 Dalmatia and "Velebitia," 11o2-ca. 1340 79 Setting the Scene: The Different Actors and Their Perceptions of Who Was Who up to ca. 1340 79 King Koloman Establishes Hungarian Rule and the Terminology of the Hungarian Administration to ca. 1340 79 The Dalmatian Cities 84 Church Discussions on Slavonic 94 The Term "Dalmatian" as an Identity 94 Dubrovnik's Terminology 95 A Brief Byzantine Interlude (1143-80) 99 The Arab Geographer Idrisi o1o Smaller Regional Identities iro Venice's Terminology 103 Cathar and International Catholic Terminology 1o6 Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia from the Mid-Fourteenth Century, and the Venetian-Hungarian Rivalry, up to the Ottoman Conquest iog Setting the Scene, 1340s to ca. 1500 109 Dalmatia and Croatia o10 The Vocabulary Used by Venice (I340S-1500) I 1I Hungary's Vocabulary, ca. 1350-1450 120 References to Communities Possibly Labeled Ethnically: Croats and Vlachs 129 Other Significant Fifteenth-Century Mentions of "Croats/Croatia" 131 Typical Vocabulary Used in Croatia and Dalmatia 134 Church Matters 140 Identity in Dubrovnik in the Fifteenth Century 141 Vocabulary Used about Dalmatia/Croatia in Italy 143 Growth of the Zvonimir Legend in the Fourteenth Century I46 Contents xi Slavonia in the Fifteenth Century 147 The Turkish Threat (1493-1526) 148 The First and Only Pre-50oo Clearly Ethnic Croat 148 What Language Did People Speak in Dalmatia and "Velebitia," 1102-1500? 150 Conclusions (1102-1500) 165 FOUR Perceptions of Slavs, Illyrians, and Croats, 1500 to 1600 171 Brief Historical Survey I71 The "Croat" Identity Camp 184 Five Sixteenth-Century Authors Find Ethnicity in Connection with the Croats 184 Other Sixteenth-Century Figures Advancing the "Croat" Name 191 Protestants 204 The Catholic Response 208 Items Labeled "Croatian" 212 University Registers and "Croats" Elsewhere 212 Ottoman Terminology 215 Official Habsburg Terminology 215 The Uskoks 216 Travellers 219 The "Slav," "Illyrian," or "Dalmatian" Identity Camp 223 The Slavist Camp in the Sixteenth Century 223 Vinko Pribojevie 223 Mavro Orbini and a Brief Note on Jacob Luccari 226 Others in the "Slavic Camp" 229 Three Slavonian Writers 240 The Jesuits in Slavonia 242 Foreigners Define Their Neighbors 244 Those Who Chose the Term "Illyrian" 255 Church "Illyrianists" 259 Protestants 262 "Dalmatianists" 264 City Identities and Regional Ones (Other than "Dalmatian") 269 General Thoughts on the Sixteenth Century 270 FIVE Perceptions of Slavs, Illyrians, and Croats in Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, and Croatia Proper, 1600 to 1800 276 Introductory Remarks 276 The Dominant "Slavic" and "Illyrian" Camps 280 Dalmatia's "Slavic" Camp 280 Juraj BarakoviC 280 Mate Alberti 283 Jerolim Kavanjin 285 Andrija Ka&ie-MioSie 288 Ivan (Diivo) GunduliC 297 Andrija ZmajeviC's Church Chronicle 300 Julius Palmotid 301 Jacob Mikalja 302 Discussions on What Slavic Language/Dialect to Use 303 Textbooks on Language/Geography, Dictionaries 306 Other Texts 307 A Miscellany of Uses of "Slavic" 309 Ragusan Broad Pan-Slavism in the Eighteenth Century 311 Items Called "Slavic" 312 The Continuation of the Term "Illyrian" in Dalmatia 313 Serafin/Saro CrijeviC 313 Ardelio Della Bella 314 Other Texts on Language 316 Texts on Other Subjects 317 A Miscellany of References to "Illyrian" 318 Illyrian and Slavic Mixed in Dalmatia 322 Johannes Lucius and His Circle 324 Injacijo Gjorgji 330 Sebastian Dolci or Slade 336 Djuro Ferik 337 Those Advancing a Dalmatian Category 338 Use of the Term "Croatian" in Dubrovnik and Venetian Dalmatia -40 Those Using "Croatian" along with Other Terms 345 Ivan Tanzlingher-Zanotti 345 Filip Grabovac 347 Others 350 Foreigners' Use of Terms about Dalmatia 353 Italians 353 Official Venice 353 Alberto Fortis and a Dalmatian's Response to Him 358 Individual Italians 361 Other European Observers 363 Ottoman Sources 366 Croatia Proper under Austria 370 The Military Frontier 370 Use of Term "Croatian" in and about Croatia Proper 375 The End of Venetian Dalmacia (1797) 380 The Terminology Used by the Church Hierarchy and Religious Orders 381 Michael Priuli's Visitation of Dalmatia in 1603 381 Zadar 382 Isle of Krk 385 Third Order Franciscans (Including Zadar and Krk) 387 Hvar and Brae 392 Bartol Kaide 394 The Ragusan Church 405 Scattered Church Uses of "Slavic" 405 Scattered Church Uses of "Illyrian" 407 The Jesuits on the Adriatic Coast 412 Scattered Church Uses of "Dalmatian" 415 The Issue of Printing Church Books in Slavonic 416 Ivan Tomko Mrnavid 421 The South Slav Guesthouse in Rome 423 Schools for Illyrians in Italy 428 The Term "Illyrian" in Dealing with the Orthodox 431 Debate on Vernacular versus Church Slavonic in Texts in the Eighteenth Century 432 Western Balkan Schools 436 Use of Term "Croatian" in Church Sources 442 In Venetian Dalmatia 442 From Habsburg Croatia 446 Broad "Slavism" among Churchmen 447 LoSinj's Troubles and the Crisis over Illyrian in Churches, ca. 1802 454 M. BogoviC's Summary of "Identity" among Church-Oriented West Balkanites 456 SIX Slavonia, 600o to 1800 457 Setting the Scene in the Seventeenth Century 457 Jesuits 459 South Slavs at the University of Graz in the Eighteenth Century 472 The Osijek School under State Supervision 473 The Croatian College in Vienna 474 Terminology Used by the Church Hierarchy and Religious Orders in Slavonia 475 Juraj Rattkay 478 Recovery of Turkish Slavonia 480 Paul Ritter VitezoviC 482 Implications of Terms 492 Juraj HabdeliC, Andrija JambreSic, and Ivan Belostenec 493 Matija Petar KatanciC 500 Antun Kanidlid 502 Antun IvanosiC 505 Matija Antun Reljkovih 507 Terminology Used by the Church Hierarchy and Religious Orders in Eighteenth-Century Slavonia 511 Other More Secularly Minded Slavonians 516 Petrovaradin 522 Thoughts on Language in Slavonia 523 The Debate on Joakim Stulli's Dictionary 525 Habsburg Terminology 529 Baltazar Adam Kreelik 532 Tito Brezovacki 536 Ignjat MartinoviC 539 Habsburg and Habsburg Catholic Church Terminology in Dealing with the Orthodox 541 Djordje BrankoviC 542 The Serbian Church 542 Foreigners Visit Slavonia 546 Friedrich Wilhelm von Taube 546 Balthasar Hacquet 550 Other Foreigners 551 Labels in Latin-Letter Proto-Serbo-Croatian Published Books 552 Epilogue 553 Conclusions 557 Monarchs of Croatia to 1800 BY IAN MLADJOV 563 Simplified Genealogy of the Frankapans, SubiCi, and Zrinski 467 Bibliography 569 Most Used Abbreviations 571 Sources 571 Secondary Literature 584
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Just plain wonderful you are sooooooo talented
Thank you! so much fun!
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thank you so much! hoping that after the Christmas busy-ness, I can settle down and really practice!
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Your work always stands out! I am trying to decide between 3 machine quilting classes. Got any recommendations?
I really like all three that I'm doing, Negative Space with Angela, Design it Quilt it with Cindy, and Leah Day's Sampler quilt...a little different info in each, but all have set me in a good direction. Right now I'm finding the Negative Space class most in line with what I'm trying to do, but the others will continue to add to technical knowledge and insights.
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Under the stars and dancing palms, a thing called love rocked the Maui Arts & Cultural Center last Friday night. It was a happy, soulful sound. You hear it whenever Bonnie Raitt and her band hit the island.
Riding the crest of a recent Grammy win, her Slipstream tour brought the musical artist and her kick-ass band to Maui en route to Singapore and points Down Under. Ignoring forecasts of rain, the soft night air was as balmy as her voice.
The singer/slide-guitar wizard is always really happy to be here. References to the therapeutic benefits of jumping in the ocean - from getting your head straight to mending a broken heart - punctuated her 90-minute show. High-octane at one moment, relaxed and intimate the next, she had the capacity audience from hello, and never let up.
With her array of guitars and boogie-on dance moves, Raitt is the perfect blend of honky-tonk woman and consummate virtuoso. A sound perfectionist, she was exchanging cues with the sound men through the early part of the song list, but this didn't interfere with her playful rapport with band mates including Maui's "Hutch" Hutchinson on bass, George Marinelli on guitar, Mike Finnigan on keyboards and Ricky Fataar on drums.
Were it not for the musicians' precision, they could have been playing each song for the first time. The energy was that fresh and spontaneous; they were all right here, right now in the Maui moment.
After a soulful opening set by John Cruz, Bonnie moved seamlessly through blues, rock and ballads. She made room for greatest hits - dedicating John Prine's "Angel from Montgomery" to her mom and all the moms in the audience before doing the first verse a capella - among dazzling songs from the new album.
She picks her material based on lyrics that touch her. That translates into making each song live for the audience, brand new, each time.
She gave concertgoers something to talk about the morning after, with her take on Bob Dylan's "Million Miles," or Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House," or the soulful refrain of "You Can't Fail Me Now."
While there was a roadhouse urgency to her playing, a jaded L.A. outlook in songs like "Marriage Made in Hollywood" and echoes of New Orleans throughout the set, she's also a master of torch-song heartbreak. "I Can't Make You Love Me" is a 2 a.m. closing-time lament, as sophisticated as it is revealing.
When that white streak showed up in her red mane several years ago, it brought new levels of wisdom, but didn't slow down her rocker soul, or polish her been-around-the-block-a-few-times lyrics. Here in the islands, she's a honky-tonk fire goddess, with the unflagging courage and patience of a lifelong political activist, and the idealistically pure heart of a child.
Confiding that a two-week break from touring had left her bored silly, she seemed to relish jamming with the band, and letting the audience feel like we were in on it. The sentiments were echoed by guest artist Danny O'Keefe, who duetted with her on his hit, "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues."
He dreamed he was in heaven and woke up to remember he was on Maui, O'Keefe told the crowd.
Appreciating "what God has given" on Maui is also a reminder not to mess it up, said Bonnie. Noting the political climate and a variety of environmental causes here, she quipped, "Hawaii's such an advanced state - I'm not surprised."
Part eternal rocker, part soulful chanteuse, her voice is better than ever. Leaving the audience to guess, or disbelieve her age, she long ago passed the older-and-wiser milestone . . . to become so much younger now.
Concluding with an Elvis oldie, she shared thoughts about lessons and turnarounds in her four-decade career. "Miracles do happen," she observed.
Indeed. Whenever she's around.
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Published March 28, 2013
Bobby Hurley, one of the most iconic figures in college basketball history, has been named the 12th head men's basketball coach at UB.
He joins UB from the University of Rhode Island where he has been serving as associate head coach.
Athletics Director Danny White made the announcement on March 26 at a press conference in Alumni Arena.
"After reviewing a large and highly qualified national pool and following my conversations with some of the most respected figures in college athletics, Coach Hurley was clearly the choice to lead the next era of UB basketball," White said. "As we continue to foster our role as the flagship athletic department for the state of New York, the appointment of Coach Hurley sends a clear statement that the University at Buffalo is committed to bringing big time college athletics to the Western New York community and the state at large.
"Coach Hurley adds an exciting dynamic to our athletic program," White added. "He is one of the most accomplished players in college basketball history, with a legacy that includes three Final Four appearances and winning two national championships. I'm confident, after our discussions, that he is the right leader to take our program to the next level. We couldn't be more proud to welcome Bobby, Leslie and their family to the Western New York community."
A first-team All-American in 1993, Hurley is best remembered for being the point guard at Duke—one of the best college basketball teams of all time. Along with Western New York native Christian Laettner, Hurley led the Blue Devils to three Final Four appearances and consecutive national championships in 1991 and 1992. Hurley still holds the NCAA record for career assists with 1,076.
Following his career at Duke, Hurley was selected by the Sacramento Kings with the seventh pick in the 1993 NBA Draft. He went on to play five years in the NBA with the Kings and Vancouver Grizzlies.
Hurley joined the Philadelphia 76ers as a scout in 2003 before venturing into private business. He was hired as an assistant coach at Wagner College in 2010 and spent two seasons with the Seahawks, playing a critical role in rebuilding the men's basketball team. He helped lead Wagner to a 25-6 record during the 2011-12 season—its best record in school history—before joining Rhode Island, where he was associate head coach this past season.
Hurley comes from a strong basketball lineage. His father, Bob Sr., is a legendary coach in the high school ranks, leading perennial power St. Anthony's High School in Jersey City, N.J., to 26 state championships and more than 1,000 wins in 39 years of coaching. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. Hurley's brother, Dan, is the head men's basketball coach at Rhode Island, after a successful tenure at Wagner College and an outstanding prep school coaching career.
Hurley and his wife, Leslie, have two daughters, Cameron and Sydney, and a son, Bobby.
"I am incredibly happy for Bobby and for the Buffalo basketball program," said Mike Krzyzewski, head men's basketball coach at Duke University. "What a great marriage it will be for Bobby to work with Danny White. The two will form an incredible team that will take Buffalo basketball to another level of success. Bobby Hurley is as good of a competitor and the equal of any guard to play in the history of college basketball," Krzyzewski said.
ESPN basketball analyst Jay Bilas called UB's hiring of Hurley "inspired."
"Bobby is one of the most intense and courageous competitors I have ever been around, and he has a great feel for the game. He is a winner in every sense of the word, but he also has a refreshing humility and blue-collar approach," Bilas said. "Bobby is a great person, and an outstanding young basketball coach. Buffalo just hit it out of the park by hiring Bobby."


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This is one big, sad, fat-fried day. Exactly 30 years ago -- Aug. 16, 1977 -- Elvis either
a) died, or
b) faked his death and began bagging groceries in Kalamazoo.
To commemorate the occasion, a Welsh Elvis impersonator named Andy Woodward is, as you read this, attempting to give 30 live Elvis tribute performances at various sites around London.
Which reminds us of this little tidbit we reported in an Edge column a few years ago that nobody remembers:
According to Gordon Forbes III, producer/director of the documentary, "Elvis and the Men Who Would Be King," the number of Elvis impersonators jumped from 150 to about 35,000 between 1977 and 2001. If the trend continues, said Forbes, one-third of the world's population will be impersonating the King by 2019.
Welcome to My World
According to the Interplanetary Elvis Presley Weight Chart, Elvis weighed 255 pounds when he winked off... on Earth. But how much would he have weighed on other orbs? Here's a handy guide:
Elvis on:
Mercury: 97 lbs.
Venus: 232 lbs.
Mars: 97 lbs.
Jupiter: 648 lbs.
Saturn: 275 lbs.
Uranus: 232 lbs.
Neptune: 303 lbs.
Pluto: 13 lbs.
The moon: 43 lbs.
The sun: 7,140 lbs.
And now, we'd like to leave you with this treat, an excerpt from the greatest Elvis song ever (depending on your definition of great, of course). It's from the movie "Clambake," sung by Elvis as he prepares his speedboat for the big race:
We got a magic potion
that will help us win,
I don't know how to spell it,
but dig right in.
Glycooxytonic phosphate,
it's the latest scoop,
But that's all right girls,
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"Let me be straight with you. What I'd rather have is an airplane. We just had a third kid. I don't like flying commercial. I like to take my family to Hawaii. When I go east, I'd like to have pilots I know. "
Alphabets Object To Portions of Helo NPRM
Major industry groups are expressing their displeasure with key sections of the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) governing helicopter EMS operations. In formal comments filed last week with the FAA, they voiced objection to portions of the rule mandating helicopter terrain awareness and warning systems (HTaws), IFR weather reporting and operational control centers. The groups-which include the Helicopter Association International (HAI), the Association of Air Medical Services and the National EMS Pilots Association (Nemspa)-want night-vision goggles (NVGs) as an alternate means of compliance to the HTaws mandate. Nemspa noted that data on the benefit of HTaws was thin, while HAI maintained that NVGs are the best way to avoid terrain accidents. HAI maintained that the new IFR weather reporting standards, which disallow the use of area forecasts, would have the unintended consequence of encouraging VFR flight into MVFR. The rule would also mandate Part 121-style operation control centers for operators with 10 or more helicopters. HAI found this 'incompatible' with Part 135 operations.
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The Cult
Brace yourself. It's time for another dose of ripsnorting, elemental rock. High time, too, for more rude, aggressive guitar attacks that will slam you up against the wall like a Utah state trooper after martial law has been declared.
The Cult may be a trio, but it's not small change. It's no quarter asked, no quarter given from the raging opener "Sun King" to the closing squall of "Wake Up, Time for Freedom." The only respite is "Edie (Ciao Baby)," a memorial to tragic Andy Warhol protégée Edie Sedgwick. For this one number, the Cult puts aside its sledgehammers and picks up instead some hefty ball peens. In other words, it's a sensitive song, and it also happens to be the weakest track on the album. There's no mollycoddling after that.
Ian Astbury has a slurry voice very limited in range, but who cares? He sings it like he means it. Just listen to "American Horse," and you'll see that guitarist Billy Duffy has improved the quality of his solos astronomically since the group's last release. It's clear on "Automatic Blues" and other songs that this is one band that has spent time profitably listening to old Led Zeppelin albums. Yeah, the Cult only knows one rank mood. Want to make something of it? With all the wimp rock floating around today, Sonic Temple is a bracing tonic. (Sire/Reprise)
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1. Add three classes to the project: a Filter class, a Capacitor
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2. You may use the Resistor class files from the Week 2 lab for this lab.
3. The Capacitor class should be modeled after the Resistor class for class members and operation.
The Filter class should have, at a minimum, the following capabilities.
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-a capacitor-object data member
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-maximum and minimum cutoff frequencies, based on the maximum and minimum in-tolerance values of the capacitor and the resistor object
-a filter type, either low pass or high pass
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.2. capacitor tolerance and nominal capacitance; and
.3. filter type
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-provides the ability to read all capacitor, resistor, and filter data members from a formatted text file and allows the user to enter the file name and correctly handles a file-not-found error
-All data-input and data-display operations (cin and cout) should be done in the function main() test program.
-The test program should instantiate at least one object of the class Filter.The user should enter values for all the data members of the Filter, Resistor, and Capacitor classes. The Filter class should then calculate and display the correct maximum and minimum cutoff frequencies.
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Kalamazoo Central wins Obama's commencement challenge:
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American Airlines Succesful in Key International Safety Audit
American Airlines has successfully completed the International Air Transport Association's Operation Safety Audit (IOSA) for 2007 and is awaiting IOSA Registration renewal. The IOSA Program is considered the standard for airline operational safety and quality. Currently, there are over 150 airlines around the world on the IOSA Registry.
Gerard Arpey, Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, said, "We are very proud to have such a successful conclusion to our IOSA Registration renewal. This achievement represents American's ongoing commitment to the highest operational safety standard for the aviation industry."
Peggy Sterling, Vice President -- Safety, Security and Environment, said the timing of the announcement was perfect because American Airlines is recognizing June as National Safety Month through various activities around the system.
"Many of our airports, as well as our headquarters, have held safety fairs this month to remind all employees that safety is always the No. 1 priority at this airline," said Sterling.
In an effort to maximize quality, integrity and security, the IOSA program conducts audits in a standardized and consistent manner for mutually interested airlines. The IOSA program is internationally accepted as a working evaluation system aimed specifically at an airline's operational management and control systems. With this program airlines and regulators share IOSA Audit Reports with the understanding that they are based on internationally recognized quality audit principles. As a result, the airline industry will be in a position to achieve the benefits of a cost-efficiency through a significant reduction in audit redundancy.
IOSA is a globally-accepted safety standard designed specifically for the aviation industry. The program includes the most important aspects of an airline's duty to deliver a safe operation and divides these into eight categories of quality testing -- Corporate Organization and Management System, Flight Operations, Operational Control and Dispatch, Aircraft Engineering and Maintenance, Cabin Operations, Aircraft Ground Handling, Cargo Operations, and Operation Security.
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The Kaplan Duo will perform Sunday at Youngs-town State University.
The piano duo featuring sisters Nanette Kaplan Solomon and Iris Kaplan Rosenthal plays an eclectic repertoire and often uses the four-handed piano technique. The sisters have performed at many Long Island venues and have appeared in concert series at universities and music schools on the East Coast. They performed at the Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the International Alliance for Women in Music and performed at the College Music Society Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Rosenthal received her early training at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. She received her bachelor of music degree from the University of Michigan School of Music and both her master's and doctoral degrees from New York University. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. and abroad. In addition to the Kaplan Duo, Rosenthal has performed chamber music at a number of Long Island venues with the Elysian II, a cello-piano collaboration as well as with other Long Island musicians.
Solomon performs frequently as soloist and chamber musician. She has presented lecture-recitals at the College Music Society national meetings in numerous U.S. and international cities. She has been a soloist with orchestras in Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, as well as featured artist with the Butler (Pa.), Youngstown and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras. She is a founding member of the Slippery Rock Piano Trio, as well as the Kaplan Duo. She received her early training as a scholarship student at the Juilliard School. She received her bachelor of arts degree magna cum laude from Yale, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her master of music degree was earned at the Yale School of Music, and her doctor of musical arts degree was earned at Boston University School for the Arts.
Sunday's concert will include the world premiere of Stephen Barr's ''When Men Are Fairy Tales in Books Written by Rabbits,'' an Overture for Four-Hand Piano. Other pieces for the four-handed piano include ''The Civilian Barber'' (Overture for Piano Four Hands) by Peter Schickele and ''Ring-a-Ding-Ding'' for Piano Four Hands by Ricky Ian Gordon. Other pieces by Mozart, Dvorak, Bernstein and Mendelssohn will be included.
The concert starts at 4 p.m. in Bliss Recital Hall Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call 330-941-3636.


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There was once a time when it was fresh and exciting to make a movie where the audience was never really sure if the main character was crazy or if she actually inhabited a world where supernatural shit was par for the course. Back in an era where directors and writers actually had talent – a time I like to refer to as "pre-Bay" – a solid script could nail audiences to their seats with its subtle examination of the blurred lines between fantasy and reality.
Nowadays, the only thing nailing me to my seat is the six gallons of watered-down cola that I slurp from a kiddie pool-sized cup in an effort to stay away through utter garbage like "Black Swan." Let me tell you the inescapable truth of a movie about ballet: it is as mind-blowingly dull as the real ballet. In fact, it's worse, because at least while attending an actual ballet performance you might get to witness an anorexic stick figure snap his or her shin bone while landing a jump. No, movie ballet is much more like ice dancing, ballet's retarded Northern cousin, where nothing spectacular ever happens and at the end you can't believe someone's about to win a gold medal – or an Oscar – for something with so little artistic merit.
It's 2010. Black Swans just aren't that scary. Oh no! She might be transforming into a SWAN! Say that out loud and then try to tell me you don't feel ridiculous and embarrassed for director Darren Aronofsky. His entire career has been downhill ever since he filmed the "ASS TO ASS" scene in "Requiem for a Dream," an act which single-handedly increased the sales of double-ended dildos to the point where they outpaced those of the Bible.
I will say this about "Black Swan," however - it's not the most money I've ever spent to watch two ballerinas have sex. Those 20 seconds or so of Mila Kunis munching on Natalie Portman's cooter must have been the primary draw for more than half the audience, because after I had ceased my own discrete rustlings under my stained black trench coat I noticed that the majority of the audience was gone.
Actually, in truth I had passed out after Portman and I achieved our first mutual orgasm, and I was only roused from my post-arousal somnolence by the sticky poke of a janitor's broom. Which explained why the theatre was empty, but not why the policeman standing beside him was wearing rubber gloves and telling me to close my eyes and think of England. Good advice, as I would soon find out.
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Ice skating = ballet's retarded Northern cousin
That's GOLD!
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Swan's aren't scary?
Tell it to Leda.
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Mila cooch-snogging Natalie...?
~There ain't no Devil, there's just God when He's drunk.~
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but skinny chicks make me puke.
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The real problem with Black Swan...
...is that no one gets nekkid!
Seriously, I was really hoping for some nudity in this one.
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Is this film any good, or is it too disturbing...
...D Aranof has a way of really rubbing me the wrong way. He's a bit too analytical about doing so. For example, the final scenes of requiem featured cut up scenes all relating to semen. There was the ass-to-ass scene that involved white lotion on a dildo that looked like jizz, there was the force feeding hospital scene that involved shoving little bits of dried up thingees into the poor old woman's mouth that resembeld dried up jizz (I think that's what the director was going for) then there was Marlon Waynes, who was mixing a large tub of what looked like jizz in prison. And they kept cycling through all of this over and over again until I felt as though I had been butt-raped by this film.
Is Black Swan anything like that? Because I recognise the potential talent of Aronof, but his subject matter and story lines are just too depressing for me. Didn't see enough of the wrestler and didn't see pi so I really don't know what I'm in for. There are times when I enjoy ballet, but it has to be done a certain way. I think with some inventive shots like Aron's I could, but too much disturbing stuff and I'll pass. So what's the deal?
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It's not really disturbing, Tee...
...but it's definitely dark and weird and - IMHO - a bit overrated. Not depressing like Requiem for a Dream...but not exactly a happy film either, if that helps. I didn't care for Barbara Hershey in this. Mila Kunis was just okay. Portman, though, is phenomenal.
Oh, and you may have read too much into Requiem - I've never heard the jizz conspiracy angle before. :)
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oh it's jizzy alright...
...watch it again, you'll see, that's what he was shooting for, and for no real reason, which is what kinda turned me off, being discusting in an inventive way for no reason...I'm glad the swan film ain't gonna be too depressing like requiem, My mom said black swan was awful, she said, "she grew wings for christ sake!" I though that sounded so funny I had to sneak a scene or two, it did look kinda funny and ridiculous
I just caught the end of Step Brothers the other day, seemed pretty funny, gona have to see the whole thing. Will Farrell does well again, I think he's found his niche, it's about time.
Still can't stop watching Tron 1982, still haven't seen the sequel.
By the way, I paid money to see Spiceworld in the movie theater, willingly.
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Saw the first half today
Couldn't sit through it. Competent but too grim. It's for you if you like seeing closeups of bleeding fingernails.
Natalie Portman's character reminded me a bit of Tweak on SOUTH PARK.
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As the owner of an older dog, our beagle Tobey, we know how expensive surgery can be for our four legged friends. I can't begin to imagine how difficult it is when the dogs get older and when their owners have trouble paying for their care.
When I asked for readers to email me their problems, one stood out both for its length and because it was a subject we could see ourselves facing. The email from Linda is quite long, and I included it below, but the summary is that one of their Yorkies, who is ten, developed cataracts and needs surgery. Her husband is on disability and she recently lost her job and she doesn't know how she'll pay for it.
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I just want you to know that I have been following you for several months now and the information you forward is extremely informational to me. As you said, you or someone out there may be able to help me. I have 2 Yorkies (brother and sister). They turned 10 in January.
The boy has developed cataracts in both eyes. He is truly the love of our lives. He is so to speak "a true watch dog." He developed the first one about a year ago and because of our very limited finances (husband is disabled) and I lost my job as a legal assistant 3 weeks ago, we never pursued the surgery thing. Not only is it very expensive but he had the one eye and is was doing o.k.
Well, about 6 weeks ago, like overnight, he woke up with another cataract on the other eye. We were devastated. We took him for a surgery consultation ($500.00 later) and then they told us $4,000 for the surgery. I attempted to get my insurance I have on the dogs (care credit) increased, but they denied me. I was still working then. So, I asked the doctor if there was anyway they could do one eye. Yes. But $2,500 for one eye. Well, now that I am unemployed, there is no way of having the surgery done. Do you know anyone that I might contact that could possibly help us?
Like I said, he is a wonderful little dog and if we could give him sight in one eye, I know he could be like he used to be. Everything has been done as far as testing and only one blood test and an x-ray needs to be done with his regular vet and he will be good to go. He is so pitiful right now. He is beginning to learn his environment inside the house, but he will not go outside unless we carry him. He's very afraid. I live in Brandon, Florida and in the next 60-90 days I will be locating to Huntington, WV. This is my 4th lay-off in 8 years.
I'm 63 and I truly believe it may be out with the old and in with the young. But, then again no way to prove that. I have applied for several positions that I am qualified for or more than qualified for, but no response so far. I have a sibling in WV that can help us until we get established. My husband used to have his own business, a small contracting business and he was in a horrific car accident in 2003 (no fault of his own). No insurance on the other side.
We lost everything in 2005 because of his disabling injuries in addition to 2 strokes that left him partially paralyzed on the left side. The house we live in we have been renting for 8-1/2 years. So, needless to say, we have to do what we have to do. What a roller coaster ride. And, I truly know how hard it is to keep your head above water. We used every dime we had saved for more than 15 years just to survive after his accident.
But, after 2 years–gone.
I know what it's like to go to the Church for food and to stand in line at the State and County entities pleading for some kind of assistance. I know there are thousands of people struggling just like us, but I pray there is someone that will hear my plea to guide me and hopefully get help for my little boy dog Max.
The only positive thing about this situation is that having cataracts can lead to blindless but they aren't painful. Cataracts can slip out of place, block ducts, and lead to glaucoma. It's generally a bad thing but it's not as acute as a broken leg. That's really the only positive thing out of this story.
As for financial aid, there are charities that exist to help. Many are regional and most only help in life threatening situations (I don't know if cataracts apply here), and some are breed specific. Many also take some time to get through the application process. Here are a few I'd see:
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- The Mosby Foundation [6] – Virginia
- NY Save [7] – New York City's 5 boroughs
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- Red Rover [9]
- Pit Bull Rescue Central [10] – Pit bulls
- Westie Med [11] – Westies
- Labrador Lifeline [12] – Labradors
- Labrador Harbor [13] – Labradors
- Labmed [14] – Labradors
- CorgiAid [15] – Corgies
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Julia C. Savine, 91, formerly of 1313 24th Ave., Altoona, died Wednesday evening at Golden LivingCenter-Hillview after an extended illness.
She was born in Altoona, daughter of the late Peter and Theresa (DeBello) Alderisio. She married Daniel D. Savine in August 1945 in Cumberland, Md.
Surviving are her husband; a daughter, Sandra L. of North Garden, Va.; two grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and two siblings: Marie Tamburino and Eugene Alderisio, both of Altoona.
Julia was a graduate of Altoona High School and Altoona School of Commerce. She retired on Aug. 11, 1981, as a secretary at the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation with 12 years of service, and she had previously worked at Central Trust Bank, Altoona. She was a member of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Altoona, and a past member of Airborne Association and Cathedral Christian Mothers.
Julia and her husband, Dan, enjoyed dancing and watching Pittsburgh Steelers football. She loved her family fiercely and laughed often.
Friends will be received from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at Jones Funeral Home, where a vigil for the deceased will be celebrated during the visitation. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. Committal rites will be held at Calvary Cemetery, Altoona.
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BUCKHANNON - The attorney for a Buckhannon man allegedly involved in a murder-for-hire plot asked for a continuance in Upshur County Circuit Court Friday, saying his trial strategy "had been changed dramatically" by the guilty plea of his client's codefendant.
Tom Dyer, the attorney for 30-year-old Jessie Lee Heater, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 29-year-old Joshua Oberg, told 26th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Kurt Hall that he needs additional time to prepare a new strategy following guilty plea of Robert Eugene Siron III, 31, of Weston, on Wednesday in Circuit Court.
Hall granted the motion, scheduling Heater's trial for Feb. 18, 2014.
Siron pleaded guilty to one felony count of voluntary manslaughter and one felony count of conspiracy to conceal a deceased human body in the death of Oberg, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave along Bull Run Road in a remote area of Upshur County in July 2012. As part of Siron's binding plea agreement, he has pledged to cooperate with the state of West Virginia in the prosecution of Heater and 33-year-old Rodolpho "Chino" Villagomez Correa, whose trial was continued Thursday in Circuit Court.
West Virginia State Police investigators have testified they believe Correa paid Heater $5,000 to kill Oberg after Correa learned Oberg had become romantically involved with Correa's wife. Investigators have also stated they believe Heater gave Siron $500 to keep his mouth shut in the days following Oberg's Jan. 23, 2012, death.
At Heater's pretrial conference Friday, Dyer asked Hall for a continuance, saying he needed time to review the terms of the plea agreement Siron entered into and regroup because his strategy had been "changed dramatically by the plea of the codefendant (Siron)."
Hall asked Heater if he was willing to waive his constitutional right to a speedy trial, saying he couldn't guarantee when the trial would be rescheduled - but that it could be as late as the end of April.
"I can't guarantee when your trial is going to take place," Hall told Heater. "Since this is a murder case, the court will try to accommodate you the best it can."
Heater, however, said he wasn't willing to waive his right to a speedy trial.
"It's coming up on a year now," he said. "This will be the third indictment term that it's been continued. I would like to retain my speedy trial right."
Hall said Heater had a choice to make.
"Well, you've got to do one of two things - you've got to go to trial next week or you've got to waive your right to a speedy trial," Hall said. "That's the bottom line."
"I would like to stick with my original decision (to retain) my speedy trial right," Heater replied.
"So you want to go to trial next week?" Hall asked, to which Heater answered yes.
Hall asked Upshur County Prosecuting Attorney Jake Reger if he was prepared to go to trial on the case next week, but Reger said he wasn't.
Hall declared a recess to afford Dyer more time to talk with Heater about his options.
When court reconvened, Hall said he had been made aware of an Aug. 8 order entered by then-presiding senior-status Judge John Henning following a hearing during which Heater waived his right to a speedy trial.
"The court will find that the defendant has already waived his right to a speedy trial, but I will note the objection of the defendant to the court finding," Hall said.
However, the judge said he could set a trial date earlier than he had originally anticipated. Jury selection for Heater's trial will be Jan. 21, 2014, and his trial will begin Feb. 18, 2014, and continue "until it's finished," he said.
Heater is being held without bond in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail.
Also in Circuit Court Friday, Hall granted a continuance in the case of Margel Franklin Tenney, 58, of Rock Cave, who led authorities on an overnight manhunt while he was being investigated on sexual charges.
Tenney is charged with three felony counts of third-degree sexual assault, six felony counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian, and three felony counts of incest. He is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail in lieu of a $250,000 bond.
The charges allege that Tenney had sexual intercourse with two female victims under the age of 18 as far back as 2009 and that he inappropriately touched two female victims, both of whom were under 18, as far back as 2011.
Hall scheduled jury selection in Tenney's case for April 14 and said his trial would take place sometime thereafter.
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Gucci hosts artisans at Dubai Mall store
As Gucci celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, creative director Frida Giannini realigns the house's focus on its heritage – a similar branding strategy by Louis Vuitton has proved highly successful sales-wise – and how its exquisite handmade leather goods have captured the hearts of generations of loyal followers.
Last night, Gucci's Fashion Avenue boutique at The Dubai Mall brought together a number of its skilled artisans to showcase the techniques, expertise and time required to craft a single Gucci handbag. As they assembled some of the most iconic handbags, customers witnessed first hand the meticulous attention to detail and superb craftsmanship that is involved in the production of every item in Gucci's leather goods collection.
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The craftsmen focused on assembling three of Gucci's most popular handbags: the New Bamboo, the Snaffle Bit, and the Handmade bag. The Bamboo and the Snaffle Bit, modern reiterations of older designs dating back to the late 1940s, reflect the brand's homage to time-honoured traditions.
Guests to the exclusive event were given the opportunity to have any Gucci product they owned monogrammed by the artisans. Clients who purchased items during the event also received a personal letter from Frida Giannini, thanking them for their purchase.
Gucci will continue to host their artisans at The Dubai Mall boutique today to provide customers a unique insight into the old-world production of the brand's accessories. The craftsmen will then be stationed for similar events in Kuwait and Qatar later this month.
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It started in late September during the final load of "my-mom's-coming-to-visit-better-get-things-clean-including-rugs" laundry. I put the last load of wash in and headed into the shower. When I came out I was met with a pile of drenched, semi-cleaned rugs and an inch of water on the laundry room floor. By rerunning the load I immediately saw what was happening: as water went into the basin it immediately filtered out onto the floor.
Over the weekend I called a washer repairman. After describing to them the issue they theorized that it was a bad water pump and estimated that the cost of fixing the washer would be $150. This was the washer and dryer set that the previous owners had left us (thank you!), and they had lasted us two years while we recovered financially from a down payment on our home, a few renovations, and paying off all of our non-mortgage debt. While repairing would be the cheapest option, these machines are definitely older and we thought it was not best to sink money into them.
This led us to somewhere I had not been since my post-college, first apartment days: the Laundromat. Back in 2005 I had this great routine that really optimized my time on Saturday or Sunday afternoons. I would put two loads of wash in simultaneously, read a magazine, then as soon as I switched them over to the dryer I would go directly next door and grocery shop. By the time I was finished at the grocery store my loads were dry. I folded them, lugged everything out to the car and called it a day. How nice and simple! Now our routine is different though. Over the last month and a half Paul and I have rotated turns at the Laundromat, typically on Sunday afternoons. I've had a lot of time to think in the Laundromat, and thought I would share these thoughts with you from the perspective of an outsider (i.e. previous owner of a washing machine).
Laundromat Economics
First off, Laundromats seem to be one of the great equalizers as far as time is concerned. I saw both single people with their over-the-shoulder laundry sack as well as large families with several filled trash cans rolling behind them both get their laundry done within the same time frame because of being able to simultaneously use 1-5 (or more) machines. Aside from getting bogged down during the folding phase, this seems to be quite a time saver for large families.
However, in my opinion the costs of using a Laundromat are substantial. Here is how this Laundromat's costs broke down:
- Largest Washer: 14 quarters, or $3.50
- Triple Loaders: 10 quarters, or $2.50
- Regular Loads (a bit smaller than our washer at home): 4 quarters, or $1.00
- Dryer: 1 quarter for 8 minutes
In my old Laundromat days, I used to pay $3.50 per week (I remember trying to think of how to save money on this cost even back then!). For us to do our two loads per week as well as to dry them it averaged us $10.00—this is an average because it depended on the type of machine that was available. It would have been extremely cheaper to use the $1 machine that is roughly the size of ours at home (it is smaller, but I was okay with cramming); however, there were only six of these machines and they were constantly in use (for obvious reasons). We eventually minimized the $10.00 per week to around $5-$7 by just washing the clothes at the Laundromat and then using our dryer at home.
Another high cost is forgetting your soap, which at $8.00 for XXX ounces, is a hot commodity here. We forgot the soap one time and after I saw the price (and gasped!) I drove the one mile home to pick up my own.
Losing Money, Literally
I think they are running some sort of scheme with their machines as there are many without signs of "Out of Order" that will eat your change and the manager—the only person who would have a key to the coin box for the machine—is conveniently never around. Every single week, without fail, I lost money inside of a machine. And every week, without fail, I was denied a refund. Sometimes it was user error, like when I got to watch $2.50 swooshing around in an empty triple front loader because I put the money in first and the machine locked up and did its business. Regardless, I thought it was poor customer service on their part to put us out about $5.50. Fortunately for us there was a learning curve and by last week I only test-drove 1 quarter before realizing I was at a machine that would not work.
New Washer/Dryer, or Laundromat?
Over the entire month I estimate that we spent $30 on our laundry. If we had not used our own dryer, that would have been approximately $40, or $480 for the year. There is water and electricity (or gas) use for running a washer and a dryer as well, but it appears that you could purchase a new set and be paid back within two years (if you do two loads a week), or sooner if you have a larger family. For example, some of the families at the Laundromat were using 5 washers at once; at five loads of laundry per week (estimated at $80+ per month), their investment would be paid off in less than a year. Every year afterwards would be a nice return on the investment. And of course it is always much more convenient to own your own set. Before the washer broke down, I had a great routine of laundry on Friday mornings (I work a compressed Monday-Thursday schedule). It was almost a mental obstacle to figure out when to go to the Laundromat, pack everything up, and to actually do it.
In the end, we decided unanimously to purchase a new or new-used washer and dryer (the dryer is not going to last more than a year as sometimes I have to repeat half the time to get our clothes dry). To our local money-eating Laundromat, it's been real. Sorry, but you've lost yourself another customer to the home washing machine.
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You can read more about Mr. Luskin's law review article here.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. - Little Amy Mickelson stood on her tiptoes to reach up and hug her husband, Phil. They held the embrace for a few beats, awash in mournful fatalism.
It was as if something died.
Well, it did.
For the first time in 20 years, neither Mickelson nor Tiger Woods will play on the weekend at the Masters. Between them, they won seven of the previous 17 tournaments played at Augusta National, but their bodies are failing them.
With very little pomp, the circumstance atop the golf world has transformed. Quietly, the guard changed.
Tiger and Phil no longer can be considered the sports royalty. Yes, each finished in the top six in two majors last year, with Phil winning the British Open. Tiger won five times last year. Phil won twice on the PGA Tour and once in Scotland.


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A quote you may enjoy:
We may have no wish to grow up, to grow old, to become the senior citizens, the elders of the tribe, and yet there is this law that bears us forward continuously in time. We may have no wish to die, and yet there is this necessity. Mary Caroline Richards in "The Vessel and the Fire" in Evolution of Consciousness: Studies in Polarity, ed Shirley Sugerman, 1976, p 215
:- Doug.


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Dakota Pastore scored eight goals and chalked two assists to help Somerville defeat Delaware Valley, 13-9, in Frenchtown.
Kyanna Pastore scored three goals with one assist for Somerville while Riley Stanford and Katy Loughlin each scored once.
Lilly Pearce head a team-high three goals for Delaware Valley while Caroline Vath and Kristen Cath each scored twice.