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Why you should buy the 2009 MINI Cooper Clubman S: You're extremely wealthy and like small cars. You never liked going around corners that much anyways. The most exciting thing that could possibly happen to you in the course of a day is spotting another Mini in exactly the same color and getting the driver of it to wave feverishly at you. You used to have a regular Mini, but now you have a small dog.
Why you shouldn't buy this car: You consider value an important part of the car-buying process. You drive aggressively. You hate rear barn doors. You live near curvy roads. You hate suicide doors. You enjoy the way the MINI Cooper S handles. You realized you could buy a well-equipped Chevy HHR SS for half the price and without the waving.
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The Vacaville Friends of the Library will be holding a book sale at the Vacaville Cultural Center Library during the library's open hours starting on Oct. 25 through Oct. 29. The library is open 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. on Sunday.
On Thursday, Oct. 25 the book sale will only be open to Friends of the Library members. Anyone can become a member at the door. Membership prices are $10 per person or $15 per family. The sale is open to everyone starting on Friday, Oct. 26 and ongoing through Monday, Oct. 29. No membership is required Friday through Monday. Sunday and Monday are "$5 a Bag" days: fit as many books as you can in one bag for only $5.
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Last week we wrote about the sad death of Kobe, the yellow Labrador who inspired the idea for San Francisco's TaskRabbit. We called the San Francisco startup "fast growing," and it looks like it's about to start growing faster.
On Monday the company said it had raised $13 million in new financing, led by FoundersFund. FoundersFund partner Bruce Gibney is joining TaskRabbit's board.
"TaskRabbit helps its users become more productive while simultaneously creating thousands of jobs — it's a revolution for a labor market in desperate need of innovation," Gibney said in a statement.
The company plans to use the new money to expand its engineering and product teams.
"I am beyond thrilled to have Bruce and the entire Founders Fund team involved," Leah Busque, the company's founder and CEO, said in a statement. "As soon as we met, I knew we had a very strong shared vision for this business — to revolutionize the world's labor force — and I'm so grateful to partner with Founders to realize the company's huge potential."
Previous investors, including Shasta Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, Shervin Pishevar, and 500 Startups — also invested this time. The company has raised $38 million to date.


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The fonds consists of two series: The General Ledger Cumulative Transaction Details series, and the Pension Administration series.
The fonds consists of 8 sub-series: Advisory Boards, 1969-1982; Assistant to the President, 1966-1973; Commonwealth Games, 1987-1994; Executive Council, 1973-1990; General Office, 1960-1994; President's Meetings, 1980-1990; Special Events, 1975-1980, and Investigation into the Future Use of Royal Roads, 1991-1995.
The fonds consists of typescripts of Images of American living (7 files), and page proofs for The restless art (3 files).
Amati instruments collection : 1958-1992
The collection consists of selected correspondence, news items, signed programmes, descriptions of each instrument, and a photograph of Murray Adaskin, Stephen Kolbinson and the instruments.
The collection consists of essays written by Loft's students, including David Holmes-Smith and Lorraine Brand, for Loft's education courses at the University of Victoria concerning the history of education in B.C. and the history of Victoria's churches.
The fonds consists of subject files that contain newspaper clippings, publications, manuscripts, programmes, photographs, and art work, arranged by the following titles: Audrey's poems, Ballet, Bastion Theatre, Conservatory of Music, Music and Drama, Fine Arts, Famous Artists, Festivals (Art and Music), International Festivals, Programs, Theatre, Victoria Symphony. Also included are 5 certificates.
The fonds consists of brochures listing a brief history, paintings, chalk drawings, graphics and other works; draft of the brochure listing the Victoria College Art Collection, oil paintings, water colors, chalk drawings and graphics, and sculpture; letter sent on October 26, 1981 by Dr. G.V. Downes in reference to the Art Exhibition records.
The fonds consists of newspaper clippings, lecture notes and assignments, and several examination questions for the following courses: Economics 200, German 100, Geography 102, Commerce 251, and English 200. Some of the assignments are marked and graded.
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UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State has been recognized as a top college in Pennsylvania for students who are interested in military service, by the College Database.
The College Database's list of Top Colleges in Pennsylvania for Future Service Membersincludes 4-year, non-profit, degree-granting institutions that are considered to be both affordable – with annual in-state tuition less than $20,000 – and offer at least two ROTC programs.
Penn State has three ROTC programs for students — Army, Navy and Air Force.
The University's Air Force ROTC is an educational program designed to prepare undergraduate students for a commission in the Air Force while earning their baccalaureate degree. Four-, three-, and two-year scholarships are available to selected applicants.
Penn State's Army ROTC program is designed to teach leadership in preparing college students to become commissioned in the United States Army active forces, reserve forces, or the Pennsylvania National Guard upon graduation. The program is designed to to provide each commissioned officer the fundamental concepts and principles necessary to become successful Army officers or civilian leaders. Full tuition scholarships are available to selected applicants.
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Notes: Pizza sauce and crust are vegan, and offers Daiya vegan cheese at no extra cost. One pizza on menu is vegan (Asante), or you can build your own. Can also order online for delivery or curbside pickup, including half-baked pizza for heating at home. For SF locations, 4.85% benefits offset added to guest check.
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The Epic Battle For World Series Home Field Adv…zzzzzz
In the nine years since baseball's Think-of-Something-Anything response to the embarrassing 2002 All-Star Game tie, the gimmick – deciding which league would secure World Series home field advantage for its playoff champion – has been annually hammered into our heads as not just a Rationalization for a decreasingly relevant concept, but The Rationalization. It's personal, it's for pride, it's for home field advantage, it's not a break, a diamond is forever, promise her anything but give her Arpege. The sad part is, some people have now heard it so often, they believe it.
In point of fact, in those nine years The Rationalization has directly and personally impacted only seven players.
Only All-Stars Lance Berkman, Yadier Molina, and Albert Pujols of the 2011 World Champion Cardinals, and All-Stars Josh Hamilton, Alexi Ogando, C.J. Wilson, and Michael Young of the defeated Rangers, were even winged by what happened in an All-Star Game. When the N.L. won last summer, the Cards got Game 7 and the Rangers didn't. But one can argue convincingly that a team blowing a three-run lead and then a two-run lead in Game 6 could've done just as badly at home as they did on the road (and we don't even need to address the possibility that the Cards might've won the Series in Game 6 if Tony LaRussa hadn't forgotten how to phone his own bullpen in a noisy stadium).
The simple fact is that since the Butt-Covering Home Field plan was instituted in 2003, we've only had one seventh game, and thus we've only had one seventh game whose venue was decided by what happened in the All-Star Game. Other than last year, we haven't gotten close. Only two other Series even reached Game Six.
There is absolutely no recent evidence that home field advantage is even keenly influential, let alone decisive. Twice the American League All-Stars gave "their" winner home field advantage only to see the National League teams (the 2006 Cardinals and 2008 Phillies) still wind up playing more home games than their A.L. rivals, and prevailing in the Classic. The 2010 Giants had home field, and didn't need it. They won even though they played more games on the road than at home. In all the other Series (save for last year, of course) winner and loser played the same number of home games.
There's no measuring for the psychological impact of knowing you have that 7th Game in your yard, and there's an obvious advantage to the front end of the equation in which you are in strong position to win the first two at home (as did the '04 and '07 Red Sox, '05 White Sox, and '10 Giants). But did the Red Sox and White Sox pull off their three sweeps because they started in their own ballparks, or because they were decisively stronger clubs than the '04 Cardinals, '05 Astros, and '07 Rockies?
Besides which, although they've been on a great run since the 1979 Pirates won at Baltimore, last year's Cardinals victory only improved the home team's record to 19-and-17 in the sundry Games 7 of the modern World Series. Whichever method gives you that decider – All-Star Stunt, Alternating Year Rotation, or something new – it just isn't a guarantee you're going to win it.
The All-Star Game was doing just as well (or just as badly) as that of any other sport until the Tie Disaster Of 2002, and that could've been remedied by keeping a small reserve of emergency pitchers for each team. It didn't require a decade of selling as an ultimately decisive advantage, a not-at-all decisive advantage, decided by players making cameos under rules designed to insure they're still just playing an exhibition, that has only come in to play once in all that time.
Let's end this "Home Field" farce, now.
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Ok, you don't like that MLB continues to try to sell the public on the idea that the winner of the All-Star Game gets home field advantage because as it turns out, home field advantage hasn't proved to really make a difference in the World Series. So you just want the deception (i.e. commercialization) to end? From my point of view, this change had as much, if not more, to do with trying to make the All-Star Game more appealing to viewers, than it did actually impacting the outcome of the World Series. Doesn't everything have to do with money and ad revenue? If you were going to make an argument against the "new" format, I would have mentioned television ratings. Ratings for the All-Star game have been lower the entire last decade which would indicate that if anything, the change in format has negatively impacted viewership. Of course the lower ratings could just as easily be blamed on FOX because coincidentally ratings slipped when FOX started carrying the game.
So, I understand changing the "winner gets home field advantage" format because it is a failed television experiment, but changing it because it has had no impact on the outcome of the World Series is a weak excuse at best… except for the fact that you don't like MLB's false advertising. Again, I think MLB tells people it matters so they'll watch the game, not because MLB really believes it matters.
I think MLB knows it really doesn't make a difference if they use the alternating method or the It-matters-now method. They just don't want an ASG to end in a tie ever again. And neither do I. I want the NL manager to do whatever it takes to beat the AL. That's always what I thought the point of it was. And it's obvious MLB is just marketing the hell out of the It-matters-now method to get higher ratings. And I could care less as long as I see a good game.
I've never understood why MLB just didn't give the team that had the best record the home field advantage in the World Series. Seems to work for the NHL and gives teams something to shoot for in The President's Trophy.
Home field advantage isn't important– so let's not make the All-Star Game decide it? If it's not important– though 21 of the last 25 teams to win the World Series had home field advantage– then it's a good gimmick to encourage people to watch the All-Star Game in the era of games on cable (including MLB Extra Innings– greatest thing ever!), interleague play, and opposing players who hang out together before the game (sometimes during). I like "This Time It Counts"– it keeps me watching for the entire game, whereas before I probably had my fill of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver right around the time Smirky said "I'm Joe and he's Tim" or the first of fifty proclamations of "Speed slows down a game." Alternating home field advantage wasn't any better. As for the best record in the majors determining home field advantage in the World Series– that's OK if interleague play is expanded. But what a team does in the NL East is not comparable to what a team does in the AL West.
Home field advantage… Where did I hear that before? Oh yes. It was on the last Mets game broadcast where the announcers were saying that being on the home field allowed the crowd to become the 'tenth' player. I don't know if what was said worked. All I know is that the team just performed on an above par level and won. Oh and by the way: Leave the Arpege and give me the diamond. Hopefully it will be in NY somewhere at this season's end.
"Promise her anything, but give her Arpege." Is it wrong to adore a pundit simply because his memory of ancient TV commercials is as encyclopedic as mine? If so, I don't wanna be right.
Mr. Olberman, My point exactly! This former Journal-American copy boy and reporter is now writing for the Bosox Injection [no pay] and wrote this:
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There is no connection between the league that wins the All-Star game and the team that gets the 4-3 home advantage in the World Series. Your moronic advertising phrase—"Now, it counts!"—is an insult to all the players who gave their best efforts to win bragging rights glory for their league since July 6, 1933, at Chicago's Commiskey Park.
Bud, do you think that it didn't "count," to Babe Ruth, when he won the first All-Star game with a HR?"
All I know is that if the Washington Nationals manage to retain the National League's best record, they will have home-field advantage throughout the postseason. After nearly eight decades of bad baseball in D.C. (or worse, no baseball), karma finally seems to be smiling on South Capitol Street.
The only other point I wanted to make about the benefit of home-field advantage is economically. While playing at home may not automatically equate to a win in the box score, it does translate to a win financially- not only for the host team, but for the host city. The National League won the 2011 All-Star Game giving St. Louis home-field advantage. Last year's World Series yielded four games in St. Louis compared to Arlington, TX's three games. It was estimated that each of those games had an economic impact on the city of $6.1 million. So not only did St. Louis win the World Series, but by going to a game 7, the city earned an extra $6.1 in stadium, hotel, restaurant, and tourism revenue.
Good point, and let's not forget the fans themselves. In case the series goes to seven games, they get to cheer their team at home for four games, including that mystical seventh one!
The announcers during the game were sure to point out several times that the home team has won the WS more times than the visitors since this rule was put in place, totally ignoring the points brought up here that most baseball fans realize. I hate bad announcing.
The format for the LCS is 2-3- The National league holds the home area advantage in the World Series because of their win in the All Star game, and the fall classic also uses a 2- 3-2 format. In the National League, the situations are much cleaner.


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Drund Gives Devs & Users All-in-One Tool for Connected Devices
Dev shop Azork launched Monday Drund, a broad, agnostic development and management platform for apps across all connected devices and browsers.
The platform also has an aspect for users, allowing them to "manage their online life from any Internet connected device," according to a release.
Cross-platform development, especially in the mobile sector, is something of a rare and difficult promise to make. Developing not only for the two most popular mobile OSes but also for desktops and web browsers is a time- and resource-consuming consuming proposition; but leaning on "all-in-one" dev tools can sometimes lead to messy results and spaghetti code.
Drund makes the promise of "single platform development," saying that devs can create each app just once and deploy it to any web or mobile browser — including IE, FireFox, Chrome, Safari, and all the mobile browsers, too.
Granted, the app won't be a native mobile or desktop app; still, even having a mobile app that works across all kinds of devices and all browsers is a fairly major accomplishment. In other words, if Drund even works a little bit, it would help to eliminate a lot of the hassles of multi-platform development.
There are no subscription fees for using Drund as a developer. This poses an interesting advantage to devs who currently shell out 30% of profits to the App Store for iOS app revenues; using Drund and creating mobile-web apps, they would entirely bypass the App Store and the revenue split with Apple.
Then again, the downside is that devs entirely bypass the App Store — and the Android Market, for that matter. As web apps, even mobile web apps, these bits of software lose the immediate access and exposure of the verified native-app marketplace.
Yet on the other hand, who's to say that mobile web development rather than native apps isn't a valid and growing path? HTML5 is playing a role in mobile web development, and as mobile web apps act more and more like native ones, choosing to develop for the mobile web makes more and more sense.
The company is currently seeking app developers "to make some sweet applications in Drund." If you deign to give it a shot, by all means, we welcome your feedback; we'd love to hear good things about a cross-platform development tool like this one.
The User Side
For users, Drund sounds it fits perfectly with the cloud-computing concept of web apps (as opposed to websites) that come in marketplaces and stores and that can be ported from one device to another. The company says Drund gives users "the ability to put [their apps] all in one place that can be accessed anywhere the Internet is available, from any device, on any platform, and without installing software."
The Drund platform for users also aggregates social media data, as it includes apps for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, Tumblr and more. And Drund TV and Drund Music means you can also access Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, Rhapsody and Napster from your account.
In a word, this means that users can login once and access, use and manage all their apps from any connected device — a boon for app-ophiles, gadget freaks and others. And in practice, Drund looks a lot like the web-based OSes we've seen a lot of over the past couple years, with a friendly and familiar interface.
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A delightful option for a mid-morning snack or brunch, our Teff Banana Bread is also gluten-free and dairy-free. We slice ours with a serrated knife, first lengthwise down the middle and then across into 12 slices, for a total of 24 one-ounce servings per loaf.
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- 3 large very ripe bananas, peeled and broken into pieces
- 1/2 c. canola oil or vegetable oil
- 1 c. sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 c. teff flour
- 1/3 c. rice flour
- 1/4 c. plus 1 Tbsp. tapioca flour
- 1/4 c. potato starch
- 1/2 tsp. xanthan gum
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- PREHEAT the oven 350° F. Lightly grease a 9" by 4" loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- IN the bowl of a standing mixer with a paddle attachment or with an electric mixer, puree the bananas on medium speed. Add the oil and blend on low speed for 30 seconds. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and blend on medium for 1 minute.
- STIR together the remaining ingredients in a large bowl. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, working the batter with a large whisk to combine and make a slightly elastic batter, 3 minutes.
- POUR the batter into the prepared pan and bake until the cake pulls away from the sides of the pan and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
- LET the bread cool in the pan for 15 minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack to finish cooling before slicing. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Calories per slice: 110; Total fat: 5 g; Carbohydrates: 16 g; Dietary fiber: 1 g; Protein: 1 g
Nutritional analysis provided by Miraval Resort & Spa
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Hi, I have been working on a peice of code for a long time now and I really cant see how to solve the problem. I have gone over what have been tought and I really cant see how I can solve it!
The code I am working on is:
{ /* Instance variables */ public int stockLevel; // The number of items of this product in stock which is updated // by the deliver() and acquire() methods. Objects of other // classes will need to find out its value. public String description; // The name of the product which will be set to a meaningful // string by the constructor, and then never changed. // Objects of other classes will need to find out its value. /** * Constructor for objects of class Product */ public Product(String aDescription) { super(); this.stockLevel = 0; this.description = aDescription; } /* Instance methods */ /** * Reduce the stock level by the value of the argument. * Method presumes availability has already been checked. */ public void deliver(int anAmount) { this.stockLevel = this.stockLevel - anAmount; }
What I need to do is Describe and explain the changes I would make to the code in order to improve its data hiding and aid maintainability.
I have worked long and hard on this and I just cat crack it! For data hiding I was thinking/have been taught (not very far in the course yet) that I can declare the instance variables as private but I dont think this will work as it states within the explanation for the code that objects of other classes will need to find out the values of the instance variables!
for maintainability I have been looking along the lines of reuse of code but im really stuck on this one. not sure if its because ive been racking my brains so hard on the data hiding part as I feel im very close on that.
Please note that I am trying very hard with this and im not just looking for the easy way out. I jst feel that this is by far the best way for me to learn what I need to learn given that I cant answer the question after reading and re-reading the course books!


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From the Renaissance to the Romantic Era, Landscape Drawings Expressed Feelings for Nature
Los Angeles--Real or imaginary, sublime or picturesque, landscapes reflect a range of emotions about powerful natural forces and humankind's place in the rhythm of life. Drawing the Landscape: 1500-1800, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from January 23 through April 15, 2001, explores landscape drawings from the Renaissance to the Romantic era. Works on display include Titian's delicately rendered Pastoral Scene and Rembrandt's Landscape with the House with the Little Tower.
Artists began to draw the landscape as a subject in and of itself around 1500. This artistic phenomenon corresponded to the increasing perception that rather than threatening human existence, nature reflected a divine and enriching gift, offering both awesome beauty and mental repose.
From the 1500s through the 1700s, Italy was a prime subject of landscape imagery, evoking the tranquil shepherd's existence of classical antiquity known as the "pastoral." Artists such as Jacopo Zucchi, Jan van Scorel, Claude Lorrain, and Hubert Robert depicted this as a golden dream of primitive unity between humankind and the environment, predating the evils of urban life. In his Pastoral Scene (around 1565), the great Venetian master Titian pioneered the depiction of thick foliage suffused with airy breezes by applying slightly scratchy touches of soft brown ink. His innovative techniques were widely emulated during this time.
With their love of concrete detail, Netherlandish artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Anthony van Dyck, Lambert Doomer, and Jacob van Ruisdael pioneered the practice of taking sketching trips to memorialize travels or to record the immediate environment. Rembrandt was especially fond of sketching in and just outside of Amsterdam. In his Landscape with the House with the Little Tower (about 1650-53), he created a sparse, subtle composition by applying small dots of ink on brilliant white, fine textured paper. A few light layers of brown wash created the effect of a foggy atmosphere in which trees and buildings seem to meld together--a picturesque phenomenon so frequently encountered in the rainy climate of Holland.
During the 1700s, the beauties of nature were artificially created in garden settings close to home, as depicted in drawings by Francois Boucher and Jean-Baptist Oudry. As a whole, the drawings in this exhibition represent the long evolving human need to escape into nature as a retreat from strife and as a haven for creativity.
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|Ward Trunk or Treat.
The Young Men did a funny little show for the kids.
There were a million soups for dinner but I took a pot of macaroni. It was gone in two seconds.
|Noah the Wolverine.
|Abbi the Bat.
|Ward Trunk or Treat.
The Young Men did a funny little show for the kids.
There were a million soups for dinner but I took a pot of macaroni. It was gone in two seconds.
|Noah the Wolverine.
|Abbi the Bat.
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Jake came up with a big idea that we host a Halloween party. So, we did our best work and had lots of guests. 57 guests. It wasn't too crowded because we had a fire out back, picnic tables on the patio, and lots of space inside. Eek, Drink, and Be Scary was our theme, costumes optional. We ordered super cute cupcakes and cookies from Jake's cousin, Megan, I think the party turned out well. We may even try it again. We were blessed with good weather and lots of good treats!
|Jake and I were Carl and Ellie from UP
|Trason, Travis, Alleson, and Aubree
|Jimmy, Jack, James, Marlie, and Amber
|Bryan, Lilia, and Liza
|The next door neighbors, the Powell's
|Anne, Hurley, and Wendy
|Joey, Abbi, Jake, and Noah
|Bryan, James, Liza, Noah, Abbi, Jack, and Marlie
|Homemade Rootbeer and Witches' Brew
|Pumpkin throwing up and pumpkin poo
|Yummy apple dip, this table was full after I took the picture. And, Noah's party poster, "Best Party Ever!"
|Our cute treats. This table filled up, too!
|Cody, Elizabeth, and Tiffani (and Watermelon Guy)
|Taylor, Hollie, Kambri, Shaun, and Kellie
|Jeremy, Conrad, Kaiden, and Eli
|Caramel brownies made by my boss - they were the best ever.
|I like the succession of these pictures. Watch my eyebrows as I try to get all four of those candles blown out.
|I did it!
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|Noah was going without screens on Thursday but it seems like he's capable of finding other ways to amuse himself. You can see 5 of the 7 weapons he's wearing inside of his clothes.
|The bat and Wolverine loved Thriller. They had funny comments and questions throughout the performance, mostly concerned if the Swan Lake ballerina was shot for real or if the guy missed her on purpose. Neither of them removed any part of their costume for the entire 3 hours. I think they felt a little more brave in costume since we were surrounded by zombies.
|A grainy download {or "update to facebook," according to Noah} of Tammy, me, Noah, blocked Wendy, Abbi, and Anne. We had a great night together that started with a delicious dinner at Little America {an old high school, according to Abbi}.
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Labels: Abbi, Anne, friends, Halloween, Noah, October, Thriller, Wendy
|I knew he really was sick when Noah crawled on top of me and went straight to sleep. We stayed like this for hours before I couldn't deal with how hot his little body was anymore, let alone the slobber. :) I was so grateful to hold him as I considered that when he gets a little bigger and a little older, he might not want me to hold him anymore. Plus, he's going to be bigger than me so I'll have to sit on him.
|His little virus has lasted several days. The symptoms are so sporadic. Noah and I both have cabin fever from our self-imposed quarantine.
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Sandra Bullock, an Academy Award Best Actress
nominee for "Gravity," and Matthew McConaughey, a Best Actor nominee
for "Dallas Buyers Club," are seen in the 1996 film, "A Time to
Many of this year's Oscar contenders have
worked together on other films, meaning the classic "six degrees of
separation" are, in most cases, down to one - which begs the question: For
whom will they cheer the loudest on Oscar night?
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan
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"Gravity" nominee Sandra Bullock with
Bradley Cooper (nominated for Best Supporting Actor for "American
Hustle") starred in the 2009 comedy, "All About Steve."
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Julia Roberts ("August: Osage County")
appeared with Tom Hanks and Amy Adams (a Best Actress nominee for
"American Hustle") in the 2007
film, "Charlie Wilson's War."
Credit: Universal Pictures
Amy Adams ("American Hustle") and Meryl Streep (a
Best Actress nominee for "August: Osage County") starred in the 2008 film version of John Patrick Shanley's
Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Doubt."
Credit: Miramax Films
Meryl Streep ("August: Osage County") starred with
Leonardo DiCaprio (a Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Wolf of Wall
Street") in the 1996 drama, "Marvin's Room."
Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Wolf of Wall
Street") and Amy Adams ("American Hustle") in Steven
Spielberg's 2002 comedy-drama, "Catch Me If You Can."
Credit: Dreamworks
Amy Adams" ("American Hustle") and
Christian Bale (a Best Actor nominee for "American Hustle") also
shared the screen - and Oscar nominations - for David O. Russell's 2010 drama, "The
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Christian Bale ("American Hustle") and
Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club") played warriors in the
post-apocalyptic tale of dragons, "Reign of Fire" (2002).
Credit: Touchstone PIctures
Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club") and
Bradley Cooper ("American Hustle") starred in the 2006 comedy,
"Failure to Launch."
Bradley Cooper ("American Hustle") and
Jennifer Lawrence (nominated for Best Supporting Actress for "American
Hustle") also co-starred in David O. Russell's "Silver Linings
Playbook" (2012), and reteamed in the upcoming "Serena" (left).
Credit: Chockstone Pictures
Jennifer Lawrence ("American Hustle") and Michael
Fassbender (a Best Supporting Actor nominee for "12 Years a Slave")
were among the mutant cast of "X-Men: First Class" (2011), and will
be on screen together again in 2014's "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
Michael Fassbender ("12 Years a Slave") played
Rochester in Cary Fukunaga's 2011 film version of "Jane Eyre," which
also featured two of this year's Academy Award-nominated actresses: Judi Dench (a
Best Actress nominee for "Philomena"; and Sally Hawkins (a Best
Supporting nominee for "Blue Jasmine").
Credit: Focus Features
Judi Dench ("Philomena") starred as the mother of
J. Edgar Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Wolf of Wall
Street") in the 2011 biopic, "J. Edgar."
Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Wolf of Wall Street")
starred with Cate Blanchett (a Best Actress nominee for "Blue
Jasmine") in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" (2004).
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Best Actress nominees Cate Blanchett ("Blue
Jasmine") and Judi Dench ("Philomena") previously co-starred in
the 2006 drama, "Notes on a Scandal."
Credit: Fox Searchlight
Cate Blanchett ("Blue Jasmine")
starred with Brad Pitt (an Oscar-nominee this year as a producer of "12
Years a Slave") in the 2006 drama, "Babel."
Credit: Paramount Vantage
Brad Pitt ("12 Years a Slave")
starred with Jonah Hill (a Best Supporting Actor nominee for "The Wolf of
Wall Street") in the 2011 sports drama, "Moneyball." The
two also provided voices to the 2001 animated feature, "Megamind."
Credit: Columbia Pictures
Amy Adams ("American Hustle") and
Meryl Streep ("August: Osage County") appeared, though not together,
in the 2009 comedy-drama, "Julie & Julia."
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Meryl Streep ("August: Osage County") appeared as
the ex-wife of Woody Allen (an Oscar nominee for his screenplay for "Blue
Jasmine") in Allen's 1979 comedy, "Manhattan."
Credit: United Artists
Woody Allen ("Blue Jasmine") and Julia Roberts ("August:
Osage County") starred in Allen's 1996 musical-comedy, "Everyone Says
I Love You."
Julia Roberts ("August: Osage County")
and Brad Pitt ("12 Years a Slave") starred in the 2001 comedy,
"The Mexican."
Brad Pitt ("12 Years a Slave") and Cate Blanchett
("Blue Jasmine") played lovers trying to get into sync in "The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button."
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Cate Blanchett ("Blue Jasmine"), right,
and Christian Bale ("American Hustle") played variations on Bob Dylan
in Todd Haynes' 2007 film, "I'm Not There."
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Christian Bale ("American Hustle")
played a serial killer opposite Jared Leto (a Best Supporting Actor nominee for
"Dallas Buyers Club") in the 2000 film version of Bret Easton Ellis'
"American Psycho."
Credit: Lionsgate Films
Jared Leto ("Dallas Buyers Club"), far
right, starred with Nicolas Cage as arms dealers in the 2005 film "Lord of
War," whose cast also included Ethan Hawke (left), an Oscar nominee for his
screenplay for "Before Midnight."
Ethan Hawke ("Before Midnight"), Gwyneth Paltrow,
and Alfonso Cuaron (a Best Director nominee for "Gravity") are pictured
on the set of "Great Expectations" (1998).
Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity"), right,
directed Chiwetel Ejiofor (a Best Actor Oscar nominee for "12 Years a
Slave") in the 2006 dystopian future tale, "Children of Men."
The first major film role for Chiwetel Ejiofor ("12
Years a Slave") was the 1997 Steven Spielberg drama, "Amistad,"
opposite Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club").
Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club") played
a mentor to the stock broker played by Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of
Wall Street."
Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Wolf of Wall Street")
was joined in the cast of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" by
two of this year's Oscar nominees: Bruce Dern (a Best Actor contender for
"Nebraska"), and Jonah Hill ("The Wolf of Wall Street").
Jonah Hill ("The Wolf of Wall Street") starred in
the 2008 comedy, "Just Add Water," which also featured June Squibb
(below), a Best Supporting Actress nominee for "Nebraska."
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September 11, 2002
Dear God,
Questions. I have so many questions... especially lately.
I sometimes imagine getting an "open forum" with You, where I could ask You ANY QUESTIONS I WANT...and receive an immediate response. That would truly be the "ultimate" life experience. Now, don't get me wrong. Niagara Falls, witnessing childbirth, and sunrise in Jerusalem are mighty thrilling in their own right. But 25 minutes, "Fire away!" face-to-face with the Creator would probably be "It."
If I were to get 25 minutes to try to understand everything, nearly every one of my questions would begin with the same word -- "Why?"
I read the papers. And You know the story all too well. A nine-year old boy in Haifa watches his sister become crippled in a school bus explosion, and he wonders, "Why?" A 27-year-old widow, now dependent on psychotropic and sleep medications, wakes up every morning tormented and asking, "Why did he have to go to work so early that horrible Tuesday morning?" Too many orphans in Israel, whose parents were murdered in terrorist attacks, numb from shock, ask You, "Why?" Innocent citizens in civilized nations around the globe experience a kind of vague and persistent trepidation. They also turn to You and wonder, "Why?" and "What will happen next?"
We seem to be obsessed with the need to understand everything. We're driven to know. After all, You made us this way.
But lately I've been detecting a certain degree of arrogance when I require an explanation for everything. It becomes pretentious to expect that no experience or encounter be beyond my comprehension. I'm no different than most. When illness, premature death or failure of any kind strikes near me or my loved ones, I don't hesitate to ask, "Why?" And it doesn't take much, either. I've missed planes or busses by fractions and stood angrily at the bus stop and demanded an explanation from You!
And maybe there's nothing terribly wrong with that. After all, shouldn't I attempt to see Your hand in everything that happens to me?
But something doesn't sit right with me anymore. I think I need to reach a point...somewhere...where I accept that I am simply incapable of grasping every nuance of Your boundless inventions and intentions.
But that point is not easy to reach. I'm a bit uncomfortable to admit that my aptitude falls short of being limitless, and that some of life's mysteries will remain just that.
I often forget the magnitude of Your wisdom, power, and infinite supremacy. And that's dangerous. Because then I begin to accept only those things that I can understand. You know how it goes: "If it doesn't fit into my definition of rational thinking and purpose, I discard it." That's when my thoughts become preoccupied by the "Why?" question. That's when "faith" becomes a pariah.
It's confusing. In reality, You want me to question. You want me to understand and to ask, "Why?" Isn't that one of the signatures of Your People? And so I ask. But I'm not always privileged to be blessed with the insight I desire. Frequently I "just don't get it." And so I ask again...and again...and sometimes I'm still denied access to the Heavenly answer. I'm coming to realize that You have Your reasons. I must believe that. And that's when faith...and a dash of humility must kick in. It isn't easy.
And this is especially difficult when the incomprehensible is accompanied by pain -- sometimes a lot of pain, unbearable pain. The pain of parents burying children. The pain of Holocaust survivors replacing years of triumph with sudden tragedy. The pain of those who need so badly to cry, but have been drained of all their tears. That is when our need to make sense of the senseless becomes paramount.
You certainly know that recent world events have left all of us stunned, questioning, and frightened. Scores of leaders, authorities, and plain folk like me have beseeched You for the ability to comprehend unspeakable acts of global and personal catastrophe. "If only we could understand the reason, the plan, the ultimate purpose – then perhaps the pain could be ameliorated." We're all asking, "Why?"
I am sure that among the millions of prayers You'll be sifting through in the next week or two, many of them will begin with "Why?" But maybe the recent overload of wanton acts that totally defy reason should really be compelling me to accept my vast limitations of comprehending Your ways.
When a child asks his parent, "When?" he's stating his confidence that the time will definitely come.
So this year, I decided to omit the "Why?" to my list of questions. Perhaps my place is not to require an answer that I can appreciate. I'll leave that to Your Higher Judgment. Instead, I humbly substitute the word, "When?" When a child asks his parent, "When?" instead of, "Why?" he's stating his confidence...his belief that the time will definitely come. The only real question is, "When?"
And so, as the New Year begins, I wonder:
- When will the sirens finally end?
- When will we turn to You in complete and absolute confidence?
- When will the world recognize its ever-growing prejudices?
- When will our children go to sleep without fear?
- When will we put aside our petty habits and differences?
- When will we stop worshipping the holy dollar?
- When will the time come that we can wake up without "needing" 9/11's?
- When will the media recognize accomplishment more than destruction?
- When will our heroes become truly worthy ones?
- When will we learn to be happy, not critical; giving, not sarcastic?
- When will the fashion, cosmetics, and entertainment industries retreat into the background of life's priorities?
- When will our teachers get the salary and recognition we claim they deserve?
- When will we remember Nietzsche's simplicity: "Life is not an argument"?
- When will we stop asking, "Why?" as a prerequisite for acceptance?
- When Moshiach comes, will we stop asking questions?
- When?
Dear God, I know you are near. I can feel it. I can touch it. Your children are crying. We may not need to know, "Why?" But we do need to know, "When?"
Hopefully the answer will be, "Soon...very, very soon."


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Walt Augustinowicz led charge against the levy four years ago, and says he'll be "fighting much harder" this time around
As the Sarasota County School Board moves closer to a referendum election, it appears the district's school tax could face strong opposition — just like it did four years ago.
Walt Augustinowicz, the Republican who lead the heated charge against the referendum the last time it was on the ballot, said he will oppose it again.
"I'll be fighting much harder than I did four years ago," Augustinowicz told the school board during Tuesday's sparsely attended meeting.
He criticized the board for choosing the March election date because the district will spend money on a special election instead of using that money to hire teachers.
Calling for a compromise, Augustinowicz said he would drop his opposition if the board sought a November election that would save money and draw higher voter turnout.
But unmoved, the board voted 4-0 in favor of the March 25 election, with school officials saying the earlier date was critical to planning their annual budget. School Board member Carol Todd was absent and did not vote.
Board chairwoman Jane Goodwin said a March election will likely cost about $400,000, a "small amount in consideration of the $40 million we'd lose at not doing this at that time."
"We hope the community will support us," Goodwin added.
Augustinowicz stayed after the meeting ended to debate a few lingering board members.
The district is asking voters to renew the tax for the third time to fund school operations.
School officials say the 1 mill — or a $1 levy for every $1,000 of taxable property value — is critical for running the district.
"I'd have to call it our lifeblood, really," said Al Weidner, the deputy chief financial officer for Sarasota County Schools.
The extra tax is expected to generate $41.92 million — or about 12 percent of the general fund's $360.14 million during the 2013-14 school year.
The tax pays for 497 positions as well as other items, such as an extra 30 minutes in the school day and the arts, according to the finance department.
Augustinowicz said he doesn't think the tax is necessary, pointing out that most other districts in the state do not receive the extra funding.
According to the Florida Department of Education, Sarasota County is among 12 of 67 districts where voters have approved extra taxes. The four-year taxes across the state range from 0.25 mills up to 1 mill.
"It's one of those issues — they keep adding taxes and throwing more money," he said of the county.
Augustinowicz — who led the 2010 opposition group Better Sarasota Schools for Less — said he believes opposition to the referendum is likely to be brought up in the Sarasota County Republican Party. He is a member of the organization's policy committee.
School officials argue the four-year tax is important for maintaining operations, especially after state funding dropped to $359 million this school year. That compares with $406 million in the 2007-08 year, the prelude to the Great Recession.
School officials have not offered specifics for what areas would be cut if the referendum fails, although they have said layoffs would be unavoidable.
The resolution approved by the school board Tuesday night called the potential budget cuts "significant" and that the loss of the money would require the "elimination of numerous academic programs and positions."
During the next several months, an independent election committee will gear up to seek support for the referendum, which passed with 66 percent of the vote in 2010.


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Lopatka: "Mali needs EU support in the development of democratic structures" / Participation in EU training mission for Mali strengthens Austrian commitment in the region
VIENNA, Austria, March 1, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- "The political dialogue with the interim government of Mali must be further intensified. This is a special challenge for the European Union, because the concern is the stability and peace of our southern neighbourhood. Free elections are the determining factor for re-establishing political stability in Mali. The date for the elections has already been fixed. A swift implementation of the roadmap and reconciliation between the north and the south of the country are the issues now", Austrian State Secretary Reinhold Lopatka said commenting on the resolution of the executive committee of the Austrian National Assembly on Austrian participation in the EU training mission for Mali.
"The creation of democratic institutions is the vital first step for assuring that other additional aid measures will be effective in Mali and the region. The EU training mission for Mali is an important component of European commitment here. The agenda for this initiative is to train the armed forces in Mali and to ensure that they are capable of re-establishing territorial control over the entire country. The maintaining of human rights can only be achieved if appropriate training is given to the army in Mali. We have given committed support in Brussels during the preparation phase for the mission to have human rights, international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians included as fixed elements of the training programme for the armed forces of Mali", the State Secretary said.
The Austrian Foreign Ministry is providing additional support to the development of institutions in the country through an increased cooperation with the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center in Ghana. Additional training places have also been made available for Mali at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. "Through these measures we are bringing ourselves into the scope of the EU State Building Contract and are making a contribution to the protection of human rights and also to stability and security. We have in addition set a focus for Mali and the region in the area of humanitarian aid. We only recently increased the funds available for aid for Mali to 1.25 million euros. The deployment of an Austrian contingent within the scope of the EU training mission for Mali is thus a worthwhile and important supplement to our commitment for the region. We must not allow it to become a retreat for terrorist groups", Lopatka concluded.


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This is Katherine Patrick, the 18-year-old daughter of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, soon-to-be Smith College freshman, MassEquality intern and, oh yeah, a now extremely out lesbian. She and her family sat down to an interview with Bay Windows this week, in no small part because they realized someone was about to do a hit job piece and make her parents seem less accepting of her sexuality (which she disclosed to them last summer) than they are. And if that PFLAG video made you cry, get your Kleenex before you continue reading because Deval Patrick's response to his daughter's disclosure of her sexuality was, "I don't think we thought about who they loved - more that they knew what love was and that they would have love in their lives." Sniff.
So, Katherine realized a couple of years ago that she was a lesbian, came to grips with it, and told both her parents at once because she didn't want them to think she liked one of them more than the other. She still remembers the day because, like a lot of my gay friends, she approached the disclosure about her sexuality with a degree of trepidation despite being the daughter of one of the politicians responsible for defeating an anti gay marriage amendment to Massachusetts' constitution. This is what she said about watching him speak on that day:
"Because, of course, he didn't know that I was gay then," the 18-year-old recalls. "So, for someone so publicly to fight for something that doesn't even affect him was just like, 'That's my dad,' you know?" she says with a laugh. "That's all I could think. I was very, very proud to be part of this family, and this state in general."
"It was great. I'm very glad," she adds, looking at her father. "Don't cry, Dad." Patrick's eyes are brimming with tears, prompting some good-natured teasing from his daughter. "He's done some good things," she says with a laugh, patting his arm. "I appreciate it. Want a tissue? Oh, God. He's a crier."
Shit, I think I might be a crier, too.
Neither of her parents initiated the interview with the paper, though they agreed to it because their daughter asked them to do it and they thought it was a good decision to, as a public family, make this aspect of their lives public on their terms, rather than the terms of a newspaper like the Boston Herald. Said Deval and his wife Diane:
And while Katherine is comfortable with her very public coming out, her parents remain wary. Patrick's misgivings stem partly from the fact that his daughter wouldn't do an interview to announce that she is straight. "But the world is such and my job is such that rather than have someone do a 'gotcha' and our giving the misimpression that this wasn't completely natural in our family, then we thought, 'Alright, let's just say it and move on,'" he says.
Diane's concerns stem from a mother's instinct to protect her daughter and her desire to keep both of her daughters "from the burdens of public life." It's why she doesn't see herself becoming the proverbial PFLAG parent and advocating publicly for LGBT issues. "This issue involves one of my children and I have really wanted them to not have to feel, frankly, answerable to the public and I still don't want it," Diane explains. "As a mother my instinct is to protect my children from discomfort and so that would be the reason why I would not relish [an advocacy] role, because it would be about her."
In that aspect, she's totally right. Who among us straight Jezebels had to announce our sexual preference to our parents? Who had to even discuss it, unless you got caught doing something? The only conversation I ever had about my sexual proclivities with my parents at that age was one in which my mother demanded my father ascertain from me which of my dude friends I was fucking (she was sure it was at least 3 of them), a conversation that ended up with me yelling at him that I was offended that they thought I was such a slut and we never talked about it again. For the record, Dad (since I know you're reading), I was sleeping with Dennis. Sorry. But it wasn't any of your business, anyway.
Anyway, so Katherine has way more courage and honesty than I did at her age, and her parents are way more accepting of her homosexuality than my parents were of my slutty heterosexuality at that age and the whole thing sort of made me tear up because you just know for every lucky Katherine Patrick there's at least one unlucky Maya Marcel-Keyes, whose father, politician Alan Keyes, kicked her out of his house, stopped speaking to her and stopped contributing to her education when she came out.
With Love And Pride, Governor Deval Patrick's Daughter Comes Out Publicly [Bay Windows, picture courtesy of Marilyn Humphries]
Alan Keyes' Daughter Coming Out [CBS News]


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