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Anyone you AREN'T looking forward to sharing the good news with?
For me, it's my mom. You'd think at 34 years old I wouldn't give a hoot what she thinks, but I know I'm going to hear judgement about 4 being too many kids, and me being too old to be a mom.
Yes, ridiculous.
I'm her only child and she had me very young (and then was in an unhappy marriage until I turned 18) so sometimes I think this plays into her opinion. We have plenty of money and time to support our wonderful kiddos, so the number of kids has nothing to do with our ability to care for them. Honestly, she's also just a judgemental person whose bitter at how her life turned out...
Still, I'm seriously thinking about never actually telling her and seeing when she's able to figure it out
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LMBO- sorry but I would do the same thing if I was in a different situation. My father is SUPER judgemental about the amount of children HE THINKS I should have. I am positive that if this wasn't a rainbow baby he would've sat there, shrugged and said, "well its not the baby's fault".
AFM- I am DREADING telling my best friend! Her and her husband cannot conceive. To top it all off they had their LAST FET in august and it was their 4th and last egg. PLUS she is super mad at everyone else in the world that can get pregnant .
CJ wife to Dave, Mama to TT dd(4), Dawsy ds(3), & Jubilee born into heaven! OUR RAINBOW ARRIVED April 14th 2013!
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I'm hoping one of my co-workers never finds out (if only that were possible). She had a lot of fertility issues and despite a lot of trying was only ever able to have one child. She's still super baby crazy (she's too old to have more of her own now) and wants to get super involved in every one's pregnancies and babies. That's just not my style. With the exception of message boards I'm pretty private except with a small group of close friends and family.
Not to mention our parenting philosophies are very at odds.
Wife to E 10-29-05.
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tougHGuy B 5-1-13
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I am actually not looking forward to telling my brother or SIL, she's just kind of nuts. They just had a baby and think we should plan our children around them. My SIL is all like, "wouldn't it be great if you guys had a baby next year and then we could have another the year after?!?!" (We were already pregnant at the time). Please don't try and plan my life for me or think you had any effect on when we decided to have another baby. We TTC for 4 months, and she would make these comments the whole time about when we were going to have another baby. We didn't share that we were TTC because that would have thrown her in a tizzy. She asked DH point blank a few weeks ago if were were (again, we were already pregnant), he just said basically we were NTNP (lie), and she just made a dumb/crude comment about our sex life and how we needed to have another baby.
-Melissa, Mama to Warren 4/10
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My dad...he's REALLY judgmental about the # of kids we have. We're not well off at ALL. We make it on the day to day stuff but we've had to ask them for help when massive unexpected expenses come up (like the $1,200 I just dumped into my freaking mini-van). Plus my husband is 'sick' (type 1 diabetic, just had a kidney transplant 3 years ago, etc) he's always on the "You can't MAKE IT with so many kids." and he's also on the 2-and-done side of things. I maintain that my kids would prefer siblingS (plural) over a Lego Death Star.
Oh, and the fact that we're a family of 5, soon to be 6, in a 2 bedroom house. BUT this won't be forever, in Feb/March 2014 we'll have all the money we need to buy a doublewide or a repo house, that's the plan.
Renae. Helpmeet to my hottie hubby, Josh. Devoted Mama to my Wolf scout-bookworm-sports-a-holic James (7), my Daisy Scout Princess Aldria (5) and my 2 year old Tornado Emmett and [COLOR="Magenta"] and my tiny squish Cora Paige! (May 2013)
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I was not looking forward to telling hubby's aunt. She's like a mom to him, brought him home from the hospital and everything.
Anyway, when we told her about our second, it was, "Does she not know what birth control is?"
With the third, it was only 3 months after the second was born when I found out... so she didn't say much.
With the fourth (the loss in April), her response was "How are you going to feed this one?"
So, you can see why I didn't want to tell her this time around. Of course, we're not rich... we're not made of money... I can understand why some people think we shouldn't have more kids. We work HARD, both of us... and we definitely have what we need. No, we don't have thousands of dollars laying around... but we don't want that. We want a humble, gracious life. And how many kids we choose to have is up to US. I am tired of feeling ashamed for my decisions.
So, hubby told her two days ago. She basically skipped right over it. He said, "So, Ashley's pregnant!" And she basically said, "Do you guys still have company at your house?" So he just went with it. He told her, he got the response he expected, and now we can move on. I made the official "Facebook announcement" yesterday, since she was the last "important" person that we needed to tell, that we DIDN'T want to find out on Facebook.
I think from now on, IF for some reason we decide that this is NOT our last... we won't be telling her until we ABSOLUTELY have to, lol.
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Any of my family! My dad and sisters have told me I shouldn't have any more kids even though I just have one. We live with my in-laws and my family is all pretty well off and they feel we live in poverty (not that we do) and find it unacceptable. I can't find a full time teaching job and my dh works retail and so do I part time.
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A friend. We have a mutual friend and mutual friend and I are both on pregnancy #2 at the moment and she is still "trying".
In one hand I feel bad for her because I know how hard fertility issues can be but while that may be part of the problem shear dumbness is the biggest issue. We have tried oh how we have tried but she just won't "try" for a never ending list if excuses. Yet calls crying all the time when she isn't pregnant. She had no idea how long her cycle was. Thinks she may be pregnant despite getting her period cuse that CAN happen don't you know. Didn't want to take her temperature because having to do it at the same time each day was too much work then when she did decide to just do it whenever she woke up even though we told her as little movement as possible she just decided it would be to warm under the covers so she should get out if bed to take it.
Sorry venting. Just hard to know how hurt she will be that I'm pregnant and she is not yet but just won't do anything to actually help herself get pregnant.
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Not looking forward to telling my MIL. One of her responses to I'm pregnant was "oh, I was hoping you guys weren't gonna have any more kids." That pregnancy ended in a loss. Then we had another loss in May and she just wasn't supportive. If I could, I'd wait until after baby was born to say anything to her.
-Kate SAHM to John 12/31/07, Grace 10/15/09, Jack ^i^ 5/18/12 , and Jane 5/14/13
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I just don't get why everyone seems to have such a great idea of how big other people's families should be. I can still remember telling a cousin we were expecting # 3 back in 2005. She said, "Don't you think that's about enough?" It really hurt my feelings. My husband has always been a good provider, we are kind and loving people who are committed to each other, and we want God to be the one to decide how many children we should have. Sometimes it seems like people are bitter and jealous, and they want you to follow in their footsteps. I'm so thankful that the rest of our families are supportive and happy for us!
Sonja, Helpmeet to John, Mama to Joel(13), Kathry(11) Alaina(8), Ben (5), Joshua (2) and Elizabeth (1)
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Chinchón White Garlic
Which area of Spain is it typical?
- Autonomous region: Madrid Region
Garlic production in the Madrid village of Chinchón dates from the 18th century.
The so-called White Garlic belongs to the Chichón, Prieto and Regular white variety. It has a slimmer head and a longer, finer clove than other species. It has an intense aroma and, because of this, a smaller quantity is needed for seasoning meals or as a condiment. It is planted in November and December and harvested in June. It is used as a condiment in many dishes, sausages and roasts.
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- Type of product: Vegetables
- Season: All year round.
- Origin: The area of production of Chinchón White Garlic is in the Madrid village with the same name.
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By Lisa Capobianco
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Southington Public Library welcomes the local community to join them in celebration of Banned Books Week during its second annual Freedom to Read Event.
Although Banned Books Week runs from September 22 to September 28, Freedom to Read will take place in the library's cafe Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m.
The event will feature Southington notables including Town Manager Garry Brumback, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph Erardi, Library Board President Mary Ellen D'Angelo and many others. They will read selections from their favorite banned or challenged books including "Catcher in the Rye," "Call of the Wild," "Ann Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and others. Library Director Sue Smayda said the Library of Congress has included these books in its exhibit called, "Books that Shaped America," which explores books that have "had a profound effect on American Life."
According to the American Library Association (ALA), parents, schools and libraries may ban books to "protect" children, from controversial ideas and information."
"While not every book is right for each reader, every reader has the right to choose reading materials for themselves…and should be able to find those materials in libraries, classrooms and bookstores," said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the deputy director of the ALA's office for intellectual freedom. "Our goal is to protect one of our most precious fundamental rights—our freedom to read."
Anyone interested in seeing a complete list of banned or challenged books can visit the following link from the ALA's website at: http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10.
Southington Library will celebrate the freedom to read with event
By Lisa Capobianco


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Can You Say 'KDAY' In Mandarin?
I'm going to out myself. I listen to the "oldies" station on my daily commute to and from NPR West in my banged-up ride, tailpipe barely hanging on. The station's tag-line is "back in the day hits," and my favorite feature is inappropriate relationship advice from a Mexican drag queen who goes by Kay Sedia (as in, quesadilla). The station's call letters are KDAY and it cuts in and out during my commute because its FM signal is weak. So I switch from listening intently to important news and information on my local NPR affiliate to rapping wildly to Snoop Dogg's hits from the 90s, "AINT NOTHIN' BUT A G THANG BABY! TWO LOC'D OUT G'S SO WE CRAZY!" The station plays Warren G, Dre, Tupac and just about anything with a Nate Dogg hook.
Yes, this is the oldies station of my generation. For now.
The company that owns KDAY, Magic Broadcasting, this month agreed to sell the station to RBC Communications for $19.5 million. RBC is 80 percent owned by Anthony Yuen — a Chinese-American investor — and the rest by Phoenix Satellite Television, a company based in the British Virgin Islands that operates six TV channels in China.
Right now there's a 25 percent cap on foreign ownership of radio and television stations (that might explain RBC's 80/20 split). Just last week, the National Association of Media Brokers — a business group that specializes in the sale of radio and TV stations — asked the Federal Communications Commission to ease its rules on foreign ownership. The group says American investors don't have access to enough capital to buy stations.
KDAY ranks 28th in LA's very competitive media market, so it's not like it's raking in the advertising revenue. Magic Broadcasting tried to sell the station for $35 million a couple of years ago, but the transfer never happened.
The National Association of Broadcasters, another industry group, also wants foreign companies to get in on the radio and television game. They say it helps broadcasters that serve ethnic minorities acquire sources of funding from their home countries especially in markets like Los Angeles, where KDAY is based, with large Mexican, Korean and Chinese populations.
Radio industry experts, like Lance Venta (I spoke with him over the phone about the sale) say if the FCC approves the deal, KDAY will, most likely, switch from Snoop D O Double G to Chinese-language programming and he said that could happen as early as this summer.
Downside: no more solo sing-alongs to "Summertime In the LBC" on the way to work.
Upside: Mandarin-language immersion?


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Tom Shippey
|Tom Shippey
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|September 9th, 1943
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Thomas Alan Shippey (1943) is one of the most well known scholars on J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as fantasy and science fiction in general. He describes himself as a "Tolkien polemic".[1]
Many commenters have noticed the parallels between his life and Tolkien's: born in a colony, moved to Birmingham at a young age, followed by an academic career in Oxford and Leeds.
Shippey was born in India, where his father worked as a bridge builder. He spent the first several years of his life there.[2] His father then sent him to a strict boarding school in England, and when his father came back, Shippey was transfered to King Edward's School in Birmingham, where he studied from 1954 to 1960.[3]
Here he was introduced to science fiction, and The Hobbit, which was lent to him when he was 14 years old.[4] Shippey quickly developed an affinity for Old English, Old Norse, German and Latin (like Tolkien) and playing rugby (like Tolkien), and he was able to afford The Lord of the Rings when he won a school contest.[2]
Academic career
Shippey did not immediately pursue an academic career after graduation, as the British economy in the early 1960's did not offer much work. Not until the mid-sixties did he enroll in Cambridge.[4] His first academic work on Tolkien was from late 1969 or early 1970. Shippey, a junior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, was asked to speak at a Tolkien day organised by a student association. That lecture, "Tolkien as philologist", would form Shippey's view of Tolkien - a philologist - for years to come. Unbeknownst to him, Joy Hill, the private secretary of Tolkien, was in the audience. After the lecture, she asked him for the script, for Tolkien to read. Tolkien wrote to Shippey on April 13, 1970, with what first seemed like a formal reply. [3]
The first meeting between Shippey and Tolkien took place in 1972. Norman Davis, successor of Tolkien at the Merton Chair of English Language, invited Shippey over for diner. Shippey, then a Fellow of St. John's College, taught Old and Middle English with Tolkien's syllabus, and his meeting with Tolkien at the diner left him full of professional piety.[3]
After Tolkien's death, Shippey's admiration only grew. His first printed essay, "Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings", was much of an elaboration of his 1970 lecture. In 1979, he was elected to the Chair of English Language and Medieval English Literature at the University of Leeds, a former position of Tolkien. He published his first book, the famed The Road to Middle-earth, in 1982. At this time, Shippey shifted from the view of Tolkien as a philologist to a view of a post-war writer, or what he called "traumatised authors", like Vonnegut and Golding.[3]
After 14 years at Leeds, Shippey moved to the Saint Louis University, where he was elected to the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities. Here, he could focus in teaching, research and publishing, rather than administrative work. He currently still holds this chair.[2]
Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
Being considered the foremost expert on Tolkien, Shippey appeared in several documentaries surrounding Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. He also assisted the dialect coaches.[4] and is personally thanked in the closing credits.[5]
The below list is extensive, but not complete.
- 1982: The Road to Middle-earth (first edition)
- 1993: The Road to Middle-earth (second edition)
- 2001: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
- 2003: The Road to Middle-earth (third edition)
- 2007: Roots and Branches: Selected papers on Tolkien
- 1975: J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Story-Teller: Essays in Memoriam
- "Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings"
- 1980: Amon Hen 45
- "A Wose by any Other Name"
- 1988: Arda 1984
- "Commentary and translation of The Clerkes Compleinte by J.R.R. Tolkien"
- 1989: Amon Hen 100
- "Tolkien's Academic Reputation Now"
- 1991: Leaves from the Tree: J.R.R. Tolkien's Shorter Fiction
- "Tolkien and The Homecoming of Beohrtnoth"
- 1992: Arda 1987
- "Long Evolution: The History of Middle-earth and Its Merits"
- 1993: Scholarship and Fantasy: The Tolkien Phenomenon
- "Tolkien as a Post-War Writer" (originally lecture)
- 1994: Lembas Extra
- "Noblesse Oblige: Images of Class in Tolkien"
- 1995: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
- "Tolkien as a Post-War Writer" (reprinted)
- "Tolkien and the Gawain-poet"
- 1995: Lembas Extra
- "Tolkien and the West Midlands: The Roots of Romance"'
- 2000: J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances
- "Orcs, Wraiths, Wights: Tolkien's Images of Evil"
- 2000: The Ways of Creative Mythologies: Imagined Worlds and their Makers
- "Grimm, Grundtwig, Tolkien: Nationalisms and the Invention of Mythologies"
- 2000: Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
- "The Undeveloped Image: Anglo-Saxon in Popular Consciousness from Turner to Tolkien"
- 2001: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 12/2
- "Allegory versus Bounce: Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major" (with Verlyn Flieger)
- 2001: Lembas 100
- "The Versions of The Hoard"
- 2002: The Daily Telegraph (January 2)
- "Why the Critics Must Recognize Lord of the Rings as a Classic"
- 2002: A Tolkien Compass
- Foreword to the Third Edition
- 2002: World Literature Today 77/2
- "From Page to Screen"
- 2003: The People's Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien
- Foreword
- 2004: Tolkien and the Invention of Myth
- "Tolkien and the Appeal of the Pagan: Edda and Kalevala"
- 2004: Tolkien Studies: Volume 1
- "Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem"
- "J.R.R. Tolkien, A Checklist" (with Douglas A. Anderson)
- 2005: Understanding The Lord of the Rings
- "Another Road to Middle-earth: Jackson's Movie Trilogy"
- 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, entries:
- "Alliterative Verse by Tolkien"
- "Tom Buchan, John (1875-1940)"
- "Cruces in Medieval Literature"
- "Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963)"
- "Literature, Twentieth Century: Influence of Tolkien"
- "Mythology, Germanic"
- "New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District, A"
- "Old Norse Language"
- "Owl and the Nightingale, The"
- "Poems by Tolkien in Other Languages"
- "Poems by Tolkien: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"
- "Poems by Tolkien: Uncollected"
- "Scholars of Medieval Literature, Influence of"
- "Ylfe, Álfar, Elves"
- 2006: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder
- "History in Words: Tolkien's Ruling Passion"
- 2007: Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings
- "New Learning and New Ignorance: Magia, Goeteia, and the Inklings"
- 2008: Mallorn 45
- "Encyclopedia of Ignorance", guest editorial
- 2008: Tales from the Perilous Realm
- Foreword
- 2008: Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On (originally lectures)
- "Tolkien and the War"
- "Wisdom and Wise Sayings in The Lord of the Rings"
- 1970: Tolkien as Philologist (University of Birmingham)
- 1993: Tolkien as a Post-War Writer (University of Turku)
- 2002: Tolkien and Iceland: The Philology of Envy (University of Island, read here)
- 2002: J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Behind The Lord of the Rings (covention, Arizona State University)
- "Trees, Chainsaws, and the Visions of Paradise in J.R.R. Tolkien" (in 2003 also in Cleveland State University)
- 2004: Adapting Middle-Earth: Tolkien, the Books, and the Movies (Northern Illinois University)
- 2004: From Page to Screen: Problems Tolkien Set for Jackson (Hope College, University of Victoria)
- 2004: History in Words, Tolkien's Ruling Passion (Marquette University)
- 2005: Wisdom and the Wise in The Lord of the Rings (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
- 2005: Tolkien 2005 (convention, Aston University)
- "Tolkien and the War"
- "Wisdom and Wise Sayings in The Lord of the Rings"
- 2006: Narnia and Middle-Earth: Seventy Years on and Still Accelerating (Marymount University)
- 2007: Filming the Lord of the Rings: How Peter Jackson Coped with J.R.R. Tolkien (Bates College)
- 2008: C.S. Lewis, the Inklings, and the Call to Christian Community (conference, Azusa Pacific University)
- "The two Images, Discarded and Rejected?"
- 1977: The Times Literary Supplement
- (May 13): "The Foolhardy Philologist" (review of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter)
- 1977: Oxford Mail
- (September 15): "Silmarillion: The Oddest Tolkien Yet" (review of The Silmarillion)
- 1979: Mallorn 13
- "An Introduction to Elvish" (review of An Introduction to Elvish by Jim Allan)
- 1980: Notes and Queries 225
- (December): "Tolkien's Art" (review of Tolkien's Art by Jane Chance
- 1981: The Times Literary Supplement
- (August 28): "A Philologist in Purgatory" (review of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien)
- 1982: The Times Literary Supplement
- (November 26): "Blunt Belligerence" (review of Mr. Bliss)
- 1995: The Library
- (March issue): "J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography" (review of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond)
- 2001: The Times Literary Supplement
- (December 21): "Temptations for All Time" (review of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring)
- 2002: The Times Literary Supplement
- (December 20): "The Plot Unravels" (review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers)
- 2004: The Times Literary Supplement
- (January 9): "Not Worn Lightly" (review of Peter Jackson's The Return of the King)
- 2004: The Times Literary Supplement
- (February 20) "An Enchanted Front" (review of Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth)
- 2005: Archeology 58/2
- "Excavating Middle-earth" (review of The Real Middle Earth by Brian Bates)
- 2005: The New York Review of Science Fiction (March issue)
- Review of The Science of Middle-Earth by Henry Gee
- Review of The Real Middle Earth by Brian Bates
- 1992: Tolkien Remembered - Himself
- 1996: J.R.R.T.: A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien - Himself
- 1998: An Awfully Big Adventure: J.R.R. Tolkien - Himself
- 2001: Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring - Himself
- 2002: Page to Screen: The Lord of the Rings - Himself
- 2003: J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth - Himself
- 1984 - Mythopoeic Award, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, The Road to Middle-earth
- 2001 - Mythopoeic Award, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
- 2001 - World Fantasy Award, Special Award Professional, J.R.R. Tolkien:Author of the Century
- 2004 - TORn Award, Best Tolkien based Lecture presented at an Academic Function, History in Words, Tolkien's Ruling Passion
- 2006 - TORn Award, Best Lecture/Paper
- ↑ Shippey to Cliff Broadway, DragonCon 2002
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Paul Hanley, Let us introduce you to ... Thomas Shippey, Ph.D.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth, Preface to the Third Edition
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Claire E. White, Talking Tolkien With Thomas Shippey
- ↑ IMDb, Profile for Tom Shippey


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This supposed axiom is false. By using the word "axiom", you are directly begging the question.
These alternative products are not having zero sales. They are having low sales which you are ignoring.
If your axiom was true, the competitors would do the rational thing and exit the market.
Instead, they are competing by every reasonable definition of the word, except yours. They just aren't having much success. But, Android has to beat them down, every day.
And, you want loyalty to only be measured at product purchase time as well.
That, too, is false. People show loyalty to a product in many ways. For instance, if a friend says they are considering a particular phone, do they speak up about their own choices, favorably, or keep their mouth shut? More importantly, do they speak disparagingly?
Such loyalty, when positively expressed, can be quite influential. We do, all of us, pay at least some attention to what friends buy.
That's a test of loyalty, too. And, if we worked a while at it, there would be others we could devise, but that's enough in itself to shoot a big hole in your reasoning.
We also have another oddity in your formulation. If I buy a high end Android phone, where effective competition lives with Apple, I am presumed (by your reasoning) to be loyal. But, if I spend maybe 50 or 100 dollars less, I am not, because I've managed to get out of the range where Apple sells phones and where competition is floundering. Yet, I might have chosen one over the other for trifling reasons and not necessarily the dollar difference. I might buy the higher priced one next time. Your "loyalty test" is passed in one case and failed in another, and as a consumer, I never really knew that I was being "tested". You presume, tacitly, that everyone has a single price range when they enter the marketplace. But, many don't.
This is the knots your argument constantly ties us up in. My presumed "loyalty", as you define it, is not based on what I think of the actual product I buy -- it is based on whether others buy other products or not. That's just daft.
And, what happens if the consumer considers, however briefly, a BB instead of an Android. Did they pass your loyalty test or not? Or, does it not count. How? Why? How do you know how many did or did not at least briefly consider the alternatives? All you have is the end result. Once again, you attribute "loyalty" not really on individual behavior, but on inferences that have more to do with the behavior of others than the consumer in question.
In any case, why am I taking your word for it. Elop thinks he is competing with Android.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/14/30847 ... ephen-elop
You have to read no further than the headline there.
http://wirelessblackberry.com/blackberr ... h-android/
. . .is a Blackberry one.
You're making a categorization error and you're letting it lead you astray. Failing competition is still competition. You're turning low sales of Android's competitors into some sort of metaphysical certainty that does not exist and allowing you to reach inaccurate conclusions about the market.
If other products competed better, would Android's sales suffer? Probably. If Android got better, Apple's probably would as well.
Loyalty, though, is tested a lot of ways and not just at the moment of purchase. Moreover, as you are expressing it, it ends up being a post hoc construct and nothing more than "what did you buy lately". People's relationships with brands and products is more complicated than that on top of everything else.


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Away goals from Toni Kroos, Thomas Muller and Mario Mandzukic mean Arsene Wenger's side will have to score at least three times at the Allianz Arena to have any hope of progressing to the quarter finals.
And while the England international admits it will be "very difficult" to beat the Bundesliga leaders on their home turf, he still thinks the Gunners can have a successful finish to the Premier League campaign if they regain their confidence.
"We have to be realistic and say it's going to be very difficult [to progress in the tie]," he told Goal.com. "[Bayern] are very strong at home, we need to score three goals, and we can do that if we work hard and show what we did in the second half anyway.
He added, "I hope the guys don't dwell too much on this result today; I think we need to get back to where we should be in the league. We have had some very positive results in the Premier League so we need to start believing again and start climbing up the table."
Arsenal started the game brightly but were 2-0 down in 20 minutes, and despite Lukas Podolski's header hinting at a comeback, a late third put the Germans firmly in control of the tie - with Walcott saying it could be a "killer blow."
"It was a disappointing result losing 3-1," he continued. "I felt we started off the game quite well to be honest, but I thought Bayern [Munich] took their chances, they were very strong, very well organized.
"We came out quite strong in the second half there are a lot of positives we can take from that. We thought when we got that goal unsteady them slightly which it did to be fair but we had a great opportunity to get back to 2-2 and then three minutes later they got the killer blow.
"I felt if it did stay at two we would have a great chance [in the second leg], but 3-1 is a difficult ask. We are going to be positive, we have to concentrate on [Aston] Villa now, we've got some important games in the Premier League coming up."
The Gunners are currently in fifth place in the league table, four points adrift of fierce rivals Tottenham in the race for a Champions League qualifying place.


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From 1930s china cabinets to mid-century modern dressers, shoppers can expect to find something new every time they visit Nest Vintage Modern in Brookfield.
The vintage store has been so successful since opening last July that co-owners Alana Waters-Piper and Sara Emmick are planning to move it in May to a bigger space in La Grange with more foot traffic.
"We're excited about being able to do it," Emmick said. "It's happening a little sooner than we thought it might."
Specialties in the store include hand-painted and refurbished vintage furniture that Emmick and Waters-Piper find at garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales and even in alleys or along the side of the road.
"The focus of the store is really giving new life to old pieces," Emmick said. "There's a definite theme of re-purposing, reusing. We try not to junk anything."
Much of the furniture is redone with chalk paint, and Emmick or Waters-Piper will often demonstrate in the store how to use it so customers can try it on their own projects.
The shop also features jewelry, cards, purses, linens and home decor — all with a vintage vibe — that often are made locally.
"It's a very realistic thing as a shop to say I really prefer to source my goods from local women who are making the things that I want to sell. I don't have to go the mass-market route," Waters-Piper said. "That's a huge part of our core value."
Waters-Piper said they try to keep items affordable, too, with china cabinets priced between $275 and $300 and dressers between $225 and $250.
"There's a pretty good range of stuff in the $5-to-$30 range," she said, adding that they don't want anyone to be deterred from items they love because of high prices.
Both women grew up appreciating vintage. Emmick said she wore her mother's skirts from the 1950s in high school and Waters-Piper fondly remembers admiring her grandmother's post-Depression-era kitchen.
Their styles are a little different, with Emmick gravitating toward retro designs and bright colors and Waters-Piper's interest in softer colors and pieces from the 1940s or earlier. Together, they create a nice balance in the store, but the way they met was surprising.
While living near Indianapolis, Emmick unknowingly followed her future business partner online through a blog and business called Blue Birds Goods.
When she moved to Western Springs less than a year ago, she was shocked to see that Blue Birds Goods had recently changed to Nest Vintage Modern and was just a few minutes away. Emmick became a regular consignor at the store until a few months ago, when Waters-Piper asked if she would help her run the store.
"It was great timing," Emmick said, adding that it has helped her learn the area.
Waters-Piper said she has been much happier since leaving her job as a creative director and running the store full-time.
"When I opened the doors to the store the first day, the fact that anybody showed up and wanted to buy something from me was just completely mind-blowing," she said, adding that she now has regular customers who come from as far as Geneva. "People are showing up and the community has been so gracious."
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A perfect, early fall Minneapolis evening is wasted in this plastic palace. Outside, the Loverboy was cranking, the Webers were alit and the purple jerseys were everywhere. There were a few bold souls wandering around the streets brave enough to don the Urlacher shirt. After last week's embarrassment, Bears fans have no shame.
Inside is another story. Holy tympanic membrane. It's hang-a-giant-flag-from-third-balcony-of-Chicago-Stadium--during-the-national-anthem-loud in this joint. And this is just pre-game. I'm afraid to hear what goes on when the Vikings march down the field on the Bears' defense. Of course the incessant album rock/hip hop hits soundtrack doesn't help.
Welcome all, to Week 2 Bear with Us from the road, up North. The town is in a tizzy after their heroes ventured across the border last week and handed the Packers a rare loss at Lambeau. The Goooophers are in the Top 25 since...well, I have no clue.
The Bears try to avoid further humiliation, this time on national TV. I know this is on national TV because there was Joe Theisman chumming it up midfield during pre-game warm-ups. Where's Lawrence Taylor when you need him?
Football shortly...after the introductions, of course...
A couple of Bears fans right in front of the pressbox, one in the ubiquitous Urlacher jersey and the other in an Anthony Thomas No. 35, stood up toasting the Bears during introductions. Let's see how long this keeps up.
Huge hand for right guard and former Vike Corbin Lacina making his return to the dome. Tears.
In possibly the most unfootball-like sequence ever witnessed by these eyes,the Vikings hit the field out of an incredibly un-fierce looking inflatable Viking ship trailing behind a mascot on a Harley and a cheerleader on a snowmobile. That can't be good for the snowmobile. Even the cheerleaders up here know how to handle an Arctic Cat.
First quarter
The Vikings win the toss and we immediately go to a TV timeout. ... John Avery returns the kick 34 yards to the Bears' 44. Daunte Culpepper heaves one long on the first play to a wide-open Kelly Campbell, who has to wait for the under-thrown ball before catching it and falling out of bounds around the 2. Had that ball been on target it's 6-zip. Bears challenging. Replay shows he got both feet in. A place that plays the Stones "Start Me Up" before kickoffs, of course, is going to play the J. Geils Band "Freeze Frame" during replay challenges. Lame. Correction: Ball at the 5. Moe Williams runs once for 4 and then punches it into the end zone on the Vikes' third play from scrimmage. This is actually worse than last week, folks. PAT good.
Vikings 7, Bears 0
Once the all-male flag corps gets off the turf, we'll have another kickoff.
Ahmad Merritt makes a nice return all the way to the Vikings' 43. Marty Booker in motion, Kordell Stewart fakes a handoff to Booker and then gives it to Thomas for a 3-yard gain. And then Thomas takes it again and gets in the open field making a number of guys miss. Great run for 34 yards. Needless to say the guy in the Thomas jersey in front of me loved it. Stewart takes a draw up the middle for no gain. Ball on the Vikes' 20. Thomas dives into the pile for a yard, bringing up third and 9. Left tackle Mike Gandy jumps before the snap and it's now third and 14. The play clock gets dangerously low and the Bears burn a timeout. Stewart horribly underthrows Booker and Paul Edinger comes on to attempt a 42-yard field goal. it's good.
Vikings 7, Bears 3
Earplugs would've been the call of the night. My ears haven't rung this loud since than the summer I spent on tour with the Scorpions back in the early '80s.
Avery, the former Chicago Enforcer, takes the kick 20-something yards. Culpepper then hits a receiver and Canadian great Onterrio Smith runs for 15. Moe Williams runs up the middle for 9 yards and the Vikings are moving quite easily. Culpepper steps up in the pocket and sees nothing but green turf in front of him. He runs for 8 yards before R.W. McQuarters makes the tackle. Ball on the 24. Smith then runs for 9 behind tight end Jim Kleinsasser. Randy Moss makes his first appearance of the evening, catching a short pass from Culpepper and picking up the first down. First-and-goal from the 7. Culpepper pumps once and is hit from behind by Phillip Daniels. Culpepper fumbles, Bryan Knight tries to pick it up and run and Urlacher finally falls on it. Bears ball.
The guy in the Thomas jersey is pumped, to say the least. His friend turned around and yelled something to the effect, "You guys better write about that!" Sir, please watch the game.
Thomas runs for a few and then Stewart finds Booker for 8 yards and a first down at the 32. Thomas for a few more before Stewart rambles for a few. Third and 8. Stewart throws it behind David Terrell and Brad Maynard comes on to punt. Bobby Gray and Charles Tillman combine on the tackle at the 20.
Sign seen upon entering stadium: "The Minnesota Vikings football club bans guns in these premises." Probably a good thing judging by the looks of all the Ted Kaczynski survivalist types milling outside the press box.
Williams runs twice for decent gains but the second run is called back for holding. Alex Brown gets in there and knocks the ball out of Culpepper's hands. The ball bounced right back to Culpepper and he's sacked. Culpepper fumbled the ball twice last week, I recall. Urlacher brings down Williams after a 4 yards. Third and 22 at the 24. Culpepper throws it away and the fans boo. Touchy. McQuarters is back deep for the Bears. Thanks for playing, Bobby Wade. The punt is shanked out of bounds.
The Bears start at their own 43 and immediately fumble the ball. Stewart falls on the botched snap. Stanley Pritchett catches a short pass and that ends an interesting first quarter.
Second quarter
The Bears are called for delay on the first play of the quarter. Rarely seen. Third and 13 and the crowd is going. I'm convinced they're pumping extra crowd noise in here. Stewart forces it to Desmond Clark and it's knocked away. Punt.
Keenan Howry nearly breaks the return and tack on 15 more after Tillman was called for grabbing the face mask. Ball on the Bears' 38.
Culpepper hits Williams in the flats and he's knocked out beyond the marker. Warrick Holdman drops Williams for no gain. After a 1-yard loss on a pass to Moss, Culpepper steps up and slings it side-armed to Williams, who is tackled at the 9. Williams again, this time for 4 yards. Culpepper looks, looks and finally tries to force it to Moss in the end zone. Broken up by Mike Brown. Culpepper had enough time to knit a sweater back there. Another incompletion summons the kicker for a 23-yard chippy.
Vikings 10, Bears 3
Another decent return by Merritt starts the Bears at their own 42. Stewart scrambles for 2 yards and then is demolished 8 yards behind the line by linebacker Chris Claiborne. That was supposed to be some sort of play-action bootleg, but Stewart spun right into Claiborne. Third and 16 and as usual the Bears throw shorter than the marker. Maynard boots the punt and the Minny return guy makes a fair catch inside the 10. Never a good idea.
Williams runs for 3 before he's introduced to Keith Traylor. Hi there! Williams comes right back and runs for 10 and a first. Culpepper then finds former Northwestern Wildcat and Bear D'Wayne Bates for a first down at their own 35. Avery catches one out of the backfield and brings the ball to midfield. It's tight end Hunter Goodwin's turn to pick up 9. Culpepper runs for 5 after Williams held off Bryan Knight for a good five minutes. A reverse to Moss with Culpepper leading the way gets the ball to the 7. The Bears' defense shows up and makes a stand, stopping two straight running plays. Two-minute warning. So much for that stand, Culpepper hits Kleinsasser in the back of the end zone.
Vikings 17, Bears 3
Something you didn't know--and want to know--about Ragnar the Vikings mascot: In 1982, Joe Juranitch, the name he uses when he's not dressed in skins, set the world record for shaving a beard with an ax (8 minutes and 43 seconds), according to his Web site. This, of course, was after his "downward spiral of drug dependency and binge drinking which gave him numerous brushes with the law." Always a good idea to kick the bottle before taking up ax shaving.
From their own 40, Stewart under-throws a ball into double coverage incomplete. Hey, Dez White! Eleven yards. Rabih Abdullah picks up 12 yards; Stewart then spikes the ball to stop the clock at 1:30. Adbullah loses a few but Stewart gets them back and then some with a 25-yard shifting run to the 14. Terrell and cornerback Denard Walker exchange grabs and shoves around the goal line before Stewart finds Terrell for the touchdown. In an attempt at a low-key celebration Terrell tries to set the ball on top of the corner pylon. Beats punting it into the crowd, I guess.
Vikings 17, Bears 10
Try as they might, the Vikings don't do didly before the half. "Loveboat" creator Aaron Spelling misses a 53-yarder and that takes us to the media buffet. Correction: Aaron Elling.
Third quarter
This, that and the other get the Bears on the half's first drive. Maynard's punt is tipped and Vikes take over at their own 38.
Over-under for when the acid reflux kicks in from that cheeseburger: two minutes left in the third quarter.
Culpepper finds Bates for six yards. Hey, Moe! Williams runs up the middle through a huge hole for 14 yards and into Bears territory. But the drive stalls when Urlacher sacks Culpepper on third down. Eddie Johnson's put nearly hits the roof and takes a huge Bears bounce all the way back to Johnson. A 7-yard punt and the Minnesotans aren't pleased.
Third and 2 and former Viking Corbin Lacina jumps. I smell a fix. Third and 7 with Abdullah in the backfield. Did Adrian Peterson even make the trip? What happened to the running back by committee. It's Gandy's turn to jump, his second of the game. Third and 12. We're going backwards here. Stewart misses Terrell, but it hardly matters. Terrell was way short of the stick. The Bears get a gift in the form of a Vikings hold. First down at the 36. Big play-action fake by Stewart and he heaves it down field to Dez White, who holds on. Yes, Dez White holds on. Forty-nine yards all the way down to the 15.
After their biggest play of the night, Thomas gets stuffed for a loss of a yard and then Stewart is dropped two yards behind the line. Third and 13 from the 18, the Vikings bring everyone and Stewart is toast. Greg Biekert is credited with the sack. How come I always think Muppets when I hear his name. Edinger's 43-yard field goal is good.
Vikings 17, Bears 13
The Bears are hanging around. Or is it the Vikings are making enough mistakes to keep the Bears in the game? Either way, close one up North.
Adrian Peterson shows up with a special teams tackle.
Taking a page from John Shoop's playbook, the Vikings run the dreaded wide-receiver screen. As usual, it gets not much. Williams catches a short pass on third down and tumbles beyond the marker. From the 30, the Vikings are called for holding and eventually have to punt. McQuarters fields it, makes a couple of moves and is taken down at the 37.
Thomas runs for 3 around the corner and the quarter ends.
Fourth quarter
Stewart hits Clark on the run and Clark falls forward for the first. Thomas dives up the middle for a couple at midfield. Clark returns after being shaken up briefly and catches a short pass over the middle, setting up third and 3. Stewart forces one to Terrell but it falls to the turf. Punt time. Downed at the 6.
Prediction from drunk guy stumbling by: "Bears gonna win. Dare gonna win this game." Da...OK, guy. Couple, two, tree Leinenkugels too many there, my friend.
The Vikings are inching their way towards midfield via Moe Williams. Kleinsasser catches a 5-yard pass to the 37. Smith is given a try with the ball and sets up third and 1. Campbell then takes a reverse and burns around the corner for 19 yards down to the Bears' 40. Culpepper unloads two Kleinsasser before Urlacher unloads on Culpepper. Gain of 10. Culpepper has gone over 200 yards passing on 19 of 25. Williams breaks it up the middle down to the 3. Traylor bounces Williams to St. Paul on the next run for a loss of 3. Culpepper drops the snap, picks it up and tries to run around the corner but has his legs taken out by Urlacher for a loss of 5. Third and goal at the 11, Culpepper fires one to Kleinsasser for a touchdown. Wow, must be some killer traffic around here because people are hitting the bricks big time. Down in front!
Vikings 24, Bears 13
Merritt drops the kick and then is dropped himself around the 15. With just under 3 minutes remaining and down 11, the Bears have to score twice. Yes, I'm here to point out the obvious. After hitting White for 7 yards, Stewart stays down on the turf and is being looked at by the trainers. Stewart's up, but here's Chris Chandler. Chandler finds Clark for 8 yards over the middle to bring us to the two-minute warning. Chandler's picked by Brian Russell, essentially ending this one.
Smith runs for a few, the Vikes take a knee and it's over.
It's official: the Bears are bad but not as bad as they looked in San Francisco. This is progress.
Final: Vikings 24, Bears 13
Thanks everyone for reading. Next game: The Packers on Monday night in the new place.


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After writing about these Kooboo wicker chairs a few times, an alert reader informed me that Cost Plus World Market sold them for just $149 (and sometimes they are on sale for even less!) This price is hundreds of dollars less than the Kooboo chairs which are claimed to come from Belgium. Maybe some do actually come from Belgium, but I don't see why you have to pay so much more for something that basically looks the same.
An alert reader sent me the link to this chair – $149.99 – amazing! HERE.
Even the magazine Country Living seemed to get it all wrong in this beautiful cover shot this month.
The credits say these two chairs are from Restoration Hardware, $595 each. To me, they look like the Kooboo chairs that are sold wholesale by companies like Artesia. BTW, isn't that daybed cute? A few more cute ones from the same company HERE, and HERE.
This is the closest Kooboo chair at Restoration Hardware that I could find – nothing at all like those shown in the Country Living magazine. AND BTW, been to Restoration Hardware lately? The one in my neighborhood was recently remodeled – all dark walls and moody, low lighting. It's absolutely gorgeous. Gorgeous! Go visit if you haven't lately.
I've loved these chairs for years, after first seeing them in Cynthia Davis' house in Country Home. Gorgeous!
I recently noticed on Cynthia's blog, Indulge Décor, that her dining room has changed quite a bit with a new faux bois table, crystal chandelier, and wonderful lamps. Amazing this is in Houston, it's so Belgium looking! Just gorgeous – makes my mouth drool!!!! This picture really illustrates how important texture is in a room – how much more interesting a room is with lots of different textures. It shows how a crystal chandelier can dress up any spot and how versatile these chairs truly are. Read Cynthia's blog HERE.
After learning about the $149 chairs at Cost Plus, I wondered aloud on the blog what my breakfast room would like with the wicker chairs instead of these smaller French ones.
Two readers actually sent me photoshopped pictures of what my breakfast room would like - here's one view.
And another photoshopped view – amazing how accurate these pictures really are! Based on these two drawings, I bit the bullet and bought the chairs. Although I first purchased the more expensive and larger ones from Pottery Barn which ended up outside in the back yard.
And here are the final Cost Plus Kooboo chairs in my breakfast room.
And the Pottery Barn chairs outside. To read an analysis of the two chairs, go HERE. After I showed my new chairs, I got email from readers who had also bought them! Here are their pictures, perhaps they will inspire you.
Karen sent me this picture of her cute breakfast room. She bought a few Kooboo chairs to mix in, but is now saving for two more to put around her table.
This reader, Robyn, sent in a picture of her dining room. I was taken by how cute her table was! She said she had it custom made, copied from a table at Mecox. The reader said the table was very reasonable – much cheaper than the one at Mecox. Think about having something custom made – a lot of times it IS cheaper than what is found in the design store.
This reader lives in a townhouse in Houston – she sent me this picture of her Kooboo chairs.
Another view – I love how she painted the back of her shelves the dark gray and added the sconces – makes the shelves so much more custom looking. This reader has a vacation house in Santa Fe and she went to buy Kooboo chairs there, but the Cost Plus chairs were sold out until September – they must be really popular in New Mexico!
This reader bought these chairs to put around her French dining room table. She sent this picture last Christmas to show how they looked, along with her new seagrass rug, lamps and curtains.
In each chair, she had lumbar pillows made of the Riad fabric from Windsor Smith for Kravet.
I recently begged a friend to change out her French rush seat chairs for these! She had just updated her kitchen with new black matte granite and white subway tiles. She added two great looking polished nickel pendant lights from Restoration Hardware, but her breakfast room needed a little tweaking. We removed a large pine bookshelf and replaced it with a British Colonial style console, new lamps and mirrors and the chairs. It looks like a completely new room with the Kooboo chairs.
All in the family! I had to laugh. My daughter Elisabeth is moving into an apartment this year at school. She's working on floor plans (oy!) and shopping the internet. Last night she came home all excited about the slipcover sofas at Ikea. I kid you not! "Mom!! They are so cheap!!" I know, I know! She picked up a few baskets to get her decorating started (naturally she just had to buy something) – and here's what she bought. Four Kooboo wicker baskets. The small ones were around $5 while the larger ones were $10. I just smiled thinking about how I was writing this article about Kooboo, while she's out buying these baskets. I want her to buy the Kooboo chairs for her dining table. but she prefers the slipcovered ones from Ikea.
Thanks to all the readers for sending in your pictures! I'm accumulating a lot of kitchen redos which I will show soon – so if you have a great kitchen redo – send it to my email: email@example.com


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It's clearly Chris Wondolowski Week here in San Jose, and why not? The man simply known as "Wondo" is redefining what it means to be a successful striker in MLS. His Earthquakes are a result away from clinching the top spot in the Western Conference and a solid season-ending run from securing the second Supporters' Shield award in club history.
Of course, it is not all due to Wondolowski that the team is doing so well this season, despite his record 22 goals for the Earthquakes. With 62 goals in the first 30 games of the season, the Earthquakes have reached a historical high watermark for scoring, and Wondo has only chipped in 35 percent of the total. In 2010 the figure was 53 percent and in 2011 it was 40 percent — clearly Wondolowski has slipped a bit, right?
A justifiable chorus of, "Are you kidding me?" should meet a question like that. To be sure, the 2012 Earthquakes are not a one-man operation on offense — just look at the 12 goals scored by Alan Gordon and the eight goals apiece scored by Steven Lenhart and Simon Dawkins — defined only by the exploits of Wondolowski. This is as complete a team as has been seen in San Jose since the club's championship run of the early 2000s.
But it can't be denied that the heart and soul of the club, the face of the franchise, the indisputable team MVP, is Wondo. Perhaps his percentage of the team's total goals has dropped, but he more than makes up for that with a career-high seven assists this season. To put that in perspective, Wondolowski had just seven helpers combined in his seven previous MLS seasons.
Goal scorer and assist provider? Wondo has bolstered his credentials as a complete offensive player in 2012.
With the regular season drawing down and the MLS Cup playoffs set to start in earnest in November, what better time to extol the virtues that have made Wondo's 2012 season one of the best offensive seasons in MLS history.
- 22 goals scored is the best total in MLS since 2002 (Carlos Ruiz, 24; Taylor Twellman, 23) and places Wondolowski in seventh on the all-time single-season scoring list. 22 goals also surpass Wondo's previous club record of 18 goals.
- 56 goals scored over the past three seasons, which ties Wondolowski with Raul Diaz Arce (1996-98) for the most in a three year period in MLS history. Only four players in the league's 18 years have amassed 50 or more goals over three years — the other two were Roy Lassiter with 55 in 1996-98 and Ruiz with 50 in 2002-04.
- A stunning 0.62 goals per 90 minutes average over his entire career that puts him third all-time in MLS for players with over 20 goals scored. That gaudy number jumps to 0.68 G/90min if measured from the beginning of 2010 when Wondolowski became a regular started for the Earthquakes.
- An eye-popping eight-goal lead in the race for the 2012 Golden Boot award, the highest margin of victory since 2000 when Mamadou Diallo netted 26 to beat out Ante Razov's 18. In the past 10 MLS seasons, the biggest difference between winner and second place was two goals.
- 51 points, if using the pre-2005 method for determining the MLS scoring champion that awarded two points for a goal and one point for an assist, which would be the best since Twellman posted 52 points in 2002. Perhaps a more accurate measure of a player's offensive worth, Wondolowski's point total this season would rank as the fifth-best all-time.
Reading through that list is exhausting and certainly begs the question: Is there nothing Wondo can't do? He must surely be the frontrunner for the 2012 MLS Most Valuable Player award, perhaps even the only candidate that should be considered.
While that vote will be up to the media and the league, Earthquakes fans can certainly get in on the campaigning for Wondolowski. Whether it is from the grandstands of Buck Shaw Stadium or the message boards and social media sites on the Internet, Wondo well-wishers should spread the word of all his accomplishments. This is election season, after all, and decision day is rapidly approaching.
For the throngs of supporters on Twitter, a favorite hashtag throughout the 2011 season was #WondoTales, a celebratory descriptor of the amazing feats that only Wondolowski could accomplish. In light of his amazing 2012 season, perhaps the time has come for an updated hashtag with the simplest of declarations: #Wondo4MVP.
Robert Jonas is a writer for CenterLineSoccer.com and SJEarthquakes.com. Send him feedback on Twitter: @RobertJonas


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The Toronto International Film Festival announced a number of additional world premieres Tuesday, saying that John Turturro's "Fading Gigolo," Josh Waller's Cory Monteith pic "McCanick," and Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's Errol Flynn film "The Last of Robin Hood" will all appear first at the festival.
It also said that "Yurusarezaru Mono," Lee Sang-il's remake of Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven," will make its North American premiere there after playing the Venice Film Festival shortly before; Alex Gibney's cycling doc "The Armstrong Lie" and James Franco's latest director-actor drama "Child of God" will also make their N.A. debuts north of the border.
"McCanick," Monteith's final film, has the late "Glee" star playing a street hustler who struggled with addiction. (You can check out a new photo from the film above.)
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A release from the festival, which has slotted the film in the world cinema section, described the plot thusly: "Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective (David Morse) and his reluctant partner (Mike Vogel) frantically track down a recently released convict (Cory Monteith) who knows a secret from the past."
The movie, which is seeking U.S. distribution, marks the second Monteith film to debut at the festival, after organizers last week announced "All the Wrong Reasons," a Canada-based feature in which he plays a department-store employee trying to guide his wife through tragedy.
"Fading Gigolo" is notable for several reasons, among them the fact that Woody Allen is playing a pimp and they collaborated because they share a barber. The film generated its initial round of attention at last year's festival.
The Flynn pic stars Kevin Kline as the iconic actor, struggling through an alcohol-soaked career decline toward the end of his heyday, and falling in love with a teenage starlet played by Dakota Fanning.
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So I noticed I now have the privilege of creating new topics and decided that my first should be an introduction thread.
Life long nerd and my love affair with the NeezyGeezy is detailed the "Why do you love Neo Geo" thread. Up until a few years ago I was in the military and as such lived a cramped and transient life. I kept gaming, but using the backpack friendly emulation+laptop combo.
About 8 months ago I got in position to start collecting for the first time in my adult life and started out just picking some titles up off of ebay then migrated to some internet forums/making trading friends off of instagram.
I stayed away from Neo Geo because I am but a mere peasant and sticker shock kept me away. I recently discovered cmvs and have been edging my way into that. My first pick up was Last Blade 2 and I couldn't have been more happy. I never thought growing up that I would own Neo Geo games the joy of actually owning LB2 was amazing and I was hooked. Even if it is the low rent scummy mvs version.
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I wrote 18 months ago about how the Dove Real Beauty campaign had captured the attention of the media and women 50 years old and older. This campaign, which featured women of all shapes and sizes in their underwear, increased Dove's sales by 700 percent in its first four months and gained media coverage in more than 800 publications.
Continuing to build on its successful franchise, Unilever, the company behind Dove, launched the brand's pro•age™ line of personal care products in February. The campaign focuses on pre- and post-menopausal Baby Boomer women and challenges the anti-aging spin that many companies use. This campaign offers a valuable example from which fitness facility owners can learn.
Dove research revealed that 97 percent of the women it surveyed said society is less accepting of appearance considerations for women over 50 years old than their younger counterparts, with showcasing one's body the least acceptable. Ninety-one percent said the media and ad companies need to do a better job of representing realistic images of women over 50. Seventy-nine percent said they wished a woman could be considered beautiful even if she is not physically perfect.
Dove counters the anti-aging attitude in society and media with its new product line, seeking to change attitudes from negative and fear-driven to affirmative and hope-driven, says Kathy O'Brien, the brand's marketing director.
The models in the print ads are women over 50 of all races and sizes who appear nude in tastefully done poses. But where most marketers would go with an anti-aging angle, Dove has gone with the positive, exposing that no matter how old a woman is, she can always be a "Real Beauty." With the pro•age campaign, Dove reaches out to women and encourages them to become involved with the brand. Dove's Web site introduces the viewer to the anti-aging products and prompts the viewer to "Watch what we couldn't show you on TV, then tell us what you think." Video footage follows of a few older women, again filmed in the nude. With this message, Dove is asking the viewer to become involved.
Dove learned from the Real Beauty Campaign to create a debate and get people involved. With its communications, Dove asks, "Can a woman be beautiful at any age?" The goal is to gather women as a community and get them to share their thoughts.
In her book "EVEolution," trend expert Faith Popcorn states that to gain the business of women, you need their involvement in your business. Dove has offered its clients multiple ways to get involved — from becoming a future spokesperson for pro•age and Real Beauty to sharing the word on pro•age. Are people seeing, hearing and talking about Dove's campaigns? Absolutely. Can you discover valuable lessons in these communications? Without a doubt.
Here are five lessons from this campaign that you might apply to your marketing:
Realize that your marketing must capture the spirit of the older woman by using real women with real success stories.
Ask members to share their successes on your Web site and encourage other members to share theirs.
Create a community feeling among members from the start. For example, host small groups in your juice bar after class or program support groups. Give members an opportunity to be involved with your club and to contribute.
Show members you are their advocate. Get involved with community events that support mature women, from the Red Hat Club to raising funds for breast cancer to hosting post-menopausal educational workshops.
Be pro-age!
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CARSON CITY – The deadline for a free, federal independent foreclosure review for Nevadans whose homes were in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010 has been extended to Sept. 30, 2012, Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said today.
The previous deadline was July 31.
Ordered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the independent foreclosure review will determine whether individuals suffered financial injury and should receive compensation or other remedy because of errors or other problems which occurred during the foreclosure process.
"Do not wait until the extended Sept. 30 deadline to submit your application for a free and independent foreclosure review," Masto said.
According to the OCC's recent report, as of May 31, 108,687 Nevadans who are eligible for the review received a mailing and 4,267 Nevadans submitted requests for review.
Information about Independent Foreclosure Review may appear in this format in advertisements and postcard notices that eligible borrowers recently received by mail.
More information, including edibility and online applications is available at www.independentforeclosurereview.com or 888-952-9105 (between 8 am and 10 pm (Eastern), Monday through Friday, and between 8 am and 5 pm Saturday). All requests for Review Forms must be submitted online or postmarked no later than September 30, 2012. Not every finding will result in compensation or other remedy.
In first announcing the program on May 31, Masto said: "I encourage Nevadans hurt by foreclosure errors and who are eligible, to apply for a free review before the July 31 (now Sept. 30) deadline. In doing so, beware of anyone who asks you to pay a fee for any foreclosure review service and immediately report those persons or companies to my office."
To be eligible, the foreclosure process must have been active between Jan. 1, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2010. The property securing the loan must have been a primary residence, and the mortgage must have been serviced by: America's Servicing Co., Aurora Loan Services, BAC Home Loans Servicing, Bank of America, Beneficial, Chase, Citibank, CitiFinancial, CitiMortgage, Countrywide, EMC, EverBank/EverHome Mortgage Company, Financial Freedom, GMAC Mortgage, HFC, HSBC, IndyMac Mortgage Services, MetLife Bank, National City Mortgage, PNC Mortgage, Sovereign Bank, SunTrust Mortgage, U.S. Bank, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo, or Wilshire Credit Corporation.
More than 4.3 million forms and letters explaining the process were sent to eligible homeowners in 2011. Nevada residents who received a letter should be aware it is a legitimate program.
Anyone who wants to report an independent foreclosure review scam can contact the Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection Hotline at 702-486-3132 or visit http://bit.ly/NVAGComplaintForms.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (February 15, 2006) - After picking up a pair of home victories this past weekend, the Lady Bucs (14-7, 10-4 A-Sun) travel to Nashville this weekend, for battles against Lipscomb and Belmont. First up are the Lady Bisons of Lipscomb, who stand at 6-15 overall, 5-9 in the Atlantic Sun. The tilt is set for Thursday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. CST, in Allen Arena.
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Tonight's game will mark the second of the season series between the two Atlantic Sun Conference foes. ETSU will be looking to remaining near to top of the conference standings, while Lipscomb will be attempting to climb the league ladder, as it currently sits in eighth-place overall. The Lady Bucs recently picked up a pair of home wins over
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Here is the video walkthrough to Love balls level 417. Love balls is an addictive game which involves physics with a good hand to eye coordination. You are required to make those two love balls meet. It gets difficult as you move down the Levels.
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If Troyzan doesn't win immunity, he's out. If he does, then most likely Leif.
I'm going to guess Troyzan for the second week in a row. I think either Troyzan or Tarzan will go home, and unless Troyzan wins Immunity again, I think he's toast.
Troyzan is dead next week unless he wins immunity. If he does, Tarzan gets backdoored.
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The Aprilaire 8800 is a simple, yet technologically advanced system that gives you total remote control of your home's HVAC system. It also has a Message Center display that opens up new possibilities for enhancing your systems. The Message Center simplifies set up and addressing while it can also display custom messages. It's not total home automation without HVAC control and the Model 8800 Communicating Touchscreen Thermostat is the choice of professional integrators and the DIY type alike, making your home control easier and more convenient.
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What Do You Know About Poverty in Missouri?
9. Based on a three year average (2009 to 2011), where does Missouri's poverty rate rank in comparison with poverty rates in other states?
b. Correct!
Missouri ranked 18th with a poverty rate of 15.3 percent on a three year average (2009 to 2011). Only 16 states (and the District of Columbia) had higher poverty rates than Missouri, and 33 states had lower poverty rates than Missouri. New Hampshire had the lowest rate at 7.3 percent whereas Mississippi had the highest rate at 21 percent.
Source: U. S. Census Bureau. (2012). Comparison of poverty rates between states using three-year averages: 2009-2011. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/incpovhlth/2011/tables.html.


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Shattered Sky: The Battle for Energy, Economy, and Environment
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KQED 9: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 -- 11:00 PM
Can history inspire us? Thirty years ago, scientists reported a hole in the ozone layer "the size of North America." The culprit was CFCs: the gas in hairspray, refrigerant, and air conditioning. Doctors predicted skyrocketing cancer, but business didn't want to change and politicians were slow to act . . . Eerily reminiscent of today's complex debate on energy and climate change, Shattered Sky tells the story of how America led the world to solve the biggest environmental crisis ever seen. Today, dare we do the same on energy and climate?
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Heat roll to 19th consecutive victory
Standing at his locker after yet another victory, LeBron James finally acknowledged the obvious.
This winning streak is something for the Miami Heat to savor.
Dwyane Wade scored 23 points and on a night where the stat sheet would suggest a struggle, the Heat rolled once again, extending their winning streak to 19 games and leading wire-to-wire in beating the Atlanta Hawks 98-81 on Tuesday.
"Let's be honest, guys," James said. "We're not sitting here and saying this is not something special. This is an unbelievable streak that we're on. We're playing great basketball. We're winning in different phases of the game, we're playing different styles, we've won every game, on the road, at home, double-overtime games, end-of-regulation games, whatever the case may be."
James scored 15 points and Chris Bosh and Mario Chalmers added 14 apiece for the Heat, who matched the fifth-longest streak in NBA history. They will try for their 20th straight win on Wednesday at Philadelphia, the start of a five-game trip.
Only three teams have won at least 20 consecutive games in the same season: the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers (33), the 2007-08 Houston Rockets (22) and the 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks (20). The Washington Capitols also won 20 straight, spanning the end of the 1947-48 season and the start of the 1948-49 campaign.
"Ten is enough for me," Bosh said. "Twenty's cool. I'd take it."
Josh Smith scored 15 for the Hawks, who got 12 apiece from Al Horford and Jeff Teague.
"Miami is playing very well right now. You have to give credit where credit is due," Hawks coach Larry Drew said. "Coach (Erik) Spoelstra and his staff over there are doing a great job. Their team is really moving the basketball, they are playing together, they are playing at a very, very high level right now, and they're really good right now. We just got beat by a really good basketball team."
That is, by a really good basketball team that had something really far removed from a really good offensive night.
The Heat shot only 43 percent and James was just 3 for 11 from the field, with the field-goal total matching his lowest from any regular-season game in more than three years.
And they won by 17.
"We read the game, we find ways to win, we find ways within the game that we can make adjustments," Wade said. "So yeah, it is kind of slowing down a little bit."
Ray Allen scored 12 and Udonis Haslem grabbed 11 rebounds for the Heat. The crowd was 20,350, a record at AmericanAirlines Arena.
Miami now leads San Antonio by 1 1/2 games in the race for the NBA's best record and is atop the Eastern Conference by 9 1/2 games over Indiana and New York, who were both idle Tuesday. The Heat (48-14) have 20 games left, while the Pacers have 19 and the Knicks 21.
It was the first game where the Heat went without trailing since Feb. 14, when they won at Oklahoma City in a surprisingly one-sided NBA Finals rematch. They've needed buzzer-beaters and double-overtimes and big rallies to win several times since, often against opponents who won't be headed to the playoffs, teams like Orlando and Cleveland and Sacramento.
The Hawks are headed to the postseason – barring a most improbable collapse, anyway – but this one was never in doubt.
Seven Miami players logged more than 3 1/2 minutes of time in the first quarter, all seven of them scored, and the snowball started rolling. James was falling down near the 3-point line on one possession, yet still had the sense to just tap the ball to Wade for a layup that gave Miami an early 17-8 lead. And later, after Haslem missed inside, he got the rebound and fed Allen for a step-back corner 3-pointer that swished.
Yes, it's going that well for Miami right now.
"Leading with our defense has been the key for us," Wade said. "When we come out defensive minded from the beginning of the game, it gets us into the game, it gets us on the offensive end, we're moving the ball. We have been playing well offensively all year, but defense is the key."
The Hawks closed to 41-40 midway through the second quarter, the third – and last – time they were within a point. Miami needed just over two minutes to score the next 10 points, the run both starting and ending with 3-pointers from Chalmers, and the margin was 51-40.
As if the Heat needed any more help late in the first half, the often-enigmatic Smith gave them a little boost.
For no apparent reason, Smith fouled Bosh with 0.1 seconds left until intermission – doing so about 80 feet from the Heat basket. Miami was in the bonus, so Bosh took two free throws, made both, and the Heat went into the break with a 57-44 lead.
An hour later, they were packing for Philadelphia and a chance to win No. 20.
"It's a privilege for us to get in our cars and hop on a plane and get into Philly at 4 a.m. after this win and do this again tomorrow night," Spoelstra said. "That's the way we're going to approach it. No excuses."
Notes: James was called for goaltending after blocking a shot by Ivan Johnson late in the third quarter. James didn't like the call, and if that wasn't enough, he swatted the ball into the leg of Bosh's wife, Adrienne, who was seated courtside. She was fine. … The Hawks lost Teague with 3:08 left in the third quarter after he turned his left ankle. He returned to the bench later in the period after getting re-taped, but did not return to the game. … Heat assistant coach David Fizdale shared a warm embrace with Drew a few moments before the game. Fizdale is a former Atlanta assistant.


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Court upholds conviction of former debt collector
The weapons conviction of a former debt collector from the Buffalo area whose nickname was "Bags of Money" was upheld this week by the state's highest court.
Tobias W. Boyland, who was a fugitive for about four months last year, was convicted on weapons charges after police found an AK-47 assault weapon and six handguns in his Harvard Place home. The Court of Appeals upheld the weapons conviction and the 15-year prison sentence given to Boyland, who once had 200 people working for him, drove a gold luxury car and had offices from Buffalo to Pittsburgh.
Boyland had been released on bail by a mid-level appeals court judge in 2010 and, after losing his appeal in December that year, failed to turn himself in. He was found by authorities outside a Pittsburgh hotel in April last year.
In a one-paragraph notation, the state's highest court said the lower court conviction was affirmed and that other claims Boyland made in his appeal were without merit.
Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III noted Tuesday that Boyland is still attempting a new appeal. "Despite the fact that he pleaded guilty as charged, Mr. Boyland is appealing the bail-jumping conviction," Sedita's office said in a stataement.


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