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For most of human history, of course, men didn't go anywhere near women in labor, and any expectation that they would is relatively new: In Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, set in the 1940s, a father is sent off to the bar by the household women so he doesn't have to hear his wife's cries of pain. This changed in the 1960s, when a doctor named Robert Bradley put power in patients' hands, reducing the number of Caesarean sections and episiotomies he performed and playing up natural ways of making childbirth less painful. One method, he discovered, was to invite the husband in to have him talk to his wife—a practice popularized in the 1970s. Putting husbands in the delivery room not only coincided with feminism but was intimately wrapped up with the natural childbirth movement and its effort to see the modern body in a more holistic fashion. (Bradley himself was no feminist; he told husbands to enforce a natural-foods diet he designed so that their "statuesque" wives wouldn't pack on pounds.)The ancient tradition of excluding the man might well have reflected deep understanding of sexual happiness. The 1970s feminist idea had some intellectual interest to it, but always seemed off and ideological. And now that view has morphed into the bland present day concern for healthiness.
The idea that childbirth was natural and therefore beautiful wasn't actually embraced by all feminists. Shulamith Firestone insisted that modern feminism shouldn't celebrate childbirth, but hope that science could soon render women's role in it obsolete. She writes, "Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in front of the mirror at eight months are all gut reactions, not to be dismissed as cultural habits. ... Three thousand years ago women giving birth 'naturally' had no need to pretend that pregnancy was a real trip, some mystical orgasm."
Today's women aren't celebrating pregnancy as a mystical orgasm, but they do see having the father in the delivery room as a necessary component of a healthy marriage, one in which both partners contribute equally to collective partnership.
I'd say get the facts and make a sound decision for yourself. And don't focus on the childbirth experience so much. It's like focusing on the wedding and not the actual married life that will follow. The wedding is not the marriage, and the childbirth is not the family. The real happiness is to be found (or lost) in marriage and family, not in weddings and childbirth. Real life is lived in all those ordinary days, not on those big occasions that seem to matter so much when you're starting out.
UPDATE: A reader writes:
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is emphatically not set in the 1940s; I know you didn't write the paragraph which contained that error, but merely excerpted it. However, I thought you might wish the correction, just the same.
Betty Smith's classic novel opens, if I recall correctly, in 1912 (although it flashes back to a number of years earlier) and extends into--again, if I recall correctly) the early '20s, or at least post-World War I). There was, however, a movie made from the book, and that movie dates to the mid-1940s, so that's perhaps the source of the wrong date.
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" .... aaahhhhhh. That happens to be one of the books which had the greatest impact in my childhood (I first read it around 1970 at about age 9--yeah, yeah, I'm one of those precocious readers--and have re-read it many, many times since) in more ways than could possibly interest you, from history to the developing writer's early mind to issues of class, religion, and poverty etc. Most special to me is that the copy I first read--and still read, despite its falling-apart state--belonged to my maternal great-grandfather, whom I never met, but who belonged to a potato-famine Irish-immigrant family that settled in--you guessed it--Williamsburg, Brooklyn and lived in poverty there before, and during a good chunk of, the time depicted in the book (my own grandmother started school about 10 years after Francie would have, but under depressingly similar circumstances). His annotations in margins and general underlinings are priceless to me.
Sorry for the digressions, but it was so lovely to see this book, mostly unknown to my contemporaries, pop up in your blog! Even in the unexpected context in which it was raised...


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Mississippi State (2-4) shot 40 percent from the field (18 of 45) and hit 22 of 33 free throws, shaking off a 0-3 effort at the Maui Invitational last week. Roquez Johnson added 13 points for the Bulldogs.
Alcorn State (2-5) struggled to hit 15 of 51 shots from the field (29.4 percent).
Anthony Evans led Alcorn State with 12 points. LeAntwan Luckett added 11 points.
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I've been blogging (and hating that word) for quite some time now. I find it's easy because it's just me writing about any old crap that comes into my head, with complete disregard to other people and how bored they might get reading such rambling nonsense. So when Sean asked me if I'd like to write a column for DiS - a website I've been a regular reader of since day one, and indeed in it's earlier guise of The Last Resort - I was a little worried. In fact, it's taken me the best part of two months and tens of re-written drafts just to settle on a subject... Which, unimaginatively, is pretty much the same as my existing blog: A collection of thoughts, experiences and pointless tips from a struggling independent record label.
2009 > 2008
Happy new year and all that. I for one am pretty happy to see the back of 2008 with all of it's credit crunch talk and negativity. It started badly for us with Meet Me In St Louis deciding to prematurely call it a day, and it didn't end too much better with Pinnacle (partners of our distributor, Shellshock), Entertainment UK and Zavvi all biting the bullet around Christmas. It's one thing to be struggling yet feel as though you're getting somewhere, it's another to start a new uphill battle every single day, only to lose and start again from the bottom the next morning. The music industry, in the most part, didn't feel quite as fun anymore.
I'm writing this from The Four Candles, the fairly new Oxford city centre branch of everyones favourite dirty pub chain, Wetherspoons. My one and only resolution for 2009 was to enjoy myself more (I think the previous sentence alone tells you I'm winning) and with that comes the necessity to ensure I don't fall out of love with this wonderful - albeit hair-pullingly stressful - job of mine. The best way to achieve this, I decided, was to spend one day a week out of the office. And by office, I actually mean home. The corner of my front room, if you want to get really picky. I'm not one for all that feng shui nonsense but it's a well known fact that creative block can be eased by removing yourself from familiar surroundings, and they don't get much more familiar than mine. So here I am. 1.27pm in Wetherspoons, rum in hand, laptop fully charged and notebook ready.
Time to get creative
Despite the obvious distractions of £1.29 Sailor Jerry and coke and old men debating who they'd "like to smack," I've so far come up with 23 (and counting) new release concepts and formats. Not bad for 2 hours semi-drunk work. The ideas range from different ways to further the potential of digital music through to absolutely insane plots to tenuously link promotional ideas to releases in a way which might spark a bit of interest in this overcrowded market. It's not exactly reinventing the wheel, it's just making it a little smoother.
As the obsession with CDs "dying" and the contentious issue of the numbers of illegal downloads looks set to dominate the forthcoming months, it's never been more important for us labels (and I'm including everyone from my fellow bedroom DIY indies right through to the majors) to show a bit of creativity. It's something I've always tried to champion, but this year it's time to fully embrace it. Embrace it with double vodka and lemonade right now, in fact. Oh God it's only just gone 2.
My list - currently entitled 'The BSM Playbook: '09/10 Season' - is full of the ideas I hope will not only see us through what promises to be a long and rocky year, but will also show the music buying public that we're trying. I was drawn into this industry in the late 90's, clutching onto my limited edition Llama Farmers vinyl and Symposium promo's as if my life depended on it, and in some tiny little way I now feel it's at least partly my responsibility to ensure the next generation do just the same. You can quote facts and figures at me until you're blue in the face, I firmly believe there'll always be demand for a physical music product. Whether that's CD, vinyl, cassette or something we haven't even dared dream up just yet, there'll always be a crowd who wants it. Ok, finding these people and telling them about your product is far from easy, but my Wayne's World-aping philosophy of "if you put it out there, they'll find it" keeps us ticking and if a limited edition tape with free mug, half-price gig entry, a t-shirt which says "I love music and music loves me" and a link to free MP3 downloads is what suits our little fanbases needs, then that's exactly what they'll get.
Over the coming months I'm going to be thinking about this a lot more. Next month I'll be visiting Unconvention in Belfast for inspiration and ideas from some of the UK's key music thinkers and doers. In March it's SXSW and in amongst the live music, crowds of industry folk and BBQ's I'll be searching out the brightest sparks and, more importantly, the most enthusiastic supporters, to see what light they can shed on this subject. I'll be contributing to DiS every few weeks with ideas, suggestions and stupid possibilities. I'd love to hear what ideas some of you have and I'm sure I won't be the only record label owner reading with one eye on his release schedule.
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Saturday 16th September 2017
Midland Football League Premier
Rugby Town 1 v 0 Coleshill Town
Scorer: Josh Ruff.
Attendance: 220.
Opposition Player Of The Match: James Dance (Rugby) Dean Rathbone (Coleshill)
Rugby: Lewis Gwilliams, Aiden Print, Jamie Hall, James Dance, Sean Castleton, Ben Ashby, Tevin Shakespeare, Trey Braithwaite, David Kolodynski, Ruben Wiggins-Thomas, Josh Ruff. Subs Sam Belcher, Remi Birch, Chad Birch, Kyle Rowley, Craig Kelly.
Colemen: Paul Hathaway, Jorna Moulton (Luke Edwards), Anton Astley, Dean Rathbone, Rob Evans, Joe Cole (Jesse Race), Ryan Edmunds, Joe Halsall, Matt Gardner, Reece Leek, Liam Molesworth (Drew Aiton). Subs not used Sam Ford, Dominic Cotter.
Madcap Finish Sees Rare Town Reverse
Leaders Coleshill Town slumped to their first league defeat of the season as Rugby Town struck late for a 1-0 win. And to make matters worse, the visitors had two players sent off. Chances were few and far between but as the game went into added time, Coleshill's Jesse Race saw Red for a pull on a Rugby player. The Referee awarded a free kick just outside the area and then showed a second yellow card to Rob Evans for his protests. To compound a madcap few minutes, Josh Ruff fired the resulting kick into the back of the net for Rugby's winner.
What a difference four days makes. On Tuesday Worcester City and Coleshill Town produced a six goal spectacle that was well worth the admission fee. Fast forward and Rugby Town v Coleshill Town was rubbish. Coleshill will struggle to recover from this game, not just because it was the first defeat of the season but suspentions and injuries will hit them hard. Gio Dainty was injured during the warm up and was withdrawn from the team sheet. Jorna Moulton and Joe Cole both had to be replaced with barely a quarter of the game gone and Jesse Race and Rob Evans' dismissals will result in them missing games. A paper thin squad will be tested to the limit. One small consolation is that Town now don't have a mid-week game due to their opponents, Haughmond, drew in the FA Cup and their replay will take preference.
This was a game of few chances but what little action there was came from the home team, Coleshill never tested the Rugby keeper once in the whole 90 minutes. Ruff hit the bar, Paul Hathaway saved from Kolodynski and Wiggins-Thomas shot over when well placed. The home team should have been in front by the break but Coleshill had survived their worst 45 minutes of the season.
If anything the game went downhill and chances were scarce. Wiggins-Thomas shot over when free on goal and in a similar position Hathaway saved at his feet. Belcher shot over from well inside the box but just as it looked as though Coleshill had got away with it, it all went pear shaped. In injury time Anton Astley was caught in possession, Jesse Race tugged a shirt and a free kick was awarded right on the edge of the 18 yard box. The referee produced a Red card for Race which was really harsh, and then he showed Rob Evans a yellow and as this was his second, he was off as well. Still after a game of dreadful finishing surely Coleshill could cope for the remaining few minutes. No! Josh Ruff saw a gap in the wall and hit a hard and low shot straight as an arrow into the far corner of the net. That summed up the "action". Coleshill defeated but still top of the league and off to Shepshed next Saturday, their seventh away game in a row.
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Josh Ruff's stoppage time free-kick earned Rugby a thoroughly deserved win over league leaders Coleshill Town at Butlin Road.
Ruff's last gasp free-kick inflicted a first league defeat of the season on the North Warwickshire visitors and meant Rugby's accomplished performance on the day earned its due reward.
The hosts named an unchanged starting line-up from the comfortable win at Rocester four days previously, and they took the early initiative with another Ruff free-kick smashing back off the woodwork early on.
Tevin Shakespeare volleyed over and David Kolodynski also headed one off-target as the one way traffic continued, with Ruben Wiggins-Thomas then seeing his header cleared to safety by Anton Astley.
Kolodynski was denied by a decent stop from Paul Hathaway after he fired one in from a tight angle, whilst Wiggins-Thomas's rising effort flew just over, as Valley dominated the opening twenty minutes of the game in particular.
Both Trey Brathwaite and Ruff put their chances wide of the frame, with Coleshill's only brief moment of threat in the first half coming late on when Reece Leek almost got in behind Town's back-line.
The match followed pretty much the same pattern after the restart, although Joe Halsall's on-target header did provide some action for Rugby keeper Lewis Gwilliams in the new period's opening minutes.
However the opportunities continued to come the home team's way as the half progressed, and Shakespeare blazed wildly over from a good position, with Ruff shooting wide after some nice skill on the wing from Wiggins-Thomas.
Sean Castleton headed over before Wiggins-Thomas missed a gilt-edged chance when he also missed the target after he had been put through by an incisive pass from Jamie Hall.
Substitute Sam Belcher was another to fail to take advantage of a good opportunity to break the deadlock when he headed over from ten yards, but with ninety minutes already on the clock, the game's decisive moment came after Wiggins-Thomas was pulled back by Jesse Race as he was about to run through on goal again.
Race was shown the red card for the illegal challenge with fellow defender Robert Evans following him down the tunnel after receiving his second yellow of the match for complaining about the decision.
The resulting free-kick from just outside the penalty area gave Ruff the chance to display his set-piece prowess once more, and he duly stepped up and powered a low strike past the wall and Hathaway into the bottom corner of the net to the joy of his team-mates.
Valley Line-up: Gwilliams; Print, Hall, Dance, Castleton; Brathwaite (C Birch), Ashby, Ruff; Shakespeare (Belcher), Wiggins-Thomas, Kolodynski. Subs not used: Kelly, K Rowley, R Birch. Booked: Ashby, Ruff.
Coleshill Line-up: Hathaway, Moulton, Astley, Evans, Cole, Molesworth, Edmunds, Halsall, Gardner, Leek, Rathbone. Subs: Ford, Edwards, Cotter, Alton, Race.
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I'VE ALWAYS LOOKED forward to Advent. It's a time each year of expectant hope—the hope brought by the coming of a child, born in an animal stall in Bethlehem, who would change everything. It is the time of year when I am reminded again of the choice we always have between cynicism and hope. That's ultimately a spiritual choice, and Advent is a formative season that nurtures the choice to hope, which can guide our decisions and actions.
This fall, Sojourners launched a new project called Emerging Voices, and it's one of the most hopeful initiatives I have been involved with in a long time. It aims to mentor, develop, and promote the most dynamic up-and-coming communicators—speakers, preachers, and teachers—who are called to lead and publicly articulate the biblical call to social justice.
The vision for this project is exciting and something to be celebrated. It also calls to mind a critical observation: Our world often wants saviors, not prophets; new messiahs, not leaders. We want heroes with superhuman strength who save the day, not mere mortals who speak the truths we typically don't want to hear. Even the modern-day giants of social justice—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, and Mahatma Gandhi, for example—were at best prophets, but never saviors.
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The latest. I think this is the most instructive:
The random "welfare bill" accusations. This one is a wild card that is fairly unspecific. Last week, original VAWA sponsor Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said that the expanded provisions took his "landmark legislation, only to come right in and change it to make another welfare bill." There's nothing new in the bill that represents "welfare," unless that's just code for "groups I don't really want to help."
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In the past couple months, I've done some video interviews for my friend Mara Davis's blog. Mara has graciously offered to ask a couple questions during each interview that could potentially be used for Downhome Traces. Doing this has made me realize that I want to avoid pigeonholing this blog into being exclusively about Atlanta. I'd rather it be more generally about history and places, most of which are connected to Atlanta and are often revealed through films, photographs and other visual traces.
In this segment Steve Earle discusses the scenes in the documentary film Heartworn Highways (1981) that feature Townes Van Zandt. Earle talks about Clarksville (the section of Austin where Townes lived) and how Townes "stole the movie" by playing directly to the cameras. Earle has a new record out that features the songs of Townes Van Zandt.


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As promised in our interview, IUGO has published a free version of Toy Bot Diaries. Toy Bot Diaries Free, which is now available in the App Store, presents an introduction (read: a sample level) of the full Toy Bot Diaries: Entry 1 game. Exclusive to TBD FREE, explore the play room full of treasure to be unlocked while mastering Toy Bot's special movements and functions. Perfect to play again and again!
But there's more in IUGO's news update, Shaky Summit is coming soon and IUGO has released the video above. In Shaky Summit your goal is simple, you just have to touch the screen in order to cause boulders to loosen, stalactites to fall to reach the top in this 3D race as the first one. You need to plan your shaeks carefully, because otherwise you could accidentally help your opponent without knowing it.
For more info on Shaky Summit you should check out our interview with IUGO.


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Following the Packers' preseason-opening loss to the Arizona Cardinals, rookie offensive lineman David Bakhtiari was put in a difficult position.
His team had just been shutout 17-0 and, truth be told, played rather poorly. But the Packers' new left tackle was a breath of fresh air.
There's little more Bakhtiari could have done in his professional debut in a game environment, but he had to play the role of good soldier and toe the company line.
"There's a difference between being cocky and being confident," said Bakhtiari on Friday evening following the game. "So I just take the game as a confidence booster and know that there's room to improve and definitely not say that 'I'm there,' because I hope to never say 'I'm there.' There's always something more I can do. I'll come in tomorrow and see what I need to work on and improve on."
When Bryan Bulaga was lost for the season in a knee injury sustained in the team's intra-squad scrimmage a week ago, they gave the first-year player out of Colorado the first crack at replacing him.
It showed a lot of trust to be giving an inexperienced a mid-round draft choice the responsibility of protecting the backside of the highest-paid player in the NFL, but in one game, Bakhtiari looked the part.
"I didn't get touched tonight," said Rodgers. "We had a few dropbacks, I think five attempts. I'm sure he was pretty good over there. It's good when you're not worried about him, and tonight I wasn't worried about him. He's a confident kid. I think he's got a bright future for us. For him it's about experience and going against good pass rushers, and next week will be a good challenge with those guys down in St. Louis."
No doubt about it, Bakhtari can't be penciled for All-Rookie honors after just one exhibition game, but he passed his first test with flying colors.
If there was anything to nitpick about the left tackle's performance, it's that he's still a work-in-progress as a run blocker. He's incredibly athletic and can get to the second level of the defense even better than Marshall Newhouse––who's best qualities include his nimble feet––but Bakhtiari had trouble sustaining blocks in the ground game.
Such was the case on the third play from scrimmage when defensive end Matt Shaughnessy bounced off a block by Bakhtiari and chipped in on a tackle of James Starks on a run off left tackle.
But the reality of the situation is that left tackles, especially in prolific passing offense like Green Bay's, make their money pass blocking.
And despite the uneven performance of the Packers offense outside of the first drive of the game in which the first-string drove for 86 yards, Bakhtiari kept Rodgers and backup Graham Harrell off the turf.
"Today we felt good," said Bakhtiari. "(The defense) didn't call anything, they didn't show anything that was alarming where I was like, 'Josh (Sitton), what are we doing? What are we doing?' Everything felt pretty good. It felt pretty slow. It was a nice, smooth transition ... so I didn't feel too many jitters or brain farts."
Among the most impressive aspects of Bakhtiari's performance was his ability to play out on an island, kicking and sliding in pass protection like a seasoned pro.
Not a single time did a running back or a tight end have to chip in to assist the rookie. On several occasions running backs were deployed to help in pass blocking, but never did Bakhtiari need their aid.
Over the course of the evening, Bakhtiari went up against the likes of Calais Campbell, Lorenzo Alexander and Ronald Talley of the Cardinals, and the young offensive lineman pitched a shutout of his own.
Bakhtiari played the entire first half of the game, but didn't see the field in the second half. While he's aware he got off to a good start, he also knows there are bigger and longer tests that lie ahead.
"I went out there with a purpose," said Bakhtiari. "I've been getting a lot of media attention lately with the buzz of me moving up and battling with Marshall on the right side and then now with the tragic event with Bulaga and now with this whole, me starting at left tackle ... it comes with great responsibility.
"So I went out there with something more to prove, because you can do stuff in practice, and I can tell you guys whatever you guys want to hear. But at the end of the day, it's what's out there that's the most important thing that I'm going to be judged on, not only by my peers, by the fans, but by my coaches and the organization in and of itself. It was good, I was happy, but I need to know that I have to move on. It was a great first game, but I'm on the second game. I got to start preparing, getting ready, and I have to go prove myself for that."
Brian Carriveau is the author of the book "It's Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America," and editor of Cheesehead TV's "Pro Football Draft Preview." To contact Brian, email [email protected].
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What transpired Friday night at Amway Center almost could make an objective person feel sorry for Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Orlando Magic schooled 'em from start to finish.
Dwight Howard outplayed Andrew Bynum. Jameer Nelson bounced back from one of the worst games of his career. And the rest of the Magic looked like they were going full-speed while Bryant's teammates looked like they were sleepwalking.
The result: a 92-80 Orlando win over Los Angeles that might have made Shaquille O'Neal regret saying that Bynum was the NBA's best big man.
"Tonight's game was not about Andrew Bynum and Dwight Howard," Howard said afterward. "It was about the Magic and the Lakers, and that's the only thing that was on my mind: getting a win."
Yeah, right.
Howard's quickness forced Bynum into early foul trouble, and Howard finished with 21 points and 23 rebounds.
"I don't think he played any differently than what he's been playing," Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy said. "These are the kind of things he's been doing night-in and night-out."
Knowing that the Lakers (10-7) had played the night before, the Magic (11-4) just brought more energy.
Orlando took a double-digit lead with 3:51 left in the first quarter, ballooned that advantage to 23 points late in the second and led by double digits until Jason Kapono drilled a 3-pointer with 6:l9 left in regulation.
But 16 seconds later, the Lakers' momentum evaporated when Bryant was called for a technical foul for arguing an out-of-bounds call.
Nelson sank the ensuing free throw, and Jason Richardson took the ensuing inbounds pass and maneuvered past Bryant for an easy dunk to extend Orlando's lead to 77-66.
After Bryant missed a long 3, Ryan Anderson hit a 3-pointer, prompting the announced crowd of 18,846 to give a standing ovation.
"I think everybody came out with great energy," said Richardson, who played for the first time since he bruised a bone in his left knee Jan. 12. "We knew they were playing on a back-to-back and we could come out and have some energy and get up and down the court."
Orlando had 14 fastbreak points to Los Angeles' five.
Meanwhile, the highly anticipated matchup between Howard and Bynum never materialized.
Bynum was whistled for two personals 12 seconds apart midway through the first quarter.
Howard caused both fouls. The Magic center drove toward the hoop on both plays, and Bynum struggled to match Howard's quickness.
Bynum left the game with 6:11 remaining in the first and returned at the start of the second. But Bynum earned his third foul just 2 minutes, 48 seconds later. He sat the rest of the quarter.
In all, Bynum logged only 26 minutes, scored 10 points and gathered 12 rebounds.
"I want to play him again just to be able to get some shots on offense," Bynum said.
"I only got six shots tonight, so I wasn't able to go back at him. I took myself out of the game early and was able to come back and have a decent second half."
Howard looked like he had something to prove after O'Neal had said on TNT that Bynum was the sport's best big man.
Howard appeared to ask Van Gundy to call plays for him on several occasions, but Howard claimed afterward that wasn't the case.
Bryant finished with a game-high 30 points and eight assists and was the Lakers' lone bright spot.
Whatever happened to the Lakers' vaunted depth?
They started the second quarter with Bynum and Metta World Peace on the floor but also with journeyman Josh McRoberts and a pair of lightly regarded rookie guards, Darius Morris and Andrew Goudelock.
The Lakers finished the first half with only 31 points, their lowest first-half total so far this season.
The Magic won for the sixth time in seven games, and team officials hope they are proving to Howard that the franchise can win a title.
For one season, at least, they will have bragging rights over the Lakers.
If, that is, Howard isn't traded to the Lakers before the season ends.
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Belmar Boardwalk Coming In Under Cost
The cost of rebuilding the Belmar boardwalk is actually coming in under initial estimates.
Mayor Matt Doherty tells Townsquare Media that published reports saying they would be paying more due to an issue with their engineering firm, are erroneous.
In a press release, Doherty explains that the bid to rebuild the boardwalk was put out quickly in order to take advantage of pricing and the availability of material to make sure the work was done by summer. An average of 25' was used for bidding purposes and variations in the width were anticipated.
The overall total area of 215,000 square feet remains unchanged.
Birdsall Engineering Chief Administrative Office Scott McFadden says changes were made to the original design to improve the look of the new boardwalk by giving it a tweed pattern and changing the material being used to Trex, a wood alternative.
The budget for the project was $16.935 million and McFadden says the work will still come in under budget.
It is still anticipated the work will be done by April 30.
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The title character in this faithful retelling of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel suffers (and suffers, and then suffers some more) for her beauty, which at times can make an otherwise-sumptuous production a bit of a slog. Nevertheless, this BBC-PBS collaboration features a finely tragic performance from recent Bond lass Gemma Arterton, kicking off a season of "Masterpiece Classic" filled with high-profile titles, including a two-part "Wuthering Heights" and an extended tribute to Charles Dickens. So for now, anyway, public TV's storied relationship with British costume dramas remains happily intact.
Adapted by Roman Polanski nearly 30 years back (with Natassja Kinski in the title role) and again for British television a decade ago, Hardy's story explores issues of class in 19th century England as well as double standards regarding the purity of women — in this case, Arterton's naive peasant girl, who is done no favors by her layabout parents.
Instead, after her father, John Durbeyfield (Ian Puleston-Davies), is told by a mischievous minister that he bears a strong resemblance to the noble D'Urberville clan, Tess is dispatched to "claim kin" with her possible relatives. Unfortunately, the family connection is merely a charade, and while she's given work on the estate, she also catches the eye of the presiding matron's roguish son Alec (Hans Matheson, who played Dr. Zhivago in a 2002 TV reprise), beginning what amounts to his single-minded campaign to deflower her.
That he eventually does, in an artfully shot sequence that places the encounter somewhere between rape and seduction. Either way, the distraught Tess flees back home, later taking a job as a milkmaid where she joins the other girls in pining for the aristocratic and kindly Angel ("The Good Shepherd's" Eddie Redmayne), who is there learning the trade.
Angel falls for Tess, too, and finally proposes to her, but she carries the secret of her nonvirginal status as well as that of the deceased baby that she bore. "At last I can be happy!" Tess proclaims, but that's before she decides to be completely honest with her new husband, which, as anyone knows, is seldom the prescription for a successful relationship.
Wide-eyed and lovely, Arterton conveys the pitiful plight of her simple character trapped in an unforgiving society, though, stretched over two nights, the adaptation by a trio of Davids (director Blair, writer Nicholls, producer Snodin) becomes an arduous trek — especially when the abandoned Tess reconnects with the still-persistent Alec. Fortunately, the payoff is strong enough to justify all that hiking across lush countryside — along with "Masterpiece's" continuing stroll through the great works of English literature.


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It's joint-list-making time again. On this occasion, it's Barney's turn to choose our theme and he's drawn inspiration from that touch of dampness in the air... the plunging temperatures... the sight of bare branches. In short, he's decided we should present our top picks for autumn 2012. I confess, I rarely view perfumes in relation to the seasons, but this particular exercise turned out to be far more thought-provoking than I'd expected it to be, not least because I found myself having very strong opinions about which scents are not autumnal. But anyway, without further ado, here are my recommendations for that very particular time of year when you start feeling the urge to turn up your collar.
La Pluie from Miller Harris
Let's start with a reference to rain. Although this scent from Lynn Harris is essentially a white floral (jasmine and ylang feature prominently in its heart) it manages to veer away from cliche country by placing a strange wet note (achieved by mosses... or woods... or herbs?) next to the core accord. The result really is... well, rainy, but without the faintest suggestion of gloom. I just wish it lasted a tiny bit longer... unlike November downpours.
Mito from Vero Profumo
Autumn was made for chypres, and one of the finest examples we've had for a while is Vero Kern's Mito. A bewitching blend of hyacinths, magnolia and jasmine (on the requisite mossy base) it fills its wearer with a palpable sense of the power of nature. You could argue that all four seasons are represented here, but autumn is probably Mito's favourite time of year: a period when transience is at its most painfully poetic.
L'Ambre Des Merveilles from Hermès
The original Eau Des Merveilles and its flankers are generally praised for their unusual structure (think: traditional notes pyramid turned on its head) and now Jean Claude-Ellena maintains continuity with this latest iteration. The weirdly compelling salty/animalic note is intact, but this time it's been linked with a translucent amber accord, not unlike the one JCE used in Ambre Narguile. A friend said it ought to have been called Chambre De Merveilles, and although he was joking, I think he may have been on to something. After all, LADM doesn't smell very different from a boudoir whose windows have been opened to a humid October breeze.
Exhale from Gorilla Perfume
For those not in the know, Exhale is half of Gorilla Perfume's much-praised Breath Of God (the other being Inhale). Currently available only in oil form, it is a fiery, overwhelming mix of vetivert, cedar and incense notes that simultaneously appear to be at one with both the earth and the skies. People often tell me that they can't face trying Lush's perfume range because they don't want to do battle with the scent of the bath bombs. My response is that they're missing out, not least because of intriguing creations like this one.
Babylon from Angela Flanders
This intoxicating brew from the perfume empress of Columbia Road somehow manages to combine gigantic wood notes in a way that doesn't turn the whole into a characterless soup. As its name suggests, there is something distinctly Biblical at play here: a meditation on resins, balsams, spices and herbs, with a touch of booziness to suggest impassioned carnality. A must-try.
Hommage À L'Homme from Lalique
Despite my tendency not to categorise fragrances in climatic terms, I've always thought of Fahrenheit as the quintessential autumn scent, which is why Lalique's latest masculine popped into my mind whilst I was compiling this list. It is essentially a sweeter version of the Dior, complete with the strident violet leaf note and the woody/floral facet. Each time I've worn it, I've been showered with tons of compliments, so I guess it must be doing something right.
Interlude Man from Amouage
I still can't get enough of this stuff. Pierre Negrin's ingenious presentation of the concept of peace within chaos starts with a perplexing juxtaposition of tar and plastic before turning into one of the hottest, most absorbing smoke-based fragrances I have ever had the pleasure to wear. My sample's almost empty, and although Amouage's price tags aren't exactly wallet-friendly, I confess I am sorely tempted to part with my pennies. I just need to find a way to justify the purchase to myself. I suppose I could delay turning on the central heating by a month. The perfume would probably do just as good a job of keeping me warm!
Vierges Et Toreros from Etat Libre D'Orange
You can always rely on ELDO for oddness and VET certainly doesn't disappoint on that front. A bizarre tuberose - underscored by a bestial, metallic base - it manages to reach out into the world whilst enveloping its wearer with a veil of strange impenetrability... which is just what you need as you don your gloves and wrap a scarf around your neck.
Don't forget to check out Eyeliner On A Cat, Olfactoria's Travels and Fragrant Moments for more lists.


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David Freese, the hometown boy made good, is the MVP of the World Series.
David Freese, the hometown boy made good, is the MVP of the World Series.
Down to their final strike in Game 6, the Cardinals' reluctant hero delivered a tying two-run triple in the ninth inning Thursday night. Freese then did one better: a leadoff homer in the 11th that gave St. Louis a dramatic win over the Rangers and forced the first Game 7 since 2002.
Freese, the NL championship series MVP, capped his memorable October with another strong performance Friday night, hitting a two-run double in the first inning to tie it 2-all.
Playing solid defense at third base and also drawing a pair of walks that helped lead to runs, Freese was again front and center in a 6-2 win that wrapped up the Cardinals' 11th championship.
"This means everything," Freese said.
When the final out was made, Freese threw his arms in the air and dashed for the mound, where he joined a happy scrum as confetti floated down from the upper reaches of Busch Stadium.
Freese batted .348 in the World Series, with seven RBIs, three doubles and one big homer. He's the fourth Cardinals player to win the MVP award, joining Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson in 1964 and '67, catcher Darrell Porter in 1982 and David Eckstein in their 2006 victory over Detroit.
"You learn from all these veterans about how to go about this game and I wouldn't be here without them," Freese said.
Freese could just as well be the MVP of the entire postseason.
The kid who grew up in a St. Louis suburb hit a three-run homer in Game 6 of the NLCS against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Then came his stirring performance against the Texas Rangers in the Fall Classic.
Often lost in a high-scoring lineup that includes Albert Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman, Freese left his impression on baseball's grandest stage out of necessity.
Holliday struggled most of the series before spraining his right wrist during Game 6, keeping him off the roster Friday. Pujols was intentionally walked whenever he was a threat.
That left the offense to Freese, who had given up on baseball after high school, spurning a scholarship offer from Missouri to simply be a college student. He even rebuffed the Tigers' coaches when they called midway through his first semester to find out whether he'd changed his mind.
It wasn't until about a year out of high school that the itch to play finally returned.
Freese gave in and enrolled at St. Louis Community College-Meremec, and his play there caught the attention of the coaching staff at South Alabama. Freese blossomed into the Padres' ninth-round draft pick in 2006, and a trade to the Cardinals eventually brought him home.
"If you wrote a story like that — a guy gets traded, comes back to his hometown, he's a hero — if you sent that in the script, it would get thrown back in your face," Commissioner Bud Selig opined before the start of Game 7.
This wasn't a perfect fairy tale, though. That would be too easy.
Freese needed season-ending surgery to repair a torn tendon in his right ankle last year, and he broke his left hand when he was hit by a pitch earlier this season. He was hit by another pitch in August and sustained a concussion.
Each time, he came back better than before.
He was at his best against Texas.
In the World Series opener, with the game tied in the sixth inning, Freese delivered a timely double. He alertly moved to third base on a wild pitch, allowing him to score easily for the eventual winning run on Allen Craig's single to right field.
Freese scored the Cardinals' only run in a 2-1 loss in Game 2, and then drove in a pair of runs in a 16-7 victory in Game 3 — a performance that will be forever overshadowed by Pujols' three homers.
Nobody could overshadow Freese in Game 6.
After committing a critical error when an easy popup bounced out of his glove, Freese more than made up for it with his bat. Down to his final strike, his two-run triple in the ninth forced extra innings, and he joined Bill Mazeroski, Carlton Fisk, Kirby Puckett and Joe Carter as the only players to hit a game-winning homer in Game 6 or later of a Fall Classic.
That's pretty select company.
Much like the company he'll enjoy as MVP of the World Series.


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"Do you know the Poulterer's, in the next street but one, at the corner?" Scrooge inquired.
"I should hope I did," replied the lad.
"An intelligent boy!'' said Scrooge. "A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they've sold the prize Turkey that was hanging up there? Not the little prize Turkey; the big one?"
"What, the one as big as me?" returned the boy.
Bigger isn't always better, especially when it involves a turkey. I learned this the hard way.
Yes, Gentle Reader, It's Holiday Time Again!
Due to the popularity of last year's holiday post, What the Dickens, Or How to Blow Up a Duck, I have decided to return to Christmas Past to share more holiday tales of food preparation gone wrong.
I realize that whenever you do Part 2 of something it never seems to live up to the audience's expectations of Part 1. Even when Part 2 is good it never quite achieves the same level of greatness as Part 1. So, Gentle Reader, with that said it's time to lower your expectations and once again journey with me back in time
Christmas 1985, Or How to Lose Your Cookies
Several friends and I had a brilliant idea! Let's have a Christmas cookie baking party! I was dating this guy at the time who offered to host the party at his apartment. Each of us brought a cookie ingredient (flour, sugar, eggs) and a recipe for batch of cookies. The plan was to make a huge batch of cookies which we would all share. One friend who was a bartender thought it would be fun to mix up a couple of pitchers of Blue Hawaiians to liven things up a little.
Well it didn't take long for my friends and I to realize that we really hadn't thought through the logistics of our cookie baking activity. A small apartment, multiple batches of cookies, one oven, limited counter space, and a large batch of Blue Hawaiians were not exactly the ingredients for success. We were quickly overwhelmed by dirty dishes, empty cookie sheets, full cookie sheets, cookie dough, and all of the already baked cookies. There were cookies everywhere--cookies on the counters, cookies on the table, cookies on top of the refrigerator! To put it in perspective think Lucy and Ethel in the candy factory with peanut butter blossoms instead of bonbons.
As the evening wore on my friends and I were getting desperate (plus I suspect the Blue Hawaiians were starting to kick in). What to do, what to do? An idea! Why couldn't we rest some of the hot cookies still on cookie sheets on a window sill to cool? They would be out of the way and cool off at the same time. Did I mention my boyfriend's apartment was in a three-decker? Yep, you guessed it. The cookies fell out the window. I don't remember how many flights. Let's just say the cookie incident kind of foreshadowed my relationship with the boyfriend (which was also out the window) a few weeks later.
Christmas 2010, Or You'll Shoot Your Eye Out Kid
My husband and son LOVE cranberry sauce. So do I, so every year I make home-made cranberry-orange relish. My son is somewhat spoiled and won't eat the stuff from the can which is fine with me. I'm always looking for ways to remove high fructose corn syrup from our diets. I'm happy to make my own which only contains three simple ingredients--cranberries, oranges, and sugar. How can you go wrong with only three ingredients?
I've come to think of kitchen appliances as power tools for the kitchen. A food processor is not for the faint of heart. I hadn't really thought too much about it until last year's mishap. I pulled out my food processor (which I rarely use I might add) put the cranberries in, put the cover on, and turned the power on. Unfortunately I forgot one thing. You know that cap that goes over the little tube you feed stuff into? I forgot to put that on. Oops. The result--a rapid-fire cranberry machine gun shooting cranberries all over the kitchen! My cranberries could have given Ralphie's Red Ryder BB Gun a run for it's money any day.
Thanksgiving 1989, Or More Problems With Poultry
Now, Gentle Reader, I know you are asking, "So what happened with the turkey?" I kind of alluded to what I have come to think of as "the unfortunate flaming turkey incident" at the end of my duck story. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea what happened other than the turkey was really big and Mom was using one of those cooking bags again. Clearly we learned nothing from the exploding duck episode. All I know is Mom opened the oven door, and flames shot out! Still being the nervous type, I went for the kitchen fire extinguisher, again. Mom, still not being the nervous type, told me to put away the fire extinguisher, again. She closed the oven door, and the flames went out. After the fire was out Mom said in a calm voice, "Once you cut off the oxygen the fire will go out." Good to know. The turkey was fine, but I wasn't doing so well, again. And yes, we did have that turkey for dinner.
Do you have a Christmas tale of culinary chaos? A souffle that flopped? A fondue that didn't? Do you fear Christmas Dinner Yet to Come? Feel free to leave a comment. After all, misery loves company. Now I'm off to Home Depot to buy safety goggles. I need to make cranberry sauce...
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Synonyms for other
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Old English oþer "the second" (adj.), also as a pronoun, "one of the two, other," from Proto-Germanic *antharaz (cf. Old Saxon athar, Old Frisian other, Old Norse annarr, Middle Dutch and Dutch ander, Old High German andar, German ander, Gothic anþar "other").
These are from PIE *an-tero-, variant of *al-tero- "the other of two" (cf. Lithuanian antras, Sanskrit antarah "other, foreign," Latin alter), from root *al- "beyond" (see alias) + adjectival comparative suffix *-tero-. The Old English, Old Saxon, and Old Frisian forms show "a normal loss of n before fricatives" [Barnhart]. Meaning "different" is mid-13c.
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The primary aim of this magisterial tome is to make available a critical edition of the Multābiltu (i.e., "The One Who Interprets"), a seventeen tablet series that comprises the tenth chapter of the first millennium extispicy opus known in Babylonian as Bārûtu (i.e., "The Art of the Diviner"). Though the great bulk of the monograph is devoted to these tablets, the author has generously included critical editions of a number of texts relevant to the study of the Multābiltu tablets, including the Multābiltu catalogue (pp. 85–89); seven Mukallimtu "commentaries" to the Multābiltu (pp. 233–272); the Niṣirti bārûti tablets (i.e., "The Secrets of the Diviners," pp. 273–446); the dub a.la tablets (i.e., observations derived from scholarly debates relating to the behavior of sacrificial lambs, pp. 447–479); the "orientation tables" (i.e., extispicy models and interpretive grids, pp. 480–544); and several fragments that might belong either to the Multābiltu or other Niṣirti bārûti materials (pp. 545–562). Though the Niṣirti bārûti tablets likely represent the periphery of esoteric learning since they were not part of the extispicy series, were not connected to its commentaries, and did not achieve the quasi-canonical form that the other texts did, they are still of critical importance for shedding light on the other tablets and the learning they contain. Indeed, together these tablet collections represent the supplementary learning required of diviners familiar with the Bārûtu.
Since most readers, including many Assyriologists, will be unfamiliar with details of extispicy, Koch introduces the subject by discussing the contents and compositional structures of the texts and the relationship of the texts to one another (pp. 1–72). Also surveyed are the relevant Akkadian terms for the various parts of the liver, lungs, heart, and other exta found in the omens, for which helpful diagrams also are provided (pp. 73–83). The remainder of the book consists of the critical editions (pp. 85–232), useful indices of texts (both by registration number and publication) and words (pp. 563–623), a representative bibliography (pp. 624–630), and a series of hand-drawn plates of the tablets (pp. i–liv).
This book contributes much to our knowledge of the details of the Mesopotamian divinatory profession and builds significantly upon the author's previous well-known work.1 Many of the texts found in this volume have never before been published, and even those that have appeared before have received scant attention by Assyriologists. Nevertheless, the fact that most of the book is devoted to critical editions of Akkadian tablets means that the book will likely be of immediate interest only to Assyriologists whose work focuses on divination.
Still, the book's general importance for the study of ancient intellectual thought should here be stressed. Though the tablets' systematic cataloguing of omens situates them firmly within the Babylonian tradition of Listenwissenschaft, the exhaustiveness with which the ancient scholars interpreted the omens, coupled with the fact that they did not appear to use the tablets as extispicy manuals, suggests that the diviners were attempting to derive general theoretical principles from their observations. According to Koch these tablets
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Thus, while the hermeneutics found in these tablets are grounded in, and informed by, a profoundly religious cosmology, they nonetheless represent a nascent form of "scientific" inquiry.2
In recent years the list of publications on ancient divination has grown significantly, demonstrating that scholarly interest in the ancient mantic arts in and across a number of disciplines is on the rise.3 The texts contained in this book have the potential for contributing a great deal to such interdisciplinary discussions, especially if they are studied as intellectual and religious artifacts and not merely as critical editions. These tablets have much to tell us about ancient Mesopotamian hermeneutics and the divinatory assumptions, preoccupations, anxieties, and ideologies that inform them. Of course, mining these tablets for such information represents the next step in the scholarly process, but we can thank the author for making accessible in an exhaustive and rigorous treatment the raw materials necessary to undertake such work.
[1] See, e.g., Ulla Susanne Koch, Babylonian Liver Omens. The Chapters Manzāzu, Padān, and Pān tākalti of the Extispicy Series, mainly from Aššurbanipal's Library (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, 25; Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000).
[2] Note Francesca Rochberg's similar observations with regard to Mesopotamian astronomy in her monograph, The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
[3] See most recently, S. Iles Johnston, P. T. Struck, eds., Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination (Leiden: Brill, 2005).


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A national call has been made for "April Days of Action" to focus on three key components of U.S. drone work: Drone Manufacturers, Drone Bases in the U.S., and Drone Research. (See the list about nationwide actions and post your own planned actions for April.)
Given the fact that drones are now the primary weapons of warfare used by the US, and for surveillance both domestic and abroad, the research and development of this warfare is growing rapidly at academic institutions, in our towns and neighborhoods. Drones are the perfect instrument for endless war that kills civilians, even as they target "militants" in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan.
Academic institutions often receive large grants from the U.S. Department of Defense, enabling them to build labs within schools of engineering, for instance. We are well aware that without this research in robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), and the accompanying accessories, these drone warfare projects would probably not take place. So there is an interdependent relationship between the universities and the U.S. government and or its Department of Defense and CIA. (CIA drones are used in countries with which the U.S. is not "at war", ie Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Mali, and others.)
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Here is a round-up of research, development, and training activity connected to drones at Midwest colleges and universities. I've indicated those schools that are land-grant universities. There appears to be a high concentration of drone work at land-grant universities.
(See Do We Have a Drone Problem at Midwest Colleges and Universities? )
What are some of the forms that campus activism might take? Since Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has a contract to do drone research, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance [NCNR], on May 1, sent a letter to Ronald J. Daniels, JHU president, and Dr. Ralph Semmel, director of the APL, seeking a meeting . . . .
(See Anti-Killer Drone Activists Seek Meeting with Johns Hopkins University President )
(See List of U.S. Drone Research Sites)