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I still have a few (genuine, real) Sunkist oranges from Coldstorage and the stickers look like this:Except for the words, the shape and colors are all the same.
The SonKiss oranges are really not too bad but I wonder why they have to copy the sticker. I bought them because they were cheap...that was a good enough selling point for me.
If you walk around Sim Lim, you will see those iPhone and BlackBerry knockoffs. For $145, you can get a phone that takes dual sim card, wifi, touchscreen, java, analog TV, 2 cameras, FM radio, MP3 and MP4 playback. They are really not too bad for the price conscious. But I really wonder if they have to make them look like BlackBerries, iPhones and Nokias because the price is already so attractive. It is really embarassing to be carrying a fake. I rather be using a unknown brand phone that doesn't look like some other popular phone.


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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining Hank Shaw in lovely Bodega Bay, California, to learn about the bounty of wild edibles that thrive along the Northern California coast.

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Stand-up comedians, whether they're titans of the industry with HBO specials or aspiring amateurs curious about the artform, know what it's like to get nervous. The clichés are often true: Palms sweat, pacing occurs backstage and the question "Is this bit funny?" constantly swirls in a comic's head.
Sometimes, even some vomit hits the floor.
Last night at Jilly's in Pikesville, first-time stand-up comic Ayanna Marsh "puked in her own lap" multiple times as she waited to take the stage, says T. Brad Hudson, creator of the Drink Till We're Funny comedy show. Hudson found out about the incident from fellow comics who were with Marsh in the waiting area.
"There was this giant effort to get her kind of cleaned up," Hudson said. "The funny thing about comedians is, yeah, they were grossed out but every comic that went up before her and after her was making puke jokes. It smelled and it was gross but we all have a sense of humor. Every comic up there could empathize with her."
Given Jilly's configuration, the crowd — which included approximately 10 friends and family members of Marsh, according to Hudson — was unaware of the incident. A friend in the audience helped clean Marsh up with "four rolls of paper towels," Hudson said.
Marsh was determined to perform even after she threw up. Instead of discreetly finding the back exit, Marsh took the stage, still seated in her chair, and performed 10 minutes worth of material. Hudson compared it to a therapy session, saying Marsh's topics concentrated on parenting and her family.
Hudson, a stand-up comic who created Drink Till We're Funny six years ago, says Marsh — despite performing without shoes and with vomit at her feet — performed fine.
"She didn't bomb, really," he said. "She got a couple of laughs. She did OK despite the other stuff. I've seen a lot worse first-timers in my career."
Hudson says the experience is one of the craziest he's seen in his career. It's the type of story he hopes to capture while filming an upcoming reality web-series called "Open Mic: Life of a Comic." Footage will be captured during the "Drink Till We're Funny" tour, which features Hudson and seven other, mostly-Baltimore-based comics. The tour kicks off with a free show the Ottobar on Saturday. He adds that the film crew plans to record the event.
Hudson hopes to eventually sell a TV network on the premise. His thinking: If there are shows on pawn shops, tow-truck companies and other non-glamorous jobs, why wouldn't a show on up-and-coming stand-up comedians work as well?
"Why not standup comics? Why can't we have a show? We're actually funny," Hudson said.
We've reached out to Marsh for a comment on her performance and will update this story if we hear from her.


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A calf attacked in Wallowa County Oct. 15 has died of its injuries, making it the 82nd confirmed kill by gray wolves since they returned to Oregon in the late 1990s.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has described the attack as the first by what's called the Snake River Pack, which at the end of 2012 was documented to have seven members, including a breeding pair.
The attack occurred on forested public grazing land on a section known as the Freezout Saddle Area. A rancher checking on cattle saw a cow running down a slope with four wolves on the hillside above her. When he returned the next day, he found the 250-pound calf with severe bite wounds.
Wallowa County Commissioner Susan Roberts, who chairs the local wolf committee, said the pack's activity is a concern.
"We've got multiple producers in that area who have stock, and some feel they have lost stock to wolves in past," she said. But the area is steep and hard to get to except by horseback or hiking, so ranchers haven't bothered to call out wildlife officials to document damage, she said.
"But this (attack) was more south than where they have been historically roaming," Roberts said. "When a pack increases, they disperse. You can assume that what going on there.
Under certain conditions, ranchers can shoot wolves caught in the act of attacking livestock or domestic animals. The attack has to occur on the rancher's property or on land they lawfully occupy, such as on a grazing permit. In addition, ranchers are not allowed to intentionally attract wolves to their property.
Otherwise, strict management rules apply because wolves are protected under state and federal law endangered species acts. A lawsuit filed against the wildlife department by three environmental groups resulted in a settlement that established the management rules. Among other details, the wildlife department can't issue a kill order until there have been four "qualifying incidents" – attacks – within a six-month period.
In order for an attack to be counted, the landowner had to be using two preventative measures and they must have been in place at the time of the attack. Deterrence methods include hiring range riders to respond on horseback or all-terrain vehicles, and electrified fladry, fabric streamers that flap in the wind and bother wolves.
Even then, details can snag the process.
In August, a milking goat was found killed and partially eaten in Umatilla County. State wildlife officials quickly confirmed it was the second kill by the Umatilla River Pack, but didn't file a deterrence plan within 14 days as required by the management plan. Because of the missed deadline, the attack couldn't be counted as a second qualifying incident.
Oregon had at least 46 gray wolves at the end of 2012, all in the northeastern corner of the state except OR-7, the wandering lone wolf who traveled from northeastern Oregon into California before returning to southern Oregon. The first Oregon wolf is believed to have crossed over from Idaho in 1999.
Earlier this fall, the Oregon Department of Agriculture allocated $38,000 to help prevent livestock attacks in five counties, including Wallowa.
The money will be spent to pay range riders, put up fladry, remove livestock bone piles that may attract them and, in one county, buy a box that emits an alarm when activated by radio signals from an approaching wolf wearing an electronic tracking collar, as many of them do.
Funding comes from $200,000 approved by the Legislature for the 2013-15 biennium, twice what was allocated the previous session.


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In memory of Stone's death, 17 years ago today, a look book at what one soap expert picked as an example of soaps at the top of their game.
Originally published 10/25/11:
In lieu of yesterday's General Hospital episode where whack-a-doodle Lisa attempted to inject Patrick with his wife, Robin's, HIV+ blood, opinions on my particular Twitter feed (@SoapOpera451) were split between those who thought the act was daringly and perfectly in character for a demented supervillain like Lisa and a pertinent nod to Robin's history, and those who were disgusted and offended at the misinformation such an act could trigger as well as the exploitation and the suggestion that threatening to infect anyone with AIDS could ever be considered entertainment.
For newer viewers, the history they refer to is Robin's original diagnosis in 1995, as recalled in my book, Soap Opera 451: A Time Capsule of Daytime Drama's Greatest Moments by Soap Opera Weekly's Mala Bhattacharjee, who wrote:
As a young girl growing up along with Robin (we're exactly the same age), I invested wholeheartedly in her first real love story. My heart fluttered right along with hers as she experienced the highs and lows of forbidden romance. But the pathos was taken to another level when, in the wake of a deadly mob hit, a wounded Stone revealed to Robin that he'd tested positive for HIV. Bloody, defeated and terrified, he begged her to go away, to leave him. Of course, viewers already knew they'd been having sex without a condom… and while Robin's eventual HIV diagnosis wasn't that much of a surprise, it absolutely gutted Stone, who had developed full-blown AIDS.
Equal parts personal, human tragedy and teaching moment, (Headwriter) Claire Labine's beautifully crafted story drew on the medical expertise of characters like Alan Quartermaine and Kevin Collins, who supported Stone and Robin and educated the audience about HIV and AIDS. Robin's uncle Mac, her guardian in the wake of her parents' presumed death, had to grapple with guilt and a sense of failure while trying to be strong for his niece. The entire community of Port Charles pulled together, with then-villain and supporting player Sonny Corinthos showing depths that would soon make Maurice Benard the show's lead.
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Using Regional Film Archives: Why Bother?
Posted 14 May 2005 - 08:59 AM
Using Regional Film Archives: Why Bother?
What are Regional Film Archives?
Regional Film Archives are the public repositories of film and video in this country. It is their duty to preserve, conserve and make available to the public for educational purposes too our moving image history. There is a great emphasis recently on links to education. The Department of Culture, Sport and the Media has made funds available, as has the Heritage Lottery Fund, for digitization of resources.
There are also local Film Archives eg the Lincolnshire and Humberside Film Archive and local/regional sound archives eg the North West Sound Archive. These are much harder to track down, but may well have just the kind of resources we might want to use in school. Ask in your local museum and/or record office/archives they will know what is available in the locality.
A full list of Regional Film Archives and links to their websites is available at:
Regional sound archives:
eg: North West Sound Archive email contact: email@example.com who produce tapes of local people describing their experiences in WW1 and WW2 Best thing is to ask at your local County Records Office or museum for info.
Local film Archives:
eg: Lincolnshire and Humberside Film Archive, produced a video Seems like Yesterday, looking at aspects of Lincolnshire life from 1908 1953. Ask at your local newspaper or record office for details.
And of course dont forget the British Pathe archive available free to you via your Regional Broadband Consortium. http://broadband.ngfl.gov.uk will help you find your local contact point. Increasingly, RBCs are using film from Pathe to produce materials available from their site. [NB: you can download low quality preview clips from home, but to get high [broadcast] quality clips without charge you must download these in school.]
There is also the British Film Institute. BFI has several sections of interest:
Screenonline: www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/446108/index.html , go to the genres and themes section. Here you will find sections on documentaries, newsreels, political films, etc all of use in the classroom. [ NB: For copyright reasons you can only download these free in school.] Their recent CD/DVD of Mitchell and Kenyon silent films Electric Edwardians is a superb collection of resources, mostly filmed in the North West. Their website contains teaching notes by Ben Walsh you can download them for free - on using the materials in the classroom.
A common response from teachers on discovering their regional archive is I never knew such a thing existed, or wow! The strength of the archives is, of course, their regional/local resources. For schools in Manchester to use material on Manchester in the Blitz, for example, is far more direct than film of London. Of course, this is not always possible, but there is much more local and regional material available than is commonly supposed. Many of the film archives house the collected output of local television and radio stations, as well as oral history projects, old promotional films, even amateur movies from before the war.
The key issue for teachers is one of access and knowing what is available; and, perhaps, of having some scaffolding linking resources to what is taught in the classroom, to enable teachers to feel comfortable with the material. Of course, some teachers need little or no support, whereas others need a great deal.
Almost all the archives see their collections as a huge untapped resource of material, as far as schools are concerned. Most use at present is either ad-hoc have you got material on . or teachers using materials already produced for sale to the general public or other users. Archives rarely have an education officer, or if they do, they rarely have National Curriculum knowledge and expertise. And they are rarely historians! That makes finding out what you want sometimes difficult and time-consuming.
Perhaps the biggest issue for regional film and sound archives is finance. Income for them is uncertain, and they are certainly financed on the cheap. But it is the uncertainty that is the biggest problem. How do you plan medium to long term education work with an uncertain income stream? How do you finance an education officer? Yet if schools are to make full use of this tremendous resource then the Archives need staff, time and support to help make it happen.
Many archives now have online catalogues: these can be accessed from here: www.bufvc.ac.uk/faf/databases.htm, but if titles, categories and labels do not mean anything to teachers then it is difficult to realize the value of what is on offer. You may have to plough your way through a lot of records to find what you want. Perhaps the best way is to visit the archive and talk to the people there. They do know what is in their collection, and if it is available in digital format for easy use by teachers.
What do we, as teachers, want from film Archives? Do we want raw footage, to use as evidence and interpretations, or do we want scaffolding and support in how to use the material archives hold? This is as confusing an issue for archives as it is for teachers. Archives are unsure whether to produce mediated materials, with commentary and editing, or the original unadulterated footage. Of course the answer is that some teachers want to use raw footage, and others need lots of support!
Some archives also have Websites offering online access to film from film archive collections: www.bufvc.ac.uk/faf/websites.htm
Some regional film archives have videos and/or DVDs for sale of materials in their archive: www.bufvc.ac.uk/faf/videos.htm will give you a link to some of them.
How might we use Regional Film Archive material in the classroom?
The BBC TV series The Nation on Film, for example, uses regional and local footage to build up a national picture of the C20th, cleverly interspersing local archive film with talking head interviews of people who were there and interviews with experts. There has been a whole spate of regional TV productions WW2 in Colour, etc, etc, and this is a major income source for regional film archives.
BBC Nation on Film website: www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/
Some regional TV stations use Archive film to produce, for instance, East Anglia at War, or similar programmes, with a distinct regional feel to them.
But most of all local history is sometimes poorly taught or not at all in many history classrooms. Regional Film Archives give us a perfect opportunity to put that right. Pupils like it they can relate to it in a way that they dont to material in text books. And how much better is it to approach the really big issues from a local perspective? One of my best ideas was to study WW1 from the local war memorial it brought the war home to pupils in a way Id never managed before.
Regional Film Archives are keen to work with teachers within the constraints imposed on them by their budgets. The Yorkshire Film Archive, for instance, has just had a rejuvenation grant to employ an education officer for the next two years, and he is trying to work with teachers in the area to produce materials of relevance to the classroom. For further information on the archive visit www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com
So, is it worth the bother of tracking down that elusive piece of film that fits perfectly into your scheme of work? The answer has to be a resounding yes! It is more relevant to the pupils, it provides another weapon in our armoury to say history is important, that there are different viewpoints and interpretations of history, that the London or National view of history is not always correct. And it encourages our pupils to question the stereotypes and over-simplifications of the textbook.
If you are using local and/or regional film already in your classroom, or plan to please let us know. We can try to build up a co-operative exchange of materials, and help each other access those hard to find materials.
If you think it is all far too much bother for the return, then equally I look forward to hearing from you.
Alf Wilkinson
Posted 26 May 2005 - 03:04 PM
I'm contacting them to see what they can offer - what sort of clips would people expect to be available? Any ideas about the sorts of things that I should be asking for?
Posted 26 May 2005 - 08:50 PM
There will be promotional films - cities as well as firms, amateur footage that ca nbe really enlightening, as well as regional tv output. You'll be amazed at the choice you have!
Let me know how you get on.
Posted 26 May 2005 - 09:04 PM
Go pray in my church!
Posted 06 June 2005 - 08:05 PM
The Yorkshire Film Archive project is for two years, not one Dan, so you do have some time to get a project going with them - they are keen to work with teachers. AS are most Regional Film Archives, they just don't have the manpower to make it easy!
There will be promotional films - cities as well as firms, amateur footage that ca nbe really enlightening, as well as regional tv output. You'll be amazed at the choice you have!
Let me know how you get on.
You can freely access low quality Pathe news clips from their website, at home or school, but really it is not worth the hastle. Film Education have two digital video packages - the Somme, and D- Day, with more on the way, that are very reasonably priced and have all kinds of editing software. Try screenonline too - free registration at school and downloading. They have lots of documentary, newsreel, etc that you can doenload and use, and edit using 'microsoft windows' software. Channel 4 have lots of CDs and videos to buy for school use - al lat one-off costs rather than subscription. Transfer all your old video programmes - or at least the clips you use - to DVD and then use 'moviemaker' to play around with them.
Is that enough to get you going?
Posted 18 September 2008 - 12:27 PM
Posted 18 September 2008 - 03:32 PM
Ditto to this
I'd love to make more use of film archive material but my LEA hasn't bought into any package. Is there any way around this? I did try to buy video online but was amazed by the horrendous costs that stop my using the materials I was interested in on the first world war and Emily Davison.
as a free agent I would love to get hold of some of this, as I actually have some time to do something with it!!!
mind you a lot of the clips are of old football matches, really old football matches as Newcastle are winning Sorry Dave could not resist
"Had Churchill been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgement might well have concluded we were finished. - Anthony Storr
Posted 18 September 2008 - 05:24 PM
Posted 18 September 2008 - 05:30 PM
Lots on there of use, and there are other channels worthy of a glance.
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Occupants of a van on the Ohio Turnpike have been killed after a car being chased by troopers struck it near Fremont, causing it to burst into flames. Westbound lanes near Freemont are expected to be closed until early Friday.
All three westbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike were shut down just west of Fremont after a car being chased by the Ohio State Highway Patrol crashed into a van that burst into flames Thursday night.
WTOL-TV reports that the Ohio State Highway Patrol said the occupants in the van were killed, but the number of victims was unknown. The 24-year-old man driving the speeding vehicle was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Police say the speeding vehicle was traveling between 125 and 150 miles per hour and hit at least three other vehicles over the course of 17 miles. The turnpike's westbound lanes are expected to be closed until early Friday.
Authorities recommend that motorists find alternate routes.
Information from: The Blade, http://www.toledoblade.com/


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PHOENIX (AP) - From Tempe to Tucson, law enforcement officers across Arizona will be out in full force looking for drunken drivers during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff says DUI enforcement has been a top priority for the department, and his officers plan to be visible throughout the downtown district on Thursday and Friday.
In Pima County, sheriff's deputies and Tucson police will be conducting DUI checkpoints and extra patrols through the weekend.
Enforcement actions are also planned in Flagstaff, Sierra Vista and numerous other cities.
Authorities were urging people to use designated drivers or call for a ride to avoid driving drunk.
Federal statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes kill someone in the U.S. every 53 minutes.
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I remember way back in 2008 when Western Digital announced a new product called the My Passport Essential that the company designed to be the first truly all-in-one back-up solution for the average consumer. The company launched it just in time for Mother's Day and it was available in ten different colors to make sure you got the color of your preference. The idea behind the My Passport Essential was to make backing up your data as easy as possible to an external device that was small and easily portable and store-able in a safe or a desk drawer.
The idea of a simple backup solution that comes with the needed software to back up, retrieve and secure your files is ingenious. When these drives first came out many users were buying external hard disk and then having to buy third-party applications like Acronis True Image and setting everything up yourself. With the the My Passport Essential drive you just plug it in an open USB port, run the software once, and you can forget all about it until you need it since there is an automatic backup mode.
Back in 2008 when these drives were first announced the largest My Passport Essential capacity you could get was 320GB, it used the High-Speed USB 2.0 interface to connect to your PC and cost a whopping $179.99! On September 15th, 2008 WD announced a 500GB version for $219.99 in the My Passport Essential series that was also USB 2.0. That was a fair amount of money at a time when the United States was just starting to enter a recession. The prices of electronics and computer components have drastically fallen over the past few years and you can now nearly three years to the day later you can get a a My Passport Essential 500GB with the new and much faster SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface for $69.99 shipped! You really have no excuse for losing data these days when backing up is so affordable.
I'm not sure how or why we haven't reviewed one of these Western Digital drives since they have been released, but better late than never right? The WD My Passport Essential that I have for review today is the latest version that WD touts as being the 'next generation' since it uses the USB 3.0 interface. WD currently offers the My Passport Essential in the 500GB capacity and five colors: silver, blue, white, red and black.
Inside the retail box you'll find the portable hard drive, USB 3.0 cable and the Quick Install Guide. WD lists the WD SmartWare software is included in the box, but don't freak out when you can't find the software disk as the software is already on the portable hard drive. The USB cable included by Western Digital was found to be 18-inches in length, which is fine for a small portable drive like this.
Flipping the My Passport over we see that Western Digital placed four rubber pads on the bottom to keep the portable hard drive from sliding around the surface that you place it on. We've seen other companies do this and the pads usually come off after several months of use, but we don't think that will happen here as WD engineered the housed with recessed areas in the plastic that the pads fit into. This keeps the pads in place and it's subtle little design changes like that that keep WD consumer products headed in the right direction. The back also lists the part number, serial number, where it was produced and a whole bunch of logos that don't mean much to the general public. The finish on the My Passport is one that is high-gloss, so it does show finger prints and smudges.
The My Passport is quite small and measures in at just 110mm x 83mm x 15mm or 4.3″ x 3.2″ x 0.6″ with a weight of just five ounces. To give you a visual impression I placed the My Passport next to a standard 2.5″ SATA notebook hard drive and it's just slightly bigger. The WD My Passport Essential 500GB USB 3.0 portable drive actually uses a notebook hard drive inside, so now you know how the company got it so small. I didn't remove the case on the My Passport, but word on the street is that the SATA to USB 3.0 adapter is soldered onto the drive. Basically, don't expect to be able remove the drive and easily use it in a notebook if that is something you were thinking about doing.
Western Digital went with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 on the latest versions of the My Passport and this is great as it is backwards compatible with USB 2.0! Even if you don't have USB 3.0 today you can use this drive and then down the road when you invest in a PC that has USB 3.0 it will work and actually be faster. WD says that the transfer rates will be up to 3x faster with USB 3.0 over USB 2.0 on the My Passport.
Since the WD My Passport uses a standard notebook hard drive it gets it power from the USB port, so no power adapter needs to be plugged into the wall. This means the only cable that you need to bring with you if you travel a bunch is just the USB cable.
I often get asked if you can swap out drives or take the drive out of a portable drive and use it in a console gaming unit or a notebook PC and the answer to that with the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 versions of the WD My Passport is no. We took ours apart to better explain and show this to you. For starters notice that WD is using a WD5000MBVW 2.5″ hard drive that is not available for resale, so you can only find it in these portable drives. It is my understanding that the WD SmartWare only works through a USB connection and by offering a drive like this it ensures that people aren't switching drives and taking advantage of the free software.
Once you turn the drive over and sit it next to a 'normal' WD SATA notebook hard drive you'll notice the PCB and connection differences. There is no way to use this hard drive in a standard notebook or gaming console as the circuity is different. While we have the drive taken out of the enclosure it should be noted that WD did place some plastic crush zones in the corners to help protect the drive from drops and then to take it one step further they also placed rubber pads on each corner to help 'suspend' the drive in order to keep it from vibrating and rattling the plastic when powered up.
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William Neptune, Portland, 1920Item 12290 info
Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Passamaquoddy Governor William Neptune, 45, and his family were on hand at the Indian Village at Deering Oaks.
The official Centennial program pointed out that Deering Oaks was "the scene of one of Portland's greatest Indian battles, a tablet erected there commemorating the event."
It also noted that "Bullets that were fired from the guns of the early pioneers in these engagements with the Indians are still found in the trunks of some of the old trees."


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23w, 3d. Like approximately half the Internet, I was struck by Glennon Melton's "Don't Carpe Diem" essay on her blog Momastery earlier this year. If you haven't read it yet, you must. The essay is written in response to all of the folks who tell her (a mom of three young kids), to enjoy every moment because time goes by so quickly.
She wrote, "This CARPE DIEM message makes me paranoid and panicky. Especially during this phase of my life – while I'm raising young kids. Being told, in a million different ways to CARPE DIEM makes me worry that if I'm not in a constant state of intense gratitude and ecstasy, I'm doing something wrong." Amen.
I feel that way most days—I'm grateful at the end of the day, when my sons are in bed, and we have all survived—but I'm rarely able to find myself grateful in the moment, in the middle of those days, when I look down to find a small person wiping his nose on my pants and then look up to find a slightly bigger small person half-a-block ahead of me, weaving in and out of crowds on the sidewalk, heading toward traffic. And during this pregnancy, which I am ridiculously grateful for and wanted tremendously (a daughter? a daughter! I still can't believe that I finally get to have a daughter—how my mom would have loved having a granddaughter), and longed for when I wasn't pregnant—well, I'm a little sad to think that I'm going to have enjoyed this a lot more when I look back on these days than I do while living through them.
I'm older this time around (34!), and pregnancy seems to be taking its toll on my body. From the high blood pressure that freaked everyone out—midwives, husband envisioning his pregnant wife dying of a stroke and leaving him with two young children to raise, me—to anemia, the seemingly endless series of rashes (now everywhere that's been exposed to the sun seems to be insanely itchy), and the spider veins that continue to turn purple and swell, leading even strangers to ask what I've done to myself, it hasn't been easy. I'm never a good sleeper during pregnancy, but my kids seem to have taken on the responsibility of ensuring that I rise daily before 5 am, and I'm perpetually exhausted. I've gained 15 pounds thus far, but it feels like I'm hauling around three times that.
And so while I am terribly grateful to be carrying this daughter of mine, and I don't want her to come out until she's good and ready nearly four months from now, I'm having a hard time enjoying what I know will be my final pregnancy, despite wanting it so much. While I've definitely slowed down in the final months of pregnancy the last two times, I was never someone who loathed being pregnant—in fact, I loved it. I felt (and continue to feel) grateful (there's that word again) that I'm able to get pregnant and carry a healthy baby to term, something I know that not everyone who wants to is able to achieve; it is not something I take for granted. And there are those tremendous moments of joy when feeling the baby kick or glide around inside my belly—the moments where I must look like the cat who just swallowed a mouse, as though I have a delicious secret I'm hiding—and those I guess are the moments I will try to cling to when this is all over. I know I will forget how heavy my belly and legs feel at the end of the day, how exhausted my feet are, how tired I look… What I hope I can seize for future reflection are those secret moments between my daughter and me while she's still inside, the start of our relationship before we truly know each other, the knowledge that I loved her before I ever met her…
Were you someone who enjoyed every minute of being pregnant, or did you struggle to feel grateful for the experience? Leave a comment .


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Johann Moritz Rugendas, Voyage Pittoresque dans le Bresil. Traduit de l'Allemand (Paris, 1835; also published in same year in German). Reprinted in Viagem Pitoresca Através do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1972; images shown on this website), and in color from original water colors, in Viagem Pitoresca Através do Brasil (Editora Itatiaia Limitada, Editora da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1989) [NOTE: both 1835 French and German original editions were published in black/white].
Caption, "marché aux Negres" (slave market); shows men, women, and children awaiting sale; some cooking food over open fire. Daniel Mannix, Black Cargoes (New York, 1962; after p. 146), erroneously captions this illustration as "A slave market in Martinique, early nineteenth century." For an analysis of Rugendas' drawings, as these were informed by his anti-slavery views, see Robert W. Slenes, African Abrahams, Lucretias and Men of Sorrows: Allegory and Allusion in the Brazilian Anti-slavery Lithographs (1827-1835) of Johann Moritz Rugendas (Slavery & Abolition, vol. 23 [2002], pp. 147-168).


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From "The Silence of the Soul," by Laurence Freeman OSB in THE TABLET 10 May 1997.
[One] reason why silence is so disturbing to us [is this]: As soon as we begin to become silent, we experience the relativity of our ordinary everyday mind. With this mind we measure our space and time coordinates, we calculate probabilities and count up our mistakes and successes.
It is a very important and useful level of consciousness. It is so useful and familiar a state of mind that we easily think it is all there is to us: our whole mind, our real selves, our full meaning.
Life, love, and death frequently teach us otherwise. We bump into silence at many unexpected turnings on the road of life, in unpredictable ways, in unlikely people. Its greeting has an effect which is both thrilling, full of wonder and yet often terrifying.
Our thoughts, fears, fantasies, hopes, angers and attractions are all rising and falling moment by moment. We automatically identify ourselves with these fleeting or compulsively recurring states without thinking what we are thinking. When silence teaches us how unreliably transient these states really are, we confront the terrible questions of who we are. In silence we must wrestle with the terrible possibility of our own non-reality.
Buddhist thought makes this experience—what it calls anatman or "no self"---one of the central wisdom-pillars of its path of liberation from suffering and one of its essential means to enlightenment. The Buddhist practitioner is encouraged to seek out this sense of inner transience and rather than fleeing from it to dive headlong into it, as Meister Eckhart and the great Christian mystics did.
Understandably, anatman is the Buddhist idea that others generally have most trouble with. How absurd, how terrible, how sacrilegious to say that I don't exist. In fact most Christian antagonism to anatman is unfounded or founded on misinterpretation. It does not mean that we do not exist but that we do not exist in autonomous independence, which is the kind of existence the ego likes to imagine it has; the kind of fantasy of being God with which the serpent tempted Eve. It is the hubris to which religious people often fall victim.
I do not exist by myself because God is the ground of my being. In the light of this insight we read the words of Jesus in the New Testament with deeper perception. "If anyone wishes to be a follower of mine, he must leave self behind; day after day he must take up his cross and come with me; but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it" (Luke 9:23-24). If through silence we can embrace this truth of anatman, we make important discoveries about the nature of consciousness. We discover that consciousness, the soul, is more than the amazing computing and calculating and judging system of the brain. We are more than what we think. Meditation is not what we think.
After meditation: from THE DHAMMAPADA, "The Path," verses 276-279, ed. by Anne Bancroft (Rockport, MA: Element, 1997), p. 81.
You must make the effort, the awakened only point the way. Those who have entered the path and who meditate, free themselves from the bonds of illusion.
Everything is changing. It arises and passes away. The one who realizes this is freed from sorrow. This is the shining path.
To exist is to know suffering. Realize this and be free from suffering. This is the radiant path.
There is no separate self to suffer. The one who understands this is free. This is the path of clarity.
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The Dodge City Red Demons lost both games in a baseball quadrangular Tuesday afternoon at Hobart-Detter Field and ended their six-game winning streak with two poor performances.
The Red Demons lost to Arkansas City 5-0 in their first game of the afternoon, then fell to Andover 8-3 to close out the day.
DCHS baseball head coach Daniel Rogers wasn't happy about too many things after the way the Red Demons played, especially on defense. The Red Demons committed 12 turnovers (six in both games) with only three of the 13 runs given up by Dodge City in the two games earned.
"We didn't show up to play today and I'm completely embarrassed. Hopefully the team is too," Rogers said. "I think we let the weather get in our heads and they thought it was cold out and they really didn't want to be there."
The Red Demons (6-3) let a good pitching performance by Collin Gifford go to waste in the first game. Gifford gave up only two hits and four walks in seven innings of work.
Dodge City had five hits against the Bulldogs (who claimed their third straight win over the Red Demons) but stranded eight runners in scoring position.
"I'm frustrated after all the way around," Rogers said. "We pitched great in game one, but we didn't get out bats going when we needed to score runs."
The second game saw none of the three facets of the game working for the Demons, but they still had a chance to put things together until the latter innings.
"It was basically the same thing," Rogers said. "We had six errors, three by pitchers. We gave up leadoff walks from the second, third and fifth innings and every one of those walks ended up scoring a run."
Dodge City was able to stay with the Trojans with a bases-loaded walk issued to Eric Reid in the bottom of the second after giving up a run in the top of the frame; but Andover scored two more in the top of the third to take a 3-1 lead.
The Demons came back when Andrew Balderaz singles, stole second and scored on a double by Jordan Doan. A balk moved Doan over to third and Gideon Wells hit a RBI groundout to tie the game.
Andover took over the game with three runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth to complete the victory.
Doan was the losing pitcher on the mound with five innings of work.
Rogers said the Demons will be working hard during practice the next couple of days before their next doubleheader Friday against Garden City at Demon Field. The first pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.
Red Demons lose two in Hutchinson
The Dodge City Red Demons lost both games in a baseball quadrangular Tuesday afternoon at Hobart-Detter Field and ended their six-game winning streak with two poor performances.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- This was the perfect final All-Star Game for Derek Jeter. Not because he had two hits, not because he received several massive ovations, not because his final sendoff was indulgent but still somehow understated. It was the perfect final All-Star Game for Derek Jeter because, in one moment, what Jeter is, and what we demand him to be, came into vivid focus. We are nearing the end of Jeter's career, and we still can't let him be anything but perfect. We can't let him just be a great player. He has to be a god.
The moment came mid-game, off the field. It came when National League starter Adam Wainwright, talking to reporters after giving up three first-inning runs, admitted the pitch he threw that Jeter hit for a double to lead off the game … he grooved it. "I was gonna give him a couple pipe shots," Wainwright said. "He deserved it. I didn't know he was gonna hit a double or I might have changed my mind."
The timing on this was unfortunate, though Wainwright, standing outside the National League clubhouse, couldn't have possibly known that. Just a few minutes earlier, Jeter had his big sendoff, ending his 2-for-2 night, and writers were typing their "Jeter's Perfect Farewell" leads and Harold Reynolds was feting Jeter the way only Harold Reynolds can and everyone was ready to hand him his MVP trophy and tattoo THE CAPTAIN on their faces. It was Jeter's night, that was the story, that was how this night would be remembered, and that was that.
And then Wainwright said what he said. It was as plain as day. He didn't hedge. He wasn't vague. He told the exact truth. He grooved a pitch to Derek Jeter because he respects Jeter so much he felt he deserved it. And then he owned up to it. He was asked the question. And he answered it. Now, as anyone who covers the St. Louis Cardinals will tell you, this is par for the course with Wainwright. He is well-liked among reporters in St. Louis for his frankness and approachability. He's a likable guy. My dad would call him "a straight shooter."
That doesn't mean you shouldn't be a little angry with Wainwright. You can make a strong argument that Wainwright was dead wrong to groove the pitch to Jeter, for several reasons, foremost among them … this game is supposed to count. Because the American League ended up scoring three runs that inning, including Jeter, Game 1 of the World Series will be played at an American League stadium rather than a National League one because Adam Wainwright respects Derek Jeter so much. (It's especially galling because that game could well be started by Wainwright.) If you're looking for a definitive reason that home-field advantage in the World Series shouldn't be decided by the All-Star Game, that's a terrific one.
But even more: It's actually sort of an insult to Jeter, isn't it? One of baseball's most famous stories -- and a rather apt metaphor for how the young will always view the old, for that matter -- is Lou Gehrig knowing it was time to retire when a teammate complimented him on making a routine play at first base. Gehrig asked out of the lineup the next day. Wayne Gretzky said something similar, telling Conan O'Brien that he made the decision to retire when he realized opposing players were giving him quick warnings before they hit him. Derek Jeter, if he's everything we've been claiming him to be for so long, would never want a pitch grooved like that. (One person who didn't mind a nice cookie pitch to say goodbye: Mickey Mantle, who sent Denny McLain the ball he hit the homer to pass Jimmie Foxx, a pitch McClain obviously grooved him.) This Jeter, our Jeter, he'd rather strike out, yes? Wainwright made him -- a Hall of Famer having his final sendoff -- look like a charity case. If you're going to get on Wainwright's case, get on him for that.
But that's not why Wainwright was criticized, or why he was forced to apologize to Erin Andrews during the game and act like he was kidding. The reaction among media -- who are paid to ask questions of players and managers that elicit honest reactions, and if the reactions aren't honest, they're paid to find out what the truth in fact is -- wasn't to thank Wainwright for his honesty. It was to blast him for not lying. "[A] very odd decision for Wainwright to talk openly about doing what he claims he did," said CBS Sports. Wainwright was "kind of a putz," said SB Nation. Jared Diamond of The Wall Street Journal was particularly incensed.
Seriously, I've got no problem with Adam Wainwright grooving a couple fastballs to Derek Jeter. None at all. But keep your mouth shut!
- Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond) July 16, 2014
It wouldn't have been a thing if Wainwright had just kept his mouth shut. RT @peteanselmo: it's more insulting to Jeter than anything else.
- Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond) July 16, 2014
I don't mean to pick on Diamond, who's an excellent Mets beat writer. But take a look at those Tweets. That is a professional reporter paid by a prestigious publication -- one with an outstanding sports section -- saying, explicitly, that he would have preferred, when a professional athlete was asked a question, that the professional athlete would have lied right in everybody's face. And you'll read a lot more of these in the next 24 hours, even after Wainwright's "apology." This is not a great argument for the utility of professional journalists.
And why did people want Wainwright to lie? Because now Jeter's night -- Jeter's perfect night -- was somehow sullied. Everybody had their stories written in the first inning. This was Jeter's last great moment, and of course he went 2-for-2 because he was special. Wainwright telling the truth meant that the Jeter's Great Night story had to have an asterisk. And Derek Jeter is never, ever supposed to have an asterisk.
The problem with the way we've always treated Derek Jeter is that we've repeatedly let -- demanded -- the story get ahead of the man, a man, I might add, we know absolutely nothing about. It's never been enough that Derek Jeter had more than 3,000 hits and is one of the 10 best shortstops of all time. He has to stand for so much more than that. True Yankee. Face of Baseball. A Throwback. Mr. November. Class. Professionalism. The Captain. The obsession to turn Jeter into a myth has been present from the very beginning of Jeter's career. It has never stopped.
Typically, all this drama and thwarted hagiography was happening outside of Jeter. (There's a great old Onion story about Jeter at home watching tape of a Yankees game on Fox and being appalled at how thick the announcers were laying it on about him.) Because it has never been about him. It has been about our desire for Jeter to stand for something bigger than him, bigger than all of us. We need Jeter to be a legend, so we have all screamed that he was, that he was different, that was better than everyone else. The flaws of baseball, of mortal men, just made Jeter shine that much brighter. He never gave us any part of himself, which turned out to be a genius strategy: We just wrote myths on his blank slate. Even here, at the end, we can't accept that, sometimes, in a game none of the players really care about winning, a guy got grooved one. It happens. But no. Jeter had to do it on his own. He had to. That's where the anger toward Wainwright comes from. How dare you take that from us?
Kurt Vonnegut once wrote:
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.
Derek Jeter is one of the best baseball players of all time. But that has never been enough, not even close. In retirement, the myth will grow even larger. Every time a player screws up, every time someone strikes out in a big moment, Jeter will get the Jordan treatment: That's not what Jeter would have done. Jeter played his last All-Star Game on Tuesday night, and later this year, he will play his final game. But we will never let him go.
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Teen seeks juvenile trial in Ga. baby killing
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A teenager charged as an accomplice in the fatal shooting of a 13-month-old boy in his stroller wants his trial moved to juvenile court so he can avoid being prosecuted for murder — a legal move the slain baby's mother said Tuesday she opposes.
Dominique Lang, 16, faces life in prison if he is tried as an adult and convicted of felony murder in the slaying a year ago of young Antonio Santiago. Prosecutors say Lang didn't pull the trigger and nobody claims he was even armed during the botched street robbery in which the child was shot between the eyes. De'Marquise Elkins, 18, was convicted last summer of being the gunman after Lang testified against him.
Now Lang's defense attorney wants prosecutors and Superior Court Judge Stephen Kelley to agree to transfer his case to juvenile court. District Attorney Jackie Johnson didn't oppose the move during a hearing Tuesday, but she noted Georgia law prohibits juvenile courts from hearing murder cases.
"The only way it goes to juvenile court is if the murder charge goes away," Johnson told the judge. "At this point, without making a decision on it one way or the other, I think I'd like to say let's wait and see what a mental evaluation would show."
Lang is also charged with aggravated assault, attempted armed robbery and cruelty to children.
Sherry West says she was pushing her young son in his stroller as they walked home from the post office on March 21, 2013, when Elkins and Lang approached her on the street. She says Elkins demanded her purse and when she refused he drew a gun. West says Lang watched as Elkins fired into the ground, then shot her in the leg and finally shot her baby in the face.
Leaving the courthouse Tuesday, West said Lang shouldn't be spared from a murder prosecution. She said he never tried to stop Elkins and didn't run away to call police. And she said his presence at Elkins' side made her afraid to fight back after her child was threatened.
"I really felt like he was as big of a threat to me and my baby as the shooter," West said.
The judge ordered Lang to undergo a mental evaluation before deciding how to proceed with the case. Lang's defense attorney, Kimberly Copeland, had asked for the evaluation to determine her client's maturity level and mental capacity.
"Our defense has always been that Mr. Lang was more of a witness in this matter than a participant," Copeland said.
At Elkins' trial last August, Lang testified that he had just met the older teen the morning of the shooting when Elkins talked him into looking for somebody to rob. On the witness stand, he told jurors that Elkins threatened to kill West's baby by counting down after she refused to give him her purse.
"He was like, 'Five, four, three,' and then she stopped him," Lang testified. When the woman still refused to let go of her purse, he said, Elkins fired three shots — one at the ground, one into the mother's leg and a third that he heard but didn't see. He and Elkins ran away. West's baby boy was dead.
Prosecutors have insisted they made no deals with Lang to reduce any charges in exchange for his testimony.
Also Tuesday, the judge sentenced Elkins' mother to 10 years in prison for evidence tampering. Karimah Elkins was convicted last year, with prosecutors saying she dumped the .22-caliber revolver used in the slaying in a pond where police later found it. Elkins' sister, Sabrina Elkins, faces trial May 19 on the same charge. His aunt, Katrina Elkins, will be tried separately on charges she lied to police investigating the slaying.
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Alternatives To Watching The Super Bowl On Sunday
It's only the biggest game in the sporting world and it'll be dominating NBC Sunday – I'm talking about the Super Bowl! However, I know there are quite a few people that could really care less that it's on and will probably be looking for something else to watch instead of the biggest game of the year (not to mention you'll be missing the commercials too)!
Several networks are dedicating blocks of programming or marathons of their biggest and most popular shows, while others have specialty programming like the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet (the pet lover's alternative to the Super Bowl).
Puppy Bowl @ 2 p.m.
It's the seventh edition of puppies frolicking around in a miniature football stadium just playin' and havin' a good time
Chick-flick movie marathon!
Catch Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman followed by The Holiday, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Mammia Mia
Movie marathon – 7 a.m.
Kirisie Alley and Kelly Preston will be starring in a marathon of movies featuring them as the lead
Jersey Shore – 11 a.m. – 6 hour marathon
If you missed out on Season 3, here's your opportunity to get caught up. MTV is calling it "Jersey Bowl."
Jerseylicious – 5 a.m.
Nothing but Jerseylicious episodes all day!
Say Yes To The Dress – 8 a.m.
It's a marathon! Followed by Toddlers & Tiaras at 2p.
Ghost Hunters – 8 a.m.
A 12-hour marathon of hunting ghosts.
Ghost Adventures – 8 a.m.
If chasing ghosts are your thing – this is the day for you!
America's Top Model – 7 a.m.
A 7-hour marathon of America's Top Model followed by a marathon of Snapped at 1p!
Law & Order – 4 a.m.
The original series will be a part of a 13 hour marathon of Law & Orders!
Law & Order:SVU – 9 a.m.
The Law & Order spin-off will be a part of an all0day marathon
Crimial Minds – 4 p.m.
Not quite as long but you can get your fill of criminals with this mini-marathon
The Mo'Nique Show – 11 a.m.
An 11-hour marathon of Mo'Nique
The Real Housewives Of Berverly Hills and The Real Housewives of Atlanta – 2:30 p.m.
If you've missed any of these shows, this is a great opportunity to catch up. Or if you've never seen an episode, now's the time to get hooked!
Super Bowl XLVI – 5:30 p.m.
Just in case you couldn't take it anymore and you wanted to flip over and see New England and New York!


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The Children's Theatre, Inc., will perform "Peter Pan" this weekend at the Schwartz Center for the Arts. The theater group sees a revolving door of young faces, who spend many hours together rehearsing scenes and learning lines.
There may be no better metaphor for the local children's theater group, Children's Theatre, Inc., than its current production, "Peter Pan."
The story follows a mischievous little boy who can fly. And, as if that's not amazing enough, he never ages either. He spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the small island of Neverland, where he leads a rag-tag bunch known as the Lost Boys. They interact with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates and mortal children. On any given day, there is adventure and lots of pretending.
Actually, Neverland (and its inhabitants) sound a lot like the child actors of the Children's Theatre, who spend weeks and months at a time, living out endless pages of adventures, sometimes flying around the stage, sometimes dueling but always having a good time.
Like other productions, "Peter Pan" features the talents and skills of more than 30 children, each with various levels of experience.
Eighteen-year-old Brianna Pierce has been a part of CTI for about five years. But, unlike Peter Pan, she's aging out of her Neverland. It's time for her to grow up and move on to the more grown-up world of college at the University of Delaware.
"I've loved the Children's Theatre and I've learned so much," said Pierce. "Oftentimes, with other theater groups, you hear people say that they feel typecast in a specific kind of role. That's not true here. They really let you explore different characters and grow and learn."
Like Pierce, 17-year-old Victoria Stayton will also be moving on to college next year, too. But, unlike Pierce, this will be both her debut and her swansong performance with CTI.
"I joined the group because I wasn't ready for my theater career to be over," said Stayton. "I was in 'Bye, Bye Birdie' at Polytech but I wanted to do something else while I still could."
But, she also wanted to work with the younger kids, too.
"I enjoy getting to spend time with the little kids and watching them learn what theater is about before they get to high school," said Stayton.
There's plenty of opportunities to work with the little ones, too. For each kid that ages out, there seems to be several left behind and even more who are aging into the program.
Eight-year-old Logan Babenko just started working with the group this year after winning rave reviews as the lead in his kindergarten production. He said that the older kids help out all the time with advice, making scenes easier and more fun.
"The bigger kids are nice," said Babenko. "Today, while we were practicing, they were actually showing me when I had to go out of the door to do my part and I was on time this time."
Eleven-year-old Olivia Council, one of The Lost Boys, said that there is a lot to like about The Children's Theatre and a lot that can be learned from the older kids.
"They're really helpful," said Council. "If they have big parts, they practice at home and they encourage the younger kids to practice at home, too."
Not all the older kids are aging out, though. Pierce actually leaves behind her two siblings, Gianna and Teresa, who still have a few years left and a lot more advice for the younger generation.
"It's a really good environment for learning about things that you will need when you are grown up," said Teresa. "You get a lot of practice speaking in front of big groups and learning how to express yourself eloquently and how to project your voice."
Thirteen-year-old Gianna said that she appreciates the lessons learned but that it's the fun that keeps her coming back.
"There are a lot of different ages on stage in 'Peter Pan,'" said Gianna. "But, a lot of my fellow cast mates are my friends, which make the performances and productions more fun. We have a lot to do and a lot to learn but it's always fun."
"Peter Pan" will fly onstage this weekend at 7 p.m., Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Schwartz Center for the Arts in Dover. Tickets can be purchased online at www.schwartzcenter.com or by visiting the box office located at 226 S. State St., Dover.


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Easy A
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About Easy A
In this charming, critically acclaimed tale of rumors and reputation, Olive (Emma Stone), an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates (Amanda Bynes, Aly Michalka) are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher (Thomas Haden Church) and the distracted guidance counselor (Lisa Kudrow). With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents (Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson) and a little help from a long-time crush (Penn Badgley), Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
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Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell, Stanley Tucci, Amanda Bynes, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Cam Gigandet, Aly Michalka