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A weekly round-up of the latest DVD releases.
By Damon Smith
New to rent on DVD/Blu-ray
Looper (Cert 15, 113 mins, Entertainment One, Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller, also available to buy DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99/Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray £25.99)
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Pierce Gagnon, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels, Summer Qing, Frank Brennan, Garret Dillahunt.
Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is an assassin, or 'looper', who guns down hooded targets that have been sent back in time by his mob bosses in 2044 Kansas. Silver bars are strapped to the back of each target - payment for the pull of a trigger - and once Joe has incinerated the lifeless body, he stashes his spoils in the hidden floor-space of his swanky apartment. Like all loopers, Joe knows his life expectancy is finite and one day he will "close the loop" by gunning down his future self. When the time comes for Joe to kill Future Joe (Bruce Willis), he hesitates, allowing his older incarnation to escape. The race between hunter and hunted leads to a remote farmhouse, where mother Sara (Emily Blunt) and her son Cid (Pierce Gagnon) reside far from prying eyes. Looper is an ingeniously plotted thriller that exploits the gaping plot holes afforded by time travel. Writer-director Rian Johnson's script demands constant vigilance to keep track of alternate, intersecting plot threads. It's all meticulously planned and stylishly executed, realising Marty McFly's worst nightmare from the Back To The Future series by allowing a hero to co-exist with his future self in the same timeframe. The ripple effect leads to a simple yet striking flourish: wounds inflicted on a young protagonist simultaneously manifest as scars on the older self. This temporal torture allows characters to cleverly communicate with each other by scoring letters and symbols into their own flesh. Plot mechanics trump performances throughout, so Gordon-Levitt's usual intensity is muted and Willis plays to his strengths as an action man.
Rating: ****
ParaNorman (Cert PG, 88 mins, Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd, Animation/Family/Comedy/Horror/Romance, also available to buy DVD £19.99/Blu-ray & DVD Combi-pack £22.99/3D Blu-ray & DVD Combi-pack £24.99)
Featuring the voices of: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Bernard Hill, Jodelle Ferland, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, John Goodman.
Perry (voiced by Jeff Garlin) and Sandra (Leslie Mann) live in Blithe Hollow with their daughter Courtney (Anna Kendrick) and son Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who can see and communicate with the dearly departed. They are stunned when deranged Uncle Prenderghast (John Goodman) pays a surprise visit. "The witch's curse is real and you're the only one who can stop it," Prenderghast instructs Norman, who discovers he has inherited his supernatural abilities from his dotty relative. Soon after, the seven people who sent witch Aggie (Jodelle Ferland) to her doom back in 1712 rise from the grave and run amok, led by the menacing Judge (Bernard Hill). Sheriff Hooper (Tempestt Bledsoe) struggles to maintain calm so Norman joins forces with classmate Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), his buff older brother Mitch (Casey Affleck) and school bully Alvin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) to break the curse. ParaNorman is an intelligent and hilarious stop-motion 3D animation that opens with a tongue-in-cheek homage to George A Romero. Chris Butler and Sam Fell's colourful romp might be aimed at families but parents and teenagers will laugh the loudest at the sly visual gags. Young children might be slightly unnerved by severed limbs that scuttle around of their own accord but violence is cartoonish and scares are gentle. Smit-McPhee tugs heartstrings as the loner who would give anything to lose his ability to communicate with the dead. Animation bursts with vibrant colour and the attention to detail is remarkable in frenetic action scenes, especially in 3D, which is available exclusively on Blu-ray.
Rating: ****
Resident Evil: Retribution (Cert 15, 91 mins, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Action/Sci-Fi/Horror/Thriller, also available to buy DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Bingbing Li, Sienna Guillory, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Kevin Durand, Oded Fehr, Shawn Roberts.
Alice (Milla Jovovich) continues her battle against the shadowy Umbrella Corporation in the fifth instalment of the horror franchise. At the conclusion of Resident Evil: Afterlife, Alice found herself on a ship, repelling hordes of heavily armed Umbrella soldiers. The vessel explodes and Alice plummets into the icy waters below, waking some time later as a prisoner in a subterranean Umbrella facility. Ada Wong (Bingbing Li), the right-hand woman of Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts), helps Alice to escape her confinement and it transpires that the artificial intelligence known as the Red Queen has usurped Wesker as head honcho of the corporation and is already amassing forces to eradicate mankind. The only hope is for Alice, Ada and a team of soldiers led by Leon S Kennedy (Johann Urb) and Luther West (Boris Kodjoe) to battle through the virtual reality zones of the facility and shut down the Red Queen. However, the artificial intelligence controls Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), who is just as powerful as Alice. Written and directed by Paul WS Anderson, and based on the hugely popular and bloodthirsty Capcom video game series, Resident Evil: Retribution is a cacophony of digital effects and slow-motion slaughter. The gravity-defying fight sequences seem to be recycling choreography from earlier films and dialogue is excruciating, reducing conversations to one-sentence exchanges between the characters. Anderson throws in adversaries from earlier adventures to enforce the feeling that we have seen this all before. The film's final line - "This is humanity's last stand - the beginning of the end" - tees up a sixth chapter, whether we want it or not.
Rating: **
Also released
Crawlspace (Cert 18, 118 mins, Revolver Entertainment, Horror/Thriller/Action, also available to buy DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £17.99 - see below)
Darling Companion (Cert 12, 99 mins, Metrodome Distribution, Drama/Romance/Comedy, also available to buy DVD £15.99 - see below)
Detachment (Cert 15, 93 mins, G2 Pictures, Drama/Romance, also available to buy DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £19.99 - see below)
The Double (Cert 15, 94 mins, High Fliers Video Distribution, Thriller, also available to buy DVD/Blu-ray £15.99 - see below)
Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story Of 007 (Cert 12, 93 mins, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Documentary, also available to buy DVD £19.99 - see below)
Hollow (Cert 15, 91 mins, Metrodome Distribution, Horror/Thriller, also available to buy DVD £19.99 - see below)
Holy Motors (Cert 18, 111 mins, Artificial Eye, Drama/Romance/Musical, also available to buy DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £19.99 - see below)
House At The End Of The Street (Cert 15, 96 mins, Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment, Thriller, also available to buy DVD £17.99/Blu-ray £19.99 - see below)
Keep The Lights On (Cert 18, 98 mins, Peccadillo Pictures, Drama/Romance, also available to buy DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £19.99 - see below)
V/H/S (Cert 18, 111 mins, Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment, Horror/Thriller, also available to buy DVD £15.99 - see below)
New to buy on DVD/Blu-ray
House At The End Of The Street (Cert 15, 96 mins, Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD £17.99/Blu-ray £19.99, Thriller)
Jennifer Lawrence takes time out from the blockbusting Hunger Games series to play a young woman in peril in Mark Tonderai's predictable horror. Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) is still smarting from an acrimonious divorce and she moves into a new house in an idyllic rural town with her pretty daughter, Elissa (Lawrence). The family home is perfect and the locals seem lovely, then strange events begin to happen and Sarah and Elissa learn that the house next door was once a murder scene. A young woman killed her parents there and left her brother, Ryan (Max Thieriot), as the sole survivor of the carnage. Sarah is understandably reluctant to allow Elissa to forge a friendship with Ryan but her daughter is drawn to the recluse, venturing into the house stained by the blood of the past. Behind locked doors lie terrifying secrets and Elissa quickly realises that unspeakable evil lurks within her neighbourhood.
Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story Of 007 (Cert 12, 93 mins, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, DVD £19.99, Documentary)
For the past 50 years, James Bond has entertained cinema audiences with his thrilling missions around the world, clashing with villains such as Blofeld, Scaramanga and Auric Goldfinger. The latest instalment, Skyfall, has become the highest grossing film of all time at the UK box office and looks set to win at least one Oscar for Adele's theme tune. Director Stevan Riley celebrates the enduring popularity of the franchise in this feature-length documentary, which charts the history of the series from its origins in the imagination of writer Ian Fleming to the big screen, where tensions between producers Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman provided as much drama off screen as on it. Cast and crew from the various films share their memories, intercut with famous scenes and rare behind-the-scenes footage of the six Bonds - Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig - bringing the dashing secret agent to life.
V/H/S (Cert 18, 111 mins, Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD £15.99, Horror/Thriller)
Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg and Radio Silence direct this anthology of horror shorts, all loosely linked by the plot device of a rare videotape. In the framing storyline, entitled Tape 56, a mysterious client asks a small gang of petty crooks to break into the house of an old man and steal a VHS cassette. The misfits discover the owner dead, sitting in front of a television buzzing with static white noise, surrounded by hundreds of video cassettes. Without any idea which tape they should take, the thieves begin to watch the cassettes and they are greeted by graphic and apparently genuine recordings which chill them to the bone and hint at undiscovered nightmares that lurk within the house.
Holy Motors (Cert 18, 111 mins, Artificial Eye, DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £19.99, Drama/Romance/Musical)
Leos Carax's dreamlike drama sharply divided critics at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and viewers will react with similar passion or disdain to the French writer-director's surreal vision. Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) travels in the back of a stretched limousine driven by trusty chauffeur Celine (Edith Scob). The enigmatic Oscar has a busy schedule of 'appointments' to fulfil and as his car glides around the French capital, he changes into numerous costumes and latex masks to adopt the guise of a gnarly beggar, a dying paterfamilias, an expert assassin and a deformed monster who kidnaps a beautiful model called Kay M (Eva Mendes) from a fashion shoot. For his final meeting of the day, he encounters fellow chameleon Eva Grace (Kylie Minogue), who has been slipping between roles like him and greets Oscar with a heartbreaking lament as they wander through the shell of an abandoned building.
Detachment (Cert 15, 93 mins, G2 Pictures, DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £19.99, Drama/Romance)
Tony Kaye (American History X) directs this hard-hitting critique of the American education system. Carol Dearden (Marcia Gay Harden) is the principal of a Long Island school, where a drop in grades has left her position exposed. When another staff member is permanently waylaid, Carol drafts in Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody) to take control of the class until the end of term. From the moment he walks into the school, Henry is challenged by the unruly teenagers but stands his ground, winning the approval of Meredith (Betty Kaye), a gifted yet socially awkward girl. Meredith develops a crush on Henry - so too does fellow teacher Sarah (Christina Hendricks), who takes abuse from her wards to heart. Henry's focus changes when he meets teenage prostitute Erica (Sami Gayle) and offers her a place to stay for the night. A strange friendship develops between the educator and the working girl, which could potentially jeopardise his standing in the community.
Keep The Lights On (Cert 18, 98 mins, Peccadillo Pictures, DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £19.99, Drama/Romance)
Drawn from the painful personal experiences of writer-director Ira Sachs, Keep The Lights On chronicles a turbulent relationship over the course of nine years, opening in 1998 with Danish documentary film-maker Erik (Thure Lindhardt) scouting for anonymous sex in New York. One hook-up is closeted lawyer Paul (Zachary Booth), who confesses, "I have a girlfriend", then becomes a permanent fixture in Erik's topsy-turvy life. Sexual heat between the two men cools as Paul's crack habit escalates and Sachs's picture reduces to artful chapters steeped in misery.
Hollow (Cert 15, 91 mins, Metrodome Distribution, DVD £19.99, Horror/Thriller)
Emma (Emily Plumtree) and her fiance Scott (Matt Stokoe) are looking forward to their wedding day but they are acutely aware that good friends James (Sam Stockman) and Lynn (Jessica Ellerby) are not so blessed. Their relationship is faltering badly, stemming in part from James's childhood crush on Emma. When Emma's grandfather passes away, she decides to take Scott to inspect the old man's remote cottage and they invite James and Lynn to join them on the expedition into the countryside. The travellers learn about an abandoned monastery and a hollowed-out tree steeped in myth. Intrigued yet sceptical about the bloody legend, Emily, Scott, James and Lynn decide to test the supernatural power of the tree by filming events on their cameras. Alas, the two couples discover that the tall tales may not be as far-fetched as they originally thought.
False Trail (Jagarna 2) (Cert 15, 125 mins, Arrow Films, DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £17.99, Thriller)
In the 1996 Swedish thriller Jagarna, Stockholm-based police officer Erik Backstrom (Rolf Lassgard) learnt about the death of his abusive father and returned to his hometown to be reunited with his estranged younger brother, Leif (Lennart Jahkel). In grief, the siblings rebuilt bridges until Erik investigated a case of reindeer poaching and discovered evidence linking his brother to the gang of hunters. In this belated sequel, once again directed by Kjell Sundvall, Erik returns to his hometown to investigate the murder of a girl and falls foul of local hunter Torsten (Peter Stormare), who has more reasons than most to avoid the cops.
The Double (Cert 15, 94 mins, High Fliers Video Distribution, DVD/Blu-ray £15.99, Thriller)
CIA operative Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere) retired from service some time ago but he is called back into action when US senator Dennis Darden (Ed Kelly) is murdered by a shadowy assassin, whose method of slaughter bears the hallmarks of a former Soviet agent known as Cassius. Paul is paired with young FBI agent Ben Geary (Topher Grace), whose is an expert on Cassius and his bloody reign of terror. The two FBI officers follow the chain of bewildering evidence, which leads them to Cassius's loyal protege Brutus (Stephen Moyer) and Russian terrorist Bozlovski (Tamer Hassan).
Continuum - Season One (Cert 12, 450 mins, Universal/Playback, DVD £24.99, Sci-Fi/Action/Drama)
Three-disc box set comprising all 10 episodes of the Canadian sci-fi drama which originally broadcast on the Syfy channel. Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) is a City Protective Services (CPS) officer who ensures law and order in 2077 Vancouver. Eight ruthless terrorists known as Liber8 escape CPS custody by travelling back in time to 2012. Kiera follows them, determined to prevent Liber8 from altering the past. She joins the present-day Vancouver Police Department and enlists the help of officer Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) and 17-year-old technical genius Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) to hunt down the escapees. In the process, Kiera reluctantly places her trust in former Liber8 member Matthew Kellog (Stephen Lobo), who claims to have reformed his ways and is wise to the inner workings of the clandestine group.
Crawlspace (Cert 18, 118 mins, Revolver Entertainment, DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £17.99, Horror/Thriller/Action)
Justin Dix directs and co-writes this subterranean Australian horror about unspeakable terrors that lurk in a top-secret military compound. Pine Gap is a highly classified facility, located deep underground, where government scientists conduct experiments hidden from public scrutiny. Unexpectedly, contact is lost with the facility so authorities dispatch an elite Special Forces unit led by Romeo (Ditch Davey) to secure the area. As the soldiers descend into the bowels of Pine Gap, they become aware of a monstrous presence with a taste for human flesh.
Darling Companion (Cert 12, 99 mins, Metrodome Distribution, DVD £15.99, Drama/Romance/Comedy)
Beth (Diane Keaton) and her husband Joseph (Kevin Kline) have been married for years and they have raised a beautiful, independent daughter, Grace (Elisabeth Moss). Fissures in the marriage are apparent and Beth and Joseph take out their frustrations on each other. By the roadside one day, Beth and Grace discover an abandoned dog and they take pity on the creature, naming him Freeway. However, Joseph is less enamoured with the four-legged addition to the household and when the disgruntled husband loses Freeway during a weekend vacation, tensions boil over as Beth must work with her spouse to track down the missing mutt.
Jack Irish (Cert 15, 193 mins, Spirit Entertainment, DVD £19.99, Thriller)
Adapted from the novels by Peter Temple, this double bill of Australian made-for-TV movies comprises Jack Irish: Bad Debts and Jack Irish: Black Tide. In both instalments, former criminal lawyer Jack (Guy Pearce) is haunted by the murder of his wife and struggles to piece his life back together. He dabbles in various professions, some far removed from his work in the courtroom, but Jack's dark past eventually catches up with him and he is forced to confront the destructive emotions he thought he had buried.
Barbara (Cert 12, 100 mins, Soda Pictures, DVD £17.99, Drama/Romance)
A doctor from 1980s Berlin must readjust to a slower pace of life in the country in this bleak character study directed by Christian Petzold and co-written by Harun Farocki. Barbara (Nina Hoss) is a brilliant doctor working in Germany, whose rapid ascent through the medical ranks is curtailed by a lapse in judgment. She is banished to the provinces, where she remains distant from her new work colleagues, including lead physician Andre (Ronald Zehrfeld), with whom she shares a palpable sexual chemistry. Rather than engage with staff at her new hospital, Barbara prefers to enjoy romantic trysts with her boyfriend Jorg (Mark Waschke) and dream of escape to Scandinavia. Despite her iciness towards colleagues, Barbara cares deeply about her patients and as she becomes enmeshed in their day-to-day lives, she finds herself gravitating towards Andre.
About Elly (Cert 12, 118 mins, Axiom Films, DVD £12.99, Drama)
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, About Elly is a taut drama following a group of friends who search for answers when one of them vanishes without trace. Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) organises a get-together of old classmates from law school at a pretty rented villa on the Caspian Sea. She invites Shohreh (Merila Zare'i) and her husband Peyman (Peyman Moadi), Naazi (Ra'na Azadivar) and her husband Manoochehr (Ahmad Mehranfar) and divorcee Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini), who is flying in from Germany for the occasion. Sepideh brings along her husband Amir (Mani Haghighi) and also invites her little daughter's kindergarten teacher, Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti), in the hope that the newcomer will spark romance with Ahmad so that everyone is neatly paired off. One afternoon, without any warning, Elly vanishes and her disappearance has a profound effect on the group as they turn on each other.
5 Broken Cameras (Cert 15, 94 mins, New Wave Films, DVD £15.99, Documentary)
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi's documentary offers a fascinating glimpse at life inside modern-day Palestine through the eyes of a farmer and his workers. Emad is a labourer who lives in the village of Bil'in, west of Ramallah in the West Bank. With his very first video camera, he captures harrowing footage of bulldozers tearing through his land and the construction of a wall separating Jewish settlements from the Palestinians. Soon after, Emad's son Gibreel is born and footage captures those formative years as the boy grows up in the shadow of peaceful protests and the omnipresent Israeli soldiers. Emad's wife fears there will be reprisals for her husband's constant filming of events in the West Bank but the father persists, determined to resist the violence and oppression and show the world what is really happening in his homeland.
Timothy Spall: Somewhere At Sea (Cert E, 319 mins, Delta Home Entertainment, DVD £19.99, Special Interest)
Following a brush with leukaemia, Timothy Spall decided to embrace life with his wife, Shane. In this 11-part series, they travel the length and breadth of the British Isles on a Dutch Barge, enjoying some of our most breathtaking countryside and coastline. The three-disc set includes the episodes The Call Of The Sea, The Bogey Man, Race Against The Tide, The Luck Of The Irish... Sea, Mad About The Buoys, The Bit In The Middle, Scotch Mist, Message In A Bottle, Stags-By-The-Sea, God's Own Coast and The Last Splash.
DVD and Blu-ray retail top 10
1 (-) Dredd
2 (-) Lawless
3 (5) The Hunger Games
4 (3) Snow White And The Huntsman
5 (1) The Dark Knight Rises
6 (2) Total Recall
7 (10) Rock Of Ages
8 (6) Avengers Assemble
9 (-) Black Swan
10 (8) Prometheus
Chart supplied by www.hmv.com
DVD rental top 10
1 (1) The Bourne Legacy
2 (2) Ted
3 (-) The Sweeney
4 (3) The Amazing Spider-Man
5 (-) Lawless
6 (5) Dark Shadows
7 (-) House At The End Of The Street
8 (7) The Five-Year Engagement
9 (4) Men In Black 3
10 (6) Prometheus
Chart supplied by www.blockbuster.co.uk


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THE Black Country Foodbank and Dudley Bliss have been named as the charity partners for Sainsbury's stores in Amblecote and Merry Hill.
Both charities will benefit from a year's worth of fundraising after customers were asked to vote for a worthy cause.
Cash raised from activities in the Amblecote store will go to the the foodbank, based in Albion Street, Brierley Hill, which provides vulnerable individuals and families with emergency food supplies, while a longer-term solution is developed.
Additionally, a collection bin will be set up behind checkouts, allowing customers and staff to donate non-perishable food items or toiletries.
The Merry Hill store will support Dudley Bliss, a charity run by mums, to support parents with premature babies across the borough.
Last year, the stores raised a combined total of £10,000 for former charity partners, Mary Stevens Hospice and Guide Dogs for the Blind.

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San Francisco — Williams-Sonoma said Friday that it will open its first store in Quebec — and its eighth in Canada — which will showcase a new design for the brand.
Opening on Saturday at Carrefour Laval in Laval, Quebec, the new store incorporates added interactive features, a new layout and several terminals where customers can complete purchases throughout the store.
A modernized kitchen is the focal point of the 8,000-sq.-ft. space, and demonstration stations dot the store, allowing trial of cooking tools, electrics, cookware and cutlery.


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Dillard's, Inc. has announced operating results for the 13 and 26 weeks ended August 3, 2013. Highlights of the company's second quarter performance, according to Dillard's were: a 25% increase in second quarter earnings per share compared to the prior year, a 1% increase in comparable store sales, and merchandise gross margin improvement of 10 basis points of sales.
Dillard's reported net income for the 13 weeks ended August 3, 2013 of $36.5 million, or $0.79 per share compared to net income of $31 million, or $0.63 per share, for the prior year second quarter.
Dillard's CEO, William T. Dillard, II, stated, "Following a strong start to the year, we made further progress in the second quarter. Positive comparable store sales and gross margin expansion combined with continued expense control enabled us to report another quarter of year over year improvement at Dillard's."
Dillard's reported net income for the 26 weeks ended August 3, 2013 of $153.7 million, or $3.30 per share compared to net income of $126 million, or $2.53 per share, for the prior year 26-week period. Included in net income for the 26-week period ended August 3, 2013 is a net after-tax credit totaling $4.4 million ($0.09 per share) comprised of the following three items: a $7.6 million after tax gain ($0.16 per share) related to the sale of an investment, a $1 million after tax credit ($0.02 per share) related to a pension adjustment an after-tax asset impairment and store closing charges of $4.2 million ($0.09 per share)
Excluding this credit, Dillard's would have reported net income of $149.3 million ($3.20 per share) for the 26-week period ended August 3, 2013, a 26% earnings per share increase over the prior year 26-week performance.
Total merchandise sales for the 13-week period ended August 3, 2013 were $1.459 billion and $1.456 billion for the 13-week period ended July 28, 2012. Total merchandise sales were unchanged on a percentage basis for the 13-week period ended August 3, 2013. Sales in comparable stores for the period increased 1%. Sales trends were notably strong in ladies' accessories and lingerie followed by juniors' and children's apparel. Sales were weakest in the home and furniture category followed by ladies' apparel. Sales trends were strongest in the Central region, followed by the Western and Eastern regions, respectively.
During the second quarter of 2013, the company closed its Randolph Mall location in Asheboro, NC. At August 3, 2013, the company operated 282 Dillard's locations and 18 clearance centers spanning 29 states and an Internet store at www.dillards.com. Total square footage at August 3, 2013 was 50.9 million.


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The Sutherland Sailors boys basketball team won two games Friday and Saturday, defeating Ogallala and Bridgeport.
"We played really good," Coach Jason Gunderson said. "We are doing a good job of getting the ball into the post."
Post player Sam Kennedy scored 22 points in the game, and Sutherland also hit from outside, scoring five three pointers.
Jalyene Schuster had 15 points and Samantha Staggs finished with 14 points. Staggs and Joli Hopping both hit two treys and Schuster had one for the Sailors.
Jessica Paloucek scored 10 points for the Indians, and Ogallala went to the free throw line 20 times and converted 12. Sutherland was 6-10 at the line.
Score by quarters:
Sutherland: 18-22-15-10 - 65
Ogallala: 9-10-14-13 - 46
On Saturday, Sutherland jumped out to a 11-5 lead at the end of the first quarter and held on to defeat Bridgeport, 48-36.
The teams played evenly in the second half and duked it out in the third quarter, Sutherland Coach Jason Gunderson said.
"We let them get within five points," Gunderson said, "but we got things going and led by 15 in the fourth quarter."
Kennedy scored 18 points for the Sailors and Schuster had 13. Tera Harding and Sidney Faeffler each had 10 points for bridgeport.
Sutherland's agressive defense put Bridgeport at the free-throw line 17 times, where they converted 12. The Sailors hit 2-4 from the line.
Score by quarters
Sutherland: 11-11-13-13 - 48
Bridgeport: 5-11-10-10 - 36
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text: ECU still has hopes for spot in Conference USA title game By Doug Smock November 19, 2012 Story Share AP Photo Justin Hardy leads ECU with 67 catches for 875 yards and 10 touchdowns. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- East Carolina doesn't have the do-or-die situation it had last season when it played Marshall in the regular-season finale, but the Pirates have some pretty high stakes.Mathematically, at least.When ECU (7-4, 6-1) welcomes the Thundering Herd (5-6, 4-3) to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium at 2 p.m. Friday, it still has a chance to win Conference USA's East Division. The ultimate odds are long, even with a Pirate victory, as 6-1 Central Florida hosts 2-5 Alabama-Birmingham at noon Saturday.The Knights own the tiebreaker on the strength of a 40-20 win over the Pirates on Oct. 4. The East winner will face Tulsa for the league championship on Dec. 1, almost certainly at Tulsa.Regardless, the Pirates are heading to a bowl game, something they were denied last year in a 34-27 double-overtime loss to the Herd in Huntington. Coach Ruffin McNeil downplays that aspect."I wouldn't say that. We just need to play well this week," McNeil said Monday at his weekly press conference on the Greenville, N.C., campus. "That is all the motivation that we will need. Sure our team knows how the game ended last year, but I don't plan on using last year's outcome as incentive or motivation this week."The Pirates are coming off a 28-23 win over Tulane, a testing game that wasn't as close as the score indicates. The Green Wave scored a touchdown with 1:22 left, but ECU recovered the onside kick and ran the clock out. It was a big day for the Pirates' defense, which gave up just two touchdowns and held Tulane to 9 yards rushing. Five sacks for minus-38 yards figured into that number, as the Pirates forced Tulane quarterback Ryan Griffin to throw 57 times, completing 36 for 293 yards. The 302 total yards was ECU's second-least allowed, and was the fifth sub-400-yard effort.Not Alabama-like, certainly, but it has been good enough for the Pirates' success. McNeil, a former defensive coordinator at Nevada-Las Vegas, Fresno State and Texas Tech, was pleased. "I thought all four sides of the football team contributed in the win," McNeil said. "I feel that our sideline was as active and into the game as they could be. We knew the importance of generating our own excitement in a large [and empty] NFL stadium like the Superdome." The Pirates don't have to manufacture their excitement at home, as they average a league-leading 47,152, just short of the 50,000 capacity. Senior day, with 14 listed on the roster, will generate some more emotion.McNeil and offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, both disciples of the Texas Tech-style spread offense, has broken in a new quarterback, Shane Carden. That wasn't easy after Dominique Davis, now with the Atlanta Falcons, rewrote the Pirates' passing record book in just two years.With a strong second-half performance in the Pirates' second game against South Carolina, Harden took over the starting job from the now-departed Rio Johnson and has thrown for 2,399 yards and 18 touchdowns. Sophomore Justin Hardy leads the team with 67 catches for 875 yards and 10 touchdowns, while steady Andrew Bodenheimer (28-241, two TDs) has caught a pass in 31 consecutive games.Vintavious Cooper, a product of the Mississippi junior college ranks, has accepted the rushing load nicely. The 5-foot-9, 189-pound native of Homerville, Ga., is 21 rushing yards from 1,000 for the season, and he had 348 yards over the last three games. His 87-yard performance at Tulane ended his three-game streak of 100-yard games, the first from an ECU back in nine years.He also has 22 receptions for 10.2 yards per catch, and six TDs in either manner. Defensively, the Pirates have been exposed at times, most recently against Navy. The Midshipmen ran for 512 yards in a 56-28 romp, and South Carolina rung up 528 in an early-season 48-10 rout. UCF wasn't exactly kind, outscoring the Pirates 40-6 after Carden's 76-yard pass to Hardy gave ECU an early 14-0 lead.The Pirates play a 3-4 defense, with 6-1, 327-pound Terry Williams among the nose tackles. Inside linebacker Jeremy Grove and free safety Damon Magazu lead the team with 65 tackles apiece, but outside linebacker Derrell Johnson has been the most disruptive. The 6-2, 261-pound junior leads with 41/2 sacks and nine tackles for loss.Michael Barbour, the man who blasted 57- and 58-yard field goals last year in Huntington, is gone, but the Pirates are making do with Warren Harvey. 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An explosive entry in Soundway's impeccable Nigeria Special series of rare Afrobeat – digging deep for for material that's largely been lost for years and years – many recorded in the wake of the Fela revolution and all of it exciting and essential! Of all the stellar tracks on the set – which features numbers by Orlando Julius, Segun Bucknor, Saxon Lee and more – the lead off track may be the most revelatory. It's the original 1971 Fela recording of "Who're You" – which was eventually re-recorded at Abbey Road for his London Scene LP – insistent, funky and a amazing from the first sax & drum burst. The whole things outstanding, though, with numbers recorded for Decca, Phillips, EMI, Polydor in 1970s Nigeria. Incredible stuff, and the Soundway presentation is top notch as always! 11 tracks on the CD version: "Who Are You" (original 45 version) by Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70, "We Dy Find Money" by Eric Showboy Akaeze & His Royal Ericos, "Enwan" by The Anansa Professionals, "Mind Your Business" by Saxon Lee & The Shadows International, "Afro-Blues" by Orlando Julius & His Afro-Sounders, "Ariwo Yaa" by Bob Ohiri And His Uhuru Sounds, "Ole" by Black Santiagos and more. © 1996-2017, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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December 16.............go Christmas shopping and buy myself all the things i ever wanted but never bought because of the price.
December 17.............go off my diet and eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, eat five or six pastries, eat a seafood platter for lunch and a mid-afternoon snack of ice cream before eating pizza, spaghetti and lobster for supper. Then before going to bed, i'll throw up and hope to recover in time for breakfast the next morning.
December 18............find a nice looking honey and catch up on my loving. then repeat everything i did on December 17.
December 19...........this will be my day of rest. First i'll listen to Elvis' "My Boy" a dozen times, followed by a triple DVD feature of "Kissin' Cousins" "Tickle Me" and "Harum Scarum" and round out the day with watching all the footage i have from the 1977 CBS special.
December 20...........this will be my revenge day. i will go to work, tell my boss what i really think of him. Then i will tell any customer who pisses me off exactly where they can go, and ask a few of my hot female co-workers if they'd like to do the "wild thing" in the lunch room on their break. Then I'll drive thru red lights on the way home and ignore stop signs and never drive under 95 mph.
December 21...............This is the final day for earth's existence (and mine also). I will put my head between my legs, pucker up and kiss my ass goodbye.
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The Mountain View-based American Youth Rugby Union celebrates Rugby Awareness Month in November by hosting events in the city. A lunchtime demonstration of non-contact rugby is slated 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Symantec headquarters. The Golden Rugby Ball Treasure Hunt, which involves solving a puzzle at ayru.net that leads to a hidden gold-painted rugby ball, is set for Friday. The winner receives $100 and free registration for the 2013-14 AYRU season. A free open session of non-contact rugby for ages 5-15 is slated 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Landels Elementary School. For more information about the events and to register for the season, visit ayru.net.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland played his regular lineup the first two games against the Twins, and he planned on playing it again for Friday's home opener. On Thursday, he made one change, starting Don Kelly in left field over Andy Dirks.
It was the one day this week he saw an opportunity to start Kelly, he said. If that concern is any hint, it sounds like he could end up playing a little more early this season than last year, when Kelly started one out of the Tigers' first 12 games.
"Dirks is gonna play tomorrow and the next day, and you've got a left-hander Sunday," Leyland said, "so now [Kelly] will be sitting too long [otherwise]. Dirks is fine. That's just that you want to get him in there."
Kelly went 1-for-2 with a single under the glove of Twins second baseman Jamey Carroll. Matt Tuiasosopo made his Tigers debut pinch-hitting for Kelly when the Twins went to lefty reliever Brian Duensing in the sixth.
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It's raining today, so here are some indoor throws. The first "standing" throws are what I usually do, and the full throws are just what I've been working on, pretty unsuccessfully. I'm working on smooth and fast for the standing throws, mostly relying on snap. That's what I've been playing with for about a month, trying to get it down pat. The fulls should do a good job of illustrating the reason why I tend to stick with the standing throws. I have no snap and as hard as I try to be smooth and slow it really doesn't seem to be getting through. Anyway, have at it. I'd love to hear some advice. Standing, I was laying up shots in the 320 to 350 range when I played yesterday. I would imagine that the fulls are less than that but I'm not sure.
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THE mother of Becky Godden-Edwards has welcomed the discovery of new evidence in the field where her daughter was buried.
Karen Edwards hopes it will bring her a step closer to justice.
She has said she was surprised to learn of the new discovery, which police made last Thursday during extensive searches of Baxter's Farm in Eastleach, Gloucestershire.
The new activity came little more than three years after Karen learned of her daughter's murder on what would have been Becky's 29th birthday.
Becky, who disappeared between the end of 2002 and the start of 2003, was found in the field in early April 2011 after police were taken there by mini-cab driver Chris Halliwell during the inquiry into Sian O'Callaghan's death.
The 49-year-old, of Ashbury Avenue, Nythe, was jailed for life for the murder of the 22-year-old office worker in October 2012 after admitting abducting her from an Old Town nightclub.
But he was never prosecuted for Becky's death due to a ruling by a High Court judge that the officer leading the investigation, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, breached police procedure laws in interviewing the killer.
Karen said she had faith in the new investigative team headed by cold case specialist Detective Chief Inspector Sean Memory.
"I have every faith in them that they will bring me justice," the 52-year-old said. "Sean is a very dedicated police officer. He seems as devoted to solving Becky's case as Steve Fulcher was. I think they are doing a brilliant job and maybe this new evidence is just what we needed.
"Halliwell will now know there is a super-dooper detective on the case and that might put the wind up him. It could be a big bonus. "When they told us they were doing forensics we didn't know what they were doing it on, and it could be a few weeks before we find out the identity – it's a waiting game again, just like it was three years ago. It is raw again now but nothing will ever be as bad as that day on April 4, 2011 – Becky's birthday – when they told me the body in that field was her.
"Becky's life was complicated and it's still complicated now. There have been so many twists and turns in this investigation."
Karen, who is also running a petition to change the law on police interview procedures, urged people to contact officers with any information. "They are piecing together a huge jigsaw puzzle and any information could help," she said. "People always say things to me and I always tell them that they should tell the police – you never know what might be important and might make the difference.
"This has brought it all back to the fore now and that means the petition too. If anyone has any packs they need us to pick up they should email me on justiceforbecky@ yahoo.co.uk or visit Justice for Becky on Facebook."
Anyone with any information should call police on 101.


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When Mike Robbins was stationed at Mountain View Fire Department Station No. 1 at 251 S. Shoreline Blvd., he spotted an overgrown patch of weeds behind the firehouse and saw an opportunity to transform it into a flourishing garden.
His project has since attracted the attention of the surrounding community. The public is invited to take a walking garden tour 11:15 a.m. Saturday, starting from the Mountain View Public Library to Station No. 1.
Robbins cultivated his love of gardening from an early age.
"I helped my family garden in our yard not just as a hobby, but as part of the household," he said. "Being part of that experience really helped me to grow, and when I had some time at the station, I started doing more of it."
His green thumb carried over to his job at the station, where he constructed three 18-foot-by-4-foot beds.
New gardens have been sprouting in the other four Mountain View stations, where he and his co-workers cook meals with the fresh, seasonal produce.
"Initially, people were apprehensive, but when they saw the garden's tangible effects, they became interested," Robbins said.
Robbins attributes his success to techniques he learned from Love Apple Farms' classes in Santa Cruz.
"Soften the soil deeper than you expect the roots to grow," he said. "When roots aren't prohibited, they can expand and pull in more nutrients, and you end up with productive growth."
Another successful technique is growing flowers to attract bees that can increase plant pollination.
"I've created a self-sufficient ecosystem out of my garden and it has made a world of difference," Robbins said.
Today, his garden thrives and people from around the community contribute. Robbins said he and his co-workers form a close-knit group, and the garden has become an important part of their home.
Saturday's tour begins in the lobby of the library, 585 Franklin St. The walk to Station No. 1 will take approximately 10 minutes. To register, call 903-6337 or visit goo.gl/Li9Lo.


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Thursday, September 21, 2017
Spotting Before My Cycle
I am 26 years old and I have normal cycles. Usually every 28 days. I stated spotting before my cycle. It had an odor. When my cycle was supposed to start, it was normal. And this has been going on for a year or so, but my body had never done this before. So my question is why do I spot like four or five day before my period and then when its over? I understand you have to spot when your period ends but what I don`t understand is why do you have to spot before? Another thing is that sometimes I will spot for like two days then I will get some blood like if I have my period and then it will go away and spot again so this is on an off occurence until my period comes and every test that I have gotten done has come out normal paps, hsg etc. I had an hsg because I have been trying to conceive for four years with no luck. Can you please help me. Thank you
As you have been attempting conception for quite some time, an evaluation followed by treatment, would be recommended. The evaluation would consist of a dye test to see if the tubes are open, as well as a blood test to see if you are ovulating. It is possible that your spotting could be cased by a hormone imbalance. Your partner should have a semen analysis done to evaluate his sperm.
If all testing were normal, I would consider using fertility shots or pills with insemination (injecting the sperm into the uterus at the time of ovulation). If pregnancy still has not occurred, I would move to IVF or in vitro fertilization.
Daniel B Williams, MD
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet --Debra Borchardt: Goldman Sachs ( GS) upgraded Dell ( DELL) . So Jim, do you agree with this call? Because -- I mean -- last week they upgraded Research In Motion ( RIMM) and we all scratched our heads and went, "Huh?" Jim: I know. Debra Borchardt: And now we're doing it again. We're, "What the what?" Jim: Yeah. I always feel that when you go from a "Sell" to a "Buy" you must know something. Now maybe that's antiquated view of things, but when you've got such a strong conviction that something is going lower, and then you go to such a strong conviction that it's going higher, I really feel that you either know there's a special dividend or you computing some model that the company isn't going to disagree with. Michael Dell feels passionately that the future of the PC is much stronger than people think, and the future of their enterprise business is much stronger, and that this is just a cyclical decline not a secular. Debra Borchardt: The tablet's just a shiny new toy and we're going to go back to the PC? Jim: It doesn't replace the PC. Now I think if you spoke to the people at Apple ( AAPL) they would totally disagree, and that it is going to replace the PC. So this is fundamentally a call, I think, of saying that what does Michael Dell think because he owns so much? And he has been upset about his stock, but by the way, just be really clear here, he has never said that business is good. Debra Borchardt: No. He's been very upfront that it sucks. Jim: Yes. It's just that there's been...I was referencing Steve Luczo this morning, he's the guy who runs Seagate ( STX), that he at one other time felt that Seagate was being unfairly valued. So he took it private. That's what happened to Dollar General ( DG). There were was unfair value, took it private. Maybe there's a way to be able to, if the company, Dell, were to go private, to do things that would bring out growth, not in a public sphere. So I don't want to do this because I don't have a case to be made fundamentally for you, for Dell, or for Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ). Both of them had that same problem.
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Does the new coach want me?
Will I be playing the same position as I was told before?
Will I get along with the next head coach?
These are all questions Concordia Lutheran senior D.J. McCall faces after IUPUI fired Coach Todd Howard soon after losing to IPFW in the Summit League Tournament last Saturday.
Howard went 26-70 in three seasons with the Jaguars, including 6-26 this season.
"I was very emotional about it," said McCall about finding out Howard would not be retained. "It is just tough to build a relationship with someone like that and be so excited to play for them and they have to get the boot like that.
"I guess that's how the business works."
Howard phoned McCall late Sunday night to inform him of IUPUI's decision personally.
"It was very respectful (to hear from Howard) before I heard it from the public," McCall said.
McCall, who averaged 18.5 points and 9.0 rebounds for the Cadets this season, has been in contact with assistant coach David Padgett, who shared with the 6-foot-5 that he also experienced a similar situation. As a high school senior committed to Kansas, Padgett watched as Roy Williams left the Jayhawks to take the head job at North Carolina.
Despite the support of Padgett, McCall still has a head filled with questions and concerns about where he will fit in with the new coach, if at all.
"The main thing right now is if they get a guy who has seen me play and likes my game (or) at least knows about me, that'd be great," McCall said. "I don't really know what to expect (out of the new coach) and am anxious to find out about him."
McCall has been told that the hiring process for a new coach will likely not drag out more than a month. He is hopeful that Padgett will be retained by the new head coach as an assistant.
McCall also has the option to earn a release from his signed Letter of Intent due to an NCAA rule stipulating that incoming recruits have the opportunity to do so due to a coaching change.
McCall hopes it does not come to that.
"I love the school and I guess I didn't realize how close I was to the coaching staff," McCall said. "If it doesn't work out the way I want it to, I will look into getting a release form."
McCall is part of a three-man recruiting class for IUPUI that also includes forward Aaron Brennan of Guerin Catholic and JUCO point guard Cortez Macklin out of Louisville, Ky.


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Not All the Big Bets Are on Wall Street
CA: Pete, I don't recall in my college--or in any other school I went to, for that matter--that there was a course offered in bookmaking. How did you get into this specialized occupation, and how do other people get into this field?
Pete: Years ago, people like myself were more or less grandfathered in. Today, you have some college kids doing it because they started in the dormitory or something. You see, gaming and bookmaking is more or less about odds; it's not about winning or losing, it's about the right price; that's all it is.
CA: What does it mean, "grandfathered in"?
Pete: Either you come from a family background in the business, or you meet somebody when you are very young and they sort of take you under their wing, train you, teach you. It's like any other business; it's a service business.
CA: How long have you been a bookie?
Pete: Twenty-five years.
CA: When you started out, was there one sport in particular that was more popular than others with gamblers? Has it changed in recent years?
Pete: Absolutely. It used to be a horse business. That was where the big business was: two dollars, four dollars, four-dollar reverses, back to back--those kinds of bets were the backbone of the business. I only caught the tail end of it, but horse racing was a big book-making sport. Later on, as professional teams got stronger and stronger and the line-making operations got stronger, professional sports [betting] became very popular. People like to sit down and watch games on TV that they've bet on.
CA: Today, which sport attracts the largest number of people that gamble or the largest amount of money that's wagered? Is it basketball? Is it pro football, college ball, boxing? Where is the action today?
Pete: Without a doubt, football.
CA: College or professional?
Pete: Both.
CA: The college football season is what, a four-month period, and the same thing more or less with the National Football League. Does that mean you have a busy season and the rest of the year is vacation?
Pete: Football is by far the busiest season with the most volume. After football tails off slightly, you pick up basketball, which has peaks during March Madness in college, and then you come into the [National Basketball Association] playoffs. When you get to baseball, it slows down tremendously.
CA: Do your customers bet all year round, or are there many who are just football bettors, or just basketball bettors, or just boxing bettors?
Pete: I have customers that play all year long. They play anything. They just like to gamble. But it does tail off. Football and basketball make up about 70 percent of the business.
CA: Between college and NFL football, which one represents more dollar volume?
Pete: I would say about 10 to 15 percent more on the pros.
CA: What about special events such as the Super Bowl, or the big college bowl games, or a big boxing match, like Tyson versus Holyfield?
Pete: There's little betting done on boxing today. First of all, the lines are just so inaccurate. They start out so high, 20- or 18-to-1. People like me don't like to put up that kind of money, and believe it or not, there is a bad stigma to boxing. People don't trust the sport now. So, there's very little wagering.
CA: Give us an example. For instance, the Holyfield-Tyson fight. What was that like?
Pete: It opened 25-to-1 and went to 6-to-1. Somebody made some money.
CA: OK. But Trump goes on the news saying that he bet a million bucks and made 20.
Pete: Not true.
CA: Not true? But is there any way of...
Pete: Absolutely. If any substantial wager is made in the country, we know about it. I don't care where the wager is made.
CA: You know this because of your contacts in each of the casinos, and so forth?
Pete: Because the fluctuation in money is the dictator for the lines. You see the money. Everybody in the business has become very close, let's call it a camaraderie, even though it's competitive. Everybody finds out.
CA: Where do you get your lines?
Pete: Well, they usually come out of Las Vegas. But they come out of the Dominican Republic, too. Today, everybody has about the same prices.
CA: OK. But do you have one specific source for your line? Newspapers, for instance, will say their line is Sheridan or some name.
Pete: We never use the newspaper. Never. We use reputable linemakers, people whose business it is to make lines. Does the newspaper take a bet?
CA: What happens if you're coming up on the Super Bowl and you check four primary sources and there's a disparity in the lines? What if one line is minus six and the other is minus nine?
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Your contractions will become more frequent and occur for longer, and stronger, once your cervix has dilated (opened) to around four or five centimeters. Once your contractions become more frequent, your labour usually progresses quite quickly, all of which means you are well and truly in labour.
Women will experience contractions quite differently. For some, it may feel strongest in their back, for others it occurs more in their abdomen. Early contractions may feel like menstrual cramps. As your contractions progress, the intensity may vary - with one contraction very strong, followed by a weaker one. This is common.
Being able to cope with your contractions will help you through the labour and subsequent birth. Yes, it can be painful and scary and it is normal to feel helpless and out of control, but there are things you can do to help yourself cope with contractions :
Some women are able to cope with contractions using relaxation techniques, breathing and massage. For others, medication to ease the pain is preferred. Don't feel like you have failed if you want to ask for pain relief through medication. There are a number of options available depending on the stage of labour you are at.
Breathing nitrous oxide and oxygen (gas) can provide some pain relief. You can control how much gas you breathe in, and many women find it provides good pain relief during their labour.
Another pain relieving method is an injection of a narcotic, such as pethidine. These narcotics are strong painkillers that may cause drowsiness or nausea. Sometimes an anti-nausea drug is given with the pethidine to stop you from feeling sick. Narcotics can have a sedating effect on the baby.
Locally-acting anaesthetic or other drugs may be used to block the nerves that carry pain. The most common way of giving pain relief by this method is by using an epidural. An epidural is an anaesthetic given through a fine tube in the lower part of your back. This gives complete pain relief for the majority of women who have it.
There may be medical situations where an epidural may be advised or recommended (for example, if you are having twins, you have high blood pressure, you have a breech presentation, or forceps are necessary). Epidural or spinal anaesthesia may also be used to provide anaesthesia for a Caesarean section.
This article was written by Claire Halliday for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for during your pregnancy. Sources include The Mercy Hospital For Women, Melbourne and The Women and Children's Hospital, Adelaide.


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LAKE COUNTY -- Voters elected an incumbent and a former member to the Konocti Unified School District Board of Trustees Tuesday.
Incumbent Mary Silva led the way in the three-person race for two seats, garnering 42.5 percent of the vote, according to preliminary election results.
Susan C. Burton, who served on the board from 1982 to 1991, finished second with 39.8 percent. Challenger Amy Crook came in third with 17.8 percent.
Clearlake voters shot down Measure G, which proposed a 1-percent sales tax increase in the city for road improvements and code enforcement.
The measure received support from 61.3 percent of voters, but it needed more than 66 percent to pass.


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I season my parenting vocabulary with a considerable amount of Yiddish. Because my kids aren't just crazy, they are vildechayas.
How amazing is Yiddish? How sandpapery, how satisfying to spit out, how absolutely beautifully descriptive. Because sometimes a face is more than just snotty. Or an outfit is more than just unkempt. Or a room is more than just messy. There is no English word that compares to farbisseneh. Or shlumperdik. Or chazzerei. Yiddish puts exclamation points all over English words that just aren't strong enough for the situation at hand.
I use a considerable amount of Yiddish in my parenting vocabulary. Because my kids aren't just crazy, they are vildechayas. My older son Maxon isn't just fidgety. He constantly has shpilkes. And I don't just want them to give me a break. I need a little rachmones.
I need a lot of rachmones.
I learned my Yiddish vernacular from my father, who was forever asking for rachmones. But it was his mother, Belle, who had the real fluency. Her Yiddish had fiery tang, an Eastern European authenticity.
When my dad and stepmom were at my house for Rosh Hashanah dinner, we got to talking about Grandma Belle and how she used to rapid-fire heavy Yiddish syllables like they were spitballs. Belle was a formidable woman who used to tell her doctors to date me when I visited her in the hospital. One of her pet sayings was, "Goldberg, Steinberg, any Berg is a good Berg." Sadly, she only saw me dating goyim, and died before I met my Jewish husband.
I'm sorry that my kids never got to meet her, this 5-foot reference volume who traveled the world with my grandfather, could tell us the names (English and Hebrew) of every family member going back to the late 1700s and give us an appropriate Yiddish phrase for any occasion. One of her favorites was gai kaken oifen yam.
"She said it every time I told her I was bored," my father recalled.
"What's that mean Pop-Pop?" asked my youngest, Ezra.
"Go take a *#%& in the ocean."
Oh, they LOVED that one. Maxon, my older son, made up a handshake to accompany the phrase that he taught to his friends at school. At least he's keeping an important part of our Jewish history alive. Just don't say it at Hebrew school, honey.
But we all just season our sentences with Yiddish, where Belle really spoke it. My father knows less Yiddish than his mother. And I have a smaller vocabulary than my father. And my boys? Well. I can tell you they know vildechaya. And farbisseneh. And rachmones. And now, gai kaken oifen yam. They have picked up more than I thought, as evidenced by the conversation in the back seat of the car a few weeks ago when I asked Ezra to share his snack with his brother.
"Ezra! Give me more than one pretzel," Maxon shouted. "Don't be such a chazzer."


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A Very Important Question
During a quick stop off in Denison, IA on the first day of President Obama's bus tour across Iowa, there was a young supporter who had to get to the bottom of something that had been puzzling him for some time.
"Are you Spider-Man's boss?"
And the President's response...
"Well, I'm the Commander-in-Chief. But Spider-Man is a free agent."
Catch all the highlights from President Obama's bus tour on our Facebook page and by following @OFA_IA on Twitter.


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Joe's Pub to Host 15th Anniversary Party, Featuring ROCK BOTTOM, 11/9
Joe's Pub at The Public has announced a special concert on November 9 at 9:00 PM to benefit its New York Voices commissioning series and to celebrate 15 years of presenting the best in live music and performance nightly.
The event is open to the public and will feature the encore performance of Bridget Everett's highly-anticipated new show ROCK BOTTOM, an all-night party, craft cocktails and the announcement of the next commissioned artist.
Written by Everett with Tony-winning writing duo Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, ROCK BOTTOM is the latest work to be presented by Joe's Pub as part of New York Voices. Tickets are on sale now. http://bit.ly/19mjTEF
The concert is one of several initiatives organized by Joe's Pub to honor 15 years of presenting some of the most important contemporary artists across a range of disciplines and at every stage of their career.
Additional announcements around the anniversary include a new sound system from German speaker manufacturer d&b audiotechnik, an invitation for visual artists on Tumblr to draw live performances and an exclusive series on YouTube featuring interviews with luminaries such as Allen Toussaint, Sandra Bernhard and other artists who have made Joe's Pub their home.
"In 15 years, Joe's Pub has become a central part of New York City's cultural landscape" said Shanta Thake, Director at Joe's Pub at The Public. "We have done this through ensuring the best possible experiences for our artists, audiences and community and we look forward to highlighting and continuing this legacy through our anniversary celebrations."
"Joe's Pub has been one of the most successful ventures The Public has ever undertaken, offering support and a venue to literally thousands of artists over the last 15 years," said Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis. "The New York Voicesseries has also been a triumph, producing in its inaugural season an Obie Award-winning show which went into The Public's main stage season and is now touring the nation. We expect great things from the 2014 season."
New York Voices was established in 2011 as a means for musicians and artists to create new works that connect them to a larger theater audience. Artists include Bridget Everett, Lady Rizo, Angelique Kidjo, Allen Toussaint, Abigail Washburn,Noche Flamenca, Toshi Reagon and Ethan Lipton, whose commission No Place To Go went on to win an Obie Award.
"Joe's Pub has given me complete freedom to do what I want," said Bridget Everett. "I feel extremely supported here. I'm so grateful to have a place like this."
In ROCK BOTTOM, "early Bette Midler" (NY Times) Bridget Everett barrels through life tip-toeing toward disaster, wine bottle by wine bottle and man by man. Instead of succumbing to her chardonnay-induced stupor, Bridget embraces a series of revelations that lead this voice of an angel to redemption. Rock Bottom is what happens when you're too passionate to give up, and too big to fail. The performance will feature familiar songs from Everett's monthly sold-out showcase at Joe's Pub with her band The Tender Moments (Bridget Everett, Vocals; Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Bass; Carmine Covelli, Drums; Mike Jackson, Guitar;Matt Ray, Piano) as well as new songs written with Shaiman, Wittman and Horovitz.
The price of admission includes craft cocktails by resident mixtress Tiffany Short and celebratory sweet treats.
Visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows and to purchase tickets, or call 212-967-7555, or visit in person at The Taub Box Office at The Public Theater (1 PM to 6 PM) located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC.
ABOUT JOE'S PUB AT THE PUBLIC: Named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Joe's Pub debuted in 1998 and plays a vital role in The Public's mission of supporting young artists while providing established artists with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. In 2013, Joe's Pub celebrates 15 years of the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. It received a top-to-bottom renovation in 2011, leading to improved sightlines, expanded seating capacity and a new menu from acclaimed Chef Andrew Carmellini. With its intimate atmosphere and superior acoustics, Joe's Pub presents talent from all over the world as part of The Public's programming downtown at its Astor Place home, hosting approximately 800 shows and serving over 100,000 audience members annually. www.joespub.com
ABOUT The Public Theater AT ASTOR PLACE: Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public Theater is the only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare, the classics, musicals, contemporary and experimental pieces in equal measure. The Public continues the work of its visionary founder, Joe Papp, by acting as an advocate for the theater as an essential cultural force, and leading and framing dialogue on some of the most important issues of our day. Creating theater for one of the largest and most diverse audience bases in New York City for nearly 60 years, today the Company engages audiences in a variety of venues-including its landmark downtown home at Astor Place, which houses five theaters and Joe's Pub; the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, home to its beloved, free Shakespeare in the Park; and the Mobile Unit, which tours Shakespearean productions for underserved audiences throughout New York City's five boroughs. The Public's wide range of programming includes free Shakespeare in the Park, the bedrock of the Company's dedication to making theater accessible to all, new and experimental stagings at The Public at Astor Place, and a range of artist and audience development initiatives including its Public Forum series, which brings together theater artists and professionals from a variety of disciplines for discussions that shed light on social issues explored in Public productions. The Public Theater is located on property owned by the City of New York and receives annual support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and in October 2012 the landmark building downtown at Astor Place was revitalized to physically manifest the Company's core mission of sparking new dialogues and increasing accessibility for artists and audiences, by dramatically opening up the building to the street and community, and transforming the lobby into a public piazza for artists, students, and audiences. Key elements of the revitalization included infrastructure updates to the 158-year old building, as well as construction of new exterior entry stair and glass canopy; installation of ramps for improved accessibility; an expanded and refurbished lobby; the addition of a mezzanine level with a new lounge, The Library at The Public, designed by the Rockwell Group. The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust provides leadership support for The Public Theater's year-round activities. www.publictheater.org


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Topic: Ascities and coughing
Hi All,
The abdomen of my mum has been swollen day by day and this makes her very uncomfortable . It is probably ascities . However ,her doctor doesn't recommend us to drain it since it will occur again in a few days .The drainage will make her very tired and it will be very difficult to replace the necessary liquids which proteins and minerals.
Do you have any idea who has tried it before ? Is it really so ?
Also ,when she lies down, she starts to cough . It becomes very difficult for her to get sleep although she needs sleeping so much .
My mum is 71 years old and no treatment has been suggested us , neither surgery nor chemotherapy.
Thanks a lot,
Take care..


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'While pleading with fans and sponsors to get behind the team, Bettman stressed that fans need not worry where money spent on the Sabres might end up. "The money that you spend in support of this club is not going to Adelphia and is not going to the Rigases," Bettman said. "All of the money will go to the operations of the Sabres. I want to assure people that your support of the franchise stays with the franchise."'
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Sellout anticipated when SBW runs on with the Roosters
HE HAS been cast as a mercenary and a villain by many, but there cannot be any doubting his pulling power. Sonny Bill Williams, who was accused of selling out on the Bulldogs, may now sell out Allianz Stadium, giving the NRL a record start to this year's season.
NRL and Sydney Roosters officials are hopeful the club's round-one season opener on March 7 against South Sydney, Williams's first match for his new team, will be sold out.
The hype around Williams's debut already had ticket sales tracking well, but the performances of the two sides in their final trials over the weekend - the Roosters' 28-16 win over Wests Tigers in the Foundation Cup and the Rabbitohs' 28-10 victory over St George Illawarra in the Charity Shield - have officials expecting a further surge in ticket sales this week.
''Ticket sales are tracking along very well,'' said the chief commercial operating officer of the Roosters, Ted Helliar. ''They've been extremely positive so far.
''I'd love nothing more than to put the sold-out sign up. It's probably a little too early to tell whether it will be. This time next week, we may have a better idea.''
A sellout would mean a crowd close to the stadium's capacity of 45,500, and a record for the Roosters in a home-and-away match.
Their SCG match against St George Illawarra in 2010 drew 37,994, a record for Roosters non-finals matches.
''It would be great to see a sellout,'' an NRL spokesperson said. ''It's the first match and the first round, and there's the Sonny Bill factor. But you can never make those sorts of predictions.''
It remains an unknown how supporters will respond to a Thursday night match but the television ratings for trial matches show the appetite for the start of the NRL season is significant.
Friday night's Charity Shield match was the highest-rating contest over a busy weekend of televised sport on pay television, drawing 240,000 viewers.
The Foundation Cup - featuring an impressive Roosters side, without Williams but including other new signings James Maloney, Michael Jennings and Luke O'Donnell, dispose of the Tigers - drew 173,000, although the crowd at Allianz Stadium was small largely because of poor weather.
In comparison, Israel Folau's Super Rugby debut with the Waratahs against the Reds drew 174,000 viewers, giving rugby union the equivalent, perhaps appropriately, of a win by a late penalty goal over the NRL trial, screened on the same night.
The strong ratings for the Foundation Cup came despite the fact that Williams, who controversially walked out on the Bulldogs in 2008 to play rugby union, was sitting on the sidelines. Roosters coach Trent Robinson erred on the side of caution with the star signing, deciding to give him more time off the field as he recovers from a pectoral injury.
Robinson remained confident Williams would be fit to play the Rabbitohs.
The Roosters emerged relatively unscathed from their final hit-out before round one; Daniel Mortimer required eight stitches to a cut under his right eye, but is not expected to be in any doubt for the season opener.
Glenn Jackson is a Rugby League Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald
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