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Following a series of high-level government corruption scandals, Latvians voted for the first time to dissolve Parliament in a July 2011 referendum, triggering a snap parliamentary election on September 17. A center-right governing coalition emerged, with incumbent Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis remaining in office. Andris Berzins defeated incumbent Valdis Zatlers in the June 2 presidential election.
After centuries of foreign domination, Latvia gained its independence in 1918, only to be annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II. The long Soviet occupation featured a massive influx of Russians and the deportation, execution, and emigration of tens of thousands of ethnic Latvians. In 1991, Latvia regained its independence as the Soviet Union disintegrated, and a multiparty system took root during the 1990s. The country joined both the European Union (EU) and NATO in 2004.
In the face of a deepening economic crisis, thousands of Latvians marched on the Parliament building in January 2009, and their peaceful demands for the government's resignation escalated into violent protests. The ruling coalition collapsed in February, and a new government was formed, with Valdis Dombrovskis of the New Era Party becoming prime minister. The government spent the rest of the year enacting spending cuts as Latvia suffered a deep economic recession.
In October 2010 parliamentary elections, Unity—a center-right electoral bloc composed of New Era, Civic Union, and the Society for Political Change—won 33 seats. Unity subsequently formed an unstable 55-seat coalition with the Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS), a party led by powerful businessman and Ventspils mayor Aivars Lembergs and beset by allegations of corruption and subservience to business interests.
In early 2011, the new governing coalition was strained by a lack of agreement on fiscal measures. By May, corruption had become a dominant political issue; that month, Parliament blocked the lifting of immunity for member of parliament Ainars Slesers, thereby preventing the Bureau for the Prevention and Combating of Corruption (KNAB) from searching his home in connection with a major corruption investigation. President Valdis Zatlers responded by calling for the dissolution of Parliament for the first time in Latvia's independent history. A July 23 referendum on the issue passed with 94 percent of the vote.
In the run-up to the snap September 17 elections, which focused largely on corruption issues, Zatlers formed the center-right, pro-transparency Zatlers Reform Party (ZRP). Two right-wing nationalist parties, For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and All for Latvia, officially merged into the National Alliance party. Harmony Center, a party largely backed by ethnic Russians, captured the greatest share of votes for the first time, winning 31 seats. The newly formed ZRP won 22 seats, Unity secured 20 seats, the National Alliance won 14 seats, and the ZZS captured 13 seats. Slesers' Latvia's First Party-Latvian Way, which was renamed the Slesers Reform Party, failed to cross the electoral threshold. Despite its first-place finish, Harmony Center was not included in the new government. Instead, ZRP, Unity, and the National Alliance formed a 56-seat governing coalition, with Dombrovskis returning as prime minister.
Latvia is an electoral democracy. The constitution provides for a unicameral, 100-seat Parliament (Saeima), whose members are elected for four-year terms. Parliament elects the president, who serves up to two four-year terms. Incumbent Valdis Zatlers, who took office in 2007, lost reelection to ZZS candidate Andris Berzins on June 2. The prime minister is nominated by the president and must be approved by Parliament.
Noncitizen residents may organize political parties, but only if the party counts an equal number of Latvian citizens as members. The political landscape remained fractured and party alliances proved largely unstable in 2011. During the year, former prime minister Andris Skele announced his retirement from politics and dissolved his People's Party, which had been the leader of three governments in the 2000s. In June, the Parliament passed legislation capping political parties' election spending at half of its 2010 limit.
Corruption continued to be a major issue in Latvia in 2011. In 2010, KNAB director Normunds Vilnitis had proposed a sweeping reorganization that many, including KNAB employees, argued would reduce the institution's effectiveness. While Vilnitis was abroad on holiday in May 2011, KNAB launched a major case on bribery, money laundering, and misuse of power involving Ainars Slesers, Andris Skele, and Aivars Lembergs. In June, Vilnitis was dismissed by Parliament after the release of a government commission report critical of his job performance. In November, Parliament unanimously supported the election of Jaroslavs Strelcenoks to head KNAB. In June, a Riga district court recognized an English court decision to freeze $135 million of Lembergs' assets in connection to a case involving the embezzlement of funds from Ventspils Nafta, a major petroleum shipment company; the case was ongoing at year's end. In March, three former Riga City Council officials were sentenced to between three and eight years in prison for bribery. Parliament passed an anticorruption law in December—nearly 15 years after the bill was first debated in the legislature—requiring citizens to declare assets worth more than US$19,000.
The government generally respects freedom of the press. Private television and radio stations broadcast programs in both Latvian and Russian. While newspapers publish a wide range of political viewpoints, there has been evidence of increasing business and political influence on the media. Observers of the 2010 and 2011 elections noted that political parties often made payments to news outlets for favorable coverage. In 2009, the highly respected independent newspaper Diena was sold to an undisclosed foreign owner; many of the paper's leading journalists and editors resigned in protest. In 2010, two former public relations experts with political ties to Slesers and Skele were appointed as editor in chief and deputy editor. Viesturs Koziols, a wealthy businessman with similar ties bought a controlling stake in the Diena Media Group in August 2010. In 2011, KNAB revealed that it believed Slesers, Skele, Lembergs, and another business partner to be Diena's true owners. In a move to promote media transparency and editorial independence, the Law on the Press and other Mass Media was amended on September 22 to require mass media outlets to reveal their beneficial owners. The government does not restrict access to the internet.
Freedom of religion is generally respected. However, so-called traditional religious groups enjoy certain privileges, such as the ability to provide religious instruction to public school students, which are unavailable to newer groups. There are no government restrictions on academic freedom.
Freedoms of assembly and association are protected by law and in practice. In June 2011, nearly 8,000 people attended an "Oligarch Funeral" protest to denounce political corruption and the perceived concentration of power in the hands of Latvia's supposed oligarchs. The government does not restrict the activities of nongovernmental organizations. Workers enjoy the right to establish trade unions, strike, and engage in collective bargaining. Union members comprise roughly 15 percent of the workforce.
While judicial independence is generally respected, inefficiency, politicization, and corruption continue to be problems. In October 2011, Constitutional Court judge Vineta Muizniece's immunity was lifted so that charges could be brought against her in December for the 2009 falsification of the minutes of Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee. A January 2011 shootout between police officers and a gang robbing a casino left one officer dead and others injured; four out of the five gang members were former or serving policemen, and two of them were members of the elite "Alfa" force. The Alfa members had only recently rejoined the squad following allegations of bribery and extortion. Interior Minister Linda Murniece resigned over the matter, and only days later another elite police officer was arrested on drug dealing charges. Lengthy pretrial detention remains a concern, and law enforcement officials have allegedly abused persons in custody. Prisons continue to suffer from overcrowding and poor access to health care.
Approximately 15 percent of Latvia's residents are noncitizens. Those who immigrated during the Soviet period, the majority of whom are ethnic Russians, must apply for citizenship and pass a Latvian language test. In April, dueling signature drives were held by Latvian and ethnic Russian nationalist groups with the goal of putting linguistic issues to a referendum; the former group aimed to eliminate all instruction in languages other than Latvian in publicly-funded schools, while the latter advocated granting Russian official second language status. Both initiatives failed, but another signature drive was held in November, again with the goal of putting the question of Russian as an official language to referendum. On December 19, the Central Election Commission announced that enough signatures had been collected to hold a referendum on making Russian an official second language; the referendum was scheduled for February 2012.
Women enjoy the same legal rights as men, but they often face employment and wage discrimination. There are 23 women in the newly elected Parliament and 4 in the 14-member cabinet. Domestic violence continues to be a serious problem. Latvia continues to be a source for women trafficked for the purpose of prostitution, mostly to Western Europe.


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Recommendations on Electrical Contractor in Bay Area
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If you are on the peninsula, I used Peter Green at Green Electric. 650-533-3496, email@example.com
He's done several projects for us and I've been very happy. I was out of town when he installed the 14-50, and it was just as I wanted it.
SolarCity just completed the installation of 14-50 yesterday. Originally they were in no hurry to setup an appt for me, knowing that I didn't have a clear delivery date for the car yet. But once I informed him of the firm delivery date, they were able to come out within 3-4 days to complete the job. Have you informed them of your delivery date?
If you live on the coastside I'd recommend Ingraham Electric, 650-728-2262, email@example.com. I had them come out to have a look and give me an estimate on Monday, and they finished installing the 14-50 outlet in my garage in less than 2 hours this morning. Cost me about $650 which wasn't too bad considering that they had to move a few breakers around in my pantry and then run the wire in my crawl space to my garage.
I used Solarcity, originally they quoted a month but ended up making it in 2 weeks...quoted $650 but ended up doing a bunch of custom work (such as installing new breakers, moving the charge location about 2x the distance as originally expected), and the final price ended being the same.
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Hundreds of Middlebury alumni returned to campus for Homecoming, Oct. 28-30, to enjoy athletic and cultural events, and to reminisce with friends amid spectacular fall weather of sunshine, brisk winds, and occasional snow flurries.
While the weekend's largest crowds assembled for the football game and at the tailgate parties outside Alumni Stadium before, during, and after the gridiron event, there also were lectures, panel discussions, theatrical performances, concerts, alumni games, receptions, films, and celebrations for alumni to savor.
Homecoming kicked off on Friday with a talk delivered by Patrick Dougherty, the artist who led the community in the creation of "So Inclined," the stick sculpture that has graced the front entrance to the Mahaney Center for the Arts since the fall of 2007.
Since the sculpture is coming down this week, Dougherty was invited back to campus to reflect on the meaning of his work both at Middlebury and around the world. The creator of more than 200 commissioned pieces in the U.S., Japan, France, Denmark, Austria, and the U.K., Dougherty said, "A good sculpture is one that causes a lot of personal associations in the viewer, a lot of starting points in your own personal life trying to understand it. And, as a sculptor, I am not only thinking about making the surface interesting and making it fit into the site. I also think a sculpture has to have enough power and grace to evoke a visceral response."
Judging from the enthusiastic audience and their approving remarks—Richard Saunders, the director of the Museum of Art, termed it the "most beloved" piece of outdoor art at Middlebury—there is little doubt that Dougherty achieved his goals at Middlebury.
Friday's events also included a career panel discussion cosponsored by Distinguished Men of Color and the Center for Education in Action, Shabbat services with Hillel, two screenings of the final Harry Potter film, and the theatre department's season opener, the Charles Mee's comedy "Big Love" directed by Assistant Professor Cláudio Medeiros '90, in Wright Memorial Theatre.
The cast of students gave four rousing performances over the weekend, and the show was well attended with more than 800 people in the seats for a story about Greek brides unwillingly betrothed to their American cousins. The action, including the grooms' sudden arrival by helicopter to the "Mission Impossible" theme, transported theatre-goers to a lavish villa in southern Italy.
Saturday's early risers took part in the Peter Westra '99 Memorial 5K Run or the men's alumni lacrosse game, both of which started at 9 a.m., followed by Professor Barbara Hofer's lecture in Davis Library about parental communication with college-age children in the age of e-mail, cell phones, text messaging, and social media.
Middlebury's women water polo players, including three alumnae, assembled in the Natatorium on Saturday morning for a preseason tournament against Dartmouth College and the Club Aquatique Montreal. While the Montreal club was delayed temporarily at the Vermont border, Middlebury swam against Dartmouth in the opening match, and after the Big Green scored two quick goals, the Middlebury women splashed their way back to score as well.
Since women's water polo is a spring sport, the round-robin tournament gave all three teams the opportunity to play against real competition. Brian Goodwin, the longtime Middlebury water polo coach, tried players at different positions and experimented with strategy. And in keeping with the spirit of friendly competition, the visitors from Montreal spent the night at Goodwin's house in Williston before returning to Middlebury for more water polo action on Sunday.
Meanwhile on Saturday, the Panther football team was enduring a long afternoon on the turf of Youngman Field against the undefeated Bantams from Trinity College. (Final score: Trinity 42, Middlebury 7.) With more than 1,500 spectators in attendance, the members of the vaunted 7-1 team from 1981—including then-coach Mickey Heinecken and the current coach, Bob Ritter '82—were honored at halftime.
Homecoming Saturday started out sunny and (almost) warm, but by the second half of the football game the skies were socked in and the Panther faithful huddled together in hats, gloves, and scarves. Later in the afternoon alumni found refuge indoors while anthropologist James Fitzsimmons, an assistant professor, presented an illustrated lecture on "Power and Authority in the Classic Maya Lowlands"; the Hirschfield International Film Series presented "Vincere" in Dana Auditorium; and men's and women's lacrosse alumni celebrated more than 60 years of the sport at the College with a reception and dinner.
The Middlebury Women of Color sponsored an early-evening get-together for students and alumni, and also hosted the Black Pearl Ball, featuring a DJ from New York City, with dancing into the wee hours at Coltrane Lounge. Alumni night owls had other events to choose from too including a performance by jazz violinist Zach Brock at 51 Main and the Homecoming Formal Dance at Nelson Arena.
Sunday morning's activities included a celebration of Middlebury women's tennis, with a round-robin tournament and luncheon in honor of the late Barbara ("Bobbie") Plumer Galligan Alden '40; and a Homecoming Brunch at PALANA House sponsored by the Women of Color.
Erin Quinn '86, director of athletics and former coach of the men's lacrosse team (including three national championships), hosted a farewell gathering on Sunday at his home with his wife, Pamela Lawson Quinn '88, and their two children. Speaking about Middlebury's lacrosse alumni, the athletic director said there are "timeless themes that run through the men's and women's programs and across the generations," and that "the conversation and celebration was most often about relationships and values."
Yes, Quinn was speaking of lacrosse players, but at Homecoming 2011 the same could be said about the themes, relationships, and values cherished by almost every Middlebury graduate, student-athlete or not.


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I have a simple stock market trading hypothesis ...
Something along these lines:
Based on a certain deviation from a stock market index over a 30-day period, 5 certain stocks tend to drift in a particular direction during the next 30-day period.
I'd like to run this hypothesis on historical data to see if there's any truth to this.
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Sections of WPP392 are offered at least three different times in both Fall and Spring Semesters, and they are offered at least once in the Summer. Once you have completed the prerequisites for the requirement, you should look at the exam schedule to find the best time for you to take the exam.
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Another option, although less likely, would be for ABC would be to swap THE VIEW with GENERAL HOSPITAL, which typically airs at 3 p.m. on most of its stations. The risk there is that GENERAL HOSPITAL has been running in the afternoon forever and a move to late mornings could severely hurt the show, which is one of the few remaining soap operas.
ABC is also studying whether to try to turn THE VIEW into a syndicated show. That would mean selling it to individual stations for cash and commercial inventory. ABC affiliates might get upset by the idea of losing the show to the highest bidder, although there is a potential of bigger bucks for ABC and parent Walt Disney Co.
Whether any of this would ever happen is still a long way from being determined. I can't see GH ever airing the morning as a viable option, but the landscape of daytime definitely will continue to change.


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FIAT Brand's Fiat 500e 'Into the Green' Program Continues During Oscar Week
- The Fiat 500e "Into the Green" program continues to work the red carpet promoting and raising awareness of the first fully electric FIAT 500 production vehicle
- Fiat 500e "Into the Green" program benefits the Motion Picture and Television Fund
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Feb. 21, 2013 /3BL Media /PRNewswire/ - The Fiat 500e "Into the Green" program, which was launched this past November with the objective to build awareness for the first fully-electric Fiat 500, is ready to take the stage in 2013 during the week leading to "The Oscars." The FIAT brand will sponsor two "Into the Green" events, on Thursday, Feb. 21 in partnership with Vanity Fair and on Saturday, Feb. 23 in partnership with the Motion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF). The "Into the Green" program benefits the Motion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF).
"The Fiat 500e is not only environmentally friendly, but also socially responsible," said Tim Kuniskis, Head of FIAT Brand North America. "The Into the Green Initiative provides a great opportunity for us to work with the MPTF to support the entertainment community while celebrating the arrival of the first all-electric vehicle for the FIAT brand."
At each exclusive Fiat 500e "Into the Green" event, a celebrity is assigned a 2013 Fiat 500e which will be delivered in April of 2013 in conjunction with the vehicle's launch in the United States. The celebrity will then drive the Fiat 500e for a period of time before it is then auctioned off at a special event to benefit the Motion Picture Television Fund.
"Into the Green" programs have been held in past exclusive red carpet events that included the 2012 American Music Awards Pre-Show, the Geffen MOCA Fiat 500e vehicle launch and the 2012 Golden Globes viewing and after party.
About Fiat 500e
Designing city-friendly, environmentally responsible and fun-to-drive small cars is what the FIAT brand and its "Simply More" belief stand for. The all-new 2013 Fiat 500e electrifies the next chapter of the brand's legacy by embodying the FIAT brand's simple, purposeful and fun-to-drive values – through iconic style, engaging dynamics and an environmentally responsible zero-emissions design.
The all-new 2013 Fiat 500e arrives at FIAT Studios in California during the second quarter of 2013.
About FIAT brand
The FIAT brand stands for discovery through passionate self-expression. It encourages people to be in charge of their lives, live confidently and celebrate the smallest of things with infectious excitement. That philosophy is embodied by the North American introduction of the iconic Fiat 500 or Cinquecento – a small car that lives big. Italian at heart and rooted in a rich heritage, the 500 is synonymous with modern, simple design blending form, function and a pride of ownership that is genuine.
Reminiscent of the original Cinquecento, the Fiat 500 and Fiat 500c (Cabrio) build on the vehicle's global popularity. Since its initial launch in 2007, more than 1,000,000 Fiat 500 vehicles have been sold in more than 100 countries around the world. The model's unquestionable popularity is the result of the Fiat 500's great ability to deliver unmatched personalization options with advanced solutions in terms of quality, engine and passenger comfort. In addition to success on the sales front, the Fiat 500 has earned more than 80 international awards, including being named the 2008 European Car of the Year, 2009 World Car Design of the Year and Best New Engine of 2010 (Fiat MultiAir® Turbo). In the U.S., the 2012 Fiat 500 was named "Best Buy" in the subcompact category by Consumers Digest and was deemed a "Top Safety Pick" by the influential Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
The FIAT brand portfolio in North America continues to expand with the arrival of the high-performance Fiat 500 Abarth, Fiat 500 Abarth Cabrio and the Fiat 500 Turbo. In 2013 the FIAT brand will launch the Fiat 500e, a full-electric version of the Fiat 500, and the Fiat 500L, a new five-passenger model that will expand FIAT's brand style and efficiency into the growing B-segment.
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muntealb, Darwin - you both wrote what StopKa was unstable - tell me please did you use latest version - or it was first version from [December 02, 2008]?-vitali_y (December 29, 2008, 07:42 AM)
I can't stress this enough: the initial setup routine MUST be made more clear. For example: on trying to setup a new index it is not clear from the dialogues whether one is being asked to define the location of the index that will be created or folders to be indexed! After trial and error I realised that it is the latter...
Once indexing has completed, nothing I search for is found!
when it indexes the disks it consumes too much processor (60-70% of a Core2Duo E8200) and RAM (500 MB from a total of 2GB).
you must provide a help file with the program or on the site. Without it the less advanced users will have no idea how to use your software.
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Joan Wallick, a Columbus resident (43209), recently donated $1 million to Nationwide Children's Hospital establishing the Joan Fellowship in Pediatric Hemostasis-Thrombosis which will train the next generation of physicians in the discipline.
Hemostasis-thrombosis is a highly specialized field of medicine focusing on both congenital and acquired disorders of blood coagulation. Common examples of these types of disorders include hemophilia, traumatic bleeding and blood clots. While some children are born with these problems, many more have disorders of coagulation that complicate other illnesses they may suffer such as pediatric cancer, heart disease, kidney disease and serious infections. Nationwide Children's treats more than 1,000 patients every year with diagnoses ranging from common to the rarest hemostasis-thrombosis problems.
"I am honored to help ensure that our future children and grandchildren who will be diagnosed with hemostasis-thrombosis problems will receive the highest level of care," said Wallick. "Some of my family was diagnosed with bleeding disorders as adolescents and we encountered, first hand, the lack of trained physicians in the field. It is our goal to shine a bright light on hemostasis-thrombosis problems and ensure that doctors are adequately trained in order to provide the best possible care for these patients."
The establishment of the Joan Fellowship in Pediatric Hemostasis-Thrombosis at Nationwide Children's will, in part, address the impending shortage of hemostasis-thrombosis physicians. By adding to the body of highly-trained medical professionals, this fellowship will educate the doctors of the future and benefit the generations of patients with blood disorders in Ohio and around the world.
"We are very grateful to Joan for her generous donation," said Bryce A. Kerlin, MD, program director of the Joan Fellowship in Pediatric Hemostasis-Thrombosis who is also a physician in Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplant at Nationwide Children's. "Through the establishment of the Joan Fellowship, one of the first hemostasis-thrombosis fellowship training programs in the nation, we hope to alleviate the shortage of physicians who are adequately trained in hemostasis-thrombosis and to be able to provide specialized care to these patients for generations to come."
The Joan Fellowship in Hemostasis and Thrombosis at Nationwide Children's will be tailored to both the trainee's career goals and to the needs of the field. Trainees will have mandatory and elective experiences. Mandatory experiences will include intensive training in hemophilia and allied bleeding disorder care, thrombosis and anticoagulant care, stroke care, inpatient consultation and research. Elective opportunities will be in clinical laboratory hemostasis testing, vascular imaging, women's bleeding disorders and more.
Dr. Kerlin, who is also an associate professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine said that, "All fellows will also be encouraged to receive training in the lifetime continuum of congenital hemostasis and thrombosis disorders through Nationwide Children's collaboration with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where Nationwide Children's fellows are also faculty instructors."
The partnership between the two institutions will serve the fellows in providing unparalleled educational opportunities while also ensuring that patients throughout the community have the very best of care. Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children's are both federally-funded centers of excellence for hemostasis-thrombosis care.


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IMG benefits from an advanced infrastructure and skilled workforce that allows it to design, develop, assemble and distribute thousands of value-added metal and plastic products daily.
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Raising a Neapolitan Mastiff Puppy
Neapolitan Mastiff Health Problems and Raising a Neapolitan Mastiff Puppy to be Healthy
By Michele Welton. Copyright © 2000-2015
Quiz – How Long Will Your Dog Live?
How To Raise a Healthy Dog
Feeding the Best Dog Food
Feeding the 2nd Best Dog Food
Vaccinations: Needed or Not?
Are You Sure Your Vet Is Good?
The most common health problems in Neapolitan Mastiffs:
Two serious diseases that claim the lives of many Neapolitan Mastiffs are cancer and heart disease (specifically, cardiomyopathy).
As with all deep-chested breeds, Neapolitan Mastiffs are at higher-than-normal risk for the emergency gastrointestinal syndrome called bloat.
This breed has an appalling rate of hip dysplasia. The Orthopedic Foundation of America evaluated the hip X-rays of 130 Neapolitan Mastiffs and found 48.5% dysplastic – the 5th WORST RATE of 142 breeds. And the true rate is even higher because most of the obviously bad X-rays were not sent in for official evaluation.
Other common orthopedic diseases in Neos are elbow dysplasia, panosteitis, osteochondritis, and cruciate ligament rupture.
Eye diseases that occur regularly in the Neapolitan Mastiff are cherry eye, and eyelid abnormalities (entropion and ectropion).
Skin diseases are common, especially allergies (which cause itchy skin), demodectic mange (VERY common in mastiff breeds), elbow hygroma, and chronic bacterial infections (severe pyoderma).
Hypothyroidism is common in giant breeds. According to the Michigan State University Thyroid Database, up to 14% of Neapolitan Mastiffs have low thyroid levels.
Even with his short coat, the Neapolitan Mastiff tolerates cold weather better than he does the heat. Many Neos have died from heatstroke.
Can you prevent health problems from happening to YOUR Neapolitan Mastiff?
Yes, often you can.
- Some health problems are genetic, which means inherited from parents. Genetic health issues are common in Neapolitan Mastiffs today because of unwise breeding practices. My book, Dog Quest: Find The Dog Of Your Dreams, shows you how to find a Neapolitan Mastiff puppy who is genetically healthy.
- Other health problems are environmental – caused by the way you raise your dog. My best-selling dog health book, 11 Things You Must Do Right To Keep Your Dog Healthy and Happy shows you how to prevent environmental health problems by raising your Neapolitan Mastiff puppy (or adult dog) in all the right ways.
Here are my dog health tips for raising a healthy Neapolitan Mastiff puppy or adult dog:
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Based on your dog's breed and how you're raising him, this personalized quiz will help you understand how long your dog might live – and most importantly, how you can increase his life expectancy.
Dog Health Care – The Sensible Way
Read my advice on daily health care so your Neapolitan Mastiff lives a long, healthy life and seldom needs to see the vet.
The Best Dog Food For Feeding Your Neapolitan Mastiff
The best diet for feeding your Neapolitan Mastiff is real food. Real chicken, turkey, beef, bison, venison, fish….This is not "people food" and I'll tell you why.
The Second-Best Dog Food For Your Neapolitan Mastiff
If you can't feed homemade dog food, here are your next-best choices.
Vaccinations and Booster Shots: Needed or Not?
How many vaccinations does your Neapolitan Mastiff puppy really need? Does your adult Neapolitan Mastiff need yearly booster shots? The vaccination guidelines have changed. Find out what many vets aren't telling you.
The Type of Veterinarian I Recommend
Is your veterinarian really the best choice for your dog? Learn about the differences between vets who practice conventional, holistic, and alternative veterinary medicine.
Spaying Your Female Dog: Pros and Cons
Advantages and disadvantages of spaying your female Neapolitan Mastiff.
Neutering Your Male Dog: Pros and Cons
Advantages and disadvantages of neutering your male dog.
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General Background. Coach Tom grew up in Endwell, NY, where he spent much of his youth developing a love of team sports, playing any and all available: basketball, baseball, football, soccer, tennis, swimming.
Coach Tom attended Seton Catholic Central High School in Binghamton, NY, where he played on the varsity football, track, tennis, and baseball teams. Coach Tom graduated with a degree in Biomathematics from The University of Scranton. There, he continued to participate in numerous intramural activities. His first experiences running youth activities came as a summer camp counselor for The Arc (National Association for Retarded Citizens) and returning home during college breaks to assist his high school level CYO program.
Coach Tom came to Arlington in the fall of 2007 and currently works as a Computer Application Specialist for the Treasury.
Coaching experience. Coach Tom joined the Matrix in 2012 season and this is his third year with the 2020 Black team. He began coaching in 2008 as the 5th grade girls White (B) coach in the St. James CYO program. Tom has progressed with these girls now in 8th grade for the 2011-2012 season and has twice led them to their divisional championship game.
Last spring, Coach Tom joined the Northern Virginia Patriots, a club that competed in local AAU tournaments, as a coach, working with their high school, 8th grade and 6th grade teams. As the team's head coach, Coach Tom led the 6th Grade team to a season ending tournament victory at Thomas Jefferson, finishing one game with only four players.
This year, in addition to his 8th grade CYO duties, Coach Tom is the head coach for the 6th grade Division II team for Arlington Travel in the Fairfax County Youth League. He also assists Matrix Coach Phil McConnell and the JV staff at Bishop O'Connell in Arlington.
Coaching Philosophy. Coach Tom asks two things of his players: effort and focus. He believes that you should only worry about what you can control, both on and off the court. If each player knows and takes care of their job, trusting their teammates will do the same, the TEAM will have success.
Strategically, Coach Tom likes to pressure the ball while closing off intermediate passing lanes, creating fast break opportunities. Offensively, he wants each player to contribute to a similar attacking approach: drawing in the defense and working the ball around for the easiest possible shot.
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Ok, so I'll bait the RNG to screw me over with snakes everywhere on my next purist monk runs. I expect nothing at all from this thread, and I hope I'm not spamming too hard, but I have to point an obvious thing out and explain it a bit. And ask a few questions from my colleagues.
So, pretty much everyone knows by now I'm having a beef with my own overuse of the Bloodmage and BLOODOPOWA. Blovski has reported a really crazy BM win in the priest thread, and I've done vids on B2P, and all that, and god knows what the devs have in store allready. I just want to textwall a bit of theory here. It's been a long time coming, and guys who were paying atention will remember me going on about this during the previous walkthrough - especially when I was dismantling the old Gaan'Telet over and over again.
So, the thing with the Bloodmage, the thing that sets him apart from everybody else is that he, on his own, introduces way too much extra resources into any run. As in, with no effort at all, he simply has more resources at his disposal.
1) He starts with Bloodtopowa - This means his blackspace, as long as he goes dedicated caster, increases by 1/3. So, unless you waste too much blackspace looking for stuff, this ability reads - "you start with a big bunch of tiles the other guys don't start with", and since you can explore while you spike - you waste less blackspace on exploration and reach more walled off exploration. This translates into practicaly having an equivalent of a Zombie Gold subdungeon a every run, and if you do in fact hit Zombie Gold (or Pan's Labyrinth, or Contemplate the Waters, or Cha'Dylan...) - you practicaly can't lose.
Now, this is an issue with B2P rather than the BM, and is true for any dedicated caster - and B2P can turn anyone into a dedicated caster (hint, try it with halfling priests). But B2P will hopefully get what's coming to it in one of the upcoming updates.
The Bloodmage, However:
2) Starts with sanguine:
Now this means he can really milk his B2P very early. You might say, yes but he then lacks bloodpools for the end fight! To that I say - SO DO 16 OUT OF 18 GUYS, unless they worship drac. And the only other guy who starts with sanguine is ment to be a bragging rights reward. Sure, it plays into the whole B2P based spellcaster thing, but sanguine is STRONG - with no effort at all, a run with sanguine provides a huge ammount of healing from what is basicaly a graphical reminder that there was a monster in that tile before you killed it.
The ability, in any incarnation, is so strong that it would warrant more monsters leaving behind stuff other than blood, but I'm not arguing in favor of that (or anything, really), just pointing it out. As it is now - there are no checks and balances in the game keeping sanguine in check, and I really wouldn't mind some. It would also help balancing Drac a bit.
However, not only does BM start with one of the arguably strongest abilities in the game he also:
3) Regains a mana point upon drinking a bloodpool.
Now this is just bullshit. Sanguine is enough to kill at least one boss per dungeon on it's own, if not 2. So is B2P. B2P + Sanguine are enough to kill several bosses per dungeon, because they increase the number of resources available to the player in any run by an obviously crazy ammount. And on top of this - BM gets 2-3 Clearances worth of tacticaly allocative mana tacked onto an allready literaly gamebreaking ability... Just because. Why not just start him off with a blue bead on top of all this, so he can throw down a fireball every time he kills a lvl1 popcorn?
But wait, there's more:
4) Drinking mana potions increases his sanguine:
So not only does he start with sanguine, and get mana out of sanguine, he also increases the effects of sanguine by drinking mana potions? Which he, as a mana based spiker actually wants to do anyway? Yay - more resources unavailable to any other class!
But wait! He gets even more!
5) The sanguine increesing mana potions? They also restore 80% of his mana, as opposed to 60% which everyone else gets! So he gets even more resources, this time more than anyone else in the game except the thief would get, yet allocated in a way which he would prefer.
6) And I'm not even going into the sinergies with the potion races, the dvarwes, the orcs, the elves and all that jazz...
The tradeoff? There's got to be a tradeoff, right, I mean, he practicaly starts with an entire second dungeon worth of hassle-free resources.
1) He has to waste exploration to find either fireball or pissorf.
Except he still has built in sanguine, so he can melle stuff with little problems as long as he can afford some popcorn. And prepping either Binlor or Magnet: Fireball completely eliminates this issue. So does scumming - fireball's pretty much the only thing you need, and since it can be prepped and B2P can't, he's in a much better position than anyone who'd want to rely on B2P.
2) He's counterintuitive
In the "you go paranoid from expecting there being a catch, when in fact there isn't one" sense. Or in the "nothing else in the game indicates something like this would be possible" sense. There isn't a catch, and it's very possible.
So, rather than suggest anything, as I'm blowing off steam and providing a showcase of just how and why is this guy so incredibly over-the-top, I got a few questions, and I promise not to immediately leap on anyone who replies with spam:
1) Is anyone at all having a problem making the current Bloodmage work?
2) Can anyone think of anyone else who comes close to this kind of drawbackless resource advantage? Apart from the Monk, who pays dearly for his broken resource advantage.
3) Does anyone find the regular Sanguine to be lackluster?
4) If this guy ever gets whalloped with the nerf bat, would making broader checks and balances for sanguine and B2P be preffereble?
5) What do you think about having certain monsters leave behind stuff other than bloodpools (nothing, dust, plants, corrosion pools, weakening pools, nasty crap that does nothing unless you try to drink it)?
6) How about hazards to using B2P (Monsters who regenearate or overheal when you use it and so on and so forth)?
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Hubli also known as Hubbali is the fastest growing city in Karnataka, after the state capital Bangalore. The Kannada word "Hubbali" when translated in English means "Flowering creeper". Cotton and peanuts are grown in abundance here. Logistics, machine tools industries, steel, pharma, leather, tanning and rubber industries contribute majorly to Hubli's economy. Well connected by road, rail and air, Hubli shall soon have a Monorail project in order to boost the inter-city transport. Food specialties, colleges, a fine university and tourist places make Hubli a must-visit.
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Good budget hotels exist in Hubli. There is Hotel Peacock (Tariff – Rs. 1000), Hotel Ajantha (Tariff – Upto Rs. 1000) and Hotel Ashray Lodge (Tariff – Rs. 500).
Hubli's official language is Kannada. The other languages spoken here are Marathi, Urdu and English.
Events in Hubli
The important event celebrated in Hubli is Dharwad Utsav held in November.
Places to See in Hubli
There are several tourist attractions in Hubli. These include Indira Gandhi Glass House (2.1 km), Kittur Rani Chennamma Circle (2.5 km), Unkal Lake (3.4 km),Siddharoodha Math (4 km), Nrupatunga Hill (5.2 km).
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If I had more money honey. Would you love me...
Q1 2008 - approx $846,000
Q1 2007 was under $600k
When put into context, there's still a long way to go, but it's encouraging nevertheless...
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The NDP's research team has carefully examined Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's new book and found the personal pronoun "I" is mentioned 164 times. Bob Rae, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Stéphane Dion and the carbon tax are not mentioned.
Number of times Jack Layton uses the personal pronoun "I" in the first 5 pages of his book: 19
But, in fairness, he does mention Paul Martin...
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EDMONTON - Tourism officials in northeastern England are both pleased and baffled by a new $25-million Alberta rebranding campaign that features a photo of children frolicking on one of its North Sea beaches.
While the tagline on the advertisement reads: "Alberta: Freedom to Create. Spirit to Achieve.", the Alberta government has confirmed the photo was taken near the English village of Bamburgh in Northumberland. The photo also appears in an Alberta promotional video that has been posted on YouTube.
Tourism Minister Cindy Ady told reporters that her department wasn't involved in the rebranding campaign
When the story about the controversial photo was first published earlier this week in an Edmonton newspaper, the Alberta government stood by the use of the images.
"There's no attempt to make people think that this is Alberta," Tom Olsen, a spokesman for Premier Ed Stelmach, told the Edmonton Journal.
However, in an interview yesterday, Mr. Olsen said the still advertisement was "an error" and was quietly yanked a few weeks ago. The Premier's office wasn't notified about the decision to pull it until yesterday afternoon, he explained.
Mr. Olsen said the government still supports using the image in the promotional video. "It's symbolic of the future children and the world," he said.
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The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates that 30 per cent of respondents nationwide are less likely to vote Liberal in the next election as a result of the party leader's reflections on taxes last week; only 16 per cent are more likely to support the Grits.
The damage was most pronounced in Atlantic Canada and British Columbia, where 44 per cent and 40 per cent respectively were less likely to vote Liberal.
However, the poll suggests Ignatieff's tax talk went down well in Quebec, where 29 per cent of respondents were more likely to vote Liberal and only 10 per cent less likely.
Harper's coalition of reformers and red tories is fracturing once again. Proportional representation would allow these two factions to separate and pursue their own agendas without losing a disproportionate number of seats like they would under the current first past the post system. The right half of the political spectrum would essentially then have the same dynamic as the left with the red tories battling the liberals in the centre while the reformers pulled to the right in the same way the new democrats now pull to the left. Without the reformer baggage the red tories would then have a far greater chance of pulling support over to them from the liberals.
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OTTAWA — The House of Commons should spend the next couple of months focusing on reforms to employment insurance and pensions, not electioneering, NDP Leader Jack Leader says.
It's a significant change in tactics for Mr. Layton, who portrayed himself as executioner-in-chief of the Harper Conservatives through a raucous winter run that threatened to topple the minority government at every turn.
New Democrats unleashed the first in a series of radio ads Thursday lambasting the newly minted Liberal leader for propping up Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government.
But the NDP ads drip with withering scorn for Ignatieff's decision to allow the federal budget to pass, albeit with conditions.
"Some things just don't change," intones a woman in one ad.
"Another Conservative budget rubber stamped by another Liberal leader. It's official: Michael Ignatieff failed his first big test as Liberal leader. He's thrown his lot in with Stephen Harper."
The ad portrays NDP Leader Jack Layton as the only political leader who can be trusted to look out for average families.
"Jack Layton's the only leader strong enough to stand up to Harper."
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Vancouver, B.C. – The numbers are in and British Columbia voters are giving a big thumbs up to electoral reform with 65 per cent saying they will vote for BC-STV in the upcoming referendum on May 12. That is the top line result of a major survey conducted by Angus Reid Strategies. Support for a new way of electing our MLAs is particularly strong among younger voters – those 18 to 34 – at 74 per cent.
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Main Entry: moral compass
Part of Speech: n
Definition: anything which serves to guide a person's decisions based on morals or virtues
Example: Hopefully, the lawyer has a moral compass.
The latest chapter in the Brian Mulroney saga has Stephen Harper attacking Michael Ignatieff for lacking a "moral compass". I'm not completely sure I follow Harper's logic but here's what he said:
"Mr. Ignatieff and the Liberal Party, when this matter first broke, were practically demanding that I throw Mr. Mulroney in prison without a trial. Now they're out there pretending that somehow they're his best friends and they don't agree with any of this. I think what Canadians will see is when it comes to a very difficult issue of government conduct and government ethics, this government has behaved responsibly and the other party, the other leader, has absolutely no moral compass."
Now, I can think of a few possible meanings to what Harper is saying here:
1. Anyone who defends Brian Mulroney or calls him on his birthday has no moral compass. On that point, who among us can argue?
2. Trying to create internal divisions in another party would only be done by a sick individual lacking a moral compass.
3. Calling an inquiry that might potentially embarrass a former Prime Minister of one's own party is a sign of a strong moral compass.
4. Conservative research has found that Michael Ignatieff enjoys torturing puppies. And Brian Mulroney loves to watch.
Then again, maybe I'm missing something in Harper's argument.
In fairness, there's probably some truth that the Liberals have spun around a bit on the Mulroney issue, but it's not like Harper has been Mr. Consistency on this either.
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Ed Stelmach(February 23, 2008): "A Progressive Conservative government will never put Alberta back into a deficit position"
April 7, 2009: Alberta to post $4.7B deficit
After 15 consecutive balanced budgets, Alberta has plunged into deficit. And it's a doozy - nearly five billion dollars.
In fairness to the PCs, few saw this coming (CG last year: "with a low balled estimate of $78 a barrel oil, I'd expect a multi-billion dollar "unexpected" surplus"), but much of this is because they chose to cut when it was cheap to spend and chose to spend when it was expensive to spend. But irrespective of how much blame they deserve, if you're going to pass gimicky balanced-budget laws, you deserve to be criticized for breaking your own law. Especially when you increase spending by 12% the previous year.
Among the highlights:
-The government is projecting a 2% contraction in the economy this year, followed by 1.8% growth next year.
-If resource revenues do not increase this year, the government has said they will either raise taxes or slash spending to make up 2 billion dollars. Neither option would be a particularly attractive one.
-The Herald falls victim to government spin, proclaiming "the Stelmach government has cut about $400,000 from overall spending, reducing expenditures to a projected $36.4 billion" - yes, that's a 0.001% cut in spending. Even that claim is dubious since there are 3.7% spending increases across the board.
-Reading the recap on the government's plans for the environment is a tad depressing - 8 million less here, 10 million more there. It's clear that the PCs see the environment as about a big a priority for Alberta as having a strong navy.
But really, there isn't a lot to comment on. The budget largely follows the course laid out last year, with a bit more money here and a bit less there. It's a status quo budget which might be newsworthy in itself, given the huge shifts in spending and priorities we've seen elsewhere in the face of the recession.
For more on the budget, click here.
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A dimly lit lantern used to be the only light by which 15-year-old Naomi, sponsored through CFCA in Tanzania, could do her homework.
This work strained her eyes, and she developed an eye problem that caused her to visit the hospital several times. She was forced to wear eyeglasses to help her sight.
Naomi's father, who is a farmer, watched as his daughter suffered.
"I longed to get electricity in my home, so that my daughter would have an easy time studying at night," he said.
Naomi's family is not alone.
Local CFCA staffers estimate about 1,000 families in the Hope for a Family sponsorship program lack access to electricity. (CFCA serves about 2,000 sponsored children and aging friends in Tanzania.)
A family typically pays approximately $2 US a month, or 3,000 Tanzanian shillings, for electricity, according to CFCA staff members.
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"Using a coal iron was time consuming, and I risked burning my clothes," she said. "The charcoal could also sometimes make my clothes or uniform dirty."
Naomi's father saved up money from Naomi's sponsorship benefits to pay for electricity.
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"Now I can do my studies without worrying about my eyes; I can iron my uniform and look smart," Naomi said. "Besides, my parents do not have to worry about the money to buy kerosene, which is more expensive than paying the electricity bill."
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"They have been faithful in ensuring that I get my sponsorship fund on a monthly basis," she said. "I and my family will keep them in our prayers and thoughts always."
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(CNN) -- Every country competing at the London 2012 Olympics will have at least one female athlete after Saudi Arabia included two women in its team for the first time.
Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani, a judo competitor, and 800 meters runner Sarah Attar will compete in London after the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee named the duo in their team inside the official deadline of July 9.
They had been invited to take part by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
"This is very positive news and we will be delighted to welcome these two athletes in London in a few weeks' time," IOC president Jacques Rogge said in a statement on Thursday.
"The IOC has been working very closely with the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee and I am pleased to see that our continued dialogue has come to fruition."
The strict Muslim nation had been the last bastion of male-only teams after Qatar and Brunei -- the two other nations that failed to send a woman to the Beijing Olympics four years ago -- announced they would accede to the IOC's desire to end sexual discrimination among its member nations.
"The IOC has been striving to ensure a greater gender balance at the Olympic Games, and today's news can be seen as an encouraging evolution," Rogge said.
"With Saudi Arabian female athletes now joining their fellow female competitors from Qatar and Brunei Darussalam, it means that by London 2012 every National Olympic Committee will have sent women to the Olympic Games."
Shooter Bahiya Al-Hamad is one of four Qatari women going to London, and will carry her country's flag.
"I'm overwhelmed to have been asked to carry the Qatari flag at the opening ceremony," she said on the IOC website. "It's a truly historic moment for all athletes."
The London Games officially open on July 27 and run until August 12, with athletes from 204 nations expected to take part.
Saudi runner Attar has been training in the United States.
"A big inspiration for participating in the Olympic Games is being one of the first women for Saudi Arabia to be going," the 17-year-old said at her San Diego base.
"It's such a huge honor and I hope that it can really make some big strides for women over there to get more involved in sport."
Saudi Arabia's decision is a rare concession for a kingdom where women are banned from driving. They cannot vote or hold public office, though that will change in 2015.
Women in Saudi Arabia also cannot marry, leave the country, go to school or open bank accounts without permission from a male guardian, who usually is the father or husband. Much of public life is segregated by gender.
When it came to sports, female athletes were barred from the Olympic Games because they would be participating in front of a mixed-gender crowd.
Human Rights Watch, which has criticized the Saudi government's restrictions on women, hailed the decision as "an important precedent" but warned that it needed to be backed up by allowing more females to participate in sport.
"Without policy changes to allow women and girls to play sports and compete within the kingdom, little can change for millions of women and girls deprived of sporting opportunities," said its senior Middle East researcher Christoph Wilcke.
"Female participation in the London Games will only have impact if it begins to level the playing field for women in the Kingdom. Now is the time for the International Olympic Committee to use its leverage and lay down concrete plans for female sports to girls schools, women's sports clubs and competitive tournaments."
The IOC said female participation at the first London Games in 1908 was 1.8% of all competitors, increasing to 9.5% when the UK capital was next host in 1948. At Beijing four years ago, the ratio was more than 42% -- and the IOC expects that to increase again.
The United States will field more women than men for the first time in its history, with 269 of the 530 athletes taking part being female.
"It is a true testament to the impact of 'Title IX,' which in its 40-year history has increased sport opportunities for millions of females across the United States," said U.S. Olympic chief Scott Blackmun, referring to the legislation that bans sexual discrimination.
Seven of the U.S. team will be taking part in their fifth Olympics. Five of them are women: high jumper Amy Acuff, archer Khatuna Lorig, equestrian Karen O'Connor, shooter Kim Rhode and volleyball player Danielle Scott-Arruda.


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Is "[...] The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control." not from Sagan's series Cosmos' 1980? -- Jeandré, 2010-11-17t05:31z
- This seems plausible, but I find no reference to it in Google searches, but it does appear in Starhawk's twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance (1999), on page 231:
- The Trickster represents the quality of randomness and chance in the universe, without which there could be no freedom. In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control. Understanding this keeps us humble, able to admit that we cannot know or control or define everything.
- I will add this earlier reference to the article, and probably a few more. Any location of similar statements by Carl Sagan would of course be very welcome. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 08:49, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- I am not currently at home, so I am operating off what I can find in Google searches. I do have a copy of the 1999 edition somewhere there, and shall check that to see clearly what section it appears in within a few days, but I believe my very cherished copy of the 1979 edition was borrowed and never returned some years ago. So it goes... ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:02, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- From what I can piece together from internet searches and recall from memory I would say that this is in the original 1979 edition as well, though I have not yet obtained any hits for that — it was not as widely published a book as the twentieth anniversary edition. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:26, 17 November 2010 (UTC)


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