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Three local sisters gave birth at the same hospital within the same week of each other earlier this month.Credit: Metro File Photo
This November is a special month for three local sisters, who each gave birth in the same week at the same hospital earlier this month.
Nichole Dever, Angela Greene and Ashley Cutter say they did not intend to get pregnant at the same time, but the women each welcomed their babies within four days of one another at South Shore Hospital on Nov. 11, 14 and 15, the Brockton Enterprise reports.
"I found out and I told my sister Angela and she told me she was pregnant, and Nichole asked me to babysit because she was going to the doctor because she was pregnant," said Ashley, 27.
The women are the daughters of Derek and Marie Mariani of Weymouth. All three babies are healthy, and have returned home with their moms.
The cousins will be growing up with each other close by, as the sisters all live within five minutes of each other. They have a total of eight children between the three of them.
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The Phoenix Public Library has more than 40,000 overdue materials, including books, CDs, audio cassettes and videos.
The outstanding fees total about $4.3 million, which includes money owed to the library and a collection agency, according to city officials.
Many people simply forget to return items. Some lose them. And some intentionally keep the items.
It's a problem every library faces. And for Phoenix, which has 17 branches and a collection of 1.8million items, getting all those items back isn't always easy. The staff has made minor tweaks to its policies from time to time to try to curb the behavior.
Over the summer, for example, the library reduced the number of times people can renew items.
"Our big message to people is bring the stuff back," said Rita Marko, Phoenix Public Library's community relations manager. "Even if people pay us for the item they've lost, that doesn't mean we can replace it. We may not be able to because it may no longer be available."
Marko said the goal is to get the item back so the next patron can check it out.
"I think sometimes people are embarrassed," she said. "They've forgotten to bring back an item, and they feel stupid. ... I don't want them to be embarrassed, I want them to bring it back."
However, Marko said the vast majority of users bring their items back on time.
Overdue items
About 50.8 million people visited one of the Phoenix libraries in the 10 years from July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2012.
Over the same time, customers checked out 156million items. As of Nov. 6, 40,500 of of those library items have not been returned.
The library generally sends a note to users letting them know they need to return their items. They "cut off" cards that have reached $25 in fees so users can no longer check out new items. And they turn cardholders over to collection agencies if they rack up more than $75 in late fees.
"For some people, I think that's a little bit of shock that the Phoenix library has turned it over to a collection agency (and that can affect their credit rating)," Marko said.
A review of library data shows the number of cases the library turns over to collection agencies varies from year to year.
About $9.1million in late fees was recovered since 2002,Marko said.
"We regularly evaluate our (late fee) rates," Marko said. "We try to keep pace with other libraries in the metro areas."
Library officials can sometimes waive fees. For example, if a forgetful teen has enrolled in a summer reading program and generated hefty fees, the staff could forgive the fines if the teen writes book reviews.
Marko said some libraries have fine-forgiveness programs, but Phoenix has to "balance that against our fiduciary responsibilities to the taxpayer, especially in these difficult times."
The library does run a program in April every year where users can pay off their fines if they bring in cans of food, which the city then donates to food banks.
Library policies
An individual can borrow as many as 35 library materials for three weeks. The library charges 20 cents per day per overdue item.
Library users can now renew materials only as many as six times instead of 99 times, a change that went into effect July 31.
The renewals allow a college student, for example, to keep a book for a semester.
Librarians notify people three days before and three days after the library item is due via e-mail, text or mail, Marko said. The notice is repeated on days 10 and 28.
A final letter is mailed to borrower on day 50.
"You get told how much you owe in fees and the cost to replace because we assume if you are 50 days overdue, you've lost it," Marko said. "At this point, you are racking up a bunch of fees."
The most common excuses?
The user was out of town or didn't receive the library's reminders, Marko said.
Others blame the library hours, although a drop box is available seven days a week.
Users respond
A string of people recently stopped by the central Phoenix Burton Barr Library's account desk to pay their fees.
Phoenix resident Fernando Rivas, 28, returned two overdue citizenship books. The library mailed him a courtesy notice.
"My wife is applying for citizenship," Rivas said. "The dues I owed, they were for books I had for a month now. I live real close to the library. It's just you don't find time to do things you need to do. I get out of work late, she does, too. By the time I get home and I have dinner and I say, 'I'll go tomorrow' and time gets away from me."
Michael Rivers, 49, a Phoenix resident, believes part of the problem is the library's policy of allowing people to check out 35 items per visit. Rivers, who lived in a homeless shelter last year, remembered an individual who had 10 CDs in his bag, which was stolen.
"He was upset because he did not know how much the library will charge because the stolen items were in his name," Rivers said. "As far as people who have their own place to live, some people just get tied up with work and stuff."
Rivers said he borrows only library materials that he can read or use within three weeks.

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Iconographically, Goddess Lakshmi is described as a fair lady, generally with four arms, seated or standing on a lotus, dressed in fine garments and precious jewels. She has a benign countenance, is in her full youth and yet having a motherly appearance.
The most striking feature of the iconography of Lakshmi is her persistent association with the lotus. The meaning of the lotus, in relation to Goddess Lakshmi, refers to her purity and spiritual power. Rooted in the mud but blossoming above the water, completely uncontaminated by the mud, the lotus represents spiritual perfection and authority. Two divine characteristics of this supremely popular goddess.


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Race one turned into a two horse race with Rafa Trujillo Villar (ESP) leading Gasper Vincec (SLO) round the top mark from the right hand side. These two already had a useful gap on the fleet and then extended on each and every leg. Third round was the defending world champion Jonas Hogh-Christensen (DEN). At the downwind gate, Trujillo and Vincec rounded together while the European Champion Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic (CRO) had moved up to third. Høgh Christensen was suffering both from lack of practice and a broken finger and slipped back on the downwinds.
Trujillo maintained his lead all the way to the wing mark but then lost it to Vincec on the fast reaches to the finish by around five boat lengths. The pair were about a minute ahead of the chasing pack, with Kljakovic Gaspic leading Brendan Casey (AUS) and Zach Railey (USA) over the line.
The wind increased slightly for race two with the fleet again favouring the right hand side. Trujillo made the best of it to hold a narrow lead from Høgh Christensen round the top mark with Ed Wright (GBR) and Giles Scott (GBR) close behind.
Trujillo pulled out a useful gap on the first downwind and was never really threatened again. He extended slightly again on the second beat crossing back from the favoured right hand side, while Scott moved up to second and Wright dropped to fourth.
Høgh Christensen again suffered on the final reaches to the finish, dropping three places. Trujillo took the win followed by Scott, Wright, Marin Misura (CRO), Railey and then Høgh Christensen. So Trujillo takes the early lead after an exceptional day's sailing in some fantastic conditions. Home country hopeful Railey is second after a consistent day while the recent Skandia Sail for Gold winner Scott is on equal points with defending champion
Høgh Christensen, who has sailed just one regatta in the past 12 months. There is surely much more to come from the tough Dane. Trujillo said, "I am really enjoying sailing here. The conditions are very similar to home with the winds always over 15 knots. I was a bit lucky on the start of the second race. At 10 seconds to go I was sandwiched between two boats and going backwards. But I went back and round and found a fantastic hole to the right and kept going. So I hike, hike, hike and that was that."
"The fleet is really tough here and they won't give you one metre they don't have to. This will be a really hard championship in San Francisco because you cannot rest. All the time you have to work the angles downwind through the chop to surf all the time. But it's more easy when you are in front."
Høgh Christensen said, "For me being out of the boat for a year and with a broken finger makes it quite difficult on the runs and reaches I don't have any power in my right hand, so I had a hard time staying in my position. I am not that happy with my downwind and reaching speed but it's getting better and better. But am I happy being in fourth."
"It's fantastic here. I would like little bigger waves but as a trade off for consistent winds and beautiful weather, I'll take it any day. I think it's one of the best places in the world to sail."
New faces
Among the many new faces in the class this year is Matt Coutts (NZL). The championship is something of a family reunion with Matt's uncle, Rob Coutts (NZL) also sailing, with his father Grant doing some coaching and other uncle, Russell, popping in for a few days. "I haven't actually seen my dad for most of the year as I've been over in Spain but it's nice to all get together here.""Russell is coming over for a couple of days, so it will be nice to see him as well."
What are his goals and expectations here? "Well because I haven't raced much this season I honestly couldn't say how I will do. I weight in at 98 kg so I am big enough and strong enough. So we'll see. I've done quite a bit of sailing against Rafa but as far as the rest of the fleet in a breeze, I feel OK, but I don't know - ask me at the end of the week."
"I am loving sailing the Finn so far. I came from the Lasers so the Finn has a bit more of a technical element to it which gives me something else to think about. And I am loving being able to eat as much as I want, especially for this regatta."
"I started at the very end of last year. So I pretty much spent the whole of this year trying to get my strength up and get my speed up. I haven't done many regattas. I don't know how it's going to go yet, as we haven't really had many windy regattas this season. I am coming into it as a bit of an unknown."
Russell Coutts has been at the venue for several days coaching his young nephew. Does his famous uncle have any influence on him or advice to offer? "Oh for sure he has. He's been a big help. When I decided to go into the Finn, you could see it was pretty exciting for him. He has been giving me some general direction advice, kind of the big picture stuff, what I should be working on, a little bit of the technical aspect of it. A little bit of everything, but mainly just general direction making sure I am working on the right things and spending the time and money on the right things."
"He's done some fantastic things. I think if I can get anywhere close to what he's done then I'll be happy but for the moment I am just trying to see how good I can do." After a 37th and 48th today, Coutts lies in 43rd place, exactly half way down the fleet.
Racing continues Tuesday with two more races and forecasts of slightly stronger winds coming through.
Follow it online at www.finngoldcup.com with live boat tracking from Kattack, live video feed from SailGroove, and live Twitter and blog updates from the Finn Class.
Results after 2 races:
1 ESP 100 Rafael Trujillo 3
2 USA 4 Zach Railey 10
3 GBR 41 Giles Scott 12
4 DEN 2 Jonas Høgh-Christensen 12
5 FRA 115 Thomas le Breton 15
6 AUS 1 Brendan Casey 16
7 SLO 5 Gasper Vincec 17
8 CRO 524 Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic 18
9 GBR 11 Edward Wright 21
10 ESP 7 Alejandro Muscat 21
Full results at www.finngoldcup.com
About the event
The Finn Gold Cup, the world championship of the Olympic Finn class runs from Monday 30 August to Saturday 4th September, with two races scheduled each day at 12.00 each day until Friday and the medal race for the top 10 and the final race for the rest on Saturday.
Web quality video is available at www.youtube.com/thefinnchannel
Class website: www.finnclass.org
Event website: www.finngoldcup.com
Class event blog: http://finnclass.blogspot.com
Class Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Finn-Class/110408332633
Class Twitter: http://twitter.com/Finn_Class


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San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Haskell Hackathon
Come join a group of Haskell hackers to work on a wide variety of projects. All levels welcome.
When: | Friday, April 20th – Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 |
Where: | Hacker Dojo, 140A South Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA (Google Map) |
Cost: | Free |
Sign up: | sign-up form |
News and Discussion: | BayHac Google Group |
Note: BayHac '12 and UHac '12 are the same weekend! We're going to try a video hookup during the events so we can share the Hacking trans-continentally!
1 Attendees
If you're attending, please use the sign-up form to help the organizers plan. Add your name here if you want to let others know you're coming.
- Mark Lentczner - organizer
- Johan Tibell - organizer
- Aaron Culich
- Ivan Tarasov
2 Projects
If you plan working on a project at the Hackathon, you can put it up here so other interested hackers can see what projects are afoot. If you don't have a project, look here and find one!


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I've got to agree here, although when you are the sole developer you don't usually need to worry about things like branches. I even keep my agenda and similar files in a revision control system, and I have gone back to view old appointments. As an added bonus, it's a nice way to keep everything synced between the different desktops I use and the server with the repository gives off-site backup without me having to think about it.
I can't imagine not wanting to use revision control for code, especially when it takes so little effort to use a minimal subset of features properly. In reply to Re^2: Periodic Save As
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Once upon a time there was a girl who would grow up to be a woman, a wife, a mother. She would live in a beautiful house on a lake. Flowers everywhere. Sunshiney days. She would stay at home to raise her sweet kids with their good manners in their perfectly cute outfits, their hair always in place. She would probably run the PTA. Her husband would come home from his successful job every night to a delightful house smelling of home cooked meals. The refrigerator would always be stocked with … [Read more...]
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The other day I had dinner with some of my dearest friends. It was the usual for us....wine, salad, whipped garlic and arabic bread, a healthy marinara dish. We spoke of jobs, relationships, diets. Three of us got right into our usual analysis, the complexities of masculine versus feminine and the road to emasculation. The other one of us who happens to embody masculine made fun of us, playfully insulting our insight. We bitched a little, ate a little, laughed a little, drank a little, … [Read more...]
I haven't written in so long. The intensity and drama and movie of my life has been filled with so much of everything..there was just too much to feel...and nothing to say. Today I am ready to say this. I am starting over. from scratch. as a single mother. Sometimes I feel sorry for myself. It's scary and difficult for a girl with a chaotic mind. yet it's also liberating and exciting to be able to create a whole new life with different choices based on the experiences that have led me to this … [Read more...]
Inspiration India Arie
Yesterday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. and that is an understatement. Today is a new day. and the universe wrapped its loving arms around me on this Monday morning. It gave me some sunshine and then it gave my heart an itinerary for the day when I turned on the radio. The first song. I accepted this gift today with much gratitude. and continued on this path filling up my mind and soul and heart with more inspiration from India Arie. So if you happen to be going through … [Read more...]


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With Instructables you can share what you make with the world, and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.
These suspenders literally took me TEN MINUTES, I timed myself, that's 10 minutes to make them and to take photos for this tutorial! That's fast. They are SOOOO ...
Step 1: thread one vest buckle like pictured and fold it under to hide the raw edge
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my buddy and i were talking about this at work yesterday, then i checked out blakely's friday weblog and saw this: he also speaks about the pistons liking johnson, but hints about the pistons being worried some team would offer him a crazy contract this summer when he is a free agent. i really think they're trying to hide him this year so they can have him for cheap and no other team sees his potential and picks him up.
The more Blakely tries to free think, the less he actually comes up with. Mike James is not going to come here and play behind Billups, and the only way this happens is if Joe thinks CB will bolt.
Maybe the Pistons can trade Nazr, Davis, Hunter and their their first round pick from Orlando to the Magic for CA and DM? LOL
what is with the weird obsession with ex-Piston players coming back to play here? interesting about "hiding" Amir...
The only problem I have with MJB is he's a chucker... he doesn't make his teammates better... and that contract is large for a backup PG. If Joe were smart he'd go after the younger Watson... I don't want to see the Heat landing a solid PG (per rumor mil). No doubt they're keeping Amir on the low... with his excellent attitude this is a good thing for his long term future in the D.... IMO, we'll see big things from AJ next year. OTOH, something has effected the relations with Jmax & Flip... he went from very promising in the preseason to a sometimes garbage mop up player... it may be on the defensive end because we know he can fill the scoreboard... a few more assists would have helped. Hate seeing a player that is all about effort landing in the dog house.
That take was posted here over a month ago by Roscoe. I am starting to wonder if its true. Thing is, will he want to re-sign? Every player by their 2nd year wants to play. No matter age, draft status, etc..
Detroit needs a point guard. Trading Flip and 1st for MJames would be a good short term fix, and a horrible long term solution, which means, we're probably trying to do it. No way we trade Delfino, Supe Dupe aint cutting it as the backup 3, while James can play the 1 and the 2.


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Though the show has been called many things so far, such as "train wreck", "tasteless" and "tragically wrong", that didn't stop people from watching The Houstons: On Our Own reality show, on the Lifetime Network.
The opening episode, which premiered this past Wednesday, pulled in 1.33 million viewers; the second episode, which followed right after the first show, experiencing a slight drop off, attracted 1.31 million viewers.
As far as complaints that the family was exploiting their sitiuation for financial gain, and that this was not "the right time" to do a reality show, Pat Houston, Whitney's sister-in-law and manager, responded that: "I don't know when would be the right time. When would be the right time? You don't know. You just continue what you always do and that is try to live. Taking one day at a time. And that's all we are doing."
Whether the show will continue to hold on to its audience remains to be seen.


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We're in the near-final push here on getting the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) draft spec to be published as an RFC.
The most recent draft version (revision -11 as of this writing) is here..
And the IESG's announcement for IETF-wide Last Call is here..
We're coming around the last corner and the finish line is in sight!
See also the Wikipedia entry for HSTS — it has info on the spec's history, applicability, deployment, and implementations.


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The Northwest School of Agriculture (NWSA) Alumni Association welcomes alumni back to the University of Minnesota Crookston campus on Saturday, June 29, 2013, for their annual reunion. Three outstanding alumni will be honored with the Top Aggie award, which is the highest honor a Northwest School alumnus can receive. The award recognizes alumni who have displayed exemplary commitment and service to community, church, education, family, or in their occupational field.
The Top Aggies for 2013 are Lowell Hamrick '53, Warren, Minn.; Beulah (Stolaas) Vad '58, Oklee, Minn.; and Willie Huot '63, Grand Forks, N.D. These outstanding individuals will be recognized during a special luncheon on Saturday.
The NWSA was a residential high school located on the Crookston campus from 1906-68. The reunion is planned by the Office of Development & Alumni Relations in cooperation with the NWSA Alumni Association board and is always held the last Saturday in June.
The NWSA alumni reunion, first held in 1918, brings back alumni from the Northwest School of Agriculture, a residential high school located on what is now the University of Minnesota Crookston campus. The NWSA graduated its first class of 8 students in 1909.


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"Remember" is one of the most important words in language, but take one step more
Another Memorial Day has come and gone. BBQ grills are in full use, school is over and summer vacation plans are beginning to take shape.
Yet life does not go on for many. While we remember them – those who sacrificed and served us to keep us free — do we really honor them? For "There is no greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13.) It is in remembering what they did that we sow the seeds of hope for a better world — a world free from conflict and the wounds of war and sin.
Jesus Christ taught us to remember, when he walked the shores of Galilee and healed the bodies and minds of broken men and women ravaged with disease and sin. It is what he taught his disciples when he gave them the sacrament of bread and wine – to always remember Him and to act as he did at all times and in all places.
He not only spoke, but he acted and showed all of us how to lift and heal troubled souls. He showed us how to be good Samaritans, to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. He showed us how to be a light to others. And by following His example, we can be those millions and millions of points of light for good in a stormy sea of life (Matthew 5:16).
"Remember" is perhaps the most important word in language. It is so easy to forget in today's world of convenience and technology, with all the demands on our time. Sometimes we do forget what's really important. Great athletes, entertainers, speakers and others always focus on the fundamentals of their craft. They practice over and over again so that they will never forget the basic skills that they know bring success. Often the best are those who perfect the basics and consistenly take their performance to the highest levels.
Memorial Day really is so much more than a three-day weekend. And while we remember loved ones who lost their lives and limbs in combat, we need to go further; to be "good Samaritans" and help others. Through showing that love for others, we will bring peace — the antidote to evil and conflict -– to others and to ourselves.


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I love the idea of creating a party centered around one pattern….and for fall, that pattern is plaid! This table setting can inspire an entire party….can't you just picture it?! An outdoor setting, plaid tablecloths, hanging candle chandeliers, and outdoor bar, and fall foods served in a creative vessel, like a pumpkin or gourd. The finishing touch….send your guests home with small bottle of maple syrup as a party favor.
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Quirk may leave millions unrepresented by state Senate
Areas in red have no senators; areas in green have two
SACRAMENTO – More than 230 years since the American Revolution, taxation without representation still survives in California.
Thanks to a quirk in the law, millions of Californians may not be represented by a state senator in 2013 and 2014 while millions of others could be represented by two senators.
And it's totally legal.
"I'm aghast," said William Siebuhr, a Westminster resident who is one of the unlucky Californians facing two years without a voice in State Senate. "Somewhere along the line, I've been screwed out of my rights," he said.
Just one mile away, John Vestman of Stanton could have two state senators. "It seems lopsided," he said.
In all, 3.97 million Californians may go without representation in the Senate, according to an analysis by The Orange County Register and The (Riverside) Press-Enterprise. Another 3.9 million residents could be represented by two senators, according to the newspapers' figures.
"Amazing," said Paul Glaab, mayor of Laguna Niguel, another city that faces two years without Senate representation. "To me, that's an anomaly that probably should be corrected," he said.
Since the 1970s, millions of Californians have temporarily gone without Senate representation every decade. But the phenomenon receives little attention because it's complex and obscure, and because the courts have ruled it's not in violation of anybody's rights. It's just a weird byproduct of redistricting and the Senate's election schedule.
"It happens every time we redistrict," said Tony Quinn, a former GOP redistricting staffer. "You can't avoid it."
Experts, however, say it's not a big deal. If you have a problem with the government, you can still turn to your representatives in the State Assembly, U.S. Congress or local government, said UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser.
"It evens out because we have so many ways to get our voices heard in California," he said.
Republicans have filed a suit challenging the new Senate districts. At this point it's unclear whether the new or old districts will be used in next year's election, or whether judges will draw up a third set of maps to use while the case unfolds.
Redistricting is the process of redrawing legislative districts. It's conducted every 10 years to ensure that each district contains the same number of people. This year, for the first time, the process was handled by an independent commission, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
For the State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives, redistricting is simple because all of their members are elected at the same time. Not so in the State Senate. There, members are elected on a staggered schedule. Half of the Senate will face voters in 2012, the other half in 2014.
Thanks to this staggered schedule, there is a two-year period every decade when half of the senators represent newly redrawn districts and the other half represents the old districts.
The difference between the old districts and the new districts account for why some Californians have two state senators and others have none.
The voter-approved initiatives that created the commission offered no guidance on the issue. In July, the panel's own attorney said the safest course of action was to approve a Senate plan without regard for how many voters would temporarily lose Senate representation.
Commissioner Jodie Filkins Webber said the panel thought otherwise. The commission directed its line-drawing staff to minimize "deferrals."
"I think we were successful," said Filkins Webber, who practices law in Orange County.
It's telling, she added, that the Senate plan's opponents have never brought up the issue.
Courts also have defended the phenomenon. In an early 1970s decision, justices called it the "inevitable byproduct" of meeting the one-man, one-vote standard in districts with staggered four-year terms.
It would be too difficult, and possibly illegal, to put all 40 Senate districts on the ballot every decade, the court said. It compared the situation to the "disenfranchisement that may be imposed on residents who move into a Senate district or who become of voting age shortly after an election has taken place."
There are ways to avoid this problem, however. Every decade, the state of Illinois elects its state senators to terms of four years, four years and two years, to ensure that all of their senate districts come up for re-election at the same time during redistricting. The state specifically schedules its Senate elections this way to avoid deferrals, said John Patterson, spokesman for Illinois Senate President John Cullerton.
California's no-senator phenomenon hits some parts of the state more than others.
Riverside County, which has about 6 percent of the state's population, contains about 10 percent of the residents that might not have a senator in 2013-14, according to the analysis by the Register and the Press-Enterprise. Orange County, which has about 8 percent of the state's population, contains about 18 percent of the potential deferrals.
San Diego County, with 8.3 percent of California's population, contains only about 5 percent of the possible deferrals.
Democratic redistricting consultant Paul Mitchell said the commission could have attempted to spread deferrals around the state.
"No one looked at this by region," he said.
But Republican redistricting consultant Matt Rexroad, who has criticized the panel on other matters, gave the commission high marks for its efforts to limit the number of voters deprived of their Senate vote next year.
"When you have a state of 37 million people, there are going to be people who don't have a senator for two years," Rexroad said. "It would be hard for me to have anyone articulate to me how they could have done it any better."
Whatever the case, Senate leadership says it's prepared to help any Californian without a state senator. Alicia Trost, spokeswoman for Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg, said senators will aide unrepresented areas in their region by adopting them as their own. Senators have been doing that for decades, she said, and the practice effectively provides unrepresented Californians with representation.
"The people will have a voice," said State Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana.
Based on voter-registration numbers, the 2.1 million registered voters who may not have Senate representation are 42 percent Democrat, 33 percent Republican and 20.5 percent decline-to-state. That closely reflects California as a whole.
Kousser, the UC San Diego professor, said the phenomenon is unlikely to have a noticeable political impact in next year's election. The exception is if there is a major swing in voter sentiment this year.
"Whatever message voters deliver in 2012 is not going to be heard as loudly in the State Senate," he said.
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A list of possible Proto-Semitic loanwords in PIE
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Great! I've been wondering what you were up to ;)
All forms are pretty interesting. Although I'm not quite sure what to think of the numerals 3 and 6 yet.
I find it striking that seven somehow retained its mimation while 3 and 6 didn't. But maybe that's because I don't know enough about Proto-Semitic numerals. But from an Arabic point of view there's no reason for 3 and 6 not to retain it.
Personally a lack of updates on my blog is because I've been busy picking up my Japanese again. I'm determined to finally learn all those damn Kanji!
I will want to write an article in Hittite soon, which some people claim to have an Aorist. I find this rather odd, but there's some interesting *s-infixing in some verbs that I'd like to discuss. So keep your eyes peeled for another update soon ;)Some of these are well-known and some are doubtful. Just for now I wanted to add:
(1) *H2el- vs. PS *('ayn)el- 'rise/be high'...maybe relation to Georgian ma-ghal-i (uvular voiced fricative 'gh') 'tall/high'??
(2) Question on *weid-...Semitic languages show an initial w-/y- alternation with Canaanite languages being mostly y- (in this case I think the Akkadian shows a i- so your PS stem is correct). However, I am pretty sure I have only seen *y- as 3rd person singular (masc.) prefix. Therefore, I would like to know whence you took *waydi('ayn).Obviously, Semitic philology is not my field, much less IE. But this mostly looks quite plausible. Where are you quoting Proto-Semitic forms from? The rigid CáCiC perfect and CaCāCa (ā!) present both seem strange to me, but I assume you have some citation for them.
barru: this would probably have had a feminine form for use as a count noun - I don't know your sound shifts, but maybe barratu- or bartu- or something could explain the s.
qaṣiṣ, madid: most (all attested?) Semitic languages have a 3rd person form without a vowel between the two identical consonants, which would make a better source.
ša "himself": surely this should be šuwa?
waydi` "he knows": where's that wa- coming from? The waw-consecutive, I suppose? Seems an unlikely thing to reconstruct for Proto-Semitic, given that it's basically just Canaanite or at best NW Semitic, but who knows.Holy cow! I left the blog for one day and you're all really responding to the issue of Indo-European/Semitic loans. There are more paleoglots online than I thought! :)
Phoenix: "I find it striking that seven somehow retained its mimation while 3 and 6 didn't."
Do you think it's really that striking? A numeral can often act both as a noun and a quantifying adjective for another noun. I reckon that Semitic *sabʕatum would have been used as a noun on its own meaning "(a group of) seven" while non-mimated forms would have been used to quantify other optionally-mimated nouns. Am I wrong?
In that way, both the mimated and non-mimated forms could equally have a chance of showing up in Pre-IE.
Maxime: "(1) *H2el- vs. PS *('ayn)el- 'rise/be high'...maybe relation to Georgian ma-ghal-i (uvular voiced fricative 'gh') 'tall/high'??"
Yes, I've come across that before but I'll have to look into that further before adding. Thanks.
Maxime: "However, I am pretty sure I have only seen *y- as 3rd person singular (masc.) prefix. Therefore, I would like to know whence you took *waydi('ayn)."
Lameen: "waydi` "he knows": where's that wa- coming from? The waw-consecutive, I suppose? Seems an unlikely thing to reconstruct for Proto-Semitic [...]"
Two against one. The battle begins. You two really don't like this reconstruction and I admit I kinda pulled that one out of my magic hat based on my as-yet insufficient understanding of Proto-Semitic grammar.
However, I notice that the initial semivowel of the triliteral *[wd`] is uncertain. If it were a I-w verb like *[wθb] "to sit", then the *w would simply be part of the triliteral. There may also be a way around explaining the diphthong *ei in PIE by appeal with the example of *treis = Sem *θalāθ- where a long Semitic vowel appears to be reinterpreted as Mid IE *ei (because MIE didn't have long vowels yet, as I theorize). I suppose then I need to pursue the possibility of a form like... *wādʕu? Is this a wild goose chase? I seem so close to something but I don't know what it should be.Judith Weingarten: "A bit off this topic, I'm afraid, but have you written a review of van der Meer's Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis 2007? And if not, why not? :-)"
Thank you! <:) I'll have to track it down then and see what I can say about it. I've been largely doing my own independent research into the Etruscan language and finding my own patterns in these documents because I've grown so dissatisfied with what is available on the topic of the language. I discuss certain details of artifacts as I learn more and discover new patterns.The one case of PS *q > PIE *ḱ seems to imply that both were still velars at the stage of loaning. The other however generates a glottalic velar (plus obvious labialization). This could be an older loan, preceding the voicing of IE ejectivs.
But then there's a PS *ṭ > MIE *d. The correspondence PS medial voiced stop > MIE medial glottalic stop is also starting to seem fairly general. Where are those coming from? We'd need a fairly long timeframe to make room for all these by way of internal phonation changes.
Also *ḫ becomes PIE *h2 in one word, *h3 in another; or *ʔ > *h2 here, *h1 there?
Still from clear-cut, but it's also far too much to dismiss…And now that I have time, to respond to more comments already posted...
Lameen: "qaṣiṣ, madid: most (all attested?) Semitic languages have a 3rd person form without a vowel between the two identical consonants, which would make a better source."
Yes it would but I still need to find out what the mainstream view is on that. Afterall, the general pattern overall is *CaCiC, no? Is *CVCC a legal word shape in Proto-Semitic though? As far as I was aware, this was only valid as a shape of a stem.
Lameen: "ša "himself": surely this should be šuwa?"
Yes, thanks for correcting me. It still doesn't affect the plausibility of the connection however since there seems to be a larger correlation of PIE *sw- with Proto-Semitic *š- which hints at concommitant rounding of the Semitic fricative similar to what happens when English speakers pronounce "sh" in "ship".Tropylium: "The one case of PS *q > PIE *ḱ seems to imply that both were still velars at the stage of loaning.
Based on my own "internal reconstruction safari" into the heart of Mid IE, /k/ and /q/ were at this stage only allophones of *k depending on the height of the neighbouring vowel. So the place of articulation of Proto-Semitic *q should have been more or less unimportant to the ears of Mid IE speakers as a result.
Tropylium: "The correspondence PS medial voiced stop > MIE medial glottalic stop is also starting to seem fairly general."
Okay, let's explain everything on my interpretation of Proto-Semitic stops (at least through the lens of Mid IE).
My current theory of Mid IE is so far telling me that Proto-Semitic's coronal stops were alveolar, not dental. The voiced stops also had a long VOT like in English. The long VOT of these voiced stops would tend then to be reinterpreted in loanwords into Mid IE as _creaky stops_ which also have longer VOT (what you are calling "ejective" according to Glottalic Theory). It would naturally be atypical for a foreign speaker to attempt pronouncing a stop with a long VOT by using one with short VOT when one with long VOT is already available in the native language. Proto-Semitic didn't have this creaky/plain contrast however, so perhaps we should expect an odd abundance of creaky stops in MIE loanwords from Proto-Semitic rather than plain stops.
Tropylium: "Also *ḫ becomes PIE *h2 in one word, *h3 in another; or *ʔ > *h2 here, *h1 there?
In MIE, *h2 and *h3 would have been pronounced as velar fricatives /x/ and /xʷ/ respectively. So their shared correlation to Semitic *ḫ should be unsurprising.
As for MIE *-ʔ- in mediofinal positions, I suspect there was a point where this phoneme developed an allophone /h/. So if this had already occurred by the time of Proto-Semitic contact, there would only be two reasonably good matches for Proto-Semitic laryngeal -ʔ-, namely glottal *-h- (> PIE *h1) or velar *x (> PIE *h2).


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You can go ahead and do that if you feel it's important. But concidering that spirit already beat out all the spells I already put out numbers for assuming a 1:1 conversion, and it is in reality a 1:2 conversion, I'm not sure what the point is. WG has a 9.2% scale factor (550*0.092=50.6 per tick per target? I think, tooltip is unclear. Might just be a 50 overall increase per target), and effloresence has a (550*1.29)*0.12=85*3=255*7=1788 healing gain for 500 int on top of swiftmend's 709.
And I'm not ignoring anything - the fact is, the more spirit you have, the more you can throw out expensive spells and do bigger heals. The difference in the different spells' power is so huge, that no matter of int could be better than simply choosing the next spell on the ladder if you need more throughput. I don't see what the issue with not seeing the benefit of your playstyle till the last 90% is - no one will care if you're healing targets for 1K more per cast for the first 90% of the fight, if you're OOM for the last 10% and become a burden to the other healers.
There's 3 fights this tier where I'd prefer int to spirit, and that's tsulong/stone guards/garajal. Two of these bosses are among the easiest of the tier. The last one, as you're a resto druid, you probably won't be allowed to soak up light of day buffs, meaning you might aswell not bother with the extra int, and make sure you keep the raid alive in Night-phases, so the hero-healers with proper cooldowns can shine in the day phases.
I'm not sure I fully understand the second part of your post, though - can you elaborate what you mean that I can accumulate extra healing to get a significant difference in terms of HP? Do you want like, a "scenario of healing", such as -
Over 150 seconds you cast 20 healing touch, 20 rejuv, 10 swiftmend, 15 wild growth
And from there on calculate how much extra healing the 500 int would give? Or am I misunderstanding?


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Sort toys into two piles: one for those he still plays with, another for those to be given away. "Keeper" toys should be placed in see-through bins. Color-coding the bins helps — purple for stuffed animals, yellow for Legos, and so on. Tape a photo or drawing of the representative item (or even the item itself) onto the container.
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Homebuyers Get Break as Loan Rates Defy Fed Tapering
Kathleen M. HowleyAshley Underwood is taking advantage of the unexpected drop in mortgage rates by rushing to buy her first home before they go up again.
"I'm ready to cancel plans at a moment's notice to go look at a house," said Underwood, 27, who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. "I didn't expect to see rates falling again, and I want to lock in something before I lose out."
The drop in the last month proved forecasters wrong, said Douglas Duncan, chief economist of Fannie Mae in Washington. After the Federal Reserve announced in December that it would begin tapering purchases of mortgage-backed securities, all the major housing forecasters said rates would jump this quarter. Economists didn't foresee that investors would react to the Fed's retreat by moving money from emerging markets into U.S. Treasuries, driving down home-loan rates.
"I was surprised by what happened in the bond market," Duncan said. "Everyone was surprised. It was completely unexpected that mortgage rates would fall after the Fed began tapering."
The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage in the U.S. fell to 4.23 percent last week, an almost three-month low. That's 0.3 percentage point below the rate at the start of 2014.
The drop in borrowing costs means some buyers will purchase a home sooner than they had planned.
"People are getting a second chance, and that is bound to give a boost to the housing market," said Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at CoreLogic Inc., an Irvine, California-based mortgage data and software firm. "It's not a game changer unless the emerging markets situation worsens and rates get even cheaper."
Second Chance
Government-owned mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Realtors all forecast in January that rates would increase by at least 0.3 percentage point in the first quarter. Instead, yields on 10-year Treasuries, which are used as a benchmark for mortgage rates, shrank as investors drove up bond prices.
"The sell-off in emerging markets wasn't expected because it was hard to measure how much they've relied on the Fed's monetary policy," said Christopher Sebald, chief investment officer for Advantus Capital Management in St. Paul, Minnesota, which oversees $28 billion of assets, including about $4.5 billion in mortgage bonds.
The exodus of investors erased almost $6.4 billion from emerging markets equity funds during the week ended on Feb. 5, the largest outflow since August 2010, according to a Citigroup Inc. report. That has spurred a currency crisis in Argentina and Turkey while economic data points to slower economic growth in China and Russia.
Yellen's Plan
"We're seeing the results of a herd mentality as investors exited some of the riskier corners of the world and come back to the states," CoreLogic's Khater said.
Janet Yellen, who took over as chairman of the central bank on Feb. 3, said in Congressional testimony yesterday that the Fed has been "watching closely" the volatility in global financial markets. She said that "our sense is that at this stage these developments do not pose a substantial risk to the U.S. economic outlook."
Only a "notable change in the outlook" for the economy would prompt policy makers to slow the pace of tapering, Yellen said. She repeated the Fed's statement from the conclusion of its meeting last month that asset purchases aren't on a "pre-set course."
The impact of the market rout is felt in Indianapolis, where Underwood is hunting for a three-bedroom house costing about $125,000. The drop in mortgage rates could save her about $5,000 if she stays in the house for 10 years.
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"I don't know what's behind the fall in rates," said Underwood, who is now a renter. "I'm looking for something I plan to be in for a long time, so getting a lower rate is going to result in a big savings."
Cheaper borrowing costs may not be enough to increase U.S. home purchases for the year. The pace of sales probably will slow in 2014, the third year of the real estate recovery, as the 28 percent increase in property prices since January 2012 puts homes out of reach of some Americans.
Sales of new and previously owned homes will gain about 3.1 percent to 5.7 million, a third of the increase seen in 2012 and 2013, Fannie Mae's Duncan said.
"For someone in the market to buy, it's an opportunity to turn back the clock on rates, but there's no indication it's anything but a temporary reprieve," he said. "In the long-run, the Fed's exit means sustained upward pressure on rates."
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By the end of 2014, the average U.S. rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage probably will be 5 percent, Duncan said, compared with 4.3 percent at the end of 2013. The average during the past two decades is 6.27 percent, according to Freddie Mac data compiled by Bloomberg.
Borrowing costs also defied conventional wisdom the last time the Fed pulled back on stimulus. More than three years ago, when the central bank concluded its first round of quantitative easing, housing forecasters said home-loan rates would rise on weaker demand for mortgage-backed securities.
Instead, as investors fled 2010's European sovereign-debt turmoil, loan rates tumbled to then-record lows in November. That didn't stem the year's plunge in home sales, which was caused by the expiration of a federal tax credit that paid buyers $8,000.
The Fed began purchasing mortgage bonds guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae in January 2009 to bolster the economy and the housing market by reducing financing costs. The strategy had never been tried before. In the first round of purchases, which ended in March 2010, the Fed acquired $1.25 trillion of mortgage bonds.
Fed Tapering
The central bank announced a second round of quantitative easing, known as QE2, in Nov. 2010. QE3 began in September 2012, with the Fed buying $40 billion of mortgage bonds and, in December, $45 billion of Treasuries a month. The central bank cut the purchases in December and again in January to $65 billion a month from $85 billion, citing an improving outlook for the labor market.
Khater, the economist, is also a home buyer who's getting another break on rates. Even though he spends his days tracking the mortgage market, he missed 2013's low of 3.35 percent in early May, the average rate as measured by Freddie Mac. That was close to the all-time low of 3.31 percent in November 2012.
"I've been thinking about buying, and I thought I had missed out on cheap rates," Khater said.
The economist has intensified his search for a Washington-area single-family home, hoping to make an offer on a property in time to lock-in a mortgage rate near 4 percent.
"With the lower rates, it heightens the urgency," he said.


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Fox Sports San Diego has big plans for its Padres telecasts. As this blog reported last week, the pregame and postgame shows in-season will each run an hour, which will double the typical amount of live bookend content from Padres telecasts the previous 12 years. A broadcasting stage near Tony Gwynn's statue will be built beyond the center-field fence. Extra cameras will be used. In time, Fox will expect the quality of its Padres telecasts to rival the quality of its national telecasts.
When FS San Diego begins its Padres coverage on Saturday, kinks will still need ironing out in production and distribution. The first telecast, and others soon to follow from the Cactus League, will not be available to customers of Time Warner, AT&T U-verse and DISH. For those customers, the options are: switch to DirectTV or ask your service provider to add Fox. By Opening Day, ongoing negotiations could place FS San Diego with those providers.
Unlike the Padres' previous TV deal, which generally limited telecasts to Time Warner and Cox, most of San Diego's bars and restaurants now will be able to air Padres telecasts via DirecTV. Until then, this blog and Padres fans can debate whether Padres games will inspire patrons to drink more beer.
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DES MOINES - May 7, 2012
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC) reported today that as of March 31, 2012 the company had 749,806 active trial or completed mortgage modifications in place. Of those, 630,981 modifications—or approximately 84 percent—were done through the company's own programs and 118,825 were through the federal government's Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).
As of the end of the first quarter of 2012, more than 93 percent of Wells Fargo's home loan customers remained current on their mortgage payments and over the past 12 months fewer than 2 percent of the loans on owner-occupied properties in its mortgage servicing portfolio have resulted in a foreclosure sale. Wells Fargo also has helped nearly 6 million customers secure new low-rate loans for home purchases or to refinance existing mortgages between January 2009 and April 2012.
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Wells Fargo Home Mortgage is the nation's leading mortgage lender and services one of every six mortgage loans in the nation. A division of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., it has a national presence in mortgage stores and banking stores, and also serves the home financing needs of customers nationwide through its call centers, Internet presence and third-party production channels. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is an equal housing lender.
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.3 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and other distribution channels across North America and internationally. With more than 270,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in America. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 23 on Fortune's 2011 rankings of America's largest corporations. Wells Fargo's vision is to satisfy all our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially.
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Big year a head for Mr. Lestat 8 Attachment(s) Before I continue let me appologize for any spelling errors. I cut my finger while making soup tonight and it's not typing well. Ok onto my post. warning it will be long. Lestat will be 2 years old April 2nd. Time has been flying! He's completely healed from his injury last January 2012 and there is no damage left from his "fun" trailer ride when I brought him home. He's currently a thick 14.3 at the shoulder and 15 hands at the butt. At his most recent check up my main vet (specializing in heavier built warmblood, Drafts, and Baroque breeds) okay'd him to be started lightly undersaddle when he's 2.5 years old. So he's gotten the good to go which is a YAY! never the less we'll still be taking it easy and he won't be put under saddle until he's fluid in the ground driving with a bridle language. So far so good on that too! He's such a good boy. So this year he'll be 2 years old and late in the year he'll be slowly started with a little weight on his back. This spring time will also be his first introduction to his stallion hormones. He's been consistently dropped with both testicals for about 3 months now. He's a pro at me or anybody else handling his business and just kind of gives a wide eyed look if we don't warm up our hands first. Once in a while he gets a taste of what a stallion is like and prances around, arching his neck, parading by his pasture mate James. James is a 5 year old badass 12 hand welsh and copies Lestats silly boy attitude until Mr. Stallion knocks it off. He's a very gentle boy though! A simple "that's enough" brings him back to earth. Spring time next year my vet would like to start training him for collection using a phantom. He said he starts all his colts early and he works with them for a weeks length at a time. Every few days. He covers cleaning, teasing, mounting, manners, everything you'd want to see in a well mannered breeding stallion. This includes bell training which is what I discussed with him when I bought Lestat. I expressed my concern in him relating breeding at home and wanted to separate the two as much as possible. In handling stallions previous we always used a bell on their breeding halter. If they were in their everyday barn wear they were as calm as your next door gelding. When the breeding halter with the bell went on they were trained to understand that meant it was ok to talk and it was ok to prance-with permission of course. They are loaded and taken to the vet with their everyday halter, unloaded the same and stalled. When they are brought to collection they are haltered with their breeding bell halter. This keeps breeding and such ideas at the vets and with a certain cue/halter. I've always handled studs that were trained with this method and my vet is happy to help with Lestat when it's time. Now, Lestat will ONLY be collected. Never hand bred or pasture bred. I will be extremely picky to the mares he is bred with and I will be aiming to heighten the sports breeds Friesian studs boost. Sorry, it's late and my vocab is starting to run dry. Anyway, so yes, big years coming up. Along with all of this of course he'll be showing in halter, making name and show record. I have no intention on letting him be a stand in the pasture and look pretty stallion. Oh no. He WILL BE a well mannered prince and he's well on his way to getting there with his ground manners alone. So...I wanted to update. I admit I'm not on the board that much anymore, life gets in the way once in a while but I pop in when I can. I know when he had his accident there were a lot of people that expressed interest in knowing his progress and making sure everything was healing well. He had a successful in hand mid summer-winter show season to wrap up last year and so far this year has been to two shows but we got there late and couldn't enter. :-( stupid traffic. Anyway, onto the pictures! I don't have any great conformation shots. Every time I think I have some he's all uneven again. So here's some fun stuff. Just for reference I'm wearing 8 inch heels in that orange dress. So that puts me at 5'10. In the last picture with his angry ears there was a mare standing behind him that kept screaming. He tried walking away more than once so I gave a nervous smile when the judges were watching him. At least I know he didn't want anything to do with her more like he couldn't wait to get away from her! |
He's going to be lovely when he grows up, I hope you plan on updating again when you can! |
He has grown up SO fast! it's hard to believe. But, he's a stunning stud. it must be thriling just to watch him move. |
Thank you! I will try to get some videos when I can! He's a beautiful mover but I might be slightly biased. I've been so busy with the house and visitors and more school stuff but I've been here lurking around. Finally found a bit of time to post an update! String test puts up around 16.1-16.2 but my vet and everybody else says they wouldn't be surprised if he was a hunky 16.3. |
What. A. Hunk. Definitely need more pics/videos lol |
So glad he is doing so well. Happy that he recoverd from his injuries & that you will be keeping him a lovely prince that minds his manners. Look forward to updates when you can post them. |
I'm glad he healed up nicely. I'm interested in knowing what he actually looks like conformation-wise though. |
Which string test did you do? When I did the mid-knee to coronet band string test on my young gelding, it also put him at around 16.1. Currently he is 15.2-15.3 at age 2 1/2. I am wondering if my guy matured early or if he really will make 16.1. I wish I would have kept better records about is height as he grew, then I could have compared him at the same age as Lestat. I love that photo with him trotting on lead, he looks so baroque and lovely! Gotta love that arched neck and round bum! I remember when you first got him and he was just a hairy little guy. He sure has turned into a fine young man. :-) |
He's quite the man! I have to know... Was he named after the Vampire Lestat? |
659 Attachment(s) holy moly hes gorgeous! i remember reading about his accident, hes grown so much! i cant wait to see a vid :) |
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Hasbro's too cheap to release new molds for just the movie anniversary, especially since they gotta crank out new ones next year for the live movie. My bet is minimal repainting in new packaging, maybe a pack-in like movie trading cards but probably not.
Found this over on Dave Van Domelen's site, Maisto is apparently releasing RoboRods: http://www.maisto.com/RoboRods.html
These are quite truly pathetic! Maisto has been on a bad downward slide for years now, this may be the death knell.
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I'm surprised Vanessa Hudgens needs a chiropractor with all the exercising she does! Perhaps the chiropractor helps her with workout injuries. Anyway, here's 'The Frozen Ground' star dropping by a chiropractor's office.
I like that floral print skirt she's wearing. Of course, Vanessa always looks chic when she goes out in public. It's part of being a movie star, I suppose. I'm sure Vanessa enjoys the challenge: she admitted in a recent interview that she has an entire room in her house converted into a big closet. Talk about a girl after my own heart!
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Steve Tilston was so frustrated after learning that John Lennon wrote him a letter, advising him on how to handle success, but acknowledged about the note 34 years later.
A British folk singer was stunned to find The Beatles legend John Lennon had written him a private letter advising him on how to handle success - because he only found out about the note after a collector contacted him 34 years later. Steve Tilston was a 21-year-old aspiring singer/songwriter when he gave an interview to ZigZag magazine in 1971, explaining how he feared he would lose his creativity if he became rich and successful.
The interview touched a nerve with millionaire superstar Lennon, who penned a letter to Tilston telling him a person doesn't change just because they have more money - before sending it to the reporter at the publication's offices. But the first time Tilston became aware of the correspondence was when an American collector called him to check the letter's authenticity.
The now 60 year old says, "It was so frustrating because Lennon even included his home phone number on the top of the letter. I know it's silly but I wanted to ring him up across the ages. (I) felt rather angry to start with to think that someone had just sold the letter rather than passing it on to me, but you have to let these things go."
The letter, which was signed "Love John and Yoko", is estimated to be worth $11,000.


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This is probably going to haunt Carmelo Anthony for a while: The headlines he's getting these days are focused on what he's wearing rather than how he plays. Hey, it's not his fault that he's riding the bench with a hand injury. But, as the Rocky Mountain News writes, "check out his new upscale image." The braids, untucked shirts, and baggy jackets of seasons past are gone. Instead, he's gone "preppy-cool" and is wearing plaids, tweeds, sweaters, ties, and suits with pocket squares. A slam-dunk or fashion junk? Rate Melo's fashion sense here.


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Local faces in Washington for 'March' anniversary
Among the tens of thousands of people in the capital over the weekend for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech were Boston activist the Rev. Eugene Rivers (left) and Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree (right).
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