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What's New?
The guide is complete! Have fun reading through the archives to see how an IGN Guide comes together.
PDF and PSP Guides are Ready
Download them, print them out and kill your ink cartridge, have fun with them. Thanks for following along through this undertaking. The guide ended up over 240 pages of packed info once we shrunk it down to be printable and that's not even including some of the web apps.
Yes, it is. The guide is now done. Our PDF guide should be up tomorrow. A quick check shows I have roughly 250 pages of work to organize. Have fun printing it out soon!
More City Guides
Today we updated the City Life section once again with the additions of Anvil, Chorrol, and Cheydinhal. Look for the final few cities soon.
We got started on the City Life section today which now makes it so no section of this guide is left empty. We've included some labeled maps to help you get around town -- use them!
Weapons, Spells, and Enchantments
Today's update completes our equipment section that we started yesterday. We also put in a page with starter info to get you going creating your own spells and enchanting weapons. Enjoy. Tomorrow we'll start on the City Guides. The end is near!
We're Back!
Sort of. Today was the first day back in the office from E3 (which was exhausting, but cool). Most of the day was filled with super fun meetings, though we did manage to make some additions to the guide. First, the Side Quest Canvase the Castle, which we previously forgot to add, was put in today. Also, we began the much sought after Items, Weapons, and Armor section with entries for items and armor. The weapons section will be up tomorrow. It's good to be back in Cyrodiil.
Off to E3
This will be our last update for a week as the entire IGN Editorial team is heading down to LA for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. We didn't want to leave you high and dry, though, so we finished off both the Side Quest section and the Trainers page. We'll be back soon to complete the rest of the guide.
P.S. Not that I'm bragging or anything, but my Oblivion character is at level 44 and could probably beat yours up.
Ayleid Ruins
We've got some new additions to the Side Quest section today. Look on this page for When the Vow Breaks and An Unexpected Voyage. We've also added a new page just for the Ayleid Ruin set of quests. These start with the difficult but very rewarding The Collector quest. We've got some maps to help you locate everything you need. Take a look. We'll also shortly have Raid on Greyland, Revenge Served Cold, and No Stone Unturned up tonight.
Stones of Doom
Mark Ryan made an awesome map to help you locate all of the Doomstones in Cyrodiil and included an explanation on what powers you can get from each one. Read about it in the Secrets section.
Quests on the Side, Anybody?
In our ongoing goal of doing everything in Oblivion, we have more Side Quest additions today. Specifically, we did the A Shadow Over Hackdirt, The Ghost Ship of Anvil, Imperial Corruption, and the very cool Where Spirits Have Lease.
E3 is Approaching
If our updates start to get light, it is because E3 planning is at full steam. We're only a week away. For today, though, we've got a few new additions to the Side Quests and the Dark Brotherhood section is complete. You'll notice we added a third page to the Side Quests section so that you don't have to do as much scrolling.
Have a Good Weekend
We've added more Side Quests and sections to the Dark Brotherhood. We'll be back Monday for more regular updates.
Big Update
Several of us got down to business in Oblivion today. The result is that the guide got that much bigger. Check out the new Side Quest additions, Magic section, and the start of the Dark Brotherhood section. In case you missed it, we also put up some new Video Tips that focus on combat. Enjoy.
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Stealth and Secrets
Today we added a Stealth section to the guide and made a small addition to the Secrets page.
Fighters Always Win
Having trouble with the battles in Oblivion? Check out our new Combat section. We'll have even more video tips covering this topic up soon.
Drink Up
For this Monday update, we have even more updates to the Trainers section. Additionally, take a look at our brand new Alchemy page complete with another interactive tool to help you along.
Masterful Playing
We've got even more additions to the Trainers section for the weekend. Enjoy.
Power Leveling
I guess I'll just have to keep leveling my character up so that I can complete these master trainer quests. Check out the new additions today in the Trainers section.
Training Like Rocky
We've got some new additions to the Trainers section for you today. Some of these guys have crazy schedules. We've tried to do our best to help you find them when they'll actually offer their services.
New Trainers Section
After battling most of the day against my (hopefully not) failing 360, I managed to seek out and jot down a bit about some of the trainers you can find in Cyrodiil. This section will be completed fairly soon, but the start of it can be found in the Character Building section under the subtopic of Trainers.
Sections Complete
We finished off the Mages Guild, the Fighters Guild, and the Daedric Shrines sections today. Also, I want to send a big thanks out to Stevie B. for e-mailing in the way around the fatal error that occurs at the end of the 360 version of the Clavicus Vile quest.
Guild Updates
For the weekend we have some updates to both the Mages Guild and the Fighters Guild. Both are nearing completion and should be finished very soon.
I also added a post in my new IGN blog about some crazy happenings in Oblivion. If you have similar experiences or know any way to finish the Clavicus Vile quest, drop by there and leave a note.
I Want My Umbra
So, if you complete the Clavicus Vile Daedric Shrine and decide to keep the Umbra Sword rather than turn it in, the game crashes. I'm a little upset about this. Umbra is by far the best weapon we've found in the game so far. Oh well. Read up on this, and other Daedric Shrines in the newly updated section. We've also got another addition to the Side Quest section. The Separated at Birth quest and all jobs related to it were also added. Check them out right here.
Meteoric Rise to Warlock Status
Having just began the Mages Guild yesterday afternoon, being promoted to Warlock just now seemed like a fast set of promotions. Especially considering the side quests that were done. Those were the always troublesome Tears of the Savior (with a map to help you) and Through a Nightmare, Darkly. Mark Ryan also managed to squeeze in the quest Goblin Trouble amidst his other work. You'll notice that the side quests have been broken up into two pages: here and here.
I Saved the Day
People got a problem with heroes around here. How is it that I can save the world and everybody knows it, yet people still try to rip me off when I buy Repair Hammers? This is junk! Anyways, the Main Quest section has been completed. Since I finished that, I started on the Mages Guild, but I'm still working towards getting some letters of recommendation.
P.S. The Video Tips are up and Mark Ryan updated the Fighters Guild.
Video Tips Coming
We spent most of today recording some HD video showcasing some of the more awesome things that can be done in the game. Those should be up either tomorrow or the next day. In the interim, we've got some updates to the Main Quest and the side quest The Wayward Knight was completed.
Fighters Rejoice
More Fighters Guild stuff is updated. Check it out! We should have a huge update for you all on Monday. Stay tuned...
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More Updates! And some sad news...
All good things must come to an end. No, we didn't beat the game yet, but IGN's Oblivion strategy guide is now locked behind Insider. If you're not yet an Insider member, we want to thank you for making our guide a success and for all the positive feedback. If you want to continue using our in-depth guide to Oblivion, consider the benefits of IGN Insider. For the rest of you, enjoy today's updates!
-Mark Ryan
I'm having a blast completing the Daedric Shrine quests. Plus, I get to make all the other editors jealous when I show off the great items I get as rewards. Three more additions have been made to the Daedric Shrine section today.
Fighting For Good and Evil
We've got a nice update for tonight. Mark Ryan began the Fighters Guild today. He also did a random side quest called The Siren's Deception. Erik continued working on the Daedric Shrines. There are four new additions today. Happy questing.
Done Being a Thief
Well I completed the Thieves Guild Quests this evening. That last one was LONG and difficult. The rewards for making it through are enormous. If you haven't completed these, start right now!
Trying to Stay on Track
Ah! Oblivion is simply too huge. You start playing the main quest and then realize four hours later that you've done nothing but side quests and explore. Oh well. Today we have updates to the Thieves Guild, Main Quest, and have started the Daedric Shrines subsection of the Side Quests with the first 3 we found and completed. If you haven't explored the shrines, I suggest you go there immediately.
Main Quest
David Clayman and I started playing through the main quest this weekend. We tried our best to stay focused, but you know how it is with this game. Read the Main Quest page to see our additions. We also added the Battle for Castle Kvatch to the Side Quest section.
Mark Ryan Sallee got afflicted with that nasty little bug going around that you and I call "being a vampire." He was kind enough to write up a detailed account of his experience and how to get rid of it. Read about it here.
More Thieves Guild Information
I played through more of the Thieves Guild this morning and afternoon. Those missions are some of the best I've seen so far -- very fun stuff. Now I'm about to start the marathon session with David Clayman. Wish my sanity luck.
Small Update Today
I got caught up in doing a bunch of random things at the office today, so tonight's update will be short and sweet. I started playing the Thieve's guild and got through the first few quests. You can read the update here. I also completed the absolutely fantastic side quest Buy a house in the Imperial City. Tomorrow begins the marathon of playing straight through the main quest. David Clayman and I are going to trade off playing while the other person writes the guide and takes streenshots. Look for massive updates this weekend.
Arena Complete
We played through the Arena today. There's nothing like a day of bashing skulls for profit. Read our initial Arena section here. We'll probably add more helpful info tomorrow after we've had some time to sleep on it. We also have a few new side quests for you to take a look at. The ones completed were Paranoia (from a good perspective), The Sunken One and Zero Visibility.
To those who sent us comments, suggestions, and corrections - Thanks! Keep them coming. We addressed a few of your suggestions today and we'll tackle the rest as soon as possible.
Side quests Galore
We started going through some side quests and we're quickly learning that these are more than simple fetch Object A and return it jobs. Read the ones we've tackled so far in the Side Quests section. The new ones added are A Brush with Death, Caught in the Hunt, and The Gray Prince. We also updated the Secrets section with the Xbox 360 unlockable achievements.
The guide is live!
For the first update, we've tackled the Basics, making a Character, and the start of the Main Quest. Don't forget to check out the little program I wrote that will help you come up with the perfect Custom Character without even having to boot up the game!
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Ruth Taylor Recital Hall at Trinity University
Brahms: Scherzo from F-A-E sonata for violin and piano
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Carolyn True, piano | Tynan Davis, mezzo-soprano
Dancers from Ballet San Antonio, Gabriel Zertuche, artistic director
During this past weekend, the Brahms Festival included the first two of Brahms's four symphonies. This coming weekend includes the final two. Saturday (2/16) and Sunday feature Symphony No. 4. Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing will conduct. This work has an extraordinary final movement. The Symphony program notes describe it:
The finale is perhaps Brahms's most supreme masterpiece of orchestral composition. Set in the form of a passacaglia (a Baroque form consisting of a repeated melodic pattern upon which melodic and harmonic variations are anchored), Brahms looks backward instead of forward. The creative process is laid bare before our eyes and ears, and we can follow the composer's thought processes very closely. The movement opens with a harmonized statement of the passacaglia theme, which Brahms borrowed from J. S. Bach's Cantata 150. Many respected scholars have speculated on Brahms' intention, and possible meanings for such borrowing. However, we cannot forget that he composed this movement in the bicentennial year of Bach's birth. Despite its meaning, the movement progresses through more than thirty variations that flow organically from one to the next. Despite this almost mechanical approach, the music is a transcendent and supremely emotional "mighty assertion of the spirit of man."
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CBS newsman Bob Schieffer compares a second presidential swearing-in to a second trip down the aisle: The veil has been lifted.
"The first wedding is always the fairy tale setting â€" there's high hopes and expectations, and the bride's dad spends a lot of money. The second time around, reality kind of sets in," he says. "Everybody realizes it's kind of harder than we thought it was."
Schieffer knows, not because he's had more than one marriage (he hasn't), but because Obama's second inauguration Monday will make an even dozen he has covered. (At President Richard Nixon's ceremony in 1969, he covered the Yippies' "counter-inauguration" of a pig. It escaped.)
Television coverage similarly will be less of an all-out event than the historic inauguration four years ago of the nation's first African-American president. Then, even broadcast networks, which for many news events cede wall-to-wall coverage to cable networks, stayed on the air for most of Inauguration Day and aired evening specials.
There will still be a flock of TV reporters on the ground. Beginning Saturday, networks will air shows from locations in Washington including the National Mall, Lafayette Park and in the case of MSNBC's Morning Joe, the Dubliner pub a few blocks from the Capitol. CNN will deploy 44 correspondents and commentators to report and discuss the inauguration events from Saturday through Monday evening, and ABC will have 35 on-air personnel and a broadcast booth in the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue.
However, there will be fewer hours of coverage. In 2009, the three broadcast networks devoted prime-time hours on Inauguration Day to coverage of inaugural balls, special programs on Obama's rise to the presidency and the president and Michelle Obama's first dance. This year, ABC will air live from the event all day starting at 7 a.m. but will limit evening coverage to its regular news program and Nightline, which airs at 12:35 p.m. ET. CBS has trimmed its Inauguration Day coverage by an hour, ending at 4 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. NBC will halt its day of coverage at 4 p.m. but expand its nightly newscast to one hour to cover the day's events.
On cable, Fox News Channel plans coverage from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday and again for an hour in the evening, according to the online news site TV By The Numbers. MSNBC will return to regular programming at 4 p.m. CNN will be devoted to the inauguration for all of Sunday, when the president will be sworn in at a private ceremony, and Monday through the Inaugural Balls in the evening.
Four years ago, TV networks were rewarded for their efforts with high viewership: Obama's inauguration in 2009 drew more than 37.8 million viewers, the most since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan's swearing-in was viewed by 41.8 million people, according to Nielsen ratings figures. If Obama's second inauguration is like previous second swearings-in, viewership will drop: 29 million people watched President George W. Bush take the oath in 2001; four years later, 15.5 million watched his second inauguration.
At least for those in Washington, brutal months of fiscal cliff wrangling, Superstorm Sandy, the Newtown, Conn., school shootings and the prospect of more arguing over the debt ceiling have dampened the traditional high spirits that come with the pomp of a presidential inauguration, Schieffer says.
"I sense less enthusiasm for this inauguration than any one that I can remember," he says. "Still, it will be exciting. The ceremony and all of that, in my view, is more important than the players themselves. It's just an affirmation of who we are and what we stand for."


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The company just published revised financial guidance, which is disappointing investors.
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For the fourth quarter, the Company now anticipates that net revenue will be at the high end of its original guidance range of $475 million to $480 million based on a comparable-store sales percentage increase in the high single digits on a constant-dollar basis. The Company also now expects diluted earnings per share will be $0.74 for the quarter. The previous guidance for the fourth quarter was a range of 0.71 to $0.73. EPS guidance continues to assume 145.9 million diluted weighted-average shares outstanding and a 29.4% tax rate.
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A criminal who failed to return an open prison has been detained after presenting himself at a police station.
Leon Brown, who was serving a six-and-a-half year sentence for firearms offences at Hollesley Bay in Suffolk, had been given leave to go to an address in South Ockendon, Essex, on Monday and was due to return by 3.30pm yesterday.
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Monday, November 15, 2010
COCONUT EGG CUSTARD...a healthy treat for anytime
Coconut Egg Custard for breakfast?...yup, why not?! this is a healthy version of an egg custard pie...full of protein, low in fat and carbs, so you can start your day out right with this guilt free dessert for breakfast. don't get me wrong...this isn't really meant for breakfast only...i just prefer eating my dessert like goodies in the morning. i usually make it the night before and then dream about it. as i've said, breakfast is my favorite meal so i like to think fun, delicious and outside the box a little.
i make this in an 8 x 8 glass pyrex and cut it into 9 nice size squares for one of my favorite ready-made, quick and fun breakfasts. it's fabulous and just right to start the day with some vanilla greek yogurt and fresh berries. sometimes i'll drizzle a little ginger syrup over...YUMMMM. oh...and this keeps really well for several days refrigerated in an airtight container...on with the recipe....
preheat oven to 350 f degrees
4 lrg eggs (real eggs work best, not eggbeaters)
2 c. milk (i use 1c. whole and 1c. skim)
1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder
1/2 c. low fat cottage cheese
1/2 c. baking splenda
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp coconut extract (more or less, depending on quality/strength)
1/4 c. wheat flour
1/4 c. almond flour/meal
1/4 cup unsweetened fine shredded coconut (a little extra if you want more texture)
put all ingredients in blender...NOTE...an immersion blender works best!...i like to start with the eggs and 1 c. milk and cottage cheese and blend until there is no cottage cheese lumps left..then add in everything else and blend well...really well, about 3-4 minutes. pour into greased 8 x 8 glass or ceramic baking dish OR a 10"-11" pie plate and cook for 40-45 min. i turn mine twice during cooking to get and even top. watch towards the end. don't be alarmed...it will puff up. jiggle to make sure the center is firm-ish and looks "set". remove and let cool. serve warm or can be refrigerated and rewarmed piece at a time. as i mentioned it holds up well. it's great cold, but i like to take the chill off and let the egg custard flavors come alive.
6 comments:
- Missy said...
that looks so yummy and it Healthy wish is hard to believe but I love anything coconut. I want to try it.
- November 16, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Cara said...
how intriguing, this sounds delicious!
- November 17, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Debs said...
Yum, this sounds fabulous.
Love the photos too!
- November 20, 2010 at 2:05 AM
- Sarah Kuhner said...
I made this tonight. It was so easy and really delicious. It is one that I will be making often. Love it!!
- April 10, 2012 at 8:37 PM
- Jules and Ruby said...
hi Sarah...glad you like it. i've been loving this for breakfast recently with vanilla greek yogurt and fresh raspberries. i change up the flavors...the last one was with cardamom, cinnamon, a dash of ginger and a little almond and vanilla extract. delish. thanks so much for your report
- April 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM
- Chocolate Chilli Mango said...
Love this recipe, Jules!
It's cheesecake.
lovely recipe :)
- September 26, 2012 at 4:18 PM
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When Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. heard that the pope had honored Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian president he had exposed as an ex-Nazi complicit in war crimes, he fired off a note to the Vatican.
Pope John Paul II making Waldheim a papal knight was "like giving a rotten structure a fresh coat of paint," the billionaire head of the World Jewish Congress wrote with his customary directness.
He received no reply to his 1987 letter — but the same blunt approach helped him persuade the Soviets to allow Jewish emigration and the Swiss to acknowledge that their banks had swallowed up the life savings deposited by Holocaust victims.
Bronfman, an heir to the Seagram's whiskey empire who later in life led a global campaign for Jewish causes, died Saturday at his New York City home, according to an announcement from his family's charity, the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. He was 84.
The cause of death was not disclosed.
The hard-driving Bronfman grew up in luxury, surrounded himself with fine art and for years led a life chronicled in gossip columns.
His 1974 marriage to the beautiful young Lady Carolyn Townshend ended when he had it annulled after less than a year; during their courtship, he tried to ease her qualms by giving her a Cartier box containing a nose plug so she could "hold her nose and jump in," Nicholas Faith wrote in his 2006 book, "The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram."
In 1975, Bronfman's son Samuel Bronfman II was kidnapped in a rural area outside New York City. After Bronfman delivered a ransom of $2.3 million, his son's two captors were arrested. A jury convicted them of extortion rather than kidnapping — a sign, perhaps, that jurors were swayed by a defense theory that Samuel had set up his own abduction.
Though Bronfman was well known for high-powered business deals, including major investments in Hollywood that briefly made him the head of MGM, he is best remembered for his activism on behalf of Jews.
His father, Sam Bronfman, a tough-talking Canadian whose distilleries boomed during Prohibition just across the border, had been head of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His son, however, was not particularly religious.
"Much of my life had given secularity new meaning," he wrote in a 1996 memoir titled "The Making of a Jew."
"There was ham in our house on Yom Kippur," he wrote. "I had rejected not just Judaism but religion in general."
However, after his dictatorial dad died in 1971, Bronfman gradually rediscovered his religious identity.
Bronfman became "a bulldozer against anti-Semitism the world over," Faith wrote, noting that, unlike his father and other Jewish leaders of the day outside Israel, Bronfman was fearless about drawing attention, pursuing restitution for Holocaust victims' heirs as aggressively as he pursued any of his business deals.
He enlisted the aid of high-placed friends — like Bill and Hillary Clinton — against the Swiss bankers who were among his favorite targets.
"The only way to deal with these bastards is to scare them," Bronfman told Forbes magazine in 1999. "At a meeting in Jerusalem I gave them hell. I told them the American people thought of Swiss banks as havens for drug money and for the dictators of the world such as Mobuto and Marcos, and if they weren't careful we would ratchet up the whole controversy."
Born in Montreal on June 20, 1929, Edgar Miles Bronfman started working for the family business shortly after graduating from McGill University in 1951. The next year, he found a production flaw that affected 25,000 cases of VO whiskey; he closed the plant for days to track down the source of a taste that wasn't quite right.
He became Seagram's president when he was 28. Soon he was working at the Seagram building, a landmark skyscraper his family built on New York's Park Avenue. He became a U.S. citizen in 1959.
In the late 1960s, he invested in Sagittarius Productions, a company that produced several Broadway hits and movies, including "Joe Hill" and an animated version of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web." In 1969, he took on the leadership of MGM but quickly sold his interest to Kirk Kerkorian.
Comedian Don Rickles, spotting Bronfman in a Hollywood club, couldn't help himself: "Hey, there's Edgar Bronfman!" he told the crowd. "He was chairman of MGM for five whole minutes."
Bronfman also led his company into more profitable investments, including a major stake in the DuPont chemical company. Bronfman's net worth as of 2010 was $2.6 billion, according to Forbes.
Bronfman's son, Edgar Jr., catapulted Seagram into the entertainment business with a series of deals in the 1990s. He bought MCA, the film and music company for $5.7 billion but ran into a corporate disaster when his investment in French media conglomerate Vivendi went bad. In the early 2000s, the family company was dismantled.
Meanwhile, the elder Bronfman devoted himself to traveling the world and lobbying for the World Jewish Congress, a group of about 80 organizations.
"Making money is marvelous and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well," he told the New York Times in 1986, "but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation."
He stepped down from the group's presidency in 2007. He continued his longtime involvement with Hillel campus groups and other organizations seeking what he called "a Jewish renaissance."
"The biggest problem today is not anti-Semitism," he told a Hillel gathering at Cal State Northridge in 1995. "It's lack of Semitism."
Bronfman, who was married five times, including twice to the same woman, is survived by his wife, Jan Aronson; sons Samuel Bronfman II, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Matthew Bronfman and Adam Bronfman; daughters Holly Bronfman Lev, Sara Igtet and Clare Bronfman; brother Charles Bronfman; sister Phyllis Lambert; 24 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.


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It took one word for Carlos Boozer to outline his role with the Lakers amid a flooded backcourt.
He said he "absolutely" sees himself as starting for the Lakers after the Chicago Bulls waived him through the amnesty provision. The 32-year-old also described himself as a "spring chicken" entering his 13th NBA season.
"My body feels great," Boozer said Friday at an introductory press conference at the Lakers' facility in El Segundo. "I don't know how long I'm going to play, maybe four, five, six more years, maybe seven. Well see."
Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak echoed similar optimism and envisioned the two-time All-Star playing productively between three to five more seasons. Kupchak also sounded surprised the Lakers' $3.25 million bid was enough to secure Boozer's rights, although it coincided with waiving backup point guard Kendall Marshall.
Still, plenty of questions loom regarding Boozer's arrival.
He said he feels "very confident" he can mirror his career averages of 16.3 points on 52.3 percent shooting and 9.8 rebounds per game. He credited Chicago for keeping him in the loop on its offseason plans, but Boozer admitted experiencing frustration last season with the Bulls after playing limited minutes in the fourth quarter because of defensive concerns.
"I was humbled a lot," Boozer said. "Every chance to play is a great opportunity. It's a blessing. I already felt that way. But it magnified more to me last year.
"With that outlook on it, I can't wait to get to work."
Boozer also gushed about the "versatility" of the Lakers' front court featuring rookie Julius Randle, Ed Davis, Jordan Hill, Ryan Kelly and Robert Sacre. Even if the 6-9, 266-pound Boozer professes he can play at power forward and center, how can he fit in amid a loaded front court?
"That's something for us to determine," said Boozer, mindful the Lakers have not hired a coach yet. "Part of that is competing every day against each other. When we have a coach in place, we'll find out what the system is and what direction he wants to lead us in."
Boozer still envisioned himself providing a heavy dose of veteran experience to a crop of promising, albeit young forwards. Boozer also relished teaming with Kobe Bryant, both of whom played together on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team that defeated Spain for the gold medal in Beijing. Boozer and Bryant frequently have talked and exchanged text messages in the past week.
"He said he's doing great, feeling healthy and he's motivated," Boozer said of Bryant. "He said to just come ready to lead and come ready to surprise some people."
Boozer also recalled how Bryant's competitiveness during the 2008 U.S. Olympic run became "contagious," en element that helped the Lakers end his postseason with the Utah Jazz from 2008-2010.
"It was frustrating," Boozer said. "You wanted to get to the mountain top and you keep getting stopped by the same team."
Times have changed, though. Boozer spent time in the office of president Jeanie Buss who has championship trophies lined up against the window that oversees the Lakers' practice court.
"I'm excited about those championship balls up there," Boozer said. "That's what we play for. That's why I'm here, to help us get back at that level.
"I'm searching for my first one so that's great motivation for me."


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) With his team a little stunned after giving up a 75-yard punt return for a touchdown, Penn State coach Bill O'Brien walked up and down the sideline giving players a pep talk.
After everything they've been through over the past year, these Nittany Lions weren't going to be denied, even after trailing by 11 going into the fourth quarter.
Quarterback Matt McGloin had the go-ahead score on a 5-yard touchdown run with 2:37 left, one of three fourth-quarter scores for Penn State, and the Nittany Lions stormed past No. 24 Northwestern 39-28 on Saturday.
``Our staff and myself, we tried to talk to the players and get them going,'' O'Brien said. ``We felt like we could move the ball.''
And how.
The Nittany Lions (4-2, 2-0 Big Ten) scored three times in the final 9:49, starting with McGloin's 6-yard touchdown pass to Allen Robinson on fourth down as the receiver dragged along the back line of the end zone. Michael Zordich had a 2-point conversion run to get Penn State within 28-25 before McGloin's scramble for a score sent the homecoming weekend crowd into a frenzy.
``Nobody's down. There's no quit in that locker room,'' O'Brien said. ``I don't know what's going to happen the rest of the year, but there will be no quit in that locker room.''
The Nittany Lions then stuffed Northwestern's last-gasp drive after Trevor Siemian's pass for Kain Colter was tipped away on fourth down. Zordich added a 3-yard touchdown run with 1:30 left to put a punctuation mark on the wild finish.
Things looked so good for Northwestern (5-1, 1-1) after Venric Mark's 75-yard punt return for a touchdown with 50 seconds left in the third quarter demoralized the blue-and-white faithful for a 28-17 lead.
Mark also ran for a score and finished with 72 yards on 13 carries.
The Wildcats couldn't get to 6-0 for the first time in 50 years. Even worse for Northwestern, the loss continued a disturbing trend of second-half shortfalls against Penn State. The Wildcats also had halftime leads two of the previous three years before falling to the Nittany Lions.
This year, they couldn't hang on to an 11-point lead in the fourth quarter.
``It was tough,'' safety Ibraheim Campbell said about the last 15 minutes. ``We've just got to find a way to make a play. Guys were out there for a while. The offense was out there the same as us. We've just got to find a way to focus in, make a play and get off the field.''
Some of it couldn't be helped given the way Penn State kept going for it on fourth down, including Robinson's second touchdown catch of the game. Penn State was an astounding 5 of 6 on fourth-down conversions on the day.
``I didn't think twice about it,'' O'Brien said. ``You've got to make the touchdown. You've got to make the play.''
Adding to his reputation as a bold play-caller, O'Brien then decided to go for two. Zordich rumbled up the middle to get the Nittany Lions within three.
It's certainly a new era for the Penn State offense if nothing else. Under late head coach Joe Paterno, the Nittany Lions were known more for the running game and playing for field position.
But the defense, with a few tweaks, remains a hallmark in Happy Valley.
After bending in the middle of the game against Northwestern's high-octane spread, Linebacker U. didn't break in the fourth. Dual-threat quarterback Kain Colter found his running lanes filled with swarming defenders, and defensive backs smothered the receivers.
Linebacker Gerald Hodges led the charge with 11 tackles and a forced fumble.
McGloin struggled at times, too, but bounced back in the clutch. McGloin directed blockers in front of him as he rolled right but couldn't find a receiver. So the savvy senior just got into the front corner of the end zone for the touchdown.
McGloin finished 35 of 51 passing - setting a school record for completions in a game - for 282 yards and two scores. Zack Zwinak ran for 121 yards and a score on 28 carries.
A week after dismantling Indiana for 704 yards of total offense, Northwestern hit a speed bump in Happy Valley. The Wildcats were outgained 443-247 in total offense and 30-14 in first downs.
Northwestern was also 4 of 14 on third- and fourth-down plays, while Penn State was 15 of 28.
``That's a recipe for disaster. We're on the field way too long. We're not sustaining drives,'' Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said. ``Our recipe is exactly what they did for success. We got beat at our own game.''
Yet they still were in a good spot in the third quarter after Colter had a 10-yard scoring run with 3:12 left before Mark's terrific punt return touchdown about two minutes later for a 28-17 lead.
Colter, who had nearly 300 yards of total offense last week, was held to five carriers for 24 yards and three catches for 17 yards. Robinson finished with nine receptions for 85 yards and two touchdowns.


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Dell's netbooks have always been in the middle of the pack. They've typically offered sleek designs and plenty of customization options, but not the best ergonomics or battery life. This time around Dell took full advantage of Intel's new Atom N450 processor (Pine Trail) to give its Inspiron Mini 10 a major boost of endurance. Thanks in part to this more efficient CPU, the Mini 10 offers over 9 hours of battery life without a bulging battery. We especially like the more distinctive look, not to mention the several fun color options. You also get a 250GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, and Windows 7 Starter Edition. At $369, the Mini 10 is fiscally attractive, too. But has Dell done enough to catch up to the likes of Acer, ASUS, and Toshiba?
Dell's new Mini 10 is a fairly dramatic departure from its predecessor. This netbook sports a wedge-shape design with a lid that sits on top of the deck instead of dropping down behind the body. When closed, the rear of the deck is exposed, bringing to mind the design of Dell's original high-priced Adamo. The black deck is also imprinted with a crosshatch pattern that adds a nice texture. At 10.5 x 7.7 x 1.3 inches, the Mini 10 is a shade larger than the Toshiba mini NB305, and is also larger than the older Mini 10 (10.3 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches). Weighing 3.0 pounds even, this model is also slightly heavier than the netbook norm of 2.8 pounds.
The shell of our Mini 10 was made of white plastic, which hides fingerprints well despite having a glossy finish. Other color options include black, blue, green, pink, purple, and red. Users will also have the option to select one of 229 different lids from the Dell Design Studio, ranging from a New York Yankees pattern to artists' designs and lipstick colors. Personalization doesn't come cheap however; these options cost $85.
After playing a Hulu video for 15 minutes at full screen, the Mini 10 got toasty. The touchpad measured 95 degrees Fahrenheit, the space between the G and H keys was 100 degrees, and the center of the underside measured 108 degrees. The right section of the underside towards the front measured a disturbing 120 degrees after this test, but in the 104- to 108-degree range with little to no activity. We consider anything higher than 100 degrees to be unpleasant.
Keyboard and Touchpad
The style of the Mini 10's keyboard has also changed. Instead of being completely flat, the keys are now terraced so that the top is smaller than the base, but still wide enough for us to type comfortably for extended stretches. Some may prefer the Toshiba mini NB305's metal island-style keyboard because it has more space in between the keys, but the Mini 10 beats that system when it comes to its more solid feedback.
Unfortunately, Dell kept its touchpad with integrated mouse buttons. On the plus side, this allowed the company to keep the Mini 10's touchpad large at 3.0 x 1.4 inches. However, the buttons are quite small, and not as usable as a traditional setup. Since the last Mini 10 (and 11z), Dell has switched from an Elantech to a Synaptics driver, and no longer supports multitouch gestures such as rotating, two-finger scrolling, and pinching to zoom. This may be a good thing, since those gestures were tricky to use on the previous Mini 10s. Still, those who concurrently use both their right and left hands on the touchpad will find it more difficult to use; the cursor would sometimes move before we clicked down, which was annoying. Overall, we prefer larger touchpads with discrete touchpad buttons, which is exactly what you'll find on such systems as the Toshiba mini NB305
Battery Life and Wi-Fi
The six-cell, 5600-mAh battery in the Mini 10 performed very well, lasting for 9 hours and 3 minutes on our LAPTOP Battery Test (Web Surfing via Wi-Fi). That's a marked improvement over the previous Mini 10 (5:17), about 3 hours longer than the six-cell netbook average, and approximately 25 minutes longer than the Toshiba mini NB305. The only other Pine Trail netbooks that have outlasted the Mini 10 thus far are the Eee PC 1005PE-P (10:36) and HP Mini 5102 (10:08).
The 802.11b/g Wi-Fi radio in the Mini 10 notched decent speeds in our wireless tests. At 15 feet from our access point, its throughput of 19.4 Mbps was a little under the average (21.0 Mbps); at 50 feet, its speed of 17.6 Mbps was a hair above average (17.3 Mbps).
Aside from the different color options ($40), Dell will offer the Mini 10 with a Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator and a high-res, 1366 x 768 display starting in the second half of February. Users can also add built-in mobile broadband (AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon Wireless) for $125. Less expensive options include Windows XP Home and a 160GB hard drive for $299, and Windows 7 Starter Edition and a 160GB hard drive for $329. Users cannot configure the Mini 10 with additional RAM via Dell's website, so you'll have to add your own.
Dell will also offer pre-configured Mini 10 models beginning in the second half of February that include Media HD, HDTV, and GPS. All will include a high-res, 1366×768 display with the Broadcom Crystal HD media accelerator, and SRS Surround Sound, and the latter two will include a built-in digital TV tuner or built-in GPS with location aware services. These models will start at $425.
The Mini 10 comes with the Dell Dock, a customizable panel that sits on the top of the screen and allows quick access to various programs and utilities. It's easier than digging through the Start menu, and we appreciate having the oversized icons on the dock (especially on a 10-inch screen), even though you can pin programs to the taskbar. Other software includes McAfee SecurityCenter and Microsoft Works.
The Inspiron Mini 10 is a solid netbook, especially for those who want to customize the look of their systems and trick it out with plenty of options. It offers a more attractive chassis than its predecessor, better audio and video performance, and over 9 hours of battery life—nearly double the previous generation. Plus, the $369 configuration is cheaper than most other Pine Trail netbooks, with the Acer Aspire One 532h ($349) being the exception. However, the Mini 10's integrated touchpad buttons and excess heat give us pause. We'd rather spend the extra $30 on the more ergonomically sound Toshiba mini NB305, but the Mini 10 has style and substance.


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Topic: Pics from trip
Ok, if anyone cares, here's the pictures from my trip: [ADMIN: Defunct link to starwarsdotcom dot com removed.]
I don't really expect to have all of you ooing and aaing and stuff, I didn't really make this thread to brag or to get attention. I just didn't want to crowd up the offtopic-topic or any other thread with my pictures. And there were some really pretty sunset ones towards the end that I thought some of you might like. The ones of me are all awful, though. You can really tell how much weight I gained.... It's hard to believe I was ten pounds lighter just last fall. I think it was all the holiday candies that got to me.
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Yesterday was my birthday, and scott_lynch took me to the Como Zoo and Conservatory to celebrate. There was also pastry beforehand and fried cheese curds afterwards, and all in all it was a totally fabulous day. Here are some photos.
It's a Minitor in the center of a labyrinth! (The brand name of Scott's fire department pager. I couldn't resist.)
Yes, many Amber jokes were made while we were walking the thing.
I need to make up an entire mood theme consisting of this photo of a sloth:
We all have days like that, honey.
There were giraffes!
And a polar bear doing backstroke laps:
Which I also took some video of, because his kick turn was something to behold:
The polar bears are named Neil and Buzz. Michael Collins draws the short straw yet again.
Here's one of Selene's relatives having a well-earned nap:
Because the boy I like is tolerant, he put up with my uncontrollable desire to go pet the carousel horses. I love old carousels. Ponies!
(Bear on horseback. Sounds like some sort of breakfast dish.)
Here's a shot from my point of view:
And here's a picture of a tree.
...a very small tree, older than I am. See?
And that is the day that was, in pictures.
And today, I slept in a little bit and then went for a 13-mile run. Because I meant to run 13 on Saturday, but I fell on a gravel path and skinned hell out of my knee, so I limped home bloody and sad after only 11.
I kind of love that I can handle two runs that long in the same week now.


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PARK CITY, UT (Jan. 14) – The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association has now confirmed the addition of new Olympic snowboarding qualifiers to replace the canceled events from last weekend. The International Ski Federation Tuesday stated that an appeal to the cancelation decision had been denied, indicating that the FIS jury acted exactly per the rules. That decision paved the way for the addition of U.S. only replacement events Thursday and Friday as a part of the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain. The plan has approval from the U.S. Olympic Committee.
PROPOSED REVISED SCHEDULESprint U.S. Grand Prix, Mammoth Mountain (all times local, PST)Thursday, Jan. 169:30-11:00 a.m. - Slopestyle Final - U.S. Olympic qualification #31:30-3:00 p.m. - Slopestyle Final - U.S. Olympic qualification #4
Friday, Jan. 179:30-10:45 a.m. - Halfpipe Final - U.S. Olympic qualification #312:10-2:30 p.m. - Halfpipe Final - U.S. Olympic qualification #4
Saturday, Jan. 1811:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. - Slopestyle Final - U.S. Olympic qualification #5
Sunday, Jan. 1911:40 a.m.-2:00 p.m. - Halfpipe Final - U.S. Olympic qualification #5Announcement of team nominations to follow
QUOTESJeremy Forster, USSA Director of Freeskiing and SnowboardingMaintaining the integrity of the Olympic qualifying system is paramount to the U.S. Snowboarding. We looked at multiple options, including the possibility of just going with four events, but knew that the most consistent way to fairly select the best Olympic team was sticking with the plan and running replacement events.
Calum Clark, USSA Vice President, EventsThe appeals process is vital to fair conduct of competitions. In this case, as we had expected, FIS ruled that the jury did, indeed, act in complete accordance with the rules. We are fortunate to have such a strong, committed host resort as Mammoth Mountain that will be able to undertake the organization of extra events at short notice.


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Who Needs Marriage? Everyone. By Mike McManus
TIME's Nov. 29, 2010, cover story, left, asks, "Who Needs Marriage?"
A surprising 39% of Americans say that marriage is becoming "obsolete," according to a poll by TIME and Pew Research Center. Two-thirds of cohabiting couples agreed, as well as 42% of conservatives, who are alarmed by the trend, and 44% of Americans under age 30.
"It is no small thing when nearly four-in-ten Americans agree that the world's most enduring social institution is becoming obsolete," said Pew. However, "becoming obsolete" is not the same as "obsolete." When the World Values Survey framed a similar question in 2006: "Marriage is an outdated institution -- agree or disagree?" -- just 13% of Americans agreed.
In fact, only 5% of adults under 30 do NOT want to get married. That's evidence that, despite the opinion of many, marriage is not becoming obsolete. In fact, even two-thirds of cohabiting people want to marry. But after five years only 16% had done so, and only 20% of the couples were still living together, according to a Princeton/Columbia "Fragile Families" study.
What's disturbing about this is that 41% of all births are to unwed parents -- eight times the 5% of 1960. Half of unwed births are to those who are cohabiting. This is in spite of statistics showing that two-thirds of Americans think the trend of single women having children is "bad for society," and that 61% believe a child needs both a mother and father "to grow up happily."
The fact remains that only half of all adults are married today vs. 72% in 1960.
And of all the transformations our family structures have undergone in the past 50 years, perhaps the most profound is the marriage differential that has opened between the rich and the poor. In 1960 the median household income of married adults was 12% higher than that of single adults, after adjusting for household size. By 2008 this gap had grown to 41%. In other words, the richer and more educated you are, the more likely you are to marry, or to be married -- or, conversely, if you're married, you're more likely to be well off.
As the aforementioned passage in TIME Magazine asserts, a particularly disturbing trend is how marriage seems to be disappearing for those with less education. While 64% of college grads are married, only 48% of those with a high school education now marry. In 1960 both groups were equally likely to marry: 72% of high school vs. 76% of college grads. Reasonably well-paying manufacturing jobs that high schoolers could get, for instance, have largely disappeared. "The college-educated wait until they're finished with their education and their careers are launched," says TIME. "The less-educated wait until they feel comfortable financially."
The problem is, for more and more adults, arriving at that financial comfort level has become far more elusive.
In 1960 two-thirds of those in their 20s were already married. But in 2008 only 26% were married. Why? A partial answer is that the average age of marriage has risen three years to 28 for men and 26 for women. Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project says the sexual revolution is another key factor. "People have access to sex outside of marriage, and are less likely to have a commitment orientation."
Yet why are so many are cohabiting, rather than marrying?
"Today's couples in their twenties and thirties distrust marriage," my wife and I write in our book, Living Together: Myths, Risks & Answers. Since 1970, 43 million people have experienced their parent's divorce. "The Buster Generation, children of Baby Boomers, have lived the horrors of divorce and are wary of marriage for a good reason."
It should come as no surprise, then, that of 7.5 million cohabiting this year only 1.4 million will marry, while 80% will ultimately break up.
TIME asserts that "couples who cohabit before marrying don't divorce any less often." Not true. A Penn State study by Paul Amato [consultant to Oklahoma Marriage Initiative] reports such couples are 61% more likely to divorce than those who remained apart prior to marriage.
"The way America marries is making the American Dream unreachable for many of its people," lamented TIME. "Yet marriage is still the best avenue most people have for making their dreams come true." However, neither TIME nor Pew provides evidence to support the institution.
Ten years ago Maggie Gallagher and Linda Waite wrote The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier and Better Off Financially. It cited hundreds of studies with evidence.
For example, they report that when a Gallup Poll asked couples to grade their marriage, 68% gave it an A; 23% a B. True, 6% gave it a C, and 1% a D, 1%, F. "Nor do unhappy marriages stay that way: 86% of those who rated their marriage as unhappy in the late eighties and who were still married five years later, said their marriage had become happier," they reveal.
- "Married couples live longer," they write. "Being unmarried chops almost ten years off a man's life." Similarly, unmarried women will live fewer years than married women with cancer or those living in poverty.
- "Married couples are wealthier... Married men earn between 10 and 40 percent more than do single men with similar education and job histories."
- "Married people have more and better sex than singles," they assert. Two-fifths of married couples, in fact, enjoy marital intimacy at least twice a week compared to 20%-25% of singles.
"The Lord God said, "It is not good for man to be alone" (Gen. 2:15).
Copyright © 2010 Michael J. McManus


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Storyline: Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by the walking dead. Fighting the dead, fearing the living.
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What ARE the Risks of Vaginal Birth?
To give equal time in the Risks-Of department, I ask my follow-up question to "What ARE the risks of Cesareans?" – so, what are the risks of having a vaginal birth? In the natural birth arena, much attention is paid to the risks of cesareans… and rightly so… but in the effort of fairness and truth, vaginal births are not without risk, either. Contrary to the saying, "Birth is as safe as life gets," I'm of the school that believes there are a lot less risky things in life than having a baby. We're nearly immune to the realities of the inherent dangers in childbirth anymore, by virtue of where we live… with back-up doctors, anti-hemorrhagic medications, antibiotics, clean operating rooms and plenty of skilled physicians and nurses to attend to us. But, looking around the world, a "simple" vaginal birth is an event that brings terror to women and their families. Even with my beliefs and no matter how hard I try to understand, the concept of one woman in 14 dying is unfathomable. The United States' risk of dying in childbirth is one in 2100.
I asked the question in Facebook and here are the answers, including great answers from nurses who are on the front lines of both types of births. My asides in italics.
K: Defining risk as being exposure to the chance of injury or loss, I would say, there is a chance you may have a tear down there, if you are not prepped for birth, that is.
S: You can have a tear down there even if you are 'prepped for birth'.
K: Vaginal tearing, shoulder dystocia, hemorrhoids.
S: There are risks of nerve and tissue damage during/from the second stage, blood pressure-related concerns, risk of pelvic/tailbone damage, tearing, bleeding, infection... among others, but those risks are rather rare.
K: Bleeding and infection are risks of any birth, not specific to vaginal delivery.
S: True, but having a vaginal birth still poses those risks. The question was about the risks of vaginal birth, not about risks EXCLUSIVE to vaginal birth.
K: True, I guess I should have said your perineum being prepped... though it is still a risk either way.
NgM: I am quite confused about what a "perineum being prepped" is.
S: Having a baby to take care of afterwards. (admittedly, not exclusive to vaginal birth)
NgM: I found it interesting that women injected comments of the positives of vaginal birth. Not surprised at all, however.
R: Brachial plexus birth injury, incontinence, permanent nerve damage to clitoris, Pelvic Floor Dysfunction...
C: A really ugly lady garden after.
C: I've got to say though, having experienced both routes, it's vaginal all the way for me.
K: You are at great risk of giving birth the way nature intended.
Childbirth is not without risks, but the evidence points to vaginal birth as the shortest recovery time, fewest complications, and best for both mom and baby. C-sections save lives, but are far from an uncomplicated alternative.
NgM: Another interesting interjection.
C: Urinary and anal incontinence. Painful vaginal area. Loss of vaginal tone (worked with a doc that would use that as his leading cesarean argument).
S: I think we'd have to define risks involved with vaginal delivery at home vs. vaginal delivery at the hospital as well.
You'd also have to look at these risks based upon statistics and how often they occur and then also each individual and their history.
My maternal side's birthing history is an excellent one. German genes and extremely easy birthing experiences. My "risks" are lessened in that aspect. Someone with different genes and a familial history of difficult births will then probably inherit some of those difficulties associated with their birthing history as well. Smaller pelvises/frames will have a tad more difficulties than larger pelvises/frames will.
General risks are cord prolapse, placental previa, nuchal limb presentation that could cause deep tissue tears, and perineal tearing as well. These are not hereditary.
Abnormal Uteri can cause complications. Then looking at PCOS, cysts, and more - they can all increase "risks", as well.
Birth, no matter how you slice it, is a risk. It doesn't matter if you birth vaginally or surgically. Death, infection, complications come from both choices.
Being educated about your body, about birth, and about possible signs of complications will put you ahead of most. Knowing and understanding your family history and what YOU are comfortable in dealing with during birth (epidurals, IV's, interventions of any kind) will help YOU have control of the birth.
As natural as birth is, so is death and even complications. Try not to worry, as it can be harmful to the baby. Just be educated though.
E: I think incontinence was a risk with either route? It seems like I've read that its pregnancy rather than birth that causes it. Ditto hemorrhoids, certain pelvic organ prolapses....
K: Well, I had a accreta with my third child and have never had a CS. I did not realize that was a risk in someone without a C/S history but have since learned differently (the really hard way.)
A: Shoulder dystocia!
J: Pelvic organ prolapse, tears.
J: I have had one mom from my classes who stretched her pelvic ligaments so far after birth that she was not able to walk for a few days after. Six months after her baby's birth she is still doing special exercises.
NgM: Thanks to all the women who participated... are we missing anything?


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The Flying Dutchmen will be seeking to climb back atop the standings of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).
A year ago Hope finished third in the MIAA standings, but only nine strokes out over the eight-tournament season behind champion Calvin.
The Flying Dutchmen have a strong tradition under coach Bob Ebels who begins his 21st season at the helm of the program. He has guided the Flying Dutchmen to eight conference championships and five appearances in the NCAA Division III championships.
Co-captains of the team will be seniors Nick Campbell of Saline (Saline HS) and Andy Thomson of Beaver Dam, Wisc. (Central Wisconsin Christian HS). Campbell is a three-time All-MIAA golfer, a second team honoree as a freshman and a first team pick as both a junior and senior . Last season he ranked fourth in the seasonal player standings (74.9 strokes per 18-hole round).
Other returning letterwinners include junior John Cannon of Traverse City (Traverse City West HS), junior Austin Farah of Bloomfield Hills (Southfield Christian HS), junior Sean La Douce of Saginaw (Sault Area HS), junior Matthew Noordhoff of Ada (Forest Hills Northern HS), junior Adam Peplinski of Cedar (St. Mary's HS), and sophomore Jason Vander Klok of Scotts (Vicksburg HS).
This season, for the first time, a spring qualifying tournament will determine who represents the MIAA in the NCAA Division III championships. The eight-tournament fall schedule will determine the conference champion and then the slate will be wiped clean with three 18-hole rounds in the spring determining who advances to nationals. Hope has represented the MIAA at nationals five times since 2000.


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Paquita, without doubt, would have answered to the tastes of our age, with its penchant for all kinds of melodrama. The heroine, a girl of aristocratic origin, whom bandits kidnapped as an infant, lives a nomad existence with a band of gypsies, traveling through the towns and villages of Spain. After undergoing various adventures, she is eventually reunited with her parents and acquires a suitor of noble birth. But Time has been harsh on Paquita: jettisoning both storyline and itspantomime development, it spared only the dance element in the ballet.
PrologueĀGypsiesĀsteal aĀjewelryĀchest with aĀfamily medallion fromĀtheĀcorregidorÆs house, along with his baby daughter. They intend toĀtrain theĀnoble parentsÆ child as aĀstreet dancer toĀearn money.ĀAct IĀMadrid city squareSeñors, ladies, merchants, and peasants, admire youngĀgypsyĀgirls dancing. Beautiful Paquita pleases everyone. Clemente, theĀcorregidorÆs secretary, asks her toĀperform theĀlove sonnet he wrote, but Paquita rejects theĀpoet's fervent confessions. TheĀviewers enthusiastically applaud theĀgirlÆs talent while theĀoldĀgypsyĀwoman collects theĀmoney she has earned. Officers appear along with caballero Francisco de Cárcamo and his son Andrés. Unable toĀtake his eyes off theĀbeautifulĀgypsyĀgirl, he confesses his love toĀher. Paquita asks theĀyoung man toĀprove his love: he must travel with theĀgypsiesĀforĀtwo years, so that she could test his feelings and, perhaps, accept his proposal. TheĀenamoured caballero agrees toĀchange theĀofficer's uniform forĀgypsyĀclothes and leaves with theĀgypsies.
Gypsy campTheĀgypsiesĀteach Andrés their customs. TheĀyoung caballero gladly explores every delight ofĀhis new life. Deep passion arises between Paquita and Andrés. TheĀoldĀgypsyĀman sends his people toĀearn some money.ĀAct IIA rich widowÆs innTheĀwidow invitesĀgypsiesĀtoĀdispel her sorrows and entertain her noble guests, including theĀcorregidor with their dances and songs.ĀCarducha, theĀwidowÆs daughter, gets fascinated by theĀdances ofĀtheĀyoungĀgypsyĀman and obsessed with passion. Secretly, she confesses her feelings toĀAndres, but he rejects her, forĀhis heart belongs toĀanother girl. TheĀinsulted Carducha conceives vengeance: she plants theĀfamily silver into theĀgypsyĀcart.TheĀoldĀgypsyĀwoman says goodbye toĀtheĀhostess. But Carducha insists that theĀartists' things must be searched before they leave. Despite theĀexcellent performance, theĀreputation ofĀtheĀgypsyĀis not flawless. InĀtheĀcart, theĀservants discover theĀstolen valuables and aĀjewelryĀchest that seems familiar toĀtheĀcorregidor. Officers detain theĀdisguised caballero, and one ofĀtheĀguardians ofĀtheĀlaw deals Andrés aĀslap inĀtheĀface. Unable toĀwithstand theĀinsult, theĀcaballero snatches theĀsword fromĀtheĀofficer and, amidst theĀbrawl, wounds theĀoffender mortally. TheĀcorregidor, who witnessed theĀmurder, orders that theĀyoung manĀbeĀarrested immediately. Paquita, who tried toĀdefend her lover, also gets arrested.
TheĀprisonAndrés and Paquita are inĀjail. InĀtheir thoughts, they are saying farewell toĀeach other and toĀtheir lives. TheĀjailersĀchain Andrés, while theĀcorregidor orders that Paquita and theĀold woman be brought toĀhis house.
TheĀcorregidorÆs houseTheĀcorregidor shows theĀjewelryĀchest that was found inĀtheĀgypsyĀcart toĀhis wife, Doña Guiomar. She notices that theĀmedallion stored inĀit is absolutely similar toĀtheĀone depicted inĀtheĀportrait ofĀher long-lost baby daughter. TheĀoldĀgypsyĀwoman remembers that it was fromĀthis house that she kidnappedĀaĀlittle girl yearsĀago. All doubts are dispelled: Paquita is theĀdaughter ofĀtheĀcorregidor and Doña Guiomar. Paquita begs them toĀpardon Andrés.ĀAct IIITheĀprisonTheĀcorregidor asks Andrés toĀprove his noble origin. TheĀcaballero responds with aĀnoble dance, wondering how his secret was revealed. TheĀcorregidor tells everyone about theĀhappy finding ofĀhis lost daughter. TheĀpriest blesses theĀyoung couple.
TheĀcorregidoræs houseNumerous guests arrive toĀcelebrate theĀwedding ofĀPaquita and Andrés, including theĀgroomÆs father Francisco de Cárcamo, officers,ĀgypsiesĀand bridesmaids. Everyone congratulates theĀnewlyweds.


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This Day in Sports History — August 8
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on August 8:
1920 — Pitcher Howard Ehmke of the Detroit Tigers shut out the New York Yankees, 1-0, at Navin Field in Detroit in 1 hour and 13 minutes — the fastest game in American League history. (More info.)
1931 — Pitcher Bob Burke of the Washington Senators no-hit the Boston Red Sox, 5-0, at Griffith Stadium in Washington. (More info.)
1946 — The Dreyfuss family, the owners of the Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sold the franchise to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million. (More info.)
1950 — Babe Didrikson-Zaharias won the LPGA All-American Golf Open at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Niles, IL. (More info.)
1961 — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League beat the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League, 38-21, in an exhibition game played in Hamilton, Ontario. (More info.)
1976 — The Chicago White Sox wore shorts as part of their uniform in the first game of a doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals at Comiskey Park in Chicago. (More info.)
1928 — American Pete DesJardins won the 3-meter springboard gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (More info.)
1988 — Wrigley Field in Chicago hosted its first night game, as the Cubs faced the Philadelphia Phillies. The contest was rained out in the fourth inning. (More info.)
1992 — The US men's basketball 'Dream Team' won the gold medal by beating Croatia, 117-85, at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. (More info.)


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Tesla Motors Brings Model S to the Autobahn for the First Time
Press preview in Munich marks the beginning of company's global rollout of Model S
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) announced today that Model S, the world's first premium electric sedan, arrived in Europe last week for a nearly weeklong press preview in Munich, Germany. This marks the beginning of marketing activity for Model S outside North America. European press and media had the chance to drive Model S on all types of typical European roads and cruised effortlessly on the Autobahn for the very first time. Tesla plans to deliver Model S to reservation holders in Europe and Asia in 2013.
"Our goal has always been to build the best car in the world and set new standards for safety, range, design and performance. We have achieved this with Model S in North America and now it's time to introduce the extraordinary Model S driving experience to Europe," said Elon Musk, Tesla Motors co-founder and CEO. "Our Tesla Roadster introduced us to the world and we believe Model S will now be seen as the ideal alternative for customers seeking the most advanced luxury performance sedan available today."
Model S has the same immediate response, instant torque and smooth acceleration that made Roadster famous. Model S accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.6 seconds without hesitation and without a drop of gasoline.
Model S is the world's first premium sedan built from the ground up as an electric vehicle and has been engineered to elevate the public's expectations of what a premium sedan can be. At the heart of Model S is the proven Tesla powertrain, delivering both unprecedented range and a thrilling drive experience. With a rigid body structure, nearly 50/50 weight distribution and a remarkably low center of gravity, Model S offers the responsiveness and agility expected from world's best sports cars while providing the ride quality of a luxury performance sedan.
Setting the bar for electric driving range, Model S offers 40 kWh, 60 kWh and 85 kWh battery options. All deliver unprecedented range, with the 85 kWh equipped car achieving up to 500 kilometers on a single charge. All three batteries use automotive-grade lithium-ion cells arranged for optimum energy density, thermal management and safety.
Without an internal combustion engine or transmission tunnel, the interior of Model S has more cargo space than any other sedan in its class and includes a second trunk under the hood. The interior features a 17" in-dash touchscreen with Internet capabilities, allowing for streaming radio, web browsing and navigation.
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The Urban History Association awarded Hanchao Lu, professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Tech, its 2001 award for scholarly distinction for the best book in non-North American urban history for Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century . (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1999)
The American Historical Review described Beyond the Neon Lights as "A detailed, enlightening, and wonderfully readable account of daily life in early twentieth-century China's greatest city. His account will be consulted and quoted for many years by those dealing with the realities of daily life in Chinese cities."
"I hope this work and its recognition in the scholarly community can contribute to the prominence of our studies of social sciences and the humanities at Georgia Tech," said Lu. The School of History, Technology and Society is in Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech's liberal arts college.
The award committee for the Urban History Association praised Lu's book about Shanghai: "Hanchao Lu's well-organized, vivid book deals with an analytical problem fundamental to urban studies since Max Weber: the balance between capitalism, Western influence, and regional history and culture in the molding of modern urban life in different parts of the non-western world. Lu constructs an engaging narrative of how the native residents and rural migrants of China's largest city, Shanghai, the so-called "little urbanites" lived and made a living during the high point of the city's industrial and commercial influence and of the Western colonial presence there. Beyond the Neon Lights draws upon an impressive range of sources, from literature and folklore to surveys of seven neighborhoods full of long-time residents. . . . In stressing ways that Shanghai's people wove their lives from a variety of Chinese and Western influences, Lu challenges the traditional characterization of this city as mainly a bridgehead into China for Western capitalism and modernity. "
Lu is a historian of Asia specializing in the history of labor, industrialization, and urbanization in China.
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Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, came in second Saturday to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul in the presidential straw poll at the big annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.
But just barely. Senator Rubio got 23 percent to Senator Paul's 25 – the only two people to score in double digits of the 23 potential candidates on the ballot (plus 44 write-ins).
There are two big reasons to discount the poll: It's unscientific and the 2016 presidential election is far away.
Some attendees didn't bother to vote, they said, because they're more focused on the 2014 midterms. And more than half (52 percent) of the 2,390 people who did vote were between the ages of 18 and 25 – hardly typical of the Republican electorate, though reflective of CPAC's success in attracting young people. Many of today's college Republicans lean libertarian like Paul.
Still, Rubio can take heart from his performance in the first cattle call of the 2016 cycle. Though elected to the Senate in 2010 as a tea party darling (like Paul), he has morphed into a mainstream GOP favorite. Rubio's CPAC speech wasn't as pungent as Paul's – "The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered," the Kentuckian said – but he still got the packed ballroom to its feet Thursday with an approach that was more inspirational than hard-edged.
"We don't need a new idea," Rubio said. "There is an idea. The idea is called America, and it still works."
Rubio also tossed in some red meat to social conservatives, defending traditional marriage, opposition to abortion, and skepticism on climate change. But he didn't dwell on those topics, and on gay marriage, he occupied a middle ground, allowing that states have the right to define marriage how they wish.
Rubio's speech was mostly focused on the economy, and he sounded almost Obamaesque in his discussion of the middle class and education. He spoke of a family he knows that wants to reach the middle class, but with parents who lack the training for jobs that would get them there.
"They're not freeloaders. They're not liberals," Rubio said, winning some laughs. "They're just everyday people that want what everybody else wants…. They want a better life for themselves and an even better life for their children."
Except for the slap at liberals, that could have been President Obama speaking. Rubio also played it safe on immigration, making no mention of the issue, his new support for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, or his role in the Senate trying to forge a bipartisan consensus.
Paul's posture was more that of an outsider, attacking Mr. Obama and the Washington establishment (of both parties), highlighting his recent 13-hour filibuster over drones, and issuing populist appeals to the young and libertarian-minded.
"Ask the Facebook generation whether we should put a kid in jail for the nonviolent crime of drug use, and you'll hear a resounding no," Paul said. "Ask the Facebook generation if they want to bail out too-big-to-fail banks with their tax dollars, and you'll hear a 'Hell no.' "
He also tried to outdo House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, calling for a budget that reaches balance in five years. (Congressman Ryan's budget gets there in 10.) And he called for elimination of the Department of Education, echoing President Ronald Reagan from 30 years ago.
The rest of the CPAC speakers' roster was stocked with other potential 2016-ers. Ryan skipped the fact that he was Mitt Romney's running mate last November, and doubled down on his role as his party's top budget man. Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) of Louisiana warned the Republicans against becoming "the party of austerity," but skipped his recent slam calling Republicans "the stupid party."
Gov. Scott Walker (R) of Wisconsin, a GOP rock star for surviving a recall election after reining in public-sector unions, cast himself in the tradition of innovative governors. "Real reform happens in the states," he said.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who rose up in 2012 to become the main social-conservative alternative to Mr. Romney, was subdued, following the passing of his nephew the day before. But he still took his shots at Obama. "Face it, the left can always promise more stuff," he said.
But aside from the back-to-back speeches by Rubio and Paul, the most important may have been by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. He was the featured speaker at Friday evening's Ronald Reagan Dinner, and he did not hesitate to dress down the party to which his family has devoted decades of service.
"All too often we're associated with being 'anti' everything," Mr. Bush said. "Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker, and the list goes on and on and on. Many voters are simply unwilling to choose our candidates even though they share our core beliefs, because those voters feel unloved, unwanted, and unwelcome in our party."
Bush is a leading Republican voice for comprehensive immigration reform, as a way to help the party overcome its massive deficit among Latino voters, and now supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants (though he skipped that point in his speech). His "anti-gay" reference suggested a nudge to the Republicans to rethink their stance or at least their tone on gay rights. Earlier in the day, Sen. Rob Portman (R) of Ohio, a shortlister in the 2012 veepstakes, announced that he now supports gay marriage and that his son is gay – making the senator one of the few major Republicans in elective office to openly change his view on marriage.
Bush has suggested he is contemplating a run for the presidency, though he took his name off the CPAC straw poll ballot (saying it's too soon for such an exercise). If his protégé, Rubio, decides to run, Bush is unlikely to, analysts say. His last name could also be a major obstacle, given lingering negative views of his brother's presidency.
A more likely scenario is that Rubio runs and Jeb Bush becomes one of his biggest backers. Bush is hardly old, just 60, but Rubio represents more of the generational change and demographic diversity that Republicans say they're looking for.
As CPAC drew to a close, college student Dennis Gonzalez said he was impressed both by Rubio and Walker, because of their economic messages. The immigration issue just isn't a big deal for Mr. Gonzalez, a junior at St. John's University in Queens, N.Y., even though he is an immigrant (from Honduras) and now a US citizen.
"I was OK with Obama; I voted for him," says Gonzalez, who came to CPAC at the invitation of a friend who is involved with the group Young Americans for Liberty, which paid for his hotel. "But the way things are going has me fundamentally questioning what I want. So I'm giving it [the Republican Party] a shot."
To the organizers of CPAC, who called this year's conference "America's Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives," that's what it's all about.