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In conjunction with African Heritage Month and its theme this year, 'Rising Stars: Celebrating our Youth', the Kentville and Area African Education Committee paid special recognition at a Feb. 22 celebration event in New Minas to seven members of the local African Nova Scotia community for their contributions. The honourees included, from left, in front, lawyer Paul Walter and long-time community activist Geraldine Browning. In back are Devon Adams, Department of Community Services staff member and community volunteer; student Janelle Sampson; businesswoman Shay Rafuse; Linda Murree, a counsellor at Chrysallis House; and author Juanita Pleasant.
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March 4
• Pancake Supper – held by Pine Ridge Middle School Concert Band, supported by the Greenwood Scotiabank, at the Aylesford United Church (2414 Hwy 1) 4:30-6 p.m. Freewill offering at the door. Info: 765-7570.
• Shrove Tuesday - pancake supper, 4:30-6:30 p.m., at the Waterville fire hall, freewill offering for Hardwood Lake Girl Guide Camp.
• Pancakes - All Saints' A.C.W. annual Shrove Tuesday supper, 4:30-6 p.m., at the All Saints' Church Hall, Pleasant Street, Kingston. $10 family rates, take out available.
• Meeting – of the Wolfville and Area Newcomers', 7:30 p.m., doors open 7 p.m., at the Wolfville Farmers' Market Building. Speaker Robert Shears
• Pancake Supper - 4:30-6:30 p.m., St. James United Church, Hantsport. Freewill offering, all proceeds going to Hantsport and LE Shaw school breakfast programs.
• Sausage and Pancake Supper - 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., St. John's Anglican Church Hall, Port Williams, $7 for adults and $4 for children.
• Pancake Supper - 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Christ Parrish Hall, Windsor. Adults $7, children 12 and under $3.50. Info: 790-6173
March 5
• KCA Family Movie Night - 6 p.m. in cafeteria, doors open at 5:30. Bring a camp chair and blanket, canteen available. Freewill donation at the door to the PTA. Parents required to stay with children. Open to the public.
March 6
• Course - New Beginnings Christian Ministries is sponsoring a Christian growth and inner healing course, 7 p.m., at the New Beginnings Center, Greenwood.
March 7
• World Day of Prayer Service - 7 p.m. at Bethany Memorial Baptist Church, Aldershot Road. Guest speaker Rev. Elias Mutale, guest soloist Nancy Armstrong
March 8
• Kentville Legion Breakfast - 7:30-10 a.m. at the Legion Hall. Adults $6, children 12 and under $3.
• Kentville Legion Dance - 9:30 p.m., 19 and over, $6 per person. Music by Rte. 12
• Breakfast – held by New Beginnings Greenwood, 9 a.m., at the Aurora Inn, Kingston.
• Spring Tune-Up Show – held by Annapolis Valley Bluegrass and Oldtime Music Association, 7 p.m., at the Windsor Legion. Tickets $20, available From Brian Hazlett, Bill Dempsey or Moe`s Music. Proceeds to the community.
• Hardy Breakfast - 7:30-10:30 a.m. at the Monsonic Hall, Mill St., Berwick. Adults $6, children $3. Wheelchair accessible.
• Forest Hill Baptist Church Brunch - 10 a.m. to noon at the church, $8 per serving. There will be a bake table. Marion Gertridge, 542-5914
March 10
• Valley Gardeners Club - will meet, 7:30 p.m., in Room 2101 at the Kingstec Campus of NSCC in Kentville. Speaker Duncan Keppie, owner/operator of a nut orchard.
• Registration – for Your Way to Wellness spring program at White Rock Community Centre, Kingston Town Hall, Kentville Kingstec, Fundy YMCA, Cornwallis. Info: Megan MacNeil, 538-1315 or firstname.lastname@example.com
March 11
• Luncheon - Kingston Lions noon luncheon, 12-1 p.m. $8 at the door, $8.50 delivered. Deliveries must be ordered by 10:30 a.m. on the 11th. Phone 765-2128 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
• Teen Autism Social Group – Will meet March 11, 18 and 25, for youth ages 12-19 or 20 plus if still in high school with autism spectrum disorder, at Sobey's Greenwood community room. $40 for eight weeks or $5 per session. Info: Karen at 765-3502 email@example.com or Sandy at firstname.lastname@example.com
March 12
• Coffee Party – held by Kentville & Area Women's Connection, 9:30 a.m., at the Berwick Lions Club Hall $8. Speaker Shirley McNally, music Mary Anne Doherty-Fleet, featuring Nancy Henry and Lana Churchill. Contact Barb 678-0466 before March 9 for reservations
• Networking - Valley Women's Business Network March meeting, 7-9 p.m., at King's Riverside Court (upstairs), 125 Webster Street, Kentville. Sharon Cochrane will explore some dos and don'ts of contracts. Free to VWBN members and first-time guests, $5 at the door for returning guests. Networking at 7 p.m. for a 7:30 start.
March 15
• Wolfville Lion's Breakfast – 7-10 a.m., Elm Avenue, Wolfville. Adults $6, children 10 and under $3. Proceeds for community projects.
• Coldbrook Lion's Breakfast – 8-10:30 a.m. Adults $5, children three to 12 $3 and under three years free.
• Coldbrook Lion's Dance - 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. $6 per person. Music by Rte 12.
• Dance - Kitchen Kuties relay team are holding a dance 9 p.m. at the Middleton Lions Hall in Nictaux Falls. Band is Jokers Right, $25 per couple. Tickets at the door or by calling Susan at 825-4617.
• Good Neighbour Club Breakfast – 7-10:30 a.m. at the Centreville Community Hall. Freewill offering.
• Soup Luncheon - St. Patrick's Day Soup Luncheon, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Kings Presbyterian Church, New Minas. Freewill offering.
• St. Patrick's Day Breakfast – held by Scott's Bay Community Hall Association, 8 to 10 a.m. $6 for adults, children 12 and under $3. Proceeds to the hall association for upkeep. Info: Jerry at 582-7489 or Hope at 582-3603.
• Autism Bowl-a-Thon – held by Annapolis Valley Chapter of Austism Nova Scotia, 2 to 5 p.m. at the Greenwood Bowling Centre, 14 Wing Greenwood. Info: 375-3031 or firstname.lastname@example.com
March 16
• St. Patrick's Day Supper – 4-6 p.m., at the Forties Community Centre, New Ross. Adults $11, under 12 $6, under five $3. Doors open at 4 p.m., serving starts at 4:30 p.m. 689-2612
• Music - Lockhartville Hall, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Music by Dave Guptill, special guest Barb Crowell Robinson, special appearance Robin Macumber and son Matthew. $5 at the door, small nickel auction, lunch $2.
March 19
• Meeting - annual general meeting of the Horton Community Centre Association, 7:30 p.m. at the Centre, Grand Pre. Info: 542-3150
Jam sessions
Tuesdays Jams, 7 p.m., at Windermere Hall Admission $2. Lunch at 8:30 p.m.
Wednesdays - 7 p.m., Brickton Community Hall, 12062 Hwy # 1. Admission $2, includes refreshments. Info: 765-6821 or 665-2073.
Wednesdays 7:15 p.m. Stoney Hill Baptist Church, Lockhartville. Refreshments. Free will offering.
Thursdays Cambridge Community Centre. 7 p.m. Bring your favorite treats and sweets for a lunch. Free coffee and tea. Admission: freewill
Thursdays 7 p.m. Windemere Hall. $2 admission. Lunch served.
Friday fun nightCountry and western music downstairs, Kentville legion. Member and guests welcome, no admission. 8-11:30 p.m.
Fridays Wolfville Legion Jam Session, admission $2. Proceeds to Legion. Call Vera 542-0501
Are you currently unemployed? We offer employment counselling services for people with disabilities. Call Community Inc., 679-7469.
Mondays at theNew Minas Volunteer Fire Department
Wednesdaysmerchandise bingo, Meadowview Development Centre, Brooklyn Street, Kentville. Games start at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday nights Forties Community Centre, New Ross. 7:30 p.m. 1/2 take games.
The second and fourth Friday of every month. Kentville New Horizons Seniors Club, 350 Main St. Club opens at 1 p.m. for 1:30 p.m. Prizes and refreshments, $2.
Thursdays Merchandise Bingo, West Brooklyn Hall. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., mini games start at 6:45, regular games at 7:45 p.m. Giant bingo the last Saturday of each month. Doors open 11 a.m., mini games start at 12:45.
Fridays at theNew Minas Volunteer Fire Department
Quilt, sew, knit
Tuesdays Time For All Things Community charity group meets the second and fourth Tuesday monthly at the South Berwick Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All welcome to tie quilts, sew, knit, bring your project. All items for local charities. Sponsored by Kings West Women's Institutes. Info: Thelma 538-8757.
Card parties
Mondays Cribbage, Coldbrook Community Heritage Hall, Lovett Road, Coldbrook, 7 p.m.
Mondays Cambridge Community Centre, 7:30 p.m. Auction 45s. Admission, $2.
Mondays Forties Community Centre, New Ross. Beginning Oct. 1. 7:30 p.m., lunch served.
Tuesdays White Rock Community Hall card parties, 7:30 p.m. 45s. $3 admission. Lunch provided. Prizes.
Tuesdays Cribbage, Berwick legion. 7 p.m.
Tuesdays Hall's Harbour fire hall. 7:30 p.m.
Tuesdays (except third Tuesday of month) at Morristown Community Centre, 1:30 p.m. $2
Wednesdays Nicholsville, auction 45s at 8 p.m. 413 Victoria Road, Nicholsville. Everyone welcome.
Wednesdays 45s card party, Somerset Hall Community. 7:30 p.m.
Wednesdays Starting 45s and cribbage from7 to 9 p.m. Northville Farm Heritage Centre, 1158 Steadman Rd. Refreshments. Info: firstname.lastname@example.com
or 670-9504.
Wednesdays Cribbage at Berwick Lions' hall. 7 p.m.
Wednesdays Crib at Windermere Hall, 7 p.m. No partner needed.
Thursdays Aylesford East Community Centre. 8 p.m. Admission $2.
Wednesdays Card Parties (both 45s and cribbage) at the Northville Farm Heritage Centre, 7-9 p.m., starting Nov. 7.
Thursdays Windermere Hall. 45s card party, 7:30 p.m. $2. Lunch served.
Fridays Chase the Ace, Berwick Legion, $5, draw 7 p.m.; supper served 5-7 p.m., $5.
Saturdays Kentville New Horizons Seniors Club, 350 Main St., Kentville. First and third Saturday of every month. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Prizes and refreshments. Admission: $2.
Saturdays Rebekah Hall, Cottage Street, Berwick. Card party starts at 7:30 p.m. Prizes and refreshments. $2.
Saturdays, 7 p.m., at the Louis Millet Complex, room 117, $2.


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We already have
-Pack n Play for our master bedroom with the newnorn napper & changing table.
-Travel System ... Carseat & Stroller
-Changingtable/Dresser & Pad
-Crib & Mattress
& numerous other small things..
I really feel like we would be completely ready if he came tomorrow, except maybe clothes, but family members would help ASAP with that I am sure if he came early.
I am just my husbands family isnt upset that by the time my baby shower (that they planned late January) we wont need much of anything.
I feel like they believe I am overly anxious.. I dont think so, I just feel that it is best for us to take care of essential needs instead of waiting just a few weeks before he is born to find out we need a few hundred $ worth of things on top of the normal emergency store runs we will have to make when he arrives (or my husband will be making) lol... & I have found even with a registry with an average amount of items we have still received many things were not on the registry.

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Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet
December 11, 2012
º Imagine There's No Fracking...
º Stock Up on Stuffers!
º 10 DIY Gifts for the Family
º Nine Reasons to Feel Hopeful
º Help Stop the Wolf Slaughter
Give the Gift of Adventure
Still looking for that perfect holiday gift? Consider presenting your special someone with a Sierra Club Outings gift certificate, good toward any of our unique and affordable adventures.
Better yet, keep an eye out for our full list of 2013 trips -- including more than 300 unique and affordable options -- which will be ready for reservations Monday, December 17. Whether you're seeking lodge-based family outings, rugged backpack journeys, or something in-between, you can be sure to find it right here.
Until then, browse the more than 150 current adventures on our brand new website at Sierra Club Outings.
10 DIY Gifts for the Family
Feeling overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping? Making gifts for your family is a whole lot more fun and more personal. Not to mention all the green you'll save, monetarily and environmentally speaking. Whether you're a master crafter or a newbie, check out our list of homemade gifts that will put a smile on anyone's face.
Photo: Lori Eanes
Help Stop the Wolf Slaughter
Last Thursday, Yellowstone National Park lost an iconic wolf, the female alpha of her pack and a loving mother. She was shot and killed by a hunter when she briefly strayed from the park.
How did this happen? Earlier this year, Wyoming's wolves lost their Endangered Species Act protection, and Wyoming announced that it would allow wolf hunting on lands bordering Yellowstone for the first time in decades.
But we're going to keep fighting for wolves, and we need your help. Join us in stopping the wolf slaughter by donating to our work to protect wildlife like Yellowstone's wolves.
We Bet You'll Love This Bike
Want to get around in style? The Sierra Club has worked with PUBLIC, a maker of European-style street bicycles, to produce a limited-edition, custom color, Sierra Club-themed bike. Bicycles can be ordered online from publicbikes.com and shipped "ready to ride" anywhere in the continental U.S.
If you want one, though, you'll need to order yours by December 25 -- and if you join the Sierra Club, you'll receive a 10 percent discount on your bike with promo code SIERRACLUB.
Show your eco-pride with your ride!
Two Big Cities Tackle One Big Challenge
Last week, the Sierra Club took part in landmark climate change events in the nation's two largest cities. In New York, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune shared the podium with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Vice-President Al Gore in a discussion about how climate change and Superstorm Sandy are reshaping New York City's future.
In Los Angeles, Sierra Club President Allison Chin spoke at a press conference and signing ceremony at which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa agreed to purchase enough solar energy from the Moapa Paiute tribe's planned solar project in Nevada to power over 100,000 L.A. homes.
Read more about how the country's two biggest burgs are combatting climate disruption.
Imagine There's No Fracking...
Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Artists Against Fracking took out a full-page ad in the December 10 New York Times calling on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking and "give clean energy a chance."
The print ad, which features the Sierra Club logo, includes a Twitter handle and hashtag for contacting Governor Cuomo, and the online version includes a petition for people to tell the governor, "Please don't frack New York."
Earlier this fall, Ono and Lennon paid for a huge "Imagine there's no fracking..." billboard on a major New York City expressway.
Nine Reasons to Feel Hopeful
As we look back at 2012, we're reminded of how many times we have looked to the natural world for rejuvenation. The contributors to the Daily Ray of Hope e-newsletter know that a beautiful nature photograph has the power to brighten any day.
To celebrate a year in fabulous photos, we've compiled the 2012 Highlights slideshow. We hope these images will inspire you to keep exploring the outdoors... and bring your camera.
Photo: Ronnie Goyette
Tell Us What You're Doing to Protect the Planet
On December 6, the mayors of Los Angeles and New York both talked about visionary ways to address climate disruption. But across the nation, thousands of us are already doing our part to protect the planet.
Check out this interactive map showcasing what Americans are doing in their cities, schools, and neighborhoods -- and while you're there, add your own efforts!
Stock Up on Stuffers!
This year, support the Sierra Club when you shop for stocking stuffers! For the outdoor enthusiast or everyday explorer, we have Sierra Club socks made in the U.S. from recycled and organic cotton. Or consider pampering family and friends with lotions, lip-balms and other natural health and home products from Pharmaca, and the Sierra Club will receive a portion of the proceeds. Join the Sierra Club today to receive members-only offers on these and other products.
Check out all your member benefits here.
Spokane Speaks Out Against Coal Exports
Eight hundred people turned out in Spokane to one of seven public hearings being held across Washington State to get community input on coal-export terminals proposed for the Washington and Oregon coasts.
More than 60 trains a day carrying coal in open cars will pass through Spokane's neighborhoods if the terminals are built. Spokane residents gave the terminals and coal trains a resounding thumbs-down.
"You kicked butt!" a Spokane city councilman told the local Sierra Club organizer after the hearing. Seattle, Portland, and a growing number of Pacific Northwest cities have passed resolutions opposing the coal-export boondoggle.


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Producer Wyck Godfrey reveals the first part will cover the wedding, the honeymoon and the birth.
Soon after it was announced that the last "Twilight" film will be split into two parts, there have been many speculations about the split point. Now, producer Wyck Godfrey has clearly addressed the issue, giving some clues to what people can expect to be seen in "The Twilight Saga's Breaking Dawn Part I" as well as "The Twilight Saga's Breaking Dawn Part II".
"We basically want to take the audience through the emotional part of Bella's journey as she becomes a vampire. The first part will cover the wedding, the honeymoon and the birth," he says in an interview with USA Today. In fact, [SPOILER ALERT!] the film will end just before Bella embarks on her supernatural transformation.
The filmmaker goes on explaining how they will maintain PG-13 rating for the next installment despite the torturous birth process. "She is looking through the haze, experiencing pain and everything rushing around her. We only see what she sees," Godfrey says, revealing that the bloody, bone-crushing delivery will be seen only through Bella's eyes.
And although Bella and Edward's physical relationship reaches a higher level than what was shown in the first three films, the upcoming movie will not present adult scenes. He affirms, "It does not become soft porn. It is a legitimate and important part of the movie, romantic and sensual."
On what is compelling from the first part of "Breaking Dawn", Godfrey teases, "There are the pangs of newlywed tension that occur that are relatable even in a fantasy film. Marriage is not quite the experience that they thought it was." Meanwhile, "the second half is more of an action film in terms of life-and-death stakes."
To those wondering whether Bill Condon, who previously directed "Dreamgirls", will insert a musical number to "Breaking Dawn", Godfrey can assure it won't happen. He says there might be traditional dancing at the wedding, before joking "We just had a whole line of actors marching toward the camera. We could have them practice a chorus line with vampires doing kicks."
"Breaking Dawn Part I" will storm out in U.S. theaters on November 18, 2011. Summit will later release "Breaking Dawn Part II" on November 16, 2012.


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Employment Law
Employment Law Questions? Ask an Employment Lawyer.
Hello I am a licensed attorney here to help you with your question, please review my response and do not hesitate to ask for clarification
This is a common issue,
Under the law,
A job title or classification alone is not enough to make an employee exempt. Further, the fact that an employee is salaried instead of paid based on an hourly wage is also not enough to automatically classify the employee as exempt, although this is a common misconception. Instead, when determining how a worker should be classified, the FLSA indicates that employers should consider the actual circumstances surrounding the employment and the job duties performed.
yes, under the law
just wanting to have a better understanding on this topic
There are three main types of exempt employees. To fall under the executive exemption, for instance, the employee must be paid a salary instead of an hourly wage. The employee must also be vested with the primary duty of managing either the business enterprise or a subdivision or department thereof. The executive must regularly and customarily control or direct at least two other employees. He or she must also have authority to hire, fire or promote employees, or have a great deal of input into the hiring, firing, and promotion of workers.
The main requirements you should know is that only salary employees, performing high level work can be considered exempt from overtime,
Managers, Supervisors, Executives, and Professionals who are paid a set salary would be typically exempt employees,
How is this example figure, you are the manager and over see over 8 employees in an hour, as you phase them out they are all gone and now I'm working their job. How is this figure?
it will depend on your duties,
if your primary duties are still as a manager, you would be exempt,
how is that figure?
if you are now doing non managerial duties, and are performing duties an hourly non exempt employee would do,
you would then be non exempt
I do all the managerial duties, plus do both for over 50% of the time. How would this be determine?
to qualify as an exempt executive under the standard test for the executive exemption, an employee must have as his or her primary duty the management of the enterprise in which the employee is employed or of a customarily recognized
The regulations (29 C.F.R. §541.700(a)) define "primary duty" as "the principal, main, major or most important duty that the employee performs." The rules continue that "[d]etermination of an employee's primary duty must be based on all the facts in a particular case, with the major emphasis on the character of the employee's job as a whole."
According to the rules, factors to consider when determining an employee's primary duty include, but are not limited to:
An employee whose primary duty is nonexempt will be nonexempt even if he also performs significant exempt duties. By the same token, an employee whose primary duty is exempt will be exempt under the FLSA even if she also performs significant nonexempt duties. (Note, however, that this may not be true in some states, which require an exempt employee to devote 80 percent of his or her time to exempt duties.)
FLSA regulations (29 C.F.R. §541.700(b)) state that the amount of time spent performing exempt work can be a useful guide in determining whether exempt work is the primary duty of an employee, but it is not conclusive. Employees who spend more than 50 percent of their time performing exempt work will generally satisfy the primary duty requirement under the FLSA. However, the regulations state expressly that nothing in the rules requires that exempt employees spend more than 50 percent of their time performing exempt work. Employees who do not spend more than 50 percent of their time performing exempt duties may nonetheless meet the primary duty requirement of an exemption if other factors support such a conclusion.
The law is clear,
you have to determine how many hours you work the non manager duties,
So as long as you are still in charge of managerial duties plus doing doing the duties you over see doesn't count as non exempt because I'm still the manager on duty. Is this correct?
If you spend the majority of your time as a manager, you would be exempt,
If the majority of your duties are not as a manager, you should be paid overtime
I do all the managerial duties by 3 hours then I'm doing the work (we would also paid someone to do as an hourly employee during certain times) and the rest of the 7.5 hours is doing this work. This would be non-exempt?
if you spend 7.5 hours working in a non manager position and only 3 hours as a manager, you have a strong case your primary duties are not as a manager and should be non exempt
Well, I getting paid 80% as other employees doing my work according to a internet site
We are being ask to do cut even more now
I'm just want to know some of my rights if they decide to terminate my job
As I understand the law in a right to work state they can just let me go for just about anything
But if this happen I want to get unemployment until I can find another job
What could I tell them about this practice of having me work over 50% of the time to force them not to block me getting unemployment?
they can terminate you for any reason,
however you can file a wage complaint,
Well, what even they make up really
how would you go about filing a wage complaint?
for the unpaid overtime, you can file a state wage claim now as well
You can file the wage complaint with the State labor board above,
this would be for overtime,
well, this company did let go my assistant last Jan. and they paid his for 14 weeks, plus let him file for unemployment. But you never know what they will do this time.
if you feel they may be trying to terminate you, consider filing the wage complaint,
and they may offer you a nice severance to avoid the labor issues
We have not gotten any better for the most part, I'm just trying to be prepare if they decide to let me go. It sad, I've work for this company for over 30 years now.
is there any other advise or topic I can study some
that is unfortunate,
you may want to hire a local attorney to send them a letter advising them you may file a labor complaint for the unpaid overtime, and see if the try to work out a settlement with you
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Style For Every Size: Ashley Madekwe's Perfect Summer Uniform
Confession: I didn't know who Ashley Madekwe was until I Googled her (Aha! She's in "Revenge"!), but I do know a perfect summer outfit when I see one, and this cutoffs and slouchy striped t-shirt combo she wore recently is just about as perfect as they come. This cute, casual outfit would look so good on women of every shape and size, so I found two version of it that range in size from XS to 3X (as well as a more affordable version of that $1700 McQueen Union Jack clutch she's carrying). Read on for shopping details!
Outfit on the left:
Slouchy Stripe T-Shirt: $40, Superdry (sizes XS – L)
Cutoff Shorts: $79, J.Crew (waist sizes 24-32)
Outfit on the right:
Cutoff Shorts: $25, Torrid (sizes 12-26)
Drape Neck Stripe T-Shirt: $33, Macy's (sizes XL -3X)
Union Jack clutch: $88, Accessorize


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Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject.
Shakespeare and Text is an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the very foundation of his work, explaining how his plays first took shape in the theatre where writing was part of a larger collective enterprise. As the resulting manuscripts are virtually all lost, the account then turns to the early modern printing industry that produced the earliest surviving texts of Shakespeare's plays. It describes the roles of publisher and printer, the controls exerted through the Stationers' Company, and the technology of printing. A chapter is devoted to the book that gathered Shakespeare's plays together for the first time, the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare and Text goes on to survey the major developments in textual studies over the past century. It builds on the recent upsurge of interest in textual theory, and deals with issues such as collaboration, the instability of the text, the relationship between theatre culture and print culture, and the book as a material object. Later chapters examine the current critical edition, explaining the procedures that transform early texts in to a very different cultural artefact, the edition in which we regularly encounter Shakespeare.
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His French Open title defense nearing an end, Novak Djokovic stumbled and tumbled to his knees on the red clay, his racket flying from his right hand as his opponent's backhand zipped past.
Even Djokovic found it hard to fathom how far he's fallen, only a year removed from leaving Roland Garros as a player nonpareil, the first man in nearly a half-century to win four consecutive Grand Slam titles.
That he departed this time with a surprisingly lopsided 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-0 quarterfinal loss to sixth-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria on Wednesday left everyone, including Djokovic, pondering the answers to difficult questions.
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President Ephraim Katzir officially asked Likud leader Menachem Begin today to form a new government. In undertaking the task, Begin announced that he would attempt to persuade the Labor Alignment to join Likud in a national unity government. Failing that, he will nevertheless form a government and present his Cabinet to the Knesset for approval within three weeks, Begin said during a brief ceremony at the President's residence.
Begin, who will meet with Premier Yitzhak Rabin Thursday to discuss the transfer of power, disclosed he will also meet with Labor Alignment leader Shimon Peres this week to try to convince him to join an all-party coalition. He said that Likud and the Labor Alignment were in agreement on basic issues such as their objection to a Palestinian state, refusal to withdraw to Israel's 1967 borders and their opposition to PLO participation in any negotiations for a Mideast peace settlement. Begin said he was aware of differences that exist between his party and Labor but he felt that an agreement could be reached between them.
Israeli law gives Begin 21 days to form a government and an additional 21 days if needed. Should he be unable to establish a government within the 42-day limit, the law requires the President to assign the task to another Knesset member, most probably the leader of the second largest party. But Begin is convinced that he can put together a majority Cabinet well within the deadline. Likud, and Gen. Ariel Sharon's Shlomzion movement which merged with it last week will control 45 seats in the next Knesset. If Moshe Dayan, who has left the Labor Party but retains his Knesset seat, joins Likud, it will have 46 votes plus 12 from the National Religious Party (NRP) which is considered virtually certain to join a Likud-led government. It could pick up four more from the Agudat Israel which has agreed to join a coalition subject to approval by its Council of Sages.
That would give Likud a slim majority of 62 votes in the next Knesset. But Likud circles expressed confidence today that Prof. Yigael Yadin's Democratic Movement for Change (DMC) will agree to join the coalition adding 15 Knesset seats for a comfortable government majority of 77. Likud and the DMC resumed their negotiations today. (See separate story Page 3)
One of the stumbling blocks is Begin's nomination of Dayan to be Foreign Minister, a portfolio sought by the DMC. Political circles believe that Begin will have his way and that the DMC will be mollified by offering Yadin the chairmanship of a senior ministerial committee on foreign affairs and defense.
Begin has still another problem with respect to Leon Dulzin of Likud's Liberal Party wing who had expected to be named Foreign Minister. It was learned today that Begin has proposed that Dulzin be given the rank of Deputy Premier and in addition, receive the portfolio of a new Ministry for Jewish Nation Affairs that would put him in charge of immigration and absorption.
If Likud has its way, it will hold eight Cabinet portfolios, including the key ministries. The Herut wing will receive four, including one reserved for Gen. Sharon, the Liberals three and the State List one.


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I could go on and on about all the great people I know on MyIGN, but this blog would be WAAAYYY too long! If I didn't mention you, please do not be offended, I mean no harm. Thanks everyone, I hope to see you all back here for 200!
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Vatsavayai, Sarat C.; Dallerac, Glenn M.; Milnerwood, Austen J.; Cummings, Damian M.; Rezaie, Payam; Murphy, Kerry P.S.J. and Hirst, Mark C.
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Transgenic models representing Huntington's disease (HD) have proved useful for understanding the cascade of molecular events leading to the disease. We report an initial characterisation of a novel transgenic mouse model derived from a spontaneous truncation event within the R6/1 transgene. The transgene is widely expressed, carries 89 CAG repeats and the animals exhibit a significantly milder neurological phenotype with delayed onset compared to R6/1. Moreover, we report evidence of progressive somatic CAG expansions in the brain starting at an early age before an overt phenotype has developed. This novel line shares a common genetic ancestry with R6/1, differing only in CAG repeat number, and therefore, provides an additional tool with which to examine early molecular and neurophysiological changes in HD.
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Healthy or not, the Dallas Mavericks head into the Staples Center in Los Angeles tonight to take on the Lakers. They will do so without starting forward and center Dirk Nowitzki and Chris Kaman.
The Mavs will have to depend on Brandan Wright, who is starting at center, to help contain the Lakers loaded frontcourt of Paul Gasol and Dwight Howard. It is literally a tall task to say the least.
Dallas will also have to depend on Darren Collison to play big and slow down Steve Nash. The Mavs waived backup point guard Delonte West on Monday.
Kobe Bryant was questionable earlier today, but will play in tonight's game.
The game can be heard locally on 103.3 ESPN Dallas.Tags: Basketball, Dallas, Dallas Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzki, Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant, NBA


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I had otoplasty surgery in 2004 and overall its good but the tips of my ears on both sides stick out. Is it possible to have just the tips of my ears pinned/sculpted back on each ear?
Can I Get Just the Tips of my Ears Pinned Back?
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Otoplasty and pinning back just the tips of the ears
This is totally possible and it will entail just creating the bend at the top of the ears. This can be done with most of the incision behind the ear and sometimes at the very top. I would go to someone really experienced in this and someone that will really listen to your needs and be patient with you in all of these aspects.
Mini-Otoplasty for tip of ears
Select areas of ears can be pinned back using cartilage suture techniques. It is not rare after many otoplasties to see the most northern (tip of the ear) or the most southern (earlobe) part of the ears to protrude more than the middle. When these areas have not been adequately addressed during the initial procedure, they can be corrected secondarily through a more limited otoplasty procedure. Often these can be done under local anesthesia in the office through a small incision on the back of the ears.
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This article was published 13/8/2014 (1074 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Next Wednesday, Aug. 20, the city will host a gathering of interested citizens at the Keystone Centre.
In a hall at the Keystone Centre, city staff will present — and listen to — ideas for a new Greenspace Master Plan. That's the plan that will guide this community's greenspace vision for the immediate future.
Greenspace is an oft-overlooked amenity in civic life. It's all the parks and playgrounds and pools and paths that turn a city from a place to function into a place to live.
People who attend next Wednesday will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive workshop that will identify greenspace needs and wants. This is the best opportunity for people to shape the master plan before a first draft is done.
The hall they'll hold this gathering in has a capacity of 140 people.
We hope it will be full to bursting.
If, however, the past is any guide, far fewer than 140 people will bother to show up. Probably fewer than 40. Possibly fewer than 14. And that's a shame.
Brandon's current Greenspace Master Plan dates from 2002. Many of the community workshops held to identify priorities at that time were done the year before. They reference — a lot — a Brandon of the 1990s. That's a city that had just come off the '97 Canada Games. A city that had just opened a Maple Leaf plant. A city where Dave Burgess was a first-term city councillor.
Brandon has grown and changed dramatically since then. Although we don't need to enumerate the ways here, so too have our recreational needs changed.
Even the city, in its media release, allows that the current plan is "outdated." Left unsaid is the fact that it expired more than two years ago, and the pressing need for a new plan was identified in 2011 in the city's original Roadmap for Growth.
Despite the fact that it is just now being gotten around to, the city still lists a new plan as a "green" item (meaning on track for completion and on budget) in its current Roadmap.
The existing, badly dated master plan still guides some city planning. The very popular new Rideau Park Spray Park opened a little more than six weeks ago but was first envisioned in 2002, although much of the planning work, of course, was far more recent.
But other items in the plan have fallen by the wayside. A "downtown greenway" was ripped out last year to make way for a new Lorne Avenue bike lane. A grid of many other bike lanes proposed in 2002 just never materialized, in particular ones planned for Dennis Street, Ninth Street, 17th Street, 25th Street, Brandon Avenue, Van Horne Avenue and Stickney Avenue.
Brandon's popular bike and walking paths still suffer from a lack of connection into the centre of the city, which those bike lanes would have helped with. They also suffer from poor connections at many places where cars rule —most pressingly at 18th Street and Maryland Avenue and at the First Street bridge.
Many other cities are beginning to treat cycling as transportation, not greenspace recreation, and the state of the art for urban bike lanes is moving forward extremely quickly. In this regard, Brandon is now a dozen years behind even its own plan.
In other respects, though, the plan has been followed quite well. Much of the envisioned recreational trails that still needed to be finished in 2002 have since been laid out and paved. Parks, playgrounds and schoolyards were updated and are still, largely, in good shape.
But there's no debating that the city is correct when it calls the plan outdated. Huge residential developments, in particular at Brandon's south fringes, have sprouted since the turn of the millennium; they'll need new consideration now for greenspace and recreation.
Neighbourhoods that may have been filled with elementary schoolkids when the last plan was crafted will now be home to families of high schoolers and university students. Recreational facilities that were appropriate in 2002 may seem juvenile today.
Climate change, too, should play a role in the new plan. What was hotly debated then is a settled question now. As we wrote in this space yesterday, the massive floods of 2011 and this year may force us to re-evaluate our relationship with the Assiniboine River — a significant part of the city's greenspace that has been dealt a double whammy of flooding.
But floods may be followed by droughts, and planning for a good greenspace will have to take both extremes into account.
Other cities, for example Chicago, are changing the types of trees they are planting, with the knowledge that a warming climate will favour different species than they have planted in the past, and that trees planted now will have to thrive in a climate 30, 40 or 100 years hence.
We are certain that every reader has their own ideas for what greenspace priorities are important. Does the city need new parks? Larger parks? Smaller, pocket parks? Wide trails? Drinking fountains? Decorative water fountains? Playgrounds? Sports facilities? Grassy areas? Flowerbeds? Trees and bushes? Paddling pools? Adult swimming areas?
What about hours of operation? Many city parks officially close at 11 p.m. — tragically early in late June when the sun is still setting at that time.
What about weddings and other private bookings? What about organized sports leagues and pickup games? What about winter use?
Do current greenspaces need better signage? More washrooms? More natural spaces? More manicured areas? More dog parks? Do they need to take safety more into account? What about the environment? What about costs and funding? Should corporate sponsors be allowed? What about private donors?
All of those and more are questions that are up for debate at Wednesday's meeting.
The plan will guide city planning for a decade (or more) and Brandonites who are interested in having their views on civic greenspace heard have a duty to attend. It's in the CKLQ Hall at the Keystone Centre, on Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 6:30 p.m.
Shall we see you there?


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When JJ Abrams' spirited reimagining of Star Trek came out in 2009 to much fanfare and acclaim, I was a real stick in the mud about it. What is with all this action and edge? These Starfleet officers are young and viral! They jump off of fast-moving objects in the clouds and then land on other fast-moving objects and keep fighting. The new films are light on the conceptual science fiction (think overly simplistic analogy to explain impossibly complex theoretical physics principles) and heavy on the fantasy action/adventure angle. And so the tradition continues with Star Trek Into Darkness.
Fans will recall that we are not in a Gene Roddenberry universe anymore. Something happened in the first movie, a wrinkle in time or whatever, and now Spock, Kirk, Uhura, Bones, Scotty, Zulu and the rest are living in an alternative history. At the start of Into Darkness, Kirk's brazen attitude saves a primitive people's planet as well as Spock's (Zachary Quinto) life from an exploding volcano in a last-minute rescue (of which this film has many). His failure to follow protocol gets Kirk (Chris Pine) dethroned from the captain's seat, but he's only out of the chair for, like, seven minutes, so don't worry. A sworn enemy of Starfleet (Benedict Cumberbatch) blew up the federation's archives in Future London and has since absconded to forbidden Klingon territory, a people who you're doubtless aware are an enemy to the human race. It's up to Kirk to figure out how to bring the fugitive to justice without starting a war or infuriating his superior officer. Bear in mind, the fugitive is a young, incredibly fit Kahn and Kahn is our sworn nemesis.
My bad attitude about the new Star Trek is mostly misplaced. The television series is a relic of an obsolete time in television history. The plots for each episode were mostly static, and the characters were prudish and stuffy. You'd have to be a hopeless Luddite who hates change to cling so vehemently to the tired past. Star Trek Into Darkness puts the action film in science fiction clothing, at least, and well done there. Unlike some directors (I'm looking at you, Lucas), Abrams doesn't overreach with insane CGI aliens. True to tradition, they are bipedal and humanoid. It's fun to see a weird fish monster in a red shirt diddling on a touch screen in the background. And there's no product placement in sight, although everyone's communication transporters look suspiciously like Motorola flip phones, so maybe I'm wrong about that.
The action sequences are thrilling, well choreographed and abundant, but none of that matters if we don't care about the fate of the characters or understand what they're fighting for. With these criteria in mind, I'd say that Into Darkness is operating at about an 80 percent success rate. It's a well-written story, inhabited by smart, funny officers. Remakes that use iconic characters are a good formula for action; it saves time on character development.
I wonder about the title. There's not very much darkness in Star Trek Into Darkness. The main themes are familiar to the canon: There's Spock's never-ending battle between matters of the head and the heart. Is it better to follow protocol or do the right thing? And yes, the enduring power of friendship.
Star Trek Into Darkness fulfills its obligation to the audience, but I hope next time Abrams digs a little deeper. Kirk is such the hero, his only flaw is cockiness, and it's hardly a flaw when he always makes the jump and his instincts are never wrong. I want to see him fall on his face. Maybe in the third movie he could mess up the mission and start an all-out war with the Klingons. Who doesn't want to see that?
Star Trek Into Darkness continues at the Carmike 13.


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A man was removed from yesterday's TNA press conference for the May 23 Tampa, Florida Impact Wrestling taping. He was making references to Florida DJ "Cowhead" and heckling Hogan about his sex tape lawsuit. The press conference was at Hogan's restaurant and featured appearances from Magnus and the Aces and Eights, who showed up to threaten TNA before "escaping via jet skis" into the water. You can read more about it here.
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Just some guy desperate for attention.
drinking cups of water the 8s sped away on their rented jet skis
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Escaped Via Jet Ski's? I just had some bad WCW Flashbacks LOL! Somebody call RoboCop.
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"Escaping via Jet Skis"
Lmao, how lame.
Lame??? Each and every one of you are lame….cowards….
Knowing Hogan it could have been a "plant" hogan is the biggest glory hound of them all. Triple H is another that just want go away, then the 5 move wonder if you put those three in a building together the building would explode with all those egos in the same place. I think TNA needs less HH and more Wrestling,let the wrestlers and their wrestling in the ring tell the story along with the promos.


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A new interpretation of spot size measurements on singly-clad single-mode fibres
C.D.Hussey and F.Martinez
By using the Petermann spot size rather than the Marcuse spot size we suggest a slight modification to the Millar method for ESI determination which will allow the three parameters necessary for the EESI to be determined. The method is particularly useful for triangular-profile fibres.
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THE deputy leader of Thurrock Council, Val Morris-Cook, has lost in her bid to become the police and crime commissioner for Essex.
Tory Nick Alston won the election following a nail-biting count in Chelmsford.
Ms Morris-Cook won the vote in Thurrock and in Harlow, but failed to win in any of the other 14 Essex districts.
Mr Alston polled 51,325 votes and was in first place, with Independent Mick Thwaites in second place, polling 40,312 votes.
But because Mr Alston failed to get 50 per cent of the vote, second preference votes were counted, making the contest a two-horse race between the Conservative and independent candidate.
Ms Morris-Cook was third after the first count, polling just under 28,000 first preference votes.
In the end, Mr Alston was declared winner, polling 62,350 votes and Mr Thwaites received 58,664.
Thurrock had the lowest turnout in Essex, with just 10.2 per cent of the electorate voting. The county turnout was 13.06 per cent.


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Eagles picked No. 2 in Sky
A new trend has started.
For years, NCAA Football Championship Subdivision power Montana was the annual pick as the team to beat in the Big Sky Conference, but for the second-straight year, Montana State and Eastern Washington University have been picked to finish 1-2.
Three-time defending Big Sky Conference football co-champion Montana State has been selected first by the media and the coaches in the polls. Eastern has been selected second, the league announced Monday (July 15) at the Summer Kickoff in Park City, Utah.
Montana State, which has finished 7-1 in the conference in each of the past three seasons and advanced to the FCS Playoffs each year, earned eight first-place votes in the coaches' poll and a total of 140 points. In the media poll, the Bobcats received 31 of 48 first-place votes and 596 total points.
Eastern garnered three first-place votes and 130 total points from the coaches. In the media poll, the Eagles earned 12 first-place votes and 566 total points.
Montana was picked third in both polls, receiving a pair of first-place votes and 111 total votes by the coaches, and three and 492, respectively, by the media. Cal Poly, which shared the 2012 league title with EWU and MSU, was picked fourth in both polls and received a first-place vote by the media. Northern Arizona is fifth in both polls and Sacramento State, which received the final first-place vote by the media, was sixth.
"I love the competition," said senior safety Allen Brown, who is EWU's player representative at the Big Sky Conference Summer Kickoff in Park City, Utah. "We compete year-in and year-out with Montana State and Montana. And it's good to see Northern Arizona and Cal Poly also competing for the title. This is a great conference with great competition."
In 2011, the Eagles were picked to win the league title after they had won the 2010 Big Sky championship and went on to win the NCAA Division I title. But an 0-4 start and a rash of injuries led to a 6-5 finish overall and 5-3 mark in the Big Sky in 2011. In 2012, the Eagles finished 11-3 overall and advanced to the semifinals of the FCS Playoffs.
A total of 48 returning letter winners are back for the Eagles, including 25 on offense, 21 on defense and two on special teams. Among the returning letter winners are seven starters on offense and five and a half on defense, as well as the school's punter and kickoff specialist. Three All-Americans (linebacker Ronnie Hamlin, cornerback T.J. Lee, offensive guard Steven Forgette) and three others who earned Freshman All-America accolades (quarterback Vernon Adams, safety Jordan Tonani and return specialist Shaquille Hill) are among the returning players.
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- In a message dated 06/30/2000 8:30:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
dbratman@... writes:
<< Diane wrote about Jordan:
> I *knew* I was in for a long haul ... He needed to take out theThe Saint Martin's Press rep who comes to my store gives me occasional
> incidental materials and "cut to the chase." >>
gossippy tidbits about Jordan, who has been getting more and more coy about
how many books there are going to be. However, the rep says the upcoming
instalment, due in November, will advance the plot considerably. A lot is
going to happen, evidently, unlike what I've heard about the last one, which
I haven't read yet (I'm waiting until the whole series is done, and hoping I
live that long). Apparently, Jordan has been getting intimations of
impatience from his fans. Let's hope so.
Meanwhile, I'm really looking forward to the new George Martin!
- On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Bill wrote:
> This was the point I was trying to make. For years after the LinBut it wasn't because fantasy, the genre, went into decline.
> Carter line ended, most of the classics he reprinted went out of print
> again. Only recently have some lesser publishers brought a few out and
> DelRey recently reprinted two Dunsanys in trade paperback.
> Being in the book selling business for 12 years now, I still feel itIndeed. As I said, the vein of classics had been tapped out: the books
> was lack of sales that persuaded the new owners not to continue it as it
> was.
had sold to those who were interested, and weren't selling many more, and
Carter was beginning to run out of top-notch work that was a) available
to reprint and b) was in the specific subgenre in which he was
interested. When I said that fantasy had not ceased to sell, I meant
fantasy in general, not those books in particular. My main point was
that they _never_ sold in large quantities to the sort of people fueling
the fantasy boom now. This had nothing to do with whether there was a
fantasy boom on or not. The Unicorn's Head books were a prestige series
for Ballantine, which never sold particularly well.
> Also the McKillip RiddleMaster books. A great time to haunt the sfThe first two Riddle Master books, having already appeared in hardcover
> section of the bookstores.
from Atheneum, came out in Del Rey paperbacks the following year, 1978.
(The third book had not yet appeared at all: it came out the next year.)
Yes, Del Rey was still publishing some good fantasy then, and it's useful
to remember that.
David Bratman
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- Bill -
You need not convince me of the startling similarities between Tolkien
and Donaldson, Eddings, etc. Nor is there any question whence these
But beyond that, a specific formula has grown up, out of this general
form, which Tolkien does not follow, and which makes him disappointing to
those who are expecting it.
Not being gifted with this mindset, it's difficult for me to describe it,
but among the stumbling-blocks which readers of this sort find in LOTR
are the very scanty and unsystematized use of magic, and the long
meandering opening section before the adventure really gets going, along
with various "slack" passages thereafter.
Don't take my word for it: ask your customers. Certainly Tolkien is still
popular among many, even the young, but you will also find many young
readers who've grown up on later fantasists and who find Tolkien very
difficult or uninteresting.
David Bratman
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- Lisa -
Since the panel description on the Chicon website reads "J.R.R. Tolkien
and C.S. Lewis are the best known of the group, but there were other
Inklings too," it seems to me that what you're really on is a Charles
Williams panel. He's the real "other" Inkling, and the only other one
who wrote fantasy, so he's the one you should focus on. And it so
happens that since our book of Williams has actually been published, I'll
bring a copy along and you can show it off on the panel.
Sayers can also be mentioned, but she was a Friend Of, not an Inkling.
The other Inklings most worth mentioning, to an audience which doesn't
want the boring scholarly blither that I'd probably contribute if I were
a panelist, are:
W.H. Lewis - CSL's brother, author of some delightful volumes on French
history of the Louis XIV period (especially _The Splendid Century_) and a
superb diarist: selections of his diaries have been published under the
title _Brothers and Friends_, and are a good picture of CSL as well as
interesting in their own right.
Nevill Coghill - a literature professor at Oxford, he specialized in
drama and directed some notable Shakespeare productions, as well as
Richard Burton's film of Marlowe's _Doctor Faustus_; but to a literary
audience he should be most noted for his fine translation of Chaucer's
_Canterbury Tales_, in the Penguin edition.
Owen Barfield - somebody other than me will have to try to boil him into
a paragraph, but essentially he was a philosopher of language whose
thought deeply influenced both Lewis and Tolkien and enriched their
work. The Barfield books to start with are _Poetic Diction_ and _Saving
the Appearances_: the latter in particular will be appreciated by anybody
who was interested by Julian Jaynes's _The Origin of Consciousness in the
Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind_. Barfield's influence on Tolkien is
well described in _A Question of Time_ by Verlyn Flieger.
Good luck!
David Bratman
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Finances, 'dream weddings' can lead to long engagements
Amanda Gooley and fiancé Andrew Faison are approaching their fifth anniversary — of being engaged.
They've had plenty of teasing from their friends about waiting so long — especially since they grew up in neighboring small towns in North Carolina and say getting married after high school or during college is "kind of what you do," says Gooley, 24.
But they aren't stalling. Even though they got engaged the summer before her sophomore year of college, Gooley and Faison, 31, both of Zebulon, N.C., aren't marrying until Aug. 4. Gooley's mother wanted her to graduate first and offered to pay for the wedding if they waited.
MORE: Nearly 40% of women today have never been married
STORY: Marriage is becoming obsolete, study finds
It was an offer they couldn't refuse. The average wedding cost $26,500 last year, the 2011 American Wedding Study by Brides magazine found. More than half of all couples do pay for their wedding and don't want to go into debt, so it takes longer to save, says Anne Fulenwider, editor in chief of Brides.
Engagements by the numbers
Average engagement length in 2011.
Of couples are engaged at least a year.
Engaged over two years.
The magazine surveyed 2,985 women engaged or married in the past year and found the average engagement in 2011 was 15.4 months; a similar survey of 17,855 brides, released last month by TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com, found an average 13.8 months. That survey found 44% of couples engaged for at least a year and 7% more than two years. Both surveys found the longest engagements (Brides 16.3 months, TheKnot.com 14.5) in 2008, when the economy was in free fall.
By Glen Wilson, Universal Studios
The Five-Year Engagement, which tracks the relationship of an engaged couple played by Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, shows how career plans and logistics can delay the nuptials.
"The more months you have, the more potential to put away the money for the wedding of your dreams," says Anja Winikka, TheKnot.com editor.
With the average age of first marriage pushing 30, couples are more self-sufficient and willing to wait for a venue, a date or enough money, says William Doherty, a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota.
"Weddings have become an expression of what's unique about the couple. It brands them," he says. "If you have to wait to have your own unique wedding, that's what you do.
"It's all part of this concern to have the perfect wedding. Rather than saying, 'Let's have the wedding we can afford,' it's 'Let's postpone the wedding, so we can afford the one we want.' "
Finances aren't the only reason couples wait. As in the new film The Five-Year Engagement, which tracks the relationship of Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, careers and logistics can and do delay the nuptials.
Jennifer Corvese, 27, and fiancé Tyler Hyde, 24, were engaged on June 5, 2010 and will be married Aug. 25. They met in 2008 in Boston, where he was visiting from Salt Lake City. Their long-distance relationship of six months stretched further when Hyde, in the Navy Reserve, was sent to Afghanistan for nine months. He came back to the USA in June 2009 and by October, they moved in together.
They planned a long engagement for several reasons, including that his family is in Utah and the wedding will be 40 minutes from their home in Cumberland, R.I.
"I told my family they could save up and make a vacation out of it," says Hyde, who works in sales. "My sister was married in Utah last August, and we would have been competing with that as well."
Says Corvese, "Being able to save for two years allows us to spend a little extra money in areas where wouldn't be able to if we had shorter engagement."
The date also was a factor. "We had five weddings (to attend) last year," she says. Now they don't have to squeeze between others' weddings.
Janine Baltar, 27, and Michele Battelli, 33, of Santa Clara, Calif., are planning a destination wedding in Italy, where his family lives. The date isn't set, but they are looking at July 2013. They met in 2009, have lived together since September 2010 and got engaged that December. "We did play with the idea of getting married a year sooner; I talked to wedding coordinators in Italy, but I was too stressed out," Baltar says.
His family is handling contacts now; in July the couple go to Italy to make decisions.
College student Chelsea Ayres, 22, of Statesboro, Ga., and her husband, Cory, 23, were engaged just over two years when they were married last month. She graduates in May: "I didn't want finals, graduation, wedding, honeymoon and moving all at one time, so we split it up and did the wedding on spring break."
Unlike many couples, they didn't live together before marriage — and still don't. He is a grad student at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
"In May I move to Indiana," Chelsea says, "and we're gettting an apartment and finally starting our life together."
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